Decoding Diet and Cancer: Best Foods For Prevention | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
4.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Discover how to cut your risk of cancer in half by unleashing the power of nutrition.
What are the best cancer-fighting foods and nutrients? Dr. Neal Barnard reveals five when he joins “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room LIVE.
Research shows that for women more than 40% of cancer cases and nearly 60% of deaths are preventable. And for men an astonishing 63% of cases and preventable along with 70% of deaths.
Dr. Barnard will show how to put the power of prevention into your hands.
Plus, we open up The Doctor’s Mailbag and take questions from Exam Roomies for a broader look at heath.
-- Questions Answered --
- Are all whole foods gut healthy?
- What foods calm an inflamed gut?
- What are the best foods for osteopenia?
- What foods reduce late night cravings?
- Can you go vegan during menopause?
- Does fasting help diabetes?
- What will help hypothyroidism?
- And more!
This episode of The Exam Room™ Podcast is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg’s passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the exam room. |
| 0:03.2 | You hear numbers like half of all cases, if not more, are preventable. |
| 0:09.1 | Where in the world are we going wrong? |
| 0:11.2 | Because we're talking about 2 million cases every single year. |
| 0:14.9 | If you take smoking out of the picture, the percentage that's preventable is even higher. |
| 0:20.0 | People will say, well, smoking accounts for lung cancer, bladder cancer, a lot of things. |
| 0:25.1 | If people take care of that, then your big risk factor now is diet. |
| 0:29.6 | Get your diet together, cancer is plumbing. |
| 0:31.7 | So what are the big foods that are really known to fight cancer in a major way? |
| 0:38.0 | So think about berries, think about vegetables and colorful fruits. |
| 0:42.2 | Think about sweet potatoes or carrots. |
| 0:43.8 | That's the beta-carotene. |
| 0:45.6 | Anti-oxidants, whether it's the orange beta-carotene, the red lycopene, the purple anthocyanins. |
| 0:53.0 | These pigments aren't there just to make them look nice. |
| 0:55.4 | These pigments are there to signal your eye that this is an antioxidant that you want to be eating. |
| 1:01.2 | The antioxidants knock out the free radicals that are going to damage your DNA. |
| 1:14.7 | Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:19.0 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 1:22.1 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us coast to coast in the US and in more than 150 countries. |
| 1:29.6 | Hi to everyone listening in Boise, Idaho. |
| 1:32.9 | Keep this game Florida and Liverpool, England. |
| 1:36.8 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
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