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[Nutrition Facts] Plant-Based Meat Substitutes Put to the Test

    What are the effects of plant-based meats on premature puberty, childhood obesity, and hip fracture risk? DOCTOR'S NOTE - Michael Greger, M.D.  This is the fourth in a nine-part video series on plant-based meats. If you missed the first three, see: The Environmental Impacts of Plant-Based Meat Substitutes Are Beyond Meat and the Impossible Burger Healthful? Are Pea and Soy Protein Isolates Harmful? Stay tuned for: The Health Effects of Mycoprotein (Quorn) Products vs BCAAs in Meat What About the Heme in Impossible Burgers? Does Heme Iron Cause Cancer? Heme-Induced N-Nitroso Compounds and Fat Oxidation Is Heme the Reason Meat Is Carcinogenic? If you don’t want to wait for all nine of the videos in this series to roll out on NutritionFacts.org, you can get them right now in a digital download from my webinar a few months ago. If you haven’t yet, you can subscribe to my videos for free by clicking here .

[Video] Calorie Density Explained and More | Dr. Neal Barnard on The Exam Room Podcast

  What is calorie density? How will understanding it help you lose weight? Dr. Neal Barnard joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to explain it and answer other nutrition questions on The Exam Room Live! Have a question? Leave it in the chat, and we'll get to as many as we can!

[Nutrition] Flashback Friday: How Our Gut Bacteria Can Use Eggs to Accelerate Cancer

  The reason egg consumption is associated with elevated cancer risk may be the TMAO, considered the “smoking gun” of microbiome-disease interactions. Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues. Dr. Greger has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, among countless other symposia and institutions; testified before Congress; has appeared on shows such as The Colbert Report and The Dr. Oz Show; and was invited as an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous "meat defamation" trial. In 2017, he was honored with the ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Trailblazer Award. DOCTOR'S NOTE What did the egg industry do in response to this information? Distort the scientific record. See Egg Industry Response to Choline and TMAO . This isn’t the first time the egg indust