Why Most Diets Fail — And The Healthy Diet That Sticks | Dr. Neal Barnard

The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee

Physicians Committee

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Why do so many people quit their New Year's health goals—sometimes in just weeks?

In this milestone 700th episode of The Exam Room Podcast, Chuck Carroll is joined by Dr. Neal Barnard to explain why lasting health has nothing to do with willpower—and everything to do with motivation.

This conversation goes far beyond weight loss. You'll learn how a low-fat, plant-based diet can:
• Improve digestion and hormone balance
• Reduce joint pain, migraines, and inflammation
• Save hundreds of dollars each year
• Protect animals and the environment
• Improve long-term health and athletic performance

Dr. Barnard also shares unforgettable real-world stories from his research and personal life that reveal why understanding why you eat is the key to staying healthy for life.

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0:00.0	Today, on the exam room.
0:05.2	Along the lines they discover, oh, yes, I'm losing weight, but my digestion is better.
0:12.3	That constipation is gone.
0:13.9	That's great.
0:14.2	Okay.
0:14.7	Oh, and my skin is better, too.
0:17.1	Migraines often get better.
0:18.9	Joints, joint pain?
0:20.2	Yeah.
0:20.5	Often diminishes. So a person comes in and they're
0:23.5	doing the diet and they start to get these other benefits and they think you know what i am
0:29.0	never leaving that diet i'm going to stick with that because i feel better welcome to the exam room
0:36.8	podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.
0:39.5	Hi, I'm Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world.
0:44.6	Hi to the exam room.
0:45.6	He's listening in Apostle Robles, California, Hobbs, New Mexico, and London, England.
0:51.8	Wherever you are, we appreciate you, helping to make the world a healthier place.
0:56.1	This is episode one of season nine, number 700 overall. Indeed, it is a big milestone episode.
1:05.9	And because it's such a momentous celebration here on the show today, we're going to be looking
1:11.7	beyond the diet.
1:13.7	We're going to be talking about, yeah, something that really affects all of us from time to
1:18.1	time.
	...

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