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hey guys dr. Burke here in this video I

want to share my opinion on do we need

carbohydrates okay so now there’s going

to be a lot of different viewpoints that

people are going to talk about I’m just

going to give my two cents I don’t want

to get in an argument with anyone but

let me just give you some basics on what

I think is very workable but whatever

works for you go ahead and go for it so

people think they need carbohydrates

mainly for energy but you can run your

body on other types of calories you can

run your body on protein you can run

your body on fat and so you don’t always

have to run your body on carbohydrates

so there’s a Smith that you have like

all the energy you have in your body

comes from a carbohydrate not

necessarily true so let me just kind of

explain so you’ve got simple

carbohydrates and complex carbohydrates

simple carbohydrates are like sugar

honey agave nectar so what happens is

that goes in your body really fast and

it spikes the sugar it might give you

some temporary energy but then you’re

going to come down because you have the

hormone called insulin that regulates

that but then complex carbohydrates have

a lot of additional things like fiber

that slow the breakdown and the

carbohydrate in the body and so it

doesn’t create that same effect as table

sugar so here’s the thing though let’s

just kind of break down each type of

carbohydrate now some of this actually

contract contains proteins amino acids

but mainly it’s a carbohydrate okay we

definitely need more vegetables not

initially for the carbohydrate but

mainly for the vitamins okay and the

minerals that’s really why we need those

because that’s where most of the

vitamins and minerals come from

it also has fiber but what fiber does

it’s not necessarily something like a

bulking agent it’s mainly to feed the

microbes your intestinal flora your good

bacteria live on microbes and they need

fiber and you don’t have to get your

fiber from brand or grains you can get

it from the vegetable family okay

so that’s why we need vegetables in

large quantities to beans now the thing

about beans is it doesn’t turn into

as fast as other types of carbohydrates

however if you have a slow metabolism if

you’re trying to lose weight I have

found that people have a hard time doing

this on beans because it’s it’s a lot of

carbs okay so if it works for you try it

if you have a slow metabolism you might

not want to consume very many beans okay

a lot of people have gas with beans as

well so that’s my viewpoint on that no

fruits fruits are great but the problem

is that it can range from a high

glycemic index to a low glycemic index

if you have like berries and things

that’s a little lower than apples apples

have like 19 to 30 grams of sugar per

Apple that’s like a lot of sugar so the

thing about fruits is this on some

people it’s going to slow them down to

lose weight okay they’re not going to be

able to weight as fast now you’re going

to have exceptions to the rule with

people with a faster metabolism but I’m

dealing with mainly women in their 50s

who having a hard time and I get the

fruit out of the diet and boom

everything starts going down a lot

easier so again you’re going to have

exceptions but typically fruit it’s just

too sweet it’s too much carbohydrate now

there are viewpoints out there that you

see people that do a fruit diet and they

lose all this weight well probably

because they cut out all of the sugar

okay that’s in the diet as well and

their metabolism might be a little bit

faster but I’m just talking about if you

take someone that’s been dieting for

many years and you keep them on fruit

it’s going to slow them down

I used to recommend fruit I don’t

recommend fruit if you’re trying to lose

weight okay there is some vitamins and

fruit maybe a little bit of berry but

not much okay now grains grains you have

like whole wheat bread and white bread

the whole thing here’s the thing it’s

very very similar sore glycemic index so

it does turn into sugar fairly fast and

I don’t recommend grains for two reasons

number one there is not a lot of

nutrition in grains some people disagree

but just look it up it’s not that high

if you compare to vegetables the other

thing is it’s real hard in the digestive

system because it has glue

ten gluten is the protein in grains and

gluten creates all sorts of silly AK

problems in irritable bowel syndrome and

irritation to the colon and it’s one of

those things that you just have to try

it yourself and see if it if you feel

better not consuming it okay I found

that when you consume grains you people

go out of bloating and you just have to

know yourself and just try it out the

other thing is starches so there are

diet alte that recommend tons of

starches and some people lose weight

some people don’t well here’s the point

I don’t want to get into a whole debate

on starches I just want you to go ahead

and try it for yourself

eat starches for a week and see if you

lose weight and if you do great on my

experience is that you probably are not

going to lose weight because these

starches turn in sugar pretty down fast

it’s not the highest sources of vitamins

compared to vegetables so I like to stay

away from these right here okay now if

you’re trying to gain weight I think

potatoes are the best food that you can

consume okay

maybe wild rice if you’re a high level

athlete doing marathons okay then you

might you have a high metabolism maybe

you’re going to need some brown rice

maybe a potato but for the average

person their kid they can’t get away

with it okay in summary do we need

carbohydrates well we do need

carbohydrates for our vitamins and

minerals and fiber okay hope you learned

something make some comments below and I

will see you in the next video