Breast Cancer and Food: What You Should Know
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 3 March 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Food can play a significant role in determining whether or not a woman will get breast cancer.
It is estimated that more than 250,000 women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with it this year, but on this episode of The Exam Room™ podcast, "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll is joined by Dr. Neal Barnard who will teach you what you need to know to greatly reduce the risk of being one of them. Dr. Barnard will share the science of food, hormones and breast health from his book Your Body In Balance.
You will learn how fat, meat, dairy and other factors can increase the chances of developing breast cancer and the best diet and foods to lower the risk. Plus, you will learn why a woman is more likely to be diagnosed as she gets older and what can be done to improve the odds the diagnosis never comes.
Plus, dietician Lee Crosby shares the breast cancer scare she had at a young age. When doctors first found a lump in her breast she adopted a far healthier diet. For months the mass showed no signs of growth. However, when she returned to eating the standard American diet the next test revealed that the lump had doubled in size.
She and Dr. Barnard share what caused that to happen!
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Order Your Body In Balance
About The Book
In Your Body in Balance, Dr. Barnard describes how food and hormones play a powerful role in:
- Fertility and menopause: Learn how foods affect the hormones that play a role in fertility, premenstrual syndrome, endometriosis, menstrual cramps, and polycystic ovarian syndrome. Learn how a plant-based diet can help manage menopause and reduce symptoms, including hot flashes.
- Sex-hormone related cancers: Read the science behind how foods affect estrogen and testosterone levels and the roles they play in breast, prostate, and other forms of cancer.
- Balancing the thyroid: Read about the surprising effects of diet on hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism.
- Type 2 diabetes: Learn about how a healthy, plant-based diet can restore insulin function and help manage type 2 diabetes.
- Regulating metabolism: Learn how a plant-based diet can boost metabolic rate and affect how body fat is stored and burned.
The book also gives readers practical tips and resources, including answers to frequently asked questions and 65 hormone-balancing recipes developed by Lindsay Nixon.
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Recipes
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Dr. Barnard Tour Dates
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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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Lee Crosby
Twitter: @Veggie_Quest
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Physicians Committee
Twitter: @PCRM
Facebook: https://wghtloss.cc/PCRMFacebook
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| 0:00.0 | So my six month checkup totally fine, no change in that thickened area, |
| 0:03.8 | nine month checkup, no change in that thickened area. |
| 0:06.5 | This is where things go sideways. |
| 0:08.0 | So I kind of got a little cocky. |
| 0:10.6 | I reintroduced a lot of animal products. |
| 0:12.5 | And when I went back in in that four month period where I had been off the wagon, |
| 0:16.3 | it had doubled in size. |
| 0:17.5 | My breast surgeon was also pretty worried. |
| 0:19.1 | She wouldn't say it in those terms, |
| 0:20.4 | but she wasn't messing around within a week. |
| 0:22.0 | I was on her surgical table getting the lump removed. |
| 0:31.0 | Well, hello there. |
| 0:33.1 | And welcome to the Exam Room Podcast. |
| 0:35.1 | Brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:36.8 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:39.8 | Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen or a view or a download. |
| 0:44.6 | Wherever it is in the world that you are, |
| 0:47.1 | we appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:51.3 | And this is the special Your Body and Balance series |
| 0:54.3 | where we're taking a deep dive into the new science of food, hormones, and health. |
| 1:00.2 | And this is Episode 8. |
| 1:02.2 | Hard to believe that we've already done so many of these, Episode 8. |
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