This Food Causes Cancer And We Eat A Lot Of It | Dr. Neal Barnard
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 22 August 2024
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Summary
One of the most popular foods in the world is causing cancer. The average American eats almost 60 pounds of it every year.
Red meat.
Whether it's a hamburger or steak, red meat is strongly linked to cancer. The World Health Organization classifies it as a class 2a carcinogen, putting it in the same category as scores of hazardous chemicals and other agents.
Experts believe that red meat is behind a surge of colon cancer cases among younger adults. We examine the report and explore what it could mean for your cancer risk as Dr. Neal Barnard joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Live.
Topics Discussed
- Why are colon cancer rates rising?
- Red meat's role in cancer cases
- Healthier options to lower cancer risk
- Reducing cancer recurrence
- Genetics vs. diet and lifestyle
- And more
This episode is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg’s passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. |
| 0:04.0 | Researchers have for a long time known that if you take meat, put on your backyard barbecue and it gets blackened and the carcinogens are forming before your very eyes and you eat that, |
| 0:14.3 | those carcinogens can cause the cells that lie in your digestive tract to become cancer cells. |
| 0:20.4 | True enough. But what these researchers said, wait a minute, it's a little more complicated. While that is true, the meat also changes the populations of bacteria in your gut and they can in turn create carcinogens for you. |
| 0:34.0 | The other thing is that they looked at young people. |
| 0:36.0 | Young people have this rising incidence of colorectal cancer. |
| 0:40.0 | There's another piece to it. |
| 0:42.0 | Their gut microbiome is actually a little bit different. |
| 0:44.8 | In this study what they did is they took young people who had colorectal cancer. |
| 0:48.0 | They compared them to older people who had the same disease colorectal cancer, |
| 0:52.2 | but they found that the cancers were a little bit different, |
| 0:54.4 | and they then found that their gut microbiome |
| 0:57.0 | were a little bit different. |
| 0:58.6 | The bacteria that are in the gut of a younger person |
| 1:00.9 | seemed to be a little bit different. |
| 1:02.1 | Why? a younger person seem to be a little bit different why. |
| 1:02.8 | Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:13.0 | Hi, I'm the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll, |
| 1:15.8 | raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. |
| 1:19.9 | High to the exam roomies listening in Omaha, Nebraska, Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Sapporo, Japan. |
| 1:27.4 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:31.9 | This is episode 68 of season 7 number 567 overall. And we are |
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