Carbohydrates
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
the Knowledge Project 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath
4 statements about Carbohydrates, every show
Dr. Enders: Cooking and cooling carbs increases prebiotic resistant starch
“Or when you just have carbs like rice and noodles and so on, if you cook them once, let them cool down, suddenly their content of Like the resistant starch, and so with that soluble, water-soluble fiber, rises. So just having your carbs cooked, cool them down,…”
Mukesh Bansal: Carbs Should Not Be Avoided And Can Be 40% Of Calories
“I, I'm definitely not a proponent of going out of your way to avoid carbs. You need to control it. Carbs should not be 80% of calories, but can easily be, you know, 30, 40% of calories, and I think they're absolutely fine.”
Zeevi: Carbohydrate counting is a surprisingly poor predictor of glucose responses
“If you take the correlation between the carbs and the meal and the postpranding glucose response of the meal, you get a correlation and R of .38, which is not a very good correlation.”
Chronic Metabolic Disease Stems From Refined Foods, Not a Lack of Fiber
“You add fiber, you can slow down the digestion of the carbohydrates. You can even slow down the digestion of the sugars. So that would probably help, but you've paid attention to the wrong thing. It's not the absence of the fiber. It's the presence of those ot…”