Is Olive Oil Healthy? | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Should you eat olive oil? It does have proven health benefits but could they be erased by all the fat found in it?
Get the answers from Dr. Neal Barnard when he joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room™ Live.
Dr. Barnard will also be answering questions sent to The Doctor's Mailbag:
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- Do vegans with low white blood cell counts have a weakened immune system?
- Which foods are most likely to cause a migraine?
- What are the first foods a new vegan should buy?
- And many more
Chuck also reports on a new study that reveals another reason why dairy is scary for your health! There is new evidence showing it can significantly increase your risk of cancer.
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 | If you are currently eating animal fats, |
| 0:03.7 | or you're using them in cooking, |
| 0:05.2 | and you switch to olive oil, good change. |
| 0:07.9 | However, you can do way better still. |
| 0:10.3 | And the reason I say that is that an olive tree |
| 0:12.4 | does not have a faucet on it. |
| 0:14.1 | In other words, the olive oil isn't really a natural product. |
| 0:18.2 | The way you get olive oil is kind of the way you get sugar. |
| 0:22.0 | To get sugar, you take sugar cane, |
| 0:24.2 | throw away all the fiber and all the pulp and everything, |
| 0:26.9 | and you take that sugar that's left, |
| 0:28.8 | and we call that a refined product. |
| 0:30.3 | To get olive oil, what do you do? |
| 0:31.6 | You take 10,000 dollars, |
| 0:32.8 | and you throw away all the pulp and all the fiber, |
| 0:34.7 | and you have this olive oil. |
| 0:36.1 | What do you do? |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast, |
| 0:42.9 | brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:45.4 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:48.4 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ |
| 0:50.7 | with us in more than 130 countries around the world. |
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