49 "Carbs Are Bad"

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Episode Transcript

Kevin Tejada: Carbs are bad, okay? (00:28):
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Speaker1: At least that's (00:30):
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Kevin Tejada: What the internet and commercials would lead you to believe that carbohydrates, (00:31):
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Kevin Tejada: one third of the macronutrients that we need to live are bad. (00:37):
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Kevin Tejada: Ain't that fucking crazy? But yes, in the year 2025, people still believe that. (00:41):
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Kevin Tejada: Why? Well, because it's easier to make an enemy and say, that's why I can't (00:46):
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Kevin Tejada: lose weight. That's why I'm unhealthy. (00:50):
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Kevin Tejada: Instead of looking at the whole picture and the whole gamut of their shitty ass habits. (00:52):
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Kevin Tejada: All right let me chill out who am i getting mad at right now so (00:57):
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Kevin Tejada: the the carbs are bad myth is one of the weirdest most (01:00):
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Kevin Tejada: persistent fitness weight loss (01:04):
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Kevin Tejada: myths that still to this day affect how people eat and all this stuff carbohydrates (01:07):
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Kevin Tejada: are blamed for weight gain diabetes other stuff so people are hating on bread (01:13):
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Kevin Tejada: rice pasta which is kind of wild because if you look at you know the average French, Italian, (01:19):
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Kevin Tejada: and Japanese person, you know, the biggest purveyors of bread, (01:25):
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Kevin Tejada: pasta, and rice, they're not overall fat. So it's kind of weird, right? (01:30):
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Kevin Tejada: Kind of sus, not gonna lie. Like I said before, carbohydrates are one of the (01:35):
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Kevin Tejada: three macronutrients along with proteins and fats. (01:41):
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Kevin Tejada: They are the preferred energy source for your body. (01:45):
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Kevin Tejada: They're basically the first to go and say (01:49):
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Kevin Tejada: you're exercising you're walking right you're you're pretty (01:52):
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Kevin Tejada: fine when you're walking you're using like i think fats some proteins (01:55):
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Kevin Tejada: there but when you're doing like a sprint you got to catch the bus you're using (01:58):
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Kevin Tejada: energy that comes from carbohydrates there i mean there's mixing and matching (02:02):
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Kevin Tejada: with all this shit but like carbs are the biggest and best energy source that (02:07):
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Kevin Tejada: you have the one that lasts you the longest and lower intensity is more like fats, but carbs are so, (02:12):
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Kevin Tejada: so, so helpful just to have energy. (02:18):
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Kevin Tejada: If you're an athlete, you're eating a lot of carbohydrates because you fucking (02:21):
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Kevin Tejada: need it. So why do people think carbs are bad? (02:24):
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Kevin Tejada: Well, there is a kernel of truth to the carbs make you fat thing. (02:27):
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Kevin Tejada: And it's not just that simple of a statement. Here is the thing. (02:33):
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Kevin Tejada: Carbohydrates by themselves are not bad. Vegetables are basically mostly carbohydrates (02:38):
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Kevin Tejada: and or fiber, which is also carbohydrates. (02:42):
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Kevin Tejada: But the thing is a lot of food that makes you crave them, you know, pastries, (02:46):
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Kevin Tejada: candy, garbage food, those are generally full of carbohydrates, (02:53):
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Kevin Tejada: not even a great version of them. (02:59):
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Kevin Tejada: And they don't fill you, but they're really easy to eat and they're nice. They taste good. (03:01):
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Kevin Tejada: So the issue is that the foods that can taste basically the best in the world, (03:08):
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Kevin Tejada: scientifically speaking. (03:12):
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Kevin Tejada: The ones that can make you enjoy them the most are the ones that are like have (03:14):
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Kevin Tejada: so many calories in them, but so little satiety in them that it makes you feel (03:20):
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Kevin Tejada: like you're getting ripped off with the food. (03:26):
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Kevin Tejada: You're like, I ate all this stuff, tastes good, but I'm still hungry. (03:28):
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Kevin Tejada: And I ate like, you know, 800 calories just now. (03:31):
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Kevin Tejada: That's hard to do with other stuff. If you eat a really high protein food, (03:34):
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Kevin Tejada: you're probably going to be full. (03:38):
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Kevin Tejada: If you eat a really high fat food, you're definitely going to be full. (03:40):
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Kevin Tejada: When you eat a lot of carbohydrates Depending on what kind they are, (03:43):
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Kevin Tejada: You're probably not going to be full More specifically if you eat Either garbage or bread, (03:46):
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Kevin Tejada: rice, and pasta Which I don't consider to be garbage But if we're talking bang (03:53):
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Kevin Tejada: for buck In terms of being full Not so great Although some breads are pretty (03:57):
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Kevin Tejada: good Like challah bread My god That can be filling as hell Some pasta can be filling as well, (04:01):
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Kevin Tejada: Rice It can be All these things can be filling if you pair them with, (04:08):
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Kevin Tejada: you know, proteins and fats. (04:12):
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Kevin Tejada: If you're just eating rice, just eating pasta, you know, no sauce or anything (04:14):
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Kevin Tejada: for some reason, you can probably eat a lot, like a lot and not be full. (04:18):
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Kevin Tejada: So it kind of makes sense that people are eating a bunch of carbohydrates and (04:23):
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Kevin Tejada: they're like, oh man, I'm getting fat. (04:26):
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Kevin Tejada: First of all, they're not tracking the food because if you track your food, (04:28):
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Kevin Tejada: you can eat literally anything and still lose weight because you know about (04:30):
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Kevin Tejada: the energy going in you and you can plan for that. (04:34):
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Kevin Tejada: But let's say you're one of those intuitive eaters who just guess, (04:38):
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Kevin Tejada: you're eating a shit ton of carbohydrates that are not filling, (04:41):
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Kevin Tejada: which are a lot of them, to be fair, you're going to eat a lot of this stuff (04:45):
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Kevin Tejada: and like, I'm listening to my body. I'm still hungry. I'm going to eat more. (04:49):
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Kevin Tejada: Well, it's probably ate like 1300 calories just now, first of all. (04:52):
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Kevin Tejada: So if you eat more carbohydrates, it's probably not going to be fun for you. (04:56):
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Kevin Tejada: But that's not the fault of carbohydrates. (05:00):
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Kevin Tejada: It's a fault of you for not keeping track of your food or choosing better food (05:02):
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Kevin Tejada: options. Because if you have more proteins, more fats, like I said, you will feel more full. (05:06):
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Kevin Tejada: But with refined carbohydrates, that's usually not how it is. (05:11):
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Kevin Tejada: So the real problem is not the carbohydrates themselves, but the overconsumption of them. (05:16):
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Kevin Tejada: There are tons of cultures, like I mentioned before, you know, (05:20):
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Kevin Tejada: referencing Japan once again, Italy and France. (05:23):
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Kevin Tejada: A lot of these cultures, they have high carb diets and they have low rates of (05:27):
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Kevin Tejada: obesity and not nearly as much, you know, related disease as we do in America. (05:31):
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Kevin Tejada: Why? Well, because carbohydrates are not inherently fattening or bad. (05:37):
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Kevin Tejada: Just that us in America, we make gluttony in art form and we just go hog wild on stuff. (05:41):
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Kevin Tejada: And as you can guess, if you cut out one third of your macronutrients, (05:48):
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Kevin Tejada: you're going to have nutritional deficiencies, which can reduce your energy (05:51):
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Kevin Tejada: level, your athletic performance and food affects your brain too. (05:55):
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Kevin Tejada: So you're going to have issues with mood probably and, you know, thinking. (05:59):
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Kevin Tejada: Food's pretty important, guys. And one of the interesting things is that in (06:04):
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Kevin Tejada: this time of social media being the arbiter of truth, basically, (06:07):
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Kevin Tejada: you know, whatever is most popular is what most people think. (06:12):
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Kevin Tejada: This also goes hand in hand with the popularity of bodybuilding as the default form of exercise. (06:15):
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Kevin Tejada: So for bodybuilding, I've, I've trained like a bodybuilder for, (06:23):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't know, like maybe two, two years of my life or something. I don't know. (06:27):
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Kevin Tejada: And I switched to like powerlifting stuff. Cause it was more, (06:31):
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Kevin Tejada: you know, I liked the movements better and it carried over into everything. (06:34):
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Kevin Tejada: Then switched over to, you know, calisthenics, stuff like that. (06:38):
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Kevin Tejada: But anyway, I started off essentially training like a bodybuilder. (06:41):
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Kevin Tejada: Talking doing specific exercises for specific muscles, only caring about weights, stuff like that. (06:45):
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Kevin Tejada: And I can tell you no offense to these guys who are bodybuilders. (06:52):
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Kevin Tejada: Like it takes a lot of work, a lot of energy, a lot of discipline, (06:56):
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Kevin Tejada: a lot of, like a lot of effort, right? (07:00):
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Kevin Tejada: But you only need to sustain the effort for like, like three seconds per rep tops, right? (07:02):
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Kevin Tejada: And if you're training as a bodybuilder, your rep range is probably, (07:10):
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Kevin Tejada: well, it depends, I guess. (07:14):
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Kevin Tejada: But once you're done with the set, like you're good, you only have to sustain (07:15):
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Kevin Tejada: the energy for a relatively short amount of time. (07:19):
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Kevin Tejada: And if you're actually bodybuilding, you have rest times that are longer than (07:22):
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Kevin Tejada: like, you know, a minute. (07:26):
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Kevin Tejada: And it can go up to five minutes depending on what you're doing. (07:28):
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Kevin Tejada: When you're going for a one rep max in a squat, for example, (07:32):
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Kevin Tejada: it's totally common working your way up (07:36):
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Kevin Tejada: to have rest times of like two three four five minutes in (07:39):
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Kevin Tejada: between so your body actually gets time to recover (07:42):
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Kevin Tejada: for that but putting these together a lot (07:45):
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Kevin Tejada: of people who look at the most popular stuff they think bodybuilding equals (07:48):
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Kevin Tejada: exercise right when they look at popular people information saying carbs are (07:51):
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Kevin Tejada: not that important because i'm strong i'm fit i'm huge and i don't eat carbs (07:55):
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Kevin Tejada: i just eat steak now here's why this is this tricks a lot of people if you're (08:00):
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Kevin Tejada: bodybuilding You don't need a lot of fucking energy You're not jogging, (08:05):
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Kevin Tejada: Granted it's challenging But you're just lifting shit for several (08:09):
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Kevin Tejada: seconds And then pausing for a while (08:12):
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Kevin Tejada: You don't need that sustained energy So my point is People like that They're (08:15):
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Kevin Tejada: probably not feeling the lack of carbohydrates Because they're not using forms (08:20):
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Kevin Tejada: of training That would make that obvious For example if you swim or jog Or something (08:25):
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Kevin Tejada: like that Use exercise, bike, (08:30):
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Kevin Tejada: whatever You have no carbohydrates You're going to be feeling that shit Or you're (08:32):
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Kevin Tejada: going to have to lower your intensity to a very low level Just walking, basically, (08:36):
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Kevin Tejada: So this is to say, when you see all these big-ass guys online saying I don't (08:42):
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Kevin Tejada: eat carbs, fuck that shit. (08:45):
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Kevin Tejada: Because they don't, I mean, we all need carbs But what they're training to do, (08:47):
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Kevin Tejada: they don't feel the hurt of the lack of carbs Because they're not using a shit (08:51):
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Kevin Tejada: ton of energy Not in the way that carbs would help with anyway. (08:55):
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Kevin Tejada: So just throwing it out there, you see someone who's doing a sport or something (08:59):
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Kevin Tejada: that requires a lot of energy and not cutting out carbs. (09:02):
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Kevin Tejada: They are not. Ask a soccer player. Cutting out carbs would kill them. (09:05):
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Kevin Tejada: Anyway, people who fall for this stuff, the carbs are bad myth are people who (09:10):
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Kevin Tejada: I feel like I say this every time. (09:14):
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Kevin Tejada: People who fall for this are beginners who don't know any better and they're (09:16):
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Kevin Tejada: falling for, you know, the fad diets. (09:20):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't know if cutting carbs, I guess that counts as a diet, right? (09:22):
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Kevin Tejada: Right it's like a partial elimination diet i (09:27):
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Kevin Tejada: guess although i find it to be kind of excessive to (09:30):
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Kevin Tejada: cut out one third of macronutrients now elimination diets (09:32):
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Kevin Tejada: and cutting out things can be helpful if there's a (09:36):
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Kevin Tejada: reason for let's say you go to a doctor you're like falling apart on the inside (09:40):
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Kevin Tejada: your doctor's like all right we got to figure out what the fuck is happening (09:43):
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Kevin Tejada: so just stop eating a bunch of shit and then slowly bring stuff in so we can (09:45):
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Kevin Tejada: see what's happening so in that sense it can be useful you're treating your (09:50):
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Kevin Tejada: diet like a scientific experiment cutting stuff out, (09:54):
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Kevin Tejada: bringing stuff back in and seeing how it treats your body. (09:57):
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Kevin Tejada: But just cause some thick guy online said carbs are bad. (09:59):
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Kevin Tejada: Don't fucking cut carbs out for that reason. That's fucking stupid. (10:03):
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Kevin Tejada: This is the same exact thing as the whole no fat, low fat type of thing that (10:07):
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Kevin Tejada: you see plastered on foods here. Listen, all these things are good. (10:13):
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Kevin Tejada: Carbohydrates, proteins, fats, (10:17):
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Kevin Tejada: intentionally lowering them for no reason whatsoever is fucking stupid. (10:19):
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Kevin Tejada: If you want to lower anything in hopes of losing some weight, (10:24):
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Kevin Tejada: you need to lower your caloric intake. (10:27):
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Kevin Tejada: That's what matters. You can eat, I wouldn't recommend this at all, (10:30):
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Kevin Tejada: but you can eat purely fat or purely carbohydrates or purely protein and lose (10:34):
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Kevin Tejada: or gain weight depending on the amount of calories. (10:40):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, if you're eating enough just of just fats to gain weight, (10:42):
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Kevin Tejada: you're probably going to die because that's the shit to, (10:47):
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Kevin Tejada: That's a shit ton. But all these macronutrients are very helpful in their own ways. (10:50):
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Kevin Tejada: So cutting them out or reducing them for no reason or in the hopes of gaining (10:55):
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Kevin Tejada: weight when what you really should be lowering is your calories is not good. (10:58):
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Kevin Tejada: And it's mostly a marketing thing. (11:03):
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Kevin Tejada: Low carb foods for people who want to lose weight because they in their mind, (11:05):
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Kevin Tejada: they consider carbohydrates, they equal, you know, pastries and other shit that (11:11):
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Kevin Tejada: doesn't really fill you, but gives you a lot of calories and makes you overweight (11:15):
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Kevin Tejada: if you eat too many of them. (11:17):
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Kevin Tejada: Low fat. It's more like, hey, you're fat. You want to be less fat? Eat stuff with low fat. (11:19):
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Kevin Tejada: Even though that makes no fucking sense because dietary fat does not translate (11:24):
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Kevin Tejada: into excess body weight necessarily. (11:28):
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Kevin Tejada: Again, that's a caloric thing. You never see foods that are like, (11:31):
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Kevin Tejada: oh, low protein because people associate, oh, protein. (11:35):
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Kevin Tejada: That means like the bodybuilders, the people who look strong and cool and good, right? Yes, I want that. (11:37):
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Kevin Tejada: Never will you see low protein foods because there's (11:43):
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Kevin Tejada: already an idea attached to protein as a (11:46):
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Kevin Tejada: whole it's just that equals muscles now equals good which (11:49):
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Kevin Tejada: is true muscles are you need to have the hugest muscles in the world but your (11:52):
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Kevin Tejada: body needs to have some organic armor on it otherwise if you fall over you're (11:56):
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Kevin Tejada: gonna just break over you're gonna you're gonna break yourself because you're (11:59):
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Kevin Tejada: just skin and bones anyway a lot of marketing is effective let's play devil's (12:03):
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Kevin Tejada: advocate low carb diets work for weight loss, (12:08):
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Kevin Tejada: so carbs must be bad. That's fucking dumb. (12:11):
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Kevin Tejada: Low carb diets probably involve you giving up a lot of the shitty food that, (12:14):
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Kevin Tejada: like I said, is calorie dense, below in nutrients and satiety. (12:20):
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Kevin Tejada: So cutting out those excess calories that don't fill you, yeah, (12:24):
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Kevin Tejada: probably helps you lose weight. (12:28):
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Speaker1: Idiot. (12:30):
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Kevin Tejada: Carbs spike insulin and insulin makes you store fat. (12:31):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm actually studying for my precision nutrition certification right now. (12:34):
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Kevin Tejada: And let me just check because I read about insulin like an hour ago. (12:38):
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Kevin Tejada: Insulin sourced pancreas. It works in response to blood sugar and it's a signals satiety. (12:41):
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Kevin Tejada: Oh, it's interesting. That'd be a good thing that would help prevent you from (12:50):
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Kevin Tejada: being fat because your body feels satisfied. (12:54):
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Kevin Tejada: As for the insulin makes you store fat, that is, there's some truth to it, (12:57):
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Kevin Tejada: but that only applies to excess energy, which again goes back to the calorie stuff. (13:02):
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Kevin Tejada: Hey, you eat too much, your body keeps it, for sure. But it's not carbs' fault. (13:09):
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Kevin Tejada: Our ancestors didn't eat as many carbs, so we shouldn't either. Is that even true? (13:15):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean, I don't know if they ate a lot of carbs or a little bit of carbs or (13:19):
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Kevin Tejada: whatever, but they definitely did not eat as much as we do now because we have. (13:24):
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Kevin Tejada: We can create carbs out of fucking thin air with dog shit junk food. (13:28):
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Kevin Tejada: So yeah, that doesn't, that right on his face, this statement falls flat just from that. (13:33):
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Kevin Tejada: And also our ancestors had shitty teeth and they died at like, (13:39):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't know, way earlier than we do so some (13:43):
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Kevin Tejada: things they did was cool but a lot of it they didn't (13:46):
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Kevin Tejada: have the tech or the knowledge so let's not uh let's not (13:50):
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Kevin Tejada: copy ignorant people cutting carbs (13:52):
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Kevin Tejada: cured my cravings and helped me lose weight again you're (13:56):
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Kevin Tejada: probably eating a bunch of pastries and donuts and shit so sure (13:59):
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Kevin Tejada: yeah that would that would help you out but it wasn't (14:03):
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Kevin Tejada: the carbs it was the food that wasn't good for (14:05):
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Kevin Tejada: you sugar is toxic so carbs are (14:09):
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Kevin Tejada: dangerous i'm gonna skip this one because it's too stupid (14:12):
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Kevin Tejada: well okay let me not let me not be that guy sugar is (14:15):
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Kevin Tejada: toxic sugar is toxic wow oh (14:18):
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Kevin Tejada: wait just in case anyone hasn't caught on by now when i (14:22):
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Kevin Tejada: i make these these episodes i have ai kind (14:25):
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Kevin Tejada: of help me with some of the stats and (14:27):
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Kevin Tejada: stuff like that and i've added a new section as you probably (14:30):
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Kevin Tejada: realized recently called devil's advocate where i'm saying hey are you (14:33):
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Kevin Tejada: against whatever the fuck i'm talking about or are you (14:36):
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Kevin Tejada: for what i'm talking about and some of the some of the arguments it throws at (14:39):
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Kevin Tejada: me is an interesting one sugar's toxic wow i don't know how to respond to that (14:43):
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Kevin Tejada: i guess anything can be toxic the dose makes the poison but no all carbs are (14:49):
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Kevin Tejada: not dangerous keto and carnivore diets are the healthiest way to eat No. (14:55):
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Kevin Tejada: Those are really dense. (15:00):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean, they have big deficits of carbohydrates, a macronutrient that you need (15:02):
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Kevin Tejada: for energy and other things. So no. (15:06):
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Kevin Tejada: Let me run through some stats quick. These latest episodes are getting too long. (15:09):
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Kevin Tejada: By the way, if you like them long, wink, put that in the comments, I guess. (15:13):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't want to take like an hour for this shit, but you know, (15:18):
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Kevin Tejada: let me know if it being longer than like 15, 16, 17 minutes is annoying as shit. (15:20):
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Kevin Tejada: The average American gets about 50% of daily calories from carbohydrates. (15:26):
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Kevin Tejada: Yet obesity rates have risen largely due to increased calorie intake from all (15:31):
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Kevin Tejada: macronutrients, not just carbs. (15:35):
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Kevin Tejada: Yeah, I know. Well, large scale studies, including the pure study, P-U-R-E, (15:36):
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Kevin Tejada: study of 135,000 people in 18 countries found that high carb intake from whole (15:43):
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Kevin Tejada: foods is not associated with high mortality, but high intake from refined carbs (15:50):
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Kevin Tejada: is, which means the quality of carbohydrates matters. (15:55):
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Kevin Tejada: If you're eating those, I don't know what you call those, like those cereal (15:58):
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Kevin Tejada: bars, the one where it's like a bunch of stuff held together by gelled sugar or whatever. (16:01):
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Kevin Tejada: Yeah, you eat a bunch of those in place of, let's say, a bunch of vegetables (16:07):
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Kevin Tejada: or like sourdough bread or something. (16:11):
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Kevin Tejada: I mean, yeah, those carbs will (16:14):
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Kevin Tejada: probably kill you earlier because they're lacking in nutrients and stuff. (16:16):
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Kevin Tejada: But it's not the carbohydrates themselves as a whole. (16:20):
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Kevin Tejada: But yeah, if you eat the worst type of something. It's not going to help over time. (16:24):
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Kevin Tejada: Populations with traditional high-carb diets, such as Okinawans and Sardinians, (16:28):
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Kevin Tejada: which if you don't know, are basically, as of right now anyway, (16:32):
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Kevin Tejada: the Okinawa is like the healthiest part of Japan. (16:36):
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Kevin Tejada: Sardinia is the healthiest part of Italy. They have high-carb diets and have (16:39):
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Kevin Tejada: some of the lowest rates of obesity and the longest lifespans in the world, (16:44):
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Kevin Tejada: along with somewhere in Costa Rica, somewhere in California, Loma Linda Valley, (16:48):
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Kevin Tejada: whatever California somewhere in Costa Rica I forgot where where's that fifth (16:52):
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Kevin Tejada: zone the blue zone where people live forever I forget where it is I think it's (16:57):
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Kevin Tejada: somewhere in Greece don't quote me on that though, (17:01):
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Kevin Tejada: Anyway, they have a whole bunch of other reasons why they live such a long time. (17:05):
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Kevin Tejada: But eating carbohydrates doesn't hurt them. Interesting. (17:09):
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Kevin Tejada: Low-carb diets can lead to initial rapid weight loss. (17:14):
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Kevin Tejada: But about a year later, the weight loss difference between a low-carb diet and (17:18):
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Kevin Tejada: balanced diets are negligible. (17:22):
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Kevin Tejada: Which means at the beginning, if you stop eating fucking donuts, (17:24):
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Kevin Tejada: you're going to lose a bunch of weight. Wowzers. (17:27):
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Kevin Tejada: And here is the thing, as well in terms of macronutrients. (17:29):
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Kevin Tejada: People say carbs are bad, carbs are bad. But do you know how many of your daily (17:33):
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Kevin Tejada: macronutrients should come from carbs? Do you know? Probably not. (17:36):
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Kevin Tejada: It's actually between like 40 and 60. You want to split the difference. (17:41):
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Kevin Tejada: About half of your daily calories should include carbohydrates. (17:47):
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Speaker1: So to cut that out, (17:51):
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Kevin Tejada: It's fucking absurd. And if you want some extra stuff, the rest of them should (17:52):
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Kevin Tejada: be kind of split up like 30. (17:56):
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Kevin Tejada: The, let's say like 50% carbs, 35% or 30% proteins, and then like 15, 20% fats like that. (17:58):
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Kevin Tejada: It should be mostly carbohydrates, then a bunch of protein, and then the rest (18:08):
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Kevin Tejada: should be smaller, it should be fats. (18:14):
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Kevin Tejada: Obviously, depending on your goals, in terms of athletic performance and health, (18:17):
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Kevin Tejada: these can be played with a bit, but that's kind of where it's going to be for (18:21):
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Kevin Tejada: the most part. mostly carbs, second protein, last fats. (18:26):
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Kevin Tejada: So keep that in mind when people say, oh, cut the carbs. Yeah, no. (18:30):
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Kevin Tejada: Only 10% of Americans meet the recommended daily intake for fiber, (18:35):
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Kevin Tejada: which most of which comes from carbohydrates, rich food, like fruits, (18:40):
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Kevin Tejada: vegetables, whole grain stuff, beans. (18:44):
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Kevin Tejada: And what this says is, yeah, Americans don't really eat vegetables. (18:47):
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Kevin Tejada: At my day job, Usually when there's a big meeting, we have catering brought in. (18:50):
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Kevin Tejada: I sound like a rich asshole, but no, it's just like a big table with food that (18:56):
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Kevin Tejada: we ordered for the gigantic staff that we have. (19:00):
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Kevin Tejada: And oftentimes there is, you know, salad part, some other vegetable stuff. (19:04):
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Kevin Tejada: Let me tell you, that goes damn near untouched almost every time. (19:09):
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Kevin Tejada: I know this because when people get up to it in line to, you know, (19:15):
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Kevin Tejada: they're getting their fruit they kind of just they look at and just keep walking (19:19):
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Kevin Tejada: i'm like hey that'd be helpful you want to try that out but that's just how it is you know. (19:23):
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Kevin Tejada: Salads and vegetables are not very appealing to people. And, (19:30):
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Kevin Tejada: you know, to be fair, if you don't put some dressing or, you know, (19:32):
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Kevin Tejada: some seasoning or shit on there or other interesting vegetables, it can be boring. (19:35):
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Kevin Tejada: So I get that. But man, avoiding it entirely is very common. (19:39):
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Kevin Tejada: Over 70% of Americans report confusion about which foods contain good versus (19:44):
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Kevin Tejada: bad carbs, which makes them possibly unnecessarily cut out and restrict some (19:49):
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Kevin Tejada: of their diet and blah, blah, blah. (19:55):
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Kevin Tejada: You can classify carbohydrates i (19:57):
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Kevin Tejada: guess if you want as good or bad if they're super refined or not whatever (20:00):
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Kevin Tejada: i prefer i mean i do call it foods (20:03):
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Kevin Tejada: dog shit and bad and stuff like that but i think it (20:06):
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Kevin Tejada: is useful more useful to consider (20:09):
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Kevin Tejada: foods you know good bang for buck or bad bad bad bang for buck so how do you (20:12):
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Kevin Tejada: get some some good bang for buck uh eat your fucking vegetables eat your fruits (20:18):
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Kevin Tejada: Eat your legumes Eat better bread Like sourdough and stuff like that If her (20:22):
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Kevin Tejada: bread is super white And soft, (20:29):
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Kevin Tejada: It's probably nutritionally dead. And honestly, the same goes for rice too. (20:32):
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Kevin Tejada: If you have a choice over white rice versus brown, yellow, you know, (20:36):
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Kevin Tejada: any other kind, the white one has, if I'm not mistaken, the least amount of nutrients in it. (20:40):
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Kevin Tejada: So, I mean, it tastes good though, but if you want bang for buck, (20:47):
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Kevin Tejada: that's not where you go. Don't fear carbohydrates. (20:51):
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Speaker1: You should be worrying (20:55):
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Kevin Tejada: About caloric intake. That's the C word you should be worried about. (20:56):
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Kevin Tejada: And honestly even if a food is like low (21:00):
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Kevin Tejada: carb but it's like ultra processed lab (21:03):
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Kevin Tejada: made bullshit then that's something you should also look into that's kind of (21:06):
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Kevin Tejada: a more important metric than the carbohydrates in the food yeah just in general (21:10):
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Kevin Tejada: ignore diets or fads that say hey cut out one third of the food you should be (21:15):
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Kevin Tejada: eating as a human being just ignore that same for cutting out fats that's fucking crazy. (21:21):
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Kevin Tejada: Like just, just take this away from this whole episode. Have about half of your, (21:27):
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Kevin Tejada: your intake for the day be carbohydrates. (21:32):
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Kevin Tejada: And again, I want to not again, I don't think I mentioned this episode, (21:34):
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Kevin Tejada: but foods are not just all this food is all carbohydrates. This is all proteins. (21:38):
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Kevin Tejada: The majority of food has a makeup that includes carbohydrates and or proteins and or fats. (21:41):
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Kevin Tejada: So look into that. But about half of what you take in for the day should be carbohydrates. (21:50):
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Kevin Tejada: Then about a third should be proteins and the rest, fats. (21:55):
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Kevin Tejada: If you literally just follow that, you will be in better health than the majority of Americans. (22:00):
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Kevin Tejada: I was going to say the majority of people, but other countries have it kind of figured out. (22:06):
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Kevin Tejada: We're kind of extra stupid over here. So you will outpace most Americans in (22:10):
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Kevin Tejada: terms of health and nutrition if you just follow that hierarchy. (22:15):
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Kevin Tejada: Let me know in the comments, have you ever forgot or ever fell for carbohydrates? race. (22:20):
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Kevin Tejada: You forgot that you need them to live, live well anyway. I think I fell for (22:25):
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Kevin Tejada: that when I was younger. I forget. (22:29):
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Kevin Tejada: I think I fell more for the low fat, no fat thing before though. (22:31):
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Kevin Tejada: Cause obviously you see fat and like, Oh, less fat. Yeah. I want to be less fat. Sure. (22:36):
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Kevin Tejada: But yeah, I don't remember about the carb stuff, but most people still think, (22:40):
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Kevin Tejada: Oh man, it's really bad. So let me know in the comments if you fell for that. (22:43):
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Kevin Tejada: And if so, I hope you won't fall forward in the future. (22:47):
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Kevin Tejada: Anyway, I hope you make it and I'll see you next time. (22:49):
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