David Perlmutter Quotes

The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.

Carbohydrates, whether derived from gluten-containing foods or other sources, including fruit, sweetened beverages, and starchy vegetables, are dangerous as they relate to brain health in and of themselves.

Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that.

If your body produces more blood glucose than the muscle needs, it gets converted into fat. So always choose low-GI carbs like green vegetables and low-GI rice like basmati.

Carbohydrates, and especially refined ones like sugar, make you produce lots of extra insulin. I've been keeping my intake really low ever since I discovered this. I've cut out all starch such as potatoes, noodles, rice, bread and pasta.

It just so happens that my body type and my lifestyle gives me a preclusion for high blood sugars.

The biggest issue by far is that carbohydrates are absolutely at the cornerstone of all of our major degenerative conditions.

My weight does fluctuate, and there are extreme highs and lows in my blood sugar, so there is some worry about diabetes.

Most grain foods, whether we're talking about quinoa, amaranth, the very popular grains of the day - the reality is they still are associated with a carbohydrate surge.

No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky.

Diabetes is all about insulin levels and sugar levels and what you put in your body.

It's not the fat that's making you fat: it's not understanding separating carbohydrates from protein and fat.

There's not one food that causes diabetes. What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.

I'm at a slightly higher risk for type 2 diabetes, and my grandmother had diabetes. My hemoglobin a1c, which is one of the measures, started being a little high when I was drinking a ton of that coconut water.

In the U.S., the incidence of diabetes has increased proportionately with the per capita consumption of sugar.

During the day, I eat a lot of carbohydrates, but at night I stay away from such stuff.

Fiber and other nondigestible carbs are bulky and tend to slow digestion, which, in turn, eases the absorption of glucose into the bloodstream. When glucose enters the bloodstream more slowly, cells are better able to burn it for energy.

Carbs get a bad press, but they're pretty important.

The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

I have strange blood sugar levels. I get very odd if I don't eat. I either want to hit someone, cry, or fall asleep.

When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.

I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.

I keep my diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein.

I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate.