I remember hearing of a study that determined that children who have a night light grow up to be near-sighted. after re-examining the data it was decided that, in fact, near-sited parents use night lights so they don't fall over in the dark, and near-sighted parents have near-sighted children.
However, research suggests the culprit for the epidemic of nearsightedness is not spending enough time outside. This correlation was often interpreted as "spending time outside => focusing on objects far away => not being nearsighted" but now there is another hypothesis that is widely accepted : The eyeball needs dopamine to stop growing. It synthesizes dopamine from receiving lots of light which is impossible when not spending time outside so the eyeball keeps growing and growing, giving you myopia. Also : using personal experience to prove a point is everything but scientific (looking at you, Fox D 👀)
@@SimuLord Eh, you might still have amazing vision. Cats are notorious at setting traps for you to trip over. I wouldn't be surprised if your GF's cat is out to get you or at least make you look like a fool in front of her. ;-)
I legit love how compassionate your philosophy is. Like, ostensibly I'm here for the food science, but food itself is so wrapped up in culture and human history that we get to touch on all these amazing subjects. And it's a blessing to get to learn from you. Thank you ♥
NO NO NO Do not brush your teeth right after drinking soda! The (carbonic) acid in the soda softens your enamel and it can be worn away by the action of brushing. Always wait half an hour for your mouth pH to return to neutral before brushing. This actually applies to eating in general, since so many foods are acidic. Adam, I love your podcasts but I am being emphatic here to get your attention, thanks and keep up the good work.
After having an insane soda drinking habit in my teens, I've been told this by every single dentist I've been to since. Wait at least half an hour before brushing your teeth (I wait an hour, usually), and preferably have something alkaline like milk after ingesting something acidic.
it's a pretty important detail, really a detail which school-teachers (and most other sources of childhood doctrine) for decades have been contradicting based on nothing more than "authoritative inertia", and probably also the concept of "discipline" which has annoyed me a lot since i learned this rather thankful i never listened to them and just brushed my teeth before and after bed, most days
Also a lot of beers have citric acid in them, especially "microbrews" who use it to clean their lines and if it ends up in the drink "it's safe and flavorless" so they use way too much "to be safe"
Just in case you didn't realise, the chapter things aren't showing in the video progress bar, because you need to add a 0:00 section in the description
The whole bit with the “explaining voice” was so eye opening. I naturally have a very quiet voice, and when you compound it with background noise and the natural trailing off we do, a lot of information I think I’m communicating to people gets lost. I never thought about it like that. Thank you
Absolutely. And people will generally pretend to hear you even if they don't. You might be the cleverest verbalist around but without a proper delivery nobody will know.
I think the reason why you have found success doing a cooking channel or at least what drew me to your content is because you approach the subject like a journalist. The food science explanation is complete down to fundamentals or references. The first few episodes I saw, I literally thought you had a science background, that I was watching a trained scientist that liked to cook. Other cooking channels are hosted by chefs and whatever food science they provide sounds like them repeating pseudoscience.
This is why I watch Adam. This is easily the best cooking youtube channel and the way he explains things is simple and he comes off as wholesome and honest
He's already done a similar video on MSG, and I think a lot of the points people bring up with MSG are very similar to the ones they bring up for artificial sweetners. They're not completely safe, nor completely bad. But if consumed as part of a healthy, balanced diet, you can mitigate any and all risks.
What's weird is how "NPR" it actually sounds. If I had heard that on NPR I wouldn't have thought any different. I don't if it's a particular filter they run the voices through or what, but everything on NPR sounds extremely monotone and relaxing, but at the same time, without emphasis, I feel it's terrible for actually communicating.
@@Jarrettmonty99 I am curious if your comment stems from whether or not you knew that Adam used to work for NPR? Anyway, I actually like Adam's voice in his initial broadcast.
@@edwardwong654 Not sure which you mean, but I did not know up until this video that he worked for NPR, but I have previously listened to NPR on occasion, and I think that Adam's NPR voice fits the typical NPR voice. Which is not a bad thing, I like the sound, but it's helpful to get a dynamic range of voice to place emphasis, which I think is a little lacking. Would you agree?
Re: Indians eating with their hands - this drove me nuts as a kid, but Indians (or at least my parents and our local community) do not debone fish for fish curry. My auntie's curry is to die for - and perhaps literally, if you use utensils instead of fingers, and end up with a bone in your throat.
As a kid, I was taught when eating any fish that once you take a bite you should always use your tongue to check for thing hard in the mouthful (ie bones) before swallowing. I know the description sounds more disgusting than the practice. I just assumed everyone did this.
In China we almost never debone our fish and we eat them with chopsticks regardless. Is there a reason why "fish curry" might be different from other fish cuisine where deboning via finger is preferable or required over deboning via tongue?
Adam, your bit on "explaining voice" was excellent. In high school 60+ years ago, my teacher in communications prepared us to do our weekly radio show by bringing up those exact points and demonstrations. I was able to use those techniques to good advantage in my own presentations to students, meetings or audiences over the years. Great info for the present group that seem to end each sentence with a question in their voice.
I absolutely despise the question at the end of every statement. I dream of the day that I communicate with someone under 30 and don't have to ask, "are you asking me, or telling me?"
@@barongerhardt Not exactly related, but Canadians have a specific accent known as the Canadian Rise. Typically, most Canadians, for whatever reason largely have upward inflections at the end of sentences and statements, EXCEPT the final statement, which usually has a downward inflection, signalling the end of your dialogue and opening the floor to the other person. The California Valley Girl upward inflection thing is incredibly annoying though lol
Regards to brushing your teeth after diet soda, I've generally see the recommendation to avoid brushing your teeth for about 30 minutes after consuming acidic food/drink due to it softening the enamel and making it more vulnerable to damage from the brush.
@@IsaVarg unless you want to brush off the yellow and your enamel that is ^^ - have not reached this in the vid, now I'm wondering what Adam said here. edit: oh I was just a minute to it. Oh IMO he got this really wrong, washing your mouth with plain water or something other to help to neutralize the accid faster /or wash it out and help to get it faster. I personally allways wait 45 minutes to brush my teeth after lunch, dinner and due to scheduling issues brush before breakfast. Quick mouth wash afterwards, not ideal...
I had a meal with my mom and brother not long ago, of pizza and green salad. I had neglected to grab a fork and the salad wasn't highly sauced, so I started to eat it with my fingers, to great consternation from my tablemates. They would not allow me to continue and when I asked why it was okay to eat the pizza with my hands, even though it was just as likely to make my hands dirty, their response was along the lines of "it's just different!" Very unsatisfying.
That is, 👍🏽 to your desire, not that of your tablemates. I experience something similar eating delicious food for the wrong meal. My white American students are highly unsettled when my breakfast is leftovers, whether it is rice based ethnic food or it is food they know and like in a different meal context like lasagna.
I get a similar reaction when I eat popcorn with chopsticks. If I use utensils for other food to avoid getting my hands dirty, then why shouldn't I do that with popcorn? Actually, it seems even more important with popcorn because that's traditionally eaten while watching a movie. Who wants to get up and wash their hands during a movie? I certainly don't. And napkins just don't cut it to get popcorn "butter" etc off the hands. Chopsticks seem like the perfect solution to me.
@@taejaskudva2543 How silly of anyone to care what kind of food you eat for breakfast. Personally, I eat whatever I have available and am in the mood for without caring what meal it is for. If I had lasagna in the fridge I absolutely would eat it for breakfast. And I probably wouldn't heat it up. Which people have given me a hard time for. Why do they care if I am happy to eat my left overs cold?
@@anyascelticcreations Chopsticks would protect your fingers from burns too, since popcorn is also best when eaten immediately out of the cooker Also, food is food. Eat what you want for breakfast
Would you ever make another more casual Ask Adam that's completely unscripted and Lauren is picking and asking the questions? I could (and have) watched those episodes tons of times
Yeah, listening to Adam in an actual conversation is super fun. His casual storytelling and conversing unscripted with a partner is charismatic and stuff
I really enjoyed those old episodes a whole lot more. Mostly because when it is just Adam, he tends to ramble on and go off on tangents, sometimes even rants. It's more enjoyable to have someone else there to interact with and to keep him on track. They used to get thru a lot of questions. Now, it's only 3-4
From Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose, a novel set in a medieval monastery: "The abbot made us taste (reserved for his table) the chicken I had seen being prepared in the kitchen. I saw that he also possessed a metal fork, a great rarity, whose form reminded me of my master’s glasses. A man of noble extraction, our host did not want to soil his hands with food, and indeed offered us his implement, at least to take the meat from the large plate and put it in our bowls. I refused, but I saw that William accepted gladly and made nonchalant use of that instrument of great gentlemen, perhaps to show the abbot that not all Franciscans were men of scant education or humble birth."
As a former theater major, it was really exciting to hear someone talk about emphasizing the unusual concepts that the listener isn't expecting. It drives me crazy when people mumble through the most unusual parts of copy or text or scripts. The way you described it is perfect. The "mayor" isn't even an unusual concept, they just weren't thinking about it seconds ago before you brought it up, so you have to HIT those syllables. I wish my theater professor had thought to explain it that way. I hear professional actors make this mistake all the time. The kids from Glee come to mind for whatever reason. They didn't understand to "walk not run" through the stranger parts of their dialogue.
There is a 1990's study of, I believe Splenda, that discovered that rats drinking Diet Soda has an enormous Cancer risk. After publishing the study, other scientists reviewing it noticed that the study has been made over a breed of rats specially selected for be extremely cancer prone, (they were specially breed for test cancer treatments, you need a reliable source of diseased rats for that), while the control group has been formed for a basic breed of lab rats.
Are you talking about saccharine? There were studies in the 1970s that reported that saccharine caused cancer in lab rats and mice and was a possible carcinogen to humans. Since lab rats and mice are used as analogues for humans, the warning made sense. It was later found that the way it caused cancer in mice and rats was not possible in humans. I grew up with saccharine products (e.g. Sweet’N Low) having a warning that it may cause cancer.
@@tempesttube No, the problem with the 1970's saccharine study was one of dosage, the rats were exposed to an unrealistic amount of saccharine, the equivalent of several hundred grams of pure saccharine a day, and of course in those amounts saccharine is a cancerigen, and tea in equivalent amounts will not give cancer because you will have a heart attack much sooner.
@@jarradtait5322 No, the control group formally existed, however it was, by accident or by design, genetically very different to the expiremental group in a significant way.
@@pedroarjona6996 exactly. it was, by definition, not a control group. It was as much a control group as a strawberry is a car. Some arbitrary subset of people on earth called it a control group but it was not a control group because it didn't control for subject variance. It didn't control anything.
I was, at my heaviest, 403 pounds. I've lost nearly 200 pounds on low carb while drinking unholy amounts of diet soda. If you are obese, concentrate on losing the fat. Nothing matter as much.
@@sld1776 I don’t even think it does tbh. Dr Mike Israetel has good content on this. I completely cut almost all caloric liquid intake because of it, and when cutting it briefly satiates me
Same with the switch. Along with other changes, I switched to diet soda and started dropping weight. This is why I call BS on the idea that drinking diet soda causes obesity. Correlation is not the same as causation. Obese people might be the ones who usually drink diet soda, but that's not why they're fat.
I used to drink Diet Coke and then Coke Zero as my main drink. Much of 7 years ago I gave up soda. I now drink mostly water and black coffee. I am still fat, but I do feel a bit better. Thanks for all you teach and entertain us with. And I like that I can drink water in a restaurant for free or black coffee for a relatively small cost.
That bit about trailing off at the ends of sentences is so true. I do editing/post-production on my bother's podcast and much of that is compensating for the fact that so many sentences look like a pizza slice in the waveform, nice and clear and perfect at the beginning and barely distinguishable from the background noise at the end.
do you know that VPNs will not make your internet private? you can still be tracked even with a VPN through the use of cookies and device fingerprinting. and that also you can still be vulnerable to hackers.
It stops ddos attacks, others from seeing your IP address, stop internet providers from spying on you (mostly a problem in Australia and China), and prevent your landlord or hotel (if they provide your internet) from seeing what you're doing. You have to take other precautions to have complete privacy. Use a secure browser in incognito, secure search engines, and use specific phones with a lot of modifications.
the "wtf is.." series i think is a bit of a win win, either you already know everything and feel smart for knowing or you learn everything and feel good that you know more now without having to feel like you were called out for being wrong
Love the new set. Fitting. Maintains the audio sound I prefer from the kitchen as opposed to the previous podcast setup. And hopefully this doesn't need to get torn down after every episode
HUGE disagree. It's gaudy as 50's wallpaper. I appreciate the 'art' behind it but it does not belong as a background. A good background should be subtle and complementary, not taking over the scene.
I guess I am also one of the freaks who prefers the taste of diet sodas, most "regular" sodas are too sweet for me. Caffeine is my main reason for drinking soda though, so I've recently switched to caffeinated sparkling water I've found in various stores near where I live.
Maybe I'm weird but artificial sweeteners taste way too sweet for me actually compared to normal sugar. (Here we use sugar not corn syrup in sodas, so maybe that's a difference - I did have some American sodas that had corn syrup and yeah they do taste much sweeter)
@@Jhud69 I feel like artificial sweeteners on their own taste sweeter than sugar, but I wouldn't say diet sodas taste sweeter to me than regular sodas.
@@Jhud69 I like diet soda and sugar soda about equally, maybe slightly preferring diet soda, but I prefer both very strongly to corn syrup sodas. plain American coke just doesn't taste as good as the cane sugar stuff or the diet stuff.
I get my caffeine the old fashioned way, from coffee. I drink it about half of the day. All artificial and non nutritive sweeteners have a horrible aftertaste to me (including monkfruit and stevia).
as a kid, i was often mocked by family (especially my mom) for asking for a spoon while eating every time we'd visit relatives in India.... i've never heard the method of eating with hands being described in such detail though....
It is important to brush your teeth after drinking soda, you just have to wait about 30 minutes before doing so. The acid softens the enamel and the brushing will do more damage than good.
@@paulblichmann2791 You should be able to. Floss moves food out of the way instead of being abrasive on the teeth Flossing after every meal is a good habit to have
Man learned so much on this youtube-cast. I think I did start unconsciously imitate Adam's explainer voice and earlier this week it did cross my mind that I somewhat sounded condescending to one of my coworkers. I am glad I watched/listened to this podcast and probably would have to learn to tone down my explainer voice as well.
I am the one who submitted that question and it was also very eye opening to understand what exactly made it sound so condescending. I jump between casual conversation and instructing fairly often and I've started to catch on to a lot of other who do this and I now understand so much more why I feel the way I do in some situations. It was awesome to have such a thorough answer.
i'd also like to add the the fork is also just very useful and versatile as a tool on the table. you can 'cut' soft meals (like cake) with the side (better than with a spoon because it's got a curvature) and you can mash things. where i'm from mashing a banana and adding oat flakes to it. or mashing potatoes (or vegetable in general) on your table and adding sauce/butter to it. that might be relevant for fine dining but i wouldn't be surprised if that was a reason why it spread so well to the commoners.
I worked in the restaurant industry for 15 years. Alot of times when I had to mix something I'd grab a fork on habit, even though I had mixers, food processors, immersion blenders, whisks, purpose made utensils for mixing, I always defaulted to the fork. People made fun of me but my stuff was always just as or more incorporated than if I'd used another tool 🤷 I think it's a crime to make a Roux with anything other than a fork lol
13:18 The canonical example of this is "800 cans of diet soda *a day*", a study about whether artificial sweetners were carcinogenic. The otherwise safe sodium cyclamates -- an artificial sweetner that actually tastes *good* (Sucaryl) -- are still banned in the use 50 years later, even though they've been since proven safe: you can still buy them in Canada.
I'm 30 and when I was 5, hearing Sweating Bullets by Megadeth (the song Adam quotes at the other Adam) from my mom's CD was a life changing moment that lead me down the path to becoming a death metal musician many years later. It was wild to hear say such a vital string of words out of nowhere like that lol
I would love to have someone explain the appeal of death metal to me. I swear I'm not trying to be mean or rude but it doesn't sound like music to me. It seems there are lyrics but they don't sound like they're meant to be understood. There seem to be instruments but they seem to be all blended together and frenetic. I like much of most music including heavy metal, old school hip hop, classic country, a few punk songs, classic rock & roll, R&B, and others. Death metal is the only one that legit sounds like it doesn't even want to be music. Please someone enlighten me.
@@isaiahayers1550 Death metal is a process. You have to dip your toes into it. No one listens to death metal for the first time and accepts it. Not even me, someone whose life revolves around it now. I've shown hundreds of people the light over the years. I can understand what death metal singers are saying, I can hear the notes that are being played. They are deliberate, there is no randomness, insane amounts of practice goes into all of it, and the composers for the genre often have to be experts in theory to put things together in a way that sounds correct. Anyone that tries to mock death metal musicians, especially techdeath musicians, rarely manages to do anything but embarrass themselves because it's a highly refined artform. I get told this stuff every single day of my life. Usually I'm outright mocked. But somehow there are millions of people for 45+ years now that can hear the same thing I can, the same beauty that I do. Cannibal Corpse doesn't sell out shows and chart on Bilboard for 30 years as a joke or a meme or "randomness." If I knew you in person, I'd do my best to take you down the path. Like I've said, I've done it a million times before. But really, if you're actually curious, you'll find your way if you want. If you're just rude and trying to make fun of me, well, I guess you got me.
@@tautochrone4968 I appreciate you and truly sorry to hear that people can be so shitty to you although I guess I can't be too surprised because...people suck. I highly doubt I'll ever get into death metal but I'll do as you suggest and check it out. Thanks.
@@isaiahayers1550 It's basically an acquired taste. Just like coffee. Most of the time the first time you drink it, you think it is terrible and why the hell would anyone want to put that into their body. But the next time you try it your body is a little more accustomed to it, so it's a little more familiar and less of a shocking overload; paired with positive reinforcement (telling your brain that you want to like it), you get over the knee jerk rejection and thus you allow your brain to start detecting nuances you hadn't noticed before. Slowly, over time, not only do you start to like it, you start to have preferences for differences that most others can't even detect. I generally don't like it, I prefer melodic vocals with my metal. It used to be that if there was ever any scream/growling type vocals in a song, I just wouldn't like it. Nowadays as long as it strikes the right balance I can tolerate and sometimes even enjoy it. For a good example check out: JINJER - Pisces (Live Session) | Napalm Records. I really love that song, it strikes a perfect balance for me, there other songs mostly don't (for me). I would also highly recommend watching reaction videos from vocal coaches for this song. First off it's freaking hilarious, but it also gives really good perspectives on the nuance and skill it takes to pull that off. 😁
as a teacher - the explaining voice reminds me so much of “the teacher voice” - if I spoke to my colleagues the same way I speak in class it would be considered rude at the least
As a Filipino, we'd be asking why are you not using a spoon when eating rice? (Why spoon and fork is staple here rather than fork and knife is because of rice)
Watching this on my TV in my living room, FYI. This is such a interesting podcast. I never considered the bit about giving advice and the "voice". I always get so much out of this podcast. It is fascinating.
Never really drank much soda, diet or otherwise, until the Monster Zeros starting coming out a few years ago. Those things are delicious. I drink 3 or 4 per month usually. Plus now a couple coke zeros here and there. Other than, approximately 75% of my liquid intake is water, 10% black coffee. Then the very occasional beer or glass of milk.
It's also pretty common to eat food with your hands in the Philippines. Especially rice, though. You'll often have a bowl of water next to your plate that you use to keep your fingers wet, which helps to prevent the rice from sticking to them, or something. I've also been to Moroccan and Ethiopian restaurants where the foods were basically all eaten with your hands, although I'm not as familiar with those cultures.
I grew up drinking Crystal Light and had to train myself to drink water after I moved out on my own. I didn't like water at first -- and I'm not alone in that, but it's kind of nuts when you think about it. I like to frame the diet soda question as -- will a group of people who eat half a bag of sugar free hard candy per day have worse health outcomes than a group that doesn't? It's more obvious that way, isn't it? We tend not to think of drinks as candy, but I doubt your palate cares if it's liquid or solid. Someone with a serious candy habit, sugar-free or not, is more likely to find healthy food bland, and less likely to have good impulse control. There's a great book called "The Dorito Effect" which alleges that the omnipresence of synthetic flavoring (whether natural or artificial) has totally trashed our collective palate, and is a strong reason for the obesity crisis.
Anyone who eats half a bag of sugar -free candy will most likely be sitting on the toilet for half an hour because of the presence of sugar alcohols in diet candy. All but one of the sugar alcohols used by food manufacturers cause "a laxative effect" when consumed in large quantities. I have to be sparing when using sugar-free pancake syrup, for example.
So true. I eat way cleaner than I used to and I love the taste of meat, fruit and even some veggies. I remember having that 'dorrito effect' where these good foods didn't taste that good to me
i feel like im a bit alone on this one, but i heavily favor the spoon, i use it for like 80% of my eating tasks, i only use the fork for things that are significantly easier to pick up by stabbing or noting, like obviously spaghetti but also pasta I find easier to stab, and some things like long beans or broccoli stem type things. i almost never use knives. casue i can cut with the spoon just fine :D and why would you scoop something with a thin fork with holes in when you can shovel it in wiht a miniature shovel :D oh i also eat almost exclusively with 1 hand. just spoon and nothing else, just scoop and shovel in :)
For Conrad: Your Country, Singapore, has a huge Indian population with a decently sized Indian district with many restaurants, temples, merchandise, and housing areas. I used to work for the US Navy and have visited them previously. I'm curious, wouldn't it be very easy to go to these locations to satisfy your curiosity?
A little thing to note, Adam. Forks migrated to Europe not throw the trade route mostly, but from connection between Byzantines elites and European elites. First of all - southern Italy was highly influenced by Byzantines. A lot of nobles often send their children to Constantinople court where they were raised in eastern Roman tradition (it was quite easy to notice such person in Italy because of the beard, while people in Europe were shaving. Secondly - Θεοφανώ - Theophanu- the Greek princes who became empress of the Holy Roman Empire. She brought a lot of from eastern Roman culture - and perhaps she brought forks. The influence of the eastern Roman Empire on the West nobility was outstanding. But that’s a huge question to discuss. I study Byzantium so sorry for my English, I’m better at Ancient Greek )
Don't brush your teeth right after drinking a carbonated drink. The carbon makes your teeth vulnerable, so brushing it right after is a bad idea. At least, that's what my dentist told me. She suggested flushing my mouth with water after drinking diet soda, to neutralize the acidity.
Carbonic acid that is... really mild and goes away just as fast as bubbles from a warm soda. It's phosphoric or to a lesser degree, citric acid in the drink that will do damage with brushing.
Bzzzzzt. Wrong answer! Turns out the fluoride in your toothpaste is ALSO more soluble, and more available for binding with enamel. Phosphoric acid DOES pose a significant risk to the health of our teeth. It has zero impact on brushing your teeth. (I am not a dentist, but I am an oral care chemist, and have been making toothpastes and teeth whitening gels for 20+ years)
I must have some form of autism, because I don't mind when someone tries to explain something to me unless I know that the information is false. This causes problems because I likewise also like to explain things to other people, but it often frustrates or annoys them.
I don't think it has something to do with autism. Many people don't like to learn something new. They get annoyed because they are reminded of the fact that they don't know something and they like to celebrate their ignorance in life. I don't keep such people as friends, but sometimes as customers - as long as they pay me good money to do easy stuff they can't be bothered to learn. (I work in IT)
I have found that some personality types are much more open to having things be explained to them than others. I don't think any of this has anything to do with autism. Finding the right way to provide information to people is a slow dance around intent, words, tone, body language etc. By instinct we change the way we behave depending on which person we are speaking to. Some people don't do that very well when it comes to teaching others, or simply providing information. You might employ a tone that is disagreeable or patronizing (without realizing it, and probably without feeling that way), and that can drive those people away. I think it's important to do self-reflection as a first mechanism of reviewing social interactions as opposed to immediately thinking that the "Other" is the source of the failure in communication. It might be you, it might be them. It is probably a combination of the two - and if you can change your delivery system, you might be able to brush them the right way!
Tbh i don't even mind if that information is false, unless it's from people that like to defend their beliefs to death and yeah that definently gets me anoyed as well. So i really don't quite understand why people feel so offended when i'm simply triyng to explain them things just for the sake of improving their knowledge without any dominance aspect.
@@mooooooooooooove Normally, you provide additional information if you think the other person needs some context. Otherwise, they have to ask again. We live in a knowledge based society, but nobody can know everything. Personally, I think that tone, body language etc. is overrated. It can be impacted by so many things outside the current conversation and carries hardly any information. If I think myself into the other person and want to know something: Is it wise to take an "offensive" body language as an excuse not to listen? Or do I not want to listen due to other reasons (maybe the other person is talking crap) and then pretend to be offended?
@@svr5423 I see what you mean. In my case, if the goal is to provide a certain piece of information that I know to be true and verifiable, I will bend my "delivery system" as much as needed to make the other person understand that piece of information (obviously, this excludes someone who is being agressive and who could never accept the information in the first place). With that way of doing things in mind, I do believe that tone and body language are important. It's not rocket science that people will generally prefer being disagreed with if one frames it as a "yeah, but look at it this way.." situation rather than a "no. let me tell you why you're wrong" situation.
Omg my wife did that for years after we were married. She would know I was doing something wrong, and would let me f*** it up versus tell me I'm doing it wrong. I informed her MULTIPLE time, I'd rather be told I'm wrong and be correct afterwards then be permitted to screw things up.
As an online Microsoft and Google instructor who recently got a chance to listen to one of my recorded classes, I’m so glad that I’m not weird or broken for trailing off at the ends of my sentences. I’m just a normal human being who needs to learn a new skill for a new environment/technology that wasn’t part of my daily life before. And I think everyone who wants some sort of audio/video career online could benefit from some theatre/broadcasting classes.
@@0k0sMrHazard i just feel theres a world of curry that food youtubers dont explore theres so much more than just indian styles as a guy of trini descent itd be great to see more food tubers acknowledge other cultures curries
16:56 I remember my dentist saying that you should definitely not wash your teeth immeadiately after eating, especially if it's acidic, because apparently the low pH predisposes the teeth enamel to damage by mechanical abrasion. Hence, you also should wash your teeth in the morning BEFORE you eat, not afterwards. I tried to do a little bit due diligence and googled this study: (Susceptibility of acid-softened enamel to mechanical wear--ultrasonication versus toothbrushing abrasion, A Wiegand etc. 2007) maybe Dr. Ragusea can dig up something more on this if interested.
I may have missed it but if you are talking about diet soda consumption it's worth considering the health effects of soda at all, specifically the health effects of phosphoric acid used mostly in dark sodas and our teeth and bones which do not react kindly to dramatic increases in dietary phosphate.
ITS TRUE. The only soda without tooth-decaying acid is ROOT BEER. Citric acid sodas, like orange/lemon lime/Mtn Dew are still bad but much less so than colas.
I truly love your background, Adam! :D I'm sorry you don't like me getting your pod through RUclips and a video feed, but I don't like what skipping your videos does to my RUclips recommendations, I want to keep you at the top of my list. I'm sorry about the work and headache it has caused you lately, but this is very pleasant. For what it's worth, I'd have watched you even if you recorded in an echo-filled, disgusting alley, I love your content. Thank you so much for your good work.
I personally feel as though diet pepsi products embrace the artificial sweetener, instead of masking it. I love that horrible, acrid chemical flavor. Always tasted better to me than the actual normal soda.
Idk, I prefer Pepsi0 over Coke0 any day. Don't taste anything horrible about it either :d Just can't mix drinks with them (either)... that's always disgusting for some reason.
I remember about 10 years ago there was a rat study showing that one of the chemicals in the food coloring in soda caused cancer. The problem was the dosage would require a human to drink some inordinate amount of soda daily for a few years (literally a dump truck per day). The problem being that the sugar or caffeine or any number of other things would kill you long before you got cancer from soda.
The issue that I have heard of with most artificial sweeteners is that they don't really fool the body's desire for sugar - so people end up overeating even more when they rely on artificial sweeteners. I've also heard that sucralose is bad for gut bacteria. Ultimately, we should all just drink more plain water.
Couldn't you say the same about water then? I think weight gain is caused primarily by bad decisions. People have a diet drink and "compensate" by having more (presumably) fast food
@@slipplays9502 No, water can be used to satiate and hold off hunger. Sometimes people eat food when they are actually just thirsty. Drinking water when the feeling of hunger arises is a good habit to help minimize unnecessary feeding. You are correct that weight gain is primarily bad decisions and really it's repeated bad decisions, i.e., bad habits.
@@slipplays9502 Every beverage that humans drink is primarily water. Whole milk is 87% water, skim milk is 95% water. Sugary sodas are 90% water and zero-calorie soda can be as much as 99% water. That does not mean that these drinks are just as good as pure water though because they may contain extra stuff that counteracts hydration, like fructose, caffeine, and/or alcohol. The other compounds in these drinks can affect other bodily processes too. There is no substitute for plain water.
On the whole diet soda thing. I started using Noom during the end of February 2022. Since then I have gone from 269 pounds to 210 pounds. I drink a zero sugar soda almost every day, sometimes twice a day. I think the biggest link between obesity and diet soda is the fact that people are already eating unhealthily like you were saying. If I was still eating the way I was before, but just changed from regular soda to diet soda, I'd still be 270+ pounds.
It's funny because the spoon feels like the does everything implement for me. Sometimes, when I'm lazy, I'll use the spoon to cut things to be small enough to fit into the spoon itself, so there's very few foods that it actually can't handle. Personally I feel like sporks are the shampoo+conditioner of dining implements though. That is, they end up neither spooning nor forking.
Reminds me of my dad who insists spoons are "the superior utensil" But yeah sporks are awful. The tines are more triangular than straight, so food doesn't get stabbed, it just gets mashed up and stabbed until it gives up and lets you scoop it
Sporks: It really depends upon the design. There is a huge number of different spork types, and most of them are just unpleasant to put near one's mouth. But I grew up with a particular kind of spork at home (we called them splades) and they were great for one-handed eating. Every subsequent spork I've encountered has been a massive downgrade! I can't find a picture of my ideal spork online, but it's easy to state a few basic principles: the bowl of the spork should not have sharp corners or sharp edges, the bowl should be fairly shallow, the end of the bowl should not be uncomfortably wide or narrow, the tines should not be long or narrow or sharp. The nearest I can find to what I grew up with is this vintage set being sold on eBay under the same "SET 6X Vintage 70s MID Century STAINLESS Steel SPLAYDS Buffet FORKS Sporks" (not including a link because don't want comment autodeleted)
Don't forget, it's not just bare hands, it's the RIGHT bare hand specifically in India. The left hand is for doing things like cleaning yourself or taking your shoes off, things you don't want also touching your food.
I came over from the podcast app just to confirm that you are correct good sir. I listen to your podcast while mowing. Thanks for the tidy yard Adam! 😂
I read from somewhere that introduction of silverware to the dinner-table changed our jaw-line from underbite to overbite. Before that, people had to spend lots more time masticating their food, which made for stronger jaws. Archeologists can see if the skulls they find belonged to someone eating with knife/fork. This is purely conjecture by me, but I think this may partially be why there's an old stereotype that nobility had weak jaws. At first only they were rich enough to afford utensils.
I'm currently finishing the last draft of my dissertation before I submit it to evaluation and oh boy, over the last say, 100 hours I've worked on it I've listened to nearly as many hours of Adam Ragusea talking about stuff.
hey adam! love the new background and the podcast in general you actually talk about interesting things and i learn a lot from you, keep up the good work my man!
Man, Adam was tired of bringing the studio to the kitchen so Laurent brought the kitchen to the studio... good job! I will keep using RUclips for your podcast, though... hahaha
In Thailand, we have mix of table eating tools. For certain dishes like sticky rice, we eat them with our fingers. Noodle based dishes makes use of sticks and spoon. The rest is eaten with spoon. Forks are... rarely used
Thank you very much for (not) explaining that billions of people in advanced societies also still eat with their hands. Eating with your hands is common not just in South Asia, but also Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines, Africa and Southern America.
Weird thing is I dont live near any of those places and I think its the superior way to eat, it's just pleasurable to me. Growing up I'd have to sneak eat rice with my hands cause I'd get told off, but it's just so fun.
Dental hygienist here, you can probably just rinse with water after drinking soda and be fine. You're just trying to return your mouth to its normal pH and get whatever food particles off your teeth and gums. Water does that just fine. It is said that brushing immediately after having acidic substances in your mouth is bad for your enamel since it's been weakened by the acid (not actually sure if that's true).
Adam: “You only reallly need spoons for soups and such…” Filipinos: “Hold, my beer…” Context: In the Philippines we use both forks and spoons as utensils every meal. This is the norm where I come from but highly interested how you would research this. One westerner friend of mine comments about this dining difference that Filipinos love food so much, we shovel food in our mouth. LOL
In Western culture, there is always plenty of bread to soak up excess juices/broths/dressing/brines. And that is the best part of the meal if you ask me!
@@paulblichmann2791 it's rice that replaces bread as our staple food. And it's awkward for us to scoop using a fork or knife and doesn't hold liquid, hence, the spoon would be much preferred. We don't have much steaks, but if we have, it's not usually thick or tough enough to require a knife (e.g. Jollibee's burger steak, which is just a small burger pattie)
I'm Polish and my mom eats everything with a spoon which personally creeps me out (might be me being autistic, I just don't like putting too much of food in my mouth at a time). Like, she eats pierogi with a spoon, a salad with a spoon, literally everything...
I'm from the USA but I lived in the Philippines for about 2 years and before I moved there I expected chopsticks at the table and not just the kitchen (I had traveled in Japan and China previously btw). I wonder if the use of western style utensils in the Philippines has to do with Spain and the USA colonialism? Obviously China had a huge influence historically in the Philippines I don't believe there was as much of an influence as the colonial societies had on their colonies. And I do agree Filipinos love to eat!! I love Filipino cuisine and I think I'm off to make some chicken adobo for dinner! Have a wonderful day. Edit: I made this before Adam's comment on colonialism. But the Philippines is pretty unique due to the 2 large influential colonial powers and how much both were assimilated at varying degrees into the Filipino culture.
Dental student here (and also speaking from personal experience), brushing after eating or drinking something acidic assists in the erosion of enamel. Please rinse with water before you brush or even something more basic like baking soda mixed with water.
I don't know if this is something just in my family or just in my culture (Cuban) but I grew up being taught that the fork was the "adult" utensil, meaning that when you're a kid you use a spoon as your primary utensil but at some point you graduate to using a fork as you're primary utensil. I'm still caught off guard when I see one of my friends choosing to eat a meal with a spoon.
I must have never grown up. I am 59 and a large spoon has always been my primary utensil. A fork is for stabbing meat and pushing food onto the spoon. 🤓🍻
A fork is more dangerous to a small kid (face/mouth) than a spoon. Adults will usually provide a kid with food in adequate sizes (or allow them to eat with their hands otherwise) so the use of pointy forks can be delayed until the appropriate motor skills develop. [sorry if you already knew all that! 😉 ]
Yo, Adam, I was straining my homemade chicken broth and tidying up the kitchen while listening to you this time around. The audio levels and your enunciation were fine.
Your talk about the potential issues in studies: observational vs experimental, sampling, interpretation of findings, etc reminded me of something a professor once told me. "Be careful when you hear that something kills cancer in a petri dish, because so does a gun."
The thing about rats and health reminds me of what a scientist once said, something like “We don’t really know how to keep humans healthy but we really know how to keep rats alive”
As a frequent forgetful camper I would argue forks are much easier to make than a spoon. A forked small branch makes a great temporary fork and you can make it much quicker than a spoon. Maybe you won't have as durable of a utensil but it's definitely quick!
Anecdotally, I consumed a ton of diet soda every day for years and ate fairly healthy otherwise and ended up with diabetes. Since I like caffeine, I switched to cold brew ice tea with a little vanilla almond milk (weird, but it works for me) and drink that by the gallon. Lost a lot of weight, got my sugar under control, yadda yadda.
I like diet soda because when (not if, but when) it spills, it's not sticky. It took a while to get used to how different it tastes from the "regular", but once you do, you don't really miss the other.
the whole "oh these sweeter-replacements are BAD for you really"-trolling i get sometimes makes me (lovingly and metaphorically) grab said friend/family member by the collar and remind them that I'M A FRIGGIN DIABETIC. It's not that I believe in Big Diet, it's that I would like to enjoy a sweet-tasting thing once in awhile without worrying that i'm going to need a trip to the hospital. This is further compounded when I have to remind them that even "normal" foods break down into sugars and i'm one overly-seasoning-salted dish away from a spiked bloodstream. For god's sake when i went to the fair and got a lemonade because that was the only option that wasn't alcoholic (because! diabetes drugs make alcohol effects worse and i was hot) I ended up in the first aid tent with a blood sugar of 236 and the med tech asking me if i drank hummingbird food or something. so please dear sweet baby unholy goat-god of the underrealm, stop scoffing when i ask for a "diet" drink. I know I'm fat, my pants size and a mirror are evidence enough, that's not why i'm drinking it. I'm drinking it because I don't want to live on water, unsweetened tea, and bitter black coffee for the rest of my cursed life.
35:52 Gonna have to be a bit pedantic here, our perspective of medieval european history is heavily skewed by authors who saw it as the 'unintersting middle period' between antiquity and 'the renaissance', which is why we generally see Italy at this time as the centre of European society. Historians currently are trying to grow out of that notion, which is why we now have a concept of the 'renaissance of the 12th century'. If you, for example, look at art and art techniques around the time of the Italian renaissance, you will find that the Dutch had more detailled paintings, which they could make with the more advanced techinques of making paint that were known to them (which the Italians would later learn from them too), the first instances of color perspective, exceptionally accurate use of bent reflective surfaces and interactions of light, and that the naturalistic 'ars nova' style was way more popular internationally than the renaissance style. Much of the knowledge Europeans learned from Arabian sources also came from Iberia, not Italy, as European forces reconquered much of the peninsula with its scholarly knowledge.
I was quite surprised to hear about the hunger-inducing effects of diet soda - for me it's the complete opposite. If I'm hungry and I drink a diet soda (for me, it's Coke No Sugar), my hunger diminishes substantially for at least an hour. It's becoming something of a useful weight loss technique for me, to curb appetite when I'm trying to get leaner.
I'm allergic to Aspartame, the sweetening agent commonly known at NutraSweet. I will go into anaphylaxis (the swelling and closing of the throat) if I consume this. Oddly enough, I can't taste it either. Back when this compound was thought to cause cancer it was taken out of processed foods and replaced with other sweeteners (which I can't really taste but am not allergic to). In recent years its being put back into foods and now I have to read the labels on packaged food, if not avoid them outright.
Probably because you’re not able to metabolize it. I react the same way to several common substances and posed the same question to a Mayo Rochester immunologist. He pointed to my CYP450 genetic print out for the explanation.
I always listen to your podcast on a podcast app (and watch your videos on youtube) but I thought I should come check out your video just to see how your background looks like 😅 also another diet pepsi fan here! ✋️ To be honest I like both Coca Cola and Pepsi but I'd prefer Pepsi and I secretly cheer inside when the waitress says "sorry we don't have coca cola, we only have pepsi" 🤣
I'm not a soda drinker, but I do enjoy Pepsi over Coke. My mother is a hardcore Coke fan, goes through several cases(24 cans/case) a week. She will through a tantrum if she runs out, even though she has every means not to. Kinda wild, seems like it's still got cocaine in it! Lol
I didn't realize how wonderfully entertaining your pods were! I admit I skipped all of them until now, where I was doing something tedious and decided to turn on your pod for some background listening. Very happy outcome and hope this inspires you to keep doing more.
It’s not just Indians that eat with only hands, Arabs Iranians Turks North Africans all eat with hands, I’m from Armenia and when I traveled to Iran to experience the Middle East they all ate with only hands. It was a culture shock but pretty cool.
Regarding the "taste of water" bit: I highly recommend people who aren't satisfied with the quality of their tap water buy a couple of reusable water jugs (or even 5-gallon jugs if you have the space and money for a water cooler at home) and use the refill stations at your local grocery store. It's a lot cheaper (and more environmentally friendly) than single-serving bottled water or even pre-filled jugs, and they're typically filtered water so the quality is likely to be at least decent. Of course you can also install a filtration system at home, and that's a good option too, but it does mean you have to stay on top of changing your filters as needed. Not a huge deal for some, but that "one more thing to worry about" could be a deal breaker for others.
I don't think you have to put cooking wine in the fridge. My parents always had a used bottle of Marsala Cooking Wine in their cabinet that would keep for a while. So I think it's safe to say that it will last for at least a month, maybe more.
i've always really enjoyed eating south asian food with my hands (though usually putting the curry-rice mixture in a piece of flatbread to keep cleaner) but it's also, i feel, totally necessary to the experience. not because of the whole spices, but because my curry meat of choice is goat, which is nearly always served on the bone at indian-american restraunts. i'd much rather debone the meat in my hands and eat the whole package together than spit the bone out.
As a Californian, I know very little about Georgia so it is very interesting for you to tell us about it. I think I would like the "Carpet" area who voted in Marjorie Taylor Green. Please keep her in office.
I gave up diet soda because it did sweet F all to help me lose weight. In fact I've gained. Who knows why, could've been for any of the reasons listed in the podcast. And yeah, as the video mentioned all these studies have to be taken with a massive grain of salt, as we all know Big Soda has its knee in the back of the government and every research facility that even thinks about looking into the potential damage soda could cause. Decades from now we'll probably look back in horror at all the shady stuff they pull.
I work in a call center doing tech support. Providing instructions over the phone for (typically non-tech-savvy) users to follow requires that I speak clearly, precisely, and deliberately; and I frequently get bad surveys saying I speak condescendingly, even after calls where I thought I was getting along with my caller. Your elaboration on your "explainer voice" explains a lot about what was probably going on for a lot of my calls. So the follow-up question is how do you curb that effect?
You're already talking to people who are annoyed and would prefer you do wizardry to fix their issue remotely rather than to have to take instructions that they're likely stressed about performing correctly. So, probably not much.
I’m definitely looking up your beans video now. I specifically am interested in how exactly the “beans make you fart” common knowledge works. I’ve personally found that some beans don’t give me any gas at all, while others absolutely do. Garbanzo beans/chickpeas give me the worst (and smelliest) gas. I made the mistake of bringing my homemade chana masala (chickpea curry) to work for lunch the other day, and let’s just say my coworkers were not appreciative. 😂 Anyway, other types of beans don’t really seem to have this effect on me. Do chickpeas just have more fiber than regular beans?
45:12 To quote our late English professor (Editg Buñag) she was great: "Don't die out at the end of your sentence!!!". "Don't enunciate the end of a statement! You're making it sound like a question!"
I remember hearing of a study that determined that children who have a night light grow up to be near-sighted. after re-examining the data it was decided that, in fact, near-sited parents use night lights so they don't fall over in the dark, and near-sighted parents have near-sighted children.
an excellent example of "correlation doesn't equal causation". Though my favorite is still ice cream sales and shark attacks.
However, research suggests the culprit for the epidemic of nearsightedness is not spending enough time outside.
This correlation was often interpreted as "spending time outside => focusing on objects far away => not being nearsighted" but now there is another hypothesis that is widely accepted :
The eyeball needs dopamine to stop growing. It synthesizes dopamine from receiving lots of light which is impossible when not spending time outside so the eyeball keeps growing and growing, giving you myopia.
Also : using personal experience to prove a point is everything but scientific (looking at you, Fox D 👀)
@@SimuLord Eh, you might still have amazing vision. Cats are notorious at setting traps for you to trip over. I wouldn't be surprised if your GF's cat is out to get you or at least make you look like a fool in front of her. ;-)
@@SilverDragonJay My favourite one is global warming and piracy
@@SilverDragonJay ...You can't just say "ice cream sales and shark attacks" then leave like that's a normal thing.
I legit love how compassionate your philosophy is. Like, ostensibly I'm here for the food science, but food itself is so wrapped up in culture and human history that we get to touch on all these amazing subjects. And it's a blessing to get to learn from you. Thank you ♥
NO NO NO Do not brush your teeth right after drinking soda! The (carbonic) acid in the soda softens your enamel and it can be worn away by the action of brushing. Always wait half an hour for your mouth pH to return to neutral before brushing. This actually applies to eating in general, since so many foods are acidic.
Adam, I love your podcasts but I am being emphatic here to get your attention, thanks and keep up the good work.
After having an insane soda drinking habit in my teens, I've been told this by every single dentist I've been to since. Wait at least half an hour before brushing your teeth (I wait an hour, usually), and preferably have something alkaline like milk after ingesting something acidic.
it's a pretty important detail, really
a detail which school-teachers (and most other sources of childhood doctrine) for decades have been contradicting based on nothing more than "authoritative inertia", and probably also the concept of "discipline"
which has annoyed me a lot since i learned this
rather thankful i never listened to them and just brushed my teeth before and after bed, most days
Also a lot of beers have citric acid in them, especially "microbrews" who use it to clean their lines and if it ends up in the drink "it's safe and flavorless" so they use way too much "to be safe"
Specifically cola is even worse since it very often also contains phosphoric acid
There’s a thing called milk.
Drink enough of it and your teeth and bones will thank you for it.👍
Just in case you didn't realise, the chapter things aren't showing in the video progress bar, because you need to add a 0:00 section in the description
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@@sasmiain3323 also same @adamragusea
He KNOWS! (it's just that life is difficult…) 😅
@@FairMiles He just didn't land the 0:00, it's tough to type that fast.
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The whole bit with the “explaining voice” was so eye opening. I naturally have a very quiet voice, and when you compound it with background noise and the natural trailing off we do, a lot of information I think I’m communicating to people gets lost. I never thought about it like that. Thank you
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Absolutely. And people will generally pretend to hear you even if they don't. You might be the cleverest verbalist around but without a proper delivery nobody will know.
I think the reason why you have found success doing a cooking channel or at least what drew me to your content is because you approach the subject like a journalist. The food science explanation is complete down to fundamentals or references. The first few episodes I saw, I literally thought you had a science background, that I was watching a trained scientist that liked to cook.
Other cooking channels are hosted by chefs and whatever food science they provide sounds like them repeating pseudoscience.
that's what makes his channel gold for me
This is why I watch Adam. This is easily the best cooking youtube channel and the way he explains things is simple and he comes off as wholesome and honest
Spot on.
100%, I totally agree
Adam, could you kindly do a video about energy drinks? Particularly sugar free energy drinks?
that would be a dumb video
@@Inapainting no it wouldnt i love bangs
He's already done a similar video on MSG, and I think a lot of the points people bring up with MSG are very similar to the ones they bring up for artificial sweetners.
They're not completely safe, nor completely bad. But if consumed as part of a healthy, balanced diet, you can mitigate any and all risks.
Pre workout is the way to go
Monster Zero still isn’t healthy if that’s what you’re asking
No lie, I seriously thought that clip of Adam's earliest reporting was a text-to-speech program. Really impressive how far he's come since then
i thought the same thing. Microsoft Ragusea.
What's weird is how "NPR" it actually sounds. If I had heard that on NPR I wouldn't have thought any different. I don't if it's a particular filter they run the voices through or what, but everything on NPR sounds extremely monotone and relaxing, but at the same time, without emphasis, I feel it's terrible for actually communicating.
@@Jarrettmonty99 wait what
@@Jarrettmonty99 I am curious if your comment stems from whether or not you knew that Adam used to work for NPR? Anyway, I actually like Adam's voice in his initial broadcast.
@@edwardwong654 Not sure which you mean, but I did not know up until this video that he worked for NPR, but I have previously listened to NPR on occasion, and I think that Adam's NPR voice fits the typical NPR voice. Which is not a bad thing, I like the sound, but it's helpful to get a dynamic range of voice to place emphasis, which I think is a little lacking. Would you agree?
Re: Indians eating with their hands - this drove me nuts as a kid, but Indians (or at least my parents and our local community) do not debone fish for fish curry. My auntie's curry is to die for - and perhaps literally, if you use utensils instead of fingers, and end up with a bone in your throat.
As a kid, I was taught when eating any fish that once you take a bite you should always use your tongue to check for thing hard in the mouthful (ie bones) before swallowing. I know the description sounds more disgusting than the practice. I just assumed everyone did this.
In China we almost never debone our fish and we eat them with chopsticks regardless. Is there a reason why "fish curry" might be different from other fish cuisine where deboning via finger is preferable or required over deboning via tongue?
Type and size of fish matters too.
Smaller fish the bones are not an issue, but larger or very bony fish, they can be.
I usually cut the fish into tiny pieces when eating to avoid this problem. Eating with cutlery is not a problem here
I’ve never had an issue with eating bony fish. Small fish can be swallowed big fish the bones are apparent
Adam, your bit on "explaining voice" was excellent. In high school 60+ years ago, my teacher in communications prepared us to do our weekly radio show by bringing up those exact points and demonstrations. I was able to use those techniques to good advantage in my own presentations to students, meetings or audiences over the years. Great info for the present group that seem to end each sentence with a question in their voice.
Could you share a time stamp? Thank you!
I absolutely despise the question at the end of every statement. I dream of the day that I communicate with someone under 30 and don't have to ask, "are you asking me, or telling me?"
He sounded a bit like Mike Rowe.
@@barongerhardt Not exactly related, but Canadians have a specific accent known as the Canadian Rise. Typically, most Canadians, for whatever reason largely have upward inflections at the end of sentences and statements, EXCEPT the final statement, which usually has a downward inflection, signalling the end of your dialogue and opening the floor to the other person. The California Valley Girl upward inflection thing is incredibly annoying though lol
Regards to brushing your teeth after diet soda, I've generally see the recommendation to avoid brushing your teeth for about 30 minutes after consuming acidic food/drink due to it softening the enamel and making it more vulnerable to damage from the brush.
ITS TRUE you should not brush after eating acid. Which is in most foods. So maybe just floss instead?? I think you can still floss???
@@paulblichmann2791 Flossing is perfectly fine after eating and drinking something acidic, yes! Brushing is what you should be careful with.
@@IsaVarg unless you want to brush off the yellow and your enamel that is ^^ - have not reached this in the vid, now I'm wondering what Adam said here. edit: oh I was just a minute to it. Oh IMO he got this really wrong, washing your mouth with plain water or something other to help to neutralize the accid faster /or wash it out and help to get it faster. I personally allways wait 45 minutes to brush my teeth after lunch, dinner and due to scheduling issues brush before breakfast. Quick mouth wash afterwards, not ideal...
I guess that makes sense, its a good idea to have a glass of water after acidic drinks too.
That’s why I use balsamic vinegar as mouthwash
I had a meal with my mom and brother not long ago, of pizza and green salad. I had neglected to grab a fork and the salad wasn't highly sauced, so I started to eat it with my fingers, to great consternation from my tablemates. They would not allow me to continue and when I asked why it was okay to eat the pizza with my hands, even though it was just as likely to make my hands dirty, their response was along the lines of "it's just different!" Very unsatisfying.
That is, 👍🏽 to your desire, not that of your tablemates. I experience something similar eating delicious food for the wrong meal. My white American students are highly unsettled when my breakfast is leftovers, whether it is rice based ethnic food or it is food they know and like in a different meal context like lasagna.
I get a similar reaction when I eat popcorn with chopsticks. If I use utensils for other food to avoid getting my hands dirty, then why shouldn't I do that with popcorn? Actually, it seems even more important with popcorn because that's traditionally eaten while watching a movie. Who wants to get up and wash their hands during a movie? I certainly don't. And napkins just don't cut it to get popcorn "butter" etc off the hands. Chopsticks seem like the perfect solution to me.
@@taejaskudva2543 How silly of anyone to care what kind of food you eat for breakfast. Personally, I eat whatever I have available and am in the mood for without caring what meal it is for. If I had lasagna in the fridge I absolutely would eat it for breakfast. And I probably wouldn't heat it up. Which people have given me a hard time for. Why do they care if I am happy to eat my left overs cold?
@@anyascelticcreations Chopsticks would protect your fingers from burns too, since popcorn is also best when eaten immediately out of the cooker
Also, food is food. Eat what you want for breakfast
@@Brandyalla Very good points. 👍 😊🙏
Would you ever make another more casual Ask Adam that's completely unscripted and Lauren is picking and asking the questions? I could (and have) watched those episodes tons of times
She may not have the time to do that bc of how late they used to do it
Yeah, listening to Adam in an actual conversation is super fun. His casual storytelling and conversing unscripted with a partner is charismatic and stuff
@@aia8955 Doesn't have to be a regular thing, it could be nice to do every once in a while when they have the time
I really enjoyed those old episodes a whole lot more. Mostly because when it is just Adam, he tends to ramble on and go off on tangents, sometimes even rants.
It's more enjoyable to have someone else there to interact with and to keep him on track. They used to get thru a lot of questions. Now, it's only 3-4
From Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose, a novel set in a medieval monastery: "The abbot made us taste (reserved for his table) the chicken I had seen being prepared in the kitchen. I saw that he also possessed a metal fork, a great rarity, whose form reminded me of my master’s glasses. A man of noble extraction, our host did not want to soil his hands with food, and indeed offered us his implement, at least to take the meat from the large plate and put it in our bowls. I refused, but I saw that William accepted gladly and made nonchalant use of that instrument of great gentlemen, perhaps to show the abbot that not all Franciscans were men of scant education or humble birth."
I just read that book! Never expected to see it in a comment here lol
As a former theater major, it was really exciting to hear someone talk about emphasizing the unusual concepts that the listener isn't expecting. It drives me crazy when people mumble through the most unusual parts of copy or text or scripts. The way you described it is perfect. The "mayor" isn't even an unusual concept, they just weren't thinking about it seconds ago before you brought it up, so you have to HIT those syllables. I wish my theater professor had thought to explain it that way. I hear professional actors make this mistake all the time. The kids from Glee come to mind for whatever reason. They didn't understand to "walk not run" through the stranger parts of their dialogue.
There is a 1990's study of, I believe Splenda, that discovered that rats drinking Diet Soda has an enormous Cancer risk. After publishing the study, other scientists reviewing it noticed that the study has been made over a breed of rats specially selected for be extremely cancer prone, (they were specially breed for test cancer treatments, you need a reliable source of diseased rats for that), while the control group has been formed for a basic breed of lab rats.
Are you talking about saccharine? There were studies in the 1970s that reported that saccharine caused cancer in lab rats and mice and was a possible carcinogen to humans. Since lab rats and mice are used as analogues for humans, the warning made sense. It was later found that the way it caused cancer in mice and rats was not possible in humans. I grew up with saccharine products (e.g. Sweet’N Low) having a warning that it may cause cancer.
@@tempesttube No, the problem with the 1970's saccharine study was one of dosage, the rats were exposed to an unrealistic amount of saccharine, the equivalent of several hundred grams of pure saccharine a day, and of course in those amounts saccharine is a cancerigen, and tea in equivalent amounts will not give cancer because you will have a heart attack much sooner.
so what you telling me is there wasn't a control group.
@@jarradtait5322 No, the control group formally existed, however it was, by accident or by design, genetically very different to the expiremental group in a significant way.
@@pedroarjona6996 exactly. it was, by definition, not a control group. It was as much a control group as a strawberry is a car. Some arbitrary subset of people on earth called it a control group but it was not a control group because it didn't control for subject variance. It didn't control anything.
I was, at my heaviest, 403 pounds. I've lost nearly 200 pounds on low carb while drinking unholy amounts of diet soda.
If you are obese, concentrate on losing the fat. Nothing matter as much.
You’ve lost a lot more than me but I’ve lost 40lbs (and maintained that loss!) and drink 3-4 a day lmao.
@@jebbush2527 "Diet soda slows down fat loss!"
Good thing too, otherwise I'd be getting into Justin Bieber territory.
@@sld1776 I don’t even think it does tbh. Dr Mike Israetel has good content on this. I completely cut almost all caloric liquid intake because of it, and when cutting it briefly satiates me
Same with the switch. Along with other changes, I switched to diet soda and started dropping weight. This is why I call BS on the idea that drinking diet soda causes obesity. Correlation is not the same as causation. Obese people might be the ones who usually drink diet soda, but that's not why they're fat.
I have discovered your channel two weeks ago and you suddenly became one of my all time favourite video creators. Thank you
I used to drink Diet Coke and then Coke Zero as my main drink. Much of 7 years ago I gave up soda. I now drink mostly water and black coffee. I am still fat, but I do feel a bit better. Thanks for all you teach and entertain us with. And I like that I can drink water in a restaurant for free or black coffee for a relatively small cost.
That bit about trailing off at the ends of sentences is so true. I do editing/post-production on my bother's podcast and much of that is compensating for the fact that so many sentences look like a pizza slice in the waveform, nice and clear and perfect at the beginning and barely distinguishable from the background noise at the end.
do you know that VPNs will not make your internet private? you can still be tracked even with a VPN through the use of cookies and device fingerprinting. and that also you can still be vulnerable to hackers.
It stops ddos attacks, others from seeing your IP address, stop internet providers from spying on you (mostly a problem in Australia and China), and prevent your landlord or hotel (if they provide your internet) from seeing what you're doing.
You have to take other precautions to have complete privacy. Use a secure browser in incognito, secure search engines, and use specific phones with a lot of modifications.
the "wtf is.." series i think is a bit of a win win, either you already know everything and feel smart for knowing or you learn everything and feel good that you know more now without having to feel like you were called out for being wrong
Love the new set. Fitting. Maintains the audio sound I prefer from the kitchen as opposed to the previous podcast setup. And hopefully this doesn't need to get torn down after every episode
I am loving the new background, tell Lauren she did a great job!
-Sarah
HUGE disagree. It's gaudy as 50's wallpaper. I appreciate the 'art' behind it but it does not belong as a background.
A good background should be subtle and complementary, not taking over the scene.
@@miinyoo eh, I like it.
@@miinyoo I like it. It's a mood-lifting design, and gives one something to look at besides starring at Adam's face.
@@miinyoo i LOVE that wallpaper!
I guess I am also one of the freaks who prefers the taste of diet sodas, most "regular" sodas are too sweet for me. Caffeine is my main reason for drinking soda though, so I've recently switched to caffeinated sparkling water I've found in various stores near where I live.
Maybe I'm weird but artificial sweeteners taste way too sweet for me actually compared to normal sugar. (Here we use sugar not corn syrup in sodas, so maybe that's a difference - I did have some American sodas that had corn syrup and yeah they do taste much sweeter)
@@Jhud69 I feel like artificial sweeteners on their own taste sweeter than sugar, but I wouldn't say diet sodas taste sweeter to me than regular sodas.
@@Jhud69 I like diet soda and sugar soda about equally, maybe slightly preferring diet soda, but I prefer both very strongly to corn syrup sodas. plain American coke just doesn't taste as good as the cane sugar stuff or the diet stuff.
It’s the norm in UK now to just have diet fizzy drinks
I get my caffeine the old fashioned way, from coffee. I drink it about half of the day. All artificial and non nutritive sweeteners have a horrible aftertaste to me (including monkfruit and stevia).
as a kid, i was often mocked by family (especially my mom) for asking for a spoon while eating every time we'd visit relatives in India.... i've never heard the method of eating with hands being described in such detail though....
It is important to brush your teeth after drinking soda, you just have to wait about 30 minutes before doing so. The acid softens the enamel and the brushing will do more damage than good.
ITS TRUE. I think, but open to evidence, you can still floss???
@@paulblichmann2791 You should be able to. Floss moves food out of the way instead of being abrasive on the teeth
Flossing after every meal is a good habit to have
Please please please watch his explanation about this before commenting. It's in another podcast
@@mellie4174 I did! Though it does make me kinda shocked by the standard of evidence in dental care
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure: always drink soda with a straw.
Man learned so much on this youtube-cast. I think I did start unconsciously imitate Adam's explainer voice and earlier this week it did cross my mind that I somewhat sounded condescending to one of my coworkers. I am glad I watched/listened to this podcast and probably would have to learn to tone down my explainer voice as well.
I am the one who submitted that question and it was also very eye opening to understand what exactly made it sound so condescending. I jump between casual conversation and instructing fairly often and I've started to catch on to a lot of other who do this and I now understand so much more why I feel the way I do in some situations. It was awesome to have such a thorough answer.
i'd also like to add the the fork is also just very useful and versatile as a tool on the table. you can 'cut' soft meals (like cake) with the side (better than with a spoon because it's got a curvature) and you can mash things. where i'm from mashing a banana and adding oat flakes to it. or mashing potatoes (or vegetable in general) on your table and adding sauce/butter to it. that might be relevant for fine dining but i wouldn't be surprised if that was a reason why it spread so well to the commoners.
I worked in the restaurant industry for 15 years. Alot of times when I had to mix something I'd grab a fork on habit, even though I had mixers, food processors, immersion blenders, whisks, purpose made utensils for mixing, I always defaulted to the fork. People made fun of me but my stuff was always just as or more incorporated than if I'd used another tool 🤷
I think it's a crime to make a Roux with anything other than a fork lol
13:18 The canonical example of this is "800 cans of diet soda *a day*", a study about whether artificial sweetners were carcinogenic.
The otherwise safe sodium cyclamates -- an artificial sweetner that actually tastes *good* (Sucaryl) -- are still banned in the use 50 years later, even though they've been since proven safe: you can still buy them in Canada.
I'm 30 and when I was 5, hearing Sweating Bullets by Megadeth (the song Adam quotes at the other Adam) from my mom's CD was a life changing moment that lead me down the path to becoming a death metal musician many years later. It was wild to hear say such a vital string of words out of nowhere like that lol
I would love to have someone explain the appeal of death metal to me. I swear I'm not trying to be mean or rude but it doesn't sound like music to me. It seems there are lyrics but they don't sound like they're meant to be understood. There seem to be instruments but they seem to be all blended together and frenetic.
I like much of most music including heavy metal, old school hip hop, classic country, a few punk songs, classic rock & roll, R&B, and others. Death metal is the only one that legit sounds like it doesn't even want to be music.
Please someone enlighten me.
@@isaiahayers1550 Death metal is a process. You have to dip your toes into it. No one listens to death metal for the first time and accepts it. Not even me, someone whose life revolves around it now. I've shown hundreds of people the light over the years. I can understand what death metal singers are saying, I can hear the notes that are being played. They are deliberate, there is no randomness, insane amounts of practice goes into all of it, and the composers for the genre often have to be experts in theory to put things together in a way that sounds correct. Anyone that tries to mock death metal musicians, especially techdeath musicians, rarely manages to do anything but embarrass themselves because it's a highly refined artform.
I get told this stuff every single day of my life. Usually I'm outright mocked. But somehow there are millions of people for 45+ years now that can hear the same thing I can, the same beauty that I do. Cannibal Corpse doesn't sell out shows and chart on Bilboard for 30 years as a joke or a meme or "randomness."
If I knew you in person, I'd do my best to take you down the path. Like I've said, I've done it a million times before. But really, if you're actually curious, you'll find your way if you want. If you're just rude and trying to make fun of me, well, I guess you got me.
@@isaiahayers1550 You might look into a man named Devin Townsend and his corpus of work. That's maybe the best single suggestion I can give you.
@@tautochrone4968 I appreciate you and truly sorry to hear that people can be so shitty to you although I guess I can't be too surprised because...people suck. I highly doubt I'll ever get into death metal but I'll do as you suggest and check it out. Thanks.
@@isaiahayers1550 It's basically an acquired taste. Just like coffee. Most of the time the first time you drink it, you think it is terrible and why the hell would anyone want to put that into their body. But the next time you try it your body is a little more accustomed to it, so it's a little more familiar and less of a shocking overload; paired with positive reinforcement (telling your brain that you want to like it), you get over the knee jerk rejection and thus you allow your brain to start detecting nuances you hadn't noticed before. Slowly, over time, not only do you start to like it, you start to have preferences for differences that most others can't even detect.
I generally don't like it, I prefer melodic vocals with my metal. It used to be that if there was ever any scream/growling type vocals in a song, I just wouldn't like it. Nowadays as long as it strikes the right balance I can tolerate and sometimes even enjoy it. For a good example check out: JINJER - Pisces (Live Session) | Napalm Records. I really love that song, it strikes a perfect balance for me, there other songs mostly don't (for me).
I would also highly recommend watching reaction videos from vocal coaches for this song. First off it's freaking hilarious, but it also gives really good perspectives on the nuance and skill it takes to pull that off. 😁
as a teacher - the explaining voice reminds me so much of “the teacher voice” - if I spoke to my colleagues the same way I speak in class it would be considered rude at the least
I could tell when i was a child that adults were not giving me basic respect and it bothered me when adults do that.
As a Filipino, we'd be asking why are you not using a spoon when eating rice? (Why spoon and fork is staple here rather than fork and knife is because of rice)
Spoons make a great deal of sense for eating rice.
Naw, the big brained move is to eat rice (including non-sticky rice) with chopsticks.
@@ElijsDima chopsticks + bowl
@@ElijsDima two chopsticks? no, traditional Italian wooden spike for stabbing the rice seeds.
Watching this on my TV in my living room, FYI. This is such a interesting podcast. I never considered the bit about giving advice and the "voice". I always get so much out of this podcast. It is fascinating.
Never really drank much soda, diet or otherwise, until the Monster Zeros starting coming out a few years ago. Those things are delicious. I drink 3 or 4 per month usually. Plus now a couple coke zeros here and there. Other than, approximately 75% of my liquid intake is water, 10% black coffee. Then the very occasional beer or glass of milk.
It's also pretty common to eat food with your hands in the Philippines. Especially rice, though. You'll often have a bowl of water next to your plate that you use to keep your fingers wet, which helps to prevent the rice from sticking to them, or something.
I've also been to Moroccan and Ethiopian restaurants where the foods were basically all eaten with your hands, although I'm not as familiar with those cultures.
I grew up drinking Crystal Light and had to train myself to drink water after I moved out on my own. I didn't like water at first -- and I'm not alone in that, but it's kind of nuts when you think about it.
I like to frame the diet soda question as -- will a group of people who eat half a bag of sugar free hard candy per day have worse health outcomes than a group that doesn't? It's more obvious that way, isn't it? We tend not to think of drinks as candy, but I doubt your palate cares if it's liquid or solid. Someone with a serious candy habit, sugar-free or not, is more likely to find healthy food bland, and less likely to have good impulse control.
There's a great book called "The Dorito Effect" which alleges that the omnipresence of synthetic flavoring (whether natural or artificial) has totally trashed our collective palate, and is a strong reason for the obesity crisis.
Anyone who eats half a bag of sugar -free candy will most likely be sitting on the toilet for half an hour because of the presence of sugar alcohols in diet candy. All but one of the sugar alcohols used by food manufacturers cause "a laxative effect" when consumed in large quantities. I have to be sparing when using sugar-free pancake syrup, for example.
So true. I eat way cleaner than I used to and I love the taste of meat, fruit and even some veggies. I remember having that 'dorrito effect' where these good foods didn't taste that good to me
i feel like im a bit alone on this one, but i heavily favor the spoon, i use it for like 80% of my eating tasks, i only use the fork for things that are significantly easier to pick up by stabbing or noting, like obviously spaghetti but also pasta I find easier to stab, and some things like long beans or broccoli stem type things. i almost never use knives. casue i can cut with the spoon just fine :D and why would you scoop something with a thin fork with holes in when you can shovel it in wiht a miniature shovel :D
oh i also eat almost exclusively with 1 hand. just spoon and nothing else, just scoop and shovel in :)
For Conrad: Your Country, Singapore, has a huge Indian population with a decently sized Indian district with many restaurants, temples, merchandise, and housing areas. I used to work for the US Navy and have visited them previously. I'm curious, wouldn't it be very easy to go to these locations to satisfy your curiosity?
A little thing to note, Adam. Forks migrated to Europe not throw the trade route mostly, but from connection between Byzantines elites and European elites. First of all - southern Italy was highly influenced by Byzantines. A lot of nobles often send their children to Constantinople court where they were raised in eastern Roman tradition (it was quite easy to notice such person in Italy because of the beard, while people in Europe were shaving.
Secondly - Θεοφανώ - Theophanu- the Greek princes who became empress of the Holy Roman Empire. She brought a lot of from eastern Roman culture - and perhaps she brought forks. The influence of the eastern Roman Empire on the West nobility was outstanding. But that’s a huge question to discuss. I study Byzantium so sorry for my English, I’m better at Ancient Greek )
Don't brush your teeth right after drinking a carbonated drink. The carbon makes your teeth vulnerable, so brushing it right after is a bad idea. At least, that's what my dentist told me. She suggested flushing my mouth with water after drinking diet soda, to neutralize the acidity.
Carbonic acid that is... really mild and goes away just as fast as bubbles from a warm soda. It's phosphoric or to a lesser degree, citric acid in the drink that will do damage with brushing.
I would be looking for a better educated dentist...
Peer reviewed study or fake.
@@paulblichmann2791 this
Bzzzzzt. Wrong answer!
Turns out the fluoride in your toothpaste is ALSO more soluble, and more available for binding with enamel.
Phosphoric acid DOES pose a significant risk to the health of our teeth. It has zero impact on brushing your teeth. (I am not a dentist, but I am an oral care chemist, and have been making toothpastes and teeth whitening gels for 20+ years)
Thank you for the diet soda info! I lost 150lbs on keto and maintained my diet Pepsi addiction lol.
I must have some form of autism, because I don't mind when someone tries to explain something to me unless I know that the information is false. This causes problems because I likewise also like to explain things to other people, but it often frustrates or annoys them.
I don't think it has something to do with autism. Many people don't like to learn something new. They get annoyed because they are reminded of the fact that they don't know something and they like to celebrate their ignorance in life.
I don't keep such people as friends, but sometimes as customers - as long as they pay me good money to do easy stuff they can't be bothered to learn. (I work in IT)
I have found that some personality types are much more open to having things be explained to them than others. I don't think any of this has anything to do with autism. Finding the right way to provide information to people is a slow dance around intent, words, tone, body language etc.
By instinct we change the way we behave depending on which person we are speaking to. Some people don't do that very well when it comes to teaching others, or simply providing information. You might employ a tone that is disagreeable or patronizing (without realizing it, and probably without feeling that way), and that can drive those people away. I think it's important to do self-reflection as a first mechanism of reviewing social interactions as opposed to immediately thinking that the "Other" is the source of the failure in communication. It might be you, it might be them. It is probably a combination of the two - and if you can change your delivery system, you might be able to brush them the right way!
Tbh i don't even mind if that information is false, unless it's from people that like to defend their beliefs to death and yeah that definently gets me anoyed as well. So i really don't quite understand why people feel so offended when i'm simply triyng to explain them things just for the sake of improving their knowledge without any dominance aspect.
@@mooooooooooooove Normally, you provide additional information if you think the other person needs some context. Otherwise, they have to ask again. We live in a knowledge based society, but nobody can know everything.
Personally, I think that tone, body language etc. is overrated. It can be impacted by so many things outside the current conversation and carries hardly any information. If I think myself into the other person and want to know something: Is it wise to take an "offensive" body language as an excuse not to listen? Or do I not want to listen due to other reasons (maybe the other person is talking crap) and then pretend to be offended?
@@svr5423 I see what you mean. In my case, if the goal is to provide a certain piece of information that I know to be true and verifiable, I will bend my "delivery system" as much as needed to make the other person understand that piece of information (obviously, this excludes someone who is being agressive and who could never accept the information in the first place). With that way of doing things in mind, I do believe that tone and body language are important. It's not rocket science that people will generally prefer being disagreed with if one frames it as a "yeah, but look at it this way.." situation rather than a "no. let me tell you why you're wrong" situation.
Omg my wife did that for years after we were married.
She would know I was doing something wrong, and would let me f*** it up versus tell me I'm doing it wrong.
I informed her MULTIPLE time, I'd rather be told I'm wrong and be correct afterwards then be permitted to screw things up.
Just wanted to leave a comment supporting the pod. Love this format for Adam's insights and opinions.
As an online Microsoft and Google instructor who recently got a chance to listen to one of my recorded classes, I’m so glad that I’m not weird or broken for trailing off at the ends of my sentences. I’m just a normal human being who needs to learn a new skill for a new environment/technology that wasn’t part of my daily life before. And I think everyone who wants some sort of audio/video career online could benefit from some theatre/broadcasting classes.
Continuing my trend of asking that you look into making Curries from different cultures. For example Trinidadian style curry or Jamaican
Or sonic the hedgehog curry
Jamaican chicken curry would be a nice one. Or some other Jamaican food.
@@0k0sMrHazard i just feel theres a world of curry that food youtubers dont explore theres so much more than just indian styles as a guy of trini descent itd be great to see more food tubers acknowledge other cultures curries
@@ventarmadness9692 agreed my friend. Curry is such a diverse and multinational dish.
16:56 I remember my dentist saying that you should definitely not wash your teeth immeadiately after eating, especially if it's acidic, because apparently the low pH predisposes the teeth enamel to damage by mechanical abrasion. Hence, you also should wash your teeth in the morning BEFORE you eat, not afterwards. I tried to do a little bit due diligence and googled this study: (Susceptibility of acid-softened enamel to mechanical wear--ultrasonication versus toothbrushing abrasion,
A Wiegand etc. 2007) maybe Dr. Ragusea can dig up something more on this if interested.
I may have missed it but if you are talking about diet soda consumption it's worth considering the health effects of soda at all, specifically the health effects of phosphoric acid used mostly in dark sodas and our teeth and bones which do not react kindly to dramatic increases in dietary phosphate.
ITS TRUE. The only soda without tooth-decaying acid is ROOT BEER. Citric acid sodas, like orange/lemon lime/Mtn Dew are still bad but much less so than colas.
I truly love your background, Adam! :D I'm sorry you don't like me getting your pod through RUclips and a video feed, but I don't like what skipping your videos does to my RUclips recommendations, I want to keep you at the top of my list. I'm sorry about the work and headache it has caused you lately, but this is very pleasant. For what it's worth, I'd have watched you even if you recorded in an echo-filled, disgusting alley, I love your content. Thank you so much for your good work.
I personally feel as though diet pepsi products embrace the artificial sweetener, instead of masking it. I love that horrible, acrid chemical flavor. Always tasted better to me than the actual normal soda.
I prefer soda with natural sugar cane sugar. Even the corn syrup has a nasty aftertaste. Homemade gingerbeer is a favorite 😍
Idk, I prefer Pepsi0 over Coke0 any day. Don't taste anything horrible about it either :d
Just can't mix drinks with them (either)... that's always disgusting for some reason.
I remember about 10 years ago there was a rat study showing that one of the chemicals in the food coloring in soda caused cancer. The problem was the dosage would require a human to drink some inordinate amount of soda daily for a few years (literally a dump truck per day). The problem being that the sugar or caffeine or any number of other things would kill you long before you got cancer from soda.
The issue that I have heard of with most artificial sweeteners is that they don't really fool the body's desire for sugar - so people end up overeating even more when they rely on artificial sweeteners. I've also heard that sucralose is bad for gut bacteria.
Ultimately, we should all just drink more plain water.
Couldn't you say the same about water then? I think weight gain is caused primarily by bad decisions. People have a diet drink and "compensate" by having more (presumably) fast food
@@slipplays9502 No, water can be used to satiate and hold off hunger. Sometimes people eat food when they are actually just thirsty. Drinking water when the feeling of hunger arises is a good habit to help minimize unnecessary feeding. You are correct that weight gain is primarily bad decisions and really it's repeated bad decisions, i.e., bad habits.
@@joeb4294 Yeah but to that point that water is filling, sodas are too, if not more so due to carbonation. Soda is after all mostly water -- about 90%
@@slipplays9502 Every beverage that humans drink is primarily water. Whole milk is 87% water, skim milk is 95% water. Sugary sodas are 90% water and zero-calorie soda can be as much as 99% water. That does not mean that these drinks are just as good as pure water though because they may contain extra stuff that counteracts hydration, like fructose, caffeine, and/or alcohol. The other compounds in these drinks can affect other bodily processes too.
There is no substitute for plain water.
On the whole diet soda thing. I started using Noom during the end of February 2022. Since then I have gone from 269 pounds to 210 pounds. I drink a zero sugar soda almost every day, sometimes twice a day. I think the biggest link between obesity and diet soda is the fact that people are already eating unhealthily like you were saying. If I was still eating the way I was before, but just changed from regular soda to diet soda, I'd still be 270+ pounds.
It's funny because the spoon feels like the does everything implement for me. Sometimes, when I'm lazy, I'll use the spoon to cut things to be small enough to fit into the spoon itself, so there's very few foods that it actually can't handle. Personally I feel like sporks are the shampoo+conditioner of dining implements though. That is, they end up neither spooning nor forking.
Reminds me of my dad who insists spoons are "the superior utensil"
But yeah sporks are awful. The tines are more triangular than straight, so food doesn't get stabbed, it just gets mashed up and stabbed until it gives up and lets you scoop it
Sporks: It really depends upon the design. There is a huge number of different spork types, and most of them are just unpleasant to put near one's mouth. But I grew up with a particular kind of spork at home (we called them splades) and they were great for one-handed eating. Every subsequent spork I've encountered has been a massive downgrade! I can't find a picture of my ideal spork online, but it's easy to state a few basic principles: the bowl of the spork should not have sharp corners or sharp edges, the bowl should be fairly shallow, the end of the bowl should not be uncomfortably wide or narrow, the tines should not be long or narrow or sharp.
The nearest I can find to what I grew up with is this vintage set being sold on eBay under the same "SET 6X Vintage 70s MID Century STAINLESS Steel SPLAYDS Buffet FORKS Sporks" (not including a link because don't want comment autodeleted)
@@ThreadBomb Look up grapefruit spoons. That might be what you're looking for.
Don't forget, it's not just bare hands, it's the RIGHT bare hand specifically in India. The left hand is for doing things like cleaning yourself or taking your shoes off, things you don't want also touching your food.
In the U.K. we have ‘Pepsi Max’ and that’s the one for me. Can’t stand either the “Diet” or the “Zero” colas. But the “Max” taste is great.
Yup same here in Finland its the bomb. Better than regular pepsi and other colas
Can confirm Max is the bomb.
Corporate needs you to find the difference between these two pictures...
funny enough. if i drink cola diet, or pepsi max. i often get migrane. but cola zero and off brand diet is fine. except diet raspberry soda.
It's just tastes "max".
I came over from the podcast app just to confirm that you are correct good sir. I listen to your podcast while mowing. Thanks for the tidy yard Adam! 😂
As an early-career voice actor it was great hearing the tricks of the trade put out in the open like that, you've given me lots to think about!
I read from somewhere that introduction of silverware to the dinner-table changed our jaw-line from underbite to overbite. Before that, people had to spend lots more time masticating their food, which made for stronger jaws. Archeologists can see if the skulls they find belonged to someone eating with knife/fork.
This is purely conjecture by me, but I think this may partially be why there's an old stereotype that nobility had weak jaws. At first only they were rich enough to afford utensils.
omfg this episode has some beautiful out of context lines. the adam ragusea YTP makers could have a feild day with this
I'm currently finishing the last draft of my dissertation before I submit it to evaluation and oh boy, over the last say, 100 hours I've worked on it I've listened to nearly as many hours of Adam Ragusea talking about stuff.
hey adam! love the new background and the podcast in general you actually talk about interesting things and i learn a lot from you, keep up the good work my man!
I absolutely love these podcasts. Thank you for doing them regularly, its always something to look forward to!
Man, Adam was tired of bringing the studio to the kitchen so Laurent brought the kitchen to the studio...
good job!
I will keep using RUclips for your podcast, though... hahaha
she chose the wallpaper to reflect how grating she finds his explainer voice. or he's got one for cheese, one for veg, and one for knuckles.
In Thailand, we have mix of table eating tools.
For certain dishes like sticky rice, we eat them with our fingers.
Noodle based dishes makes use of sticks and spoon.
The rest is eaten with spoon.
Forks are... rarely used
Thank you very much for (not) explaining that billions of people in advanced societies also still eat with their hands. Eating with your hands is common not just in South Asia, but also Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines, Africa and Southern America.
Weird thing is I dont live near any of those places and I think its the superior way to eat, it's just pleasurable to me. Growing up I'd have to sneak eat rice with my hands cause I'd get told off, but it's just so fun.
Dental hygienist here, you can probably just rinse with water after drinking soda and be fine. You're just trying to return your mouth to its normal pH and get whatever food particles off your teeth and gums. Water does that just fine. It is said that brushing immediately after having acidic substances in your mouth is bad for your enamel since it's been weakened by the acid (not actually sure if that's true).
Adam: “You only reallly need spoons for soups and such…”
Filipinos: “Hold, my beer…”
Context: In the Philippines we use both forks and spoons as utensils every meal. This is the norm where I come from but highly interested how you would research this. One westerner friend of mine comments about this dining difference that Filipinos love food so much, we shovel food in our mouth. LOL
In Western culture, there is always plenty of bread to soak up excess juices/broths/dressing/brines. And that is the best part of the meal if you ask me!
@@paulblichmann2791 it's rice that replaces bread as our staple food. And it's awkward for us to scoop using a fork or knife and doesn't hold liquid, hence, the spoon would be much preferred.
We don't have much steaks, but if we have, it's not usually thick or tough enough to require a knife (e.g. Jollibee's burger steak, which is just a small burger pattie)
I'm Polish and my mom eats everything with a spoon which personally creeps me out (might be me being autistic, I just don't like putting too much of food in my mouth at a time). Like, she eats pierogi with a spoon, a salad with a spoon, literally everything...
Thai people eat with a spoon and a fork too.
I'm from the USA but I lived in the Philippines for about 2 years and before I moved there I expected chopsticks at the table and not just the kitchen (I had traveled in Japan and China previously btw). I wonder if the use of western style utensils in the Philippines has to do with Spain and the USA colonialism? Obviously China had a huge influence historically in the Philippines I don't believe there was as much of an influence as the colonial societies had on their colonies. And I do agree Filipinos love to eat!! I love Filipino cuisine and I think I'm off to make some chicken adobo for dinner! Have a wonderful day.
Edit: I made this before Adam's comment on colonialism. But the Philippines is pretty unique due to the 2 large influential colonial powers and how much both were assimilated at varying degrees into the Filipino culture.
Dental student here (and also speaking from personal experience), brushing after eating or drinking something acidic assists in the erosion of enamel. Please rinse with water before you brush or even something more basic like baking soda mixed with water.
I don't know if this is something just in my family or just in my culture (Cuban) but I grew up being taught that the fork was the "adult" utensil, meaning that when you're a kid you use a spoon as your primary utensil but at some point you graduate to using a fork as you're primary utensil.
I'm still caught off guard when I see one of my friends choosing to eat a meal with a spoon.
I guess I kind of feel that way, too. Though I never really realized that I think of it that way.
I must have never grown up. I am 59 and a large spoon has always been my primary utensil. A fork is for stabbing meat and pushing food onto the spoon. 🤓🍻
A fork is more dangerous to a small kid (face/mouth) than a spoon. Adults will usually provide a kid with food in adequate sizes (or allow them to eat with their hands otherwise) so the use of pointy forks can be delayed until the appropriate motor skills develop.
[sorry if you already knew all that! 😉 ]
I've never heard of anything like that. I can't even imagine eating ice cream, soup, or yogurt with a fork
That sounds like torture
I think I used a fork from a relatively young age, and somehow managed to not stab my face with it.
Yo, Adam, I was straining my homemade chicken broth and tidying up the kitchen while listening to you this time around. The audio levels and your enunciation were fine.
I love all the things big data could do. I wish we were doing them.
how about we analyze your purchases and conclude that you're pregnant instead?
Your talk about the potential issues in studies: observational vs experimental, sampling, interpretation of findings, etc reminded me of something a professor once told me.
"Be careful when you hear that something kills cancer in a petri dish, because so does a gun."
The thing about rats and health reminds me of what a scientist once said, something like
“We don’t really know how to keep humans healthy but we really know how to keep rats alive”
We've already discovered several cures for several cancers, but the vast majority of them are cures for cancers only found in mice.
As a frequent forgetful camper I would argue forks are much easier to make than a spoon. A forked small branch makes a great temporary fork and you can make it much quicker than a spoon. Maybe you won't have as durable of a utensil but it's definitely quick!
Anecdotally, I consumed a ton of diet soda every day for years and ate fairly healthy otherwise and ended up with diabetes. Since I like caffeine, I switched to cold brew ice tea with a little vanilla almond milk (weird, but it works for me) and drink that by the gallon. Lost a lot of weight, got my sugar under control, yadda yadda.
That tea actually sounds really good. I'm going to try that.
I like diet soda because when (not if, but when) it spills, it's not sticky. It took a while to get used to how different it tastes from the "regular", but once you do, you don't really miss the other.
the whole "oh these sweeter-replacements are BAD for you really"-trolling i get sometimes makes me (lovingly and metaphorically) grab said friend/family member by the collar and remind them that I'M A FRIGGIN DIABETIC. It's not that I believe in Big Diet, it's that I would like to enjoy a sweet-tasting thing once in awhile without worrying that i'm going to need a trip to the hospital. This is further compounded when I have to remind them that even "normal" foods break down into sugars and i'm one overly-seasoning-salted dish away from a spiked bloodstream. For god's sake when i went to the fair and got a lemonade because that was the only option that wasn't alcoholic (because! diabetes drugs make alcohol effects worse and i was hot) I ended up in the first aid tent with a blood sugar of 236 and the med tech asking me if i drank hummingbird food or something.
so please dear sweet baby unholy goat-god of the underrealm, stop scoffing when i ask for a "diet" drink. I know I'm fat, my pants size and a mirror are evidence enough, that's not why i'm drinking it. I'm drinking it because I don't want to live on water, unsweetened tea, and bitter black coffee for the rest of my cursed life.
Sending hugs!
I was with you until you dissed tea. It is the drink of gods, and your lack of appreciation is noted and reviled by them.
@@silverplug Depends on the tea, really. I wouldn't wish unsweetened Lipton to my worst enemy.
35:52 Gonna have to be a bit pedantic here, our perspective of medieval european history is heavily skewed by authors who saw it as the 'unintersting middle period' between antiquity and 'the renaissance', which is why we generally see Italy at this time as the centre of European society. Historians currently are trying to grow out of that notion, which is why we now have a concept of the 'renaissance of the 12th century'. If you, for example, look at art and art techniques around the time of the Italian renaissance, you will find that the Dutch had more detailled paintings, which they could make with the more advanced techinques of making paint that were known to them (which the Italians would later learn from them too), the first instances of color perspective, exceptionally accurate use of bent reflective surfaces and interactions of light, and that the naturalistic 'ars nova' style was way more popular internationally than the renaissance style. Much of the knowledge Europeans learned from Arabian sources also came from Iberia, not Italy, as European forces reconquered much of the peninsula with its scholarly knowledge.
I was quite surprised to hear about the hunger-inducing effects of diet soda - for me it's the complete opposite. If I'm hungry and I drink a diet soda (for me, it's Coke No Sugar), my hunger diminishes substantially for at least an hour. It's becoming something of a useful weight loss technique for me, to curb appetite when I'm trying to get leaner.
Probably the caffeine. Caffeine is a stimulant, and stimulants can suppress appetite.
@@ettinakitten5047 Barely any caffeine in soda in general. Only about 46mg per can. Have to drink 3 cans to equal one cup of drip coffee.
A video on the best low cal sugar substitute to use in different applications would be good
I'm allergic to Aspartame, the sweetening agent commonly known at NutraSweet. I will go into anaphylaxis (the swelling and closing of the throat) if I consume this. Oddly enough, I can't taste it either. Back when this compound was thought to cause cancer it was taken out of processed foods and replaced with other sweeteners (which I can't really taste but am not allergic to). In recent years its being put back into foods and now I have to read the labels on packaged food, if not avoid them outright.
Kinda cool because it's like a superpower that your body can detect a specific chemical
Probably because you’re not able to metabolize it. I react the same way to several common substances and posed the same question to a Mayo Rochester immunologist. He pointed to my CYP450 genetic print out for the explanation.
Phenylketonuria?
@@andehhhhhhh No, that's a genetic metabolic disorder, not the same as an alergy
LOL love the ending Lauren "thin meat" discussion. So glad that you have a great relationship and can talk about this online. Love your vids.
I always listen to your podcast on a podcast app (and watch your videos on youtube) but I thought I should come check out your video just to see how your background looks like 😅 also another diet pepsi fan here! ✋️ To be honest I like both Coca Cola and Pepsi but I'd prefer Pepsi and I secretly cheer inside when the waitress says "sorry we don't have coca cola, we only have pepsi" 🤣
I'm not a soda drinker, but I do enjoy Pepsi over Coke. My mother is a hardcore Coke fan, goes through several cases(24 cans/case) a week.
She will through a tantrum if she runs out, even though she has every means not to. Kinda wild, seems like it's still got cocaine in it! Lol
I didn't realize how wonderfully entertaining your pods were! I admit I skipped all of them until now, where I was doing something tedious and decided to turn on your pod for some background listening. Very happy outcome and hope this inspires you to keep doing more.
It’s not just Indians that eat with only hands, Arabs Iranians Turks North Africans all eat with hands, I’m from Armenia and when I traveled to Iran to experience the Middle East they all ate with only hands. It was a culture shock but pretty cool.
Regarding the "taste of water" bit: I highly recommend people who aren't satisfied with the quality of their tap water buy a couple of reusable water jugs (or even 5-gallon jugs if you have the space and money for a water cooler at home) and use the refill stations at your local grocery store. It's a lot cheaper (and more environmentally friendly) than single-serving bottled water or even pre-filled jugs, and they're typically filtered water so the quality is likely to be at least decent.
Of course you can also install a filtration system at home, and that's a good option too, but it does mean you have to stay on top of changing your filters as needed. Not a huge deal for some, but that "one more thing to worry about" could be a deal breaker for others.
as Joe Walsh sang, "Everything gives you cancer - ther'es no cure and there's no answer"
Most people already have cancer and don't even know it bc it's asymptomatic until they are old as dirt anyways.
That was Joe Jackson.
Getting used to talking and hearing my voice on camera is one of the harder things I’ve had to do. It just takes time and repetition.
Repetition legitimizes
Hey Adam. How long does cooking wine last in the fridge?
4 minutes
I don't think you have to put cooking wine in the fridge. My parents always had a used bottle of Marsala Cooking Wine in their cabinet that would keep for a while. So I think it's safe to say that it will last for at least a month, maybe more.
Love the cupping-the-mic bit and the shoutout to Glen. I was not expecting that!
i've always really enjoyed eating south asian food with my hands (though usually putting the curry-rice mixture in a piece of flatbread to keep cleaner) but it's also, i feel, totally necessary to the experience. not because of the whole spices, but because my curry meat of choice is goat, which is nearly always served on the bone at indian-american restraunts. i'd much rather debone the meat in my hands and eat the whole package together than spit the bone out.
This applies to Ethiopian food, as well -- which I particularly love.
Indian food eaten with hands just tastes better in general as well, imo.
As a Californian, I know very little about Georgia so it is very interesting for you to tell us about it. I think I would like the "Carpet" area who voted in Marjorie Taylor Green. Please keep her in office.
I gave up diet soda because it did sweet F all to help me lose weight. In fact I've gained. Who knows why, could've been for any of the reasons listed in the podcast.
And yeah, as the video mentioned all these studies have to be taken with a massive grain of salt, as we all know Big Soda has its knee in the back of the government and every research facility that even thinks about looking into the potential damage soda could cause. Decades from now we'll probably look back in horror at all the shady stuff they pull.
I work in a call center doing tech support. Providing instructions over the phone for (typically non-tech-savvy) users to follow requires that I speak clearly, precisely, and deliberately; and I frequently get bad surveys saying I speak condescendingly, even after calls where I thought I was getting along with my caller.
Your elaboration on your "explainer voice" explains a lot about what was probably going on for a lot of my calls. So the follow-up question is how do you curb that effect?
You're already talking to people who are annoyed and would prefer you do wizardry to fix their issue remotely rather than to have to take instructions that they're likely stressed about performing correctly. So, probably not much.
"I will take enlightenment over ignorance every time... most times", loved that.
I’m definitely looking up your beans video now. I specifically am interested in how exactly the “beans make you fart” common knowledge works. I’ve personally found that some beans don’t give me any gas at all, while others absolutely do. Garbanzo beans/chickpeas give me the worst (and smelliest) gas. I made the mistake of bringing my homemade chana masala (chickpea curry) to work for lunch the other day, and let’s just say my coworkers were not appreciative. 😂
Anyway, other types of beans don’t really seem to have this effect on me. Do chickpeas just have more fiber than regular beans?
Am I the only one that has absolutely no sound on this video, while any other video works fine?
came to ask this too
@@ReptilianLepton that's a good explanation.
It's working now
45:12
To quote our late English professor (Editg Buñag) she was great:
"Don't die out at the end of your sentence!!!".
"Don't enunciate the end of a statement! You're making it sound like a question!"