Skip to main content
  1. Blog

  2. Aug 4, 2017

ICNM Recap: Sugar, Fat, and Weight Loss

icnm-recap-sugar

Removing meat and dairy products from your diet is essential when it comes to weight loss and fighting heart disease, diabetes, and America’s other diet-related disease epidemics.

Sugar isn’t a health food, even when it comes from Dr. Pepper. But removing meat and dairy products from your diet is also essential when it comes to weight loss and fighting heart disease, diabetes, and America’s other diet-related disease epidemics. At last week’s International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine (ICNM), I explained how a plant-based diet—fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes—is the best bet for staying healthy. Take a look:

Read my interview in the Washingtonian about the controversy surrounding What the Health, a new documentary that challenges the standard American diet.

Dr. Neal Barnard on Sugar, Fat, and Weight Loss

Sugar isn’t a health food--even when it comes from Dr. Pepper. In this presentation, Dr. Barnard talks about how both avoiding sugar and cutting meat and dairy are important steps we can take to improve our health.

More on Blog