Diet Cost Analysis: Vegan Is Cheapest | Hana Kahleova, MD, PhD

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🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Eating a plant-based diet is not expensive. A group of nutrition researchers have proven that many people actually save money by switching to a vegan diet.

Shoppers saved nearly 20% off their grocery bill compared to a traditional diet and 25% when compared to the popular Mediterranean diet. The savings add up to more than $650 and $875 annually per person on average.

Dr. Hana Kahleova presents her findings and shows you how you can save money while improving your health as she joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast.

This can be a game changer for people struggling with high grocery prices!

Dr. Kahleova also explains why eating a vegan diet can improve your health and subsequently lower medical expense as well.

Join Chuck and Dr. Will Bulsiewicz at Dr. Barnard’s Bon Voyage Bash in Miami on March 7!

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Diet Cost Analysis Study

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Watch Dr. Kahleova's Interview

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Vegan vs. Mediterranean Diet Health Study

https://bit.ly/VegVsMedAging

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Is Soy Good or Bad For You? - Fortune Article

https://bit.ly/SoyFortune

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Dr. Bulsiewicz and Chuck in Miami

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Date: March 7, 2025

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0:00.0	Today on the exam room.
0:04.0	It's a nice thing to see that the vegan diet worked better for the overall health.
0:10.0	But what about the affordability?
0:12.0	What we found out was really fascinating.
0:15.0	People saved a significant amount of money on the vegan diet, roughly 19% on groceries. And compared with the Mediterranean
0:25.4	diet, people saved $2.40 a day or 25% on groceries.
0:44.3	Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee.
0:50.8	Hi, I'm the weight loss champion, Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. Hi to the exam room.
0:52.2	He's listening in College Park, Maryland, Pueblo, Colorado,
0:56.3	and Bristol, England. Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place.
1:02.6	This is episode 92 of season 7, number 591 overall. And we have two goals today. Two goals. Number one, raise our health IQs. And number two,
1:15.4	save you money. Dr. Hana Kaliova is with us today to talk about one such study that will
1:24.4	accomplish both things. She and her team just concluded this. It's a study that
1:30.1	looks at the cost of a vegan diet, the Mediterranean diet, and the standard American or
1:36.5	Western diet that most people are eating. Now most people probably also think that
1:42.4	the vegan diet is probably going to be the most
1:45.1	expensive of the three.
1:47.5	But uh-uh, not even close.
1:50.0	That is simply not the case.
1:52.6	Because not only is it not the costliest, it's also the cheapest, according to the study.
1:59.2	We are talking about savings to the tune of anywhere from
2:01.9	600 to more than $850 a year, plenty of cash to cover a few bills, whether that's your phone
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