Less Meat, More Plants!
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 16 June 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
A report that may reshape nutrition advice given to millions of Americans will soon be discussed in Washington. It is the groundwork for the updated USDA Dietary Guidelines that are set to be released early next year. And one thing is clear — research shows the guidelines should call for less meat and more plants!
On this episode of The Exam Room™ podcast, "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll is joined by dietitian Susan Levin to explore the recommendations that everyone eating a plant-based diet should be hoping for! They also look at the confusion surrounding some of the current guidelines and how they can be improved.
The update currently being crafted by the USDA comes on the heels of the American Cancer Society's new nutrition guidance which does not include red or processed meat, both of which have been tied to many forms of cancer. Likewise, Canada has deemphasized dairy in its latest nutrition guidelines because of cancer concerns. Will the US be the next country to take a healthy step toward a plant-based way of eating?
Also on the show, Dr. Neal Barnard and Dr. Jim Loomis open up the Doctor's Mailbag to answer your questions!
- Are canned beans as healthy as dried beans?
- Which is unhealthier: white meat or dark meat?
- What would happen if all meat markets were to close?
- And many others!
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Dr. Neal Barnard
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Physicians Committee
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| 0:00.0 | Here's why it matters, because when you talk about the dietary guidelines and people |
| 0:03.6 | who are kind of like whatever, I guess it's something you guys are doing in Washington, |
| 0:08.1 | it's what's on your kids' plate at schools. |
| 0:11.1 | What all the people do is they look at the dietary guidelines and say, well, they don't really |
| 0:16.4 | say the process means that bad, and we're following that. |
| 0:20.4 | Well, hello there, and welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians |
| 0:33.1 | Committee. |
| 0:34.1 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:36.7 | Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen, or a view, or a download, wherever |
| 0:42.5 | it is in the world that you are. |
| 0:45.0 | We appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:50.4 | This week in Washington Health Officials will be sitting down to discuss a report that |
| 0:56.6 | could reshape nutrition advice as we know it. |
| 1:01.9 | It is the next step in the release of new dietary guidelines for Americans that are set to |
| 1:09.0 | come out next year, early next year, even. |
| 1:12.5 | And it really comes at an interesting time, because there is an abundance of science and |
| 1:18.0 | data all pointing toward defining a healthy diet as one with less meat and more plants. |
| 1:27.7 | In fact, the American Cancer Society recently released its own dietary guidelines that don't |
| 1:34.0 | include red or processed meat. |
| 1:37.9 | And that, of course, comes after the World Health Organization to clear things like hot |
| 1:41.6 | dogs and bacon to be group one carcinogens. |
| 1:47.8 | And red meat, I mean so many studies show that it can increase the risk of breast cancer |
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