In part II of our miniseries on carbohydrates, Jeff Burkart of Brave Chicken and I talk more about how in most cases carbs, are not only NOT harmful, but in many cases they're actually beneficial to you.

Some of the topics in today's episode include:

• Three ways science shows us that carbs do not make us fat (1:09)
• Does eating carbs cause you to develop type II diabetes? (3:13)
• What is BY FAR the GREATEST risk for developing type II diabetes? (10:23)
• Who really cares what you’re eating if you have obesity (14:09)
• Is it easier to avoid fat or carbohydrate? (26:56)
• A low fat diet should be low in fat AND carbs (29:15)
• Don’t waste your calories on unnecessary fat (30:35)
• Is it easy to get fats in your diet? (32:56)
• Is there ever a reason to justify eating pop tarts? (33:56)
• There are recommendations for carbs and protein, but not for fat (39:25)
• How Jeff formed his perspective on carbohydrates (41:33)
• If you don’t have fitness figured out by 35, you may want to hire someone (44:52)
• 80-90% of fitness is in the basics, try not to overcomplicate things (45:45)
• Jeff’s personal story of disordered eating (46:10)
• What Jeff’s first job out of college taught him (55:39)
• Eating carbs to lose weight? (57:13)
• Exercising in the “fat burning” zone is inefficient and time consuming (58:09)
• Performance isn’t just for Olympic athletes, it’s for you too! (1:00:57)
• Eating carbs to preserve performance during dieting (1:05:01)
• If you do any volume of training at a relatively high intensity, you need carbs (1:11:02)
• The “collective illusion” of carbs being bad for us (1:14:37)
• Todd’s theory on why people say that carbs are bad for us (1:18:17)