"The Case Against Sugar," Gary Taubes, Investigative Science & Health Journalist

[@douglasslaton4120]

I am also single with no kids, age 51. I have also convinced myself meat and butter are health foods. I have lost 50 lbs in 7 months by keeping daily carbs below 30 grams/day. No sugar or processed foods, ----none. From 242 lbs to 192 and still going. I feel I am proof no exercise is required for weight loss. My daily job as a warehouse manager is my only physical activity. I do believe exercise is good for overall health. I'm hoping my goal of 180 lbs will motivate me to exercise . Hope this helps someone out there who is struggling.

[@benvarner8996]

I believe that as well especially after watching the KZbin video Butter will make your pants fall off by Butter Bob Briggs

[@davidromano7685]

This man has literally saved my life. His research and advice combined with IF is …. The ANSWER. Thank you Mr Taubes.

[@betsch85]

starts at 6:30

[@mariapetfooleddvd4472]

From Australia - Thanks mate!

[@robinlillian9471]

Ditto

[@ladycactus110]

Introducers introducing introducers... waste of time!!!

[@cobrellie]

Thank you

[@cfoster6804]

@@ladycactus110 😂

[@SapienSafari]

I too eat a high healthy fat, low carb, ketogenic diet and lost 44 pounds.

[@toni4729]

Done that too. Great, isn't it. YOu know, there are thousands of us all over the world and yet, I still can't understand why surgeons are still working on these seriousely fat people when this keto thing is so simple.

[@snakedurant3556]

Did you need to count calories?

[@toni4729]

@@snakedurant3556 You don't count calories because you can't eat enough fat to require it. You get far too full for too long, you'd be surprised. Try it.

[@snakedurant3556]

@@toni4729 ahhh ok. Thanks for the advice. I'll give it a try

[@toni4729]

@@snakedurant3556 Check out Dr. Tim Noakes.

[@nitashah0]

I love this guy, he is so smart and very eloquent

[@aniccadance13]

Gary is one my heroes too😍 Thank you for uploading🤗

[@machyne82]

aniccadance13 he is my hero too, him and Tim Noakes.

[@flaradgirl]

I appreciate this very much. New information on this topic for which I've been studying closely for over 2 years now. Wow! The history of sugar is fascinating!

[@martinirving3824]

It's funny, isn't it, that when he really gets down to the nitty-gritty, that this is serious shit, someone in the audience starts coughing, like it's getting boring, or something. Don't let them distract you, Gary. You are on point.

[@panzerfaust375]

What time is that I didn't hear that?

[@7YBzzz4nbyte]

Strange how the word "coughing" now has a totally different meaning, though you Martin didn't know it when posting...

[@nicmart]

As this comment shows, we are descending into a paranoid dark age.

[@Olivia-W]

Um... how about someone just having a cough that day?

[@ulziimaabyamba1119]

@Evan Owen i am za

[@brianloftus4919]

25 days no sugar the difference is shocking. I ate it for 50 yrs. Good riddance.

[@rachellockwoodle]

I applaud you... about 2 months here. Good luck

[@roscorude]

The more of these vidyas you watch, lustig,bush et.al. the easier it is to abstain from "added sugars" good luck humans!

[@thalesnemo2841]

Add the removal of all grains too!

[@NicLewis]

Are you still off sugar?

[@brianloftus4919]

@@NicLewis yes I am! Once in a long while ill have a tiny bit....but I feel soo much better with out it.

[@robynstewardson]

BUT sugar addiction turns off your ability to know that you are full. And THAT is the crux. If sugar wasn't addictive, then yes, you could blame yourself, but sugar lights up your brain just like addictive drugs - very hard to give up. Your body goes thru withdrawal and you feel exhausted and miserable. You have to give it around 2 weeks to get thru this and you start to feel less brain fog and way more energy. Thanks for informing us on this super-important topic.

[@AgnostosGnostos]

Sugar should be heavily taxed. It would be a win win situation. People's health will improve and more money from the tax will be available for the public healthcare.

[@lucam2942]

A gram of sugar is 4 calories, a gram of fat (oil/ butter) is 9 calories. Sugar is used to run brain and body and is stored for short term use as glycogen, and doesn’t easily get converted into body fat. Where’s dietary fat is not easily converted into energy and is easily stored as body fat.

[@irishcountrygirl78]

We have a sugar tax here in Ireland government applied a 30 cent per litre tax on drinks with more than 8g of sugar per 100ml and a 20 cent per litre tax on drinks with between 5 and 8g of sugar per 100ml. It didn't stop people buying it, but it's good to know they are aware of the dangers of refined added sugars on the body. Sugar is added to everything though.

[@schmoborama]

@@lucam2942 sounds like you’re describing glucose, fructose is only metabolized in the liver, and 1/3 of it goes straight to fat.

[@Olivia-W]

@@lucam2942 That's plain wrong. Glucose is used by cells (unless in nutritional ketosis, then they use fatty acids and ketones), but fructose isn't. Fructose goes straight to the liver and is metabolised similarly to alcohol, but without the effects on the brain. Table sugar is half glucose, half fructose.

[@thalesnemo2841]

Always an excellent talk. The camera work needs to zoom in on the slides or have two cameras.

[@littlewing62]

I hope taubes does a talk on how processed vegetable oils are poison.

[@paullombard00]

Owen Wilson knows a lot about nutrition. Good for him.

[@blueviper8622]

Paul Lombard holy shit I thought I was only one. I’m surprised he didn’t say wow!

[@cadavison]

Wow

[@scottfamily865]

But he’s dumb and ugly and this man is intelligent and not ugly.

[@greggf6831]

How come this crap food industry is never a Presidential topic? It should be! Food companied are causing this health care crisis costing 100's of billions.

[@biancagadi786]

because everyone in politics makes money of off the pharma/food/medical industry. change will only come from the consumer

[@TX2200000]

Black box warning on sugary products.

[@TheSkite575]

Went low carb 5 years ago down 115 lbs I'm 62 now feel like I'm 30

[@yehonatan2020]

Yep, I have read this book. Well worth reading

[@auctionmusic]

I remember reading a story about an afghanistan boy when we first invaded the country. He was living "in a cave" with the family and like others as well. What caught my attention was at one point he was laughing when the solders brought food to them although they had their own food. The boy was laughing because he thought it was funny that soldiers ate food out of cans.

[@Ashley-i3p]

This man looks great!

[@priestessbrenda]

You are my hero seriously. I have MS and sugar is my enemy period!

[@JoylieC]

I read your book. Thank you for your groundbreaking work.

[@kubasniak]

I loved that mans question in Q&A. Straight to pragmatism. What do you eat?

[@metheiam5714]

Even before i knew the hormonal effects of sugar, i thought that negative calories would be more appropriate term than empty calories. It doesn't come with it's own vitamins and minerals, so it will deplete the body's stores. Thus not being empty, which to my ear sounded like saying neutral.

[@toni4729]

Thanks for the talk and your insight in your diet, you look great.

[@tmsnyder1971]

Taubes talking about Occam's razor reminds me of John Von Neumann's quote "with four parameters I can fit an elephant, with five I can make him wiggle his trunk"

[@x.y.7385]

Wow, not sure how I missed this one from Gary and also an older one from Peter Attia mentioning Gary

[@kalimat4018]

Great 👍🏼

[@Ben-d9n1r]

Eating caramel corn while I watch this makes me chuckle 😆

[@rosyloveslearning3013]

Fantastic. Thorough and understandable. 🙏🏼

[@thalesnemo2841]

Is there a link to the slides ?

[@johneubank8543]

Gary, you need to spend some time with David Siegel or Siegal's climate websites. You'll enjoy his take on it.

[@brett6239]

Also look at US wheat and grain production. Then compare that to average height over the same period. People get shorter the more grain they eat. Shorter people is typically a sign of malnutrition. The founding fathers generation were actually very tall. Very few grains or sweets, almost entirely meat and veg.

[@teslawillimon5900]

false. they were on average an inch shorter than modern averages. height is regulated by the pituitary gland, very few foods can affect this area of hormone production.

[@samuelreiter6412]

Compare today’s Americans with their ancestors who immigrated here. You’ll see an increase in height, which is the result of nutritional changes...probably more dairy and meat were available in America.

[@brett6239]

@@samuelreiter6412 Here's one most people don't know, compare millennials an gen-x height. We are shrinking again. All the processed junk food. Very sad.

[@martinirving3824]

I had no idea that the "diagnostic effect" dated back to Joslin. That excuse is used to this very day to explain the exponential increase in cancer incidence.

[@bigbenhebdomadarius6252]

Martin Irving Perhaps we could use the diagnostic effect to explain the obesity epidemic, too! 🤣🤣🤣

[@martinirving3824]

BigBen, Good point. Perhaps the obesity epidemic was always here, in the last 10,000 years, we just didn't realize it because our diagnostic tools weren't sharp enough?

[@kueblersnavyinc]

I think y'all can see who has a fat ass...

[@NicholasAndre1]

It’s funny when LDL correlates weakly with CVD we are all over that but when cancer correlates strongly with obesity and IGF1 we assume that’s a nothingburger.

[@brendanbishop3684]

the problem is the people running the show don't give a shit period, we all would vote for gary to run the show and call the shots, governments back dooring corporations who run the show through a proxy/gov where they can charge astronomical prices for meds with no competition. all the so called regulatory bodies are influenced by the corps, money talks, they need a truly independant health body that has no corporate interests what so ever.

[@MFV77]

Starts at 6:30

[@FictionCautious]

Just to clarify things a little bit for europeans. "Western" means american.

[@NicholasAndre1]

Sadly it used to be American but we seem to be exporting it pretty well.

[@rudirestless]

lol

[@annmacleod1099]

Western means America you have western Isles in scotland that is not American.

[@samuelreiter6412]

What? America is mostly made up of the descendents of European immigrants. We got our love for sugar and white flour from there. Don’t pin all the world’s woes on Americans.

[@radermachera8204]

Doesn’t “western” refers to North America (meaning U.S. and Canada) and Western Europe too?

[@markiangooley]

As a type 1 diabetic for 50 years I’m not a big fan of Dr. Joslin...

[@binathere2574]

Congratulations on your managing of it. My younger brother died from complications of T1D 40 years ago, he was 28. Very sad.

[@Reikihandsoflove]

How old is this guy (DOB 1956) is this a recent video? He is the best guy on the subject, very well studied and thought about, with consideration to morbid obese individuals and innervative.

[@NicholasAndre1]

The book is several years old now. His presentations have been getting better and better -- I saw him speak on the book back in 2016 and his analogies have been honed since then.

[@1maybeline]

He looks great for his age..!

[@debrahurtado5491]

So... WHAT CASE?? WHERE'S HE GOING.

[@martinfederico7269]

How did the auto generated subs got the mis-spelling at 9:07 ¨right¨ .... scary

[@roscorude]

"Bacon and butter are health foods, I hope I'm right!"

[@Dadounette29]

Depends on what the pigs ate roscorude !

[@thalesnemo2841]

@Sirius White Butter is quite healthy! As with all stable saturated fats are the best to use and those have been used for thousands of years. It’s the PUFAs aka the “vegetable oils” which are ALL SEED OILS AND ARE TOXIC ! Chris A. Knobbe - Omega-6 Apocalypse: From Heart Disease to Cancer and Macular Degeneration -AHS19 (Why PUFAS are toxic and lead weight gain and other metabolic diseases) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnnRgZykjq5lj8U

[@roscorude]

@@thalesnemo2841 it's a quote from the vidya

[@cfoster6804]

Pigs are one of the most disgusting things you can eat. They are the trash cans of the world. They are made to clean the earth. It's like eating a filthy sponge. A lot of diseases come from eating that particular animal.

[@d.e.b.b5788]

It's perfectly okay to eat sugary treats, and bad fats. You just cannot eat them every day. Like cake, reserve them for special occasions you attend, which only happen once a month or so. You know, like birthday parties or weddings. Just like a diabetic won't be killed by one teaspoon of pure sugar, you won't destroy your health by eating other bad things once in a great while. In the meantime, eat a steak or whole broiled chicken a day if you want. With a three egg omelet for breakfast.

[@techresources2456]

Where did this go??? I saved this to watch in the morning and there is no video??? Very annoying!!!

[@lesliehenriques62]

Is it possible to make foods that are bad for you good for you

[@roscorude]

Lower your insulin lower your weight!

[@thalesnemo2841]

@roscorude It’s the CARBOHYDRATES-DUH!

[@XGiveMeLibertyX]

I start getting lost when he says caloric intake doesn’t matter. I agree with him on a lot but have a hard time wrapping my head around the calorie stuff

[@adamv4951]

If you eat a high fat diet with protein, you'll fill up way before you could consume so many calories like you would with sugar and carbs.

[@cosmichealth3907]

Calories concept is the most followed concept of loosing weight...this is why 99.9 percent of the diet program around the world failed miserably... rather concentrate on eating fat versus refined sugar and carbs.... I lost 47 pounds in 7 months just by excluding refined sugar from my diet..it's been 14 months I'm on high fat diet ...total weight loss is66 pounds...sugar cravings gone..back to life

[@00HoODBoy]

Both comments Above are pretty biased and bad so I'll try. Gaining weight and losing weight is based on energy balance(calories in calories out). That's is an established fact. I think when he's talking about calories he's just saying that when it comes to health there is more to it. A calorie does not equal a calorie(different digestion, thermic effect of food, nutrient density, etc.). Low calorie food like the yoghurt are relatively high in carbs and protein, so a "fitness enthusiast" like me would consider it an efficient and effective food choice for building muscle if we are strictly talking about counting macros, but it is high in sugar so from a health perspective it is not a good choice. Even if it has low calories. Not sure he said calorie intake doesn't matter, it's not true though. Simply removing sugar or changing dietary habits, like people above are suggesting, will not guarantee weight loss or gain. Probably just wrote a bunch of shit you already know Also, energy balance is not the reason why 99%of diets fail. They don't work without it. There are a lot of complex reasons for them failing, such as lack of adherence, treating a diet like a diet and going back to old habits after its over, metabolic adaptation, other adaptations of your body and more. Saying that it's because of calorie counting or sugar is wrong and not supported by anything. I just watched Greg doucette get to 4.5% body fat for a show and he's carbing up with fucking cereal and pop tarts. Strictly macros working as intended. Healthy, definitely not

[@rumproast5159]

00HoODBoy you tried and you failed. The established fact of calories in, calories out is exactly not how our body runs. That’s why every diet in the world has failed. Counting calories is not what you want to do. Dumping the carbs and eating a keto diet allows you to do that and you don’t have to do one iota of exercise to achieve weight loss. Exercising is a must for maintaining health not losing weight.

[@00HoODBoy]

@@rumproast5159 care to post some studies to back that up. I already know they don't exist though, just FYI before you start your research

[@carolynhunt7333]

Six minutes of introduction?

[@debrahurtado5491]

Took forever and I fell asleep!

[@Bettie512]

I love you information..... and I know you say it all the time, however you should be more happy the your saying then really Bored.

[@toni4729]

Since the Japanese are not particularly fat it looks obviouse that Occam's razor clear. Bloody shame Ancel Keys didn't see that.

[@thalesnemo2841]

It’s the wheat and fructose which in the Japanese diet is low to zero or it was ! Also the weight gain to obesity is in much narrower range 2-6 kg than in comparison to Europeans . Japanese increase in type 2 diabetes graph kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6jYpn6tfN-WbLs The real Okinawa diet ! Plenty of PORK ( video 1 minute ) kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqTYd6KChcmpY9E Myth of the Okinawa diet theoffseason.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/the-myth-of-japanese-food/ Sunday, June 5, 2016 Willcox, the fraudulent fabricator of Okinawa sweet potato longevity diet truther10.blogspot.com/2016/06/willcox-fraudulent-fabricator-of.html?m=1 The low protein status and decline in longevity of Okinawans www.researchgate.net/publication/51621527_Comments_on_Dietary_Restriction_Okinawa_Diet_and_Longevity

[@elliesambrook5929]

Follow the money and bribes

[@eddiej9745]

Just want the information thanks, inefficient/wrong govt intervention/regulation caused the problem in the first place.

[@GoCanucks2011]

From lips to hips - the fat you eat is the fat you wear, From lips to hips - the sugar you eat is the sugar you wear.

[@Carefreeblues]

That is one fit looking 60 year old dude.

[@x.y.7385]

It's crazy how we need to have discussions on what to eat. If we didn't have so many people, breeding like rabbits, we wouldn't have to figure out how to feed them with crap foods that are mass produced with crap ingedients.

[@cfoster6804]

Oh cut it out you eugenecist. How the heck do you think YOU got here sucking up excess O2??

[@MikaelVitalyVyacheslav-bh2fk]

-An "Estrogenic" obese body is created ;by sugar , high carbs ,refine carbs , eating too much fat and over eating protein .Sugar is sugar .. fruits , ,refine carbs , fructose (sugar) in fruit . Eating toxic factory food , fast food ,, dairy ,cheese ,milk , , mayonnaise , all salad dressings , peanut butter , whey-protein shakes are all "damaged fats" are toxic to your liver, brain and heart , , all vegetable oils ,,"polyunsaturated fats"" , over consumption of any fat including healthy fats like saturated fats will make you gain weight . Drinking alcohol including red wine are toxic to the liver .The less you eat the longer you will live and healthy you will be . A slow unhealthy liver cannot metabolise process any fats including healthy fats . The biggest problem with controlling diabetes (insulin) and weight through diet is that people are lazy . You can lead a horse to water but can't force them to drink. Most people rather eat fast food , , wheat , white flour , factory frozen food ,, can food , protein powder and dairy full of casein that destroy the cells in the pancreas and cause cancer and take pills or shoot insulin than to change their shitty eating habits . We live in an "instant gratification" society full of "lazy people" with zero 0 discipline or work ethic. Sad but true. If you want to lose weight watch your intake of "carbs" , keep your sugar level below 110 by intermittent fasting and eating less .People who eat less live longer . Be careful since the equivalent of 12 teaspoons of sugar happens very quickly. For example: 1 cup of milk equals = 2 teaspoons of sugar * 1 cup of rice (cooked) equals = 9 teaspoons of sugar* 1 banana equals equals = 5 teaspoons of sugar • 1 baked potato equals = 7 teaspoons of sugar • 1 sweet potato = 8 teaspoons of sugar • 1 cup of strawberries equals = 2.5 teaspoons of sugar (low sugar)* 1/2grapefruit = 2 teaspoons of sugar - Coca cola (one can) - 8.25 teaspoons of sugar - Raisin Bran cereal - 7.75 teaspoons of sugar (per 100grams) - Grapes fruit - 4 teaspoons of sugar (per 100grams) - Tomatoes - 0.7 teaspoons of sugar (per 100grams) - 1 Muffin (one chocolate chip muffin) - 4.75 teaspoons of sugar - Special K cereal - 3 teaspoons of sugar (per 100grams) - Corn Flakes - 2.4 teaspoons of sugar (per 100grams) - Alpen cereal - 5.75 teaspoons of sugar (per 100grams) - Mangos fruit - 3.2 teaspoons of sugar (per 100grams) - A cup of seedless prunes has, in effect, 25 teaspoons of sugar ! Scientists find in comparing the sugar levels in the blood after the consumption of a snickers bar that has 8.5 teaspoons of sugar the same as ""two bread slices "" ! . The sugar equivalent is of 1 large bagel a whopping 12 teaspoons of sugar !...It is beyond what the body , the liver and pancreas can metabolize. We are practically growing "" cancer farms " !. Lastly, it is worth noting that there are many breads that a single slice of which will raise your blood sugar more than a US Snickers bar (which has a GI of 68/97). to be healthy you must keep your blood sugar below 110 (""everything"" including eating too much protein will raise your insulin .) Keep your protein portions and meals small , you cannot cheat your body Not even with paleo diet or ketogenic diet will not work for every one . Eating healthy and intermittent fasting is best solution to be slim and healthy for "" Me "" ) find what works for you , do experiment with your self and one day you will hit the solution that works for you ...keep trying ! Only water will not raise "insulin" hormone everything else including protein will raise your insulin , Try intermittent fasting . No carbs no cookies , no baked goods , keep your blood sugar around 110 or under .The less you eat the better you control your insulin hormone and blood sugar and you gain no weight . If you're addicted to carbs and sweets you will not lose weight .Get rid of your addiction and control your "mental health" control your "Cortisol" and "stress" or you not lose weight. Taking mineral "Magnesium" its good for cortisol and stress.People who are magnesium deficiency have the highest heart disease , heart attacks and Irregular Heartbeat ,(arterial plaque ). Diabetics have magnesium deficiency , elevated blood glucose levels increase the loss of magnesium in the urine, which in turn lowers blood levels of magnesium.” So getting enough magnesium is especially important in diabetes and people who are border line diabetic or over weight . Before you start eating any meal take three spoons of Apple cider vinegar this will bring down your blood sugar . Eat Salads with no oils , only with lemon or vinegar .If you go to bed late you will not lose weight , if you have sleep Apnea it will be very hard or impossible to lose weight the best go see a sleep doctor . Sleep Apnea is a very serious sleep disorder disease . Also don't eat fruit if your plan is to lose weight ; all fruit will cause your blood sugar to go up . Fruit sugar called fructose is toxic and will spike your blood sugar and raise your insulin .Fruit should only be eaten by healthy slim people in season. Every morning drink with warm filtered water mixed with lemon everyday ,detox your liver ,kidneys with water and lemon . natural vitamin C from lime or lemons make your arteries strong and healthy and cleans your liver and kidneys water and lemon (warm) the liver prefer warm water .Try to drink at least a litre of water a day . For breakfast eat a high protein diet or better don't eat breakfast . Eat no grains ,No baked goods ,No refine carbs ,not nuts ,No lectins ,No beans , eat a Lectin-free diet . If you feel hungry drink a cup of organic coffee with no sugar this will calm down your hunger spams .Coffee will calm down your hunger but don't drink more than one cup a day .The Amino acid called L-Tyrosine is a good supplement to take if your thyroid is slow .Anything you eat should be organic close to mother nature eat nothing from a can or package .No factory food . , Avoid salt (sodium) ,Avoid all Restaurant food is Cooked with MSG and lots of sodium and "damaged" toxic fats . Eat for your ""blood type" ( Dr. D'Adamo's Blood Type Diet) is a good diet for losing weight .Very important If you eat high protein diet with vegetable high in fibre make sure you take vitamin B-6 , B-12 , choline , Vitamin C 3 grams a day to keep your "homocysteins" low in your blood so you don't get heart disease .Avoid all white flour , beans , corn but eat vegetables . Avoid damaged fats ,no cheese , no frying , no mayonnaise . no salad dressings . No fruit juice , no fruits are very high in sugar . Also over eating too much protein will raise your insulin and cause you to gain weight . Eat small portions do not over eat on protein . To detox your liver and bring down estrogen eat sulphur vegetables ,Broccoli , cabbage ,onions ,garlic ,Red beets et.. Best supplement for the liver is ;Water with lemon , Trimethylglycine - (TMG) , malic acid and "liopic acid " . "Excess sugar ""eventually affects every organ in the body, but initially, it is stored in the liver in the form of glucose (glycogen). Since the liver's capacity is limited, a daily intake of refined sugar (above the required amount of natural sugar) soon makes the liver expand like a balloon. When the liver is filled to its maximum capacity, the excess glycogen is returned to the blood in the form of fatty acids. These are taken to every part of the body and stored in the most inactive areas: the belly, the buttocks, the breasts and the thighs. But then it affects vital organs like the heart and the kidneys.reason two meals a day is so beneficial is because it keeps insulin low and GH high. Insulin is the main hormone in your body that is responsible for fat storage. Every time we eat a meal ""insulin is raised"" . When "insulin is high" you will not be burning fat or losing weight. GH -"Growth hormone" on the other hand is the main fat burning hormone in your body. Therefore it would make sense that we would want to increase this as much as naturally possible. A combination of "intermittent fasting" and only having two meals a day can increase GH - Growth Hormone drastically. Increasing fat loss and weight loss results dramatically. (If you're over 50 yrs. old and you have low testosterone take 50 mg. of DHEA hormone) and 6 mg. of mineral Boron . Avoid all soy and flax seeds oils and fish oils supplements , avoid all polyunsaturated oils and food . Soy and flax seeds Though are not a chemical estrogen, but it is a plant-based estrogen, and can throw off your hormonal balance. Eat a anti-estronic diet ,Vitamin B-6 ,100 mg a day its good to take to lower estrogen ; Work out: Studies show that moderate exercise lowers estrogen levels. A 2013 study also found that aerobic exercise helps the body break down estrogen so it's easier to flush away. Get enough sleep: When you don't get enough sleep, you can not lose weight make sure you go to bed early 10:00 p.m. .. The levels of the so-called "sleep" hormone called melatonin is disrupted and you will not lose weight ! sleep ! Turns out that melatonin hormone has a protective effect against ""excess estrogen" . A 1999 study, for example, showed that melatonin helped block the growth of ""estrogen-induced cancer cells"" . Use a water filter: Public water supplies often contain chlorine, fluoride, and other industrial chemicals that act as xenoestrogens. Use a quality filter to reduce your exposure best book for weight lose ; The only thing that doesn't raise the insulin hormone is plain water .Go buy this book and read it at least 4 times until all the information in the book is memorised in your brain ; The book by Dr. Jason Fung called ; The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss www.amazon.com/Obesity-Code.../dp/1771641258 video to watch ; The Case Against Sugar kzbin.info/www/bejne/moLWg32Ko9yaoac ,,

[@jgrepic]

Guns??

[@goldsmith001]

Bet he pushes for everyone including 5 year olds to get the jab

[@inyourdefense0]

Guns are NOT a disease, nor are citizens vectors. Doctors need to focus on illnesses and disease, not crime. The last thing we need are physicians who are social justice idiots.

[@irishcountrygirl78]

He's just saying stop eating refined sugar. What's do difficult about that?

[@LiverPlusGut]

Mental health problems are a disease but yes agree he should stay in his lane, he is on point significantly as is!

[@Heart2HeartBooks]

Had stir fry for dinner zero sugar..not a gram except for what is in red peppers and onions. Then I had a handful of blueberries for dessert! glass of 2 percent milk.

[@adamv4951]

Whole milk is better

[@laurabethuy3585]

2% Milk has 12 carb per cup.

[@robertthompson5501]

@@adamv4951 Fairlife WholevMilk even better.

[@adamv4951]

@@robertthompson5501 yes! Have had it. It's wonderful

[@Don-md6wn]

Just about anything labeled as "low fat" is loaded with sugar/carbs, including 2% milk.

[@monkeywkeys3916]

Mmmmm Apple Pie

[@eddiew2325]

Sugar free and fat free apple pie my friend

[@maclarke74]

The statement "calories in = calories out" completely neglects the second law of thermodynamics!

[@ohok6091]

This is too long

[@manojsharma7504]

best substitute of sugar which is low caloric

[@NicholasAndre1]

Aspartame is good, IMHO. I tend to use a mixture of sucralose and aspartame when I make low carb ice cream. Usually less is more because if you sweeten to traditional American levels, the off taste becomes much more apparent.

[@lindamcneil711]

You would want something that doesn’t spike the insulin. Erythritol , stevia and monk fruit work. However, that said, transformation of your diet to a high fat low carb diet, you sweet tooth will diminish.

[@rumproast5159]

Linda McNeil I just read where stevia, while it does not spike your glucoses it does spike insulin.

[@joeleadslinger6138]

These people like spam 😂😂😂

[@MrsDanaC]

loved the video but hearing him swallow upset me

[@adamv4951]

Quite observant.

[@tobywinter1]

You try talking that much, that fast, that long.

[@charmainbrown7201]

His presentation is ambiguous and unclear.

[@Satarack]

His point about "calories in calories out" being a tautology isn't exactly sound. He compares it to economics and climate change; a more apt comparison is business management. Imagine you opened a business, but you decided you weren't going to track your sales and purchases. No spreadsheets tracking sales, no keeping track of stock, you'll just follow your gut feelings and run your business by the seat of your pants. Do you think this kind of management would result in a successful business? Obviously not, if you're not keeping track of your revenue and costs, then you won't even realize when you are spending more then you earn. Calories in and calories out is a tautology, this is true; but it's also the basic management work you need to perform to successfully lose fat. You can get rid of sugar, you can go on a ketogenic diet, or a vegan diet, or a Mediterranean diet, but if you don't perform the basic management work of tracking your input and your output then you're like a business man who doesn't keep an eye on his revenue and spending.

[@panzerfaust375]

Satarack Calories are a good rough guide but that's it. Just so you can learn about various energy content of foods. I find eating the right foods appetite becomes self regulating. You don't see animals in the wild counting calories or getting fat. They eat until they are full and that's it.

[@Satarack]

The normal state of an animal in the wild is starved, they eat what they can get, only occasionally getting to eat their fill. When such opportunities arrive they usually gorge themselves until their stomachs are distended, because they don't know when the next opportunity will arrive. You might think this isn't true for herbivores, after all there's plant vegetation everywhere. Surely they don't have this problem, but they're limited by a different factor; digestion speed. The majority of plant matter is made of Cellulose and Hemi-Cellulose, large glucose polymers that are hard to break down and digest. You digest your food in about 6 to 8 hours; a cow takes 1 to 3 days to digest plant matter. Even if they wanted to gorge themselves on grass, they couldn't. Deer have been known to starve to death in the winter on full stomachs. Why? Because winter scarcity can prevent them from finding enough easily digestible food to survive, and they fill their stomachs with harder to digest food. But if you give herbivores the chance to gorge on easier to digest food, they will. In fact, they might even kill themselves doing it: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/cows-heard-eat-death-feed-cereal-winter-energy-supplements-cattle-agriculture-rations-one-day-a7333201.html Other herbivores, like Rabbits, can't fully digest their food in a single pass, and have to eat their poop to fully digest their meal. You aren't a wild animal, you aren't limited by scarcity or digestion speed. Can you maintain your body weight without counting calories? Sure, in the short term. As you get older, you're statistically likely to become less active, but your eating habits won't change. Meaning that for most of us, over time we develop a calorie surplus without even noticing. Furthermore, if you're relying on intuition, you won't notice that you've been eating too much until there's been an observable fat gain, by that point you'll have been over eating for months and have already worked this change into your eating habits. Intuitive eating by definition isn't a weight loss strategy, it's a weight maintenance strategy. "Eat until you're full, and nothing more," is same as saying eat as many calories as you burn. Weight Maintenance. Weight loss requires eating less than your fill of food. More than ever before, we have tools that can help us to monitor and manage our food intake and energy consumption, especially with the ubiquity of smart phones. Even if you want to insist that such tools aren't needed, they're more reliable than intuition.

[@panzerfaust375]

Satarack so you think the obesity epidemic is caused by simply an over supply of food. Interesting but I disagree. Obesity has shot up recently and continues to get worse even though food has been in oversupply for at least 100 years. Culturally we have changed to see food as a social necessity. But sugar definitely stimulates hunger. Without it we just couldn't be bothered to eat so much.

[@Satarack]

No, I don't think the problem is oversupply; oversupply is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition. My original comment wasn't even on the topic of the causes of obesity. It was about, the speaker's comment that "calories in, calories out" had no value because it was a tautology. That's a rash position to take, especially when it isn't even the thing he's trying to attack. He's trying to dispel the idea that all calories are equal, but "calories in, calories out," is neither identical with that, nor is it mutually exclusive to the idea that some calories are healthier than others. So I gave a comparison that shows why "calories in, calories out," is a basic part of managing weight loss. Could someone lose weight even without counting calories? Sure, but removing sugar from your diet isn't guaranteed to result in weight loss. Some will, some won't, some will put on weight. Why? Because removing sugar isn't the same thing as creating a calorie deficit. Removing sugar does improve your health though, regardless of weight loss. I'd recommend Dr. Robert Lustig's "Hacking of the American Mind." lecture (there are several different videos of it on youtube, since he's given the lecture at several events), where he explains how it affects liver fat, visceral fat, insulin sensitivity, and the brain's dopamine response to sugar.

[@urbankoistinen5688]

+Satarack, Keeping track of calories in and out is lots of trouble, especially calories out. The accumulation is much easier to track, using a scale is enough, but a tape measure would be better to track excess fat. I sometimes wonder if people suggesting you track calories in and out have really given thought to how much trouble it is. Changing your diet to only ground beef is easy and seems to be effective. Maybe it is not totally healthy, but it is at least apparently working. I think it is better to improve on what works rather than insisting on people attempting what is known to have a 95% rate of failure.

[@TMB247]

Gary stick with Sugar and Carbs if you want to pontificate about Climate Change I WANT TO SEE THE STUDIES, DATA and just HOW YOU ARRIVED AT SUCH A BS CONCLUSION AND JOINED THAT CHURCH. (I threw up a little in my mouth when you started down that path). Now I want to know what is Your definition of Science, what do you consider the Scientific Method and is there such a thing as "Settled Science" ? You went from Hero to Zero in my mind in about 5 seconds.

[@Don-md6wn]

Poor thing, you're a climate change denier?

[@lucam2942]

No one is proposing that processed sugar is a health food. If you ask anyone drinking soda or putting sugar in their coffee they will not argue that they are doing so because of the health benefits, but for the taste and quick acting energy, it provides. But people who crave and add processed sugar in their diet is primarily because they are eating inadequate unrefined starches (potatoes, oatmeal, rice, corn, beans, whole grains). And if Gary Taubes follows a low-carb diet and doesn't add sugar, it is likely because he his highly motivated by selling books, not because he doesn't have sugar cravings on a low-carb diet, no?

[@Farley25]

From my prospective, it was hard as hell to cut down on sugar in my diet. Having said that, I have cut down my carbs significantly. I haven't really had an sugar cravings since the first two weeks.

[@gloriagirgis]

I restrict all starches because I'm insulin resistant due to a childhood of morbid obesity. The most carbs I eat come from vegetables and one serving of fruit a day. Every body has its own history and methodologies. Bottom line is that sugar is bad for the health, like you mentioned. Mr. Taubes doesn't put sugar and starches in the same category. He clearly distinguishes between the two in the first half-hour, citing Asians that eat rice as metabolically healthy. I'm not sure why you're conflating the two and blaming the speaker for doing so. In addition, you say that people crave empty sugar because of a lack of natural carbs -- this is essentially saying that everyone who regularly eats processed sugar is on a low-carb diet otherwise, and they only seek out the sugar because their diet is deplete of natural starches. That's an overblown blanket statement. People are constantly eating refined sugar because it's in 80% of grocery products and it's highly addictive. Besides, most people who eat refined sugar have a diet high in starches otherwise. I cannot tell you how many obese people I've counseled nutritionally whose food logs include an abundance of whole grain breads, oatmeals, stir fries with rice, etc, but still ate sugar regularly.

[@lucam2942]

Gloria Girgis Good luck with a low-starch diet. The scientific consensus doesn't support Taubes theories or yours about what causes insulin resistence. I'm no genius, my confidence is with the majority. A low fibre diet also causes hormonal imbalances and increase risk of cancer and heart disease, I'm not a gambling man, I like to play it safe. I know I will never win big, but my odds of losing big are also low...

[@gloriagirgis]

@@lucam2942 I'm not sure where I disagreed with you, but your reply seems to have that message. I didn't say that fiber wasn't necessary for good health. Actually, most starches are low in fiber compared to veg, fruit, and nut. My typical diet consists of 2 lbs of vegetables, 2-3 servings of nuts, and an apple daily. I eat meat just once every two weeks. Not sure why that would be against medical advice or seen as low fiber.

[@lucam2942]

Gloria Girgis Two common starches like oats and whole wheat can range between 8-12 grams of fibre per 100 grams, which dwarf's most fruits and veggies, its true potatoes and rice have lower levels, but on a traditional diet, most grams of fibre would come from starches because that is where most of ones dietary calories come from. The vast majority of nutritional guidelines recommend that the majority of one's calories from starches, I'm happy you found what works for you, but to ignore the significance of the majority for a couple persuasive outliers seems problematic.

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[@thalesnemo2841]

Is there a link to the slides ?

[@debrahurtado5491]

So... WHAT CASE?? WHERE'S HE GOING.