How To Reverse Diabetes: Lessons From The Marshall Islands | Brenda Davis, RN
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Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Imagine a place where the average lifespan is shockingly low and the rates of diabetes and heart disease are sky-high. Now, imagine what would happen if the people who lived there embraced the power of plant-based nutrition and positive lifestyle changes.
No need to imagine, because this is happening in the Marshall Islands.
Renowned dietitian Brenda Davis shares her groundbreaking work in a community challenged by severe health issues, including how her team brought this work all the way up to the president. Discover how her lifestyle intervention program is improving health outcomes in the Marshall Islands against incredible odds.
Join Brenda and "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to learn:
- The dire health conditions in the Marshall Islands and their root causes.
- The innovative solutions Brenda and her team implemented to overcome food supply challenges.
- The remarkable success stories of those embracing a plant-based diet.
This inspiring episode reveals the profound impact of diet on health and offers valuable insights for improving health outcomes globally. Don’t miss Brenda Davis’s incredible journey and the lessons we can all learn from her work in the Marshall Islands.
This episode was recorded on location in Rochester, Minnesota at the Lifestyle Medicine Pathway to Health and Happiness Symposium presented by the Lotus Health Foundation and Rochester Clinic.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. |
| 0:04.0 | When we arrived in these islands people really believe that diabetes was just the |
| 0:11.0 | luck of the draw and they didn't believe it had anything to do with |
| 0:17.3 | lifestyle choices. They thought it might be just an act of God or whatever. They just it was not on the radar and they didn't believe. They didn't believe. They didn't believe that lifestyle changes would have an impact and they were shocked and to be honest I was shocked at how |
| 0:36.7 | fast the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:50.0 | Hi, I'm the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. |
| 0:56.5 | Hi to the exam roomies listening in Garland, Texas, Knoxville, Tennessee, and Barangia, Columbia. |
| 1:04.4 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:09.2 | This is episode 56 of season 7, 555 overall. |
| 1:16.6 | Now let's imagine a place where the average lifespan is shockingly low and the rates of diabetes and heart disease are sky high. |
| 1:26.8 | But now, imagine what would happen in such a place if the people who lived there embraced the power of plant-based nutrition and a positive |
| 1:36.6 | lifestyle change. |
| 1:38.4 | Well, there is no need to imagine it because it is happening right now in the Marshall Islands. |
| 1:46.5 | And our friend Dietitian extraordina Davis is back with us today. |
| 1:52.2 | She's going to be talking about the groundbreaking work |
| 1:55.2 | she has been doing, shaking up a severely health-challenged community, |
| 2:00.4 | waking them up, and showing them how to lead a healthier life. |
| 2:05.0 | And her work, it has been so profound that it has reached the highest levels of government in the Marshall Islands all the way up to the president there. |
| 2:16.7 | In fact, she dined with the president on her own crafted menu. |
| 2:22.5 | So we're going to be getting into that |
| 2:24.0 | and discovering how this lifestyle intervention program |
| 2:27.2 | that she and her team came up with |
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