Thank you so much for this enlightening discussion about grains! I switched to a vegan/whole foods plant-based diet two months ago, and already I feel the best I’ve felt in a long time, maybe ever. My weight is in the morbidly obese category. And over the years I have tried many diet programs and nothing has worked to provide sustainable weight loss and overall improved health. But now that I am nourishing my body with fresh, organic, whole foods everyday, I don’t have the crazy out of control cravings that once plagued my body and helped ruin my health. Instead, now I am losing weight with minimal effort. I have more energy. The inflammation in my body is going away. I can actually exercise and move around a lot more and without pain. My gut health has improved. I no longer have irritable bowel syndrome. I can sleep peacefully for 7-8 hours a night now. All of this improvement in just two months is mind blowing. Because of this near miracle change in my lifestyle, I will never go back to the way that I was eating before. Which included the unfortunate consumption of: lots of eggs, meat, fish, dairy, unhealthy fats, and various forms of sugar. And this all while on various “diet plans” that were supposedly designed to make me feel better. Sadly it was all untrue. But now I know the truth about whole food and how it can actually heal the body. The vegan/whole food plant-based diet is the best and only health plan for me for the rest of my life. I really appreciate the Physicians Committee podcast and am a KZfaq subscriber. The information on this channel is truly life saving. Continued blessings to you all!

I have listened to this many times, and keep coming back to it when I lie down for a nap. I get something more from jt each time. As an 85 yr old gal, I appreciate you telling it like it is. This is a lifetime journey.

I eat a Dr Fuhrman lunch (large salad) and a Dr McDougall dinner (starch and veg)

I live in Cambodia now. I am 88 years old on Dec 16. I am California born and raised. My son from S.F born moved here several years. I was ignorant back home then I learned a lot from you. I have lost from your plant meals and do not eat anymore. Lost 35 lbs and only weigh 120 now. The vegetables and fruit here is wonderful. I can get anything here from the states if I want I miss. I never used my phone regarding health. Being confused I read all Drs but u are for real and I thank you. Coming home in the spring for check up at Kaiser then coming back and I will get your books and bring back, Terri Heisserman😊❤

WFPB blogger here!! Your show helps me grow in my knowledge and health and thus my followers; thank you so much for making the world a healthier place 😍

plantbased food diet the best one ... from keto, flextitarian , vegetarian and finally I'm 90% plantbased food diet... so good really fantastic 👏

I would also love to add how much I love when Dr Barnard is on the show & his practical approach.great questions,thank you for a great vid.🙏💗🌿🍲🥗

Been eating wfpb for about 8 or 9 months now and this channel has been so helpful and inspiring. I've been feeling amazing since I started but it was just a difficult transition, learning to cook a new way and figuring out how to eat in various situations but now I feel like an old pro and I am so excited every single day to eat delicious healthy food and feel great, I'm not tempted by bad food at all anymore. Thank you for this channel, Chuck, Dr. Barnard, we love you!

My late mother’s family is all in Japan. Yes, they do eat rice but I wouldn’t say “huge” amounts at each meal. That’s the key though -small portions of everything. The traditional daily meal is a small dish of white rice, plus various small items like tapas with it, like grilled fish, pickled vegetables, occasionally eggs, tofu, natto (fermented soybeans), other seafood, sweet potato, pumpkin, sometimes noodles, green tea. Desserts were not the norm. Maybe fruit. Unfortunately, now they eat too much processed and “western” foods in Japan.

Love hearing Dr. Barnard's wisdom. Great show.

Thank you for this! So many friends of mine avoid all grains. The thing is that those are the people who’re having health issues.

I like that Dr. Barnard has a sensible approach regarding white rice. It makes sense that if you eat a processed grain but top it with vegetables or legumes that have lots of fiber, you are still benefitting from the fiber of the added ingredients - No need to be concerned that your rice is not whole grain.

Vegan since 2014 and there’s still so much wisdom and knowledge to gain from your podcast! Also, Chuck’s positivity and good mood is such a joy to listen to! Great questions from the Roomies and a pleasure to listen to the walking encyclopedia that is Dr Barnard. Much Love from Germany!

"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live." - Jim Rohn . Thanks Dr. Barnard!

this discussion is so down to earth , thank you to both of you

Always very encouraging & full of needful information from this podcast🙏

Always enjoy your videos! They have been very helpful and educational! Keep up the good work 😃

Thank You so much Chuck and Dr, Barnard! this show is so helpful and reassuring! i learn every time i watch, Thank You 🙏🙏💖💖

Chuck and Dr Bernard, you are the best❤

God bless you both for your Noble work 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Very encouraging program today. Thank you so much!

Been WFPB since 7 years with my partner and at distance with Sister and husband! And yes we eat plenty and feel really amazing, we can testify that we improved in those years incredibly!!! And eating MOREof the right things made Z difference!!! Warm greetings from Europe ❤

As always, great information from Dr. Bernard

I feel better than I felt in high school. Love the show.

Thanks a million for your constant advice in nutrition.

Chuck and Dr Neal , Thanks very much for all this , information, what a great show , I love watching your show , I have begin to change my diet after watching your shows , I talk to my kids and my family what I hear in your shows , I am so glad that my health and in general I feel so great after changing my diet , Sometimes i watch your shows more then once , Thanks very much both of you , God Bless.

Thank you so much for sharing all the great ingredients of good eat ❤.

This helped me sooooo much. This has given the freedom & confidence I needed about the grains. You’re the BEST!!!!!

I respectfully disagree with Dr Barnard about sourdough bread. The fermentation of grains increases their nutritional value and make them more digestible for people. Thanks a lot for the great content to both. Greetings

Sending all my love to you Dr. Neal Barnard ❤

I eat uncooked steel cut oats/buck wheat for breakfast daily. I add walnuts, flax seeds, sunflower seeds, turmeric, cinnamon, banana, blueberries or strawberries and oat milk. It's so filling that I have to remind myself to eat lunch, which I usually do at 3pm.

This is especially useful and I take all said seriously, thanks! I am eating a lot of oatmeal daily at this time, but also I bought white rice but don't want too much since for me I tend to overeat it. I actually bought it to up my calories some and it did the trick too well in fact. 🤣 It is good to hear Dr. Barnard's point about not worrying too much about brown rice. I will take that into consideration in my future purchases.

So inspiring - so well expressed 🙏💚

Very nice knowledges about our concerns about foods. Thank you very much for the program.

Love Dr. Barnard!!!

Gluten - I get depressed within 12 hours after eating it and my stomach swells to the point where I cannot do up my clothes. Why don’t Americans consider millet or buckwheat in their diet? It grows in temperate climate which you have there.

I am calling in from the UK, great information.

The bazooka HAHAHA!!! Another year mark and I'm only getting healthier. Super grateful for both your precious time and efforts! ❤️🙏❤️🙏

Thank you for this. ❤

Thank you Dr.We get precious information from you all the time

Could someone please debunk dr Gundry’s claims about the damaging effects of lectins in whole grains, fruits and vegetables?

Great episode. Music grabbed my heart .

Very useful info and content, thank you for putting this out, and thanks to the Doc, very easy to understand

I was advised to soak the rice and bring the brown rice to a boil a couple of times and then cook as usual to get rid of some of the arsenic. Thanks for the video.

Rolled oats are not as nutritious as steel cut oats. You do a label comparison and you will notice a significant difference, especially in the fiber content.

Oil free popcorn is one of my favorite whole grains. The high fiber fills you up without a lot of calories and popcorn has some of the highest concentrations of beneficial polyphenols. Get an air popper! They’re cheap and last forever. Also, organic kernels are surprisingly affordable and I love the aroma. It makes me want to binge watch movies though haha!

Takikomi gohan is a traditional Japanese rice dish consisting of rice, seasonings such as dashi, mirin, and soy sauce, and various ingredients like seafood, meat, and vegetables.

Hello ftom Athens Greece, thank you for your helpful broadcast. Is corn flour healthy to use together with whole wheet flour for making sour bread?

Great information! Always enjoy your podcast. I enjoy Balsamic Vinegar on my rice. 👍 😊 ❤

I had a similar experience to one of your audience. I eat a lot of tofu and I did not have any menopause symptoms.

Hello from New Jersey. Love this program.

I love you Dr. Neal

Thank you very much for the way you break down things about cholesterol and other things that you talk about I've been living in Asia for the last 15 years right now I'm in Cambodia by living in Asia it makes it very easy to control my cholesterol

I love this. I always love watching anything with Dr. Barnard in it. I learn sooooo much every time. He changed my life I love him soooooo much! Thank you!! ♥

Rice and tomato/garlic/onion sauce, rice & mushrooms, rice & veggies, pumpkin risotto, saffron risotto, etc.

About 15 years ago, I participated in Quaker Oats survey which called for eating oats in some form everyday for 30 days. They initially provided 2 18 oz containers of oatmeal, some oatmeal bars and 2 days carfare for coming to their office. At the end of 30 days, my cholesterol level went from 239 to 214 and that was while still eating chicken,ground turkey, fish and the so called alternatives to butter.

a traditional Japanese breakfast is a fairly elaborate and time-consuming affair, with grilled fish, an egg dish, pickles, side dishes, rice, and miso soup

It's hard to find a variety of mushrooms in the stores. How do you feel about mushroom mix powders or supplements?

Thanke you so much Dr. Barnard for all the good work you do for us here. I learned a lot. Most of all that there is nothing wrong with grains! 🙏💓Which is wonderful news for me! Iam a vegan. And making myself my daily Buddha bowl with different veggies and beans, Iove to put some millet, , buckwheat, spelt brown rice e.t.c into it. And I feel very good. But sooo many Peopel told me not to avoid grains. or carbs. Iam so happy to hear now that this is not necessary! Wonderful. ❤🙏🤗💓

How can I control my blood sugar and want to increase weight at the same time?

The best informations ❤🙏🙏🙏.

I get quite I'll if I eat gluten so I've been trying different types of grains quinoa swells my tongue,so I've tried millet,.but a while back I read that there are different types of millet _ some can disrupt your hormones & are not good to consume if you have pcos.can you please clarify this??

"Your Body the Beamer" 🤣Love it!

Hello Chuck, great show! Can you do a, episode on BPH please?

Awesome 🙏 informational video on whole grains

Thank you .x

Just wanted to thank you from Bolivia

I agree that a balance is best. I don’t do well with a heavy gluten and grain diet but none is bad too. I do best with a moderate amount. Sourdough bread, multi grain, pumpernickel breads are okay. I might have toast or English muffin 3-4x a week. But rice, potatoes, pasta I stay away from except very occasionally. Interestingly, I don’t like gluten-free breads. Who knows what’s in them? My stomach does better on breads with the least chemical elements…freshly baked or as close as possible.

something I read on cheerios ... Obviously no one is spraying Cheerios with Roundup before it's boxed up and shipped to your local grocery store. However, glyphosate is occasionally sprayed on oats as a drying agent. So it's not surprising that glyphosate has been detected in Cheerios by the EWG, a non-profit activist group.

Made the corn chowder. Delicious!

Hi Jennifer from India, wheat is a staple here, is it okay to consume it regularly. Thankyou

I’m watching from Japan Thank you for you helpful and healthful informative programs. It helps me very much. For months now For months now I’ve been cooking brown rice but still with guilt because I’ve on a plant diet because I have a stage 3 breast cancer. Is it safe to wash brown rice and soak in salt and soda for 30 minutes before cooking?

I like Chuck and Dr Barnard. They are nice, kind. Dr is calm, cool . This proves that vegan diet is healthy for body and mind.

I started eating Teff, Kamut, ferro, barley and buckwheat. I'm allergic to oats. An entirely new world opened up in taste, and flavors. Also (soaking over night) chia seeds, hround flax seeds. All nuts and seeds, pop corn -blue and multi colored. Yes i occasionally eat white rice and i don't like brown rice.

I want to know about lead in cocao/cocoa powder. I eat 2T a day and can't figure out how to know which. brands to choose/avoid. Thanks!

Aloha from Big Island Hawai'i ---Violette 💜💙💚💛🧡❤ "where I live there are rainbows"

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Caoi doctor monak! I have a patient who has dementia and seeing me regularly always bring back her memory but she love eating much food and vegetables as a result of her joy seeing me what should I do? And every doctor will known too much sugar isn't gud for a dementia patient! Pls I need your consiglio! Grazie

What about wheat germ consumption? Also do grains cause leaky gut? I read they are too abrasive for your colon.

Mentioning rice and oatmeal and other grains is there a difference between instant and cooking

I can,t eat anything green, after having a colectomy. Can you make some suggestions for me Doctor.

I have cancer and every natural practitioner tells me not to eat grains. And that I should be on keto diet. I have been vegan for 11 years and vegetarian 29 before that. Have rare appendix cancer. Ended up with bowel blockage from the cancer. Had emergency ileostomy. So now I am so limited to eat the things I need to fight cancer. But this thing of no grains I have a hard time thinking it makes my cancer grow.

I have an 8 grain mix that I eat cold with soy milk and blueberries or whatever we have and it is excellent for breakfast on these scorching days.

When I started intermittent fasting and cut out grains I developed diverticulitis. Never had gut problems before. Can that heal with your plan? Wfpb?? It’s not a bad case but I want it gone. Also slightly elevated A1C 5.8. I’m going to try this.

I change my diet eating small meal vegetables and fruits stop sugar before I feel tired low energy 😴 I'm very active now

What to eat to slow my artrytes.?

What if your triglycerides SOAR every time you add WHOLE grains into your diet. like steel cuts oats, millet from the bulk bins?

That's all we need. Someone else preaching what we should eat.

Hi from Johannesburg South Africa 👍💕

A little late watching this but … So, when I eat whole grains (just a serving - no more) my blood sugar goes into the 140s and then plummets into the 50s 2-1/2 to 3 hours later. I guess that’s reactive hypoglycemia. How do I fix this so I can include grains in my diet without messing up my blood sugar? Guess the powers that be won’t revisit to see my post but I figured I’d throw it out there. Maybe someone else has solved this issue.

I'm Australian and love you guys.x

With regard to soy, does it have to be organic?

Here are a couple thoughts on the gluten issue, highly refined wheat flour has a much higher glycemic index than the whole grain does which may be the issue, and secondly wheat is the most affected crop due to glyphosate contamination, yeah there are plenty of GMO crops out there but wheat absorbs more of it than any other crop. I personally don't avoid grains but I do avoid bread and crackers because I get painfully bloated after eating them and that does not happen with any other grain, seed, or bean I have ever tried, strangely I never had that issue when I lived in Europe only here in the US.

There’s a tiny bit of sugar added to cheerios. Is that negligible? So it’s ok?

My grandmother 99 years old she had rice every day lunch and dinner,morning sweat potato for breakfast

What about steel cut oats?

1:10 I just heard him say "in the U.S. were eating more whole grains than ever" and I think, no wonder you all are so sick, lol

I've been listening to this channel for a couple weks. I've NEVER had such great health results in such a short time frame. I spent years trying to eat keto and very high fat anumal products. No matter what the coache were telling me, I never got results. I am just so happy that I was open minded enough to switch my diet 180 degrees.i always leave this channel with very clear information. That never happened with keto channels. Never. The only thing I learned from the keto community is the importance of eating untefined salt for minerals.

Is tahini healthy? And how to eat oat, dry or cooked or something else?

Some folks speak about the issue of arsenic in rice ...is this a real issue ?