Fat: What’s Healthy? What’s Bad? How Much? | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A

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🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Learn what fats are healthy, what fats are bad, and how much fat you need when Dr. Neal Barnard joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast.

The best and worst sources of fat are reviewed and knowing the difference might just save your life.

-- Topics Discussed --

- Healthy sources of fat

- High-fat diets

- Fats in oil

- Omega-3s

- Monounsaturated fats

- Polyunsaturated fats

- Saturated fat

- Trans fats

- Cholesterol

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.
0:03.4	You know, I said earlier, kind of jokingly that knowing the difference between the fat
0:07.8	and peanut butter and the fat in a cheeseburger might just save your life.
0:13.6	But it sounds like actually jokes aside, that's pretty scarily accurate.
0:18.5	If you look at a person who went feet first into the emergency room with a coronary, a
0:24.4	person who had a stroke or a person who developed Alzheimer's disease and life as we know it
0:29.2	is lost forever.
0:31.0	For those people, the saturated fats are the big drivers that we've seen in epidemiologic
0:36.3	studies.
0:37.3	That means dairy number one, meat number two, the tropical oil is like coconut oil, palm
0:40.7	oil number three.
0:41.7	I would avoid those things completely, their poisons that we shouldn't be consuming.
0:45.3	Now, we all grew up in cultures where that was part of our everyday fear.
0:50.8	And that's why my grandpa died at 62.
0:54.7	You know, we thought, well, he's old.
0:56.1	Well, we don't necessarily want to conclude that.
0:58.8	If we avoid those bad fats, we focus on good fats, we'll do better.
1:03.4	But the good fats should come as part of the food, not dribbled all over the top.
1:09.4	Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.
1:19.6	Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll.
1:22.6	Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us, coast to coast in the US, and
1:27.1	in more than 150 countries.
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