Welcome to the program. This is the exam room and I'm Dr. Neal Barnard. You have heard

this scenario. The patient is in the hospital recovering from a heart attack. And when they

wake up in the morning, their breakfast tray has sausage and bacon and eggs and high

fat, high cholesterol foods, the very things that cause their heart attack in the first place.

And hospitalizations really need to be used as a teachable moment so that we help patients

to get on a better path. And yet they are really fumbling that ball. I have to say, hospitals

have not taken it very seriously. We know they can because they've already made lots

of changes. They got rid of the cigarette machines, a generation ago. They can clean

up the kitchen right now. So in today's program, you're going to hear about why we need to

improve hospital foods. You'll hear about the physician's committee's efforts to eliminate

fast foods, junk food from hospitals, how to clean up the patient menus. And we have

a hospital food report which will actually name some names. You're going to hear about

facilities that are really doing a good job and what they're doing to stay at the top of

the list. And you're going to hear about some other places. May I say, need a little bit

of help. So let's get started. Here is Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll.

Thank you, Dr. Barnard. This is the exam room brought to you by the Physicians Committee

of the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll here with you today. Show hazardous hospital

food. And a little while we're going to be talking about the fast food options that

are actually sold in hospitals. You think about that for a second, ponder it. You go to

a hospital to get well, you're sick, patients there. Maybe it's the worst day of their

life. But what got them there? A lot of them, you could say you could attribute it to

a poor diet. So why in the world then would fast food be available at the hospital? Counter

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