Sickness With a Side of Fries: The SAD State of U.S. Hospitals | Dr. Roxanne Becker

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🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Americans say there is no place for the likes of McDonald's and Chick-fil-A in hospitals.

The giants of fast food are serving greasy, fatty, artery-clogging foods in the same building where patients are receiving artery-opening stents and pacemakers. Often these lifesaving surgeries are just a floor or two above where the unhealthy combo meals are being served up.

In a way it's like having an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting above a bar. It just doesn't make sense.

Eating fast food four times a week may increase heart disease risk by 80%, according to one study.

So, why is it happening?

Dr. Roxanne Becker joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast to talk about the findings of the hospital survey that revealed mounting frustrations with the state of hospital food.

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0:00.0	Today on the exam room.
0:04.0	Hospitals, right? They're supposed to model what a healthy diet is.
0:08.0	People are going in there, being sick, wanting to get healthy.
0:12.0	This is the perfect place to help them to change
0:14.6	their habits, teach them what they should be eating and yet we are feeding people
0:19.1	the food that brought them there in the first place. We are just making them repeat customers. Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.
0:34.8	Hi, I'm the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs,
0:38.4	coast to coast and around the world.
0:40.8	Hi to the exam room he's listening in Indianapolis, Indiana, Santa Maria, California, and West
0:47.2	Rand, South Africa.
0:49.4	Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place.
0:54.0	This is episode 85 of season 7 number 584 overall.
1:00.0	I want for you to think of a building.
1:02.0	In this case, a sobriety center. On one floor you have a detox
1:07.1	center and rehab for people who are just starting to get clean. On another floor you have
1:12.4	around the clock AA meetings for those who are maintaining so variety
1:16.4	But then on the ground floor you have a bar one that has plenty of beers on tap spirits for days and heavy pours of wine are going into glasses.
1:29.3	It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense, does it? That would never happen you say to yourself.
1:34.8	And yet, when it comes to other aspects of our health, a very similar model is
1:40.6	playing out in thousands of hospitals across the country.
1:44.0	People are coming into these hospitals for life-saving procedures, things like
1:48.0	stents and bypass surgeries, pacemakers, maybe they're getting a tumor removed, maybe they're getting chemotherapy.
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