Vegan Diet Is $500 Cheaper Than Eating Meat | Dr. Hana Kahleova

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🗓️ 9 September 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Going vegan may not just improve your health. It could also improve your financial bottom line.

A study finds that eating an exclusively plant-based diet saved shoppers 16% on their grocery bill or roughly $500 per year, according to a study by Dr. Hana Kahleova.

She joins "The Weight Loss Champion" on The Exam Room Podcast with the surprising results. While shoppers obviously spent more on fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, the expense was more than offset by the savings from no longer purchasing eggs, meat, and dairy which tend to be higher priced items.

If you think eating a plant-based diet is too expensive, this study shows it's time to think again.

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0:00.0	Coming up, on the exam room, we decided to look into the food costs of a vegan diet.
0:07.7	People are concerned when it comes to groceries and the price is going up, especially the
0:13.5	fresh produce, like it seems so unaffordable for many people, so what happens if you go vegan?
0:30.0	Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.
0:34.2	Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll.
0:37.2	Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us coast to coast in the US and in more than 150 countries.
0:44.2	Hi to everyone listening in Greeley, Colorado, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Kabul, Afghanistan.
0:52.2	Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place.
0:57.2	This is episode 76 of season 6, number 472 overall.
1:03.4	And this is a mini pod, as it were, a quick podcast, a quick show, but nonetheless one that I think is going to stick with you.
1:13.8	The story goes that a while back we were doing a study, as we often do here at the Physicians Committee.
1:20.0	A study where we had people continue to eat their normal diet for a while, and then also for 16 weeks,
1:26.5	switch over to a plant-based diet.
1:29.1	Now, initially we were just monitoring their health effects.
1:34.2	What type of health improvements did we see or changes?
1:37.7	But our researchers are quite clever.
1:40.9	Because we then said, well, I wonder if it's possible to calculate how much money they were spending at the grocery store with each one of these diets and low and behold.
1:53.0	If you're in the camp that thinks eating a plant-based diet means you're spending all your money, you hard-dead-wrong.
2:01.2	And Dr. Hana Kaliova, the lead researcher of the study, is with us today.
2:06.3	She has the facts.
2:08.1	She is dishing out those savings, improving that eating green can mean saving green and a lot of it.
2:16.3	So let's get right to it right now.
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