What You Should Eat. Well, What Aaron Eats.
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- Опубликовано: 17 май 2015
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I spend a lot of time writing and talking about what isn't true. Over the past few months, we've had lots of episodes talking about how many nutrition recommendations aren't supported by science. I've argued that what many people are telling you may be inaccurate. In response, lots of you have asked me what nutrition recommendations should say.
The truth is that it's much easier to tell you what not to do, than to tell you what to do. But we don't avoid the hard questions. Recently I shared my nutrition recommendations over at the Upshot at the New York Times, and they were surprisingly popular. So I'm going to share them with you, here on Healthcare Triage
You should go read that piece, which all of this is based on. References and links can be found there: www.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/ups...
Want a poster of the information in today's episode? It's free and available here: ow.ly/NaESK
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Stan Muller -- Director, Producer
Aaron Carroll -- Writer
Mark Olsen -- Graphics
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I watched this with a can of Pringles staring at me. I've never felt so conflicted.
Update: The Pringles won. My shame is real.
Geph C I giggled :) But for real tho, for anybody else reading this, treating yourself is okay. If you have a healthy relationship with food and you allow yourself variety, the siren call of that can of Pringles will probably not be as tempting anymore. Or if it is - well, psychological wellbeing is just as important :)
***** There were Twizzlers too. Please, don't look at me.
😂 lol
What has made big difference for me is finding a handful of simple healthy meals that I can prepare mostly in bulk, and eating them most of the time, especially for breakfast and lunch. Strangely it doesn't get boring at all, and actually I find my body craves these healthy meals. Rice, beans, spinach, eggs for breakfast, stir fried veggies with chicken and boiled potatoes for lunch. Yum!
Just throwing my anecdote into the anecdotal pile; I've been a vegetarian for a couple years now. When I first started I was really into a couple fad diets (fruitivore, raw food, etc.) as I hear that these were all good for you. I've since learned a lot about nutrition and have found that such bold, concrete claims are rarely true in nutrition, and I'm not even a vegetarian for the reasons of 'meat is bad for you' any more.
Instead, I found that, as I started looking into all this, finding out what does and does not have meat, what different foods are and how their made, I started getting into nutrition and cooking. I started paying attention to my food in a way I never had before, and I started eating better and also found that I enjoyed cooking.
This, plus the fact that it's just kinda a habit now, is the main reason why I'm a vegetarian. I find that placing a restriction of something so large and wide-spread as meat encourages you to look into foods and what a healthy diet actually is, which is much more valuable then any dietary restriction or recommendation.
Intresting reason. What i did to lose weight as far as i can remember is exercise a little more, eat less bread, less sugar, less desserts, pretty much almost eliminated seed oils (i only use cold pressed sunflower oil sometimes, the rest are coconut oil, extra virgin olive oil, and whenever i can get my hands on a ghee, i'll use that too) and boom dropped from 87kg to about 70kg.
I am a Registered Dietitian and I loved the video, and agree with mostly everything!
Since it was mentioned several times, it's worth mentioning that most foods in our food system are in some way processed - chicken breast, pre-washed and chopped vegetables, frozen fruits, etc. - "completely" unprocessed is, in a way, misleading. Most of us don't eat the egg right off the farm, or get (all) our produce directly from the ground. Just a thought on being mindful of language! As a side note, I would have liked to see more around taking a look at your food environment.
To keep it simple, as someone on Reddit once said: "Eat real food. Not too much. Mostly plants.", that diet is pretty much ideal to most people and allows for some leeway.
I also like a quote by Zach Galifianakis about his weight loss diet: "I tend not to eat food advertised on television.", that's a pretty good rule of thumb.
I agree on everything, but Zach is probably not the guy to quote on healthy eating lol
Automatic Diaphragm He lost a lot of weight, though.
That's a great quote to live by. It is written by Michael Pollan who is one of the foremost food writers of our time
In general, if something needs an advert then you probably don't need it.
Better .. eat real food , like we ate for millions of years…mostly fatty meat and seafood.
Sounds like mom's cooking and eating together as a family really is the best after all.
It would be neat if whoever does the HCT animations could make this into an infographic style image.
Nolan Thiessen I mean, yes, we know these are NOT to be taken as medical advice (only your personal doctor can do that) but this would make an AMAZING infographic to keep around.
Nolan Thiessen Thought Cafe does the animation for Crash Course, Healthcare Triage, SciShow, Mental Floss, and most of the other channels connected with Hank and John Green via PBS.
***** The video description says Mark Olsen is in charge of graphics on HCT. As far as I know, Thought Cafe is only involved in CC.
Nolan Thiessen ah, my bad. Right you are; I didn't notice the credit there, I just assumed based on the art style. That'll teach me ;)
Graphics guy checking in. Lemme see what I can do!
As many of you requested, I made a poster with the information from this episode. It's free and available here: ow.ly/NaESK . Hope it helps! -mark
Thanks! That was my first thought after watching this- "now I need that on a little poster I can put in my kitchen." This is also a bit reminiscent of the episode of Good Eats where Alton Brown talks about what he ate when he was trying to lose a few pounds and feel healthier- it's also a often- less often- in moderation kind of list.
Here's something interesting:
atheismfaq.quora.com/Is-this-food-healthy
In the poster in the top it says "examples of unprocessed foods" and then shows fruit, vegetables and 4 sources of animal produce, but i highly doubt, that a split according to that would be healthy, right?
Also it leaves out grains and legumes, which yes one needs at least to soak, sprout or cook, but raw meat and eggs are also not great.
It does not say, that one should split according to the amount that they are mentioned, but it suggests it.
so?
I was on a successful diet once: one rule was that I had to eat more then half the plate as veggies with mandated variety in the veggies. So, each meal had to have at least four types of veggies, at least two parts dark leafy greens, at least one part orangey veggies, and limit starchy veggies to less then 1-1/4 parts.
Seemed reasonable and healthy. What're your thoughts on it?
We ate this way while growing up. My mom used to give us dessert twice a week, usually canned peaches from the peach tree in our backyard. If she made other desserts she cut the sugar in the recipe in half. We didn't even notice while growing up. Her rules for food are that we don't get two kinds of starch on our plates (no potatoes AND rice); if we didn't make salad then we got twice the amount of veggies. We got fast food like pizza and hamburgers when the kids made it on a Friday night. We hardly ever ate at a restaurant. Now I live alone and work during dinnertime and I can see the results in my ballooning waistline. Thanks for reminding me Mom knows best! ;)
Thank you just for acknowledging how flippin' difficult it is just to *know* what to eat these days. It's so confusing that just caring about nutrition is hard.
single best set of reasonable, actionable, and research founded dietary recs out there - needs to be shared!
I very much appreciate these guidelines. I shared the article in the past, and now I am sharing the video.
So I have to give up my passion for tasteless individually wrapped American cheese?
***** If you feel you are generally healthy and are otherwise eating a relatively healthy diet, then Dr. Carroll would probably say "enjoy it, but be mindful of how much you have". It's not terribly good for you, but there's definitely worse food out there, and most things are acceptable as long as you practice sensible moderation.
Gary Ermann
Eat it with a salad. Got it!
If it’s tasteless, you might as well replace it with other types of cheese.
I have noticed that a lot of the videos I have watched strongly advise people that they are just eating simply too much. At times, this may be true, but I have also learned that in many ways to you need to eat full, meaning maintain those dietary guidelines. It is so hard for my daily routine to be weighed out by calories and focusing on maintaining each dietary guideline, but I am learning that recording what I eat in a handbook was very helpful as well. I try to maintain mostly greens and fish, but pizza slips in there quite often. This video was great advice! I loved the advice of eat with those close to you (family/friends). Don't pay attention to the scales closely, maintain a healthy diet and exercise regularly and the pounds will drop eventually. Have a great day everyone!
This this pretty much the diet my family has developed over the years as well. Lots of vegetables and fruit, small portions of meat or fish, starchy foods in moderation. We often skip adding things like potatoes to a meal and just add extra vegetables instead - usually steamed and with a little butter to taste. I personally never add salt to anything except fried potatoes (eaten rarely) and have learned to enjoy the natural flavours of the veggies. We usually purposely cook a little extra at the evening meal so we can heat it up at work for lunch the next day. Breakfast is usually eggs or oatmeal. Really enjoy this channel - it is nice to see someone looking at evidence and not making hyperbolic claims.
It is just nice to have somebody with increasing popularity and prominence preach moderation and stick to facts instead of rampant dramatization and dogma. You have helped turn a divisive issue into something that can be talked about instead of yelled about. Thank you for all the hard work you do.
Super nuanced at the end, thanks for the upload, Aaron!
videos like these are what make me love this guy so much
I know this is an old video, but thanks for the advice. The only things I might add to this is the saying "Vegetables and Fruit, not Fruit and Vegetables," since a lot of whole, unprocessed fruit is still almost candy, and "Don't neglect dark, leafy greens." Without making any specific recommendation for amount or frequency, but it is really easy to just eat heartier veggies like potatoes, corn, carrots, beans and broccoli and think we're getting ends meet on our veggies. Leaves are unique, especially the dark ones (iceberg and the like are just water).
I absolutely love this video! I have been trying to help a friend who came to me for help with eating healthy. It is difficult to tell someone to eat/not eat this or that without an explanation as to why to eat/not eat this or that. I showed my friend this video, which perfectly explained why it is important to eat more unprocessed foods and eat less processed foods, to use salts and other seasonings in moderation, and to avoid eating out and to try to cook at home more often.
This is the only video of yours I have actually favourited to a playlist, because I think the recommendations are that good. I have issues with IBS and have been trying to alter my diet to eliminate groups and these guidelines would make such elimination much easier to coordinate. If I know precisely what's in it all, I can control what's in it.
Cool. This seems very basic but indeed safe as a reasonable guideline. Thanks. For all the nice videos.
Awesome video. One of your best!
These videos are so great! I'd love to see an episode on IBS, it's the most confusing condition.
I really enjoyed this!! Very doable, a lot of these rules (eating with loved ones, home-cooking & eating out consciously, less processed foods, etc) are already in place on some level! What about "weirder" stuff like fermented foods, pre/probiotic foods, etc?
Loved it... Will implement in my practice for sure!
That's very similar to my approach. However, I eat very little meat for ethical and environmental reasons. I also try to make sure all my animal produce is organic, because I agree with the ethics that underpin the organic movement. It's not because I think it's inherently healthier--yes, I've seen the HCT video on organics.
Phenomenal.
Responsible eating is to be praised, and certainly I am (albeit slowly) shifting that way.
And fully respectful of the environmental rather than false-medical shift towards organics as well. The medical reason may be cockamamy, but it doesn't mean there isn't a logical discussion and regulation there.
Medium Rare Musicians What do you think makes it more ethical exactly? I'm not looking to disagree with you, but I'm curious why/how you came to that conclusion.
SlimThrull Reading on animal ethics within the capitalist farming system led me to the conclusion that predominant methods of farming are bad for the environment at both a micro and macro level and bad for the welfare of animals. For me, killing an animal for food is not unethical; systematically mistreating animals in the name of profit, is. Books like Peter Singer's The Ethics of What We Eat, helped me understand these issues and figure out my own personal response.
From this point, I wanted to figure out how I could (in my very small way) encourage best practice from the farm to my plate. After reading about organics and the organic certification regulations, I found it to be the best compromise I could come up without physically going to farms to see animals or spending months studying farming techniques. Organic may not be perfect--indeed I think there are still many issues--but it's a step away from destructive farming practices that I support.
Organic certification regulations are published online. You can read the Australian Certified Organic regulations here, if you're interested: austorganic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ACOS-2013-final.pdf
I also grow as much of my own food of my own as I can and I keep chickens for eggs.
SlimThrull If you can explain why the tastiness of steak is more important than the suffering of an animal, then you would be a celebrated mind in ethics and philosophy in general. However, it's simply impossible to give a good reason. There is no characteristic that ALL humans have that NO animals have. It's that simple. I eat meat because I am a massive hypocrite and my will is weak as shit, but I respect those who do eat responsibly. Hope this helped. If you want to learn more, look up Peter Singer. Some of his ideas are questionable, but his animal ethics ideas are spot on and no one has ever come close to putting a dent in them, despite many trying.
Medium Rare Musicians I see. That seems reasonable. Thanks for replying.
Mr. Rize AG
Again, I wasn't looking for a debate on the subject. I was just curious what his (or others') reasoning was.
Yeah. That's about right. I also find keeping a food diary helpful. When you see what you actually eat, you eat more carefully. There are several good phone apps that are good for this.
I really appreciate your research.
If everyone advocates for minimally processed foods, then companies will start labeling & advertising junk food as "minimally processed". When Michael Pollan said to look for foods with fewer ingredients, some companies started advertising that their ice cream had only 5 ingredients. He since switched his mantra to not eating foods that are advertised for... clever and maybe helpful... of course food manufacturers still have their misleading labels.
Dave Power that's why people should learn which ingredients are harmful, how much sugar is too much, etc. That would help a great deal to not get tricked by conniving marketing these days.
Zsprite 79 The problem is that any harmful ingredients are only a problem at certain dose levels... understanding how to assess the harm is difficult in most situations. That's why health advocates try to give broad generalized advice, and rules like "try to eat more food that is less processed". And clever marketers will find ways to manipulate the public's view of these general advice. And with so much conflicting information, a lot of people will be overwhelmed.
Thank you! Finally a reasonable approach to eating from a doctor. A friend of mine ended up in the hospital because she eliminated salt from her diet completely. Extreme diets for normally healthy people are a bad idea.
i love your show, you're doing something awesome and the producers of your show (whose company name escapes me) is also awesome. your high ratio of comments to view thus far (171 comments to 4,791 views) shows that you are engaging and audience that cares, which is important. keep doing awesome work
You are doing a great job, thank you!
Hey, could you possibly do an episode on acne such what precipitates it, effective treatments, and prevention. Also, maybe an episode on intermittent fasting. Thank you for all your videos!
I love the rule about treating any caloric beverage like alcohol. Fine in moderation, on occasion, but you don't NEED it. Alcohol is the one non-essential macronutrient we consume. I grew up in a soda, juice, and milk drinking household, and it really wasn't hard to cut all of that out of my life because it's not a primary source of any nutrients I require. I get all the hydration I need from water, brewed tea, coffee, and the fruits and veggies I eat.
my mom has always told me, everything in moderation. i'm now at 43, and i think i finally feel that she's right!😉
thank you for another great video!💐
This answered my question from the past few weeks for the live show. I've been asking about the Meditteranian diet and the studies touting it as beneficial for heart and mental health. It follows all of these recommendations very well, especially the recommendations of moderation.
feitocomfruta ANY diet that recommends moderation is almost surely going to be better that most fad diets out there. You can have the occasional bowl of ice cream. But if you're eating a carton a day, there might be some issues in the future.
I think the Mediterranean diet is the best way of eating because it doesn’t leave out any of the food groups, just the bad stuff.
Couldn't agree more, especially about the part of listening to your body's feedback.
Thanks for making me feel smart! I pretty much came up with very rules for myeslf 4 years ago and ended up losing close to 60 lbs over a year. Went from 210 (at 5'5") to 150. Unfortunately I've gotten lazy and drifted away from those rules. Time to get back to it!
Whole foods plant based diet has more scientific data backing it up than anything else I have seen. Cut back on Dairy, meet,and processed food as much possible. I have been trying my best to get there. The closer I get the more benefits I see.
Yay, vegan! Also, don't hate processed foods. Oreos and Wheeties are not the same.
safenders You are forgetting one huge bit of data! Millions of years of evolution led to humans being omnivores! Pandas made the switch to eating just plants when they are really omnivores and look how well they are doing! lol
Dave Hughes I simply look at the science. I then apply it myself. I see what works and what doesn't. We are not pandas. We are humans. Most humans eating meat, dairy, processed, and foods with high sugar content look like the average obese American. Not to mention the science shows these foods lead to heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Scientific data can be shown that a whole foods plant based diets produces best case outcomes compared to those on a typical western diet.
Dave
Being omnivorous means you CAN eat meat, not that you should. Besides, vegetarians and vegans are healthier than meat eaters, so what now?
Also, Dave, would you be willing to step in the fighting arena with a shaolin monk? They're all vegetarian, and they can easily kick your ass.
I eat a predominantly whole foods plant based diet with no animal products and most of my meals consist of some sort of whole grain or legumes, starchy vegetable, lots of greens with a variety of non starchy vegetables, and whatever fruit I want. I try to focus on simple whole foods and opt for fresh and unprocessed as often as possible. I love it! I've never felt better and really feel a difference in my energy. Cooking has become fun again and I really look at food as fuel instead of just convenience now.
Why on earth are you starving your body for much needed proteins and amino acids?
@@marekjanik9962 legumes (beans, peas, soy) are a great source of protein. where do you think the animals you eat get their protein from? plants that can fix nitrogen!
@@culverculver922 Animals in the wild get their protein from eating other animals logically. Also legumes are not a great source of complete amino acids
@@marekjanik9962 carnivores get their protein from herbivores, which get their protein from plants that can host nitrogen-fixing bacteria. It all goes back to nitrogen-fixers which are the only way for nitrogen to be put in a form that allows the synthesis of amino acids. And legumes do have all 9 essential amino acids, they just tend to have a little less methionine (they still have some, just not a lot). If you’re really that worried about methionine, you can simply eat another plant protein source that is rich in it - like whole grains for example.
@@culverculver922 I am not worried about anything, I eat meat.
Thank you for discussing the quality of foods, and not calories. As a cystic fibrosis patient, people often tell me to simply eat what I wish because I can have all the calories I wish (and then some). Then I have to tell them about how not all calories are the same.
This makes so much sense! Thanks!
These are very similar to what I practice. I find that overly restrictive diets usually make more frustrated and end up making me binge on the bad stuff more often. Taking things with moderation and cooking a lot at home have worked wonders for me. Too bad that's can be really difficult for most people.
I agree with everything you shared in this video and live by these guidelines myself. I have one question though, I mill my own grain and bake my own bread. Would that change your stance on bread, pancakes, muffins, etc.?
The best and simplest grocery shopping tip I have read is to only shop the peripheries of grocery stores. That way, you end up mostly with unprocessed items. And it saves time!
Victory gardens provide lots of healthy local food free. Lotsa veggies with the meat. Mom & Dad are in their 90s, uncle Ken went at 104.
Great video. It makes sense, seems sound, and doesn't look like the diets that 10 years from now people say, "what were we thinking?!" In fact, that's why it's good, because it's not a diet, it's just trying to live a healthy lifestyle.
Wow, im going to watch all of your videos now. :)
best video youve made so far. you come off harshly sometimes, but now i get why john hangs out with you
I only just got into watching HCT and this is similar to what I try. I mostly started cooking most of my meals because it's cheaper than eating out and buying every meal. I should probably eat fewer processed foods (chips, etc) but I do try to limit them more than I used to. I also need to work at smaller portions for dinner, my lunch is limited to the size of the container but it's easier to serve on a large plate for dinner than a smaller travel container like I do for lunch
A good video wit sound basic advise. The introduction is important that, ei "this is good advice for healthy people". Not so much for people with serous health problems like diabetes and major heart conditions. Both would be interesting subjects to cover, I have read a few papers are "reversing type 2 diabetes" with rather extreme diets (1,200 to 1,800 calories per day with exercised for 175 minutes a week or more) and I think it would be a great subject to cover.
This is really cool!
First ever video I felt deserves a comment. Absolutely awesome. Surely nobody can disagree with this.
pretty much the same things I advise. good job.
This advice is very sensible.
I am really glad to see you advocate using salt, butter etc. to make food taste good! I was wondering if you feel it's worth using "low-salt" stock cubes when cooking? I very rarely make my own stock, but don't really think it's worth worrying about whether I use "low-salt" stock cubes or not?
I'm really enjoying your videos, by the way! =D
About a month ago, I cut out cereal and pasta from my diet and started cooking more of my own meals from mostly unprocessed foods. I am still eating bread, but less of it. I've found that I'm getting less frequent bouts of heartburn. I used to have to take a tums before bed and even during the night. Now, I rarely have to take any at all. I feel that even though I'm not losing a significant amount of weight, I feel healthier. The diet he talks about is working for me even if I'm not following it exactly and I think everyone should try it.
Avoid all soda. This tip worked wonders for me.
He's right about pasta. When I got to be 230 on a 5'9 frame even when I was running two miles every weeknight I got the fabulous book but dr. Robert lustig fat chance and I started making my own pasta with flour I grind in my flour mill (electric not by hand, I'm not a crazy homesteader). Instead of being a weekly meal pasta is now monthly because its 5 lbs of pasta takes FIVE HOURS TO MAKE EVEN WITH A KITCHENAID!!! I only use Durham wheat, salt and a ton of eggs but rolling it out and then putting it through the pasta cutter takes forever and it makes a huge mess. The pasta is delicious and super filling so much that we're all spoiled and no one will eat regular pasta but the TIME!!! Before my relapse (I have lupus) I had the energy to do all this and I got down to 165 but the terror of possibly losing my healthcare is keeping me sick and my energy levels haven't come back since the election. If republicans weren't all eugenicists I'd be so much healthier!!!
the truth stands the test of time. Just seeing this video and it rings true to lessons I'm only just learning.
Eat good food. Not too much of it. And mostly plants.
Thanks for the video, Doc. Well spoken and logical, as always.
I like these recommendations in general but can find them hard to adhere to, particularly when it comes to lunch hour in the middle of my work day. Any recommendations on unprocessed foods that slot into a lunchbox?
I like this. Natural, and in moderation. Makes lots of sense and it's certainly not extreme. :)
I'm 183cm and had 110kg two weeks ago. I switched up my eating habits, still doing no sports whatsoever and lost 5kg. I got over weight because I enjoy eating and if there is something around I will eventually eat it. So I stopped buying food that can be eaten easily without being prepared with the exception of apples and yogurts. My breakfast is one 135ml yogurt with one apple (with skin) and my lunch and dinner are a salad or slow cooked vegetables. I don't skip any food completely but I cut bread, pasta and rice from my daily diet and only eat them once or twice a week.
If you're over weight I found that the key to losing weight isn't eating healthier but rather simply eating less. As that's difficult enough because you get the feeling of hunger all the time don't buy things that are quickly prepared (bread) or prepared on their own with little effort (pizza, microwavefoods). It becomes a battle between wanting to kill the hunger feeling (which for me usually wasn't actual hunger but rather an appetite to be eating anything) and being too lazy to invest 20 minutes of cutting, stirring, pealing. It took about 10 days to stop feeling hungry simply because the mouth was watering, it only took 2 days to get over the stomach cramps.
I drank watered down juices to complement the strong decrease of calories (>2500 to ~2000) and more importantly stop the stomach from hurting. 1 liter juice was streched to be about 6-7 liters which is about 230 calories per day via juice (granini pink grapefruit 470cal/liter).
I've had excellent results in the past with this diet, returning to normal weight of 80-85kg several times. It's when I moved or got/lost a girlfriend that I started gaining weight because I tend to cook a lot more and go out eat, go out for an ice cream etc more than once a week.
Once you start losing weight and you're used to the new way of eating you start with sport. I found that my body yearns for exercise once exercise stops hurting simply because the joints experience too much stress from the base weight.
So if anybody is looking to lose weight (and I don't mean from 90kg to 85kg if 85kg is your normal weight) you don't necessarily have to try a specific diet. If you're 20+kg over weight chances are, you're used to easy access to food. If you eat out with clients a lot, don't eat up everything and order less. Drink a lot more water to compensate the empty stomach cramps and don't buy and food that is quickly prepared and skip (at the beginning) every snack including nuts and apples because the first thing you want to do is decrease the volume of food you have in you at any given time.
I agree with the bulk of what I heard...saved it to watch again
Literally all that you've said just now is what my mom has been telling me my whole life lol
Hi, Is the 'less' bread based on it being 'processed', would it be OK if I did the baking? And no I wasn't thinking of grinding my own flour.
Every long while we buy a cow from a local farmer, we have about 20 chickens that give us half a dozen eggs a day, and were starting a large garden. Our quest to eat healthier is going well!
I like how sane this is.
This is gold, perfectly said.
I've been eating mostly apples, bananas, tuna, broccoli, sugar snap peas and hummus. With the occasional deli sandwich. It's important to note that a little exercise will of course also go a long way with dieting. It's all about finding the kind of exercise you actually enjoy though. At least to some degree of enjoyment.
Great video! I based my current diet plan off of the same principles and I've lost 25 lbs without hating life.
Any thoughts on frozen vegetables? Also frozen fish? Where I live it's a bit hard to get good stuff without shopping at a place that charges you upscale store premiums.
Somehow I've totally missed the previous coverage of processed meats (and I'm pretty sure I've seen all the videos!). I did a channel search and still couldn't find anything. It's something I'm really interested in - could someone point me to where they were talked about?
I'm so impressed at the use of the word foci.
U read a great book "Burn" by Herman Pontzer. It really changed the way I understand energy consumption and expenditure
thanks bro!
grat advice, thanks!
I think that was good general advice. It sounded similar to the DASH diet to me.
Can you make a printable info graphic with this stuff on it? I want a poster or something similar!
I started drinking mostly tap water recently where before, I drank very little just water and mostly had milk or juice with my meals. Very quickly, I noticed that my jeans were looser. I've heard about it, but never really fully understood what percentage of my calories were coming just from my beverages. That is now a much smaller amount.
And this is why obesity is higher in lower economic classes: none of this is cheap, easy or fast, and if you're spending all your time working, and/or don't have a partner who can stay home and do the cooking, getting these fresh, local foods and preparing all your meals is impossible.
Take Walker Plenty of it is cheap. Raw ingredients are, broadly speaking, cheaper than processed food. It's true that it's not fast, though, and broadly speaking when it comes to food, you have to choose two out three between fast, cheap, and healthy.
It also depends on where you live. A large city has different options available versus a rural farming community versus a suburban college town. There are food deserts and differences in growing seasons to take into account as well. I do love that Aaron suggests not criticizing people for what they eat, however. That's generally not something brought up in these discussions!
Take Walker If someone is getting obese off cheap food because they can't afford more expensive food, they could save even more money by simply buying/eating less of the cheap food. They're over-consuming on calories as it is.
They could redirect that money to buying some more nutritious food.
Jon Chamberlain You're not technically wrong, but cutting calorie intake while still eating the same types of food is much more easily said then done. Cheap food tends to have a poor calorie to satiety ratio.
Take Walker I feel like many of these replies ignore the fact that cooking your own food, while cheaper and healthier, requires access to cooking equipment or at least a way to boil water. This is a major problem that homeless populations have: They MUST buy more expensive and less healthy food, especially things that can be eaten without any kind of plates or silverware, because there isn't any way for them to process things themselves.
Hey Aaron ino this was 7 years ago but just started listening to your channel I’ve just been diagnosed with Barrett’s what diet would you suggest I’m so lost in the world of diets what’s good and what’s not good
My diet guidelines are similar to yours, Aaron. My issue was/is frequent low energy and hunger when my blood sugar is low. That's my hypothesis anyways. I am afraid of becoming prediabetic with these blood sugar issues. Now, I refrain from having sugar alone/as a snack. If I do have sugar from fruits, I have it with a meal with other foods. I try to have only 3 meals a day. Luckily, my weight and exercise have always been good, so calorie restriction is not a factor.
Hi, could you please define what you consider as processed foods? Are those only ones that are made in factories with additives and in cans and packages, or the ones made at home being in a way processed, too?
Perhaps, if I make cookies at home by myself, using unprocessed foods, are they to be considered processed?
Put a cup of flour in a bowl, mix with water until you have a dough you can roll and pick up with your hands. mix in a little salt.
Roll as flat as possible. Cook at 450 Fahrenheit (230 Celsius) for about 5 minutes.
Fast easy cheap bread.
Hey, the full res version of the poster isn't available anymore!
Healthcare Triage, do you have examples of meals that you eat?
This is remarkably similar to my own personal food consumption policy.
Cheers
if you have trouble keeping hydrated with just water, try unsweetened teas.
experimentation, ok. but how can i monitor what was good and what wasn't?
what signs are there that i can look out for? besides things making me feel sick or fantastic..
Most important part for commenters: 5:12 "Don't judge what others eat." Geebus I wish more of the loud minorities could practice this.
Hey, thanks for the informative video... but by unprocessed do you mean organic produce, as well as hormone free, free range meat?
Unprocessed means Whole Foods such as produce and fresh meat and it’s usually only one ingredient and not in a can, package or a box. Frozen veggies and fruit are OK if there is only one ingredient. It doesn’t have to be organic or grass fed to be a whole food.....Just to add I think organic and grass fed is great if you can afford it
I had some moderate success with this diet style. I'm 5'7" and was weighing about 155 (not an unhealthy weight to begin with) before making these changes and have maintained a weight between 140 and 147.5 for over a year and a half.
On bread, is making my own bread decent? I use 3 ingredients for plain bread (flour, water, yeast), and herbs when wanted.
I found this video very informative. I am a pretty obese male in his 30s and have found weight loss very very hard. The last month or so I have been doing kinda the same thing and am seeing better results than in the past. What I found is even tho I put about a hundred pounds on in a year it is gonna take a lot longer to take it off lol. Thanks for the video I think it is one of the smartest takes on food in general someone can have.
I only watched this to find out if RUclips was auto completing my name into the description
I'm vegan but apart from the obvious, I agree with most what you say. I've only just discovered your channel and I really enjoy your sensible and logical approach to health. Do you have a vegan co-worker who does a similar channel?! ;)