Is Your Dinner Causing Your Demise?? Nutrition researcher and PCRM founder Dr. Neal Barnard with all the facts

⁠⁠If you love the show, feel free to buy me a coffee ☕☎️⁠⁠Book a FREE CONSULTATION CALL⁠⁠ 👩‍🍳FREE TUTORIAL TO VEGANIZE RECIPES🎥⁠Watch the video podcast on YouTube⁠🌐Check ⁠The Flirty Vegan website⁠ 👉Follow ⁠@theflirtyvegan on Instagram⁠📣Join ⁠The Flirty Vegan Facebook Group⁠⭐️Get the ⁠newsletter⁠Neal Barnard, MD, FACC, is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and Barnard Medical Center in Washington, DC. He has led numerous research studies investigating the effects of diet on diabetes, body weight, hormonal symptoms, and chronic pain, including a groundbreaking NIH-funded study that paved the way for viewing type 2 diabetes as a potentially reversible condition for many patients. His most recent book, The Power Foods Diet, shows how certain foods influence the appetite and metabolism to facilitate weight control.The Juicy Bits:Just because something is culturally normal does not mean it's healthy, a good use of time, or ethical.People ARE NOT naturally carnivores. Our closest relatives are apes and they do not eat meat.Young people eating meat won't exhibit signs of disease...YET. Science shows that a meat-based diet is strongly linked to cardiovascular disease, colorectal cancer, and diabetes.Plant-based diets have NO CHOLESTEROL. They get fat out of the muscles and liver cells, helping weight loss, blood sugar and blood pressure reduction, increased energy, and improved digestion.Doctors shouldn't meet patients where they're at... because it doesn't help them and there isn't a reward.Having something every once in a while reawakens desires and doesn't allow body to detox. MODERATION IS ONLY GOOD FOR GOOD THINGS. If something hurts the body, YOU DON'T WANT IT AT ALL.Traditional doctors don't know nutrition. They die of the same diseases as their patients.GLP-1 meds are there to counteract maladaptive habits at great expense... horrible side effects and increased premiums for everyone else, including medicare tax.In 1909, the average American at 3.8 pounds of cheese per year. Today, it's 40 pounds per person per year, propelling the obesity epidemic.We hand down bad habits generationally.Biggest killers are heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, and Alzheimer's, and nutrition plays a role in all of them. Just because family members have these diseases doesn't mean you will. Eat plants.Cruelty is intrinsic to ALL LIVESTOCK OPERATIONS EVERYWHERE, regardless of which animal it is. Chickens only get to live 6 weeks before they're slaughtered, and Americans eat 1 MILLION CHICKENS PER HOUR!People on plant-based diets live longer, healthier, slimmer, more energetic lives.Don't know where to start? Find a book and go out to eat at an ethnic restaurant.Dr. Barnard's favorite vegan foods: jalapeno burritos and sushi (miso soup, salad, vegetable rolls)PCRM websiteBarnard Medical CenterDr. Barnard's books**The information provided on this podcast does not, and is not intended to constitute legal or medical advice; all information, content, and material on this site are for generalinformational purposes only. This