Podcast episode I: interview with Stephan Guyenet on obesity and weight loss

I don’t think the file is available. iTunes says this URL is missing:
http://web.me.com/chriskresser/Guyunet_5_10_final.m4a

I can get the file directly, but iTunes still thinks it is missing. I’ll wager they’ve cached its original missing status and if we wait a bit, it’ll work in iTunes also when they retry.

It’s working now in iTunes.

Hi Chris,
The easiest way is to Subscribe to the podcast and see if the episode downloads. When it fails, iTunes adds a little icon next to the episode in quesiton. Clicking on that icon will give you the error, such as what URL was not found, etc.

So what do you think it is about sugar and white flour that is bad? As for sugar it could be the fructose or the glucose or what the body has to do to break the bond between the two or the fact that it is an empty calorie.
Animal studies have shown that they will eat not so much to calories or even volume, but to nutrients. They will eat huge amounts of calories and huge volumes of food until they have gotten enough nutrients.
Wheat starch (white flour), is made of long chains of glucose. The only thing that sugar and white flour have in common is that they are empty calories and good sources of glucose. But of course, it’s entirely possible they are bad for different, not the same, reasons.

Thanks a lot. Listen to it already, a great interview. Thanks

There is no problem with m4a (AAC), it’s great and I’m also use it. But the used encoder is lavf… And this encoder doesn’t work for me. Maybe it’s a problem of a setting. There are many results on google for “lavf ipod”. Maybe “lavf -lavfopts format=ipod” will help you, that’s what i found… I don’t know which program you use to create this podcast etc. I just want to give you a hint.
 

Great interview.  Chris, I liked the way you summed things up after each topic.  Also, you were very knowledgeable about what Stephan was going to talk about which was good. 
Watch the breathing over the mike - there were a few times when there was this weird breathing sounds.

By the way, I totally love your accupuncture series – reading part V at the moment.  I’m a naturopath and have been a bit so so about accupuncture which I haven’t studied.  I need to understand things Biomedically.  I’ve pointed some of my accupuncture friends to your articles. Thanks again.

Awesome interview. Cutting edge in terms of covering the best current thinking about obesity, but presented in an accessible way.
By the way, it’s amazing how an ancestral diet tends to adress all of the factors (even those poorly understood) involved in obesity, and this without side effects.
Food really is medicine.
 

Great interview Christian, I am a long time reader of Stephan’s blog and I just discovered your blog. I really liked how you conducted the interview…you really allowed the guest to speak and everything you said only added to the conversation. Also, the depth of detail was really great, it was not just a cursory look at diet but covered a wide range of topics in great detail. All in all, wonderful. Thank you!

I really enjoyed the podcast.

Hey, listened to the Podcast. This was comprehensive in terms of the dimensions of the discussion, yet succint and I actully understood it. Loved it. Great stuff.

I understand that wheat and its bi-products are not in the overall sense, healthy.  What about turning to a long grain rice flour instead?

I Hoped Stephan would have touched more the HIIT training protocols for fat loss – there is a lot of hype yet only some really impressive results so far.
 
I’d really like that it would work.
 
Nice interview,  I enjoyed it.

Very good interview, thank you.
Incidentally, most of the mic problems can be solved inexpensively with a pop filter.  They go for around $20 US, or you can make one with some pantyhose stretched over a 6″ diameter hoop of wire (bend a coat hanger, it’s ideal).  Position between lips and mic (touching neither), fasten  it to the mic stand or whatever is solid enough to hold it in place.  Once in position, it’ll catch plosives before they hit the mic surface and yield much better voice recordings.
Be wary of low-carb diets.  Low sugar diets, fine.  Low refined grain products, fine.  But demonizing all carbs is dumb.  Fruits and many vegetables are largely carbs, and they’re mostly good carbs: fiber and micronutrients ‘n stuff.  Eat them whole and raw unless cooking is required to make them safe.
Also, low-carb means high fat.  All fats are not created equal.  That’s a subject much too complex for a comment, but I’ll just say that some fats may turn out to be very bad nutrition, and they may not always be the fats you have been told are bad by the FDA and the food industry.