Cleaning Up School Lunch
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
4.9 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2019
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
The current generation of children will not live longer than their parents if the current skyrocketing obesity trend continues. One out of every five children are now obese, according to the latest statistics, while millions of others are overweight and not far behind. As those numbers continue to rise, so too will the number of children facing illnesses once thought to be reserved only for adults — heart disease, type 2 diabetes and more.
On this episode of The Exam Room™, "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll talks about his own struggle with childhood obesity. Doctors put him on blood pressure medication when he was only 15 years old because of his poor eating habits!
Dietician Maggie Neola then joins the show to update us on some extraordinary efforts to prevent other children from suffering the same fate. A number of states are considering legislation that would require schools to offer plant-based lunch options, including New York and California. She and Chuck also talk about how you can get involved and help push legislation through that would make healthy lunches the law of the land.
New York residents can send their representatives a letter urging them to support proposals S1472 and A1624 that would bring plant-based food to schools statewide.
If you live in the Washington, D.C. area, you can schedule an appointment to meet with Maggie to review your own diet at the Barnard Medical Center.
Audrey Dunham then joins the show! If you're not familiar with her, you should be! She is a woman with many hats from mother to baker to fitness competitor to trainer and entrepreneur. Audrey also just so happens to be married to famed ventriloquist Jeff Dunham whose popular character Peanuts is the inspiration for her line of plant-based treats.
Audrey shares some tips and tricks about raising her own children on a plant-based diet and also chronicles her own physical struggles as a fitness competitor that led her to adopt a plant-based diet herself!
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Join Chuck, Dr. Neal Barnard and dozens of other leaders in the plant-based community on July 25-27 at the International Conference On Nutrition In Medicine in Washington, DC. We'll be taping live episodes of The Exam Room™ from the conference!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there and welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians |
| 0:10.6 | Committee. |
| 0:11.6 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:13.4 | Thanks so much for giving the show a listen this week. |
| 0:15.5 | A download may be you're watching this on YouTube. |
| 0:18.8 | Are you? |
| 0:19.8 | I don't know. |
| 0:20.8 | The bottom line is that we appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:27.0 | The show has the skinny on kids, which unfortunately isn't really skinny at all. |
| 0:34.1 | We've had a number of studies in recent years show that for the first time in generations, |
| 0:40.7 | children are not expected to live longer than their parents. |
| 0:45.4 | Perhaps, really, that should come as no surprise as the rate of childhood obesity has more |
| 0:50.8 | than tripled over the last half century. |
| 0:55.6 | What researchers are discovering is that as more and more children are becoming overweight, |
| 1:00.5 | they're also finding, and I quote, relatively advanced levels of athlerosclerosis, including |
| 1:07.3 | fibrous plaques and adolescents and young adults. |
| 1:12.4 | But it doesn't stop there. |
| 1:13.9 | They're also finding elevated cholesterol levels and an increasing number of children |
| 1:18.2 | with type 2 diabetes as well as high blood pressure. |
| 1:23.3 | And that last one, that last one, I was one of those children. |
| 1:29.9 | Growing up, my diet was the standard American diet, only worse. |
| 1:35.9 | I was close to 300 pounds before I graduated high school. |
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