Healthy Fat: How Much Is Too Much and Other Fat Facts | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This show is all about fat. Which foods contain healthy fat and how much should you be eating?
Dr. Neal Barnard examines the role of fat in your diet when he joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room LIVE.
- Can healthy fat cause heart disease?
- How does fat affect menopause?
- Can you survive without eating any fat?
- How can you tell whether a fat is healthy?
- And more!
Plus, Dr. Barnard and Chuck talk about a tick whose bite can cause a lifelong allergic reaction to red meat.
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 | There are so many foods that we think of as being totally fat free. |
| 0:04.9 | You get some spinach, put it in your cart, get some broccoli, put it in your cart. |
| 0:08.6 | You think there can't be any fat in these things, right? |
| 0:11.0 | About 7% or 8% of the calories in those foods are from fats and proportionately high in |
| 0:17.0 | the good text. |
| 0:22.1 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:26.2 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:29.7 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us in more than 130 countries and |
| 0:34.4 | healthy cities coast to coast. |
| 0:36.9 | Modesto, California, Spartanburg, South Carolina, Constantine, Algeria, Africa. |
| 0:43.8 | We appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:47.8 | This is episode 37 of season 5, number 336 overall. |
| 0:54.2 | Today, we're talking about fat and answering questions that a lot of us have been wondering |
| 1:00.2 | about for a very long time. |
| 1:04.6 | Can healthy fat still cause a heart attack? |
| 1:08.4 | And is fat still addictive? |
| 1:11.0 | Can it affect your chances of becoming pregnant? |
| 1:14.0 | And on the other end of the fertility spectrum, how does fat affect menopause? |
| 1:20.4 | We're also going to be talking about how the body treats fat differently when it comes |
| 1:24.8 | from plants compared to when it's found in meat and in dairy. |
| 1:29.2 | And then we're going to be talking specifically about some other foods that have fat like |
| 1:33.3 | peanut butter, and everybody loves peanut butter. |
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