#636 - The Conspiracy Against Carbs

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Ben Coomber

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

So many corners of the internet still believe that carbs are evil - and it can feel like the arguments are valid, like there is some conspiracy against them. Carbs stimulate insulin, insulin causes fat gain, so carbs must be avoided at all cost - and as a result carbs are driving the obesity epidemic. We break down this argument, look at prominent researchers and practitioners like Zoe Harcombe and Robert H. Lustig that are proponents of such narratives and the claims they make, and explore the wider argument. We also discuss how to challenge these beliefs, where and when people's minds can't be changed and how to tactfully use Socratic questioning to help the other person realise their arguments faults. This show is practical, but also science dense, have a notebook at the ready....

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Bencoma Radio, I hope you are having an awesome day wherever you are and
0:07.2	I suppose that's the beautiful thing about a podcast.
0:09.4	You can listen to it wherever you are on a dog walk in the car just, I don't know, doing
0:15.2	the iron and naked around the house.
0:17.1	Anyway, Tom, how's it going?
0:18.7	Right, I'm just about to start doing the iron and naked around the house.
0:22.5	I love it.
0:23.5	That's a light to be fair.
0:26.0	Fun fact, I moved out as an adult about 10 years ago and I have never used an iron.
0:32.1	Wow.
0:33.1	Not because enders the iron in, we just don't iron clothes.
0:36.4	It's brilliant.
0:37.4	Didn't I say hoovering or did I say iron?
0:39.8	I'm pretty sure you said iron.
0:42.0	Because if you're ironing around the house, you're probably doing it wrong.
0:46.3	I would know.
0:47.3	I don't iron.
0:48.3	I don't know how you do that.
0:49.3	It might be a mobile activity.
0:51.8	My wife is exactly the same.
0:53.2	She's what ironed something like twice and it was like a funeral or a wedding or what
0:58.3	night.
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