30 Years of Diets: Any Healthier Now? | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 22 September 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
For 30 years, diets in 185 countries have been closely watched. Are we any healthier today than when the research started?
The study ranked diets with scores of 0-100 based on the type of foods that were being eaten. Find out which country scored the healthiest and how your diet compares when Dr. Neal Barnard joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room LIVE!
Also covered
- Living to 100: Is it genetics or food?
- Getting enough iron on a vegan diet
- How to tell if you're eating a healthy diet
- High blood pressure that won't come down
- What to do when you've got a freezer full of meat, but want to go vegan.
- Many more!
This episode of The Exam Room™ Podcast is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg's passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation.
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| 0:00.0 | It's a cool study chuck. |
| 0:02.4 | They look to see who is doing better, who is doing worse, and also what had changed. |
| 0:08.2 | The United States do not rank at the top. |
| 0:11.0 | We were not second, we were not in the top 20, we were in the bottom four. |
| 0:15.2 | That doesn't mean we can't improve, we certainly can't. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:25.9 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:29.1 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us coast to coast in the US and in |
| 0:33.3 | more than 150 countries. |
| 0:35.7 | Hi to everyone listening in Sandbridge, Virginia, Everett Washington and Newcastle, Australia. |
| 0:42.6 | We appreciate you all helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:47.3 | This is episode 72 of season 5, number 371 overall. |
| 0:54.7 | We know way more now than we did 30 years ago in terms of what it means to eat healthy. |
| 1:03.0 | But how much healthier then have our diets actually become? |
| 1:07.6 | Well a massive study now has that answer. |
| 1:11.4 | And this study of 185 countries and thousands of people spend three decades and researchers |
| 1:20.3 | were able to rank the quality of everyone's diet on a scale of 0 to 100 and they took |
| 1:27.9 | a lot of things into consideration here. |
| 1:31.4 | So where in the world, who in the world is eating the healthiest and then globally overall, |
| 1:39.4 | how are we doing as well? |
| 1:41.3 | You are about to find out today with Dr. Neil Barnard who joined me on the Exam Room Live. |
| 1:46.4 | So today we will be opening up the doctor's mail bag answering lots of questions sent |
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