Vegetables Aren't Healthy? Responding to Misleading Research | Dr. Kim Williams
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 1 March 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
A study finds that vegetables aren't as healthy as you'd think. Could we have been wrong about leafy greens, bright red peppers, purple cabbage, and delicious yellow corn this whole time? Could greasy hamburgers and fat steaks be the key to long life with a healthy heart?
Umm, no and no.
Renowned cardiologist Dr. Kim Williams points out a major flaw in the research that had many parents wondering whether they'd been doing their kids wrong by not letting them leave the table until they finished their Brussels sprouts.
He joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room to discuss the major point missed by researchers and push back against the notion that vegetables aren't necessary heart healthy. Also, he reveals which vegetables may offer the biggest benefit to your heart!
Dr. Williams also discusses other new research on rising rates of high blood pressure during the pandemic and the best diet to treat hypertension. Plus, discover the surprisingly little amount of alcohol that is heart healthy.
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| 0:00.0 | I have never seen a study that shows anything other than a positive effect. |
| 0:05.2 | Well, it's an interesting study. |
| 0:06.8 | A reported to the studying raw versus cooked found a little bit of an advantage for raw, |
| 0:12.2 | not so much for cooked. |
| 0:13.6 | My takeaway was that the raw data really meant that the conclusions were overcooked. |
| 0:21.8 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:25.8 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:28.6 | Thank you so very much for racing your health IQ with us in more than 130 countries around |
| 0:33.2 | the world and healthy cities coast to coast in the US. |
| 0:37.2 | Beaverton, Oregon, Corpus Christi, Texas, Chicago, Illinois. |
| 0:42.1 | We appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:46.2 | This is episode 18 of season 5, number 317 overall. |
| 0:53.5 | Every once in a while. |
| 0:54.7 | A study comes along and you're just kind of like, wait, what? |
| 1:00.1 | Did they really just say that? |
| 1:03.7 | Such was the case not too terribly long ago when a study crossed my desk saying that vegetables |
| 1:09.3 | are not as heart healthy as they are made out to be. |
| 1:14.0 | The researcher said plainly that vegetables will not lower your risk for cardiovascular |
| 1:18.9 | disease and that eating them will not keep your heart ticking any better than it would without |
| 1:25.7 | them. |
| 1:27.5 | So man was I confused, I was perplexed. |
| 1:30.2 | But I knew the one man who could help to clear up this confusion for us. |
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