American reacts to why Americans are fat
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- Thank you for watching me, a humble American, react to Obesity in America
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Big portions, free refills, sugar in everything, drive everywhere, that'll do it
And corn in everything.
...and butter _on_ everything - except _in_ sandwiches for some strange reason ?!!
In the UK, your American bread would be legally classified as cake due to how much excessive sugar is in it!
True, but every time a Brit criticizes American food, I can't help but think about the infamous chip butty, which is an abomination and a crime against humanity and the UK's healthcare system.
That is why I made my own in a breadmaker every day.
You'd change your mind if you had one :P
@@GGysar
Yet bread is a daily staple & chip butties are a rare treat. I have bread most days, for example, but I can't remember when I last had a chip butty, maybe a couple of years ago.
@@GGysar... Really!! A chip butty is a really weak example of anything bad in food when there are an untold number of awful American fast food joints foisted on countries all around the world. A chip butty in comparison to those is positively the pinnacle of healthy food and should be on a diet sheet. Ha!
Been to the States 6 times. Every time I go I have a bad stomach from the food and im always disgusted by the sheer size of the portions, it's just pure greed, nobody needs 20,000 calories a day ffs
Yes, I usually ask for the smaller size. Once in July 4 2007 my first time being at independence celebration in US ended with a horrible stomachache 😮. I prefer the food of my country México!!!
And many Americans will tell you, that the portion size is a good thing because you can get a doggy bag and eat the rest the next day, which is just.... why not have smaller portions in the first place and get a FRESH meal the next day?
No, this is not an imaginary problem, I had this exact conversation multiple times.
mexicos obesity issues are worse than the usa though lol @@manueltapia1859
i ordered pizza in texas one time and there was like a whole pound of cheese on it, absolutely disgusting
It's not the portion size that's the big problem, the problem is that an apple contains no apple but 100 other non apple related ingredince
When I was in US I lost a lot of weight 😂😂😂 I was a weirdo for my flatmates because I cooked and I was frustrated with the food quality and portions there. Milk disgusting, no proper bread anywhere, no fish in the supermarket, just some frozen sh1t...
same here. everything was just gros or unaffordable so my family had to cook. bread was the worst and the engredients would always spoil because package sizes were too large to use up without having to eat the same food for days. I ws wondering back then how large families must be to be able to use a gallon (!) of milk within a couple of days.
Re bread. The other day saw a US recipe for lentil flat bread. The cook folded the cooked thing in half and commented it was nice and soft like bread. I grew up in post war UK. Yes we had sliced white pap. But bakeries large and small also produced proper bread. No squeezing to see if its fresh like you see on tv ads. You cant squeeze proper bread. In fact the crusts on the pan casero that I buy my local Spanish bakery is rock hard. 😮
As a British person, one of the main things I noticed when visiting the US was the huge portion sizes... even for the same gross things we have here like McDonald's, we eat it but the portions are smaller. Another thing I noticed which was mentioned in this video was that everything feels like it's full of sugar - your bread tastes sweet, milk tastes sweet, even bottled water tastes sweet, it's like everything has added sugar
that keeps the Big Pharma and Insurance business alive!
Have to say i agree. Everything tastes so sweet even things you wouldnt think have sugar in them
As a french, I also noticed that english food is not food 😂😉
@@christopheb.6121 Yeah, us English have no culture, we just take everybody else’s food because otherwise it would just be potatoes and vegetables 😂
@@liammcfarlane13 You Anglos will never be worse at food than Americans, and that's the only good thing I can say about your food.
Of course every single person could eat less and healthier and lose weight. But when this problem affects so many people there must be a general problem as well.
Looking at t ypical American food, it seems to consist of lots of fried foods, chips, burgers
sweets, in large portions.
Eating less depends on yourself, eating healthy depends on your income. And you can't always choose the second one.
That is fixable if the government would do anything to reduce the sugar content and promote healthy food and make healthy food cheaper. In the long run these subsidised healthy food would pay themselves back by keeping people healthier for longer meaning they could keep working till a later age and thus pay more taxes for longer.
Slave Wages, High/Rising Cost-of-Living, Unhealthy Food is Cheapest, Available 24/7 & Fastest, Car Based Transportation System, Education in General is non-existent, kids know every day might be their last (bc the Gov loves guns more than their own children), etc
There’s lots of reasons, but mostly what’s called ‘Late Stage Capitalism’
Bad Food is Cheap, plus the US allows the worst ingredients in the food that are banned in places like Europe bc they’re bad, just.. it’s basically the fault of a Greedy Government owned by Corporations- 😓
@@tomvanvenrooij1811You're forgetting that in the US, "healthcare" is big business. There's no way the government would promote healthy food, and no way food corporations or the stupid medical companies would allow for it - there's too much money to be made by keeping people unhealthy and poor.
I think the major problem in the USA is that you use a lot of industrial processed food... Even in videos I see on social about home cooking there's a lot of pre-made industrial crap used, even something simple as pancake batter is usually industrial and pre-made when it would be so simple to make from scratch. In Europe we usually make everything from scratch and from local and seasonal ingredients which Is much more healthy. Add to that the fact that the portions are more than double and that you walk way less and the problem is clear
Exactly, no rocket science.
No exercise + more junk food=public health issue.
The issue is well known, the problem in the US is how the agroindustry funds politicians to block any change.
Americans aren't taught how to cook and fresh produces are hard to find (many supermarkets just have few or none at all). There are no bakeries, no butchers etc..and local markets are a scam on prices)
@@etienne8110 so true... One thing I always find surprising when I talk with my American friends is how they always refer to food as brands rather than ingredients or recipes: that shows how engrained this way of thinking about food is. Also puzzling is the total absence of bakeries, replaced by that horrible industrial soft bread... Here in my small Italian town of 15000 people we have 5 bakeries, every small town has at least one or two. Another thing: processed food might taste good thanks to expert chemists but is very poor in nutritional value compared to food made with natural ingredients, which makes you eat more... With less than half the quantity of real food you already feel full end nourished.
Very true. Most of my American friends would tell me they made a cake from scratch. They would often be referring to a box cake as opposed to buying it.
@@izibear4462 I would tell that to my grandmother but i dont want her to die of cardiac arrest :D
There is more to it than that. A lot of this is by design. Poorer people have no real choice but to buy cheaper goods. The cheap food is pumped full of additives, un-necessary and toxic chemicals and ingredients. Eating healthy is expensive. The processed shit that many Americans eat is addictive and there is no real portion control. That, a lack of education or proper government regulation combined corperate greed are actively harming their own population and treating them as no more than consumers.
Hey Ryan, I am 42 years old, from Germany. I want to tell you how I ate when I was a child.
I grew up in the east of Germany, until I was in about 2. grade Germany was still split.
For breakfast we ate either oatmeal with milk and cocoa powder/raisins or bread (sourdough bread bought from a bakery, it usually contains no sugar) with butter and jelly/nutella or lunch meat/cheese on top of it, open faced. And we put ONE slice of meat/cheese (not the fine cut, that did not exist then). In later years we also had cereal sometimes.
For school we took a sandwich from the same bread mentioned above with butter and one slice of meat/cheese and an apple/piece of cucumber and a drink, mostly NOT water.
For lunch we ate a hot meal that my mum cooked from scratch. We only had school til lunchtime in primary school most of the times, so we ate lunch at home.
That whould be potatoes, vegetable side and meat (a rather small portion), a stew or soup, noodles with ketchup/tomato sauce and cheese, hashbrowns (home made from potatoes) with sugar sprinkled on top and apple sauce or similar meals. They were not all super healthy.
In the afternoon sometimes a piece of cake/pie, for the adults with coffee, the kids with a glas of milk, maybe with some cocoa powder in it.
For diner we again ate bread with toppings, occaisionally eggs (boiled or fried), a sausage link, leftover soup and vegetables (mostly raw like carrots, cucumber, tomato, bell pepper, or dill pickles).
Only when I was a teenager we maybe bought fast food once a week or ate frozen pizza, but not very often.
Nowadays the general eating moves more towards the eating in the U.S.
Some people dont even know how to cook the simples meals (say mashed potatoes from scratch) or bake anything.
My mum baked something each week.
And we sat down at the table all together mostly and ate the meals. At least at diner, but often times at the other meals too, depending who was home.
Same story in Western Germany, actually. Grew up having very similar meals, which you described (we are almost one age).
And, yes, talking to the youngsters nowadays really is sad - many do not know how to cook anymore. If they are liquid enough, they, at least, get themselves a Thermomix, but if not, many use convenience food, spending so much more money on it than preparing it on their own.
My favourite example for unnecessary convenience products: pancake batter! Why would anyone need those premixed ones, in which you find almost exactly the same ingredients that one would normally use, but at a much higher price? Honestly, that's pure laziness and only adds more unnecessary plastic to the ever-growing pile! And, especially for pancakes... it's not even needed to be overly precise with the measures... Sorry, don't get it!
@@sylviav6900 Hello Fresh took your comment's paradigm and created a successful business. It's ingenious but it makes me sick because I love to cook and I really enjoy leftovers and lucky me I live in Germany where healthy food is affordable. (Although I have to drive a really long way to find a single fresh jalepeno, which I'm sure Hello Fresh could deliver to my door.)
Thanks for the information about what people ate in that place and time. I guess it shows why Germans can eat applesauce with Reibekuchen and Americans cannot: ) Sugar/apples on potatoes is crazy to us.
@@sylviav6900 Thanks for you answer. I really go interested when you said you were talking about the food in the East before the wall fell. Growing up in western Germany I can say that most of it was the same. We didn't eat oats at all though though that may be a family thing.
@LythaWausW Yes, but Hello Fresh brings up so much unneeded waste as they repack the ingredients in smaller portions and add cooling packages etc. All that can be avoided, if you know how to cook from scratch.
you can eat plain yoghurt or even make your own without any fructose in it and it is healthy…
I heard that poor people do not have access to healthy food because it is more expensive than junk food.
And that is a big issue. The fact that the bad food is so much cheaper than healthy stuff. Over here the cheapest is cooking at home. And vegetables are cheaper than meat or cheese. So pasta with self made tomato sauce is cheaper than mac & cheese.
@@HappyBeezerStudiosI sort of understand the point you are making but is tomato sauce much cheaper than cheese? since the mac part of Mac (macaroni) & cheese is pasta .
@@stephenlee5929 at least in italy both pasta and tomato cost less than cheese, and if u make ur tomato sauce it cost even less
Food deserts 🌵 no stores nearby yet a fastfood joint on every corner
@@HappyBeezerStudios Unless mac&cheese is off brand or on sale - it's cheaper than pasta I would make myself. It should be illegal that healthy food is less affordable, so basically it's unattainable to the people who need it most.
Greek yoghurt with fruits, honey and nuts is a very nutritious breakfast especially compared to cereals or eggs and bacon.
its devastating for your body. Milk based food , isnt tolletare for our body. But I guess people dont know to much about food propriety.
@@matttiaz7576 I guess you mean cow milk and I agree with that, goat milk is better but sour cow milk are very low on lactose, so it will do.
@@matttiaz7576 Isn't the case everywhere, due to food culture in the past I think only like 4-10% of Scandinavia is lactose intolerant as an example.
But yeah it depends on genetics, and it's not good for most of the world
@matttiaz7576 you have no clue what you're talking about lol
@@matttiaz7576 That depends on whether or not you are lactose tolerant (which a lot of people are not without being aware of that). It depends on genetics. In the west most people are lactose tolerant, but in the rest of the world most people are not. If dairy products have a tendency to make you feel bloated or otherwise upset your digestive system, you might very well be lactose intolerant.
Lived in the US for a bit over a year...ate a LOT "healthier", while back home I ate junk food and everything my heart desired, gained 10kg. Came back home, went back to eating crap and lost all the weight within a few months. Your food is lower in quality, high in salt, obscenely high in sugar (even your fruits and veggies tasted too sweet), larger portions and some other dark magic that makes you fat. If I did not experience it first hand I would have thought its exaggerated, is it absolutely not.
I'm keeping my weight for the last 15 years despite not eating super healthy. Guess even the junk is at least somewhat balanced over here.
European here. We cook much from scratch with fresh produce, trying to avoid processed food, or anything industrially manufactured. I grow some vegs in my garden, like tomatoes, chard, zucchini, leaf salads, a small amount of potatoes, and herbs. We walk a lot, or take the bike. There are no scooters for immobile people in our supermarkets, as we don't like to encourage any lack of movement. You have to move around on your own when shopping. I also avoid fast food chains, and should I go there on extremely rare occasions, I do not make use of the drive-through. I park my car, walk into the restaurant, place my order, pay for it and pick it up, and walk back to my car. No laziness. Also, on the subject of not caring what other people do eat because it's not your life: You might be disadvantaged one day when - let's say - you are involved in a car accident and you need to be transferred to an ICU but the only place left there was just five minutes earlier taken by someone morbidly obese because that person had severe heart problems. Might be a farfetched situation but it could happen. USA portion sizes are crazy, too. Also, I often stumble across women on the internet claiming to do cooking (breakfast, lunch, dinner, you name it) when all they do is throwing frozen, packaged, or canned stuff into a casserole dish, with lots of cheese heaped on it, and bake it in the oven. That is NOT cooking!!! Makes me mad when watching.
Homecooked meals out of a can😂
@@christelchristely2816 Exactly. It shocks me to be told that this crap files under "home cooked". Erm... yes, can or package opened at home.
"There are no scooters for immobile people in our supermarkets, as we don't like to encourage any lack of movement."
But some people cannot move, they have a broken leg, or painful hip joints or just very old. Is it better if they have to order food online?, then they will move even less.
Could it be also the quantity ? In Europe the portions are at least one third of those in the USA.
Yes it is, the small size is like a medium one. This summer vacations I went to a suthern style restaurant and the food I ordered was literally the size of a big pan!!!!
yeah I am in France it also matters how often you eat, I eat one or two meals a day only meat, full fat cheese and non starchy veggies, no grains no sugar no seed oils and I eat until I can't put any more in me and I am loosing weight and I am not hungry often, and now after 2 months of this, desire for snacking is gone as well. I drink only black coffee, tea, carbonated water and water. Joint pain gone, energy increased, brain fog gone, memory restored, feels great
At most, you mean.
I lived in Finland for 3 months, eating salmon and yoghurt - but also pizza, chips, sausages, and pasta. I felt fantastic and began walking an hour into town twice a week. But i never lost weight.
Not just the portions.... the ingridients and quality. A lot of US products cannot be sold elsewhere for a reason. Even their fruits and vegetables tasted so sweet and unnatural. Store bought toast in the US had tens of ingredients that I cannot read, in my country its 5 ingredients you find in your pantry. I gained 10kg in a year eating "healthy" in the US, lost them all in months eating "crap" back home. That was proof to me whatever is in their food should not be legal
Hi Ryan.
English here, we have/had a similar problem.
If the problem manifests its self in the poorest, it suggests, these people have or had a lack of choice.
Its easy to say eat healthy foods,
but : they are often more expensive
They wont be what you are used to, and you would not want to try something you may dislike and thus be unable to eat.
At the poorest end, you may not have somewhere to prepare good food, so you must get 'fast/easy meals' these are rarely well balanced.
In the US the portion size is a problem as is free refills, levels of sugars and salt seem very high.
Ryan suggested some compassion for the Children being feed badly
Those parents will also have been children and feed badly, I think they might also deserve some compassion.
Having cereal bowls that size indicates that might be a sensible size for some meal, I can't think what.
Its a systemic issue, not a personal one.
I knew 60 year olds who would eat worst than the 30 odd year old professionals that I knew, but mostly because they'd been brought up in the McD generation. I recall going to an event with my 3 little kids when I first arrived and was told that I didn't have to feed them bfast beforehand because they'd have donuts for them. Mine were 7, 6, 3 y o at the time. I was horrified and fed them before going.
To add to this, mental health issues... People get into a vicious cycle and can't see a way out. Often food is a comfort in these cases or used to numb themselves. So obesity isn't black and white in some cases.
I think there's a very US specific problem: zoning.
Meaning: no grocery shops in a residential area.
Therefor, you need a car to get to the grocery shop - and often it's near impossible to get to one on foot, even if the distance is just a mile.
--> if you don't have money for a car, or are so short with money that even the gas costs are scary, or you work so much over-time that you simply don't have the time, you're stuck with fast food. Which might be cheaper than buying fresh ingredients.
So: unhealthy, cheap food full of fillers, high-fructose syrup & fats is within reach, healthy, unprocessed food isn't.
Add to that that a lot of US cities are largely unwalkable, and certainly not geared towards cycling, either. So if you're in an area where there are no parks, or no parks you'll feel safe in, that's two standard, low-cost forms of exercise which are not available. Notice that if you see pictures of happy joggers in the US, it's mostly in a park or suburbs environment, not within a city.
It's not only happening in America though, nowadays it's gone global. People are much fatter in Europe than they used to be in the 70s, and there's a lot of data about young people especially being less fit and durable. In Finland for example there's mandatory military service, and every young man has to run a Cooper test. The Finnish Army has been keeping records of conscript performance for decades. Endurance peaked at 1979 with the average young man being able to run 2760 meters in 12 minutes. In 2022 it was 2376 meters.
Hello from Australia. Terry Pratchett's five main food groups: starch, sugar, fat, salt and burnt crispy bits.
People get more exercise when they use public transport, walk to the railway station or bus stop, and use the stairs rather than the escalators or the lifts (evelators). Or would the car and fossil fuel industries lobby against that?
It is not really strange that less affluent are more prone to obesity. Sometimes cheaper foods are not so good for you. They can be fillers but full of crap.
However I think the main issue is portion sizes. I remember when my sister came back from a few weeks stay with a relative who lives in the US she had put on a lot if weight. She was astounded by portion sizes especially when eating out. She would be provided with a plate of food that she could barely eat half of. Perhaps it varies from state to state? Going back to normal eating she soon got back to her normal size.
Oh and in her case she tried to avoid a lot of the junk food. She really is not one for highly processed food.
I myself have a healthy balance and usually cook from scratch. However if occasionally through convenience and laziness occasionally buy a ready meal or the rare occasion I have fried food then I feel rather lethargic and sometimes a bit sick. I really notice t he difference if my processed food intake increases. I am less energetic which means less calory output. I guess because I don't eat the crap most of the time I really feel it when I do. Less active also contributes to obesity.
You hit the nail on the head. It’s the portion sizes that’s the biggest problem, and the general ignorance about what’s in the food. Also, lack of activity - while you cannot just work out your bad diet away (just burning an extra 200-300 calories is a lot of work, and that’s just a Snickers worth of calories), staying active is good for general health and your metabolism.
I’ve spent some time in the States and I also found a lot of the food to be too sweet and fatty. Some candy and chocolate and desserts I simply couldn’t stomach because of how overly sweet it was. There was also aways so much food, I could barely make a dent in the meals. The first thing I ever ate there was Denny’s pancakes and it was this huge pile! A culture shock for sure. They also rarely made anything at home, definitely not from scratch, though the backyard BBQ was _top notch._
A normal, healthy person needs about 2000-2400 calories per day, everything extra will be stored for bad times. Unless you are physically active, obviously. So athletes, construction workers, soldiers, etc will need more.
A Big Mac has 563 calories. Add a medium coke and fries and you're at 1190 calories. Large coke and fries with ketchup makes it 1390 calories. That's already 60-70% of the daily intake in one meal. And most people tend to have breakfast and dinner as well, perhaps a snack in the evening and whatever else you drink over the day on top.
oh i'v also noticed since watching US video's the size of drinking cup's is gigantic
It's because of potion size , even that yoghurt pot looked 2 or 3 times the size of in the UK . When ever i have visited America it was hard to keep up with the size of dishes. Even while we were waiting for our meal after ordering we had a big un-ordered salad / bread in front of us . . . then we were not hungry anymore lolllllll
This! I was in America and orderd a SALLAD that sallad lasted me three meals.
No..thats because of shit food. Soup from can...mac n cheese from packet...orange cheese..
well, in my country you can find yogurt in a 1l bottle (if it's the drinking kind) or bucket, but that doesn't mean that's one serving per person, it just means you bought it to enjoy several servings, or to use in a cake or something. Also, I don't really understand the salads I keep seeing on tv and internet... they put meat and cheese and dressing...and croutons...? In my neck of the woods, a salad is simple, just veggies a smidge of salt and a small splash of oil, and it's usually accompanying a main course type of dish.
Portion size is only part of the problem, the bigger problem is what goes into US foods (that are banned in the UK and the rest of Europe) and also how expensive, and difficult to get, actual fresh, healthy foods are over there.
@@krepsht8997 Scottish Cheddar is Orange and is that way from a natural food colouring. The colour is not the issue, what goes into it is and the US food industry are not picking healthy options but the cheapest ones.
I actually _lost_ weight on my 4 weeks vacation in California because I often found the food inedible and/or overpriced for what it was. I survived on beef jerky and frozen yoghurt (mostly toppings). 😅
Edit: The egg tarts from Chinese bakeries were the bomb, tho'.
Ditto.
Isnt that like pastel de nata?
@@aichohvee Sort of. It's egg tart after all. The Portugiese, Chinese and English variants are basically the same but they differ in the amount of eggs used. Iirc, Pastel de Nata uses egg yolk only, are sweeter, and often sprinkled with cinnamon powder.
A few points: Unhealthy food is addictive. It's literally designed in food chemists' laboratories to be as addictive as possible. Its marketing is deliberately manipulative, again, specifically designed by advertising psychologists, to be as manipulative as possible, in such fucked up ways most people would never begin to imagine. Then they're heavily lobbied, in many aspects: subsidies, allowed additives, advertising, health claims (usually with skewed studies), and much more. In a system best describes as corporatism, this makes perfect sense.
The more you refine a product, i.e. strip it of all of its nutrients, the longer its shelf life becomes, the more profitable it becomes. Hence, poor people eat more of it.
No one "chooses" to be unhealthy. Instead, the food industry has figured out a million ways to poke and prod our lizard brains from earliest childhood and from every angle they can get ahold of, so that every last one of us has become brainwashed to some degree. They've even managed to have their brainwashed-but-still-functional consumers turn on and defame those whose lives have already become utterly derailed by the same mechanisms, something we can partly witness in this video - so that they don't have to worry about their predatory practices actually being questioned. Genius, really.
Great comment! Get them hooked young and that is an addict for life.
Topic summarized in one word : neuromarketing
I ate exclusively junk food in my country and was at low healthy BMI. One year in the US of eating better and "healthier" and gained a lot of weight. Its not "unhealthy" vs "healthy" in the US, it is what you add to ALL the food rhat is concerning and possibly the culprit. Eg. Store bought toast in the US has tens of ingredients, has 5 in mine- all natural and ones we csn identify.
I'm a victim of those scientists who formulated Doritos. It's my favorite food on earth. It's such a good thing I cannot get them in my area in Germany. When I put a Dorito in my mouth, the first one, I get a rush that is reminiscent of crystal meth. "Give me more."
Thank you for pointing that out; I really would have expected better than this "well, if they _want_ to be f... obese and have a heart-attack" + smirk.
I don't think this crack-addict level disdain for over-weight people is a coincidence; the first interest of people producing unhealthy / addictive foods is to make sure that _of course_ it's not their fault, after all we aren't forcing anybody to buy our stuff, if you eat only a small amount of it it wouldn't happen, etc etc ...
Kind of a "well it's your own fault if you believe my lies" sort of argument.
I'm not an advocate of the whole fat-positivity movement when it comes to obesity (if we're talking about anybody below BMI 25, I'd say: go for it) , but I'm not surprised that it catches on.
As a European (I'm from Hungary) I never had a problem with weight, probably because:
1. We have cities with stores/schools that are so close to our house that we don't have to drive there (and driving there is sometimes just doesn't worth it, because there are like 5 parking spots in front of a building and that's it, we only use cars for transporting heavy things, or for traveling), or we have a bus/tram/train/metro in like 10 mins from any building in a city, and they come really frequently, so you're naturally encouraged to walk to places, so you basically consume calories even if you don't want to.
2. Fast food is absurdly pricey compared to meals that you make for yourself, like for the price of 2 mcdonalds menus you can make a meal out of veggies & some fried meat, that can feed you for 3 or 4 days, and this is in a really bad economy (Hungary is like the worst of all Europeian economies), not speaking of the traditional food that local grocery stores offer for like half the price of a mcdonalds menu. As a college student I save a lot of money just by buying some veggies and meat and frying it in a pan.
3. I know it's a personal preference, but I hate bread, pasta & rice, and don't eat too much of them. Instead I eat some sweets, but they're mutch more pricey compared to other high carb things so I can't eat too much of them either.
4. I wasn't forced to eat veggies, but I was taught how to make them tasty. I don't eat veggies because they're healthy, but because I like them, so I would never just give up on eating them.
5. I eat really slowly, and because of this, smaller than average amounts
6. Probably genes. My father is absurdly skinny. It's not fair.
I don't know what the main point is in this... But probably these factors will help someone?
Poland here... I agree that the fastfood is quite expensive in the poorer part of Europe. Going to McDonald's here is like going to a proper restaurant for an American... In my family, going to McDonald's to have fries, nuggets and a cheeseburger was reserved for special occasions, and we were just an average income family. For the same price, I'd rather have a home-made omelette with veggies than a cheeseburger that doesn't make you full and tastes artifical. Same goes for high processed food, the price is close to regular food, so why would I choose the processed one...
Ryan..... Love the videos.... Just the tonic after a hard day's work.... For an American you're one sarcastic and witty guy... Keep them coming fella. 😊
27g of sugar in yogurt? if we assume a cup is roughly 200g, then 1 yogurt has more sugar in it than the same amount of sprite....
anyways, drink water, stay hydrated and maybe go for a walk :D
I just checked an my German yogurt has 13g sugar in 100g. I think it would be helpful if people (Americans) could picture what a gram looks like. It's like a small teaspoon. So when I think how much sugar do I put in my tea/coffee (1 teaspoon if there's no splenda around) and I compare that to the yogurt or a coke, it's shocking that I can even eat yogurt or drink coke (I don't, but I have in the past).
The first guy was right, it's sugar. I stopped eating sugar, ate as much as I wanted and lost 10kg in two months. And it's everywhere! The main problem is that sugar makes you hungry all the time and you have to eat more to get full.
My mum, who had eight kids, was really good at feeding them. She'd give us a little bit of everything and expect you to finish what she'd given you. Rather than give you a huge plate of food and expect you to finish it. You could go back for seconds of something you'd enjoyed, though. I was a tall kid who enjoyed playing outdoors. I needed plenty of food to fuel myself as a child, but my favourite snack was a piece of fruit. We also ate a lot of salads with light dressings. Many people have remarked on how much more favourable fruit and vegetables are in Australia, where I live. As I got older, I've adjusted the amount of food I ate. Basically, I'm letting my body tell me when I'm hungry or not. If I've eaten enough, I'll stop and save it for later. I'm more of a big brunch and light dinner eater.
We travel into the US frequently, what amazes us is how processed the food is and how large the portion sizes are. Between me and my wife we normally order a single meal and share it between us and I would say that at least 90% of the time we don’t eat the whole thing.
I often hear that in the US unprocessed food is expensive. I don´t understand how this happens. I´m German, when I want fresh food I grab my bicycle and there are at least 10 farmers within a 10 minutes ride selling their goods - absolutely unprocessed and fresh - for a good price. And on the country side many (most) families have their own garden with tomatoes, potatoes, apples pears, cucumber, beans, radish, lettuce, strawberries, and more. We eat it - as fresh as can be, but also can them for later use. So we can be sure about the ingredients. Why doesn´t this work in the US?
Agroindustry...
A lot of neighborhoods have inner rules forbiding some plantations, most often vegetables patches or fruits trees aren't allowed.
Industry funds those neighborhood associations and the politicians, so hope on the side of lawmakers either.
You can find local markets with farmers selling their produces, but it often involves an hour long ride in car and the prices are for hipsters...
I was glad to come back in Europe to get good food at an affordable price.
The last thing is the US working hours. The bottom half works a lot more than in europe + car travels, so they have way less time for cooking/gardening. It's not impossible, but it just requires way more commitment.
Because certain crops and industries are heavily subsidized, and unlike in EU countries, those are not the "basics". A lot of corn (for high fructose corn syrup) and soy is grown on humongous monoculture farms and processed, then those ingredients are so cheap to put into processed foods mass produced at a staggering scale that your basic veggies etc, that have a short shelf life and are often tricky to transport (in time) become very expensive in comparison.
Even the farms that do grow "real food" rather than just commodity crops are so far from most people (you got to remember, the US is huge and everything is far from everything else on purpose) that it's not a viable option for the vast majority even if they could afford to drive there.
I have an idea of a better way to make use of all that corn: bioethanol. Which can be used as renewable replacement for fossil fuels. Most cars, both in the US and Europe, can process E15, and most new cars even E85 (that is gasoline/petrol mixed with 15% and 85% ethanol respectively) And the Us are already using about 35% of the planted corn for that and is the biggest producer.
This is especially strange if you consider that the US is the biggest food exporter in the world. So, if fresh food should be cheap somewhere, it would be in the USA.
@@gert-janvanderlee5307 They export corn, wheat, soy. All massively grown in huge monocultures.
Not vegetables or fruits for the nearby towns.
Don´t eat fried food, don´t drink soda, don´t drink coffe bases hot or cold drinks that are full with syrups and what not on a daily basis. use it as a treat once a week or something. And eat smaller portions.
This advice is good if you are in a country where you have access to cheap, healthy food options but the US food industry doesn't work that way. It's like they are deliberately making their people unhealthy to help the Medical businesses out.
I eat all that in huge portions and never get fat xD I don't think I would be able to get fat even if I wanted. So it aplies only to some people.
@@Sway22that's probably because you then don't eat other stuff because your body recognises and tells you that it's enough calories. Apparently not all bodies work like that? Or maybe those obese ones stopped listening?... Poor diet is still a poor diet even if it doesn't make you dat, though
Have you not seen an Italian pasta bowl? And after that they have a main course. Yet the people in cheese & salami eating north Italy have the same life expectancy as those eating sardines & olives in the south.
I do remember the fructose causing obesity news, and I do recall it even had same effects in Finland. Not that a lot of our products had corn syrup, but anyway. And I've read and seen other reports and documentaries about obesity through out the years. And all theories (for the root cause) have some validity, but I don't think there is one single reason. One globally observed trend is indeed that amount of overweight persons started to grow in western countries in ~70s. Basically that correlates with people changing work from labour intense to more desk bound. Another trend that is currently shown, is that a higher percentage of people in low education bracket are over weight and less so in the higher education bracket (which often also correlates with income in Europe). This actually a clear trend, that those that bother can look at WHO report, WHO European Regional Obesity Report 2022 (page 20). The reasons for this might be different though.
When I have visited the States, I am always blown away how cheap eating out is... especially fast food. And also supermarket bought processed food. Where I'm from, eating out is not cheap... not even fast food. And processed ready made food is not cheap either. So it is often cheaper to cook something your self... which might explain it to an extent. If you cook it (not using a lot of processed pre-fabricated stuff), it tends to be healthier (well, less all strange additives are missing anyway). And this might also tie into the low income bracket (especially in the US). If it is cheaper to go with McD or nuke-it pizza, whe strapped for cash... that is what you do.... day in , day out.
Go to any restaurant or fast food outlet in the US and the meal sizes are twice the size of those here in Australia. Many children are taught by their parents not to waste food which means they eat huge amounts of food. Add to the mix trans-fats, HFCS etc and the US has an obesity epidemic. Australia has many immigrants from countries like Italy, Greece, Lebanon etc which means many restaurants are based on the Mediterranean diet with plenty of salads and fresh vegetables. Here in Australia, as there is free health care, it is in the Governments interest to reduce obesity and so reduce future health costs.
The main problem with food in america is that you dont have strict enough regulations on what is in the food. In Europe we have much stricter laws and while you of course can still find plenty of unhealthy food here, a lot of the brands that have HUGE amounts of sugar in their products in America use way less sugar in the packages they export to Europe because of the regulations. We also have a lot of rules for what they can write on their products and how they can market them based on what is in it. Aswell as many many labels like the green keyhole for actual healthy foods with no added sugars, high protein and high fiber. Its just much much easier to find healthy food options here and they are usually cheaper - both compared to some of the unhealthy food options but also deffinetly compared to the food in america.
The big difference is how it's regulated. In the US stuff is allowed until you can prove it's unsafe. In Europe you have to prove it's save before it can be allowed.
One of the main problems is how much entertainment and fun is sofa based.
I'm a 61 year old brit and as soon as I got home from school I couldn't wait to knock on the doors of all my mates and go and play outside.
Football, climbing trees, playing war games in the woods, riding our bikes etc.
Today we have hundreds of TV channels, games consoles and the internet.
I would eat good home cooked food and loads of it, but I didn't sit on my arse all day, I was running around.
Even since becoming an adult I was a rock drummer, which is a very physically demanding instrument and spent most of my time rehearsing, performing and working in studios.
Fat people think it's acceptable to have fat kids, so how much do they love their kids?
They can't join in with the other kids which will make them miserable and feeling left out.
The same in the UK. Not sure why as I have had more than one job at a time, sadly all in nursing and care work so not well paid, so worked 7 days a week for long stretches. But still cooked from fresh. I used to have a cooking day once a month when I roasted a chicken with roast veg. Made a huge stew, cheese sauce (i love maccaroni cheese) and bolognese sauce each enough for 4 meals and froze them in plastic boxes. The size used for rice in chinese take aways.
I tried a cheap ready meal once to microwave on a night shift. It had 2 slices of carrot, 3 cubes of meat, 2 lumps of hard dougj in place of dumplings all swimming in salty brown water masquerading as gravy. I couldnt eat it. Had to throw it away.
Sadly I worked with clients with very severe mental health problems and they couldnt cope with cooking a meal. One lady so distracted by auditory hallucinations had to ask me to butter her toast once. So. On top of the physical side effects of their medication leading to weight gain their mental ill health meant they tended to live on this sort if rubbish.
When I worked for my aunt she barely paid me, so most days I mostly ate a pack of hot chips from the fish shop for dinner, and cheap cereal for breakfast, lunch was a chocolate bar or shared sandwiches! But I did go out dancing and walking! Thank goodness friends invited me out, and Sunday was a huge roast at mums, and a walk home! Now, it's made fresh at home only, and still walking! Just eat a fresh and balanced diet, and do more exercise! 😁 We grow actual sugar cane in Australia! 👍
Thats what I try every time go with relatives in suthern California keep walking to burn that food 😮, avoid soda (never a huge fan) instead water ir lemonade. Greetings from northern México
@@manueltapia1859 Hola Mexico! 🤗🇦🇺
@@jenniferharrison8915 wow You know spanish language!!! Un fuerte abrazo (a big hug)
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The problem is there is literally NO LIVING WAGES, the cost of living goes up, wages stagnate, little to nothing goes to education or the people in general, everything goes to military, healthy food for most people is more expensive and takes time to cook, but folks in the US often have 2-3 jobs and living on Slave Wages (paycheck to paycheck) and the worst most unhealthy food sadly is the most affordable and fastest/most convenient.
The US System is an unhealthy system started by a Cult & built on Slave Labor, Genocide & Greed. All under the sheep’s clothing or banner of ✨”Freedom”✨
Watching from Ireland and noticed how huge the bowls are, any portion would look tiny in them. Sad for the children but it is all over the world, not just America, fake food is everywhere. I try not to eat factory food, I mean its not real food. Not always easy
I can go downstairs, take 10 steps, turn the corner, walk into the supermarket, buy some fresh stuff, walk out, go upstairs and cook a healthy, fresh meal.
Breakfast is fresh bread, lunch is fresh bread. With proper butter. Cheese/salami/ham/roastbeef slices/corned beef/liver sausage/beef sausage/etc (we have a million types of fresh stuff for on bread. )
Most of what I see there is processed food. Cornflakes, lots of jars of stuff like pasta sauce.
I make my own pasta sauce for instance, it's easy, fresh, yummy and fast. Not as fast as opening a jar I guess.
Claims to eat "fresh stuff", only names parts of corpses, 99% of which are produced in the most disgusting, abhorrent conditions imaginable in factory farms. What?
Pasta sauce in jars is certainly less processed and less bad for you than these "products", whose production you couldn't even witness without never wanting to eat them again. It's usually tomatoes and spices, boiled and bottled. Like my grandma used to do, just on a larger scale. Absolutely stunning ignorance.
I recently bought a pasta souce jar. Actually I bought two, as an emergency dinner, but I ate the first one - fancier and more expensive - and completely lost the apatite for the other one so it stays in my cabinet for an even greater emergency, I guess. Homemade is so much better. Way less salt, way more flavour. You can't really get rid of the salt that's already added, only try to mask it. I really prefer my even imperfect meals, the end result is usually way tastier, done just the way I want it.
" Cheese/salami/ham/roastbeef slices/corned beef/liver sausage/beef sausage" all these are ultra processed foods. Unless you raise the animals yourself and turn them into food.
@@RaduRadonys We have high standards.
Thanks.
Ill use me as an example. 2 years ago i was 136kg(about 300 lbs), now im 78kg(172lbs). How i did it? By walking or riding bicycle to work instead taking public transport or a car, i still eat the same amount and the same king of food as before. Did it in just 2 years and im not a young teen, im 41 now. Simple thing like not driving everywhere but just riding a bike or walking instead. I may be wrong but this huge car culture in the states may be part of the problem with obesity there.
4:46 Percentage & percentile are two different things. If I had to rephrase that it would be something like "Out of every 100 kids, 7 are heavier than 99% of kids their age." It basically means those 7 (out of 100) are extremely overweight or obese.
I interpreted this as that the earlier population distribution for the value of 99 percentilen value for kids is equalled or surpassed by 7 percent of kids. As the weight distribution presumably is for kids this age, kids now have this weight at the 93rd percentage, i.e. weigh more than earlier.
It still doesn't make mathematical sense. What you're saying is, rephrased, this: "Out of every 100 kids, 7 are heavier than 99 of those kids."
I can solve the low income/obesity mystery. People on low incomes tend to buy and eat cheap foods because it's what they can afford - foods which are inevitably high in carbohydrates, sugar and fat because they are cheaper to produce. Contrast the difference in cost between a grilled steak and salad with a frozen pepperoni pizza.
Overall though, Americans seem to use an awful lot of processed foods in cooking. Using (cream of), soups as sauce bases, which are full of salt, sugar and other additives when a roux sauce without the additives could be made. Tins of vegetables in preference to fresh. It's an extraordinary thing to my British eyes. The addition of salt and sugar to everything is also extraordinary. There are several varieties of American breads which have so much sugar they would be classified as cakes in the UK.
The Problem, for many, is the meat.
For example, until 1996, even in Europe it was possible to slaughter an animal even before the 60 days of any antibiotic or hormonal treatment had passed.
And then In the past in Europe hormones were used for anabolic purposes, i.e. with the aim of making the animal grow faster, as well as making the body create more muscle masses than fat deposits, given that hormones modify the metabolism ( for example, if we give testosterone to a cow it gets masculine characteristics, including larger than normal muscle masses). Not only that: in some cases this operation became a real scam, because hormones such as estrogen have the purpose of making water retention in the animal, so that more water is retained in the muscles, therefore in the meat, and this weighs more . When meat is cooked, very little of the meat (which was mostly water) is left.
This mechanism has been exploited for many years in Europe and in the United States, while it is now prohibited by us.
It has been banned since 1996, when Europe decided with directive 96/22/EC that various types of hormones should not be present in meat; not all countries have accepted the agreement, which is why for example in the United States many hormones, even if known to be carcinogenic, are still legal and can be used.
We visited America and were enjoying our favorite bread item, a Franz Everything Bagel. I noticed on the package it said, "NO HFCS." That blew my mind cuz why would bagels have sugar? Oh dear....
America has become so used to being a commercialized society. They've been sold on the fast food lifestyle. Many people don't even know how to cook a meal from scratch anymore. People live on frozen dinners. As opposed to France for example, where people Walk to the fresh food markets daily to prepare fresh, healthy meals. In America, people Don't walk plus they aren't even given the option of being able to walk to markets that offer good quality, fresh food. America needs to restructure itself to enable a more healthy lifestyle.
Here in Denmark, we say that the cardboard box from Corn Flakes, is more healthy than the Corn Flakes itself....
If you eat a "normal" for european standards plate of food... you actually have to wait 15-20 minutes, before you take a new portion...
because thats the time it takes for your stomach to tell the brain, if you are full or not.. and 9/10 times.. you wont take the next portion.
In the US they grow corn mainly to produce corn syrup. In the UK we grow corn to feed livestock. Our home produced sugar is made from sugar beet. Often HFSC is seen as a inferior ingredient in cheaply made products.
Ah HFCS (High fructose corn syrup). I was confused by the order of the letter you used. It's not just inferior but it is added to so many US foods that do not need it. US standard bread loaves have 6 times more sugar content (incl HFCS) than the same loaves in the UK.
And yet, you're not that far behind in obesity rates. Can't be the whole story.
25.9 % of English adults, compared to 39.6 of US adults with a BMI over 30.🤔 @@tsurutom
UK obesity rates increase the further North you go, so London is 19.9 % and Scotland is 30 %.
@@corringhamdepot4434Scotland is in a different league. The nation that brought you the deep fired Mars bar.
People will generally eat as much as they can fit on the plate!
Americans have larger plates than any other country.
Naturally this results in Americans eating more on average.
Simply changing your plates to a smaller plate is enough to keep your weight in check 😉
Waiters in the US kept asking me if the food was okay because I couldnt finish it. They didnt seem convinced when I said it was too much for one sitting. One portion = 3. But also their ingredients arent the best, which is equally as bad from my experience.
American portion sizes is by far the biggest problem. I think people are allowed to shovel food down their throats all they like (if we disregard the effect on the health care system for a moment), but it should be an _informed_ choice. Fast food and other food companies purposefully try to hide and obfuscate the facts. Portion sizes shouldn’t be so huge by default. Poor people are usually more obese because unhealthy food is so cheap and convenient, and because they are less educated so they don’t even understand macronutrients or what’s in their food.
During the time I spent in America, I really enjoyed a lot of the foods (backyard bbq was the best, and Taco Bell when you’re high is awesome) but it was definitely too much, barely any whole foods and everything was sooo sweet. So sweet in fact that I couldn’t even stomach some desserts. And the HFCS sucks, especially in soda and stuff - soda with real sugar is so much better and is the norm around the world.
The nutrition labels in America are a joke. And I miss Taco Bell's bean burritos so much - they only cost 2.09$ and two of them is a perfect meal. I brought a ton of their hot/fire/diablo sauces back to Germany, enough for a year I think.
sugar in plain yoghurt here in Belgium there is no sugar in it yes its tast a little bit sour butt i like this way and just eat not such big portions i think this will help to
I found all food in Amerca to be sickly sweet, especially the bread.
yeah my Dad's dietician (I'm in Europe, he just had a cardiac incident and needed to lose weight) said that to us : Fat is not the problem. Fat is not the enemy ! SUGAR is ! And the people who got filmed to see what they eat in a day ? .....In Belgium (we're considered quite the big eaters in Europe), no one just jug the equivalent of a bottle of orange juice by themselves !!!!! GURL that's not a glass ! that's a jug for a whole family Oo (update : oh gods above and below, it's even worst it's Dew GURL ! You never thought "ho I have health problems maybe I should lay off the sugar intoxication soda ?????) And I agree with you... You can't fight in their stead. You can point the problem. You can propose solutions but ultimately it's their life, their choices and their consequences. To give you an idea of the cultural shock. My best friend visited America last year. And he could never finish half a plate. It was too much. To much sugar (you literraly put sugar in everything ! My Belgian heart breaks everytime I hear you put sugar in MAYO !), too much salt, too much food in one serving. It was to the point he had to make his own food because he was falling sick. And for the trying, I'll play the devil's advocate but.... The families we saw seem well off... Even in Europe, it's not easy to count calories if you spend your time counting your cents to survive to the end of the month....
There is sugar in my American garlic salt: ( But I just checked and sugar is the 4th ingredient in my German mayo. It's te 6th ingredient in my American mayo.
That was a good video and reaction . Up until I was 37 I could eat anything I wanted and not put on one once . Once I hit 37 things seemed to change and I now constantly keep an eye on my weight . I am usually about 3 to 5 kilos over so not fat but not skinny and I can loose that if I am really strict I have what often is called a little middle age spread but I do walk alot and my job can be fairly physical . I do have some processed foods may be the odd ready meals for quickness and I tent to read ingredients on packets and they will not be brought if the traffic light system is more red then green or amber or if there are to many additives but usually I do make my own . It is usually cheaper to make your own but people fall into the trap that ready meals work out cheaper . Most cereal is a no no if I want that much sugar I would prefer a slice of cake or a bar of chocolate . I do have a very sweet tooth so being careful with intake is important .
In Ireland a court ruled that Subway must call it's "bread" cake, because of the amount of sugar in it.
(Real bread doesn't contain any sugar at all.)
In Europe we don't have as much processed food. Dinner is made with basic ingredients and is home-made. You buy meat, fish (if someone eats meat), vegetables, groats, pasta and make dinner from it. We eat lots of vegetable soups. Children take apples, carrots, plums, etc. to school. Ready-made meals are rarely eaten, and in many homes they are not eaten at all. Our bread is dry and hard after a few days, but it does not contain the additives that are found in bread in the USA (many of these additives are banned in our country). In the United States, I was horrified by the prices of vegetables and fruit. Fast food is cheaper in the USA than here
My European brain is unable to process the phrase "Poor people are fatter." The cheapest food I can get is food that I make myself, rather than eating out. With no money, how can you prepare more harmful food for yourself than a diet that requires huge amounts of meat, fats, sweets and someone work is included in price. Being in college, my diet looked like this:
- Breakfast: a couple of rolls with butter, cheese, egg and ham and lettuce
- Lunch: potatoes/pasta/rice topped with a piece of fish or meat and salad
- Dinner: the same as for breakfast
I didn't have the money to spend on McDonald's or KFC because I wouldn't even stuff myself with that for the cost of a whole day's worth of food.
Even looking at current prices at 19.20 zlotys ($4.58) that is comparable to the price of a cheesburger and Coke at McDonald (16.50 zlotys = $3.93) I can buy:
Lunch:
- 1kg of potatoes 3zl
- 250g chicken breast 4zl
- Cucumber 1,40zl
- Cream 2,60zl
Breakfast and dinner:
- Bread 500g 4,20zł
- Cucumber 1,40zł
- Cottage cheese 2,60zł
The thing is, that in US the cheap food is a low quality food. Unlike here in EU, where we have a lot of food regulations so even the cheap food is a not bad quality, in the US if you want quality food, its much more expensive, and the poorer people cant afford that.
And dont forget that the latest statistics shows more then 60% americans live paycheck to paycheck.
I was puzzled as well until I found out there are areas in the US that are called "food desert". Those are regions without a grocery store. That are often the areas where poor people live and where crime rates are high. Stores are closed when they get robbed often. So people rely on candy bars and fast food to eat.
I'd love to see this list with prices from places in USA.
@@beautrice1202 And frozen food.
So much that there has been a rise of scorbut/scurvy cases in the US. Because poor people just don't have access to fresh fruits/vegetables for months at times. mindboggling.
I hate to be the nasty lady who says this, but many of these people in the us seem to be very lazy. It does take effort to eat simply and well. Blame the junk food firms, but if people didn’t buy this shit, they wouldn’t make it.
It's been a long time since I saw this documentary I want to refer to. The topic was also fast food and unhealthy diet. In it, a US family with a rather low income was accompanied with their weekly shopping. What stuck with me was the statement that in the USA a burger in a grocery store costs about the same as an apple. People not only get fat when they eat a lot, but also when they eat a diet low in vitamins.
Yoghurt is intrinsically good...as long as you don't add sugars to it! Plain Greek yoghurt...no problem!
At one point in my life, in the early-mid 1970s, I worked overseas and had a great many American colleagues. One couple invited me to their home for a home cooked meal, the wife said 'it'll just be a casserole'. I was expecting a rich, tasty, sIow-cooked thing with meat or poultry and hearty vegetables in a savoury sauce or gravy, flavoured with some herbs or spices and served with a separately-cooked starch of some sort - potatoes, rice, pasta, whatever. The meal I was served was made _entirely_ from cans, packets and boxes! It was _assembled_ , if you like, rather than actually _cooked_ . IIRC it was a can of condensed soup mixed with a can of tuna, a can of peas and a can of mushrooms, topped with a layer of reconstituted mashed potatoes from a box of dried potatoes, all covered in crushed cornflakes, and the whole heated together in the oven. There was extra seasoning added, and it was not as bad as it might sound - fairly tasty in a strange, fishy, gloopy sort of way , but not something I'd want to repeat too often ... A bit like the difference between self-assembly flatpack furniture, and a craftsman-made piece of the same type of furniture!
Ok maybe that was a language difference between what was understood by the term 'casserole' English vs American. But to this day I still think it was a strange concoction of a meal!
On the 4th July, I made a big cake, decorated it in the pattern of the US flag and took it into work for everyone to enjoy. It was only a bog-standard Victoria Sponge recipe, made from eggs, butter, sugar and flour in specific proportions by weight. I flavoured/coloured half of it with chocolate and half with vanilla, then swirled the two together so that the baked cake, when cut, would have a 'marbled' appearance inside. All my colleagues were wonderstruck by this cake, several of them asking me 'where did I get the box?' I was in my mid 20s at the time, and most of the people asking me were ladies older than myself. I was very puzzled by their questions and eventually said 'what box? I don't know what you mean.' One lady in her 40s looked at me quizzically and said, slowly, 'Hang on, I think you made it from scratch! Is that really true, Sine?' I said Yes, but how else would you make a cake except from the ingredients? And they explained to me about cake mixes in boxes ... I taught several people how to bake cakes and bread after that - and they introduced me to the horrors of cake mixes in flavours such as Pink Lemonade and Cinnamint, which filled the oven with a big puffy alien monsters in colours which no cake should ever be, filled the house with an extra-strong artificial scent and filled one's stomach with air, aches and gurgles! WHAT they contained I dread to think; at the time I was just relieved that my poo didn't come out with the smell and colour of those cakes!
I think the root cause to the correlation between poverty and obesity is the fact that if you are constantly broke you cannot afford healthy and nutricious food but instead have to resort cheapest options which are - junk. High sugar high fat garbage which gives you an insuline spike and then after a short while you feel hungry again and get rid of it with cheap snacks. Another reason is that poor people need to work more, leaving them less time to make food. You have no time no energy to make food from fresh ingredients. You then choose the quick and easy microwave-and-eat industrial food and that is then again ... well, you see the picture.
From personal experience, I found America puts sugar in everything ... I lived in Texas for about 7 years and the bread was so sweet it tasted like cake, Soda / Fizzy drinks were sold by the bucket, with free refills, McDonalds food was so cheap they were basically giving it away - While people do eat too much, blame can't be thrown on them 100% it's also the country not caring about what goes into the food and having pretty low standards -- I am well aware that there will be healthy options to choose from, but as an example -- similar to here in the UK ... £2 will get you, say 20 cheap frozen sausages that you can live on for at least half a week, OR it costs you £1.50 for a SINGLE green pepper which lasts 'maybe' one meal .. Prices contribute a lot too, so add together all those additives and then people struggling to afford good food .. It's no wonder people are overweight ... And if you have private healthcare that profits from peoples illnesses .. WHY would you want people to be healthy ...
Where on earth do you shop? Green peppers are 55p in Asda & Tesco. Even at Waitrose they only cost 60p. Those are today's prices. Asda sells a bag of 6 peppers for £1.69.
I agree with the principle of what you said, but the example you gave is not accurate.
@angelaburrow8114 The local greengrocers prices have gone up and down since the benefits of brexit kicked in theyre about 75p now but were 1.50 not so long ago :D .. however, the price comparison of bad -v- good food is what i was getting at.
Healthy food is more expensive which is ridiculous plus your towns in the US aren’t made to walk around so you don’t get much exercise
No, you are NOT sounding mean. I used to be a 266 pounds, which was waaaay too much for my height, so I had to change something in order not to get obesity inducted diabetes as well, which is running strong in my family. I managed to get down to 162 pounds and yes it was a pain in the ass, it was hard as hell, but I did it and my life quality increased massively. I really understand many obese people thinking they are hopeless, but what I don't understand is them vomplaining, not doing anything about their situation, their health, and keep shoveling high caloric garbage into their bodies. I was fat and I got my ass up and changed it for MY health and wellbeing, despite having other mental health issues (which is also a popular excuse!) so I have simply no understanding for those who cry and complain all day without any drive to change it. I am more than happy to help anyone who really wants to better themselves, but in german we say "nothing will come out of nothing". Improvement is a long process and it WILL be painfull, but in the end, it all pays off.
I find it very interesting that he seems so concerned about "sounding mean", and then ten minutes later it's "well, if they wanna be f... _obese, if they wanna eat and then have a heart-attack, that's their choice" - cue amused snort.
I've seen slim people and fat people and smokers and non-smokers. What I haven't seen, ever, is somebody "crying all day". Not. Once.
I've also never seen this amount of disdain targeted at smokers. But somehow this stupid, stupid fat-shaming is still acceptable.
Well, it certainly explains where a the fat positivity trend comes from. I don't like it, but I'll give it this: it's at least as rational as a self-righteous "well, apparently they want to be obese".
That's one reason life expectancy in America is falling, which is the opposite to most other countries.
Whenever I've been grocery shopping in the US fresh food is expensive and processed food is cheaper. Why is fresh food so dear?
Michael Moore made a documentary on food in USA. In many States it is cheaper to get a Mc Menu than to buy fresh fruit and food. I think the issue lies in the fact that most fresh or bio food is not cheap
Its the same here in Scotland-adulterated food is cheaper. Then places like MacDonalds are fairly cheap treats. I think our rules are stricter regarding sugar addition is stricter than yours but its still a problem. I dont think we have corn syrup added either. I would think that more of our kids walk or cycle to school, as you have to live more than 3 miles away to get a school bus. My grannie lived through two world wars and rationing -she recognised spam spread and powdered potatoes as food and I doubt they were healthy😂. People comfort eat too and sugar gives an extra rush. Then we have the opposite problem of parents skipping meals so they can afford to feed their kids, which is horrendous. Then at dinner time you see kids out in the town centre buyin g fast food whereas when I was a kid i the eighties, we either went home for a meal or we took sandwiches or had a school dinner.
Someone once said they need skinny doors in shops so fat people can only eat healthy food until the can fit through the skinny door to the junk food. 😂
Once saw a monastery with such a door to the mess hall. If a monk got too fat he wasn't allowed to eat.
Except that thin people usually eat more calories than fat people. It's about your body's standard metabolic rate. Thin people burn faster - then they get all self righteous.
My philosophy: 18 hours of FASTING 6hours of EATING as much as you can (clean food)
My philosophy: eating when I'm hungry. Make sure that outside of homemade dinner there is always something ready to eat that is somewhat healthy, like fruits or oatmeal. My body will tell me when I need to stop eating and when I need to start again, and I don't think it would be wise to ignore the subtle signals only because you need to eat in advance for long hours of fasting, or because the click says I'm not allowed to eat yet. Sounds so counterintuitive.
@@tymondabrowski12 am a religious person so it's Easy for me to fast along period of time, I can understand that not a lot of people can do that. Month of Ramadan we fast as long as the sun is shining 6am-20pm It depends of the season...but the point is those"fasting" hours I allow myself "if" i needed to have smoothie in morning or tomato salad in the evening... But that doesn't happen that often because I do eat a lot of protein (meat 🍗,egg,ect) And I stay fine for a long period of time...
The pecentile scale is a measurement of child development. If a child is in the 50th percentile, it's height/weight development is average
Yeah but being in 99th percentile of weight should in theory mean they're the 1% heaviest kids. But 7% of kids are there (meaning that 7% of all kids is heavier than 99% of all kids). Which probably means they use older norms which no longer fit reality (though probably fit the desired reality way more).
I am Icelandic, and I have never in my life seen as many not just obese, but super obese people as I did on my two short trips to the US. Also every thing Americans seems to eat is super processed and the portion sizes in restaurants are just grotesquely large. A lot of American recipes tend to just being about combining pre-made processed ingredients like canned soups, packages of macaroni and cheese and powdered dip mixes and then topping it with processed cheese.
I understand that people livening in poverty need serve food they can afford and that they can get in their neighborhood and that often that means whatever is available at the dollar store, but in Europe we routinely make food from raw ingredients, whether we are low income or high earners, but that is of course because we generally have better access to social programs, and it’s in our culture.
i can say with confidence that frosted flakes (advertised as good for kids and sports) has more carbohydrates per gram than many types of candy. it's not just a matter of "sugar" strictly speaking, though there are other things to be said about sugar. iirc carbs are mostly turned into fat when your body can't make use of them. ironically, there's a such thing as a fat diet, where the goal is to eat practically nothing but meat and minimal carbs. it's unhealthy for other reasons, but it does make you lose weight really easily.
The point of that corn syrup portion of the video, was not the actual fructose content, but that so many foods have 4-10x the fructose and calorie content that people think those products have.
Where I live they are called hidden calories, not because they hide the info, but because people don't realize just how many extra calories they are consuming from food and drink items that they think are harmless or even healthy. Especially many drinks in the US can have MORE calories than the whole rest of the meal!!
Also, while it us true that only the amount of calorie intake matters for losing gaining weight, the quality and ratio of of those calories can gave an extreme effect on health and hunger levels.
Fast sugars make your insulin and blood sugar levels spike and will not only eventually cause diabetes 2, but will also make you feel thirsty and hungry instead of satiated, which makes you start craving for calories even though your body is all fueled up already
I'm in BC; my local subreddit had a post recently from an American tourist. Healthy guy, into hiking etc. He came up here, didn't change his diet at all, but he had to tell us that for the week he was here hiking, he suddenly felt healthier than he has for years. He asked us why? It turns out Canada is much stricter about food additives than the States. Chemicals that are allowed there are banned in this country. Our food, even fast food, won't make you feel tired and sick.
Also, food in Canada is sweetened with cane sugar. In the States it's sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup (and it's in everything, from bread to ketchup). HFCS is much more efficiently metabolized by the body and stored as fat. That's the number one cause of obesity in America.
The problem is not that yoghurt is unhealthy. The amount of sugar etc that's added to it that's unhealthy.
Very true youghurt is fermented food and good for gut bacteria according to sources.
When I was in New York City in 2009, I was shocked about the amount of pancakes that I was served for breakfast. It was enough for the four of us! 😂
And at Mc Donalds I ordered the smallest menu and still had problems to even carry the “bucket” with coke in one of my small (adult!) hands to my seat. The next time I ordered a kid`s size. Even that had the same size as the big cup in Germany.
I watched GMBN video when they visited Seths Berm Park recently, they got sandwiches after and man, these were like... atleast for 4 people each.
Re portion size, i wonder how much the old tradition of hospitality 'infects' how we serve food to our families. Where the ability to provide those at our table with generosity is seen as a 'moral good' as well as a mark of love.
In South Africa the cheapest food is pap which is a finely ground up maize. Not good for the profile.
It's the size of the meals they serve that's causing so many people to get fat. When I visited my sister in Florida and we went out to eat I always ordered a kids meal or a senior size dinner.
Another problem is that we have all been conditioned to (clear your plate) instead of just eat until your full. Consequently, you force yourself to finish the food, which slowly, over time, stretches your stomach, causing you to need more to feel full.
Fat Poor isn't counter intuitive:it's the type and quality of food,as much as how much🎩
Schools here in the UK used to serve fairly healthy food compared to the fast foods they serve today and our obesity problem is also growing. We never had McDonald’s or KFC over here.
Processed foods and bad carb’s are a very cheap way to eat, but they’re also destroying our health. Cancer rates have gone up, heart disease, diabetes etc, have all risen and although we are living longer. We aren’t healthier. With age comes infirmity. Add antibiotics in farm animals, insecticides & pollution to the mix and it’s a recipe for disaster. We can blame Corporate greed and politicians, many of who are in their back pockets.
what I remember from the US:
extremely long and boring straight roads that are not really highways so going fast is impossible and you feel like glued into the landscape
no affordable food anywhere - except stuff that had no taste or tasted like pure sugar, only little amounts of fresh veggies
impressively large amusement parks
funny bandaids when we only had boring skincoulored ones
milk in huge plastic containers I would mix up with orange juice in huge plastic containers
I got incredibly confused when I was sent out with the trash and there were no separate trash containers, I felt like recycling is not your thing
You feed yourselves sugar laden/processed/High Fructose Corn Syrup/Food dyes in massive portions, it is made cheap and sold in huge portions,deliberatly done to keep the population low energy,great for your health care business.
The overarching issue is carbohydrates in whatever form, sugar, glucose, fructose etc, the liver coverts it to fat. We didn't evolve eating such huge volumes of carbs, we don't biologically need so many. This is what has brought about so many dietry disorders, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, heart disease etc etc. I'm type 2 diabetic because I grew up eating too many carbs in the varying forms. Now I have an ultra low carb diet and I'm off my meds, as my bloods have stabilised.
i think it would help a lot to add a VAT system like in many europian countries.the more unhealthy/high in sugar something is the more it is taxed.things like bread (not the american type lased with sugar) milk and other actual food items are taxed less.simple
Hi from germany - I have diabetes and have to check my bloodsugar before eating to know how much insulin I need - even a pure yoghurt I have to count because of the milksugar in it.
I'm English and I have low-fat Greek-style yoghurt with my breakfast cereal and grapes. The cereal contains no added sugar and the yoghurt contains only 3% lactose. Any sugar comes from the grapes.
12:47 yes they should put the BMI on display although heavier not always means unhealthy for example body builders are heavy but they're mostly muscle on the other hand body fat percentage is better to stress the attention on because that is dead weight that you want to get rid of but most of all you want visceral fat index to be below 8 because this is the fat that has the ability to alter the hormonal imbalance in the body and reek havoc on your health
Hi Ryan, I think that people with a low income are overweight is because they have to by cheaper food that is very processed (as it is often cheaper). Manufacturers frequently use Sugar as a filler among other products. You only have to look at products sold in the market. As well as portions. It is not only the U.S.A. but many other countries.
I mean durr think about processed junk foods are cheaper than natural healthy foods simple
i know what a german obeasity issue is besides overly consuming beer i mean
we get told to empty our plate when we where little so we try to keep eating even if we are full
we where also taught to eat fast by the whole scool caffeteria 30 minute lunch breake pluss changing rooms thing in scool
so we rush we feel full later becouse of it and then keep eating
but one thing is wrong planing or rather shitting on children health
And the other is post war mentality
im 18 and my generation still was raised to eat the whole thing
literially if i could not or did not wantet to finish my meal in kindergarten and after elementary school (watched lerning playing for children where no parents where home) i was forced to sit at the table till i ate everything i couldnt start homework nor play till i had eaten
and that just did not maede me feel bad for not finishing my plates this also resultet in me at some point shitting on home work entierly wich was not that grade
You say you can get all those vitamins in a pill "this big", but vitamin pills too are actually mostly filler. If you get vitamins on prescription, you can get doses that are 100x larger in pills that are 10x smaller.
To clarify: the filler in vitamin pills is not a bad thing. You only get it on prescription if there's something seriously wrong. It's just to say vitamins are really tiny and you normally don't need a lot of them. So, yes, it's like they sprinkle a few molecules on a box of food, but that's not really a bad thing in itself.
Great video Ryan, love your honesty. More people should say what they think and obese people should take control over their lives and deal with the consequences instead of attacking others for being truthful. 150kg person is not body positive but obese and unfortunately does not have as good health as person with normal weight. I am aware of exceptions.
I won't judge anyone for being overweight. People are different and some might just be in a situation where they gain. And being a bit on the rounder side doesn't immediately kill you.
But there is a limit when it stops being off the average and starts being a chronic disease. Body positivity is all well and good, and I'm not the perfect fitness guru myself, but when it starts impacting daily life, maybe think about it.
i you think of it, corn is mass produced in the US, even was helped to found corn farms by the government but it's not something easily assimilated by the human body, it's the only food you still see after a cartoon character take a shit, that's not without any reasons, and if it's not assimilated by the body it's like you didn't ate at all, the problem come when you begin to create every food with a corn base
I really think the physical thing is the key. As a 70s kid, I didn’t eat all that healthy. Full fat milk and all that. I remember some sort of chocolate butter, not cacao spread. But we moved about a lot, we burned it off.
Later, when I went from a physical job to an office job, that hit hard. Muscle tone blurred, sixpack turned into keg
0:33 I don't know if the video addresses it yet, but obesity is more common among poor now-a-days in wealthy countries because healthy food is expensive but junk food (like Mcdonalds) isn't nearly as expensive by comparison. Calories isn't strictly everything when it comes to weight gain, there are things such as good sugar & bad sugar, fats etc. as well. Junk food is mostly comprised of the bad versions. Over-eating can also be caused by stress or down-right depression and the problem with over-eating is that it causes your stomach lining to expand to make room for food, making it take more to feel full the next time you eat and it can take a long time for that expansion to regress, especially since stuffing yourself more is likely to make it expand more.
In many ways obesity is a spiral on-to itself that isn't too hard to get into but very difficult to get out of. In the case of US I think it may be a variety of factors at play. Consumerism culture and large portion sizes promote over-eating (even if people like it because they get left-overs to take home) but at the same time political or financial unrest can also lead to over-eating from stress and depression and that isn't even starting on the availability of sugary products that do use or rely on not only copious amounts of sugar in general, but bad sugar as well to make it even cheaper and more available.
Sad thing with the whole shoveling food in without thinking is its just so easy to do. Especially if you have adhd. You can focus on a video or game or anything have a small snack and then that snack grows and grows as your lost and dont think till you run out of food. Once it becomes a habit its even harder. Once your stomach expands it gets even harder. Once you have a particular stressful day it gets even harder. I understand some just make bad choice but from my own life experiences from not eating enough and being underwaight to suddenly overweight and fighting to lose weight i want to point out there are factors that can make the choice if just not eating very hard.
When you go to a place where there are free refills, once you had everything you had enough, there is no need to refill because you don't need it.
I wouldn't say that fructose itself is the cause. Nobody gets fat from eating apples. But large quantities of added high fructose corn syrup in things that don't really needs it adds calories. Same with highly fatty and greasy food.
So it's the high caloric density that is the issue. There are claims that protein takes longer to digest and thus keeps you full for longer, combined with fiber (which is just carbohydrates that we can't digest, in a fibre -> starch -> sugar way)
And yes, a yogurt might say "0.1% fat", but can still be super high in sugar. You think it's healthy, but it still has more calories than neccesary.
And I might not be a super lean fitness guru, but I keep my weight and am able to move. I walk, cycle, take the stairs, do things using my body.
It's not fructose. 1 tsp sucrose digests to ½ tsp glucose and ½ tsp fructose. But if you eat ½ tsp fructose on its own it has the same sweetness as 1 tsp sucrose.
High fructose corn syrup.
Deepfry everything.
Over the top sweetness or fatness of the dishes.
That's what comes to my mind. I don't consider portion sizes that much of a problem, I think it's custom to take doggy bags home if it's too much.
Do people rather cook or go eating out in the US? If you have fast food 3 times a day, 7 days a week you have a problem.