Live Longer with Diabetes, Heart Disease Eating This Diet | Dr. Neal Barnard
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
It is possible to live a longer and healthier life even if you have diabetes or heart disease.
New research shows that people who eat a healthy plant-based diet can reduce their risk of dying prematurely despite having those disease. The findings analyzed tens of thousands of patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
What is it about the plant-based diet that makes it so powerful? Dr. Neal Barnard joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast to dive into the findings.
- In This Interview -
- Foods that help you live longer
- What makes a plant-based diet effective for diabetes and heart disease
- How a typical diet can rob years from your life
- Other trendy diets and longevity
- And more
This episode is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg’s passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. |
| 0:04.0 | It's particularly important now because life expectancy is actually declining now. |
| 0:08.0 | We're doing worse than we were before. |
| 0:10.0 | But the Adventist Health Study said that their findings suggest that if you followed a healthy diet and lifestyle, you could add as much as a decade to your average longevity. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to the exam room podcast. to your average longevity. |
| 0:26.6 | Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. Hi, I'm the weight loss champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. |
| 0:32.6 | Hi to the exam room he's listening in Chico, California, Cleveland, Ohio, and Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 0:41.1 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:45.4 | This is episode 30 of season 8, number 629 overall. |
| 0:50.6 | And we will be diving into brand new research today that was just unveiled at the 2025 |
| 0:57.3 | American College of Cardiology's annual scientific session. And these are very promising findings |
| 1:04.1 | for the millions of people living with diabetes and heart disease. These are findings that show |
| 1:10.3 | it is still possible to live a long and healthy life |
| 1:14.9 | despite their conditions. And these are findings that are more than ever proof that food is medicine. |
| 1:24.3 | So what is the diet that these cardiologists are talking about? Well, for that, we will be |
| 1:29.9 | welcoming our friend, the author of the Power Foods Diet and president of the Physicians Committee, |
| 1:35.7 | Dr. Neil Barnard, back to the show. He joined me this week on the exam room live. Again, |
| 1:41.7 | groundbreaking findings for millions of people living with one of these chronic |
| 1:46.7 | conditions. Here's that great conversation from the exam room live. |
| 1:53.4 | Thanks for being here, Dr. Barnard. |
| 1:54.7 | Great to see you, Chuck. |
| 1:56.8 | Great to see you. And if there's a question that you have for Dr. Barnard, please go ahead |
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