What If The Whole World Went Vegan?
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
4.9 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
What if the whole world went vegan?! It's an intriguing question with the answer impacting both our health and that of the environment. Indeed, it is a win-win!
In this episode of The Exam Room™ Podcast, Dr. Neal Barnard joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to discuss the enormous environmental implications of adopting a plant-based diet. Thirty percent of total greenhouse gas emissions can be attributed to food production with animal products accounting for the majority of that, according to leading scientific researchers. And that's just the tip of the iceberg!
Dr. Barnard and Chuck also review a study where researchers determined what would happen if everyone on the planet adopted a plant-based diet by 2050. What they found will not only help the environment and improve human health, but it can also save more than a trillion dollars.
Then, Chuck sits down with Gwynn Whittaker who left a lucrative career in the IT and national security fields behind after prematurely losing her fiancé to heart attack. She now devotes her time to improving the health and quality of life others so they don't have to suffer the same loss. Whittaker has opened a whole-food plant-based restaurant, GreenFare Organic Café, just outside Washington, D.C. where hundreds have completed the Physicians Committee's 21-day Vegan Kickstart that is offered there. Many have gone from couch potatoes to avid marathoners and have significantly improved their chances of living a long and healthy life!
Whittaker is also gearing up for Fairfax VegFest on April 13 where Dr. Barnard, Dr. Jim Loomis, and Dr. T. Colin Campbell will be speaking. Dietician and frequent guest of The Exam Room regular Lee Crosby will also be lecturing on 'The Truth About Keto Diets' and Chuck will be recording episodes of the podcast live!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there, and welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians |
| 0:12.0 | Committee High. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:14.3 | Thanks for giving the show a listen this week. |
| 0:16.3 | The download of you wherever it is that you are, we appreciate that you're here. |
| 0:22.7 | Going vegan, not just good for you, it's also good for the environment. |
| 0:29.4 | How good might amaze you. |
| 0:32.9 | With Earth Day right around the corner, that's what we're going to be talking about on this |
| 0:35.8 | week's episode of the Exam Room as I'm joined by Dr. Neil Barnard. |
| 0:39.9 | Our question to you is this, what if the entire world went vegan? |
| 0:46.5 | Some of the world's leading scientists have been taking a close look at the connection |
| 0:50.2 | between diet and climate change and then been trying to come up with an answer to that |
| 0:54.0 | question. |
| 0:55.0 | These are people much, much, much smarter than I am. |
| 0:57.8 | We're going to be getting into their research in great detail in just a little bit, |
| 1:01.5 | but I wanted to throw some numbers out there right now. |
| 1:05.2 | These are from a 2016 study. |
| 1:07.4 | They found that if everyone on Earth went vegan by the year 2050, keep in mind that the |
| 1:12.4 | population of about that time should be around 10 billion according to UN projections. |
| 1:18.2 | So if all 10 billion of them were eating a plant-based diet, millions of deaths could be |
| 1:25.1 | prevented. |
| 1:26.7 | Food-related greenhouse gas emissions could be slashed by 70 percent. |
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