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The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee

Live From The Olympics: Meagan Duhamel - Bonus Episode

The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee

Physicians Committee

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.93.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Fresh off capturing a gold medal at the Olympics, devout vegan Meagan Duhamel joins the show from The Olympic Village in PyeongChang, South Korea! The figure skater is taking extreme measures to keep a plant-based diet at the games, but she tells "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll that they're working! And who could argue? She's coming home with two medals! Find out what a gold medal meal tastes like and what the vegan options for Olympians competing at the winter games.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.

0:13.3

I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll, and this is a very special episode.

0:19.1

We have our very own Olympic correspondent over in Pyong Chang South Korea and she is bringing

0:25.3

home some serious hardware, a bronze medal, and a gold medal.

0:32.6

Canadian pairs figure skater, a very successful one at that.

0:36.2

Perhaps because she is plant-based, Megan Doohammel, I had an opportunity to catch up with her

0:41.4

while she was skating over there at the games and during our chat the thing that really

0:46.7

struck me was the incredible lengths that she is going to to maintain her plant-based

0:53.8

diet over there.

0:55.0

If there was ever any athlete who was super committed to staying vegan, it's definitely going

1:02.3

to be Megan and she's just a wonderful human being at that.

1:06.8

So I hope that you find this interview very enlightening.

1:09.7

You're going to hear exactly what the vegan options are for the athletes over at the games

1:14.7

and what the cafeteria is like for those same athletes.

1:18.5

Is there a lot of plant-based options there?

1:21.9

Is it better than the last games it's so cheap?

1:24.3

Megan, she's going to tell us.

1:30.2

You're listening to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.

1:33.6

I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll on Twitter at Chuck Carroll, WLC with two

1:38.3

Rs and two Rs and the Olympics still in full swing and wow, what a treat do we have in

1:45.0

store here.

1:46.0

We have a very own vegan gold medalist.

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