Prescription For Food: Treating Our Addiction To Fat
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
4.9 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
There's a good chance you're addicted to a food even if you're not overweight!
Food can be one of the most addictive substances on the face of the earth. Whether it's fast food, fried food, chocolate or sweets, our brains crave high fat foods that are loaded with salt and sugar. You're hooked!
It's a vice that is literally killing us. For those with severe addictions, food can control their entire life.
In this edition of The Exam Room™ podcast, "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll reveals how his own battle nearly cost him his life. Because of his daily 10,000-calorie diet he got all the way up to 420 pounds before losing more than 275 pounds.
In this episode, he sits down with cardiologists Baxter Montgomery and Steve Lome who have wrestled with their own food demons. Through their experiences they have come up with a new prescription for fighting obesity: treat the addiction first.
Hear how their compassion is motivating patients to adopt a plant-based diet and have an emotion and physical transformation beyond their wildest dreams. Not only do they lose weight, but their risk for heart disease plummets and in many cases fully reverses! Their unique approach is a game changer!
Plus, Chuck revisits an interview with Dr. Neal Barnard on the science of food addiction. Learn why the brain is seduced by junk food and what makes it so hard for us to stop eating it!
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Chuck Carroll
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Dr. Neal Barnard
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| 0:00.0 | Certain foods that we consume that are harmful to us are foods that we are in fact addicted to. |
| 0:05.0 | So whether it's baked chicken or baked fish, or whether the case may be. |
| 0:05.0 | So if you eat consumed these foods in moderation, |
| 0:08.0 | you will always consume an increase of amounts over time because you're addicted to it. |
| 0:11.0 | So you never tell us out the hall of the consume alcohol in moderation. |
| 0:16.0 | You said not a bite, not a drop, not a cup. |
| 0:20.0 | Well, hello there. |
| 0:23.0 | And welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by The Physicians Committee. |
| 0:28.0 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:33.0 | Thanks so much for giving the show a listen. |
| 0:35.0 | A download of you wherever it is that you are, |
| 0:37.0 | we appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:40.0 | Those views, by the way, on YouTube doing tremendously well. |
| 0:44.0 | Thank you guys so much for checking us out there. |
| 0:48.0 | If you're new to a plant-based diet, maybe you're vegan curious. |
| 0:51.0 | Today's show is going to have you rethinking two things. |
| 0:56.0 | One, your relationship with food. |
| 1:01.0 | And two, the way that doctors should be working with patients who are battling obesity. |
| 1:04.0 | And that second one, whether you've been vegan for five minutes or for five years, |
| 1:12.0 | it's something that should get you thinking. |
| 1:17.0 | And I'm so excited about this week's show because it speaks to the very heart of why it is so hard for us to lose weight. |
| 1:22.0 | It's because food isn't just food. |
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