New Health Benefits of Vegan Diets In 2021 | Dr. Andrew Freeman
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
The research keeps pouring in from dozens of new studies showing that a vegan diet can supercharge your health!
Dr. Robert Freeman explores a mountain of data from the past year that links a diet free of meat and dairy to lower rates of chronic illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. He joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to share the exciting findings, including a 37,000-person study about red meat and its potential for creating health challenges.
Among the other studies discussed:
- Vegan vs. keto diets
- Olive oil
- Diet soda
- Cinnamon and blood sugar levels
Plus, Chuck celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Food for Life program when he is joined by Jean Myers. Jean was ahead of the curve when it came to healthy eating. She adopted a vegetarian diet in 1984 and became vegan in 1997, long before the plant-based diet boom that would come nearly two decades later.
She became a pioneer for what would become an award-winning nutrition education and cooking class that teaches an innovative approach to improving diet-related chronic diseases.
Jean shares her motivation for going vegan, her experiences as an instructor, and the powerful story of one student whose health transformation was so dramatic that she will remember it for the rest of her life!
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Food For Life
Apply: https://bit.ly/FFL2021Apply
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Dr. Andrew Freeman
http://www.vegancardiologist.com
Twitter: @heartcuredoc
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Chuck Carroll
IG: @ChuckCarrollWLC
Twitter: @ChuckCarrollWLC
Facebook: http://wghtloss.cc/ChuckFacebook
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Washington Post Article
Plant-Based Diet and Heart Disease
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Barnard Medical Center
Appointments
202-527-7500
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Physicians Committee
Twitter: @PCRM
Facebook: https://wghtloss.cc/PCRMFacebook
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| 0:00.0 | Is it safe to say that we are learning more now, more than ever, about the effect that food has on our body? |
| 0:07.0 | Most of us, as physicians, barely know how much data is published every year. |
| 0:13.0 | They barely know how much research is out there that is coming out new every year. |
| 0:18.0 | And so you can only imagine that the public doesn't know. |
| 0:21.0 | And of course, with big food and big pharma and a number of other industry influences, |
| 0:26.0 | much of the data gets suppressed. So it's an important point to spend time getting to know this data and learning about it. |
| 0:31.0 | And that's what I try to bring to the public. But it is eye-opening just how much there is each and every year. |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:45.0 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:48.0 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us. |
| 0:52.0 | This is episode 66 of season 4, number 261 overall. |
| 0:58.0 | Now, if you're still on the fence about weather or not, a plant-based diet is healthy, today's show is for you. |
| 1:06.0 | We will be thumbing through a ton of research that has been published just over the last year or so. |
| 1:13.0 | And this is science that everyone can relate to. |
| 1:16.0 | Not just those of us who live and die with microbes and macros. |
| 1:21.0 | Fresh off of his presentation at the International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine, Dr. Andrew Freeman is here with a look at these exciting studies. |
| 1:32.0 | Here are just a few of the more interesting ones that we'll be covering. |
| 1:36.0 | We have one that put vegan and low carb diets head to head, so vegan versus essentially keto. |
| 1:42.0 | Which one was healthier? |
| 1:44.0 | We also have new studies on olive oil, another one on diet soda, and an enormous study on red meat that included get this. |
| 1:53.0 | 37,000 people. |
| 1:56.0 | How much healthier were the people who ate little to no meat compared to those who just couldn't get enough steak? |
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