The REAL Reason Americans are Fat
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- Spencer Snyder breaks down the real reason why Americans have such high obesity levels.
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There is no profit in keeping people healthy and educated.
unfortunately yes , should be top comment ! 👍
We need people to be innovative to be globally competitive. Then again we need a good amount of dumb people to do the jobs that nobody wants. We also need the unhealthy to keep the healthcare industry booming.
@@tk80mufa5of course there's profit to be made in keeping people healthy and educated.. But there are more profits to keep them sick and STUPID.. 💵💵💯💯😄😄
If I make a cookie and everybody likes it and everybody’s banging on my door for more cookies, should I tell them no I don’t wanna give you these cookies because my responsibility is to be your personal trainer?
@@bsiferd Why'd you make your cookies so addicting that people are "bangin on your door?" You put something in there?
American food is full of things banned in other countries. That’s one main issue.
Its the biggest reason for our bad health
I stopped eating grains. Changed my life. The Glyphosates are destroying your good gut bacteria. You will NEVER be healthy with f'd up gut bacteria. The end.
And there are also a bunch of ingredients we ban that they use so that proves nothing. UGH.....I am so sick of this stupid narrative!!
Facts ! Facts ! And double Facts. But unfortunately we americans dont care and just love our Fast Fried Foods because they are cheap & convenient .
High fructose corn syrup replaced cane sugar and Americans ballooned.
Lack of sleep has a huge underestimated impact on unhealthy weight gain
No it’s not
@@Delouser69Absolutely it does.
So you could eat less calories than your body burns….but not lose weight….be cause you don’t get enough sleep?
@@BrianReplies it’s only partially true. The video explains in detail that USA as a nation is far. Do people really think it’s just because of lack of sleep? They think other countries don’t have people with lack of sleep? It’s a stupid thing to try to factor in
@@Delouser69 The American lifestyle is one that encourages sleep deprivation, studies CLEARLY show Americans lack proper sleep, what ARE you babbling about ?
Stress, anxiety and lack of sleep combined with overeating is the problem. Living in the West is a perfect place for all this to occur.
And sedentary lifestyles.
@@skimNDwe're sedentary because we're fat. Not the other way around. It's the food. And it's not just the US.
You're overestimating the impact of these. Capitalism is not at fault for people's terrible habits. Why are people with high stress, long hour jobs from farming to finance able to stay trim? It's about not eating garbage and burning the calories you consume.
Its almost impossible to over eat whole foods in their natural state. When you eat whole foods, it takes more time, more chewing and more energy to digest. Your body naturally knows when you have eaten enough and sends signals telling you your full/satisfied when eating whole foods. Stress, anxiety and lack of sleep are not new things, just look at how most poor people lived a mere 100 years ago. Its the hyper processed foods that hijack the bodies appetite and satiation systems that leads to overeating.
@@PsyK1c This
Plant based doesn’t mean healthy or weight loss.
True. Sugar and empty carbs come from plants.
@@larschapman3329 no grains bring weight loss. And anyone eating impossible “meat” isn’t going to lose weight.
I mean if that's the base and u slap a steak on every plate I'd say ur on the right track
Plants are TOXIC !
Eat meats !
He said plant based. Lost any cred
I strongly recommend re-uploading this without that obnoxious music in the background, holy shit. Or at least turn it down like 70%
yeah agreed it sucks
Calm down
@@markcavandish1295 lol
Maybe but it's not very loud.
@@markcavandish1295I’m calm. I’m also now clicking away from this video because of the music
Chemicals in everything, lack of moving around.
It is diet. There are not enough hours in the day to exercise away 2,000 calories over the recommended daily value. I'm skinny without going to the gym. I just eat right.
I LIKE EATING!
@@WarningStrangerDanger Which burns more fat. Fat or muscle. Building and keeping muscle increase calories burned
@@WarningStrangerDanger there are definitely enough hours for that. I go for bike rides regularly that burn more than 2,000 calories.
It's called STUPIDITY.. 💯💯😂😂😂
Awesome video, extremely educational. Would recommend getting rid of the background music. It is distracting and annoying
@swolfdo Agreed!!
Yes!!!
Don't mind it for transitions between main points, but it's pretty distracting while he's talking
I thought I had another UA-cam window open! :p
Have to agree. I hate it so much when they do that.
The background music is too loud and kinda headache inducing
Plus the entire premise of this piece is fat shaming an entire nation
Sounds like someone downloaded the Cuphead soundtrack from Wish.
@@MyMomSaysImKeenif you’re fat, you need fat shamed. You’re an adult so act like one and take care of yourself
@@MyMomSaysImKeenAre you proposing fat celebration instead?
“Be sick, and be proud of it!”
@@MyMomSaysImKeen It seemed to me like they were educating people. I'm overweight myself, and the more of these type videos I see, the more motivated I become to change things, so I don't live my life on medications and in doctor's offices.
"Here's a healthy diet"
(Doesn't include meat.)
Right.... "Man... I'm stuffed. I just ate 245 calories of vegetables..... and I'll be starving again in about an hour and a half."
Yeah I know huh
Dumb comment eat some potatoes
High fructose corn syrup
The background music is distracting.
@@mariannenapoles146 background fruit sugar got me like
Sugar is sugar is sugar...the source makes no difference. Corn syrup is no worse than cane sugar.
What is high fructose corn syrup and does is make my McDonalds hamburger and fries taste good.
@@corky8490 True. It's the fact that high fructose corn syrup is cheaper than regular sugar. So, they are able to place way more corn syrup in food compared to regular sugar.
Why are you playing loud music?
So glad I cook from scratch. Corporations are the enemy.
If you count the federal government as a corporation (and you should) then I agree.
Nah.. STUPIDITY is your worst enemy.. 💯💯
Corporations ARE the enemy
@@user-vk1ub9fi7e so you have problems with capitalism?? 💵💵😄😄😄
That helps a good deal - but you are still reliant on processed starches, oil, & other staples.
The background noise in this video is driving me nuts. It’s competing with the speaker.
Comfort food for an uncomfortable nation.
lazy food for a lazy nation
Is there a version without the background music?
Thumbing the video down for it!
Bad food, bad food choices, inactivity.
Everyone I know who's overweight is smart enough to know better; they just want to dine out five times per week while never lifting weights and doing only minimal cardio.
Also, it is the endless advertisements which are constantly getting thrown into everyone's face.
@@buddygrimfield7954 Advertisements aren't mind control, I've never seen an ad and felt I needed it's product. If anything I've been trained to tune them out and ignore them.
It can trigger you to get something like u were busy and then u see a McDonald or coke add and now u feel like getting it@@BenjaminBadbrother
@@BenjaminBadbrother Its mostly availability. If in Europe it was just as available they would be as fat as us.
Its because they do not want you to live long enough to collect that social security you payed into.
I’m not going to receive it period. We should ask for tax breaks to get our money that we will not get later back. Social security is a pyramid scheme. I am a young person and it’s another reason why we are poorer.
So when are you gonna pay up on the $35 trillions you owe?? 💵💵😄😄😄
@@jonathan7249 all social programs have to go. They aren’t a societal net positive because not all Americans at this point are going to see that money.
No? Its cheaper for the government and for you if they kept the people healthy. The reason why the food is so unhealthy is not cause the government wants you to die earlier (they would rather have you work longer into your later years if it was about the labour vs retirement thing), its because massive food corporations lobby the government not to regulate their food because regulations are expensive.
For these super massive corporations, changing their supply chain can cost millions, this also includes building up branding for new products and changing business strategies, creating new marketing material etc.
For these corporations its about the money, same for politicians. They just have to make you tolerate them enough to not force them out of office, but for them its about the money. Because if they don't take the lobby money, someone else will or these groups will lobby for a political rival to get rid of you.
TLDR, its because of legalized corruption.
@@hughgpauwelslol what an insane conclusion. Social programs are PAID FORS, which means we PAID FOR THEM. They are solvent programs that are undermined by tax cuts for the rich and stealing the funds from them to finance other government programs like the MILITARY which runs strictly on debt and doesn’t have a single paid for in its entirety. No, social programs are not the problem, people happily pay taxes for the things they get a direct benefit from. It’s all of the funding being funneled into corporate/military subsidies on our kids dime that is the problem. Local and state government make the exact same mistake when they start pumping out tax breaks for corporations to attract them and take on enormous amounts of debt to endlessly expand their paramilitaries (police departments). The government does not pay for Social Security benefits, we do. The government steals from the social security fund and mismanages it to feed their corruption, then convinces people like you that it should be dissolved so they can just steal all of the rest of it. Wake tf up…
It's SUGAR!!!!! Sugar! Sugar! Is killing us.
all starch turns to sugar when digested
Plus seed oils, processed foods
Nope.. It's the super cheap vegetable oils.. 💵💵💯💯
Yeah, that's definitely one of the main culprits. Sugar and anything that turns to sugar in the body.
@@jpnewman1688 Vegetable oil has never seen a Vegetable LOL
Because of soils, shelf life and the fact that our government doesnt have to foot the bill for healthcare cost. If they had to pay for it then they would probaly regulate or tax the ingredience that are most harmful. Just as France does.
The government does foot the bill for millions of Americans.
They would just print more money or go further into debt.
@@CJ-re7bx We only go into debt because of the federal reserve. Get rid of the central bank and all that debt goes away. It's literally stupid how we get charged by a private bank to make a dollar.
@@CJ-re7bxyou think you OWN the Federal Reserve GODS?? 💵💵😂😂😂
Oh since Obamacare the government does foot the bill. We've offloaded the sickest, most unhealthy people onto the government rolls. This is how the insurance companies wanted it. Which is why the government is way more into preventative health than private insurers, they make the big bucks from people being as sick as possible as they have margins they need to abide by and they like more expensive procedures. Worked on the business side of the industry for a while.
Remember: Spurlock refused to show his food diary after finishing the movie and no one has been able to replicate his results.
South Park did this better
Beans, rice, lentils, bananas. Cheapest foods in the store.
Now live off those for the next 5 years and get back to us
I have been, and it feels great.
@@bojassem12 I have for seven years and live a pretty active life; lift weights and run several times a week, cycle to work...
Someone wants to fart all day.
Never cheap out on your food. It is what makes your body go. Spend the money, cook for yourself, and grow what you can.
If you can, yes. Half the country doesn't have the money or time or resources to do this though.
@@furleysbrainI kinda agree that the “healthy food is expensive” thing isn’t really true. If you have a real grocery store nearby it should have rice, beans and vegetables. That’s as cheap as it gets and has all the nutrients needed. It’s just that rice and beans aren’t easy and exciting to eat. :-/. I think part of the problem is that new processed food is easy and addictive. At the end of a long, hard day of work if you’re short on time it’s just so much easier to have hamburger helper or something premade. It’s cheap, it’s easy and gives that dopamine hit. Thinking about it makes me want some right now! 😂😂😂.
@@furleysbrainEating fast food every day will cost you more than cooking now. The money excuse doesn’t work anymore, it’s mostly just laziness and addiction to fatty, sugary garbage.
@@furleysbrain You have money for a $15 Big Mac but cant afford a plastic container, some dirt, some seeds, a sunny spot by a window, and a reminder on your phone to water it? No excuses.
@@JimJWalker Yes i'm sure a couple onions and a basil plant will sustain a family of four, parents who are working around the clock etc. Fast food is a bad option, and not the only option, but you just unrealistic.
The problem is time. The time it takes to prepare, cook, and clean up after multiple meals for a family of 4 is time consuming and exhausting when you also work a day job.
No it's not, it's all about priorities.
One of the problems, yes. But there are so many more.
@@PapioRed For some people, sure. But tell that to families where both parents have to work full time or even multiple jobs while their kids have busy schedules of their own with sports and other extracurricular activities.
I leave for work at 6am and get home from work at 6pm generally. I still cook dinner for my family from scratch nearly every night. Dinner time is usually around 7:00 or 7:30. I do try to make large portions so we can have leftovers the next day or make extra large batches to freeze for days I get home late. It can be done. It sucks having to do it nearly every day, but I'm not going to feed my family garbage.
how do you think they manage in the rest of the world? do you think chinese families have more time than american ones?
I would disagree about nutritional education not being part of it. Most people don’t read labels and have no idea that the vast majority of foods marketed as ‘healthy’ are actually toxic and full of hormone disrupters. For example, most oat milk has soybean oil as the second ingredient. Organic ‘omega 3’ milk has highly processed fish oil listed as an ingredient. Salmon is supposed to be healthy, but farm raised salmon has very high levels of omega 6 and is riddled with chemicals. Its actually very difficult to find food that isn’t toxic in some way even when you’re trying to eat well. All of that is adding up to sickness and obesity.
What's wrong with omega 6? It's still a PUFA
"toxic and hormone disrupters!!" bruh people are fat because they eat too many calories. It's really that simple. Has very little to do with muh [insert pop-nutrition fear monger substance of the week] and much more to do with people having little to no awareness of their daily calorie needs and daily calorie intake
It's like most Americans believe VOTING for gangsters to be their masters means democracy.. 💯💯😄😄😄
We have more deaths of despair, and many eat their feelings
Yes. Folks seriously underestimate how much stress, mental health, and substance abuse play a role here.
@@jfm14 Exactly!!! High stress can cause the body to hold onto fat stores instead of burning them for energy. One reason why there were stories from Disney workers who complained about hunger (due to over work and lack of breaks, etc.), and they were overweight.
I was really surprised when my grocery bill went down after switching to organic Whole Foods (grains, produce, and meat). I eat less and am feeling better and better. Its inconvenient, but worth it.
Lies.
If we stop eating it, they'll stop making it.
Nah, they'll make it more addicting, so the few times we have it, we'll want more.
Thats the reason i dont eat McDonalds, they are only going to build more restaurants.
It’s sedentary lifestyle, and trash fast food. It’s calories in calories out. Every one knows it’s healthier to eat a salad than a Big Mac
The assumption that a plant based diet is "healthy" because you won't get fat on it is very flawed. Of course I agree that a plant based diet IS healthier than a diet full of processed foods and fast food, I do not agree that the healthiest diet for humans is plant based.
vegetables are less calorie dense , but high in volume that stuff your stomach and make you feel fuller fast.
@sheshmashgrr the video doesn't recommend processed foods in general , basically just vegetables , no one said anything about those processed vegan fake meats.
btw you're right , i recently looked up "vegan" cheese - it is mostly coconut fat based - the worst fat out there , because it's so high in saturated fats.
A whole food plant based diet has been shown to both reverse heart disease and diabetes. Yes, it also the best way to get back to normal weight.
it is healthy wVth a monthly dose of non-veg just as we used to do in olden days when we didnt have mass production of meat...we need to build farms as joel salatin did
@@brianrcVids There is a lot of flawed science out there. While a whole food plant based diet is better than a diet full of highly processed food and sugar, it doesn't come close to a Keto, Carnivore, or Paleo style of diet.
@@nicholasdrake2738 Look up the video: "How long do health influencers live"
I’m American. I eat American food. I’m not fat. I move around a lot and pick up heavy stuff. Stop blaming the food industry. No one forces you to eat crap and sit on your arse all day. YOU are in control of YOU. No one wants to be responsible, even for themselves, and can’t hold themselves accountable.
Solving obesity is like 'solving' alcoholism. I can write a menu for a care home that will usually get past the nutritionist without any major changes - so I know what a healthy, balanced diet looks like on paper. Training myself to eat that menu is another thing. The food might be great, but then I want some ice cream, or chips. To get healthy I am pretty much twelve stepping my eating habits.
No, it is completely different. Solving alcoholism means not drinking alcohol, while solving fat problems means learning a new way to eat such that you will not be hungry between meals, you will be able to eat enough food that you planned to eat and so that you don't consume too many calories. If you feel the cravings for ice cream or similar things after you eat that means your eating plan is shit and you don't actually know how to eat.
@@student99bg I assume you responded to the wrong comment because you obviously aren't responding to what I've commented.
@@TheColleenDabeanShowI agree with you. It’s different in that sure with alcohol it’s all or nothing, but with eating of course you don’t quit all eating. But it’s more similar than people think. One of the side effects of Ozempic (the weight loss drug) is that it has been helping people deal with other addictions, like to alcohol and drugs. The dopamine hit you get during and after a nice bowl of icecream is just 🤌 mmmm. It’s like a drug! I have experience with both unfortunately, and they are the same. The cravings, the rituals, the crash later. And I don’t get that feeling from homemade rice, beans and veggies. There’s physical hunger and then there’s mental hunger.
American nutritionist is the funniest thing to imagine lol
@@threeofeight197 Think of alcoholism as an alcohol problem - not a drinking problem. You need to drink, just not alcohol. Similarly with our highly processed food - you need to eat, just not all that sugar and stuff. Rich food and booze taste the same to me - in that they both taste like "MORE!" I can't regulate my intake of ice cream any better than I can regulate my intake of alcohol - best to just not have either in the house. The less processed sugar that I take in, the less I crave it. Over the past winter I started using THC in the evening, and although it gives me 'the munchies' when I'm using it, it also seems to reduce my other anxieties throughout the day and the result has been much less impulse snacking.
Many Americans feel that yummy food and drink that's terrible for you is the only refuge.
So in other words you didn’t watch the video t
@@johngrim5488 was it the usual conspiracy theories about systems and corporations that absolves the individual of responsibility for what they put in their own mouth or activity they didn't do with their own body?
@@BenjaminBadbrother crazy to me society can recognize the pattern, the systemic inputs from corporations, legal systems, government oversight, etc. that contribute to this problem and you want to pin in on personal responsibility.
@@nickthompson1812 Yes, because blaming "society" never goes anywhere. It prioritizes discussion of reforms that will never happen that have indirect impact over immediate changes that could have direct impact.
It only contributes to obesity in the end.
They should smoke some pot then. It's MUCH healthier than eating the American diet.
Super size me has been thoroughly debunked.
Tonga doesn't use high-fructose corn syrup, but has an obesity rate of > 70%.
As far as Tonga it is true but Tonga has adopted a lot of Western food trends and modern Western food tends to be high in fat and simple carbohydrates and low in fiber and nutrients. Also take into account that Europeans seem to be less prone to metabolic issues with this modern diet than people of other ethnicities like Pacific Islanders and Native Americans.
Its always more Taxes....
Spurloc fudged that documentary though. There was no way he put on that weight with the food he was reporting. The calories needed had to be much more to get his results after 30 days. He was a heavy drinker. He had to have been eating or drinking alcohol off the record.
The film was fraudulent.
It's well known that he was consuming excess calories from the alcohol and that alcohol causes all of the damage that was being recorded. The McDonald's also is not good for you
I can gain 8 pounds in a day by coming off eating clean and just consuming salty foods loaded with carbs and additives. Yes, it can be done.
100%! He left out the fact that he was active alcoholic. That def explains the liver damage way more than the McDonald's
@@clintkantor a calorie is a calorie. Sorry.
I like his point about healthy food from a grocery store not being that expensive. People arent buying Pop tarts and frozen dinners because theyre 'affordable'. They're buying them because they see advertisements and they're loaded with addictive chemicals.
Micro platics are a factor as well.
Also pfas in the water and not to mention even if you eat veggies the farmers use chemical fertilizer which makes you food defeciant of the micro nutrients.
Microplastics aren't why Americans are fat. If that were the case you'd see obesity all over south east Asia and Japan.
Perhaps not a direct cause of obesity, but what was not mentioned is the dramatic depletion of the soil, resulting in greatly diminished nutrients and weakening of plants and, in turn, animals and us. Not to speak of pesticides.
You can have complete knowledge of what you're eating and still eat it knowing it is not good for your health. True.
This is the problem for 99% of people.
It is a lot easier to eat less calories when you know how. Knowledge makes the difference between "it feels so hard that it is basically impossible to lose the weight" and "losing weight is easy"
@@student99bg True. You're right
Lack of natural foods, banned chemicals, lack of walkable cities.
While the hyperpalatable, cheapness and convenience of processed foods are culprits for the burgeoning obesity rates, another contributing factor is that, with people becoming more and more isolated from one another, people now use food not just a nourishment, but as a means of medicating themselves against both loneliness and meaninglessness. Food is being used as a drug to cope with a modern world that is designed to atomize people.
When you are overworked , you feel less motivated to do proper exercise
And more likely to overeat on junk food.
Imagine thinking $180 a week ($720) is affordable for the people who are actually worried about affordability of food.
The irony is 🇺🇸 throwing away tons of food everyday.. 💯💯
Well that wasn’t the point he was making 😂😅
All my money goes to food :/
@@jpnewman1688 Another thing is, people don't plant gardens as much as they used to. People are also moving to the cities and small towns are disappearing. I live near Chicago and a few of my neighbors have chickens.
I live in a big city and cook all my meals. I eat good food every day for $250 A MONTH.
About 10 years ago I started buying beef and pork from a local farmer. About this same time I stopped buying margarine and miracle whip. My husband tried to revolt. I told him if he wanted it he’d have to go to the store to buy it. He didn’t.
In the last few years I’ve really amped up my gardening. I’ve always had a garden but now I grow food for not just in season eating but for food preservation. I learned to can. I haven’t not bought a tomato based product from the store in three years. I grow a year’s worth of onions, potatoes, garlic and carrots. I grow green beans, corn, peppers, cabbage, broccoli, eggplant, herbs and greens. I freeze and preserve what we don’t eat fresh for winter consumption. I’ve also come to know that even in the Midwest with the right infrastructure you can grow cold tolerant greens well in to the winter. I think I bought lettuce/spinach only hand full of times at the grocery store in the last few years.
I so much of this in a regular back yard. At this point it’s mostly garden. Who wants to mow grass.
I did inherit my grandpa’s home on 10 acres so I now garden there too. I also raise chickens s for both eggs and meat.
I have a full time job and it’s definitely work but I’d rather grow my groceries than eat the crap at the store.
My kids while early in their life certainly ate not as good as they do now have embraced learning a more sustainable life style.
I also took up beekeeping.
I know it’s not for everyone but I really believe people should learn to garden. If anything it will teach you veggies do not always grow perfect but when you grow it you still eat it.
This year I’ve incorporated making bread from scratch. I also cook 85-90 % of the meals consumed by my family.
Wahman trying to control her husband's eating habits
Sugar, yes, but maybe also seed oils.
2:27 that's a vegetarian diet. Any animal protein would raise that grocery cost a lot
Agreed - Not only that, it's mostly random items and not easily recognizable "meals", which people prefer
Chicken and pork are still cheap. It’s fish and beef that are expensive.
I regularly buy chicken quarters. I get 10 pounds of chicken quarters for for $10. That’s 2-3 weeks worth of meat for me at $10. That’s cheaper than damn near anything these days. And that’s at Publix too which is more expensive than a place like Walmart.
Eating cheap and healthy is easy you just need to be willing to put in the work in the kitchen and do some meal prep.
Good catch.
Yeah dude wants us to live like peasants, and I'd say most people aren't thriving on a vegan diet no matter how healthy this clown thinks it is. Dude added whole grain bread which is absolute trash in America and almost no different than white other than some fiber. Its all the additives and crap that make American bread trash screwing up gut biomes.
@@stuffylamb3420 Sure - this was mainly commenting on the example vegetarian diet given - but even chicken quarters are largely bone weight, so the ten pounds is not fully ten pounds of meat - example a thigh is a little over 60% meat/skin by weight and a drumstick is around 50% meat/skin by weight (obviously this will vary depending on the type of chicken and if it's injected with water like many stores do and so on.) - a ten pound bag is what, maybe six quarters, or so (?) - so, for a family of four, as in this example in the video, that would be 2-3 meals worth of meat, depending on how it is used - so that would add up pretty quickly - not to mention I, personally, do not want to eat chicken every day (and I prefer white meat, if I am eating it as a "main" thing - if that is the case for others that would also add up as it tends to be more expensive). Meat definitely adds up for a family of four+ people, especially if you want variety.
It's a bunch of things. More sedentary lifestyle, way way more processed food, lower general nutrition education. It all feeds into itself. Teenagers really need to learn how to cook for themselves. That alone could drastically change their chances of being healthier
Fifty years of our society telling women that housework is patriarchal oppression, and you're surprised that home-cooked meals are less frequent.
More on the sedentary lifestyle point, we have car centric urban planning that discourages movement.
I don’t know if you’ve been internationally traveling at all, but if so, one of the things that you will notice quickly, is how few fat people there are. And one of the things you might notice, is that the food is more natural with less preservatives and less sugar. In America, they don’t even use sugar. They use a high fructose corn syrup, because it’s cheaper, which is even worse than normal sugar (and it doesn’t even taste as good). Almost everything in American food that is processed has high fructose corn syrup in it. American food in general is the most unhealthy food in the world. It’s designed to be addictive maximize profits.
It is also car dependence. People don’t get enough steps in. Suburban life.
Im a public health student. In my classes, my professors have highlighted how soda consumption can explain (largely but not entirely) the obesity epidemic. Americans eat about 100-200 calories more each day than they did in the 60’s and 70’s (this is basically one soda worth of calories)
You don’t get as fat as people are now only eating 200 calories in excess
Your professor is behind the curve.. It's the vegetable oils that are killing people.. 💯💯
@@stuffylamb3420yup.. It's the super cheap vegetable oils.. 💵💵💯💯
@stuffylamb3420 some people drink 6-12 sodas a day to themselves
@@stuffylamb3420 200 excess calories every day adds up
It’s simple: avoid foods that spike your insulin. Insulin tells your body to hold onto fat and not burn it. Bread and carbs spike your insulin higher than sugar. The highest on the list of things that spike your insulin is maltodextrine, which is in basically every snack product in a box/bag. You want to be fuller for longer? Eat things high in protein like meats and cheeses. Don’t be afraid of natural occurring saturated fats. Avoid industrialized seed oils that are treated with extreme heat and pressure.
Go Carnivore
Yeah, just stop eating highly addictive foods. Easy. 🙃
Got it backwards. Insulin resistance is caused by intramyocellular lipids, visceral fat. Which interferes with the functioning of insulin in getting glucose into the cells, where the glucose is fuel for activity (ever hear of "carb loading" before a race" :). Refined sugar is certainly not healthy, but fatty foods are the biggest driver of fat accumulation in the body (and thereby, type 2 diabetes).
That makes no sense that breads will spike your insulin higher than sugar. When you digest food such as sugar or bread, the carbs that the body will convert into glucose. So if 50 gram of break can turns into 40 grams on glucose for example and 50 grams of sugar turns into 45 gram of glucose, so you need to check your stats.
It's simpler: Count your calories
sugar isn't evil. i'm not convinced that ultra processed foods are poison either. but both sugar and ultra processed foods are really really easy to over consume. which makes you fat. and that's what's bad for you.
Speaking of the devil,
Jill Stein’s actually going to push out the Monsanto farm monopoly. We need to try to get back to small farms,
Jill Stein 2024
✌️💚🗽
Reading these comments really shows something, the food industry has made a boogeyman out of absolutely everything to confuse the consumer. I don’t care how many chemicals or microplastics are in your food if you eat less calories than you burn you lose weight.
"Calories in, calories out" has been debunked to death. It's an extreme oversimplification. There are so many other factors at play.
@@jfm14 I don’t disagree it oversimplifies the health side but when it comes to weight if you burn more than you intake simply by the laws of physics it is impossible to gain weight.
Where’s Krystal or Saagar?!?😂👍🏾❤️
Small farmer here: the Department of Agriculture subsidizes Big Food. The regulatory burden on small farms is so expensive, whereas huge farms can afford their water survey and nutrient management testing. Meanwhile, they irrigate their fields like drunken sailors. A small producer can’t dry farm. But the government will deny your water rights because you can’t afford the requisite survey.
I have to presume it is Big Ag that has lobbied for these policies as an attempt to put small farmers out in order to grab more market share and cheaper land.
Physical activity needs to a part of this conversation, an important part in my opinion. Food is a giant part of obviously, but physical activity is often ignored like it is here
The guy who did Super Size Me was a huge alcoholic while making the movie and when he went to the doctor, they literally said they've only see these signs in alcoholics. He implied it was the food. Dishonest.
The problem is the time it takes to cook. Americans working three jobs to pay off their student and medical debts dont have the time to cook healthy food. And when it comes to pre-prepared/restaurant food, it IS more expensive to eat healthy.
So you haven't learned how to create fiat 💵💵 out of NOTHING in college?? 😄😄😄
That's true, seems like people like Krystal always want to say healthy food is more expensive but that's not true, the time needed to prepare those healthier foods, however, is far greater.
This just assumes processed foods=fat. Kind of lazy really
The cost of eating healthy is not expensive. People just think they need to buy overpriced "organic" food, which is more expensive.
I went carnivore 10 months ago, and it's changed my life
Are you planning on eating that way for life? Hard for me to believe it is healthy long term but idk.
@_Safety_Third_ most nutrition is based on presuppositions and not facts.
So what are "the facts" backing up a carnivore diet?
@07Flash11MRC start by watching Dr. Anthony Chaffee
Dr Chaffe has been proven wrong over and over again with actual scientific studies by people like Dr. Idz. should never get your health and diet recommendations from people on social media
Taught overseas for much of my adult life. When we arrived back in the US, I noticed two things while we were still in the airport upon arriving:
1. Americans are obese
2. American media is saturated with prescription drug ads.
Is there a correlation between the two?
It's called capitalism.. 💵💵💯💯😄😄
I guess I really don’t understand the issue with drug ads
@@Jasper118 very few countries allow Big Pharma to advertise directly to the public. The US allows it.
One result of this phenomenon is that we are a heavily medicated society.
What I want to know is if there is a correlation between our medication intake and obesity.
Do these prescriptions slow out metabolism?
@@EverettBurger I’m aware that it’s illegal most places but I guess I don’t see the harm in it? It’s not like the vast majority of people can just go in and order a medicine all willy nilly.
That’d be interesting to look into but I’d venture to guess it’s more of an issue of our crap food and lifestyle
@@Jasper118 so you didn't know most people just want a quick easy solution to their problem?? 💯💯😄😄😄
anyone who's ever tried to lose weight by carefully counting calories can tell you exactly what the problem is. They get us addicted to processed garbage early in childhood, you need more of that food to feel full, and once your used to that crap its really hard to switch over to healthy food
Health insurance industry also plays a part in this trend, because more unhealthy people, more premium they can charge.
It also increases their costs through.
The european nutri score system is complete bullcrap.
Which part?
If you're going to make a charge like that, you must give at least some details.
potato chips get a B
I'll gladly explain, I'm from the Netherlands, and for example, ground beef gets a worse score than many processed foods. Potato chips are healthier than eggs and butter? Truly its a tool of the processed food industry.
@@luukielol1I was thinking, "well who is determining what healthy is? Sounds like a potential political tool."
Stop the plant based as healthy
Lmao, it is. Especially if you avoid the altra-processed foods like he did in his list. Look into the research and you'll that most nutrition research is pointing that way. Reducing meat consumption is better for your health.
Because 60% of American food is not allowed in other countries.
This aged terribly. Spurlock was a liar.
Just for the record: that's not a "healthy diet". Almost everything on that list is carbs. You want to get less than %30 of your calories from carbs. Beef, eggs, cheese, nuts, fish and real butter. Honestly, even most fruit should be avoided. Berries are fine.
Exactly, my blood sugar was skyrocketing just looking at that list.
Nothing wrong with carbs that come from whole foods. Vegans have the lowest risk of diabetes from any dietary group. Issue with carbs is added sugars found in processed foods.
@@brianrcVids Vegans also have to supplement a lot of the vitamins that a non meat diet entails. There is no one good solution. The best defense against obesity is activity. Staying active whether it be exercise, work or whatever is you best bet to maintain a healthy body. As with anything. Always in moderation. Going to the excess is what causes health issues.
telling people to avoid most fruits is like the biggest giveaway that you are getting your health info from dudes who make tik tok videos in the grocery store. no actual doctor or nutritionist would advocate for this, the vast majority of americans are not eating nearly enough fruit and natural sugars that you take in from fruit are not the same as added sugars in other foods. people with high amounts of fruit in their diet have over and over again come out better in long term studies vs people who don’t eat as much fruit and there is plenty of data to back it up.
@@Someguy6571 You haven't met many vegans have you? The only thing required is B12. I take a pill once a week. B12 is made by bacteria in the soil and water. Since we purify our water and wash our vegetables we don't get much from the environment anymore and our bodies (eventually) become deficient. I'll gladly take 1 vitamin to have optimal health.
Exercise is about 5% of calories out--terrible for losing weight. Best way to tackle obesity is to focus on calories in. Plant foods are naturally low in calorie density. Vegans are the only dietary group in America that average normal BMI.
We NEED Europe equivalent of FDA! Also, i think our culture about not caring about how we look outside kind of hinders us from caring. Notice in Europe how everyone dresses better outside? In the States, we have a more "I dont give a fuck what you think" attitude. Which, is cool, but i think there are some drawbacks.
I bet you VOTED a lot.. 💯💯😄😄😄
No. The FDA should be abolished.
@@jonathan7249 Love that you liked your own comment lmao
@@jadapinkett1656 Agreed, true.
@@ryguy1483 so you need your masters to approve your comment?? 😄😄😄
This was outstanding! More of this please! Anyone else agree? Minus the overly loud and distracting music of course
I disagree vociferously.
Any discussion of the rise in obesity ought, at a minimum, discuss international comparisons and cultural causes. Corporate greed is there, but there's no reason to ignore people's desire to improve their lives -- which would involve exercise and home cooking.
No, this was not a well-researched presentation; simply the fact that Morgan Spurlock's "Supersize Me" was cited, without noting the fact that he died of liver disease brought on by decades of alcoholism, is enough to prove that.
Our culture has spent half a century telling women that housework is demeaning. This presentation assumes we cannot tolerate cooking our own meals.
It’s because people lack discipline and self control.
That was the assumption upon which this video was based.
No effort was made to consider exercise or home cooking.
Allow me to suggest that this presentation had an agenda, which was to have the government choose your foods.
People should eat more beef, butter and eggs, not less. Sugar and carbs and high fructose corn syrup should be dramatically reduced. All ag subsidies should be deleted, so that taxes can be reduced.
That might be good for some ppl but not most. We are meant to eat mostly plants. We’re omnivores. But if you’re eating things that grow on a farm meat or veggie you’re better off than processed whether you choose meat or veggies.
@@threeofeight197
Wrong !
Please post the name of the carbohydrate deficiency disease with reference !
We are exercising more than ever and dieting more than ever. It’s not exercise, it’s not dieting. It’s our food that we consume and the way it’s packaged. Look at 1960s Americans. They drove in cars. They didn’t really exercise. And they were super thin. What did they do differently. They cooked their own food and food wasn’t as processed. Food wasn’t in packaging with chemicals leaking into our food. It’s tempting to blame people for being lazy and eating badly. But we don’t blame people who are on a bus, injured in a bus crash. We blame the accident for injuring them. Why Americans are obese is the accident. And the accident is what our politicians and society should be focused on remedying.
@hokiebuddy
It’s the skim milk and the diet soda and artificial sweeteners that are making our bodies eat more. We need a diet that is high in fat.
No, many people claim to be dieting and exercising but is anyone really looking directly and thoroughly. I suspect not. If you consume less than your body needs, over time you will lose weight. You can't magically gain weight.
Thanks for doing this Breaking Points.
High fructose corn syrup, an over abundance of fatty, delicious fast food and a lack of physical activity is the culprit.
GMO and low quality food produced on mass scale.
Come to Europe. Obesity here much less prevalent because bad food to large extent is forbidden.
GMP has zero effect on food quality
Probably in part because the medical system is not for profit. Cancer, diabetes etc... all that stuff is very lucrative in the US: so taint the food and keep em coming. The name of the game is medication and procedures, rather than health.
So Europeans need masters to tell them what not to eat?? 😂😂😂
Plus, Europe isn't cucked for cars like America
@@jpnewman1688 People in the Europe (esp. the EU) _demanded_ a lot of the regulations that are in place now. They fought for them. Very different food culture in most of Europe.
It's always good to see someone advocating for plant based diet. After several years of being plant based I feel I am getting through to my grossly obese sister. She is now plant based (but still doing weight-watchers) and had been losing weight steadily. She reached a milestone recently dropping below 200 for the first time in ... my memory... She has made friends that she walks with and does activities regularly. I think she is more motivated than ever.
I've been fully plant-based for more than 20 years, and I'm now more obese than ever!
Lol this comment. Yea, if all you eat is potato chips and corn you will be huge. Eat an apple for once in your life. H. O. G. Nation.
She’s losing weight on a plant-based diet probably because she’s not consuming as much processed foods but plant based is not healthy. Steak and eggs, steak and eggs!
Plant based made me sick & fat. Switching to a diet based around meat with almost every meal let me lose 150lbs. I'm glad it works for you. It doesn't for everyone.
Gross manipulation
I really love this news station, but I think it would be even better if you got actual dietitians to do segments like this. These type of "experts" make a lot of errors. For example at the end, this guy says trans fats don't exist in the United States, but that simply is not true. ARTIFICAL trans fat was banned, companies still implement creative ways to add trans fat to food like implementing more palm oil to "naturally" add trans fat to food to preserve it.
Also, I don't like his attempt at trying to point towards one singular problem as the reason Americans are still obese today. It's a completely multifactorial issue and the way we process foods is one of the many things wrong with what influences food decisions amongst Americans. Anyways, decent video.
I disagree. For the reasons you cite, among many others, this video was an unbalanced, thoughtless, uninformative call for more state intervention in food consumption.
This channel's news reporting is informed. This particular "deep dive" was anything but.
Simple. Limit or ban the use of corn syrup and junk oils in food like they’ve done in the EU.
Now that the cost of fast food has tripled, the fat epidemic should start to shrink.
Doesn’t work like that. Fast food is still cheap relative to inflation. Inflation is likely to lead to worse food choices because you get what you pay for and it’s an incentive to buy cheaper food that’s not necessarily better for you
@@hughgpauwels well as food has gotten more expensive I buy LESS junk food and have lost weight.. so I just thought people might automatically cut the junk instead of the good stuff.
@@anniesshenanigans3815 well I don’t eat much junk and the only drug of choice for me is alcohol, but I think a lot of people don’t necessarily think about what’s in the food only that it’s cheaper.
@@anniesshenanigans3815 whereas healthy food like eggs and milk have exponentially risen compared to fast food prices.
Your recommended list is conspicuously missing protein rich in amino acids. But even then, literally a quarter of your income for lower middle income class... That's an oof.
Beans and whole grains work great for that.
@@brianrcVids No, they really don't. There's nine essential amino acids that are found in meats that are not found in ideal proportions in beans. Two in particular. Besides, eating nutrient light foods can be hard on the digestive system since you have to eat more to process less.
I'm all about ethically sourced meats, or just a pescatarian styled diet, but humans are omnivores, and it requires an incredible amount of education, money, and strict discipline just to maintain your health without meat.
@@Stiggandr1 You've been misinformed. All plant foods contain all essential amino acids. Protein combining is a myth. Our bodies have amino acid pools to draw from to create proteins as needed. Plant based diets are perfectly healthy for all stages of life and by now there are millions of thriving humans who haven't eaten animals for decades, or even their entire lives, who are thriving. Stop spreading ridiculous misinformation.
@@Stiggandr1 That's why you complement the beans with grains. The amino acids from both make complete protein, and they don't have to be in the same meal, although it would probably be more palatable that way.
Also they're nutrient dense and are void of saturated fat, so not sure where you are getting the whole "nutrient light" idea from.
tofu is a complete protein that contains all 9 amino acids on its own
I have been vegan for over 20 years. I don't eat fast food and seldom eat out at all. Now middle-aged, I've gained 50 lbs in the last 4 years. I am fat AF, so I debunked the first half of your video.
This video was not the presentation of an argument based on research, but a recitation of well-worn tropes on the evils of corporations.
It never explicitly said that vegan is healthier, notice. It simply assumed so.
The real reason is unregulated capitalism. If the FDA banned making very unhealthy food people would eat less unhealthy food.
I just like being fat
I guess you don’t know what you’re missing. Having a healthy body to do things with is way better than an unhealthy body. You only get one body in this life, treat it wisely
@@catfromtrigun I'm just trolling I'm actually in pretty decent shape, not great but not over weight, hard to cut soda out
“They are far less meat than today’s Americans” - they ate far less in general. Meat isn’t the enemy. Some of this reporting is so reductionist it’s clearly a “blame on a few things” narrative. The end was all it really is about. Everything is too available and convenient. Ingredients to make a big colorful salad and whole chicken is available at the grocery store forsuper cheap. And it will feed a family of four for dinner way more economically than drive through fast food or even processed frozen prepackaged foods. Legislating won’t do anything and they should be treated the way that tobacco was treated back in the 90s, where there were ad campaigns following ads for cigarettes that demonstrated the damage smoking can do.
Just stay away from sugar, processed complex carbohydrates, processed food and you'll be fine. Eat food from the produce and meat section of the grocery store, this isn't rocket science...
It's price and convenience
Seed oils, that's why. The added sugars and corn syrup is a factor, but the major thing is the added seed oils. Beef consumption has dropped significantly since the 1970s, but our weight and metabolic health has drastically gone up in the same time. Why? We stopped using butter and animal fats and started using seed/vegetable oils. Sugar consumption has at least flat lined if not declined in the last 20 years, but weight keeps going up. Compare charts of weight gain to the consumption of seed oils and they are very close. Is sugar a factor? Absolutely, but the major factor that few are addressing is that we use industrial seed oils instead of traditional fats and have seen health complications since their introduction in the early 1900s and majorly so when they use dramatically increased in the 1980s.
Gotta maximize the profits at any cost.. 💵💵💯💯😄😄
@@jonathan7249 the massive government subsidies for soy and corn mean they have a ridiculous amount of it that will just rot, so make sugar and oil form it...and sell it cheap to everybody because essentially the govt is paying for it and you make a massive profit.
This video lost credibility when a plant based diet was used as the primary example of healthy shopping.
It is healthier. Go and read some research papers and you'll see that the nutrition consensus is leaning that way. It's been shown to reduce heart disease and diabetes incidents. The societies with the best longevity have a lower meat consumption than others.
@@bojassem12 I'm a professional nutritonist and chef. I've read all the papers.
Key phrase you mentioned "lower meat consumption". Not vegetarian diet. All the blue zones consume meat that is sustainably sourced.
How about instead of using the heavy hand of government, we just continue to educate consumers. As you said, people learned high fructose corn syrup is a bad thing, so we started consuming less and companies adjusted to offer healthier alternatives.
How is it bad?
Well, it _is_ bad. But how is it worse than sugar (sucrose)?
@@Amenti_H it's not physiologically the same as sucrose (table sugar). Sucrose is better, but yeah stay light on that stuff. Just think if food labels showed "teaspoons of sugar" instead of "grams of added sugar." That would be a lot clearer for a lot of people.
@@adamcorfman573 It is the same, sucrose is not better.
Lots of b.s. misguided fear mongering on internets about it. But in reality, numerous studies show that HFCS is just as bad as sucrose. No statistically significant difference.
UA-cam censorship of comments is getting ridiculous... 🙄
I've been vegetarian for over 15 years and just got a blood test and am completely healthy, with midly high LDL levels(most likely from eggs/dairy). Americans not working out is a huge contributing factor. Just a walk a day can keep people from obesity, even with a crap diet.
I'd guess it's the calories.
Diet is everything. No exercise is needed to be a healthy weight.
Diet and sleep are 80% of it, but light exercise a few times a week are a good minimum imo not only to get the benefits of being active, but also for staying younger (physically) for longer.
All or nothing mindsets are a huge problem that put people off and contribute to the status quo.
Fried foods, butter, cheese, bacon etc. ☠️
Ultra processed foods are literal poison. Youve been conditioned to blame natural foods
butter, cheese, bacon is good for you lmao.
Sugar
Try excess carbs and sugar
Fried food is def bad but Butter, cheese, and bacon are not the issue.
30% of the average American’s diet comes from seed oils
CI > CO …. That’s it. People refuse to acknowledge that or think about calories. Nothing else matters even kind of close to that.
Fat and Protein 35% to 40%, Sugar, carbs, 5% to 10%. That's it.