Dr. Kim Williams: COVID-19 Risk, Race and Plant-Based Nutrition
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Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Kim Williams takes a new look at the racial disparities of the coronavirus as he joins The Exam Room™ podcast. If the playing field were equal, African Americans would essentially be at no higher risk of COVID-19, according to Williams. However, as it stands now, Blacks are dying at a rate nearly 2.5 times greater than Asians and Whites and at even higher levels in some areas. What then is causing the staggering differences?
Dr. Williams, chief of cardiology at Rush University and former president of the American College of Cardiology, examines those factors, including systemic racism, as he joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll.
He also discusses research that finds once data models have been adjusted to account for obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and high cholesterol, race does not play a significant factor in the risk of COVID-19 related deaths or severity of cases. Additionally, Dr. Williams and Chuck talk about the role diet can play in mitigating those risks and how those with limited means can adopt a plant-based diet. Thus, their chances of developing severe symptoms of COVID-19 would decrease.
Plus, Chuck is joined by Laura Sainz who shares her remarkable journey back to health. Laura was thriving professionally in the corporate world, but also living in constant pain after developing Crohn's disease, fibromyalgia, arthritis and other chronic conditions prior to the age of 25. Tired of living an unhealthy life, she began to explore her health but it wasn't until she adopted a fully vegan diet that her pain dissipated. She details the moment the unhealthy dark clouds she had been living under finally lifted and she was able to live vegan vibrantly. Today, she's helping others on their journey back to health!
Dr. Williams will be speaking at the International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine. Exam Room listeners can use the promo code exam20 to save 20% on registration!
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| 0:00.0 | There's no question that there's a racial disparity. |
| 0:02.7 | Once you had adjusted the model for the things |
| 0:06.0 | that we know make COVID outcomes worse, |
| 0:08.8 | that is obesity, hypertension, diabetes, |
| 0:11.5 | and high cholesterol. |
| 0:12.5 | If you take all those factors into account, |
| 0:14.8 | race is not a big deal. |
| 0:16.4 | It's risk that's a big deal. |
| 0:17.9 | That's where plant-based nutrition comes in. |
| 0:20.1 | Well, hello there, and welcome to the Exam Room podcast, |
| 0:31.4 | brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:33.4 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:36.4 | Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen, |
| 0:39.0 | or a view, or a download. |
| 0:41.5 | Wherever it is in the world that you are, |
| 0:44.2 | we appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:49.4 | Today on the show, we are going to be joined by one |
| 0:51.6 | of the biggest names in Preventative Medicine. |
| 0:56.4 | This is a gentleman who has been featured in virtually every one |
| 1:01.7 | of the major documentaries that have shined a bright light |
| 1:06.6 | on the positive effects of a plant-based diet. |
| 1:12.2 | Dr. Kim Williams will be here today. |
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