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The Rich Roll Podcast

The Best of 2017- Part II

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2018

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

“Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.” Sharon Salzberg Welcome to the 5th annual Best of the RRP Anthology — our way of taking a moment to reflect on the year, express gratitude and give thanks for taking this journey with us. It's been an honor to share my conversations with so many extraordinary people over the course of 2017. Second listens brought new insights — and more reminders that that these evergreen exchanges continue to inspire and inform. For long-time listeners, this two-part episode is intended to launch you into 2018 with renewed vigor and intention. If you're new to the show, my hope is that this anthology will stir you to peruse the back catalog and/or check out episodes you may have missed. Links to the full episodes excerpted in this anthology are enumerated below. RRP #296: Dr. Neal Barnard, M.D. RRP #298: Meditation Master Sharon Salzberg RRP #302: Addiction Recovery Expert Tommy Rosen RRP #305: charity: water's Scott Harrison RRP #311: Ultra-Athlete Samantha Gash RRP #317: Bestselling Author Gretchen Rubin RRP #319: Chinese Medicine Physician Colin Hudon RRP #320: Healing Mushroom Expert Tero Isokauppila Thank you for taking this journey with me. I appreciate you. I love you. Here's to an extraordinary 2018. Join me, and let's do this thing together. Peace + Plants, Rich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0

To see the truth of it, you just have to look at a country like Japan or China, where these

0:05.5

are non-dairy-consuming countries.

0:08.0

And they really weren't eating much meat.

0:09.4

Meat was kind of a flavoring for the rice and noodles and vegetables and so forth.

0:15.6

And back in 1980, diabetes was rare in Japan.

0:18.4

It was between 1% and 5% of the adult population.

0:21.9

McDonald's came in, fast food chains came in, meat came in in a big way, and cheese and

0:26.4

dairy started to follow.

0:28.8

Some of the people in Japan initially, and then China afterward, started to say, okay,

0:33.5

we need to drink milk so that we're strong like Americans are.

0:37.7

And what they've gotten is diabetes rates went up to now 11 to 12% in Japan by 1990.

0:45.2

Diabetes is massive now in China.

0:47.5

Cardiovascular disease, I'm talking heart disease.

0:49.7

Huge in China.

0:52.2

And it's not because of rice.

0:54.8

It's Dr. Neil Bernard, and this is part two of the best of 2017 edition of the Retroll

1:00.4

Podcast.

1:04.6

Hey, everybody, how you guys doing?

1:15.7

What is happening?

1:16.7

Happy New Year.

1:17.7

Happy New Year.

1:18.7

I can't believe it.

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