How Much Water It Takes to Produce Your Food | Martin Heller, PhD
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🗓️ 20 April 2021
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Summary
How much water does it take to produce the food that's in your refrigerator? We're diving into one of the most thorough studies ever conducted on your diet and water scarcity.
Martin Heller, PhD, reveals the foods that require the most and least amount of water as he discusses his new study with "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room podcast.
The amount of water required can vary greatly depending on the type of food it is and where it was produced.
So, how much water does the food you eat take? You're about to find out.
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| 0:00.0 | We have seen some studies previously that have looked at the water that is consumed to |
| 0:06.5 | produce our food, but we're taking this a little step further and looking more carefully |
| 0:12.3 | at what the impact of that water uses. |
| 0:15.4 | So why did we take it this direction? |
| 0:18.0 | Well, yes, there's been a lot of attention on carbon footprint, but of course, that's |
| 0:22.7 | a super critical issue and one that is, from my perspective, extremely urgent, but it's |
| 0:30.1 | certainly not the only place that our diet influences the environment. |
| 0:41.1 | Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:44.8 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:48.4 | Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen or a view or a download, wherever |
| 0:54.0 | it is in the world that you are. |
| 0:56.3 | We appreciate you raising your health IQ with us. |
| 1:01.5 | This is episode 32 for season 4, number 227 overall. |
| 1:11.3 | With Earth Day nearly upon us, today's show will have an environmental focus. |
| 1:18.3 | And we are going to learn how your diet is impacting the earth. |
| 1:24.6 | Specifically, we are going to be examining the amount of water that it takes to produce |
| 1:30.0 | some of your favorite foods. |
| 1:33.5 | Dr. Martin Heller is kind enough to join us back here on the exam room to talk about |
| 1:38.0 | his brand new study outlining diets and water scarcity. |
| 1:43.7 | He and his team of researchers went through and painstakingly calculated the amount of |
| 1:48.7 | fresh water required to make a bunch of different foods. |
| 1:53.8 | Everything from meat and dairy to fruits and vegetables, grains, nuts, legumes, all kinds |
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