Watching THIS Made Me Quit Eating Pizza 

My daughter just got back from Italy and Greece. She was so excited about the fact that she could eat everything and no stomach ache. Yes she ate everything while there and she had no stomach issues.

it's kinda sad seeing how food is changing, you can't even order take out without noticing the taste is off and the cheap ingredients. Food companies think we don't notice, but we do.

I don’t eat out anymore, period. A few years back I was in line to place an order at Panda Express. As you know, you can watch the staff prepare the food dishes. While observing what’s going on, I noticed a girl who was preparing the food stand there picking her nose. So, I wonder, what goes on behind the scenes of other restaurants that we don’t see. After that, I refuse to eat out. Only home cooked food from that moment on.

I think the FDA should be sued & the people working there making decisions be put in prison

I import my flour from Italy....I treat myself once a month to homemade high quality pizza because it is the most perfectly delicious food that exists and no life should be without real pizza. Use only imported cheese and San Marzanos. real olive oil. I have zero issues now when I eat it but it's a Treat.

Everything in life is depressing today…..going to hell in a hand basket….God helps us all…..no one can be trusted to do the “right” thing. Thank you Lillie❤️🙏

Not only pizza, I stay away from any processed food and pre-made dishes. I make my own pizza using a crust made from caulifower, egg, and cheese. No flour.

I noticed you used pre-grated cheese on your pizza -- that too is not so great. It's got cellulose (sawdust) and other anti-caking crap. Grate your own cheese.

I'm Italian and carnivore. The fundamental problem is that the pizza you're used to in America is very different from the real thing. From our point of view, it resembles fast food or a McDonald's sandwich more than our concept of pizza. This is to say that even if it's not healthy food, as it's full of wheat and dairy, it still remains "food" with its own history and quality. It's sad to see a food that comes from a tradition and high-quality ingredients being demonized and treated like the lowest form of junk food.

Glyphosate is applied to wheat as a desiccant shortly before harvest to prevent mold. It was originally used in small amounts to keep weeds down initially or as needed. With the intent that the microbes in the soil would break it down. But it was found to be useful as a desiccant to keep mold from forming on the wheat berries. This is a common practice shortly before harvest. It isn’t allowing for the natural bacteria to break down the glyphosate in time. So we receive a much higher amount in the end product in what we eat. I’m not advocating glyphosate but this is the history of its use from the early 90’s. There’s a direct connection to glyphosate usage and the increase in gastrointestinal related illnesses.

Hey Lillie, Just a quick note to tell you how much I enjoy your channel due to the information and your effervescent personality. I'm a 68 year old woman living off grid in California. If you and hubby ever take a vacation at the campground near me, I'll bring the grass-fed and finished beef for a barbecue. Cheers!

I was stationed in Sicily during the late 1980s. The pizza was totally different from what you get in the USA. We have a local pizza place owned by a Sicilian couple I asked him why he didn't make the pizza like in Sicily he said it wouldn't sell

Once we became healthy. Commercial pizza just seems so gross to us! Its literally a Frankin food. 💙💙

We need to make pizza great again! We need it in our lives at least sometimes..

Being Italian, cutting out bread was the hardest part of all my transition to animal based eating. I have found one way that I can indulge once a week with no issues; I grind 1 cup of hard red wheat berries to a flour in my coffee grinder on finest setting. Add 1tsp honey , 1/2 tsp salt 5oz warm water. Make a dough. Let it rise in a small bread pan. Cook for 1/2 hour at 400°F . Makes one small loaf, eat fresh out of the oven with Kerry gold salted butter. Looking at store bought bread label with 10+ ingredients I understand now why i used to have so many issues with bread.

Pizza & most other "comfort" foods went out the window, shortly into adulthood when I basically stopped consuming grain/flour foods, cow dairy, & anything with any sort of refined cooking oils in them. Age 59 now & never been sick/ill or had health problems outside of seasonal pollen allergies.

The 1 thing dentists agree on is that simple carbs like refined grains and sugar cause cavities. A clue about what your teeth say you should(n't) eat... Thanks for the cameo! :)

even though it is 'another' warning video....keeping it below 12minutes helped me to listen on. And thank you for the alternatives!

By simply making your own pizza you eliminate all these problems except the grain problem. Not only that, it tastes better.

I prefer the egg and cheese combo for a pizza base more than wheat. It’s so flavourful and rich 🤤 great video, Lillie.

My favorite "keto crust" is chicken, mozzarella, and egg. I like to add some salt, pepper, Italian seasoning, and garlic powder as well.

Pizza always made me feel bad - clear back to my early 20s. Carnivor-ish/low-carb has been a blessing - had a few issues that just disappeared. Lots of accumulated wisdom in these videos from other sources and from your own experiences that would be good one day, I think, to compile in book format.

Trying different foods Mexican food Asian food 🍱 while still eating healthy and still tastes good 👍. Cooking 🧑‍🍳 at home 🏠. Even though it’s very time consuming but it’s worth it . Pizza 🍕 cauliflower crust .

Commercial pizza is the devil 🤘

Learned this in the mid 1960’s. I cut out flour and sugar since then..I also have a gripe with rice,chocolate, wine, store bought yogurt as health foods. Nice video, thanks.👍🏽

Your editing quality has gone up, great work! I personally do "pizza bowls". It's really a ground beef bowl with pepperoni, cheese and pizza sauce. Of course I'm choosing high quality ingredients. I would like to find a good sourdough pizza though. Sourdough seems to be more tolerable than regular dough

I have a caveat to the grain argument. They are a good source of dietary fiber and carbohydrates if you eat it properly. Bloating may happen with nearly any food, what i believe to be more important is balance of omega 3 and omega 6 for maintaining inflammation control. I will not go into the long explanation why here, but it is well researched. Better grains and healthy grains at a healthy ratio is probably one of the best ways to eat.

One of the brands of frozen pizza gave me so much inflammation that I was paralyzed the next morning. Could not move and had to wait until the inflammation went down

Aweee....Lillie, I just love your videos! This was such a great one. I needed to hear this one.

Occasionally I make my super healthy version made from sprouted grain Ezekiel tortillas. Then covered with biodynamic tomato paste, organic spices, organic toppings then covered with organic grass-fed Amish cheese.

Every time I eat pizza I feel so good. I make sure to eat things I like and make me feel good. That includes lots of plant based foods of a wide variety and colors and very little meat. Eating too much meat makes me feel bad and makes my poop bad.

Tim Pool said it best. "You go outside the US, you lose weight like crazy. You come back to the US, you gain weight like crazy." Our food is not the same as it is elsewhere. Just look at Heinz ketchup in Canada. It's like 5 ingredients. The same ketchup in America has like 20.

I work for a pizza place but we make everything from scratch. But yeah most pizza places are using pre-shredded Frozen cheese where they use additives to keep the stuff from sticking together which is basically just sand.

The wheat plant wasn't genetically modified; it was the evolution of cross breeding of the different strains of the plant and growing them in a climate that best suits them. The wheat that is used to mill our flour is “hard red spring wheat” that is grown throughout the Midwest. Glyphosate levels were almost equal regardless bread brand, flour type, and origin. Glyphosate was detected in all the flour samples and in 80% of the bread samples.

The secret ingredient is added sugars.

Just warning everyone: Those "pizzas" at the end are not gonna taste like pizza. That doesn't mean they won't be good, or perhaps ok in their own way, but a lot of the specific flavor perfection in a typical American pizza is the cheese, sauce, and wheat bread combo regardless of toppings. This is particularly the case with pizza among other foods, because the cheeses are mostly just mozzarella, sauces are typically just a tomato puree with a bit of seasoning, and even toppings are pretty standard. I've experimented with various egg breads, almond flour, additions of this or that cheese into the crust, and they don't make one that tastes like a traditional pizza (personally, I haven't even found one that doesn't taste weird in a pizza set-up, but that's just me); I don't care what video you're watching, they'll taste DIFFERENT at the very least.

the real question is: do you have any cheat meals/snacks?

I use this same recipe below for making buns or for making pizza crusts. It does have gluten but I'm not allergic to that. But this is low carb and still tastes like good food: For 8 Buns Ingredients for the Keto Buns: 1 cup warm water (50-55C / 120-131F) (240ml/8.1oz) 1 Tablespoon INSTANT Yeast (8g/0.28oz) 1 teaspoon Honey (7g/0.25oz) 1/2 cup of Oat Fiber (41g/1.45oz) 1.25 cups of Vital Wheat Gluten (190g/4.9oz) 1 teaspoon Salt (6g / 0.21oz) 0-4 Tablespoons powdered Sweetener (0 - 60g/4oz) I use Stevia 1/4 teaspoon Xanthan Gum (2.5g/0.88oz) (if you lower the the Xanthan Gum to 1/8th or 1/16th, it actually makes the buns/crusts bigger if that's preferred) 2/3 cup of fresh ground Flaxseed (70g/4.9oz) 2 Eggs (lightly beaten) 2 Tablespoons softened Butter (30g/1.05oz) Macros per each Keto Bun (assuming 8 buns): Calories: 210 cal Fat: 10g Carbs: 3.9g Net Carbs (18g total carbs - 7.5g fibre - 6.6g sugar alcohols) Protein: 18g Mix the warm water, yest, sugar together ad put aside so that it activates. Mix dry stuff together in your stand mixer bowl. Then add all the wet stuff afterwards. 10 minutes in the stand mixer to incorporate. Separate 8 equal balls in bun tray and cover with saran wrap. Leave in a dark warm place. I just put it in my oven and also have a tray under it with boiled water to keep things humid. Everything should have risen after an hour so use some egg wash and add sesame seeds or 'Everything But the Bagel' or whatever sprinkles on the buns. Preheat your oven to 350f and then bake for 20 minutes. You're gold. For Pizza Crusts, this will make 2XL pizzas. Recipe is the same but just separate the dough into two big balls. Let it rise for an hour. Stretch onto a pizza plate and then top it up with whatever before baking. This is the most 'real' tasting/chewing buns/pizza recipe I've found that is low carbs and uses real ingredients that I don't feel any guilt over eating.

Because the combination of fat/salt or fat/sugar combined, it's impossible for the brain to stop eating. We all can enjoy unhealthy food every few months. But I normally order a white pizza.

Sugar, corn syrup, flour, vegetable oils. IT'S IN EVERYTHING! Spread the word!

I buy Ezekiel bread then put organic grated mozzarella cheese and fry in a pan till melted. Then organic pizza sauce to finish. Real Parmesan grated cheese sprinkled on top . Yummy!

To add, most wheat we consume is GM, this means the gluten content is 10x higher than natural ,this is the cause of so many allergies

I broke down and ate a slice of pizza yesterday. My butt is still paying for this mistake. Wont be doing that again.

Remember the first thing I wanted to do when I went to Naples Italy was get a real pizza. Well... I was disappointed. It didn't taste like the American Pizza Hut pizza I was used to. Now I see I was hooked on all the bad ingredients and MSG.

What is the brand of the pepperoni you are using? I can't find a healthy one without dextrose or sugar.

I get my pizza from a real Italian owned pizzaria. Also, if you want the cheese to be healthy, shave it from a block of whole milk cheese. Cheese that has been grated already in the package does'nt have the same health value.

Thank you! So true, I reduced flour from my diet as I was dealing with colitis, and that reduced the inflammation quite a bit. 😊

Little Ceasars??? Come on brah!!!! You you you know the deal!!!!!

I lost 30lbs last year just not eating anything premade. Didn’t change my workout routine.

Substitute ground chicken for ground beef in that crust recipe and nobody will even guess it's not a regular wheatzza crust.

So good to see you hun!!❤

My "pizza" consists of rice, homemade sauce and lots of veggie toppings. No cheese.

I would never even be tempted to eat pizza if I didn’t live next to New Haven CT. I’ve had pizza in other states and it is gross. Little Italy in New Haven is now officially the next pizza in the USA. Hand-made dough, local cheese, and crushed fresh tomatoes.

apparently, when pizza was first "invented" there was someone who wrote about it calling it "a species of most nauseating cake" lol which is just hilarious

Awesome video. I'm Italian, and I can say that when I was a child, the pizzerias in Montreal were fantastic. They made very good pizzas, and they were made with love. Can't say that anymore. The last time I had 2 slices, I had a major setback in my health, and literally, it debilitated me. I feel that the GMO flour, preservatives, SUGAR, glyphosate and vegetable oil is to blame, ALL of that stuff is in pizza nowadays. It becomes a very toxic poison. When I was in Sardinia, if you eat where the locals go, you can have an entire large pizza to yourself and not get sick, and not even feel bloated. There is definitely a difference in quality, their ingredients are definitely cleaner. I even lost weight while I was in Italy, and ate a ton of their wheat, so for sure, something is obviously different with the quality. I would say night and day. But even if I lived in Italy, would I eat it every day? No. Grains should not be a main staple, it should be no more than a treat, or consumed if one is starving during a famine. Even the health of Italy is deteriorating, and it's obvious why.

Obv if you’re carnivore or generally animal based, pizza is a no go. But if you’re not cutting any food groups, it’s perfectly possible to make a high quality pizza filled with delicious and nutritious ingredients. The fast food places are making the pizza at the cheapest price possible, meaning it’s probably loaded with low quality crap

Frozen pizza is not pizza. Pizza dough is made with only 4 ingredients, flour, olive oil, yeast, and salt (and water). In italy grains can not be spread with glyphosate so flour it's just flour and you have a lot of options of different "good" flours. Unfortunately even here in italy cheap restaurants, even famous ones in Napoli, started using seed oils in pizza. I don't know why people would eat frozen pizza while here there is a tradition of preparing pizza at home and basically everyone is able to bake pizza or bread. That said, I still think the best pizza is unhealthy and i always end up bloated and tired when i eat it, and i do not eat grains anymore. But if you want to eat one here it's not the same as eating one in the us, in fact a lot of people here eat it more than once a week without many problems.

Seen the video beginning where you your walking thru the store and decided to watch the whole video 😂😍

Lillie, you sold me when you said high fructose corn syrup. Done. No more.

Good morning SUNSHINE, from Copperhill Tn! Thanks for all the information. 😊😊😊

I bake my own bread and make my own pizza. I sherred my chesse and the meat toppings I buy from a local buther and deli that make their own meats and do not use chemicles or preservatives.

Thanks Lillie for rocking your Daisy Dukes to the store, for our visual enlightenment!! 😍

Great video. Thanks Lilly.

I made a Chicken version. With the egg and cheese (like the ground beef). Really enjoyed it.

The American food INDUSTRY is driven by the profit motive. I lived in California for 14 years. I loved the fruit and vegetables. But I had to come back to the UK for family reasons 35 years ago. The USA is not the same place I knew and loved. I am very happy to be back in the UK. One of the (many) reasons for that is that food in the UK is much more healthy, with many fewer artificial additives.

In London delivered pizza companies use _Salami_ when you ask for _Pepperoni_ then wonder why you don't order off them again! For entertainment /educational purposes only!

That cheese crust looks amazing, definitely gonna have to try that!!

IMO only a small % of any restaurants prepare food in a healthy manner. Most of it is toxic, processed crap that's still overpriced. For stuff like this it's much more fun to source the ingredients yourself so you know they're clean, then learn to make it yourself and teach your friends and family.

I am the only one in the house that follows keto. I love pizza too so I’ve found several good ways to make it. And the other folks. Love it too. Imagine that, good fresh ingredients no sugar no nasty flours. Read the labels folks!

All in all, it's not Pizza that is bad, it is the mass produced processed pizzas that are bad for you. those frozen Pizza will use the cheapest ingredients, to keep prices low, then add preservatives for shelf life, and other additives to give pop to flavors since nothing is fresh here the flavors need to be enhanced. Of course the "unhealthiest" part is going to be the dough, but if it is whole grain preferably freshly ground, then that would be the best option, it should be noted that Italian pizza is very thin, not like most American pizza that have very thick crusts. Oils is key, oil , fiber, and protein all contribute to preventing an insulin spike. good oils healthy oils like olive oil. proteins and fats from the cheese, and fiber in the whole wheat used. all contribute to a better meal. Sauce, anything with high fructose corn syrup should be thrown in the trash. only a little bit of cane sugar if any should be used in the sauce.

Yummy 😋. I have made a chicken, cheese and egg crust pizza 🍕,soooo good 💯

We have taken to using homemade garlic oil and brushing it on protein crust and then topping with meat and cheese. Like it better than tomato sauce in my opinion.

Thanks Lillie for the info! I also love chicken crust pizza…..

Because naturally it contains concentrated natural msg.. mono sodium glutenatess... Cheese msg, tomato's msg... on a crispy textured bread.

Hi, Lillie. Love all your videos! My husband does not like beef. If I use ground pork or ground turkey in place of the beef in your second pizza crust recipe, would that work?

My favorite pizza place uses imported Italian flour and proofs (ferments) the dough for 72 hours plus their other ingredients are quality ingredients. But the main thing is we only eat it occasionally as a treat, maybe two or three times a year.

FYI the dough conditioner that you forgot and left out was amino acids from Asian hair in China That's harvested from hair salons and barber shops in hospitals in cadavers Andy's amino acids also are attitude all commercial breads and dough

I would eat pizza every Friday as a child and I was enourmous. I haven’t eaten pizza in forever and I’m ripped. They might not be one and the same but it’s a fact.

First, I’d like to thank you for this video. I don’t eat pizza unless it’s a natural pizza and second I love that little cage thing you’re sitting in could you tell me what it is? Is that part of the bed or is that just a swing or a little area of a room, I love it

Oh wow, nice idea with Pizza + egg + garlic for a pizza base. I made something similar with cauliflower before, but I will try this out, thx. PS you look amazing!

Wanna hear something really out there? I recall from early on, like 20s till my 40s to recognize this: every single time I ate pizza at Pizza Hu@t I had horrific nightmares. Not from other pizza places, only that one. So weird, so either /and sauce, crust. 🤔

I make a pretty good pizza crust from parm reg, mozzarella, egg and *psyllium husk.* It's both chewy and crispy, and very low carb. The psyllium husk absorbs the grease from the cheese and adds texture. The parm reg goes on the bottom and enhances crispness. My sauce is organic tomato paste, spices and water. I use the lowest-carb mozzarella I can find. It's Usually 1 carb per quarter cup, which I believe is usually a starch, for anti-caking. I could get zero-carb mozzarella in blocks and grate it myself, but don't. The same goes for the provolone and cheddar with which I cut the topping mozzarella. If I had the room on my countertop, I'd probably use a food processor, which is also a pain the clean. Other than that, I try to make the pizza as "clean" as possible, and most of the carbs are in the toppings, like mushrooms, peppers and so forth. PS: Every manufactured crust I've seen either sucks, is high-carb, or has stuff I wouldn't put into my body. The same goes for most sauces. These people just can't help themselves.

I like the hamburger crust. I’ll have to try that. Looks yummy.

Thanks Lillie - you never disappoint 😊

The worst pizza I ever ate was in Italy (Rome). Cold, folded stale tasting trash. All that glitters is not gold. Food in Europe tastes like real food, but that you can eat everything and not gain weight is a total myth.

People just have to NOT eat trash food almost every day. I barely eat a good trash food once or twice a month at most.

The World Record for the thinnest (and l mean wafer thin) pizza is 'Pizza' Express Bishopsgate City of London. If your on a diet ... it's not pizza imho For entertainment /educational purposes only!

For someone metabolically healthy it's ok in moderation but these foods can be easy to over eat, not a problem for someone with a busy active lifestyle or into hitting the gym twice a week but for the majority of people it is a big problem

Its uncanny that youre talking about pizza. I’ve been telling my sister that I can’t quite put my finger on it but I’ve noticed over the last several years that pizza has been making me feel kinda bad after I eat it. It tastes wonderful and it seems to agree with me initially but then hours later or even the next day I seem to have “hard to describe” side effects from it. I’m certain it’s the pizza because I have the same strange symptoms specifically after eating pizza.

Wow what a great idea for the crust that you made. I never thought of that but crust can be made with a variety of different things. 🤩

¡Muchas gracias Lillie!

Great video 🎉❤. But how can you get so much information, and a sponsor into such a short video?😮 Practice I'm guessing 😊. Traditional pizza almost took ny life because its highly addictive and its still calling me even though ibe removed it for over a year. Ive found some basic alternatives with cauliflower crust and chicken crust options. Those have been very helpful in emergency situations. Thanks again Lilly 🙂

Great video! Thanks!

I only eat my homemade pizza. The crust is 3 ingredients, water yeast, and king author flour. Homemade Alfredo sauce instead of tomato sauce. I eat this about 2 to 3 times a month. Store bought pizza or fast-food pizza just don't taste good.

Great info but you should have also mentioned l-cysteine as one of the dough conditioners and how it is typically made.

Excellently presented. Clear and concise and factual.

It's the same thing with sugar, sugar is bleached too

Everyday I fear grains more and more

I used to love my takeout and frozen pizzas, but I try to reduce carbs, so now I make pizzas on pita bread. The flax and oat pita bread I get only has 7 net carbs, and I use fresh shredded cheese and etc make them myself, they come out so good! On occasion I’ll get a pizza out or whatever or maybe a slice from Costco if I got there but it’s not often.

Nothing will make me stop eating pizza. It's my reward for living