Ultra-Processed Junk Food Put to the Test
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- Опубликовано: 24 апр 2022
- The health risks of highly processed foods. What happened when ultra-processed foods were matched for calories, sugar, fat, and fiber content in the first randomized controlled trial?
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why did u suddently change ur intro to the freemasonic one eye symbol that seems to be taking over every industry?
As the great Wendell Berry once noted, 'People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.'. When profit is the ultimate goal, rather than a healthy society, should we really expect any better?
Nailed it!!
Well said 👏
This is why being informed about nutrition is important.
It's still insane that the government subsidies corn syrup, among other things.
Is it just another way for politicians to cheapen food and put on a badge as if they did something good?
Thank you very much for sharing this quote. It is so completely on point. Comment of the year for you, Vaughn!
Amazing damn quote!!
I am currently making over 90% of my meals from scratch. (The 10% is flour, pasta, condiments, etc.) I am doing zero % pre-made meals and restaurant food. This includes lots of legumes, pulses, rice, and vegetables. I am vegan. The upside is much better health and weight normalization, as well as a big smile in my food budget. The downside, if we must call it that, is I've shifted some of my time from being the computer and digital entertainment to cooking and food preparation, which I have found is fun and entertaining too. I don't need quick and convenient. That seems to be a canard told to prioritize spending money over doing things ourselves.
hey me too lots of good food but time to prep for sure.
Awesome!!
I think some of the healthiest people on the planet are subscribed to this channel. Food prep does take much of my time as well. I should get into the habit of making enough food to put some in the fridge or freezer.
same here - making good use of my instant pot and also eating copious amounts of salad and fruit
@@Gulzt I'll take a look, but I keep up on Dr. Greger's videos, so I'd be surprised if there's something about rice I hadn't heard. Avoid the rice from the American south, and lean on brown vs. white. I only buy Indian grown brown basmati, with the exception of some sticky rice for sushi. It seems the benefits will outweigh the risks.
Schools and hospitals need to serve healthier food choices.
Serving the food that gave you heart disease to heart disease patients is crazy.
Serving children fast food and sugary drinks that are contributing to the obesity epidemic in children is criminal.
I recently watched Paolo from Tokyo's video where he films how school lunches are made in Japan, and the quality of food the kids were getting looked amazing. Most all fresh ingredients and lots of vegetables, plus they took great care with quality control and cleanliness.
Preach!! I have been saying this for years
In my opinion, the biggest culprit is the soft drink. You can easily subtract 300-500 empty calories if you give up soft drinks.
After cleaning up my diet to only fresh foods, when I did grab "road food" on a trip, I immediately felt the craving for more and more and more that I didn't have with real food. At that point I understood how I was being manipulated.
I wish I could like the 100 times
Yeah they literall try to get us addicted to theyre food like some drug dealers
After cleaning up my diet I developed binge-eating disorder and gained 10 kilograms. Maybe it's still worth it in terms of health benefits but I imagine the binging cancels out any positive effects I may be getting.
@@user-sf7fm1bi1p You might be restricting too hard, im no eating disorder expert but i got myself used to eating healthy but it took me many years of failing before finding balance
@@user-sf7fm1bi1p maybe its too clean. If you eat fast food every meal, you can reduce to only once per day, and then once per week then once per month. Don't do it too fast. Good luck.
I would binge a tray of roasted broccoli so hard.
Because roasted and probably seasoned, try with steamed brocoli without any seasonings including salt.
Raw broccoli, dipped in homemade guacamole or hummus 👌🏼😊
The examples of ultra-processed foods given in the study were still much healthier than what most people in the U.S. eat on a regular basis.
My daughter's friends left a half-eaten bag of barbeque-flavored potatoe chips, and being a former non-vegan, I thought I'd try JUST one, to see if they are still as good as I remembered. They were, and I didn't just stop at one. Food scientists are almost as bad as Meth cooks...
Sometimes I try junk food and it's good but usually too salty
I don't know why I find anything that pretends to be "bacon" or "barbecue" flavored to taste absolutely terrible. I'll take plain crackers any day over that.
We are all eating "Food like products" not true food. It's a damn shame what we have done to ourselves.
Or what a few individuals have done to the masses for profit
@@Yayyyyyyyyyy maybe the profiteers started this thing, but we have to take back our control over ourselves and get back in charge of our own health. It may take more time and energy, but we benefit in so many ways.
In the 1960s, Carlton Fredericks, Ph.D. on his weekly nutrition radio show in NY (I think) offered a challenge: $100 to the first person who could name the food" he presented. What he did was read the ingredients as on the label, and sure enough, he did not have to pay out very much!
In the 1970s, during my nutrition talks, I'd introduce five foods, something like KoolAid, Crocker's Chocolate Cake mix, Tang, and a couple more, maybe a soda and some sort of snack food like chips. I warned ahead that I would not mention obvious giveaways like chocolate (cake mix), water (soda) or flour (crackers), but would then read the various ingredients as they appeared on the labels, and--sure enough--people rarely if ever identified which ingredients went with which food!
I advised my audience that if your can't pronounce it or if it looks like a suspicious word, it's probably best not to consume it. (I identified "asparagus" as an exception to that rule!)
As far as the time element for food prep, it’s a HELLAVA LOT MORE TIME to care for a loved one through a chronic disease. Wish I knew about this information before my husband’s death from cancer.
Absolutely!
As one develops the skills to prepare proper meals, the time is trimmed down.
One could save easily an hour a day by skipping showers and teeth brushing. Would that be wise?
Edit: It's kind of tasteless for me to add my comment without my condolence.
I apologize.
Sorry for your loss.
Sorry for your loss.
My condolences. D:
Did you really need to throw death at us like that? Jeez people
@@fredswolen894 Yes, it is true. Poor diet causes early death. Poor diet certainly caused my cancer and the oncologist never mentioned dietary factors! I found out when I met a lady in a clothing store who came from out of town to visit her sister. She just happened to have same kind of cancer as me. Her oncologist included nutritional counseling with treatment. So I think it is very important to get the word out.
Kids buy ultra-processed, single-serving, packaged apple pies rather than a simple apple.
It is strange.
I did it in college. "Captain Pie" was the brand available at the local store. I'm not sure they even sold apples.
I remember those little pies. A friend introduced me to them. He thought the label was appealing. It had a caped figure, a fun-looking caped superhero flying through the sky. Next to it were the words "Captain Pie, the Flakiest Guy in the Sky."
Kids get seduced by these things. Captain Crunch is a similar character.
Kids and adults become part of a fun adventure in a fantasy world.
its not strange. Its full of calories which is what the body craves. its much more filling, tasty, comforting compared to an apple
Cap'n Crunch, Toucan Sam, and Sonny the Cuckoo Bird are the new Joe Camel.
Someday, today's excessive junk food consumption (especially in a viral pandemic) will one day be viewed in a similar light as the chain-smoking of the 1950s is viewed today. Unfortunately, that someday will be centuries away.
The fight against junk food will be harder than the fight against tobacco. Factors working against the tobacco industry include the disgusting odor of its product and the fact that there is ZERO need to shove burning objects in one's mouth. In contrast, at least some of the junk food industry's product has an appealing taste, and everyone has to eat multiple times per day (which brings more chances to get addicted to junk food).
I'm doing intermittent fasting now. Eating about 2 meals a day. Haven't cut out all the junk since I had some before I made the change but I've already lost a few pounds and really improved my mental health. Sometimes the old ways are the right ways. Nature and our ancestors figured out things a long time ago.
This video gets right to the (apple) core of the problem. Well done
All your videos are good, but this is one of the best.
If it’s processed, it is not food.
Lustig is right, parents are mostly to blame for their children's bad eating habits.
aren't the parents usually eating the same crap and just as hijacked by the food industry? that's what the numbers show. make it unprofitable and these corporations won't be so keen
@@smilebot484 Well yeah. Parents who've grown up with the same nutrition nonsense and unhealthy eating habits passed down from *their* parents are far more likely to pass it onto their own children. But, it is really on the adults in the household to use their adult brains and realize that this way of eating is harming not only them but their kids and get the help needed (whether they have a food addiction, eating disorder, etc).
I always thought fast food was habit-forming, but once i started WFPB, it was confirmed. If I have one taste of the junk, the cravings come back with a vengeance. I hate it.
Same as that. I went 12 months with no take-aways. One KFC and I was back on it for years. It's like an addictive drug, except it's legal, widely available and advertised well.
@@lloyddarbon5034 Kentucky Fried Cholesterol, we do clogged arteries right! :)
Yes, me too! It's so frustrating...like going down the rabbit hole.
@@jasonhsu4711 Anecdotally, at the gym the day after a KFC, my heart-rate on the cardio machine's display is much higher. Just one KFC meal makes me noticably less fit in less than 24hrs! ...and still I occasionally eat them.
@@lloyddarbon5034 I sympathize with you... two years ago, I went totally Greger and was WFPB for six months... one Wendy's Baconator (which my roommate bought for me) and I was right back to the SAD diet.... I am trying to get back to where I was before that Baconator, but it is harder to get clean than it was to go right back to a dirty diet...
It's an unfortunate fact that most parents (including mothers), like everyone else, are quite disconnected from real food and therefore won't be able to be a good role model for their kids in that way. It seems like we need to acklowledge certain things if we want to break the chain. No blaming.
Lustig blamed mothers though. He skapegoated women... who tend to bear the most of the domesticated work... And in doing so he let everyone else off of the hook. It's misogyny.
Just got recommended this. Happy I found this
Dr Greger doing gods work
Very interesting👍🏻
Thanks nice video!!
I actually binge on broccoli, i just cant get enough of it
unseasoned no salt and steamed?
Once again your teaching our children how to balance healthy foods. Thanks again for sharing this tasty video with our toddler.
Good points re eating, and to enhance the eating is a longer daily fasting window, foregoing the three meals a day plus snacks. The body needs a long enough fasting cleanout to over compensate for what was eaten.
There was a brilliant short documentary on BBC1 hosted by Dr Chris van Tulleken about UPF and it’s terrifying! There needs to be information about this spread far and wide
In the seventies it was quite fashionable to eat canned food and processed food. It was part of women being freed from cooking. I am amazed I survived with the diet I had as a kid with lots of allergies and eczema and diagnosed as hyperactive at the age of four and given Ritalin to compensate. To this day my mother will only eat canned mushrooms. I don't blame her because that was the norm in those days but I am sure happy things have changed!
Dr. Greger, is sprouted grain bread acceptable per a sound diet? Thinking things like Ezekiel bread.
Merci !
Great content: I would only add that family nutrition shouldn’t fall solely on the mother: fathers also cook these days.
Wait a second, this study. It would have to be calorie-normalized...
Great video. I binge on carrots, apples, oranges.
YES!
Think outside of the box 😊
I avoid 1. Sugar. 2. Grains 3. Processed foods. And have lost weight and feel great
The hardest thing for me is habit eating (comfort foods). I was raised on processed foods and the majority of the time I’ve been vegan I’ve had tons of vegan cookies, cakes, breads, and fake meats. Since discovering this channel I’ve been trying to cook at home more and eat out less. It’s hard here in San Francisco where there’s a plethora of vegan restaurants but hardly any healthy options.
Do they fry everything in oil?
There's a bunch of farmers markets all over SF and produce in every grocery store
If any place could be a haven for healthy restaurants, it would be San Francisco. The fact that it's hard to find a healthy restaurant even there is a sad statement about the food system. Things can only be so much worse in rural America, especially in the Deep South and in Appalachia.
@@jasonhsu4711
I've lived in the deep south my whole life and I'm Vegan. It's not hard to be Vegan if that's what you want to do. It's not hard to find fresh foods and whole foods, it's called the grocery store.. lol.
The biggest hardship for most people is passing by fast food restaurants or convenient stores and not stopping (if someone has an addiction to fast foods products). And then, of course, the grocery stores are lined with all the processed foods that you have to avoid.
Regarding restaurants, it's hard to navigate around the oil, salt and sugar and animal products that's used in most restaurant cooking. I know which local restaurant menus I can navigate and which ones I can't. The Asian and Mexican restaurants will usually cater to your specific needs and cook whole foods and vegetables without oil, salt and sugar. And, ironically, the local steakhouse restaurants have the best options for whole food vegetables and potatoes cooked without oil, sugar or salt.
Regarding people living high up in the mountains or in ultra-rural areas: They usually grow their own food and sustain themselves as much as possible. But they still have access to grocery stores and access to friends, neighbors or relatives who will take them to the grocery store when needed, if they don't have their own form of transportation or get food for them and take it to them. We watch out for our neighbors, friends and relatives. We don't let anyone go hungry or stranded at home without food.
The biggest obstacle to being Vegan are the people in our lives who don't understand why we chose this lifestyle and try everything in their power to get us to go back to eating the way we used to eat. Plus, it's hard finding fellow Vegans in my area. Also, no one in my circle of friends or family members has gone Vegan because of me even though I've shared years and years of information with them.
So, I just live my life the way I want to live it. I've been Vegan 5 years and 5 months now. 😁👍
Question. In that study at the end, what percentage of the calories were consumed. Clearly the tray put in front of them had match amount of calories and macronutrients but what about the portion actually consumed?
5:23 The processed food test subjects ate on average 500 more calories/day than the whole food test subjects and thus gained weight.
The point was that they did indeed eat less calories without even trying to lose weight. Whole foods satisfied them more so they did eat less calories without paying attention to it.
I'd love to see dr. Greger talk more about Robert Lustig. His popularity seems to stem from focusing on sugar as the main culprit of diet-caused disease and his comparatively lax takes on other ingredients like saturated fats, salt, meat, dairy and eggs, which, despite maximum daily intakes above 0 and being commonly thought of as part of a "balanced" healthy diet, reduce health outcomes when compared to (near) zero intake, as your many other videos put it. He is quite popular with my paleo and keto friends, especially the junk keto types. Talking about Lustig's work might attract quite a lot of attention, which might help a lot of people make healthier diet choices. While his single-point take might make sense for public health goals, with limited political will and funding requiring the most efficient solution, I'd love to see your more holistic view contrasted to his, since it seems many people, seemingly always non-vegans, may ignore otherwise helpful health advice while branding sugar as the sole problem. For example, he doesn't draw a line in health outcomes between vegans and ketoers.
Agreed. Lustig is a shill for the dairy and meat industry, even citing broken studies explaining that obesity is protective. I honestly can't believe Greger would include him at all.
@@AnHourOfWolves Would you mind linking lectures or interviews of him or passages in his book referencing said studies and saying what's wrong with them? Even if Greger's working on a video I'm sure it'll be a while before posting, and it looks like you have specific instances of shilling in mind.
@@georgebreahna5564 Do a youtube search for lustig and "Is a Calorie a Calorie? Processed Food, Experiment Gone Wrong" as well as 'Sugar, metabolic syndrome, and cancer'. In both he refuses to acknowledge the role of dairy and meat, etc.
He only talks about published studies, not single people
Sarcopenia comes from many factors such as dehydration. Malnourished and rapid weight loss or mercurial up and down of weight STRESS. Thank you RR
two moths ago most my meals were 3 packs of unseasoned ramen, a fistful of cheese, a can of chicken for each meal. on a whim i calculated the calories from one meal. they were well over a thousand each. i cut out two packs of ramen. it was still a good meal. stayed full for just as long. exchanged that last pack of ramen for a random can of veges. cut down to only one or two of those meals a day. the other four meals are veges and fruit. usually with a little bit of yogurt or cheese. i've gone from over 5,000 calories a day to around 2,000 calories a day. i've even recently stopped feeling so hungry. most my meals are low calorie. usually less then two hundred. i eat six to seven meals a day though. i've only lost 10% or so of my top body weight, but i feel much better. i could barely function, could barely walk a few steps. now i can walk for 20 minutes without to much issue. my depression isn't as bad either. its just a constant low to medium. not the bottom of the world stuff it had gotten to before i changed my habits. stopped soda to. been off it for a month now. that's the most amazing thing to me. i was drinking a gallon and a half a day. i had been drinking soda for over forty years. i have been wanting to quit for years. i could just never make it stick
its only been three months since all my changes started. i feel comfortable with what i'm doing now. so i think i can keep it up. biggest issue i see is there are so many supplemental programs going on now that i can easily afford whatever food i want. i'm used to buying the cheapest stuff possible to afford to eat and meet my soda habit. once the programs end i will likely need to spend more carefully. i know at least one of them is being funded because of the current world crisis. so its only a matter of time
Ramen makes me hungrier and has too many chemicals because it is ultra processed. I can get more fullness from rice (twelve cents per serving) and beans (10 cents per serving). I cook them in my day off and keep in my fridge. If I feel like spending a bit more, pasta runs twenty cents per serving. Making your own pasta is extremely cheap and pretty easy. Flour, water, salt. Homemade flour/corn tortillas also very easy and fast.
Would really like to see a ultra processed view specifically aimed at vegan foods for example is commertial soy milk or quorn are really ultraprocessed.
It’s all about money, like back in the 1800s and before where we had our own farms, harvested and grew our own food, raised our own cattle and chickens and animals, none of these diseases existed, it’s simply the change of the environment that we live in right now
Imagine how much goodwill the food industry could earn if they actually implemented certain changes.
The knowledge is out there, but we are still not able to learn from history and this time change course faster than only after decades or even centuries, like for example the impacts on health of burning coal and fossil fuels (CO2, especially the addition of led...), smoking cigarettes, etc etc.
People are concerned on how their tax money is spent, but actually contribute big time with their eating habbits and their stubborness of sticking with it, until it is too late. I even know someone who is diagnosed prostate cancer but insists on keeping to eat his daily doses of milk, meat and cheese, even when it will kill him he says, and I don't know how to help him anymore :(
Excellent as always. But be careful. The food industry, like the big pharmacy, has the power to cancel all dissenters.
They already fought in the state council stuff around the update of the official dietary recommandations.
My 12 year old grandson is twice the weight of what a 12 year old should be. While you can see it on the outside when you learn what this food does to the inside it is scary. I would bet diabetes within a year and in ten years on the 600 pound life show.
The thumbnail for this video is not helpful for me, trying to resist eating this stuff. I know it's one step away from poison, but I love eating it!
Am I the only one who has been avoiding ultra-processed junk food for two years? My motivation has not been my weight, my blood cholesterol, or my figure. Instead, I need all the immune systems support and anti-inflammatory support I can get. I've even been shunning the holiday treats. At the same time, I've doubled down on the healthy superfoods. I've also learned to prepare much healthier desserts. (There are so many ways to flavor oat bran and yogurt/muesli parfaits.)
Yet it seems that most people have maintained or increased their consumption of ultra-processed junk food. What fraction of my fellow Americans say that they've been avoiding junk food for two years? 1 in 100? 1 in 1000? 10,000? A million?
Carbohydrates, especially simple sugar will always be the major macronutrient for human body development as shown in the breast milk analysis. Kids NEED simple sugars to develop, they crave it. Its the parents fault that they don't introduce them to fruits, especially dry fruits that can compete with any candy, and they are easily absorbed and utilized by the body. No wonder they are so attracted to processed foods if they are not given the correct food.
I would like to also know how the processed vs unprocessed food effected people's overall health if they were calorie restricted to eat the same amount since not everything is about weightloss and not everyone needs to lose weight.
Fasting won't help if all you eat is junk. You will just die faster as you're getting even fewer nutrients.
@@mowthpeece1 yeah but I want a video so support this thesis so I can better explain it to others
Box shaped food is for squares!
From a cynical point of view, a government may prefer people to die of chronic illness in the 60s and 70s since people retire shortly after.
Old retired people can be viewed as an economic and GDP drain that extract more tax dollars then they bring in, specifically in three ways.
First, they don’t generate as much tax revenue since their most productive years are done and they likely have or will retire.
Second, they cost more medically to maintain and all developed nations, including the US, pay for the medical care of the elderly.
Third, the elderly hold on to housing property that could be purchased by conglomerate renting corporations that want to renovate and start renting that housing property.
I agree with Dr.Gregor here on the science. I just think we shouldn’t assume that the government(or rather it’s handlers) wants people to live long lives.
Chronic disease costs a lot, though. Sure, people are dying younger, but they are also dying harder. We’re talking years of medical treatment before they pass. That gets expensive, even if it saves money on retirement benefits.
@@doubles1545 I see. Thanks for the clarification.
eating unprocessed food isn't realistic? my family has eaten that way for 12 years now, it's an adjustment not an impossibility!
Before watching the video, i'm going to guess the conclusion is that "it's bad".
I wonder how cognition , critical thinking, IQ, and emotional health is affected by junk food??
I'm sure made it worse.
Studies have been done on the lifespan of people with higher versus lower IQs. People with higher IQs live longer. There are many reasons that could be the case. For one, they make smarter choices, two, they make more money and can afford to make smarter choices, three, the highest IQs are in demographic groups that have longevity in their genes.
If those are true, then the inverse would also be true. People with lower IQs live shorter lives. There are many reasons that could be the case. For one, they make dumber choices, two, they make less money and can't afford to make smarter choices, three, the lowest IQs are in demographic groups that do not have longevity in their genes.
As for the rest of the qualities you mentioned, bad nutrition directly affects the functioning of the brain, so yea, bad food makes for bad thinking. It's a downward spiral.
This might be a hot take, but you can definitely eat processed foods if you can eat them in moderation🤷♀️
Provide a ratio please for the term "moderation".
@@rabbitcreative depends on the person my man, learn to think for yourself
@@tylerrose4416 > you can eat them
You said "you". Not "I". How do you want a reader of your comment to interpret that? My assumption is when I am talking with someone, and that person says to me, "you", that person is referring to me.
So it seems to me you're telling me, and everyone else who reads your comment, that you're talking about the reader.
Learn to think for yourself.
@@rabbitcreative dog what? You can be used to refer to a general populous, or one person. You can let random RUclips channels on the internet tell you what to eat, but I’m not
@@tylerrose4416 > tell you what to eat, but I’m not
> you can definitely eat processed foods
Yeah dog-cat-man-bear you're on ignore.
Carrots and beets are a splurge for me.
Personally, i have binged on roasted brussel sprouts and broccoli!
Because roasting concentrates the plant sugars! Steamed broccoli has far less taste appeal.
Invest in an induction or infrared cooker and get fresh food where possible and cook. I survived in a tiny apartment with a slow cooker farmer's market produce and organ meats, bones and eggs out of pure necessity.
Organic grass fed beef patties my fav 🤤
Watching this as I eat my Impossible Dino nuggets...
Civilized man is the only animal clever enough to manufacture its own food, and the only animal stupid enough to eat it. --Barry Groves
why does meat and wheat become more dangerous just by putting it through a food processor thats confusing, sauces and peanut butter and flax meal are all processed..
Actually Doc, there is a university degree in Food Science and Technology. I knew personally a couple of people who earned that college degree. I guess they now must the maestro Ultra Processed Food. 😂
But many ultra processed foods are low in calories. Actually processed in such a way that you don't absorb the calories. Such modified food starch and artificial sweetners. I would like it if you did a video comparing natural fiber to factory created fiber.
I would like to see this too.
👍 #BoycottMeat and all other animal products of cruelty and exploitation in any way possible!
Are ramen soups really that bad? Are the noodles any better or worse than standard dried pasta?
If you add chopped vegetables and mushrooms, and maybe some tofu, doesn't it actually make for a pretty healthy meal, like a pho made with similar ingredients?
pretty sure a single cup nooodle/ramen packet has like 1-2 weeks worth of your salt intake in it... can't say if having the plain noodles would be compared to plain pasta.
Depends on what the noodles are made of, plus the powder if you use it.
Ramen itself is made from fairly refined grain. It is kind of like white bread. In your body it is similar to sugar in how quickly it breaks down. It isn't soda, but it shouldn't be the base of your diet. Eat more whole plants and whole grains. I eat pho, and miso soup, along with some ramen concoctions, but occasionally rather than frequently.
Ramen is almost the equivalent of powdered Wonder bread mixed with water, oil, and salt.
Here's how I eat ramen: Homemade ramen broth (freeze multiple servings), 1/2 of a ramen noodle cake, tons of chopped fresh veggies, diced silken tofu, topped with chopped raw peanuts, green onions and just a dash of homemade red hot chili oil. (otherwise I never use oil). Sooo good and affordable too.
raw food diet cures most
I'm confused so the people on the ultra processed diet ate 500 more calories than the other group. What does this prove exactly? Why didn't they eat the same amount of calories
Guessing it had something to do with the palatability and ease of consumption. Ultra-processed foods are stripped of much of their fiber. Fiber-reduced foods are easy to eat. Easier-to-eat foods can be eaten faster; before you know it that fast food meal is gone. The opposite is often true of a meal high in fiber; it takes a long time to masticate through to the end of the meal.
Say never feel satisfied, due to the lack of fiber and nutrients
@Sgt. Einstein Exactly. Also I should've added that high fiber meals literally "trap" calories. Some energy isn't even absorbed and ends up flushed down the toilet.
As Dr. Greger says often: it's not what you eat, it's what you absorb.
Processed food increases hunger signaling, if you don't like being hungry then eat whole foods.
It's probably better to eat an egg, avocado and bacon (all organic) than processed food!
The bacon is processed since is cured meat and is a class1 carcinogen
@@ludicrousone8706 whatever. Maybe a cooked piece of organic meat then.
They could offer healthier processed foods just saying...
Manufacturing 'healthier' ultra processed foods is like putting a filter on cigarettes, it's still unhealthy. 😃
The problem is people just don't care, they would rather eat the food that tastes good and is convenient in the moment. You could present them study after study about how unhealthy it is, but they simply wouldn't care.
I don’t agree. I spent nearly all my adult life eating nothing but microwave meals and other fast food. I was working very long hours and was chronically stressed. Junk food was my comfort and release. I knew it was bad for me, but I just couldn’t give it up for long. Since retiring, this has changed.
But it was not that I didn’t care. I just didn’t have the mental strength to make the change until I had more time and much less stress.
I agree. If people just ate whole foods, it would be a vast improvement. I lost 30 pounds eating plant-based whole foods. When you tell people about it, it is like talking about religion or politics with them. The majority don't want to hear it, are convinced otherwise, and won't change, unless they become frightened due to some sort of personal tragedy, like a scary diagnosis, $6/gallon gasoline, a death, or a near-death, traumatic experience.
Until they hit rock bottom.
They are addicted!
Go Vegan. And try eat fresh :D (its expensive, try some frozen ! good tips for me)
Parents do deserve blame. You don't feed your children junk when a channel like this is available for free for anyone.
McDonalds is the best!!!
Weird title but okay
Kinda Funny.
@@samiryan214 yeah
Why is the title weird?
Weird comment but okay.
The term ultra processed junk food was well defined and put to the test is a common Gregor phrasing so what is weird exactly?
@@Liliquan I'm guessing they never watched the video?