The Meat-Cancer Connection
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 17 January 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The link between meat and cancer has been known for more than a century. A 1907 New York Times article enlightened readers to that very fact. The headline: "Cancer Increasing Among Meat Eaters". Yet, in the 21st century and there are still naysayers.
"The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll along with nutritionist Lee Crosby and Dr. Steve Neabore bring the dangers of meat consumption to light. Lee shares her own emotional story of having two scares with breast cancer and finding hope through a vegan diet.
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| 0:00.0 | Could a person be at higher risk of cancer from eating meat? |
| 0:15.6 | Well back 111 years ago, the New York Times ran a story that said exactly that, and now |
| 0:23.1 | more than a century later, the World Health Organization has said, yes, decades and decades |
| 0:28.4 | of research have shown that meat eaters are at much higher risk of developing cancer. |
| 0:33.4 | And in today's program, we're going to zero in on what kinds of cancer. |
| 0:37.9 | How does all of this happen? |
| 0:39.8 | And how do I get started about changing that? |
| 0:41.9 | And we are going to be joined by our own Lee Crosby, a registered dietitian who will |
| 0:46.9 | tell you about her own battle and what that did in her life. |
| 0:50.7 | And now let me turn it over to Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:59.0 | You are listening to the exam room brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:02.7 | Thank you, Dr. Barnard. |
| 1:03.8 | My name is Chuck Carroll. |
| 1:04.8 | I am the Weight Loss Champion on the tweeters at Chuck Carroll WLC. |
| 1:09.6 | That's two Rs and two Rs. my guest apparently likes that. |
| 1:12.9 | Dietitially Crosby, she works upstairs at the Barnard Medical Center. |
| 1:16.4 | How are you, Lee? |
| 1:17.4 | I'm doing well. |
| 1:18.4 | How are you, Chuck? |
| 1:19.4 | I'm doing just fine. |
| 1:20.4 | Have you tweeted today? |
| 1:21.4 | You've been on the tweeters? |
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