Love Sick: How Your Partner Influences Your Health | Dr. Neal Barnard Exam Room LIVE Q&A
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🗓️ 15 February 2024
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Summary
Can you spouse or significant other make you physically sick?
The joke writes itself, but it’s truly no laughing matter. The answer is yes! And the reasons extend beyond just the day-to-day hiccups of relationships.
Research shows that your husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, or partner can have a direct influence on your health. Dr. Neal Barnard, author of The Power Foods Diet, joins “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll to explain how the love of your life is influencing your ability to be healthy.
Dr. Barnard explains that it’s a double-edged sword. While some relationships can become a barrier to being healthy others can work very much work in your favor to build a healthier body inside and out.
To demonstrate how significant the influence your partner may have, Dr. Barnard shares a study examining high blood pressure among couples. If one person has high blood pressure the other is at a significantly higher risk of having it as well! And that’s just the tip of the health relationship iceberg!
In The Power Foods Focus, Dr. Barnard also shares the foods that you should be eating to boost your metabolism and achieve your weight loss goals.
On This Show
- High blood pressure among couples
- Your partner’s influence on your risk of heart disease
- Your partner and your risk of cancer
- How to encourage healthier habits
- Minimizing temptation
- Saturated fat and cholesterol
- And more!
Dr. Barnard is the author of The Power Foods Diet: The Breakthrough Plan That Traps, Tames, and Burns Calories for Easy and Permanent Weight Loss.
This episode 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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| 0:18.8 | Today on the exam room. The study was a good study. It was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association and they included a lot of married couples in the U, in the UK, and in China, and in India. And the bottom line is that they did find quite a lot of what they call concordance, meaning that one spouse has high blood pressure, |
| 0:24.8 | the other spouse has high blood pressure. |
| 0:27.0 | And then the next question is, well, wait a sec. |
| 0:30.6 | How much of that is because one spouse is kind of subverting the other or drawing the other into unhealthy habits or whatever? |
| 0:39.0 | And I think there are a couple things that are working. |
| 0:41.0 | That can happen where you'll have one spouse brings home the ice cream which you |
| 0:45.8 | wish they didn't or they insist on going to eat out at a place where there's |
| 0:51.1 | nothing healthy to eat that that can happen. But I think that that's not all |
| 0:54.7 | there is to it. |
| 0:58.7 | Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:06.2 | Hi I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. Thank you so very much for joining |
| 1:11.0 | us as we raise health IQs, coast to coast and around the world in |
| 1:14.8 | great cities like Little Rock, Arkansas, Vancouver, Washington, and Siouxayon, South Korea. Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:27.2 | This is episode 17 of season 7, 516 overall. So here is an all-too-familiar scenario. You want to lose weight. You want to lose weight, but your significant other wants to stay married to the sofa with a large pizza and a big bag of chips. |
| 1:50.0 | And that alone, that alone can have a massive effect on your health. |
| 1:57.7 | So how much of an impact and to what extent? |
| 2:01.2 | And is that really the end of your healthy dreams |
| 2:04.0 | before they can even begin. |
| 2:06.0 | Well, we are about to find out. |
| 2:09.0 | Let's start with some facts. |
| 2:11.0 | If your husband, your wife, your significant other is obese, your risk of obesity |
| 2:15.9 | jumps by nearly 40% according to studies. And a separate study of nearly 2,000 people finds that about one and four blame their partner for |
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