3: Eat, Live, and Enjoy Life With Chef Barrae

Written on June 30, 2010 by admin

Eat, Live, and Enjoy Life With Chef Barrae (Ep. 3) [ 57:47 | 26.5 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome back for another episode of the Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast with Robert Su, MD.

In this episode, Chef Barrae is the featured guest. Chef Barrae is the author of a diabetic
cookbook “Gourmets, Gourmands and Other Foodies ~ Unrestricted Tastes on Restricted Diets.” Barrae has been interested in cooking since she was very young. She was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 2000 and had struggled with her obesity and unstable blood glucose level. With her vast culinary knowledge and skills, she was determined to create distinctive diabetic recipes that are both delicious and easily prepared by an ordinary person. In the interview, she also helps us with a few ideas on preparing everyday meals following a carbohydrate-restricted diet.

Links for Episode 3:

Chef Barrae’s Blog: http://www.chefbarrae.blogspot.com/
Chef Barrae on Twitter: http://twitter.com/chefbarrae
Chef Barrae on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Chef-Barrae/100000431397665

mary titus

My favorite comment made by this wonderful chef was that her need for low carb food once she lost her health insurance. Imagine that, diabetics are , in reality,instructed to eat enough carbohydrates that they must rely on meds in order to live. Eating to live? What a concept, man.
http://www.carbohydratescankill.com Robert K. Su MD

Because today’s medicine still believes that we cannot live without carbohydrates, its approach is to let diabetic patients eat carbohydrates and have diabetic medicine and/or insulin to lower the postprandial blood glucose level. It has yet understood or realized the dangerous roles of postprandial inflammation triggered by postprandial hyperglycemia. This is the reason why diabetic patients continue to progress into more complications as a result of postprandial hyperglycemia and inflammation.

So, we must take care of ourselves by restricting carbohydrate foods for preserving the pancreas and avoid diseases.
Terri

I really enjoyed listening to this as I am always struggling to stay with the low carb way of life and have family members who are diabetic and did not realize how they can benefit from this way of eating. I remember friends diagnosed as diabetics as children and the food guide they followed…there were a lot of carbs allowed, which is why they most likely had to take so many shots of insulin daily. I can’t wait to share this with them, What a great, NATURAL way to keep yourself healthy. I have been enjoying some of Chef’s recipes for awhile and will continue to do so.
Thank you for having Chef Barrae and spreading her healthy ways of life !!!!
http://www.carbohydratescankill.com Robert K. Su MD

Thank you very much for your comments, Terri. As you now have realized that carbohydrate foods are positively linked to the level of postprandial blood glucose level, which in turn, causing postprandial inflammation, and consequently damaging the tissues and organs including the beta cells of the pancreas.

Yes, restricting carbohydrates is the best and probably only healthy way to stop the progression of diabetes mellitus and other diseases. Chef Barrae is so gracious to share her personal experience in struggling with diabetes, and her recipes that are low in carbohydrate and good for all not just the diabetics.

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