A Whole Food Plant Based Diet | Mick Walker | TEDxJohnLyonSchool
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- Опубликовано: 16 дек 2021
- The health implications of our diet. Why everyone should consider a Plant Based diet.' Mick is an Oxford-educated
Biologist and has spent most of
his career teaching Biology. He is
a keen cyclist and is currently
living in Harrow-on-the-Hill. He
has not eaten meat for around
40 years and in more recent
years has been consuming a
whole food plant-based vegan
diet. He is in no doubt that this is
contributing significantly to the
maintenance of excellent health
and is still able to cycle long
distances in his retirement. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
This is my biology teacher. He is the best. Thank you very much for spreading this message.
Congratulations oscar🎉, Prof. Walker is also everyone else’s biology teacher and most of us have never had the fortune of setting a foot in this man’s classroom. I did learn something today.😊😊😊🙃🙃🙃
@@gg.6967 Right mate cheers for that
shush oscar
shush oscar
@oscarbearman3283
Hi Oscar, I though that I am not getting enough protien I should eat soy chunks. other people suggest me to eat meat and egg.
Can share some idea on, "how to get design our plate with plant"
like 50% carb, 30% protien...
I'm from south-asia here the love for rice (carb.) Is huge.
Eliminating meat & dairy has improved my life exponentially!!!
Brilliant video!!! Thank you. I have reversed psoriatic arthritis, am med free (after being on meds for 14 years) and running half marathons pain and symptom free on a whole food vegan diet💚🌱 I am genetically predisposed to this disease too as its in my family, but diet has trumped that! 👏🌈🥦
We have the same disease. I've started being vegan for a week now.
@@wittyboy64how are u now
i also havd psoriatic arthritis and i’m bedridden just in 3 month prior to the symptoms
I noticed the audience was small. I'm hoping the whole event was small because if hundreds of people attended, it's really sad to see so few listening to such an important speech. I hope Mick was not preaching to the choir. My wife threw away all our meat and dairy products on October 9th, 2021. Now, on February 1st, 2022, she has lost 13 pounds and I have lost 31. We are in our 70's, and feel much better mentally and physically. We have both lost about 4 inches in our waist sizes. Thank you, Mick. All humans need to get with this program, but I'm afraid the meat and dairy industries have been exercising mind control over the masses for far too many decades, at least where we live, in the United States. Every time I turn on the TV is see thick slices of pizza being lifted in slow motion in commercials, allowing the enticing melted cheese to stretch out in strings as it glides in front of the hungry eyes of people watching in recliner chairs. I see fast food restaurant hamburgers now including thick bread thickly coated in melted butter, followed by thick patties of juicy beef, a slice of cheese, and strips of bacon...yes, all on the same sandwich. This is what the plant based advocates are up against. If humans becomes extinct, most of them will deserve to die, for no other reason than their atrocious diets.
@@Grybyx Thank you for your kind words, Dave. I see now that I made quite a few typographical errors in my reply. They are nothing compared to the errors so many human beings are making in their diets.
Yes. And for their lack of compassion for other animals and their rights. 🌱💞
Good for you, never too late to make this change. I only wish my 76 year old Mother and 47 years old sister would do the same.
I have been whole food-plant based for 4 1/2 years. I did it to lower serum cholesterol from 210 mg/dl (high) to 125 mg/dl, and it stayed down ever since. It also lowered my blood pressure, weight and high resting heart rate. Only blood pressure is a bit high at 123/83. I have normal resting heart rate and weight. Some people think eating whole food-plant based is radical; what I consider more radical than that: eating oneself into a massive heart attack.
Incredible!!! Your blood pressure will surely come down but according to modern medicine it is great. And actually I'd bet you it's lower than that too. So many non health factors also affect blood pressure like the timing and emotion, food intake etc etc
I did all that eating meat and plants
@kulata Yeah, right. And I once rode a unicorn into the sunset.
@@aabracadavra you must hate your diet. Eat meat and lower your cholesterol
@@kulata That would require I had high cholesterol to begin with. Which I don't, precisely for the fact that I only eat whole food plant based (been doing so for the past 8 years, and loving it btw).
I went vegan 7 years ago and I'll NEVER go back to eat meat/dairy products. I lost weight, my complexion and hair look great and the best part no more IBS, I feel awesome!!! Now my health tests come back perfect every year. I can also feel a HUGE difference in my immune system, I rarely get sick. A plant based diet was the best thing thing that I did for my health, I wish I would have done it waaaaay before. All my family is vegan now. Thank you for sharing this info!
Good talk. I have been a vegetarian for over 40 yrs. and learned over the past 2.5 yrs a WFPB lifestyle and only wish I learned years earlier. Large improvement on feeling better and having IBS under control by excluding dairy and sugar from my diet.
Is it okay to have brown sugar on tea ? And nothing else
There’s a great little book on natural healing written by an older man who cured himself of a number of maladies without medical intervention, called My Physician, Myself. I read it a couple of years ago but lost my copy. I’m going to Amazon right now to order one and be more careful with it. It’s more than well worth the read. You light look into the work of Luigi Cornaro, a Venetian nobleman who lived to 102.
I went WFPB last year and all markers of health improved. I now consume 1 kilo of vegetables per day (~12 servings) plus 3 servings of fruit, and 70 grams of natural fiber (no supplements). Before WFPB I was running a 5k in 32 min. A year later, at age 51, I just ran my fastest 5k last week since college, at 24 minutes. I have been training hard, but I attribute 80% of the merit to an improved diet.
Keep the awareness going! I'm finally starting to see better products on the shelves at even WalMart. We as a nation need to seek wisdom and wake up and demand that these grocery stores completely removed all the junk and drive the price of health food down to be the new norm.
Thank you .
I’ve had no meat in 40 years , no dairy now too . I’m 60 now , still do 250 push ups a day and carrying a ton of muscle at 6’2 and 180 . Best thing I ever did .
Hershel Walker workout regime 😁
Excellent!! Thank you for sharing it. I wish we could hear more about this topic in TED,
Such an excellent talk. You put all the points so eloquently. I wish there were more UK based speakers on this topic. There has been an explosion of vegan junk food on the supermarket shelves in the last 10 years, which has really missed the point. We need more people like you to put things right. Thank you and happy cycling. Shell.
This speech must be spread.
I switched to vegan about 4 years ago but as an athlete though.
I have gained more strength, much more stamina, better cardio, and overall much better happiness as a result.
Most important... My focus has been much greater since switching.
The hardest part though is trying to pack on weight, but I've gone from 165 to 195 in 4 years since. Progress is steady 💪💪
You gained weight but I’m assuming you added protein powders? If you are near you would not need to take supplemental protein.
Plant based diet includes a lot of fibre which is very filling. You need to try and eat more than you think you should without eating highly processed food. Hope it's going well for you!
So happy for the shout-out to Dr. Barnard and PCRM!
Excellent Video! Happy to see TED discussing topics like whole food-plant based diets more often💯👍
Oliver Saks-wow I am such a fan of his fascinating books.
I just love the way he delivers information in such a clear, direct, easy-to-understand way! This is one of the best talks on this topic I have listened to.
I also follow a WFPB diet and love the results, have lost a lot of weight. My 8 year old son who also eats this way is his school's top athlete and is very energetic. I also have 4 year old twins who are doing very well on this way of eating. My one twin has Down syndrome and her health is actually very good.
I’m vegan for almost 2 months I feel rejuvenated but I did it for my health 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I want to die old not young
I have been wfpb for 2 years after having a colonoscopy that showed a colon polyp and diverticula and then researching the healthiest diet and finding the American doctors mentioned (also Dr McDougall). It is so good to hear a UK person talk on the subject. My husband has a congenital heart condition, artificial heart valve, pacemaker etc, eating this way he wont get heart disease and will hopefully live longer. Live long and die fast is Dr Esselstyn's mantra.
Brilliant! Thanks Mick
Just starting. What a brilliant speaker. Thanks to all the pioneers leading us back to healthy habits and mindset. Hope it’s affordable.
I have been eating this way for about 30 years. I don't know about cost because honestly I haven't looked. I can't bring myself to look at meat enough to look at the price but I suspect it's very expensive. I think what makes the most sense is a whole foods unrefined foods, diet, unrefined grains like millet and kosha. Millet particularly is very inexpensive. Dried beans are inexpensive, vegetables, especially organic ones, are not particularly inexpensive, but so worth it. I just switched from vegan whatever to vegan whole foods meaning I ditched the junk food. The chips, the supposedly healthy items that are over process that you will find in a health food store, so now my diet is whole grains. I do eat some whole wheat bread, I use Tempeh, occasional tofu, I used almond milk, a lot of vegetables, a fair amount of fruit. It's an amazing diet. I've noticed that I don't need very much food to feel satisfied. I feel nourished very different from when I was eating junky stuff. I would advise you to get some cookbooks I pour over cookbooks I love cookbooks. Some of the best ones are isa moskowitz, I like Brianna grogan her cookbooks all available on Amazon, just find whatever suits you and just keep to the unprocessed foods and you will not only feel better but I'm betting it will cost a lot less then processed foods. Good luck! There's quite a bit of support and help out there and a lot of wonderful variety in the vegetable and plant world.
I've found that switching from eating meat to fully plant based, it is much cheaper. Yes, whole vegetables and fruits are more costly these days, but when I compare our grocery bills to what they were last year (when still eating meat) they are considerably less. We also take advantage of buying as many fresh items that are in season, which helps as well.
Of course it is affordable… if you really want to save money you can grow your own… or forage.
This man is my hero! ❤
Thank you my lord...thank you 🙏🙏🙏
excellent presentation.
Thanks for sharing this video!
Thank you for this important information
Brilliant video! And I think I have learned quite a bit further in life. :)
Thang you for sharing
Genesis 1:29-30: Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;"
love you mick
So just eliminate MDs-meat & dairy!
I’m fed up with drug prices and so many doctor visits too!
I just wish that we could have more faith in the credibility of fruit and vegetables regarding the pesticides and chemical fertilisers that seem to be uncontrolled.
meat, dairy and meat products are LOADED with chemicals. Loaded.
I just turned 63. I have been vegetarian for 50 years. I went vegan maybe,......4 years or so ago. Now I am WFPB. I did not feel this good when I was 18! i wish I had known about WFPB years ago. Check our Dr. Greger's book,......HOW NOT TO DIE.
Awesome.❤💯
I have lived entirely on plant based diet for ages . lately I find myself being challenged by craving for fish or chicken fillets of which I ultimately consume and guilt will then follow! It happens very seldom though mostly when I feel my weight has dropped too much because of stress.
You are not alone
We stress ourselves because we feel we have failed or we are weak…I’ve stopped calling myself names and berating myself because I choose to eat animal products…be careful how you speak to yourself and give yourself grace…get your mindset in alignment and take each day one at a time…namaste
You should feel guilty, those animals didn't deserve to die just because you had a craving.
Also there are so many processed plant foods that are high in calories which is probably what you're craving.
Just eat some potato chips, Oreo cookies or mock meats.
A really want to make a lions mane sandwich, i basixal live off basmati rice based dishes with lentils, legumes, i spice it up, definitely got me shredded, gonna see how much more i can chan by summer. 1 degree out tonig just got back from a long walk. Stopped at casino lost 15
There you have it folks.
This guy is my biology teacher up daddy walker
How to change AND stay changed over to WFPB. Wish I knew how.
Plant power 💪
Congratulations on being vegan!
Simply doing a balanced "Whole Food" diet can be good too.
Grass-finished meats and lots of organic veg. Avoid fruit, flour, and salt.
Industrial animal farming is insanely cruel.
Ok liver king
“Avoid fruit”
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Had to play it back at nearly twice the speed
Glad you listened to it twice
Sedentary lifestyle and overeating processed foods is the key to disease
Best
If a biologist tell you to go vegan, JUST DO IT!
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Are olives okay for whole foods plant diet?
Sure
Of course, they don’t come from animals.
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How would you explain the Native Americans of the Great Plains who primarily are bison and were some of the tallest, healthiest people to ever live?
And may more, tribes where very healthy as long as they did not eat western food
that is a myth they did not primarily eat animal flesh, sorry to break it to you but they primarily ate plants. 100 grams of fiber a day, more than most modern vegans. some tribes did occasionally eat bison but it wasn't even close to every day, some never ate it at all.
@@spliter227 lol
Can he explain omnivores? P.S. I am actually moving to a vegan diet.
real omnivores are wolves, dogs, bears...they don't require an external source of vitamin C. we are not omnivores, just because we can doesn't mean we are. deer have been observed eating meat during starvation, are deer omnivores?
Best biology beak you can get, thx daddy Walker
Very well spoken. The thing that meat eaters have a really difficult time with is getting off the meat. It is an addiction, just as any. That's why so many vegans eat Impossible Whoppers. Vegetables and fruits will certainly help to extend your life and help prevent sickness. For those that have grown up on a meat-eating diet, it's very difficult to transition and, sustain. I think that a meat moderation would be a better place to start. The centenarians can't be discounted and eat a mostly plant-based diet. However, they do consume some meat and dairy and still live healthy lives to 100 plus. Everything is raw and non-processed. This tells me that WHOLE foods are more important. This isn't hocus pocus. There can be a median. More fruits and veggies, some meat and dairy, no processed food.
"I AM VEGAN" I love VEGAN. god bless!
I appreciate the video, but he provided misinformation. He stated Dr. Essylsten from the United States is a Cardiologist which is not true. He’s just a regular doctor; not a cardiologist.
If animal products are harmful and inflammatory, how do you explain the thousands of remarkable stories of healing due to the carnivore diet? Just check out the comment section of any RUclips video about the diet.
@@cracked229 Not sure what you're lol-ing about, but if you don't believe me, just do it. Read the comments. They're amazing, numerous and very heartfelt.
Honestly, I think any low carb, low processed food diet does people good
Industrial animal farming is insanely cruel.
The stories are incomplete. They end up in health problems.
@@henrituhola That's just conjecture.
This guy defiantly doesn't understand insulin 🙄
Edit: oh goodness, and he cites a bunch of militant animal activists. Barnard, Esselstyn, Campbell, like they would ever under any circumstance say animal products are healthy. I hope not to many people are taken in by this dogma.
Very sad to see the amount of vegan junk food now available.
I have mixed emotions about vegan junk food. As an ethical vegan, the rights and wellbeing of other animals are my priority. The health benefits of a WFPB are a major bonus! But many people don't care enough about their health to be sufficiently motivated to eat WFPB, and so the animals suffer and die by the billions every year. Some people might have more compassion and be motivated to spare animals, so if vegan junk food makes it easier for them to go plant-based, then I'm all for it. They are people who would be eating junk food anyway. And - it must be said that much commercially-made vegan food, while not being as healthy a choice as whole-foods, is STILL a healthier choice than animal flesh or secretions in any form.
Yes! The speaker properly recommends whole plant foods which are not so processed and unhealthful….
And it almost always comes wrapped in plastic.
Health isn't a moral value. Many people aren't vegan for their health. They refuse to participate in the exploitation of animals when there's no need to eat animals or their secretions. They're selfless, there simply isn't anything in it for them. Who cares if they eat ultra processed vegan food everyday? They're making this world a better place whilst still being able to eat what they want. Win win.
I would argue that time is the main cause of death.
Heart attacks are the primary cause of death, not aging. See how not to age by Dr. Michael Gregor he discusses this.
I'm considering switching to a vegan diet and I'm very sympathetic to many of the arguments for veganism. I'm watching videos like this to learn more about how to switch. Having said that, I don't think that this is a very good argument.
If an animal gets sick with a disease, cancer, diabetes, heart problems, etc. They don't have a doctor to go to, they can't go to the hospital, they just die.
If a human gets cancer, diabetes, heart problems, etc. We recognize the symptoms, we go to the doctor and we get treatment. We live long, albeit disease filled lives.
Don’t go vegan, go whole food based. Eat meat eggs and Greek yogurt (probiotic) Eat whole food that aren’t processed in high inflammatory oils (use ghee, butter, olive oil, avocado oil and coconut oil) cooking vegetables and sprouted glyphosate free grains helps remove oxalates and phytates, get vitamins and minerals while getting that fiber for the micro gut biome. Glycogen is important for human health, retaining water is important so we need complex carbs but we don’t need our diet being 60+% carbs. Balance healthy fats with protein with complex carbs (try for 40ish%) for a healthy life.
@@ak1996able If I went vegan, it would be for ethics. So nothing had to die or be abused for the meal on my plate.
@@katherinebourdiline7521 Fair enough
you should totally go for it :) I'm vegan for the animals first, but love the fact that eating whole food plant based is so enjoyable and prevents disease. I think this is a great argument because although we do have doctors to rely on if necessary, eating a healthy diet paired with exercise and other healthy lifestyle choices we greatly reduce our need to go to the doctor at all. Also, as Mick said, other animals don't develop chronic illnesses like heart disease and diabetes, unless of course humans are caring for them irresponsibly.
@@katherinebourdiline7521 Yes! Please don't support the horrific and completely unnecessary suffering and bloody, terrified deaths of fully sentient innocent beings who want to live. Please make your daily choices bring more mercy, not misery, to other animals.
I am attempting a vegetarian diet , but my gut is absolutely having a terrible time. Im hoping to stick with it though, i would never go vegan
Cool story bro.
But plants are trying to kill you!!! Lol.
I find it interesting all the vegan preaching talks yet TEDx removed the video done by Mikhaila Peterson Where she explains in her TEDx talk how a red meat only diet solved many of her rather serious health problems but we cant have that message getting spread now-a-days.
Red meat isn’t healthy for you. They probably removed it for spreading false information. I find it hard to believe she solved all her issues by only eating red meat nothing else. Maybe try it yourself see how it goes for you.
I eat a plant-based diet. If this is the case, how is it that felines (which are obligate carnivores) do not get diseased? Why are lions not obese Type II diabetics?
if you want to learn to lose weight speak to an anorexic, or a keto person.
if you want to gain true health speak to a whole food plant based person.
Very interesting subject but in a very boring presentation 😴
Thank you
I love my rib steaks. Yum yum. You can have your broccoli and beans. You may live a few years more than me but we all die.
Must hurt you that others our healthier than you!
The motivation might be that when you eat vegetables you feel better. Not just for 10 minutes - when you eat the meal -, but after (which is much more time).
We feel good 24 7. You cant even please your wife lol
Industrial animal farming is insanely cruel.
You couldn't be a more boring presenter. Good grief.
Thank you 😅😅
A plant based diet gave me type 2 diabetes in the first place. I have used to cure my condition by going to a zero plant diet and I will continue to eat meat, eggs, cheese, fish, and drink milk no matter what the vegan hate trolls say, or the so called peer reviewed studies they link to, or what any vegan propaganda video says. Eating meat and choosing your own diet is a HUMAN RIGHT! Humans have been hunting and harvesting meat and cooking and eating meat since they mastered fire since the stone age. If humans are not suppose to eat meat then just how did humans survive the ICE AGE without eating plants? Interesting how no vegan mentions "crop deaths" in the harvest and the making of vegan fake food. Interesting how the history of "natural old school bodybuilding" back in the 50's and 60's considered plant protein to be weak when compared to animal protein, like milk and eggs. Legend bodybuilder Vince Gironda considered plant protein to be loaded with sugar and carbs, that will raise blood sugar and spike insulin, and almost non digestible for the human body to digest. Organic or not, fruit and vegs are still carbs that raise blood sugar, and contain the same fructose and sugar...
Good luck with that.
"Human Right!" Lol. Please. Who ever said it wasn't? Nobody said that you can't eat meat or choose your own diet. You can do whatever you want! You have free will. Ridiculous. And seriously, the plant-based diet gave you diabetes? Perhaps you mostly ate sugar-rich plants like fruit and it wasn't balanced. Whatever.
@@unclenuckle that’s what I thought. Good luck with the heart problems and certain types of cancer.
You are Ill informed and may want to research further. There is a plethora of information out there. What the health on Netflix, Dominion here on YT and much much more.
Next up you're going to have a heart attack!! ~:O
Excellent!! Thank you for sharing it. I wish we could hear more about this topic in TED,
There’s a great little book on natural healing written by an older man who cured himself of a number of maladies without medical intervention, called My Physician, Myself. I read it a couple of years ago but lost my copy. I’m going to Amazon right now to order one and be more careful with it. It’s more than well worth the read. You light look into the work of Luigi Cornaro, a Venetian nobleman who lived to 102.
Occasionally we do need trust with a great sense of humour to get things accomplished, l have never been convinced there would be a way to eradicate HSV, thanks for curing me Dr Orias and putting hope into my life thank you
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