Beef It's What's for Dinner.com. I wanted to do some fat checking on those nutrition

claims. Is it really part of a heart healthy lifestyle?

You remember they said beef. It's real food for real people. If that's your idea of real food,

then I hope you live real close to a real good hospital because beef is a clear cut drive

for heart disease. One of the claims that they make flat out is that recent research shows that

eating lean beef as part of a heart healthy dietary pattern can help to maintain normal cholesterol

levels. What is your research showing? It doesn't work the way they're saying it.

Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.

Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. Thank you so very much for giving the show a

listen or a view or a download wherever it is in the world that you are. We appreciate you

raising your health IQ with us. Today on the show we are doing something for the very first time

trying something new and I encourage you to play along with us. Now what do you mean play along?

How can you play along? Here's what I want for you to do. On your phone or on your computer,

on your tablet, whatever, go to beefitswetsfordinner.com. And that website happens to be the home

of the Catamons Beef Board and National Catamons Beef Association, aka the big beef guys.

Now on this website, they have a lot of nutrition claims. But are those claims actually accurate?

To find out, I have enlisted the help of Dr. Neil Barnard and dietician Lee Crosby.

So on the program today, the three of us will be going over the nutrition section of beefitswetsfordinner.com

and looking at what the data that we have actually says. So what are the real facts?

That is what we will be dissecting today on the program. So if you would like to join us,

if you would like to play along, head over to beefitswetsfordinner.com. I have Dr. Neil Barnard here,

dietician Lee Crosby here. And they're going to answer the question, should beef really be what's

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