How Healthy Are Pumpkins?
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
4.9 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
How healthy is a pumpkin? Super healthy! As it turns out, pumpkins are far more than just something fun to carve on Halloween. You can argue that they're a nutrition powerhouse packed with vitamins proven to lower the risk of cancer, boost to the immune system, and help promote a healthy heart, lungs, and kidneys.
Take a journey with "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to a pumpkin paradise and learn everything there is to know about these delicious fall favorites. He travels to Butler's Orchard, a 300-acre farm just outside of Washington, D.C. to speak with third-generation grower Ben Butler about picking the perfect pumpkin for both cooking and for carving. Plus, explore the growing process and take a trip inside of their massive farm store where you can find just about anything you want that's made with pumpkin — even soap!
You'll also learn about dozens of varieties of pumpkins and how a lot of them are downright bizarre! Some look like red neon mushrooms while others look like giant peanuts and something out of an alien invasion!
Dietitian Lee Crosby also carves up pumpkin nutrition facts! Everything from beta-carotene to vitamins A and C to fiber and tryptophan (yes, that thing that makes you sleepy) is on the table!
Fun fact: The can of pumpkin in your pantry may not actually be pumpkin at all. You'll find out why on the show!
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Exameral Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:12.2 | Thanks for giving me the show a download I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:16.4 | Oh my goodness gracious sex live. |
| 0:18.2 | Do we ever have the show of shows on tap today? |
| 0:22.2 | Let me tell you something. |
| 0:23.7 | We are doing something historic on the show today. |
| 0:28.1 | Okay, so it may not be history history, but it's historic for the show because for the |
| 0:32.6 | first time ever we are taking the exam room on location not to a conference. |
| 0:38.0 | No, no. |
| 0:39.2 | Although I see an M was fun, we are taking the show on the road to an actual orchard where |
| 0:44.0 | they grow a whole bunch of stuff including pumpkins. |
| 0:48.7 | And you say, well, pumpkins, why pumpkins? |
| 0:51.2 | Because as you know, this show today all about pumpkins, the health benefits, pumpkin 101. |
| 0:58.0 | How many different kinds of pumpkins are there? |
| 0:59.9 | I don't know, but we're going to find out in this particular show. |
| 1:03.2 | It's going to be so much fun. |
| 1:04.8 | We're going to go up to Butler's orchard and take a walk around with a third generation |
| 1:09.4 | pumpkin grower, Ben Butler. |
| 1:11.1 | It's going to learn a whole bunch of stuff there, but before we get to that, we got to |
| 1:17.0 | find out, well, how healthy is a pumpkin? |
| 1:20.9 | I suspect seeing as though it's from the ground, it's plant-based. |
| 1:26.4 | I got tells me it's pretty healthy. |
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