Finally someone who really understands what good food means. It's not about don't eat meat or animal products, or only eat protein, or only eat low carb. She's just talking about eating good-quality single-ingredient "real" food, basically a diet that pre-dates the processed food industry.
My sister married an Italian that's when I started to learn how and what to eat. I used to live on apples. Hot bread and butter, true barnyard chickens and eggs with natural omega 3. I hope there are more young people like Christa.
+Carolina Kotevski Interesting in what you're studying. I'd love to hear you talk at the next TEDx Talks, hopefully you will be well mic'd so we can hear you!
Don't knock it till you try it. Being very ill this is the only thing keeping me alive. Nutrition looks at long term health of your body. Good pathways in your head helps your bodies natural rhythms positively. Balanced approach is the best approach.
I just completed the whole 30 diet today actually. No Dairy, no alcohol, nothing processed, no soy, no legumes, no added sugar, no additives, no sodium nitrates, no gluten, no wheat and no artificial sweeteners. My weight was around 285lbs two years ago. 30 days ago, before I started the whole 30 diet, I had gotten down to 225lbs and plateaued there. Now, after doing the #whole30 diet, I lost 15 lbs and almost as good of shape as I was back in basic training at the age of 18. I am now 32. I ate nothing but real food: of mostly fats: eggs 4-6/a day (and my cholesterol levels have lowered), avocado- one a day, nuts, oils 2-3 tsp's day) and meat (beef and chicken, about a cup a day) with at least one banana each day. Sweet potatoes and bananas were my only source of carbs and sugar. I am guessing I have high insulin resistance. If veganism/vegetarianism works for you then great. Do it. I'm tired of hearing people say only such n such works. That's stupid. Everyone's body is different and everyone's body changes. I now do intermittent fasting and only eat 2.5 meals a day in a 6-8 hour window when I USED to eat 6 meals a day all the day when I first started losing weight. Let's lose the pious and self righteous talk about which diet is better and let's see what actually happens when you actually do it. Like Christ Orecchio said, food is medicine and different people require a different prescription. Try different things. Learn to listen to your body as I have. I lift nearly every day and enjoy my strength so animal protein is a necessity for me since beans disrupt my digestion and they are complete proteins anyways. Sure, many vegans are small but I've seen a lot of fat ones too... LISTEN TO YOUR BODY AND EAT REAL FOOD...
I understand this but I was brought up on a diet just like the one that she described to a T and I felt AWFUL. I couldn't sleep, and always had headaches and stomaches. And would run around screaming with the frustration of the restriction associated with the diet. I could just go on and on with the awful side effects. Now I eat a "worse diet" (not full of sugar but just not as restrictive) but I feel SO MUCH BETTER. What works for you doesn't work for me.
+Nicole Brimmer Problem is we are a society build on THOUSANDS of society before us and have mostly adopted this one general idea of what to eat. We eat what our community eats because that is what is offered. Many move to college and gain weight cause fast foods and delivery are the "only" easy ways to get food into our systems. Same can apply to real world living judging by the consistent rise in #'s of fast food joints. Gotta play with your own diet, do some research on heritage and/or body type and work accordingly. That is both the hell and the fun of the research that I do. Starting with organic food only is great cause you restrict calories AND begin to appreciate vegetables that had time to grow and have flavor (usually a higher sugar content) but that is a tough transition as any day laborer puts nearly 1/3 of their money, if not more, towards that food/drink. I think one of the biggest improvements we can make towards our body/diet is keeping a food journal for about a month. It sucks but if you have a small booklet it isn't too bad. Record all the food/drink you have and list how you feel over the next few hours and record how you feel the next day when you wake up. Even taking a week to do this can dramatically open your mind up to the foods that are a big no no to us but that is just the start as many don't know what foods to introduce themselves to if they go to the same store that serves the average produce stock. For instance, potatoes used to be a super food that nourished a whole civilization (Ireland) but now we have basic starches as potatoes that are likely deep fried and solely serve as platforms for sauces, cheeses and meat. Achieving greater biodiversity like the past and listening to our innate wisdom of what is good or bad for us is something we all need to tap into in order to become healthy again. Sounds like you are on your way.
The real question about your meat consumption and your problems with it is: What kind of meats are you eating? Grass fed / Grass finished, hormone and antibiotic free? Edgar Cayce has said, in trance, that anything in moderation is fine and can be good; anything in excess is not good no matter how potentially great it is for the body. For meats, consuming more sheep, goat, lamb and kid and much less cow would be an excellent start. I'm now on the paleo diet and have been for 2 years. I can't even begin to describe just how much better, more alert and productive I've become since I started this. I've lost 80 pounds, back to sleeping just 5 hours each night and I'm twice as productive as I was 10 years ago. The key though is to watch what you eat and STAY AWAY FROM GMO EVERYTHING! No sugar, use honey instead, essential oil and saltwater, magnesium baths at least 3 times weekly. Massages 3 times monthly with proper essential oils. Lavender & rose salt rub at bedtime, just 1 drop of each. Frankincense & myrrh when working or studying. You absolutely must have an effective outlet for stress and frustration. Exercise daily - at least twice around the neighborhood with the dogs.
She is very attractive because she is 100% Italian and also a person who is eating the right food for her body. That is what a real human body looks like when you eat well. You eat right, you feel right, and then you look right.
This is a GREAT talk! Thank you! Just wish there was not such echo drowning it out! Can a clear copy be uploaded? Not holding my breath for change...health care STILL struggles to get staff to comply with hand-washing! In a cookie-cuter mentality for business, there is dissonance with so many not responding as intended to 'one size fits all'. Docs rarely consider sizing drug doses to the age and weight of the patient. But, there will always be variations on who needs how much of what, to heal. We must overcome the limited mentality that only drugs, surgery or radiation can "cure", and consider the person as a whole, not the sum of their parts. We need to improve our paradigms. Modern medicine has been schizophrenically divorced from nutrition as a cure for ills, for about 100 years. Yet, Nutrition absolutely has bearing on mental/emotional health; all health. Alternative medicine practitioners have always known and used it, though without knowing exactly, relative to mental health. Modern medicine is just barely starting to catch up to the notion of nutrition as a healing modality. Modern medicine will only follow-up on using nutrition to cure or maintain better health, if really good studies they accept, are done repeatedly. Studies also need to be replicable. Probiotics are also implicated; studies show this; more are being done.
I agree with Abby. Although she has some good points she should read Dr. Campbell's "The China Study, or Fuhrman's "Eat to Live." Just because meat is clean and natural doesn't necessarily make it helpful to the body.
Douglas, there another really interesting Ted talk about archeologists who studies the plaque on the teeth of ancient human remains and they found they ate primarily plants. Pretty interesting tedtalk but I forgot the name of it.
I agree Dr. Campbells "The China Study" finally a Western professional academic opinion with evidence is talking about how China as a population gets its vitamins and minerals from a high plant-based diet with the least animal based products.
Eats true that wheat raises blood sugar more than sugar. We must lose from aour diet sugar and wheat. Buckwheat however, to bring an example is an excellent and healthy alternative that does not raise blood sugar. Dont know about potatoes though. Perhaps they are ok
Your body runs on sugar, carbohydrates are necessary in order to live. Avoid SIMPLE sugars like candy, but hey, maybe candy is OK on your birthday or Christmas. Moderation is the key.
Kitti McConnell The liver produces the exact dose of glucose for metabolism, any carbs/sugar eaten is excess & is converted into fat, processing these empty nutrition-less calories into fat is what depletes the body of essential vitamins & minerals, Eating excess sugar does not give you more energy, the same as flooding your cars engine with too much fuel does not make it run better. While the excess sugar is in the blood stream it is damaging the inner lining of the blood vessels, it is in these damaged areas where & why the cholesterol builds up causing blockages. Cholesterol is one of our bodies main building blocks & is used to repair damaged tissue. So, saying cholesterol is a problem is the same as saying firemen cause fires because firemen are at every fire. In effect, blocked arteries, diabetes & high blood pressure are symptoms of the same disease CAUSED by SUGAR & the CURE is as simple as removing the cause. Also, sugar is an acid & we all know cancer thrives in an acidic environment & feeds on sugar... SonnetiGR Potatoes are almost pure glucose.
Why is the sound suck so bad? Why didn't they tap into the mic line coming off of her? Why have a second mic when you are the ones setting this up? It makes this wonderful talk unshare-able.
This may all sound rosy, but this is some serious quackery! I'm watching this video for coursework in a Nutrition class. Serious red flags at some of her talking points: soil depletion leading to nutrient deficiency, danger of GMOs, antagonism toward "chemicals." Checked out her website, and I see that she has no accredited education in nutrition. She has a business degree from UNC-Wilmington (this is a real, accredited degree, but naught to do with nutrition). The rest of her study makes no mention of graduation, but attendance at Institute for Integrative Nutrition and Natural Healing Institute. Neither of these schools are recognized by the Department of Education. Some of her points on eating more plant-based foods and reducing sugar consumption are surely good advice; the rest of her presentation is fear mongering and diet shaming, with no scientific backing. Her lone verbal citation is for a NYT piece on American pubescence; this isn't citing a study, just a news piece.
They need to feed in the audio directly to the recording... not a secondary mic... hope they learn this in the future. Still an awesome talk but hard to watch because of the audio
Mineral nutrients are generally still in the soil; but those are "locked" there, as long as the things needed to transform them into forms the plants can absorb, are missing: worms, bacteria, etc. Nutrients are missing from foods for several reasons [not a complete discussion]: 1. Chemicals used to prep the ground and mature plants, and force plant growth, kill the worms, bugs and bacteria in the dirt, along with other unwanted plants. Those organisms help stabilize nutrients in the dirt, and move those into the food plants. 2. Common fertilizers generally put back only 3 main ingredients necessary to grow what appears as viable food plants: nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium {N,P,K]. These grow cosmetically nice produce, but lack adequate other nutrients due to #1. 3. GMO'ing food, adds and subtracts factors which those developing them, apparently have failed to consider the long-range collateral damages of. To be clear,GMO = gene-splicing, often of disparate species. GMO is NOT the same as speeding up what might be a natural evolution of the plant or animal [like Mendel's peas], though the GMO industries like to confuse public into thinking it's the same. 4. Food produce is stripped of nutrients which cause food products to spoil. If germs and bugs won't eat it, and it doesn't break down into compost readily, it's also unfit for human consumption! 5. Foods are over-processed, to make them 'instant', or conveniently packaged for quick use, and increased shelf-life. 6. More people depend on 2nd-hand food sources...out-dated, or end of shelf-life foods, due to low income, which means they are most vulnerable of all to malnutrition. 7. Docs stopped diagnosing nutritional deficiencies unless the symptoms are so flagrant, they cannot be ignored; i.e., rickets turned into other diagnoses which only describe symptoms; laundry lists of mental ills, skin ills, neurological ills, but no diagnosis of B-deficiencies; Osteoporosis,muscle spasms and cardiovascular ills, , but not magnesium and trace mineral deficiencies; GERD, morning sickness and hyper-emesis gravidarum, but not H.Pylori overgrowth or digestive enzyme deficiency; Alzheimer's, instead of Spongiform Encephalitis; ...etc. 8. Animals grown in close-quarters, fed GMO feed, pumped using hormones and drugs and chemicals, result in sick animals, which provide poor nutrition as well as residues of all the chemicals in it. Animals forced to grow fast, also means they don't live long enough to exhibit signs of Spongiform Encephalitis; if the veal cattle or other young cattle do, they are euphemistically called "downer cows", and butchered early..none know how many of those enter the human food chain. I theorize this infection takes slightly different forms depending what animals it is infecting; it HAS crossed-species many times. [Yes, S.E. has been in the USA for almost 100 years, at least, though it has different names in different animals; there's been malfeasant cover-ups catering to preserving related industry's bottom lines.] With all that, it's truly a wonder that we've reached over 7 billion people on the planet, and threatened with yet more drastic increases. But what quality of humans are being bred? Farmers have more often taken greater care to breed better cattle, while humans breed mostly indiscriminately. Wonder what's to become of humans, at this rate of errors in planning and implementation?
Hum, this is really interesting! And what are you suggesting at the individual level to bring back more nutrients in our food? It seems that there is so much disinformation about this topic, it's hard to figure out what is true. I'm particularly interested about the link you are making between common illnesses and mineral deficiencies. Can you give me more info on this? Anyway, thank you for your detailed comment and have a nice day! :)
Studies have shown vegetarians do not live longer than the general public. Humans have been living on animal fats for more than 1 million years- exactly when and where did it suddenly start making us sick? Kind of a silly notion when you put it in context
Joe Smith What studies are you speaking of regarding vegetarians not living longer? Not to mention vegetarians can be unhealthy, because they still eat a lot of animal products. A more meaningful comparison would be vegan vs. standard western diet. Also, it is proven that the typical western diet consisting of mostly animal products and refined foods is the cause of the rates of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer in the US. If you don't believe this, you should open your eyes.
Eat meat, eggs, cheese, nonhomegenized milk, fresh fruit, greens(raw and cooked)… be strong and healthy,… and high body integrity,… and minimize starches (if grains eaten, sprout adequately, then cook, then eat with cheese and herbs),….
If the food you eat didn't exist 500 years ago you probably shouldn't eat it. Think of our bodies like a car's engine, if you took your car that has always ran on unleaded gasoline for the first 98,000 miles of its life, and then you start pouring all sorts of other things into its gas tank for the last 2,000 miles and it now runs sh*tty. That's not the car's fault, it's the guy filling its tank.
+Toeknee Toe And the Indians, Native Americans, most of Latin America... ...really any tribe that is indigenous or holds onto indigenous/ancient practices rather than follow suit with Western ideals and consumerism do pretty well.
Jennifer Johnson Sooo, are u saying if I were an atheist, I'ld have no right to speak until I researched the other side. Or if I were a Muslim, I'd have no right to speak til I researched atheism?
Jennifer Johnson What in the world are you talking about "Jennifer Johnson"? She has spoken and she does have the right to speak. Last time I checked, this is America. She's a nutritionist advocating eating healthy. Whats your problem? Are you promoting GMO's? don't like people's right to eat organic? don't think food can heal? think depleted GMO soils deliver superior nutritional food? So, what exactly are you talking about? She did a fine job and I applaud her.
Jennifer Johnson Hey "Jennifer Johnson", you open a RUclips account at the time you make the unsubstantiated attack to this presenter. You have nothing on your new channel and ignore questions about your unsubstantiated attack. I believe she has a lot better credibility than you do. Why don't you educate us on what agricultural practices are like today and contrast it with what this speaker has to say.
Can't finish watching. And not only because of the sound quality. Nothing uber-revealing is presented, or not presented in a way that is clear and interesting to listen to...
I think GMO science is still young and needs to be worked on but as far as viably feeding a population who wants to eat meat it seems necessary. If only we were all vegan! (I'm not vegan) I think there's a huge issue to feeding people realistically and feeding people healthfully. I can only afford to buy my frozen chicken and vegetables from Target which means I get the GMO's. I like what has been talked about here and hope it galvanizes more into action so I can one day get farm raised chicken and veggies for cheap!
...to the people who talk about her heels and such.... just fix your diet first, and eat healthy food, and dont worry about heels... its much healthier to be a whole foods vegan and wear 10 inch heels all day, that to be a meat/dairy eater and be with flat feet on the grass all day.
Sorry, but Stevia is way too bitter. I'd rather just cut back drastically on the real sugar or use a bit of agave from time to time rather than go with Stevia. Agave is getting a bad rap now, but it's still not as bad as white sugar I don't think.
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Finally someone who really understands what good food means. It's not about don't eat meat or animal products, or only eat protein, or only eat low carb. She's just talking about eating good-quality single-ingredient "real" food, basically a diet that pre-dates the processed food industry.
My sister married an Italian that's when I started to learn how and what to eat. I used to live on apples. Hot bread and butter, true barnyard chickens and eggs with natural omega 3. I hope there are more young people like Christa.
The presenter must be intelligent, but the audio visual leaves a lot to be desired. The video-grapher did a poor job.
Thanks Christa. I completely support the idea of using food as medicine, and for helping to spread the word!
audio is shocking , very sad as i am studying Nutritional medicine atm and am very interested in this talk. Please upload a better copy.
+Carolina Kotevski Interesting in what you're studying. I'd love to hear you talk at the next TEDx Talks, hopefully you will be well mic'd so we can hear you!
Sadly, the audio is below par. I couldn't watch due to this issue. Please upload with improved sound quality. Thank you.
+Toni Gandel You didn't miss anything...
Humm, I don't think your name fits your personality miss not so nice girl
+Toni Gandel The volume bar on the youtube was actually turned down upon loading it. So I just turned it up and I can hear it fine.
+superfuelsystems it's poorly recorded
Don't knock it till you try it. Being very ill this is the only thing keeping me alive. Nutrition looks at long term health of your body. Good pathways in your head helps your bodies natural rhythms positively. Balanced approach is the best approach.
Struggled thru the bad sound quality; this is an excellent lecture. Great basics, good facts, well ordered argument. Whole, simple and thorough.
If you just listen, you can hear her...
Her beauty is distracting.
David Longfellow Agreed , lol
a bit more volume would be appreciated though the more effort it takes to hear what she says the harder it is to focuses on what shes saying.
The way she looks is the best commercial for her business.
I just completed the whole 30 diet today actually. No Dairy, no alcohol, nothing processed, no soy, no legumes, no added sugar, no additives, no sodium nitrates, no gluten, no wheat and no artificial sweeteners. My weight was around 285lbs two years ago. 30 days ago, before I started the whole 30 diet, I had gotten down to 225lbs and plateaued there.
Now, after doing the #whole30 diet, I lost 15 lbs and almost as good of shape as I was back in basic training at the age of 18. I am now 32.
I ate nothing but real food: of mostly fats: eggs 4-6/a day (and my cholesterol levels have lowered), avocado- one a day, nuts, oils 2-3 tsp's day) and meat (beef and chicken, about a cup a day) with at least one banana each day. Sweet potatoes and bananas were my only source of carbs and sugar. I am guessing I have high insulin resistance.
If veganism/vegetarianism works for you then great. Do it. I'm tired of hearing people say only such n such works. That's stupid. Everyone's body is different and everyone's body changes. I now do intermittent fasting and only eat 2.5 meals a day in a 6-8 hour window when I USED to eat 6 meals a day all the day when I first started losing weight.
Let's lose the pious and self righteous talk about which diet is better and let's see what actually happens when you actually do it. Like Christ Orecchio said, food is medicine and different people require a different prescription. Try different things. Learn to listen to your body as I have. I lift nearly every day and enjoy my strength so animal protein is a necessity for me since beans disrupt my digestion and they are complete proteins anyways. Sure, many vegans are small but I've seen a lot of fat ones too... LISTEN TO YOUR BODY AND EAT REAL FOOD...
GEMS OF VALUABLE WISDOM!
Thank you very much for posting this! I loved this talk.
Food as a matter of healthy body integrity and performance.
Live to perform as performance machine of high integrity.
Yes there are many angles to health, it isn't just limited to food.
Great, well balanced talk. Thank you Christa.
I understand this but I was brought up on a diet just like the one that she described to a T and I felt AWFUL. I couldn't sleep, and always had headaches and stomaches. And would run around screaming with the frustration of the restriction associated with the diet. I could just go on and on with the awful side effects. Now I eat a "worse diet" (not full of sugar but just not as restrictive) but I feel SO MUCH BETTER.
What works for you doesn't work for me.
Good point. If I eat meat, I feel awful. Other people need to eat it. It's a matter of figuring out what works for you.
+Nicole Brimmer Problem is we are a society build on THOUSANDS of society before us and have mostly adopted this one general idea of what to eat. We eat what our community eats because that is what is offered. Many move to college and gain weight cause fast foods and delivery are the "only" easy ways to get food into our systems. Same can apply to real world living judging by the consistent rise in #'s of fast food joints. Gotta play with your own diet, do some research on heritage and/or body type and work accordingly.
That is both the hell and the fun of the research that I do. Starting with organic food only is great cause you restrict calories AND begin to appreciate vegetables that had time to grow and have flavor (usually a higher sugar content) but that is a tough transition as any day laborer puts nearly 1/3 of their money, if not more, towards that food/drink.
I think one of the biggest improvements we can make towards our body/diet is keeping a food journal for about a month. It sucks but if you have a small booklet it isn't too bad. Record all the food/drink you have and list how you feel over the next few hours and record how you feel the next day when you wake up. Even taking a week to do this can dramatically open your mind up to the foods that are a big no no to us but that is just the start as many don't know what foods to introduce themselves to if they go to the same store that serves the average produce stock. For instance, potatoes used to be a super food that nourished a whole civilization (Ireland) but now we have basic starches as potatoes that are likely deep fried and solely serve as platforms for sauces, cheeses and meat. Achieving greater biodiversity like the past and listening to our innate wisdom of what is good or bad for us is something we all need to tap into in order to become healthy again.
Sounds like you are on your way.
The real question about your meat consumption and your problems with it is: What kind of meats are you eating? Grass fed / Grass finished, hormone and antibiotic free? Edgar Cayce has said, in trance, that anything in moderation is fine and can be good; anything in excess is not good no matter how potentially great it is for the body. For meats, consuming more sheep, goat, lamb and kid and much less cow would be an excellent start. I'm now on the paleo diet and have been for 2 years. I can't even begin to describe just how much better, more alert and productive I've become since I started this. I've lost 80 pounds, back to sleeping just 5 hours each night and I'm twice as productive as I was 10 years ago. The key though is to watch what you eat and STAY AWAY FROM GMO EVERYTHING! No sugar, use honey instead, essential oil and saltwater, magnesium baths at least 3 times weekly. Massages 3 times monthly with proper essential oils. Lavender & rose salt rub at bedtime, just 1 drop of each. Frankincense & myrrh when working or studying. You absolutely must have an effective outlet for stress and frustration. Exercise daily - at least twice around the neighborhood with the dogs.
So true, preach girl!
She is very attractive because she is 100% Italian and also a person who is eating the right food for her body. That is what a real human body looks like when you eat well. You eat right, you feel right, and then you look right.
I can't believe they posted this video.
Also it would be good to see her slide show.
Not the best quality in sound but definitely can hear. Focus on the great info and don't pay too much attention on technical issues.
This is a GREAT talk! Thank you! Just wish there was not such echo drowning it out!
Can a clear copy be uploaded?
Not holding my breath for change...health care STILL struggles to get staff to comply with hand-washing!
In a cookie-cuter mentality for business, there is dissonance with so many not responding as intended to 'one size fits all'. Docs rarely consider sizing drug doses to the age and weight of the patient. But, there will always be variations on who needs how much of what, to heal.
We must overcome the limited mentality that only drugs, surgery or radiation can "cure", and consider the person as a whole, not the sum of their parts. We need to improve our paradigms.
Modern medicine has been schizophrenically divorced from nutrition as a cure for ills, for about 100 years. Yet, Nutrition absolutely has bearing on mental/emotional health; all health. Alternative medicine practitioners have always known and used it, though without knowing exactly, relative to mental health.
Modern medicine is just barely starting to catch up to the notion of nutrition as a healing modality.
Modern medicine will only follow-up on using nutrition to cure or maintain better health, if really good studies they accept, are done repeatedly.
Studies also need to be replicable.
Probiotics are also implicated; studies show this; more are being done.
I agree with Abby. Although she has some good points she should read Dr. Campbell's "The China Study, or Fuhrman's "Eat to Live." Just because meat is clean and natural doesn't necessarily make it helpful to the body.
I remember a documentary about anchant humans saying some of them had vitamin A possening from eating almost entirely meat.
Douglas, there another really interesting Ted talk about archeologists who studies the plaque on the teeth of ancient human remains and they found they ate primarily plants. Pretty interesting tedtalk but I forgot the name of it.
"Debunking the paleo diet: Christina Warinner" is one video that mentions the archeological studies of plaque on early human teeth.
Jean-Baptiste Vervaeck Thanks.
I agree Dr. Campbells "The China Study" finally a Western professional academic opinion with evidence is talking about how China as a population gets its vitamins and minerals from a high plant-based diet with the least animal based products.
Did she not have a working mic?
Excellent points raised!
The closed captioned not follow what the lady and I can not read what she talked about Food as Medicine?
Avoid all sugar. Potato, all breads, pasta, whole grain cereals are digested into sugar. Did you know?
Eats true that wheat raises blood sugar more than sugar. We must lose from aour diet sugar and wheat. Buckwheat however, to bring an example is an excellent and healthy alternative that does not raise blood sugar. Dont know about potatoes though. Perhaps they are ok
Your body runs on sugar, carbohydrates are necessary in order to live. Avoid SIMPLE sugars like candy, but hey, maybe candy is OK on your birthday or Christmas. Moderation is the key.
Kitti McConnell
The liver produces the exact dose of glucose for metabolism, any carbs/sugar eaten is excess & is converted into fat, processing these empty nutrition-less calories into fat is what depletes the body of essential vitamins & minerals, Eating excess sugar does not give you more energy, the same as flooding your cars engine with too much fuel does not make it run better.
While the excess sugar is in the blood stream it is damaging the inner lining of the blood vessels, it is in these damaged areas where & why the cholesterol builds up causing blockages. Cholesterol is one of our bodies main building blocks & is used to repair damaged tissue. So, saying cholesterol is a problem is the same as saying firemen cause fires because firemen are at every fire.
In effect, blocked arteries, diabetes & high blood pressure are symptoms of the same disease CAUSED by SUGAR & the CURE is as simple as removing the cause.
Also, sugar is an acid & we all know cancer thrives in an acidic environment & feeds on sugar...
SonnetiGR Potatoes are almost pure glucose.
A shame she didn't get the lapel mic and/or the sound guys were not on the job.
Really want to finish hearing this video but the audio is horrible... please upload with better sound quality. Thank you
The sound is terrible here. Needs to be redone to get this great info out.
too bad the mic is not set up correctly :(
Eat healthy and join her.
Search for her name and contact her through her website.
Why is the sound suck so bad? Why didn't they tap into the mic line coming off of her? Why have a second mic when you are the ones setting this up? It makes this wonderful talk unshare-able.
:-( This is a topic I am so interesting in but unable to hear. Even CC doesn't work. I am so sad.
great input
This may all sound rosy, but this is some serious quackery!
I'm watching this video for coursework in a Nutrition class. Serious red flags at some of her talking points: soil depletion leading to nutrient deficiency, danger of GMOs, antagonism toward "chemicals." Checked out her website, and I see that she has no accredited education in nutrition. She has a business degree from UNC-Wilmington (this is a real, accredited degree, but naught to do with nutrition). The rest of her study makes no mention of graduation, but attendance at Institute for Integrative Nutrition and Natural Healing Institute. Neither of these schools are recognized by the Department of Education. Some of her points on eating more plant-based foods and reducing sugar consumption are surely good advice; the rest of her presentation is fear mongering and diet shaming, with no scientific backing. Her lone verbal citation is for a NYT piece on American pubescence; this isn't citing a study, just a news piece.
FYI - If you turn on Closed Captioning/Subtitles, you can read what she is saying.
Thanks-I will remember it when this happens again
They need to feed in the audio directly to the recording... not a secondary mic... hope they learn this in the future. Still an awesome talk but hard to watch because of the audio
Who did the sound recording!?
Looks a beautiful talk, but it´s a big pity about the audios. Please, take care about this next time. regards and good lock
I'm a vegan, so I think I'm doing all right.
Where is this filmed please?
audio is too low , please adjust , thanks
They really should have recorded the mic signal directly...... This sounds terrible.....
She is stunning
Mineral nutrients are generally still in the soil; but those are "locked" there, as long as the things needed to transform them into forms the plants can absorb, are missing: worms, bacteria, etc. Nutrients are missing from foods for several reasons [not a complete discussion]:
1. Chemicals used to prep the ground and mature plants, and force plant growth, kill the worms, bugs and bacteria in the dirt, along with other unwanted plants. Those organisms help stabilize nutrients in the dirt, and move those into the food plants.
2. Common fertilizers generally put back only 3 main ingredients necessary to grow what appears as viable food plants: nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium {N,P,K]. These grow cosmetically nice produce, but lack adequate other nutrients due to #1.
3. GMO'ing food, adds and subtracts factors which those developing them, apparently have failed to consider the long-range collateral damages of. To be clear,GMO = gene-splicing, often of disparate species.
GMO is NOT the same as speeding up what might be a natural evolution of the plant or animal [like Mendel's peas], though the GMO industries like to confuse public into thinking it's the same.
4. Food produce is stripped of nutrients which cause food products to spoil. If germs and bugs won't eat it, and it doesn't break down into compost readily, it's also unfit for human consumption!
5. Foods are over-processed, to make them 'instant', or conveniently packaged for quick use, and increased shelf-life.
6. More people depend on 2nd-hand food sources...out-dated, or end of shelf-life foods, due to low income, which means they are most vulnerable of all to malnutrition.
7. Docs stopped diagnosing nutritional deficiencies unless the symptoms are so flagrant, they cannot be ignored; i.e., rickets turned into other diagnoses which only describe symptoms; laundry lists of mental ills, skin ills, neurological ills, but no diagnosis of B-deficiencies; Osteoporosis,muscle spasms and cardiovascular ills, , but not magnesium and trace mineral deficiencies; GERD, morning sickness and hyper-emesis gravidarum, but not H.Pylori overgrowth or digestive enzyme deficiency; Alzheimer's, instead of Spongiform Encephalitis; ...etc.
8. Animals grown in close-quarters, fed GMO feed, pumped using hormones and drugs and chemicals, result in sick animals, which provide poor nutrition as well as residues of all the chemicals in it. Animals forced to grow fast, also means they don't live long enough to exhibit signs of Spongiform Encephalitis; if the veal cattle or other young cattle do, they are euphemistically called "downer cows", and butchered early..none know how many of those enter the human food chain. I theorize this infection takes slightly different forms depending what animals it is infecting; it HAS crossed-species many times.
[Yes, S.E. has been in the USA for almost 100 years, at least, though it has different names in different animals; there's been malfeasant cover-ups catering to preserving related industry's bottom lines.]
With all that, it's truly a wonder that we've reached over 7 billion people on the planet, and threatened with yet more drastic increases.
But what quality of humans are being bred? Farmers have more often taken greater care to breed better cattle, while humans breed mostly indiscriminately.
Wonder what's to become of humans, at this rate of errors in planning and implementation?
Hum, this is really interesting! And what are you suggesting at the individual level to bring back more nutrients in our food? It seems that there is so much disinformation about this topic, it's hard to figure out what is true. I'm particularly interested about the link you are making between common illnesses and mineral deficiencies. Can you give me more info on this? Anyway, thank you for your detailed comment and have a nice day! :)
It's simple - eat fat, get fat and sick. Eat plants, live past your 120th birthday.
Studies have shown vegetarians do not live longer than the general public. Humans have been living on animal fats for more than 1 million years- exactly when and where did it suddenly start making us sick? Kind of a silly notion when you put it in context
Joe Smith
What studies are you speaking of regarding vegetarians not living longer? Not to mention vegetarians can be unhealthy, because they still eat a lot of animal products. A more meaningful comparison would be vegan vs. standard western diet. Also, it is proven that the typical western diet consisting of mostly animal products and refined foods is the cause of the rates of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer in the US. If you don't believe this, you should open your eyes.
Olgath
Easy... look up interviews with every single centenarian within the last 50 yrs. NOT ONE is a vegetarian.
You can't live past your 120th birthday.
Eat meat, eggs, cheese, nonhomegenized milk, fresh fruit, greens(raw and cooked)… be strong and healthy,… and high body integrity,… and minimize starches (if grains eaten, sprout adequately, then cook, then eat with cheese and herbs),….
Clever!
@TEDx do a better job next time, the camera man cannot sit still and the audio is terrible.
Too interrupting audio.not audible to listen where the topic is the top most priority
God the audio Quality SUCKS!
Couldn't watch this, as much as I wanted to because the audio was low.
audio makes this unwatchable :(
Awesome talk :)
Shame about the sound quality
If you use headphones it's a little better to hear what she's saying.
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Too bad about the audio.
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I can't watch this. Next time, send someone up on stage to fix the mic.
The acoustics are terrible in that hall.
Great talk shame about the terrible recording/editing.
If the food you eat didn't exist 500 years ago you probably shouldn't eat it. Think of our bodies like a car's engine, if you took your car that has always ran on unleaded gasoline for the first 98,000 miles of its life, and then you start pouring all sorts of other things into its gas tank for the last 2,000 miles and it now runs sh*tty. That's not the car's fault, it's the guy filling its tank.
very bad audio. can barely understand what she saying, like what she says when I can understand her.
Virgo rules the Sixth House, the house of health.
Agreed. The audio is terrible.
I want to listen to what she has to say but the audio is so bad I will find a better prepaired lecture. This is very sad
Butter and chicken as a clinical nutrition solution?
The Chinese and Swiss have been using food as medicine few thousand years.
Aris Psaltis
They invented chard???
Aris Psaltis
+Toeknee Toe And the Indians, Native Americans, most of Latin America...
...really any tribe that is indigenous or holds onto indigenous/ancient practices rather than follow suit with Western ideals and consumerism do pretty well.
+Toeknee Toe so Have I ….yawnnnnn
Yes real food is best.
She has no idea what agricultural practices are like today. After she has researched the other side, then she has the right to speak.
Jennifer Johnson Specifically, what? Give details, not rhetoric.
Jennifer Johnson Sooo, are u saying if I were an atheist, I'ld have no right to speak until I researched the other side.
Or if I were a Muslim, I'd have no right to speak til I researched atheism?
Jennifer Johnson
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
Hippocrates
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Jennifer Johnson What in the world are you talking about "Jennifer Johnson"? She has spoken and she does have the right to speak. Last time I checked, this is America. She's a nutritionist advocating eating healthy. Whats your problem? Are you promoting GMO's? don't like people's right to eat organic? don't think food can heal? think depleted GMO soils deliver superior nutritional food? So, what exactly are you talking about? She did a fine job and I applaud her.
Jennifer Johnson Hey "Jennifer Johnson", you open a RUclips account at the time you make the unsubstantiated attack to this presenter. You have nothing on your new channel and ignore questions about your unsubstantiated attack. I believe she has a lot better credibility than you do. Why don't you educate us on what agricultural practices are like today and contrast it with what this speaker has to say.
this!
Poor audio!
Can't finish watching. And not only because of the sound quality. Nothing uber-revealing is presented, or not presented in a way that is clear and interesting to listen to...
poor sound, put the microphone closer to the speaker. or don't bother
Might be good if we could hear what she is saying.
I love Ted talk........ But..... What's up with that audio......good grief..... Fix it.....
With headphones the audio is fine.
i can't hear it either... so disappointed because real food is what we need more focus on.
Man I cant listen to this while I work, the sound quality is too low
The audio! WTH Hire someone that can run sound and record.
Gave up watching this due to sound quality, it's terrible.
I think GMO science is still young and needs to be worked on but as far as viably feeding a population who wants to eat meat it seems necessary. If only we were all vegan! (I'm not vegan) I think there's a huge issue to feeding people realistically and feeding people healthfully. I can only afford to buy my frozen chicken and vegetables from Target which means I get the GMO's. I like what has been talked about here and hope it galvanizes more into action so I can one day get farm raised chicken and veggies for cheap!
...to the people who talk about her heels and such.... just fix your diet first, and eat healthy food, and dont worry about heels... its much healthier to be a whole foods vegan and wear 10 inch heels all day, that to be a meat/dairy eater and be with flat feet on the grass all day.
audio:/
Bad audio 👎👎
Sorry, but Stevia is way too bitter. I'd rather just cut back drastically on the real sugar or use a bit of agave from time to time rather than go with Stevia. Agave is getting a bad rap now, but it's still not as bad as white sugar I don't think.
This woman is very, very attractive.
Ted Should know better than to place the microphone so far away.
Level 4,part 2
How about, "Shoes for Medicine?"...or "Feet on the Grass as Medicine?"
It’s Orecchio.
Someone dropped the ball with that cheap speaker system.
iam god u are god ;p iam son of god u are son of god we all are a sons and so of god ;p
Vegan is the way forward.
If you want to be anemic it is.
She's preaching pre-colonial north American Native America. They made the same plea as the Eurocolonists piled up.
Awful sound quality
I am God realized.
I don't play God.
Food as medicines are raw vegan
I smell Paleo in here
Can't hear her too much echoing