@@harry53831 That's what the ultra-processed food industry would love you to believe. Cooking tasty, and thus a lot healthier food from scratch is FAR cheaper (although an initial investment in quality kitchen essentials and a well stocked pantry is a consideration). Accessibility is no longer really an issue, even a Tesco's local will have enough ingredients to cook up a nice dinner for two. The problem is one of convenience and know-how - you need to able to at least know the basics of cookery and, well, it takes time to cook from scratch. I was lucky to work as chef for a number of years so skills/ability and speed of preparation & cooking no issue for me. Maybe a reintroduction of home economics as an essential subject at school would help future generations?
@@robertjones8083sad thing is, normal healthier ingredients is far more expensive here. I did some test and for a month I bought much more vegetables and cooked everything myself. My bills went up by 3times.. It is literally unsustainable for poor people. I cook for myself anyway because I'm lactose intolerant and can't eat every processed food but I gotta pay attention to what I buy. Do I make chewap myself from zero or buy deep frozen one? Do I buy fresh vegetable individually or mixed in a bag? Etc
This is insane. And remember: the UK has banned many chemicals that the US still uses regularly in food products. I couldn’t imagine the further damage if you live in the states
@your sleep paralysis demon here in europe they are used for that. a really, really fat human in austria weighs around 150kg, and in american he would be not seen as the top range of weight
The further damage is simple to explain; It's death. I live in the states, it's death. The further damage you are talking about is literally the 50 trillion cells in your body being malnourished and dieing.
I moved to California for university after living in the UK all my life and I can attest, the American diet is awful. I gained 5kg of mostly fat in the 6 months I’ve been here and it really creeped up on me. They have so many fast food options that are a lot cheaper than the UK and many people are overworked which leads them to cooking for themselves less. Free refills of fizzing drinks are also a contributor. Due to the way cities are designed, you essentially need a car, walking or using public transport is not really an option - so everyone drives and gets barely any exercise.
the fact that nobody talks about censored book called 21 Former Doctor Secrets by Rachel Morgan really gets to me. Always loved doctors like Rachel, they open our eyes
How much do you spend on fresh fruits and vegetables? Do you go shopping daily or every couple of days? Say, you spend $10 on a burger, fries and drink. Would that same $10 get you cucumbers, tomatoes, leafy greens, radish and all enough for a couple of days of salads?
It’s absolutely mind blowing how processed foods can become SO addictive. I had a major traumatic life event last year and turned to food afterwards for comfort. I QUICKLY became addicted to eating and now fit into the class 2 obese category. A couple of weeks ago I decided to change the way I eat entirely and it has been so good! I’ve lost 6.6lbs and more importantly I’ve begun to control my eating in relation to my emotions and am taking back my power over food instead of food taking power over me.
@@antichristhimselfwell with modern laws and culture marriage is more of a transfer of money to wife. In the doctor case his marriage seems sucessfull at least. But many men get fked. People use to marrie virgins or demand virgin wives at least that makes a difference.
I have always been a picky eater, I haven't eaten a piece of fruit in years...can't cook that much and gag on things that are good for you; and the convenience + laziness = hopeless.
@@jc4evur661yes, my husband is like this. He’s realized how much he dislikes alcohol, but he struggles to avoid it. I understand his addiction because I had my own. (Food.)
I was sadly brought up on that same diet from a very young age. However, as soon as I hit adulthood, I began eating extremely healthy. By God’s grace, my body healed in so many ways. It’s not too late to change your habits. The human body is amazingly resilient!
I’m 19 and I just moved out of my parents place 6 months ago. Been eating very healthy the past few months. It’s great!! I already felt changes in a week
I'm glad this experiment wasn't just someone eating McDonald's and KFC, but rather he was eating things like instant lasagne/microwave meals/cereal/etc which don't come under the same scrutiny as fast food but are still highly processed and probably really should be (especially given the results from this video). It can be difficult to cook all of your own meals but it certainly pays off in health benefits.
@RifleEyez youre ignorant, thats okay as everyone is by default, but please read up and learn about basic digestion needs and what the proccessing of ultra proccessed foods do to the micro and macro nutrients such as the water soluble vitamins, fibre and the levels of fats carbs and protein are all disproportionate leading to a whole host of big and small issues that build up and you dont realise they are caused by your diet.
Start drinking protein shakes with creatine. You'll feel so full you wanna throw up. And the taste of creatine is so nasty you'll lose all appetite lol
@lucy r No one suggests it's easy for everybody. Some crumble in face of fear addiction and adversity, others don't. The point is that "It would have been good to see how he struggled to re-acclimate to his healthier diet again!" - as the op said.
@lucy r What they show on that scan is ridiculously dumb. They literally misinform you there to try and prove a point they have decided on prior to even thinking about it. And I have been addicted for years to something I will not mention. I don't think it's hard to come off. It simply is a matter of choice. Do you have a reason to stop? Well then you just stop it. There will always be withdrawal, doesn't matter if we talk about the legal drugs - alcohol and tobacco, or if we talk about the other ones. Or even food.
Wow that’s quite astonishing. A friend of mine quit processed food, changed nothing else in his lifestyle then that (mostly buying fresh food on farmer markets) and lost 40kg in a year. Now he isn’t overweight anymore. I used to blame people for being fat, when in reality it’s a food industry crime.
Trying to convince people to try is the hardest part. People want regular pizza nights cancelled out by a three mile run at the weekend and it doesn't work like that.
I gave up ultra processed food 3 months ago, I cook exclusively from fresh every day now. Down 16 kilos so far, but some of that may be because I am walking much more. I feel fitter, healthier, my skin looks great, concentration is better, eyesight is improved, and even though I have 27 kilos to go to hit my target weight, I feel 10 or even 20 years younger. I sometimes find myself breathing deeply for fun, it just feels so good to breath so easily, so freshly. On top of that, I am spending less buying only fresh food, not more. Downside is I have no clothes that fit everything is baggy, I'll have to save for a new wardrobe when I hit my target weight.
@@ForeverNeverwhere1 Good for you👍. I have a skin condition I believe called tinea versicolor. I notice when I eat UPF that my skin is irritated. Did you have acne before you quit UPF? / is your skin more clear?
The food he ate (whenever hungry) 1 (0:33). Fried chicken (MSG, Sodium Phosphate, spice extracts). 2 (1:20). Lasagne (Cheesy). 3 (2:10). Dry cereal with milk. 4 (2:28). Wraps, bread with cheese, and burgers 5 (2:40). Stuffed crust meat feast Pizza. 6 (4:50). Packaged fish, chips and peas . 7 (5:22). Pudding (Contains Potassium Sorbate). Results: Weight gained is 6.5kg, BMI went up by 2.0. Body fat went up by 3.0kg. Hunger hormone went up by 30%
It'd be interesting to do the reverse have someone who has only eaten an ultra-process diet and see what it takes to wean themselves off of, and how it effects the biochemistry. This video is great because I think like a lot of people I always felt entirely shamed and culpable in my own terrible eating habits. The habits are still mine but I feel like I have more ground to actually appreciate what drives my bad decision making. Thanks for this great video!
I used to have an ultra processed diet,although I could still maintain my weight,I was still fat,but due to a lott of research and paranoia I was able to reduce ultra processed foods to 10-20% of my diet. I got slim,had more energy,and could only eat twice a day. I started excersizing and in order to get sufficient calories(and build muscle) and proteins I have allowed some processed foods into the mix but ultra processed foods are still the occasional treat. I do not have the healthiest diet and there is room for lots of improvement in all aspects but I have at least adapted to a point where I feel ok with my body and food habits(there are still some habits I would like to change but let's ignore that). So yeah it's completely possible to do it,but it's only the beginning that's difficult(first 10-20 days). Good luck.
@@sleeplife752 good stuff! I appreciate it, through my sister I've been indirectly learning about ulta processed food and i've been dabbling with mixed success counting calories. One good thing about counting calories is it forces you to pick things that keep you full so I naturally have moved away from ultra processed food. I still have a lottt to learn but like I feel good about every step I have taken and though I'm still greatly overweight I feel like my better eating habits are becoming more secure by the day and my attempts to lose weight are continuous even if I'm struggling with it. Glad to hear about your success too, cheers!
@@TonchoBluegrass Thanks! Great to see you are also progressing. I mostly stayed away from gluten containing foods and that did the trick for me,though it isn't like I'm allergic to gluten,so now I'm reintroducing gluten containg stuff that isn't ultra-processed. Hope you succeed!
At 19stone over 5 weeks ago, this looks exactly like how I used to eat. I joined a local gym and decided to cut out all the processed food and just eat cleaner home made meals, I'm now 17st 7. Can't wait to see where the journey takes me
I am intrigued that you noticed what I did about processed foods: the generally soft texture. This is crucial, because aside from the fat and calories, it's one of the key reasons why processed foods make us obese versus high-fiber whole foods which take more effort to chew and are less likely to be overeaten. These soft foods can be eaten in large quantity before the satiation mechanisms are triggered.
You have no clue. It's just calories in->calories out. For example, diet pop instead of regular pop can be enough for most of us to lose weight. Why? You're drinking like 100-200 calories LESS per cup by doing so! And thus if you keep the rest the same, you'll either lose weight OR gain weight at a slower pace! Nothing to do with ultra-processed foods.
@@Samosayummyyay That´s horseshit. Flavors added alone trick you reward system to reaching out for more because product needs to sell more rather than one from competitor. Calories in-out is simplistic view that doesn't take in account metabolic effects of different foods.
True. Just try to eat a bowl of cereal or oat meal without milk/liquid. Possible, but you either don't finish the bowl or it takes you a lot more time. Try it for yourself.
@@Samosayummyyay Most people don't count their calories though. Usually people simply eat when they're hungry or have cravings for something and stop eating once they're full. So if you can eat a high-calorie processed meal in less than 10 minutes you're much more likely to go grab another one because you're still hungry and that way it's easy too overeat.
you can stop, but you need to put something in your body to make it feel good that isn't garbage food, which is why regular exercise is everything. eliminate your bad fats, excessive salt and sugar, and alcohol, and educate yourself on nutrition, and you'll never have a craving again. it's not easy to do, but it's doable (i'm there). and the good news is you can still go out to dinner, eat chocolate etc. as a treat once you've conquered it.
What's more alarming is the modification to your hormones and brain. You become a different person when you habitually eat processed foods, not necessarily just the unhealthy ones.
Doing virtually anything in life forms new neural pathways. Any skill you learn, any knowledge you acquire, anything you do physically or mentally. It all changes your brain. The brain continuously creates new pathways in the form of memories/learning. It also 'prunes' back old pathways that aren't used as much, which you experience as forgetting something.
Keep in mind he made a conscious effort to eat whenever he felt like it and he consciously decided to undergo this experiment so of course fulfilling the experiment became linked as rewarding. If you decide that something is going to make you happy and then you take the steps required to acquire that thing that is going to make you happy then its not surprising the action that brings you closer to your goal gets linked with your pleasure system. If this was just some regular person not undergoing an experiment to bring awareness/help other people then the neural connections wouldn't be as strong, especially if the person didn't associate eating ultraprocessed foods as a good thing to be doing.
Wiping your bum with the other hand forms new neural pathways. This sort of gimmicky video helps him sell his diet books - he's just as 'conflicted' as the processed food industry he claims 'hoodwinks us'.
Its really nice to see him actually acknowledging the enjoyment and pleasure in the food that is bad for us because its sometimes treated like "bad food" is just disgusting and offers us nothing which makes people who eat it seem really stupid and why would anyone do that to themselves? Its more fair, to really see how a person can get into this cycle by acknowledging how it gets us hooked. This does not shame people for their eating behaviour, this shames the food, this shames the ones profiting from it. What a very sorry state of affairs for us in the modern western world (and increasingly, the rest of the world).
I agree in that it's important he acknowledges it tastes good. It's painstakingly created by companies at huge cost to appeal to our brains desires. But as as it's common knowledge now exactly how bad it is for you some responsibility has to rest with the eater.
It's scary how accure it was when he said the pudding wasn't quite tasty but he wanted to keep on eating more. I've felt like this with so many foods before. Wanted to keep on eating them but didn't even actually enjoy them. They were so addictive!
You truly feel completely different when you eat less processed food. I switch between processed and less processed based on what's avaliable (I'm a student who eats in the canteen the majority of the year), and the amount of energy I have is honestly very different, as well as the levels of hunger I go through
Absolutely. Eating better 'flattens the bumps' from my point of view. My dips in energy and peaks in energy are less extreme when I eat a better diet - which makes it much easier to keep eating healthily because you always have enough energy in teh tank to cook or prepare something. I remember feeling so exhausted and hungry come meal times that I felt like I had no choice but to order in a takeaway in the past, for example.
this happened to me but in reverse. During the pandemic I experience a lot of health and mental issues I never experience as a university student. Now I'm trying to bring back the diet I have as a student.
Also your palate changes. Those foods that used to taste so good, taste horribly once you eat good food. I remember caving and buying a bag of Lays Cheddar Potato chips after months of eating healthy. They tasted so terrible, I tossed the bag immediately.
Props to Dr. Chris for obliterating his health for the sake of science. The effects of fast food are pretty wild. I loved Operation Ouch when I was younger and probably learnt a lot about biology and science from it, so thanks for that.
i’ve been brought up on food like this because my mum was always too tired to cook. Imagine how bad my health is, i feel like its too late to make a change now the damage is done
Prometheustod: Well done. When you say “eat clean”, does this mean home cooked food from scratch plus salads etc? I’d be interested to know. Also, how long did it take to lose the 21 kilos? Congrats on your achievement.
@@sylviaroberts8103 Thanks! No processed food, home cooked. High in protein, less carbs. No bread, no pasta. The biggest help was my fitness watch because I was checking how much calories I burned and I ate accordingly. It was so easy to loose weight, in the beginning I was loosing a kilo every second day. The first 10 kg dropped like this. After became slower. I was heaving cheat meals and I ate sweets almost every day😂 So it took at least 8 months I think. It can be done faster, or slower, it depends how much you gain back when you are on holiday, or quarantine 😂
Love how he was truly understanding. It is hard to get out of eating processed food. It is truly an addiction. Hope to fully cut it out of my diet one day and raise and grow my own food.
How I did it was watching videos like these and commercial slaughterhouse videos. Fun fact, McDonalds slaughterhouses are unsanitary and have rats. These rats occasionally get ground up, so not McDonalds does not contain 100% beef. Now I have a pet mouse and owning a rodent you realize something: Rodents shit and piss where they eat. They do not care. They're vermin. Vermin only care about eating and breeding. This means that if rats are eating the meat in McDonalds or commercial slaughterhouses, there's a chance you're eating rat shit and piss cooked into your patties as well. Realizing this fact alone made nee vomit and put fast food down cold turkey. I went back to my high school diet of organic humanely raised meats, and other things. Authentic and genuine asian and East Asian foods are also not only healthy, but they are more fulfilling than fast food and leave you full. Veggie pasta is a also a good substitute from regular pasta. Substitutes are amazing. Vegans use substitutes all the time. Its a good substitute. Im personally not vegan but I admire their food creativity.
@@unclegardener Nothing wrong with regular rice. Brown or black rice is good, has fibre and more nutrients than white rice and makes you feel fuller. Eating large amounts of cauliflower can cause digestive upset due to its high polyol content.
People surprised that he's just discovering these foods as if he hasn't been avoiding them on PURPOSE because he's a food scientist and he knows the shit that goes in them skdnjfjf
This is the story of my life. I’ve struggled with digestion for over 10 years and had no idea that processed food was having that kind of impact on my body. I’m definitely changing my diet. Thank you so much for sharing this video. Everyone needs to see this!
Also take a good probiotics with multiple probiotic strains. God willing, it will help a lot to restore healthy gut bacteria that helps with digestion and helps avoid bloating. I am taking it and by God's mercy it is working really good.
So you had trouble with digestion for 10 years and it didn't occur to you that it might have something to do with the stuff you eat? I swear, human stupidity is limitless.
My wife and I recently realised we had accidentally fallen on to our frozen processed food that was for emergencies and started using it everyday during lockdown, I had reach my heaviest weight of 16.2stone, she had similar results. I had been drinking a lot of beer every night and eating crisps. We stopped that train and only eat fresh food we have made and cooked, we cut sugar out 100% and started speed walking everyday and in 10 weeks I lost 3 1/2 stone and I am stronger than I have ever been due to practicing calisthenics during those 10 weeks. I guess we are on a low carb diet but I make alternative breads and treats that means we do not miss out. It’s so easy to slip in to the eating of processed food and really hard to get out of it.
@@AlexSandra2525 Calories in-> calories out. Easy as that. Eating processed foods and sugar is fine. Just know what moderation is. Don't be a vacuum lol. If you can't handle it, don't get it in your house!!! Don't screw yourself over!
My god, I needed this video. I usually eat homecooked food, but the amount of processed food I have been eating has increased lately and I feel too tired to cook these days, even though my routine is the same, which makes me want to purchase more ready-to-eat food. I need to go on a cleanse immediately.
If you are too tired to cook, make a meal of fresh, in season fruit, nuts, and some high quality cheese. Brew a pot of tea. This is what I have for lunch. It's delicious.
Cook big healthy portions on the days you have time and freeze them. Then on the tired days, you take it out of the freezer, heat it and eat it. It could be soups(healthy with lots of veggies), casseroles, curries, lasagna, pasta dishes... and so on
This video was my wake up call. I used to have fast food everyday. Most of the times I did not enjoy it that much but I just wanted to eat more and more of it. The worst part was that it was really easy for me to overeat it. I gained about 30Kilos in span of 6months. Watching this video put into perspective a lot of the things that were happening to my body. I am so happy that I quit that lifestyle, lost all the weight that I gained and a bit more. Thanks to the team behind this video.
I´d like to show this to my uncle... he´s always busy with working, often working 10 to 12 hours a day. He doesn´t cook afterwards, he just has a small tiny room in each city of his work places. He´s driving a lot in between these cities and his home as well. So mostly, he just stops by some fast food place near the highway or in the city centre of his work places. I do think it´s a serious addiction. He´s overweight and even had a lung embolism, after that went into a therapy clinic that served diet food, but when we visited we saw bottles of unhealthy drinks and snacks in the trashcan... I know it´s so hard, and I don´t wanna hurt his feelings... but I don´t want him to almost die at such a young age again. (lung embolism was really dangerous, the ambulence service wouldn´t take him, no doctor was there so they didn´t take it seriously even though he kept fainting, only after the second or third time calling, they did take him. His doctor at the hosptital didn´t know what it could be and asked another doctor that was still there by coincidence bc he had finished work already, and only he had that idea. If they had found out just a little later he could have, most likely would have, died...). It´s shocking how addictive this food is, and messed up that fast food places make it addictive on purpose... Even I notice that when having cereal, I could easily eat and want so many bowls, more and more and still not feel energised after meanwhile I only need a normal portion of a healthy breakfast and feel great afterwards.
I wish you the best of luck talking to your uncle about the situation. Must be really hard especially given the thought you've already put into thinking about his living and work situation.
Honestly after a month of eating mostly junk food, my mental health is on the floor. My ability to self regulate my emotions is awful. I have no energy and I feel sad all the time. Knowing that 90% of neurotransmitters are made in the gut, really makes sense. You literally are what you eat. Your gut health equals your brain health.
Yes spot on. I went gluten free three years ago and truly helped me so much. My mind is clearer. Emotions are settled. You are spot on food does really and can regulate how you feel cause I think also you don’t sleep as well when eating unhealthy foods.
Your description, matches someone with Gluten Intolerance, and or Leaky Gut. The wheat causes a mild level of internal inflammation. This causes your body to absorb far less nutrients... no matter how much more you eat. And when your body is deprived of nutrients for a long time... it starts developing issues in keeping up with its functionality. One of the functions... is making the hormones that keep your body and mind, in balance. This lack of chemical / hormone... will thus, strongly effect your moods... making you more irritable, angered, negative, depressed, and lash out in bad mood swings. You are basically missing your happy-chemicals. The lack of energy, is another factor in missing the nutrients. If you develop or have leaky gut... your health can take a massive nose dive, as you will develop Auto-Immune type responses.. as your body starts attacking itself, trying to remove the unprocessed things in your blood, that should not be there. Cut out all Wheat and Soysauce, for one weeks time. You will probably feel 80% better, by the end of the week.
I was a foster carer. The first child I fostered asked me how often we would have deep fried food. I said sorry love I don’t own a deep fryer. She asked how many meals a week we had takeaway. I told her the only takeaway we have is fish and chips/burgers/pizza and chicken wrapped in greaseproof paper after being cooked at home. So the answer is never (from a fast food shop). After a week she told me she went for a poo every single day😱. Before that it was about once every 4 - 10 days. She was a much happier and OMG energetic girl when she left me. HMM I guess if they drive me nuts I can feed em fast food and slow em down lol😂
Nah, no need. Just eat this sir and we’ll see how bad side effect will be after fortnight because good stuff might (MIGHT) happen after 6 or 8 weeks if you lucky
For health reasons I embarked on a high raw diet for a few months. It was mainly 80% raw, fresh foods with small amounts of rice, fish and dairy. I lost lots of weight and felt great but the most striking thing was the change to my taste buds. They had become much more sensitive. A tomato tasted so delicious but when I ate my favourite choux bun from Tescos all I could taste was congealed oil and sugar. I had to spit it out.
I do not understand America's obsession with McDonald's french fries. I taste chemicals and salt. The chemical flavor is so gross - people's palates are garbage.
@@SimonDelaney1974 In an average day I would eat a bowl of chopped fruit (blueberries, strawberries etc, apple, banana with nuts and seeds or a green smoothie made with avocado, some fruits, spinach and cacao and green powder. For dinner it would be a huge salad with home made dressing, pine nuts and some protein such as anchovies. Sometimes I would eat these with some rice or noodles. I was never hungry.
@@abeautifulcountry9353 You should try making your diet majority meat. It is life changing. Make sure to eat fatty meat though, fat will be the main source of energy. Extra salt is also important.
@@_________________142 I only eat meat and fruit (mainly berries), nothing else. In an attempt to mimic what we evolved eating, which seems like a no brainer to me. I am healthier than I ever have been in ways I would never have expected. Yet when people find out my diet for some reason it's extremely controversial. As if people believe you need man-made foods to be healthy?
This makes perfect sense why my ''cheat day'' lasts up to three days without me being able to stop it. It's like a feeding frenzy that drives me insane without me even enjoying what I am eating. I think I will stop eating processed food on my cheat days altogether.
Cheat days are designed to get you to fail. An alcoholic quilting would not have a cheat day. But you should have a lifestyle you can maintain, no faddy BS diets.
you can eat processed food everyday and be fine. it literally just matters for the proportions. as long as youre not getting in too much saturated fat (or any trans fat), get enough vitamins/minerals/healthy fats/protein, you are free to eat as much processed food as you like. of course they make videos like this because most of you people don't have a brain and will listen to me but rather just eat hoards of junk food that exceeds all your limits and then get fat and unhealthy. people really are mostly stupid.
I actually feel so down when I eat processed foods constantly never mind anything else. It tastes good but mentally I get so affected by it, it'a quite scary
@@Dan23_7 I eat zero takeaways. And I am aware I should eat far less rubbish, clearly I am finding it difficult to do. If you don't think it's that hard maybe it's not actually that hard for you.
@@etrebelle9812 I was in a loop with too much junk at one point. I had to create a good loop. Took years to break habits. No diet, just step by step creating a new lifestyle. If you are trying to change it, don't give up hope. A mountain is moved one step at a time. Consistency is key to change and is transforming into a discipline that I can handle and love as my lifestyle. Slowly. Best of luck to us all on our journeys.
@Timmy Palmer T it's in my head? No I saw it on a screen. I didn't just make it up. I'm not one of these health freaks or anything who's having an input cos I reckon I know everything. I was merely explaining what I saw on a screen with my own eyes, maybe the weight gain and double chin he gained was also in my head ? I also saw your comment on this article btw. Just cos you have a clear complexion no acne and a BMI of 21 does not really mean we can use you as a study against a processed food diet.... Considering there's 9 billion people in the world. So your comment doesn't stand for shit sorry .
You know you've truly engineered hyperpalatable food when it feels so good to eat it that despite how hard it totally destroys your health, you want to eat more of it because the ephemeral pleasure you get from it gives you transient relief from all the awful symptoms you are experiencing due to eating it in the first place; human engineering at its finest.
@@TehKaiser: Not true at all, it's actually the fat, dairy, and salt which are the crucial components of the most hyperpalatable foods, only in addition to those will carbohydrate add to the addictiveness. This is because in the environment we evolved in, the tropical equatorial rainforest, carbohydrates are abundant, and our natural food source (every single one of your ~100 trillion cells has an extremely strong preference for carbohydrate as fuel). In contrast, fat and sodium are very scarce there, so when exposed to larger amounts of them, especially together, they are extremely addictive; dairy is of course in a league of its own, since bovine casomorphins are ten times as addictive as humans casomorphins (even more addictive than heroin and morphine on a per-weight basis), optimized for getting a calf so addicted to sucking so much on its mother's teats that it will grow 200+ kg in a single year, and cheese, the most addictive drug of all, a central component of the by far most hyperpalatable foods, is curdled bovine breast milk which concentrates the amount of casein to 8-10 times the amount found in the milk itself.
@@hoon_sol Your nonsensical soliloquy seems to not recognize the existence of sucrose. That also exists in scarity in nature because plants are loaded with cellulose and other fiber to kill your appetite. But sucrose and other carbs can be distilled and separated from the fiber and food old table sugar the forms the foundation of easy and repetitive eating. Eating carbs implicitly means doing work physically. But society has become sedentary. You what is fact? Fats make up our cell membranes and the ratio by mass is 1-to-1 between You live under a rock or something? Fats are rapidly satiating and repulsive when consumed alone. Trying eating just butter with nothing else. You won’t get through even or a quarter of the bar even if salted. Milk is also not good tasting because lactose is not as palatable as sucrose or high fructose corn syrup. You must be on something to think milk alone is tasty. The existence of sugar pumped chocolate milk and sugar added cereals like Frosted Flakes and Trix indicate it alone cannot be that tasty. Fat free milk is borderline bad tasting with the lack of fats and the quasi bitter taste of lactose.
@@TehKaiser: Will the person eat a plain baked potato without seasoning, or eat a pizza? Your analogy fails, because you're talking about drinks; people primarily drink for hydration, and so they will tend to pick drinks containing sugar rather than just plain water (this is what we'd do in nature, where we'd be eating sweet and juicy fruits primarily; in fact, chimpanzees very rarely drink plain water at all, deriving all the hydration from the plants they eat). In contrast, when we're talking about *FOODS* on the other hand, people who are not very conscious of what they're doing will never get "addicted" to plain carbohydrate, it's always carbohydrate in combination with fat, salt, and dairy, which are in fact very addictive on their own too. I already explained this to you thoroughly, though; get reading, chop chop.
I like how honest the female doctor was about realizing what she is giving her children, because it made me think too. My daughter is 3 and very picky about food, resulting in her eating a lot of processed food, time for me to reassess and she where I can make small changes for big impact
@@EmyN she is still picky, it's a process, but I've been able to open her up to trying new foods. She would eat pasta and rice (plain), because she doesnt like to see obstacles and she is great with her fruit. My daughter also likes to eat meat, who'd think
@@erinforte4381 I saw a documentary once about picky children in the UK (the UK has the best documentaries 😂) and an expert came to share tips and tricks to get children to eat healthier foods and there is also a class for parents and their children to attend to get used to foods, so my point is I think you should search for advice because they can be very helpful and enlightening if you hadn't done so already. Anyway, keep it up! :)
I admire his tenacity all in the name of science and it makes me so grateful that I was brought up in the Mediterranean eating a healthy, clean and fresh diet. If something isn't in season, we can't have it. The labels on the processed foods he picked up have lists of chemicals that look like a shopping list for a science lab.
it would help so much if they made all that TRASH illegal... but "money talks" so it will never happen... both food industry and big pharme is big time against such a change... they make BILLIONS on it
@@LiLBitsDK illegal? Or maybe put the fork down? I extremely healthy and every once in a while I like to eat a greasy unhealthy meal because it tastes good I don't live off of it, making it illegal would be so f****** stupid
I remember when I was eating nothing but KFC for a couple months, I was constantly hungry and soley craving KFC. If I ate anything else it didnt satisfy me, I'd still feel hungry and only want KFC. Once I ate healthier I never craved KFC. When you give your body the nutrients it needs it wont crave the bad stuff as often.
This is the wrong experiment. What we need to look at is what happens when he tries to resume his healthy diet. Is it easier after a month, or six months or poor eating? Did he have a binge following this?
No, it's not the "wrong" experiment -- it simply lacks an element that you want to see. The info about the changes to his brain -- that's crucial to know. FYI, there's a fair amount of data about those who changed their diet from junk to healthful food. Bottom line is that one's cravings for junk decrease as one grows more accustomed to healthful food. . There are individual differences in the speed with which the cravings decrease, and the degree to which some vestige of the cravings remain. At present there's no consensus on why this is; one factor is the duration of the period in which one ate junk. I'm speculating that the findings above will ultimately show that kids who are fed mostly junk from an early age are going to experience brain changes that are much harder to overcome -- that those changes are more likely to become entrenched, just as a physical rut becomes deeper and bigger if one walks over it every day.
This is only part of what was a 1 hour long program - at the end of the program those new connections that showed on the MRI scan were still present. He has now though returned to his previous weight.
@@dw999 it's truly scary the extent to which these cravings alter. When I started eating healthily, I could go a whole week and my only concession to sugary food was a single small (45g) chocolate bar once a week, no cravings to suppress at other times. Over lockdown, I eventually cared less about my diet and felt I "deserved" to indulge my sweet tooth a bit more. I had an extra chocolate bar here or there and before long it was 100g of the stuff every other day. If I didn't, I'd really start to crave it. Terrifying really.
Me too - I imagine the journey back to healthy eating is much harder than the decent into eating processed pre prepared meals. The taste, the ease, the variation without effort and the price all all hard enough to mentally argue against let alone the chemical changes the brain has made to make it automatic to make the wrong choice.
I want to know if the neural connections will always remain, even after he returns to eating healthy- or will it always be a struggle with a nagging desire to eat processed food.
I was 132kg in 2013, smoked cigarettes, drank alcohol… finally cleaned up… now I am 89kg, stopped smoking and drinking, ran two marathons… just remember, it’s a SLOW transformation, but you can do it!
I can relate on the poo problem, I used to eat a lot of processed foods and sugar and had a lot of problems going to the bathroom. After I switched to more vegetables and fruits it feels wonderful to have a consistent bathroom routine and literally takes me a minute to go to the bathroom where before I would at least 5 minutes sitting to actually go.
@@guineapigtalks Usually takes around 3 days for my regular bowel movements to come back, It happens when I go visit family back home, after 3 days I start getting constipated and only return back to normal when I am back home and cooking my own meals.
@@guineapigtalks i had the same experience and its VERY quick, after being constipated my entire life since i was 5, i had regulated my cycle in about a week
I can really relate to the pudding on day 23. I've lost count of the number of times I've tried something new, and I've hated it beyond words, but I've kept eating it and said, "It's disgusting, I love it." It's crazy to think that our bodies keep telling us we want more of certain foods, even if we don't like them, just because it triggers a chemical reaction in the brain
omg yes!! i was so addicted to unhealthy foods and whenever my friends would make fun of me for eating shitty foods and always being hungry, i felt so offended and upset. i didn't know why i eat things that i genuinely don't like, but i couldn't stop. i've now started eating paleo diet (with some coffee and occasional sweets) and it's been a whole new world to me... i can't eat any puddings, pizzas, ice creams, hot dogs without feeling terrible. this needs to be seen by many people!!
I had no idea what kind of junk I was eating my whole life. I got terribly fat and worst thing is I wasnt noticing it until I went to doctor for a checkup and my results were terrible. Thats when I decided to start living healthy. Bad thing is I am lazy and hate to research about food and I just couldnt count calories all the time so I decided to invest in meal plan from Next Level Diet. Best thing I got myself in this life. I lost so much fat and got so much more energy when I started eating healthy.
@tracy kline Fruit is full of sugar, yes, but it's natural sugar and isn't bad for you. Red meat, however, is bad for you, as eating too much can increase your risk of cancer and heart disease.
@@thomas5 I have challange for you. One morning start your day with 300g of red meat and another morning start with 300g of bread. See which one you feel best from...
@tracy kline Believe it or not, I didn't say fruit is natural, yeah, crazy. I said the sugars in the fruit are natural, as in we don't pour granulated sugar into every apple. And its mental that you are saying I am the one that regurgitating, when you just basically copy pasted your last comment.
@tracy kline I don't think cereals and fruit are the things that caused people to be unhealthy. It's all of the processed food that caused that. I've never heard this guy before and I looked him up and everything about him was that he was a fraud that has about a dozen articles debunking the things he says. So I'll stay over here eating fruit and drinking water, while you eat red meat everyday, never eat fruit and suffering from heart burn and an impending heart attack.
Breaking news - food specifically designed with the express intention to activate reward pathways in brain and create habit behaviour shows exactly that on testing.
And yet there is very little control over how it is marketed/sold. Tobacco is very expensive and the health warnings hvve replaced the marketing. Hopefully that will happen with this 'food' in the future
@RUclips American Lies GOMAD. Drink a Gallon Of whole Milk A Day in addition to whatever you're eating (hopefully healthy food). You WILL gain weight unless maybe you're pumping out Michael Phelps workouts daily.
@William Mills 'Food with MSG' What like tomatoes, cheese, chicken, potatoes, onions? All of which naturally contain MSG. It is basically a form of salt with less sodium than table salt. There is no conclusive evidence to suggest it's any worse, all this suspicion around MSG came as a result of a quack scientist who coined the term "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" (feeling ill after stuffing your face with Chinese food) and attributed it to MSG. People in South East Asia have used MSG in their cooking for a long time and don't suffer from the apparent 'symptoms' we in the West do.
Awesome documentary! I'm South African by birth but lived in the UK for a year. During that year I ate a lot of processed food from the supermarket because it was marketed well and appeared fine. While there I weighed 74kg and was hungry all the time. In the middle of the night I'd go out for a takeaway to satisfy the endless hunger. When Covid happened I moved back to South Africa and was pushed to eat a lot of homemade unprocessed food (my SA family's habits/what we have in the supermarkets here). Without even trying (legit no effort) I dropped 14kg. I'm now 60kg at 5'4", I eat a lot less because I just don't feel as hungry, I sleep better, my skin is a lot healthier. At first I couldn't figure out why in the UK I was fat and had extreme acne but in SA I am effortlessly much slimmer and clearer. But after really scrutinizing all the food I bought from Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose (including "healthy" things like pre-made hummus and guacamole), I can see how I was tricked into eating crap. Moral of the story: don't trust prepackaged foods no matter how convincing the marketing, that "veggie" sandwich isn't just a veggie sandwich. That "sweet potato and spinach wrap" isn't what it seems either. The surprising thing? In both countries I was plant-based. But in the UK a snack was a "nutty vegan granola bar" as opposed to an apple. Or cheesy flavored "free from" nachos instead of chunky homemade chips. Jam in instant oats versus rolled oats with banana. Such minor differences in the moment, to the degree one doesn't even really notice. The funny thing is I still ate salads, homemade bean dishes and vegetable bakes in the UK -- it's just that that was about 50% of my diet and I supplemented with a lot of free from/plant-based/pre-made vegan/veggie foods. Just that 50% supplement resulted in raging hunger and weight gain. The impact is INSANE! I'd end up finishing a couple of tubs of hummus at a time and STILL feel hungry after, that is not normal. A few scoops of homemade hummus and I can feel it filling me up??
You can make tahini its really health and depends on how much lemon/water you use it can be the same texture like hummus (fyi in regular hummus in the store theres usually some amount of tahini in the mix its the case in my country might be diffrent in SA or UK
Jesus Christ, make yourself healthy and hearty hummus - Babish, Kenji, Parisi. All on RUclips. It's less time, than you think, you have control over ingredients and can use EVOO of your choice, instead of some industrial sunflower oil that ends up in the Tesco's hummus. In fact, anyone reading this comment - only first time is "tricky" but it is really hard to get it wrong. You can keep it in a fridge for a week or so. Just do it.
Good points, but it's not as if it's a UK problem; it's just a developed world thing. It's very easy to get organic, free range, vegan and vegetarian produce in the UK, too, while it may well be true that in developing countries it's all apples, dates, pomegranates, etc. I lived in Seoul and Tokyo for many years and, reputation aside, the food in Asian megacities tends to be much more processed than it is in Britain, France, or Germany.
So I've tried to share this video on Facebook and Facebook won't ALLOW it to be shared, because it "goes against community standards" 🤯🤯 I think that makes this video even more terrifying
good because this video is horrible and discredits the scientific method. are we measuring effects of processed food or weight gain? this weight is not controlled for therefore the entire video is invalid and pushing a bias. i dont care if youre like "omg what are you saying this video is showing that unhealthy food is unhealthy" no its not. its either showing that or its showing eating too much is unhealthy and you dont know that. this is science.
I grew up with fast food and mostly processed, refined carbohydrates and I was constantly depressed, highly anxious, had ADHD like symptoms. Never ever did I believe that food caused most of my mental health problems. Now that I eat much healthier at least 80% of my mental health issues are gone. Some are indeed psychologically caused but the majority was not and it still baffles me to this day.
That the brain of a person who eats processed food is like a brain of someone addicted? That’s some scary stuff. This may mean that children eating fast food are more vulnerable to drugs etc
@@ritaamor283 yes we know this too because sugar is addictive msg is addictive primarily use in Asian restaurants just simple googling give you the answer
5 weeks ago I switched to a high fibre plant based diet, with good proteins + fats. No sugar, no refined carbohydrates and no UPF !! I might also add that I’m undergoing chemotherapy at the present so I am not as active as I normally am. This is the first time in my adult life that I have changed my diet where I was not driven by weight loss but more so for improved health and well-being. I have the best motive to change my lifestyle and I can not believe the results. I have lost 8kg, gone down a dress size, I have so much more energy (even going through chemo), sleeping better, no cravings, better concentration, no headaches…the list goes on. I seriously believe the food we consume is a contributing factor to poor health, and I wouldn’t say I was the most unhealthy person but not the healthiest either. I would say just average. The results in this clip are honestly no surprise at all.
Hope you're doing ok!🌷 today I was watching medical scientists interview. They're creating the way to heal cancer. So in his opinion to prevent cancer we need to take care of our imune system, in these ways -> be physical, not profesional sports, but move our bodies and muscles, vitamin D, and do not keep negative thoughts in our bodies - this is scientists speaking. Hope this also helps :)
Yeah I felt kind of disgusted by the tub of lasagne, although I know I eat the same kind of bad food myself, so I shouldn't be talking! (I'm kinda shocked that they sell sodas in Norwegian hospitals, I've spent a LOT of time there, and you can either have the hospital food, which I suspect is about as unappetising as hospital food anywhere in Europe, or you can go to the kiosk / bakery / fast food place within the hospital and get mostly unhealthy food! Although we don't have obesity issues to the same extent as the UK, it's still irresponsible to encourage unhealthy behaviour, in a hospital of all places!)
This is way more telling then the Super Size Me doc 20 years ago, mostly because of the neural pathway differences and hormones changes discussed at the end. I've noticed an increase is eating satisfaction during meals and a decrease in long term satiation when i've had a few processed meals in a row. This makes total sense about what these food companies are trying to achieve when they add enhancers to their foods.... the brain already defaults to old primal desires of wanting salt, sugar and fat, we love the mouthfeel of crunchy things. These all work in tandem to make fast and processed foods a tough hurdle to get over.
Tech companies are doing the same whit the internet(adds) and games(loot boxes). All to increase addiction. Tech companies cant sell 90% of there products ,if they did not turn it addictive.
@@guidosillaste4297 I guess im in the minority for whom this doesn't work. I just can't relate how it would be hard to get over junk/ultra processed food.
@@hugoanderkivi na most are resistant to it ,but if you make heathy food a lot harder to reach and place junk food at hands length then most people will take the easy to reach junk food. Case point supermargets where 90% is either junk food or poisoned by chemicals, preservatives or excess flavoring.
@@guidosillaste4297 Well, I am not one of those who would take junk food if it was indeed so easily accessible. People seem to have weak will. When the doctor talked about the food being hyperpalatable or irresistible, I couldn't relate. Seems bizarre.
The hormone and brain connections changes - I had no idea. And I’ve been fighting my weight my whole life thanks to my mother feeding me and my brother processed food as a child so she didn’t have to cook. just wow. I already knew that process foods wasn’t good for a person but I didn’t know the specifics as to why and what happens in the body. This is very eye-opening indeed.
@@ZeusNoTenshi For my part, I'm not unsympathetic to the descriptivist position, since it's so valid over the long term. Shorter term, what language can remain functional, or understandable over longer periods, without a lot of prescriptivism at least at the level of education and social constraint? In the end, the figurative "literally" is just annoying because it replaces perfectly simple and widely used existing words "figuratively" or "metaphorically" and subtracts itself from being understandable when itself used literally. That's more annoying than your average change in usage. Worse because it seems to have started as part of the emphatic valley girl or high school slang of turn of the millennium America.
@@tbz1551 I'm sorry but theres no need to be so rude. If you don't like how I type, jog on. You no nothing about me, I actually attended a grammar school receiving a 9 in my GSCE English lit + lang and a 9 in my A level English Lit + lang. So go and poorly correct some one else's grammar 🙃
I've always been fascinated when reading the ingredients, finding it off-putting when I find sugar, but only recently have I realised that "sugar-free" doesn't mean it won't harm you. It needs to reach a stage where the law gives the companies no place to hide.
Weaning off processed foods is a very long term process. It means changing how shop and cook as well as cooking much more often. It means learning how to feel satisfied with a healthy meal and not grabbing tasty snacks in between. I think one year is probably a minimum time period to completely change your habits and also rewire your brain.
Not really. The best way is low carb/ high healthy fat. Cut out grain (it is sugar no matter how 'healthy and whole' it is touted to be. Up the intake of good fats. Fats and proteins are actually wired to the brain to say that you are full. Carbs don't do that. ('Once you pop you cannot stop', the pringles advert, is literally true.) suddenly you will find cravings don't happen because you feel full.
@@lechatel I love Keto but you're sadly wrong about satiety, Janet. Like Cory said potatoes score the highest in satiety. Fats provide the least satiety per calorie consumed. I always feel hungry on keto if I don't consume veggies and fibers. There are many benefits to fats, but satiety is definitely not one of them.
@@AJ5 Don't agree. If I eat some bacon and eggs for breakfast I am not hungry again until the end of the day. If I have anything carb I am hungry again within an hour or so. I have no idea what you mean about 'satiety' and how you 're measuring it. But potato spikes insulin and that makes people hungry. Satiety has to be defined. I could feel very 'satiated' for an hour or so if I stuff myself full enough of potatoes. But that doesn't seem to me to be a sensible plan. I have no idea why someone who says they love keto would be talking about 'calories consumed'. Calories are totally irrelevant to diet. (But extremely relevant to the diet industry.)
@@lechatel Calories are relevant to me. I'm a bodybuilder and my goal is to achieve sub 10% body fat. I do keto 5 days a week, and do carb loading for the remaining 2 days. I achieved my goals this way, but I know many who achieved the same goal on pure keto/pure carbs/pure plant based diets. What do all these diets share in common? Calories, Janet. They all share calories in common. Calories in < calories out, and you'll lose fat.
He's very right about the "junk food hangover". I normally eat a wholefood vegetarian diet, cooking from scratch, and the day after my monthly "cheat day" (usually pizza) I feel like hell.
@@jarafra1 Maybe so, but I eat quite a lot of carbs in my normal diet. The difference, for me, seems to be that I normally eat whole and not refined carbs.
I feel great after eating junk food like pizza but candy makes me nauseous. I also feel great eating whole foods. Maybe it's because I'm young. Though I notice that even though after eating an entire pizza worth 2000 cals I get hungry sooner than after eating 700 cals of home made food with lots of protein.
Ok, this is a wake up call for me. I knew processed foods were bad, but I had no idea that over just 4 weeks changes like THAT happened… I’m probably at like 60% processed foods now. I think decreasing that to around 20% for a month to see how I feel sounds like a great test.
@@bassie6559 most of the western world lives on that or worse. And many don't even realise it because the packaging of what they buy says it's "the healthy choice", "eco", "biological", "zero fat", etc. Like the fried chicken he had at the start. It's junk food, not because of the chicken but because of the breading, the marinade, the spice mix, the oil it is fried in. The same chicken without all of that would be truly healthy food, with it it becomes like eating crack cocaine. I've tried this myself (with chicken). Roughly the same amount of chicken (about a pound) fried in the oven myself vs. bought at KFC. My own chicken I'm pretty stuffed after eating a pound of it and don't need to eat for 16-20 hours, the KFC version I crave more after 2 hours at most. And it's the same with store bought bread vs. home baked bread. Store bought bread has all sort of chemicals added that don't just mean it has a longer shelf life, but change the texture and taste, with a side effect of being less filling.
The good news is that you've now realized it. That's one of the hardest parts. What you need to do now is before buying food you need to ask your self if there's a better alternative, better to go for a more time consuming one over a convenient one. You can do it :)
If you want to turn around, a good way to start is to cut down your sugar intake. The food packaging tells you how much sugar is in the food, or you can find the information online: add it all up for a couple of days to see how much you eat. The NHS recommends no more than 30 grams a day for adults: I was eating more than 100. After six months at or below 30 grams I had lost 5 kg.
@@ceejay0137 Be careful with reading the nutritional info on a lot of branded food - a lot of them will lie to you about the sugar content. When you read the 'of which sugars' part, the percentage will often be wrong, because many food manufacturers work off an RDA of *60g* of sugar, not 30 like the NHS and the WHO recommends. You can see it if you work it out yourself, or, to save time, take whatever percentage of your RDA they claim it is and double it for the REAL figure. (I did actually contact Sainsburys here in the UK to question them about this, and the response they gave was basically "well, we have our own, 'independent' team of scientists and Nutrition Experts working for us, and they told us that 60g was perfectly okay, so we decided to go with that, because why would a bunch of scientists whose research we're directly funding tell us stuff that wasn't true?" 😏)
@@majidmehmood3780 Doesnt even have to be addiction. Anytime I've done cocaine, its great at first and then by then end of the night you're just doing lines to try to chase the original high that you cant get back hahaha.
The issue I see with experiments like this is he’s not adjusting for any variables. “Eat when I am hungry” if he controlled for calories he wouldn’t have the negative effects of over consuming. It is notable that processed foods are less filling, but if you ate natural foods, but went over on calories you’d still gain weight and negatively impact your health as well.
"I'm not enjoying it but I can't stop". I totally relate. Sometimes if I eat potato chips from a bag I just keep eating them. It feels like my hand just grabs the food from the bag without my permission but technically it's my own free will. It's hard to make the free will argument when these foods can manipulate the psyche. The hormone switching feeling hungry instead of full is interesting. I hope the food industry can be regulated worldwide to be healthier, more transparent and sustainable and no longer exists solely for profit.
Same here! My parents would just load up the cabinets on juke food and soda. I was never overweight, but I would drink 2-3 cans of coke a day, eat chicken fingers that come frozen, microwavable dinners. Now I am cooking with lentils, chickpeas, fish fresh produce and I feel 10 times better. My memory has improved, and I feel like I can think faster. My sleep has improved, and I don't feel depressed or anxious anymore. Seems like the FDA is not on our side and it is up to us the consumer to research and figure how what is healthy and not.
Interesting video. The fact that it's so easy for us to gain 6.5-7 kgs in 4 weeks but so much harder to lose. Cutting processed foods is a choice all of us need to make. It's quite easy after the first 21 days
Well, we don’t “need” to do anything. If you want to eat so called unprocessed foods, do it. If you don’t then don’t. I personally don’t need some societal propaganda to tell me what I’m “supposed to like” or “should do”.
@@princessbabibear4794 it's not hard in this day and age. If youre able to watch this all by yourself you can easily look up how to cook and eat non processed food. You don't have to be directed by the hand in every direction, do you?
@@marcbaigrie2295 When you take personal responsibility for your own health and well-being. YES. This show sensationalizes and demonizes processed foods. Taken to the extreme anything can be bad for you. Even water! Life is truly about balance but to create fear and anxiety and guilt and shame associated with food is how the diet industry works. The constant onslaught and pervasiveness of diet culture leads to disordered eating is Paramount. It's not easy to break free from the herd mentality centered around dieting and exercise. I took an 8-week course on intuitive eating and joyful movement and it opened my eyes to the dire situation.
This should be required viewing for everyone. The food industry needs to be put in the spotlight like tobacco was.
Unfortunately, in our cost of living crisis processed foods are the most accessible & affordable to the average person/family
Many from tobacco went into fast food when the tobacco industry started going down. The harm these people have caused.
@@harry53831 That's what the ultra-processed food industry would love you to believe. Cooking tasty, and thus a lot healthier food from scratch is FAR cheaper (although an initial investment in quality kitchen essentials and a well stocked pantry is a consideration). Accessibility is no longer really an issue, even a Tesco's local will have enough ingredients to cook up a nice dinner for two. The problem is one of convenience and know-how - you need to able to at least know the basics of cookery and, well, it takes time to cook from scratch. I was lucky to work as chef for a number of years so skills/ability and speed of preparation & cooking no issue for me. Maybe a reintroduction of home economics as an essential subject at school would help future generations?
@@robertjones8083sad thing is, normal healthier ingredients is far more expensive here. I did some test and for a month I bought much more vegetables and cooked everything myself. My bills went up by 3times.. It is literally unsustainable for poor people. I cook for myself anyway because I'm lactose intolerant and can't eat every processed food but I gotta pay attention to what I buy. Do I make chewap myself from zero or buy deep frozen one? Do I buy fresh vegetable individually or mixed in a bag? Etc
@@alihorda are you vegan?
This is insane. And remember: the UK has banned many chemicals that the US still uses regularly in food products. I couldn’t imagine the further damage if you live in the states
Wow I live in the states I will do my research. Thank you !
Yea we’re legit dying over here
@your sleep paralysis demon here in europe they are used for that. a really, really fat human in austria weighs around 150kg, and in american he would be not seen as the top range of weight
The further damage is simple to explain; It's death. I live in the states, it's death. The further damage you are talking about is literally the 50 trillion cells in your body being malnourished and dieing.
I moved to California for university after living in the UK all my life and I can attest, the American diet is awful. I gained 5kg of mostly fat in the 6 months I’ve been here and it really creeped up on me. They have so many fast food options that are a lot cheaper than the UK and many people are overworked which leads them to cooking for themselves less. Free refills of fizzing drinks are also a contributor. Due to the way cities are designed, you essentially need a car, walking or using public transport is not really an option - so everyone drives and gets barely any exercise.
This needs to be expanded into a 60 min show. This info needs to be spread far and wide as it touches on so many lives and so many aspects of society.
It would be odd if it wasn't already a 60 min show.
There is a movie called supersize me.
But the fatties would get hungry and leave to eat and wouldn't watch it to the end.
It actually was before this vid was put out. It was called What Are We Feeding Our Kids and some of the things I learned were shocking
@@siobhanchampion2692 Thank you!
the fact that nobody talks about censored book called 21 Former Doctor Secrets by Rachel Morgan really gets to me. Always loved doctors like Rachel, they open our eyes
oh thats one that has been banned by Amazon, I guess they are really trying to hide it
I want to buy it howw
can you give me link or somthing
tyyy for info
@@ThomasWht13 yes, its scary
Fortunately here in Hong Kong processed foods are more expensive than fresh.
Good for you all guys.
How much do you spend on fresh fruits and vegetables? Do you go shopping daily or every couple of days? Say, you spend $10 on a burger, fries and drink. Would that same $10 get you cucumbers, tomatoes, leafy greens, radish and all enough for a couple of days of salads?
same in venezuela. complete collapse has its benefits i guess
The Party demands it?
That´s socialism!
This man sacrificed his body for science. Not gonna lie he's successfully horrified me into wanting to clean up my diet.
Did you never watch "Supersize Me!"?
I wouldn’t say “sacrificed” since millions of people in the uk eat this and are relatively healthy
Same gotta watch out for ultra processed food
@@ikemm2680 the absence of disease is not called "being healthy". Health is something entirely different my friend.
Nothing about this is scientific, it's purely anecdotal. Read studies and meta analyses, this is purely publicity
It’s absolutely mind blowing how processed foods can become SO addictive. I had a major traumatic life event last year and turned to food afterwards for comfort. I QUICKLY became addicted to eating and now fit into the class 2 obese category. A couple of weeks ago I decided to change the way I eat entirely and it has been so good! I’ve lost 6.6lbs and more importantly I’ve begun to control my eating in relation to my emotions and am taking back my power over food instead of food taking power over me.
Good for you, these are some inspiring words! I hope you find the strength to keep at it.
congratulations, keep up the good work
how much have you lost now
thats great! pls update us ag
@@quinn.0 still going strong! Slowly but steadily making progress, now in class 1 obese category.
«I'm not enjoying, but i can't stop.»
Phrase that summarises processed food addiction.
And marriage
@@antichristhimselfwell with modern laws and culture marriage is more of a transfer of money to wife. In the doctor case his marriage seems sucessfull at least. But many men get fked. People use to marrie virgins or demand virgin wives at least that makes a difference.
I have always been a picky eater, I haven't eaten a piece of fruit in years...can't cook that much and gag on things that are good for you; and the convenience + laziness = hopeless.
Alcoholics say the same thing...when they've finally recognised they're alcoholics.
@@jc4evur661yes, my husband is like this. He’s realized how much he dislikes alcohol, but he struggles to avoid it. I understand his addiction because I had my own. (Food.)
I was sadly brought up on that same diet from a very young age. However, as soon as I hit adulthood, I began eating extremely healthy. By God’s grace, my body healed in so many ways. It’s not too late to change your habits. The human body is amazingly resilient!
Hey! Can u pls tell me more about how you feel now ? Thanks
God's grace? The one that gives cancer to children?
I’m 19 and I just moved out of my parents place 6 months ago. Been eating very healthy the past few months. It’s great!! I already felt changes in a week
@@JohnnyBGoode-xn9mo It’s never too late! Every moment is a chance to start fresh, and your body can heal! You can do it 🎉
@@spring6906 I feel amazing. You can do it!
I'm glad this experiment wasn't just someone eating McDonald's and KFC, but rather he was eating things like instant lasagne/microwave meals/cereal/etc which don't come under the same scrutiny as fast food but are still highly processed and probably really should be (especially given the results from this video). It can be difficult to cook all of your own meals but it certainly pays off in health benefits.
Well said.
@RifleEyez youre ignorant, thats okay as everyone is by default, but please read up and learn about basic digestion needs and what the proccessing of ultra proccessed foods do to the micro and macro nutrients such as the water soluble vitamins, fibre and the levels of fats carbs and protein are all disproportionate leading to a whole host of big and small issues that build up and you dont realise they are caused by your diet.
In my country (India) we cool all our meal. It is really surprising to hear someone from other country telling it is really hard to cool all our meal.
Brother, if you truly believe that and abide by processed food then you're destroying your full potential and longetivty. @RifleEyez
@@bl3nddeveryone rots when they’re 90 anyways. And you’re spending your time in RUclips comments
It would have been good to see how he struggled to re-acclimate to his healthier diet again!
I don't think he would struggle. It's not that hard. Healthy food is also tasty
Start drinking protein shakes with creatine. You'll feel so full you wanna throw up. And the taste of creatine is so nasty you'll lose all appetite lol
@lucy r Addiction is different for everyone, some people can easily cold turkey things that they are addicted to.
@lucy r No one suggests it's easy for everybody. Some crumble in face of fear addiction and adversity, others don't.
The point is that "It would have been good to see how he struggled to re-acclimate to his healthier diet again!" - as the op said.
@lucy r What they show on that scan is ridiculously dumb. They literally misinform you there to try and prove a point they have decided on prior to even thinking about it. And I have been addicted for years to something I will not mention. I don't think it's hard to come off. It simply is a matter of choice. Do you have a reason to stop? Well then you just stop it. There will always be withdrawal, doesn't matter if we talk about the legal drugs - alcohol and tobacco, or if we talk about the other ones. Or even food.
Wow that’s quite astonishing. A friend of mine quit processed food, changed nothing else in his lifestyle then that (mostly buying fresh food on farmer markets) and lost 40kg in a year. Now he isn’t overweight anymore.
I used to blame people for being fat, when in reality it’s a food industry crime.
No they're fat because they are lazy.
Trying to convince people to try is the hardest part. People want regular pizza nights cancelled out by a three mile run at the weekend and it doesn't work like that.
I gave up ultra processed food 3 months ago, I cook exclusively from fresh every day now.
Down 16 kilos so far, but some of that may be because I am walking much more. I feel fitter, healthier, my skin looks great, concentration is better, eyesight is improved, and even though I have 27 kilos to go to hit my target weight, I feel 10 or even 20 years younger. I sometimes find myself breathing deeply for fun, it just feels so good to breath so easily, so freshly.
On top of that, I am spending less buying only fresh food, not more.
Downside is I have no clothes that fit everything is baggy, I'll have to save for a new wardrobe when I hit my target weight.
@@ForeverNeverwhere1 Everyone is skeptical about this until they try it for themselves and find it works like magic. Well done
@@ForeverNeverwhere1 Good for you👍. I have a skin condition I believe called tinea versicolor. I notice when I eat UPF that my skin is irritated. Did you have acne before you quit UPF? / is your skin more clear?
The food he ate (whenever hungry)
1 (0:33). Fried chicken (MSG, Sodium Phosphate, spice extracts).
2 (1:20). Lasagne (Cheesy).
3 (2:10). Dry cereal with milk.
4 (2:28). Wraps, bread with cheese, and burgers
5 (2:40). Stuffed crust meat feast Pizza.
6 (4:50). Packaged fish, chips and peas .
7 (5:22). Pudding (Contains Potassium Sorbate).
Results:
Weight gained is 6.5kg,
BMI went up by 2.0.
Body fat went up by 3.0kg.
Hunger hormone went up by 30%
6.5 kg in a month is a lot 😮
it sucks when you cant rely on hunger/fullness feeling to know when to stop eating
@RifleEyez pretty stupid comment
@Irondragon1945 Yes you can. Just gotta move enough.
@@Urkki24 Being active makes you feel more full? whut
It'd be interesting to do the reverse have someone who has only eaten an ultra-process diet and see what it takes to wean themselves off of, and how it effects the biochemistry. This video is great because I think like a lot of people I always felt entirely shamed and culpable in my own terrible eating habits. The habits are still mine but I feel like I have more ground to actually appreciate what drives my bad decision making. Thanks for this great video!
It's not your choice. Manufacturers have highjacked our food and are using it against us.
I used to have an ultra processed diet,although I could still maintain my weight,I was still fat,but due to a lott of research and paranoia I was able to reduce ultra processed foods to 10-20% of my diet. I got slim,had more energy,and could only eat twice a day. I started excersizing and in order to get sufficient calories(and build muscle) and proteins I have allowed some processed foods into the mix but ultra processed foods are still the occasional treat. I do not have the healthiest diet and there is room for lots of improvement in all aspects but I have at least adapted to a point where I feel ok with my body and food habits(there are still some habits I would like to change but let's ignore that). So yeah it's completely possible to do it,but it's only the beginning that's difficult(first 10-20 days). Good luck.
@@sleeplife752 good stuff! I appreciate it, through my sister I've been indirectly learning about ulta processed food and i've been dabbling with mixed success counting calories. One good thing about counting calories is it forces you to pick things that keep you full so I naturally have moved away from ultra processed food. I still have a lottt to learn but like I feel good about every step I have taken and though I'm still greatly overweight I feel like my better eating habits are becoming more secure by the day and my attempts to lose weight are continuous even if I'm struggling with it. Glad to hear about your success too, cheers!
@@TonchoBluegrass Thanks! Great to see you are also progressing. I mostly stayed away from gluten containing foods and that did the trick for me,though it isn't like I'm allergic to gluten,so now I'm reintroducing gluten containg stuff that isn't ultra-processed. Hope you succeed!
Watch "Forks Over Knives" - it's exactly that.
At 19stone over 5 weeks ago, this looks exactly like how I used to eat.
I joined a local gym and decided to cut out all the processed food and just eat cleaner home made meals, I'm now 17st 7. Can't wait to see where the journey takes me
Gl bro
@@tanaka7391 ty 👊
well done! :D keep it up
@@imoqengaming thank you
Keep going mate
Same with Sugar. I was hooked on eating ice cream everyday, sometimes twice a day when I was depressed.
icecream now often has seed oils homogenised with sugar etc, instead of cream, so it's real toxic sludge that doesn't melt. Glad you won 🏆
you can eat ice cream everyday...
1 serving lol maybe 2
@@jenrich111shit. Did you say seed oils?!
I am intrigued that you noticed what I did about processed foods: the generally soft texture. This is crucial, because aside from the fat and calories, it's one of the key reasons why processed foods make us obese versus high-fiber whole foods which take more effort to chew and are less likely to be overeaten. These soft foods can be eaten in large quantity before the satiation mechanisms are triggered.
Textures got nothing to do with it 😐 loads of filling foods are soft, what are you talking about ?
You have no clue. It's just calories in->calories out. For example, diet pop instead of regular pop can be enough for most of us to lose weight. Why? You're drinking like 100-200 calories LESS per cup by doing so! And thus if you keep the rest the same, you'll either lose weight OR gain weight at a slower pace! Nothing to do with ultra-processed foods.
@@Samosayummyyay That´s horseshit. Flavors added alone trick you reward system to reaching out for more because product needs to sell more rather than one from competitor. Calories in-out is simplistic view that doesn't take in account metabolic effects of different foods.
True.
Just try to eat a bowl of cereal or oat meal without milk/liquid. Possible, but you either don't finish the bowl or it takes you a lot more time.
Try it for yourself.
@@Samosayummyyay Most people don't count their calories though. Usually people simply eat when they're hungry or have cravings for something and stop eating once they're full. So if you can eat a high-calorie processed meal in less than 10 minutes you're much more likely to go grab another one because you're still hungry and that way it's easy too overeat.
"I'm not enjoying it but I can't stop"
"It's a lot like marriage"
We have just witnessed a murder😂😭
His wife: 👁️ 👄 👁️
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Came to comments just to see reactions to this 😂😂
that there was a VIOLATION and personally i wouldnt have it
@@coolL9457 😂😂
Savage
"I'm not enjoying it but I can't stop" is spot on
Yeah, marriage is a work in progress.
you can stop, but you need to put something in your body to make it feel good that isn't garbage food, which is why regular exercise is everything.
eliminate your bad fats, excessive salt and sugar, and alcohol, and educate yourself on nutrition, and you'll never have a craving again.
it's not easy to do, but it's doable (i'm there).
and the good news is you can still go out to dinner, eat chocolate etc. as a treat once you've conquered it.
The starch hamster wheel, my friend. This is why keto has an effect even though keto is mediocre.
@@TehKaiser Keto for life
Capitalism loves addiction.
What's more alarming is the modification to your hormones and brain. You become a different person when you habitually eat processed foods, not necessarily just the unhealthy ones.
“I’m not enjoying it but I can’t stop”
“It’s a lot like marriage”
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He’s filing for a divorce right as we speak🤣
@Cutie foodie idk am I?
@@mubarak.b oh he's getting a divorce? Damn he really was not enjoying huh
Should I avoid a mArrige
The MRI results were particularly fascinating. I had no idea that new neural pathways would be formed just by changing diet.
bro just removed 6 months from his life
It's been linked to autism in kids, Parkinson in men and dementia in women
Doing virtually anything in life forms new neural pathways. Any skill you learn, any knowledge you acquire, anything you do physically or mentally. It all changes your brain. The brain continuously creates new pathways in the form of memories/learning. It also 'prunes' back old pathways that aren't used as much, which you experience as forgetting something.
Keep in mind he made a conscious effort to eat whenever he felt like it and he consciously decided to undergo this experiment so of course fulfilling the experiment became linked as rewarding. If you decide that something is going to make you happy and then you take the steps required to acquire that thing that is going to make you happy then its not surprising the action that brings you closer to your goal gets linked with your pleasure system. If this was just some regular person not undergoing an experiment to bring awareness/help other people then the neural connections wouldn't be as strong, especially if the person didn't associate eating ultraprocessed foods as a good thing to be doing.
Wiping your bum with the other hand forms new neural pathways. This sort of gimmicky video helps him sell his diet books - he's just as 'conflicted' as the processed food industry he claims 'hoodwinks us'.
Its really nice to see him actually acknowledging the enjoyment and pleasure in the food that is bad for us because its sometimes treated like "bad food" is just disgusting and offers us nothing which makes people who eat it seem really stupid and why would anyone do that to themselves? Its more fair, to really see how a person can get into this cycle by acknowledging how it gets us hooked. This does not shame people for their eating behaviour, this shames the food, this shames the ones profiting from it. What a very sorry state of affairs for us in the modern western world (and increasingly, the rest of the world).
I agree in that it's important he acknowledges it tastes good. It's painstakingly created by companies at huge cost to appeal to our brains desires. But as as it's common knowledge now exactly how bad it is for you some responsibility has to rest with the eater.
yes lets blame everyone else except ourselves lol.
@@FM-dm8xj words cannot describe how far the point when over your head 😂
He forgot to say he increased his intake of calories and fat! 🤦♂🤣
HOW NOT TO SCIENCE!
Well said
It's scary how accure it was when he said the pudding wasn't quite tasty but he wanted to keep on eating more. I've felt like this with so many foods before. Wanted to keep on eating them but didn't even actually enjoy them. They were so addictive!
It’s hilarious watching a middle class man describe fried chicken to his family like it’s an alien artefact
😂😂😂
Especially with him listing all the scary sounding addiction chemicals
For a healthy person it should be "an alien artifact".
@@Tom_Mroz Yep. If you fry your own chicken it won't have all the chemicals he described. The chicken is not the problem.
Evil monosodium glutamate is what he worries about. What about the low-grade fry oil? That’s much more dangerous than MSG…
"UK doctor switches to Standard American Diet" haha only kidding
Accurate though, I'd wager a lot more than 20% of North Americans eat this way.
@ True. More Americans rather cook for themselves or buy healthier foods.
Apparently we are nearly as obese as them nowadays.
“Only kidding" but……not really….😂
Kidding? Honestly from what I seem to know about the standard American diet this doesn't seem too off
You truly feel completely different when you eat less processed food. I switch between processed and less processed based on what's avaliable (I'm a student who eats in the canteen the majority of the year), and the amount of energy I have is honestly very different, as well as the levels of hunger I go through
Absolutely. Eating better 'flattens the bumps' from my point of view. My dips in energy and peaks in energy are less extreme when I eat a better diet - which makes it much easier to keep eating healthily because you always have enough energy in teh tank to cook or prepare something. I remember feeling so exhausted and hungry come meal times that I felt like I had no choice but to order in a takeaway in the past, for example.
I just ate a bunch of candy and soda
this happened to me but in reverse. During the pandemic I experience a lot of health and mental issues I never experience as a university student. Now I'm trying to bring back the diet I have as a student.
Also your palate changes. Those foods that used to taste so good, taste horribly once you eat good food. I remember caving and buying a bag of Lays Cheddar Potato chips after months of eating healthy. They tasted so terrible, I tossed the bag immediately.
I wish it worked that way for me. I switched to a very healthy diet and didn't notice any of the mentioned benefits.
Props to Dr. Chris for obliterating his health for the sake of science. The effects of fast food are pretty wild. I loved Operation Ouch when I was younger and probably learnt a lot about biology and science from it, so thanks for that.
Same
Broo i was like “is this the guy from operation ouch” for like 3 minutes😂
i’ve been brought up on food like this because my mum was always too tired to cook. Imagine how bad my health is, i feel like its too late to make a change now the damage is done
@@ayumimhm your lazy and weak minded
@@ayumimhm never too late
I've lost 21 kilos just because I've started to eat clean and run. Diet is like 70%, exercise is 30%.
80-20
Prometheustod: Well done. When you say “eat clean”, does this mean home cooked food from scratch plus salads etc? I’d be interested to know. Also, how long did it take to lose the 21 kilos? Congrats on your achievement.
@@sylviaroberts8103 Thanks! No processed food, home cooked. High in protein, less carbs. No bread, no pasta. The biggest help was my fitness watch because I was checking how much calories I burned and I ate accordingly. It was so easy to loose weight, in the beginning I was loosing a kilo every second day. The first 10 kg dropped like this. After became slower. I was heaving cheat meals and I ate sweets almost every day😂 So it took at least 8 months I think. It can be done faster, or slower, it depends how much you gain back when you are on holiday, or quarantine 😂
@@prometheustod Many thanks for your detailed reply - an inspiration. 👍
@@sylviaroberts8103 You're welcome. 🙂
Love how he was truly understanding. It is hard to get out of eating processed food. It is truly an addiction. Hope to fully cut it out of my diet one day and raise and grow my own food.
Start off with some similar substitutes that give off a similar taste or the same taste. One example is cauliflower rice substituting regular rice.
I'm always amazed how heavily addicted I can become from time to time. It's such a sneaky addition that creeps up on you. It is dangerous stuff.
You’re much more likely to clean up your diet if you set reasonable goals. It’s much easier to avoid ultraprocessed food than growing your own crops.
How I did it was watching videos like these and commercial slaughterhouse videos. Fun fact, McDonalds slaughterhouses are unsanitary and have rats. These rats occasionally get ground up, so not McDonalds does not contain 100% beef. Now I have a pet mouse and owning a rodent you realize something: Rodents shit and piss where they eat. They do not care. They're vermin. Vermin only care about eating and breeding. This means that if rats are eating the meat in McDonalds or commercial slaughterhouses, there's a chance you're eating rat shit and piss cooked into your patties as well. Realizing this fact alone made nee vomit and put fast food down cold turkey. I went back to my high school diet of organic humanely raised meats, and other things. Authentic and genuine asian and East Asian foods are also not only healthy, but they are more fulfilling than fast food and leave you full. Veggie pasta is a also a good substitute from regular pasta. Substitutes are amazing. Vegans use substitutes all the time. Its a good substitute. Im personally not vegan but I admire their food creativity.
@@unclegardener Nothing wrong with regular rice. Brown or black rice is good, has fibre and more nutrients than white rice and makes you feel fuller. Eating large amounts of cauliflower can cause digestive upset due to its high polyol content.
Looking after my diet with my prowaist waist trainer has been my secret weapon for accelerated weight loss and a slimmer waistline.
Correct title: “Man discovers Coco Pops for the first time - MIND BLOWN” 🤣
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Was he a chef in another life because I am and completely agree with his comments about coco pops 😭😂😂😂
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People surprised that he's just discovering these foods as if he hasn't been avoiding them on PURPOSE because he's a food scientist and he knows the shit that goes in them skdnjfjf
I farted on a plastic chair and it went THWOOOOOOMP. My cat dove for cover but he took residual cheek spray. Anyway take care.
@@meatball5336 About to cancel you for promoting air pollution. You, sir, are inconsiderate. It's better IN than out, not better OUT than IN.
@@mahinnnadiamoinkus3648 😮🥺😞
bliss point makes you eat more
Keto it works fact x
This is the story of my life. I’ve struggled with digestion for over 10 years and had no idea that processed food was having that kind of impact on my body. I’m definitely changing my diet. Thank you so much for sharing this video. Everyone needs to see this!
Also take a good probiotics with multiple probiotic strains. God willing, it will help a lot to restore healthy gut bacteria that helps with digestion and helps avoid bloating. I am taking it and by God's mercy it is working really good.
They want their food tasty as possible so customer comes back..keeping it healthy is at bottom of the list..its a business at the end of the day.
How are you getting on Paula?
@@ProudSalafi no don’t do this! This guy brought out a book and in the book he specifically states that probiotics are not recommended.
So you had trouble with digestion for 10 years and it didn't occur to you that it might have something to do with the stuff you eat? I swear, human stupidity is limitless.
I love that doctor his the same dude on operation ouch
My wife and I recently realised we had accidentally fallen on to our frozen processed food that was for emergencies and started using it everyday during lockdown, I had reach my heaviest weight of 16.2stone, she had similar results. I had been drinking a lot of beer every night and eating crisps. We stopped that train and only eat fresh food we have made and cooked, we cut sugar out 100% and started speed walking everyday and in 10 weeks I lost 3 1/2 stone and I am stronger than I have ever been due to practicing calisthenics during those 10 weeks. I guess we are on a low carb diet but I make alternative breads and treats that means we do not miss out. It’s so easy to slip in to the eating of processed food and really hard to get out of it.
Totally agree, processed one is very addictive, as they must add enhancers , its so easy to get trapped into easy meals.
@@AlexSandra2525 Calories in-> calories out. Easy as that. Eating processed foods and sugar is fine. Just know what moderation is. Don't be a vacuum lol. If you can't handle it, don't get it in your house!!! Don't screw yourself over!
Well done
@@Samosayummyyay wrong. Sure the occasional treat is fine but thats his whole point. When you start on something its easy to get hooked.
It is super addictive, I can't stop eating it especially living alone and no support.
My god, I needed this video. I usually eat homecooked food, but the amount of processed food I have been eating has increased lately and I feel too tired to cook these days, even though my routine is the same, which makes me want to purchase more ready-to-eat food. I need to go on a cleanse immediately.
me too!
If you are too tired to cook, make a meal of fresh, in season fruit, nuts, and some high quality cheese. Brew a pot of tea. This is what I have for lunch. It's delicious.
Cook big healthy portions on the days you have time and freeze them. Then on the tired days, you take it out of the freezer, heat it and eat it.
It could be soups(healthy with lots of veggies), casseroles, curries, lasagna, pasta dishes... and so on
This video was my wake up call. I used to have fast food everyday. Most of the times I did not enjoy it that much but I just wanted to eat more and more of it. The worst part was that it was really easy for me to overeat it. I gained about 30Kilos in span of 6months. Watching this video put into perspective a lot of the things that were happening to my body. I am so happy that I quit that lifestyle, lost all the weight that I gained and a bit more. Thanks to the team behind this video.
I´d like to show this to my uncle... he´s always busy with working, often working 10 to 12 hours a day. He doesn´t cook afterwards, he just has a small tiny room in each city of his work places. He´s driving a lot in between these cities and his home as well. So mostly, he just stops by some fast food place near the highway or in the city centre of his work places. I do think it´s a serious addiction. He´s overweight and even had a lung embolism, after that went into a therapy clinic that served diet food, but when we visited we saw bottles of unhealthy drinks and snacks in the trashcan... I know it´s so hard, and I don´t wanna hurt his feelings... but I don´t want him to almost die at such a young age again. (lung embolism was really dangerous, the ambulence service wouldn´t take him, no doctor was there so they didn´t take it seriously even though he kept fainting, only after the second or third time calling, they did take him. His doctor at the hosptital didn´t know what it could be and asked another doctor that was still there by coincidence bc he had finished work already, and only he had that idea. If they had found out just a little later he could have, most likely would have, died...).
It´s shocking how addictive this food is, and messed up that fast food places make it addictive on purpose...
Even I notice that when having cereal, I could easily eat and want so many bowls, more and more and still not feel energised after meanwhile I only need a normal portion of a healthy breakfast and feel great afterwards.
I'm trying to get on this journey, it's been quite difficult but watching this video has put things into perspective.
I wish you the best of luck talking to your uncle about the situation. Must be really hard especially given the thought you've already put into thinking about his living and work situation.
@@uniworkhorse thank you
Every day? How are you still alive?
Thanks to prowaist, my waist is shrinking and my weight loss journey has never been easier!
Honestly after a month of eating mostly junk food, my mental health is on the floor. My ability to self regulate my emotions is awful. I have no energy and I feel sad all the time.
Knowing that 90% of neurotransmitters are made in the gut, really makes sense. You literally are what you eat. Your gut health equals your brain health.
Yes spot on. I went gluten free three years ago and truly helped me so much. My mind is clearer. Emotions are settled. You are spot on food does really and can regulate how you feel cause I think also you don’t sleep as well when eating unhealthy foods.
Your description, matches someone with Gluten Intolerance, and or Leaky Gut. The wheat causes a mild level of internal inflammation. This causes your body to absorb far less nutrients... no matter how much more you eat. And when your body is deprived of nutrients for a long time... it starts developing issues in keeping up with its functionality.
One of the functions... is making the hormones that keep your body and mind, in balance. This lack of chemical / hormone... will thus, strongly effect your moods... making you more irritable, angered, negative, depressed, and lash out in bad mood swings. You are basically missing your happy-chemicals.
The lack of energy, is another factor in missing the nutrients.
If you develop or have leaky gut... your health can take a massive nose dive, as you will develop Auto-Immune type responses.. as your body starts attacking itself, trying to remove the unprocessed things in your blood, that should not be there.
Cut out all Wheat and Soysauce, for one weeks time. You will probably feel 80% better, by the end of the week.
Yeah listen to the others, you might have a gluten allergy
If you are what you eat, then you could be me.
I was a foster carer. The first child I fostered asked me how often we would have deep fried food. I said sorry love I don’t own a deep fryer. She asked how many meals a week we had takeaway. I told her the only takeaway we have is fish and chips/burgers/pizza and chicken wrapped in greaseproof paper after being cooked at home. So the answer is never (from a fast food shop). After a week she told me she went for a poo every single day😱. Before that it was about once every 4 - 10 days. She was a much happier and OMG energetic girl when she left me. HMM I guess if they drive me nuts I can feed em fast food and slow em down lol😂
It is shocking to know what pig business is doing to children.
Bless you, Sylvia. What a noble thing to do for these children in need
Weird. I eat a lot of junk food and still go to the shitter like 3 times a day.
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Thing is Sylvia up
Until the 90s most families didn’t eat out much, and cooked more despite limited choice
I wish they would do brain scans on people with depression before and during meds.
I think good clinics do but you're right, it should be resolutely standard practice.
Nah, no need. Just eat this sir and we’ll see how bad side effect will be after fortnight because good stuff might (MIGHT) happen after 6 or 8 weeks if you lucky
They do but only selected doctors do it.
That's a really great idea. It would help do many people.
Since MRIs cost over $4000 and insurance won’t pay for a not-medical-necessary scan, only the rich can afford to have a “nice to have” scan done.
my prowaist waist trainer has been a game changer in my weight loss success!
For health reasons I embarked on a high raw diet for a few months. It was mainly 80% raw, fresh foods with small amounts of rice, fish and dairy. I lost lots of weight and felt great but the most striking thing was the change to my taste buds. They had become much more sensitive. A tomato tasted so delicious but when I ate my favourite choux bun from Tescos all I could taste was congealed oil and sugar. I had to spit it out.
I do not understand America's obsession with McDonald's french fries. I taste chemicals and salt. The chemical flavor is so gross - people's palates are garbage.
What were you eating meal to meal if you don’t mind me asking?
@@SimonDelaney1974 In an average day I would eat a bowl of chopped fruit (blueberries, strawberries etc, apple, banana with nuts and seeds or a green smoothie made with avocado, some fruits, spinach and cacao and green powder. For dinner it would be a huge salad with home made dressing, pine nuts and some protein such as anchovies. Sometimes I would eat these with some rice or noodles. I was never hungry.
@@abeautifulcountry9353 You should try making your diet majority meat. It is life changing. Make sure to eat fatty meat though, fat will be the main source of energy. Extra salt is also important.
@@_________________142 I only eat meat and fruit (mainly berries), nothing else. In an attempt to mimic what we evolved eating, which seems like a no brainer to me. I am healthier than I ever have been in ways I would never have expected. Yet when people find out my diet for some reason it's extremely controversial. As if people believe you need man-made foods to be healthy?
This makes perfect sense why my ''cheat day'' lasts up to three days without me being able to stop it. It's like a feeding frenzy that drives me insane without me even enjoying what I am eating. I think I will stop eating processed food on my cheat days altogether.
Just have a healthy sweet alternative normally. Fruit with yogert. I like dark chocolate 85%+ and porridge with blueberries.
@prettylittlelashesox eat anabolic French toast and anabolic ice creme from Greg duecett
Cheat days are designed to get you to fail. An alcoholic quilting would not have a cheat day. But you should have a lifestyle you can maintain, no faddy BS diets.
you can eat processed food everyday and be fine. it literally just matters for the proportions. as long as youre not getting in too much saturated fat (or any trans fat), get enough vitamins/minerals/healthy fats/protein, you are free to eat as much processed food as you like.
of course they make videos like this because most of you people don't have a brain and will listen to me but rather just eat hoards of junk food that exceeds all your limits and then get fat and unhealthy. people really are mostly stupid.
I actually feel so down when I eat processed foods constantly never mind anything else. It tastes good but mentally I get so affected by it, it'a quite scary
Absolutely couldn’t agree more. If me and wife lady have a takeaway we feel like shit the next day.
Need a food “upper” ? Bananas 👍🏼👍🏼
Maybe it isn't for some, but I definitely experience the same. And come back to it, in a loop of depression, hunger and lowered anxiety tolerance.
@@etrebelle9812 Don’t eat too many takeaways, “you are what you eat”
Eat shit, feel like shit.
@@Dan23_7 I eat zero takeaways. And I am aware I should eat far less rubbish, clearly I am finding it difficult to do. If you don't think it's that hard maybe it's not actually that hard for you.
@@etrebelle9812 I was in a loop with too much junk at one point. I had to create a good loop. Took years to break habits. No diet, just step by step creating a new lifestyle.
If you are trying to change it, don't give up hope. A mountain is moved one step at a time.
Consistency is key to change and is transforming into a discipline that I can handle and love as my lifestyle. Slowly.
Best of luck to us all on our journeys.
7:11 "makes increases hunger hormone, decreases fullness hormones" Really makes you think what other things they put on there
His complexion actually changes over the course of this, he looks almost grey and worn down at some points
That probably explains why I look so haggard 😂
@@TaxingIsThieving Sounds like you need to take care of yourself, have some veggies young man XD
@Timmy Palmer T it's in my head? No I saw it on a screen. I didn't just make it up. I'm not one of these health freaks or anything who's having an input cos I reckon I know everything. I was merely explaining what I saw on a screen with my own eyes, maybe the weight gain and double chin he gained was also in my head ? I also saw your comment on this article btw. Just cos you have a clear complexion no acne and a BMI of 21 does not really mean we can use you as a study against a processed food diet.... Considering there's 9 billion people in the world. So your comment doesn't stand for shit sorry .
@@terrilongden275 damn dude you didn't have to murder him
@@grantschade2072 sorry I'm a female red head I'm fiery at times haha.. but he did say it's all in my head so think my point was blunt but valid 🤣
You know you've truly engineered hyperpalatable food when it feels so good to eat it that despite how hard it totally destroys your health, you want to eat more of it because the ephemeral pleasure you get from it gives you transient relief from all the awful symptoms you are experiencing due to eating it in the first place; human engineering at its finest.
Doesn’t take much. Just add carbs and sugar and the formula is 99% complete.
@@TehKaiser:
Not true at all, it's actually the fat, dairy, and salt which are the crucial components of the most hyperpalatable foods, only in addition to those will carbohydrate add to the addictiveness.
This is because in the environment we evolved in, the tropical equatorial rainforest, carbohydrates are abundant, and our natural food source (every single one of your ~100 trillion cells has an extremely strong preference for carbohydrate as fuel). In contrast, fat and sodium are very scarce there, so when exposed to larger amounts of them, especially together, they are extremely addictive; dairy is of course in a league of its own, since bovine casomorphins are ten times as addictive as humans casomorphins (even more addictive than heroin and morphine on a per-weight basis), optimized for getting a calf so addicted to sucking so much on its mother's teats that it will grow 200+ kg in a single year, and cheese, the most addictive drug of all, a central component of the by far most hyperpalatable foods, is curdled bovine breast milk which concentrates the amount of casein to 8-10 times the amount found in the milk itself.
@@hoon_sol Your nonsensical soliloquy seems to not recognize the existence of sucrose. That also exists in scarity in nature because plants are loaded with cellulose and other fiber to kill your appetite. But sucrose and other carbs can be distilled and separated from the fiber and food old table sugar the forms the foundation of easy and repetitive eating.
Eating carbs implicitly means doing work physically. But society has become sedentary.
You what is fact? Fats make up our cell membranes and the ratio by mass is 1-to-1 between
You live under a rock or something? Fats are rapidly satiating and repulsive when consumed alone. Trying eating just butter with nothing else. You won’t get through even or a quarter of the bar even if salted.
Milk is also not good tasting because lactose is not as palatable as sucrose or high fructose corn syrup. You must be on something to think milk alone is tasty. The existence of sugar pumped chocolate milk and sugar added cereals like Frosted Flakes and Trix indicate it alone cannot be that tasty. Fat free milk is borderline bad tasting with the lack of fats and the quasi bitter taste of lactose.
@@hoon_sol Will the person pick milk or Pepsi as the pleading drink?
@@TehKaiser:
Will the person eat a plain baked potato without seasoning, or eat a pizza?
Your analogy fails, because you're talking about drinks; people primarily drink for hydration, and so they will tend to pick drinks containing sugar rather than just plain water (this is what we'd do in nature, where we'd be eating sweet and juicy fruits primarily; in fact, chimpanzees very rarely drink plain water at all, deriving all the hydration from the plants they eat).
In contrast, when we're talking about *FOODS* on the other hand, people who are not very conscious of what they're doing will never get "addicted" to plain carbohydrate, it's always carbohydrate in combination with fat, salt, and dairy, which are in fact very addictive on their own too.
I already explained this to you thoroughly, though; get reading, chop chop.
I like how honest the female doctor was about realizing what she is giving her children, because it made me think too. My daughter is 3 and very picky about food, resulting in her eating a lot of processed food, time for me to reassess and she where I can make small changes for big impact
She's going to be pickyer with processed foods, so how was it?? Did you succeed?
@@EmyN she is still picky, it's a process, but I've been able to open her up to trying new foods. She would eat pasta and rice (plain), because she doesnt like to see obstacles and she is great with her fruit. My daughter also likes to eat meat, who'd think
@@erinforte4381 I saw a documentary once about picky children in the UK (the UK has the best documentaries 😂) and an expert came to share tips and tricks to get children to eat healthier foods and there is also a class for parents and their children to attend to get used to foods, so my point is I think you should search for advice because they can be very helpful and enlightening if you hadn't done so already. Anyway, keep it up! :)
"female doctor" bruh she's a professor. Adress her as such.
@@Jaqlin1979 female professor
I am also actively contributing to this experiment
1:55
“This is all in the name of Science”
The kid: *HMMmmmgh!* 😡
😂😂😂
😂 Wonder why that irritated her
@@truthtelleranonshe probably wanted to try it too
Younger me when my mom wouldn't get sugary cereal 😭😂
I admire his tenacity all in the name of science and it makes me so grateful that I was brought up in the Mediterranean eating a healthy, clean and fresh diet. If something isn't in season, we can't have it. The labels on the processed foods he picked up have lists of chemicals that look like a shopping list for a science lab.
There is no tenacity in following the ultraprocessed diet because it automatically makes people eat more. It’s getting off of it.
it would help so much if they made all that TRASH illegal... but "money talks" so it will never happen... both food industry and big pharme is big time against such a change... they make BILLIONS on it
@@LiLBitsDK illegal? Or maybe put the fork down? I extremely healthy and every once in a while I like to eat a greasy unhealthy meal because it tastes good I don't live off of it, making it illegal would be so f****** stupid
@@colt4531 you can use all the grease (fat) you want, just avoid seed oil... maybe look up how stuff like canola oil is made? what chemicals they use?
Hello mila
This really puts into perspective the two extra chins I gained over lockdown
😂 thanks for that
HA ha 😂
This puts into perspective my irreversible stretch marks gained over lockdown
Im sorry but this comment is underrated LMAOOOO
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I remember when I was eating nothing but KFC for a couple months, I was constantly hungry and soley craving KFC. If I ate anything else it didnt satisfy me, I'd still feel hungry and only want KFC. Once I ate healthier I never craved KFC. When you give your body the nutrients it needs it wont crave the bad stuff as often.
This is the wrong experiment. What we need to look at is what happens when he tries to resume his healthy diet. Is it easier after a month, or six months or poor eating? Did he have a binge following this?
They are already doing this, at the end of the programme he states after 4 weeks there was no reversion and it is still being recorded.
No, it's not the "wrong" experiment -- it simply lacks an element that you want to see. The info about the changes to his brain -- that's crucial to know.
FYI, there's a fair amount of data about those who changed their diet from junk to healthful food. Bottom line is that one's cravings for junk decrease as one grows more accustomed to healthful food. . There are individual differences in the speed with which the cravings decrease, and the degree to which some vestige of the cravings remain. At present there's no consensus on why this is; one factor is the duration of the period in which one ate junk.
I'm speculating that the findings above will ultimately show that kids who are fed mostly junk from an early age are going to experience brain changes that are much harder to overcome -- that those changes are more likely to become entrenched, just as a physical rut becomes deeper and bigger if one walks over it every day.
This is only part of what was a 1 hour long program - at the end of the program those new connections that showed on the MRI scan were still present. He has now though returned to his previous weight.
@@dw999 it's truly scary the extent to which these cravings alter.
When I started eating healthily, I could go a whole week and my only concession to sugary food was a single small (45g) chocolate bar once a week, no cravings to suppress at other times.
Over lockdown, I eventually cared less about my diet and felt I "deserved" to indulge my sweet tooth a bit more. I had an extra chocolate bar here or there and before long it was 100g of the stuff every other day. If I didn't, I'd really start to crave it.
Terrifying really.
@@tomgl6684 I eat 100g of chocolate a day, for many years... nothing comes close to replacing it.
I would love to see him getting back on track with his diet and what he’s eaten and how it affects his brain and hormones.
Me too - I imagine the journey back to healthy eating is much harder than the decent into eating processed pre prepared meals. The taste, the ease, the variation without effort and the price all all hard enough to mentally argue against let alone the chemical changes the brain has made to make it automatic to make the wrong choice.
I want to know if the neural connections will always remain, even after he returns to eating healthy- or will it always be a struggle with a nagging desire to eat processed food.
I was 132kg in 2013, smoked cigarettes, drank alcohol… finally cleaned up… now I am 89kg, stopped smoking and drinking, ran two marathons… just remember, it’s a SLOW transformation, but you can do it!
But how tall are you?
@@babbisp1 179,5cm
@@babbisp1 179,5cm or 5ft 9inches
@@MP-Fin 179.5Cm is almost 5'11 not 5'9. You're almost there tho, only 9kg to go until you're healthy weight. Keep it up
@@bletrick3352 thanks for the comment. I am having a hard time because I am studying and working at the same time
This is amazing - this needs to be done more often. Processed foods should have warnings on the box - right on the front.
I can relate on the poo problem, I used to eat a lot of processed foods and sugar and had a lot of problems going to the bathroom. After I switched to more vegetables and fruits it feels wonderful to have a consistent bathroom routine and literally takes me a minute to go to the bathroom where before I would at least 5 minutes sitting to actually go.
Americans start eating healthy, reading time goes down drastically.
How long did it take after the switch?
@@guineapigtalks Usually takes around 3 days for my regular bowel movements to come back, It happens when I go visit family back home, after 3 days I start getting constipated and only return back to normal when I am back home and cooking my own meals.
@@guineapigtalks i had the same experience and its VERY quick, after being constipated my entire life since i was 5, i had regulated my cycle in about a week
@@IxiaClover what foods do you eat?
I can really relate to the pudding on day 23. I've lost count of the number of times I've tried something new, and I've hated it beyond words, but I've kept eating it and said, "It's disgusting, I love it." It's crazy to think that our bodies keep telling us we want more of certain foods, even if we don't like them, just because it triggers a chemical reaction in the brain
omg yes!! i was so addicted to unhealthy foods and whenever my friends would make fun of me for eating shitty foods and always being hungry, i felt so offended and upset. i didn't know why i eat things that i genuinely don't like, but i couldn't stop. i've now started eating paleo diet (with some coffee and occasional sweets) and it's been a whole new world to me... i can't eat any puddings, pizzas, ice creams, hot dogs without feeling terrible. this needs to be seen by many people!!
I had no idea what kind of junk I was eating my whole life. I got terribly fat and worst thing is I wasnt noticing it until I went to doctor for a checkup and my results were terrible. Thats when I decided to start living healthy. Bad thing is I am lazy and hate to research about food and I just couldnt count calories all the time so I decided to invest in meal plan from Next Level Diet. Best thing I got myself in this life. I lost so much fat and got so much more energy when I started eating healthy.
This is crazy. Appreciate the work!
Jamie Oliver was lobbying the U.K government to feed kids better food in schools. He had the right idea. Cheers!
@tracy kline Fruit is full of sugar, yes, but it's natural sugar and isn't bad for you. Red meat, however, is bad for you, as eating too much can increase your risk of cancer and heart disease.
@@thomas5 I have challange for you. One morning start your day with 300g of red meat and another morning start with 300g of bread. See which one you feel best from...
@@phill1422 Did you know there is such a thing as a balanced diet, and you don't have to eat 300g of one thing every morning? Crazy stuff.
@tracy kline Believe it or not, I didn't say fruit is natural, yeah, crazy. I said the sugars in the fruit are natural, as in we don't pour granulated sugar into every apple. And its mental that you are saying I am the one that regurgitating, when you just basically copy pasted your last comment.
@tracy kline I don't think cereals and fruit are the things that caused people to be unhealthy. It's all of the processed food that caused that. I've never heard this guy before and I looked him up and everything about him was that he was a fraud that has about a dozen articles debunking the things he says. So I'll stay over here eating fruit and drinking water, while you eat red meat everyday, never eat fruit and suffering from heart burn and an impending heart attack.
Breaking news - food specifically designed with the express intention to activate reward pathways in brain and create habit behaviour shows exactly that on testing.
And yet there is very little control over how it is marketed/sold. Tobacco is very expensive and the health warnings hvve replaced the marketing. Hopefully that will happen with this 'food' in the future
@RUclips American Lies putting on weight isn't the only symptom of an unhealthy diet. Skinny men die of heart attacks and strokes everyday.
@RUclips American Lies GOMAD. Drink a Gallon Of whole Milk A Day in addition to whatever you're eating (hopefully healthy food). You WILL gain weight unless maybe you're pumping out Michael Phelps workouts daily.
@RUclips American Lies unless you have a tapeworm or other health condition.
@William Mills 'Food with MSG' What like tomatoes, cheese, chicken, potatoes, onions? All of which naturally contain MSG. It is basically a form of salt with less sodium than table salt. There is no conclusive evidence to suggest it's any worse, all this suspicion around MSG came as a result of a quack scientist who coined the term "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" (feeling ill after stuffing your face with Chinese food) and attributed it to MSG. People in South East Asia have used MSG in their cooking for a long time and don't suffer from the apparent 'symptoms' we in the West do.
Doc: "I'm not enjoying it but I can't stop"
Doc's wife: "It's a lot like marriage"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That was a good one.
British humor is brutal
@@robertgerow670 even with claws retracted.
Wow! What amazing research! I see processed foods in a whole new way now. Thank you for this video. And you two seem like such good parents. ❤
This needs to be shown in schools.
they already show super size me in schools
Children haver no control over what they eat
Awesome documentary! I'm South African by birth but lived in the UK for a year. During that year I ate a lot of processed food from the supermarket because it was marketed well and appeared fine. While there I weighed 74kg and was hungry all the time. In the middle of the night I'd go out for a takeaway to satisfy the endless hunger. When Covid happened I moved back to South Africa and was pushed to eat a lot of homemade unprocessed food (my SA family's habits/what we have in the supermarkets here). Without even trying (legit no effort) I dropped 14kg. I'm now 60kg at 5'4", I eat a lot less because I just don't feel as hungry, I sleep better, my skin is a lot healthier. At first I couldn't figure out why in the UK I was fat and had extreme acne but in SA I am effortlessly much slimmer and clearer. But after really scrutinizing all the food I bought from Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose (including "healthy" things like pre-made hummus and guacamole), I can see how I was tricked into eating crap. Moral of the story: don't trust prepackaged foods no matter how convincing the marketing, that "veggie" sandwich isn't just a veggie sandwich. That "sweet potato and spinach wrap" isn't what it seems either.
The surprising thing? In both countries I was plant-based. But in the UK a snack was a "nutty vegan granola bar" as opposed to an apple. Or cheesy flavored "free from" nachos instead of chunky homemade chips. Jam in instant oats versus rolled oats with banana. Such minor differences in the moment, to the degree one doesn't even really notice. The funny thing is I still ate salads, homemade bean dishes and vegetable bakes in the UK -- it's just that that was about 50% of my diet and I supplemented with a lot of free from/plant-based/pre-made vegan/veggie foods. Just that 50% supplement resulted in raging hunger and weight gain. The impact is INSANE! I'd end up finishing a couple of tubs of hummus at a time and STILL feel hungry after, that is not normal. A few scoops of homemade hummus and I can feel it filling me up??
You can make tahini its really health and depends on how much lemon/water you use it can be the same texture like hummus (fyi in regular hummus in the store theres usually some amount of tahini in the mix its the case in my country might be diffrent in SA or UK
@@LPgmxDan Yeah, tahini is delicious 😋😊💜
Just shows how much crap they put into processed additive foods.
Jesus Christ, make yourself healthy and hearty hummus - Babish, Kenji, Parisi. All on RUclips. It's less time, than you think, you have control over ingredients and can use EVOO of your choice, instead of some industrial sunflower oil that ends up in the Tesco's hummus. In fact, anyone reading this comment - only first time is "tricky" but it is really hard to get it wrong. You can keep it in a fridge for a week or so. Just do it.
Good points, but it's not as if it's a UK problem; it's just a developed world thing. It's very easy to get organic, free range, vegan and vegetarian produce in the UK, too, while it may well be true that in developing countries it's all apples, dates, pomegranates, etc. I lived in Seoul and Tokyo for many years and, reputation aside, the food in Asian megacities tends to be much more processed than it is in Britain, France, or Germany.
"I don't know what this is about, this is just a video of me not having a poo" I found that way funnier than I should have 😂😅
So I've tried to share this video on Facebook and Facebook won't ALLOW it to be shared, because it "goes against community standards"
🤯🤯
I think that makes this video even more terrifying
seriously?
good because this video is horrible and discredits the scientific method. are we measuring effects of processed food or weight gain? this weight is not controlled for therefore the entire video is invalid and pushing a bias. i dont care if youre like "omg what are you saying this video is showing that unhealthy food is unhealthy" no its not. its either showing that or its showing eating too much is unhealthy and you dont know that. this is science.
Isn't that just because of copyright?
I grew up with fast food and mostly processed, refined carbohydrates and I was constantly depressed, highly anxious, had ADHD like symptoms. Never ever did I believe that food caused most of my mental health problems. Now that I eat much healthier at least 80% of my mental health issues are gone. Some are indeed psychologically caused but the majority was not and it still baffles me to this day.
Massive props to the lady saying that this study has made her much more aware.
The fact that doctors don't know this stuff is as much of an issue as the processed foods are.
Let’s be honest. We all knew what the results would be before watching this video.
Even the effect on the brain? I, for one, could not imagine that the diet would have significant, visible and measurable effects on the brain.
That the brain of a person who eats processed food is like a brain of someone addicted? That’s some scary stuff. This may mean that children eating fast food are more vulnerable to drugs etc
Educate yourself then.
I did not know he would have troubles with poo.
@@ritaamor283 yes we know this too because sugar is addictive msg is addictive primarily use in Asian restaurants just simple googling give you the answer
Wow Really a wonderful awareness video, hats off to the DOC.
"I'm not enjoying it but I can't stop", I'm an addiction counselor and almost all my clients have this in common with their addiction.
can you help me I'm a 21 year old media student suffering various addictions and unhealthy lifestyle.
@@rithwickronaldxess6843 programme meetings AA is online zoom is free X
@@deerheart87 where can I find those ?
I’m like that with caffeine .. fully fully adddicted it’s horrific . I literally can’t stop caffeine
@@tulinbeyduz920 keep trying my guy. The time you nail it will be 100% worth it. 👍
Love how two doctors are struggling not to say LEPTIN and GHRELIN
@Poire Tartin
So patronizing.
@@peterporkeresq.2817 it's not patronizing man not everybody has the medical knowledge to know these terms
@@emilian-gabrielchirita4960 Agreed. They need to dumb it down because not everyone understands, no matter how basic it may be
@@st3561 However, if they don't say them, in this perfect context, how are people to learn?
Lol yeah i was like “ leptin its leptin say it lady “
His wife's drive by marriage joke was the best 😂
lol... drive by
5 weeks ago I switched to a high fibre plant based diet, with good proteins + fats. No sugar, no refined carbohydrates and no UPF !!
I might also add that I’m undergoing chemotherapy at the present so I am not as active as I normally am.
This is the first time in my adult life that I have changed my diet where I was not driven by weight loss but more so for improved health and well-being. I have the best motive to change my lifestyle and I can not believe the results.
I have lost 8kg, gone down a dress size, I have so much more energy (even going through chemo), sleeping better, no cravings, better concentration, no headaches…the list goes on.
I seriously believe the food we consume is a contributing factor to poor health, and I wouldn’t say I was the most unhealthy person but not the healthiest either. I would say just average.
The results in this clip are honestly no surprise at all.
Hope you're doing ok!🌷 today I was watching medical scientists interview. They're creating the way to heal cancer. So in his opinion to prevent cancer we need to take care of our imune system, in these ways -> be physical, not profesional sports, but move our bodies and muscles, vitamin D, and do not keep negative thoughts in our bodies - this is scientists speaking. Hope this also helps :)
"You've got to admire the science that goes into this"
*cuts to a deformed plastic tub of sorry looking lasagna*
😂😂😂😂
Sorry looking lmao
That's what some of my colleagues eat everyday, here in England. And we are nurses.
@@wardiya3arbiya Like when I go to see my doctor and she's having crackers for lunch?
@@LindaC616 or surgeon doing consultation around the hospital with a bottle of coke in the pocket. Even urologists, they should know Better
Yeah I felt kind of disgusted by the tub of lasagne, although I know I eat the same kind of bad food myself, so I shouldn't be talking!
(I'm kinda shocked that they sell sodas in Norwegian hospitals, I've spent a LOT of time there, and you can either have the hospital food, which I suspect is about as unappetising as hospital food anywhere in Europe, or you can go to the kiosk / bakery / fast food place within the hospital and get mostly unhealthy food! Although we don't have obesity issues to the same extent as the UK, it's still irresponsible to encourage unhealthy behaviour, in a hospital of all places!)
This is way more telling then the Super Size Me doc 20 years ago, mostly because of the neural pathway differences and hormones changes discussed at the end. I've noticed an increase is eating satisfaction during meals and a decrease in long term satiation when i've had a few processed meals in a row. This makes total sense about what these food companies are trying to achieve when they add enhancers to their foods.... the brain already defaults to old primal desires of wanting salt, sugar and fat, we love the mouthfeel of crunchy things. These all work in tandem to make fast and processed foods a tough hurdle to get over.
Tech companies are doing the same whit the internet(adds) and games(loot boxes). All to increase addiction.
Tech companies cant sell 90% of there products ,if they did not turn it addictive.
and also the super size me guy was an alcoholic
@@guidosillaste4297 I guess im in the minority for whom this doesn't work. I just can't relate how it would be hard to get over junk/ultra processed food.
@@hugoanderkivi na most are resistant to it ,but if you make heathy food a lot harder to reach and place junk food at hands length then most people will take the easy to reach junk food. Case point supermargets where 90% is either junk food or poisoned by chemicals, preservatives or excess flavoring.
@@guidosillaste4297 Well, I am not one of those who would take junk food if it was indeed so easily accessible. People seem to have weak will. When the doctor talked about the food being hyperpalatable or irresistible, I couldn't relate. Seems bizarre.
The hormone and brain connections changes - I had no idea. And I’ve been fighting my weight my whole life thanks to my mother feeding me and my brother processed food as a child so she didn’t have to cook. just wow. I already knew that process foods wasn’t good for a person but I didn’t know the specifics as to why and what happens in the body. This is very eye-opening indeed.
You can’t keep blaming other people now. You’re an adult. You do something about it or else it’s your own fault now.
@@SuperYtc1 he just said it was eye opening... stop judging people you knob
@@SuperYtc1you dont know whether they are an adult or not, so how about not mindlessly blaming someone for no reason whatsoever
Don’t blame other people for your own problems
@@Baudiahd is it smooth brain hour ?
This man made a noble snackrifice of his health for science. Well met.
Lived like this in college 3 years ago. I could physically feel my body scream for healthier home cooked meals. I don’t do fast foods anymore.
"My experiment will be run by one of Britain's top obesity experts, so I know my results will be scientifically valid"
Sample size of 1, no control.
Ahha literally my inner psychology student was quaking
@@lilly_37 ....not “literally”. You should’ve paid more attention in English lit. 😉
@@tbz1551 and u shoulda paid more attention in linguistics, language changes and evolves based on general usage
@@ZeusNoTenshi For my part, I'm not unsympathetic to the descriptivist position, since it's so valid over the long term. Shorter term, what language can remain functional, or understandable over longer periods, without a lot of prescriptivism at least at the level of education and social constraint? In the end, the figurative "literally" is just annoying because it replaces perfectly simple and widely used existing words "figuratively" or "metaphorically" and subtracts itself from being understandable when itself used literally. That's more annoying than your average change in usage. Worse because it seems to have started as part of the emphatic valley girl or high school slang of turn of the millennium America.
@@tbz1551 I'm sorry but theres no need to be so rude. If you don't like how I type, jog on. You no nothing about me, I actually attended a grammar school receiving a 9 in my GSCE English lit + lang and a 9 in my A level English Lit + lang. So go and poorly correct some one else's grammar 🙃
I've always been fascinated when reading the ingredients, finding it off-putting when I find sugar, but only recently have I realised that "sugar-free" doesn't mean it won't harm you. It needs to reach a stage where the law gives the companies no place to hide.
Unfortunately these companies own the governments and hence the law makers...
No way out...
Except not eating any of this...
“You can really taste the potassium sorbate” ahahhahahah
Weaning off processed foods is a very long term process. It means changing how shop and cook as well as cooking much more often. It means learning how to feel satisfied with a healthy meal and not grabbing tasty snacks in between. I think one year is probably a minimum time period to completely change your habits and also rewire your brain.
Not really. The best way is low carb/ high healthy fat. Cut out grain (it is sugar no matter how 'healthy and whole' it is touted to be. Up the intake of good fats. Fats and proteins are actually wired to the brain to say that you are full. Carbs don't do that. ('Once you pop you cannot stop', the pringles advert, is literally true.) suddenly you will find cravings don't happen because you feel full.
@@lechatel potatoes rank #1 on the satiety scale.
@@lechatel I love Keto but you're sadly wrong about satiety, Janet.
Like Cory said potatoes score the highest in satiety. Fats provide the least satiety per calorie consumed.
I always feel hungry on keto if I don't consume veggies and fibers.
There are many benefits to fats, but satiety is definitely not one of them.
@@AJ5 Don't agree. If I eat some bacon and eggs for breakfast I am not hungry again until the end of the day. If I have anything carb I am hungry again within an hour or so. I have no idea what you mean about 'satiety' and how you 're measuring it. But potato spikes insulin and that makes people hungry. Satiety has to be defined. I could feel very 'satiated' for an hour or so if I stuff myself full enough of potatoes. But that doesn't seem to me to be a sensible plan. I have no idea why someone who says they love keto would be talking about 'calories consumed'. Calories are totally irrelevant to diet. (But extremely relevant to the diet industry.)
@@lechatel Calories are relevant to me. I'm a bodybuilder and my goal is to achieve sub 10% body fat.
I do keto 5 days a week, and do carb loading for the remaining 2 days.
I achieved my goals this way, but I know many who achieved the same goal on pure keto/pure carbs/pure plant based diets.
What do all these diets share in common?
Calories, Janet.
They all share calories in common.
Calories in < calories out, and you'll lose fat.
He's very right about the "junk food hangover". I normally eat a wholefood vegetarian diet, cooking from scratch, and the day after my monthly "cheat day" (usually pizza) I feel like hell.
Yea same here
Might as well stop doing cheat days
yeah but it's not about the chemichals, it's about the great amount of carbs that the pizza has
@@jarafra1 Maybe so, but I eat quite a lot of carbs in my normal diet. The difference, for me, seems to be that I normally eat whole and not refined carbs.
I feel great after eating junk food like pizza but candy makes me nauseous. I also feel great eating whole foods. Maybe it's because I'm young. Though I notice that even though after eating an entire pizza worth 2000 cals I get hungry sooner than after eating 700 cals of home made food with lots of protein.
Ok, this is a wake up call for me. I knew processed foods were bad, but I had no idea that over just 4 weeks changes like THAT happened… I’m probably at like 60% processed foods now. I think decreasing that to around 20% for a month to see how I feel sounds like a great test.
How did it go?
How can you live on 60 percent garbage
@@bassie6559 most of the western world lives on that or worse.
And many don't even realise it because the packaging of what they buy says it's "the healthy choice", "eco", "biological", "zero fat", etc.
Like the fried chicken he had at the start. It's junk food, not because of the chicken but because of the breading, the marinade, the spice mix, the oil it is fried in.
The same chicken without all of that would be truly healthy food, with it it becomes like eating crack cocaine.
I've tried this myself (with chicken). Roughly the same amount of chicken (about a pound) fried in the oven myself vs. bought at KFC. My own chicken I'm pretty stuffed after eating a pound of it and don't need to eat for 16-20 hours, the KFC version I crave more after 2 hours at most.
And it's the same with store bought bread vs. home baked bread. Store bought bread has all sort of chemicals added that don't just mean it has a longer shelf life, but change the texture and taste, with a side effect of being less filling.
Why is our own brain so against itself
It's not your brain the industrial giants found the key that controls people and gives them drugs
Its not, the industry is against us, and used all our weaknesses
I like how the doctor wasn't pretentious at all about the food and had a non biased opinion
I'm literally crying right now this is my diet and I didn't realize I ate this bad
The good news is that you've now realized it. That's one of the hardest parts. What you need to do now is before buying food you need to ask your self if there's a better alternative, better to go for a more time consuming one over a convenient one. You can do it :)
How can you not realise? Did you think pizza was healthy?
If you want to turn around, a good way to start is to cut down your sugar intake. The food packaging tells you how much sugar is in the food, or you can find the information online: add it all up for a couple of days to see how much you eat. The NHS recommends no more than 30 grams a day for adults: I was eating more than 100. After six months at or below 30 grams I had lost 5 kg.
Well glad you are aware now
@@ceejay0137 Be careful with reading the nutritional info on a lot of branded food - a lot of them will lie to you about the sugar content. When you read the 'of which sugars' part, the percentage will often be wrong, because many food manufacturers work off an RDA of *60g* of sugar, not 30 like the NHS and the WHO recommends. You can see it if you work it out yourself, or, to save time, take whatever percentage of your RDA they claim it is and double it for the REAL figure. (I did actually contact Sainsburys here in the UK to question them about this, and the response they gave was basically "well, we have our own, 'independent' team of scientists and Nutrition Experts working for us, and they told us that 60g was perfectly okay, so we decided to go with that, because why would a bunch of scientists whose research we're directly funding tell us stuff that wasn't true?" 😏)
"I'm not enjoying it, but I can't stop." ...and children, that is the general vibe of cocaine.
lies
@@Ghhyuttgg ...at first. And then less. And then less. And then less. And then you have to take it just to not feel completely miserable at all times.
That reminds me they tested rats give them both: sugar and cocaine...the Rats preferred the Sugar.
it is actually the vibe of any addiction from primate-level addiction to artificial one like these ultra-processed food
@@majidmehmood3780 Doesnt even have to be addiction. Anytime I've done cocaine, its great at first and then by then end of the night you're just doing lines to try to chase the original high that you cant get back hahaha.
The issue I see with experiments like this is he’s not adjusting for any variables. “Eat when I am hungry” if he controlled for calories he wouldn’t have the negative effects of over consuming. It is notable that processed foods are less filling, but if you ate natural foods, but went over on calories you’d still gain weight and negatively impact your health as well.
Love the honesty! So refreshing to see a normal family, honesty about how most of us eat, and unscripted!
"I'm not enjoying it but I can't stop". I totally relate. Sometimes if I eat potato chips from a bag I just keep eating them. It feels like my hand just grabs the food from the bag without my permission but technically it's my own free will. It's hard to make the free will argument when these foods can manipulate the psyche. The hormone switching feeling hungry instead of full is interesting. I hope the food industry can be regulated worldwide to be healthier, more transparent and sustainable and no longer exists solely for profit.
Same here! My parents would just load up the cabinets on juke food and soda. I was never overweight, but I would drink 2-3 cans of coke a day, eat chicken fingers that come frozen, microwavable dinners. Now I am cooking with lentils, chickpeas, fish fresh produce and I feel 10 times better. My memory has improved, and I feel like I can think faster. My sleep has improved, and I don't feel depressed or anxious anymore. Seems like the FDA is not on our side and it is up to us the consumer to research and figure how what is healthy and not.
That last part sounds suspiciously like communism. But l agree with the rest
Interesting video. The fact that it's so easy for us to gain 6.5-7 kgs in 4 weeks but so much harder to lose. Cutting processed foods is a choice all of us need to make. It's quite easy after the first 21 days
Well, we don’t “need” to do anything. If you want to eat so called unprocessed foods, do it. If you don’t then don’t. I personally don’t need some societal propaganda to tell me what I’m “supposed to like” or “should do”.
@@simonmoore2380 Societal propaganda? Processed foods are shit for the body. That's a fact. Not propaganda. Don't ever comment bs again
@@simonmoore2380 “propaganda” have fun being present around your future children, oh wait, you’ll get cancer around 60.
Best think about eating just 20% or less ultra processed food is that when you have it you enjoy it more.
You should have shown how he feels when he's back to healthy food. And what is his healthy diet after all?!
Really good point. As much as I enjoyed this and it was very enlightening , I do feel what you say would have made this a more complete exercise.
Why would they tell you how to succeed? That doesn't fit the narrative
@@princessbabibear4794 it's not hard in this day and age. If youre able to watch this all by yourself you can easily look up how to cook and eat non processed food. You don't have to be directed by the hand in every direction, do you?
@@marcbaigrie2295 When you take personal responsibility for your own health and well-being. YES.
This show sensationalizes and demonizes processed foods.
Taken to the extreme anything can be bad for you. Even water!
Life is truly about balance but to create fear and anxiety and guilt and shame associated with food is how the diet industry works. The constant onslaught and pervasiveness of diet culture leads to disordered eating is Paramount. It's not easy to break free from the herd mentality centered around dieting and exercise. I took an 8-week course on intuitive eating and joyful movement and it opened my eyes to the dire situation.
@@marcbaigrie2295 ate her up 😭😭💀