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George Lockhart discusses common misconceptions about carbs
The 20th edition of the Weight List with George Lockhart features discussion on common misconceptions about carbohydrates.
Whether you’re an athlete or an average Joe, almost everyone is looking for a way to eat healthier. The problem is, there’s a lot of information to examine. With that in mind, the Three Amigos Podcast put together the Weight List. Its purpose is to deliver chunks of information in an easily digestible, 15-minute block from leading weight-cutting specialist, George Lockhart and our own Iain Kidd, who just happens to be writing two books with George and is an excellent researcher.
This week’s 20th edition focuses on a few topics that aims to clear up some common misconceptions about carbohydrates. Here are a few quotes from the episode to help get you started.
Cutting Out Carbs
George: A lot of how people feel about this stuff depends on when they were born. If you were born during the ‘Atkins’ era, it was like, ‘If you eat carbs you’re gonna die!’ The truth is there’s no one size fits all answer. If you are a sedentary person who just sits in the office you’re aerobic most of the time, and your body will be using fats for fuel a lot more than carbohydrates. If you’re active; an athlete, a carpenter, a UPS guy who is constantly moving things, you’re going to need a lot more carbohydrates.
When to eat carbs
George: To me, the types of carbs isn’t as important as the timing of the carbs. If you’re on a low carb diet you’ll want a complex carbohydrate like sweet potato or brown rice about three hours before hand. Something that takes time to break down.
Post workout people think you want vegetables or brown rice, but I actually prefer white rice, white potatoes, even white bread. People talk about how there’s no real nutrients in white bread, but there’s a lot of sugar, and you need that to replace the glycogen you used.
Is sugar evil?
Iain: There’s quite a bit of sugar hatred going on just now, which is fair enough, because most people just don’t need to be eating or drinking large amounts of sugar in their diet. That requirement comes when you’re exercising and stuff like that.
People think that because sugar raises your insulin level, it must be bad. But your body raises your insulin for a reason, because insulin makes it a lot easier for your body to get sugar to the places it needs to be, to replenish those muscles. Would you go out on a limb and say that far from being bad, sugar post-workout – not all the time, but post-workout – is pretty damn good for your body?
George: It’s a great thing. Even if I’m diabetic, I want to have sugar after I’m done working out. I hear people say that insulin is bad, or cortisol is bad, but people need to ask themselves, especially people who are all about natural this or natural that, why would your body create a hormone that is bad for you? They’re not bad for you unless you abuse them.
It’s not sexy, but everything in moderation is kind of the key. People want to take in tons of sugar every day and spike that insulin again and again and again, and just like anything else, that’s when the body becomes resistant to it.
If you have a question you’d like to submit to The Weight List Mailbag, please e-mail [email protected] or shoot him a tweet @iainkidd. You can also drop your question off on our Facebook fan page: www.facebook.com/threeamigospod
The 20th edition of the Weight List with George Lockhart features discussion on common misconceptions about carbohydrates.
Whether you’re an athlete or an average Joe, almost everyone is looking for a way to eat healthier. The problem is, there’s a lot of information to examine. With that in mind, the Three Amigos Podcast put together the Weight List. Its purpose is to deliver chunks of information in an easily digestible, 15-minute block from leading weight-cutting specialist, George Lockhart and our own Iain Kidd, who just happens to be writing two books with George and is an excellent researcher.
This week’s 20th edition focuses on a few topics that aims to clear up some common misconceptions about carbohydrates. Here are a few quotes from the episode to help get you started.
Cutting Out Carbs
George: A lot of how people feel about this stuff depends on when they were born. If you were born during the ‘Atkins’ era, it was like, ‘If you eat carbs you’re gonna die!’ The truth is there’s no one size fits all answer. If you are a sedentary person who just sits in the office you’re aerobic most of the time, and your body will be using fats for fuel a lot more than carbohydrates. If you’re active; an athlete, a carpenter, a UPS guy who is constantly moving things, you’re going to need a lot more carbohydrates.
When to eat carbs
George: To me, the types of carbs isn’t as important as the timing of the carbs. If you’re on a low carb diet you’ll want a complex carbohydrate like sweet potato or brown rice about three hours before hand. Something that takes time to break down.
Post workout people think you want vegetables or brown rice, but I actually prefer white rice, white potatoes, even white bread. People talk about how there’s no real nutrients in white bread, but there’s a lot of sugar, and you need that to replace the glycogen you used.
Is sugar evil?
Iain: There’s quite a bit of sugar hatred going on just now, which is fair enough, because most people just don’t need to be eating or drinking large amounts of sugar in their diet. That requirement comes when you’re exercising and stuff like that.
People think that because sugar raises your insulin level, it must be bad. But your body raises your insulin for a reason, because insulin makes it a lot easier for your body to get sugar to the places it needs to be, to replenish those muscles. Would you go out on a limb and say that far from being bad, sugar post-workout – not all the time, but post-workout – is pretty damn good for your body?
George: It’s a great thing. Even if I’m diabetic, I want to have sugar after I’m done working out. I hear people say that insulin is bad, or cortisol is bad, but people need to ask themselves, especially people who are all about natural this or natural that, why would your body create a hormone that is bad for you? They’re not bad for you unless you abuse them.
It’s not sexy, but everything in moderation is kind of the key. People want to take in tons of sugar every day and spike that insulin again and again and again, and just like anything else, that’s when the body becomes resistant to it.
If you have a question you’d like to submit to The Weight List Mailbag, please e-mail [email protected] or shoot him a tweet @iainkidd. You can also drop your question off on our Facebook fan page: www.facebook.com/threeamigospod
