Breast Cancer: Food, Prevention & Survival
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
4.9 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2018
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Certain foods can not only help prevent breast cancer but can also dramatically improve the odds of survival once a person is diagnosed. Conversely, other foods have been proven to increase the risk of developing the disease.
In this very special edition of The Exam Room™, "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll sits down with Dr. Neal Barnard to discover the foods that have strong cancer-fighting properties and which foods to avoid to keep the risk of developing the disease as low as possible.
Dr. Barnard also shares how a recent flight got him to re-examine the way we view breast cancer awareness. It is critically important that we continue searching for a cure, but he says there should also be an increased emphasis on preventing the disease. Studies show that many of the nearly 41,000 estimated deaths in the U.S. in 2018 are preventable through diet and lifestyle changes.
Also, Dr. Asha Subramanian returns to the program to discuss breast cancer from not just the perspective of a physician, but also from that of a woman and mother.
Dr. Subramanian and Chuck then touch on how a plant-based diet can significantly lower the risk of developing breast cancer, even in women with a strong genetic link to the disease. The effects of age, obesity, race, and animal fat is also examined.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and this is the Examord Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:13.3 | I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:15.6 | Thank you so much for giving the show a download and a list in this week cannot begin to tell |
| 0:21.0 | you how much I appreciate it. |
| 0:25.2 | This is what we are talking about this week. |
| 0:29.6 | Specifically the foods that not only lower the risk of developing the disease, but the foods |
| 0:34.5 | that can also increase the chance of survival for the 266,000 women who will be diagnosed |
| 0:43.0 | with it this year alone in the US. |
| 0:46.9 | 266,000. |
| 0:49.0 | That's one out of every 8 women in this country. |
| 0:52.9 | Our mothers, our daughters, our sisters, our friends, our neighbors, breast cancer does |
| 0:59.1 | not discriminate, not even against men. |
| 1:05.2 | You know, it's often overlooked, but on average more than one man will die from breast cancer |
| 1:11.3 | every single day in the United States. |
| 1:16.4 | So what should we be eating to bring those alarming numbers down? |
| 1:20.7 | What should we be doing? |
| 1:22.4 | More importantly, what should we be avoiding? |
| 1:26.7 | Over the course of the next hour, we're going to find out as I sit down with Dr. Neal Barnard. |
| 1:32.4 | You know him, he's the head of the Physicians Committee, and I'm also going to chat with |
| 1:36.2 | Dr. Asha Subramanian. |
| 1:38.7 | She's going to be talking about breast cancer from not only the perspective of a physician, |
| 1:43.7 | but also from the perspective of a woman and being a mother herself. |
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