True or False: Vegan Diet Fact Check | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A
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🗓️ 25 April 2024
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Summary
Eating a vegan diet will negatively alter your DNA and destroy your health. That is a claim circulating and widely believed to be true although research shows it's not one rooted in science. It is false.
Nutrition claims are put to the test in this True or False edition of The Exam Room LIVE.
Dr. Neal Barnard joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to dispel myths from reality and separate fact from fiction.
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- True or false: It is impossible to meet all nutritional requirements without eating meat.
- True or false: A vegan diet has half the amount of protein as a regular diet.
- True or false: Plant protein is not complete protein.
- True or false: Eating a vegan diet is 150% more expensive than the average grocery bill.
- True or false: Vegan men often have a low sperm count.
- True or false: Eating a vegan diet increases the risk of developing an eating disorder.
- True or false: Vegans are more likely to suffer from depression.
- And more
Dr. Barnard is the author of The Power Foods Diet: The Breakthrough Plan That Traps, Tames, and Burns Calories for Easy and Permanent Weight Loss.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. |
| 0:05.0 | True or false, Dr. Barnard, humans evolved by eating meat and switching to a plant-based diet |
| 0:10.4 | will negatively alter my mitochondria. |
| 0:13.2 | Well, first of all, unless your parents were a cat or a dog, |
| 0:16.6 | you did not evolve by eating meat. |
| 0:18.6 | We are, whether we like it or not, |
| 0:20.3 | in the family of great apes. |
| 0:22.3 | That's chimpanzees, bonobos, guerrillas, orangitans. |
| 0:26.7 | And if you look back at our Justin ancestors, they are either entirely or mostly plant-based. |
| 0:33.0 | And meat eating didn't really begin for our ancestors |
| 0:37.2 | until the advent of the Stone Age. |
| 0:39.4 | And paleoanthropologists tell us |
| 0:41.0 | that once people had stone tools, that's when you could actually perhaps take your carcass and cut the meat off |
| 0:46.4 | and when you had fire then it was something really edible but no we did not |
| 0:50.7 | evolve eating meat. Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:02.2 | Hi, I'm the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll, |
| 1:04.8 | raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. |
| 1:08.8 | High to the exam roomies listening in Las Crucesus, New Mexico, High Point, North Carolina, and Thessaloniki, |
| 1:16.2 | Greece. Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:22.0 | This is episode 36 of season 7 number 535 overall. |
| 1:28.7 | Look I don't need to tell you that the internet is filled with misinformation, but today is all about speaking |
| 1:35.9 | the truth about the vegan diet, and we're doing it by answering your questions, true or false, |
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