What Happened When I Ate Nothing But "Healthy" Fast Food For A Week
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- Опубліковано 4 тра 2018
- America has an obesity problem, but there are more 200,000 fast foods restaurants dotted throughout the country. Customers have been moving towards places with healthier menus, and many traditional chains are adding items to address this. I tried eating these "healthy" fast foods for an entire week. I had every meal at McDonald's, Wendy's, Taco Bell, Burger King, Subway, Dunkin' Donuts or Chick-fil-A.
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Kevin Reilly: Fast food is cheap and convenient. But hidden in between the burgers and tacos are some "healthy" options: salads, grilled chicken, yogurts, oatmeal, power burritos. Doesn't sound too bad, right? I spent a week eating nothing but these "healthy" fast foods and I lost six-and-a-half pounds. But even though I lost about a pound a day, it didn't really go well.
I live in New York City, a place with every possible food you could want. Eating healthy here, it's a breeze. But across America, there are more than 200,000 fast food joints, and they're bringing in more than $200 billion a year in sales. And no matter where you go, you're never far from a place like McDonald's or Taco Bell. But in recent years, consumers want better, healthier choices, and the traditional fast food places have been losing customers to those fast casual healthy options.
The rules were pretty simple: Eat every major meal at a national fast food chain and stick to the healthy options. McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Taco Bell, Dunkin' Donuts, Subway, and Chick-fil-A; nothing but them for a week. Yeah, I lost almost seven pounds, but let's take a close look at the numbers.
On a normal day, I'm eating around 2,500 calories. An adult man should be having about 2,400 to 2,600 calories a day. But on this fast food plan, my calories plummeted. Most of these meals came in under 400 calories, and that was one of my first problems. I'd eat and just a couple hours later, I was starving. And I had days when I didn't eat more than 1,000 calories.
Now, some of these meals were really good. My favorite was this grilled chicken market salad from Chick-fil-A. It had blueberries, strawberries, apples; it was delicious and it was actually healthy. However, a lot of the other salads from Burger King, McDonald's, and Wendy's were loaded with salt, often more than 50% of what I needed for the entire day, from a salad. In fact, excess salt was a problem the entire week. I thought I had hit the jackpot with Taco Bell's al Fresco menu. They take off all the cheese and mayo-based sauces and replace it with lettuce and pico de gallo. One night I got tacos, another night I got a power cantina burrito, and these were meals with more protein than usual. So, I felt like I was getting enough food. They were good, too good. It was all salt. In fact, just one burrito had almost as much salt as I needed in just one day. The American Heart Association says we should limit our sodium to about 2,300 milligrams a day, but the ideal is closer to 1,500 milligrams a day, especially for a person like me with high blood pressure. But if you look at my sodium intake, it was high every day, yet I was barely getting the calories I needed. If I wanted to keep the sodium down, I was starving. If I wanted to feel full, salt through the roof. You see, that's an issue in the fast food industry. Wendy's even acknowledges on their website that there's going to be a trade-off between salt and flavor.
It was weird. I didn't feel healthy at all throughout the week, even though I was eating healthy foods and losing weight. And on the last day, I had this massive headache that was just infuriating. These places, they're supposed to be tasty, cheap, and convenient. But it wasn't cheap. Every healthy option was expensive, but left me hungry. For eight grilled nuggets and this tiny kale salad at Chick-fil-A, $12. For the power Mediterranean salad at Wendy's, it was almost $8, yet I could get a cheeseburger, nuggets, fries, and a soda for only $4. That brings me to another problem. Walk into McDonald's and you get hit with that sweet, sweet french fry smell, and I had to get a salad.
Would I recommend this to anyone? Nope, unless you're stuck on the road with no other options. Though there was a bright spot: breakfast at Subway. They have these egg-white-and-cheese sandwiches, which I got covered in spinach and peppers. And let me tell you, it was good. But after all this, I just want a cheeseburger. - Наука та технологія
People in the U.S. really use the word “starving” loosely.
Omg so true I'm from el salvador (central América) and when I see how they use it I feel kinda offended :v
Yea we do haha
@@Cantalupo3471 wait cantalupo is your lastname
Lobito Neón Yea
@@Cantalupo3471 omg I know is useless info but that's the translation of cantaloupe to Spanish, ok I'm only hungry
Food has lettuce in it.
It’s “Healthy”
I've heard that lettuce has hardly any nutritional value to it
Famous Ramus22 ive heard the same
Paint Bacon green = its healthy
@@famousramus2288 lettuce actually has a lot of nutrients like vitamins A and K. They are extremely low calorie so that's where a lot of people think there's no nutrients. Especially if you look at calories to nutrients, it's very high in nutrients.
hearing and believing is easy, research and learning is harder, burn kjs and learn
Who the hell puts strawberries in grilled chicken
U have to try it!! Soooo good... but only with raspberry vinaigrette dressing
Chicken goes well with acidic/sour flavor thus lemons are often popular marination option.
🍓s same logic.
So to each their own choice and taste. Just don't judge quick.
Mostly we're putt off out of choices we're used to
It's good. I've had cashew + strawberry + grape + chicken + dates in a salad and it was amazing.
GAMER 2018 it’s so gooood! It seems weird but the combination is delicious!,
Chick fil a
The problem is not just the "food", it's also the "fast" part.
Fast / delicious / healthy. You can only pick two.
This comment is so underrated
I know what you mean but the analogy doesn't make sense. "Pick two" I could pick healthy ans fast and you said it yourself there ain't no healthy fast food
@@prado7391 I think he meant "pick one"
KanDuyog118
You can cook a healthy delicious meal.
@@prado7391 Healthy and fast, they give you a salad that's just lettuce and tomatoes, but guess what it's gonna taste more boring than a soap opera.
For anyone curious, the chick-fil-a salads are actually made fresh in the morning with fresh ingredients and put into the refrigerator to keep fresh for a little while before someone orders one (used to work there). There's a reason they taste good.
*F R E S H*
It's one of few fast food places I trust makes me happy lol.
That’s so wholesome to know!!! I wish we had chick-fil-a in my county :((
3 *FRESH*
but it's still *fast food*
‘Tech Insider’
Beasty Bacon You meant "Tech Insider." Right?!
Zubair Mirza ‘Tech Insider’
Patricia ! 😦😥
Maybe Patricia's talking about how the name has "tech" in it and this video is about food...
I tho this was buzzfeed wtf
Is this really a well thought out video though? The guy was unhealthy to start with... and then he keeps saying he didn't feel healthy during the week because he was suddenly so aware.
Fernando Valles oh yeah yeah
MasterLuke24 Is Cool oh yeah yeah
It's just propaganda ; )
Wanna try this urself? Go ahead
Fix mah burittttooooossssszzzsszzz
“An average male needs 2400 to 2600 calories a day”
Matt stonie,”hold my beer”
*10k calories milkshake
"on an average day im having about 2500 calories a day" why are you lying
More like 3500
You do not need 2,600 Cal day unless you do a ton of excersize.
@@robertdixon6536 I do and I'm skinny and exercise mildly, not alot or etc, if I dont eat about that much I get tired and really hungry soon
If you're a skinny manlet maybe
@@bobbywhite6208 You are a fairly rare bird Bobby and fortunate, depending on which side of the coin you are on.😉
The first sentence of this video.. NO! Fast food is not that cheap. Do the math! Cooking at home saves your health and $$$
Too many idiots don't realize this.
So I can never eat fast food?
@@billieeillishfan7020 not saying you can't. to save money and better health, just cook it yourself
@@acegr4732 that is when you learn how to cook. Healthy foold can take up to 30mins
@@wibs0n68 with more practice you can cook faster .Sometimes use half pre made like boxed vegetables or...
I seem he has less knowledge about food and nutrition.
Dude is convinced salt is bad lol
@Ichigo Red It seems you are no smarter than the idiot in this video. Before refrigeration was accessible, people were using salting in their foods and in a day it was normal to see someone consuming nearly 7.5 grams of salt a day. Guess what happened to them? Nothing. Nothing at all. The symptoms you've mentioned here are just an idiot's rambling. Please go educate yourself before you misinform people. The only way you can really harm yourself with salt is drinking a pint of it which is a method of suicide. The fact that the recommended salt intake is 1.5 grams is absolutely stupid.
T guys lets chill and relax its just salt
@Caro Ooms being aware of proper nutrition isn't acting smart. Hit your local dietician to learn something.
You don't eat around 2500 calories daily. We might be stupid but we're not blind
An average male does it around that range, you're stupid
Beep Boop but he doesn’t as you can see you fool.
Lol
@Chonghan L its 2000 for women
2500 is actually pretty reasonable, u can still get fat on that if you don't work out.
Drinking more water will help with the excess salt and being hungry all the time.
Shyam N Panigrahi by filling your stomach with something.
True true true
Shyam N Panigrahi yeah sometimes drinking water gets me hungry/ier
I drink a lot of water, but I get baked at night so I get hungry again XD
I don't think that yummy waffles are good to burn fat at night if youre hungry c:
This guy doesn't know much about food and nutrition
future Programmer not at all lol.
future Programmer LOL right
I mean, hes just trying out the healthy section lmao
Exactly!
Just like the vast majority of these commenters.
Am I complaining about stupid people again?
Tip: Just dont eat food at all duh
r/woosh
Ting Liu clearly...
Ting Liu no, Ling Ling Bing bing
Hospital want to know your house location
@Ting Liu yeah he is.
You and me both know you don’t eat 2500 calories regularly. Just by looking at you, you’re easily breaking 3k daily on a low eating day.
The reason you’re so hungry is because you’re going from 3.5k-4K calories (which is realistic let’s be real here) to a normal diet of around 2k.
@Kevin Arzola Don't judge a book by it's cover, you never know
XHAZEL just look at him and listen. He says he loves fast foods and literally said he ate a burger right after the whole thing.
My statement is correct lol
I agree with you Kevin. His body wasn't used to it.
It doesnt matter what you eat. As long as you don't eat enough food, you're gonna have a bad time
lol... this comment made me cackle
chicken with strawberries, blue berries and apples? holy shit-
Holy shit indeed.
Fruit salad prime
@@tatotatoo5404 underrated comment I'd say
@but ton idk if you like it but it's almost like pineapple on pizza the fruit makes it sweet and the meat makes it salty good combo
but ton pineapple on pizza is good shit
Fight meh
Okay I watched your video. Now get the hell out of my recommendations.
See the 3 dots under the thumbnail for the video? Click that then click "not interested"... You're welcome.
@@TexasGTO yea, and then some other wierd no good video pops up, and you have to Click "not interested" on it.
Lmao
Then why’d you click on the vid
Glizzard ur only gonna make it worse...
I love this video, we have a similar problem in the UK. There are all types of fast food around, and sometimes it's easier to choose this option. I work 50+ hours a week in central London, I used to live of fast food daily, and honestly I felt like crap. I started re-organising my time and spared a couple of hours to meal prep. Honestly, I've never felt so healthy and good in my life. Of course I treat myself now and then with the occasional fast food, but not as much nowadays
Why don't you just go and cook your own food with real ingredients?
I’d love to... but I’ve got a hypocritical mother who’s decided that she’d rather me destroy my body through eating garbage then accidentally burn her house down by cooking.
Adven4U1 glad I’m not the only one, I would go on a healthy diet if it wasn’t for my parents feeding me unhealthy meals without having a concern over health issues
Time is an important resource and sometimes it's not worth cooking esp if you find good options outside. What is "good" depends on your goals & situation.
@@Adven4U1 oof same.My mum gets me fast food very often cuz it's cheaper
@@MintPro47 same during years
He says he's eating nothing but healthy food... He drinks soda In the video
Aashir Anwar it could be water?
Could be Coke light or Zero.
Could be unsweetened iced tea.
He was drinking soda not eating
Show me one piece of evidence which suggests that.
You do realize if you exercise daily for 3-5 days at moderate to high intensity for 30-50 min you'll sweat most of the salt out. You have heart health issues because you simply aren't exercising enough. Those issues become no longer when you actually take care of yourself. If you think salt is bad, you'd be amazed at your controversial stance against it with other countries who consume far more sodium like the people around the Mediterranean sea and Japan. They're predicted to live longer. Enjoy your salt.
Calling salt the reason for their increased life span is just inane. The reason why the Japanese live longer for example is because their entire diet is different than in the west.(more fish, rice, soy, seeweed,vegetables, tea and less dairy and smaller plates), Add to this that they consume only third of the calories that Americans do and you'll get the reason for why.
Also another one is that you'll be fat shamed(which is a good thing) because being fat is not the norm.
Brett Van Overstraeten I don’t think he is claiming salt is the key to their longer life span. He’s just simply saying they eat a lot of salt too, if not maybe more, and don’t have the problems we do.
Brett Van Overstraeten that's a given. I'm just picking this out of his excuses for his belief it's salt for being part of the equation when it's minuscule in comparison to the fact this guy eats far too much and doesn't exercise enough to help assist with fat loss.
Oh okay
Salt-restricted diets are now only indicated for people with pre-existing conditions like high blood pressure. As a savvy scientist put it recently "The three things they tell you to bring in to the desert are water, food and salt." Anyone who has experienced hyponatremia can validate this from personal experience.
it literally took me three min to realize this wasn't buzzfeed lmao
Did you know eatting less salt is worse for you then eatting to much. If you get under the recommended salt for the day constantly you die. If you go over your body has ways to remove extra salt.
this is very much true.
Balance is key but people used to live when salt wasn't invented.
@cheggers! yeah salt is bad. I avoid it mostly.
@@ShubhamSharma-iz2qo Think about what you just said right there for about 5 minutes.
@@Jacob-Pilling why do I need to think about it?
There's no way he only eats 2500 calories a day.
More like 3500 a day!
If he doesnt do alot of sports i think it makes sense. I only eat like 2000 kcal a day and i dont lose weight like that even tho i am like 95 kg and thats because i am lazy af
Mr President im 16 and I eat 3400 calories a day from healthy foods. Rice, chicken breast, oatmeal vegies and training as well and I am 145 pounds so he muat eat around 4000 junk food.
Mister Bananas you need to have a hormone panel done
3500-4000 I'd say I'm supposed to have 2500 to keep my weight and I'm 196lbs
Just goes to show eating food you make yourself is the best way. If that wasn't already obvious, of course...
And it's REALLY not as hard as people make it out to be.
not only is it not hard to pick up but it lets you make food to suit your own tastes perfectly. my problem is most of the time buying all the ingredients for a dish is way more expensive than buying the dish from elsewhere unless you already have tons of ingredients on hand all the time
Eh, making the effort is the problem, cooking and exercise both require someone wanting to put in the time. Healthier cooked foods also still deal with cost; fresh ingredients are typically more expensive than junk foods.
cans of beans, steam some frozen vegetables, fry some chicken. some rice. these things arent hard. the take a few mins to cook.
Most curry's are easy to make and contain a lot of fresh veggies plus you can cook some extra for the next day. This is what i usually do when i'm very busy. The most expensive ingredient is usually meat but with curry's you won't really mis that.
you go girl
Viking loses 6 pounds.
😂😂
id love to see this tried with convenience store and super market "healthy" options that are prepackaged and ready to eat.
They're still unhealthy foods. Do you know preservatives are bad for you. That food is most likely frozen but reheated.
Duuurrrrr, I can't read this so it's UNHEALTHY,, DURR!
But still, yes, this was unhealthy.
Hmm last time I checked salt is a vital mineral used to maintain our nervous system...guess I should stop eating these “preservatives”
You must have not watched the video before writing this comment.
Not sure how you guys missed the point of this guys comment to such a degree. He didn't mean that foods with preservatives are inherently bad. What he was saying is that to preserve foods at fast food restaurants so that they don't go bad they have to pack them with salt, causing the sodium to calorie ratio too be dangerously high if you're dumb enough to eat three meals at a fast food joint like this guy.
Josh Josh He’s not talking about salt: he’s talking about the “preservatives” boogeyman.
If arent getting enough calories than its not a meal, you were just parts of meals...eat two salads
or he was eating exactly the meal he needed to lose weight...
like he said, fast food salads are really expensive
It's not that. The ingredients in a salad are low in calorie but high indensity. You need to balance meals out not just eat a salad. That's why things such as Pandas are eating ALL DAY because bamboo shoots suck for nutrition. You'd need to eat roughly 12 salads to be an average male per day and even then your nutrition would be lacking.
+Graeme Evans
Have you tried losing weight before? Eating less than you should and working out works... for the first few KG. Then your body adapts and it stops. You can eat like a little girl and work out for 1-2 hours every day and not lose any weight at all for weeks or even months. That's why people stop trying. It's not worth it. Not all people are like you, to be thin without putting in any effort.
It's all about genes. If you think that you're thin because of your eating habits and that you put in some sort of effort to be the size that you are, well then, sorry pal but you're not. You have nothing to be proud of.
+John Doe I tried losing weigth before and I only changed a few small things like:
Watching at a low Glycemic index of food and don't combine them with fatty food
Eat maybe sometimes a salad
Thats how I lost 10 kg in 6 months without even changing the amount I eat (I eat a lot) or doing sport.
Recommended salt is not attainable with our preference of salt. If you think, other more expensive restaurant or even you mom cooking is any less different.. you are fooling yourself. The reason why this dude feeling unhealthy, is probably due to the drops in weight.
He drops too much calories a day. 2400 calories is only for those 5'10 n had active lifestyle.
If you work behind office n smaller than that, you probably need less.. BUT, since your body are used digest so much calories, a sudden drop in intake would make you suffer
restaurant chains sure, but cooking at home, mom and pop restaurants, etc. aren't going to give you a shit ton of salt and will definitely keep you under your recommended; you're fooling yourself if you think it's not attainable, when it actually is easily attainable
Salt is healthy is the recommended doses because it actually helps with KEEPING hydrated, etc. But in large amounts, it's extremely unhealthy. You're not going to make a meal at home and dump 1400mg of salt in it; regular meals will be closer to a few hundred, maybe 500-600 at most if it's salt heavy.
you are correct, the massive drop in calories is probably what made him feel bad and not necessarily the salt, but expensive restaurants and "your mom cooking" isn't going to dump as much salt in you as a fast food chain -- you'd be naive to think that, and you are actually the one fooling yourself
TheGreatgan lol 2400 is to much? If i eat 2400 i will lose over a pound a week in weight. Yeah i exercise but unless you are around 100 lbs and All you do is drive your car to work and sit on your ass all day 2400 is perfect for a average male
Do you think msg is a good salt substitute
kenneth zhen lol no better take some kalium
@@raoulz9619 damn I only need 1000 kcal a day, and I don't exercise at all
So he just ate the burger with lettuce, tomato, cheese, and the bread itself.
So what you're saying is I can survive off potato chips!
lol... twas a joke, ya know?
You could practically live off of potatoes, especially with a little bit of ketchup! I mean, obviously you haven't seen "Martian" with Mark Wahlberg.
slayNprey "with mark wahlberg"
Thomas Kramer What is the purpose of your comment?
Actually, humans are designed to process starch. We have an entire glucose storage system near our liver.
As long as it's healthy food it's healthy
Ummmmmm ok
That's not wrong.
If cocaine was labeled as healthy will you buy it?
@@rubixgamer6598 But it's not tho...
@@rubixgamer6598 hehe..... It's too expensive
I have high blood pressure too and i found out the level of sodium that the food industry uses is outrageous. I ended up cooking almost all of my own meals.
“I just want a cheeseburger”
Mood.
"Eating Healthy" Grabs soft drink...
Cro XV its a diet coke duuhhh.
Eating healthy drinking unhealthy
Duhhhh..
Pewds Waifu
Actually. Diet Coke has more sugar than regular coke
ΕηηαᎡᎠ Ꭲhe Mapler you're wrong, it has more water than sugar.
I think its because its included in the "Healthy meal"
Just make your own chicken and rice. Cheaper and healthier and you do not stay hungry.. this is just a dumb way of making a small problem a big one
J V but that takes time tho
No rice, rice is grains and is not keto
James Merdian chicken, rice and veggies takes 20 minutes. Don't be so lazy
@@jamescharles8764 It takes EXACTLY 35mn total to cook chicken and rice. Rice is about 20mn, and chicken is like 10mm, You can cook the chicken within 10mn of the rice being on the stove. I added an extra 15mn for choppong up the spices and cutting the chicken. It's not that hard.
Im on the atkins diet. I eat 4 sticks of butter for breakfast lunch and dinner and I feel great!
This is my favorite tech video of all time
Cool video, thanks for doing this and giving us the insight
Less sugar can give you that headache. It goes away once your body re-equilibrates. And if you went from eating 2500cal to 1000cal you shouldn't be loosing one Lb a day. Clearly something else going on.
Evan Adams he lost water wheight if you don't eat for a day you can lose 0.5 lb.
sina yyy salt isn't bad but to much is bad
A lot of it was probably water weight and because he was eating around 1,000-1,500 less calories he put his body into starvation mode which would also cause him to loose muscle and fat. Not good
Xtremedog83 starvation mode doesn't exist (examine.com). It was all water weight and some fat
Axiarus if you wheigh yourself every day at the same moment you wont be 6 pounds up or down
I know there are a lot of sheep's out there that think eating salad at fast food restaurant makes them healthy. The answer is NO.
sina yyy because the fast food industry is playing mind game with its customer. It's just perceived as healthy but it's actually is not and you end up getting another thing on the menu when you smell the fries cooking. Exactly like he said it would.
sina yyy the amount of sodium and other chemical they put in them
There r a lot youtube videos testing subway sandwich for example. They are not even 100% chicken and the char grilled mark on them are painted on.
Emoji Flower Seriously? Painting the meat? Is that like gluing meat together, er I mean what they do with steaks? Is food coloring edible?
Why would anyone paint something on that's really easy to do while cooking? I don't even like burnt anything, that's toxic. I just had a Subway salad, and it was very healthy. I didn't get the sauce, no sugars, and it was mostly lettuce.
Gold Waves search "Subway chicken test" on UA-cam and. Click on the first video. Then come back and discuss with me.
sina yyy you do that too.
cheers to this video and production!
I had to eat saltless for 7 days after a specific medical treatment. The first days were not fun, my food tasted bland. But then my pallet changed and my tongue got used to not eating salt. After 7 days I added a bit of salt to my food and it was disgusting! Today I eat salt poor, which basically means that I don't add salt to my food, but I'll eat salty things like ham and I don't avoid foods anymore that contain salt. In my 7 days of no salt, I had to read all the ingredients of everything I purchased. I was surprised to see that some jars of spices/herbs don't contain salt at all, but then there are other jars that are packed with salt. I feel better educated :-)
Pepper and garlic powder are my go to spices
A week isn't enough to draw any serious conclusion.
I can draw a conclusion. Go to a dietitian and follow the plan that they lay out for you
Brett Van Overstraeten
Or save that money you would waste on a dietitian and just read online how to set up a meal plan.
A) People are much less likely to follow the plans that they themselves have laid out B) Everybody has different needs and I highly doubt that they now what they need
Strawberries with chicken? Wtf
Delicious delicious
K A I’m a beautiful mexicana
Grace Zubiaga
He's not talking to you.
Aaron Fonseca You should see chocolate chicken
There's nothing wrong with mixing fruits with savory food. Roasted ham with apples or pine apple, Swedish meatballs with that red jam they serve with it, in Belgium they eat meat loaf with cherry sauce, those are just the examples I can think of. Nothing wrong with all of that, only uncultured peasants disagree.
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Alaska and Hawaii: Am I a joke to you?
He's there while im busy eating a whole box of large pizza. 😂😂
Wonder if his headache was from some form of keto flu, he was eating mostly protein and veggies. No sugar. Most people don't realize how addicted they are until they stop.
maybe, but a lot of these salads have a decent amount of carbs, and especially those wraps he was eating.
with the amount of gluten he's eating with the tortillas, I highly doubt he'd get into ketosis
No way he was in ketosis, a lot of the meals he showed he ate still had a lot of carbs.
You can have limited carbs, and something made with quinoa or corn doesn't have a ton of sugar. Depends on the amount of carbs per gram. You don't need to be completely abstinent to notice glycol issues, pretty much anyone who reduces sugar significantly feel grumpy or sick.
I think his sodium levels might have been high enough to avoid keto flu.
Isn't high sodium intake displaced by just drinking more water?
yep
No. You will have high blood pressure because the salt will make you retain water. Salt is bad at these quantities. There's no antidote other than to eat less salt.
Zach Thompson exercise is an antidote as you'll pretty much sweat all the sodium and water out.
JJP very dangerous to stress your heart when you have high blood pressure
Potassium counteracts salt. So they need to in the correct ratio.
My favorite fastfood item lately has been a veggie delite from Subway. Minus the cucumber, extra lettuce, extra spinach, add banana peppers, add pickle, red vinegar, and pepper with pepper jack cheese. Yum!
Their veggie is actually one of the most calorief filled things on the menu.
Burger =
Buns = Carbohydrates
Vegetables = Vitamin
Patty = Protein
haha good one
For many parts of the country, more so in heavily populated to medium sized cities, eating healthy is Expensive... there is a solution, but I'm not saying you'll like it. Soup, soup and more soup... throw in a salad and you end up filling yourself, staying hydrated and getting those benefits of a healthier diet... best part ... it's cheap to make soup and that gives you wiggle room to splurge on some higher priced items on a fairly regular basis. Oh, BTW Do Not go with packaged Ramen type soups or, actually, Any store bought soups... make it yourself and use fresh or frozen veggies w/ a small amount of meat. Any bones, fat trimmed off or skin should be used to make a soup base... more or less a stock, but often with a heavier collagen amount.
thats why you eat rice for breakfast. A full meal in the morning can make you last half the day.
I’m from a country where everyone eats soup at least one times a day. ppl really don’t look magically healthy here. even in water veggies loose a lot of vitamins by cooking. eat everything that’s what mama always told me
Johnny Doeboy in Slovakia you have a soup every day.
Wow this guy really loves soup.
True.. Its more cheap to get fat than being skinny lol
If you lost 7 pounds in a week the salt wasn’t a problem for you....believe me you would know if you were holding tons of water because the scale would be incredibly inconsistent
eating more salt makes you more dehydrated.
Not really, sodium binds to water and when you increase sodium there is an increased pathway to retention. Some ppl are really sodium sensitive and will literally gain pounds from a few high sodium meals
well he lost way more weight than he should have. so he wasnt over eating salt. he was probably on less salt than he usualy ate, so not eating anywhere near enough to be causing dehydration, instead he dropped water weight because he was on less salt. eating 800 calories a day doesnt matter wha the rda%of salt the food package says, he'll have been having less than what he was getting on 3000calories of whatever junk he used to eat.
Could it possibly be the 2200 calories that he wasn't eating. You know the 1.5 amount of calories that a human body requires that he wasn't consuming
Graeme Evans wrong, eating lots of sodium makes your body hold more water
I switched to an all-plant-based diet a few months ago. It's been a bit of an adjustment, but I've been satiated while keeping my calories in check. I really don't count my calories too much with the diet. I think I average out between 2200 and 2500 calories (6'3, 240 lbs overweight man). I've lost weight primarily because I've kept my calories down, but the plant-based diet has also helped because fewer calories make me feel fuller and longer. Now, this doesn't mean I eat salads. I rarely do. I eat rice, beans, potatoes, nuts, etc. I don't shy away from carbs. At all. They help me power through my workouts. The "healthy" options, especially at fast food places, are unlikely to satisfy. If they still have fat and especially salt with the fat, you'll most likely feel hungry again sooner. Fat packs a lot of calories per gram but hardly satiates. We keep going back for more. Whenever I've gone back to eating those delicious fast food meals, I've caught myself easily eating too much. For me, it seems the culprit is animal products especially dairy and most especially fats (even the plant-based ones). Not surprised Kevin's experiment had the results it did: he consumed fewer calories thus he lost weight, but he consumed so little that he wasn't getting the calories he needed, and he was not getting satiation.
Ok, so we're gonna make a youtube channel called tech insider, what content do we make?
Food content.
Bloody genius.
Make Your Own Food! Simple!
Isn't the real measure of "what consumers want" determined by how they spend their hard earned money rather how they respond to survey questions?
Tom Nally For many poor busy people, fast food is the only option.
That's true. And the same people you identify could eat healthy fast food (like beard guy did) or unhealthy fast food.
Tom Nally If you watch the whole video, you learn that it's not healthy and it's expensive in comparison to the non-healthy options. The calories are low but the sodium is high.
randomguy5990 eating healthy is actually a lot cheaper than eating fast food if you really care and also if you eat healthy you really only need to eat once a day tbh
Eli Jenn Yes, you can buy healthy food at the grocery store and cook at home. The problem is that many people don't have time to do that. I don't think eating once a day is healthy.
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It's hard to see that fast food in the USA is cheaper then healthy food. I pay 3€ for a fresh salad in my cafe and 6€ for a big mac menu(gernany).
According to the Big Mac index a Big Mac averages around 4€ in Germany
You pay 3 euros for a SALAD? wtf...
KiloByte for the big mac burger yeah, the menus are around 6 euros thats something like 6.6 dollar
Fast food is actually ripoff in the US as well.
@@warellis Yes but a lot cheaper, still. But the fact that its so expensive in Europe is (at least it's one factor) because in the EU there are a lot more laws prohibiting things that are allowed in the US which make the meat so cheap.
Are you seriously complaining about the healthier meal options having too few calories? That's the whole premise of eating healthy. Consuming calories at a deficit or at maintenance levels. The reason why you're starving is because your body is used to consuming at a surplus.
The sodiom is less of a problem than you make it be. Overconsumption in sodium levels are easily nullified by consuming more liquid. The 'baseline guide' conjured by the healthy food administrations are using those guidelines for general western diets. Salt only really becomes a problem when you consume it at levels which your body can't balance(too little water) or when your body's inefficient at utilizing it(Your body aint healthy).
The healthier your body is, meaning the leaner you are and when you're consuming healthy nutrituous fuel, the more salt you can consume.
Henrik Swanström No, it’s not. A whole foods plant based diet is the ideal diet for humans and you can eat as much as you want until you’re full and eat anytime you’re hungry. If you’re eating tons of fruits, veggies, legumes, nuts, seeds & grains like whole wheat pasta, bread, and brown rice you can eat as much as you want and you will still lose weight. Cutting out all animal products by itself does wonders, but if you go further and cut out all processed foods and you don’t add any oil or refined sugar and only minimal salt, the health benefits will be even more dramatic.
Counting calories is not sustainable, people will always cheat or give up, they cannot handle being hungry and then reach for the worst foods to fill in he gap.
No other animals diet or worry about calories. They eat their natural diet until their full. Our bodies are made to tell us when to stop and when to eat. It’s our technology that has allowed us to create foods that make us fat.
Just eat plants.
Not exactly. You can gain weight by eating too much fruit.
The human body is designed be omnivorous. Without both the human body cannot function fully. It is technology that allowed veganism to exist, to make up for the shortcomings of the diet.
Exactly tell em Lmao.
Solarpunk Artist lol the research would disagree.
People eat chicken salad with fruits??
yes we do.
hamolina very weird
ikr, disgusting.
Personally, I find it to be disgusting. The flavors don't match, the dressing used most often is too damn sweet for chicken or lettuce, and the texture is off putting as all hell when chicken and fruit combine. It's common, though.
People eat salad and chicken which are both almost completely devoid of nutrients?
While he’s eating healthy
I’m sitting in the corner eating a whole box of cookies and a tub of ice cream crying
No fast food is healthy. If you actually want to eat healthy, you need to make it from home.
TheTechPerson where can I get that homemade vegies that are not sprayed with insecticide?
Eryk Slezak because plants cant absorb insecticide,huh?
Could always go to a farm yourself or make a small garden
natsirT yresseJ Well I just said fast food is not healthy. You can always just go to a supermarket and buy fruits yourself, then cut them into a salad and buy the actual dish from a deli or something (or even make that yourself). I’m just saying that fast food is not healthy, even if they claim its healthy or if it looks healthy.
natsirT yresseJ A garden...
simple, healthy fast food items are expensive because :
-nobody ordered it so they only stock on limited quantity
-healthier ingredient like lettuce, spinach, and strawberry are more expensive than french fries or burger buns.
-they deliberately overpricing some of their menus so the customer gonna chose cheaper junk food (in fact, fast food still get a major profit from the cheapest option because of bulk discount they got from suppliers)
Ernest Jay no they are expensive because usually only wealthier people jump und the 'healthy' fad. They think eating a salad will make you 'healthy' or believe they can only eat vegetables. That's why they can overcharge for low calorie foods and idiots are going to pay
Jaza I would agree more with the original comment. They use junk in their burgers, probably less than 20% meat. No shit it's gonna be so cheap. Their fries? Even worse. If they used real fresh potatoes it would much more expensive. They sell junk, and people actually pay for it.
Joe Haddad, that's why it called "Junk Food"
Ground beef isn't that rare, can prolly guarantee you that most fast food joints just use normal ground beef, and potatoes are literally one of the cheapest foods around (if not the cheapest). Faking a potato is going to be a hell of alot more expensive than just buying potatoes in bulk. Most of the profit in those types of restaurants in general isnt from the burgers, but from the drinks and fries.
That's actually incorrect. Depending on where you are depends on the price. If I go down to a NC beach the health food is significantly higher(a place where people care about the way they look). where as if I just go to a McD's down my street the health food is the same price, and sometimes cheaper, than the other options. I noticed this with water prices as well.
*when you eat too much junk food
I NEED A SALAD
*when you eat too much healthy food
*_GIVE ME FRIED BUTTER STICKS AND A COMBO_*
Sodium isn't salt just like chlorine isn't salt.
For someone who is supposedly knows a lot about sodium intake and sodium induced high blood pressure, this man doesn't seem to know the simple fact that an increase in sodium intake is remedied by an increase in water intake. Get your calories. Listen to your body. If it says drink more water, then you DRINK MORE WATER, and no more headaches due to dehydration. Simple.
Are you sure? Salt retains water. High salt and high water creates high blood pressure......
Good question. Our kidneys naturally excrete excess electrolytes, such as sodium, along with excess water. In any case, you'll need to re-hydrate in order for your body to regulate this process and maintain a safe plasma osmolality. You can learn more about sodium regulation in the body if you look up the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System (RAAS).
@@441meatloaf you can get rid of water retention when you drink more water, since your body no longer needs to hold on to it
Headache could be also from dropping sugar intake in short amount of time. It's common symptom. You need also to adjust your stomach for eating much more food to get the same amount of kcal as before. To eat healthy you would need to cook at home. It's also cheaper (in terms of cash not time) then eating in food restaurants.
For me the most problematic thing about eating in modern times is easy access to food with a lot of sugar and fat. If you go to any store like 90% of food products will have around 2-4 spoons of sugar in 100g (~3.5 oz). It's just too much! You just can't get any healthy processed food in any store now. And it's really hard to cut that sugar because people are too addicted to it.
Kirito so what can you cook that’s healthy? I’m asking cause I’m tired of eating fast food
Usually eating healty means cutting down sugar. You should eat max around ~10 teaspoons of sugar a day (WHO standards). Eating not processed food is a must, or at least look for some better alternatives. Well atm I don't eat healthy and gaining waist/stomach fat while scrolling internet looking anything that can change my life without much effort from my side :).
Axiarus thanks guys
My vote, based on how he looks, is that he probably cut off alcohol.
Not saying he's A alcoholic, but he looks like someone who enjoys a drink
The headaches are either due to lack of alcohol or lack of sodium. Electrolytes are underrated
Headache can be because of a lot of factors ,u cant just say:" hey its from sugar "and thats it, it could be strees, dehidratation, too much coffee, lack of sleep , and the list goes on and on.
Majestic beard though, I'll give him that!
I liked this video and the dude. Nice and not too long. Cool channel
this guy is saying he lost 3500 calories a day whilest eating fast food and not counting calories.... the biggest lie i have ever heard
FuZzY I'm sure I should listen to you. But I'm curious where is your phd in nutrition/strength/development I'll wait.
you dont need a phd to understand that having a 3500 caloric deficit a day is impossible without alot of exercise and not eating shit like mcdonalds
it doesn't need to be all fat burning. he might have just been losing water. it often happens when you drastically change diets
It's almost physically impossible to be a 3500 caloric deficit in a day lmao.
You would basically have to fast for a day and do extreme cardio to create a larger deficit.
A lot of it was probably water weight. When I started dieting 6 months ago, I lost 10 pounds the first two weeks. That's normal. This guy doesn't know shit about nutrition though.
Healthy does not mean boring
We should learn that.
Whenever someone says healthy food everyone thinks about salad.
There are other food that are healthy and delicious.
Yes. Tomatoes!
Salad can be pretty freaking delicious if you put some effort into it..think Spring mix with shaved raw fennel, roasted onion, sweet potato and beets with pepitas, (vegan) feta and lemon honey garlic dressing. Fresh sea slat and cracked black pepper. I dare you to try it and tell me it's not 'delicious')
And don't drown your salad in dressing. You might as well drink the bottle of dressing.
T. B. Lemon honey garlic dressing and sweet potato would make it a 400 cal salad lool
Salad is dangerous because it is raw. Also, it takes a lot of time to clean all those leafy things. Also, vegetables are expensive and do not last long in refrigerators. You cannot even freeze them.
Both Graham and I think your beard looks amazing, Kevin!
Awesome tech advice!
Cook at home. Problem solved.
ALPHABARN can’t cook and takes a lot of time to go out and buy ingredients every week and to cook them so problem not solved
Best idea, but doesn't work if traveling
Hama Burhan hahahahaha just work a lot fam Relax
like where?? Im from mexico and I donr have the time to cook.... we work around 12 hours a day and 1 hour away from home... with 2 hours to eat cooking is not an option
Gr8 Incarnate no, I don't... I go to work at 9am and leave at 9pm then I need to travel home, get off your high horse. The only time I have to cook is the weekends I don't have to work and even then I buy too little food otherwise it will go to waste during the week
You're absolutely right, eating healthy is expensive, not everyone can afford salads all day long.
I would love to eat chicken salads all day long but really $4 for 2 cheeseburgers is better than $18 for 2 salads that leave you starving.
I'm just here... procrastinating when I should be doing my project
Despite people saying this video was useless, I learned something and found it worth watching
I’m just happy that he wasn’t one of those people who just said “well it tastes good and that’s the end of the story” or their like “it’s not fried and it’s eggs” and it’s hash browns with a butt load of bacon
Of course his favorite item was from Chick-Fil-A... Everything they sell is better than any other fast food place
Cruz Nah, zaxbys is best
Samuel yeah Zaxbys is damn good too.
Well up here in the north we don't have zaxbys but canes is like the same thing and it's amazing
Raising canes is awesome, but too expensive. ~50% more per tinder than zaxby's, and without the menu variety.
Hmm I've only been to zaxby's once since we don't have any where we live.
K the salt is maybe a “problem” but what do you think when you’re eating usual fast food 👋🏻
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shave your beard you will lose another 6.5 pounds.
jackychannel 😂
Ha!!
U made a funny.
jackychannel thanks for making me laugh
Carlos Jr good roast....
You can literally eat anything you want as long as you hit your calorie and macro goal, BUT youll feel like shit eating unhealthy meals or youll feel good eating healthy meals
Angel Lima yeah people don't know about macros
This is just imagination
Is that why the military doesn’t care what you eat as long as you reach your macro level?
Sergio Buryy calorie wise im guessing yes but macro wise maybe no
Faizan Ali well isnt it obvious fruits, veggies, lean meats, whole foods in general
I live in western Wyoming, we only have a Subway in town. Nearest McDonald's is almost 100 miles away. 😮
Me: Can we have fast food
Mom: We have fast food
Fast food at home:
The happy meal box at McDonald's has more nutritional value than the food itself
What's this got to do with tech
Anony mous food tech
*This showed up in my recommendations after I watched like 10 Mukbang videos...*
Yeah the combo salads were expensive but a lot of these places have value menu side salads that are like $2-3 each so get two and that's a $3-4 salad and they usually don't have the unhealthy accoutrement that the meal versions have
Thank you for bringing up the high sodium in fast food. It's often completely overlooked but is a major health issue.
not really worried about the salt,
I would be more worried about the sugar they load in it.
should be concerned about both. we consume way too much of each. constant, excessive amounts of sodium put undue stress on the entire vascular system. the body needs less than a tsp. of it per day.
Not unless you are eating moderately to very low carb, then it's just the sugar.
Why does this guy look very kind?
The trick is high volume low calories and high in fiber/protein so it takes longer to digest and helps with hunger
4$ For a menu in McD?
No wonder people choose it instead of other options, and got overweight.
Lot more expensive in EU
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Ayub Ahmed It’s much more deeper than that. All of these fast, affordable options are targeted at lower end families. They don’t have an option. It’s either eat that, or to not eat at all.
I agree that in most parts of Europe a McD menu is more expensive, but in Eastern Europe it is definitely even around that price or cheaper. Especially the combo menu ( fries and a burger ) that is only 1 euro.
Ayub Ahmed Yeah the big smack or ever called BURGER not meal costs 8€ here
Loky Saint in my town they’re always packed. mostly by teenagers
Loky Saint
would love to see where in Eastern Europe you can eat so cheap , here in Slovakia the daily menu cost from 5-10 euro + drink another 2 euro , while the average salary is 500 euro/month. I eat most vegetables since i hate buying stuff from market that is literally "humus" or garbage but when i go out with friends i end up giving up over 20 euro per food for nothing and fastfood here isn't cheap either .
I highly doubt you consume only 2.500 calories a day...
Yo Dawg consume 2,500 calories a day of pure junk when you're in your late 20s ande early 30s and not be active and you my friend have a 2,500 obese boi trust me it happens
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He forgot to include the soda calories.
Americans and salt. Never understood their problem with it, never will.
we use salt to cover up the taste of dead animal, taste pretty bad with zero seasonings. salt and sugar is the staple of the SAD diet (standard american diet)
found the vegan
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@Michael Myers I could point your bad analogy out, or just come with a new one. "Erik" and "Eric" are basically the same thing. Just like plain sea-salt and himalayan salt. Both are pretty nice and have good taste. Unlike no salt, or no name at all. So, still, never understood it, never will.
@@erik6937 becauae too much salt is like too much anything. Bad.
its to distract you from the real killer white powder. sucrose, or high fructose corn syrup .. any artificial sugars
I see 3.7k corporate people from the fast food industry said no to your video. TBH, not surprised by your results. Thanks for doing this.