Foods That Help Diabetes Naturally | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 31 March 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
There are foods that you can eat that may lower blood sugar levels and possibly even reverse diabetes naturally.
Dr. Neal Barnard reveals the best foods for improving diabetes when he joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room LIVE. He shares how effective they may be in lowering blood sugar compared to medication.
Other questions answered from The Doctor's Mailbag
- How quickly can a whole food, plant-based diet lower blood sugar?
- Can you eat rice and whole grains with every meal if you have diabetes?
- Does intermittent fasting cure diabetes?
- And many more.
Dr. Barnard and Chuck also talk about a new study showing the number of kids with prediabetes is growing rapidly and how many surprisingly will choose healthier food over junk food if it's offered.
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 | If a person is on medication, it's almost a guarantee they're just not going to get rid of their |
| 0:05.5 | diabetes. |
| 0:06.5 | When a person goes on a plant-based diet without a lot of adequate oils, they're not tackling |
| 0:10.3 | the cause. |
| 0:11.3 | And we see something that we never saw before, which is diabetes sometimes going the |
| 0:17.2 | way. |
| 0:19.1 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:25.5 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:28.5 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us in more than 130 countries |
| 0:33.1 | and in healthy cities coast to coast. |
| 0:35.7 | North Platte, Nebraska, Portland, Maine, Pooz Bay, Oregon. |
| 0:40.3 | We appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:44.3 | This is episode 25 of season 5, number 324 overall. |
| 0:50.1 | And today we're going to be getting you some help for diabetes. |
| 0:53.8 | We are going to be discovering the best foods for lowering blood sugar and possibly even |
| 0:59.4 | reversing diabetes altogether when we are joined by Dr. Neil Barnard. |
| 1:04.9 | But before we get to that, I wanted to share some numbers with you. |
| 1:08.5 | Did you know that an estimated 37 million people in the United States right now have diabetes? |
| 1:16.3 | That is more than 11% of the entire population. |
| 1:20.5 | And the rates for diabetes only climb higher as we get older. |
| 1:27.1 | And what's more, there are millions of others who have diabetes but have no clue. |
| 1:32.2 | They are literally walking around with blood sugar that is raging dangerously out of control |
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