You REALLY are what you eat! | Hether Crawford | TEDxAntioch
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- Опубліковано 3 лис 2014
- This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Hether shares her ideas for how we can change our lives via nutrition and committing to one small change in order to watch our bodies work the way they were designed to.
Hether Crawford is an ACE Certified Personal Trainer and owner of Hether Crawford Fitness. Her commitment to health, nutrition, and fitness was born out of necessity after watching her son suffer from asthma and her daughter struggle to concentrate at school. Through simple changes to what she fed her family, Hether changed her family’s world, and fueled her passion to help others make the same changes.
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She was very clear that she wasn't an expert. She was talking about her personal life and the choices she had made to eat better and the results of those choices. I listen to a lot of qualified experts telling you what and what not to do, it was great to listen to someone's personal story of success with food and why I should do the same with my food.
This was very motivating for me. I'm going to keep moving forward to better health.
Absolutely Incredible! What an awesome presentation! And what a well spoken, obviously intelligent, speaker, and mother! Thank you!
That is why I chose healthier eating since the age of 18, and in so doing has been able to live a healthier lifestyle despite having Multiple Sclerosis for ten years. I am indeed what I eat and my body thanks me daily for this, as I am no drugs for MS.
This video speaks volumes! Everyone needs to hear this message. Thank you, Hether Crawford for having the courage to speak out and for making a positive difference in the lives of others!
This was such a great video! Hether is such a passionate, genuine and caring person! Great testimony and info!
You only have 27,740 views either this is being supressed or 300,000,000 Americans are in denial . This talk should be required listening for all educators , parents and everyone that lives within 15 miles of McDonalds. Loved it .
actually the people from ted talks she follows arent good sources as of yet.
yes food education is low but so is hers unfortunately...
try dr. michael greger and the movie: what the health
maybe you will understand why her ted talk is (half) waste of time... because she has only half/no real information....
i've seen better researched talks :c
I have found that everything that Heather reports in this video is true, plus...the food cooked from scratch is so much more tasty. And if you use organic food it is all the better! Thanks Heather for your inspiration!
Great speech and extremely important message.
The world needs more take-action mommas like you, Ms. Crawford. Your message, just one small change, beats all those obese and unwell crowds in denial thinking they are the victims of genes. Take that one step, people!
I cried at her last sentence and saw how she was so relieved she didnt forget her words I felt so proud of her! baahaha! well done beautiful god bless you big hugs! Amazing topic
I can relate. I have dealt with asthma my whole life. At the beginning of this year I began my quest to avoid processed food, and my asthma has slowly diminished. The majority of people get defensive when I try to tell them of them whats really in processed food. I think this video lays it all out crystal clear!
I think this is so important to say, especially in this time! Everywhere you look there are fast food restaurants and I know so many people addicted to caffeine from soft drinks. It is truly tearing our bodies apart and making them weak and putting our minds at a disadvantage. It is so important to learn to live that healthy lifestyle and make smart and healthy decisions with your body. In the US alone, 300,000 people are dying from obesity and if we don't stop the way we're eating and living it could get so much higher than that! I am glad we have people like Hether out there spreading the word and helping to make a difference.
The voice of experience.your message is so important and you spoke so well.Well done
I am so agree & on board. Step by step we supporting our well being & well being of the planet!
i assume you watched cowspiracy? :)
Thank you, Hether! I am spreading your words. We have done most of this over the years, but as my children have become teens I have less control over their diets. I hope "big food" is listening - they need to respond. You are an inspiration!
ever heard of big pharma as well?
She is so emotional. She is a good mom.
My journey started with being diagnosed with hypothyroidism after 10 YEARS of suffering the symptoms. I didn't get any answers from doctors who only pushed pills on me and told me diet would not help. I did my own research. Totally changed my lifestyle to wholesome Organic foods and even household products and hygiene products. 3 months later I was cured. Now I'm in school to become a holistic practitioner and help others.
that's amazing! thank you for sharing!
This needs WAY more views. This lady is a hero for families.
The people she mentioned was on 5:49. What a great talk thank you so much!!
Great talk! I wish more mums think like you do - most of them don't realise the medicine they feed their kids are doing more harm than help! Real food all the way!!
real food does not include milk, as she stated at the last minute to switch milks...
you are to avoid animal derived milks at all cost... dairy is a high cause for chronic diseases, so is meat, eggs and byproducts of animal origin.
*real food all the way*
Great talk Hether! What great changes for you and your family! You are not only what you eat, you are what you ABSORB from what you eat. But most don't know if they are absorbing the nutrients from their food. So important!
yes thou i find it sad that she only had half the research done...
wish she wouldnt have ruined it for me in the last minutes with her bad advise whereas it was going so well...
Thanks for the wonderful message! I have given up high fructose corn syrup and food dyes. I have been clean for 3 years. It has changed my life!
define clean please
Awesome speech with such genuine passion.
Thanks for helping me stay strong.
Wow! Thanks for the info. And kudos to all the efforts.
Since I stopped eating processed foods (even veggie hamburgers) my energy levels went up, and thanks to it I started working out and I lost many pounds. "If you are not hungry enough to eat an apple, then you are not hungry"
dont discourage from veggie burgers :o
vegieburgers are (if full vegetarian) healthier than any meat burger you can find. you can add all the salad you want, a burger with meat will always fail.
@@crazycat6600 vegan burgers are better that meat ones, but salad is better than them
Excellent speech.......As a society we look to leaders to guide and save us from whatever.....When we empower ourselves we no longer need to be lead and the results are superior.
Absolutely brilliant and I could not agree more, I personally gave up animal products 48 years ago, I have never been a drinker of soft drinks or alcohol and never eaten fast food, maybe the odd bag of chips/fries but at 54 I have never been on any medication or had any illnesses or seen my doctor apart from a broken toe ( this year) I have also raised my daughter (18) with the same diet and like me she has always been healthy, So I totally back what this woman says and it's about time more people listened and took action.
that is amazing! Since this talk, I am traveled to a mostly plant-based diet as well, and will soon be meat free altogether, so your story is very inspiring to me. thank you for sharing!
Excellent talk and presentation, Hether, well done!
She is right. Life style changes work. I know from experience.
Sugar detox is hard and takes about 3 weeks. The first two weeks are really tough.
Very inspiring- such an important message!
AWESOMENESS!!! I love it.
Wow! Her story is incredible!
The power of plants! 😄❤️
Amazing!! GREAT job!!
thank you I needed this
It takes more effort, but I always feel better when I ditch the highly processed foods and sweets, but it's always cyclical. I fall back into my old patterns when my routine changes significantly (vacations, deaths, super busy seasons, big events). The trick is to get back on track quickly without giving into guilt or defeatism. Still a work in progress.
When I had my kids, I definitely did not want to repeat my own childhood eating habits. One of the many reasons we chose to homeschool was to raise our kids to eat well and learn to seek some balanced choices and move regularly. Now they are college age, and they seem to be making somewhat conscientious choices. They're certainly doing much better than I did at their age.
"I was ANGRY!" Know what we are putting in our bodies!
could you put in one word what we should put into our bodies?
@@crazycat6600 Not one word... but basically turn the food table we had as children upside down and that's what we need.
Hether Cordell Crawford is AMAZING! And if you've ever wanted to know how to turn your families eating habits into healthy ones, here's the lady who did it and successfully!
Got off the processed foods as well. I eat mostly organic and local. Grow my own food too. Never looked back. Yes, it took a while to get there. Is it worth it? Yes! You deserve free lifetime admission to the supermoms club. Wrong way! Retreat! Retreat! ;)
Great speech Hether.
We are going to do this.
Thank you so much
My 2 year old son was diagnosed ADHD. I refused to put him on drugs but took hi to a dietitian
who eliminated all additives. Within 2 weeks, he was a well behaved little boy. At age 3, the ADHD diagnosis was withdrawn. He is now 17 and eats very healthy, even plain Greek yoghurt.
+Lee Golder We now grow most of our own organic fruit and vegetables.
Lee Golder inspired and encouraged story. Thank you for sharing.
This is awesome!
Дякую за натхнення!
Totaly agree
Great testimony on the power of making informed decisions about the food we consume. Good job, Hether!
sorry, but only half-way informed decisions....
I have been thinking that autism such as ADHD can contribute to processed foods, so I got to spread the word in order to save our children. I teach kids in Karate who are ADHD and it is sometimes difficult to control them.
I have known this for years. I do find it very hard to get others to engage with the idea that food makes a huge impact on our life. Friends and family are very resistant to change. Sugar addiction is hard to break
Great talk and info girl.
Let's all spread these words.
Today there is an epidemic of sickness.
We don't have a health care system, we have a disease management system.
so i assume you watched forks over knives? ;)
Awesome Heather! Inspiring :-)
Amazing
Excellent. One thing I wish stopped is us callimg ourselves "consumers". That has such a horrible negative connotation to it. We are not garbage disposals or machines....I am old enough to remember when we were called customers...not consumers....customer has a human feel...consumer has a mechanical or machine feel. I remember listening to the radio talk shows my mother used to have on in the mid 60's how the word consumer first started replacing customer and everyone called in in protest saying they resented that word as it was so demeaning to a human being. Nowmit is commonplace and nobody even thinks about it. I hope now some do. That is my food for thought...pun intended. Peace out.
Growing up our family never had fast food. Both my parents worked full time and yet somehow my mother managed to have a home cooked meal ready for us every day. She worked the evening shift as a cleaner so she would prepare our dinner and it would all be on the stove & oven. My husband had never had a salad prior to meeting me. Our diet is focused on salads every day. Even on road trips for hockey & softball we would pack the cooler with home cooked food so that we wouldn't have to rely on fast food. It all starts in our homes....you want your family to be healthy then think of your body as a fine tuned machine that you would only use high grade fuel. Garbage in garbage out.....
your skin, hair, nails absorbs the body care products. it does include hair dyes, shampoos/ condition, lotions, and also the laundry detergents for our clothing. i highly recommend a shower filter. preferably one minimizing fluoride for optimizing body care.
Thanks Hether ... the issue is Modern medicine has abandoned “Root Cause” investigations in favor of “Diagnosis and Drugs” … seems odd as metabolism is a “Response Mechanism” … and we are seeing the results of Chemistry by Medicine, without root cause analysis ... our basic root cause is diet and our food sources and good to know your growing a garden ...
70 Going On 100 … the Centenarian Diet … maybe 70 Going On 128 … the Hayflick Limit
I totally agree! Thanks for listening! I've learned SO much more since doing this talk 3 years ago. Totally wish I could go back and do it again with everything I've learned since then. Love that you're going to break 100!
Hether ... sounds like 2nd TED talk is in order, go for it. I was lucky, as had an old fashion Mom with European roots, we ate liver and onions, sardine sandwiches, fish and eggs, pickled and fermented foods, and she baked with butter, and "Eat your Veggies" was real, could not get up from table until eaten ... there were no obese kids when I grew up ...
The push back from doctors is a real problem, since very few understand the dietary impact on health, locked into the SOC. But there is a growing number Low Carb docs now. ... LOL
sorry, what is the centenarian diet?
and what are those numbers?
and since when is eating liver or fish healthy?
NutritionFacts website - check it out - Health is Power!
Most kids aren't wired to sit still for long periods of time to learn. This is one reason why schools that allow recess time for grammar school kids have kids scoring higher on standardized tests. You try forcing a round peg into a square hole, and you wonder why it keeps trying to jump out of your hand???
+John Karavitis you'd be surprised by what a healthy child is capable of
M P Mullen
Creepiest - UA-cam - post- EVER.
(Man, she was nervous.)
Every cell, every hormone, every neurotransmitter is made from what we eat and absorb. If it's not enough of them or to much bad nutrients, then of course the body and the mind gonna suffer.
And what is the response of that ?
Physical or mental pain.
The body don't write mails or make calls, if something wrong you get pain-message.
unfortunately people dont understand that and assume that in the stone age we ate 10 animals per day having heart attacks and chest pain...
I stopped buying yoghurts for this particular reason I always remind my teenage daughter that milk has as much sugar as juice too . My children have cuy down on dairy and im pleased
One more thing....even our dog gets "real" food. My husband makes mutt loaf once a week so it's really easy to feed him and so much healthier than the fatty canned or the full of preservatives dry food.
My mom used to like processed cheese until she tried giving a slice to our dog and he didn't want it. Then she offered him a piece of cheddar and his tail wagged as he inhaled it. My mom has not bought processed cheese ever again. I told her that it wasn't real cheese it was just plastic. :-)
a dog is an obligate omnivore.
he will eat cheese even thou he shouldnt.
please define real food.
It's you are what you absorb
agreed
A grown adult man in America can't smoke a single joint, but that same man can pump his 4 year old daughter full of an unlimited amount of growth hormone and estrogen through dairy products.
I'm going to try to go Garden this year I probably shouldn't have said that magic word try
Depending on you region. But ive grown patatos, lettuce, and peppers are low maintenance and performe well in so-cal.
When she was a kid all of these products were in foods already. Dyes. Hormones. Etc. It's been in food for a long time, we all ate it as kids and never had an adhd problem. I think healthy eating is extremely important, but I do not think diet is the sole cause for the uptick in adhd diagnosis in children
Beans and cornbread of course soak your beans overnight in refrigerator in cold water drinking water if possible
When does Ivor Cummins, Gary Taubes or Nina Teicholz get a TED talk?
We eat organic and home cooked meals every single day.. rarely eat out. My child was exclusively breastfed and later on fed only organic vegetarian food. He has had ear infections and asthma attacks. What I am saying is that even without all the crappy food, kids get sick these days. Cant imagine what happens with all that added
absolutely! I'm super impressed with your commitment to healthy food - way to go!! we try to cook our own food and eat as much organic as possible, but we still have to build up the immune system with enormous amounts of fresh fruits and vegetables - way more than people would think! we use a product to bridge the gap for us between what we really need and what we actually get. so happy to have found WHOLE FOODS in a capsule! hethercrawford.juiceplus.com/content/JuicePlus/en.html
Try taking dairy out? It's helped many, many people.
This was nice until you started advertising, Heather. It invites justified criticism. Save your marketing for people you meet in person. You have a great message and it needs to be shared. Please do it through proper channels. Doing it through improper channels, such as this forum, can turn people off. That's likely not what you want.
i just see that this mother just did half the research. her last words included *changing the milk you buy* whereas she stated herself that *milk has growth hormones, e.g. IGF-1* which are in ALL dairy milks...
we're the only species drinking milk after whining stage and the only species to drink milk of another species.
how about you actually watch doctors like essylsten, dr. michael greger, dr. klaper, whole food plant based science has been proven to reverse many many chronic diseases, asthma included.
nowadays children of age 10 have fatty streaks... the question is not if you want to prevent heart disease but spare and prevent the heart disease you already have...
go vegan, not vegetarian then talk
Can anyone summarize this in like 5 sentences for me the overall message and how this is important? Thanks.
Heather you and your family are beautiful... saving the Human Race... inskytechnologiesllc. ..commmm
My adopted family gave me uppers downers and they smoked narcotics around me when I was a teenager the adults told me it was for my own good and it wasn't they drugged me with cocktails I acted up and then they shipped me off to war
You shouldn't be afraid of ingredients you can't pronounce as long as you do your research and find out what they are and what they do. Not everything made in a lab is bad.
WHAT IS 'TED'?
+Susan Owen Glaser Hey Susan, your comment got me curious on what it is as well. Apparently it stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and these three elements converged in a conference in 1984. That should answer the question :) Lol.
Anecdotal "research" is always great for impact, but tends to spread undo fear and bad information; it is the case here.
the only research here is quoted from the CDC - the rest is just a personal story of how nutrition impacted the family. love your channel btw! as a personal trainer myself, I really appreciate all the info you share.
+Hether Crawford Thank you, kind of you! I wish you all the best in your training!
undue vs. undo (vs. undies or undead, for that matter)
Frank Galea Haha, thanks for the correction :)
row vegan for many years
your life,your soul,your body,your mind,your health will change to good for sure.
love animal, love human,love world
peace
Sure we can but Im sure government and those who in power will rise cost on organic products as we all switch to natural products.
turn the volume on the intro and outro down. . . and eat more veggies
eat only plants~
As a person with a learning disability, i find some of the video offensive. The food we eat does NOT CAUSE learning disabilities it makes them worse. We have to learn about this for school and it's not a reliable source!
Imagine having to put on TEDx shows to tell people that food can be bad for you lol
What happens when you prescribe a kid 130mg of Ritalin and Adderall and other things and he weighs under 100 pounds? That's why they have so many complications that's why I had such a chaotic uprising
If this was true when I look in the mirror I should see a beer.
Eating healthy- the holy hand granade of Antioche
Thanks. Try to quit pork.
I knew it somehow
We as Americans should date I say this eat our own dogs as in canine companions! Because dogs have electrical impulses in their bodies that are higher than that of cows!
You can always pick your nose
If i am what i eat well im dillishes then u now
Well duh..who knew drinking soda and eating fast food was bad for you and children!
Cooking own food, my god, that's the only way to eat! Unbelievable, that people need to find that out painfully. World, what's wrong with you.
kkf
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Think of how much money you have available for nutritious fresh food when you’re not spending hundreds of dollars on medication to treat food allergies.
Lost me at "Food Babe". Geez.
She lost me at “Food Babe”
Yeah, it blows me away that there are many people that live largely on fast food and soda. Get back to the kitchen. Do real cooking with real, fresh ingredients involving animal product. It'll kill you much slower than that industrial food. Guaranteed.
Football??? I get the point was that he can actually do a sport, but cmon football is the worst sport to get a kid used to playing, even if its still no tackle. He might want to go strong in highschool so get ready for potential inhuries and brain damage
The slim stage chiefly race because tendency philly program given a brainy joseph. tacit, satisfying rabbit
While I appreciate her passion for healthy living, I resent her ignorance which should not be encouraged about brain chemistry disorders. When someone genuinely has ADHD, it is not a choice they have in the matter.
+Lux Chevis I agree. If someone has a child with ADHD, they're not a failure as a parent.
+Lux Chevis. I sympathize with anyone with brain chemistry disorders. I do recall in the video someone from her school asked if she would test to see if her child has ADHD, She also mentioned that rates of ADHD diagnosis increased 5% per year from 2003 to 2011. She then brought up how changes in our food supply coincide with the increase of ADHD diagnosis. I don't think anyone will ever say do this and all problems including ADHD will go away. However, I think for many children who have problems, whether it is allergies, asthma, hyperactivity, ADHD etc etc etc. If they eliminate food dyes, preservatives, GMO's, gluten, chemicals etc and eat more organic foods including greens and vegetables there is a high probability that the problems the children have will improve. That's what I got out of her message, and it also is what I believe is true. I've seen lots of examples and heard of many more. My niece told me her daughter was pretty naughty whenever she ate treats with food dyes (like M&M's) she has stopped her from having treats like that and anything with food dyes and she is a very well behaved child now. My wife is a teacher and she sees how children who have snacks that are junk food act much worse then prior to having their snack. I used to eat unhealthy and have changed up my eating habits and I feel so much better, My weight is much better, everything has improved.
+Lux Chevis The studies of ADHD are so new relative to other conditions that it is impossible to say definitively that food does or does not have an effect, remembering that correlation is not causation. On a personal level I have adult ADHD and had it as a kid and my son also has ADHD. I can say not scientifically but from observation that when I eat a real food diet and avoiding processed foods my attention is much better and my sense of foggy brain are better. I suspect in time science will confirm some of this.
Brian Lieberth
The point I resent and what I don't like that she insinuates is that the wrong diet *causes* ADHD, which as you know, couldn't be further from the truth.
+Lux Chevis ADHD is made up by the pharma industry to give kids medication (ritalin) go check it up the "inventor" of ADHD actually confessed its made up. so what is the problem with the kids then ? don`t get me wrong i was diagnosed with that crap and i am sure it was partly the schoolsystem i could not agree with and another part was my bad diet. i was eating too many sugars as a kid, and i think alot can be done by fixing the diet and probably with more body activities at school.
Missleading title !!!
You don't get fat by eating too much fat, because you can't eat too much fat on a low carb diet.
good one but unfortunately she doesnt understand that yet xD
i hope she had enough time to do further research and make an apology for misleading advice at the end and making a better and updated version at TEDx....
I was hoping to hear that she stop eating dead cut up corpses of tortured animals