Paleo Diet: Is It Healthy?
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 24 July 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Is the paleo diet healthy? Supporters claim that by eating the way our ancestors did more than 10,000 years ago you will lose weight and get healthy. It's a diet free of most grains, beans, legumes and potatoes since those foods weren't available during the paleolithic era. However, there is evidence to suggest certain grains and tubers were in fact part of the Neanderthal diet.
Without those starches, a typical paleo menu relies heavily on grass-fed lean meat, fish, eggs, and oil. Nuts, fruit and vegetables are also permitted.
Millions sing paleo praises, but are they off key?
"The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll is joined by Dr. Hana Kahleova to get to the bottom of the paleo diet. They are separating myth from fact by examining the true effect it can have on your health.
Chuck also welcomes professional wrestler Austin Aries back to the show as he continues to explore the success athletes are having by eating a plant-based diet. The multiple time world champion has turned his back on a meat and dairy-rich upbringing in Wisconsin and is now fueled exclusively by plants. He also has been training with former UFC Heavyweight Champion Frank Mir.
Austin also ranks the top vegan pro wrestlers of all time!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there. |
| 0:08.5 | And welcome to the Exam Room Podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | Brought to you by the Physicians Committee High. |
| 0:12.0 | I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:13.8 | Thanks so much for taking the time to listen to us today. |
| 0:16.4 | Give us a download, a view, wherever it is that you are. |
| 0:20.0 | We appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:25.2 | You know, the diet industry is a $66 billion machine being driven by quick promises for long-term |
| 0:33.7 | weight problems. |
| 0:35.6 | More than 45 million Americans will go on a quote unquote diet at any point in a given |
| 0:42.0 | year and about half of them will be turning to FAD diets to slim down. |
| 0:47.4 | I've been there. |
| 0:49.3 | Who hasn't been there? |
| 0:51.4 | Maybe you've heard me talk about this one. |
| 0:53.2 | I once went on something called the cookie diet. |
| 0:56.7 | The cookie diet for goodness' sakes. |
| 0:58.6 | You eat two cookies, drink a lot of water, and then have a sensible dinner every day, |
| 1:04.3 | and you're finally going to be healthy and like what you see in the mirror. |
| 1:09.6 | Well, here's the thing. |
| 1:12.1 | It's just not sustainable. |
| 1:14.2 | How many of us have gone on one of these diets and lose 20 pounds or 30 pounds, heck, maybe |
| 1:20.2 | even 100 pounds or more, only to put all of that weight back on and then some. |
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