Losing Weight and Changing Lives
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
4.9 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2019
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
A doctor has changed her life by adopting a plant-based diet and is now using her experience to transform the lives of her patients.
Dr. Vanita Rahman joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to talk about how she overcame her own battle with obesity and why she's sharing that experience and what she's learned.
Her journey to health began years earlier when her family immigrated to the United States from India. It wasn't long before she began gaining weight on the standard American diet. As Chuck and Dr. Rahman discuss, weight gain is difficult for any teenager let alone one who is trying to make friends in a new country.
It wasn't until years later when her own health began to deteriorate that she turned to a vegan diet for help and it wasn't long before she began to see results and started feeling better. She became so inspired by her transformation that she's paying it forward with a new weight loss program at The Barnard Medical Center.
Chuck is also joined by Nolan Rodman and Dr. Hana Kahleova to find out how Nolan's transition to a plant-based diet is progressing. In part 1 of the interview, Nolan was getting ready to try going vegan for the first time. How is he feeling now? What did Dr. Kahleova discover about his transition? They've run the tests and the results are in!
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| 0:00.0 | I went from being a lean kid to an overweight kid and that weighed stayed with me through |
| 0:06.2 | most of my adolescence, my adulthood and I just couldn't lose it until I discovered |
| 0:12.9 | plant-based eating and then for the first time I could lose it, I felt great and I wasn't |
| 0:19.4 | thinking about food, I was indiating. |
| 0:29.1 | Hello there and welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:34.5 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:37.0 | Thanks so much for giving the show a listen this week, a view, a download, wherever it is |
| 0:42.0 | in the world that you are, we appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:48.9 | Today we will be hearing the story of a doctor who lost weight to change her life and |
| 0:55.5 | now she is also changing the lives of countless others. |
| 1:02.7 | Dr. Vanita Raman will be joining me in the new Exam Room Podcast Studios to share her extraordinary |
| 1:09.5 | journey, one that began 8,000 miles away in India. |
| 1:16.9 | It wasn't until after her family immigrated to the US that she began to put on weight |
| 1:23.6 | and that was heartbreaking for a young girl who was in high school at the time and then |
| 1:28.0 | faced the ridicule of her peers and it seemed that no matter what she did, she couldn't |
| 1:34.9 | slim back down and ultimately that weight began to take a toll on her health. |
| 1:43.8 | That story is something that so many of us can identify with because so many of these |
| 1:51.2 | quote unquote diets, you know they don't work and it's frustrating and it's infuriating |
| 1:58.9 | and a lot of times it's unhealthy. |
| 2:03.5 | So you have all of that wrapped up into this one overweight package and this is something |
| 2:11.1 | that Dr. Raman was challenged with every single day until she heard about a plant-based |
| 2:20.6 | diet and the rest as they say is history or should I say her story. |
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