Name: Are Carbs Bad For You | How Much is Enough?
Uploaded: 2018-12-09T13:32:21.000Z
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In this video we'll uncover whether or not carbs are bad for you.

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In this video, we're talking about, "Are carbs bad for you?”

And then we also want to discuss how much - how many carbs you should be eating on a

And so you know, this is a really convoluted topic because there's people who are the ketogenic

diet and say you should have no carbs at all and then there's people who are on the complete

opposite end of that spectrum saying you should eat a lot of carbs and then there's even studies

out there that kind of show you, you know, the difference between those two.

There's studies saying that if you eat low carbs you're going to have an early chance

of death and there's studies saying that you're going to decrease your risk of stroke

and an early death if you actually have a low-carb diet.

So anyway, let's go ahead and try to clear up some of that confusion.

In this video, we're going to talk about a couple studies out there and what we need

to know about them, especially the ones that really go and demonize a low-carb diet and

then we're also going to look at the benefits of a low-carb diet and then from there we'll

discuss good carbs vs. bad carbs and also how many carbs you should eat a day.

And at the end of this video, what I will do is, I'll share with you where you can find

a link to my list of good carbohydrates that you can eat on a daily basis.

Now when we look at this first study here that I'm going to talk about, it's important

to know that it was done in Lancet, which is a very prestigious medical journal and

so what they were doing in this study is they were looking at these people and seeing well

are carbohydrates good for you or are they bad for you?

And so what happened is a study came out and then all these different news outlets reported

on it and when they were looking to get a lot of clicks are looking to get a lot of

views and so you know they they didn't really dive into the study and give you the truth

behind it I'm just you at a glance gave you their initial thoughts and many of their initial

thoughts were first of all eating a low-carb diet is going to cause early death and then

the other thing was that if you are consuming this low-carb diet that you're going to be

unhealthy and that you should consume a high carb diet.

And some of these different news outlets were even saying that you should be consuming a

diet that is 50% carbohydrates or more and so here's the deal, let's go ahead and talk

So like I said, basically this study said low carb diet equals early death.

And so there are a couple of problems with this study that said a low-carb diet is going

Basically when they refer to low-carb, they refer to anything that was 40% and below.

Most people would not consider that to be a low-carb diet.

And the next thing is that there were a lot of confounding variables and what that means

is that there were variables that they couldn't control within this study.

Because the study even points out that many of the people who were consuming a low-carb

diet were the unhealthy people, the people who were smoking, they weren't exercising,

they were sitting around a lot 0 not moving, they were just living a very unhealthy lifestyle,

they may have already had a condition that they had developed prior to this whole thing

and that they're already facing and so anyway, there's a lot of variables and we know that

that's important because nobody ever had said that following the ketogenic diet or a low

carb diet but yet smoking and doing a whole bunch of things that are really bad for you

So, you know we have to be aware of that.

And the last thing I want to mention about the study that you know led to it being pretty

flawed is that it was all based on recalls and questionnaires, meaning that when they

were going back and finding the information out as to what these people were eating and

They were basically just doing it off of recall, so how many carbohydrates did you eat a month

And then the other thing was is that there was questionnaires.

And so a lot of people tend to put their best foot forward right and then we see this in

many of the YouTube videos we watch or maybe some of the different articles we read or

people you follow online, everybody's putting their best foot forward and so you know there's

no reason to believe that people wouldn't do that as well if they know that the diet

is looking for them to eat low carbohydrate, they're going to say well yeah I probably

didn't need as many as many as you know maybe I initially thought I did and so anyway you

know we have to take that into consideration as well.

So, the recall and questionnaire is basically going to cause a little bit of a problem there

and so there's a lot of flaws in the study and so we have to take that whole thing into

Now Lancet did another study and what I'll do by the way is link both of these studies

But this study is called the Pierce study and I'm just referring to it as study number

two and basically what they did is they had the complete opposite findings and in this

study they found that if you have a high carb diet you're going to have an increase in mortality.

And they also found that a high-fat diet in this study will decrease your risk of mortality

And so anyway this is very confusing to the average person who is going and reading these

and what we want to do is make sure we interpret them correctly and understand that there's

a lot of flaws in this one that was saying that a low-carb diet is going to cause an

So we have to take that into consideration.

So let's go ahead and talk about the benefits of a low-carb diet.

As you know like I said in your heart of hearts you know that eating a high carb diet, high

sugar diet, low quality foods is going to destroy your health.

So let's go ahead and talk about the benefits of low carb diet.

So first of all you're going to have a decreased chance of getting type 2 diabetes.

So as we eat a lot of carbohydrates, a lot of refined carbohydrates you're going to spike

that insulin, you're going to spike that blood sugar and you're going to eventually get diabetes

So a low-carb diet will help to decrease your risk in that.

We're also going to improve our cognitive function with a low-carb diet and also improve

So people who are on a low-carb diet/high fat diet, they're able to have a lot more

energy to have good thought processes and being able to focus.

And then people who have a low-carb diet also have better neurological health.

Typically the same people with diabetes have Alzheimers and neurological degenerative disorders.

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