I was fat all my life. I was a chubby kid, I hit puberty and I became fat. I was fat my whole life. 2 years ago my doctor told me my A1C count was high and I was looking at Diabetes in my future. On the advise of my friend I read about how carbohydrates effect my blood and decided to cut out carbohydrates. I've been eating the keto diet for the last 2 years. I've lost 165lbs. I'm in the best shape of my life. I've never been this fit, ever. And my A1C numbers are down and no longer a risk for diabetes.
I was an underweight kid, so much so that the school nurse accused my mother of not feeding me enough, not true, I ate every thing but the kitchen sink, I stayed underweight until my mid twenties BMI 16, I didn't know what it was like to eat just one cake, I would eat at least two a day, then suddenly it hit, I started to gain weight and suddenly I was seriously overweight BMI 37, during my time gaining I tried everything, going lower and lower fat, exercise like crazy, I would lose some weight followed by gaining more, until I stopped loosing, in a desperate attempt I went down to 600 kcal a day, after 3 weeks I had not lost any weight at all, so I gave up and accepted my fate, until I found keto, I have already lost 24 pounds, a lot more to go but I am comfident it will.
@@jettec9411hey jettec!! Me too. Built like a string bean at 6’ 7” tall and 160 lbs when I was 18. By the time I was 22, 210, by 32, 280, since then I’ve blown up to 324 on 2 separate occasions. I have succeeded with weight watchers twice, losing 78 and next 75 lbs, but each time gaining it all back in 6 months. Well that said I’ve been doing keto since Jan 1, 2023 and I’m down 34 lbs, 12 of those in the last 30 days as I have settled into this. How are you doing , now that it’s 11 months after your post ?
@georgiabigfoot HI, I have actually stalled for months, but I am still doing keto for all the additional benefits, I am trying some different things to get the weight loss going again, and I am confident that I will succeed. Oh, by the way, I am 5'1". Thank you for asking.
Testing low-carb/sugar, high-fat hypothesis (n=1): Capped carbs at 25 grams per day, no calorie counting or increased exercise. Lost 10 lbs in 30 days. 90 days lost 22 lbs. Doctor pleasantly surprised, total cholesterol is over 200, but HDL is 2x LDL, and BP is lower. 150 days lost 30 lbs. BP normal, triglycerides normal! Feeling faint due to low BP, stopped all BP medications. 180 days maintaining 33 lb weight loss, friends say skin looks better. Really? Results: lost 33 lbs, avg BP 130/76 with no meds. Conclusion: reduced carb/sugar intake had positive impact on inflammation resulting in sustained 12% weight loss, and reduced BP with corresponding reduction in triglycerides! Next phase: evaluate 360 days on same diet.
So, how it's going? I did not really intend to reduce carbs/esp sugar at the beginning, i wasn't informed by then, but i started cooking for myself with fresh ingredients and only drinking water instead of soft drinks. I also exercise more so it is not pure diet in my case. From 135kg(297,6lbs) to 115kg(253,5lbs) now. BP from 145-150/80-90 to 125-135/65-80.
Kelvin Davis It wasn't really cutting the carbs that did it. You may not have been counting the calories but capping carbs to 25 grams would mean there was a drop in total calories. The drop in total calories is the key. If you're eating fewer calories than you burn then it's impossible to gain fat. It just physically can't happen. I did like you but my cap was on calories. I capped it at 1700 and I lost weight at roughly the dame rate. Once I reached the weight I wanted I started eating what I burn.
The Food Pyramid at 20:00, I stopped eating 'everything' at the bottom of the Pyramid (Grains, Rice, Bread, etc) in 2013 after reading Gary's second book. I went from a high blood pressure, overweight guy to someone who is now a healthy weight with normal blood pressure. Thank you Gary, you saved my life.
seems like a low-fat diet dramatically increases our appetite leading to higher consumption of lucrative grain-based and sugary foods. a perfect strategy for certain corporations
When I was growing up, the government insisted that we needed to win in Vietnam in order to defeat communism, and followed that up with eating saturated fat will kill you. I can't believe I fell for the second one after the first.
John Hasse: The problem with your idea is that private corporations have a lot of control over the government. It depends on who is pulling the strings. Rule by corporation (fascism) with no chance to vote anyone out is even worse.
It is very true that the combination of corporations WITH the government is terrible. however, eliminatipn of the collusion does not need more government, but less.
William Banting wrote the first ever diet book in the 1860s ,It worked well And it said exactly this. but we got bombarded with some very powerful propaganda from the grain industry and we fell for it.
It was strange reading his booklet. I felt such a connection with a man who lived so long ago. His words are just as powerful today. If I ever have the money would love to visit London and do the Banging walk.
Go beyond man made psychology into what really is the boss: your own body. Remember what Einstein said, "Few is the number of those who see with their own eyes and follow their own hearts. The mind is a terrible thing when controlled by "science." Science simply describes nature. Our society is so gullible especially then it comes to health, nutrition and disease. So easy to fix. No PhD needed.
Great interview! I’m now low carb and have normal glucose readings even though I’m Diabetic. Blood pressure is great! Had to cut BP meds way back to 1/4 what I was taking. Cholesterol great! Lost 40 pounds so far. Kidneys functioning normally when before was Stage 3 End Stage Kidney failure. Wish I had been given this information earlier in my life but better late than never!
Lost more than 100 lbs in less than a year, from a 50/48 inch waistline to a 40/38 inch waistline. Just occasional walking, no carbs, no sugar, no fruit. Dark greens, meat, nut flours only. Even eating out, eating no carb salad and meat only. Also only 40 % alcohol for the occasional cocktail. Actually able to eat high calorie amounts.
congratulations, you're not (yet)insulin resistant. Good for you. Shame you still believe the calorie nonsense though. Its been shown in studies to be an irrelevant measurement - its what the body does with the food that makes the difference, not the amount of heat given off when you burn a unit of it. THe body must get sugar out of the bloodstream as its toxic (which is why diabetics lose limbs, go blind etc). If your body is so overloaded that it cant force it into the muscles with insulin the liver turns it into fat and stores it in the cells. Once this fact is understood its astonishingly simple to understand why people get fat. If you never get into a state of ketosis, that fat is never released back into the bloodstream and used as fuel - the end result is you just get fatter and fatter.
Always remember reading Gary's book "Why we get fat and what to do about it" over two years ago and started on my own LCHF/keto journey. Gradually losing 100lbs of excess fat and more importantly keeping it off since. Wow! Now living the dream of a slim, healthy body and lifestyle at last, after forty years of futile low fat diets almost destroyed me.
@@karlwheatley1244 typical low fat diets, following WW, SS, RC, etc. Low fat versions of everything. Ate as little fat as possible as it was 'evil'. When hunger overcame me I binged madly on sugar/fat :(. Devastating cycle of insanity 40 years. Now stable weight, stable mentally too. No more binges necessary as never hungry any more.
I don't know who WW, SS, and RC are. "Low-fat versions of everything" sounds like processed foods, which isn't healthy. The typical "low-fat" diets are about 25-30% calories from fat, which is double to triple the amount of fat in the diets that have achieved the best outcomes. You have to get and stay below 15% calories from fat for the cravings to go away. Doesn't sound like you were eating a lot of fiber or the kinds of plant protein that are satiating.
@@karlwheatley1244 Weightwatchers, Scottish Skimmers, Rosemary Conley etc (max 5% fat) are all diet clubs. Carbs/sugar were deadly to me. Fat is good particularly animal fat and animal protein. Serve with veggies. Keeps me full for hours, no need for snacking between meals, eat twice a day 18/6 (intermittant fasting). Very happy now after so many years dieting and failing.
Absolutely agree. Its incredible the number of knee jerk posters who just post comments without really being aware of the science behind his books. Its so glaringly obvious once you understand the process and have experimented with the process of ketosis for weight loss yourself.
But the research is also very clear than when you control for junk, major chronic diseases ramp up with increasing animal food consumption, and we know the many ways that animal foods promote those diseases.
3:04 - That meat and that beautiful arc of fat around the edge that you might grisle up a little bit.' Uh... Fat is not gristle. Fat, when cooked, does not become gristle. Gristle is any one of several types of connective tissue, generally in the context of meats for food. Gristle can add flavor and nutrients to our diets, but it is tough, unless cooked very slowly over a long time, or added to bone broth, etc. Fat, on the other hand, has a soft texture, especially when cooked or heated. Fat provides most of the flavor and many of the valuable nutrients in meats, especially pastured poultry, pastured pork, and 100% gassfed beef, lamb, rose veal, etc.
Counting calories worked for me, but it was hard to do because it's impossible to measure everything and get a good count of the calories. I tried cutting the carbohydrates out and it works really well. I've lost 17 pounds in a month. I still allow myself to eat the healthy carbs like fruit and nuts, but limit processed carbs, sugar, and the high carb staples (rice, potatoes, and pasta). And I give myself cheat days for holidays and birthdays. The surprising thing is how much sugar is in the food we eat. Almost everything has sugar added. Find 100% grape juice with nothing added, and find the processed grape juice. Drink each one and you'll see that the natural grape juice is a lot less sweet. THAT is the problem. The producers take what should be something healthy and dump sugar into it.
I used to joke I was going to eat bacon morning, noon and night when I hit 65 so I'd have a massive heart attack in my 80's...lights out, no suffering, no drawn out illness. Turns out that might be a healthy diet that would result in weight loss and probably help prevent the very thing I thought it would insure.
Dan & Jen Nevada ok well trans fats are turned into bad cholesterolw high is what would cause your heart disease, but trans fats are only found in processed foods, normal fat that the cow or pig grows itself is fine for you and probably even one of the more healthy ways to get energy. Now sugar won’t just up and kill you either, you can eat carbs and sugar just fine as long as you burn the energy that breaking them down produces, or your body will save it because our bodies evolved to survive in a world where we mostly starved, so they aren’t meant for a world where sugar and carbs and really food in general is so plentiful that we can accidentally eat too much. That’s not a thing In the wild.
"That white stringy stuff cardiologist pull out of peoples arteries didn't come from kale." White stringy stuff is actually often found in the stomachs of people who eat kale.
David - The label give list the carbohydrates. As any diabetic can tell you, especially those hooked up to a continuous blood glucose monitor, it does not matter if the carb is sugar or starch. Some starchy foods and some more fiberous foods elevate some people's blood sugar sooner, and/or keep it elevated longer... but starch is made of sugar molecules, even if it does not taste sweet to us.
The comments confirm,many people would rather desperately hold their curtains (whatever version it maybe) shut than peel them back and have a fresh look. Every search for evidence needs to start with a clean slate and an open mind.
I lost 60 pounds in 6 months and have kept it off for 1 year now. I stopped eating white bread, white rice, sugar, soda, high fructose corn syrup, all bagged snacks, all food from packages, ketchup, candy, all FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS, all fried foods, all processed food, fruit drinks, and more; I ate plain greek yogurt, all kinds of fruits and vegetables, WHOLE WHEAT bread, cottage cheese, all kinds of NUTS, avocados, nutrition bars with all natural ingredients, BLACK TEA, coffee, ALL KINDS OF BEANS, overnight oats, chia seeds, flax seeds, dark chocolate, cocoa powder on yogurt, small salads with a tbsp of dressing, OATMEAL, all bran cereal, and more healthy foods. I did not exercise. YOU CAN TOO. IF YOU KEEP HEALTHY FOOD IN YOUR FRIDGE YOU'LL EAT HEALTHY FOOD and IF IT CAME FROM A PLANT EAT IT; IF IT WAS MADE IN A PLANT DON'T EAT IT. If you can't pronounce an ingredient don't eat that item.
Think simpler, it isn't 'processed' food, whatever that means, but the main starch in a western diet is wheat, so a sandwich is just as bad as a "pizza roll" in terms of carbohydrates and inflammation.
Stopped daily sugar and meat/ap and oils at 48. Healthy as EVER now at 52, loving THAT! no meds no pains. Radical changes for radical results. Just know everyone will hate you for it.
Everyone knows that sugar causes diabetes, and people still drink soda. The problem is not ignorance. It's that people just like sugar. Unfortunate, but it's reality.
Q B Sugar doesn’t cause diabetes. Diabetes is caused by insulin resistance which is caused by excess body fat (which secretes a insulin resistance triggering hormone called “resistine”) and saturated fat.
Actually sugar isn't the cause it's saturated fat that blocks insulin receptors causing insulin resistance and blood sugar to rise. Like blaming water for water leak when it's the hole.
"Actually sugar isn't the cause it's saturated fat that blocks insulin receptors causing insulin resistance and blood sugar to rise. Like blaming water for water leak when it's the hole." Bingo! czcams.com/video/o1O6TqPRV5o/video.html czcams.com/video/fRZduVxlP_U/video.html
1:01 - Obesity and Tyepe 2 diabetes (formerly known as 'adult onset diabetes', and seen mostly among the elderly), and other health issues, follow whenever people around the world switch from their traditional diet to the 'Western, urbanized diet'. Weston A. Price called this the 'Foods of commerce'. This is even more true today than it was when Price was doing his research on the effects of diet on 'Nutrition and Physical Degeneration'.
"...who do we trust?" he asked. The answer is, "Mr. Taubes, we trust people like you, like Caldwell Esselstyn, T. Colin Campbell, Dr. Michael Greger, Dr. Anthony Lim, Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. Joel Fuhrman, ... professionals whose identity is built on helping people be HEALTHY individuals rather than sick cogs in an engineered agricultural, pharmaceutical, industrial death machine.
@@karlwheatley1244 he does indeed, but at least to my opinion, he reaches them honestly, and I'll take differences in conclusions that are achieved honestly to those who are truly, simply shills for industry.
@@ladyjatheist2763 My point is that Taubes leads you to a VERY different diet that do those other folks you are citing. Although Taubes writes beautifully and cleverly, I call him the Dark Prince of Dietary Deception because he repeatedly tells only part of a good story and then winds up misleading readers. Yes, processed sugar is bad for you and kudos to Taubes for being one of the people to get that out there, but then he repeatedly screws up on the effects of fat and carbs in general (whole food carbs are VERY healthy and high levels of saturated animal fat clearly promote more disease--and we know why). Take care.
Sugar and high Carb foods make you eat more. I'm on keto and don't ever snack. Some days I eat once a day. When your in ketosis your burning fat for fuel instead of sugar so if your body needs more food it knows where to get it. What is for breakfast, my fat. Whats for lunch my fat.
On a low carb healthy fat diet I lost 20 kg (44lb) in three months with very little exercise and no hunger pangs. Lowered my blood pressure from 140/90 to 110/70, despite significantly increasing my salt intake. I went from looking pregnant, with a huge beer belly, to being the normal skinny me. Dietitians with the calorie hypothesis are full of shit (and often fat themselves).
best post here-as the proof is in the result- these vegan types or so called complex carb types never have results like this- and they all look sick and ugly and they're weak
My da goes to a diabetitian (to manage type 2 diabetes) who is at least 150lbs overweight. If only the guy could take his own advice. For the first time in 30 years my da has maintained his weight under 200 lbs.
My friend found out she was diabetic a little over a year ago. She contols it with low carb, lost over 100 pounds and is off most of her other meds now.
I say this as someone who has learned to enjoy even my coffee without sugar. When obesity increased Americans were eating more fat (mainly unsaturated) and more starches as well, not only more sugar, more of everything. In fact, the biggest increases by far were from starchy carbs which, when highly processed, affect your body in much the same way as sugar--a fact which Taubes repeatedly notes elsewhere. He is completely right that the recommendations were wrong, but why insist it's about sugar alone.
Crazy that we need to investigate what we need to eat...people are breeding like rabbits....too too many people .. how do you feed the masses without garbage foods ??
We should have stuck with small farms. When you look at it everything is heavy processed. Pesticides in our fruit as and veggies, hormones and antibiotics in our meats. GMOs it's all killing us!
Hes right aboit a lot! But corn based sugars ARE in EVERYTHING from the most popular sauces, ketchup, BBQ, pasta sauces, baby formulas, salad dressing, bread, canned fruit, yogurt, coffee creamers, ALMOST EVERYTHING we buy is laced with the stuff! So with all the positive buzz about Stevia, I decide to give it a try. It turns out that EVERY BRAND of the stuff at my local grocery store and Wal Mart has some form of artificial sweetener that's controversial. Some have aspartame, some succralose, saccharin, xylitol, or maltodextrin; an artificial sweetener made from guess what!? CORN!!!
Berkeley nutritionist Adele Davis warned of the danger of sugar in the 1950's. I was raised on the advice in her books like Let's Have Healthy Children and Let's Cook it Right. Brewer's yeast, blackstrap molasses and organ foods, YUM!
I think everyone knows sugar is bad for you. They just don't care about it. I have seen people doing so much soda at these gas stations. Also so does now have corn syrup instead of sugar which is even worse.
all food sectors in the US are governed by several govt bodies, USDA, FDA, and related Food Boards.. the Food Boards ( look up almond board, egg board etc there is one for every food category almost) are the govt marketing arm for each industry and where most of these "studies" that tell us something is good for us comes from.. the govts "out" is the nutritional facts and dietary requirements they issue.. the rest your own will power.... either way its a con job..... the food industry does not need the govt to promote them..... these Food boards need to be eliminated they are contributing and complicit in the obesity epidemic not just in the US but now the world
Clearly, government price subsidies for sugar are terribly wrong. But the message of this video goes beyond that. It implies that government should never influence markets even for positive ends. Even when the lack of regulations allows companies to take away freedom from people. Instead, let's outlaw "donations" to candidates.
One word missing here: "Maybe if I get rid of the carbohydrates..." Try "Maybe if I get rid of the processed carbohydrates..." And then look at "processed" as anything that has been ground up, had stuff added to it, or been baked or fried in fat or oil.
It's not sugar also. It's constantly being on an anabolic state from eating too often. There is not nearly enough time for catabolism on our modern eating schedule. It takes way longer to get into that state than everyone assumes. It is absurdly out of our common sense. If you don't address the balance between the amount time on anabolic hormone predominance and on catabolic hormone predominance, even if you don't eat much, overtime, you will accumulate fat. This is also the reason for the constant food cravings. If you are constantly triggering an anabolic state and not eating enough for it, you will always feel hungry. TLDR: if you want to lose weight, it's far wiser to understand *not eating* instead of understanding eating. You understand fasting to lose weight. You understand eating to gain weight (also important and not the same as gaining only fat).
Meton2526 Both are unhealthy, and both are significantly different from complex carbohydrates. This guy puts everything in one bag. Definitely not a trustworthy source.
Here's what I dont get. Gary said his brother couldn't get fat if he tried but he, himself, can gain weight easily. What's the difference between them? I agree on the over consumption of processed sugar laden food, but what's the difference between these two brothers that one gains and the other does not ?
Nutrition science is still in infancy as far as I'm concerned. Can't get a straight answer from anyone about anything specific or general. Too many opinions. Some kind of breakthrough is needed either in it or in a related science to decisively explain the answers to people's health questions.
We've eaten a high fat, low carb diet for millennia and never had the obesity problems we have today. I'd say the science was settled before modern times by a long shot.
Calories in, calories out....Do whatever diet you can stick with....stay away from processed food....eat lots of veggies...too many animal products will increase your risks of heart attacks and bad skin.
Yeah, a lot of it comes down to moderation. In fact, it's not easy at all to stick to the supposed laid out plans, because a lot of access to things (like healthy greens) are actually full of constantly diminishing nutrients, and it never exactly adds up to the complicated plans. Not to mention different bodies, and how some can truly get away with a little more, but a lot of it truly falls down to just not drinking 10 sodas a day, or eating everything with cheesy goop on it, or even oil for that matter. You don't even have to necessarily avoid "processed foods" (that's a really broad category, and a 200 cal steam bowl rice dinner shouldn't be in the same category as it's frozen lasagna or pizza equivalent, or those who will decide they need a bag of chips or peanuts right after that). A lot of this is just down to portions. You don't always need fries with your burger, or sides at all. You don't need lots of soda, and replacing it with juice might be even worse. You can still have maybe a soda, or some chips, and yes ffs eating fruit or having a pasta dinner one night isn't the devil like some of these keto types want you to believe, just don't be stupid and have a gallon of pasta or religiously drink OJ with every meal (the actual nutrients aren't even in regular OJ, you have to buy the $10 stuff that expires in 2 days).
I'm pretty sure drinking orange juice with every meal would be a way to lose weight fast. The barf diet. What the fuck does orange juice go with? Not much. Not pasta.
I have a 40% fat, 30% protein, 30% carbs nutrition plan. No bread, no white rice, white flour, sugars. I eat whole grains like brown rice, quinoa, and others and sugars are maple syrup and honey. I’m now 165 from 185 this also includes muscle mass I’ve built during the start of my nutrition plan.
I vary my macros between 80-10-10 to 65-20-15. C,P,F. One is used to shred fat and the other is used as a flexible diet and still build muscle. Both do work. You just can’t eat high fat with high carbs. That is a great recipe for disaster, gaining iof fat, chronic diseases. Either do HFLC or HCLF. I feel better with low fat.
Suzanne Aubin I understand what you are talking about. I didn’t say why I got to my ratios. I have tried both HFLC and LFHC, the problem with me is that they both didn’t work for me so I tried a more balanced approach with my food. I’m now 180 LBS with significant muscular growth. Over the past month now I’ve slowly lowered my carb intake to only during breakfast.
'The things we live for are killing us' says the narrator at 1:23 (paraphrased). Wow. It's pretty sad when pizza rolls and other highly processed foods are what 'we wait for', what people look forward to, or live for.
Indeed, people don't get fat from the pork chops, burgers, chicken sandwiches, tuna subs, turkey meat ... that they always eat. They're getting fat from the rice, lentils, barley, watermelons, dates, bananas, kidney beans, pasta with diced tomatoes, spit peas ... that they never eat.
I could be wrong , but it appears as this guy has a million vitamins and supplements on his kitchen counter behind him. Not sure how to feel about that.
High-fat diets are nice, but don't forget the whole veggies or you will find yourself backed up. I've tried a lot of things to lose weight. I've found high-fat/low-carb is the way to go to lose weight, but you have to be dedicated. I've not been as dedicated as I led myself to believe. I need to get back on the dietary changes. The way I went from high-carb to high-fat with minimal transition issues is for the first week I mostly just ate eggs and bacon with some frozen veggies. I ate whatever my body wanted, so long as the total carbs for the day was below 50g. After a week or so of this, I was good. However, as I said, my dedication was lacking and I slipped back into high-carb. It costs more, a lot more, to eat high-fat. If you're on a budget, you have to really pay attention. I ate a lot of eggs because they're cheap. Same with bacon. Cheap sources of fat. Frozen veggies are a cheap source of veggies. A multivitamin couldn't hurt either.
I think US farm subsidies are making the world fat. These subsidies lower the price of food, including corn, which make it economically easier to consume calories. The price of soft drinks has not gone up that much over the last 40 years, especially if you buy 12 or 24 cans. Why is that when a dollar now is worth about what a quarter was back then?
Gary Taubes is a free-thinker who approaches institutions with skepticism and challenges orthodoxies just as all libertarians/minarchists/voluntarysts/anarchocapitalists/("big tent": "little l", "big L," etc) have done at some point on their liberty journeys.
So why are we spending billions to confirm the Higgs boson, with exclusively theoretical benefits far into the future, while we haven't even confirmed the basics of how to fuel our bodies for optimal health? The health benefits of answering that question would be immediate and dramatic. A healthier humanity. More energy, more satisfying lives, less disease and disability, more attractive people. It should be the top question in science. Every day we're making the decision almost blind, just making a guess of which nutritionist to listen to, as you can find someone who sounds credible to convince you that what you're eating, whatever you're eating, is causing harm to your body. Some say fat is the problem. Others say sugar. Others say carbohydrates. Others say protein. So you can't follow all the advice you hear. I'm not big on government research spending, but the cost savings of answering this question would be enormous. This is where I want the research dollars to go. Private industry doesn't really have a profit incentive to figure it out, so some investment here by governments or non-profits could pay off big-time. Just arrange a big "cockfight" to use the term in the video. I don't think it would be that expensive to pit different dietary theories head-to-head in a championship bracket. It would only require some waiting. We might get valid results from as few as a thousand people, and it's possible that many of them could be volunteers or paid little. People would volunteer to not change their diet, but to minimize variables we would probably want a variety of people with various dietary histories in each group, as identical as possible. Then you follow them from birth on different diets and follow their children as well. It could take a few generations to finish the study, but you'd get preliminary results earlier. Just see who has better healthcare outcomes over the course of their lives on each diet. Follow the next generation, as well, to see how it affects child development. You may only need hundreds of people in each group to see reliable results. Then after the study you can do a round two, with all new participants, further confirming the results by putting larger groups on each of the diets that produces the best results in the previous study. Like a championship round, with thousands of participants. This process could take a century, but it would give us more knowledge of what optimal human nutrition is than everything we've learned from all of human history to this point. We'd finally know what to feed ourselves. We wouldn't be making ignorant decisions that massively impact our lives each and every day. Yeah, for a couple billion dollars we could probably know. And I'm sure individuals, organizations, and governments all over world would be willing to chip in to acquire this knowledge. We all have spent a lot of time and energy trying to learn what we should eat, and what we should avoid putting in our bodies. We still don't have the indisputable evidence. If we did, it would be tremendously valuable. I would pay a great deal for such knowledge. Many people have spent their lives pursing such knowledge.
What are you do about bad nutritional advice you stop buying their product, because there's nothing that will get their attention faster than loss of profit.
Big government? Is this a joke? Am I being punked? What I heard in this video was the reality of corporate interests, where anything "coming from government" was actually force fed propaganda from the big food corporations. Again, I am talking about the content of the video, not what I know. By the way as far as a 'non-corporate food' diet, advice has not changed in 50-70 years. You can see Jack LaLanne videos from the 1950s here on CZcams advocating an overwhelming if not exclusively vegetarian diet, whole foods, and limited to no processed foods. Many others including Dean Ornish, Gary Null, and John McDougall have advocated for similar diets in the intervening decades.
Menstrel The idea being that big government is susceptible to and encourages corporate influence. Corporations weren't involved in politics when the government was smaller because there was no money in it. Now it makes up over 25% of the economy so there is a ton of money at stake and lots of opportunty to exploit it for money. If there isn't anything for them to manipulate then they won't be able to manipulate it.
Corporations use government to push things harder, and yes there are actually cases of the government directly sending your tax money to promote certain elements that later get used terribly. Why do you think America is among one of the only places that mass produces HFCS in our drinks (or even some snacks)? Because it's been artificially made cheaper with corn subsidiaries. That's the government influence, a company cannot suddenly throw money at their own products to cheapen it, or shut down another company with force, on their own.
It is always like that. Government is perverted by the interests (be it corporation or a labor union). The bigger the budget the stronger the pull of monied interests and the weaker the influence of citizens. Corporations don't fight wars, don't send hitmen to bully competition out of the market etc - because none of this is profitable... they lobby the government to do it on the citizens dime for them. If you would stop Governments drug war, the corporations that benefit on it will be powerless to instigate the same conditions within their own budgets.
Subsidized agribusiness and corporate power made America fat. Government size is irrelevant. But you need strong government to take on these corporations.
Great info, but the most interesting thing to me about this interview is the interviewers' assumptions in the questions he asks. For one, drugs were never arbitrarily deemed good or bad, there are many reasons certain drugs are legal and others illegal, it's just that none of those reasons have anything to do with the well-being of the people who use them - the same can be said of nutrition.
The problem is not "big government" the problem is that government is dominated by lobbies... If the government was FREE fro lobbies, there would be no problems.
4:18 My BS meter always goes off on this now! Honestly ask yourself WTF is a “balanced” diet? No one knows. I say it’s just a value laden term that is used to push non-sense. There is NOTHING “balanced” about it. IOW, dogma, or complete bullshit, based on nothing. Please prove me wrong- my diet is reasonably keto, definitely low carb, and it has everything I need. I’ve checked! “Balanced” is literally the same bullshit as “vegetable” oil. Complete mind control, public relations to make idiots swallow food industry propaganda without question.
It's not just sugar. It's high amounts of fat combined with high amounts of sugar. Processed foods are what's causing the obesity epidemic. You can eat a whole foods plant-based diet or keto/paleo and be thin. I do think the former is more healthy than the latter, but that's just my opinion. Eat unprocessed foods and you won't be fat. It's that simple.
Keto/paleo won't prevent progression of heart disease. Paleo will assist its progression. And no one sticks to a keto diet. I have yet to see anyone say "I've been keto for x years."
Processed has nothing to do with it. If you consume excess calories, your body will store any non-dietary carbohydrates available as fat. You can eat Micky D's for the rest of your life and so long as you control for portions and make sure that you eat a few salads, you won't get fat and you won't really be unhealthy compared to the general population.
People who eat high amounts of fat but no sugar are thin. People who eat a low fat diet with no sugar are thin. Add sugar and people in both populations gain weight and diabetes increases to epidemic levels. Period. Examples:Japanese--low fat diet & then sugar added to diet. Eskimos had a high fat diet & were thin with no diabetes until modern food with sugar was added to the diet. This problem goes back decades and is getting worse. There are many more examples: www.healthline.com/nutrition/11-graphs-that-show-what-is-wrong-with-modern-diet Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/feb/03/indigenous-diets-fight-modern-illnesses
Jon Lefebvre: Jimmy Moore is just one person, and there are a lot of causes of weight gain. Insulin resistance is very common, but it is only one of many causes. Maybe he has hypothyroidism. Many physicians miss that diagnosis. www.healthline.com/symptom/unintentional-weight-gain hypothyroidmom.com/top-5-reasons-doctors-fail-to-diagnose-hypothyroidism/
Calories stop being just calories, when they trigger insulin. Sugar/Carb calories release insulin - and excessive insulin causes tons of problems. So calories from fat and protein can provide nutrition, without flooding the system with insulin.
I was fat all my life. I was a chubby kid, I hit puberty and I became fat. I was fat my whole life. 2 years ago my doctor told me my A1C count was high and I was looking at Diabetes in my future. On the advise of my friend I read about how carbohydrates effect my blood and decided to cut out carbohydrates. I've been eating the keto diet for the last 2 years. I've lost 165lbs. I'm in the best shape of my life. I've never been this fit, ever. And my A1C numbers are down and no longer a risk for diabetes.
Great job! Keep up the good work!
I was an underweight kid, so much so that the school nurse accused my mother of not feeding me enough, not true, I ate every thing but the kitchen sink, I stayed underweight until my mid twenties BMI 16, I didn't know what it was like to eat just one cake, I would eat at least two a day, then suddenly it hit, I started to gain weight and suddenly I was seriously overweight BMI 37, during my time gaining I tried everything, going lower and lower fat, exercise like crazy, I would lose some weight followed by gaining more, until I stopped loosing, in a desperate attempt I went down to 600 kcal a day, after 3 weeks I had not lost any weight at all, so I gave up and accepted my fate, until I found keto, I have already lost 24 pounds, a lot more to go but I am comfident it will.
@@jettec9411hey jettec!! Me too. Built like a string bean at 6’ 7” tall and 160 lbs when I was 18. By the time I was 22, 210, by 32, 280, since then I’ve blown up to 324 on 2 separate occasions. I have succeeded with weight watchers twice, losing 78 and next 75 lbs, but each time gaining it all back in 6 months. Well that said I’ve been doing keto since Jan 1, 2023 and I’m down 34 lbs, 12 of those in the last 30 days as I have settled into this. How are you doing , now that it’s 11 months after your post ?
@georgiabigfoot HI, I have actually stalled for months, but I am still doing keto for all the additional benefits, I am trying some different things to get the weight loss going again, and I am confident that I will succeed. Oh, by the way, I am 5'1". Thank you for asking.
@@jettec9411 no worries about stalling , I guess it sounds like you have been able to maintain your weight loss.
Great Interview! Taubes is shifting the paradigm about Obesity & Sugar
I really love your work Doctor, I'm a very big fan of you Sir.
Testing low-carb/sugar, high-fat hypothesis (n=1): Capped carbs at 25 grams per day, no calorie counting or increased exercise. Lost 10 lbs in 30 days. 90 days lost 22 lbs. Doctor pleasantly surprised, total cholesterol is over 200, but HDL is 2x LDL, and BP is lower. 150 days lost 30 lbs. BP normal, triglycerides normal! Feeling faint due to low BP, stopped all BP medications. 180 days maintaining 33 lb weight loss, friends say skin looks better. Really? Results: lost 33 lbs, avg BP 130/76 with no meds. Conclusion: reduced carb/sugar intake had positive impact on inflammation resulting in sustained 12% weight loss, and reduced BP with corresponding reduction in triglycerides! Next phase: evaluate 360 days on same diet.
GREAT....WELL DONE
So, how it's going? I did not really intend to reduce carbs/esp sugar at the beginning, i wasn't informed by then, but i started cooking for myself with fresh ingredients and only drinking water instead of soft drinks. I also exercise more so it is not pure diet in my case.
From 135kg(297,6lbs) to 115kg(253,5lbs) now. BP from 145-150/80-90 to 125-135/65-80.
Simply fantastic! You are on the right path.
@@MorbusSchmorbus yeah, its not rocket science. Getting back yo real foods fix problems.
Kelvin Davis
It wasn't really cutting the carbs that did it. You may not have been counting the calories but capping carbs to 25 grams would mean there was a drop in total calories. The drop in total calories is the key. If you're eating fewer calories than you burn then it's impossible to gain fat. It just physically can't happen. I did like you but my cap was on calories. I capped it at 1700 and I lost weight at roughly the dame rate. Once I reached the weight I wanted I started eating what I burn.
The Food Pyramid at 20:00, I stopped eating 'everything' at the bottom of the Pyramid (Grains, Rice, Bread, etc) in 2013 after reading Gary's second book. I went from a high blood pressure, overweight guy to someone who is now a healthy weight with normal blood pressure. Thank you Gary, you saved my life.
Gary Taubes is Owen Wilsons most convincing performance,
seems like a low-fat diet dramatically increases our appetite leading to higher consumption of lucrative grain-based and sugary foods. a perfect strategy for certain corporations
In other words... Everyone we trusted lied, and still does.
When I was growing up, the government insisted that we needed to win in Vietnam in order to defeat communism, and followed that up with eating saturated fat will kill you. I can't believe I fell for the second one after the first.
Your own body never lies. Here's a novel concept: follow it.
and you trusted Taubes too.
@@gtcstorm40 Nah, trusted my body, which now is VERY happy for the meat.
@@terraflow__bryanburdo4547 that does not mean your heart will hold up well. Define what u mean by happy body.
If your food comes with a label, it is not real food.
Even vegetables come with labels.
Yay for Gary! "If government hadn't interfered with nutrition, we wouldnt be where we are now."
Once again, the government is not the solution, the government is the problem. How can we get LESS government???
John Hasse REVOLUTION
John Hasse: The problem with your idea is that private corporations have a lot of control over the government. It depends on who is pulling the strings. Rule by corporation (fascism) with no chance to vote anyone out is even worse.
It is very true that the combination of corporations WITH the government is terrible. however, eliminatipn of the collusion does not need more government, but less.
Messiaha should come to erridiacte dabites evil.
Rule your own life and and lead by example. UNDERSTAND THAT MANY PEOPLE ACTUALLY WANT TO BE FAT, or have a death wish!
William Banting wrote the first ever diet book in the 1860s ,It worked well
And it said exactly this. but we got bombarded with some very powerful propaganda from the grain industry and we fell for it.
It was strange reading his booklet. I felt such a connection with a man who lived so long ago. His words are just as powerful today. If I ever have the money would love to visit London and do the Banging walk.
I like this guy. Very logical. Very astute observations of our so-called specialists.
Go beyond man made psychology into what really is the boss: your own body. Remember what Einstein said, "Few is the number of those who see with their own eyes and follow their own hearts. The mind is a terrible thing when controlled by "science." Science simply describes nature. Our society is so gullible especially then it comes to health, nutrition and disease. So easy to fix. No PhD needed.
Great interview! I’m now low carb and have normal glucose readings even though I’m Diabetic. Blood pressure is great! Had to cut BP meds way back to 1/4 what I was taking. Cholesterol great! Lost 40 pounds so far. Kidneys functioning normally when before was Stage 3 End Stage Kidney failure. Wish I had been given this information earlier in my life but better late than never!
Lost more than 100 lbs in less than a year, from a 50/48 inch waistline to a 40/38 inch waistline. Just occasional walking, no carbs, no sugar, no fruit. Dark greens, meat, nut flours only. Even eating out, eating no carb salad and meat only. Also only 40 % alcohol for the occasional cocktail. Actually able to eat high calorie amounts.
Me too! I started at a 44 waste and I'm now a 34. Goodbye sugar!!!!
I also have been doing keto no very low carbs no sugar. Greens and meat and cheese down 28 pounds in a month and a half.
I'm high carb, 30 inch waist jeans at age 48, 6 feet tall. It's calories in and out which Taubes tries to waffle on lol.
being in a state of ketosis long-term is not good for you. all you did was a ketosis diet.
congratulations, you're not (yet)insulin resistant. Good for you. Shame you still believe the calorie nonsense though. Its been shown in studies to be an irrelevant measurement - its what the body does with the food that makes the difference, not the amount of heat given off when you burn a unit of it. THe body must get sugar out of the bloodstream as its toxic (which is why diabetics lose limbs, go blind etc). If your body is so overloaded that it cant force it into the muscles with insulin the liver turns it into fat and stores it in the cells. Once this fact is understood its astonishingly simple to understand why people get fat. If you never get into a state of ketosis, that fat is never released back into the bloodstream and used as fuel - the end result is you just get fatter and fatter.
Every time he speaks I hear Owen Wilson.
Always remember reading Gary's book "Why we get fat and what to do about it" over two years ago and started on my own LCHF/keto journey. Gradually losing 100lbs of excess fat and more importantly keeping it off since. Wow! Now living the dream of a slim, healthy body and lifestyle at last, after forty years of futile low fat diets almost destroyed me.
When you say you ate low fat diets, do you mean you ate around 10% calories from fat? Or was it more than that? And were you eating whole foods?
@@karlwheatley1244 typical low fat diets, following WW, SS, RC, etc. Low fat versions of everything. Ate as little fat as possible as it was 'evil'. When hunger overcame me I binged madly on sugar/fat :(. Devastating cycle of insanity 40 years. Now stable weight, stable mentally too. No more binges necessary as never hungry any more.
I don't know who WW, SS, and RC are. "Low-fat versions of everything" sounds like processed foods, which isn't healthy. The typical "low-fat" diets are about 25-30% calories from fat, which is double to triple the amount of fat in the diets that have achieved the best outcomes. You have to get and stay below 15% calories from fat for the cravings to go away. Doesn't sound like you were eating a lot of fiber or the kinds of plant protein that are satiating.
@@karlwheatley1244 Weightwatchers, Scottish Skimmers, Rosemary Conley etc (max 5% fat) are all diet clubs. Carbs/sugar were deadly to me. Fat is good particularly animal fat and animal protein. Serve with veggies. Keeps me full for hours, no need for snacking between meals, eat twice a day 18/6 (intermittant fasting). Very happy now after so many years dieting and failing.
MrsTabby I'm glad your happy. I hope it works for your health long term despite the research.
The Romans asked "cui bono?", translated into our times: "follow the money". Money poisons many things.
Why we get fat and what to do about it is a very good book. Almost undeniable evidence put together in an easy to digest format
Absolutely agree. Its incredible the number of knee jerk posters who just post comments without really being aware of the science behind his books. Its so glaringly obvious once you understand the process and have experimented with the process of ketosis for weight loss yourself.
It was a life saver and life changer for both my husband and myself. I could not recommend it enough.
Was the pun intended? 🤓
Me too, Dawn (see my comment above).
Processed food is the vector carrying the disease. Excellent Gary.
But the research is also very clear than when you control for junk, major chronic diseases ramp up with increasing animal food consumption, and we know the many ways that animal foods promote those diseases.
3:04 - That meat and that beautiful arc of fat around the edge that you might grisle up a little bit.' Uh... Fat is not gristle. Fat, when cooked, does not become gristle. Gristle is any one of several types of connective tissue, generally in the context of meats for food. Gristle can add flavor and nutrients to our diets, but it is tough, unless cooked very slowly over a long time, or added to bone broth, etc.
Fat, on the other hand, has a soft texture, especially when cooked or heated. Fat provides most of the flavor and many of the valuable nutrients in meats, especially pastured poultry, pastured pork, and 100% gassfed beef, lamb, rose veal, etc.
Counting calories worked for me, but it was hard to do because it's impossible to measure everything and get a good count of the calories. I tried cutting the carbohydrates out and it works really well. I've lost 17 pounds in a month. I still allow myself to eat the healthy carbs like fruit and nuts, but limit processed carbs, sugar, and the high carb staples (rice, potatoes, and pasta). And I give myself cheat days for holidays and birthdays.
The surprising thing is how much sugar is in the food we eat. Almost everything has sugar added. Find 100% grape juice with nothing added, and find the processed grape juice. Drink each one and you'll see that the natural grape juice is a lot less sweet. THAT is the problem. The producers take what should be something healthy and dump sugar into it.
I used to joke I was going to eat bacon morning, noon and night when I hit 65 so I'd have a massive heart attack in my 80's...lights out, no suffering, no drawn out illness. Turns out that might be a healthy diet that would result in weight loss and probably help prevent the very thing I thought it would insure.
Dan & Jen Nevada nutritionfacts.org
Dan & Jen Nevada ok well trans fats are turned into bad cholesterolw high is what would cause your heart disease, but trans fats are only found in processed foods, normal fat that the cow or pig grows itself is fine for you and probably even one of the more healthy ways to get energy. Now sugar won’t just up and kill you either, you can eat carbs and sugar just fine as long as you burn the energy that breaking them down produces, or your body will save it because our bodies evolved to survive in a world where we mostly starved, so they aren’t meant for a world where sugar and carbs and really food in general is so plentiful that we can accidentally eat too much. That’s not a thing In the wild.
Dan & Jen Nevada - The Sodium Nitrate added to the Bacon will cause Colon Cancer - Look it up...!!
"That white stringy stuff cardiologist pull out of peoples arteries didn't come from kale."
White stringy stuff is actually often found in the stomachs of people who eat kale.
"Livestock are fat because farmers get paid by the pound."
You don't know fuck about desirable livestock.
Sugar Blues is a book that came out a long time ago, mom read it in the 70's had me read it in the 90's says the same thing
To this day sugar has no daily limits and food labels don't say what percentage of sugar a food item has like every other item on food labels.
David - The label give list the carbohydrates. As any diabetic can tell you, especially those hooked up to a continuous blood glucose monitor, it does not matter if the carb is sugar or starch. Some starchy foods and some more fiberous foods elevate some people's blood sugar sooner, and/or keep it elevated longer... but starch is made of sugar molecules, even if it does not taste sweet to us.
The comments confirm,many people would rather desperately hold their curtains (whatever version it maybe) shut than peel them back and have a fresh look. Every search for evidence needs to start with a clean slate and an open mind.
True. I am now a flat earther.
I lost 60 pounds in 6 months and have kept it off for 1 year now. I stopped eating white bread, white rice, sugar, soda, high fructose corn syrup, all bagged snacks, all food from packages, ketchup, candy, all FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS, all fried foods, all processed food, fruit drinks, and more; I ate plain greek yogurt, all kinds of fruits and vegetables, WHOLE WHEAT bread, cottage cheese, all kinds of NUTS, avocados, nutrition bars with all natural ingredients, BLACK TEA, coffee, ALL KINDS OF BEANS, overnight oats, chia seeds, flax seeds, dark chocolate, cocoa powder on yogurt, small salads with a tbsp of dressing, OATMEAL, all bran cereal, and more healthy foods. I did not exercise. YOU CAN TOO. IF YOU KEEP HEALTHY FOOD IN YOUR FRIDGE YOU'LL EAT HEALTHY FOOD and IF IT CAME FROM A PLANT EAT IT; IF IT WAS MADE IN A PLANT DON'T EAT IT. If you can't pronounce an ingredient don't eat that item.
Think simpler, it isn't 'processed' food, whatever that means, but the main starch in a western diet is wheat, so a sandwich is just as bad as a "pizza roll" in terms of carbohydrates and inflammation.
Stopped daily sugar and meat/ap and oils at 48. Healthy as EVER now at 52, loving THAT! no meds no pains. Radical changes for radical results. Just know everyone will hate you for it.
Sugar is a drug that I can’t kick . 🎂🍭🍪🍬🍡🍧🍩🍮🍨🍥🍯🌰🍦🍩🍰🥠🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫
Everyone knows that sugar causes diabetes, and people still drink soda. The problem is not ignorance. It's that people just like sugar. Unfortunate, but it's reality.
also, the gas in soda bloats the stomach which causes the belly to expand to support the gas
Q B Sugar doesn’t cause diabetes. Diabetes is caused by insulin resistance which is caused by excess body fat (which secretes a insulin resistance triggering hormone called “resistine”) and saturated fat.
Actually sugar isn't the cause it's saturated fat that blocks insulin receptors causing insulin resistance and blood sugar to rise. Like blaming water for water leak when it's the hole.
"Actually sugar isn't the cause it's saturated fat that blocks insulin receptors causing insulin resistance and blood sugar to rise. Like blaming water for water leak when it's the hole."
Bingo!
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Sounds plausible.
1:01 - Obesity and Tyepe 2 diabetes (formerly known as 'adult onset diabetes', and seen mostly among the elderly), and other health issues, follow whenever people around the world switch from their traditional diet to the 'Western, urbanized diet'. Weston A. Price called this the 'Foods of commerce'. This is even more true today than it was when Price was doing his research on the effects of diet on 'Nutrition and Physical Degeneration'.
Gary is so interesting. I really loved this video.
"We're you a fat load?" Haha.😅
Love that REASON did the interview and named yhemselves early on as being an attacker of the guy years before
Journalistic integrity is important
"...who do we trust?" he asked. The answer is, "Mr. Taubes, we trust people like you, like Caldwell Esselstyn, T. Colin Campbell, Dr. Michael Greger, Dr. Anthony Lim, Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. Joel Fuhrman, ... professionals whose identity is built on helping people be HEALTHY individuals rather than sick cogs in an engineered agricultural, pharmaceutical, industrial death machine.
Except Taubes reaches VERY different conclusions than Esselstyn, Greger, Barnard, etc.
@@karlwheatley1244 he does indeed, but at least to my opinion, he reaches them honestly, and I'll take differences in conclusions that are achieved honestly to those who are truly, simply shills for industry.
@@ladyjatheist2763 My point is that Taubes leads you to a VERY different diet that do those other folks you are citing. Although Taubes writes beautifully and cleverly, I call him the Dark Prince of Dietary Deception because he repeatedly tells only part of a good story and then winds up misleading readers. Yes, processed sugar is bad for you and kudos to Taubes for being one of the people to get that out there, but then he repeatedly screws up on the effects of fat and carbs in general (whole food carbs are VERY healthy and high levels of saturated animal fat clearly promote more disease--and we know why).
Take care.
Sugar and high Carb foods make you eat more. I'm on keto and don't ever snack. Some days I eat once a day. When your in ketosis your burning fat for fuel instead of sugar so if your body needs more food it knows where to get it. What is for breakfast, my fat. Whats for lunch my fat.
On a low carb healthy fat diet I lost 20 kg (44lb) in three months with very little exercise and no hunger pangs. Lowered my blood pressure from 140/90 to 110/70, despite significantly increasing my salt intake. I went from looking pregnant, with a huge beer belly, to being the normal skinny me. Dietitians with the calorie hypothesis are full of shit (and often fat themselves).
best post here-as the proof is in the result- these vegan types or so called complex carb types never have results like this- and they all look sick and ugly and they're weak
My da goes to a diabetitian (to manage type 2 diabetes) who is at least 150lbs overweight. If only the guy could take his own advice. For the first time in 30 years my da has maintained his weight under 200 lbs.
My friend found out she was diabetic a little over a year ago. She contols it with low carb, lost over 100 pounds and is off most of her other meds now.
Wait, they got Pennywise to endorse children’s breakfast cereal?
In many cases, food processors have replaced cane sugar with high fructose corn syrup.
Props for mentioning your prior position @0:23 - @0:25
I say this as someone who has learned to enjoy even my coffee without sugar. When obesity increased Americans were eating more fat (mainly unsaturated) and more starches as well, not only more sugar, more of everything. In fact, the biggest increases by far were from starchy carbs which, when highly processed, affect your body in much the same way as sugar--a fact which Taubes repeatedly notes elsewhere. He is completely right that the recommendations were wrong, but why insist it's about sugar alone.
[Nick to camera guy]: "can you angle the camera a little to the right so I can get this awesome halo effect behind me?"
Did Nick say, "were you a FAT LOAD when you were younger?"
That's why we love him. He just says shit.
In my opinion its the high meal frequency that is the culprit, or at least its the meal frequency that needs to be adjusted to get out of the mess.
Crazy that we need to investigate what we need to eat...people are breeding like rabbits....too too many people .. how do you feed the masses without garbage foods ??
We should have stuck with small farms. When you look at it everything is heavy processed. Pesticides in our fruit as and veggies, hormones and antibiotics in our meats. GMOs it's all killing us!
Hes right aboit a lot! But corn based sugars ARE in EVERYTHING from the most popular sauces, ketchup, BBQ, pasta sauces, baby formulas, salad dressing, bread, canned fruit, yogurt, coffee creamers, ALMOST EVERYTHING we buy is laced with the stuff!
So with all the positive buzz about Stevia, I decide to give it a try. It turns out that EVERY BRAND of the stuff at my local grocery store and Wal Mart has some form of artificial sweetener that's controversial. Some have aspartame, some succralose, saccharin, xylitol, or maltodextrin; an artificial sweetener made from guess what!? CORN!!!
Then what's the difference between Gary and his brother if he was chubby and his brother was ripped since they both ate the same thing and amount ?
The problem is the grocery stores are chalked full of this stuff...Where do you go to buy affordable CLEAN food?
meat and meat and maybe some green veg
It's the big joke in the movie "Sleeper"
Government diet suggestions killed my grandmother and are killing my father.
I eat what I want....if I get fat, fuck it LOL. Seriously though this guy makes good points and it's very common sense stuff.
Berkeley nutritionist Adele Davis warned of the danger of sugar in the 1950's. I was raised on the advice in her books like Let's Have Healthy Children and Let's Cook it Right. Brewer's yeast, blackstrap molasses and organ foods, YUM!
Interviewer doesn't seem to be taking the subject as seriously as I believe he should.
I think everyone knows sugar is bad for you. They just don't care about it. I have seen people doing so much soda at these gas stations. Also so does now have corn syrup instead of sugar which is even worse.
I like Taubes, but he isn't the only David fighting the government Goliath. Julia Child's led the way, with many following.
Where can I find this full interview?
Fantastic interview!!
He is a true America hero.
I was going through weight fluctuations after cutting out bread from my diet, remember to supplement your nutrition with all the vegetables you can
all food sectors in the US are governed by several govt bodies, USDA, FDA, and related Food Boards.. the Food Boards ( look up almond board, egg board etc there is one for every food category almost) are the govt marketing arm for each industry and where most of these "studies" that tell us something is good for us comes from.. the govts "out" is the nutritional facts and dietary requirements they issue.. the rest your own will power.... either way its a con job..... the food industry does not need the govt to promote them..... these Food boards need to be eliminated they are contributing and complicit in the obesity epidemic not just in the US but now the world
Clearly, government price subsidies for sugar are terribly wrong. But the message of this video goes beyond that. It implies that government should never influence markets even for positive ends. Even when the lack of regulations allows companies to take away freedom from people. Instead, let's outlaw "donations" to candidates.
One word missing here: "Maybe if I get rid of the carbohydrates..." Try "Maybe if I get rid of the processed carbohydrates..." And then look at "processed" as anything that has been ground up, had stuff added to it, or been baked or fried in fat or oil.
That clown cereal commercial at 9:40 is creepy. Maybe I'll think about that clown when I want something sugary.
It's not sugar also. It's constantly being on an anabolic state from eating too often.
There is not nearly enough time for catabolism on our modern eating schedule. It takes way longer to get into that state than everyone assumes. It is absurdly out of our common sense. If you don't address the balance between the amount time on anabolic hormone predominance and on catabolic hormone predominance, even if you don't eat much, overtime, you will accumulate fat.
This is also the reason for the constant food cravings. If you are constantly triggering an anabolic state and not eating enough for it, you will always feel hungry.
TLDR: if you want to lose weight, it's far wiser to understand *not eating* instead of understanding eating. You understand fasting to lose weight. You understand eating to gain weight (also important and not the same as gaining only fat).
Shouldn't this be the case against high fructose corn syrup?????
There is no significant difference between HFCS and regular table sugar.
Meton2526 Both are unhealthy, and both are significantly different from complex carbohydrates.
This guy puts everything in one bag. Definitely not a trustworthy source.
Here's what I dont get. Gary said his brother couldn't get fat if he tried but he, himself, can gain weight easily. What's the difference between them? I agree on the over consumption of processed sugar laden food, but what's the difference between these two brothers that one gains and the other does not ?
Gary is a prophet sent by lord Jesus Christ.
Nic, I love you... But sometimes you're so eager to ask the next question that you cut people of in mid-sentence. It drives me bonkers!
Me: surely, not everything can bad thing can be blamed on big gov.
Gary Taubes: and that's where you're wrong, sir.
Nutrition science is still in infancy as far as I'm concerned. Can't get a straight answer from anyone about anything specific or general. Too many opinions. Some kind of breakthrough is needed either in it or in a related science to decisively explain the answers to people's health questions.
Exactly. Hence why government should not have an official position on health.
s0nnyburnett nutritonfacts.org
We've eaten a high fat, low carb diet for millennia and never had the obesity problems we have today. I'd say the science was settled before modern times by a long shot.
s0nnyburnett get the politics out of it, the farm lobbyists and then more people can be heard over the mooing
Calories in, calories out....Do whatever diet you can stick with....stay away from processed food....eat lots of veggies...too many animal products will increase your risks of heart attacks and bad skin.
Fascinating take, I want to know more.
This guy reminds me of Owen Wilson.
Fat + Carbohydrates are the Real Bad Combination.
7:31 “Were you a FAT LOAD?”
wtf is a fat load? Never heard someone use that expression before. The interviewer is so tone deaf 😂
I think a big part of this is the repression of artificial sweetners in the past, and it's continuation in popular culture.
Dude, I eat rice every day, and I'm lean and diabetes-free. Carbs are not bad, and neither is fat. Just don't eat too much food and don't be lazy.
Q B taubes isn't advocating for no carbs. He just thinks we eat too much and get our carbs from bad aources
Complex carbs from whole grains may also be metabolized significantly different enough from simple sugars to play a role.
Yeah taubes it's full of crap. Drink pure olive oil by the bottle with no insulin spike, see if you get fat.
Yeah, a lot of it comes down to moderation. In fact, it's not easy at all to stick to the supposed laid out plans, because a lot of access to things (like healthy greens) are actually full of constantly diminishing nutrients, and it never exactly adds up to the complicated plans. Not to mention different bodies, and how some can truly get away with a little more, but a lot of it truly falls down to just not drinking 10 sodas a day, or eating everything with cheesy goop on it, or even oil for that matter. You don't even have to necessarily avoid "processed foods" (that's a really broad category, and a 200 cal steam bowl rice dinner shouldn't be in the same category as it's frozen lasagna or pizza equivalent, or those who will decide they need a bag of chips or peanuts right after that). A lot of this is just down to portions. You don't always need fries with your burger, or sides at all. You don't need lots of soda, and replacing it with juice might be even worse. You can still have maybe a soda, or some chips, and yes ffs eating fruit or having a pasta dinner one night isn't the devil like some of these keto types want you to believe, just don't be stupid and have a gallon of pasta or religiously drink OJ with every meal (the actual nutrients aren't even in regular OJ, you have to buy the $10 stuff that expires in 2 days).
I'm pretty sure drinking orange juice with every meal would be a way to lose weight fast. The barf diet. What the fuck does orange juice go with? Not much. Not pasta.
I have a 40% fat, 30% protein, 30% carbs nutrition plan. No bread, no white rice, white flour, sugars. I eat whole grains like brown rice, quinoa, and others and sugars are maple syrup and honey. I’m now 165 from 185 this also includes muscle mass I’ve built during the start of my nutrition plan.
I vary my macros between 80-10-10 to 65-20-15. C,P,F. One is used to shred fat and the other is used as a flexible diet and still build muscle.
Both do work. You just can’t eat high fat with high carbs. That is a great recipe for disaster, gaining iof fat, chronic diseases. Either do HFLC or HCLF. I feel better with low fat.
Suzanne Aubin I understand what you are talking about. I didn’t say why I got to my ratios. I have tried both HFLC and LFHC, the problem with me is that they both didn’t work for me so I tried a more balanced approach with my food. I’m now 180 LBS with significant muscular growth. Over the past month now I’ve slowly lowered my carb intake to only during breakfast.
'The things we live for are killing us' says the narrator at 1:23 (paraphrased). Wow. It's pretty sad when pizza rolls and other highly processed foods are what 'we wait for', what people look forward to, or live for.
Oops. Meant to say, interviewer'. Better get more healthy pastured and grassfed fats in my diet! :-)
I took it to mean food you wait for as opposed to food you've cooked yourself.
Indeed, people don't get fat from the pork chops, burgers, chicken sandwiches, tuna subs, turkey meat ... that they always eat. They're getting fat from the rice, lentils, barley, watermelons, dates, bananas, kidney beans, pasta with diced tomatoes, spit peas ... that they never eat.
I could be wrong , but it appears as this guy has a million vitamins and supplements on his kitchen counter behind him. Not sure how to feel about that.
High-fat diets are nice, but don't forget the whole veggies or you will find yourself backed up. I've tried a lot of things to lose weight. I've found high-fat/low-carb is the way to go to lose weight, but you have to be dedicated. I've not been as dedicated as I led myself to believe. I need to get back on the dietary changes. The way I went from high-carb to high-fat with minimal transition issues is for the first week I mostly just ate eggs and bacon with some frozen veggies. I ate whatever my body wanted, so long as the total carbs for the day was below 50g. After a week or so of this, I was good. However, as I said, my dedication was lacking and I slipped back into high-carb. It costs more, a lot more, to eat high-fat. If you're on a budget, you have to really pay attention. I ate a lot of eggs because they're cheap. Same with bacon. Cheap sources of fat. Frozen veggies are a cheap source of veggies. A multivitamin couldn't hurt either.
I think US farm subsidies are making the world fat. These subsidies lower the price of food, including corn, which make it economically easier to consume calories. The price of soft drinks has not gone up that much over the last 40 years, especially if you buy 12 or 24 cans.
Why is that when a dollar now is worth about what a quarter was back then?
Gary Taubes is a free-thinker who approaches institutions with skepticism and challenges orthodoxies just as all libertarians/minarchists/voluntarysts/anarchocapitalists/("big tent": "little l", "big L," etc) have done at some point on their liberty journeys.
That's an awful lot of medicine or supplement bottles on his counter.
So why are we spending billions to confirm the Higgs boson, with exclusively theoretical benefits far into the future, while we haven't even confirmed the basics of how to fuel our bodies for optimal health? The health benefits of answering that question would be immediate and dramatic. A healthier humanity. More energy, more satisfying lives, less disease and disability, more attractive people. It should be the top question in science. Every day we're making the decision almost blind, just making a guess of which nutritionist to listen to, as you can find someone who sounds credible to convince you that what you're eating, whatever you're eating, is causing harm to your body. Some say fat is the problem. Others say sugar. Others say carbohydrates. Others say protein. So you can't follow all the advice you hear. I'm not big on government research spending, but the cost savings of answering this question would be enormous. This is where I want the research dollars to go. Private industry doesn't really have a profit incentive to figure it out, so some investment here by governments or non-profits could pay off big-time. Just arrange a big "cockfight" to use the term in the video. I don't think it would be that expensive to pit different dietary theories head-to-head in a championship bracket. It would only require some waiting. We might get valid results from as few as a thousand people, and it's possible that many of them could be volunteers or paid little. People would volunteer to not change their diet, but to minimize variables we would probably want a variety of people with various dietary histories in each group, as identical as possible. Then you follow them from birth on different diets and follow their children as well. It could take a few generations to finish the study, but you'd get preliminary results earlier. Just see who has better healthcare outcomes over the course of their lives on each diet. Follow the next generation, as well, to see how it affects child development. You may only need hundreds of people in each group to see reliable results. Then after the study you can do a round two, with all new participants, further confirming the results by putting larger groups on each of the diets that produces the best results in the previous study. Like a championship round, with thousands of participants. This process could take a century, but it would give us more knowledge of what optimal human nutrition is than everything we've learned from all of human history to this point. We'd finally know what to feed ourselves. We wouldn't be making ignorant decisions that massively impact our lives each and every day. Yeah, for a couple billion dollars we could probably know. And I'm sure individuals, organizations, and governments all over world would be willing to chip in to acquire this knowledge. We all have spent a lot of time and energy trying to learn what we should eat, and what we should avoid putting in our bodies. We still don't have the indisputable evidence. If we did, it would be tremendously valuable. I would pay a great deal for such knowledge. Many people have spent their lives pursing such knowledge.
What are you do about bad nutritional advice you stop buying their product, because there's nothing that will get their attention faster than loss of profit.
Big government? Is this a joke? Am I being punked? What I heard in this video was the reality of corporate interests, where anything "coming from government" was actually force fed propaganda from the big food corporations. Again, I am talking about the content of the video, not what I know.
By the way as far as a 'non-corporate food' diet, advice has not changed in 50-70 years. You can see Jack LaLanne videos from the 1950s here on CZcams advocating an overwhelming if not exclusively vegetarian diet, whole foods, and limited to no processed foods. Many others including Dean Ornish, Gary Null, and John McDougall have advocated for similar diets in the intervening decades.
Government reccomendations.
Menstrel The idea being that big government is susceptible to and encourages corporate influence. Corporations weren't involved in politics when the government was smaller because there was no money in it. Now it makes up over 25% of the economy so there is a ton of money at stake and lots of opportunty to exploit it for money. If there isn't anything for them to manipulate then they won't be able to manipulate it.
Corporations use government to push things harder, and yes there are actually cases of the government directly sending your tax money to promote certain elements that later get used terribly. Why do you think America is among one of the only places that mass produces HFCS in our drinks (or even some snacks)? Because it's been artificially made cheaper with corn subsidiaries. That's the government influence, a company cannot suddenly throw money at their own products to cheapen it, or shut down another company with force, on their own.
It is always like that. Government is perverted by the interests (be it corporation or a labor union). The bigger the budget the stronger the pull of monied interests and the weaker the influence of citizens. Corporations don't fight wars, don't send hitmen to bully competition out of the market etc - because none of this is profitable... they lobby the government to do it on the citizens dime for them. If you would stop Governments drug war, the corporations that benefit on it will be powerless to instigate the same conditions within their own budgets.
oh boy another vegan dumbass who watches doctors being paid for by places like peta and selling books, which does not used science, congratz sheep
Subsidized agribusiness and corporate power made America fat. Government size is irrelevant. But you need strong government to take on these corporations.
Great info, but the most interesting thing to me about this interview is the interviewers' assumptions in the questions he asks. For one, drugs were never arbitrarily deemed good or bad, there are many reasons certain drugs are legal and others illegal, it's just that none of those reasons have anything to do with the well-being of the people who use them - the same can be said of nutrition.
The problem is not "big government" the problem is that government is dominated by lobbies... If the government was FREE fro lobbies, there would be no problems.
Gary's looking lean and mean.
4:18 My BS meter always goes off on this now! Honestly ask yourself WTF is a “balanced” diet? No one knows. I say it’s just a value laden term that is used to push non-sense. There is NOTHING “balanced” about it. IOW, dogma, or complete bullshit, based on nothing. Please prove me wrong- my diet is reasonably keto, definitely low carb, and it has everything I need. I’ve checked! “Balanced” is literally the same bullshit as “vegetable” oil. Complete mind control, public relations to make idiots swallow food industry propaganda without question.
He says he was a chubby child, and had a bigger body set. But he's not chubby or bigger bodied now? Is he? Am I missing something?
He's 6'3" and 200lbs. Yes, you're missing that you're a brainlet nincompoop.
It's not just sugar. It's high amounts of fat combined with high amounts of sugar. Processed foods are what's causing the obesity epidemic. You can eat a whole foods plant-based diet or keto/paleo and be thin. I do think the former is more healthy than the latter, but that's just my opinion. Eat unprocessed foods and you won't be fat. It's that simple.
Keto/paleo won't prevent progression of heart disease. Paleo will assist its progression. And no one sticks to a keto diet. I have yet to see anyone say "I've been keto for x years."
Processed has nothing to do with it. If you consume excess calories, your body will store any non-dietary carbohydrates available as fat.
You can eat Micky D's for the rest of your life and so long as you control for portions and make sure that you eat a few salads, you won't get fat and you won't really be unhealthy compared to the general population.
Andre Williamson Gary himself is an example of long term Keto lol. Wouldn't mind looking like that!
People who eat high amounts of fat but no sugar are thin. People who eat a low fat diet with no sugar are thin. Add sugar and people in both populations gain weight and diabetes increases to epidemic levels. Period. Examples:Japanese--low fat diet & then sugar added to diet. Eskimos had a high fat diet & were thin with no diabetes until modern food with sugar was added to the diet. This problem goes back decades and is getting worse. There are many more examples:
www.healthline.com/nutrition/11-graphs-that-show-what-is-wrong-with-modern-diet
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price
www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/feb/03/indigenous-diets-fight-modern-illnesses
Jon Lefebvre: Jimmy Moore is just one person, and there are a lot of causes of weight gain. Insulin resistance is very common, but it is only one of many causes. Maybe he has hypothyroidism. Many physicians miss that diagnosis. www.healthline.com/symptom/unintentional-weight-gain
hypothyroidmom.com/top-5-reasons-doctors-fail-to-diagnose-hypothyroidism/
Scientists have actually debated against him and proved him wrong.
Dr Alan Aragon and Stephen Guyenet.
I had to exercise on Atkins diet after about 40 lbs lost. My body would not do more without exercise. I guess I'm the exception!
Gary’s eyebrows make me feel a deep fear that is disturbing.
great interview but the word cock was used way too much
Calories are calories ofc there are better versions however in the end of the day ppl tend to over consume.
Calories stop being just calories, when they trigger insulin. Sugar/Carb calories release insulin - and excessive insulin causes tons of problems. So calories from fat and protein can provide nutrition, without flooding the system with insulin.