Why Don’t People Eat Healthier?
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I think people have taken the idea of "all things in moderation" and just assume that whatever they are doing is "moderation" because their diet could be worse than it is, so it must be moderate?
True that
Doctor Neil Barnard gave a nice quote on this.
We say "everything in moderation" about good behaviors: a kid playing the violin, playing outside or drinking water. We don’t say that about smoking, doing cocaine or gambling.
It's always the fatal misunderstanding about harmony
We all know that balance is the answer, the question is where is that balance
And most still go by the immediate thought that the "balance" must be somewhere between plant based and meat based, but in reality that healthy balance is basiaclly plant based with some exceltions in certain circumstances
People are addicted in general. To food, to explicit content, to smoking, to drinking etc etc… And addicts will always justify their addiction.
I think people are free to choose what they eat though, we shouldn’t force anybody.
Good video
I think one major problem is we've all been convinced that eating healthy is totally unpleasant
Life will be totally miserable if I don't have my yummy candies and all the meat products.
And it might feel like that at 1st
But once I adjust to a healthy diet I enjoyed the food more than I've ever enjoyed the junk food
I continue eating healthy not because it might prevent something years from now but because it makes me feel good at energetic everyday right now
I wish that we had a campaign about how joyful it is to eat whole food plant based diet
This is also a huge factor. I noticed the first thing people think of when they hear someone is vegan, "Oh so you eat nothing but raw unseasoned salad. Screw that." Now whenever someone tries saying being vegan is "extreme" I respond with, "What's extreme about a bean burrito?" One of my friends pulled the, "How do you ruin a cookie? Make it vegan." line. So I responded, "Oreos are vegan. Last I checked, you love Oreos."
After I've debunked all their points and doubts about being vegan, they always ALWAYS fall back on, "Well, it tastes good so I'm going to keep eating it." So I pointed out the minestrone soup they just ate was vegan and they liked it just fine. It blew their minds. They hadn't even noticed. lol. Good food is good food.
A big shoutout to this.
I've been eating mostly WFPB for a year (I eat some vegan junk food to stay on the wagon). I still don't think it tastes as good as processed, high salt and high fat food. It's just not as flavorful and satisfying as what I used to eat. I don't miss meat or eggs, but I still have dreams about eating dairy and fish.
@@lucindabreeding I don't. I actually eat vegan food in my dreams. lol. But I also have the laws and regulations for animal agriculture at my fingertips to remind me animals are legally allowed to be fed: urine, feces, ground up diseased animals (including cannibalism and yes that means cows too), growth hormones, antibiotics, and trash. Cows are legally allowed to be fed: the entire corpse of horses and pigs (eyes, fur, hooves, brains, and all) and even certain parts of cows. It's also legal to feed chickens to chickens and pigs to pigs. And I have the USDA 2014 Dairy Report to show me how cows have leukemia, AIDS, several strains of strep infection, several strains of staph infection, mastitis infection, and mycoplasma. I don't want any of that in my body. I also keep in mind about zoonotic diseases and I refuse to pay to cause another pandemic.
And there's plenty of vegan dairy replacement products. There's even vegan fish products but I never liked fish so I don't eat that.
And once I gave up cheese, I never craved it. I thought I would but I just don't. I eat plenty of other delicious food which doesn't require cheese. And if I ever do want something cheesy, I have a couple of really good homemade recipes I like.
👍 six yrs this month wfpb 🕺💃🏽 it’s the most amazing discovery & way to live 🙏 …..no hexperimental jibbyjabbys either 😉
I went WFPB 8 weeks ago, lost 18 lbs, feel better than in my twenties (I worked out religiously in the Navy and was in great shape), and am absolutely gobsmacked at the results. I'm now disgusted by unhealthy foods. What started out as a fad diet is now the only food that tastes good to me. I thought I'd miss meat. For now I hate it.
I don't think the majority of the people are thinking about their health when deciding what to eat.
I am a whole-food plant based vegan and sometimes I feel like an outcast even though I know I am
eating healthier foods than my friends.
You are an outcast because you eat differently from a normal person and you probably try to make others eat like you do.
Try to talk to someone about diet and most all will immediately get defensive and argue their diet is the best diet. Other than my immediate family, I gave up trying to help others years ago.
Problem is the negative effects of bad diet are very slow to manifest. If you eat a burger and start vomiting you will hardly touch another again. Who in their 30s care if they will start getting high blood pressure when they become 50?
I do. As i watch my father receive a prostate cancer diagnosis after overcoming his neck cancer 2 years ago. While he also has high BP, and valley fever. I went vegan (majority wfpb) almost 5 years ago. Read Dr. Greger's book How not to Die.
@@thegratefulsteve Goof for you. I wish I went WFPBSOS from my birth. I went vegan about 15-16 years ago when first got high BP (it is in my family) and felt OK for several years. But then fell for the Paleo thing for 10 years until my high BP returned. Back to not only vegan but WFPBSOS this time.
@@thegratefulsteve eat carnivore and live or deteriorate fast
The major thing missing here is the environmental impact on agency. A poor person living in a society that doesn't value them who is being advertised junk food 24/7 is going to have an incredibly hard time resisting the urge to numb their feelings with spamming
Dopamine releasing food.
Yes, their own body is making a choice causing them harm, but the idea that their lack of willpower or knowledge is the only factor in that choice is just as ignorant as thinking smoking isn't that bad.
I say this all the time. When my husband and I have money, we eat healthy and I'm slowly transitioning to vegan. But our food bill is £100 a week. When we had no money a few years ago, I could buy a months worth of shopping for £60. It was high fat food, but when you can only eat twice a day so you're not 'wasting money', high fat food is high calorie food,which is exactly what you want.
Even with food price rises, I can still buy a month's shopping for £100 if things get really tight, but whenever I say this NO ONE wants to acknowledge or talk about it. People say healthy food is cheap, and when you know how to cook beans and lentils that can even move towards being true. But no one is taught how to integrate these things into their usual diet. Schools don't teach this at home ec, if they do home ec anymore, which none of the schools I know of do.
I'd love to see people being taught how to cook this way. How to use this food to make themselves healthier, but until this is taught as rote, most people will consider healthy eating too expensive and nothing will change.
Even so. I can't imagine being able to eat healthy and vegan for £100 a month.
@@lucypeace6132 It's not really possible to be a healthy Vegan no matter how much you spend a month on food because plants don't have all we need so you will have to buy supplements too. It's not meat that is causing all the health problems today, it is the decades of bad advice telling us to eat a so called balanced diet. Eating carbs with fats triggers the Randle Cycle and causes weight gain and a lot of the chronic health problems we see today.
@@phill6983 The only thing i supplement as a whole food/high carb/low fat vegan is B12....AND i still needed to supplement it when i was a meat eater. A bottle of B12 drops costs me $10 but lasts me ages these days cos im only using it every 2nd or 3rd day. Cos Doc told me all my levels were great ...especially cholesterol which was 3 in Aussie terms (150 in USA terms) (it was always too high as a meat eater) (so YAY!) but she said my B12 was really high on my last blood test...& it doesnt need to be that high so back my supplement off a bit.
PS....Doc was thrilled with the almost 25 kilos (55 lbs) i dropped effortlessly last year as a side effect of eating this way. IM SO HAPPY I'M NEVER GOING BACK!
👏🏻
So many people I've tried to help are confident that they are healthy while they are weak, tired and taking drugs every day. I heard a man in the waiting room of a cardiologist say, "I can eat anything I want, I've got my nitro pills...." One person that was eating nothing but junk food and weighed over 400 lbs told me that she know what her problem was, it was one perticular type of candy she liked, while she ignored all the other fat, sugar and refined junk.
I have often wished I could put a person into a virtual reality where they could feel the energy, mobility and freedom that I feel. I'm in my 60s and feel better and younger than I ever did in my teens when I was a sugar and chocolate addict.
Omfg YES!
This brought to mind Peter Josephs 'structural violence' concept in which the market economy should ultimately be held accountable for taking advantage of peoples physchobiological vulnerability. as mentioned in the video and by you the advertising shows people having a great time eating unhealthy food and works by manipulating our need for social inclusion by making us have fomo. knowing this though for most people, may paint a grim stockholm syndrome like perspective of the reality of the capitalist consumerism agenda and only lead to even greater weakened will by inducing apathy.
Remember, with this logic, these are the same people who vote. And we all do this same type of delusion in many many areas of our lives. Just in the health area, it's most pronounced.
I've noticed this same kind of behavior in friends and family when I tell them about the harmful effects of eating their current diet. They either tell me they already eat healthy (when I know they aren't) or say how they don't think they are very likely to get diseases. Even worse, there is no thought whatsoever on the long term health effects they are feeding their children. It's very frustrating.
Its human nature....no one wants to be told what to do.....or that they are doing something wrong.....the only way someone changes their behavior is if they think they are the ones making the decision and not being influenced by a "know it all". I am like this as most people are........but what convinced me to change was simply educating myself and understanding the science behind it, then I slowly shifted to eating more a more whole plant food based diet and began feeling the difference in how I felt; however, in the back of my mind, I knew my relative had been harping for years about it, but I was convinced my diet was pretty healthy. Unfortunately, it will take a non-relative or complete stranger for your friends and family to make a change and believe me, that will not be easy sadly because in order for them to educate themselves they will have to take the time to do it......one suggestion I do have though is.....perhaps consider buying them and gifting to them on holidays or their birthdays a whole food plant based diet cookbook or DVD.....or perhaps cook something that is delicious (not hard) and invite them over for dinner or lunch.....while subtlety commenting on the health benefits of it.....again, this will all take time and much love, but keep trying to chip away at it.....I think it most people understood how easy or taking a little more effort in preparing their own food, they might consider changing especially if they keep getting bad numbers from their test results.
@@trevorregay9283 Yeah, you're right. Even I fall into the category of not like being told what to do. Even if it's something I wouldn't have otherwise minded doing, the moment it becomes mandatory then I don't want to do it. lol. That's why I don't try telling them what to do, I try educating them. But like you said, it's likely going to have to come from someone other than me.
I have gotten a couple friends to switch and one of my family members is considering it but I literally had to write a book with cited sourced and everything to get them to consider listening. lol. And a few of them just refuse to even read it. :( If it requires someone doing their own research then it won't happen for most people. They're too lazy or jump on what they think is the easiest fad like keto.
I go from the perspective of, "If I was unknowingly buying something that went against my own interests then I'd want someone to tell me." but I'm also not afraid of the truth and a lot of people are.
I have done things like bought vegan food for them and cooked them food, as well. As long as I'm not making things like healthy vegan brownies and go for more junk food type stuff, which they are more familiar with, then it goes very well. I also point out when they accidentally eat vegan food, like minestrone soup, and loved it. lol.
@@suicune2001 yeah.....its an uphill battle, but I've learned to try to be a little less demanding and as you, a little more of an educator, but not with a know it all attitude....just simply pointing it out in a mild manner.....my biggest challenge is my 20 year old daughter whom I raised non-vegan, but then I transitioned over to 95% vegan....she does do somethings I suggest but old habits die hard...for her...its eggs and cheese LOL!.....and of course...chicken as well......but I have managed to get her away from hot dogs and lunch meat THANK GOD!....anyway...good luck and keep the good fight...its definitely a worthy cause!
@@trevorregay9283 Thanks! You too. :) I was already heading towards plant-based by the time 2020 hit. Then COVID happened and since I happened to already be subbed to a couple of vegan channels, I learned about zoonotic diseases and what causes them. I did research on them and decided I was partially responsible for the pandemic since I perpetuated the idea we need to eat animals and supported it. So I went vegan. I decided when the next pandemic hit, that crap wasn't going to be my fault. lol.
I also kept doing more research and hearing more and more bad things about eating animals. I think the most convincing arguments I have is the government. The laws surrounding animals (or lack thereof, really) was a real eye-opener.
For example, according to the USDA Organic regulations, any animals not labeled as certified organic are LEGALLY allowed to be fed: "Urine, feces, ground up diseased animals, antibiotics, and growth hormones." If you're a pig, it's legal to feed pigs literal trash. The USDA calls it "Garbage Feeding."
To go along with the "ground up diseased animals" I mentioned, per the FDA feeding regulations on what animals are allowed to be fed, there are no laws whatsoever stating a chicken can't be fed to a chicken or a pig can't be fed to a pig. Or that a cow which died of tuberculosis can't be ground up and fed to a chicken which you then ate at Wendy's. I mean, as recent as 2008 it was LEGAL to feed cows that died of MAD COW DISEASE to other animals which were then fed to us. Cows are the only ones that have any regulation at all and it's not much. Cows are legally allowed to be fed: the entire carcass of pigs and horses (which means hooves, fur, eyes, brains, and all) and CERTAIN PARTS OF COWS. Specifically, cow blood, cow tallow, cow gelatin, and beef scraps from restaurants.
Then there are the diseases the animals themselves have. Per the USDA 2014 Dairy report (which can be found easily online) cows have leukemia, AIDS, several strains of strep infection, several strains of staph infection, mastitis infection, and mycoplasma.
Starting on page 55 of the report we can see in the chart that mastitis infection ranges from 33 - 78% depending on how large or small the herd size is and where in the U.S. the farm is, 40 - 57% of cows had chronic clinical mastitis, 39 - 50% had clinical mastitis that did not respond to treatment, and 26 - 48% had high somatic cell count which is pus.
page 57. A whopping 76 - 86% of cows had environmental strep (Strep. spp.) non-agalactiae, 66% had Staphylococcus Aureus which was strangely even across all farm sizes and regions, 33 - 56% had Coagulase neg. staph (Staph. spp.) non-aureus, and 30 - 50% had Streptococcus. Agalactiae. Also, 5 - 30% of cows had mycoplasma.
At this point, someone couldn’t pay me to eat animal products. lol
@@debk6161 Read the post I made under yours. That should give you some ammo. :) If youtube allows it (a lot of the time it won't. >:( ) I can even provide the links to prove what I'm saying.
This is tough one for me......as even though you might think you are following the "rules", you might not be or you could be someone who is genetically predisposed to cancer.....I have a sister-in-law who was a strict whole plant based vegan and still got stricken with rectal cancer.....she has survived, but still, it was very dramatic to her because of the lifestyle she lives and to have this happen to her.....but to be fair, she is an MD, but did not get her screenings because I believe she felt because of her lifestyle she was immune to sickness.....so doctors can be the worst patients....so my message to all here is, don't think a vegan diet is the panacea to great health and still get your screenings at the recommended times.....I do think the vegan(whole food based) lifestyle does provide great health benefits versus other diets, but there is no guarantees you are risk free of health issues......please keep this in mind. Thank you.
I doubt she ate this kind of diet since birth though.
@@Julottt good point......she is 55 and has probably been vegan for around 30 years at least...so yeah, she probably was eating animal protein prior, but all in all, I don't think her diet was horrible if you understand what I'm saying here....no junk food.
Thank you for the reminder, my doctor who is plant-based gave me a lecture about skipping screenings. He said he is seeing an unprecedented rise in Stage 4 cancers due to the pandemic lockdowns. I've been plant based for 6 years, you are right, I am not immune to diseases - it's how well you recover.
A lot of people who watch these videos think it’s all about diet, but that’s only part of it. Quality sleep and low stress are just as important, if your sleep sucks and you have chronic stress you’re getting a disease whether you eat plant based or not. There’s other things to think of too, toxic exposure from things like pesticides, and chemicals in your water are two of the most common things people forget about because they’re so accustomed to feeding themselves with it, but getting a distiller and eating organic are more simple than switching your diet to plant based.
I’m not bashing a WFPBD by the way, i’m plant based since 2015.
Cognitive dissonance is the bane of mankind. It is the essence of cults and political parties, and apparently, views on one's health.
This is such an interesting video, I would like to do some work in public health and this is amazing stuff to be shown so thank you Doc. Almost finished your book, I honestly think it could be such a game changer for the whole world if they let themselves in on that knowledge!
Doc?? Shaking head fool would be a better description.
I KNOW what is eat and do for good health, but I don't obey my better knowledge. Driven by compulsive drive for sugar and chips.
Feel better without, but 🙃 it makes no sense
@@meman6964 I figured that might be the case.
Brilliant! Why won’t you have millions of followers? Thanks for all you do.
Very easy to understand. Most people are NOT looking for any kind of discourse aiming at making them feel bad about their pleasurable choices. Instead most people are trying to gather as many good news about their bad ways of life. Why do you think the keto and carnivore diet are popular?
@@PhilippeOrlando omg. the Keto nonsense is off the charts and carnivore too. "Yeah I get to eat fatty foods all day but I'm in ketosis so it's okay!" perfect example of rationalization. Just like a toddler wanting the candy bar instead of the apple sauce for a snack lol.
@@PhilippeOrlando EXACTLY.
Talk to people about how unhealthy their diets are and they'll say oh I'll just lose a year or two at the end of my life, better to enjoy life eating what I want then eat like a rabbit for all my life. Which shows they know it's unhealthy and it'll effect them(secretly they know it'll effect them way before that too). Maybe we need more transitionary foods that are tastier to slowly get them to come over. End advertising of unhealthy foods would go a long way also. And no putting unhealthy sugar foods at the checkout counter geared towards getting kids hooked on sugar for life.
It's all a mind game these companies and their marketing teams know exactly what they're doing and the average person is to simple to get it!
This is interesting but I think we’d achieve better results if we approached it at the level of designing environments that promote healthy behaviors rather than at the level of trying to convince individuals to make different choices. The reason health statistics differ so much between countries and across history isn’t just due to the changing winds of attitudes. It’s because people respond to their surroundings and different surroundings produce different results
True, but keep in mind governments don't want their nations to be healthy, you see that everywhere around you
Yeah. What do you think healthy people are doing haha. The government, corrupt companies and people make it hard to not help people in the ways that we need to.
@@alexmcmahon6104 Yea same goes with online privacy, when you're trying to be anonymous, the people around you even your neighbors are going to expose who you are by using facebook and google services because both fb and goog are collecting the info of the environment around the users, so in the end, as you said the people are the enemy of each other through their ignorance, ww3 is needed now to correct all this mess
“It’s not my fault I’m obese, it’s society’s fault”
We have a pandemic of a lack of accountability for one’s own health
@@RealMisterDoge What do you believe caused the “pandemic of a lack of accountability for one’s own health”? It’d be a strange coincidence if the society-wide problem you’re describing was caused by atomic individuals all independently arriving at same mistakes by chance
It requires more effort than eating terribly. There's always another burger shop or pizza joint opening, not establishments serving whole foods.
It takes a lot of work to make vegetables taste good, especially if you want to keep them healthy and not just slather them in pork fat or something.
That's very true. I know that even, say, limiting oneself to a salad (no cheese, thanks), which is often the only healthy item available, can be seen as being a killjoy or even someone who intentionally if silently condemns those having the standard menu.
There's always another gun shop, but you won't see me in there. Sorry, it's about personal responsibility.
It's a business model to make extremely processed, unhealthy and cheap food and market it to a generation and populous of people who already have the odds stacked against them. In terms of critical thinking in general or lack of personal responsibility. It's sad really with heart disease as the number 1 killer, let alone cancer.
It’s very hard in this day and age to mindlessly reach for a pack of cigarettes at the checkout counter, but easy and encouraged to reach for a pack of sugar and fat or carcinogenic processed meat. Imagine if all this stuff was behind a locked cabinet and you had to ask for it from the clerk. Garbage food is FAR too convenient, far too accessible, far too cheap and far too promoted and encouraged (ie advertised) by those who sell it and far too subsidized by the governments they lobby. And at the same time, pre-made, ready to eat, delicious whole food is sometimes next to impossible to find. Make pre-made whole plant foods meals and snacks the most convenient, accessible, cheapest and most advertised foods on the planet and I bet most people would eat them regularly.
Great video! But I'd also love to see you cover food addiction, since some of us (me) know we eat terribly, but can't stop! lol.
Have you checked Chef AJ?
Yesssssssssss!!! I can eat super healthy for maybe a week at a time and then one of my coworkers hands me a cookie or Twizzlers and I just mindlessly munch on said cookie or Twizzlers as I work. Then I realize what I just did and am so disgusted!!! I spend a lot of money on organic food, so I feel like it is a waste for me to blow my healthy diet and a darn cookie.
This is the same mentality that people think: "Our politicians are corrupt, but my congressman is ok."
Amazing video. I have been saying this stuff for years. It is VERY hard to communicate this stuff.
I think the reason people don't take responsibility for their own lives, such as neglecting their health, has its roots in profoundly ubiquitous mental health issues.
This reminds me of a survey results paper I read years ago that 90% of Americans rated themselves as eating a healthy diet. When 70% of the US adult population is at least overweight 🤦🏻♂️
I’m convinced my wife is just plain addicted to processed junk food. I eat whole food mostly plant based and offer to cook my wife meals. She says no thanks and then eats a bag of microwave popcorn and gummie worms in front of the TV and falls asleep. But every time I say something about it she says she just started to eat better that day lol
Yeah it's typical for people to use the I'll get healthy later..... line
wonderful video,but from what I've observed in many of my clients, I've worked as a personal trainer and a vegan health coach, the power of addictions trumps everything. Once somebody is used to a certain daily dose of dopamine, through a certain type of food, fat, sugar, etc...you can tell them anything, present all the facts to them, you simply won't be able to reach them. They want to keep having their pleasure NOW. Oh, yes, that's why I'm not a personal trainer or a vegan health coach anymore. Waste of time.
That job always seemed to be a load of BS
Yup, food addiction, not to mention monosodium glutamate (MSG).
The food industry knows exactly what they are doing.
The food industry prepares customers for the pharmaceutical industry.
Correct, the average person severely lacks will power and they're probably unlikely to ever watch videos like this sadly.
I learned this the hard way; when I had cancer. It was my fault; my bad habits. It was the thing that saved my life. No more justifying.
Many I have talked with are like you say. They are above the rest and a little doesn't hurt me. The most think that would never happen to me???? I guess being not human, specially in America, is a status quo???
Most people do not believe our most common diseases can be prevented or reversed. Most people think that meat is healthy.
Meat is healthy. There is no evidence to show that it isn't.
@@phill6983 And theres no evidence to show a whole food plant based diet with supplements that gets daily nutritional needs is bad either.
I’ve seen my 5yr old nephew drink a 20oz Pepsi, mind not all at once, but still. I said out loud that maybe that’s too much soda for his age, and I was told it’s fine. And to make it worse, he has it with the blue peppery taki chips! I no longer comments on what he eats anymore, but I cringe every time when I see him eating tons of junk foods, especially when he’s watching the tele😔😔
OH GOD.You poor thing. As far as im concerned NO 5 yr old should EVER drink a 20 oz pepsi.
And ANY human who doesn't live under a goddamn rock should know that. How on earth do u cope? I'd be rifling thru my phone/laptop finding studies to show her why keeping soda for special occasions only & switching to water now (or a 20 oz water with an orange & lemon squeezed into it) is SO much better for her babies. My sister would end up screaming that old (sadly true) chestnut about HES MY KID NOT YOURS SO U DONT GET A SAY. i would end up in tears cos i can SEE his sad sickly future laid out before him & i feel helpless & angry.
i would kiss the poor innocent kids goodbye & have to bow out of their lives altogether.
@@marakima sad but true 😔
vending machines and fast food restaurants make unhealthy foods very convenient, healthy meals are inconvenient. Food Inc. has increased portions, candy bars used to be very small when I was a kid, now they are big enough for 3 helpings. Coca Cola used to be 61/2 ounces, now it is 16. We need to make healthy eating convenient.
I am a staunch believer in foods as medicine. To me it is alarming how the costs of healthy choices continue to soar. This is an impediment for many people.
Most people know literally nothing about health. Ive seem more overweight health care workers and now its normalized.
Someone once told me that what you eat does not affect your lifespan, and that nothing can change the age you will live to. But I think it’s a rare opinion. Just to clarify I think it’s as far from the truth as can be.
I’m so appreciative that my parents had some idea about what a healthy diet is supposed to be when I was growing up in the 60’s. Even thought it took me a few years to get back to it once I became an adult, I now know how important the early years of eating healthy has boosted my health now and my interest in eating healthy for the last 40 years.
I think optimism bias is a huge factor here, and Dunning Kruger effect, but not only limited to diet. Most people think they drive much better than average. I think what would help reduce confusion, with regard to dietary recommendations, perhaps, would be a gold standard diet, followed by pragmatic recommendations(silver, bronze, etc.) Many health recommendations just recommend what they think is practical, and fall far short of ideal. Not even recommending anything close to disease reversal for conditions, like say Atherosclerosis (Ornish), diabetes (many others)... A perfect diet would be absurdly hard to stick to and having gold standard recommendations that are high quality, multidimensional, and science based would give people a goal that can be worked toward, instead of the current recommendations of everything, including things that cause harm in any amount, in moderation(vague).
All good points. Optimism bias is definitely a huge deal. I agree the recommendations should be advising the gold standard so people have some idea what a healthy diet ACTUALLY looks like. Because like the video said, everyone assumes they don't eat as bad as they actually do. I also think the gold standard would be easier if we had a culture that pushed the gold standard as the actual standard.
I've told friends and family, "The worst thing about being vegan is everyone else." They get mad at that but it's true. It's like being a non-smoker in a world full of smokers who try telling you smoking is healthy and you're some kind of weirdo for not smoking. They come up with all kinds of stupid excuses like how smoking helped our brains grow or the oldest people in the world smoke cigarettes. Or have sexy people on tv and movies and posters everywhere with people smoking all the time and spreading misinformation.
I've heard Dr Pam Popper speak of similar methods to this, which she implements with her patients. She's amazing.
Also THEIR DOCTORS!!! My own elderly parents have doctors telling them to get plenty of protein in the form of eggs, cheese & chicken! My father would regularly tote the fact that his doctor said to pour olive oil on everything! My brother who has suffered a heart attack brags about having bacon for breakfast every day - a keto fad that our long time nurse LPN cousin (who he thinks is a genius & I’m dim) follows. Frustrating to say the least!
Their doctors are right, they need animal protein for optimal absorption. And saturated fat for brain health.
@@janedough6575 Not according to the plant based expert doctors. Do you follow Dr. Gregor's way of eating yourself? My mother developed several cancers and my father has had two cardiac events recently.
@@awakekate3064 plant based expert doctor = oxymoron. Any real medical professional knows you can’t thrive on a starvation diet.
@@janedough6575 You are extremely misinformed - from whom do you get your opinion?
@@awakekate3064 human biology
My sister, who is a vegetarian-not a vegan-always says, "I'm doing more than most people," which is probably true. I don't know if her saying that helps or hinders, but she is healthier than most of the population.
As a true fatty & lover of food, the reason is simple…an addiction to TASTY food! (sweet, fat, salt, meat, etc.) The WFPD diet doesn’t trigger the pleasure centers of my brain at all…so I now just think of eating as a form of bodily maintenance, like exercise, or brushing my teeth.
Nice sound info in video but you're dealing with Americans. Only 3% or so can apply knowledge to their food life. I appreciate the effort though.
Your statistics seem to be as made up as Dr Greger's lol 🤣🤣
This is the first vid I’ve been a bit disappointed with from nutrition facts. I think there are far more reasons people don’t eat more healthily.Eg there has to be a reason that a lot of these food related health problems are more common in people who are socioeconomically disadvantaged: probably a mix of convenience (it takes more time and planning to follow a whole foods plant based diet and a lot of people are working more than 1 badly paying job just to stay afloat and looking after a family I’m not surprised they don’t have time to just change their whole way of eating), money - I think it’s probably cheaper to fill up on bad calories than good ones or at least is perceived that way and I think in the US there are food deserts where people really do struggle to get certain foods, advertising - fast food advertising seems to target people who are disadvantaged because they already know this - I mean compare a Burger King ad to an ad for like an expensive car and you can tell. Also there’s an interesting relationship between meat and masculinity (which advertisers use too), a lot of guys see it as somehow emasculating to be vegetarian and the health advice we are given can be contradictory around if meat and dairy is ok or not probably because of those industries lobbying power. There’s a role for ideas around tradition like I am from the U.K. where traditionally we are a very “meat n 2 veg” place and a lot of people will think it strange to change that tradition, I get scoffed at my my family for being vegetarian a lot. Plus then think about other allergies that might limit peoples ability to change diet for example my sister is gluten intolerant and her boyfriend is allergic to nuts so for them I think it would be difficult to also cut out meat and dairy and again more planning would have to go into that.
I don’t dispute the research dr Gregor talks about in this video. I just think this is a far broader topic than this video shows and because it misses so much out it ends up framed in a really individualistic way like “the reason you don’t eat healthy is because you’re biased to think it’s fine for you” - I’m sure that’s true but it doesn’t engage with any wider factors
Yes! Most people here in the US are stressed and overworked. It's already at least twice as difficult here to get a healthy meal than an unhealthy one. When your concern is getting back to work after a 15 minute break, the priority isn't going to be to try to grab a pre-made salad at a crowded grocery store, it's scarf down the quickest cheap thing available so you can clock in. And sure, people should make their own food at home to bring with them, but that's also twice as difficult if you're caring for kids, elderly parents, working two jobs, dealing with your own chronic disease, trying to go back to school, or whatever inconvenience it is- most people have at least one issue making home life chaotic. We need more healthy options that are convenient and affordable. I mean compare this to Japan, where for $8 at a convenience store you can get a green tea, rice balls, pickled vegetables, and a miso soup. On an individual level, sure we can look at the mindset and rationalizations preventing behavior change. But if the concern truly is one of public health, healthy options need to be accessible to everyone.
Also THEIR DOCTORS!!! My own elderly parents have doctors telling them to get plenty of protein in the form of eggs, cheese & chicken! My father would regularly tote the fact that his doctor said to pour olive oil on everything! My brother who has suffered a heart attack brags about having bacon for breakfast every day - a keto fad that our long time nurse LPN cousin from follows. Frustrating to say the least!
@@vivianloney8826 yep I 100% agree it would need to be a more structural change than just individuals realising they are eating unhealthily. Also it would be so much better for the planet if everyone ate even 30% less meat and animal products! When I switched to soy milk like everyone in my life was like “WELL GROWING SOYA IS BAD FOR THE PLANET ANYWAY YOU KNOW” not realising that 80% of soya grown worldwide goes to feed cows who we only get like 10% of the original calories out of and who are like walking greenhouse gas factories 😂🤦♀️
@@sherril.562 I’d need a lot of proof to tell my sister to just eat gluten again. I don’t think I have seen enough evidence to show that food allergies are fake but I have seen a lot of evidence they are real ? On balance right now I’m tempted to assume that food allergies are real
@@vivianloney8826 They are all excuses, you know that right? Coinciding exactly with one point made in this video where people seek to protect their self esteem.
I think it all goes back to the pleasure trap.
I just think that, somehow, we are hardwired to seek short-term pleasure.
I've been eating primarily a whole food plant-based diet for a year now. For about 6 weeks, I tried the no salt/sugar/oil approach, and I had to relax the rules for myself a little in order to stay on "the program." So once a week, I'll eat mock meat, or have a vegan pizza, or will use vegan salad dressing with oil. Last weekend, I baked some vegan cookies.
While I'm still finding ways to increase the flavor of the food I eat - and I'm really enjoying it - I don't think the food I'm eating now is as pleasurable or flavorful as what I was eating as an omnivore.
I think there is definitely a learning curve. My reality, though, is that to stay plant-based, I will most definitely be using some coconut cream and some processed vegan foods to increase my enjoyment and pleasure and what I'm eating.
I don't miss meat. I don't miss eggs. I still miss dairy. I still miss seafood. I don't know that I will ever not miss them. But I can live without them and enjoy my meals enough to continue with this.
This behavioural pattern is everywhere. It’s almost like there is a guide to living and humankind wants to exercise their free will over it to their own detriment.
The theme of life.
Those who are humble in spirit open to the fact that they aren’t perfect and need help to have a redirection - they find truth, life and the right way.
there are many factors that play a role in this scenario but when over 30% of the population in this country is obese and then you look out your car window as you drive past every fast food joint possible, every commercial on TV one consumes is promoting unhealthy foods and the lack of discipline we as a nation end up in the scenario we are currently in
I dont know that lack of discipline is so much to blame for the obesity crisis. Historically our brains are designed to crave the highest calorie foods to get us through the bleak Winters when food is scarce. We may not need be concerned about that stuff for survival now but our brains dont realise it. They are still targeting with our cravings, the highest calorie greasy junk. Until we realise this, it's extremely difficult to put the changes in place we need for our best health.
All this fascinating helpful stuff i'm learning...is from Dr Doug Lisle's incredible book on this subject "THE PLEASURE TRAP" that i'm currently reading.
Let people face the discomfort of health choices! We are capable of so much as human beings. Conversations Veganism and WFPB has the capacity to speak to our willingness to face great pain to change for a more fulfilling and present life with the short time we have.
My diet is comfort foods & "treat" foods... Basically everything that's NOT good for me. But I try to get some of the recommended foods in. But when my depression and anxiety kicks in - I go straight back to what I know - and what is "easy". As far as the cancer goes - it's not just food - can you imagine telling a person that got cancer from exposure to "Round-Up" or similar/like chemical, that it's their own fault? The problem I see is that I don't see where we track down where the cancer came from. Was it dietary? Or was it something in their environment that they were exposed to? Even if it was dietary - was it "Round-Up" or similar/like chemical, contamination of a major food source that was originally healthy/plant based? Anyways, not arguing, just presenting other thoughts that came up in the course of watching the video. Thank you Dr. Greiger! You and your research are always appreciated! Love and light to all!t
Stigma is a huge problem for people already dealing with the challenges of disease or chronic illness. I think part of the problem is we don’t do well with compassion and care for people if they’re sick with something to which they contributed (knowingly, through self-delusion, or even unknowingly-I.e. we think they SHOULD have known better): drug or alcohol addiction, diseases linked to smoking, eating a SAD diet, etc. Even if someone’s cause of disease is directly attributable to something completely outside their control, there are some who still believe that person’s lack of healing is a personal fault or weakness.
I can’t see how these attitudes help anyone. There’s certainly a subset of people espousing WFPB eating that show little compassion for or even directly blame those who get heart disease or other illnesses after eating a meat, dairy or junk food based diet. Maybe we need to understand more and show more compassion towards all forms of addiction (which includes our addictions to food…including vegan junk foods), recognize the cultural and corporate pressures at play and how difficult that can be to fight when you’re just struggling to get through your day, and focus on education, self-empowerment, support and strategies for living in a world that actively promotes those addictive substances-until, you know, we can change the political, corporate and cultural landscape!
Adding guilt to a habit of eating junk food as a way of coping with mental or physical challenges would just put the focus back on the habit and likely make it stronger. I find it helps me to put my focus on what I’m doing well and keep focussing there, giving it energy (research, education, time, interest) until it grows and starts to crowd out the bad choices. If I slip or choose something crappy and addictive, I try to move on and focus back on the healthy stuff. I find over time, like others, I’m less interested in the unhealthy stuff, but I’m also less likely to feel I’m “bad” for having eaten it when I did, or to feel superior to others who are still eating that way, despite its affects on their health, animals and the planet. This has helped me go from being an omnivore, to vegetarian, to vegan and now to whole food plant based eating. And honestly, at each point, there was something I legitimately didn’t know about the effects of how I was eating (on the environment when I omnivore, on the welfare of chickens and cattle when I was vegetarian, on the effects of refined oil when I was vegan). Every time I had to go find this information, it wasn’t easily available or being repeated and promoted in the mainstream. So I think we need to be kind to ourselves in recognizing we’re fighting against not only our own addictions but misinformation and enormous cultural pressures to give in to those addictions. But we’re also worth choosing what the science shows us is the healthiest food for us and we need to find ways to support ourselves and each other to make those choices.
Someone in my work place told me about how he found Nutrition Facts and the WFPB diet this weekend. He told me how much better things are for him now. Your work is really working!
Please stop misinformating about and demonising meat. It's old already, and Keys et al. were wrong. 🙄
So flippin true! I'm a junk vegan. Former smoker. Fat, Type 2 Diabetic with beginning emphysema. I'm responsible for ALL of this. I remember a health professional telling me that my diabetes is hereditary and not my fault, whether or not I was aware of a family history. Baloney. I'm now trying to eat more WHOLE plant foods and little to no highly processed foods. I'm trying to walk daily to strengthen my lungs. Lifestyle matters.
WOW! You're fantastic Deb! Im SO impressed.
lazy and they are bombarded with horrible fast food commercials that promise if you eat their crap your day will be better. that sums it up
The problem often relies on authorities. People expect their government to protect them, their doctors to help them get out of trouble when needed, their food to be healthy regardless of where it's bought etc etc. This has caused lots of confusion. Doctors generally do not advise people how to eat healthy, the government allows the sell of junk food, food is sold with additives and artificial ingredients etc etc... The blame mostly relies on the people we have come to trust when in reality the people we trust screw us over and over again. Everyone should be educated in nutrition since elementary but it's not done... Of course when people get ill and see that their own doctor just prescribes pills over and over and over again they begin to question the system in place and begin to educate themselves in human nutrition. And even educating yourself in human nutrition is confusing. You have so many people tell you eat this eat that not that but this etc etc... Everyone has an agenda. People often rely in intuition and what has worked for other people which is something the medical community often rejects and labels it as anecdotal because their isn't a Pharma study to prove it works. Just saying.
The main problem is that everything we have been told about human nutrition for the past 80 odd years is incorrect, bordering on lies. All started by the liar and criminal that was Ancel Keys.
People's ability to lie to themselves, that is, falsely rationalize, is epic and endemic. But also, people eat unhealthy because unhealthy food is delicious and addictive. Very few of us have the power to fight such temptation.
After eating whole foods and having taste bugs completely transform and rewire themselves, I have to say almost all junk food tastes terrible. Severely lacking in the hundreds of volatile compounds that stimulate olfactory perception, they're overloaded with bland fatty and over sugary and salty flavors, like playing a grand piano with a mallet.
Like, when I go to a very expensive farm to table vegan whole food restaurant in my area, they don't bring me Doritos. The flavors they make are incredibly good because they use incredibly good food starting out.
So I don't think that "delicious" is causal, it is the supernormal stimuli of fat, sugar, and salt that causes the dopamine release and the addiction. "Delicious" is a completely subjective experience that's dependent on choices about what you'll get your palette accustomed to. Dopamine release making your brain think it's a good experience is causally upstream from thinking it tastes delicious.
Do you want all the fast food and sugar sweetened beverages industry, and health insurance companies go bankrupt?
Note: the things in the thumbnail aren’t actually that healthy as the main macros of ones diet.
Lazy. People are too lazy to meal prep and cook. Its much easier to just make a sandwich, grill some burgers, or stop at a fast food restaurant.
I'm sorry you didn't mention the role of environmental toxins in cancer rates.
Michael Gregor this may be one of the most pertinent videos you've made. I would love for you to do more deep dives on what drives psychological human behaviour around nutrition & health. The research you site always opens my eyes, these behaviours are always so much more complicated and nuanced than our dominant culture leads us to believe.
Dr. Greger warns us that rice has arsenic, not to roast high protein high fat, choose more healthy options like sweet potatoes over white potatoes. Stress, sleep, social, exercise, and environmental factors also plays a part. We do our best and minimise our risks. I gave up smoking 8 years ago. After 10 years my risk of lung cancer is 50%. Things we did still could pull the trigger. I just hope to feel well for as long as possible. Thank you Dr. Greger and his team.
I feel like a hypocrit when I say that I eat healthier than most. I know that I eat less processed food and more vegetables than most people do. Most of my grocery runs are for vegetables. I often see grocery carts without a single item from the produce section. We don't want to face how badly most of us eat.
And that’s why I love Dr Greger’s daily dozen. They are simple healthful actions you can take to improve your diet without the condemnation of “don’t eat that”. They helped me on a road to truly good health. The more I eat the foods that research says prolong life, the better I feel and the more healthful I want to eat. That is true self agency. Whole food plant based for the win!
Couldn't agree more. Every woman in my 20s that I talk to about diet aps have stories about how they generate eating disorders. Every single one experienced this, and most of the people I know have tried them. The only way they have controlled the burgeoning illness is by deleting the ap. Obviously avoiding mental health problems is crucial, but its really sad to think that they can't try and protect their physical and mental health at the same time. That's why I LOVE the daily dozen - health suggestions that are 100% positive - no restriction. And I'm not perfect at all, but the Dozen always incentivizes me to do the best I can, without making me feel shame for the moments when I make bad choices.
Brilliant. The question IS as you say...HOW to transform and/or energize motivation? We KNOW the science. We KNOW it. It is NOT open for discussion. So, HOW to affect motivation..? This is the frontier we need to colonize. It is a Yoga/Dharma concern in my humble opinion. The Western philosophical paradeigma leave us only with the "power of will" to hold onto. Pays no attention to deep essence of the heart energies which is where change and transformation come. How to burst cognitive distortions and biases in a way that is empowering and compassionate? It SHOULD be a public health concern but we, of course, are a materialistic culture of measurability and by this I mean those reports businesses run off there POS softwares and what is taught in business school. That is, Accrual Accounting structures have a play in how our culture moves and changes too...
When I hear “X isn’t genes, it’s because of your habits” that’s empowering for me… to think cancer is genes only and there’s nothing I can do? That gives me no hope
My Oncologist told me that cancer is caused by "bad luck and genes."
I don't believe that. AND, I am in REMISSION NOW - no detectable cancer in my body! Dietary/supplements and lifestyle DO MATTER :) 💓💪🏼
i like your style. i like the way you think.
Love when Dr. McDougall says, "People love to hear good news about their bad habits."
This guy deteriorates right in front of your eyes and you choose to eat like him. Amoeba level iq
I can't see him deteriorate anymore because he is hiding behind that beard. One day he will shave and we will see that he has no chin!
@@phill6983 his eyes don't even really open. Weird
@@gon7155and his voice! What's happening to that??!!
It's cute that you think anecdotes are the same as evidence
@@TheChlozie lmao don't believe your eyes. Believe the science lab coat man is lord!
Veganism made me sicker actually
This was deep. Thanks, Doc.
“I eat to live, I don’t live to eat”
People don't eat healthier because of the following reasons :(1) Proper nutrition is a pain in the ass. Preparing a healthy meal involves knowledge of which foods are healthy and preparing them accordingly. It takes time, organization and labor to buy, prep and cook healthy raw vegetables to come out delicious.Usually 2 hours give or take to make a healthy meal from scratch.(2)Fast Food: Availability of fast food along all main roads is tasty and convenient but very unhealthy .Try and find a health food meal already deliciously prepared at a reasonable price . (3 ) Discipline : It takes discipline and will power to make yourself eat healthy CONSISTENTLY. People know certain foods trigger feel good chemicals in the brain . Temptation to feed your brain cheap fast fast food instead of slow digesting whole food plant based for your body is common. This falls under the Standard American Dumb Ass Diet which most people eat . In conclusion you need to be a nutrition master and trained chef that can CONSISTENTLY make healthy meals every day of the week which most people cant be bothered to.
The processed food continously in the environment around us is why people don't eat healthfully! Today I was so hungry while out running errands after work. There were zero wfpb sos free foods. Yes bad planning on my part to not have brought a healthy snack, etc. I white knuckled it until I got home. Was a miserable 4 hours. Compare this to when I lived in Japan. Every convenience store had steamed rice, washed fruits/veg, etc.
Doing Dr Greger's diet very strictly for a good month now. Unfortunately haven't noticed any improvements. Asthma didn't change at all, digestion is definitely worse than before (or at least it's still not used to the new diet) and eczema is stronger than ever before which is very surprising :-/
Try to give it 6 months at least
@@zodd67 It's very difficult to do while my eczema goes into rage mode and my digestion feels not-adapted even a month in. Me and my GF cooked many things from this book, pretty much never slipped.
It's not all or nothing, smokers are very discriminated against and they aren't all the same. There are some smokers who have cut way back on smoking, they've switched to organic roll your own tobacco. They roll smaller cigarettes than the standard size, they added better filters than the standard filter and they've gone from a pack of 20 cigarettes a day to 2 packs a month or 1 organic pouch a month. It's still smoking, so they aren't telling themselves it's a wonderful thing, and they're working on making the pouch last longer, some folks have one pounch lasting a month and a half some have it lasting 2 months & longer. All this while continuing to eat whole food plant based. I've seen improvement, it's not perfect and at least they're trying. I'd like to see a different approach from health care practioners when it comes to smoking. It doesn't have to be a all or nothing approach. What should they do if quitting isn't something they can do all at once? Give up? Gain weight trying? Or keep trying and keep smoking less?
Yes, since harm reduction has worked with substance abuse, maybe we should try this approach with food (and cigarettes).
I just saw a ad by Coke bragging about how health Minute Maid orange juice is for a healthy breakfast for kids. They even push "Heart Wise" Minute Maid.
There are too many schools of thougt out there. So many, hundreds, of diets. I am confused. Of course everybody knows what a bad diet Is, but almost nobody knows what a good one Is either. So... You Just end up thinking: well nobody knows for sure.
Because they are stupid! A friend of mine with triple negative breast cancer has two master’s degrees, one in sociology and the other in psychology, and she’s eating Pepperoni, Sausage and Three Cheese Pizzas! I’ve talked to her many times about the importance of a good, healthy diet and she just gets very angry at me! I send her youtube videos including yours about the best cancer fighting foods and she refuses to even watch them. She’s plenty smart in some ways and pretty stupid in others.
As long as something is not forbidden it is ok to eat or drink is what people think. Too much trust in the politicians and doctors and big pharmaceutical companies. My way is don’t trust anybody just because there knowledge of everything is two low. People are not as dumb as you think they are dumber.
As you said, “the truth is still the truth”, and one of the truths you neglected here is that vegan food does not taste good. Unless you are using toxic quantities of condiments to create flavor or cover unpleasant flavors, vegetables are, at best, bland. I’ve been eating vegan for six months now and, despite all the propaganda about how everything will magically start to be delicious, it hasn’t and probably won’t. Unless you are able to find a way to make bland food more palatable, most people aren’t going leave their delicious, but toxic, diets for food that tastes like lawn clippings slathered with sheetrock joint compound.
This brought to mind Peter Josephs 'structural violence' concept in which the market economy should ultimately be held accountable for taking advantage of peoples physchobiological vulnerability. as mentioned in the video the advertising shows people having a great time eating unhealthy food and works by manipulating our need for social inclusion by making us have fomo. knowing this though for most people, may paint a grim stockholm syndrome like perspective of the reality of the capitalist consumerism agenda and only lead to even greater weakened will by inducing apathy.
Spend more money on better food and less on the rubbish made in China. Forget retail therapy for the endorphins soon subside when the purchase is brought home or worn. Check out your closet , do you still get the same Adrenalin rush on clothes bought 2 years ago? Is your kid still playing with that plastic toy or is it in the garage under other stuff and junk?
If you want to be happy be compassionate. If you want others to be happy be compassionate “. The Dalai LamA
If ever there were a time for the cold, hard, harsh truth, its when a doctor knows a patient's behavior has nearly killed them. Doctors aren't their patients parents. They need to treat people like the adults that they are. Science should never be soft-pedaled. If the patient gave themselves cancer, they SHOULD feel guilty. If that one person you knew when you were a teenager, who died of cancer, hated themself for doing it to themself, everyone around them would be less likely do that themselves. Not to mention; if they got a dose of honesty along with their diagnosis, they'd have a better chance of changing their behavior, and therefore beating it.
Dirty Genes is a great little book to open your eyes even further about root causes, Videos here (YT) about the food industry are another source on why processed foods are extremely bad for you. A squeaky clean dietary lifestyle is more critical now. We already live in a highly toxic world. Eat as clean as you can afford. Whole foods fill you up with solid nutrition so you need less and you save on doctor bills later! We are more than what we eat. What you cannot shit out matters just as much (toxicity often stays in body which leads to disease.)
My opinion is the meat eaters are addicted to iron. We know that iron (in large amounts) is really not good for you (especially men) and when people stop eating meats they stop getting the unnatural high energy boost that comes from high doses of iron (while still being unhealthy) and then they use this lack of energy to blame for why eating plants doesn't work. Eating plants works great, but if you're addicted to crack and not willing to break your addiction, then plants are always going to see to be "lacking something"
How the fact that we actually HAVE SOME POWER to prevent bad diseases a bad thing?
People are lazy! Plain and simple, Eating healthy requires one to cook clean and making healthy food taste good also eating all organic based products gets pricey!!!
Because even if you do you will get sick anyway. People I know eating a whole plant based diet for over 14 years have just been diagnosed with Thyroid cancer and need to have surgery, an other one cancer of the breast and plant based for nearly 10 years. Many others that never cared to do any diets and taking any supplements never seen a hospital all their life. Many people I spoke to told me constantly that everyone eventually will get sick and die. Some earlier some a little later but all will end up underground and what we eat it is just a part of the big picture that very few if none understands fully. This is what people think for the majority.
Dr Greger manages to be diplomatic yet incisive. The current taboo surrounding stating the truth, lest offence be caused, is costing lives. Had I not years ago been the recipient of some straight talking, I would not be here to say this.
People don’t actually “surely” know what is healthy eating in good part because so-called experts don’t either, or at least can’t agree.
Lazy. Here in Calif. all they want to do is go to a restaurant and eat GMO Food (Chipotle and Panara Bread excluded).
pizza tastes too good.. :(
I go a few days without greasy food and I have serious cravings, it's worse than withdrawal from quitting smoking.
When I have those cravings, if I just cook my usual relatively healthy pasta, I'm good, but sometimes I succumb to the seduction of delicious cheese on pizza
This video is so spot-on 🙂
We don't eat healthier food because eating healthy is bloody expensive in the USA. Besides everyone tells us that fat and sugar is good for us.
Social lies. If they feel comfortable telling the truth they will say they dont care. Live for the day. We will be hit by the bus tomorrow.
it was an eye opener to realize pizza burgers musubi are not food … raw fruits vegies r food. you need a juicer for me to convert. plus shredder and butribullet
The biggest problem for Americans is probably their lack of cooking skills.
For me it's all of the contradicting information put out by different supposed authorities on what is supposed to be the healthiest diets.
I can understand how some people ( my husband ) don’t take seriously the way they can prevent illness and make themselves healthier because of seeing how horrible some people’s diet is and they’re just fine. Example: my father in law is from mid west and eat loads of fatty foods, meat, no salads, and the only veg he and the family ate was cooked with ham hocks. He also consumes about a tablespoon of salt a day. He’ ll turn 99 in July. My husband who has had esophageal cancer 26 years ago and a bad kidney (better now he stopped meat) still eats fish and lots of dairy and salt.
luck.
People don't eat more fruits and vegetables in the United States because they taste horrible. That is one reason I moved to Mexico.
How about the chemicals that are added to edible things, not real food, that causes addictions or habits that hides the dangers of choices...
cuz it dont taste as good or it takes much more effort to make taste good, speaking as someone with cancer and trying their best to eat whole food plant based
I don't think a lot of americans know what's not healthy. The keto diet is still one of the most popular diets.
A lot of people are now diabetic or on low carb and refuse to eat more fruits and veggies. It’s all about chicken breast and rice in fitness circles
Thank you 🥦❤ yes setting aside blame for the ability to choose now
Unfortunately persons want to be bad
Some want to fail
Tbf very nearly most people's diet is indeed better than average.