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People knew too much sugar was bad for you from the very beginning.

One of my siblings had a tonne of food allergies and our mother was also into a wholefood diet so we started off on a pretty healthy diet- however I developed a huge craving for the things I had at my friend's houses- mostly orange squash and chocolate biscuits, and once I had the opportunity to eat what I wanted- I made some pretty bad choices. Another odd thing is, I still really have a food scarcity mentality (just like my ex-stray cat!), even though I've never been deprived of food or starved. I feel like my food is going to be taken away and that any free food is good food and should be taken advantage of or not wasted. I wonder if it's genetic or something? I've never been officially overweight, but I do feel somewhat controlled by food and would love not to feel this way.

My mother did the same (80’s though) and now I’m an absolute sugar fiend. I’ll eat a 16oz bottle of honey in two days if I buy one. I didn’t give my daughter juice, but there was candy around all the time, she could have it whenever. She’s 21 now and couldn’t care less about it. The same thing happened with one of my cousins- he doesn’t care for it. Being controlling about children’s food isn’t necessarily the best thing.

we had sweets on a friday when my dad got home and fizzy drink at Christmas. I don't have a sweet tooth either

@@annemarie3811 it's not controlling. Eating sugary things in moderation is fine and will cause no harm. But letting your kids eat tons of sugar is liike killing them, slowly. The affect isn't immediate

Sugar is not a drug.

@@SailorDoggo It's just as addictive

@@sperm8141 The reviewed evidence supports the theory that, in some circumstances, intermittent access to sugar can lead to behavior and neurochemical changes that resemble the effects of a substance of abuse. According to the evidence in rats, intermittent access to sugar and chow is capable of producing a “dependency”. This was operationally defined by tests for bingeing, withdrawal, craving and cross-sensitization to amphetamine and alcohol. The correspondence to some people with binge eating disorder or bulimia is striking, but whether or not it is a good idea to call this a “food addiction” in people is both a scientific and societal question that has yet to be answered.

It might have been the caffeine that you had a dependency to. In addition to the sugar, the two together causes massive dips in energy that leave you seeking more.

@Sperm I agree and disagree with you, becouse detoxing from excess sugars intake is much easier and faster then getting off drugs, even heavy meds for that. I'm not a huge sugar consumer, but under the holidays, like, Christmas, New Year, I really get hooked on all sugar and holiday carbs, home made... That's something I cann't resist and I never do! Afterwords, I don't cut eccessively on carbs, but I increase the protein and veggie intake, so I feel fuller afterwords and need less or even no snacking between the meals, and instead of deserts or soft drinks or whatever you find tempting, I just throw myself on devouring sweetest fresh fruit or instead of softdrinks some hot tea with a bit of sugar or honey. You sattisfy your cravings by substituting sugar with fructose in fresh fruit or much less sugar then in a soft drink, then you let your body adapt and when you're read for the next step, you reset your limits and find the right balance again. Your cravings aren't driving you nuts, you're not nervous and you don't fell awful becouse of sudden drops in your blood sugar or getting headaches and whatever...

Ikr! And unlike cigarettes, people can't just quit eating. We can choose healthier foods, but I hate how this addictive junk gets some kids hooked when they're too young to make wise choices, and their parents don't either. On a brighter subject -- you have such a cute dog! ❤️🐕 Greetings from mine to yours!

Be angry at the 'psychologists' as much if not more. They are sworn to 'do no harm'. They do the opposite. Here and in many other cases They cause problems and are at the root and base of them. In the states at least

@@w.thiller7822 Psychologists aren't bound (whatever that means today) by the Hippocratic Oath, psychologists aren't doctors. Psychiatrists have medical training, though.

They formulate foods to be as appealing as possible. Its why you never grow tired of eating it even if you eat it every day. They have researched how people eat. You can get tired of eating most foods but even though most all the stuff on the store shelf, like cereal for example, is all made from the same ingredients people can eat them every day and feel a false since of variety.

Of course they do. They’re in it to make money. Caveat emptor.

weel hunger is created artifically by world food loobies. Do you really think this great planet will let us sleep hungry if we really wanna eat something? How irony that westerns pitty about the problems they themselves have given to world

We want to eat what we need. The problem is, most people never ate what they need so they don't know what to want.

True

It’s far more than ‘wanting’. It is addiction. Sugar is more addictive than cocaine.

@@jumper4ever937 That is not completely true. My father had a garden. We ate delicious vegetables and fruits. I have tasted good whole foods. I still struggle with eating too much sugar.

I live in usa it cost me around $ 40 a month to buy food and it's mostly veggies and meat not processed . For me it's cheap .

@@agneslaufer9579 yeah it’s a myth that it costs more. I’m a vegetarian and vegetables are reasonably priced. Processed foods cost more depending on what you get. Plus it doesn’t fill you up as much so you buy more of it.

@@neverlandse9914 true I eat less bc I don't eat PROCESSED food.

@@neverlandse9914 it depends on where you are. some folks live in food deserts or barely above the poverty line.

Veggies are dirt cheap here in Cali. Good quality meat and animal products are expensive. Which I've found are the best foods to keep me satisfied and from over eating.

And sugar is often hidden and un noticed if you dont read labels. You will think you are doing well on removing it only ro find your favorite snack has some form of sugar under a different name.

Yup and the fast that its socially acceptable because everybody is addicted…

@@Thatmainchick I found sugar in my organic, multi-grained corn chips. You can't taste it. I was floored. I also found it in my sliced organic ham (packaged). It's in almost everything. Gotta read the labels, and stick mostly to whole, unprocessed foods. I don't buy sugar, haven't for over 30 years. I do eat raw honey, a tsp. in my coffee or tea, up to two a day. I will eat a sweet if it is in the house, but I can walk by a bakery or sweets shop and it doesn't even bother me. I will pass on dessert in a restaurant. But I am a big bread eater, but my whole grain/seed organic bread has more than one kind of sugar in it. I was so sad to see that.

Take probiotics with water or the milk of your choice daily on an empty stomach. If you stick with it, you will no longer crave sugar or carbohydrates. @Wahfreak. The best probiotic is a refrigerated one with live cultures.

@@yellowbird5411 How much sugar is there in bread? In theory it should all have been fermented. Even better: no sugar is needed to make bread which is why I always use the French recipe on our bread maker.

In Australia that fish, veg and rice will be expensive like $15 or more. And the frozen pizza the cheaper option cheapest option is $4-5.

The greed in America surpasses all logic and care for human life. I’m 50 and lived in the US my whole life. When I was a kid there were hardly any overweight kids in school. Now half or more of them are overweight. All the processed foods and convenient foods here are addicting and poisoning us. We have much higher diseases and illness than ever before!

They will find a way to make it cheaper. Once ultra processed foods somewhere become cheaper than healthy option then that country is doomed without strict regulation which rarely ever come since nobody thinks of food as harmful drug.

Give it a couple months or so you'll begin to crave healthier food items. If you eat healthier instead of sugary processed chemical junk. Way to go keep it up!

You’re an inspiration

You can make your own snacks. You would be surprising how good carrots and peanut butter can be. Or how refreshing fresh cut cucumber sprinkled with allulose is. It tastes like watermelon. Even kids like it.

It's great! I crave steamed broccoli these days :).

@@Bloxeh I wish I did! I'm addicted to wine gums 🤦🏻‍♀️

And governments, right? Expecting the addict to just change will not help anything.

Just don't buy cocaine, why would the government ever be asked to regulate corporations profiting from addictions like cocaine?

​@@flopbr1 Used to be that corporations would put it into consumer products and advertise it as beneficial. Nowadays drug addicts are a drag on their society, so shouldn't society want to better the addicts to better society as a whole?

@@flopbr1 er, you understand that making cocaine is illegal? This is how the government has regulated it, it made it illegal. Now obv, bad people still make it, but they can’t advertise it during childrens’ tv programming, they can’t open a franchise near a school and plaster the area with posters to get school kids addicted to cocaine. I’m sure they would if they could, drug pushers have pretty much the same agenda as big food manufacturers

unfortunately food deserts exist and limit poorer communities access to healthy food :/

Are you aware that the food at McDonalds in the UK has more calories than the food at McDonalds in the US? Sounds like your regulations aren't helping you much there. Japan is worse than both countries when it comes to the calories and number of ingredients, but people in Japan live longer and are trimmer than people in the UK or the US. And sure, it's not like people in Japan eat McDonald's every day, but their diet consists of a lot of processed grains and food with additives that are illegal, even in the US. I'm glad what you're doing is working for you, but it's a little more complex than you seem to think. You have to look outside of yourself, the UK, and your limited knowledge of the US.

Maybe i'm a wierdo that i never like sugar, even when i'm a kid i never asked for any chocolates nor candies. But yeah i like salty food.

@@VaniaAjah you are blessed :)

@@rsss7046 LOL

@@VaniaAjah same even I , I am from India and i don't like too much sweet even as a kid , Once i ate caramel custord it was too sweet for me and i vomitted even when i see liquid sugar or just pure sugar candy it makes me gag don't know why, tho i love spicy food and alot of spices in my food . The last month i went to America i decided to hit the supermarket bought some snacks and also their legendary twinkie but it was like too sweet it felt like i was eating sugar, i threw it though the chocolate bar was ok .

Kris I guess ei we

it's sad, but at least your kid will know better and be aware of vegetables and proper food from a young age

Move away from these stupid people if they want to eat themselves into an early grave let them

My sibling used to basically live on premade pizza with processed Vienna sausages , white bread with margarine and cheap instant noodles. They used to be the one that was healthy and I was the one with the allergies and eczema. Now my sibling has asthma and is allergic to all nuts and peanuts. I am a lot healthier than I used to be and I attribute it to eating whole foods and good healthy fats like olive oil, avocado oil and grass fed butter. I also always ate my veggies. Its expensive to eat the way i do though. It's really sad what is happening to people because of these greedy companies.

It's truly appalling that other people are pushing junk food on your child! :(

Was it added sugars like in sweets or cereals, or also including natural sugars found in fruits, vegetables, bread etc. too? Your body DOES use glucose as its primary source of energy (it creates the most ATP) so if you have low glucose levels, you might experience symptoms like headaches and fatigue (which is what you often experience when starting a keto diet)

I cut added sugar, 4 days today, mainly drinking sugar-free tea and not buying anything packaged. I keep eating bread and fruits... I didn't feel any different and it has been quite easy. Did you cut out sugar entirely? Or do you consume lots of junk food ?

@@VictoriaBajorek sugar is sugar.. natural or not

@@wallacesousuke1433 correct, that is why i asked that question... sugar is practically everywhere, so i was curious what op meant.

I went through sugar withdrawal too. I'm now keto for life. I have found recipes to make some things I enjoy but never again will it get a hook in me. That was worse than detoxing off of opiates. I weaned, with my doctor's permission, off of 9 months of high dose morphine. And it was detoxing from sugar that almost killed me.

Yeah weird americans make sweet bread, come to Eastern europe or Balkans we have normal food

@@nadezdat5081 Americans didn’t make anything happen. You do realize their are European style breads that are sweet too right? Like Challah, and then a bunch of French beads right? But sure blame Americans.

@@tiahnarodriguez3809 Right? Not only that, but Korean and Japanese bread are basically desserts.

Yea, they put a copious amount of sugar in bread.

@@tiahnarodriguez3809 well the difference is that we know its a treat, we don't mistake it for 'normal nutrition bread'. In Russia also there's sweet bread and pastry but there's a clear difference for us even as children that it's something you have with tea maybe for morning tea. Also dessert isn't a thing and not expected after dinner like it is in the west.

Such a great idea!

but it is sometimes sponsored by the producing company, so even on potatoe chips you will find a nutri score of of A or B which does not make any sense when we consider the processing grade of potatoe chips

@@llalllii_ absolutely....there labels will be based on the archaic food pyramid - something that desperately needs revision given we understand nutrition much better now and are aware of the influence of big business on nutrition guidelines.

I wish they would do this in Canada.

Are you hinting that all foods in the US need to be graded F ?

Another translation of zero sum game. 😅

Similar to me about cashews or other snacks. Oreo? Never! Too sweet.

me too!! i love the thins

I used to do it in high school now only the idea disgust me

Amen am celiac and youngest daughter is. When she saw gf Oreos we had to have them even though they are 8 dollars a box. Of course the cookies were gone before we got home. I am pre-diabetic and swell in my feet and hands when I eat sugar. I still could not stop myself from eating 6 or 7 cookies. That is why had to totally cut out sugar as gave no control once it is bought.

My thoughts exactly! A basket is for a small, precise trip, whereas when I have the room of a cart and dont have to worry about how heavy the load gets, what's one more product I wasnt planning on......

Yes you are correct. A basket gets heavy fast so I really limit the content. Psychology as applied to the food store can be easily beaten. I've learned to avoid end-cap items (considered the prime spot on the isles and always shop for items either up high or down low (the eye level items pay more for position). Real food has no labels (fruit and vegetables, etc.).

I'm the same way. The basket keeps me from buying anything other than essentials since it gets heavy, but I go a little overboard when I have a cart so I try to avoid getting one.

Those mini-trolleys for the kids have me worried

100% agree. I think marketing researchers are very clever & they tell you these lies about the trolly to make you buy more food. I agree I am the same if I use a smaller basket I will buy much less and be more mindful of what I’m buying. If I use a trolly I can’t even see what I’ve put in and over spend. Subtle lies to make us spend spend spend.

im from the uk and they do not look slim

this documentary is quite old now considering it was filmed during the obama administration but yeah you’re not wrong

their women look like men

Better food culture and strict food standards.

I’m from Poland. I have cake every Sunday🙂Apple pie or cheesecake are our favourite ones. My mum or grandmother baked it in the past.

You guys aren't food addicts then, you're lucky

Why are you using Chantal’s pic on your RU-vid pic? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 foodie Beauty

Why the hen's period on top?

@@HenrietteMesman What? A chicken's egg is the egg not a waste product. Commercial eggs are infertile so their is no developing embryo and blood vessels which is why they are allowed in a vegetarian diet. This should also include free range, zero carbon and no destruction of the rain forests in order to produce chicken food.

@@HenrietteMesman Huh?

Please provide your source for this statistic.

I eat junk food and I'm watching it

I eat junk food yet here I am. Stop with your holier-than-thou mentality.

Eating my third yasso frozen yogurt bar as I watch this. Granted its 100 calories and more a "healthier junk"

@@Kinky_Oreo hi bro same

Carnivore is even better

Well done, Auntie Micheline.

There are natural ways and lifestyle changes to enhance the curability of body from any diseases; with correct environment such as food, water, certain cure enhancing natural plants, exercises, timely pooping, sleep… Prevention is better than cure.

I call McDonalds "nonfood items"

Parents who love their children educate themselves about healthy food and teach their children.

The sweetened cereals should not be placed with other breakfast food. And it should be in the candy isle called desserts. They have no right to call them breakfast foods,

@@tenaturner3942 Along with the sugar, at least 4 different forms per box, be sure to look down at the bottom of the ingredients panel, in tiny, tiny print for "contains bioengineered ingredients", aka GMO. Nearly all corn used in products today is the GMO varieties.

Most children are not going to be interested nor understand a documentary like this. Parents are the ones who need this to at least control what they are bringing into their home and what they eat when out.

it is your responsibility dear. bye

Good for him! And you don’t get shamed for not doing drugs, you do for not eating sugar. People actively try to sabotage you. I’ve been keto for a few years and the amount of times I’ve had people shame me and tell me I’m going to die because “the body needs sugar” is shocking.

@@KiKi-tf8rv really!? I’ve never heard someone say the body needs sugar, but I have heard people say the body needs carbs (same thing). When I tell patients, especially diabetic patients, to cut out the carbs and the sugars completely, they are often surprised. Dietitians often tell people to eat a certain amount of carbs with each meal so they can dose their insulin based on carb counting. So backwards! Why are we telling people to eat carbs so they can take medications to counteract the carbs…😒 But a lot of patients act like I’ve told them to stop breathing when I tell them to cut out the soda and carbs. I’ve had people ask me “well what am I supposed to drink?” When I say “water” they look at me like I have three heads. This is all in the setting of severe heart disease as I’m an NP with cardiothoracic surgery. My patients are not in good shape usually, and it’s amazing how often people act like cutting out sugar is beyond their abilities. Just goes to show how addictive it is.

@@thecuttinggardener361 Yes, I’ve heard it so many times now, it’s unreal. I’m “demonizing sugar” for a fad diet they say. I’ve been told I’m killing myself and the doctors who put me on this diet are quacks. I had gestational diabetes with my pregnancies and one of my nutritionists once told me to eat personal bags of potato chips to limit myself. She said no one can go without potato chips so just eat small portions.🤦‍♀️ I honestly don’t think she believed that, I think she believed no one “would” go without potato chips. I knew I couldn’t eat them even in small amounts and keep my blood sugar in check. Twice my morning sugars were 91. Since they were over 90, she wanted to put me on metformin or insulin if I hit over 90 a 3rd time. I thought that was extreme. I just stopped eating the food the elevated it instead. I was eating really healthy and I knew the side effects of the meds would make me miserable, force me to eat more carbs, and increase my weight gain. Do you know what they’re doing now for c-section moms? They’re having them drink glucose drinks right before the surgery…200 carbs!!! The nurses said patients do better on that than on an empty stomach. I wonder if that’s because the majority of people are on such a high carb diet that they crash when they fast? I would have been puking left and right! The only way I got out of it was because I had gestational diabetes. I’m so glad I had doctors who believed this diet would help me, because I honestly didn’t believe it would when I first started it. Your patients are so blessed to have you! My pcp who put me on this diet moved away before she really got to see how much it helped me. So I want to thank you on behalf of the patients who may not have had a chance to tell you!❤️

wow ! what a guy, i really wish the best to him

I bet he would've chose his "drug of choice" over a bag of sugar before he quit using...sugar is what ex drug addicts and alcoholics use to make it easier to stay off the other stuff...sugar and caffeine. Any AA or NA meeting has coffee and pastries, but you go to a "drug house" they're not circled around a bunch of coffee and pastries. It's trading one addiction for another lesser addiction.

I've noticed that the more sugar I eat, the more junk food I consume! If I have a cookie, I'm reaching for the potato chips bag next. Then to go with those salty, greasy,crunchy chips I've got to grab a soda. What a nightmare!!! So every day I try to make homemade meals and eat at table - slowly. That helps tremendously!!!

@@dianejensen3420 I think it's good that you notice that about yourself. It's that feeling of needing more, like smth that can't be satisfied. At least that's me with sweets/ chocolates.

@@dianejensen3420 That is the exact same with me. It is a real struggle when we have our youngest child (she is 8) asking for junk food every time we go to the store. Although it makes me realize how much junk is disguised as healthy. It's horrible!

Which one are you?

It’s weird how once you quite sugar, even simple boiled rice tastes slightly sweet as you chew you it well before swallowing! I am loving it!

Sure, blame the industries. YOU choose what to eat, and parents are responsible for what their kids eat. No one is twisting your arm to eat that stuff. You choose to.

@@jerriedenham2320 Clearly you've never had an addiction to anything.👏

@@Treaks1981 or lived in an urban food desert. Or experienced poverty of knowledge regarding health. Or been dealt a hand of clueless parents, a society that doesn’t care & the ‘wrong’ colour/religion/gender/insert pointless thing to discriminate on. Jerrie, How Lucky you are to be able to have such a narrow opinion. What a shame the privilege is wasted on you.

🤣🤣🤣. If it makes you feel better to blame me for what you feed yourself and family, go ahead. But at the end of the day it is YOUR choices, no one else’s.

@@Treaks1981 clearly.

We did as kids growing up, we had dessert after dinner. We were not obese or overweight, we spent all our days outside playing and were very active. Of course now as adults we are more cognizant of how much we eat, due to the fact of gaining weight and not being as active as we once were.

Ironically, the American breakfast is filled with dessert. Cereals and pancakes are some

And I don’t understand having sweet drinks in every meal, growing up I just had water or unsweetened tea.

When I was little, a brig treat for desert was a can of pears!

Well just like you think how you were raised is "normal" the eat dessert every night people think their way is "normal" too

You should see the chick fil a lines, 15 cars or more at all times every day except Sunday and only because they’re closed

Both are dumb things to line up for.

😂🤣😂🤣

Yes, poor people are fatter then rich people.

Yeah I agree, so much judgement and no compassion. Wealthy people have more free time, low stress, various therapies, personal trainers, high quality food, nutritionists, private chefs, surgery etc… And things like food security which is invaluable. Regular people don’t have the same choices or such easy access to healthy food. And it seems like nobody has heard of food deserts which are political choices.

Don't mind me, just watching this while eating a -slice-of- cake

You just reminded me I have birthday cake left!

I guess it is ok if the cake is homemade XD

I love your honesty

😂😋💕

I just went cold turkey for 2-3 months and the cravings went away. Now I might have a thin cookie a day or 1-2 chocolate cashews per day and it feels enough. I no longer think of food 24/7 or turn to sweets for cravings. Good luck...

Oh please share your tricks!

Keto is the best way to surpass appetite and stop cravins in my opinion. I am not saying thats the best diet you can do but it worked for me

Fasting for 4 days is a good start

Getting into metabolic ketosis through consuming no more than 20 grams of carbs from all sources DOES stop the cravings and can certainly reset your metabolism..that is the physical part sorted....but the psychological part of the addiction of sugar is another subject. If you are a true addict...total.abstinence from all sugars is the only answer. You would not tell a cocain addict to just do a half line of cocaine.. And you would not tell an alcoholic to just take a thimbleful of booze. Younknow even a small smount of the drug would cause a relapse or a binge..No one would question eating a grape r an apple or a mandarin orange..ut even this small amount of " natural" sugar..despite its natural state and its fiber content..could still trigger them sugar abduct to break their abstinence and end up binging on an all out binge. Knowledge is power..but most people have no clue that to your body..once that apple is digested..to your body..the sugar in it is the same as the sugar from any other source. the obesity problems caused by excess carbohydrate consumption is a much tougher mountain to climb.

Ah another Anti American sentiment what’s new

@@hermeslein6614 because if it’s American it can’t be bad? Critical thought is not geo-political.

yeah american food is so bland and boring lol.

Fast food/junk food isn't "basic American food." It's junk food in America just like anywhere else. The vast majority of Americans are not eating McDonalds every day. Most people eat a hamburger maybe a few times a year. It's not a daily diet staple.

I love the way U have put it...

This is true. It’s why my supermarket carries more non-gmo, organic, vegan, low-sugar, keto, high protein, options, and they’re actually pretty affordable.

Yes!

Well said, it’s our demand for products that drive the marketability for them. If we stop buying the processed, sugary foods, companies will have no choice but to take notice, find out what’s plunging their sales and make the appropriate changes to accommodate the consumers who are demanding healthy , higher quality products

@@RNS-FindingFitness Kellogg’s cereal sales have been hurt. Maybe because of inflation and shrinkflation, though. Idk.

Watch the documentary on food fraud. It's worse than you think.

What is funny about your statement is that in my grocery store even individual fruits and veg have barcodes.

@@jennifers550 lol! Yeah I've seen that too, totally unnecessary plastic packaging. I should have said if it's got an ingredients list and a barcode it's probably not very good for you! 😆

@@jennifers550 I would think that the barcodes are internal to the supermarket for their purposes of automating things, not IUPAC/universal/government regulated for the ikes of processed foods.

@@abrahamdsl This is likely. It just tickled my funny bone that the fruits and vegetables have barcodes too. Have a wonderful rest of your day. 🙂

@@britinbrazil7912 - no, the barcode stickers are placed right on the fruit. No need for plastic packaging unless they are selling things as a set. It just helps them track sales and keep online catalogs up to date. A lot of people appreciate that, me included since I can’t shop for myself.

I ate my vegetable friends. They called me a cannibal. I said, no I am a vegetarian, They were vegetables after all. Judge and prosecution didnt buy it though.

I'm sorry you had to go through that!

Your grandmother and your mother both did a real number on you. Makes you wonder what gets into women to do things like this to their children. I am so very sorry for what you've been through and what you are going through even today. ❤

I am so sorry that your family put you into these circumstances, sugar is just as bad as drugs and I wish more people would wake up to that. I hope you are able to conquer this and I wish you the best!

sue them

I am so sorry you went through that. I hope you can heal

The increase of 9bese people fits the time line of the introduction of high fructose corn syrup!! They brought out "New Coke", people in the south hated it... but they didn't get original Coke back, made with cane sugar Nope, they call it Classic Coke, but it has HFCS!! Mexican coke is the ORIGINAL RECIPE

@@meman6964 idk man sugar is sugar, ppl really just need to eat less of it, and there shouldn’t be so much of it in everything in the first place. HFCS is cheaper than cane sugar hence the substitution

@@miaomiaou_ sugar is definitely not one fits all. Cane sugar is much much better than corn syrup, dextrose etc. Yes they’re all bad for you, but cane sugar is less bad than the rest

Having *been* morbidly obese and *still* being a smoker, I wholeheartedly disagree.

So about 308 lbs or 22 stone for those who don't do kgs.

Lost 88 lbs with 33 lbs to go.

I agree. American style pancakes are very salty to me too. I can't believe pancakes dusted with powdered sugar and sticky sweet maple syrup is considered breakfast... I consider that dessert. Also after I kicked my sugar habit, a month later I tried vanilla ice cream and it tasted so sweet that I had a headache from it.

Had the Same Here.. once cutting Out the sugar and starting cooking with Ingredients (no Maggi no Ketchup) from Scratch you realize how much sugar there is in Food. A simple Glass of Pesto.. i couldnt eat IT because i Tasted the sugar so much. Try cooking the Same Things you Liked to eat.. But leave Out the sugar.

I don’t mind the pancake thing, at least you know what you’re eating and I love American style pancakes. It’s the bread that got me. I just couldn’t believe how sweet the bread was in the US. And, of course, the natives weren’t even aware. Like the salty ketchup, it’s all they knew

@@clareshaughnessy2745 some of us are aware, and the stupidity hurts

feel this everthing taste so artificial

When I'm craving something sweet I really like a baked banana with crushed macadamia nuts on top. My vice is chai tea lattes. I have yet to find a healthier beverage that can replace it.

CB Here's a healthier beverage that can replace it: just normal chai itself. And no, not "chai tea", you're just saying "tea tea".

@@GiGitteru I have tried that. It doesn't have the same mouth feel and I don't feel satisfied drinking chai on it's own. It is definitely a bad habit for me.

@@HB-oy5hc use a little honey instead of sugar

For desert try nuts,raisins and one square of dark chocolate

Greek Yogurt actually helps to reduce blood pressure. My doctor told me this. In addition to flax seeds, pistachio nuts, etc.

I’m going to say something you probably already know so forgive me. You have to get proper Greek yoghurt. Here in the UK, only one product, made by the company Fage is actual Greek strained yoghurt, at least in supermarkets. Every other make has to call itself Greek ‘style’ yoghurt. The difference, though, is huge. Greek ‘style’ yoghurt uses artificial thickeners to imitate the delicious texture of the real thing. I don’t know whether corporations are forced to put the ‘style’ thing on packaging in the states?

Add protein powder & pb2👌🏽

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I’ve been eating unsweetened coconut milk based yogurt lately with cantaloupe, watermelon, and strawberries. Fruit is the best sweetener!

That would be the dream ❤️

Do it, I sold my house in the suburbs and moved to a rural area with a smaller house and 7 acres- I raise and process all my own chickens, ducks and turkeys, this spring will be adding a greenhouse and pigs. I can't even eat eggs from the store anymore they just don't taste good compared to fresh ones from my chickens.

I may do the same.

Yes but the longer the process is the healthier the carbohydrate is.

@@SailorDoggo but in the end. All carbs turn to sugar. Our fruits and vegetables have been engineered to be sweeter. So we eat more and buy more.

@@jodihussung6161 So we eat more vegetables and fruits and stay healthy and live long and fulfilling lives. Where the harm in that? Whole food plant based diet

As someone with diabetes, I can no longer tolerate carbohydrates. I follow a low carbohydrate whole food approach. But know that the carbohydrate addiction is right there at the ready. Best of luck

@@jodihussung6161 It really is unfair for you in that medical situation and you have my sympathy. I hope you have the ability to live the best life you can and be happy.

I had a classmate with that, it seems pretty horrible :(

Food addiction and a predatory food system

@@jasmines.6325 This. I got addicted as a kid. And the slew of industry funded studies that took a while to get re-reviewed and for new, better studies published. Like, _now_ I know low carb is better. A few years ago? Inconclusive.

i know we should know better but its almost automatic. i just ate a bunch of meringe cookies. its like i couldnt stop. and the sad thing is ive been trying to cut out sugar and breads.

My grand kids father passed away in 2020 of type 1 diabetes at the age of 35. His blood sugars were at least 300-700.

Live on 4th floor, but grow sprouts every day. Simple, just a jar with holes and seeds or beans. Wish I had a little spot 9f dirt, I'd grow sweet potato

Don,t understand why in USA lawns take up space where vegetables could be grown

@@susanrim999 I think because the ideal in America was to have a sweeping lawn to express your wealth. Now it's too much time feeding, weeding and watering. Why not grow food!

And the shocking thing is that zoning laws fine people who raise veggies instead of grass

Lucky for me i can raise food!

I stumbled on the actual research paper for this experiment. Sugar is horrible to put it simply.

isn't that the exact experiment in the documentary?

@@mika-6417 yeah but I didn't know about the documentary. I just found the actual research paper by accident

@@mika-6417 There have been several. In each one, rats chose sugar water over even cocaine and heroin.

@@zxyatiywariii8 maybe they were thirsty, were they offered plain water too?

5000? What were you 400lbs damn😂

@@massacrematt4613 312 pounds 🥲

@@XxRoseBudsAJPWxX I didn’t mean to be rude it was just crazy to me that someone ate 5k calories

@@massacrematt4613 I know you were joking lol. I was just starting to eat over 5,000 at that point.

I tried a dessert that was made with Oreos and, I think whipped topping among other things, at a potluck (it seems to be a favorite, cuz I have seen many of these). I finally decided to try it and couldn't get past the first bite. It was so sickening sweet I couldn't handle it.

Yuck! Agreed! I tried one the other day to see if I still disliked them. The "frosting" is so...weird. It's mealy, waxy, coats your teeth and gums, fake tasting, overly sugary, etc. And that's coming from someone with a bona fide sweet tooth!

True. I have a sweet tooth but even for me the sugar in the Oreos is too much, it's just plain sugar and sweeteners.

Lol I only like Oreo shakes but haven't drank one in 4 months.

why dose keto help so meany but hurt others? like going vegan can make one healtheir OR worse. and someone else going carnivor helps more?

@@nightmarerex2035 hi there , transitioned to carnivore after that .. slowly stopped eating plants . The way I see it is simple : listen to your body , I found out ( for example) that all foods containing starch are terrible for me . The funny things is , when you eat the SAD diet , you don’t notice such things until you start from scratch. I eat 5 eggs , a burger patty , butter and cheese for breakfast and … I am not bloated, I don’t feel anything at all , I just feel satiated. Whatever I add and feel different my body is telling me : that’s not good for you so , I may introduce some other food in the future but for the time being my body is working just fine . I increased my protein intake to 200 gr / day and my recovery after workouts is perfect .. so listen to what your body tells you . All the best and have a great day

it’s legal because nobody cares

Of course not.. we have to stay sick so corporations will stay paid.

Everybody has a choice if they’re going to eat the garbage or not. Stop buying the prepared food from these greedy corporations…we all know they are out for profit

Capitalism

I don’t think that we can hold greedy corporations solely responsible, of course they’re going to do whatever they can and by whatever means necessary to get their hands on our money because that’s how business works. Think about buying shampoo, there’s all manner of ingredients in it that really aren’t good for us but we’re sucked in by the advertising, pretty packaging and promises of soft, sleek healthy hair instead of researching what’s actually in it and whether we’d plaster those chemicals on our heads if they weren’t in shampoo? Same thing. What we need to do is take personal responsibility for our consumption, educate ourselves on what’s in the ‘food’ we’re consuming and the health risks associated with it.

Same here mate, Fast food is way too expensive!

I wish I could hate crunchy stuff lol I'm a total texture eater and crunchy is my fave so I eat a lot of salad when i want the CRONCH

Carbs for the win

I never had excessive amounts of sugar as a kid/teen and rarely got sick even when people all around me were getting sick… now as an adult I started eating real/ Whole Foods and intermittent fast and I haven’t been sick since and I this was 3 years ago I started. Right before covid started! Even crazier I have never been vaccinated for covid and never got any type of sickness in general!!! While they are pushing the vaccine, I doubled down on getting healthier and I feel absolutely happy with my decision!

So all your meals are fruit, veg and meat? Nothing else?

@@mrsmokingskittles148 I ran into some financial issues which made me temporary do what i needed to make it through. But once i get back on track yes. Breakfast eggs, meat, potatoes, fruit. For the rest of the day again yes vegetables, meat. Seeds and nuts. No bread, no pasta, no junk, no condiments, no dairy. Key is to just eat enough for your body energy requirements, and not over do it. And yes the weight just melted off.

I don't like oreos either. They taste nasty to me.

@@UrbanwarriorTheSOV Personally mint areos are my guilty pressure, but I think the original comment was about oreos

Areos on the other hand are very nice 😉

@@UrbanwarriorTheSOV huh?

@@UrbanwarriorTheSOV what are areos.. Is that a misspelling of areola. Cuz the wink confused me

lol at last line.

Local bakeries don’t normally put all that nasty stuff into their foods. Sounds amazing! I love avocado on sourdough

Can always go to a green grocer that get their fruit and veg freshly harvested each day.

thanks for telling us! did not know this

@@glenobrien2008 - if you have the time during open hours and have a car and can afford gas.... That’s even assuming such a place exists in your area. The USA is very spread out and has poor or non-existent mass transit outside of the really big cities. We even lost access to intercity buses decades ago and we have just one cab company, in a small city of 50,000 people.

The freshest vegetables that I buy are right from a farmers market that are often picked with an a day or two of being at the market. I’ve also gone places to pick my own cherries, strawberries, raspberries, peas, So I consider those the freshest, and have grown some of my own which is great to pick and eat within an hour.

@@omied1390 I got a little secret for you you do know the stands where you buy the fruits and veggies $0.50 for a pound for some of the fruits and veggies if you go out and where the farmers are three times more you get with them then you do if you get the middle hand that's where you're paying more for the produce section same thing for the fruit that's why I go with the Frozen if I have to little tip my family has done a lot of different things in their lives and some are still doing farming and they sell their props for less than what it's worth just so they can keep their farms hint hint and it's fresh that way but the stores won't take it's in perfect shapes and and perfect coloring other fruits and veggies but it's edible it's good and it's tasty it tastes the same so you can get it for really cheap prices they don't waste food they still sell the stuff it's in perfect because it's still edible good tasting and it gives them a little extra money in their pocket if you look for those you'll be really good off

And underprivileged people who cant read labels ? People who dont understand labels? People who were never taught about nutrition?

@@leonardoives674 In the US they teach nutrition in school. If you want to learn about it or even care about it, there is a lot of info available for free. If you care, but can’t understand or read, plant your own veggies and fruit. People find ways if they care enough. It starts with parents teaching and showing their children..being an example.

@@jdmccoy1999 you seem to not factor in the fact that a lot people simply don't have the privilege to grow their own food, whether that be not having enough money to buy all the necessary supplies, or lack of space to grow, or both. just today actually, i was out to buy ham (yes, ham) and most of them had no labels (i'm not from the states). i saw your other comment saying that most of the blame is on the consumer, but that's not true when these big corporations find ways and tactics to fool buyers.

@@jdmccoy1999 I live in south africa where people arent as lucky and privileged as you lot are in America.

Im from the US and i was NOT taught how to read labels or nutrition. I didnt know how to read labels until about 5 months ago after watching what the health and turning vegan i learned how to read labels and ingredients at 27. Also, ingredients can be easily hidden with not so known chemicals and wording.

Our tastes change with age. I gave up smoking almost two years ago and although I get cravings, I can keep to my guns but sugar, I'm a sucker and ice cream. It so much more addictive than nicotine.

I agree , vaping is not addictive, coffee is more addictive, and especially evil sugar !

If you had a week break and came back those chocolates etc would he way too sweet for you. Our bodies get used to it

I imrpoved my chocolate addiction in a spa of 5 years . I do get relapses from time to time but i am more aware of my ralapses and able to handle them. I always keep at home or work pure "tablea" or pure cacao cubes. Cacao improves my anxiety ad depression. I take them without sugar or sometimes with small amount of sugar or honey.

So I started a modified keto diet, and a Burger King Whopper is surprisingly allowed - as long as there's no bun. I hadn't realized how sweet and delicious that bun was until I started tossing it. Man, it hurt to throw out that soft sweet bread.

@@heathern4052 That Keto diet will never be as effective as you cooking at home. Burger King is corporate food, unhealthy and devoid of anything good.

You don't need dead bird's flesh anyway.

I don't know what ppl see in Chick- fila. I tried it once and don't like it.

Exactly!!!

I actually often go shopping using the calculator on my phone. I began in a supermarket that would give me a voucher for all my small change, so I only wanted to spend the amount of change I brought. Occasionally, I do this at other supermarkets as well. Decide how much money I want to spend and subtract from there.

Isabel, i thought i was the only one who thought its the exact opposite. if i take a cart i'd fill it with junk .

@@Fidi987 I used to use a calculator. Now I just use the grocery store cart on their website. If I am going grocery shopping I just put all the stuff I want in the cart on the website and it tells me the total, where the items are located in the store, and I can delete them as I shop in the store.

They are wrong .. it’s proven that if you have a bigger cart you will fill it up more. It’s the same as with a bigger plate vs a smaller one.

Organic meaning food grown without the use of pesticides or chemicals. I can buy organic soup or frozen foods too.

Same exact talking points as big tobacco

Oh they use pesticides in organic food. Just different ones.

I understand where you’re coming from and yes we as consumers need to be more aware of what we put in our bodies however I think these companies are even more to blame for creating such hyper-palatable addictive foods. As a consumer I knew the food was bad but was physically addicted and so could not say no similar to a drug addict. I had to quit cold turkey.

@@danic8888 you are correct. It is like the tobacco Industry with at times same actors. To be fair, the tobacco industry used talking points and tactics developed by the food industry. There is a collection of industry papers at UCSF that I access often as a reporter.

it's likely because the food lobbies have scared the US nutritionists out of doing actual unbiased studies on how these products are contributing to our poor health outcomes.

Keep going! You’re doing freaking amazing 🤩

@@-carly- thank you! In the end i lost 85 lbs with keto and got to a 25 BMI :) Broke my foot a few months ago so gained some weight, but am trying now to get back to where i was. It will be a battle to fight for the rest of my life 🦾

Same here, Stephanie! I was wondering what in the heck that guy was even talking about. How in the world does using a basket influence one to needlessly shop extra?

@@marylizakowski706 another channel sied the OPPOSITE and that the CART is the thing that makes buy more, most like to fill the cart so thats why carts get bigger over time.

Same. I stick to the perimeter of all grocery stores.