How Your Dinner Affects the Environment
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Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 23 July 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
What you eat can have a major consequence on the environment. How does the carbon footprint of foods from a plant-based diet compare to those found in the standard American diet? The differences can be massive!
On this episode of The Exam Room™ podcast, "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll is joined by Dr. Martin Heller to explore the connection between greenhouse gas emissions and food. It's not just the health of the environment that is at stake, It's also your health! Dr. Heller explains how eating a diet that produces the most amount of greenhouse gases can substantially increase your risk of dying from heart disease and cancer!
Plus, he and Chuck examine Burger King's new "Reduced Methane Emissions Beef" Whopper to see if the restaurant's claims that lemongrass-fed cows truly reduce "methane emissions" — a fancy term for flatulence and belches — by 33%.
Also, Dr. Neal Barnard and Dr. Jim Loomis answer your health and nutrition questions!
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- What should vegans know about vitamins A and D?
- Can cheese be a carrier for COVID-19?
- How can a plant-based diet help with multiple auto-immune disorders?
- How much iodine should we eat?
- Many more!
Dr. Heller will be speaking at the International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine. Exam Room listeners can use the promo code exam20 to save 20% on registration!
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| 0:00.0 | How vast of a difference are we talking in terms of overall greenhouse gas emissions? |
| 0:06.0 | The number that we use for beef is on the order of 30 kilograms of CO2 equivalents per kilogram |
| 0:12.4 | of boneless beef produced. And most of the plant-based foods are on the order of one. A lot of them are |
| 0:19.0 | less than one. |
| 0:27.6 | Well hello there and welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:33.6 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. Thanks so much for giving the show a listen, |
| 0:38.6 | or a view, or a download, wherever it is in the world that you are. We appreciate the fact that you |
| 0:46.3 | are here. School is going to be in session today. I will tell you that right off the back. |
| 0:56.4 | And what we're going to be learning is how everything that you eat affects the environment. |
| 1:06.4 | Talking about your breakfast and your lunch and your dinner and everything in between. |
| 1:12.8 | Every single food choice we make has an impact on the environment. |
| 1:20.7 | And on today's show we are going to be comparing the impact of plant foods to meat and meat production. |
| 1:32.3 | It's going to be a really interesting conversation and my guest, our professor, if you will, |
| 1:39.6 | is going to show us how high greenhouse gas emission diets, the diets that produce the most greenhouse |
| 1:46.9 | gases. How eating those diets increase your risk of dying from some of the leading chronic |
| 1:55.3 | diseases out there, including heart disease and cancer. And it's not just a small increase either. |
| 2:03.8 | We are talking about a significant increase in the risk of death with high greenhouse gas emission |
| 2:14.0 | diets. And to teach us all of this, our professor for the day will be Dr. Martin Heller. |
| 2:24.4 | He works with the University of Michigan. Amazing, amazing man. For the past two decades, |
| 2:30.8 | you will hear he has been studying the connection between food and the environment and greenhouse |
| 2:37.5 | gases and climate change. It's all very interesting. And speaking of which, have you heard about this? |
| 2:46.0 | It goes right in line. He and I are going to be talking about this as well. Burger King is changing |
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