Junk food, sugar and additives - The dark side of the food industry | DW Documentary

I once watched a documentary about Coca Cola and a woman from Brazil (that has the 4th highest Coca Cola consumption per capita in the world) said that "if the corporations make advertisements for it then it must be good". I almost fell out of my chair. People really believe that.

Well a business technical nature is to make money with least cost as possible. It’s called capitalism. We’re a society built on capitalism without morals. So if you want to change that, best to start teaching your kids young to imagine a different type of society and have them talk about it with their friends and other people. If enough people do this to their kids/future generations will most likely make a real change to how things operate

Because Americans are incredibly paranoid about the government, they'd rather be dicked down by mega corporations than the government.

Capitalism in the west is more about greed and selfishness regardless of the plight of ordinary people. If they have to kill people to sate their greed, they totally would. It's the reason there are many rich people in the west yet homelessness is still a big issue.

american people know the corporations are working against the consumers, the workers, and the planet, prioritizing profits above people at every opportunity. politicians that want to do something about it don't get very far.

Sugar is the most dangerous drug on this planet..

@@TheRealJohnHooper Yep, highly addictive, and absolutely deadly. But, boy, is it ever good for the bottom line of the food manufacturers.

​@@TheRealJohnHooper No, it is not! 🙄. Stop with the foolish comments

@@dennysmith5284 I dont think I can give it up. I just cant

Same for me but even faster ,in 3 months I went from 96kgs to 76kgs

You’re very luck to have been made aware as a little kid about the importance of food choices. As said during the documentary, eating habits are established in early childhood that often persist throughout lifetime.

Same here. As a kid I have never been to MD while all the kids were talking about it. First time I have ever stepped into a MD I was 21.... didn't like it at all

My sister raised her daughter in the same way. I blame the parents for most of it because after all it is them that hand the money over to the cashier. I think where possible the parents should leave the kids at home when they go out to shop or leave them with the grandparents.

Me to, we never had any kind of "pop" in the house, the only "junk" food we had was fish & chips once a week after swimming........back in the 70s

Me too!

When she becomes older she'll understand

Vegies and fruit are harmful to health, we are brain washed

She will see her friends develope medical issues, will be lifetime, while she keeps her health.

It should be taught in schools

@@eSKAone- It should. But the world doesn't want us to be smart and independent. They want us to be dumb followers and sheep.

He's a true gem. Hope he doesn't get assassinated 💟

He has been subject to constant discredit campaigns in the main stream media in Mexico. Most likely paid by these corporations.

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From the times I've been in Switzerland on work, you still seem to have more smokers than other European countries. I'm a smoker myself that's why I noticed.

It lookes like the North Korea has good health policies, hasn't it? There are a lot of lean healthy ppl there.

@@Alex-hd6ek they're not healthy, they're starving. if someone is thin, doesn't mean is healthy.

@@Alex-hd6ek North Korean people are thin from lack of available food, low wages and low GDP (and inability to grow enough domestically but many countries fall into this category, including SK). This all stems from their their economy being stifled by international sanctions for the past several decades, and also the end of economic support and food AID from USSR following the dissolution of USSR in 1991, and NK unwilling to negotiate with USA to end their Nuclear program in exchange for aid and lifting of sanctions. Prior to sanctions their economic output and GDP was significantly higher, as was the average North Koreans ability to purchase food. Industries, companies, and governments aren't going to be able to import food from abroad if the country and its citizen don't have money or if their currency holds little value.

Nestlé has picked up and ran with the American diet!!! Yikes!! 😳 Don’t be like America! Obese, overweight, type two diabetes, unhealthy…🤔

girl can’t eat right and blame corporations for her weight , wow how incredible

she is very brave to eat so much and willing to die young

The comments here are exactly why it’s brave she’s doing this, because you people love to hate in comments because of perceived anonymity… but she’s the bad person for being fat… yeah ok 👍🏾 😅

@@bernardoac5588 Like most modern people, she probably can't even boil water.

Absolutely! It´s an addiction like any other and everyone who fights their addiction is brave. But everybody kept talking about her weight; what I saw was the sad face, the lank hair. Nobody thought of a new haircut, different clothes, some cosmetics. She has long hair and a striking face, she might be truly beautiful. And it might improve her self-esteem, which is a huge positive motivator.
I´ve met several girls like this, where everyone - including themselves - focused on their weight and nobody thought of working with the hair, the eyebrows. Made the whole thing even worse.

It's crazy

she refers to people as "consumers" in a general seentence when not talking about any particular consumers per se, whic is just cartoon levels of villainhood

"are you trying to be healthy, or are you just trying to be number 1"
I think she should have said both.
Because wouldn't it be great if you can be healthy and also the number 1? she could have also shoved the issue onto governments.
its the governments fault

fast food consumers are called "users."@@infinitestare

@@ayoCCwhy is that the fault of the government? If there is no demand these companies wouldnt exist to such extend

@sepulvedablvd7846 and monsanto products are banned in the EU

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I think so

the ONLY thing you need to lose weight is a calorie defecit!!!! no illness or hormones can stop calorie defecit from working!!!! the laws of thermodynamics will apply

@@mythbuster6126 everyone. people need to be aware that if they want to lose weight they need to be in a calorie defecit. there is NOTHING wrong with your body. if you are fat, then you eat too many calories. just eat less and you lose weight

I’m not following closely the current Administration in the seat of power in Mexico, but I think they are oriented toward heath and well being of the general population rather than beholden to corporate interests. I hope that continues because it will take a couple of generations to see any significant results in the efforts to change direction.

I wish colorful packages would be banned for unhealthy foods aimed at children. Just a black box, name of the product and all the warning labels

The industry is transitioning already: organic sugar and artificial sweeteners, whole wheat, plus vegan ingredients. It's still junk, made for convenient consumers, long shelf life, and cost-cutting production. There is no glory in preventing diseases. Most people are delusional and will buy supposed "fitness" food

In paper and theory the idea seems great!, BUT in reality, it does not work. I was in Mexico for a while and the people even joke about the "sellos" or labels warning them that the product is high in sodium, sugar or fat. They just look at the labels and laugh saying that those labels are not going to stop them from buying the product. It's like they even think those labels are taking away their freedom and the citizens don't like that!. I know nobody who actually feels concerned about it. I've a lot of relatives who are in their late 20s and mid 30s who already suffer from diabetes and hypertension. The problem is even worse for Mexicans living in the US because even though they work really hard, all the money they earn is not used for buying healthy food, instead they buy cheap highly processed food in order to save the rest of the money and send it to their families in Mexico to throw big wedding / birthday parties.

It should, but it will probably never happen in america 🙁

When i was in school they showed us documentaries about the hazards of tobacco and street drug use. I got the message and never used them.

I started eating my constant first junk food while in high school and that was the chocolate bar. I had to have one every day.

Agreed

It's really the parents who need to be watching this too. Children don't have control of the type of food they consume in their households.

This should be shown to useless parents.

Try natural coconut sugar 😉

U can use date syrup, agave or coconut blossom sugar..u will get there

I consider whole grain pasta to be healthy, but you should have them split up in to maximum 2 meals a day, and with a good amount of healthy plant seed oils (I prefer olive). Other than that I eat nuts and vegetables. Only drink water, coffee, and tea without milk or sugar. If you're vegan have your vit.B12 and a good source of omega-3 fatty acids (like algae oil), maybe vit.D if you're a nightshift worker or not out in the sun much, and you're good. I'm 40 years old, athletic, everyone thinks I'm much younger. Take good care of your bodies folks 💟

​@@_arabellasisobullshit, sugar is sugar

​@@nadiaandkofibullshit, sugar is sugar

Warnings on food labels are hardly effective. Addicts know that sugar/crack/alcohol is bad for them, but it's what they hunger for. They are desperate to stop but can't. The only way to break the habit is to go cold turkey and to never touch the "substance" again. Moderation doesn't work here. It's not about calories and how much one eats. It's about the "what". If one stays away from processed food of any kind - which includes all so-called junk like fast food, ready-made "convenience" meals, sodas, cakes, chocolate, icecream, chips, viennas, even bread - and replaces it with fruit and vegetables and cooks simply and from scratch, the cravings will subside and the weight will come off.

Hi John...Men can have 3 fruits a day, females 2 fruits a day. Sugar is in fruits....if we stay the equivalent of under 6 teaspoons of sugar per day. (Sugar fruits) if you consume artificial sugar...your body still reacts the same. (Just less calories)
Try intermittent fasting to help with appetite...if you have not yet. 😊

I agree, intermittent fasting is a good thing to allow the body to rest and digest in between meals. My point was, however, to never eat processed food of any kind including refined sugar. For some reason I find that fruit sugar in its natural, whole form, i.e. in apple or pear etc. - not even as freshly pressed juice initially - is not as addictive and will assuage the cravings of a person in withdrawal. This will lessen naturally once one has replaced processed food with whole plant food and thus have given the body the nutrients it craved in the first place. Even vegetables have a certain sugar content. The "rehab" process takes about 3 to 4 weeks. If one can stick it out 100%, one is in recovery. Intermittent fasting can be introduced afterwards.

Fruits should be limited as well. Most fruits are bred for the highest sugar content, because that's what people are raised to believe, "A fruit is not good if it's not sweet."; when, in fact, fruits, like vegetables, have a range of tastes and flavors.

@@logikgrIt's absolutely wild that even fruit has been engineered by humans - I totally forgot that! 😮

Good luck Rebecca and thank you for giving us an insight of your struggles I wish you well 😊

Wednesday, July 12, 2023 ☁⛅☁
Yes, she is brave! She gets respect for being brave and telling her story to a camera team from Deutsche Welle.
I like that the presenter mentioned her - courageous step! 😀

Oh she is definitely going to need a new heart in a few years

I wish her to forgive her parents.

Amen.
Philippians 4:17

Congratulations for losing so much body weight since when you were 111 kg.

@@Boycott_for_Occupied_Palestine Intermittent fasting played a big part here. I've been going for just 2 meals a day, but I have tried OMAD (One Meal A Day) before. It's pretty good, if one knows how to get the important nutrition intake.

@@muhdfauzibmohdrais3844 OMAD? Or commonly known as: working so hard you don't have time to eat more than once.

Well done! Keep it up 😊

Congratulations bro, keep it up!

Bloody well done🎉

It baffles me too that the narrative for diabetic patients is to eat hoards of carbohydrates!

What’s wrong with beans? They’re rich in fiber and healthy.

WOW! Thank you for commenting... my heart breaks for those patients.

​@@MarthaVinuesa-hp2ozprobably the British ones with sweet tomatoe sauce

It sounds like they’re trying to get rid of them.

Another rule: if your food has a list of ingredients on it, dont eat it.

Whatever, lets just die happily in front of our PS5s! This world doesnt worth fighting for anyway!

Same rule for govt.

not always eh

*Take all responsibility for your health and don’t be so lazy and prepare normal food for yourself and for your kids*

It's hard to stomach. I've realized the best thing to do is be active with your friends, family, and community to try to educate them on better eating. Seriously, it's our responsibility with knowledge to use it to better our peers. It's easy to feel overwhelmed by a crushingly powerful system, but we have some power to change it.
I'm on a mini crusade to help my friends and family get off of three things:
1. Seed oils (basically industrial byproducts that are high in bad fats. Sunflower, safflower, canola, etc). Try to use extra virgin olive oil or natural butter for cooking instead, and be aware how common these oils are in almost everything.
2. Highly processed grains
3. Added sugars (anything on a label that says "added sugar" that's more than 0g)
If you can avoid those three things as much as possible, you are already 80% of the way there, according to Calley Means, who used to be a corporate lobbyist for some of these unethical companies.
I think if more people take it as a personal responsibility to change themselves and others around them, corporations will feels it where it hurts--their wallets.

It is human nature to compete

Timeless struggle of good vs bad, of human weaknesses, greed, corruption, struggle for power, wealth, the desire to display that, etc

That leads to further nursing home residents who are eating those sugars and carbs and getting fatter and fatter. I watch the staff shove more and more bowls of carbs under the blind woman, who is getting bigger and bigger. They serve desserts and lots of potatoes and macaroni and juice and ice cream here. I used to eat the food here and half my hair fell out. I did that because texas only allows its nursing home residents $60 of their social security checks to be kept every month. I could not afford organic raw veggies and fruits. So in July I kept my $918 of RSDI unearned income so that I could buy these organic foods. My hair stopped falling out. AND they don't find it important to wash my feet and legs where the metabolic acidosis wounds are. When covid shut down the libraries and parks, I began to sit for long periods of time. Status dermititus started with an open wound at the ankle to let out liquid. Now I have 3 wounds because I can't walk. Turns out that these sugars and carbs are acidic foods and we are alkaline beings. These processed foods turn our bodies acidic so that there is injury to the microbiome and blood vessels and organs. Swelling legs and feet mean inflammation derived from injury. Sugar is literally a poison as it clumps red cells together.
This means that corporations are deliberately causing these people to become bigger and heavier. This causes even more pain which sells more pills. They tell me that medicare/medicaid makes the rules and they can't change it. Yet I have read that we are supposed to be getting a diet made specifically for each one of us. A lot of people here are very slow, with dementia. One man is in a coma. How are they supposed to protect themselves?
Read this story and look at the winners: Nation’s Largest Nursing Home Pharmacy to Pay Over $28 Million to Settle Kickback Allegations

u mean in america go outside of ur country where food is more safe

Maltoze, dextrose and corn syroup are just as bad. Xylitol and stevia are good alternatives

I was shocked when I was trying to find low sugar cereals for my dad in high school and even things like Cheerios and pasta sauce had sugar in them (higher than the 3rd ingredient). That’s when I realized how much it was everywhere lol

@@corgisrule21even chicken broth and “healthy” baby snacks have added sugars. It’s crazy. I also didn’t realize how deep sugar went. Like duh, I knew to avoid cakes and ice cream but didn’t know they put it in things that aren’t even sweet.

@@Kate-ct9ys It makes it taste better if there is a bit of sugar. Same with salt. These companies test recipes with slightly different combinations to find the one that most will like (really what is the most addictive), then sell that to you. There is some magical mix of salt and sugar in any food they refer to as the 'bliss point'. I always look and stick to brands that don't add sugar unnecessarily on principal.

When you get a sugar craving try a grapefruit, a grapefruit has all of the cravings you crave in it, sweet,sour, and if you like throw a shot of salt on it. Boom, there ya go.

You're right unfortunately!😢😭😭😭

Then 90%+ percentage of the coke bottles end up making earth bloated with pollution.
Sounds like a company that we all would be better off without.

the ONLY thing you need to lose weight is a calorie defecit!!!! no illness or hormones can stop calorie defecit from working!!!! the laws of thermodynamics will apply

​@@gamer4ever838
Not true. 400 calories of cabbage and 400 of ice cream will be metabolized differently.
Clue one
You may crave more ice cream but the cabbage no not so much.

​​​@@gamer4ever838Underestimating factors that make it sustainable to keep up the deficit and then establishing habits that allow you to keep it up for a lifetime is a biiiig mistake. You will not be able to stay in the deficit consuming calorie dense salty fat-rich products that this docu talks about, you would feel like you're starving because the effect they have is not filling you but making you stay hungry and crave more.
So yes in principle what you said is true but to make that happen is far more complicated than you make it out to be.

@@justynawisniewska1213 i can eat junk food every day and still lose weight. Because i am not that hungry. So defecite for me is easy. Fat has 9 calories per gram. So stay away from it

@@arianaGG126 omg. Stop it. You need 2500. You eat 2200. You lose weight.... you just lost 40 pounds. Now you must eat 2000 to continue losing weight. I dont care who you talked to or what you read. Your body needs calories. IF YOUR BODY HAS TOO LITTLE CALORIES. IT WILL AS IN MUST USE STORED FAT.

The point is that the “healthy” options are not actually healthy. They use buzzwords to trick the average consumer. Some healthy foods are actually much worse than the junk food variations. These companies rely on people being misinformed about what is healthy to make money. That’s why they even create these “healthy” lines! At the end of the day, ultra processed food will never be healthy!

U mean even fruit or vegetables these kinds of healthy food are marked with excess calories or sodium? If so, that really doesn't make sense!!

There's also another problem and that's artificial sweeteners still inducing an insulin response.
As well as some artificial sweeteners(at least in the USA) being approved as result of an ex-politician using his ties to the government to get an artificial sweetener approved by FDA, all the while it was an carcinogenic, aspartame is still legal to use and sell as an artificial sweetener.

I'm a 66 year old man and I'm obsessed with keeping my mid drift bulge down to a minimum.

I can’t stand artificial sugars, no diet soda no flavored water. I drink now only water. But bottled water has microscopical plastic in it. I see so many you tube documents about food. And really start to struggle, of what would be good for you. Stay away from Nestle products, even cat food friskies is not good for your cat.

This is just trickery to be able to tax our product on the excuse of "its to protect you"
They take the 5% of people who overexagerate a lot on ammount of food they eat and their long term lack of physical activity. To act as if its some majority problem
Almost all people have trouble eating too much cause their stomach feel full
Not all of them are athletic cristiano ronaldo beast. But they at least have a couple of months in the year where they go often to the gym or do some physical activity. It can be as simple as walking outside a lot. Riding a bike. Swimming in the beach. Move heavy things around etc

Unites States and surgeon general are in the pockets of big sugar and in general food manufacturing companies. They are too spineless to do anything.

Here in Chile we have those warning "black labels" for quite some time already. I've read the Mexicans were inspired by our model. If I see high calories, sugar or fat labels, I know that product is a no no. Also, tha drawing cartoons aimed for children are forbidden too and all food have nutritional facts, so we CAN compare.

@@chilenapromedioRU That's great! We can learn a lot from that model in the US! We have been deliberately lied to for decades!

@@happyslap2588 I hope you can get introduced these little things that can help us consumers to keep us informed. I know in the US it's even more difficult because there's big lobby for all those companies, but citizens pressure can make changes!

The problem is that even if a cigarette package warns about “smoking kills” and shows scary pictures, still the less intelligent user thinks, “WOW, that sounds nice”!

I agree with you but when we were growing up we didn't have access to something like KRplus to get education about food. Now that we have it and it's changing lives and we are healthier and slimmer. I am avoid sugar and white flour products and I think they should be banned. Deep fried foods too.

The staple foods for hundreds of generations which served us so well has changed drastically and almost immediately with terrible consequences. We must be mindful of our choices if we want to stay on the healthy track.

Thanks for watching and for the feedback!

It should be used in schools around the world to bring awareness and as a reminder.

​@@DWDocumentarywhy did you put yogurt in the first scene?

If you feel weak, it can be because you lack potassium and magnesium. Eat more sweet potatoes and kale and you will see the difference. I also take ZMA tablets as I exercise a lot and need my magnesium. Just never take it with alcohol! Artificial sugar can deplete your body of potassium, magnesium and calcium.

Same here, I cut sugar off and just ate things with little sugar. And once I eat cake, candy, chocolate, ect, after cutting sugar...I couldn't stand sugar. 😅 I just want more healthy food now and I'm getting addicted, which is a good thing haha

True. If you want change, you'll get to it and start.

I gave up excess added sugar myself plus milk because it causes my acne. Once both were limited, no more acne! I no longer crave it either. I agree though, at times cereal and milk triggers much cravings

for me its salt. feel you bro

I am on the same journey as you. Didn't realize I was addicted to sugar. Blessings and success to you!

It’s a journey….
Good for you!!!🌱🌲

Because giving up sugar is stupid, its all about the dose

​@@sigmamale4147that's what I used to think too. Then I realized that every time I give up sugar I ended up going right back to it. Maybe some people can partake of it sparingly and seldom, but I don't seem to have that ability. For me one cookie, one ice cream, one sods, is the first step on a slippery slope.

@@sigmamale4147 Some people have to give up sugar. It's not stupid: it's called addiction. It's just like some people are alcoholics and they can't drink casually.

Same here in Portugal.

One poison replaced for another.

better than sugar. No scientific studies says artificial sweeteners are bad. I substitute sugar with stevia and it doesn't spike my blood sugar.

Better than the obesity and diabetes from too much sugar. People should add more vegetables and beans to their diets but sugary, fatty, salty food that are easy to eat are more rewarding.

​@sands7779 You appear to be in a position of being able to afford healthy options. Not everyone is. Look in the shops as if every penny counts, see how limited choice often is because of cost. Junk food is cheap, and often takes minimal cooking, further reducing costs. Healthy foods are usually expensive, and require additional expenses such a energy consumption, or even simple, yet expensive ingredients such as herbs and spices. Cooking at home is best, which is why I do it, but it is often not the cheapest option, and when the pennies need to be counted, that matters.

Being a mom is a meaningful job in and of itself

​@@beejereeno2it is. It's one of the most important job in the world. But western society has beaten it down to a pulp.

Mom being a good mom trying to make her family healthy. That's a meaningful job.

It could be a factor in childrens obesity..?
Steaming some veggies with chicken/fish/beef and sitting at the table, isnt hard

Your mom had the most meaningful job ever.
She was a mom. Moms are sorely needed today.

that is brutal.

Google health effects on eating bad its that simple. People hook them selves on junk food because there lazy 100%

I have been eating a lowcarb lifestyle for ten years. I eat nothing packaged except butter😊 and yoghurt

Rules for thee but not for meeeeee

Guaranteed!

No such thing as unprocessed food. Anything made to be edible is at somepoint processed for consumption. Ultra processed is the proper term.

@@forrestaustin7050 Would you say an apple or banana is processed?

@@chizachirwa3537 Yeah

@@padregrande523 how so?

​@@chizachirwa3537it was sprayed with pestizides, fertilised, washed, cooled down.

But it makes sense to tax extra for adding sugar. For some add sugar to stuff that doesn't need it like ketchup or mustard.

What do you mean ‘required viewing”?

These products effectively are dessert, not supposed to be a main course or a mindless snack. If everyone sticked to that rule, there would be far less diseases

There is a very easy way of 'boycotting' products.
DONT BUY THEM!

​@@CarloAldoВы прям с языка сняли😊👍

Господи, какая тупость. Насколько у человека нет мозга, что он не может осознать, что жрать ЛЮБЫЕ ПРОДУКТЫ нужно в умеренных количествах? Может еще на воде писать, что чрезмерное употребление воды вредит вашему здоровью? Может стоит иногда включать мозг, а не сваливать вину за свою глупость на бездушные корпорации?

Thing is Mexican diet aka food is not the healthiest but it was more natural and not processed, the main factor is those huge bottles of soda that is causing all the problems, I know there a town in Mexico were cola is cheaper than water

@@luiskross6454 Indeed

@@luiskross6454 sadly coke is cheaper than water in most of the country but the diet has definitely changed in that last 30 years

@@luiskross6454Mexican food, like any staple diet is actually quite healthy. And I'm not talking about fatty tacos, fatty fried foods. I grew up in the South Central part of Mexico in the 80's and the herb and legume salad was always the main part of dinner....having no fresh ingredients with your food is what we would call dry food.

And America! Have you been to the US lately?

Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment!😄

@@iii___iii It's not ppl not care, it's top ppl don't care, these are ways for top ppl to be in the top
The middel to bottom ppl, most of them are brainwashed from the beginning and not having access to this information, the middle to bottom ppl are poor and strictly controlled by the top, not having choice to go the healthy way, so even when they have access to this information, most the time are their body already adapted to this type of comsuming food,(as they are being controlled and brainwashed by the top from the beginning) very hard for them to change without changing their living condition, meaning, they are already in a bad condition, scrambling to survive with the bad comsuming habits, resulting them stuck with this cheap drunk food

@@iii___iii They do. But it's one thing to know something, it's different if you are reminded of said thing often.
Why do you think these companies advertise that much? We all know what Coca-Cola is, we know how it tastes. Why is Coca-Cola wasting hundreds of missions for advertisement, if just knowing about their product was enough?

I definitely want to try this!😊

sounds like a torture, and in the long term it's equal to failure.

​@@Mizz.Personstevia helps to fight sugar craving

Thanks for watching!

You're not alone. I am the same.

@@NightShady279 ♥️

wow

@@mertarslan1707 noldu

We are glad you liked it, thank you for watching!

VAS A VIVIR MAS Y MEJOR

Thanks for watching and for your constructive feedback! :-)

Bingo! Not only that, but you actually had a proper scientific argument. Whereas Michael was just kind of taking a dump in front of the camera. Cheers!🍻

He should try European products first, taste chocolate etc, not soy coco bars...

I agree to a certain degree. Food industry have made hyperpallatable foods with a lot more sugar, fat and salt and has combined them.
The chemicals, emulgators and preservatives and so on definitely destroy our metabolisms.

Yes, salt and fat are actually good (unless it's transfats). Although I believe, combining these 3 makes junk food even more tasty, than just sugar individually.

The salt, Sugar and Fat is not the same our Ancestors used....today, it's a bunch of chemicals..

During the first weeks I quit sugar I felt extremely irritable. Anything annoyed me. There is a reason to associate sugar with drugs in some way.

I have 1 cheat day every 2 months maybe or more. Usually mcdonals somewhere on the way where I have no options

The one that also during covid said that masks were not necessary to protect yourself from getting infected! He said on national tv to hug each other and not be afraid of getting covid and that the best protection was to pray and have a saint on a card by your side !!! Also took vacations regularly during the pandemic

the ONLY thing you need to lose weight is a calorie defecit!!!! no illness or hormones can stop calorie defecit from working!!!! the laws of thermodynamics will apply

@@judehalo500 false and unnecessary comment.

This Deputy Minister actually did a remarkable job during the Covid pandemic. He gave daily advises in how you should protect and how the pandemic was evolving. He is actually an expert on infections. The bad propaganda against him and the Mexican government comes precisely from this immoral corporations, who do not want any limitations.

​@@gamer4ever838
Nope your wrong again

You are so right
Bottom line: there is not an adult at home that consistently prepares homemade food

Absolutely correct

Can you cool it with the propaganda? In my country most households are dual income and we still do what you did.

@@issecret1 what do you mean ??

My parents were both fulltime workers and we never had breakfast, and becomming a single mother of 2 myself had kept the bad habit of skipping breakfast. When my son was in kindergarten they told me hed often say hes hungry before first recess, so I started trying to give him breakfast but he would waste it in the mornings because he wasnt ready to eat till later on.. that was 17 years ago now and they have since changed the recess to 2 longer "nutrition breaks" instead of one lunch and 2/ 15 min recesses.. they must have discovered the kids are hungrier at certain times..I agree junk food is cheaper, at my poorest when the kids were younger I'd always end up with koolaid over real juice but just about everything in some grocery stores is garbage.. but today everything is so expensive I just get the healthy stuff that in some cases are cheaper! I go to the smaller more local or farm produced stores, people think its more expensive but not anymore! I'll end up paying the same for garbage! Pet foods too

Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!

It's a negative feedback loop of stress and the emotional warfare of trauma, drama, and substance.. Nothing is more destructive than the fear of uncertainty... Housing and life instability and the substance we abuse from the trauma/pain avoidance...

How long fasting?

you are totally right. very good explanation. we all experience this at least sometimes in a low level when we are really hungry. even an avacado tastes very fulfilling.

Sometimes bread with a topping is too intense for my stomach, so I just eat a slice of Whole grain bread. Been wondering why, but I fast a lot so could be that.

@@volkantum dude, a plain avocado is literally to die for. Making it into guac is also great

It's not a sugar addiction though. It is a food addiction. The reason chocolate is so good is because it has all the components, sugar, fats, the mouthfeel.
Nothing wrong with some sugar in your diet if your exercise & don't overconsume. I can see why this is very difficult to start out with (first 3 months) after that it gets so much easier.

@@0xszander0 multiple studies have proven highly processed suger to be more addictive than cocaine and amphetamines...sugar addiction is real.

I loved sweets as well but once i started eating 95% animal foods and animal fats, I have no sugar cravings, as a matter of fact if I even eat a piece of sweets my body rejects and I suffer. I learned once your body is nourished properly, your body/brain will tell you to stop eating. Like, you can't overeat once you body has all the nutrients it needs. There's a reason the government tells us not to eat animal foods and super low fat foods. When our body is deprived of essential fatty acids(animal fats) that switch in our brain that tells us we are nourished gets shut off, this is the reason we constantly eat and can't stop eating junk food because these foods don't nourish us. Paleo-anthropology is where the truth is when it comes to human necessity.

Stevia helps fight sugar craving

​@0xszander0 but thats the point, he can't just "eat alitte or in moderation" bc it's sugar addiction

Yes, as described in book Ultraprocessed people by Chris van Tulleken 👍

Overprocessed food has many more ingredients, just count the number of ingredients listed on the label, the more, the worse

I once bought a Belgian chocolate box, read the ingredients and could't beleive it. They had gluten! (as in bread). Gluten is an opiate.

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how you where raised doesn’t necessarily effect your diet in adulthood. many kids who where raised in a strictly healthy food household rebel and eat a lot of junk food once they move out and gain freedom. just as many kids who where raised around unhealthy junk food might grow tired of it and begin eating healthy once they move out of that environment. i’m the second one, my parents always had junk food on tap and now that i’m older i’m so sick of it and it doesn’t even tempt me.

If only it was that simple 🙄

​@@sphxx7995not really, children get habits in their families, new habits are more difficult to build up. Your change is more based on the protest and refusal action towards your parents direct on the food, well, obviousy, it is good for you. You shoud study the real things connected with your parents you reject though.Maybe the way they supported and cared for you you could not accept or their imperfections, well, it would be better watch own ones.)

@@EnglishElly sure, many children get habits in their families. but some habits, especially good habits, are much easier to break than they where to create. and bad habits, though more difficulty broken, are breakable with effort. my “change” really has nothing to do with my parents, they never forced me to eat junk food they would just buy it, and being a child, i would eat it. once i began buying my own groceries, obviously, i started to buy different and more healthy things. you’re reading too deeply into this and fail to give me any form of credit for my own choices. also, i don’t “reject” my parents, they’re great people and i feel it’s weird and invasive for you to come onto the internet and make such stark claims with so little knowledge about me. you don’t know me. so please save your attempted psychoanalysis’ for your “studies”.

@bluesun
Bless your parents.

It wasn't necessarily because you cut out the junk you lost weight. It's just you created a caloric deficit. But yes whole foods are much better for you and not packed with extra calories.

Stop eating yogurt.

@@marieh9627 No, yoghurt is actually quite healthy as it provides calcium and protein. Just eat the plain kind and if you still want something sweet, add a little bit of fruit.

@@Juleru The vast majority of yogurt on the market is unhealthy so he's not wrong. Chances are, most people wouldn't eat yogurt if they had to only eat the plain stuff. In addition, lactose allergies or intolerance is fairly common and for many others dairy causes bloating and gas. Dieticians recommend that diary only be eaten to supplement a diet, it should not be a significant source of your protein.

Only calorie control makes any difference.

Choose better for yourself. No one is forcing you to eat their garbage.

the problem is that sugar is important for us and lessening it to the point that it hinders our development is also bad.
we need sugar for energy but the big companies use it and our body's need of sugar to cheat and brainwash many people to eat more than what's needed.

I make my own pastry, I feel like that's the only way to know whats inside your food

My mother and me usually do that, too. And if lack of time or something else forces us to buy instead of bake, we get certain things over and over, from which we now that they make us feel saturated in a healthy way. Reading the ingredients is a must with anything you eat (And sadly not only once, but at least every few months, there are products we ditched after the ingredients changed for the worse.).
We are not exactly thin, but at least growing some food in our garden and being cautious allows us to be overall healthy. And we got more cautious over the years and moved towards mostly buying only basic ingredients (And ordering many spices from the internet; you need more of them if you do not use too much fat and salt, most have health benefits and the quality of the spices we could get without ordering online is too low.).
Yes, coking and baking is work, although developing routines makes it easier.
But I also have the impression that it gets easier over the months and years to withstand most of the food (poison) industry crap. Your taste changes from finding those things alluring to finding them to taste bland. And knowing you can eat tasty things that allow you to actually feel good does not make eating artificial things that leave you fatigued or quickly hungry again look attractive.
But the change for the better for whole societies and the whole world will not come if this is the only way.

@@arianaGG126 European. just look at the nutritional declaration on the packaging and you will see it's true

@@Multiplads that's the thing: what packaging? Regular bread you buy in the cornershop bakery doesn't come in a bag; and shouldn't contain sugar unless it's some special type of sweet bread

It’s actually a myth that eating healthy costs more. Yes, your grocery bill will go up but if you meal prep, it’s actually cheaper. The difference is that you will need to eat less food to feel full. A lot of people are binge eating these processed foods because there isn’t any nutrition in them. Plus, being smaller means that you actually need less food too.

@@thezu9250people know that but if you look at things like canned tomatoes or chicken broth, the ones with low sodium or no sugar are more expensive.

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