35: Carbs: Common Misconceptions and Fallacies

In part II of our miniseries on carbohydrates, Jeff Burkart of Brave Chicken and I talk more about how in most cases carbs, are not only NOT harmful, but in many cases they're actually beneficial to you. Some of the topics in today's episode include: Three ways science shows us that carbs do not make us fat (1:09) Does eating carbs cause you to develop type II diabetes? (3:13) What is BY FAR the GREATEST risk for developing type II diabetes? (10:23) Who really cares what you’re eating if you have obesity (14:09) Is it easier to avoid fat or carbohydrate? (26:56) A low fat diet should be low in fat AND carbs (29:15) Don’t waste your calories on unnecessary fat (30:35) Is it easy to get fats in your diet? (32:56) Is there ever a reason to justify eating pop tarts? (33:56) There are recommendations for carbs and protein, but not for fat (39:25) How Jeff formed his perspective on carbohydrates (41:33) If you don’t have fitness figured out by 35, you may want to hire someone (44:52) 80-90% of fitness is in the basics, try not to overcomplicate things (45:45) Jeff’s personal story of disordered eating (46:10) What Jeff’s first job out of college taught him (55:39) Eating carbs to lose weight? (57:13) Exercising in the “fat burning” zone is inefficient and time consuming (58:09) Performance isn’t just for Olympic athletes, it’s for you too! (1:00:57) Eating carbs to preserve performance during dieting (1:05:01) If you do any volume of training at a relatively high intensity, you need carbs (1:11:02) The “collective illusion” of carbs being bad for us (1:14:37) Todd’s theory on why people say that carbs are bad for us (1:18:17)