Best Diet for Weight Loss: Vegan or Mediterranean Diet?
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Will you lose more weight on a vegan diet or the Mediterranean diet? "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll is joined by Dr. Neal Barnard to discuss the results of a study that tested the diets head-to-head to see which is best for slimming down and getting healthy!
The study also examines which diet reigns supreme for improving blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes.
Also, find out whether the brain causes you to crave fatty foods when you're on a low-fat diet.
Plus, Dr. Barnard will raise your health IQ and answer listener questions when Chuck opens The Doctor's Mailbag.
- Will you automatically gain weight once you stop eating a low-carb diet like keto?
- How long does it take for cholesterol to improve on a plant-based diet?
- Is it better to eat an olive rather than olive oil?
- What is the best way to strengthen bones and joints?
- And many more!
The pair also look at new evidence showing COVID-19 is causing diabetes in people who have no history of the disease.
If you have a question you'd like to ask the doctors on the show, send it to @ChuckCarrollWLC using #ExamRoomLive on Twitter or Instagram.
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Vegan vs. Mediterranean Diet Study
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COVID-19 Resources
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ICNM 2021
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Barnard Medical Center Telemedicine
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Chuck Carroll
Twitter: @ChuckCarrollWLC
IG: @ChuckCarrollWLC
Facebook: https://wghtloss.cc/ChuckFacebook
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Dr. Neal Barnard
Twitter: @drnealbarnard
IG: @drnealbarnard
Facebook: http://bit.ly/DrBarnardFB
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Physicians Committee
Twitter: @PCRM
Facebook: https://wghtloss.cc/PCRMFacebook
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| 0:00.0 | Our research team decided, all right, let's do a head-to-head test. |
| 0:04.2 | Vegan versus Mediterranean using exactly the predilemed protocol. |
| 0:09.0 | We brought in 62 participants and half of them went Mediterranean. |
| 0:13.2 | The other half went vegan. |
| 0:15.7 | Then after 16 weeks, everybody stopped. |
| 0:19.1 | We put them on the scale. |
| 0:20.7 | We checked their blood pressure and their cholesterol, and then we switched diets. |
| 0:25.8 | The Mediterranean people now started the vegan diet, the vegan people started the Mediterranean diet. |
| 0:30.4 | They did it for another 16 weeks. |
| 0:32.2 | Then we put them on the scale again. |
| 0:34.0 | And once it'd be fine. |
| 0:43.6 | Hi, and welcome to the Exam Room Podcast. |
| 0:46.1 | Brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:48.0 | I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:50.4 | Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen, or a view, or a download, |
| 0:55.3 | wherever it is in the world that you are. |
| 0:57.6 | We appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 1:01.4 | Here to raise your nutrition and health IQ. |
| 1:04.9 | We're doing that with you five days a week Monday, Wednesday, Friday on Facebook and on YouTube. |
| 1:10.9 | And right here via the podcast on Tuesdays and Thursdays. |
| 1:15.6 | And today we are pitting vegan and Mediterranean diets head-to-head |
| 1:21.1 | to find out which is better for weight loss. |
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