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I agree with most of your major points on the problems within the nutrition industry, but I think we need to take it a step further and dig deeper, I really think a mainly high fat high protein carnivorous diet is the healthiest diet. Although we don’t have hard science to prove it completely yet, there’s a lot of evidence showing people thrive on such a diet. I believe Cholesterol doesn’t cause heart disease, but inflammation is the culprit. Thankfully soon enough we are going to have more research done on this diet and I can’t wait to see the results.
I am from India my Grand father was a doctor this video reminded me of him he used to say - Eat whole foods as much as possible - Stop buying those packaged food - Cook your own food - Stop eating those "fast foods" ie KFC, McDonald, Domino's, Pizza Hut etc. - Always buy food from your local farmers market - Now a days the real foods cost way too much than it should be and those unhealthy foods are cheaper than ever - Exercise daily
My grandmother is 96 and father in-law is 92, both still strong. Both Walk daily and has always cooked with Whole Foods. They eat meat, fish, fruits and vegetables, olive oils and some fat. They always grow a garden and preserve food too. I follow them and I enjoy it.
Unhealthy foods are so cheap because the agriculture lobby got government subsidies for corn. So corn products are cheaper on the grocery market shelves. That includes almost everything processed that has any kind of corn syrup in it. Which is basically sugar. So we are paying for the food through our taxes and get garbage in return.
Man... struggle so much in science... it's a whole industry as well, you cannot publish nothing without a filter or you become irrelevant and none wants you.
We aren't getting more intelligent - our knowledge is growing, that's all. We store knowledge. I would argue that humans are getting less intelligent, but learning more earlier in life.
@@gerrym-cat7119 And it has to do with the ability to see the bigger picture and connecting different kinds of information to a whole, but in my eyes intelligence cant be that easily defined as there are multiple types of intelligences to it (mathematical intelligence, linguistic intelligence, musical intelligence etc. if i recall correctly)
You're not going to get the education needed to overthrow your overlords from your overlords. Be it medicine, diet, history, anthropology, or psychology. You're gonna need to go find that information yourself.
I remember reading a book when I was a child about missionaries going to the Inuit people in the 19th century. They recorded how the Inuit only ate whale and seal meat and blubber all winter and in the spring looked for berries, found bird eggs, and hunted caribou. I remember feeling so sorry for them thinking they would probably die from that diet. Turns out, they were eating healthy.
Every primitive culture that has been introduced to Western diets has seen their health decline. The microbiome is the new hot topic and we are being advised to eat a variety of plants to keep these bugs in our gut happy. I look forward to the publication of the results of the Inuit microbiome.
@@donaldevanshennings7732 maybe they ate the digestive organs that included plankton. I raw feed my dog and she gets raw tripe that has a lot of healthy microbes. In the wild, dogs would eat the entrails that had pre-digested plant foods. Fyi, I remember in the Inuit book it said they never had cavities.
@@janicep1508 It would appear that cutting plant foods down to a minimum has many health benefits. Checkout low carb high fat on utube if you havent already. It wouldn't suprise me if they ate the intestines with their contents, most preditors eat the stomach and organs first. The organs (offal) are the most nutritious parts and the cheapest in supermarkets.
You are preaching to the choir. Already lchf and omad most days. I've long been aware predators usually eat the gut and organs first (country boy). Organ meats seem to quickly disappear off my local supermarket shelves so word must be getting around about their nutritive values.
Du5tin the Wind I like some libertarian ideas I believe different areas/communities have different needs so government should be ran at a local level so it can better address the needs of the people living in that area. But I think we need a mix of many forms of government ones that we have established and ones that we have yet to establish. I like to be optimistic about the future it seems we are slowly figuring things out and while we are far from perfect now it seems like humanity goes 2 steps forward and 1 step back
Back in the '70s I fell for the "fat is bad" nonsense...until my hair started falling out. The best thing that happened to me: skipped the egg scare, butter scare, various meat scares, whole milk scare and others that I do not remember!
Unless you get it straight from the dairy, you can't find milk that's not homogenized, which destroys the food value of the fats in the milk. The cream SHOULD float to the top. I'm OK with pasteurization, but homogenization makes that shit almost indigestible.
@@harrymills2770 I was very happy when I discovered a milk that hasn't been homogenized. It's more expensive than the others but I buy it when I find it
Same, been ignoring food fads for years now. In my 30s with a full head of hair, only some grey hairs on my beard (which I quite like tbh), and people saying I look 25 at most. I don't need any supplements to build muscle at all. Funny thing is I'm not even as healthy as I could be, I've got a long way to go in getting my shit together.
If everyone had to cook their own food, they probably wouldn't eat as much as they do. When we were young my grandad always insisted food was made daily, no leftovers, enough for each day. The first time I ate from a restaurant was when I was 16 during college days and it was all downhill from there on, until I got wise. Opt for "no label food". Great video!
It's so sad that the health of our entire society has been destroyed by greed. So much suffering just so a handful of people can have more money than they need.
Quite the racket huh. They make people sick from their food then treat that illness with meds that people never get off of because they don't cure... Caching caching for the cult of greed 💵
No no no. YOU are the one who decides whether you're healthy or not. Did you know that your thoughts can literally make you sick and cause you diseases in your own body? ...just from your thoughts??? Now if everyone was to take responsibility for themselves and their own health, you would'nt need to spend a penny on healthcare...but weak minded people love playing the victim and pointing the finger at literally ANYONE else so they don't have to take responsibility. THAT is why a handful of people have more money than they need...because they bank on you and every other "victim" to blame their health issues on anything else besides themselves...
My personal gripe at the moment are all the ‘protein bars’ that have hit the shelves in the uk. Few are good. Many have high protein for a nut bar but if you read the back of the pack are higher in sugar and carbs than the protein!! They don’t advertise it as a ‘sugar carb bar’ though !
I actually disagree. If it tasted good and was more readily available/convenient more people would eat healthy. You can cook healthy foods that taste good but people think healthy is literally just 'salad' and vegetables. I used to think that too before I did a degree in sport science and learnt about nutrition.
@Ranjul Zagwal because proper nutrition isn't taught in school. There's a huge misconception about how much of each food group we're supposed to consume and the nutritional value of fat and protein. In losing weight- the focus was always on calories and never nutritional content. We also aren't taught about the science behind different diets. Basic chemistry explaining the different lipids is what I can think of. The good thing about my parents is that they never gave me much soda, sweets or fast food growing up, I remember it was a one off treat once a week. Once I started travelling to school on my own and had my own pocket money, I started to consume a lot more junk. Unfortunately I also remember thinking as a teenager the only way to lose weight was to starve. I thought being skinny no matter the cost was the healthiest way to live. The school and entertainment at the time bombarded us with information about eating disorders. I actually don't think this helped, because most girls wanted to be skinny, they saw ed and fad diets as the easiest way to get skinny.
@Ranjul Zagwal I definitely agree. Living in the city, is not the best environment for a long lasting happy and healthy life but it also depends on what country you reside, the type of job you have and the people you have around you. Studies show that being in an environment full of nature and a supportive network = higher chance of better health and happier life. The main issue that I find when advising people, it's not just about eating healthier. It's a whole lifestyle change. I played a lot of sports growing up, i also ate a lot and walked to school. I as mentioned above it wasn't until i became a teenager that my unhealthy lifestyle and unhealthy ideas about diets blossomed. This environment was very negative and a drastic change to what I did as a child. Also to mention; your genetic makeup and body type has a huge impact on what foods are optimal for you body. Many people don't understand this and their diets aren't tailored towards their individual needs.
This should be played in schools. The whole system is so broken idk if it can be fixed without some type of drastic cataclysm forcing the world to realign itself with the mother, earth
@@lw1343 yeah the places that people think are teaching kids but really are just huge indoctrination centers creating little self-absorbed ego driven monsters. The places that USA parents have handed over complete control of child education to, without even looking into curriculums. Those places.
@@lw1343 I thought about it more and yeah it's mom's that do that, but it's kids that beg them for it. Because they've been mislead into wanting it, at school and on tv, devices. There's no one solution to this . It took decades to get here from myriad angles and it will take all our efforts to undo it all.
@@lw1343 on a strange sidenote my most favorite person as a kid was named Dr Paul martin . Or p. Martin. He was a philharmonic musician who ran the endinboro universities music Dept and my mom was his secretary . He was a smart, talented and driven. Man whom I respected implicitly. He shaped my image of what a non masculine, yet still commandingly honorable and dignified, man could be and got me into music an art.
I like to try and eat the way my ancestors ate, I'm Finnish/Swedish and also part Native, I eat fish, I cook with butter, I drink whole milk, drink ail and eat potatoes, lamb, venison, moose and elk. I feel good 🤷🏻♀️
@@Fross-888 decent pet peeve honestly, I'm metis so part French Canadian part Ojibway. It frustrates me that Canada keeps changing what we call native populations, aboriginal, indigenous, native Americans, ect so I totally get that
@@salmiakki7652 I also have French Canadian and Objibway ancestry. I was curious about their traditional diet. I do know my tribe, the La Courte Oriealas still have rights to the fish in the lake and the wild rice that grows on the banks. I've been eating more fish, wild and brown rice and berries as well. I'm starting to feel better but I think I'm eating more Medeteranian food than Native American. Do you have any good ideas or recipes?
This channel gets written off as part of the Ancient Aliens, new age, watch anime in their parents basement type of crowd (mostly bc of commercial associations and the comments). The types of ppl that run YT make fun of this stuff. They don't take it seriously. Once the channel attracts more attention.. then maybe. Thankfully our YT overlords stereotype the world generically.
Casting pearls before swine...they don't recognize the threat to their slavery...they don't recognize the promise of a better more just reality.😇🐒🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🐷🌈⚡
For a big archenemy in this argument we must include government, and the self-interested politicians who developed the Food Pyramid. Food guidance is rooted in $$$$$$$……..whether it’s political contributions, research grants, or profits.
Absolutely...the graph he showed with the aboriginal example is pretty similar to graph of western populations when food pyramid/guidelines were introduced
Yes and no. The government just gets bribed by the big companies or manipulated by the scietific studies (paid and designed by the big companies). So gorvernment to me is just a figure on the chessboad, not the player.
During my first chemo treatment, I was shocked when volunteers brought in a basket of cookies, candy bars and chips and passed them àround to the patients.
This is why I don’t trust doctors and think they’re dumb. They just do what their trained to do but they’re not actually particularly knowledgeable about how diet and gut health are the cornerstone of vitality
Food adulteration was waaaaay worse and the detrimental effects were much more harsh, with faster onset and longer span. There are some interesting documentaries on this subject, originating from victorian England (news flassh, it doesn't stop there)
Been way better off since I slashed my intake of carbs and sugar down to a bare minimum. I basically eat the exact opposite from how I was raised to eat. Not a week goes by where I don't feel at least a little anger or betrayal at the nutrition and dietary information I was given at a young age.
Carbs are fine, as long as they are from healthy sources. There is a difference between food culture, and food science. If you follow the current food pyramid, you will be perfectly fine. But people don't, and that is the problem. We *know* what is best for us - it is just that modern lifestyle is doing the opposite of what is healthy. The knowledge of what is healthy is widely available, but you have to choose to follow it. And most people don't. It is not the science that is wrong (the current science actually aligns perfectly with the 'solutions' in this video), it is peoples choices to do what they know is bad for them.
@@HereIAm247 This is a great point. We have an abundance of information, which of course may lead to confusion as so many sources offer sometimes similar, sometimes entirely differing perspectives. However; people aren't often aware just how bad it is for them. And the implications of Bayer acquiring Monsanto are quite terrifying, as Bayer may be able to provide biased studies in favor of things like foods laden with harmful substances, for example.
I'm 43, 6' and wear size 32 pants. Ten years ago it was size 34 going on size 36. Even though I exercised I was getting fatter. I did research, tried things, and got on the right track. Basic recommendations: 1. No high fructose corn syrup or artificial sweeteners. Minimize sugar. 2. Don't drink calories. Dump soda, diet soda, fruit juice, energy drinks, and high sugar coffee and tea. Drink water or coffee/tea with as little sugar as possible. 3. Avoid polyunsaturated oils. Use olive or coconut. (I also recommend saturated animal fat but do your own research and make your own decision.) 4. Avoid or minimize corn, wheat, and soy. 5. Total carbohydrates depend on activity level. Try not to go above 100 grams a day, less if you don't exercise. 6. Eat your veggies. Beyond that, do your research on Adkins, Paleo, keto, Mediterranean, South Beach, Blood Type, vegetation, vegan, etc and decide for yourself.
What's wrong with diet soda? I've heard that it correlates to other unhealthy eating habits, but by itself I can't find any evidence that it is the cause of negative health problems.
@@deimaru Artificial sweeteners tend to stimulate appetite and craving for junk food. Artificial sweeteners are also detrimental to gut health. I would choose sugar sweetened soda (in low to moderate amounts) over corn syrup or artificial sweeteners, if those were my only choices.
@@adamstewart8087 Polyunsaturated fats are unstable and go rancid easily, creating free radicals. Also seed oils are high in Omega 6 fatty acids and low in Omega 3. Not that O6 is bad in itself, but too much O6 not enough O3 promotes inflammation. Monounsaturated (olive) and saturated (coconut, butter) are very stable, and don't contain either O6 or O3.
I'm struck when I first got to the US and saw so many processed food being consumed. I only have fresh dishes made from fresh ingredients bought from the bazaar every day back in China. Eating a hell lot of fresh vegetables usually solves 70% of your health problem...
Around 2012 I was 160lbs and I looked very thin for a guy and I started working out and eating like 4 to 5 times a day to gain weight plus supplements of all kinds Within I was sick and that was the end of my workout regimen. 2017 I hit rock-bottom. 2020 I started eating only 2 meals a day, no snack. I'm at 185-190lbs with low fat%
@@TheyRiseBand I dont think it's fair to make that kind of blanket statement about meat and dairy. Meat is more of an issue of sustainability and ethics than an issue of nutrition. Similar story for dairy (although that's a little different. it's my understanding that something like 70% of people stop producing the lactase enzyme sometime during childhood and dont tolerate lactose well). I've come to the conclusion that it's more about moderation than avoidance, and buying the RIGHT kind of dairy and meat that's not pumped full of antibiotics and hormones. Im not an expert though and I'm always learning - would you care to elaborate your points? I just have a hard time buying into complete avoidance of such large groups of food. in 2019 you can find literature saying that pretty much anything is bad for you.
@@TheyRiseBandDairy is good. Natural cheese is great for you, greek yogurt is great for you. Meat like chicken breast and fish are good for you. No red meat.
e8gj4jg84u as much as I want to say that people should eat less of certain nutrients. You are right because that is the first step is to add plenty of leafy greens and other veggies that people avoid. Beans and lentils are also very nutrient dense and a good addition for many genetic backgrounds :) just make sure to start with little by little if you are starting with a low fiber or worse an American diet
@@franciscozapata9271 yes. Knowing what we know and how we know (and if we can know) are critically necessary components of science. Science is not, as most believe, facts on paper, but a process toward reliable verifiable knowledge.
Don’t be lazy, go outdoor and walk, cook your own food. Avoid processed foods, sodas, candies, sugar. Eat as much natural as you can, eat the fruit, not a juice, marmalades, etc. Eat vegetables all you can. Eat everything different everyday. Eat only what you need and stop eating when you don’t need more food, do not eat more just because is tastes good.
Food has two properties: 1. Energetic 2. Nutritional You can eat according to all of the rules listed, but if you are eating more calories than your body burns on a day to day basis you will gain weight. Most chronic illness is related to obesity and that's where Bayer/Monsanto are really cashing in - it's an overabundance of highly palatable calories paired with a sedentary lifestyle that's causing all of the destruction. If you have an understanding of what your basic nutritional needs are in terms of macros (protein/carbs/fat) and ensure about 80% of what you eat comes from whole food sources, your energetic and nutritional needs will be met perfectly!
I disagree purely looking at macros avoids the much larger factors of nutrition that being all the vitimins and minerals. Matching macros dosnt Indicate a healthy individual just an appropriately fed one
@@ODIus1549 you're correct - if you had pure table sugar for all of your carbs, protein with incomplete amino acid profiles, and something like vegetable oil as your only fat source you would be in a bad state. As mentioned above the "80/20" rule will generally cover your micronutrient needs well! Macros are a complementary and necessary part of the bigger picture of health. (much simpler to track than micronutrients of course as there are only 3.)
I totally agree. As a PT this is what I not only teach my clients, but how I live and eat as well, and I look and feel fantastic at 42, whereas at 38 before the lifestyle change, I felt like I was 10 years outside the grave.
" if you are eating more calories than your body burns on a day to day basis you will gain weight" Not really. The calorie theory is flawed. Fat has as many calories as carbs but it doesn't raise your blood sugar at all, and your body reacts differently depending on the nutriment. Glucose + Insulin = bodyfat
his channel is spreading misinformation and mistrust of science... do you think all the fat people actually follow a healthy exercise and diet//nutrition plan.. the trouble isn't the fact that nutrition science is "wrong" its just that most people are far too lazy to follow diet plans and can easily eat an abbundance of incredibbly unhealthy food they have easy access to.. all the people i know that actually properly monitor their sugar/calorie intake and eat a scientifically healthy diet are incredibly fit.. we now know that sugar is the main cause of weight gain much more than fat at least.. whoever is running this channel should be ashamed of themself for spreading disinformation and mistrust of science/medicine.. this is downright dangerous.. it is right to mistrust some coorporations but it is completely wrong to imply that most scientific studies are biased in some way.. this would be absolute blasphemy in the scientific community and rarely happens.. steps are ALWAYS made to make papers as fair and balanced as possible. Papers that are one sided or have other forces at work pulling strings such as the fraudulent vaccine-autism link paper are immediately pounced on by the scientific community and called out for being bad science..
@@roro-mm7cc depends on how you look at it, even if their intentions may have been sincere and upright at the beginning, reality shows, in the end, greed is much more powerful in the food industry in the long run. Even the FDA and CDC benefit "in the name of science" so I think the title is befitting. People can definitely decide what to choose more accurately from looking at long term results and use science to back up their thoughts afterwards, but time has proven they shouldn't just take it at face value. Maybe some people are aware now but once upon a time, people demonized fat and disregarded sugar due to what they were being told and now suffering from diabetes and heart disease due to "science". We are in a much better state now knowing that science isn't always right as it changes over time based on long term results.
I love all these videos it makes it easier for me to explain to closed minded people by showing these videos from "After Skool" this video brilliant 👌🏼
Your grandmother didn't get to old age by avoiding bacon and butter. Traditional foods exist for a reason: because they've worked for thousands of years.
My great grandmother wouldn't have recognized a pomegranate, or an avocado. Or hemp seeds, bok choy, macadamia nuts ... ... does that mean these are bad? Will I die from avocado/hemp salad poisoning?
@@a-10wartaboo77 She also had four siblings, but it was actually 8. Two didn't survive childbirth, one died of a fever, and the other one got caught in some farm equipment.
Do you know where your family comes from on the planet genetically. Pre 1900? Like for me mine is Bavaria the Rhine Germany and Northwestern Idaho Native American Blackfoot. So I don't eat anything that comes from Asia no Asian Rice I eat Native American rice I don't eat the Russian red week which is all of the flour products in America today if I am to eat a flower based product I have to bake it or buy it myself from a company that makes it from English and German grains such as English white wheat German spelt french Rye. Once I gave up eating any tropical fruits or citrus fruits as where my Native American comes from there were no citrus fruits the only citrus fruit I can eat is the blood orange which was in the Western Hemisphere at that time and I seem to be able to slide by with the little Mandarin oranges for some reason but anything else will cause my mouth to burn and get blisters. Don't eat anything with soy and people have been lied to about the soy product. The only Japanese people who ate soy and I can tell you this from being married to a Japanese person who wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole was this or that the Japanese eats is a fermented product from a non GMO soybean seed that they have not Monsanto based and it is fermented so that the dangerous estrogens Etc are removed. However only the poor peasants and Fisherman's 8 this the Royals and Wealthy Samurai never ate soy. Because it was cow fodder. They only started eating it across the nation during the time of World War II and remember they had been expanding since 1910 with the military taking precedence over the civilians for food. By the time the war ended Japan was starving and they were willing to eat anyting. They had learned to make beans into bean paste food as well as candy. They had expanded the use of the soy beans for everyone in the miso soup. Those Japanese who came to America after the war brought these activities with them you had a separation of the Japanese who knew America and Japan before the war and the Japanese who knew Japan during their war. Same with raw fish you couldn't get anybody who was wealthy Japanese to eat raw fish that was what poor fishermen did cuz they lived at the ocean and their environment was wet as it was difficult to have a fire.
I do often wonder how our ancestors and all the wild animals have survived for thousands of years without knowing how many calories or milligrams of iron are in their food and without being able to ensure that each meal contains protein carbs and fat.
That's because like all animals, we evolved to instinctively understand what to eat in our natural environment. How many animals in the wild are metabolically sick? The answer is zero...and they don't understand a thing about "nutrition science."
What a brilliant illustration of what we need to do in order to get back in touch with our food! Some great tips and tricks in this video to help achieve that. Bravo!
The tips are fine, but the arguments are completely lacking, and have no hold in real food science. Current food science is actually telling you the exact same thing as the 'solutions' in this video. There is a difference between food culture, and actual food science. People know what science says is healthy for them; the problems with health comes because people DON´T follow the food pyramid, and general health knowledge.
@@HereIAm247 if you actually look at the figures for what people have been consuming they have been following the guidelines. Unfortunately the guidelines are wrong and based on poor and biased studies. There is no evidence that saturated fat is unhealthy but the trials trying to prove this have shown the opposite. Same goes for salt restriction. The collesterol/heart disease model has never been proven. Follow the guidelines and eat mainly carbs and vegetable oils (seed oils) and in time you can join the billions of people suffering type 2 diabetes and other modern metabolic diseases.
@@donaldevanshennings7732 I just googled the us food pyramid, and found the Harvard food pyramid: www.vida.com/content/harvard-food-pyramid-2/ This is a perfectly healthy way to live, and match what the diabetes food pyramid suggests. And what he suggests in the video. The link even specifies that you should choose primarily whole grains rather than white bread. Vegetables are healthy, yes, but you also need other food groups to keep the balance. Carbs and gluten are not evil (gluten actually helps fight certain types of cancer), and cutting out food groups are only a good thing if you are allergic to them. If you follow these guidelines, and eat a healthy portion size (NOT too large, and NOT too small!), you *will* be healthy. It is common sense (or at least it should be).
@@HereIAm247 These guidlines are a little better than the standard food pyramid but still far from optimal. Food is very varied and any research requires very close scrutiny. Even the same foods grown in different places(or soils) can have very different nutritional values. There are also inconsistencies, eg the top of the pyramid says eat little red meat and further down allows eating of more oily fish. I assume this is done to restrict saturated fat, yet if you google the nutritional values of steak and makerel you will find the fish has more saturated fat than steak pet gram. The recommendation to eat plenty fruit is also dubious. The sweetness/sugars in fruit is fructose. The only organ that is able to process this in your body is your liver. Eating plenty fruit is a recipe for a fatty liver. The year round availability of fruit is a recent thing, as is the large sweet fruits on the shops. In many climates fruit is only available for a short period of the year. This is the period when many animals gorge on fruits to put on weight to get them through the lean winter months. We feed grains to our cattle to fatten them up, if you eat them in any quantity you also will fatten up. If you consider the time period when homo sapiens were evolving it gives some insight into what we evolved to eat During winter in this time vegetables and fruit would be unobtainable and so animal products must have been our main source of nutrition. It is posdible we started as scavengers, eating what wad left from carnivore kills. We could smash the large bones with stones to get the nutritious marrow. Herbivores generally have low strength acid in their stomach carnivores have stronger acid to digest the fat and proteins. Vultures have very strong acid, perhaps to kill off any pathogens that killef the corpse they are devouring. Our acid strength is between a carnivore and a vulture which hints at our diet in the past. If you compare stomachs with our closest relatives (chimpanzees) you will see they have a much smaller small intestine than us, this is where protein and fat is digested If you the compare large intestine/colon theirs is large where ours is small, this is where plants are fermented and absorbed This leads me to believe that our diet was mainly animal products with little veg/fruit. Since then there has been some evolutionin that some of us can digest lactose without problems so I am happy to eat dairy products although many Asians are unable to do this. To survive protein and fat is essential carbs are not. I believe the lchf diet is best for most people. I believe this can be done wth a vegetarian diet but it will be difficult as some essential vitamins do not exist in plants so supplements will be required. To do this diet usinh animal products is easy. Many vitamins in plants exist in a different form to those used by our bodies and so require conversion whereas the vitamins in animal products are identical to those we need. I would also take issue with the vegetable oils they suggest using. They do not come from vegetables they come from seeds in an 18 stage industrial process. These oils upset the omega 3/6 balance of our bodies and are inflamatory, possibly a main contributor to heart disease. I hope this gives food for thought as its a huge subject. Bear in mind that most universities would collapse without the funding from industry, and those who pay usually get the results the want by omitting or hiding unpalatable data.
Things might change massively in the next thirty years and from what I've seen about food among everything else, my plan is to get a nice little home and find anywhere I can to keep small goats, chickens, grow as much food as I can and pass this knowledge onto my children.
This fall, lay a bunch of cardboard down on the sunniest part of your lawn. Pile as much organic material as you can on top. Leaves, grass clippings, wood chips, food scraps, manure, coffee grounds, dirt, whatever you can get. Come spring, use a pickaxe or shovel to mix it all up with the dirt underneath (Only do that step the first year.) Google your last frost date, and plant a bunch of Dollar Tree seeds according to the directions on the back. Water daily. You'll have failures and success, but every season you'll learn more and get hundreds to thousands of pounds of delicious, healthy food, and you'll be on a pathway to freedom.
The “In Defense of Food” Documentary is great. I was thinking how similar this video sounded to the documentary and was pleased to hear the book recommended at the end of the video
It seems to me that you're connecting the science of nutrition itself to the problem of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. I agree that there have been and still may be corporate holds in nutrition, but to link Nutrition Science itself to the problem is wrong. A nutrition scientist today or nutrition book used in curriculum would have sound information from peer-reviewed research. Yes, we should watch for claims and look into where the money is at, but to fault all of the science doesn't make sense.
the point being made is that scientific outcomes are bought, and not 100% factual. Take, for example, the new research that came out showing grain free dog food to cause DCM in dogs. It has swayed alot of pet owners away from grain free food. That study was funded jointly by several high corn pet food companies. And the study was pretty bogus. In fact, the vets that put it out there are currently being sued. There currently is very little "science" that isnt bought and paid for by a corporation with an agenda.
Authority is crumbling, I know that makes you normies squirm in fear. Oh my, how can you go through life without government authority to tell you what to think? Is literally how you sound.
not really i mean they are uncovering the truth but there is some bias a tiny bit i mean you can still find good food at supermarkets but it depends where you are and what supermarket is it
i agree. the dude used one book as a source. one book. and to say all data in nutrition science is wrong and rigged for profit is a massive claim with again, one book to back it.
Yeah, huge disappointment. I got pulled into the channel by a different video, but I'm realizing this is just pseudoscientific anti-intellectualism, targeting people who want to feel like they "get it" and everyone is just a "sheeple." Not good. And you can expect good things on RU-vid. There's plenty of great content here. Nothing wrong with asking for better!
Karina Ramirez Everything has a bias . I mean everything. Its your job to watch with an open mind and not take everything as fact or lies. You have to learn to think for yourself
Hard, hard, it's hard to know the exact diet that will make you feel better. But the simple rules he gave are good. It has to be seen as a relationship. That relationship has to be non toxic and with boundaries and respect.
The issue is the consumer. The big bad company is actually completely at the mercy of those who buy its ' products. Can't blame a company for trying to provide precisely what the consumer wants to buy.
Colin Bowman : then it’s merely coincidence that they spend millions to tweak the recipes to be irresistible to human tastebuds and neurology...then in turn market it to children....they use terms in internal communications that make it clear they themselves view their products as addictive and irresistible...
I really love your work. I don't cook myself but I always eat places that take pride in their food quality and put effort to support the local business
ADDENDUM: We are biologically hardwired to crave three things: sugar, salt, and fat. These were always vital to our survival but rare in nature, so when we found them we gorged on them knowing we were not likely to soon find them again. They are rare no longer - so unless you’re a sugar nabob, a salt mine baron, or a lard-monger, exercise restraint.
Since starting the keto/if diet I have shed loads of weight. I now eat whole foods and fat and protein. It’s great to see the truth about the links between the food industry/diet industry and pharma industry working together to keeping us unhealthy.
I almost died living on supermarket foods. Always been ill all my life, so little to no energy to prepare my own food. But I had to change or really die. Now I prepare my own food. I cook a few times a day, eat a lot fruits and veggies. No more sugar nothing processed. I feel reborn. And food is certainly much more delicious and I don't feel as hungry anymore and the chemical, poisonous taste is gone. Food is so very important. I used to be severely depressed and anxious, but it's gone now. I sleep better. Don't need pain meds anymore. Everything is better now and I'm doing well. I could be better if all of our food wasn't gmo and sprayed on. I do miss all the good nutrients. But it's definitely better than what I ate before. I'll be moving to an area where a home with garden is affordable, so I can do what I love most and occupy myself with gardening and preparing food. I will soon have my own eggs from my own chicks. All meat in my country is so terribly bad, full of hormones and antibiotics and fed with unnatural food, it's unsafe to eat any meat or dairy products. So I, will need a b12 supplement until I have my own eggs. End of November I felt as if my body was eating itself again. An afwul feeling. I had been on protein shakes to add to my diet to try and gain weight and energy, but it had the opposite reaction up to the point my stomach felt 'locked. Even if I was hungry, I couldn't get anything in it. A drastic change overnight with some help from a friend, changed my life, saved my life. Whole foods is all I eat now.
This is a really good video, i agree with enerything except for your "simple rules". The 1st and 2nd rules rely on the knoledge of people. Most of people dont know about biology and chemestry beyond of basic education levels. Even for those who have more knoledge about this sciences, it requires a lot of particular research to understand every food product and the chemical ingredients of any food (even with the simplest ones like a banana). "Natural is good" or "processed is bad", this things are note correlated, it is RELATIVE and all diferent food industries make their propaganda and desinformation campaigns in order to sell their own products. I just want to say that we shouldn't be afraid of all the things we don't understand, and if you really wanna be sure make a little of research in google academic, always verify the references and keep an open mind. Love
Its not exactly the point here, we need a healthy amount of skepticism even in "science", since human beings arent perfect, their interpretations of phenomena shouldnt be as well.
Do you know how ridiculously easy it is to cook and falsify data? "Peer-reviewed" doesn't mean much anymore, unfortunately. Everything in academia is hilariously politicized. Trust NOTHING. Trust NO ONE. Do your own research. Conduct multiple sources. Come to your own conclusions. Test diets on yourself, and see what you respond to the best.
Thank you! The 'solutions' provided in this video actually aligns with modern nutritional science. But the arguments were severely lacking. There is a difference between food science, and what corporations used to be legally able to claim about their products.
My grandparents ate tons of saturated fat, bacon and eggs fried in beef tallow for breakfast every day. They never gave it a second thought and both were skinny and lived into their eighties.
This is basically a condensed version of "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan. He's done good things, such as make more people aware of how the food 'industry' operates, but harmful things as well. He's been criticized of misrepresenting science and scientific research into understanding how food and diet relates to health and makes health claims himself (based more on anecdotes and fuzzy thinking rather than evidence-based science) in his various books -- available for purchase in fine bookstores everywhere. It probably would be fair to say that this vid has good intentions, but tread with caution.
Now the thing is there’s a lot of research out there sponsored by the Industry (typical conflict of interest). You don’t trust/discard these and the science is pretty clear (in favor of whole foods). Also the Food guidelines don’t resemble of what the people are actually eating: when there was the “Fat is bad” era; people didn’t eat less fat in general because of that. More processed food and calories, yes.
If you do shop at the supermarkets avoid the middle aisles and stick to the perimeter. Start at fruit and vegetables, then dairy and other healthy protein then pay and quickly leave.
On penicillin for 4 years ,from 8 years Irises turned Brown . Came time , I got to prep family meals , change of diet for me and family . More vegetables & Fruit , meat then had a reasonable amount of fat on it to help with the coking . Left home , diet change again , more fruit & vege , eyes started back towards blue . Thru OTC meds & a "clean" diet , managed to get the irises to mainly gray & occasionally blue . A clean out started , like a cold , which was treated 3 times by a MD , each time it got worse ; flatmates suggested an Iridologist - Naturopath . Brilliant move , cold gone in 3 days , no more pharmacuticals , until recently , and it's the Natural stuff , that's keeping me away from the MD's , and I rarely listen to commercial radio , no tv , no social networks , apart from Y-T . Still got Blue eyes , and confounding the MD's , and pissing off the corporations as I very rarely purchase factory produced food , or have fast foods .
I don't know this school, but if you are thinking about animation, do it. It is so very worth it! I love my job so much I forget my breaks and work late by accident, I no longer watch the clock all day. Its a fun job!
There is nothing wrong with the current food science. Current food science exposed the bias of old ideas, and looked at the true facts. If anything, they recommend exactly what this video suggested: to get as close to the natural source as possible. Looking at the american/western food pyramid, it would be perfectly fine - if people followed the recommendations. The reason people are overweight, is because they don't follow the recommendations. It is very true that corporations in the past have done anything they could to manipulate people. But they are the marketers - not the food scientists. It is common sense that mothers milk is the best for a baby - but baby formula is an alternative in cases where it is not possible to get a mothers milk. And I suspect science have learned much more since the first attempt. Yes, people are more overweight than 70 years ago. They are also much more inactive, each much less healthy, eat larger amounts, and they *know* it is bad for them. The problem is that modern lifestyle promotes habits that are very destructive for us, and the foods that are addictive (and thereby very profitable) are also bad for us. This knowledge is available to the vast majority in the western world. But having the knowledge is not enough. You actually have to use it, and follow the advice. If you follow the official food pyramid, you will be perfectly healthy. There is a difference between food science, and food culture. Just because you know what is good for you, it doesn't always mean you follow it. I agree with the solution, but the arguments made in this video is just severely lacking, as they are more targeted towards food corporations (and what was legal to claim in the past), rather than actual current food science.
I really like the video and the message behind it. But actually Bayer has a long history in the agricultural sector by developing and distributing pesticides and fertilisers, so thats why they bought Monsanto. Nevertheless Monsantos activities are more than questionable.
It takes more effort to be healthy than be unhealhty. People don't cook as much as they used to anymore. Imagine you work 48 hours a week, have children and are stressed and hungry. What is always readily available, cheap and minimal effort; fast food. There are no healthy fast food restaurants, even subway bread had so much sugar in it, scientists claimed that it was closer to cake then bread. That is the main issue. I visited Japan and on every street they have a 7/11 in the 7/11 they have healthy balanced meals, mostly with rice, meat and veg. They have origiri and there sandwiches are a lot simpler and smaller. They also have lots of snacks but the sugar content is much lower, they cycle or walk everywhere and the fast food restaurants are very minimal. The cost of food in restaurants and stores are a lot cheaper so it's easier to get a healthier meal, Nothing too complicated and it tastes good. I could count on one hand how many people I saw the entire trip that were over weight much less obese. (Disclaimer* genetics could also play role). This is our problem it's not that we don't know about eating the right foods, it just takes a lot more effort to be healthy, the environment doesn't help and most people munch on snacks. There is a sugar addiction that is heavily played down. I went without sugar for awhile and decided to eat a kit kat bar after, it was so overly sweet and sickly I couldn't finish it. Our taste buds are being manipulated to consume too much sugar. Whenever I cut out processed sugar alone, I always lose weight and feel a lot fuller after eating meals.
Good points made about the history of nutrition science but around 6:58 we slip in to an "argument from ignorance" fallacy. The premise that past nutrition science has failed to make us healthy doesn't necessitate the conclusion that the way to become healthy is to follow the "simple rules" proposed. That these simple rules are what should be followed requires additional evidence beyond what has been used to debunk outdated arguments.
That's the problem I have with these New-agey types. They adopt old symbols without really learning their meaning. They don't do any research and only follow what "feels" correct. He's probably using it that way because it's on the back of the one dollar bill and because it's associated with the Illuminati (by idiots). It's just like how the Cross of Saint Peter became a "Satanic" symbol. People don't do any research. They don't scratch past the surface. They don't explore.
Eat what you're designed to eat. Humans are omnivores not herbivores, fructivores, or any other specialised type of eater. Incidentally, plants don't want you to eat their leaves and stems which is why they are full of natural pesticides. Plant based diet is ideological nonsense just like any other diet that tells you to eat just one type of food.
@@neilcreamer8207 Veganism is based on ideology, a whole food plant based diet is based on nutritional evidence. Which proofs that you can be perfectly healthy on a plant based diet and can prevent many of our top killer disease, even reverse some of them including heart disease. We can get all essential nutrients on a whole food plant based diet. What is actual nonsense is that you really believe plant foods do us harm while also claiming we are omnivores.
It's all about each person's metabolic clock. Your sleep, activity, and eating habits are supposed to stay regular most of the time no matter what you eat and you will stay relatively healthy. PROCESSED SUGARS and LIGHT, LITE, OR FAT FREE foods accelerated the obesity rates in this country exponentially, alongside bad nutrition propaganda and fewer real foods available. That said, it's still within our control as to WHEN we eat. Repeat your same schedule as much as possible and your body's amazing metabolism will surprise you .
Another thing is the aboriginals exercised when gathering their food, when a western diet was introduced, their exercise went down dramatically. Another issue is treating everyone the same. while we are all 99.99% alike, that 0.01% makes a huge difference. For instance, if I skip on protein while eating other foods, I'll get sick feeling. My niece on the other hand can eat 0 protein and has perfect health. Also, the amount of ingredients have no impact on the overall health of a dish of food. Likewise, whether food is mass produced or not has little impact on the health of that food. Two ten year independent studies that collaborated their data found the exact same thing: long term benefits were negligible whether on a diet of mass produced foods or 'healthy' foods. Another study on longer living found that in over 30 countries and thousands of individuals sampled, the only two things that made a big difference in healthier long lives was proactively keeping stress down and very mild alcohol consumption. I'd recommend looking up PragerU's video on the study of food production for some quick and basic information on that.
That went downhill quick! I loved the exploding crash at the end claiming PragerU as a reliable source. Food content matters! Eating shit food may not make you fat if eaten in certain quantities, even if it is primarily what you eat. But without all the nutrients required for proper bodily function, well, the body doesn't function. Want some good videos based on science? I suggest Shredded Sports Science. The host is an extremely knowledgeable person who even breaks down the working of the body to explain why nutrition matters. Want papers? Try scholar.google.com. Read multiple papers to establish what the consensus ous on the subject. But please recognize the problem going to a religious institute that shows its bias on a regular basis toward scientific findings, and claiming that as a source of scientific information.
also: eat ONLY organic. eat enough meat, saturated fat and organ meat. grow as much of your own food as possible and get dirty--the microbes in the dirt matter a LOT.
@@BlackSkyZ2 lol. Says somebody who clearly knows nothing about nutrition, or farming for that matter. Veganism is the future but only because it will be imposed. There's a reason most vegans are ex-vegans including women, ya dumbass
The worst nightmare for the pension funds and big pharma is when everybody goes Keto diet. Don't do it! You will live a long and healthy life and break the budget for your beloved politicians.
🤦🏻♀️ There’s plenty of healthy stuff that most people can’t pronounce. Not sure if that should be an indicator of unhealthy food. Chemical names of the healthiest vitamins are confusing to most.
@@fbyi2940 sometimes, the majority of farmers are causing desertification with monoculture, chemicals and animal agriculture. Perma-culture and organic farmers are the honest ones :)
It's safer to do the opposite of most the the nutrition recommendations. Essential fats are treated like the bad ones, which they promoted as healthy alternatives for decades.
When anyone lives a life that is out of sync with who they really are, dis-ease & addiction shows up. Truth is, science can show any kind of diet is good. What matters is, what's good for YOU. What makes you feel better when you eat it? Start & finish there, and let the scientists run their theories while they do the thing we really care about: give us language & understanding of ourselves and how we are similar & different from our peers.
That's long been my policy. Try something, see how I feel afterwards. A friend recently treated me to a fast food hamburger (hadn't eaten one in years). Tasted good going down, afterwards I felt like crap. Fortunately for me, I am sensitive to a lot of the ingredients in processed foods. All artificial sweeteners, processed meats, most artificial flavors--all give me horrendous migraines, which is a pretty good deterrent for me. I've *gotta* eat healthy!
This should wake some people up,I battled with addiction for 20 years,I changed to a plant base diet and not two weeks in was off the pills, FDA lost this guy
This oversimplifies it a bit too much and oversimplifying nutrition has been the largest problem in nutrition research. Nutritional problems before the 20th century were caused by scarcity while nutritional problems in the second half of the 20th century have been caused by overabundance. Don't say that humans have been becoming more and more unhealthy when humans are on average 9 inches taller and have mostly been living longer. Yes many parts of the western diet are crap and we should do better but don't give a graph of the aboriginal peoples obesity rise when it's almost identical with the obesity rise in the West because that mainly started happening in the 1960s too.
You're correct. Our food is almost excessively nutritious, if indeed, there can be such a thing. We've spent thousands of years breeding plants and animals to be bigger, tastier, and more nutritious, and we've been doing it since before the first cities were built. Most obesity is the result of poor discipline in a time and place of cheap and abundant food. Aboriginals are thinner than people in the west because they have to work much harder for far less nutrients. I see very fit and healthy people all the time here in America, including college students living off of cafeteria food. They work out and are careful about what they eat. That's all. Many of them are more muscular, taller, and overall healthier, than most hunter-gatherers.
@Raghav rob Bruh, how do you avoid eating excessive carbs and sugar? Discipline. The nutritional info is right there on the package. You chose to eat it because you gave in to your cravings. Also, you can do special exercises to become taller, please tell me what those exercises are.
But we do!!! Grab your camera and start a RU-vid channel! Be the change you wish to see in the world and watch it manifest before your eyes! No hate!!! I totally agree with what you said about the media! I'm just saying the time has come to stop complaining and get up and do something about it!
@@du5tinthewind774 I've written over 200 articles. They are unlike anything in the mainstream media. Do you really want to know how deep the rabbit hole goes?
We have independent media but the overwhelming majority are always bought. Either by way of paid bias reporting or selling the company. We citizens should probably wake up and use the government. Some think we need less government interference, but I believe we just need to realize the true power is with the people and make our government work in our best interests. It's so far hard when ppl plug into the media for an opinion. We need to stop outsourcing our ability to think. Profit driven corporations are corruptible too. It's not as simple as, "stop buying the product".
Imani El was going to say something similar but you hit it on the head. You can give some people all the research in the world, but some are just too far gone
This is a beautiful and powerful message! I live in China for 13 years and I love this place. And I see little by little, more MacDonalds, KFC, and Starbucks on every corner, and more fat locals also rising day by day. Is a huge problem and not so many can see this! I am doing my best to share and bring a healthy message, I was overweight and sick and I suffer a lot. Then I changed what I eat and all my life changed. SHARE THIS!
