Podcast: Does Eating Carbohydrates make you fat? || Simple Nutrition || Ep70
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Jun 2, 2025
#carbohydrates #fat #nutrition when you are in doubt of what to eat, and what not to eat, it can be really troubling. This podcast talks about carbs and fat, and their effect on weight gain and Diabetes. listen, and leave your comments.
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hello and welcome to today's episode and
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today we are going to answer the
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question does eating carbohydrates make
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you fat so your body is like a machine
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you have to fuel it so as to keep it
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going
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to eat or not to eat carbohydrates and
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fats it's a question of weight gain in
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most cases carbohydrates are the fast
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source of energy without carbohydrates
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you'll actually get too tired to even
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move or talk your brain will hate you
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for that fat on the other hand give your
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organs protection
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give you heat when it starts to get cold
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give your body energy and protect your
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organs and they also uh they also a very
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good home for the fat soluble vitamins
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like vitamin A d e and K
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and in other situations when you do not
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eat any carbohydrates your body can
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start to burn fats for energy as
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carbohydrate Alternatives so the
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question is fats or carbs which ones
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should you worry most about
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maybe we should start by talking about
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the different kinds of carbohydrates and
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the different types of fats so as to
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make a very informed decision when it
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comes to weight loss managing diabetes
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or just maintaining a general healthy
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lifestyle
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what types of carbohydrates do we have
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number one we have the simple
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carbohydrates the ones we grab and go
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and number two we have the complex
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carbohydrates that are life savers
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simple carbohydrates are sweet in the
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mouth but extremely toxic to your body
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moreover when the dill is too sweet
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think twice worse is that we have
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introduced them to our children are
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Sweet Treats but maybe we should start
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to treat simple sugars as poison to our
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bodies cakes biscuits soda and candy
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never miss at our convenience shops and
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we binge on them more like our lives
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depend on them obesity overweight is
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among the top risk factors for type 2
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diabetes hypertension and also certain
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types of cancers simple sugars lead to
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weight gain so fast and for a person
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living with diabetes simple sugars pose
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every danger of hypoglycemia which can
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actually be life-threatening
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from the sense of digestion
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the breakdown of carbohydrates starts
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rights from your mouth simple sugars get
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absorbed faster than complex
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carbohydrates
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the glucose is absorbed into the
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bloodstream and then the hormone insulin
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comes in to move the glucose from the
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bloodstream into the body cells and
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muscles for energy which explains why a
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person living with diabetes should avoid
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these simple sugars at all costs so
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researchers believe that moderating your
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intake of simple sugars can actually
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reduce the risk or better yet prevent
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these life-threatening diseases
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simple sugars are also an enemy for
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those of us on a weight loss Journey as
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of course it will lead to unnecessary
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rather unwanted weight gain very fast
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complex carbohydrates are the Lifesavers
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why complex carbohydrates come with lots
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of battery fiber vitamins minerals and
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phytochemicals that are very crucial for
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a healthy lifestyle these carbohydrates
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get absorbed slowly mostly because of
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the dietary fiber making these kind of
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carbohydrates that should be on your
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plate
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it's the massive benefits that come with
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these complex carbohydrates that are of
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Interest here the data re fiber tags
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along so many phytochemicals minerals
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and vitamins that are often that often
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gets cropped off during processing of
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course in the making of processed
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carbohydrates in other words simple
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sugars
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what this therefore means is that
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complex carbohydrates that no are not
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only good for helping in blood glucose
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control in people living with both type
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1 and type 2 diabetes but also makes the
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process of weight loss easy enough and
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more result oriented this is majorly
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what researchers and nutritionists
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recommend in most diet plants whether to
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go on a low diet on a low fat diet or a
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fat free diet or even more fat is a
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question asked so many times
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there are two types of fats that we are
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going to discuss down below which will
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give an insight into making good
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decision when it comes to Weight
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Management what types of fats do we have
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saturated fats are aka the bad fats
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unsaturated fats aka the good fat
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saturated fats are fats whose primary
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sources is animals like pork and beef
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and also from high fat dairy products
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like butter and cheese we also get more
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of these saturated fats from the
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processed foods we love so dearly like
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sausages Bacons Burgers chips and so on
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the only problem we have with this type
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of fats the saturated fats is that they
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produce so much low density lipoproteins
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which only form a blockage in your blood
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vessels what we call Plex
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this blockage increases your risk to
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heart diseases when blood
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flow to the heart is hindered stroke
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when blood when there is an insufficient
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blood getting to your brain and very
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common hypertension
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researchers believe that you can prevent
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weight gain by limiting your intake of
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red meats processed meats and other
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processed foods including high fat dairy
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products fats provide more calories as
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compared to proteins in carbohydrates as
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one gram of fat will provide for nine
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calories and like one gram of proteins
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and carbohydrates which only provide
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four calories
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this shows that even with a small intake
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of foods high in saturated fats these
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actually are very high risk of weight
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gain
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unsaturated fats on the other side are
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what researchers term as healthy kinds
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of fats why because most of it is sauce
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from seeds for example the sunflower oil
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nuts like peanuts fruits like avocado
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and generally from Plants these types of
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fats do not increase your risk to
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cardiovascular diseases and that is why
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they are recommended so back to our
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occasion Fatso carbs which one should
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you worry most about do carbohydrates
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make you fat so complex carbohydrates
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and unsaturated fats are your secrets
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also avoid processed foods as most of
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these are home for simple sugars in
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saturated fats hydrate often and just
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keep physically active so this is our
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