In this episode, Nate, Justin, and Tina sit around the proverbial dinner table to discuss different types of eating patterns or "diets" and why a whole food plant-based diet might deserve a spot at the top of the food chain.

Share your reactions and questions with us at Speak Pipe . We might feature you on a future episode!

=== Outline ===
1. Introduction
2. Chapter 1: Types of Eating Patterns
3. Chapter 2: Whole Food Plant-Based Diet
4. Chapter 3: Emotional and Psychological Nature of Eating
5. Conclusion

=== Learning Points ===

1. Patients have different motivations for changing their eating habits: they may wish to lose weight as measured on the scale, change their appearance, or prevent or treat chronic disease.
2. The keto diet, a popular eating diet, can appear to be healthful in the short term: patients are able to lose weight, decrease their blood pressure, and decrease their blood sugar. However, it is not sustainable in the long term and may lead to increased risk of adverse health outcomes.
3. Many scientifically vetted eating patterns, including the DASH diet and Mediterranean diet, share one thing in common: eating a whole food, plant-based diet. Eating a whole food, plant-based diet does not mean the same thing as “vegan;” rather, it emphasizes eating foods in their minimally processed form and minimizing consumption of animal-based foods.

=== Our Expert(s) ===

Dr. Justin Charles is a graduate of the Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program.

His clinical interests are in Lifestyle Medicine, the use of evidence-based lifestyle interventions to not only prevent, but treat and reverse chronic disease from a root cause perspective. He has received training in Plant-Based Nutrition through the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies and eCornell, as well as Dr. John McDougall's Starch Solution Certification Course.

=== Recommended Reading ===

1. Comparison of sociodemographic and nutritional characteristics between self-reported vegetarians, vegans, and meat-eaters from the NurtiNet-Santé Study.
2. Rosenfeld DL. The psychology of vegetarianism: Recent advances and future directions. Appetite 2018; 131:125-38;and Ruby MB. Vegetarianism. A blossoming field of study. Appetite 2012; 58:141-150.
3. Plante CN, Rosenfeld DL, Plante M, Reysen S. The role of social identity motivation in dietary attitudes and behaviors among vegetarians. Appetite 2019; 141 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2019.05.038
4. Dehghan M, Mente A, Zhang X, et al. Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five contents (PURE): a prospective study.

=== About Us ===

The Primary Care Pearls (PCP) Podcast is created in collaboration with faculty, residents, and students from the Department of Internal Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. The project aims to create accessible and informative podcasts about core primary care topics centered around real patient stories.

Hosts: Nate Wood
Producers: Nate Wood, Helen Cai, August Allocco
Logo and name: Eva Zimmerman
Theme music and Editing: Josh Onyango
Other background music: pATCHES, Unicorn Heads, Asher Fulero

Instagram: @pcpearls
Twitter: @PCarePearls
Listen on most podcast platforms: linktr.ee/pcpearls