Are Smoothies Really Healthy? According To A Sugar Expert
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- Опубліковано 16 кві 2018
- Robert Lustig, a sugar expert and professor of both pediatrics and endocrinology, explains the problem with fruit smoothies. Fruits are composed of two types of fibers" soluble and insoluble. Both are beneficial to your health, particularly the health of your liver. But when the fruit is ground up in a smoothie, you lose the benefits of those insoluble fibers. So it makes more sense to just eat the fruit as is, rather than turning it into a smoothie.
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I want a second opinion
Ive never felt healthier and happier having smoothies so im sticking with them
More bacon and rib eyes for me!
Me too
@@thalesnemo2841 What a stupid reply. Drinking a smoothie, or just eating fruit and vegetables in general, doesn't mean you can no longer eat meat or other whole foods. Your mindset sounds extremely unhealthy -- maybe smoothies will do you some good.
@@johnathantaylor5913
Thanks to the corrupted food supply fruits give me a headache! Anyway I’ve lost 19kg and kept it off for more than five years! Remember modern fruits and just tree candies! Don’t be miss-steaken meet the meats!
@@thalesnemo2841 are*, mistaken*? And I eat meat and have smoothies, I am not overweight, I do sports and an athlete and they've benefited me so maybe everyone is just different.
I watch this as I drink my smoothie that I made in my vitamix 👁👄👁🍌🍓🍋🥬🧊
Eating the fruit or veggies unwhizzed is obviously better but it doesn't hurt to have a smoothie occasionally. Also, most westerners don't eat enough fruit so if having a smoothie gets people to actually eat some, then that's gotta be encouraged!
Please post the name of the carbohydrate deficiency disease with references.
@@thalesnemo2841 Why are you asking me that? I didn't say anything about carbs or deficiencies!
For real. They can't expect me to eat 5 fruit and 5 whole vegetables separately from my other meals in the day.
I don't know any single person that's doing that even the fittest healthiest people
@@weirdunclebob
Wow you are quite unlettered in basic biochemistry! Fruits are just bags of sugars ! Fruits are low density nutrient poor waste of chewing !
Again you are miss-steaken ! No bones about it!
@@thalesnemo2841 Actually, you appear to be the ignorant one if you think fruit is a "waste of chewing." They're full of vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals, low in kilojoules, high in fibre and many are dirt cheap. Far better for humans than any animal products could ever be. No bones is right, at least!
My smoothies consist of. Orange, apple, frozen fruit blend from Costco, spinach, zucchini, broccoli, cucumber, carrot and celery x2 daily . I understand with this gentleman is saying and I’m sure that it’s 100% factual but compared to how I was eating a year ago at this time I have no issue not getting the full benefit of eating the amount of fruits and vegetables that I’m drinking on a daily basis. It cost me about 40 bucks a week and it’s worth every penny
🎉yes
$40 bucks a week for 2x smoothies a day is a DEAL
You don't get the full benefits XD, the video clearly explains why. You do get some benefits, whether that's enough or not that's up to your doctor to decide...
At the end he says you only get 1 out of 4 benefits of fiber. What are the other 3? And what if I were to add some fiber to my smoothie after, like some chia seeds. Anyone have the answers?
No comment on the sugar content? Mr. SUGAR expert
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Well it’s fruit sugar. He did talk about it
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Smoothies are best thing on this planet. You ever ask someone “hey you want a smoothie and they say “hell no i dont want no smoothie
my cousin doesn't eat or dried most of fruits or vegetables
Don't say bad words that is a sin
@@glee_3000 I don’t cuss
good one that made me laugh
We don't just eat fruit for their insoluble fibre though - why ignore all the other nutrients that fruit contains and just focus on one?
Because you don't like developing insulin resistance.
Can’t do anything without an ‘expert’ having a say! He didn’t even answer the question about sugars so great job! 👏
Healthier than McDonald's. I'll stick to my protien smoothies thanks
That's what's up
That’s what’s up big dog
Oh he would promote McDonalds in a heart beat anything healthy they start warning you against it. Why?
Doesn't chewing your food sort of blends it too ??
Fru Emmanuel not as finely as blending it.
That’s a dumb question
@@block36079 it's not dumb
Bingo! We have a winner! Chewing food and putting it in a blender is the same darn thing.
@@saturatedfat6424 So how many choose does it take to totally destroy the nutritional value of fruit?
People get so offended by this video, because "Smoothies Taste Good" and "At Least It gets me eating fruit/veggies." I think part of the reason people are so offended is because they think SMoothies are the end-all-be-all cure for your nutrition and want a simple solution. Unfortuntately, what Dr. Lustig is saying is completely correct. He's not saying smoothies don't have any nutritional value, its just that the nutritional value is hugely reduced by the way the fiber releases nutrients into the body (smoothies=fast release, chewing=slow release.) By all means, if you enjoy smoothies, and they are substitution for bad eating habits, they are an excellent choice, but knowledge is power, and it's important to know that you are indeed losing valuable fiber your body needs for growth. Smoothies do not replace chewing!
Science will always discover the "bad" but like most people are commenting on here. Americans do not eat enough veggies and fruit as it is... sooo wouldnt we be better off blending it all into a cup versus not eating any at all? This video was interesting though! I am glad he did not talk about the sugar but insoluble and soluble fibers; I did not know they work together to create a "film" or barrier in the intestines.
There’s no way in the morning I’d eat kiwi, baby spinach, tomato. Banana, summer fruits, a satsuma, gindpger root, carrot and cucumber. It’s gotta be good just to get that lot inside you
I agree!
Totally 👏🙌
Most succinct explanation I’ve heard for this
Ok so, here's everything that's bad according to the internet: Meat, Fruit, Plants, Milk, Eggs, Sugar, Fat, and Salt. Good luck!!
Government water is good, pills and medication are good. Injecting yourself is good. So they would like you to think!!!!
this is wonderful information!!
I'm fine with eating an orange. I don't need to swallow four oranges in one sitting. But as much as I like salads, it's not easy for myself or most people to consume enough healthy leafy greens. The easiest and fastest way to make a head of kale palatable is to blend or juice it up with a little fruit and water or watery vegetables. Most of us can't realistically spend an hour munching on a huge bowl of butter greens, not including the time and effort of preparing the greens in a a way that makes them tasty enough to eat in quantity. It's way easier to just combine them with an apple, celery, and lemon juice. Fast to make and eat, tasty, and healthier than what we would otherwise be eating.
I suppose that if I had private chefs following me around I wouldn't have much need of the convenience of blending. But green smoothies or juices are often the only realistic way for people to incorporate a lot of vegetables into their diet. Most who drink smoothies or juices still eat solid food with fiber in it. Having a smoothie or juice won't stop you from wanting foods in their natural state, which you can actually chew on.
next video. "Sleeping is bad for you".
What's a little missed fiber compared to my old diet where i hardly ate fruits and veggies at all? I can still eat some solid fruits now and then or from other veggies during my meals and still enjoy the plenty of other benefits from my smoothies, i have never felt better and more energized than when i added a smoothie a day with some lifestyle changes, regular gym workout, and a healtheir diet plus multivitamin once a day. Sounds like a little missed insoluble fiber is a good trade off.
Idc, I love mango smoothies.
what if you eat veggies like celery before drinking a fruit smoothing?
Finally, something that really has something to do with science in science insider
Well, I don’t make smoothies instead of fruit. I just drink smoothies and eat fruit.
But smoothies tastes so darned good. It's better than coke and store bought smoothies.
Absolutely
lol but i eat way more fruit and veggies through drinking it. i still eat the fruit by itself here and there though
Drink smoothies and eat other forms of fiber like porridge oats and beans.
thank you sir, you save me from making a mistake,...
I have lost a bit of wait since I started on vegetable fruit smoothie, I'm happy
*_THE LONG STRINGY STUFF_*
I’m confused. Why is a blender destroying fiber but mastication not? Shouldn’t the only thing blending do is make a person skip chewing?
right I dont understand
Because a metal blade spinning at 100+ rpms is a lot more efficient at blending food then your chewing. People don't usually chew food to mush
Your teeth can never hope to achieve the results 2 minutes in a ninja blend can produce... your mashing and tearing with your teeth a blender is liquifying.
What if you're adding grains and you dont blend them too finely, would the small chunks be enough to keep the benefits of insoluble fiber?
If you want to eat healthy you need to get used to boring/bland flavors for the majority of your days HEALTH IS WEALTH
Fruit salad Will get you those good flavor combos without loosing those 3 things. Banana, blood orange and those tiny yellow mangos are a awesome cambo
What if you can’t eat?
What about a smoothie bowl with fruit on top..? Then, you get both😉
What if you add fiber to a smoothie?
ok ok I will go back to fast food, thanks for the heads up
We can make smoothies without worrying losing fibers. We can add fiber in the smoothies like chia seed etc .. or we can eat different food rich in fiber.
Its better to drink smoothies than milktea or sodas..
0:21 now that was stupid
Also I already take fiber supplements aside from smoothies
I use a smoothie as my dessert.
I love to blend frozen mix of fruits and vegetables into smoothies. But yesterday I ate a mango and it was so good!!!
Seems logical
So when you chew your food, don’t you chew it up in enough to where it goes down into your digestive system properly and what’s the difference between a machine grinding your food up instead of your teeth?
Well that would be the enzymes that help to digest the food. but once it is in your gut all those nutrients will do the same thing. Plus who said people who have smoothies have forgotten to eat.
😐...☹...😢 RIP smoothies...💔
Can’t you just add a bit of oatmeal to the smoothie
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the chewing of fruit make the fruit become a similar state to if it was blended? Are you not breaking down the fibre in the food?
Not to as fine a degree.... our teeth can never hope to achieve the result that 2 minutes in a ninja blender can produce...
What about vegetables?
Wait a minute so blending is the problem. So what is it that your teeth are doing before you swallow. I guess he swallows his fruit whole? And I’m sorry but when you take a fiber supplement how does it come?? Oh yeah in a fine ground powder. Weird
I hardly eat fruits so having a Smoothie is beneficial plus I feel stronger for it and I just started. Better than having chips or a steak!!! Healthy sugars meaning unprocessed sugars are healthy.
My Tutorial teacher said the same thing
A published paper has disproven this guy's opinion.
IBS patients may need to have it pre chewed.
*This Scared Me*
Im into snoothies right now..
For some people eating fruits are little bit hard specially kids, maybe we can eat half then we can make smoothies the other half.
This guy needs a smoothie
Not all smoothies have sugar, I never use sugar and I sweeten my smoothies with 1 banana and 3 dates. This is natural healthy ingredients
He's talking about the natural sugar content in fruits that is stripped of its fibre when blended into a smoothie. That banana and date in your smoothie is supposedly quite high in unhealthy sugar because you don't have the benefit of the protective fibre anymore.
@@omrtheater7244 what about taking fibre supplements at the same time and also eating fiber rich breakfast?
@@CreepyRecordings
It's good for you yeah, but it's beside the point. If you have a smoothie, you are consuming unhealthy sugars. It doesn't matter if you compensate by eating other healthy foods.
The fructose in fruits when stripped of its natural fibre damages your liver.
@@omrtheater7244 But processed sugar they say is good for you but not natural sugars which come from fruits. What a crazy world we live in.
Or you can make a Smoothie n maybe even juice your fruit and add a small scoop of fiber back into it.
I've literally been sick to my stomach for 10 days and I'm being tested for h.pylori as I'm nauseous and weak every day. But this morning, I had half a beet smoothie mixed with 4 other different fruits... And I couldn't take another sip I felt SO nauseous, the top of the stomach was protruding out with gas. I thought to myself- I think it's the smoothies that are causing the nausea! If I think about it, I've been nauseous almost every morning before this big flare up 10 days ago. Always straight after eating the smoothie! It's not a natural way to eat food, blitzing it to smitherines. It's bound to cause issues, just like this video states. Perhaps I have a weak digestive system. But I know that my morning smoothies are OUT! I literally lose hours caus all I can do is lie down on my side. Thanks for this vid!! X
@Ellie Co I was diagnosed with hpylori many years ago and I can tell you the disease in its self makes you nausea. The smoothies with yogurt which helps coat the gut and fruits(without acid) helped heal my gut well. I also were put on antibiotics. It’s was a horrible feeling, but I hope you heal swiftly.
Your body is reacting to the smoothies (Health benefits) Your condition will get worse before it gets better. So you just have to go through the process. I have been having three four smoothies per day. Maybe because my body is saying this is what i need. So I am agreeing and giving it what it wants.
What about putting Spinach in your smoothies
It good to eat healthy when u put good things i. Youre temple " this will improve youre digestive track help ya sleep easier its vitally important for youre immune system
Can I make a smoothie and still eat fruit? I mainly make smoothies to get my veggies in mostly. I only use one fruit and it's either a banana or a pineapple
No you can’t, tis ‘tis tis
I think he is right! Also, digestive enzymes are released when you chew food. This whole process is skipped when you blend and drink it down
What if i set the old vitamix on 1 and eat my smoothies? Too lazy to cook!
Do both
The right smoothies are healthy
what about not blending the fruit but giving it a smoosh with a fork so it's juicier to put on top of pancakes in lieu of syrup??
That shouldn't hurt anything, that is no more aggressive than what our teeth already do...
The pancakes themselves would be the concern lol
so smoothies are still good for you just not as good as actual fruit
Bs....im still drinkin em
@@amiracle1269 go ahead i never said they were bad
@@mcfrickenwatcher195 didnt say ya did
Was actually in disagreement with the presentation
@@amiracle1269 I have no benefit to tell you this, but just so you know and it might perhaps get through to you one day, you're wrong.
But chewing does the same thing though?
your mistaken for fruit juice which is just sugar water, all the fruit goes into the smoothie, just like it going into your stomach. Veg smooths way healthier anyhoo
Girl gym sees me daily drinking smoothies whilst training. Says stop I dont know how much sugar in them. Sugar, what? Education moment on goggle and it appears they are bad for you. Can lead to high blood pressure etc etx.
Milk and strawberries aren't unhealthy
You act like people still don’t eat the fruit you can eat fruit and drink smoothies
but you literally chew the food in your mouth anyway
Im kinda confused. Doesn't chewing do the same thing the insoluble fiber anyway???
Autumn that's what I was thinking too. Honestly I've heard oxidation is worse than what this guy says.
@@KAZAMN1000 Oxidation occurs rapidly after the food is broken down. In a smoothie it happens at an insanly fast rate and the food oxidizes beofre it even gets into your body. If you chew it in your mouth, the food is not exposed to oxygen after being chewd, so the oxization rate is much lower, therefore retaining more nutrients. Chew your food!
According to this video if you have dentures and cant chew well then RIP and SOL for you.
how does he know the blended fiber won't get chewed by bacteria
He doesn't
add a small amount of ACV and olive oil...problem solved kids. Your welcome.
Lieeeess 2 tsp of Metamucil goes into mines
People also overeat with smoothies
The older you get the more you find out there is no shortcuts to eating healthy
That thumbnail tho
Brings on a sugar expert... only talks about fiber
Man, there is no way I will ever eat green leafy vegetables, flax or chia seeds unless they are hidden in a smoothie. I will take the bad of smoothies and eat food to compensate.
Understand the issues with fibre, but what about the nutritional benefits? Eating 2-3 pieces of fruit even if they are juiced must have some major health benefits?
They won't tell you what they are just in case you start having too much smoothies and become healthy!!!!
convenience matter sir
Suga Daddy
Smoothie are better for your body then pizza burger just trust me I love fast food and I drink smoothie to nutrition my body
Sounds like "I'm trying to treat the patient,not cure the disease"......Whenever "they" can't benefit from it,they're against it even when it can help millions of people.
I’ve never seen so many hyper-defensive, self-rationalizing comments to a video
I'm pretty sure 1 in every 10 Americans don't even get enough veggies or fruits lol, so I'm sticking to smoothies since its easier
Tell me what you think IS healthy and in 5 seconds i can pull up a video saying why said food is “bad” for you…
An Oreo smoothie
Whatttttttttttttt!!!!!!!
nobody cares whether smoothies were healthy, they just liked them cause they tasted good
not true, many people drink them because they're healthy
@@majlordag1889 agree to disagree
@@redaipo You don't think people choose smoothies because they are labeled as 'healthy'?
@@Mrfireface2 I sure don't
Still better then eating hot Cheetos so who gives a sht
fraud in a suit
I dont trust this 😂😂😂
EAT THE FRUIT!!!
@CampSauceJr
Why ? Modern fruits are just tree candies! There are no essential carbohydrates in the human diet!