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Hello and welcome back to The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore!
Today Jimmy shares his interview with special guest, medical journalist Dan Hurley. Dan is a low-carb fan and author of the new book Diabetes Rising: How a Rare Disease Became a Modern Pandemic, and What to Do About It. Surprisingly, Dan doesn’t advocate using a low-carb nutritional approach as one of the solutions in his book? Listen in to find out why.
LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 360
– Visit our sponsor: Diet-To-Go
– Dan Hurley bio
– Diabetes Rising: How a Rare Disease Became a Modern Pandemic, and What to Do About It
Jimmy,
The title of this post/interview is entirely misleading… Its not that he doesn’t recommend them, he is just focusing on other things. We don’t need him to re-write Bernstein’s book. His information compliments what is already readily available and should be highlighted for what it does offer NOT for what it doesn’t.
I agree he doesn’t need to rehash all of the information from Bernstein and Vernon, Mike, but why not acknowledge their work in his book? He didn’t do that at all. Yes, he accurately points out a lot of good things and I praised him for that in the interview. But omitting the low-carb connection to diabetes is like forgetting to talk about the role of oxygen in deep sea diving!
LOL, I completely agree, brother. All diabetics NEED to know about Bernstein and he clearly missed the boat there – I am a Type 1 myself. My complaint is really just specific to the title of the interview, that is all. I went in expecting to hear him talk about why low carb is BAD for diabetics – which is not something I wanted to hear! So I was kind of listening a bit more skeptical that I otherwise would have been right from the get-go, you see? Maybe that is my fault, I don’t know…
I will say I was relieved that it wasn’t the case, but I still think the title should reflect the actual piece he did produce. And, of course, you did a great job pointing out the GAPING hole he left by missing Bernstein. No one is going to miss that when they listen.
Anyway, great job, as usual. Love the show! Keep it up!
Nice Podcast Jimmy!
Dan Hurley has some really great info but boy do I disagree with his idea that something outside ourselves has to make it easier for eating with awareness. Lowering the price of organic broccoli will not make it jump off the shelf.
Personally I believe if we stop eating carbs the market its self will have to adjust. Actually wheat took a sales drop and has not yet recovered already due to lower carb eating. We the consumers can speak very loudly…if we know why we are making the sad choices we do and what we can do different to eat with joy!
I don’t want the government helping me with my food choices thank you very much, that’s how we got here in the first place! Why not begin by teaching parents and children the love of eating good real food with awareness could do wonders. Teaching them the consequences of eating otherwise would also benefit many of the parents and children. They do not have this info…they have ADA info in the schools!!
Dan did not give specifics but does it really cost more to eat well and healthy? I don’t believe so. Cut out all the boxed, packaged and processed foods and you will be amazed how much you will save!
He has really got me going….I may have to post on this myself!
You are making a huge difference Jimmy and I know I need to take a page from your book and share what I know and teach the ways of Livin Lavida Low Carb!
Never stop learning and never stop sharing the lessons you learn, Gina! 🙂
Jimmy, I started to have a bad feeling when Dan Hurley said complimentary things about the health care takeover. Then he got it wrong on ancient Egypt, stating that they had diabetes present yet they didn’t get much to eat. I don’t think that’s true – weren’t they a prosperous society, but with a grain-based diet? Then came Dan’s prescriptions for the problem: signs in malls (!!) and more government control (limiting fast food restaurants in poor areas). Always government, government, government and treating people like we’re their nanny; yet he withheld from his book the very truth that would empower people to help themselves as individuals.
I think the title piques the interest of people in this episode. 🙂 Thanks again for listening!
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I, too, was a little confused about the description of this podcast. I almost did not listen to it because I didn’t want to hear someone bashing low carb for the treatment of diabetes. I did agree that healthy foods need to become more readily available for everyone. I thought that the idea of putting signs in malls was amusing. Maybe there should be a sign next to the Jamba Juice stall as well.
I can think of a lot of places a sign could be placed! 🙂
When talking about auto-immune diseases, he didn’t mention the grain-based diet, leaky gut syndrome connection, especially from gluten… another important aspect (the other being low-carb) regarding diet that was missed…
Cindy complains about “government, government, government.” The current totally rwong food pyramid is the result of lobbyists from “industry, industry, industry”: Processed food, Big Pharma, and professional groups vested in the status quo. I would not want my life regulated by government, but I would not want to be at the mercy of industries that have no legal accountability for health and safety.