Diet Myths 4: Best Foods for Sinuses, Raw Food and Inflammation, Soaking Nuts
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🗓️ 27 October 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Neal Barnard is back to explore even more widely believed myths about diets and nutrition! What is true and what is food fiction?
Find out as he joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to shine light on these popular nutritional claims. Plus, Dr. Vanita Rahman and dietitian Lee Crosby, also known as The Fiber Queen, join the show for a bonus question and answer session to raise your health IQ!
Among the questions answered:
- Is a primarily raw vegan diet better for inflammation than a vegan diet that includes cooked food?
- Is it true that nuts are healthier when soaked overnight?
- Do cruciferous vegetables need to be cooked or are they safe to eat raw?
- Does Dr. Barnard recommend any supplements other than vitamin B12?
- Is it true that certain foods will increase the amount of mucus produced in sinuses?
- Is there such a thing as a healthy pumpkin pie?
- And many more!
If you have a question you'd like the doctors to answer, tweet it to @ChuckCarrollWLC using #ExamRoomLive.
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| 0:00.0 | is a raw vegan and fruit diet more healing for inflammation than cooked food. |
| 0:04.7 | In theory, I think raw foods make a lot of sense because you would have to believe that our species |
| 0:09.3 | did not evolve along with sternum. So we were eating a lot of raw things. And what you discover |
| 0:14.3 | is sometimes people don't react very well to certain foods that were not part of our diet since time in the morning. |
| 0:20.3 | Well, hello there and welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:34.2 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. Thank you so very much for giving the show a |
| 0:38.9 | listen or a view or a download. Wherever it is in the world that you are, we appreciate the fact that you |
| 0:47.0 | are here. And it is time to raise our nutrition IQs once again because this is number four in our |
| 0:57.6 | series of diet myths. And this week on the show Dr. Neil Barnard is back to explore some of the |
| 1:05.6 | most widely held beliefs when it comes to nutrition. And as a bonus, we're not doing just one segment |
| 1:14.4 | of the doctor's mailbag. Oh no, no, my friend. We are doubling down and we are bringing on Dr. |
| 1:20.1 | Vanito Romante to join us and she is going to be joined by dietician Lee Crossby, the fiber queen. |
| 1:29.3 | We are going to get to so many of your questions on the show today. Your head might explode. |
| 1:37.2 | I don't know, but it's going to be fantastic. We are going to do our best to get as much nutrition |
| 1:42.5 | knowledge crammed into your cranium as humanly possible. And we are going to be exploring some of the |
| 1:49.1 | best questions yet on the exam room. Questions like one from Lana who wanted to know is a raw vegan |
| 1:56.9 | diet better than a cooked vegan diet when it comes to inflammation. Does one trump the other? |
| 2:03.6 | And then what about cruciferous vegetables? Should they really be cooked or are they okay to be |
| 2:09.9 | eaten raw? Dr. Barnard's going to be weighing in on that. Plus, somebody wrote in wanting to know |
| 2:15.3 | does Dr. Barnard suggest any other supplements other than vitamin B12? So Dr. Barnard will be |
| 2:22.8 | prescribing an answer for that moment. Terely also had someone write in wanting to know is it true |
| 2:28.0 | that there is a connection between dry skin and food? That's important information as we head into |
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