Hello and welcome to Nutrition Facts. I'm your host Dr. Michael Greger. Today we're

going to explore smart nutrition choices based naturally on facts. Whenever

there's a new drug or surgical procedure you could be assured that you and your

doctor will probably hear about it because there's a corporate budget driving

its promotion. But what about advances in the field of nutrition? That's what

this podcast is all about. There are so many factors that go into maintaining a

healthy body weight. One that we have control over is our diet. Those eating a

more plant-based diet tend to consume an average of 364 fewer calories daily

without portion control, calorie or carb counting, since healthier foods tend to

be less calorically dense, more nutrition for fewer calories. And one of the

largest nutrition studies ever performed total meat consumption was

significantly associated with weight gain in men and women. Not surprising, but

the link remained even after controlling for calories. Here are the details.

Meat consumption and prospective weight gain in participants of the epic

panacea study. What is that? Hundreds of thousands of men and women across 10

countries with weight gain measured over five year period. What did they find?

Total meat consumption was positively associated with weight gain in men and

women in normal weight, overweight subjects and in smokers and non-smokers.

Conclusion results suggest a decrease in meat consumption may improve weight

management. And this was after adjusting for initial weight physical activity,

education level smoking status, total energy intake. Wait a second. What? That's the

kicker. Right? The link between meat and weight gain remained even after

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