Dr. Neal Barnard - Eat These Power Foods For Lasting Weight Loss

-Weight loss is hard which is why PLANTSTRONG has dedicated the last 15 years helping others achieve optimal health and weight loss with the power of a whole foods, plant-based diet.
We're grateful to Dr. Neal Barnard and other pioneers for providing the research and evidence-based studies that validate our “food as medicine” approach to health. And that’s what we love about Neal’s newest book - The Power Foods Diet - The Breakthrough Plan That Traps, Tames, and Burns Calories for Easy and Permanent Weight Loss. This is a book to help you lose weight permanently, letting the food do the work for you, without feeling hungry.
Rip and Neal Discuss:
Appetite Taming Foods
Calorie Trapping Foods
Metabolism Boosting Foods
His Thoughts on Eggs, Cheese, Soy and the Overwhelming Diet Confusion
The Science Behind and His Warnings on Weight Loss Drugs Like Ozempic and Wegovy

[@Candy-sy6eo]

As a Registered Nurse I am impressed! Great interview with a great health hero! Thank you Rip!

[@gaBetibu]

. . . love Dr Barnard & greatly respect his most highly honorable humanitarian dedication...I follow him "everywhere " & share many, or most, of his interviews with friends & family...thank you, Rip, for having him here & also for your tireless work for the good of so many... 🥰

[@squishypuffcreations]

Absolutely love Dr. Barnard!!! Thanks for sharing him with us Rip!

[@PadmanabhanAnanth]

Two amazing gentlemen whose common life mission is to make people lighter, healthier, happier. And gentlemen: I’m one of them. Thanks, thanks!

[@Scor-ah]

I Love Dr Barnard, so informative and practical when it comes to WFPB eating. You are super awesome too Rip, thanks for continuing your efforts to change the way people eat and stopping animal cruelty.❤

[@abbygailhavel3655]

Best interview I have watched! Thank you

[@tish5598]

Rip try to cook the purple sweet potato longer. 2x as long as a yellow. Texture really changes to something soft and creamy.

[@tish5598]

Let it cool partially for best eating

[@PlantBasedJan]

Great idea! ❤

[@AnneMB955]

Have mainly eaten plants before, reduced weight, then put it back on. Finally found an eating lifestyle that’s helped me get to goal weight and keeping it off without starving.

[@annemccarron2281]

I'm still working on that. Need to loose 10 to 15 more pounds.

[@davidrollins8474]

Wegovy first in 2023 and Zebbound in 2024 helped get me started with controlling appetite and weight loss. But the big thing is that it has allowed me to have the will power to gradually make food changes. I am now WFPB (stay off the SOFAS) giving up all meats, dairy. It's doing great and I've stopped the Zepbound for a month now. Weight not coming back because of total transformation of diet to WFPB. (thanks for all of you diet gurus for the teaching, coaching, and support). I was 275lb at 5'7" and now under 190lb still losing. Pants were 42" now 34" (32" for shorts). So yes the drug are technically not good, but can be a helpful tool at the beginning to get control and be taught how better to eat. But for most people, they are not willing to give up meat, cheese, dairy, etc to make the change and medicines will fail with all the weight coming back quickly. Keep up the great work with WFPB; hopefully more will make the change and the food industries will change but as you say, there is no money in plants but rather processed foods (and meds).

[@meghanasingh180]

Hi I’m so grateful to you and your father Dr Esselstein for all the knowledge and studies . I admire Dr Bernard and recently came across all of you from Dr Pandove’s recommendations. I wanted to ask your father or Dr Bernard what about people who already have multi vessel heart disease should they get of ozempic? My husband is diabetic but has been controlling his diet with No oil, no meat, no sugar, no all purpose flour plant based diet. His endocrinologist thinks the benefits of Protecting his heart out way the negatives side effects? Your thoughts.

[@bhavnasoni711]

I eat purple potatoes,steam them and eat with my homemade soy yogurt add some black salt and pepper. So yummy. I use to eat oats ,but my sugar always used to spike.so I had to stop eating it. I use to add chia,pumpkin seeds sometimes walnuts chill powder and some yogurt,but didn’t work. Thank you for this podcast,I really learned a lot.

[@bec-jb8qr]

Oh my... potato with kala namak slaps. I simply microwave the potato, split it and sprinkle some kala namak on it. Close potato again and eat.

[@lisabryan9683]

Thank you for all your awesome information gentlemen!!!

[@patrickhumphrey606]

Outstanding program absolutely perfectly done. Bought the book a plant-based program is a lifestyle that played a huge role in saving my life shout out also to Laurie Kortowich one of the producers.

[@svetlacavaleri7071]

Great interview, thanks for organizing!❤

[@kevinbermingham7941]

I have preordered the book and are anxiously awaiting

[@la_estudiante]

I used to eat a ‘whole food plant based’ diet back in the day and it was the healthiest I’d been in this life. Now I’m about to get back to it. But I had to stop watching this at 49:24 until I finish the rest of these eggs I got in the fridge 😅

[@RAQUELMUN]

Great video. Love dr Barnard! Keep up the great work!

[@paulamoors]

I just bought the kindle version of your power foods

[@wonderlizz]

I recently attended a benefits conference to help company benefit managers. The speakers mentioned the pharmaceutical kick backs and how much it cost employers and employees.

[@wonderlizz]

I wish carriers would offer plant based incentives

[@janelange2368]

My favorite go-too snack if I need something before dinner is Plantstrong’s organic popcorn. It’s just the best and very filling.

[@annemccarron2281]

Popcorn is one of those addictive grains I stay away from.

[@StancyTalk]

@@annemccarron2281 it’s not the popcorn that’s addictive. It’s what people put on it, salt and butter. I guarantee if you have a big bowl of plain popcorn with no salt and no oil you will not find it addicting.😂

[@davidrollins8474]

Love your book. I binge on the audiobook to help relearn what to eat and why. It is so important for me to purge out my lifetime of bad nutritonal information (meat, dairy, cheese, olive oil good) and learn about true nutrition for audio books like yours. (also love McDougall and Chef AJ maximum weight loss audiobooks. Very complementary books presented with different styles. Rip with Engine 2 a great listen too.). As for best foods, obviously brown rice better than white rice and sweet potatoes better than white pototoes. How about White Potatoes vs White Rice? For me, I LOVE regular white potatoes finding the Starch factor to be some satisfying and appetite taming. More so than white rice (and I dislike brown rice). Am I good making White Potatoes a regular go-to item compared to rice (white or bronwn)? I do like sweet potatotes, but they are not a satisfying from a Starch / Carb standpoint to me. White Potatoes are very satisfying and appetite taming for me. Is this correct? Good? Also I like Hot Spicy; very satisfying taming a desire for salt. Similar with vinegar; adds flavor without health issues. Spice & vinegar make the WFPB menu so enjoyable.

[@jennybasterfield4740]

Thank you DrBarnard and Rip. I've lost so much weight eating plant based, can't eat anymore 😅 😊

[@aldinadasilva3858]

Glad to hear that the hot banana peppers and jalapeños I love on my salads or with my rice and beans are increasing my calorie burn. 😃🌶️

[@rp3343]

He's right about the potato vs egg protein content, I just googled 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔 all the way.....I'm waiting for someone to ask me where I get my protein from.....😂😂

[@AnneMB955]

Is protein in potatoes as bioavailable as eggs?

[@rp3343]

@AnneMB955 thank you for an excellent question, I googled again because I did not know the answer. Well, apparently the potato protein bioavailability is equal to the egg protein bioavalability.

[@rp3343]

Or very close to.......

[@Dianne_LC]

What site did you find this info? The ones I have found show eggs are higher than potatoes.

[@rp3343]

@@Dianne_LC Google potato protein bioavailabity vs egg protein bioavailabity and answers come up. Anyways; personally for me, the entire protein debate flies over my head, don't care much about it, all I care about is me living a life that causes the least amount of harm to others. My answer lies in accepting the advice from all the plant based doctors out there that give off themselves so generously.

[@roygbiv7025]

when you eat plants RAW, the enzymes inhibit the appetite and give the feeling of fullness. When the food is cooked the appestat sends the message to keep eating because the quota of enzymes hasn't been reached. All cooked food if dead food and has NO enzymes.

[@SueBartolotto]

I made the oat waffles from the book. So good!

[@Elizabeth-ez7cl]

The types of oats are super important. Instant oats would spike my blood sugar, but when I switched to steel cut oats no blood sugar spike.

[@davidrollins8474]

I love Tofu. Air Fry with a bit of low-sodium Tamari sauce. Very satisfying taste and a bit of an appetite tamer for me (especially when I dip in hummus). What about the Fat? Should I be limiting tofu amounts for weight loss reasons? Also I make a low-sodium miso based vegetable soup (low-sodium vegatable broth, lots of spinach, mushrooms, onoin, brocolli, carrots) adding tofu (sometimes silken and other times firm). It's very yummy and healthy IMO. Should I limit it due to tofu fat for weight loss? Not finding issues, but I see WFPB gurus for weight loss saying "no tofu" due to fat. But it's so yummy and satisfying. What do you think? Should I limit Tofu for weight loss? For me, Nuts is the big one to control, not tofu. Nuts are so additive and high fat; I agree on that one to limit but perhaps tofu OK (for me).

[@autumnglidwell1912]

How does one learn about being a part of the study groups?

[@moniqueprouten9109]

I'm using the sample menus in the Power Foods Cookbook. Each recipe tells you how many servings it makes. Can you eat as much as you want? Also are you supposed to add vegetables, salad etc. to the actual menu recipe? Are the recipes intended to be just the main portion of the meal?

[@tonioros17]

are there anthocyanins in apples?

[@sharonberg1220]

To make the oatmeal less "blood sugar spikey" would adding shredded carrot or zucchini help?

[@marnawright6519]

Add white beans. You’ll never taste them, they are filling and dull the blood sugar hike.

[@annemccarron2281]

I've never understood why people push oatmeal so much. It's full of gycoposphates, elevates blood sugar, 2 hours later you're starving, and it is not conducive to weight loss. Beans are high in carbs as well.

[@lisabryan9683]

@@annemccarron2281your wrong. It holds me for hours. It’s so very good for you. I but organic gluten food

[@lisabryan9683]

@@annemccarron2281oh by the way in 2 weeks I’ve lost 28.5 pounds! I eat beans! You have no idea what you’re talking about!

[@StanDupp6371]

Gerald Ford in the 1970's his health report said he had a total cholesterol of 275 mg/dL which was considered good since the range at that time was 150-300, he lived until 93. In 1980 Jimmy Carter had a total cholesterol level of 229 mg/dL which was considered good since the cut off changed to 230, he has never had any heart problems. In 2018 Trump with a BMI of 30 and a life time LDL of 200 mg/dL had it lowered to 143 with some medicines and he had a perfect stress test and very good blood pressure levels and no diabetes, low triglycerides and high HDL in the 70's mg/dL and has never had any health problems. Obama eats 4-6 eggs every day and had an LDL of around 138 mg/dL and a CT Calcium score of zero in a 2010 physical but was considered the most fit president. Mike Pence had an LDL cholesterol level of about 150 mg/dL but the doctors said that was ok at that time.

[@hogglauren]

Do you spend all your time trolling sites?

[@StanDupp6371]

@@hogglauren I provide facts and if any of my facts are wrong please tell me what the correct facts are but since you provide no facts, no studies no names of any human this shows based on verification that you are the certified troll.

[@Moonscafe7]

​@@StanDupp6371 your facts aren't wrong, but they are irrelevant.

[@StanDupp6371]

@@Moonscafe7 Public health records of presidents are relevant since they have access to the best health and medical advice money can buy. And in 1826 President John Adams was 90 and eating pretty good without taking any vitamins or supplements.

[@Moonscafe7]

@@StanDupp6371 it's irrelevant because you are using numbers from one short point in their lives. All that tells us is how they were doing at that exact time and age. We don't know their numbers before or after. We don't know what medications they took, what their diets were like, how much exercise they did etc throughout their lives. Those numbers are irrelevant.

[@robinarmstrong2824]

Where do you buy mature soybeans?

[@LivingHealthyAndHavingFun]

Non GMO organic soybeans sold on Amazon. I use them to make my own soy milk, use the leftover okara for soy patties, and can just soak the dry beans overnight, rinse, add fresh water and cook in the instapot for great cooked soybeans. Can roast the cooked beans in the air fryer for healthy soy snacks and add spices of your choice like onion garlic tumeric.

[@Lise-ss8qw]

❤❤❤

[@sophiahegedus7409]

What’s more funny to me is when out of shape people try to the protein argument against vegan/ vegetarian. Like bro, you wanna worry about protein but but you should be worrying about hitting the weights and treadmill. Become fit then we can have a convo.

[@Scor-ah]

🤣😂

[@AnneMB955]

Diet first, exercise next.

[@sophiahegedus7409]

@@AnneMB955true I only met that it’s funny to focus on a given protein target that is associated to body building when these people don’t even workout. Getting an adequate amount of protein is pretty easy it only gets harder at optimal protein intakes which is roughly equal to body weight.

[@sophiahegedus7409]

And it should happen in parallel proper diet and proper workout regime

[@BattyRoyale-Rocks]

I wish my GERD would let me eat tomato sauce!

[@nicholasjaquez1174]

First comment!

[@nyxs60]

Love Dr Barnard but he is wrong about eggs as they only make chicks when fertilised. Eggs are only fertilised now if they come from a traditional farm with a cockerel. That's a rare thing nowadays :(

[@lisabryan9683]

They come from a chicken. It’s the period of a chicken. Enjoy your eggs lol

[@catecurl3790]

😅 your not eating spam 😅

[@MiaDime-b2v]

Like 😍

[@the_fruit_2491]

This is one of the most pathetic talks I’ve ever listen to! The lies and misinformation are mind blowing! I can’t believe people buy into this! Nothing scientific about any of it! God help us all!🤷🏻‍♀️

[@barefootincactus]

Are you a doctor? What is your channel? Do you have any facts to cite, any studies?

[@lisabryan9683]

Go somewhere else. Come back when you get cancer.

[@bretthenley7541]

Thank you Dr. Neal Barnard and Rip! Great interview and new book with great WFPBNO knowledge for everyone! Keep it PLANTSTRONG! 💯% 🫐🥦🥬🍌🍓🍎🍇🥭🍊🍠🥗