i used to be so jealous of the kids that brought mcdounalds to lunch, but now i am so grateful my mom put the energy to cook homemade meals, even though she works.
I turned 18 today, and man, I am so grateful that my parents almost never gave me fast food. This video is an eye-opener to just how much companies deceive and manipulate consumers.
Just wanna say I watched this video 3-4 months ago and went from eating fast food a couple times a week to cutting it out almost entirely. I’ve been trying to lose weight and it’s helped a lot. Over the past year and a half I’ve dropped down from 250 pounds to just now hitting 179 (6’2 F)! I feel really good about myself and I’m not done yet, but I just wanna say thank you for making this video, it’s helped a lot with my weight loss journey!
The closest store to me is a dollar general so I've been eating that and nothing but door dash for months now, I finally started eating home cooked meals and vegetables again and now I'm feeling better , had no idea it would make me feel this bad.
I have started avoiding ultra processed food altogether by baking bread, biscuits, cookies and even making my own pasta at home. I was once addicted to potato chips but now I don’t eat potato chips at all. I don’t bring junk food home at all. I have started drinking fresh coconut water and never felt so better.
It's crazy how something that was supposed to make our life more convenient and easier has actually ruined so many. For some it can become an addiction. Great video!
Facts. A Coworker of mine only eats fast food, he goes to McDonald's a day earlier to get his burgers for the next morning.. he only drinks Coca Cola aswell, nothing healthy and that's the way he looks and smells..
I remember McDonald's was an addiction for me. I would go there before work at night to get my dinner. I became consciously aware of my addiction but hesitated to stop. But I had to quit eating there cause McDonald's was always making me late for work. The drive thru always took about 20 minutes. It was a good thing cause I was packing on the pounds.
You are so lucky to have access to fresh fruit and vegetables, what we have, for the most part, here in the USA is stuff that's old, not fresh or has no taste to begin with.
I'm Asian too, but I grew up in the US. My parents cooked everything at home because they weren't used to eating American fast food. I loved McDonalds but I could only eat it once in a while (it was like a special occasion). I'm very glad my parents instilled the importance of homecooked meals in our family. I'll definitely try to do the same for my kids
i'm from a latin-american country and same, we only had fast food maybe every few months. it's always been pricey, especially for an entire family, plus if we went a day eating fast food or sandwiches we'd end up feeling weak and craving our regular food.
NOBODY BLAME THE FOOD INDUSTRIES nobody , he addictrd with sugar SUGAR SUGAR not FOOD, THEY ARE PROTECTING THE FOOD INDUSTRIES THE FOOD industries are killing HUMANITY..
That did terrify me as well... cause that is me. However she did end the video saying if you’re in good health then the risk is low so to enjoy but in moderation. So maybe every 2 weeks 😅
I gave up sodas 3 yrs ago. Never again. I now only eat whole foods and meat for protein. I was 295 lbs. Giving up carbs, processed and sugar, I lost 75 lbs, I now weigh 220. And now I feel great and may live much longer. I an now 81 yrs old.
Hello, i am the exact weight you used to be "295" i eat fast food almost every single day, i do not drink soda at all but i do drink gatorade pretty often, and i have a sweet tooth for chocolate. My goal is to weigh 230! Im 6ft tall male. If its not too much to ask could you help me make a list on what to eat? I have no idea where to start! But you made it! So you know the way! I wouldnt mind blending my foods if i need to..... i would not eat fish or sea food, i dislike it so much
@@aquaticlives2948 I went on the Keto diet. No pkg'd food. No sugar. Lots of fat, meat, eggs,butter. NO CARBS. lots of veggies, and no fruit while your losing. I lost 50lbs in 3months. I still am on keto, but now I can eat a little sugar, ice cream. When dont consume carbs, your body uses fat that is why you lose. David
I only have fast about once a month I think as treat once in awhile is ok as long as your healthy the majority of the time. But I mean the less fast food you have the healthy your probably going to be.
From experience. Senior man here. Cut out, as much as possible, sugar, salt, processed flower and white bread. Just those three adjustments have made a huge change in my physical and mental health. It only took a couple of weeks.
I'm the exact same way! I literally get sick at fast food now, I can't believe how I'd guzzle a big sweet tea at Mcdonald's... Still are a little addicted to the fries though, that's how you know they're that bad for you lol
So true! A few weeks ago I went to McDonald's for the first time in months after changing to a healthier diet, I could instantly tell my body was rejecting it. It didn't even look or taste yummy 🤢
Same. I cut out fast food, ALL deep fried foods, all soda beverages (regular/diet/club/tonic/energy), commercial juices, sugared sauces, sugared breakfast cereal, and microwave popcorn. Now my healthy home cooked meals made with wild fish, fresh produce, whole grains, and limited oil/salt and minimal industrial additives DO have their sparkle back! And air popped popcorn actually tastes good now lol. Over time I realized that our country’s professionally engineered food hijacked my perception of taste and pleasure and prevented me from genuinely enjoying whole foods I still make sure to allow myself to have an indulgence every now and again. I can enjoy the occasional light icecream, chips ahoy cookie, baked good or slice of mushroom pizza without feeling any shame or guilt. I also allow myself to drink Bubly/LaCroix without being disappointed in myself for not drinking plain water.
“My goal is to not make you quit fast food” lol this made me quit fast food I didn’t do it for weight, I was already a healthy size but I have chronic depression and it made me feel so bad. I’m a year clean! I feel so much better now thank you so much
It’s so true, my dad’s depression was really obvious when he was only eating fast food. Depression makes you also not have the motivation to do things as cooking and sometimes makes you feel like you don’t deserve to take care of yourself, though, so it can end up making you turn to fast food even more often, and then make you feel even worse.
I wrote a Biology paper on the dangers of ultra-processes foods recently, and yet I still had no idea it was this bad. Happy for you! I'm so glad that it helped.
Growing up my family always said eating healthy was “too expensive” and then they’d proceed to spend $70-$80 a night on Popeyes or McDonalds. There were times where we would have fast food everyday and I would literally crave a vegetable rather than have more fast food. And by the age of 11 I already had second stage high blood pressure. Now I’m 18 and I eat a mainly plant based diet while going to the gym 5 days a week. I feel much healthier and I never want to go back to that lifestyle ever again. The overconsumption of fast food is abuse.
That's so sad ! So your family was rather lazy. In my family, it was quite the opposite. I was a kid in the seventies and France did not have yet all the fast food you can find today. So Coca-Cola and other stuff were just banished from my mother and today, I'm glad. Never eaten any McDonald stuff, never had any health issues and I'm just preparing homemade pizza, the dough and everything. Cooking is pure joy and when it's kept simple, you are not hungry every third hour, you are not grazing between meals but you enjoy fully what you have freshly cooked. It's a simple philosophy everybody could embrace, if only they would do it.
My family was very similar, except it would be more frozen food so we could eat whenever we wanted with the help of a microwave. We didn’t have any set meal times, you would just microwave a corn dog whenever you were hungry. when I visited my grandparents for the summer, every meal would be fast food. When I was ten we moved to an area with a grocery store in walking distance, and slowly I started spending my own money on more healthy food bc I was craving it. Now I have a part time job and buy my own food + I work out. I’m glad I stopped living like that, I would never go back either.
@@ChrisOhMy Lol it’s gotten ridiculous with meat over the years. Doctors and nutritionists both flip flop every so often first cursing meat then coming back a few years later saying that it’s good for you. Like I understand you don’t want to be eating red meat daily (lol even though I could bc it’s just really good) but it’s perfectly fine to have in your diet.
I haven’t had a fast food meal in 3 yrs. I really missed them for a while, until I started to look and feel so much better. I learned about metabolic health from You Tube. I turned my life around starting at age 65. Food is fuel. No more boxed or bagged foods for me ever again.
bob lex He also had many serious health issues and nutrient deficiencies as a vegan because he was too restrictive overall. Balance and moderation isn’t in that guy’s vocabulary- he likes extremes and the attention that comes with it
I feel bad for them because they are lower income because that's their target audience and just knowing some of them have kids and it's all they can afford really makes me angry
I was happily eating a Big Mac and fries then I decided to watch this video. Now I feel sick 🤢 I think it’s time to cut out fast food and start eating healthy again
@@moonshineman5691 it helps! It makes you lose weight and then when you want to eat frozen foods (like many used to at work), it tastes nasty, like plastic.
I remember reading a quote from a nutritionist: "Your taste buds have a memory of about three weeks." In other words, years of fast food, junk food, and all around heavily processed garbage have overstimulated our taste buds, making us crave levels of salt, sugar and fat that are beyond what we normally should have. We can 'feel' full, but still 'crave' our fix. Learning to cut back on all three, eating whole, unprocessed foods and plenty of produce for a long of enough period of time, like a month to a year, will help you reset your taste buds. I used to have quite the sweet tooth, throwing in syrup and all kinds of sweets into my fruit smoothies. Now? frozen fruit, water, and maybe some almond milk are enough for me. You can fix this!
I have realized many people sub milk for almond milk in smoothies but I still am not sure why. (other than the fact that some people are intolerant) Why is this?
@@moskiix5323 cow's milk has hormones in it - that are obviously very good for little cows, but not that good for entirely different species, like human beings. It can and will hurt you, even if you do not see it at first. Also, milk has lactose in it - lactose is a sugar and it does not matter if the milk is "lactose-free" or not. Because the second one only has put the lactase enzyme in it, so the lactose is still there, it's only already digested, so a grown-up body that doesn't produce lactase anymore (we actually need it only as children to digest milk from out mums) can drink it without nasty consequences. So, by drinking milk you actually are giving your body sugars and hormones that it does not need. It's totally better/healthier to just take some water with a little bit of nut paste in it (like almond "milk") or something else made from healthy stuff (like oat "milk", it also tastes good). Also, many people put cow's milk away because of the way cows are treated. Animals that are "producing" things for us are too often living in real hell and many people hate it, so they f.ex. turn vegetarian and refuse to take any products made with suffering of feeling creatures.
@@theAsperist I agree with every point EXCEPT the hormone part. Unless you are talking about cow's milk straight from the farm, most pasteurized milk has hormones as well - but in such small quantities, that you would need to drink tons of milk all day to even reach a level where the hormones can affect your body in even the most mild way. And even then, your digestive tract erases those hormones. But as for your point about lactose and the morality issue, I absolutely agree.
Growing up one of my friends refused to drink soda for many reasons. I never believed any of them and then he challenged me to see if I could do it. It was pretty difficult but after about a month I didn't even think about it. The weird part was when I had another one I could only have a couple drinks it tasted like syrup and burned.
@@nerdomatic2489 Well, yes, but no. Search for articles about milk and acne - it's known that milk can cause acne, and many researchers strongly believe it's because of hormones. Another theory is that it's because of sugar. We still need more research on this field. Also please remember, that hormones are pretty easy to be made unstable - you do not have to eat much chicken (hormone-fed on farms of cages) or drink tons of milk (naturally occuring hormones + hormones in diet). Just a daily intake is usually enough.
Before my break up I was 140lbs, then got depressed, stopped going to the gym, and ate fast food multiple times a day, was tired and angry, after a year I weighed 215lbs! Now after getting back to the gym, eating healthier, stopping soda and fast food completely, I'm at 194 and I'm not depressed and I'm actually more energized and social than before!
She has a point. I tried replicating a burger from “Five Guys” and don’t get me wrong, it was really delicious. Just not the same as Five guys. This explains why.
I stopped eating fast food years ago, I dont even crave for it. Most of my meals are made at home, if I go on road trips I bring in snacks with me. I much rather eat at a small restaurant, I don't even bother sitting at chain restaurants because their foods preservatives.
My colleagues gave me the strangest look When they dragged me to Wendy’s and I ordered a plain baked potato and side salad with no croutons or dressing. People don’t get after a long time of refraining it can lose it’s appeal!
Not mentioned very often, in order to eat healthy and make it sustainable, it really helps to know how to cook! Also, if you’re going from a mostly processed food diet to a whole food diet ease your way into it…..by making “better bad choices”….like not getting fries with your burger or decreasing portion sizes.
Good point! If you don’t know how to cook there’s tons of videos right here on RUclips University- I’m no Ramsey chef myself but I follow recipes very well! 😊
I agree, I said this already above, but I really don't think it's funny at all😔she clearly has issues and is in pain. It's not simply because she "just doesn't like it", I think if people are going to talk about the science of food addiction, then that should make them more aware of how painful it is. I mean I've never experienced food addiction myself, but you can see how hard it is for them. I just don't think that's funny, I also think it was sad like you said
@@im_not_real1456 the issue is in her head like with people who have anorexia or bulimia.. it's not that they don't want to be healthy it's just that they mentally can't get over that 6 metre high wall to actually eat.. mentally they beat themselves up and they can't help it wich is one of the saddest things and only proves how much is wrong with today's society
I used to never eat veggies, I would gag at the thought, but since I stopped eating fast food and sugary foods I now am proud to say I eat most veggies! It is so important for my health that I changed.
@th1smomentisfate I'm sorry you struggle with that :( and to answer you, although obviously I'm no expert, I have seen that video in the actual context before I saw this small clip of it put in this video out of context. People like that have actual fears of foods outside of what they are comfortable with. Also, I don't think it's solely due to food addiction, I think it's a mix of things. For instance, I struggle with anorexia and I have gotten that same way in the past when I've tried to eat some of my biggest fear foods such as cheeseburgers or cupcakes. The thoughts that you have about what will happen if you eat your fear food are very irrational and are blown out of proportion. And for some people it could even bring back traumatic memories if they experienced trauma in relation to that food in some way. I personally really don't think she's just being dramatic but idk, that's just what I think. Like I said I think it's been taken out of context and some people have fears, phobias, and things that make them uncomfortable that without hearing the whole story, we might not understand. I don't think it's something to laugh at☹️
it never tastes like the fast food but ive made like chicken sandwiches and fried chicken at home and they taste delicious. they're still unhealthy but a lot better of an option than outside food cuz u know what ur putting in and can customize
I feel like the powder pringles put on their chips is really artificial too,it tastes so salty and weird...i actually prefer the offbrans pringles by far
You can make better, healthier, and even cheaper while you’re at it, but it takes a bit of practice. Edit: at least for some stuff, I don’t think pringles are something you can practically recreate. Hamburgers are a great example of food you can make better because you aren’t trying to do it on an industrial scale while maximizing profits. You can get the original KFC seasoning off the shelf also, I think it’s called 99x. The real secret ingredient, on top of the other herbs and spices, is MSG, IIRC.
@@adisaster8734 true. I used to work at burger king in 2016, and I worked with people that didn’t wash their hands, touched their face while wearing gloves and sneezing in their hands at times. I know that not everybody is that unsanitary, but I stopped eating fast food bc of that and I cook my own meals
I love your video!!! I quit fried foods two years ago as well as hamburgers. I can’t even eat at a fast food place anymore. I watch your video a lot as a motivator. I am so healthy now, I haven’t been sick in over two years and have a lot of energy!! What a difference! My triglycerides have dropped drastically and I have lost some weight.
Isabella Sobey Exactly. This is a recipe for disaster. It tastes good when you eat it but I can’t imagine feeling that greasy and heavy and eating like that EVERY DAY. 🤢
You see All These calamity's that are going on around the world will lead to a Sunday Law Which will The Mark Of The Beast, Those that keep Gods seventh day sabbath will be prohibited from buying and sell and persecuted. Jesus is coming are you ready?
This is disgusting. My parents NEVER fed me fast food as a kid and now I’m a bit older, and I have more control over what I eat, I tend to indulge when I’m out with friends. My parents go on at me when they find wrappers, and I always feel fat they’re just overreacting. This video has seriously opened my eyes. I’m so glad it’s not to late. Thank you!
@@gomangoism Ignorance, in this case, is chronic anxiety as a psychological effect of a strained heart trying to pump an amount of blood through clogged veins. I would not call ignorance bliss.
@Daniel-e8d5c No fast-food-addicted person would be able to tolerate such an intense shift in diet though. To make a more comfortable shift, prepare your veggies with other stuff and slowly get rid of the other stuff. Don't completely cut out salt either, especially if you work a job that makes you sweat a lot. A pinch of it in a salad won't give you a heart attack. It's important to take baby steps when trying to improve yourself. Most people try to take a gigantic leap, predictably fail, then never try again. Any improvement is still improvement, even consuming one less soda a day is a great improvement. Any time your will triumphs over instinct, you should feel proud of yourself.
@MrBigNuts476 unless they made their own sauce it is still unhealthy. pasta is digested fast and not so filling. the sauce from stores has so much unnecessary sugars so it makes it basically garbage. Most food that is convenient is most likely bad for you.
My mom hates cooking tbh, but she cares about what we eat and I appreciate it, never chose fast food over homecooked meals. Now that I'm older I help her in the kitchen because I love cooking :)
When we were growing up we didn't have a lot of money so going to a place like McDonalds or Bakers was kind of rare and a nice treat. Other than that my Mom cooked, and she cooked good with what she had. She also made sure me and brothers and sisters were active children. She always told us as kids no woman want's a slobby body, and she always told my sisters no man want's his woman with a slobby body.
My mom very rarely fed me fast food, when I was a kid I used to think it’s because she “hated me” but now I’m so glad she only bought it on very special occasions as a treat, I’d only get it 2 times a year. (Sometimes she wouldn’t get any at all 🤷♂️)
Your videos seem like clickbait, but then aren’t. LISTEN HERE BRIGHTSIDE, TAKE NOTES. If only all RUclips creators were like you... Edit: thanks for the likes guys! But big question - what are we fans called? The channel has over 20k now, so...?
LOL this one is actually my version of a Brightside video! I was thinking of doing a whole series just like this. I always want to know wtf 'happens to my body when I eat cucumbers everyday for a year '~ * ~* or whatever else they promise but - they usually let me down lol
Soy Yui it’s sad, the educative, well informed creators don’t have enough subscribers because lots of them (after getting a large amount of subscribers) end up trying to get more ‘interesting’ or a larger amount of content. Often times, to get more content, the RUclipsrs will cut out some amount of research or experimentation to get a more often upload. Think of channels like brightside, they know that a title such as ‘what happens if you eat cucumber everyday for a year’ draws people in, which also brings money in. However, they have no way to test what would happen, or they know that the answer isn’t interesting enough to make the video into the minimum length of 10:00 (I think) minutes that a RUclips video has to be to earn money from views; so they go off topic to drag it out, all for the sake of a couple of cents per every thousand views if this makes no sense, it is because it is currently 2:33 where I live and I need to sleep
When i was in college, i went through 4 years of eating mostly fast food because i worked in that industry and i didn’t have much time or resources to cook on my own. I went from 125lbs at the beginning of freshman year to 155lbs at graduation. It’s been just over one year since then, I’ve been almost exclusively homecooking, and i’ve already gone back down to 134lbs.
@@edwinortiz1262 I usually have to whee i go to weekend long music festivals. Not much food you ca eat that does not need to be cooked or kept outside of heat so ya gotta rely on the food stands.
@@edwinortiz1262 our new house did not have electricity or running water so we where forced to eat outside. as for the chipotle ….my family is mexican,they don’t really believe in “healthy food” lollllll.
3:56 in her defense, a single, unseasoned brussels sprout (that looks boiled on top of it all) is probably the worst thing to offer a person when trying to win them over on vegetables
Today was the first day in 4 Months that I don’t eat any fast food. And while yes it felt good eating healthy home cooked meals, it’s like I still crave it. Fast food addiction is no joke guys!
SAME I struggle with it so much😭 In Uni I had so many classes in different places and when going back home I would crave mcdonalds .. then one week I ate junk good like 4 times .. at mcdonalds and then burger king😭 and didn’t even realized it
It’s an addiction. Harder to beat than it seems. Not impossible, but there’s an unhealthy tendency to make people feel like crap if they can’t just “take control.” The solution is to acknowledge the gravity of the situation, to want to change, and to make a concrete “game plan” to achieve your goals. Willpower alone is not enough.
@Dale Ritter Okay, not sure where all the anger is coming from and I’m not sure where I was complaining about anything/whining. I wasn’t even talking about MYSELF specifically. And yes, you have to want to change and no one can do it for you, but willpower alone is not enough is to power through the lows-you have to have a game plan for when you feel like quitting. I think you read a lot more into my comment than what’s actually there because we both believe the same thing. I do think that shaming people is counter-productive, however. I’m not feeling sorry for anyone-in fact I don’t have much patience for people who expect me/anyone else to do their work for them-it’s just that feelings of guilt and self-hatred make for poor motivators for most people.
Quitting fastfood and going on a whole foods plant based diet took me way more effort compared to quitting harddrugs. Something I did not expect to find out. 10 years clean now, both ways. Anyone can change, you just got to be willing to leave unsupportive people behind.
No shit because plants aren’t the natural human diet. You were pretty much just starving yourself out. Why do you think it took so much discipline an effort.
@@kaneda956 ; exactly this! and on top of that, you literally need food to live unlike recreational drugs. and the harm fast food causes is a lot less visible and understood than the extremely obvious danger of drugs as well. unfortunately, society doesnt portray junk food to be just as self-destructive and addicting as other addictions. this does seem shocking upon first read, but when you think about it, it makes *total* sense that fast food is harder to drop than drugs.
I’ve been trying so hard to cook more at home but eating it doesn’t feel as good as eating fast food. Now I know why. This was very informative! Thank you!
@@verena4913 No. Fast food is mass-produced food, mostly unhealthy. Fast food is made fast. Yes, salad is made fast too. So, Fast Food is mostly not good for you. But it depends *what* you eat. A burger is u healthy, pasta is healthy. But a ready-made sauce with many additives and flavor enhancers is not. You can eat pasta, there's no problem.
@@pinsma you got a bit wrong, fast food is not food that made fast, fast food are made to be consumed fast, so you can have another one, McDonald have well research the portion so that you eat your burger in minimum time with the effect that it give your brain then crave for another one/another item.
Me neither. I always said that I would never eat it again after eating fastfood and feeling bad, and then I eventually would do it again because it's so addictive. But now I am over it entirely.
I will tell you why because you must be regularly working out and staying away from sugar as much as you can and that is why when you eat these proccessed foods filled with sugar you start to feel bad. Same happens with me. I have been working out for 4+ years and when I gotta eat fast foods in rare occassions mostly due to University then I feel super bad from inside and I feel like I am the fattest person walking even though I workout and almost had abs in my first year of Uni.
I was diagnosed with Diabetes and quit fast food overnight. When you are sick every day it's not hard to change. It took two weeks before I felt good, great by comparison.
Well it is true. Dopamine is made as a reward for achieving a goal or overcoming a problem. But games and fast food and drugs give instant dopamine surges so it messes with the system and makes you addicted to the easy access dopamine surges which crashes your dopamine into the ground so you have no motivation to do anything.
@@MrCmon113 I meant to say it is true sorta. Since dopamine is suppose to be used to for beneficial things natrually for survival. but its main function is pleasure not learning and etc.
They did a study and they took rats and gave them a button for food , the rats would obviously keep pressing the button to get food , and they would actively go for it . They then took rats and removed their dopamine system somehow (idk exactly how , my guess is a dopamine blocking drug) and the rats would not move to get the food. They would press the button if they were directly in front of it , but they were not motivated to actually get the food. Dopamine is a motivation chemical, dopamine creates a drive to do something , the reward comes from the endorphins and other chemicals
When I was a kid, my mom was STRICT about the food we ate. We barely ever ate fast food and there was no such thing as chips, soda, or sugary snacks in our house. All we had were animal crackers, water and maybe a lil juice here and there. Not even peanut butter a healthy fat 😂😂. It was either animal crackers or home cooked meals. I definitely thank God for her and so glad she raised us this way. I barely even glance at fast food. I prefer my own cooking. It tastes much better anyways.
It really does taste better, there's a little Ceasars up the road from me and around 6pm there's a long line in the drive thru and I always think to myself, why would they pay 15 bucks for that pizza when they could make WAY better pizza way cheaper? It's not even a matter of not having enough time either, make the dough before you go to bed or before work then when you get home just shape it, put toppings on and back for 8 min at 500°.
The part where you say: "I think its totally unfair and corrupt that this information isn't offered up to consumers by the companies that are serving this food to billions of people a year" YES! YES! YES! Education and food knowledge is SO important.
Uhm...common sense. Everyone knows fast food is garbage and if someone has any common reasoning they should be able to think if a cheeseburger costs $1, how high quality "food" can it possibly be ? It's alarming if people can't realize by themselves they are ingesting the lowest forms of food possible. You'd be better off baking a cake. It's not healthy, but at least you know it's real eggs, real butter, etc..
"The point of this video is not to scare you into not eating fast food" "Also eating fast food once a week increases your chance of heart attack by 20%"
Looking at my local swimming spots people used lockdown as an excuse to be even lazier. So many overweight males bound to a chair the whole time. Just like home.
Not sure how does she mean that but it's often calculated like this. You have for example 1% risk of a heart attack and you increase that by 20%. Meaning you now have 1.2% risk of a hearth attack, not 21%.
I hate that my parents never fed me vegetables and only fed me junk food. Now i struggle trying new foods and vegetables and I'm trying so hard it's so difficult 😣
Maybe try a delicious recipe that you do like, and go slowly from there :) Maybe you will like hummus with some grilled vegetables or perhaps lentil pasta with a simple tomato sauce. Just some ideas that are very easy to make yourself.
I wanted to say, the lady crying over brussel sprouts probably has some type of aversion eating disorder. Seeing her cry actually breaks my heart because I used to suffer from a restriction eating disorder. Anyway, I'm a dietetics student (will graduate this semester), and I LOVED this video!! Definitely going to share it with my friends and family. Great job as always, Kiana!!
@@TouchscreamPresents Depends how you cook them and whether you have new or old varieties. But alone on a plate with no butter or salt is not a good start.
@@catarena8031 You haven't met me yet, I eat fast food once every two motnhs( because I have a cheat day every two months) and I love the fact that I'm eating healthy most days of the year but also allowing myself comfort.
As a moderately obese person that started his weight loss journey a month ago I love your videos a lot😁. I've started eating healthier and exercising every day (jogging , weight lifting, cardio, streches), your videos along with other people certainly give me inspiration to continue! I plan on getting out of Quarantine as a more healthy and positive person.
Great video. As a guy who works out religiously I've found it's useless to explain this stuff to people who don't care but hey what can you do. Thanks for the info and congratulations on the weight loss 👍
How to make Brussel sprouts taste great: Use fresh Brussels sprouts, *not* frozen. Toss them in a warmed up pan with some olive oil. Cook on medium. As it’s cooking, toss in a pinch of salt, a pinch of sugar, and some pepper. Leave it until they brown. Flip em, and eat em. Great stuff. You can skip the sugar, but it makes children accept it easier.
SpiderMungkey, yeah. Great show. Horrible situations. I remember that joke as well. Stir frying is the way I love vegetables. I often skip the sugar and salt, as I can’t really taste things too well (lived with a dog I’m allergic to, so no sense of smell). This makes eating good food even harder for me. I have some other recipes for good food, but they take a lot more time to do. Stir frying is a pretty quick way to cook veggies. Great stuff. Cook, on, my friend.
@@bobbythelion6879 if that was a regular diet, it's still concerning, but to a lesser degree. However when most of your calories are from fast food *daily?* Especially to the degree nick does it?
@@ashley-sv4lo that's exactly what I do, and one time when the air fryer was broke and I had to use the deep fat fryer, my stomach was so upset and painful
@@niamunt Try "oven frying" them, just salt and maybe pepper works well. Or mix olive oil, salt, pepper, a little garlic powder, shake the pieces in a plastibag with the oil and put on a cookie sheet, bake. Really good that way!!
The last time I ate fast food was 2 months ago, now I'm sticking to an healthy lifestyle and I started exercising and I admit that I feel yucky whenever I hear about ultra processed foods, I also feel way better ❤️
One of the stupidest things I’ve ever came to was a person who thought that me loving vegetables and fruits was a simple trend ... just because many people don’t like vegetables and fruits doesn’t mean us who like it are faking it ..I just had to say this this is exactly how addicted people and their minds are to the flavors of Junk food . Anyways great video 💖💖
Maris Ito they’re not generally disliked but more like a burden in a diet .. when it comes to diet everyone seems to get tired of fruits and vegetables and it was always the opposite for me I guess that’s why
Sage Versace you make a good point. Fruits and vegetables are delicious. But I wouldn't say I can't stop my cravings for them as I eat them. When I eat a pizza slice my hunger increases. When I eat fruit and vegetables my hunger decreases. Both are tasty.
Fast food doesn’t taste good at all to me. I make homecooked meals, make my own salsas, sauces, everything. Now if I’m too busy to cook and decided to have cheat meals, I can taste the chemical and excess sugars. No to mention feeling like absolute garbage afterwards.
I saved so much money after cutting fast food out of my life omg. I can't believe I used to ear this "cheat meal" once a week that didn't even fill me up in any way and instead made me hungrier (which in turn makes me spend more money).
When I was in india fast food or extremely processed food costs more than natural or less processed food but now I'm in England n processed foods r way cheaper than vegetables n other less processed food or fast foods well so even if some people don't want to eat fast food we have to coz it's way cheaper (especially if u r a uni student ) :(
4:00 This is why therapists who specialize in disordered eating, paired with dietitians, can be such a powerful combination. That woman’s reaction to natural food tells you so much about how physically and psychologically she needs support to reach a healthier “new normal”. Great video, the editing was wonderful.
I was fast food addicted and I know super many people that made fun of the woman and her reaction to a vegetable but I gotta be honest here... I too cried when I ate my first salad after one and a half year of mostly fast food consumption. It was disgusting.
To be fair, she has a boiled and unseasoned brussel sprout. Vegetables are delicious when prepared properly, but many people think they hate them because all they have had is boiled and bland veggies.
@@jaredhicks5655 It would've for me omg, blended carrot... I make smoothies with banana, raspberry and cacao because vegetables in smoothies is just one of the worst textures I've had and I'm genuinely impressed you'd accept a carrot smoothie with a smile.
This information actualy helps people so much. We must talk about it, on repeat mode. One of my firends in a denial state. And basically only eats fast food and frozen dinners. She doesn't even realize that constant stomach pain, mood swings and depression are cause by her food addiction.
Its true people must talk about it but the fact of the matter is I don't think people have absolutely no idea that its unhealthy- they know. Just like smokers, its literally written on the box that it can cause damage to their lungs and give them cancer but they just either don't want to or cant give up without rehabilitation methods.
Ever since I started eating healthy I don’t crave fast food as much, makes so much sense. And when I did have fast food, I didn’t enjoy it as much, just felt terrible because I wasn’t getting the nutrition and had to run to the bathroom after.
I don't crave it either, but i still eat it from time to time. Usually because of the social aspect (sitting in the movie theatre with a bag of M&M's or whatever, what else am i gonna eat there? Carrots?) and afterwards i don't need to eat ANOTHER 10 bags. I go home and eat rice with Broccolli. People just need to learn about balance and not think in extreme opposite terms like "Only eat junk" or "Only eat lettuce"
I tried eating Dairy Queen after not eating fast food for 3 years, and I got so sick I could barely leave my bed for 2 days. It’s crazy how our body can build somewhat of an “immunity” to garbage like that.
oh my gosh, I used to think that Mcdonald's ice cream was DELICIOUS, but after eating a lot of it in a short span of time, I realized that the taste is actually so artificial and fake and doesn't taste good anymore lol.
I get that you're trying to make a statement, but your message gives off a really pompous "I'm so good that my body won't even accept fast food. My body will only accept the purest of pure food."
The steam kid I never said those those things and I wasn’t implying that either. I don’t know why you chose to be offended over words that weren’t said but okay thanks for the feedback I guess
This past weekend, I went on a fast food fasting period. As I am a fast food worker, this might have sounded difficult, but it wasn’t. I brought my own snacks to eat on my breaks and drank water on my shifts. As the processed food left my body, I began to feel a change. As a regular fast food consumer, I felt lethargic and crabby because I didn’t have a lot of energy. Over the time I didn’t consume fast food, I noticed.a change. I began to feel more energetic and my mood began to improve. I genuinely felt good. As I learned what fast food does to your body, I started to look at fast food a different way. I know I’ll be cutting way down on my fast food consumption by eating at home before I go to work and take a snack to keep my hunger at bay while I’m there. It’s all worth the change if I want to continue to feel good from day to day.
I know you mean well with the advice that you can occasionally have fast food to eat as long as you don't overdo the occasions. Fast food can get it's hooks into you quickly and then you are back to eating it on the regular. I try to never eat it. In an ideal world I would like to see these businesses demolished and replaced with healthier eating options. When I was in Japan I could go to their quick trip and get sweet potato soup. Other healthier option were available as well.
Such a wonderful, informative, and inspiring video, Kiana! It is not only up to these fast food companies to self-regulate (which they won’t), but government also bears a tremendous responsibility. This also seems like a slim possibility, as I imagine there is lots of money and politicking involved, driven by lobbyists to keep these additives in fast food.
I am happy to say I haven’t had one single fast food meal this ENTIRE year (2020) an will most likely not get one in a long time Edit: it’s been half of 2021 now and I’m still going ✌️
@@thequeerkid9391I stopped buying fast food too. I'm a bad ass cook so I prefer making my own food. I got fat from all the amazing food I was making and then decided to diet and exercise so I dropped all the weight. Now I watch what and how I eat.
when i was younger my mother could never really afford real healthy food so we would have quite a lot of fast food and as i grew up i moved in with my grandma and i started to eat home made food which was annoying at the time but now i realize that i am lucky to be where i am right now, and yes i am healthy at the moment.
My rules for heating healty: -Buy your meat, cook your meat. -Buy your vegetables, cook your vegetables. -Avoid processed sugars. -Avoid vegetable oils.
@@avaboucher174 Olive oil is high in monoUNsaturated fat while vegetable oil is high in Polyunsaturated fat. Both are completely different types of fats. The idea that saturated fat is bad for you is a ridiculous myth thought up by Ancel Keys in the late 50s and has since been dis proven many times.
CONGRATULATIONS KIANA, WE NEED MORE PEOPLE LIKE YOU IN THESE WORLD FULL OF LAZY PEOPLE THAT ARE GETTING HUMONGOUS INSTEAD TO BE COOKING THEIR OWN NICE HEALTHY MEAL. I AM VERY BUSY PERSON BUT, NOT THAT BUSY THAT I CANT COOK MY HEALTHY DELICIOUS COLOURFUL MEALS WHICH TAKES ME LESS THAN 20 MINUTES.
The link between mental health and unhealthy food is overlooked so often. Whilst the affects of fast food are easier to see, knowing that people who eat fast food regularly are 51% more likely to be depressed is alarming. And then tying that into socioeconomic relations to fast food, it's quite overwhelmingly and disproportionately affecting poorer people mentally and physically. This was really eye-opening and I can't wait to see future videos. This is one of my new favourite channels and I've been bingewatching all of them
I feel like it's a correlation, not a causation. I'm depressed as well and I used to struggle with this not because I suddenly got depressed after consuming fast food, I was depressed since I was 13 and eating home cooked meals, but it's rather the fact that you have no energy to cook so you resort to ordering stuff. However I can guarantee that cooking your own food is way healthier and gives you a lot of satisfaction which helps with depression
i feel so connected to this because I've been eating healthy and whole foods for most of my life. But once I decided to reward myself by eating a bag of Doritos, I kept craving its flavour for the next 2 weeks. Luckily Doritos is quite expensive in our country and I tend not to waste money on junk food, the craving was gone.
I suggest eating more fatty ANIMAL foods(dont go any for any plant oils). That alone for me keeps me from cravings for some reason and though people think fatty foods= fat gain it doesn't actually especially in the case of animal fats. Eggs, butter, steaks and if you have the budget: salmon's also great.
@@lynnfarhat9955 I'd like to reply but I keep getting censored. I suggest trying listenting to "What I've Learned"(WIL) channelthat's were I base my opinion of why fat>fiber.
I dont eat fast food that much and I never crave it. Those addictive chemicals just dont work on me ig. dont like chips, oreos, pizza, cheeseburgers, bacon, onion rings, and other things.
Fast food is so powerful that I just watch the food in the commercials and I feel my brain get happy and I can taste it in my mouth. Watching this video while on a diet and it's giving me more motivation to keep eating healthy and reach my weight loss goal!
Im addicted to fast food and Im having a hard time overcome it. Thanks for your videos. It gives me a lot more knowledge and maybe i might be able to break this addiction.
You really don’t realize just how bad this shit makes you feel until you stop. And that’s even just eating it a couple times a week. I can’t imagine how some people eat it everyday. It makes me depressed, anxious, sluggish, brain fogged, and overweight. Once I stopped, it was like I became a different person or aged backwards 15 years. Healthy eating habits are the way to go.
Yep, it's insane. Especially the lack of brain fog. I can recall macros and calories per serving size for TONS of different foods. I can eat for a week and never have to Google how many calories something has. It didn't take long for all that to sink in either. Pre-healthy me would NEVER have remembered all these numbers.
For almost an entire year I had a job that had me on the go most of the time. I wasn't organized with my time, nor did I earn that much money back then so I relied on take out to keep me going. Looking back, the reason why I was probably in such a bad mood most of the time back then was due to the food I ate, in addition to the high stress that that particular job caused me. And I haven't even mentioned how all that eating wrecked my body and gave me a skinny fat physique.
Honestly I’m glad my family always eat homemade food and fruits almost daily, we only have fast food once a month or sometimes once in a few months. We usually have homemade fries and sometimes make our own burgers instead of buying it from fast food chain.
@@私はクソな中国人です someone is salty. it's something to be proud of when you can make this kind of lifestyle change for your health. maybe one day you'll get there too
@@私はクソな中国人です Even though you don't give a shit or that you don't like when they talk about their diet, it almost had the same chance to inspire you to change as well (or not.) Didn't have to be rude for that. You may not give a shit or you may think when you do that, you feel as though they have "rich boy check" vibes but that doesn't mean everyone doesn't give a shit too. On a side note, her family's diet sounds like mine too-
I am so grateful to my parents for giving me homecooked meals at lunch and dinner. I used to think that I was the weird kid for bringing in pots of soup and salad into school instead of lunchables or store-bought sandwiches (keep in mind that I am dairy and soya intolerant, meaning I could not eat the majority of store bought sandwiches or other cheap snack foods). Now, I feel so much better and I know that my body is most likely healthier for the years of good eating habits.
As someone in culinary school, it's a shame to see that many people don't know how to cook a better meal than what McDonald's makes. Watching some videos here on tutorials for your favorite dishes or reading some cookbooks could be the start of a healthier life with tastier meals than any fast food chain could ever offer.
For how many years have you been in a culinary school now? By the way I agree. Cooking can be funny and relaxing at the same time if you do it with will and calm
@Jonny Williams I don't actually eat fast food, sorry for the confusion. I was just saying I don't have a stove so cooking is not too much of an option bc there are probably ppl in my predicament that consume a lot of fast food. I don't have a oven either lol and Idk like any foods that would be healthy to cook in the microwave so thanks I'll look that up. Also by raw, do you mean like fruits, vegetables, wheat products, and snacks? I already eat that but if there's stuff other than that, that could be helpful. Thank you, I hope you have a good day lol.
Sad part is some people don’t even have the energy or time to. When I used to work at McDonalds every time I came home I was too exhausted to even microwave so often I just ate whatever I could get for free. Luckily it was only a teen job for me but I can’t imagine living like that forever.
I've praised you on the quality of your videos before, but they're still worth the compliments, so once again: congratulations on making such valuable, well put together content. I've taken an interest in nutrition as of late, and out of everything I've seen out there, I think your videos are genuinely the most comprehensive, and detailed enough to make sense without being too specialized for the general public. Thanks for the work you put in. If there comes a time where you don't have anything else in the works and are in need of other ideas: would you consider making a video explaining, at length, what nutrients and vitamins do for our bodies, and what exactly it means for our well-being to consume healthy, whole foods? A mere suggestion. Once again, thank you and good luck.
i can definitely do a video like this! interesting topic. thank you for the suggestion and wow thank you very much for all of your compliments!! ☺ i'm flattered lol. so glad you're enjoying the videos!!
I come back to this video regularly and profusely thank my parents for never buying me chocolates and snacks for birthdays or when i threw tantrums. Mom always made sweets at home and kept healthy snacks ready. Thank god for my parents.
![Twenty One Pilots - The Line (from Arcane Season 2) [Official Audio]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/XCz7WUotXs8/mqdefault.jpg)
i used to be so jealous of the kids that brought mcdounalds to lunch, but now i am so grateful my mom put the energy to cook homemade meals, even though she works.
Gotta love our moms
Fast food tastes so much better when you don't eat it often.
You didn't have a dad?
Your mom actually cared. My grandmother taught me how to eat healthy. I love to cook!
@@nikkingman Why would you assume that?
I turned 18 today, and man, I am so grateful that my parents almost never gave me fast food. This video is an eye-opener to just how much companies deceive and manipulate consumers.
Yep, all about a dollar. They can care less about our health.
Same, I think I go to fast food once every 2 years, and it's generally because a friend really want an ice cream so I just accompany them
Lucky
Mine too! We are so lucky, let's stay healthy
Ye au just be so special more special then anyone in the whole world maybe u can be a hero since ur so perfect and healthy
I remember my teacher once quoted, "fast food, fast life".
Lmaoo😳
XD Savage
Literally
Idc if its a fast life it should be a good one. No one wants long and dreadful life either.
@@DocEtan You literally missed the point
Just wanna say I watched this video 3-4 months ago and went from eating fast food a couple times a week to cutting it out almost entirely. I’ve been trying to lose weight and it’s helped a lot. Over the past year and a half I’ve dropped down from 250 pounds to just now hitting 179 (6’2 F)! I feel really good about myself and I’m not done yet, but I just wanna say thank you for making this video, it’s helped a lot with my weight loss journey!
The closest store to me is a dollar general so I've been eating that and nothing but door dash for months now, I finally started eating home cooked meals and vegetables again and now I'm feeling better , had no idea it would make me feel this bad.
I have started avoiding ultra processed food altogether by baking bread, biscuits, cookies and even making my own pasta at home. I was once addicted to potato chips but now I don’t eat potato chips at all. I don’t bring junk food home at all. I have started drinking fresh coconut water and never felt so better.
AH! I'm also a 6'2" female around your old weight with the goal of 175! Congrats from a fellow tall gal!
179 from 250! Damn, that's amazing! I struggled to loose just 25lbs. Congratulations to ya.
That’s amazing you got this :)
It's crazy how something that was supposed to make our life more convenient and easier has actually ruined so many. For some it can become an addiction. Great video!
same with porn and smartphones to a point. to quote cyberchase lol "too much of a good thing is too much of a good thing"
@@HearMeLearn definitely a true statement.
Facts. A Coworker of mine only eats fast food, he goes to McDonald's a day earlier to get his burgers for the next morning.. he only drinks Coca Cola aswell, nothing healthy and that's the way he looks and smells..
T.J. always with the insightful comment lol! Thank you as always💕
I remember McDonald's was an addiction for me. I would go there before work at night to get my dinner. I became consciously aware of my addiction but hesitated to stop. But I had to quit eating there cause McDonald's was always making me late for work. The drive thru always took about 20 minutes. It was a good thing cause I was packing on the pounds.
I am from Asian country that fast food and junk food are something luxury for us so I can only have it occasionally. Now I feel lucky to grow up with homecook food.
🙏🏼
As an Asian I low-key want to binge on junk food sometimes but my wallet said no so I just don't.
You are so lucky to have access to fresh fruit and vegetables, what we have, for the most part, here in the USA is stuff that's old, not fresh or has no taste to begin with.
I'm Asian too, but I grew up in the US. My parents cooked everything at home because they weren't used to eating American fast food. I loved McDonalds but I could only eat it once in a while (it was like a special occasion). I'm very glad my parents instilled the importance of homecooked meals in our family. I'll definitely try to do the same for my kids
i'm from a latin-american country and same, we only had fast food maybe every few months. it's always been pricey, especially for an entire family, plus if we went a day eating fast food or sandwiches we'd end up feeling weak and craving our regular food.
The “eating just ONE fast food meal a week can increase your chances of a heart attack by 20%” did it for me
Damn same
NOBODY BLAME THE FOOD INDUSTRIES nobody , he addictrd with sugar SUGAR SUGAR not FOOD, THEY ARE PROTECTING THE FOOD INDUSTRIES THE FOOD industries are killing HUMANITY..
Well that's a yikes but at least I dont eat fast food every week
That did terrify me as well... cause that is me. However she did end the video saying if you’re in good health then the risk is low so to enjoy but in moderation. So maybe every 2 weeks 😅
Then is it 10%?
I gave up sodas 3 yrs ago. Never again. I now only eat whole foods and meat for protein. I was 295 lbs. Giving up carbs, processed and sugar, I lost 75 lbs, I now weigh 220. And now I feel great and may live much longer. I an now 81 yrs old.
So glad to hear that
👍💖
Hello, i am the exact weight you used to be "295" i eat fast food almost every single day, i do not drink soda at all but i do drink gatorade pretty often, and i have a sweet tooth for chocolate. My goal is to weigh 230! Im 6ft tall male. If its not too much to ask could you help me make a list on what to eat? I have no idea where to start! But you made it! So you know the way! I wouldnt mind blending my foods if i need to..... i would not eat fish or sea food, i dislike it so much
@@aquaticlives2948 I went on the Keto diet. No pkg'd food. No sugar. Lots of fat, meat, eggs,butter. NO CARBS. lots of veggies, and no fruit while your losing. I lost 50lbs in 3months. I still am on keto, but now I can eat a little sugar, ice cream. When dont consume carbs, your body uses fat that is why you lose. David
Fruits good for you… as long as it’s organic
This makes me feel sick. I genuinely don't want this in my body anymore and feel legitimate guilt for having fed my child this "food".
Kymera Lynn how is that fat bitch nick avocado still alive
I only have fast about once a month I think as treat once in awhile is ok as long as your healthy the majority of the time. But I mean the less fast food you have the healthy your probably going to be.
@@albionbisha1438 he said he had a heart attack but hes not even 30 yet
@@randomcandy8209 Fast food is definitely not a treat...
Arizmea it is for some people.
"home cooked meals dont have the same sparkle" i think the main reason people eat fast food regularly is because they don't know how to cook well...
Wish more people learned to cook ;-;-; once you get a hold of it it’s fun and is a self esteem booster when you improve
forsure! seems like less and less people know how to cook nowdays
exactly!!!
I had to teach myself and i found out if you follow the instructions its pretty freaking easy and way cheaper than eating out all the time.
For me fast food taste like shit compared to the food myself and my family can cook.
"home food doesn't have that same sparkle"
Mine does, i cook with Glitter
Lmao😂😂
LOL🤣
Let's normalize adding glitter to food!!
@@mayonese4821 hell yeah
That doesn´t count xD It has to shine itself with butter and fat.
From experience. Senior man here. Cut out, as much as possible, sugar, salt, processed flower and white bread. Just those three adjustments have made a huge change in my physical and mental health. It only took a couple of weeks.
Since eating healthier fast food even looks gross
Ikr. I used to salivate at the idea of pizza. Since eating healthier, pizza from fast food places now just tastes greasy and overly salty.
I'm the exact same way! I literally get sick at fast food now, I can't believe how I'd guzzle a big sweet tea at Mcdonald's... Still are a little addicted to the fries though, that's how you know they're that bad for you lol
So true! A few weeks ago I went to McDonald's for the first time in months after changing to a healthier diet, I could instantly tell my body was rejecting it. It didn't even look or taste yummy 🤢
Same I can no longer eat most fast food only chips, or plain pizza
Same.
I cut out fast food, ALL deep fried foods, all soda beverages (regular/diet/club/tonic/energy), commercial juices, sugared sauces, sugared breakfast cereal, and microwave popcorn.
Now my healthy home cooked meals made with wild fish, fresh produce, whole grains, and limited oil/salt and minimal industrial additives DO have their sparkle back! And air popped popcorn actually tastes good now lol.
Over time I realized that our country’s professionally engineered food hijacked my perception of taste and pleasure and prevented me from genuinely enjoying whole foods
I still make sure to allow myself to have an indulgence every now and again.
I can enjoy the occasional light icecream, chips ahoy cookie, baked good or slice of mushroom pizza without feeling any shame or guilt. I also allow myself to drink Bubly/LaCroix without being disappointed in myself for not drinking plain water.
“My goal is to not make you quit fast food” lol this made me quit fast food
I didn’t do it for weight, I was already a healthy size but I have chronic depression and it made me feel so bad. I’m a year clean! I feel so much better now thank you so much
Happy for u !!
Luckly fastfood in my country is seeing as a luxury, so obesity rate which is caused by fastfood is verylow.
It’s so true, my dad’s depression was really obvious when he was only eating fast food. Depression makes you also not have the motivation to do things as cooking and sometimes makes you feel like you don’t deserve to take care of yourself, though, so it can end up making you turn to fast food even more often, and then make you feel even worse.
@@sasukes.6370 example:nikocado avocado
I wrote a Biology paper on the dangers of ultra-processes foods recently, and yet I still had no idea it was this bad. Happy for you! I'm so glad that it helped.
Growing up my family always said eating healthy was “too expensive” and then they’d proceed to spend $70-$80 a night on Popeyes or McDonalds. There were times where we would have fast food everyday and I would literally crave a vegetable rather than have more fast food. And by the age of 11 I already had second stage high blood pressure. Now I’m 18 and I eat a mainly plant based diet while going to the gym 5 days a week. I feel much healthier and I never want to go back to that lifestyle ever again. The overconsumption of fast food is abuse.
Im so sorry
That's so sad ! So your family was rather lazy. In my family, it was quite the opposite. I was a kid in the seventies and France did not have yet all the fast food you can find today. So Coca-Cola and other stuff were just banished from my mother and today, I'm glad. Never eaten any McDonald stuff, never had any health issues and I'm just preparing homemade pizza, the dough and everything. Cooking is pure joy and when it's kept simple, you are not hungry every third hour, you are not grazing between meals but you enjoy fully what you have freshly cooked. It's a simple philosophy everybody could embrace, if only they would do it.
My family was very similar, except it would be more frozen food so we could eat whenever we wanted with the help of a microwave. We didn’t have any set meal times, you would just microwave a corn dog whenever you were hungry. when I visited my grandparents for the summer, every meal would be fast food. When I was ten we moved to an area with a grocery store in walking distance, and slowly I started spending my own money on more healthy food bc I was craving it. Now I have a part time job and buy my own food + I work out. I’m glad I stopped living like that, I would never go back either.
But don't get it too twisted, the meat wasn't the problem. Meat itself is a health food. Has been forever
@@ChrisOhMy Lol it’s gotten ridiculous with meat over the years. Doctors and nutritionists both flip flop every so often first cursing meat then coming back a few years later saying that it’s good for you. Like I understand you don’t want to be eating red meat daily (lol even though I could bc it’s just really good) but it’s perfectly fine to have in your diet.
I haven’t had a fast food meal in 3 yrs. I really missed them for a while, until I started to look and feel so much better. I learned about metabolic health from You Tube. I turned my life around starting at age 65. Food is fuel. No more boxed or bagged foods for me ever again.
This "fuel" is poison
Nikocado Avocado needs to see this video. That guy is on a whole other level with his fast food consumption!
Houdini Every fat person who eats fast food often, or every person who eats fast food often should see this.
He used to be a vegan for many years
bob lex What does that have to do with anything? There is vegan fast food, also vegan =/ healthy
bob lex
He also had many serious health issues and nutrient deficiencies as a vegan because he was too restrictive overall. Balance and moderation isn’t in that guy’s vocabulary- he likes extremes and the attention that comes with it
No one:
Nik: MicHellE oBaMa sAiD pIzzA iS vEtgEtAbLe
Yes, truly disgusting
Please never decrease the quality of your content if you ever get discouraged. This stuff is gooood!
LOL thank you!
Can’t imagine eating fast food every day, poor people :( I bet it’s really hard to break the addiction
It truly is.
I feel bad for them because they are lower income because that's their target audience and just knowing some of them have kids and it's all they can afford really makes me angry
I’ve given myself a month to break this habit I’m currently at my 3rd week.
@Huda Abdi I wish you the best!!!
Oh-oh Stinky thanks 😊 it’s officially been a month but In the near future I’ll Oder takeout.then repeat the pattern takeout once a month
I was happily eating a Big Mac and fries then I decided to watch this video. Now I feel sick 🤢
I think it’s time to cut out fast food and start eating healthy again
MAHA is what MAGA should actually be.
@@rachelwaln269"Make America healthier again" I like that!
I’m gonna watch this video every time I start craving fast food.
im with you there
So am i
Good way to stop the craving
It made me crave fast food even more since i really dont care about my health that much anyways and got to see picures of tasty fast food.
I do 😂 instead of ordering fried chicken today I just decided to make a grilled chicken salad
Now I understand why I would crave fast food again and again and again!
Good thing there have been a few months I don't eat fast food.
Facts
You mean now? Like during quarantine? Same here! 🤣
Has it been a big difference for you, not eating the fast food I mean? I'm thinking about giving fast food up to make myself feel healthier.
@@moonshineman5691 it helps! It makes you lose weight and then when you want to eat frozen foods (like many used to at work), it tastes nasty, like plastic.
@Stop Trolling Everyone but Americans. Have you heard of Australians? We're not the only country in the world.
I remember reading a quote from a nutritionist:
"Your taste buds have a memory of about three weeks." In other words, years of fast food, junk food, and all around heavily processed garbage have overstimulated our taste buds, making us crave levels of salt, sugar and fat that are beyond what we normally should have. We can 'feel' full, but still 'crave' our fix. Learning to cut back on all three, eating whole, unprocessed foods and plenty of produce for a long of enough period of time, like a month to a year, will help you reset your taste buds. I used to have quite the sweet tooth, throwing in syrup and all kinds of sweets into my fruit smoothies. Now? frozen fruit, water, and maybe some almond milk are enough for me. You can fix this!
I have realized many people sub milk for almond milk in smoothies but I still am not sure why. (other than the fact that some people are intolerant) Why is this?
@@moskiix5323 cow's milk has hormones in it - that are obviously very good for little cows, but not that good for entirely different species, like human beings. It can and will hurt you, even if you do not see it at first. Also, milk has lactose in it - lactose is a sugar and it does not matter if the milk is "lactose-free" or not. Because the second one only has put the lactase enzyme in it, so the lactose is still there, it's only already digested, so a grown-up body that doesn't produce lactase anymore (we actually need it only as children to digest milk from out mums) can drink it without nasty consequences. So, by drinking milk you actually are giving your body sugars and hormones that it does not need. It's totally better/healthier to just take some water with a little bit of nut paste in it (like almond "milk") or something else made from healthy stuff (like oat "milk", it also tastes good).
Also, many people put cow's milk away because of the way cows are treated. Animals that are "producing" things for us are too often living in real hell and many people hate it, so they f.ex. turn vegetarian and refuse to take any products made with suffering of feeling creatures.
@@theAsperist I agree with every point EXCEPT the hormone part. Unless you are talking about cow's milk straight from the farm, most pasteurized milk has hormones as well - but in such small quantities, that you would need to drink tons of milk all day to even reach a level where the hormones can affect your body in even the most mild way. And even then, your digestive tract erases those hormones. But as for your point about lactose and the morality issue, I absolutely agree.
Growing up one of my friends refused to drink soda for many reasons. I never believed any of them and then he challenged me to see if I could do it. It was pretty difficult but after about a month I didn't even think about it. The weird part was when I had another one I could only have a couple drinks it tasted like syrup and burned.
@@nerdomatic2489 Well, yes, but no. Search for articles about milk and acne - it's known that milk can cause acne, and many researchers strongly believe it's because of hormones. Another theory is that it's because of sugar. We still need more research on this field. Also please remember, that hormones are pretty easy to be made unstable - you do not have to eat much chicken (hormone-fed on farms of cages) or drink tons of milk (naturally occuring hormones + hormones in diet). Just a daily intake is usually enough.
I really appreciate the amount of research you incorporate into your videos. It must've taken forever💀
Before my break up I was 140lbs, then got depressed, stopped going to the gym, and ate fast food multiple times a day, was tired and angry, after a year I weighed 215lbs! Now after getting back to the gym, eating healthier, stopping soda and fast food completely, I'm at 194 and I'm not depressed and I'm actually more energized and social than before!
Keep up the good work!
Yep, depression was the reason for my weight gain as well.
That’s great that you’re getting back on track! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💛
@@LittleMissSunshine721 Thank you so much! can tell I'm stronger now and weight currently 187
What’s your weight now
She has a point. I tried replicating a burger from “Five Guys” and don’t get me wrong, it was really delicious. Just not the same as Five guys. This explains why.
I did the same with trying to copy the bean burrito from Taco Bell. The burrito was good, but not the taste I was used to from Taco Bell.
My parents would always tell me we could make whatever we get from fast food places at home but it never tasted the same and this must be why lol.
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!
Jimmy Nance learn how to read
Five guys shops stink to high heavens of fat, they make me sick as soon as I walk in the door
I stopped eating fast food years ago, I dont even crave for it. Most of my meals are made at home, if I go on road trips I bring in snacks with me. I much rather eat at a small restaurant, I don't even bother sitting at chain restaurants because their foods preservatives.
Good for you?
Mayra Reyes same, I only like five guys. But that’s just as expensive as eating at a restaurant here
My colleagues gave me the strangest look
When they dragged me to Wendy’s and I ordered a plain baked potato and side salad with no croutons or dressing. People don’t get after a long time of refraining it can lose it’s appeal!
i eat fast food once a year haha
If I eat fast food it leads to a binge. If I have fucking bread it leads to a binge lmao. Good for u for being healthy.😂
Not mentioned very often, in order to eat healthy and make it sustainable, it really helps to know how to cook! Also, if you’re going from a mostly processed food diet to a whole food diet ease your way into it…..by making “better bad choices”….like not getting fries with your burger or decreasing portion sizes.
Good point! If you don’t know how to cook there’s tons of videos right here on RUclips University- I’m no Ramsey chef myself but I follow recipes very well! 😊
Yeah I used to get Big Macs lol now I just get a normal burger and my hubby gets the fries 🍟
That woman gagging and crying from sniffing the Brussels sprout leaf was just sad to watch.
I agree, I said this already above, but I really don't think it's funny at all😔she clearly has issues and is in pain. It's not simply because she "just doesn't like it", I think if people are going to talk about the science of food addiction, then that should make them more aware of how painful it is. I mean I've never experienced food addiction myself, but you can see how hard it is for them. I just don't think that's funny, I also think it was sad like you said
@@im_not_real1456 the issue is in her head like with people who have anorexia or bulimia.. it's not that they don't want to be healthy it's just that they mentally can't get over that 6 metre high wall to actually eat.. mentally they beat themselves up and they can't help it wich is one of the saddest things and only proves how much is wrong with today's society
I used to never eat veggies, I would gag at the thought, but since I stopped eating fast food and sugary foods I now am proud to say I eat most veggies! It is so important for my health that I changed.
@th1smomentisfate I'm sorry you struggle with that :( and to answer you, although obviously I'm no expert, I have seen that video in the actual context before I saw this small clip of it put in this video out of context. People like that have actual fears of foods outside of what they are comfortable with. Also, I don't think it's solely due to food addiction, I think it's a mix of things. For instance, I struggle with anorexia and I have gotten that same way in the past when I've tried to eat some of my biggest fear foods such as cheeseburgers or cupcakes. The thoughts that you have about what will happen if you eat your fear food are very irrational and are blown out of proportion. And for some people it could even bring back traumatic memories if they experienced trauma in relation to that food in some way. I personally really don't think she's just being dramatic but idk, that's just what I think. Like I said I think it's been taken out of context and some people have fears, phobias, and things that make them uncomfortable that without hearing the whole story, we might not understand. I don't think it's something to laugh at☹️
Exactly..I'm 14 and my parents make me eat salad and fruit every day lmfao
I still giggle whenever I see the woman crying over brussel sprouts lol
that is legit one of my fav videos on youtube LOL
Bruv, how did she even gag at the smell? It looked uncooked, so there shouldn't even be a smell at all.
I haaaate brussel sprouts, they are my most hated food. but I've never cried over them lol
Bruh she needs an F in the chat 😔🤚
I watched that episode of freaky eaters religiously LMAO
“Fake flavor” no wonder when I try to make those foods it never appeals the same to me. Damnn
it never tastes like the fast food but ive made like chicken sandwiches and fried chicken at home and they taste delicious. they're still unhealthy but a lot better of an option than outside food cuz u know what ur putting in and can customize
I feel like the powder pringles put on their chips is really artificial too,it tastes so salty and weird...i actually prefer the offbrans pringles by far
@@parttimeemo8363 The stax chips are the best!
You can make better, healthier, and even cheaper while you’re at it, but it takes a bit of practice.
Edit: at least for some stuff, I don’t think pringles are something you can practically recreate. Hamburgers are a great example of food you can make better because you aren’t trying to do it on an industrial scale while maximizing profits. You can get the original KFC seasoning off the shelf also, I think it’s called 99x. The real secret ingredient, on top of the other herbs and spices, is MSG, IIRC.
@@adisaster8734 true. I used to work at burger king in 2016, and I worked with people that didn’t wash their hands, touched their face while wearing gloves and sneezing in their hands at times. I know that not everybody is that unsanitary, but I stopped eating fast food bc of that and I cook my own meals
I love your video!!! I quit fried foods two years ago as well as hamburgers. I can’t even eat at a fast food place anymore. I watch your video a lot as a motivator. I am so healthy now, I haven’t been sick in over two years and have a lot of energy!! What a difference! My triglycerides have dropped drastically and I have lost some weight.
I was genuinely shocked when she said that 1 in 3 Americans consume at least one fast food meal A DAY. How do they not feel disgusting?
Mary Phantomhive I don’t know anyone who eats like this....
IKR!! I can’t even eat a single cheeseburger without having an awful stomach ache and feeling nauseous for hours after 😖
Isabella Sobey Exactly. This is a recipe for disaster. It tastes good when you eat it but I can’t imagine feeling that greasy and heavy and eating like that EVERY DAY. 🤢
@@isabellasobey5225 seriously? Yikes. A single cheeseburger?
I love fast food but EVERY DAY???? no wonder they're obese
"Dopamine's main function isn't pleasure, it's learning and motivation".
I never thought about it that way but this makes so much sense. Woah.
You see All These calamity's that are going on around the world will lead to a Sunday Law Which will The Mark Of The Beast, Those that keep Gods seventh day sabbath will be prohibited from buying and sell and persecuted. Jesus is coming are you ready?
@@raheemallen2003 he ain't ever coming back pal. I wouldn't either.
@@roamintheslums4851 no one cares what you do anyway pal
The mu opioid receptors are the primary pleasure receptors. The pleasurable effects of sex are mediated by them, but not the dopamine receptors.
@@roamintheslums4851 lol
This is disgusting. My parents NEVER fed me fast food as a kid and now I’m a bit older, and I have more control over what I eat, I tend to indulge when I’m out with friends. My parents go on at me when they find wrappers, and I always feel fat they’re just overreacting. This video has seriously opened my eyes. I’m so glad it’s not to late. Thank you!
You’re lucky to have parents who are concerned for your health. Not everyone has parents who care, not even for themselves.
You should throw some syringes around they'll never complain about burger wrappers ever again.
You're so beautifullllllll
@@Winxdiamond you ok dawg?
5’1 and 60kg, I eat fast food often and rarely make food at home. This is a wake up call but it’s still so hard to stick to a healthier diet.
I hear you. I'm struggling as well. Looks like I'll be having a heart attack any day now...😅
Ignorance is bliss.
@@gomangoism Ignorance, in this case, is chronic anxiety as a psychological effect of a strained heart trying to pump an amount of blood through clogged veins. I would not call ignorance bliss.
@Daniel-e8d5c No fast-food-addicted person would be able to tolerate such an intense shift in diet though. To make a more comfortable shift, prepare your veggies with other stuff and slowly get rid of the other stuff. Don't completely cut out salt either, especially if you work a job that makes you sweat a lot. A pinch of it in a salad won't give you a heart attack.
It's important to take baby steps when trying to improve yourself. Most people try to take a gigantic leap, predictably fail, then never try again. Any improvement is still improvement, even consuming one less soda a day is a great improvement. Any time your will triumphs over instinct, you should feel proud of yourself.
Now I appreciate the home made meals in my lunch instead of the fast food other kids had
bro u got meals? i got some bread with cheese haha
@MrBigNuts476 yesssss ah I feel u
@@larab2323 Cheese and bread? What are you poor?
@MrBigNuts476 unless they made their own sauce it is still unhealthy. pasta is digested fast and not so filling. the sauce from stores has so much unnecessary sugars so it makes it basically garbage. Most food that is convenient is most likely bad for you.
Right tho
What's sad is that I see a lot people feeding their kids with fast food everyday... Cooking is so fun and relaxing, but I guess we're all different.
for me, cooking is fun and awesome. it's the cleaning up afterwards that sucks lol
My mom hates cooking tbh, but she cares about what we eat and I appreciate it, never chose fast food over homecooked meals. Now that I'm older I help her in the kitchen because I love cooking :)
When we were growing up we didn't have a lot of money so going to a place like McDonalds or Bakers was kind of rare and a nice treat. Other than that my Mom cooked, and she cooked good with what she had. She also made sure me and brothers and sisters were active children. She always told us as kids no woman want's a slobby body, and she always told my sisters no man want's his woman with a slobby body.
My mom very rarely fed me fast food, when I was a kid I used to think it’s because she “hated me” but now I’m so glad she only bought it on very special occasions as a treat, I’d only get it 2 times a year. (Sometimes she wouldn’t get any at all 🤷♂️)
Cooking is alot of work and cleaning up afterwards. I cooked for myself for a short while, I found it unpleasant.
Your videos seem like clickbait, but then aren’t. LISTEN HERE BRIGHTSIDE, TAKE NOTES. If only all RUclips creators were like you...
Edit: thanks for the likes guys! But big question - what are we fans called? The channel has over 20k now, so...?
LOL this one is actually my version of a Brightside video! I was thinking of doing a whole series just like this. I always want to know wtf 'happens to my body when I eat cucumbers everyday for a year '~ * ~* or whatever else they promise but - they usually let me down lol
Is crazy how good this channel is, this shit should have millions of views but god knows how the algorythm works...
Soy Yui it’s sad, the educative, well informed creators don’t have enough subscribers because lots of them (after getting a large amount of subscribers) end up trying to get more ‘interesting’ or a larger amount of content. Often times, to get more content, the RUclipsrs will cut out some amount of research or experimentation to get a more often upload. Think of channels like brightside, they know that a title such as ‘what happens if you eat cucumber everyday for a year’ draws people in, which also brings money in. However, they have no way to test what would happen, or they know that the answer isn’t interesting enough to make the video into the minimum length of 10:00 (I think) minutes that a RUclips video has to be to earn money from views; so they go off topic to drag it out, all for the sake of a couple of cents per every thousand views
if this makes no sense, it is because it is currently 2:33 where I live and I need to sleep
When i was in college, i went through 4 years of eating mostly fast food because i worked in that industry and i didn’t have much time or resources to cook on my own. I went from 125lbs at the beginning of freshman year to 155lbs at graduation. It’s been just over one year since then, I’ve been almost exclusively homecooking, and i’ve already gone back down to 134lbs.
my family once had to eat fast food for a WHOLE week......my stomach was not having it and i can confirm i felt emotionally and physically sick.
my family ate it for 3 days and i started vomiting and hating fast food on the 3rd day.
Same because I was going on a trip I felt terrible too that I wouldn't eat it 😅
They HAD to? couldn't go grab some chipotle or something?
@@edwinortiz1262 I usually have to whee i go to weekend long music festivals. Not much food you ca eat that does not need to be cooked or kept outside of heat so ya gotta rely on the food stands.
@@edwinortiz1262 our new house did not have electricity or running water so we where forced to eat outside. as for the chipotle ….my family is mexican,they don’t really believe in “healthy food” lollllll.
3:56 in her defense, a single, unseasoned brussels sprout (that looks boiled on top of it all) is probably the worst thing to offer a person when trying to win them over on vegetables
😑 She didn’t have to have a mentally breakdown about it though!
@@NG-zb6cb no it is a perfectly reasonable response actually
@@evilbob9970 I too would break down if someone offer such crime of a vegetable and I ate vegetables on daily basis
Definitely when u have been eating food that has been chemically made for you to enjoy.
Everyone here is weird. Brussel sprouts boiled in vegetable soup are one of the best parts of this soup for me.
I feel like I just watched a whole documentary but it was only 14 minutes. (And I mean this in a good way)
> who’s surviving 2020?
@@a-droid781 All of us today and tomorrow will survive forever
Today was the first day in 4 Months that I don’t eat any fast food. And while yes it felt good eating healthy home cooked meals, it’s like I still crave it. Fast food addiction is no joke guys!
SAME I struggle with it so much😭 In Uni I had so many classes in different places and when going back home I would crave mcdonalds .. then one week I ate junk good like 4 times .. at mcdonalds and then burger king😭 and didn’t even realized it
In the end of it all
It just boils down to moderation and self responsibility
Dont let the food control you, you take control
It’s an addiction. Harder to beat than it seems. Not impossible, but there’s an unhealthy tendency to make people feel like crap if they can’t just “take control.” The solution is to acknowledge the gravity of the situation, to want to change, and to make a concrete “game plan” to achieve your goals. Willpower alone is not enough.
The food is design to be addictive and binged on, moderation is quite unrealistic
people have eating disorders
It’s not about control- cuz people with EDs will use that phrase to control their food and restrict ect
@Dale Ritter Okay, not sure where all the anger is coming from and I’m not sure where I was complaining about anything/whining. I wasn’t even talking about MYSELF specifically. And yes, you have to want to change and no one can do it for you, but willpower alone is not enough is to power through the lows-you have to have a game plan for when you feel like quitting. I think you read a lot more into my comment than what’s actually there because we both believe the same thing. I do think that shaming people is counter-productive, however. I’m not feeling sorry for anyone-in fact I don’t have much patience for people who expect me/anyone else to do their work for them-it’s just that feelings of guilt and self-hatred make for poor motivators for most people.
As a soon to be registered dietitian, THANK YOU for spreading such great, evidence based information
oo what a compliment! thank YOUU
evilo101 just don’t be a abbey sharp
Quitting fastfood and going on a whole foods plant based diet took me way more effort compared to quitting harddrugs. Something I did not expect to find out. 10 years clean now, both ways.
Anyone can change, you just got to be willing to leave unsupportive people behind.
yeah
Fast food is more readily available and legal unlike hard drugs.
Plant diet is an idiotic idea
No shit because plants aren’t the natural human diet. You were pretty much just starving yourself out. Why do you think it took so much discipline an effort.
@@kaneda956 ; exactly this! and on top of that, you literally need food to live unlike recreational drugs. and the harm fast food causes is a lot less visible and understood than the extremely obvious danger of drugs as well. unfortunately, society doesnt portray junk food to be just as self-destructive and addicting as other addictions.
this does seem shocking upon first read, but when you think about it, it makes *total* sense that fast food is harder to drop than drugs.
I’ve been trying so hard to cook more at home but eating it doesn’t feel as good as eating fast food. Now I know why. This was very informative! Thank you!
I stopped eating fast food when I realized it was never filling .
Exactly health is good but wasting your money on food that dosent fill you up helllll noooo!!
my mum allowed me to have mcdonalds only when i got to the age of 12 😭✋ shes a nutritionist so it does make sense
Are things like pasta fastfood too?
@@verena4913 No. Fast food is mass-produced food, mostly unhealthy. Fast food is made fast. Yes, salad is made fast too. So, Fast Food is mostly not good for you. But it depends *what* you eat. A burger is u healthy, pasta is healthy.
But a ready-made sauce with many additives and flavor enhancers is not.
You can eat pasta, there's no problem.
@@pinsma you got a bit wrong, fast food is not food that made fast, fast food are made to be consumed fast, so you can have another one, McDonald have well research the portion so that you eat your burger in minimum time with the effect that it give your brain then crave for another one/another item.
Parents: “Don’t do drugs, kids”
Also parents: “Okay, heres your diabetes”
Parents have such a big influence in these kind of things, it's sick.
Having diabetes isn't a crime so i'd rather have it more than drugs.
@@yue4u4, just because it’s legal doesn’t make it okay.
@@yue4u4 Bad Diabetes makes your life so much harder
@@yue4u4 lol, laws are made up, so yeah. They aren't real. You can NOT die from weed, you can die from food.
I seriously can’t remember a time where I actuslly felt “good” after eating fast food.
Me neither. I always said that I would never eat it again after eating fastfood and feeling bad, and then I eventually would do it again because it's so addictive. But now I am over it entirely.
Especially after the pandemic, when I ate fast food after almost a year. I thought it was greasy and salty. Can't believe I liked this shit lmao.
Dog tucker at best.
*actually
I will tell you why because you must be regularly working out and staying away from sugar as much as you can and that is why when you eat these proccessed foods filled with sugar you start to feel bad. Same happens with me. I have been working out for 4+ years and when I gotta eat fast foods in rare occassions mostly due to University then I feel super bad from inside and I feel like I am the fattest person walking even though I workout and almost had abs in my first year of Uni.
I was diagnosed with Diabetes and quit fast food overnight. When you are sick every day it's not hard to change. It took two weeks before I felt good, great by comparison.
"Dopamine's main function isn't pleasure, it's learning and motivation"
I don't know why, but that part really stuck with me.
Well it is true. Dopamine is made as a reward for achieving a goal or overcoming a problem. But games and fast food and drugs give instant dopamine surges so it messes with the system and makes you addicted to the easy access dopamine surges which crashes your dopamine into the ground so you have no motivation to do anything.
@@haunts3479
You just contradicted the above.
@@MrCmon113 I meant to say it is true sorta. Since dopamine is suppose to be used to for beneficial things natrually for survival. but its main function is pleasure not learning and etc.
They did a study and they took rats and gave them a button for food , the rats would obviously keep pressing the button to get food , and they would actively go for it . They then took rats and removed their dopamine system somehow (idk exactly how , my guess is a dopamine blocking drug) and the rats would not move to get the food. They would press the button if they were directly in front of it , but they were not motivated to actually get the food. Dopamine is a motivation chemical, dopamine creates a drive to do something , the reward comes from the endorphins and other chemicals
When I was a kid, my mom was STRICT about the food we ate. We barely ever ate fast food and there was no such thing as chips, soda, or sugary snacks in our house. All we had were animal crackers, water and maybe a lil juice here and there. Not even peanut butter a healthy fat 😂😂. It was either animal crackers or home cooked meals. I definitely thank God for her and so glad she raised us this way. I barely even glance at fast food. I prefer my own cooking. It tastes much better anyways.
How I wish I was raised that way
It really does taste better, there's a little Ceasars up the road from me and around 6pm there's a long line in the drive thru and I always think to myself, why would they pay 15 bucks for that pizza when they could make WAY better pizza way cheaper? It's not even a matter of not having enough time either, make the dough before you go to bed or before work then when you get home just shape it, put toppings on and back for 8 min at 500°.
@@ItsOKtobeNormal Fast food is something you want fast and now. Making a homemade pizza requires foresight.
When you end up having to pay for food yourself as a teenager like myself… shi is not pretty 😂😂😂
Same here!
I'm never eating fast food again the “eating just one fast food meal a week can increase your chances of a heart attack by 20%” did it for me yep
2 months clean 🥺
chloe did you stop eating before that? Cause your comment is a week ago and you said 2 months clean
MilkBee ! When I was watching the video I hadn’t been to a fast food place in more than a month
chloe ohh okay! Well, good job, keep going :)
If you are a healthy active person who works out you can eat fast food once a week without risks
This has been a wake up call to me I often eat fast food thanks for helping me understand how much this affects my body.
The part where you say: "I think its totally unfair and corrupt that this information isn't offered up to consumers by the companies that are serving this food to billions of people a year" YES! YES! YES!
Education and food knowledge is SO important.
But it is pretty much an open secret published all over the web already, just that people never thought to search or look for it.
Uhm...common sense. Everyone knows fast food is garbage and if someone has any common reasoning they should be able to think if a cheeseburger costs $1, how high quality "food" can it possibly be ? It's alarming if people can't realize by themselves they are ingesting the lowest forms of food possible. You'd be better off baking a cake. It's not healthy, but at least you know it's real eggs, real butter, etc..
Every single common fast food company's website has the nutritional info and ingredients listed
"The point of this video is not to scare you into not eating fast food"
"Also eating fast food once a week increases your chance of heart attack by 20%"
well how about eat it only once per month max ?
guess i'll die
What if you don't want to live?
Looking at my local swimming spots people used lockdown as an excuse to be even lazier. So many overweight males bound to a chair the whole time. Just like home.
Not sure how does she mean that but it's often calculated like this.
You have for example 1% risk of a heart attack and you increase that by 20%. Meaning you now have 1.2% risk of a hearth attack, not 21%.
I hate that my parents never fed me vegetables and only fed me junk food. Now i struggle trying new foods and vegetables and I'm trying so hard it's so difficult 😣
Same I gag when I try to eat a carrot
@@hium8716 fr?
Try arabic food, it has alot of vegetables and is delish
@@hium8716 are you serious?
Maybe try a delicious recipe that you do like, and go slowly from there :) Maybe you will like hummus with some grilled vegetables or perhaps lentil pasta with a simple tomato sauce. Just some ideas that are very easy to make yourself.
This video makes me scared realizing the damage we are doing to our bodies. Thank You for the awareness
I wanted to say, the lady crying over brussel sprouts probably has some type of aversion eating disorder. Seeing her cry actually breaks my heart because I used to suffer from a restriction eating disorder.
Anyway, I'm a dietetics student (will graduate this semester), and I LOVED this video!! Definitely going to share it with my friends and family. Great job as always, Kiana!!
If i remember correctly shes from My Strange Addiction and shes addicitng to only eating cheesy fries
Brussel sprouts are literally the worst tasting vegetable so I'm not surprised at all
@Mariam Janahi Oooh ooooh hello! I want to major in Dietetics as well and I was wondering what you think of it as a course overall ☺️!
@@TouchscreamPresents Depends how you cook them and whether you have new or old varieties. But alone on a plate with no butter or salt is not a good start.
@@marshwetland3808 butter or salt?! On sprouts?! Daaaamn 😂😂
"The point of this video is not to scare you into never eating your favourite fat food again"
Me: Girl...listen....but that is what you have done.
like right i just i had mcdonald’s before this 😭
Honestly, I don't know anyone who has takeaway "every now and again". It seems like people either eat it a lot or not at all. No in between.
@@catarena8031 You haven't met me yet, I eat fast food once every two motnhs( because I have a cheat day every two months) and I love the fact that I'm eating healthy most days of the year but also allowing myself comfort.
I’d just rather not because I’m afraid if I do it once I won’t be able to stop
my thoughts exactly lol
As a moderately obese person that started his weight loss journey a month ago I love your videos a lot😁.
I've started eating healthier and exercising every day (jogging , weight lifting, cardio, streches), your videos along with other people certainly give me inspiration to continue! I plan on getting out of Quarantine as a more healthy and positive person.
Good luck and keep up the hard work. You should check out FatMeetsFire if you dont already watch him. And ObeseToBeast.
Good luck... wishing you all the best
3 Month Update?
Good luck!!!
keep it up dude:)
Great video. As a guy who works out religiously I've found it's useless to explain this stuff to people who don't care but hey what can you do. Thanks for the info and congratulations on the weight loss 👍
How to make Brussel sprouts taste great:
Use fresh Brussels sprouts, *not* frozen. Toss them in a warmed up pan with some olive oil. Cook on medium. As it’s cooking, toss in a pinch of salt, a pinch of sugar, and some pepper. Leave it until they brown. Flip em, and eat em. Great stuff. You can skip the sugar, but it makes children accept it easier.
Fresh... but frozen? Fresh frozen?! Gordon Ramsay would like to know your location
SpiderMungkey, error from autocorrect.
@@oliviapenelopehope4497 It was actually a joke from kitchen nightmares, but alright lol
SpiderMungkey, yeah. Great show. Horrible situations. I remember that joke as well. Stir frying is the way I love vegetables. I often skip the sugar and salt, as I can’t really taste things too well (lived with a dog I’m allergic to, so no sense of smell). This makes eating good food even harder for me. I have some other recipes for good food, but they take a lot more time to do. Stir frying is a pretty quick way to cook veggies. Great stuff. Cook, on, my friend.
My fav: cooking them with soy sauce, honey and sriracha sauce and cooking them on high heat. Yummm...
"Just one fast food meal a week is enough to increase risk of heart attack by 20%"
Me: *Thinks of Nikocado Avocado's diet*
Well his risk is now like 100000000000000000%
@samika 05 didnt she go to the er
It's 100000000000000000000000000%
In term of health 20% actually equals to 2% and it takes years of doing that
@@bobbythelion6879 if that was a regular diet, it's still concerning, but to a lesser degree. However when most of your calories are from fast food *daily?* Especially to the degree nick does it?
if i really want french fries, i’ll make them myself. this was scary to watch
Yep or to make it really good just cut potato’s and air fry them
@@ashley-sv4lo thats actually good idea
Yea when i crave something like that i cut potatoe and fry them and eat the way i want
@@ashley-sv4lo that's exactly what I do, and one time when the air fryer was broke and I had to use the deep fat fryer, my stomach was so upset and painful
@@niamunt Try "oven frying" them, just salt and maybe pepper works well. Or mix olive oil, salt, pepper, a little garlic powder, shake the pieces in a plastibag with the oil and put on a cookie sheet, bake. Really good that way!!
The last time I ate fast food was 2 months ago, now I'm sticking to an healthy lifestyle and I started exercising and I admit that I feel yucky whenever I hear about ultra processed foods, I also feel way better ❤️
One of the stupidest things I’ve ever came to was a person who thought that me loving vegetables and fruits was a simple trend ... just because many people don’t like vegetables and fruits doesn’t mean us who like it are faking it ..I just had to say this this is exactly how addicted people and their minds are to the flavors of Junk food .
Anyways great video 💖💖
whaaat,, people thought it's a trend? are fruits/vegetables really that disliked in your place?
Maris Ito they’re not generally disliked but more like a burden in a diet .. when it comes to diet everyone seems to get tired of fruits and vegetables and it was always the opposite for me I guess that’s why
@@sageversace5303 ooo that's why :0 thx for telling!
Maris Ito yes 😄 omg you’re welcome anytime 😊😊
Sage Versace you make a good point. Fruits and vegetables are delicious. But I wouldn't say I can't stop my cravings for them as I eat them.
When I eat a pizza slice my hunger increases.
When I eat fruit and vegetables my hunger decreases.
Both are tasty.
Fast food doesn’t taste good at all to me. I make homecooked meals, make my own salsas, sauces, everything. Now if I’m too busy to cook and decided to have cheat meals, I can taste the chemical and excess sugars. No to mention feeling like absolute garbage afterwards.
I don't get the appeal either. Might be because I only eat it once or twice a year.
For me only some fast food places are truly delicious. In N out. Whataburger, Steak and Shake, Taco Bell, and Zaxbys.
@@TheDaniela3112 that’s incredible. I would like to reach that level of discipline. I eat it about 2-3xs a month.
@@dewarmcnamara Zaxbys and In n out are good. I like raising canes as well but haven’t had any since I moved to Australia 4 years ago.
yeah. honestly mcdonald’s just taste cheap i literally don’t get it
I saved so much money after cutting fast food out of my life omg. I can't believe I used to ear this "cheat meal" once a week that didn't even fill me up in any way and instead made me hungrier (which in turn makes me spend more money).
When I was in india fast food or extremely processed food costs more than natural or less processed food but now I'm in England n processed foods r way cheaper than vegetables n other less processed food or fast foods well so even if some people don't want to eat fast food we have to coz it's way cheaper (especially if u r a uni student ) :(
As a rabid Keto fan, I'll be re-evaluating my monthly cheat day after watching this, well done!!
As an indian I m happy to eat mah mum's homemade rice and chicken stew with light spices
🙏🏼
YESS
thats still unhealthy dummy, theres a reason why so many south asians have diabetes lmao
@@zayk7326 that's not unhealthily dummy
Light amount of spices won't do anything bad to you
Also u shouldn't even compare junk foods nd homemade foods
@@zayk7326 also educate yourself what Diabetes is
4:00 This is why therapists who specialize in disordered eating, paired with dietitians, can be such a powerful combination. That woman’s reaction to natural food tells you so much about how physically and psychologically she needs support to reach a healthier “new normal”. Great video, the editing was wonderful.
I was fast food addicted and I know super many people that made fun of the woman and her reaction to a vegetable but I gotta be honest here... I too cried when I ate my first salad after one and a half year of mostly fast food consumption. It was disgusting.
only in america
In fairness, Brussel sprouts do suck hard. A blended carrot smoothie wouldn't have gotten that reaction
To be fair, she has a boiled and unseasoned brussel sprout. Vegetables are delicious when prepared properly, but many people think they hate them because all they have had is boiled and bland veggies.
@@jaredhicks5655 It would've for me omg, blended carrot... I make smoothies with banana, raspberry and cacao because vegetables in smoothies is just one of the worst textures I've had and I'm genuinely impressed you'd accept a carrot smoothie with a smile.
This information actualy helps people so much. We must talk about it, on repeat mode.
One of my firends in a denial state. And basically only eats fast food and frozen dinners. She doesn't even realize that constant stomach pain, mood swings and depression are cause by her food addiction.
Its true people must talk about it but the fact of the matter is I don't think people have absolutely no idea that its unhealthy- they know. Just like smokers, its literally written on the box that it can cause damage to their lungs and give them cancer but they just either don't want to or cant give up without rehabilitation methods.
After re-watching this - recently, I am very grateful and will watch it if I have the urge to break my low carb diet. Well done.
Ever since I started eating healthy I don’t crave fast food as much, makes so much sense. And when I did have fast food, I didn’t enjoy it as much, just felt terrible because I wasn’t getting the nutrition and had to run to the bathroom after.
I don't crave it either, but i still eat it from time to time. Usually because of the social aspect (sitting in the movie theatre with a bag of M&M's or whatever, what else am i gonna eat there? Carrots?) and afterwards i don't need to eat ANOTHER 10 bags. I go home and eat rice with Broccolli.
People just need to learn about balance and not think in extreme opposite terms like "Only eat junk" or "Only eat lettuce"
What "nutrition" were you not getting?
Thats bulimia
@@persona9479 i think they mean they got diarrhea
@Kevin Mathew And also the most tasteless.
I'll stick to eating everything in moderation and on occasion.
I tried eating Dairy Queen after not eating fast food for 3 years, and I got so sick I could barely leave my bed for 2 days. It’s crazy how our body can build somewhat of an “immunity” to garbage like that.
Yess especially with processed food I will literally throw up.
oh my gosh, I used to think that Mcdonald's ice cream was DELICIOUS, but after eating a lot of it in a short span of time, I realized that the taste is actually so artificial and fake and doesn't taste good anymore lol.
I get that you're trying to make a statement, but your message gives off a really pompous "I'm so good that my body won't even accept fast food. My body will only accept the purest of pure food."
The steam kid I never said those those things and I wasn’t implying that either. I don’t know why you chose to be offended over words that weren’t said but okay thanks for the feedback I guess
uhh you have health problems then bucko lol
This past weekend, I went on a fast food fasting period. As I am a fast food worker, this might have sounded difficult, but it wasn’t. I brought my own snacks to eat on my breaks and drank water on my shifts. As the processed food left my body, I began to feel a change. As a regular fast food consumer, I felt lethargic and crabby because I didn’t have a lot of energy. Over the time I didn’t consume fast food, I noticed.a change. I began to feel more energetic and my mood began to improve. I genuinely felt good. As I learned what fast food does to your body, I started to look at fast food a different way. I know I’ll be cutting way down on my fast food consumption by eating at home before I go to work and take a snack to keep my hunger at bay while I’m there. It’s all worth the change if I want to continue to feel good from day to day.
Lies again? Grab Food Trade Secrets
I know you mean well with the advice that you can occasionally have fast food to eat as long as you don't overdo the occasions. Fast food can get it's hooks into you quickly and then you are back to eating it on the regular.
I try to never eat it. In an ideal world I would like to see these businesses demolished and replaced with healthier eating options.
When I was in Japan I could go to their quick trip and get sweet potato soup. Other healthier option were available as well.
Such a wonderful, informative, and inspiring video, Kiana! It is not only up to these fast food companies to self-regulate (which they won’t), but government also bears a tremendous responsibility. This also seems like a slim possibility, as I imagine there is lots of money and politicking involved, driven by lobbyists to keep these additives in fast food.
I am happy to say I haven’t had one single fast food meal this ENTIRE year (2020) an will most likely not get one in a long time
Edit: it’s been half of 2021 now and I’m still going ✌️
@Max thanks a lot 😊
@@thequeerkid9391I stopped buying fast food too. I'm a bad ass cook so I prefer making my own food. I got fat from all the amazing food I was making and then decided to diet and exercise so I dropped all the weight.
Now I watch what and how I eat.
For me it's been a month. My mom wanted to go to a restaurant a couple days ago so i went with her but besides that I'm off it.
@@pupasarus that’s great! Keep going I promise you it’s worth it
Me too! :D
when i was younger my mother could never really afford real healthy food so we would have quite a lot of fast food and as i grew up i moved in with my grandma and i started to eat home made food which was annoying at the time but now i realize that i am lucky to be where i am right now, and yes i am healthy at the moment.
L .... U should really eat healthy food .
@@hi-sn1pw I'm trying my best to eat healthy
@Aroko 76 you can get like 8 pieces of chicken for like £1.20 from Aldi
@Aroko 76 you can get 1kg of chicken breast for like £1 that’s what I’m saying
@@nonon5831 Well, keep going on it. At least you now know how to eat healthier and make the right decisions.
My rules for heating healty:
-Buy your meat, cook your meat.
-Buy your vegetables, cook your vegetables.
-Avoid processed sugars.
-Avoid vegetable oils.
Why vegetable oils? What would you use to cook with
@@brittneyharmon6647 Butter or Olive oil are fine, vegetable oils increase risks for heart disease.
@@fieryelf olive oil is a vegetable oil? Butter definitely isn't better than vegetable oils...
@@avaboucher174 Olive oil is high in monoUNsaturated fat while vegetable oil is high in Polyunsaturated fat. Both are completely different types of fats. The idea that saturated fat is bad for you is a ridiculous myth thought up by Ancel Keys in the late 50s and has since been dis proven many times.
@@fieryelf I thought vegetable oil was the same as olive oil. I only use olive oil or sunflower oil. I'd never use butter
CONGRATULATIONS KIANA, WE NEED MORE PEOPLE LIKE YOU IN THESE WORLD FULL OF LAZY PEOPLE THAT ARE GETTING HUMONGOUS INSTEAD TO BE COOKING THEIR OWN NICE HEALTHY MEAL. I AM VERY BUSY PERSON BUT, NOT THAT BUSY THAT I CANT COOK MY HEALTHY DELICIOUS COLOURFUL MEALS WHICH TAKES ME LESS THAN 20 MINUTES.
The link between mental health and unhealthy food is overlooked so often. Whilst the affects of fast food are easier to see, knowing that people who eat fast food regularly are 51% more likely to be depressed is alarming. And then tying that into socioeconomic relations to fast food, it's quite overwhelmingly and disproportionately affecting poorer people mentally and physically. This was really eye-opening and I can't wait to see future videos. This is one of my new favourite channels and I've been bingewatching all of them
Here: this isn't new to suicidal people. They know it, they just don't care because they don't want to live anymore.
I feel like it's a correlation, not a causation. I'm depressed as well and I used to struggle with this not because I suddenly got depressed after consuming fast food, I was depressed since I was 13 and eating home cooked meals, but it's rather the fact that you have no energy to cook so you resort to ordering stuff. However I can guarantee that cooking your own food is way healthier and gives you a lot of satisfaction which helps with depression
i feel so connected to this because I've been eating healthy and whole foods for most of my life. But once I decided to reward myself by eating a bag of Doritos, I kept craving its flavour for the next 2 weeks. Luckily Doritos is quite expensive in our country and I tend not to waste money on junk food, the craving was gone.
I suggest eating more fatty ANIMAL foods(dont go any for any plant oils). That alone for me keeps me from cravings for some reason and though people think fatty foods= fat gain it doesn't actually especially in the case of animal fats.
Eggs, butter, steaks and if you have the budget: salmon's also great.
@@kerosj9975 i disagree, A plant-based diet has more fibers in it which reduces your cravings rather than animal products.
@@lynnfarhat9955 I'd like to reply but I keep getting censored. I suggest trying listenting to "What I've Learned"(WIL) channelthat's were I base my opinion of why fat>fiber.
I dont eat fast food that much and I never crave it. Those addictive chemicals just dont work on me ig. dont like chips, oreos, pizza, cheeseburgers, bacon, onion rings, and other things.
@@kerosj9975 you can get fat from plants too. for me eating nut butters satisfies my cravings
Fast food makes me feel sick and guilty. Even eating soup from a can has that same effect on me.
Well canned food is made to be preserved and is not really healthy. They put a lot of sugar in sauces, and a lot of salt in savory soups.
fr, ramen makes me sick, it's so processed I can't stomach it
@@haunts3479 so you're saying I should eat fresh tuna in the morning when in a rush?
@@basmalasaad3039 if you can then sure
same! Whenever I eat mcdonald's fries, all I can taste is salt and I immediately feel sick
Good video explaining why our bodies crave fast food and find more natural food less attractive by comparison
Fast food is so powerful that I just watch the food in the commercials and I feel my brain get happy and I can taste it in my mouth. Watching this video while on a diet and it's giving me more motivation to keep eating healthy and reach my weight loss goal!
It sure does! But I have too remind myself I don't want to get fat.
Using Amberlynn and Chantal was such a good idea. I came for the train-wreck and now I’m learning how to avoid one too.
LOOOL thank you!
and niko avocado
Ikr. She's so smart into baiting us to get educated. Thank you bbygirl. 💜
I’ve been losing 1 pound a day since I stopped eating fast food including junk food 😪 our country literally is killing us in every way they can.
That’s amazing what else do you do ? I quit 3 days ago
I make my own juice :) and I watch lots of documentaries about food
So you’re burning an extra 3600 calories a day on top of your maintenance calories to keep your weight? Are you 600 lbs or just another lying bitch?
You lose 1 pound a day? How much did you weigh initially?
@@notepad8879 like 200 and now im at 179 and stuck lol
Im addicted to fast food and Im having a hard time overcome it. Thanks for your videos. It gives me a lot more knowledge and maybe i might be able to break this addiction.
You really don’t realize just how bad this shit makes you feel until you stop. And that’s even just eating it a couple times a week. I can’t imagine how some people eat it everyday. It makes me depressed, anxious, sluggish, brain fogged, and overweight. Once I stopped, it was like I became a different person or aged backwards 15 years. Healthy eating habits are the way to go.
Yep, it's insane. Especially the lack of brain fog. I can recall macros and calories per serving size for TONS of different foods. I can eat for a week and never have to Google how many calories something has. It didn't take long for all that to sink in either. Pre-healthy me would NEVER have remembered all these numbers.
For almost an entire year I had a job that had me on the go most of the time. I wasn't organized with my time, nor did I earn that much money back then so I relied on take out to keep me going.
Looking back, the reason why I was probably in such a bad mood most of the time back then was due to the food I ate, in addition to the high stress that that particular job caused me. And I haven't even mentioned how all that eating wrecked my body and gave me a skinny fat physique.
You should really eat fast food for breakfast lunch and dinner, it can't hurt
Honestly I’m glad my family always eat homemade food and fruits almost daily, we only have fast food once a month or sometimes once in a few months. We usually have homemade fries and sometimes make our own burgers instead of buying it from fast food chain.
Wow, incredible, no one asked about your diet ffs
sounds delicious!
@@私はクソな中国人です someone is salty. it's something to be proud of when you can make this kind of lifestyle change for your health. maybe one day you'll get there too
june bug I just hate it when motherfuckers out here in the youtube comment section starts telling their life story as if anyone gives a shit
@@私はクソな中国人です Even though you don't give a shit or that you don't like when they talk about their diet, it almost had the same chance to inspire you to change as well (or not.)
Didn't have to be rude for that.
You may not give a shit or you may think when you do that, you feel as though they have "rich boy check" vibes but that doesn't mean everyone doesn't give a shit too.
On a side note, her family's diet sounds like mine too-
I love my mom for preventing me from eating fast food as much as she possibly could.
I am so grateful to my parents for giving me homecooked meals at lunch and dinner. I used to think that I was the weird kid for bringing in pots of soup and salad into school instead of lunchables or store-bought sandwiches (keep in mind that I am dairy and soya intolerant, meaning I could not eat the majority of store bought sandwiches or other cheap snack foods). Now, I feel so much better and I know that my body is most likely healthier for the years of good eating habits.
As someone in culinary school, it's a shame to see that many people don't know how to cook a better meal than what McDonald's makes.
Watching some videos here on tutorials for your favorite dishes or reading some cookbooks could be the start of a healthier life with tastier meals than any fast food chain could ever offer.
Ayy hey Tomoya
For how many years have you been in a culinary school now?
By the way I agree. Cooking can be funny and relaxing at the same time if you do it with will and calm
I don't have a stove💀💀
@Jonny Williams I don't actually eat fast food, sorry for the confusion. I was just saying I don't have a stove so cooking is not too much of an option bc there are probably ppl in my predicament that consume a lot of fast food. I don't have a oven either lol and Idk like any foods that would be healthy to cook in the microwave so thanks I'll look that up. Also by raw, do you mean like fruits, vegetables, wheat products, and snacks? I already eat that but if there's stuff other than that, that could be helpful. Thank you, I hope you have a good day lol.
Sad part is some people don’t even have the energy or time to. When I used to work at McDonalds every time I came home I was too exhausted to even microwave so often I just ate whatever I could get for free. Luckily it was only a teen job for me but I can’t imagine living like that forever.
I always assumed I was weird for feeling instantly tired whenever I ate fast food
Turns out I'm not
I've praised you on the quality of your videos before, but they're still worth the compliments, so once again: congratulations on making such valuable, well put together content. I've taken an interest in nutrition as of late, and out of everything I've seen out there, I think your videos are genuinely the most comprehensive, and detailed enough to make sense without being too specialized for the general public. Thanks for the work you put in.
If there comes a time where you don't have anything else in the works and are in need of other ideas: would you consider making a video explaining, at length, what nutrients and vitamins do for our bodies, and what exactly it means for our well-being to consume healthy, whole foods? A mere suggestion. Once again, thank you and good luck.
i can definitely do a video like this! interesting topic. thank you for the suggestion
and wow thank you very much for all of your compliments!! ☺ i'm flattered lol. so glad you're enjoying the videos!!
Second that idea! Its very fun to think of the content still to come.
I come back to this video regularly and profusely thank my parents for never buying me chocolates and snacks for birthdays or when i threw tantrums. Mom always made sweets at home and kept healthy snacks ready. Thank god for my parents.