When Pink Ribbons Push Carcinogens with Dr. Neal Barnard
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 9 October 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Neal Barnard steps into The Exam Room with "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll!
Every October it seems as though everything is awash in pink in honor of breast cancer awareness. However, Dr. Barnard explains that sometimes these well-intentioned efforts badly miss the mark.
Remember when KFC had a pink bucket of chicken? What about the airline selling a pink martini to raise funds for breast cancer research? More recently, a sausage company announced plans for a "cure campaign."
The problem is that all of these products have been shown to increase the risk of developing cancer and some have been classified directly as being carcinogenic to humans. It's like selling a pack of cigarettes to raise money for lung cancer research.
Dr. Barnard ponders a new way to think pink, one that stresses prevention rather than treatment!
Dr. Kristi Funk then joins Chuck to discuss the first of four steps outlined in the Let's Beat Breast Cancer campaign — eating a plant-based diet!
How is it that the nutrients in plants can unlock such powerful cancer-fighting capability? Dr. Funk has the answers!
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| 0:00.0 | The labels went on everything, but when it started to be pink on things that are really unhealthy, |
| 0:05.7 | that I think made a lot of people very nervous. |
| 0:07.7 | Case in point, alcohol clearly raises breast cancer risk. |
| 0:11.2 | And I opened the InFlight magazine, and it says, |
| 0:13.6 | Welcome to Delta Airlines, a Buy Our Pink Martini, and we'll donate money to Cancer Research. |
| 0:19.8 | And I think, wait a minute. |
| 0:21.8 | Well, hello there, and welcome to the Exam Room Podcast, |
| 0:32.6 | brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:34.2 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:37.0 | Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen this week, |
| 0:40.8 | or a view, or a download, wherever it is in the world that you are. |
| 0:46.6 | We appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:52.0 | This week, we will be continuing our Month Long Series Let's Beat Breast Cancer. |
| 0:59.7 | And as we welcome Dr. Neil Barnard back to the show today, |
| 1:03.2 | he will be here to put some things into perspective, |
| 1:06.8 | maybe give us a chance to look at things in a completely different light. |
| 1:12.4 | So today, we will be talking about the mass marketing of breast cancer awareness |
| 1:18.8 | all throughout the month of October. |
| 1:21.7 | Now, as we will discuss during the interview, |
| 1:25.5 | nobody is saying that this is a bad thing. |
| 1:28.4 | In fact, it's downright noble in most of these cases. |
| 1:32.4 | It's noble that these companies are willing to bring awareness to a disease that will |
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