Eating Healthy at Restaurants Is Hard, Not Impossible
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Here's a scary fact. Only 1 out of every 1,000 meals served in restaurants qualifies as having "ideal" nutrition. Even scarier? Portion sizes at fast-food restaurants are three times larger than they were in 1950!
Could it be that our obsession with eating out is actually making us sick and die younger? It may sound extreme, but given all of the fat, salt, sugar, and sodium being served, it is fair to wonder whether what you order is taking years off of your life.
Dr. Vanita Rahman and Matthew Rees, editor of the Food and Health Facts newsletter and senior fellow at the Dartmouth Tuck School of Business, have the facts to back up that argument. They make the case that restaurants are playing an enormous role in the obesity epidemic when they join "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll. From an abundance of calories to a lack of fiber, they have the true effect of restaurant food covered from all angles!
Plus, Chuck is joined by restaurateur Gregg Rozeboom, who is bucking the trend of enormous burgers and buckets of fries in favor of healthier options. Gregg is the founder of the plant-based oil-free restaurant chain Fruitive. He shares his philosophy that delicious food does not have to be detrimental to your health. Fruitive is proof that when it comes to healthy food, if you serve it, they will come.
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Article: Are Restaurants Exacerbating the Obesity Epidemic?
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Fruitive
Menu: https://fruitive.com/menu
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fruitive
Twitter: https://twitter.com/fruitive
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fruitive
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Dr. Vanita Rahman
Simply Plant Based Cookbook: https://amzn.to/3zAu4YB
Instagram: https://instagram.com/dr.vanita.rahman
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DocVanita
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Food and Health Facts Newsletter
Web: https://foodandhealthfacts.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoodHealthFacts
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Chuck Carroll
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ChuckCarrollWLC
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ChuckCarrollWLC
Facebook: http://wghtloss.cc/ChuckFacebook
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21-Day Vegan Kickstart App
iOS: https://bit.ly/VegKStrt-iOS
Android: https://bit.ly/VegKStrtAndrd
Web: https://www.pcrm.org/kickstart
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| 0:00.0 | The average soda has gone from 7 ounces to 42 ounces. |
| 0:06.0 | That's 6 times as big. |
| 0:09.0 | And the typical burger has gone from 3.9 ounces to 12 ounces. |
| 0:14.0 | You know what they call that 3.9 ounce burger now? |
| 0:17.0 | It's college-style free burger. |
| 0:19.0 | It's just mind-boggling, right? |
| 0:22.0 | And French fries have gone from 2.4 ounces to 6.7. |
| 0:26.0 | And then, we as humans are not involved to needing 3 to 6 times the amount of food, |
| 0:32.0 | but we are giving 3 to 6 times the amount of food we got now. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:44.0 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:47.0 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us in more than 130 countries |
| 0:52.0 | around the world and coast to coast here in the US. |
| 0:55.0 | I want to say a special hello to the exam roomies listening today in New Orleans |
| 1:00.0 | and Hattiesburg, Mississippi and Helena, Montana. |
| 1:03.0 | I appreciate you being here with us for episode number 90 of season 4, |
| 1:09.0 | number 285 overall. |
| 1:12.0 | You know, one of the questions that we get all the time here is, |
| 1:16.0 | how can I eat healthy at a restaurant? |
| 1:20.0 | You want to go out to eat, but it's like there is nothing you can eat. |
| 1:24.0 | You're worried that nothing on the menu is healthy. |
| 1:29.0 | Frankly, that concern is not only shared by many, but it is also very valid. |
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