Debating Dairy: Does Your Body Need Milk?
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 7 July 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Do milk and dairy belong in the same category as tobacco and processed meat?
On this episode of The Exam Room™ podcast, health benefits of dairy are debated as renowned epidemiologist Dr. Gary Fraser joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll. Does cheese or a glass of milk increase the risk for cancer and chronic disease or are they the cornerstones of a healthy diet? Some of the research being discussed may be counter to what many who subscribe to a plant-based diet believe.
Dr. Fraser served as the director of the Adventist health studies at Loma Linda for 32 years and was heavily involved in the Adventist Health Study-1 as well as the development of the Adventist Health Study-2.
Chuck also explores other research that shows dairy can be more nefarious when it comes to your health as he revisits a conversation with oncology nutritionist Alison Tierney. She strongly recommends eliminating dairy as eating a whole food plant-based diet has been shown to be one of the best preventative measures for cancer and other chronic diseases. Alison, whose mother is a breast cancer survivor, discusses the link between dairy fat and estrogen as well as the production of other potentially cancer-causing hormones such as 5alpha-P and IGF-1.
Dr. Fraser will be a featured speaker at the upcoming International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine.
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ICNM
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Associations of Dairy Study
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Alison Tierney
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Chuck Carroll
Twitter: @ChuckCarrollWLC
IG: @ChuckCarrollWLC
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Physicians Committee
Twitter: @PCRM
Facebook: https://wghtloss.cc/PCRMFacebook
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Barnard Medical Center Telemedicine
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| 0:00.0 | Where should dairy rank on the scale of cancer causing agents |
| 0:05.3 | should it be considered in the same vein as tobacco? |
| 0:08.7 | There's a very mixed picture. |
| 0:10.1 | We saw a really a pretty strong relationship |
| 0:14.0 | with relatively small antics of milk and risk cancer. |
| 0:19.5 | Well, hello there. |
| 0:29.8 | And welcome to the Exam Room podcast brought to you |
| 0:32.3 | by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:33.9 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:36.8 | Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen, |
| 0:39.5 | or a view, or a download, wherever it is in the world |
| 0:43.5 | that you are. |
| 0:45.0 | We appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:50.8 | Today, we are talking about dairy and trying |
| 0:54.9 | to get to the bottom of this question. |
| 0:58.6 | Does milk and cheese do they belong in the same category |
| 1:05.3 | as cigarettes and processed meat? |
| 1:09.6 | Now we know when it comes to tobacco and bacon |
| 1:12.4 | that they absolutely, positively no doubt about it |
| 1:16.0 | do cause cancer. |
| 1:19.8 | But what about milk? |
| 1:23.5 | We're going to be debating that on the show today, |
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