Healthiest Foods for the Environment and You Too | Dr. Joanne Kong
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 28 April 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Pollution doesn't just come from smog rising from the cars that are clogging up the road. Nor is it exclusively mountains of trash piled high with unnecessary plastic waste. Instead, the agricultural, forestry, and other resources it took to make your dinner possible account for as much as 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Renowned author and international speaker Dr. Joanne Kong joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to discuss the best diet to slow climate change and improve the health of the environment as well as ourselves.
The environmental impact of vegan and meat-inclusive diets is examined head-to-head. Everything from carbon footprints to water and land resources are compared, and the difference between the two diets is immense!
This episode of The Exam Room™ is sponsored by Marty Rosenthal.
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Dr. Joanne Kong
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Chuck Carroll
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Physicians Committee
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| 0:00.0 | Every individual makes a difference. |
| 0:04.6 | I mean, for instance, if you look at meat eaters, we could save 70 to 80% of the land, |
| 0:12.8 | water, and energy resources by going plant-based. |
| 0:22.2 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:25.9 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:29.0 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us in more than 130 countries |
| 0:33.6 | and healthy cities around the globe. |
| 0:36.3 | Tom's River, New Jersey, Mola Chi Hawaii, Nairobi, Kenya. |
| 0:41.0 | We appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:44.9 | This is episode 33 of season 5, number 332 overall. |
| 0:52.5 | All of us know that what we eat impacts our own health. |
| 0:56.8 | But what we talked about recently on the show is that it also impacts literally every other |
| 1:02.2 | person on the face of the earth. |
| 1:04.7 | Literally, all 8 billion of us. |
| 1:08.4 | And we're going to be diving a little bit deeper into that today. |
| 1:12.3 | We're going to be taking a closer look and helping us do that, putting the magnifying |
| 1:16.6 | glass on the environment and our diet is Dr. Joanne Kong. |
| 1:20.6 | She is a faculty member at the University of Richmond and international speaker. |
| 1:24.8 | She also has a great book out called Vegan Voices and because she's a Renaissance woman, |
| 1:30.8 | she's also a classically trained concert pianist. |
| 1:35.2 | And so what we'll be doing today is getting into some facts here. |
| 1:39.3 | Really love some facts. |
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