#23 Is Red Meat Bad? What’s Really Healthy? Cutting Through the Dietary Confusion on How To Fight Disease

Dive into the complexities of diet recommendations and discover how what’s on your plate and how you live can combat cancer and enhance health.

We learn that 50% of all cancers and up to 70% of lifestyle disease are preventable by a healthy diet and lifestyle choices.   

The conversation explores why all the confusion on what is a healthy diet and the synergistic health benefits when combined with healthy lifestyle habits.    This episode we talk about if red meat is bad and what about processed meats causing cancer?    Should we be eating a low carbohydrate or high carbohydrate diet or is high protein good for us and what about fat?   Should we eat butter now that we know transfats are not healthy?    How much protein do we need in our diet and which types are most disease protective and increase our healthy longevity?

Explore dietary truths to understand how healthy eating and lifestyle choices can prevent cancer and improve overall health. 

Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Overview
08:30 What’s a healthy diet and why all the confusion 
9:30   What do national organizations say
10:50 The World Health Organization's Recommendations for a Healthy Diet
15:00  Living a healthy body weight is important while eating a healthy diet.  Any diet can be unhealthy if we eat in excess of our energy needs.
20:00 Polyphenols are important for fighting disease and beating cancer 
30:35 The Importance of a Healthy Gut and the Role of Fiber
39:06 What about Protein - how much do we need and what is the best type animal protein versus plant protein.  Overeating protein or any food can be stored as body fat.
45:39 The Type of Protein, Carbohydrate and Fat Matters Most
58:01  When we go on diets that eliminate our Trigger Foods we will see success, but may not be the healthiest diet.
01:02:22 Understanding the Differences Between High Protein Diets, Low Carb Diets and the Ketogenic Diet
01:09:19 Replacing Processed and Red Meats with Plant-Based Proteins - what does the latest science say?
01:20:00 Dr. Cheryl’s final thoughts lets don’t repeat the tobacco wars and wait for causation when we see red flags in the latest nutrition research.

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