30 Years of Diets: Are We Any Healthier? | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A
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For 30 years, diets in 185 countries have been closely watched. Are we any healthier today than when the research started?
From my perspective as a dietitian, I see whether someone is vegan or not, as a distant second to how much processed food a person eats. It's FAR more impactful to health to cut all the processed junk first, then slowly transition to a fully plant-based diet. I would much rather eat an unprocessed omnivorous diet, than a processed food vegan diet. Now, for animal welfare considerations, yes; I'm vegan and you should be too, if you can. But first things first, please! Get that processed junk out of your life, for health, TODAY!
I have a question, my husband and I both went wfpb 1-1/2 years ago and feel great, but my husband has lost weight that he doesn’t need to lose since being on the diet, he is 5’10” and went below 150lbs. Is the only way to get him to gain weight to have him eat more nuts seeds avacado peanut butter etc?
Thanks for sharing info.
Re a freezer full of meat, do what we did and give it away.
I am 67 and my skin is becoming very fragile. I am WFPB and very healthy. Is there a supplement or food group that would help my skin integrity. My mother also had fragile skin and would get a skin tear extremely easily.
I had given up being vegan and or WFPB because the recipes were so boring. I dreaded every meal. I started watching Will Yeung Asian plant based cooking show and it changed everything for me. I love his recipes. I even bought his books.
I'm 60 years old and I've been a vegan for 40 years I never had a desire to ever go back to eating meat or dairy and I'm not a junk food vegan.
I quit smoking a few decades ago and I'm thankful for the message and public campaign that was spread long ago that helped many people quit. I also am thankful for the medical treatments for addiction which are powerful.
It took me a couple decades to then accept and implement the whole food-plant based diet.
Hello Chuck, can you get a gastroenterologist to talk about gastroparesis and severe gut dysmotility? I can't find anything on the website of the Physicians Committee about it. I know it's not a widespread condition but it is growing and I encounter it in my work. According to Dr. Fuhrman, it is linked to the standard western diet. I would like to hear how a doctor from the Physicians Committee would treat this patient group.
THANK YOU BOTH FOR THIS VERY IMPORTANT PRESENTATION. I HAVE A VEGAN FOR YEARS….FLAX SEED TOOK ALL MY MENOPAUSE SYMPTOMS AWAY.
24:00 should soy be avoided for estrogen dominance?
Haven’t heard from Dr Will B lately. Is he coming back?
I left India about 40 years ago, and at that time people were mostly vegetarian, and not too much of junk was food available. We were all (friends in my generation) at quite healthy weight. Now when I go back and stay in a hotel near an international airport (to transfer to a domestic flight the next day), I see all kinds of junk food (along with the traditional healthy food) at a vegetarian buffet restaurant in the hotel. I just go the traditional food stations, but I see kids crowding around junk food stations. I noticed that all these kids are overweight. I felt bad and thought that it was irresponsible of their parents not to direct them to healthy food options.
What about wine?
Great idea on giving the freezer meat to a local animal shelter! Perfect solution!!
Having zero cigarettes is easier than having just one more.
I can listen to Dr Barnard and Chuck for hours. They flow so well together. Thank you so much.
A misnomer is a wrong name. That you can eat too much salt and flush it out with water is not a misnomer. It’s a misunderstanding.
7:06 that's true – most people can't keep the addiction and good childhood memories and emotional attachment out of their adult bodies due to their impressionable minds experiencing meat.
health is only one aspect of life though – if you don't want to preserve the body you have now, you might want to take risks on health to become a better person where you'd want to preserve it. Same with having a healthy body that's nice – if it's so nice, why do people trash it up like it's worthless 6:18 when it's something really valuable just because it has value? I don't get the logic my parents have that most people have (or had).
6:13 Dr. Barnard's spitting truth. I kept telling my parents – it doesn't matter taht I'm young – I can be unhealthy when I'm young – pay now with being healthy and not liking it or pay later when you're forced to eat healthy and not liking it but also being in bad health.
teenage years are really the hardest on health – I would have to agree with these statistics. If we look at marketing, laws, and schooling during teenage years vs what our bodies need – they're really opposite each other. So health really deteriorates then. It's only those who make it out of that that start improving their health. The issue is that you're improving it from a low point – so you never really recover the damage done during teenage (and even childhood) years – so that's why I feel these numbers are just so skewed. 6:00 – I wish I saw what the numbers look like if there wasn't such a high dropoff of health to recover from.
If I had a whole fridge full of meat – if I wasn't on the brink of a health crisis, I would likely bring one vegan nutritional equivalent for every meat slab I would've replaced when I eat them. So I would just eat up what I have – I wouldn't let it go to waste. I wouldn't feel it makes you any less of a vegan than before – as you didn't know better – so it's not your fault. If you can give it away, even better – but then you're just putting your problems onto others. If you put it in the landfill, taht's bad too – as then the landfill jobs wouldn't be vegan anymore – so you just have to take responsibility for one's own actions and deal with the consequences until all the meat's gone.
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to the person in the chat with a high LPA – I am thinking that's a good thing – because it's carrying away all the bad cholesterol and letting it be utilized, but sounds like high protein.
wow the video quality is so good – it was good enough at 240p – at 480p I didn't need to go higher. HQ life!
Wow ur right about moderation!!!! I can't just have one cookie… When I do one the following day around same time my brain starts to think about Cookies again! Sometimes I eat a cookie 3 days in a row 😣…
What%of fruits&vegetables we should eat
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Sure would like to have a link to the study you are discussing today. At least the name and authors of the study.
Thank you Chuck and Dr. Barnard! You both give such clear and concise information! Love this!
My late husband quit smoking in his 30's. He died of IPF in his 60's.
I'd like to see a link to this study – thanks.
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I guess you guys never heard “low Carb”. Fruits for diabetics? You gotta be kidding. If he was my doctor then i will be medicated the rest of my life.
Precious information and knowledge as always. Thanks a lot and greetings from Italy.