Dear Ben, thanks for breaking it down. I get really annoyed by these kinda type of videos where there is no actual learning behind it! Thanks for your very educational short videos! Love them! Keep the great work!
I have a serious issue and i was wondering if you can help with it in some way (If you ever read this). So long story short: I was fat, i lost 70 kg, i have all the six pack and veins and sh1t.. but..i have a constant fear of food. I eat a cake with my kids and than i fast for 24 hours..i mean its getting a bit problematic. I thought that if i know my calorie maintenance, surplus and deficit stats would be sufficiant and in time i will get accustomed to the new way of life but this paranoia is not going away. I have reached the point where it stops me of building any muscle because if i see +1 kg im loosing my mind and lowering the food income to compensate for the gain. Im literary lowering my BF% with the small muscle gains i make in order to see the scale the same whay as always and i know i can't keep this mutch longer because no one can leave a normal life with 9,8,7,6..BF% and lowering it on a regulare basis. I saw in a few of your videos that you speak about food disorders so i decided to ask for an advise.
The focus should be on helping people eat well within their budget. Eating a home made sandwich with inexpensive bread can be much not healthy then eating mcdonalds for example. Telling people you have to buy a 6 dollar loaf of bread is just being out of touch and snobbish
Coming from Europe I have to ask: Isn't it an option to get your bread from a bakery, like whole wheat bread made with sourdough or is that even more expensive in the US?
I agree with you about the videos. I don't know about the US. but here in Germany a "normal" traditional sourdough bread don't cost a lot. And even a whole grain organic bread don't cost you a arm and a leg. So maybe bread is not the best example.
The issue is not so much the ingredients it's the dosing. It's when little bit of this, and that, from this, and that snack all add up to unhealthy dosage. Bread only has flour, salt, yeast and water. If you go to bakery in the morning that's what you are getting. If you go to shelf you are getting preservatives! Again not necessarily bad if that's the only "bad thing you are eating"
I mean, $6 for a loaf of bread sounds incredibly reasonable. A single sandwich from a restaurant or deli is often twice that. $1 or $2 sounds insanely low and should immediately make you question wtf you're eating. Unless you're literally in poverty, spending fifty cents on a slice of bread is utterly affordable.
@richsimm221 (1) not all bread contains just flour and water; (2) the price of products is not determined simply by the raw ingredients; (3) there is no reason to think the bread at your bakery was at all good, especially since it was "big".
I get your point, but she didn't tell anyone to buy expensive stuff. She just informs the viewer that this stuff is full of chemicals. And it is. Even people with a low income can make healthier choices by buying whole foods rather than highly processed if we want to go there. Information and education are the first step on that route.
There's no education going on, as Ben said, they just point at some scary sounding ingredients and say it's bad, period What are you supposed to learn from that?
everything is full of chemicals. you yourself are chemicals. until they can point to a specific correlation between the existence of "chemicals" and obesity or whatever it is they're trying to claim will happen I will continue to ignore anything they have to say. nobody ever died because of "preservatives".
