The Role of Diet vs. Exercise in the Obesity Epidemic
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- When it comes to obesity, which is more important: diet vs. exercise? Can weight be lost without exercise? The common explanations for the cause of the obesity epidemic put forward by the food industry and policymakers, such as inactivity or a lack of willpower, are not only wrong, but actively harmful fallacies.
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When I sat down to write How Not to Diet (nutritionfacts.org/how-not-to...) I knew this “what triggered the obesity epidemic” was going to be a big question I had to face. Was it inactivity-just kids sitting around playing video games? Was it genetic? Was it epigenetic-something turning our fat genes on? Or was it just the food? Were we eating more fat all of the sudden, more carbs? More processed foods? Or were we just eating more period, because of bigger serving sizes or just snacking more? Inquiring minds wanted to know.
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• The Role of Genes in the Obesity Epidemic (nutritionfacts.org/topics/the...)
• The Thrifty Gene Theory: Survival of the Fattest (nutritionfacts.org/video/the-t...)
• Cut the Calorie-Rich-And-Processed Foods (nutritionfacts.org/video/cut-t...)
• The Role of Processed Foods in the Obesity Epidemic (nutritionfacts.org/video/the-r...)
• The Role of Taxpayer Subsidies in the Obesity Epidemic (nutritionfacts.org/video/the-r...)
• The Role of Marketing in the Obesity Epidemic (nutritionfacts.org/video/the-r...)
• The Role of Food Advertisements in the Obesity Epidemic (nutritionfacts.org/video/the-r...)
• The Role of Personal Responsibility in the Obesity Epidemic (nutritionfacts.org/video/the-r...)
• The Role of Corporate Influence in the Obesity Epidemic (nutritionfacts.org/video/the-r...)
• The Role of the Toxic Food Environment in the Obesity Epidemic (nutritionfacts.org/video/the-r...)
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Dr Greger you 🎸rock💪💪！
I have it on even on alternative accounts lol
Jim Fixx, noted marathon runner and author died of a heart attack while jogging at 52 years of age. The standard American diet killed him. Running couldn’t save him.
Great testimony!!
Longest lived people just live and walk and garden etc .
@Peter Rabitt I might have misunderstood your premise (not being sarcastic) - do you think a high carbohydrate diet and running are bad combinations for good health? I know the Kenyan diet is approx 76% carbohydrate (folks like Kipchoge). I guess you believe good quality carbs are a key aspect of a healthy diet as you're posting on this channel.
@Peter Rabitt I thought so, me too. I run approximately 50 to 70 mpw (well I did before the lock down) and I operate so much on a WFPB diet with good quality carbs. I clearly feel less inflammatory aggrevation that manifests as injuries or colds, flu. I tried the keto thing a few years back and kept finding myself needing to go and lay down from a lack of energy.
Simply put, you can't outrun poor eating habits! Obviously physical activity is important, but not nearly as much as what we put in our mouths everyday is!
Well put. Over exercise can't compete with over eating.
@vv n Appreciate it. It is still bothersome how this is simply not first-line treatment plan in this country. It becomes a problem at the education level ultimately because this is not taught in med schools. It is taught sparingly in chiropractic school (where I went), but even then I had to further my education with a Master's in Nutrition to really feel comfortable with it. Until there is a curriculum change I fear this will not happen.
@@Lost_In_LA For sure! I can only hope this advice can permeate its way into mainstream medicine, although I fear that will not be happening anytime soon. At least here in the United States.
Yes, 100%. Running 10 miles a week did not drop my weight like a month of keto did. This is reality.
why would someone dislike this
must be a meat company
Andrew Mohab: ...or Nestle!
@@Kathy_Is_Blessed yes there children program was perfect
... bc people don't like to be called out on their bad habits. 🌱
@Ebony Travel well it has much more cholesterol also contains heam iron and processed meat is lvl 1 carcinogen and you still call it good ?
Nestle CEO certainly disliked it.
This is very helpful information. I wish everyone safety and the best in these hard times. Eat well and drink plenty of water. Blessings
I like how smooth Dr. Greger is sliding from side to side!
This and much more in his book "How not to diet" also available as an audio book
The narration is terrible
@@BrownOpsLeak its pretty alright imo i prefer his knowledge as youtube vids or lectures
@@BrownOpsLeak Really? I like it, ^oo^
You can’t outrun a bad diet
Red Pill Vegan dude get a new picture
Beatnik Bandit Racing i remember pinewood derby racing, those were the times
Red Pill Vegan it was a good South Park episode
And if you are fat, you cant outrun anything.
@@RedPillVegansoyboyredpill more like
WFPB + Exercise = Optimum Health
WFPB means?
@@Nilsy1975 Whole Foods Plant Based
@@DrakonR thanks 👍
You need to add love and compassion to that. (cf. Dr Dean Ornish and blue zones)
I worked for nestles for 12yrs in Canada and we made nestles quick syrup. It was nearly 100% sugars mostly high fructose corn syrup.
The US government subsidizes corn and sugar, it's in everything because its cheap.
News: coronavirus pandemic
Dr Greger: *Obesity Epidemic*
obesity is running in my family-noone is running in your family
Obesity is certainly more deadly
Actually, Dr Gregor predicted a pandemic years ago...Obesity in no way helps people fend off viruses. The Obesity pandemic was well established long before this one. We would do well to heed the warnings and not obsessively focus on COVID-19
Dr. Greger will be doing a webinar on the current pandemic on the 8th but registration is full. It will be free and on the website later. He has one from 2008 on pandemics that can be watched now. It is excellent.
If your obese then corona is looking for you
Wow! This was very eye-opening - especially the part about fast-food industries trying to emphasise exercise instead of reducing calories. Thank you!
You can't out exercise a bad diet.
Go Vegan, eat more plants and vegetables and get some exercise daily.
Cities need to do more to encourage people to ride bicycles. More protected bike lanes are needed.
Bike to work, school or for fun. Time to get the kids out of the mini van and on to a bicycle.
Bicycles are healthy exercise and fossil fuels free transportation.
Kenz300 x Then the question is, should I eat normal pants or sport shorts?
I started eating more pants. But before long my boyfriend got mad at me, claiming-rightly so, I admit-that he no longer had anything waist-down to wear to work.
It was also the time period when major food companies started adding appetite stimulating chemicals to their processed foods.
Not surprising at all! My family went to Austria in the 70's. We bought meat and ingredients to make pasta. The meat was grey and it smelled and tasted so terrible we couldn't eat it. We were used to food coloring, preservatives, and whatever else was put in there in the United States! I noticed the fruit and vegetables tasted A LOT better, though. It was stunning.
Dr. Greger is so cool ❤️ 🌱 💪🏻
I know this is true because once I switched from SAD to a plant based whole foods diet I dropped weight whether I exercised or not - and believe it or not, it was about the same amount of weight either way.
Dr Greger is killin it
Thanks for all you do!
This video should be widely distributed and shared, it is eye opener to how food and beverage industry deceive consumers
Another awesome video Dr Gregor! Your editing skills are getting better and better. Thank you for the high quality video, the entertainment, and the information.
Great video!
Great insight!
Spot on as usual.
Your pandemic video from 10 years plus ago was EXCELLENT! 🙏🏻
Still speaks truth even Today!
Which video? I want to watch it.
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@@thefunctionalfarmacista7790 Thanks ;D
@@user-bn8ie5zt9x you are welcome 🌸
It's due to snacking and calorie intake (soft drinks) between meals. Before 1980 we never had vending machines or even round-the-clock food. We ate at mealtimes only.
Love your work. Boring question - who edits these videos? I am about to create 30 or so on a different topic and love this style.
put. it. to. the . test
And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to digest this information properly.
I consider it a combination problem. I started walking every day and that's when I started losing weight. A combination of a daily walk and eating only healthy food 3 times a day brought me back into bmi normal.
Thank you for this king 👑
Thank you so much.
Love the Greger!💚
As the old adage says, "You can't outrun a bad diet".
Is it an old adage?
Or you can’t out run your fork!
This makes so much sense!!! Also a lot of the time people eat foods that have a lot of calories but don’t make you feel full like whole plant foods do!
All I heard growing up was “drink three glasses of milk and eat all the bread you want.” We feed our kids like livestock and wonder why they’re getting fat.
another video hit outa the park
Dear NutritionFacts.org-Is lower body temperature in vegans a thing?I thought I heard that somewhere in an article about normal body temperature.I am not able to find any solid info one way or the other.Just asking due to recent events.Thank you for helping so many live better lives
Don't move him side to side, it is dizzying. PS: Dr. Gregger, you're my hero!
🥴💫 very dizzying
He should change just for a viewer or two? Close your eyes, just do audio maybe?
It helps people pay attention
@@i.e.presents638 Have you "put it to the test"? Because I, for one, find it highly distracting.
@@moonfall8972 Nu, so what makes you think it's "just a viewer or two"? If you look at comments on this video alone, there are more than two who express dislike for the distracting gesticulations & side-to-side sliding. It. Doesn't. Help. Aid. Communication.
Yes!
Thank you.
Dr. Greger, yes nutrition is more important that exercise although exercise is important, please exercise more to inspire more ppl that mostly plants is the way, thanks.
The growth of supermarkets in the 70’s and ready access to highly processed snack foods. People now have a continuous daily buffet and eating just three meals a day no longer happens.
ive started adding "healthy fats" to my diet via chia, flax and hemp seeds and been eating brazil nuts for selenium and mixed nuts and also pepitas everyday for zinc and ive never put on so much weight so fast in my life, i came from a mcdougal style diet and was convinced that fatness was only caused by saturated fat but i now know ALL fats make me fat, (i think i discovered why you are always on a treadmill!) if its not the nuts and needs it must the stress of having to worry so much about getting individual nutrients, caused me a mid life crisis
You really don't understand nutrition.
@@raven4140 yea dr fuhrman and dr greger had me tricked with the healthy fat stuff, i will now TRY and lower my fat consumption lol
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Sorry Dr Greger but I really wish you would go back to the previous format. No disrespect, but seeing you standing there wafting your arms around adds nothing and totally distracts from the written & spoken messages. Yes, I know I'm in a minority but I really hope you reconsider these changes.
I agree, or maybe a combination without them sliding him all around the screen. Just in the corner would be fine. This version is dizzying 🥴💫
I agree
rmh365 I have an idea, close your eyes. Also, he said himself that due to the lockdown his new videos will mostly be the old format so you will win for awhile. I like humans, I deeply appreciate him, and find seeing himself encouraging as well as helpful.
@@i.e.presents638 close your eyes so you can't see all the pop ups that further detail the studies? That's what we want to see, the pop ups. His image is distracting from the pop ups that show these details.
If it troubles you then there is the option of reading the transcript and notes via the website or just listening to the audio
I can eat healthy and exercise and still gain weight. Low fat does not mean low calories, stomach volume works against me 😑
Physical activity is of course important, but you can never compensate a bad diet enough with exercise.
A couple of years ago I used to train kickboxing. It was the most intense training I have done. It was about 2 hours each training, and when it was over I was soaked in sweat. I calculated that one session was about 1200 calories burnt.
The same amount of calories can easily be consumed by consuming pizza with soda.
So let's say you eat fast food three times a day. Would you be able to do intensive workout 6 hours a day to compensate? I guess the answer is no for most people.
Nice haircut Dr G!
Microwave ovens became ubiquitous in the late 70s. That must be the reason. Also color TV.
Labor saving device to deliver frozen fast food quickly to mouth, while camped in front of TV, sounds about right to me! 😊
Nope. It is ignorance and no self discipline.
Imo the cause is a rise in people relying on take out, restaurants, and fast food versus cooking at home, eating junk bc of overscheduling and as entertainment in front of TV, advertising bombardment on TV showing the unrealistic image of attractive fit lean people feasting on oversized portions of restaurant/processed foods, popularity of sodas and fast food takeout in general. But what do I know? 😆🌱
Laurie Paris, it's absolutely ingrained (!) in our popular culture.
@@auberjean6873 My thoughts are that Covid19 may help loosen these ways. Yet I still hear of people going for take out, when all they have now is time, ignoring the risk of some unknown person, forced by economics to work, cooking their meals. Now that people have time, you'd think they'd do whatever they can to get in shape, loose weight, prepare healthy meals. What scares me more than Covid19, is the stores emptied by hoarding, yet the produce aisles a brim full. Parents saying they have no idea how they are going to survive at home with their children, partner or in isolation alone. It's been a real eye-opener for me as to the true nature of society. 🌱
@@laurieparis2203, you're right. I once mentioned to someone, "He's from the helpless generation." My dad wouldn't open a can of soup to save his life. And he fought in a war! Some people have schooling behind them but can't read the writing on the wall. We all have strength but some of us forget how to think outside the box. I'm growing a garden indoors. In the meantime I have my fill of produce. It can be washed! Also, I've found that freezing kale tenderizes it. Back when I was an hourly worker, my boss told us the only excuse for being out was if we didn't have a pulse! I hear you!
*IT'S THE FOOD!!!*
Jh5578 Or, rather, the “food”
It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food It's the food
Cookie Crisp is made by General Mills, not Nestlé.
It is not clear to me from this presentation what caused the start of the obesity epidemic. As stated, it started simultaneously across the world in the late late 1970's. So is what you are saying is everyone in the world began eating too much at the same time? If yes, why?
PUT IT TO THE TESTTTTTTTTTTTT
Hmmm. In my limited experience the easiest way to lose weight is through consistent low level exercise over an extended period of time, you know kind of like what hunter gatherers did, the modern lifestyle with excessive sedentaryness has always appeared to me to be 90% of the problem. I guess when they do research they’d be hard pressed to find a comparison group...
Sleep was not mentioned here, poor sleeping habits is likely another contributor.
And the spanish sub? :(
What's funny is that sports gurus use the same logic of lean washing to promote their videos. They promise six packs when all you needed to do is get ride of the fat that covers you're ab's. which where there all along.
Y los subtítulos en español? :(
He is saying that people are fat because they eat more, not to do with exercise.
construction workers still have horrible rates of disease because of their diets and lifestyle (alcohol, drugs, and tobacco) regardless of their non-sedentary work
Got it, obesity is mainly from excess calories not lack of exercise.
🥕Eat Your Vegetables!🥦
Wasnt that about the time the low fat trend started?
And just this week, a prominent Florida Republican just voted down a bill to cap insulin prices noting if "fat people just got up and moved and lost some weight, there'd be less demand for insulin." The leanwashing continues to damage our society
I can gain weight on a low fat whole food diet 😔
@@c.5701 Oats, mash potatoes, bananas, sauerkraut, green peas, handful of walnuts and a tablespoon of flax, protein powder for extra protein 😬
zukodude487987 What are your sleeping patterns like? The hours of sleep you get before midnight do you the most good, sleep is very important for maintaining or losing weight, something not mentioned in this video, I’d go as far as to say it’s half the problem.
zukodude487987 nuts are high fat, flax is high in calories, sauerkraut is loaded with salt causing water retention. Rethink your diet.
@@adiposerex5150 My nuts and flax intake makes together only like 200kcal which is only a fraction of my daily calories since i burn 3000-4000 a day. Water retention does not cause fat gain like a caloric surplus 😑
Let us not downplay the role of phsycial activity.... boosted immune system, overall hardiness, plus the added psychological benefit of feeling like your participating in your betterment... yes proper dieting is 100% needed! .... but so is physical activity you should have both.
Jobe Gerlach Preaching to the choir. He covers that repeatedly in his books, videos, lectures, etc. It simply isn’t the TOP thing. He isn’t downplaying it, he is showing us the precise role it DOES play. Which would be the opposite of downplaying or exaggerating.
@@i.e.presents638 have never read any of his books, maybe I'll give them a look through.
Actually I'm not a fan of Dr. Greger, but he doesn't downplay the role of physical activity in this video. However when it come obesity crises diet has the lion share. In contrary blaming lack of exercise to the obesity crises is criminal and beating the bush around just has helped the greedy fast food companies.
@@realimagevanity2289 I would disagree, I believe diet is the main contributing factor in obesity yes, but I also consider physical activity to be paramount as well. If not only for weight loss, but also for resiliency as well. On top providing myriad benefits physically, physical activity also provides mental benefits such as mood improvement among others. Also I'm unsure as to why people seem to be so hesitant to claim the importance of phsycial activity.
@@jobegerlach87 I respect your opinion but including myself and I believe for most people exercise has little to none effect to stay lean or even lose weight. I have tried both ways, in fact I did different exercises first. in contrary following natural healthy diet makes losing weight a breeze as a bonus you will be more energetic and healthier.
When it comes to fast food and junk food it's always going to be garbage in garbage out.
That old chestnut. All things considered it's calories in calories out, end of the story. Trouble is, people just don't like to be reminded of their gluttony, so they're making excuses.
Intake of excess calories is the main reason for the obesity epidemic!!
I was disappointed to see the updated version of Biggest Loser still emphasized ridiculous levels of exercise for extremely obese people while never addressing diet at all. At least Dr Now on 600 lb Life tells his patients exercise doesn't really increase weight loss.
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I lost 40 lbs (~18.4kg) just learning about nutrition and paying attention to what I ate. I have another 40 to go, but exercise was never the issue, because I've always been a fairly active person, walking tens of thousands of steps per day every single day. I only started strength training recently, and it's related to the diet, but not for the express purpose of burning excess calories, either.
The education simply isn't there and the western world, especially the United States, doesn't want to address the issue. Too many moneyed interests.
Louis le Gros was corpulent and other aristocrats, but also the members of the highest clergymen of the catholic church.
So what changed in the 70's to cause this rapid increase in obesity? You seem to have skipped over that.
I put forward that it was either the increasing use of "vegetable" oils or the low fat recommendations made by our government.
Ben Wilson Both of those, plus the exponential rise of fast food, processed food, TV watching hours increasing, etc. Not sure it is possible to say for sure.
@@i.e.presents638 those are more good possible causes.
No one ever ate low fat. You cannot become fat on a low fat high fiber diet. Low fat means no added oils and no more than 15% of calories from fat, no more than 5% saturated fat ,and at least 40-50 grams of fiber a day. You have to be delusional if you think that was ever the standard american diet
You can't eat more vegetable oils and eat low fat, so that's already a contradiction right there
@@dj-fe4ck they were two different agendas
It is impossible to be obese on a raw food diet. Please Doc, quit the acting and theatrical stuff. You are greatest when you are speaking naturally.
That's simply his persona. Accept him for how he chooses to be.
I recently watched a video of him predicting a pandemic many years ago, it was recently reposted on this channel, and his delivery was much less theatrical...However, it was much less engaging and memorable. As a teacher and performer myself I can tell you that it is insanely difficult to keep people’s attention, even on much more interesting topics than nutrition.
Some people are naturally like this actually
Wild Plum No it is not his persona,I have known and been a fan if his for many years, but lately he has ramped up his “persona”, he is overacting and it shows.
i.e.presents IMO, he is overdoing it.
Quick, lets put the cities on lock-down to stop obesity!
"lack of motivation" I say yes, most Americans don't care about health. Those who pay lip service mention going to the doctor for pills or procedures. That's what I see, a lot of rationalization and not really caring about lifestyle changes. too hard!
So, don't fear the lockdown caused inactivity, sitting at home eating cookies, sausages, fatty & processed foods is much worse 🥞🍳🍕🥩
Spanish please!!
The directing of your videos is so wrong.
technology?
I keep telling people but they don't listen...
“Personal motivation” is straight out of the US’s foolish individualism.
I thought you were going to implicate the governments role in getting cheese products sold to restaurant chains.
From firsthand experience, the ONLY adults I know who can eat large amounts of garbage food and A) not gain weight, and or B) actually lose large amounts of weight are thru-hikers: people who hike 15, 20, to 30 miles per day (8 - 12+ hours) with 20 to 40 lb. backpacks over varying terrain, with varying elevations. And they do this for months on end (hiking the PCT, CDT, or AT).
super size me.
every people want to be king ! ....LOL
The obesity epidemic, two cold showers per day ,counselling 2hrs per week , meditation 2hrs per day this helps
Error 404 lol
Processed food should be illegal.
Just to mention two, what about baked beans and whole grain bread?
Processed food =/= bad food
I wish it was that would be the only way I can stop eating it.
@@Crazydoglady. nobody forces you to eat crap food you choose to do that ...
@@pentrubarbati whatever 🙄
We need a fat tax. Just like we do tabacco
Love your work. Boring question - who edits these videos? I am about to create 30 or so on a different topic and love this style.