The Gen Z Health Crisis

[@stardust4878]

I'm French and German. Here in Europe you will still get fat if you countinue your high fat, salt and sugar diet. It's true that, in european countries high processed food have less ingredients, but you will be still fat even if you are working in a job, where you must move a lot. Some canned food like tomatos are even imported from China, but labeled as italian, where a lot pesticides are used. After the EU regulations, it's legal to do this, since the laste step is putting the giants can of mixed tomatoes in the can and that happaned in Italy. The best diet is to reduce the consumption of processed food and to learn how to cook.

[@Vlad-bs1js]

Spot on and learning how to cook is really simple as long as you view eating as an activity that's meant to fuel your body and not as a dopamine hit

[@Jeffyinthehills]

Fat does ‘t make you fat. Carbs and sugar make you fat. Eat all the meat and real butter you want and the weight will fall off

[@anonhiki]

ok but it's still infinitely healthier than american food but sure lol, murica only cares about profits all of the people will have to die until they do something about a crisis like this

[@mariakostiukova4582]

even with that, there is no guarantee you will get a good food - I buy "organic", regular whole foods and cook from scratch in the US - I still have the skin breakouts and greasy hair, fragile nails all the time. Despite vitamins I am taking. My body seems to have no issues with food outside of the US: Russia, Serbia, Malaysia and Thailand

[@Canyougofaster]

Bro speak English.

[@TheKnallkorper]

What gets me the most is how people know how messed up our food/health industry is and nothing is changing

[@l__l2328]

We are about to get RFK who has sued many of these companies for such practises, but I still remain sceptical as to if he will do anything.

[@chutney-h3o]

Maybe because those food businesses have a lot of sway in US politics? Bit like Big pharma does and other lobbies.

[@ohthankg-dforthebourgeoisi9800]

You have to change your diet with out waiting for the laws to change. Hopefully things will change.

[@cheetahman859]

@@l__l2328 RFK is not going to do anything, he's a quack... If you think Trumpy is about to do anything about it, you're even more delusional than I thought. Look at what that Orange Rapist eats: McDonalds.... Plus he's in the pocket of Pharma... Your Savior isn't going to save you, he's in it for himself and you're in a cult.

[@punkysnarks]

@@l__l2328 Eh, sounds like he'll be more focused on trying to revoke polio vaccines and banning medication commercials.

[@sarahlabbe9779]

Canadian here - Despite having quite similar food items and cultures, I do think that our saving grace is the portion size. Some of your portions are simply grotesque to me but seem perfectly normal to you. I have visited Texas recently, I was shocked. I had to split a medium sized side dish of mac n cheese with a friend and we both couldn't finish our half. A child at the next table over had the full thing AND some brisket, my mind was blown.

[@dangerzzzone2925]

I've been to Canada the portions are NOT small. Texas is different than other states for sure.

[@christinewatson1989]

Oh please. You literally have to go out of your way to find these "huge portions". I'm an American and I was actually shocked at how much BIGGER restaurant servings were in most northern European countries.

[@marcusrosales3344]

Texas has a "food culture" where eating out is a hobby. The whole bible belt really... You can track obesity rates by states over time and the belt is fat...

[@nosferatucreations]

I'm a Canadian living in the USA. In new England the food portions and quality is similar to Canada.

[@chutney-h3o]

That was my experience as a brit visiting NYC first time in 2007. Oversized everything and varieties/choices. Awfully grotesquely overweight folk once you're away from the rich areas.

[@xq39]

I think soda alone is a huge factor. in the past soda was in small glass bottles, my parents only drank it on special occasions. its literally just empty calories that gets rapidly absorbed and spikes your insulin levels. i never drink soda and remain thin without much issue.

[@connecticutstateguard.899]

Yeah I don't even touch that stuff at all

[@kagenotatsumaki]

Been saying this for 10+ years. I drank 3 or 4 cans of soda all throughout my teens and I was 190 pounds when I was 19, no, I didn't work out and I was only 5'2. And the only thing I really did was eventually stop drinking so much soda. I'll drink 1 bottle of soda a day usually, but it's diet or zero sugar, sometimes I'll drink a regular bottle, and some days I'll drink 2 bottles, but now I'm 5'4 and have more muscle than I did back then but I stay around 130 give or take... The change is crazy lol

[@Ardorstorm]

But I love soda 😭 damn

[@JSFGuy]

Went to Denmark in 96, everybody was walking or riding bikes, the food was rich actually I mean flavorful, the only marshmallow man you saw was from the US. I was not one of them.

[@ColeHastings]

lol marshmallow man

[@AmazingEmerald]

@@ColeHastingshuh

[@JSFGuy]

@@ColeHastings if I say anything in reference to that I'll get hit with a cyberbully or hate speech warning without a receipt. Screw tube so feminized and thin-skinned. Can't say anything.

[@Dannalasapa]

lol to this day Europeans in the cities are a healthy weight, bc they actyally eat well and they walk. The problem is USAamericans and their shit diet

[@ROVERLORDD_]

@AmazingEmerald😂

[@Grizzrie]

I'm Japanese and I have to say one thing you should know; The portion you mentioned served in Japan is small to you Not because of Harahachibu. The portion is that "small" amount because it is ENOUGH for regular or most adult Japanese people to become full, that's why. Period.

[@Chaiilatte84]

I think you misunderstood what he was trying to explain. He mentioned the 80% full mindset but that wasn’t the point of his statement. He stated that he learned the word for large BECAUSE he knew that the small portions would leave him hungry. But even your guys large is our small regardless if you all eat to 80% fullness. You said that those portions were ENOUGH for adults that’s not how American think, we don’t eat for ENOUGH food we eat until we feel physically sick and a lot of us don’t know the difference between ENOUGH and stuffed.

[@toyoashihara6242]

腹八分を意識する日本人は少ないでしょうが、文化的影響はあると思います。適量を食べるのに慣れているとビッグサイズを選好しないと思うし、反対にビッグサイズを日常的に食べればその分体が大きくなってさらにビッグサイズに頼らざるを得ないみたいな悪循環が起こるだろう

[@toyoashihara6242]

Few Japanese people are likely to consciously practice the concept of *hara hachibu* (eating until 80% full), but I believe cultural influences are at play. Being accustomed to eating moderate portions likely reduces the preference for oversized servings. Conversely, if one regularly consumes oversized portions, it may lead to the body adapting to require more, creating a vicious cycle where one becomes increasingly dependent on larger sizes.

[@Chaiilatte84]

@@toyoashihara6242 yes, that was exactly he was trying to say. You misunderstood the point in your first comment.

[@sv6k0a39]

The average Japanese person is tiny compared to other countries. No wonder the portions are small.

[@redgator12]

My mom and step dad are morbidly obese. I have watched them go through fad diet after fad diet, one of which was so extreme that it limited them to only 500 calories a day and had them taking "pregnancy hormone" drops by mouth, claiming that the HORMONE was what facilitated the weight loss. They both lost 100 pounds on that diet in the span of 6 months, and the moment they stopped eating specifically what the diet guide book told them to, they went back to pizza, greasy wings, high-fat and high-calorie foods on a daily basis. They are both back at the weight they started at, and no matter how many times I tell them that going on a diet is stupid and that they should be making informed decisions on altering their daily dietary patterns, they still go to the extremes. My step dad got gastric sleeve surgery 4 years ago to reduce his stomach size and he has lost no weight as a result, and my mom just sent my wife and I home with 5 pounds of various types of bread because she "realized that it's the carbs that are making her fat." But the 10,000 calories of snack foods within arms reach of them while lounging in the living room for the entire evening has nothing to do with it. Meanwhile, I constantly struggle to find foods that don't have sucralose and artificial coloring in them if I'm shopping anywhere other than Aldi, and even them I'm occasionally surprised to find one of those two on the ingredients list. Like why the fuck does every flavor of Shasta soda have sucralose in it, despite already having sugar as the main ingredient? Why do we need to make the sweet thing even sweeter ARTIFICIALLY?

[@Lee-qt6sy]

They're not morbidly obese, they're morbidly a beast. Stop being so negative SMH 😑

[@Lostouille]

Because losing weight is not a diet stuff but a major decision where one have to change it's livestyle....

[@l__l2328]

@@Lee-qt6sy Morbidly is the keyword here

[@SleightWryder]

I'm the sexiest person in my family because I took the radical approach of eating nutrient rich and full of fiber. Ironically, most of my food is processed.

[@katnap7157]

What’s worse is the foods and items that shouldn’t have sugar in them but do… like why do we need sugar to be the second ingredient in pasta sauce?!

[@l__l2328]

One thing you take for granted living in Europe is non-artificial coloring and sweeteners. Here in Finland at least, all food producers use different kinds of vegetable and fruit juices to make the colors stand out and give the products sweetness. I recently bought German made pudding from Lidl which had both Acesulfame K and Sucralose in it, and it was so sweet it was unedible. Edit: Yes, I know Germany is in Europe. I'm just saying we have options

[@jacqslabz]

"it was so sweet it was unedible" - such phrases basically don't exist here in the USA. I used to eat normal processed american food, and then when I switched to healthier non-processed food, one of the biggest surprises was how sweet carrots are. In the USA, we're raised on HFCS to the point that we can't even properly taste real food.

[@milanek1527]

Eh, as a czech artificial coloring and sweeteners are what I see in most stores actually.

[@gauloise6442]

People talk about portion sizes, but packaging is also enourmous. In Europe, most food comes in 100 g packages and you use that to feed several people or last several times. Which is about 3.5 ounces. When you get huge packaging, you end up using more because you are serving yourself as a share of the packaging. Also in Europe they will say xxx calories per 100 g, so if you have a 100 g package and eat half the package or a third, you can easily calculate the calories, but in the USA, they will say something like xxx calorie per 7 peanuts. It makes it impossible to understand how many calories you would be consuming by just looking at the package in the store. It makes people give up and just overeat without being conscious.

[@skepy889]

II’m from Latvia. I live in a really small town. Here, it's almost impossible to buy a processed product. We only have 3 small markets where you can buy your essentials, and that's it. The most processed food that I can recall is a frozen pizza that has a shelf life of 1 year. It’s literally a frozen dough and ingredients and nothing else. It’s kind of crazy to hear what is going on on the other side of the world. It’s like your own country is poisoning you.

[@raunobane9669]

Estonian here- We used to think that America was a wonderful land and everything was the best there. Now it turns out that things are better here in Europe.

[@inbb510]

I wouldn't put it that way given how the whole continent has pretty much been stagnating economically since 2008.

[@anonhiki]

lucky

[@gauloise6442]

@@inbb510 So has the USA.

[@chutney-h3o]

Always have been better on Europe. I've never looked at america as anything but stolen land and a manufactured culture where a minority of people ever leave their country in their lifetime.

[@inbb510]

@@gauloise6442 , if you are a European I'll get off your fake moral high horse very fast when you have an aging population which is having knock on effects on things like increased tax burdens for healthcare spending and social services, an increasingly energy dependent continent due to not having any natural resources to the scale that America or China does, a stagnating German economy and a French economy on the verge of a Greek Style debt crisis. Varoufakis said it right: Europe is becoming a mixture of irrelevant and toxic without any sense of direction.

[@JamesBarnett-v5e]

I had a colonoscopy earlier this year and they found 3 polyps, two of which were precancerous and one high risk. I had another this month, and they found two more. I'm only 28. People don't usually get polyps until they're 50. The chemicals in our food are ruining our bodies.

[@williehrmann]

Try cutting out all processed food and stick to mostly grass fed animal products and organic vegetables. Make sure to get enought magnesium, zinc, D3, K2 and Fish oil. Eat organic beef liver once a week. You can also take hydrosylated collagen, glutamine and some probiotics. I make my own l.reuteri yoghurt. Eat a lot of fermented foods. So if you eat vegetables stick to kimchi, sauerkraut and if you eat grains at all stick to sour dough bread. I've turned my health around 180° by doing this and healed autoimmune diseases I have had. Not only that suddenly I lose weight and build muscle which I was unable to do before despite me counting calories and training. Yes I could lose some and build some muscile but it was marginal. Now it feels like I'm on steroids or something. Morning woods came back hitting me like a freight train, I wake up 3-4 times a night because of them. I'm 36 now and started 2 years ago. It is never too late. With everything I mentioned above you even have a high chance to cure cancer if you have it already though you'd have to go some steps further in making a long waterfast and then eating zero carbs for some months. Some other helpful supplements are taurine, selenium, boron and iodine.

[@BritishStarfishTeeth]

Do you have some sort of genetic disposition? What about your family?

[@florance333]

I live in Canada and I was recently baffled to find out that the frozen fries I bought contain caramel colouring for that golden brown look. Add some paprika for God's sake.. not buying that brand again

[@katnap7157]

Wow that’s so unnecessary… watch out for the sugars and corn syrups too, I started reading labels some years ago and sooo many brands add sugar to things like pasta sauces, juice, granola, bread, etc

[@komfykoala6083]

That's why I make my own sweet potato fries at home. Of course I'll eat out here and there but I prefer cooking my own stuff at home.

[@florance333]

@komfykoala6083 yeah I don't have time for that

[@Ella-g2m]

There's a lot to talk about here, but at minimum food dye needs to be banned. No one needs their food to be brightly colored at the cost of cancer. But also, car dependence kills walkability, which is the easiest and most accessible form of exercise. I walk about an hour a day as a non-driver and I eat whatever I want and don't gain weight. Without that walking I'd be fat. Most people in the US simply don't get enough exercise because all natural exercise has been replaced by driving cars everywhere. Not Just Bikes is right. Other countries are healthier because they can actually walk places. Food quality is massive, but just getting rid of cars would fix half the issue.

[@nathanmitchell7961]

The evidence doesnt show that is causes cancer though, there are some evidence that shows like Cole said, ADHD focus intention but that evidence isnt there yet.

[@Vlad-bs1js]

You're mostly right with the exception of one hour of walking making up for eating whatever one wants, primarily because those wants differ a lot from one person to another

[@nathanmitchell7961]

@@Ella-g2m No definitive evidence that points to this being the case

[@Thetruthiscosmic]

You don't have to "get rid of cars" you just need to take the time out of your day to exercise if you do end up driving places. Most people would rather sit on the couch and 'unwind' after a day's work sitting down though, they don't like working out. If you like working out, you simply won't be overweight. It's simple.

[@gauloise6442]

@@Thetruthiscosmic not at all. Exercise for its own sake is extremely unnatural, and we just aren't programmed to want to do it. Walking to procure food and other life needs is exactly what we were built for. And when you live in a city and don't have a care, you just do it as part of life, and dont even realize it

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Urban sprawl and walkability are rabbit holes that, on their own, would take at least a 15-hour video to cover why they are so much better and list the benefits, from physical to economic to psychological, etc. I don't know what kind of mindset one has to have to prefer being in car-centric places.

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Ah, not just the walkability is generally approached, but architecture too! There are several studies pointing out how classical and traditional architecture is so good for us psychologically and socially, instead of the boxes of concrete and glass we see everywhere.

[@xq39]

america became car centric in the 1950s, obesity wasnt a problem until the 1980s-90s. its more complex but i believe tied to breakdown of community and rise of hyper-processed foods.

[@karld1791]

@@xq39car dependency was in full swing in the 1950s and took time to remove all the corner stores and remove the remnants of walkability. Driving everywhere never interacting with neighbors on the way out of the neighborhood helped destroy community. And yeah, high carb food can replace all the calories burned walking in a single meal so food is a huge component.

[@gauloise6442]

​@@xq39 the shift from sugar to corn syrup in processed foods happened in the 1980s

[@gauloise6442]

@@karld1791 I was talking to older relatives about this, and they said up until the 1970s , even if you lived in the suburbs, everyone knew each other, would carpool together, and the early suburbs were built near towns, schools or shopping centers you could walk to . They said after the 1990s, you would go in your car everywhere and knew no one around you. Traffic increased and you couldnt walk even if you wanted to.

[@05moartea]

"we've been tricked into counting the calories not the number of ingredients"

[@clawwestfall8799]

No one tricked you, whether you are or aren't in caloric deficit is still the deciding factor weather you lose weight or not.

[@OILEDUP04]

If you want to be shredded with high testosterone and good health then look at the ingredients and count calories, if you only want to be shredded and you don't care about your health than do only the second one. It's that easy.

[@milfeullesakuraba2593]

@clawwestfall8799 calories has no meaning, the quality of the calorie matters. I eat 4000 calories a day and still underweight. You go try eat 4000 calories of donuts, 25 of them everyday vs eating 3 pound 4000 calories worth of Ribeye steak vs eating 1.4 pound of seeds 4000 calories a day, tell me which diet make you gain or lose or maintain weight.

[@rathelmmc3194]

@@milfeullesakuraba2593 there’s difference in calorie absorption for sure, but not to the degree that you’re talking about. To eat 4000 calories and not gain weight, your BMR, NEAT and exercise has to equal to 4000 calories. If it’s more you’ll lose weight, if it’s higher you’ll gain weight.

[@05moartea]

@clawwestfall8799 this was not about caloric deficit but you do you , but for the sake of the argument : 1000 calories of bacon is the same with 1000 calories of rice and beans? come on now ....

[@mariakostiukova4582]

Since I am Russian, my American husband and I spend a lot of vacations in my home country. Every time we go there, we come back 3-5 kg lighter, with better skin and hair. Portions in Russia are smaller than in the US (naturally), but the food is FILLING you, not just stuffing. We always struggle to stay fit and healthy looking in the States - and it's not just food, but the quality of lifestyle. Car dependency is killing us. This is utterly ridiculous that you absolutely need a car to survive and participate in society. Sometimes it feels like you live in the US only to pay fees, taxes and service your car since cities were build (well, to be truly correct, plowed down) for cars and papa ford motors industry. As for food...Men, the food here sucks. We don't eat store bought bread, deli meats, frozen foods, ultra processed food. And still! My hair gets greasy every day, my face is constantly breaking out. I am tired of this. Constantly sore back due to lack of mobility, poor skin and nails condition unless you want to drive even more and spend more money and time to find "organic" food which can be found in any neighborhood store abroad at one place in walking distance. Honestly, my quality of life has decreased since I moved to the US. (and prior to that I was living in Thailand for some time). I might be able to buy a lot of unnecessary shite for $100, but the quality is still poor. I might afford to spend $50 for services, but the quality is terrible and there is no pride in any work in the US anymore - all they want is tips. I am working on my way out. I don't want to raise kids in this country and praying every day that they will make it out alive without sh00ters or won't break a leg and bankrupt us. American dream is a scam

[@anonhiki]

having children in the USA is child abuse!!!! i had a german parent and she choose to mutilate and traffick my genitals for american profits. its child abuse to have children in this country

[@borikero1]

💯

[@chutney-h3o]

Spot on! It's Called the American Dream Because You Have To Be Asleep to Believe It" - George Carlin.

[@gauloise6442]

I live between Europe and USA, the same thing. part of the problem is if I eat the same foods I do in Europe, I will gain weight due to the excessive sugars, syrups and fats in them, for example bread and cheese. So I need to cut out these basic staples, but then my body is of whack and not in balance. Bread I can bake, but I am not able to make cheese from scratch.

[@vova8042]

Why don't you move back to Russia then

[@matthewfranklin2137]

I’m a thin American, have been my whole life. Even as an alcoholic, my weight never got above 145 (I’m 5’6). I’m also severely disabled and cannot work. The habits I have are: No added sugars, once a week treats are allowed by day to day I consume none. Walking most days of the week for an hour. Doing small amounts of lifting, most days of the week Eating veggies with my meals, and eating fruits, seeds, and cheese, as my main snacks I still eat to many carbs but I bake my own bread using a bread machine. I found I got migraines from store bought breads. Habits I see others have: Consuming huge main portions with few veggies Not eating whole grains Not consuming enough fiber Eating fast food Unfortunately, I have a disease that means that my daily walks and cooking are literally all I can do. But I feel so much better when I eat and move as much as I feasibly can. I used to eat tons of added sugar and few actual meals. I lost a bunch of weight rapidly when I quit drinking, and my immune system tanked. I developed a yeast infection in my mouth, throat, stomach and intestines. It was crippling and I vomited daily for months. I finally quit consuming sugar, focused on Whole Foods, gained a little weight back, because when I first took antifungals the infection came right back. Now it’s been gone for months!

[@julianajaxson]

I go to Europe pretty much every year since 2018 for about a month at a time for my birthday (sans 2020/2021 with c19) and get sick for about a week everytime I get back… even when I eat pretty healthily… and while traveling I actually eat more and do lose a bit of weight too. It really has made me more unsatisfied with how our country is run -

[@anonhiki]

third world country knowingly poisoning its citizens for profits LOOL 🤡🎪 sounds so developed LMAOO

[@chutney-h3o]

It's run that way so you're a product of gyms, diets, healthcare (that you pay for) and of course your fave big pharma. As a European we look at the US as one big experiment. Cultureless and manufactured to keep ppl poor, unhealthy and distracted with la la land and entertainment etc. I feel sorry for Americans.

[@ws4857]

As for the red dye, it might've been that it increased the risk for some types of skin cancers, but no such risk was shown for gastrointestinal cancers. Cancer is an umbrella term for diseases caused by many different cell growth abnormalities.

[@kurt2022]

People living a more sedentary lifestyle, the whole 'a body will rust out before it will wear out' hidden truth of life. People must keep active to stay both physically and mentally heathy into old age. I'm watching this on my laptop in my high back, office chair, thirty years ago, I didn't have this option to suck me in and make me lazy.

[@protogionlastname6003]

Popular point but the main deciding factor on whether you are fat or thin is still food. Talking from experience of being fat and thin without making a single physical lifestyle change. Moreover, I felt the urge to exercise only AFTER my weight became healthy.

[@chutney-h3o]

And lockdowns increased sedantry life. When AI takes over and they keep locking you up...expect more fat folk

[@JM-bb8xi]

When I was kid in the 90s the large soda was the medium, medium was small, and small was the kids cup of today. It got bigger. I moved to smaller, very old, but extremely walkable town in the US, and its just nice to walk to places with a thriving main street too.

[@frostythesnowman1685]

What city is that?

[@qualityvids7815]

I can't seem to quit sugary treats and pop soda, but was able to quit alcohol and cigarettes much more simply. Can anyone else relate to being addicted to these drinks and sugar?

[@priscaonyebuchi7403]

Yeah I can relate to sugar but I’m working on it

[@qualityvids7815]

@priscaonyebuchi7403 yea same I cut to drinking more coffee, a little more fruit for sweetness and different soda drinks than the ones I'm usually addicted to but it's hard

[@Dannalasapa]

I recommend buying a blender and just freezing your favorite fruits and figuring out a smoothie recipe. And use no added sugar or sugar liquids to blend it up. Also adding chia seeds to smoothies is great and super healthy, best way to cut cravings and be healthy

[@economobserv]

Yes. Sugar is a bad thing. Try B group vitamins (!!!with B12) and jogging. It stimukates pancreas and insulin. You may also notice how brain fog will disappear.

[@etienne8110]

Studies on rats do show that sugar is more addictive than cocaïne. So i wouldn t be surprised that it is more addictive than tobacco or alcohol too.

[@cocolove9916]

Exactly ! We are in the prime of misinformation.. I really worry for the next few years.. we as gen z need to speak up more about this issue instead of ignoring it and blaming one another. We need to adapt a better mindset with food instead of focusing on aesthetics.. and trends

[@IsaacFoster..]

So the title was supposed to be "American Health Crisis"

[@rowmen]

This doesn't even get into Monsanto/pesticides or the fact that America only grows corn/soy and imports everything else.

[@karld1791]

Yes, we subsidize crop insurance for corn and soybeans so it’s more reliable income for farmers and those crops crowd everything else out in the Midwest and we end up having to import almost $200 billion of food while exporting corn and soybeans to the world.

[@Archer-q2m]

Yet we do nothing to change our current policies. We are weak; and If you aren’t weak, people paint you as a crazy conspiracy theorist. This country is cooked no matter who’s in office/congress.

[@RawLensGaming]

I feel this video so much man. I’ve had health issues for years. It’s been a real battle. I tried several different types of medicines, and went to doctors over the years, but nothing ever really helped. Eventually I realized it was the food and went on a whole journey of self discovery to find which diet worked best for me. I feel much better now.

[@StochasticUniverse]

9:23 Or the whole thing rests on a false premise and you don't actually lose weight, in the first place. I know someone who went to Japan for 3 months (she maxxed out her visa-free travel limit) and she'd actually gained about 10 pounds versus her weight in the US by the end of the process (she's 5'4" and about 120 pounds normally). After several months back in the US, she'd returned to her prior weight. What caused it? She went in the summer. Southern Japan, where Tokyo is located, is ungodly hot and humid in the summer. It's like 95 degrees with freakishly high humidity every day. It's even hot when it rains! As a result of all that, it's very difficult to actually do things outdoors. So she was actually more indoor-oriented during her time in Japan than she would normally be in the US at the same time.

[@브라이안PR]

Here in South Korea, Ice Americano is the most common drink, almost no one drinks sugary coffee drinks like in America

[@D87943]

How about the internet is deadly too no one socializes in person anymore everyone uses the trash internet now to socialize. That’s very sad.

[@ColeHastings]

Deadly is a stretch. It’s one of those “depends on the dosage and usage” things. Water is simultaneously beneficial and deadly, depending on how much or how it’s used. Same goes for the internet.

[@tamisopcakova2789]

@@ColeHastingsyeah but its also addictive so the chances are the majority of people will overuse internet to an unhealthy level

[@OsseusIvarr]

Yes but social media is designed to keep you addicted and trapped in a loop and preys on our animalistic part of the brain.​@@ColeHastings

[@-SteampunkTraveler-]

tbh i dont really care bout socializing i'd rather be alone doing hobbies but yeah the net is addictive.

[@ArbitraryZer0101]

Yeah but the world is more than just you. The majority of people need to socialise

[@christinewatson1989]

I've learned a cool little trick called READING THE INGREDIENTS. Don't like additives in your food? You can avoid them but you have to actually take responsibility and read the label. The government is not your mommy. You are responsible for your health and you alone.

[@DRowe2x]

Hey man, you might be on to something 💡

[@florance333]

Yeah except we literally pay taxes to the government to do due diligence and forbid harmful chemicals from being added to consumer goods. Unfortunately, foods with less harmful shit in them also come at a price premium.

[@protogionlastname6003]

I pay taxes though. Should I start to evade them?

[@Vlad-bs1js]

@@florance333 Sometimes they do come at a price premium but that may not be the case if you do a breakdown of how much of your nutritional needs are covered from those higher priced foods (it's not just about calories) because you're likely to consume/need less of it. Furthermore, even if they were categorically more expensive, shouldn't the quality of our food be one of our top priorities when it comes to spending our money? There are sooo many people who don't bat an eye when buying overpriced luxury items, clothing, cars, cosmetics and many other things, all while simultaneously complaining about how expensive food is.

[@anonhiki]

literally unaffordable, only the rich get to eat like that

[@WessDoesArt]

Estrogenics, and all the byproducts from companies cutting costs. And that's really just the start of it

[@inmyzone8891]

Another thing I noticed in Japan was the lack of napkins. When I Googled it, I found that it was because we are supposed to slowly enjoy our food and not just sit and eat mindlessly like in America, lol. I enjoyed my trip there and we did a lot of walking and I did not really see anybody overweight.

[@davedfstudios]

Here in Singapore our food is flavourful. Also it is significantly healthier than America. For one, our portions are not monstrous and tipping is not a thing here.

[@gauloise6442]

You are not eating ultra processed slop

[@chutney-h3o]

UK never had a tipping culture when I was growing up, but it's becoming that way more and more. I hate how we're the lapdog.

[@highsol222]

Further proof that America is not a country, it's a corporation. I always hated it here ever since I can remember. And now I kinda know why. It's not the whole picture, but I sure as heck can make out most of it.

[@anonhiki]

america is the world's biggest circus, knowingly poisoning its citizens and trafficking baby foreskins for profit LOL 🤡🎪

[@borikero1]

💯

[@chutney-h3o]

I feel for you. I hope you can leave someday.

[@highsol222]

@@chutney-h3o Thank you. Got a lot to do before I'm able to, but hopefully I can make it happen soon.

[@chutney-h3o]

@@highsol222 God willing! The UK is half way Americanised too but not as bad!

[@andrij.demianczuk]

I visited the US a few weeks ago, to Anaheim with my family. I was shocked by how crappy the groceries were. THE smallest produce section I’d ever seen at my life at the supermarket by our Air BnB. The quality of the produce was also horrible - especially considering we were in CA. Normally I try to shop the outside aisles of the supermarket as a rule in Canada. That’s where the produce, Dairy and Meats tend to be that are locally sourced. Even our grains I try to buy the stuff baked in house. It’s also interesting because in Canada many foods are not allowed to be made with HFCS.

[@ariel7409]

Also they healthier food is more expensive than junk food. The cheapest drinks you can buy in a grocery store is a huge bottle of soda, whereas healthier drinks cost 3 times as much. Fruits and veggies are expensive but a big bag of chips is like 1/3 the cost. Reverse that and a lot of the problem will be solved.

[@ruthosornio7779]

Water is cheaper than soda...I just drink water instead of other drinks and it helps :)

[@stealcian74]

Portion control is just a portion of the healthy weight equation. To suggest that 200 calories of coke have the same effect on the body as 200 calories of eggs is just dumb. Especially after you acknowledge how all the ultra-processed chemicals are potentially affecting us. I've tried all the diets from vegan to carnivore, whole foods and paleo. What I have learned after all of them is focusing on animal-based protein and supplementing with whole natural foods is the most evolutionary appropriate diet that nature spent a really long time optimizing us for.

[@AJ-es5yd]

You are absolutely correct sir!

[@MiguelDLewis]

This is such a well-made video. Very informative and relatable. It's so refreshing to see good video essays in this age of slop content. Subscribed. 👍🏾

[@ColeHastings]

Thanks Miguel

[@MiguelDLewis]

@@ColeHastings No prob. Keep up the great work.

[@orsacbollard8147]

Red 40 gonna be the thing that turn us into aliens 😭

[@l__l2328]

There is also trisodium fosfate which is a stain remover and tartrazine, a yellow sludge originally derived from coal to dye fabric. And that's just two of the chemicals they put in american food.

[@tylerh1648]

It's crazy to me how people don't understand how to eat properly. Just shop mainly the perimeters of the grocery store, and eat whole, natural foods. If the food you plan to eat didn't exist 200 years ago (pop tarts, oreos, etc) don't eat it.

[@daviddao8328]

It’s the comfort of convenience, and lack of knowledge or self restraint IMO. I feel like most people I meet today have little patience, and might not want to forth the effort of researching or moderating what they eat on a daily basis. They might know it’s not good for them, but can’t help but be consumers of it.

[@runmeramen6106]

If homeless just buy home

[@DRowe2x]

but I love pop tarts :(

[@economobserv]

Whybis it crazy? The whole industries are built to convince people eat it

[@Mr.Kingen]

good thinking

[@RatsPicklesandMusic]

This video is great!! Once I hit middle school and my mom stopped cooking like she had been because she had to start working, I got highly addicted and accustomed to ultra-processed high sugar and high fat foods!! It became a nightmare as I saw my weight increase and I started to feel terrible: back pain and tired, many times even lethargic, ALL the time!!! It was a years-long fight to get myself unaddicted to the foods that made up my terrible diet (and probably would have let to diabetes which is in my family) and finally get my weight down AND maintain it. I DID fall for some fad diets along the way (low carb high fat, keto, zero-moderation styles). I'm glad that I finally was able to work my way to a more balanced whole foods and moderate approach to eating that FINALLY gave me my life back and better control over my health. I'm not perfect, but my weight is normal again, my back pain has massively subsided, and I no longer get lethargic during the day!! P.S. 19:26 Thanks for saying "if you eat animal products". That was appreciated as a vegan here. :)

[@vedaskies12]

I think one the most ironic funniest things my homie said to me was that I "Don't eat real food". I've been on a Whole food plant based diet for almost a decade, And My friend who eats fast food drinks sodas eats candy and crap and cant cook a single meal said that to me. He has Chrohn's disease and I was on his case for years telling him he would feel better if only he cleaned up his diet (hes had a few close calls and surgery's due to blockages). He's literally said to me multiple times he would rather die eating his shitty food than clean up his diet, Sadly all this highly palatable ultra refined junk is literally getting people addicted, inflaming them and then they are getting fed the same crap at the hospital. My local hospital literally has a Dunkin Donuts inside it and you can get drinks of soda as a patient, What is going on America its time to wake up these companies and medicals only see you as dollar signs there is no compassion left these days, Its really not hard to eat healthier and exercise a few times a week maybe you'll might start feeling better physically and emotionally if you cut out the processed crap and start moving!

[@kagenotatsumaki]

An issue with your recommendations for better food choices at 18:00 is that a lot of what you said boils down to "but the even more expensive, "organic" "Non GMO" variants" which would be fine if people weren't working 80 hours a day so that they can have -$500 in their bank account at the end of every month.

[@chasitytalavera142]

Thanks for keeping us updated! I feel sympathy and empathy for our country. low income people are suffering to survive, and I appreciate Victoria Anne Leonard. You've helped my family with your advice. imagine investing $30,000 and receiving $95,460 after 28 days of trading.

[@thomassharp6487]

I began investing in stocks and Def earlier this year, and it is the best choice I've ever made. My portfolio is rounding up to almost a million and I have realized that when a stock makes it to the news, chances are you're quite late to the party, the idea is to get in early on blue chips before it becomes public. There are lots of life changing opportunities in the market, and maximize it.

[@Dociapaul]

What opportunities are there in the market, and how do I profit from it?

[@nellwyn-sima]

You can make a lot of money from the market regardless of whether it strengthens or crashes. The key is to be well positioned.

[@Barbarajohnson111]

All you need is a good capital and the service of a professional broker, with those your investment will most certainly produce high yields.

[@baileywalsh7040]

Do you have an idea of any good broker I can start with?

[@tylovsims]

Great video, here in Canada we have a number of the same dyes and high sugar foods as well; same with the car-centered places rather than walkable cities. The thing that really stands out to me around food & exercise is how they have been added to the "productivity" rhetoric. Fast Food, gym exercise as a symbol of "success," whereas elsewhere in the world the lifestyle itself is based on balance. Maybe there are lessons we can take from that concept that go beyond "what" and focus on "how".

[@K.C-2049]

I think Canadian culture is also very focused on outdoor recreation. in summer we're always going on walks, running, hiking etc. etc. and then in winter we have to have hobbies just to not go mad from the lack of sunlight lol I remember as a kid we were always running around outside, ice skating, skiing, horseback riding, even just walking about with friends.

[@TooMuchTemper]

Im 25, i eat pretty good and dont eat much fast food or junk. Always cooking. Yet still i have the worst stomach issues. Ibs or sibo im not sure yet since i cant get a diagnosis due to cost of medical insurance. This system has failed us all.

[@l__l2328]

Aren't there independent labs which sell testing kits online and give you an address in which to send your sample?

[@TooMuchTemper]

@l__l2328 for 500 dollars

[@AJ-es5yd]

Yes, find a natural doctor or a functional medicine doctor. If you can't afford it, follow Dr Berg, Hyman, Ken Berry or Dr Chaffee

[@TooMuchTemper]

@AJ-es5yd ive been watchin dr berg. But they recommend i get evaluated before i start changing diet.

[@wyomii]

Another thing: Dairy is in EVERYTHING in America. It's not health food, it's baby cow growth fluid. Dairy is also physically addictive. Will we ever see a lawsuit on the scale of tobacco? That was marketed as a health product, too.

[@jackalynnicole21]

Thanks for the guidance in leading my children in a healthy way

[@lessiacorgi5664]

Even 10 000 steps? I'm from Europe 10 000 steps is minimum here 😅 in really busy days i often walk 20 000 bc i have to walk from one uni building to another multiple times

[@TervelBG]

10:30 - Just want to add that Urban sprawl might not be the best term. As cities can still be sprawling with low to medium density, but still be walkable and of mixed use. I would blame it on american-style suburbia - low density, walking is defacto banned, and zoning which prohibits mixed use.

[@karld1791]

GMO crops are rarely eaten directly. Roundup Ready corn and soy crops are probably the most common GMO crops in North America. They are mostly fed to a huge number of animals we do eat and may also be used to make oils.

[@eevangrant]

15:00 an “animal based” diet is animal products such as meat, eggs, dairy in addition to fruit. this diet eliminates all grain, sugar, and seed oils and any kind of processed food. i encourage you to do some research first before criticizing it.

[@etienne8110]

Seems highly unhealthy anw.

[@silversilver0]

Dang, where's the fiber? No wonder colorectal cancer is in abundance

[@asrr62]

Ahh yes the carnivore diet. 🤢

[@eevangrant]

@ not quite

[@glrbuildersinc.8666]

17:23 I completely agree. My body works better when I have all the different macros but overall it does more harm than good because of chronic disease

[@mikeytuesdays90210]

It all started when big businesses started enforcing seed oils in foods

[@ColeHastings]

The science to support seed oils being as bad as random influencers claim is scarce. I’m still skeptical. Regardless, I try to limit/avoid them and use olive/avocado oil instead

[@Dannalasapa]

Actyally that’s not what it is. Not all seed oils are created equally first of all, some are almost as heart healthy as extra Virgin olive oil. Y’all USAamericans just eat like shit and never exercise or move, loll

[@Thermalsquid360]

Maybe in the fact that you can use them to fuel diesel engines?

[@skythundersky1544]

@@Thermalsquid360 So? At least 50% of a car's coolant is water. Wanna avoid water too? Pretty sure water is used in a lot of stuff that's extremely unhealthy

[@pinarppanrapir9489]

@@skythundersky1544 Seed oils were forced because they had a surplus after the war. It didn't stop after. I view it the same as gutter oil.

[@jacqslabz]

Also food in the USA is full of sugar. Especially our processed food. Everything is crazy sweet. We put sugar in ketup. Ketup! You know, that sour-tomated flavored stuff that isn't supposed to be sweet? When people from other countries come here, they can't believe how sticky sweet everything is. High blood sugar cause high insulin which causes fat storage.

[@foozle9285]

I was experiencing a lot of health problems and weight gain. Doctor just wanted to give various meds to adress the symptoms. I ended up doing an elimination diet over the course of six months - not with the intention of losing weight, but just to see if I was eating anything that was contributing to my joint/foot pain, exhaustion, and skin issues. Started out eating just red meat, and immediately (two weeks or so) the debilitating pain in my feet that was preventing me from walking in the morning, stopped. I hadn't lost weight at that point, but the pain was gone. Joint pain followed soon after and my skin gradually cleared up. Started introducing other foods and didn't see any problems with veggies, dairy, seafood, but BOOM... Processed seed oils. All my joint and foot pain started up again. Extra virgin olive oil is okay, and I've been playing with avocado oil recently, but for the most part, I stick with butter, ghee and animal fats for cooking. Result of the elimination diet had me reducing grains, avoiding added sugar in foods that had no need of them, cutting out "vegetable" oils entirely, and I feel better now than I did in my twenties, plus am down 80 pounds without calorie restrictions. I pretty much can eat what I want, but I do need to do most of my own cooking and a LOT of label reading. Processed foods are almost impossible.

[@danny-d0rito]

here's some info. I'm a celiac, and on the more extreme side of it. I can't do gluten, dairy, or rice. I am more fit then more then 90% of my generation Z. because most of the stuff with all that crap in it, has the nastier stuff packed up too. and gluten ALSO, despite what many would say, is not the great food it is talked up to be. it is great if you want a high calorie load that doesn't even get you to feel half full, causing overeating. that's just my input.

[@nanu1398]

There is an increase of the obesity rate in general in Germany (and some other countries of Europe), so with the wrong food choices getting fat is relatively easy. What I‘ve heard so far from European friends after their move to the US, that the food quality here seems to be much better in general (talking about the regular stuff like fruits and veggies you can get in the supermarket) compared to the US. And it’s true that cities here are built differently and that we have a better public transportation system. After leaving the city behind and moving to the countryside it has gotten a bit trickier to reach the 10k steps because now I really need my car for almost everything.

[@chibicat13]

I’m a Canadian who travels to America on occasion. I keep forgetting to not buy an appetizer when I eat out, the restaurant portion sizes are crazy large. I also notice the ingredients list on products that we also have in Canada are different. America has way more chemicals.

[@SpotCam]

super nice editing man

[@ColeHastings]

All credit to my editor, he crushed it

[@erikyoshi5549]

Informative and love your choice of vocabulary. Very well presented.

[@RandomYT05_01]

When I was in 3rd grade, I knew someone who was allergic to red dye. I didn't realize it could even be a kind of food allergy, however now I am starting to understand why they might be allergic to it.

[@RTDoh5]

Also the fact the hormones and steroids are being fed to cows and chickens. Those go into the body once consumed.

[@DFM761]

I dislike the cultural framing around car dependent infrastructure being something that's uniquely American. It's more a question of timing of development. Boston for example is about as American as you can get and it's walkable, because of when it was built. And guess what, Americans love it. Nobody visits New England and goes "the towns were nice but I wish I had to drive more." Meanwhile you go to Australia and Asia and you'll find the same car dependent nightmare sprawl in cities that were built during the 20th Century. If Europe wasn't built out before the industrial revolution I can guarantee you there would be suburban sprawl there too.

[@belstar1128]

America and Australia are too big and most of the land is just wilderness so you got to take the car .in Europe you can literally walk from city to city in a few hours with a bunch of suburbs farms and a tiny forest between the cities even the forest sometimes has a random vending machine. if you tried that in America or even worse Australia it would be a dangerous multi week adventure .

[@andrewjstatham]

We could always stop eating meat, dairy, eggs, and oil.....but you know we are powerless to change our lifestyle. By the way, the longest lived people in the world live in the United States in a little place called Loma Linda.

[@aidanc1653]

Does anybody have any other video suggestions on what foods are healthy and toxic?

[@BritishStarfishTeeth]

It's not complicated: Buy vegetables and fruits, avoid seed oils, qualitative meat once every two weeks is totally fine, avoid processed food and coca cola and stuff like that. This is 90% of the stuff you need to know.

[@aidanc1653]

@ there’s a lot of different kinds of meats and vegetables that have different vitamins and minerals. It is a pretty complicated subject because there’s so much variety to everything involved and varying levels of nutrition to everything you eat so that’s why I’m looking for something more comprehensive.

[@BritishStarfishTeeth]

@@aidanc1653 Google is your best friend. It's a bit of a hassle but you can start with cooking recipes with a high nutritional value. This will give you a good baseline. It's a rabbit hole and you will always learn something new.

[@martina_654]

Hold on... 950 - 1 300 mL for a large soda? who drinks this much?

[@dragonclaud2386]

why surprised? Its the home country of the big gulp

[@thewolf9851]

Americans 😂

[@martina_654]

@dragonclaud2386 damn, here in Europe, I am shocked everytime my BF gets a large menu, it's 500 mL drink, and he can't even drink it whole

[@robinbanks1788]

I live in america, and I have a pretty healty diet. I am also weirded out by all the weird diet stuff. I just eat mostly meat and vegetables like a normal human being, despite having heavily processed and sickeningly sweet foods everywhere. I dont eat much sugar, partially because it can upset my stomach pretty quickly, but mostly just because everything so sweet. I want my deserts to taste like something other than just straight sweetness. I need flavor. I am tiny compared to the average person so i have lower food requirements, but at restaurants i usually find that my stomach is full about halfway through.

[@economobserv]

Luigi is innocent. Period

[@uncle.d.]

Hmm…hé s still a killer

[@Moitoutvabien]

Calories in > calories out = weight ↗️. It's not very hard to understand, but so many people are not aware of all the crap in their food. It should be explained in school

[@skythundersky1544]

Well it's not that easy since you don't eat when you're satiated. People need to know what they're deficient in when they feel certain cravings and they need to know what foods are satiating, healthy and "low" in calories in relation to how filling they are

[@shavonnelynch6508]

As someone that lives in a country where a lot of food gets imported from all around the world... The food from the USA is simply SO sweet and SO salty it's crazy. A simple example: My favorite ketchup is from this dutch off-brand. it contains- water, tomatoes, vinegar, salt and sugar. it tastes like a very sour ketchup, very tasty. This one time the store didn't have it, so i bought an American ketchup. Tell me why the ingredient list was 3 times as long, and there was high fructose corn syrup in it :/ it was way too sweet and didn't even taste like ketchup anymore.

[@katk2265]

It makes me so sad as a european to see americans think they live in the greatest country on earth. And this video only scratches the surface of healthcare and education. No mention of gun violence and homless and drug crisis. And whenever I say this, people think I'm hating and I'm really not. It's sad and scary to see.

[@brooklynnseitz8965]

It sucks because most people cannot even afford non GMO foods or organic foods. I also heard that organic foods are just a marketing scam.

[@matheusgoncalves7282]

Gotta tell you man, 4 years ago I took milk and gluten completely out of my live... I've never been so healthy. My biological markers are almost perfect. I don't eat processed food like sausage and bacon... I'm from Brazil and for people around me it seems like I'm insane, but for me I just think it's right to eat what is actually real food. And as I told you it's been 4 years eating like this, I'm 27 and I think I'm in my prime and it seems that I'll keep improving.

[@Susan-id5xj]

The Japanese large used to be a large in the USA in the 90s. The portions have gotten larger here. The large here in America used to a super size. I'm animal based now. Losing weight cut out the pop and liquid calories.

[@TheCârtiță]

" Europe built long before cars have narrow streets and pedestrian friendly shopping centers very close to their home " You never been to Romania bro, in the '80 to '90 Bucharest was called ' little Paris' but now, you can call it ' little New York ' or even better ' little Mumbai '

[@Anne-yh1vv]

2:35 "hypersensitivity reactions" means allergic reactions, not hyperactivity like in ADHD.

[@ColeHastings]

I must’ve misspoken then. I meant hyperactivity. Thanks for pointing that out

[@TheKniperlight]

Seed oils seed oils seed oils. Refined sugars second.

[@lubnasami511]

Sorry if there is any grammar mistakes, English is not my first language . Thank you for making this video, because the amount of American people I see eating fast food and crumble cookies on KZbin shorts is insane. I thought I was going crazy because I always wondered how do those people not get sick from the portions of food they're eating.

[@qualityvids7815]

It's very common to see overweight or obese ppl here mainly overweight compared to my time touring Europe the difference is noticeable

[@elizabethdavis1696]

Please make a playlist of your videos that address city planning and design ❤

[@salaheddinabunnaja8775]

Love the videos Cole I love how much you highlight the systemic issues and how you have transitioned from the personal growth stuff I know your trying to be somewhat apolitical but you do these videos justice I wouldn’t mind if you did videos that highlight some legislation that causes these issues

[@GonRogue-85]

Fauci ouchie doesn't help.

[@Susan-id5xj]

Stop saying universal healthcare is free. The populace pays for it through their taxes.

[@adriantrela]

Well... 1. Diet. 2. "safe and effictive" 3. 1+2

[@thewolf9851]

So unintelligent. Typical american.

[@RealJonzuk]

you should make a video on all the oil based materials like for shirts/furniture/mask/everything basically, the petro chemicals are seriously the worst, the food colorings would probably be fine if not made from petroleum idk why they cant use a natural color produced by yeast with precision fermentation

[@mr.giggles4995]

Around 15-20% of the US population is on antidepressants and/or antipsychotics, which are notorious for causing rapid and extreme weight gain as well as diabetes. I've been on a lot of them and know firsthand.

[@mart7789]

This was one of your best. Finally, people are thinking about "why" illness and obesity are soaring instead of trying to just treat it, which pharm companies would just love (hello Ozempec). Unfortunately, our own government is complicit in this and that needs to end.

[@HibiTeamQueso]

The best example that comes to my mind is the fanta colour in Europe vs USA. Our (Europe) fanta is yellow, you know like actual ORANGE juice? Yours is an unnatural orange colour that's not real juice at all. Yet most of americans would be shocked to realize that. Most don't even know how orange juice looks like which is kinda insane to me

[@cherylhughes2988]

Added sugar, salt, fat, dyes, hormones, and god knows what else may be responsible for increased rates or depression, autism, ADHD, and obesity in our kids. Kids that grow up to be adults.

[@CatsLilaSalem]

I am inclusive and a millennial with all those issues. My mother is also obese and wanted to treat me since i was very young, i was the only fat kid on school since fat kids where not really common yet. Oh and even more inclusive as someone from The Netherlands in other words EU. Now more than 50% of adults are overweight here. In Europe they need to specify certain things in food, but lots of foods are still just a big wall of scary sounding words most people don't know what it means. And like shown in video, they use the E for EU approved. So how many people see E621 on the label and know it is MSG? MSG is banned in some EU contries, but used a lot in mine.

[@WendsH]

Given that the dyes used in food, corn syrup, etc. has been around throughout the childhood of Gen X members and they're considerably healthier than Gen Z, I personally believe that the lack of movement of Gen Z and fixation on the phone/social media has just as much if not more impact than foods. Those kids in Gen Z and Gen A that I've seen who are not overweight are the active kids who don't spend their lives on their phones - the ones with weight problems are those who are fixated on tablets and phones. Perhaps the decay of walking/cycling/fitness in general should be looked into as well.

[@Haferkoko]

Watching this from Italy! Hii!

[@ColeHastings]

Gratzie

[@louprado8319]

Want to lose weight ? Start with eliminating any drink with calories. I drink water with lemon and coffee (ok, and the occasional beer) anytime I can pinch more than an inch of fat on my belly. Have been doing this for 40+ years and it has never failed to work.

[@krakraichbinda]

Calorie is not a calorie - "Sugar -The Bitter Truth" by Robert Lustig

[@instantpug7036]

I‘m so confused about the Japan comment 😭 Yeah, the vegetable side dishes are insultingly small. But if you order a big portion of rice and a bigger portion of meat, is it not a lot? Or at least, a normal amount? How big are American portions????? Or maybe the better question is: How cheap is food that you can get such big portions? Restaurant portions in Germany are absolutely too small for me. It’s because ingredients and rent is so expensive. I don’t think it has anything to do with Europeans wanting to eat this little (especially for those prices). I really am wondering how that even works in America.

[@monster7944]

2:39 hypersensitivity is usuaally referring to allergy, so they cause allergic reactions

[@idkm4n35]

Sugar needs to be reduced and maybe even banned.

[@ColeHastings]

Sugar is not really a problem when coming from whole foods. Especially fruit

[@tamisopcakova2789]

@@ColeHastingsyeah but the artificial one is not good at all

[@idkm4n35]

@@ColeHastings I agree on the fruits.

[@Dannalasapa]

You can’t ‘ban’ sugar bc ppl can’t control themselves. Its ppls responsibility to learn to eat whole fruits or blend those up in a smoothie when they get a sweet craving instead of reaching for the processed fibre-free candy. Also eating sweet treats sometimes isn’t a problem it’s once again that USAamericans have no self control, and that’s a personal problem.

[@VVabsa]

​@@Dannalasapa That's objectively wrong since the the whole low-fat fad was an excuse for food companies to replace fat with sugar and now the same with "sugar-free" products having artificial sweetners. Which are far more harmful than the already high sugar foods. How can you "control" yourself when the only choice is SUGAR!

[@alizadvir2558]

We also have red stickers on all of our food packaging warning us that it contains high sugar, high fat and high sodium