The Power Foods Diet: Eat A Lot and Lose Weight | Dr. Jim Loomis and Caryn Dugan
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
What if the secret to better health wasn't eating less… but eating MORE of the right foods?
That's exactly what we're diving into today with the dynamic duo behind The Doc & Chef — Dr. Jim Loomis and Caryn Dugan.
They're teaming up with the Physicians Committee to launch an exciting new program: The Power Foods Diet — a simple, science-backed approach to weight loss, disease prevention, and long-term health that focuses on adding nutrient-dense, plant-based foods to your plate.
🧠 You will learn:
- What the Power Foods Diet is and how it works
- Why eating MORE fiber-rich foods can actually help you lose weight
- The powerful connection between food, metabolism, and chronic disease
- How to build meals that are both doctor-approved and chef-crafted
- Simple strategies to make healthy eating delicious, sustainable, and realistic
Dr. Loomis brings the clinical expertise. Caryn brings the culinary magic. Together, they show you how to turn your kitchen into a place of healing.
🥦 Sign up for The Doc & Chef Power Foods Course
👉 https://www.pcrm.org/events/power-foods-diet
📱 The Doc & Chef Website
👉 https://plantbasedcenter.com/the-doc-and-chef
🙏 Support The Exam Room Podcast & PCRM
👉 https://bit.ly/SupportExamRoom
- About Us -
The Physicians Committee is dedicated to saving lives through plant-based diets and ethical and effective scientific research. We combine the clout and expertise of more than 17,000 physicians with the dedicated actions of more than 175,000 members across the United States and around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Today, on the exam room. |
| 0:05.0 | Our first class from the Power Foods course is on spices and the role that spices have in helping to lose weight and control inflammation. |
| 0:13.0 | So the turmeric that's in the curry, many of these spices have tremendous antioxidant capacity, anti-inflammatory effect. Some of them like cinnamon can actually |
| 0:23.3 | boost your metabolism a little bit and maybe help you lose a little bit of weight. They can help |
| 0:27.2 | control blood sugars. Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the physicians committee. |
| 0:35.2 | Hi, I'm Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. |
| 0:40.7 | Hi to the exam room is listening in Spokane, Washington, Savannah, Georgia, and Valencia, Spain. |
| 0:48.2 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. This is episode 22 of season 9, number 721 overall. |
| 0:57.8 | And let's begin today with a couple of very big thank yous. Some shoutouts to our exam roomies |
| 1:04.3 | of the week, Andreas Ebert from Venice, Florida, and Melinda Franklin from Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 1:10.4 | Thank you both so very much |
| 1:12.6 | for your generous support of the Physicians Committee and the Exam Room podcast. That support |
| 1:18.4 | is truly helping us produce not just today's episode, but funds our research to help make the |
| 1:24.3 | world a healthier place for us humans and our animal compadres. |
| 1:28.8 | And if you would like to be the exam roomy of the week and hear your name called just like |
| 1:33.2 | Andreas or Melinda, all you need to do is help us make the world a healthier place too. |
| 1:38.8 | Head to pcrm.org slash support exam room. That is pcrm.org slash support exam room and please give what you can now |
| 1:50.3 | let's talk about today's show and let's ask a question what if I told you the secret to losing weight |
| 1:58.1 | is actually eating more food right a lot of times we go on a |
| 2:03.5 | diet and we think that we have to restrict the amount of food that we eat but eating |
| 2:08.6 | more food well now that just seems backwards completely backwards but today |
| 2:12.5 | we're also flipping the script in a big way and joining me are dr. Jim |
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