Why We're Hooked on Fat and Sugar

Explore the science behind food addiction with Dr. Vanita Rahman as she explains how we can become hooked on fast food, junk food, and candy! Plus, “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll shares his own experience with it as he struggled to go just one day without getting his “fix” at the drive-thru as 420-pound man.

[@JorjaFox66]

Worth noting many foods people think of as “carbs” / “sugars” are more fat than sugar! Pizza, fries, chips, donuts, candy bars, etc. We are are carb animals period. WFPB diet naturally contains the right balance of carb, fiber, fat, protein etc. for us 👌🏼 🌱 😋

[@tejaswinipolepeddi337]

I was once addicted to fried foods. Now oil feels unusual in my tongue.

[@sophiaangelini4368]

Meat is animal corpse. Eating meat is eating suffering (and death).

[@cxoot]

That's a good way of putting it.

[@kimberlydeprey]

Now I crave my green smoothies everyday for lunch :)

[@roku3216]

I remember eating part of a can of frosting lol. No more. WFPB cured that after a while.

[@KurtGP]

Looking forward to having your telemedicine practice available in Michigan. There's so many people that I'm trying to help but it's not working. Perhaps if I try to refer them to a whole food plant-based doctor through telemedicine I'll have a better success rate, rather than trying to get them to watch these videos, Dr Greger's videos, the read China study, ect.

[@CrueltyFreeMan]

I just wish, I could like this 100 times. Thanks 🙏

[@HealthyEmmie]

Very informative video - thank you!

[@fabiolareis-henrie6945]

Can’t wait to have telehealth medicine in Kansas.

[@citadelofwinds1564]

I can attest it's possible to develop cravings for healthy foods. When I went vegan, I started to crave spinach, beetroot and potatoes, and could have eaten them every day. I suspect they had minerals that I was deficient in, and the cravings were the body's way of telling me to eat more of those specific foods that satisfied the need to top up on those minerals. Pica is a craving for non-foods, eg clay, chalk, cigarette ashes, and it may indicate a deficiency in iron, calcium, zinc, etc. Such cravings may be a sign that the body is trying to replenish low nutrient levels. Pica is more common among pregnant women, but is also found in undernourished children and dieters. Eating a very low-calorie diet can lead to cravings of non-foods because such diets can be too low in micronutrients, and the body looks for any source to get those missing nutrients. The cravings are usually temporary, and may be treated through mineral supplements. A craving for specific foods may indicate a deficiency in specific vitamins and/or minerals. I found that my cravings settled down after a few weeks, because I was feeding my body those vegetables regularly, and therefore addressed the low levels of those nutrients. It turns out that spinach and beetroot are both high in the almost exactly the same set of minerals, so it's likely the body was deficient in one or more of those minerals. So a craving for healthy things is something to pay attention to, as it's simply the body signalling the need to add missing nutrients to the regular repertoire. Before going on a healthy diet, such useful signals might have become lost in the stormy turbulence of cravings for salt, sugar or fat, but once those are drastically cut down in the diet, the quieter voices of healthy food cravings can finally be noticed.

[@odelyalevy]

I used to crave Mozzarella cheese and barbecue beef ribs. I’m on plant base diet since 2015.

[@hanssmith8901]

Vegan Mozzarella cheese and beyond burger

[@odelyalevy]

HANSARAJOO MULLIAH now yes. For the last 5 years I’m vegan. I was craving what I mentioned before that, I craved these and it caused my body through myriad of ailments. Plus I was allergic to cheese and never knew. I was lucky to bump into the vegan. I changed to vegan, cold turkey from one day to the next and never missed animal food again.

[@bitterapple]

This reminded me of what therapist Marisa Peer said in a video, that the creamy, fatty, sweet foods make us relapse into our infant brain, which craves its mother's milk, because that's what milk basically is, creamy fats and sugars. I would love to see an episode with more practical tips on how to deal with the triggers to overeat/eat junk food. I have struggled with that a lot. I have been eating clean and 99% vegan for years, but I still can devour a jar of peanut butter in one sitting 😒

[@cendril2]

Same here with cereals

[@cxoot]

Many people these days were not breast fed.

[@JorjaFox66]

Actually human breast milk is very low fat/protein.

[@user-vs7kr2ph7n]

Thank you...great and great ❤❤❤

[@JY-tq4ir]

great talkshow

[@cendril2]

Bread Cereals Rice banana peanut butter 5 days clean today

[@kimberlydeprey]

Chocolate. Switched to dark and stevia sweetened but wish I could go without :(

[@marielbalaoing6394]

Replaced my chocolate addiction with dates ❤️ might work for you too :)

[@UteLydia]

vegan 3 years and still miss cottage cheese terribly :(

[@kimberlydeprey]

UteLydia I get it. Cheese is still in the background for me. Especially when my hubby eats cheese sticks in front of me :( Now I have extra firm tofu, cold with wasabi mustard. Sounds gross but it’s yummy

[@dj-fe4ck]

I can't understand dairy cravings. I've hated dairy my whole life, eapecially cheese. I avoided dairy when I still ate animal foods. Eggs I also hated and almost never ate them. Dairy and eggs are the worst animal foods.

[@kimberlydeprey]

dj121 it’s so interesting that you say this. As a kid I hated dairy and then somehow managed to “make myself” like cheese as an adolescent. That was the 80’s when we didn’t really know any better. Wish I never started eating it at all.

[@mikehisir2110]

Vegan cottage cheese recipe. Fairly simple. Hope it helps you could always tweak the flavoring. Have you heard of black salt? Makes things smell like eggs if you want to mimic that with tofu and a little turmeric for coloring. Some ground pepper, mushrooms, onions, bell peppers, whatever your scrambled egg favorite ingredients are. Again hope it helps. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqW2poqNpJWng6s kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZ-pgHRraM5od7M Don’t use coconut oil is bad for your arteries and goes right to your hips. Just use a couple tablespoons of water to sauté your onions and stir them more. Remember black salt smells exactly like eggs and you can get it usually in the health food store. Or online. And it still salt so it’s not really good for you in excess.

[@happycook6737]

For people like me who are highly addicted to fats/sugars/salt-- the cravings only stay gone if I don't eat foods with fats/sugars/salt. For me one bite starts the slippery slope back into food slavery.

[@jasonxwillby271]

You can change your genes, it's called Epigenetics.

[@broddr]

After the first week on pandemic lockdown I was really craving a salad with fresh greens.

[@CequalsRN]

healthish craving now, plant based sushi.

[@brendazabriskie423]

you should go to the side, so we can see the sign as well!

[@kimberlydeprey]

Brenda Zabriskie glad I’m not the only one thinking this.

[@sarahs3084]

Hi Dr In one of your video you said we only need 20 to 30 g of fat in one day. are you talking about saturated fat or total fat? thank you.

[@cindyn628]

I think she was talking about total fat.

[@serinshihabi4627]

Please could you tell me if beef bone broth healthy for a vegan diet.

[@hannahrl]

Well, it's not *part* of a plant-based diet, since it's made of dead animals, but also, it's not healthful for anyone. I think Mic. The Vegan has an excellent video on the claims and nutritional facts about bone broth, just search his KZbin channel for it.

[@betsyrocks]

4:55 Did you say 420 lbs?

[@mikehisir2110]

I object. Isn’t date sugar considered a whole food, because it is ground up dried dates.

[@Antsandy96]

Yeah, I got to disagree with her here. However she might not be aware date sugar is grounded dehydrated dates. She might be thinking of date syrup - which I think is extracted. Date sugar isn't as ideal as a fresh date due to the lack of moisture and degrading the nutrients from the process - so that could be a factor.

[@happycook6737]

Date sugar hits blood stream faster because the processing to create it destroys some of the fiber.

[@ProudJewishQueen1979]

Why? I don't know cause it's tastes fucking delicious?

[@skpjoecoursegold366]

i just had an apple.

[@rl9808]

Mostly carnivore, omnivore,cravings go away.

[@kimberlydeprey]

Time2 Eat So true. No cravings for meat whatsoever. Cheese/dairy is nearly gone as well although that took awhile.

[@rl9808]

Kimberly Oz I'm going to have some cheese right now

[@cxoot]

I'm so addicted to ice cream that once I start I can't stop & eat the whole thing.

[@rl9808]

@@cxoot you need to work that out

[@tejaswinipolepeddi337]

What about honey?

[@chimera2116]

I've noticed people who are vegan are extreme people often with addictive personalities. Watching this made think back on vegans I have known. They are usually not moderate people. Just like the host of this show, I've noticed many were addicted to some substance whether it be alcohol , tobacco, drugs or food. My omnivore friends are far more moderate and balanced people. I am and always have been a moderate person and often feel out of place when I hear discussions like this.

[@d.j.4825]

then dont visit the site.

[@BetelgeizeStar]

d. j. 30% of Americans are obese, it has nothing to do with vegans being not able to moderate themselves

[@Psiii]

"may be" "might suspect" "addiction" ANIMAL TESTING! Come on!!!

[@clarksmith6850]

Might be because , maybe they might get sued if it gets too specific. Word soup, pick out what you like.

[@Psiii]

@@clarksmith6850 animal testing and its results never applies to us humans, a total misconception! I recommend Neal Barnard's book Turn Off the Fat Genes