Best Diet for Weight Loss: Vegan or Mediterranean Diet? | Dr. Neal Barnard
Best Diet for Weight Loss: Vegan or Mediterranean Diet? | Dr. Neal Barnard
Will you lose more weight on a vegan diet or the Mediterranean diet? “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll is joined by Dr. Neal Barnard LIVE to discuss the results of a study that tested the diets head to head to see which is best for weight loss!
Dr. Barnard also talks about whether the brain causes you to crave fat when you’re eating a…
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Please make an episode about Ancel Keys!!!
My husband and i have gone oil free vegan and his body is resoonding really well as a diabetic. Down a hundred points plus in one months time. But his blood pressure remains elevated. Seems as if we should add in a Tablespoon or more of olive oil. He does have weight to lose, so i am keeping that in mind.
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Didn’t Ansel Keyes handpick only like 6 out of the 14 countries he surveyed?? For sure he left out France which was lower on the scale near Italy. How do we explain France in terms of lower heart disease yet higher fat?
I have always loved my meat and veggies, thats why i really cant be fully vegan, i tried every diet there is and i found one that is so easy to follow yet still so effective which is agoge diet. well, i can say, i just cant cut off my meats
What about Mediterranean that had fish but no dairy or eggs or meat
This study is not reality. There are good and bad ways of eating on both vegan and Mediterranean. Do what works for your physical and mental health.
I can eat an entire jar of Kalamata olives.
The charts truly tell the story – especially the one involving the head to head diets done for 2 x 16 weeks. I was surprised to see that those who did so well during the vegan diet actually ended up putting on weight when they switched to the Mediterranean diet. But no surprise that both groups lost quite a bit of weight on the vegan diet.
i once lost 20 pounds in half a year by eating 2/3 mediterranean meals (mostly chicken & fish, occasionally beef) and 1/3 vegan meals, 3 meals a day, i think thats good enough!
I refer to myself as “mostly plant based” because even though my wife and I dropped meat on a whim with no transition, we are still having some dairy. Once we have eliminated those foods I will gladly refer to myself as vegan, a label I previously mocked and dismissed.
I lost 73 lbs on a low carb diet. I have maintained my weight loss for years by being vegan. Did not miss dairy or meat. There are so many vegan substitutions. Not sure why people think switching to vegan is hard. It's just no dairy and no meat. Period
I listen to his presentation a few times. And in his study they left it up to the participants to set their diet. This really skews the data. If you make the vegan group eat low fat, and give no guidance to the Mediterranean group of course the latter gained weight. But i wonder if they were on a diet of the same calories if they would have had similar outcomes? I cant help but wonder if the Mediterranean group was eating at Olive Garden on weeknights, and having a whole pizza weekend. The Mediterranean diet is mostly pescatarian and would be 9-10 servings of veggies in a day, with healthy fats. Might I add that French people have some the lowest obesity rates, and they are eating meat.
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Aren’t those traditional folks who consumed ONLY 1 or 2 cups of (unsugared) COFFEE or TEA for BREAKFAST doing a legit form of INTERMITTENT FASTING ? Or is there a net downside because the fluids they consume are stimulants ( caffeine ).
These two diets aren't necessarily mutually incompatible. Right now I find it more practical to eat a more or less plant-based Mediterranean diet that is somewhat lower in fat (25 percent of calories from fat), but not Pritikin or McDougall levels. Going down to 10-15 percent fat requires making everything yourself and completely avoiding processed foods.
I use alot of foods from Latin American and the southern US in my meals, as well as foods from southern France. Sometimes I also eat East Asian style foods, such as miso soup, and those tend to be lower in fat. I think long term, we all need to be working on ways we can transition to a more Vegan Macrobiotic or East Asian Vegan diet, with lots of cruciferous vegetables like bok choy, purple sweet potatoes, and calcium-rich tofu (if you eat foods like that, you hardly need fruit in your diet since they are so rich in vitamins), and macroalgae like kombu and alaria. But that shift is harder than even being Vegan itself for many people.
BTW, the Predimed study used 4 tbsp of olive oil a day. That's alot of calories. I try to use no more than a teaspoon of olive oil when I cook, and I only lightly spritz vegetables (if I do so at all) with it to go into my air frier, just because olive oil is so calorie dense- you will not lose weight eating tablespoons of any oil every day like that.
3:50 I'd rather look at Japan.
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greek food consists of alot of lemon juice…which reduces blood pressure
Thanks so much for educating us and keeping us informed!
Personally, I don't like gyms. They are so crowded and I can't do my workout there. I decided to take bodyweight training plan from Agoge Diet. Training plan is great and I can do it from home. They also give you diet plan which supports your fitness goals.