People are just pathetic and always looking for a way to excuse their shitty behavior. You watch a show like this, you've learned the tricks, you've learned a better way, if you still don't do it, you have nobody to blame but yourself. But people would rather blame others to excuse their laziness and stupidity.
I'm skinny, have been so all my life, and I'm educated enough to understand why, and, to appreciate my weight, not even so much for the classic health reasons, but because of mobility, and foremost, for the mental benefits exercise proivides (which you have to be physically able to just doing). How is your sports clothing industry doing? Last week I went to as rsident giant here, and XS is too large for me NOW - I'm approaching 52, and my weight is about were it was 30 years ago. What do you think how come? What's the message people take away from buying clothes there? And, qui bono?? Sickening, seriously, and literally.
In most countries, when you are poor, you tend to be skinny because you barely have enough to eat but in countries like the US or England, it's the other way around!
@@Strange9952 Agreed. When I see morbidly obese children, I judge the shit out of their parents. I instantly assume that parents that let their kids get fat are bad people. They are neglecting the physical health of their child and stealing stealing their childhood away. They're setting their kids up for a bunch of bullying and a lifetime physical and mental difficulties.
Insulin-stimulating carbs are addictive and increase the frequency of feeling hunger. Either directly or as flavoring. Throw in some soda with that macaroni or pasta and that is the foundation of the obesity recipe. Fat becomes an issue when combined with the carb foundation. Documentaries like these are two-faced, showing how lacking medical science is in really getting people to fix the issue. Stimulation of the release insulin inhibits lipolysis. That is the fundamental rule of nature ignored and obfuscated. The population would see a boost first by going into some form of keto, even dirty keto.
@@genli5603 Processed food is full of sugar. Study after study has proven that sugar has the same effect on the human brain as cocaine. Are you gonna try and say that cocaine isn't addictive either?
@@frankvonfrauner There you have it! Worldwide problem of obesity solved! So easy. Incredibly easy. To underestimate the addiction is the first step and I did so.
I'm impressed that those little kids continued to participate in the study into adulthood. This is good that people can work together like this to better our communities and everyone.
Great watch! I’ve lost 120 pounds in the last 6 months! 150 to go! I needed this motivation!!! Video and book coming soon because I plan to reach my goal weight in the next 6 months! 1 year to fit and fabulous baby!!!! Thank you HBO great doc!!!
Edika, this is my first time watching this video because I just started my weight loss journey and I am truly amazed at your weight loss: that is the equivalent of 5 pounds a week for 6months: Wow🔥🔥🔥🔥... So inspiring!
@@dsgorian2285 i try fasting all the time. I have my binges but keep fasting. I breath better I can go longer without food. And give my body time to relax & heal. These fat fux don't even try...😠
@@dsgorian2285 Exercise is really necessary for maintaining health. It will keep you healthy into old age. Boosts metabolism. It doesn't even have to be a lot of exercise, being active is definitely worth it.
DS Gorian fasting only works if your all ready thin(and/or have type 1 Diabetes that is a permanent type of life style that is required) you risk having your Metabolism come to a halt if you do so...I had did a 4month fasting I gained the weight right back I went from 220 to 175 then back to 215 in 5 months time.. so i wasted about 9 months for nothing . the point is eating right and avoiding the items with "added sugar" (and fake sweeteners ) that is pretty much everything THAT is not in vegetable / fruit section, fruit sugar is 100% legit the fruit contains fiber which bannishes the sugar from being absorbed by the body quickly like over a longer a period of time.. and it's mostly discarded when you poop. the obesity issue is made by the stores they Sell/Lease shelf space to the junk food manufactures there is *no profit in vegetable / fruit section*.. that is how the lure you in, The idea your coming in for fruit & vegetables at a great price and you leave with a cart full of junk foods.. that is why they force you to enter the fruit & vegetables section first EVERY single store forces you to enter the fruit & vegetables section first it's by design. to get MEGA sized profits... while you leave with garbage that is highly profitable.. IF you hit the vegetable / fruit section as you exit you bet you would be buying more vegetable / fruits instead of highly profitable junk foods mislabeled as being "healthy" .. also many of those junk foods would end up back on the shelf...as you would be thinking twice about wasting all that money on it just like the gas station has the chips right as you enter it's the first thing you see I almost bought a package and a couple hours later i was thinking about why i did not buy that bag of chips ... It turns out I rather keep my $1.60 :) instead.. I switched to this sugar free diet(No junk food of anykind) i'm losing about 4.6 pounds per week i started at 218.5 pounds i'm at 199.5 pounds. i have been walking about 4 miles everyday (28 miles a week ) and 112 miles a month.. once a year passes it's going to be 1,344 miles :O that is the same amount of walking from Mexico to Canada.( on the west coast) I slowly migrated over from junk food to healthy foods this worked really well.. I donated the rest of the junk food to a local food bank.. they were surprised as no one normally donates junk foods.. Junk food is expensive....
This should be mandatory to watch in schools for Health class. You cannot run away from the Cognitive Dissonance with seeing people and them living with their choices. That elderly couple made me real sad, but in the same time, it opened the door for me to be inspired to be healthy so I don't end up there.
@@jamesgentry13 They're not, that's just an excuse. Buying some eggs and veggies for a healthy scramble will cost maybe $5 for several meals vs. $5 for a breakfast from McD's. That's just one example, but there are many. Yes it costs more up front to buy groceries, but averaging it out over how many meals you get out of it, it is almost always cheaper than buying convenience foods. People are just too lazy to learn to cook and can't do math. And anyway, weight loss isn't about what you eat, it's about how much of it you eat. You can lose weight eating fast food so long as you expend more calories than you take in.
Most people that claim to "fail" when it comes to diets, is likely due to them looking at it as a temporary change. When you're talking about making changes to your eating habits, you have to approach it as a full on lifestyle change and not just a temporary diet. I started my weight loss journey at 275 about 2 months ago and I'm currently down to 250. There's nothing complex about what I'm doing. Calories in vs calories out, macros are a good combo of healthy fats, complex carbs and protein. I also use my Peloton 4-5 times a week. I know I still have a ways to go to a healthy weight, but treating this as a lifestyle change has been the difference for me.
The reason most fail is because long term/chronic calorie restriction eventually makes your calories out plummet, which will make you feel like shit until you eat
Just interminent fasting + keto diet. Its the only way :) the old restriction of calories diets and the +5 meals a day cause obesity, along with the procesed food.
Even the word "diet" sabotages them. Your diet is what you regularly eat, it's not inherently related to weight loss and being restrictive. People need to change their diet to change their weight and health and stop thinking that it's only about losing weight.
@@MorriganFeather13 Or, hear me out, cutting out processed foods; introducing lean meats, fruits, and vegetables; and exercising also works. Don't need a named diet program to be healthy.
77% of obese children become obese adults. 93% of healthy weight children become healthy weight adults. Okay - basically we stay the same but where is the study and follow-up on the 23% of obese children that DID NOT become obese adults? THOSE are the people you want to follow; they hold one, if not more, of the answer(s).
Obese children develop larger more condensed fat cells from an early age making them predisposed to gaining weight the rest of their lives. Those that end up at a healthy weight into adulthood are living a healthy lifestyle and you better believe showing great self discipline and intellect.
I lost weight no so much by "reducing volume" because hungry people wont stick to that. Rather, substitution from higher calorie ingredients to lower, but similar volume. Also, NEVER drink soda or fruit juice!!!
There are a lot of sodas with 0 calories where you live I would guess? So soda is not bad if you choose the correct one. About one-third of the soda market here have no 0 calories.
@@suziecreamcheese211 Do you know what a chemical is? Everything you have ever consumed has a lot of chemicals in it. Even if you only drink water and only eat apples and carrots you have grown yourself. What has been tested and proven over and over again, is that It's all about the amount of energy(calories). When you put a big group of 100 + obese people on very different diets, but the same amount of calories guess what happens. They lose the exact same amount of weight given enough time. And although I'm just a person, I should be super fat, since Diet Pepsi(1kcal per 100ml) is my only "addiction". And it has been for 5 years. But the thing is if you consume the number of calories that I do, you will not get fat.
@@ujmm depends on the person but most of the time 0 calorie fizzy drinks are not your friend. The sweeteners in the drink makes your mouth and brain think you're having sugar which is what makes it feel good right? All the fun but none of the calories, except your body gets way too convinced it's getting sugar and prepares itself by raising insulin. More insulin makes you feel ravenous and makes you eat more later. And overtime the exposure to 0 calorie fizzy drinks make you less sensitive to insulin, which is setting you up for diabetes so just try to drink less of it in general, your teeth will thank you. I didn't realise how much it triggers your insulin until I break my long fasts with pepsi max and feel that sugar high that makes me rest less until I stuck my mouth. The appetite I felt after having pepsi max was 10 times as strong as my worst hunger pang while fasting. Even when I'm eating normally, sometimes (not always) it makes me want to over eat so I wouldn't recommend it if you're starting on your weightloss journey
@@ujmm there's far too much information available on this platform alone for you to think that way about sodas. The education on that is free with a "are sodas bad" search...pick any video that drops down after that
I lost 92 pounds and got rid of high blood pressure and diabetes two. If I could do that in two years (from 63 to 65) and keep it off at 66, ANYONE CAN DO IT. It is a matter of self-discipline, changing the food types one craves, and walking daily. Simply WALKING. Don't lie to yourself. If you want to lose weight and be healthy, you must CHOOSE IT and then take the struggle (it is always a struggle!) DAY BY DAY BY DAY. Life is better when onen is healthy, physically fit and mentally alert. FAT IS DEATH.
I understand that people feel like it's too hard to change your eating habits and move more to lose weight... but almost EVERYTHING in life takes hard work! I know what it feels like to be obese: I weighed 245lbs. and suffered daily with the stigma and fatigue and frustration and self disgust. However, I made a conscious decision to change... it wasn't easy, but it was worth all the sweat and tears. I lost 133lbs. and have maintained that weight loss for 12 years. Nothing is impossible... surely losing weight isn't either.
It's more complicated than that though. There's eating disorders, which require more than just hard work to conquer. They require a full psychological treatment and intervention over a long period of time. There's poverty which limits the meals people can afford to fast food. There's genetics and physical disorders. Hard work doesn't cut it for a lot of people.
eating is not even the main problem its the drinks its very easy to have a couple of sodas, a juice, and a glass of milk in a single day and you have pretty much added an extra meal to your daily intake
I moved to the US for a few years and gained 50 pounds. The portions were enormous so I took half home for the next day. One meal, I had fish, rice pilaf and broccoli. Healthy, right? The next day I took it out of the fridge and it had about 1/4 cup of butter solidified on it. I moved back to Canada and lost 15 pounds in the first 6 months back, just eating normally. This told me that will power is not enough. The food industry needs to get on board and be part of the solution.
@@odapunkt 25% of Norwegian men and 20% of Norwegian women are obese. That is one out of four and one out of five. Hardly a rarity. In children, there is definitely lower obesity in Norway than children in the United States. Just remember that Norway is a nation of merely just over 5 million people mostly living in rural country side areas. They are not traveling major roads lined with dozens and dozens of fast food restaurants and eating establishments all over the place as in the US. But if there were, they would definitely be eating there and getting even fatter. The traffic at my new local Norwegian McDonald's proves that by how busy it has become. Also a meal for four people at a Norwegian McDonalds, and all junk foods, is vastly more expensive than a similar meal in the United States where all junk food is very inexpensive so there is also that driver behind eating out for meals. Norwegians also don't typically go out to a restaurant or eatery everyday for their lunch time as they do in the US and portions in Norway are also much smaller in restaurants.
i live in the US,,, the food industry' is the problem. they do whatever they can,,, to give you a New and Yummy dish you'll come back for. (and what they do is use more butter,, it's a restaurant, nobody is going to ask for nutritional content. ) so yep, the Portions are Ridiculous,,,, i really hate crap food. I don't miss restaurants at all,,, i cook fresh,,, i want t know what im eating,,, and you can learn to cook and get better at it. Im italian,,yeah,, we Do eat,, but its about quality fresh ingredients. im not 'thin',,, i never will be,, but Healthy,,, Yes,,, doing well in my 60's,, grow any food and see what ur missing,,, Real Ingredients have FLAVOR.
I am a health professional and am dismayed by the state of our nations health. I find it shocking that we are taking such poor care of our children and that we have an abundance of food and yet our poorest citizens cannot reach it or afford healthy choices. I am learning that the poorest quality of food including meat that cannot be sold to consumers is processed and fed to our children in school lunch programs. What is the matter with us? Are our mega corporations and government so greedy or stupid that we are willing to shorten our kids lives to make an extra buck???
+Orrene Smith Those mega corporations are giving people what they want. Poor people have access to healthy fruits, grains and vegetables. They are just too lazy, fat and stupid to go to the grocery store and buy them. Most welfare recipients would rather stuff a big mac into kids face instead of getting off of their fat welfare stealing asses and prepare them a healthy meal. Poor people also hate fruits and vegetables unless they are made into a desert.
You have forgotten the working poor where both parents work, one of them at 2 jobs at low pay, may ride the bus, don't have access to large grocery stores and may have to buy at corner stores at inflated prices and cannot afford fresh food which does cost a lot more than a Happy Meal.
+Grizzly907LA The amount of right wing bullshit in this is too strong. You clearly have NO comprehension of the complexities of poverty. It's a depression, a state of mind, constantly seeing reminders as to why you will and should never succeed, and of course poverty breeds crime! If people are feeling hopeless and can't have the same things, if they're already looked down upon and almost criminalized under the law and society, how else do you move forward? How else do you get money? Obesity comes into it, not just because of access to healthy food and costs, but also for the same reason that drugs and alcoholism do; junk food, like heroin, offers an escape from this depressing way of living. The countries with the lowest poverty and the richest countries overall in the world are the SOCIALIST Nordic States (Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland) who are welfare states. Don't blame the poor, blame the system.
BE CAREFULL OF THE FINGER POINTING. FOUR MORE ARE POINTING BACK. I LIVE AMONG FAIRLY WEALTHY FOLKS AND DRUG DEPENDENCY AND CANCER IS RAPIDLY GROWING. NOT TO MENTION OUT OF CONTROL ALCOHOLISM. DAMN THESE FOLKS LOVE THEIR DRUGS. AND TO KEEP IT QUIET THEY GO TO REHAB. THANK YOU.
And the shit YOUR country doesn't deem fit for consumption then gets forced into my Country's market where it is sold for less than the higher quality LOCAL produce to the poorest echelons of society who don't have the means to do anything about it.
I can't understand all the "I've tried it all, nothing works" bullshit. I used to weigh 108 kg (240 lbs). I've lost 26 kilograms (57 lbs) so far just by eating 1800 calories a day and exercising at least 5 times a week, 30-45 minutes a day. And if you don't want to exercise, just WALK and be active troughout the day, so you burn more calories than you consume. There is no special diet, no magic pills. Please, just get off your butt and start now, don't wait until it's too late.
nikkyo34 53lbs of fat and 4lbs of muscle. Why? Am I doing something wrong according to you? I'm not being sarcastic, I really want to know. :) I've lost another 3 pounds since I wrote the comment.
wendus93 When people say "I lost X amount of weight" its a vague statement. Thats why I asked what you lost. Did you hydrostatic weight yourself to get your readings? How did you come about 1800 kcal/day to lose fat? Five days a week you exceeded your energy expenditure and lost weight, hmm. (1 lb of fat has 3500 kcal) Wouldn't a lower kcal also lower your bmr?
It's so easy for us who are healthy and fit to watch this and tell these people what to do, but it is not just what they LIKE to eat. It is what they were brought up eating, what they are continuing down through their families. Easy to tell them to exercise or to buy salad, but they need psychological re-training, too. Watching that woman's family chow down on all that garbage made me cringe, too, but they honestly do not know any better. That sounds patronizing. But they just don't.
Yes, this is true. Even the ones who do know better just don't care or they care but do not have a strong enough will to follow through with changing their entire lifestyle. How we grow up shapes our mindsets. People who are taught to finish all the food on their plate and not let any go to waste continue to do that into their adulthood even when they have more than enough food to eat too. A lot of this whole fat issue is simply psychological. Other parts are genetic, but there are many parts of it that are psychological. Even the whole, "We are poor, so we can't afford healthy food" argument doesn't make sense. You can get a dozen donuts for the same cost as it would to get about 7 small red delicious apples. Now, apples, are full of sugar and stain your teeth, but they are certainly better for a human than any lump of fried dough unless that human were allergic to apples.
True, but the doctors are a part of the problem telling them to eat less and exercise (more) - this will simply not work. They must reduce the sugar/carbs they are eating. One doctor told the newly diagnosed diabetic woman to eat whole wheat pasta and brown rice! Each time she does this her blood sugar will rise and insulin will be released that tells her body will store FAT. I hope that people watching this documentary don't buy in to the complete lack of science these doctors are dishing out. The doctors are unfortunately telling them wrong information that was taught to them instead of learning the science for themselves and truly helping these obese people. learn from Dr. Tim Noaks www.outsideonline.com/2140271/silencing-low-carb-rebel or even Dr. Lustig (who was on the video) th-cam.com/video/Ay-8I3H7dIc/w-d-xo.html
Second you decide to go vegan you lost the ability to eat 90% of junk food. Back that up with the moral conviction that eating animal products is wrong and you’re almost forced onto a healthier diet.
@@moosestubbings1853 Im doing my best! I've decided to go back to the pool after a year! That should help! I m also gonna use resitance bands for working out! I'm motivated. I also have to accept the fact that the scale doesnt give you the whole picture
This is the first documentary concerning vascular health I've seen that actually SHOWS you the real organs and vessels and not CI and has pathologists to go with them. Great!
At last, a documentary that acknowledges that a genetic propensity to obesity only becomes realized by environmental factors and personal responsibility. Oh, and I live in the South Bronx. There's a produce vendor on every street corner, with prices below what my relatives pay in the farm belt.
@@shelbyb9965 I totally agree and amended my comment accordingly. Your family may have a genetic propensity to get cancer; but getting cancer is up to you.
@@steveweinstein3222 Oh yeah sorry, I totally got what you meant from your comment! I was just sharing a common phrase that I've heard to sum up what you were describing. Cheers!
Nothing resonated with me more than the elderly couple talking about gaining 3 lbs or so a year and you wake up 10 years later and 30 lbs heavier! I'm just a month postpartum with my second son and luckily I've lost the baby weight but now I need to focus on losing those extra pounds I gained since high school.
I started watching this documentary this year to motivate my weight loss lol. I'm 6ft 3, started out at 240ish. I'm now down to about 220. Should be down to a healthy bmi at 205 lbs or lower in about 2 months at this rate.
In the not so distance future, when a historian will write a book, "The Decline and Fall of the United States Of America", there will be a chapter on the obesity epicademic.
sirgrundel Sry to turn you down...but avocados are not veggies. They are nuts. And as such, they are extremely fat and unhealthy ;] Still better than a BigMac or Popsoda :)
***** Avocados are nuts now are they? Shit, man there's me thinking they were fruits! Silly me! No but seriously, avocados are NOT "extremely fat and unhealthy". It's true, they are high in fat compared to other fruits and vegetables, but the fat is what is known as 'healthy fat'. They're really quite good for you!
***** Avocados "extremely fat and unhealthy"?? Are you kidding? You need to do your research, dude. Fat is not the problem (except TRANS fat). Carbohydrates ARE the problem. Avocados are among the healthiest foods out there... heck, they even help to lower your BAD cholesterol! Read this and get educated: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado#Diet_and_clinical_research
Obesity is a serious issue. I was an obese kid and I know see the life I missed. Obesity prevented me from joining any sports teams and even making more friends. I didn't do anything about it and it is my fault.
Sorry, Daniel, but it was your parents' fault. How the heck were you supposed to know about calorie counting, carb counting, balanced meals, metabolism issues, etc. Aside from that, they bought you the food and let you eat it. They could have taken you to see a nutritionist. But they didn't.
Don't forget to blame crappy school lunches, junk food and candy corporations, government allowing junk food to become cheaper, don't be too hard on your parents, as a kid more activity on your part yes could have been done. But you exercised in school, you weren't born with genetics that allowed you to eat anything, and most importantly don't be too hard on yourself as you needed some more encouragement and help, you had some personal hang-ups. I too have missed out on some things in life growing up obese and could have done more myself but I had mistreatment and an environment that wasn't more encouraging and definitely not the healthiest. I had early childhood abuse: sexual, emotional, physical, psychological and poor eating habits and food all around me growing up. My life wasn't absolutely terrible and I had a lot of good things. But if I could go back and do it again I would have had a vastly different life, but who decides what makes happiness? Buddhists believe true happiness can only be found within and not from external sources and there are people who by society's standards have it all but are still miserable and unhappy. But my children will never grow up overweight and never even near obese.
Some people lost their lives to the food industry. It's sad to see. I was 105 kg. and decided to turn non-sugarist and vegan. Since then, iv'e had a stable healthy BMI. I invest in myself and do no lonher use my body as a waste container.
I grew up relatively healthy, ate good food at home, played sports, etc. Before I went off to college I was 150 as a 5'4 female (my family holds weight really well so I didn't look fat at all). In the years I was in school I got up to 230. I was miserable, depressed, everything hurt - I felt trapped in my own body. At that point I said enough was enough and dedicated my entire senior year to losing the weight and getting back to the healthy habits. Since then I've lost all the weight and am back to my original weight, just in time for graduation. I feel amazing, and I will never let myself get to that low point again. Now, even eating bad food at a social event leaves me feeling like crap for days. There's a lot of people out there who just don't know what to do and grew up eating like shit. I thank goodness for the healthy habits I grew up with, because that's how I was able to overcome this situation. For someone without that background, they have to learn healthy habits from scratch, it's super tough. But as someone who was obese, I can tell you for certain that nobody is truly happy to be that big - they have just accepted it.
i like the wisdom 'nobody is truly happy being fat - they have just accepted it. ,,,, (by fat, i mean even ten lbs extra on a small woman is going to have to get that dang Fat off)
@@opieutt9038 says everyone else not me lol. people would be shocked everytime I told them my weight or showed pictures. my family has thick thighs and ass which is desired in my culture, so maybe thats why nobody saw me as 'fat'. If I grew up in an asian or white community I guess I would be considered 'fat' to them.
Do u have loose skin now? I'm scared to looses weight cus of the loose skin that happens afterwards, and I definitely don't have money to get skin removed surgery
My mom had to change her diet to lose weight for surgery and I decided to join her. We do a modified keto diet, avoid fast food, processed foods, sugar. We cook meals at home. In 5 months my mom has lost 30 plus pounds and I have lost 25. It was 5 months of retraining our bodies, ignoring cravings, cheating some times, but continue to keep going. Totally worth it.
@@kitten_582 What is a balanced diet? Carbohydrates, sugars, fats and proteins are metabolized differently. A calorie of fat does not equal a calorie of sugar. Insulin is a fat storage hormone. Carbs and sugars are converted to triglycerides and stored in fat cells. The human body requires zero grams of exogenous sugar and carbs to sustain life. If you don't eat carbs and sugar your body burns fat. That is why the ketogenic/ carnovore diets work so well.
@@kitten_582 how is this a bit much? All they did was basically cooked good food at home. If this is a bit much I'd hate to see what your way to much is.
My husband and I went plant based a few months ago and the weight is coming off slow and steady. The best part is our grocery bill is a quarter of what it was and we’re never hungry. We spend more time preplanning meals and cooking even when it’s easy to order out but it’s worth it, it’s worth every minute of it. Once you stop eating processed foods your body stops craving it. Your taste buds change and you crave healthy fresh foods. You have to embrace change and take small steps. First we cut out processed foods, then red meat, then poultry, then dairy. We started trying different vegetables, grains, nuts, etc. Start small and never give up!
Great to hear this ! I'm 69 and went plant based two years ago. I switched in about a week but otherwise I had similar experiences. I'd never go back. Pity no one had ever suggested that I giving up animal products if only for a week.
@Gormen Freeman I personally like the keto diet with a ton of veggies with fish or meat and protein and no carbs or sugars. I get most of my minerals and nutrition from green vegetables and the fats omega 3 and 6 to help me to stay full. I intermittent fast and I only eat twice a day from 5am to 12pm range and that's it. No snacking, nothing extra and I only have one meal on Tuesday and no meals on Friday. I am the healthiest I ever been in my entire life. I went from 287 to 259 in less than a month with a no sugar, less carb diet ...... But life is short and you only live once in your current form so I'll always recommend do what makes you happy and healthy! Keto makes me happy and healthy 😊
I’ve had great success by doing the exact opposite! No fruits , No potatoes, No grains mainly meats , animal fats and coffee works for me ! There are NO essential dietary requirements for any carbohydrates in the human diet!
Hopefully this will help someone out there... If you want to lose weight you need to accept and/or realize a few things: 1) Diets don't work. Don't even start one. Every diet plan out there has one thing in common: A 100% failure rate. 2) You must eat healthy. Fast food, gone. Sodas, gone. Processed food, gone. 3) Eating healthy is not a diet plan, it is a lifestyle. 4) You need to live a healthy lifestyle for the remainder of your life or you will fail 5) Move around/exercise. Get at least 30-60 minutes a day of exercise. Once or twice a week, double it. 6) Build muscle by doing some resistance training. You don't need to bulk up, just put on some muscle.
@@MeleenGames I don't mean to discourage you, but that is not fat loss. It would take around a 30,000 calorie deficit in that week to lose that much, or 6,300 calories a day. For perspective, if you ate nothing at all over those 5 days you would have to cycle about 125 miles (roughly 8 hours) a day to burn off enough calories to reach that amount. What you have most likely lost is water weight. Almost everyone who starts a diet sees a 5-10 pound loss in the first week or two. This is simply due to the fact that the "diet" usually decreases carbs and salts so the body releases stored water. This is also why people get discouraged, you will only lose weight at this rate in the beginning and one slippage will bring it all back. Go out and eat some Chinese food or a pizza and you'll be 5 pounds heavier the next day, all due to new water retention. Again, this is not to discourage you but to bring things into reality. If you continue to exercise and eat healthy you will be successful. However, if your "diet" you speak of is something you can't maintain for the remainder of your life, you will fail the moment you quit. If it's a restrictive diet, you will fail/quit sooner than later. You probably hate me or are angry at me posting this.... but the problem is people don't realize these facts because all they get is encouragement instead of the cold hard facts about how to be successful. My goal here is to help you. I wish you the best of luck.
Jeremy Jefferson dude I’m not American no offense if you are but I only put on weight because of certain medications and certain medications are helping me loose weight as well most people in my county live on a calorie deficit it’s not like I ever ate pizza every day or even once a week I’ve gone for years without eating Macdonalds when you are on antipsychotics your body stores every single bit of fat it can find as it stops your fat burning processes and you burn way less calories than you should Tracy marks on TH-cam does a video on it explaining the science behind it. I exercise 2 hours a day I also go for slimming treatments that burn the fat away such as fat freezing and radio frequency treatment that means if you exercise and diet while on those treatments you’ll loose fat way more easily than the average person you only loose cm first then the weight slowly declines but no one ever loose less than 1kg a week on those treatments If they eat well and exercise. I forgot to mention because it’s a lot of extra shit to mention. After 4 weeks of injections and fat freezing and radio frequency I lost a lot of cm everywhere but the weight has only started recently I had the opposite problem I was loosing fat but not weight in the first month I only lost 2kg of just fat but I into started dieting a week ago properly as I had bulimia so yes I know alll about how heavy food can make you if I ever saw food make the scale go up I would purge it immediately and am now on medication for it I can easily stick to a diet instead of binging on healthy foods like lettuce and potatoes as I did I can eat them normally I can’t go out with friends because they will always judge you for eating healthy No one really knew about my binges which is also probably why I was only loosing 500grams a week on my treatment it’s still not bad. I never had a problem with fast food or sugar or unhealthy carbs i can’t just stop eating healthy and eat foods I basically never eat now I didn’t put on weight from that like I said if you look up the effects of antipsychotics and weight gain they’ll explain how the body stores everything you eat and turns it into fats like it does after fasting which is why it doesn’t work. So I’m total I’ve lost 6kg in the last two months even if it was water weight I know I’m going to be loosing fat because I literally am burning it with injections and treatments. You can also notice the water weight when you go for a suna treatment you can sweat off up to 700grams that you just put back on after drinking or eating it’s just to help get toxins out your body. I also have a beautician who works with me so I’ve already lost a lot of the fat I’ve wanted to loose what your saying makes sense but I’m not discouraged because I have been loosing a ton of cm and burning fat so I weigh more than I actually look and probably still have water weight there is a diet called the fast 800 that works the best with it. I don’t do “cheat days” because I know how to cook nice healthy foods for way cheaper than any fast food we don’t have a “dolllar” menu a small macdonalds meal costs the same as a packet of mushrooms, broccoli and a few apples. The most expensive macdonalds meal is enough to feed yourself for an entire week it’s out counties policy on forgiven food cooperations they aren’t allowed to max the size here and it’s called sin tax you don’t pay taxes on healthy foods so it’s cheaper I don’t think western counties do that basically a simple chocolate is the equivalent to a packet of 5 bananas and apples. On the go two bananas is way more filling. Only the rich here have an obesity problem the rest of South Africa lives on vegetables and pap pap is extremely unhealthy though. It makes dieting way easier and it’s one of my counties good policies I suppose. Being healthy and staying that way is easy and more affordable fast food is an extreme luxury.
@@MeleenGames Regardless of all that... it is impossible to lose that much fat in 5 days, period.... unless you have it physically removed through surgery.
Jeremy Jefferson never said I lost fat at a certain amount like I said when you go for fat burning it takes a while to loose weight I said I lost a certain amount of weight not fat in a few days 🤷🏼♀️ you can’t just take people’s words and put them in your own narrative and assume their unhealthy and stupid. I specifically said that you only burn 1kg a week from fat burning from that exercise and dieting. Never said it was a ton of fat that came off in a few days. You initially assumed I’m some idiot who doesn’t know what water Weight is and completely dismissed diets and said I was going to fail which is rude as fuck you should say it’s not going to be easy but it’s possible over a certain period of time with exercise. Ps. hey A diet doenst just mean less food it means you have to cut out what doenst work for you by going for a test with a doctor where it tells you what foods to eat and not eat it’s the bets way to get results over time I suppose you don’t know about it because some people struggle on foods they didn’t even know their body struggles to digest even if it’s healthy. I forgot the name for it but it’s apparently quite expensive as they test your body with thousands of different foods.
that old couple with the man that lost his leg made me cry:( so sad how it could've been prevented with just a few lifestyle changes. We really need to show people how REAL and potentially FATAL their decisions can be... I think most people just tend to think oh it's fine it's just one meal, or oh i don't really feel like working out, but they don't realize that they are doing it ALL the time.
Unfortunately the information is out there people just don't seem to be interested until it's necessary until it affects them and that's the whole problem
Cindy seems very positive and self aware, despite her issues. I liked her and she was very honest when she said, you fall off the waggon, when you don’t see results.
Hi! I know it's been a while since your comment, but she was my grandmother, so this makes me happy to see! And yes! She was an extremely positive and optimistic person in her everyday life! She was very well known for her cheerful and friendly attitude even in hard times! She unfortunately passed away in 2020, but I'm so glad that she's still able to spread positivity!
Aiman Bryan how can you be so ignorant? Sugar triggers insulin resistance and your body can’t handle that much sugar and process it that’s why it turns it to fat.
@@aimanbryan1424 Sugar 100 percent does contribute to obesity lol. Carbs pack on the pounds. People were leaner before people started eating so much sugar and wheat (when it was a luxury). That's a fact. There's a reason why cutting sugar/carbs leads to rapid weight loss. You feel full and your insulin isn't going all over the place.
Hari Ng Norte it’s true. I cut sugar out of my diet and lost 20 pounds. The person commenting is either a troll or an idiot. Sometimes I cheat with sugar (edible cookie dough) and I can literally see the effects it has on my body. My fingers swell, my belly is bloated and I don’t have as much definition.
I don't think they stopped, media just became a very Diversified and people are able to stay in their niches now. Its a far different world than it was even 30 years ago when they were only 15 channels on the TV and we all consumed the same media.
The physician at the beginning looking to the government to help fix this problem-the government helped create this problem! The food pyramid with absolutely no basis in science. 10 to 12 breads or starches per day-you know that’s a number some lobbying group came up with. Love they interviewed a former officer of Quaker Oats and PepsiCo bemoaning the work force obesity rates. Think those companies you worked for had anything to do with this? A lot of this info is outdated.
Lobbyists for the big food industries prevent the government from doing anything. They lie constantly and pay off doctors to lie about health science. They've had studies on obesity killed. Just like the tobacco industry.
@@sammavacaist damn right and even with COVID lied about the death toll in retirement homes and communities making every frickin anti mask Karen and Ken come out of the wood work to further your point the processed foods industry is making a killing and the lobbyists they send have money from the morbidly obese that pay for their death meals
People didn't become obese because they followed the food pyramid. People became obese because they get the majority of their calories from calorie dense, addictive yet unsatiating foods like chocolate, biscuits, crisps, burgers and Coke. That's the complete opposite of the food pyramid.
Food pyramid is not perfect, but it is pretty good. Where on earth did you got "12 breads per day"? Have you actually seen food pyramid? I actually feel sorry for you if you think government made people obese and not... You know, corporations that spend billions to engineer addictive food and literally kill off people when they raise concerns. Sure, it's "government"... Libertarianism is hell of a disease.
I switched to eating whole food and healthy fat. Cut down on Carb. Eating bacon and all sort of delicious fatty cut of meat. Yeah, I use butter to cook everything. Losing weight turned out to be one of the easiest and most delicious experience I have ever had.
Same! I'm keto now and the weight is shedding so quickly. You couldn't pay me to eat proccesssd foods, carbs and sugars let along paying personally for that stuff. HARD PASS!
"you don't crave broccoli" And I'm here craving brussel sprouts all day (plain, boiled in water with just a bit of salt, no butter or anything). Yep, people do crave veggies.
I agree, but with the caveat that it’s something you have to train yourself to crave. I crave roasted veggies but that’s because I taught myself to enjoy them and limited junk food. When I ate junk food on a regular basis, I would crave that because my body thought that’s where my energy would come from. And I still crave ice cream every now and then.
A friend brought some american foods to test and yeah, you can actually taste the grade of processing. The sweets were almost sharp with sweetness, the savory things didnt resemble anything fresh I know. Learning to live healthy is also a competence gained in childhood and even adolecense. Cooking and eating fresh produce is one big factor, the other is to stay in movement.
Where are you from? Also I don't really understand what you mean with the savory part if you're in a different country of course it's ot going to taste fresh. I grew up on a farm and literally everything we ate was grown or raised and slaughtered by us. You can't get any fresher than straight from slaughter to your plate.
Our food supply has been chemically engineered to be addictive. The food companies have been allowed to do this so people buy more of their products. Obesity is an addiction to food, not a willpower issue. We have come so far in the understanding of drug and alcohol dependence, so why can we not understand obesity? These people need help, not condemnation.
Plant-based Recovery I agree that food can be an addiction. I believe that I have a food addiction. But it’s still a willpower issue. An alcoholic has to decide daily not to drink. I have to decide daily not to eat my trigger foods, processed food, sugary food. I’ve been fighting this addiction all my adult life. Along with length of exercise. And will continue to fight it until I’m in paradise.
why can we not understand obesity? Because those so called authorities like at the CDC don’t want to blame the corporate food companies which ultimately are responsible for this.
Thank you..... Very well said. Companies spend billions of dollars globally to figure out how to "trick" us how to eat and what to buy after we are hooked! It's the food version of the pharmaceutical industry.💥
High fat,low carb has changed my life. Don't eat processed junk ,I eat while foods now. I did Carnivore as an elimination diet. When I started adding low other low carb foods back in you really can see what certain foods do to your body. I have lost so much and am being more active. Keeping my kids active is important as well and we enjoy doing things together. They are not on any diet other than "we have treats every once in awhile ,they are not an every meal everyday thing". Trying to establish a good foundation so they won't have to battle it will just come naturally.
HBO - thanks for posting this entire series. It is a public service and message that needs be heard by the entire industrialized world. We need a message that looks at the economics of food and counters all the marketing that contradicts the basic tenets of good health and wellbeing.
I totally agree with you on that one. Once I started severely cutting back on processed foods I noticed how cheap healthy food can be. Now don't expect to get rare nuts and fruits on a budget but it is totally doable.
At 50:45, notice how she switches the super high protein fast food she's used to eating for what seems to be a mixed greens salad with a couple crackers and maybe an ounce of shredded cheese. Please make sure you are switching these high fat/high protein foods for options that are going to be satiating, rather than a small, simple salad (assuming this is intended to be a meal and not just a snack/side salad or something). You will not be able to replace a bucket of chicken with a 200-calorie salad.
@@dodgeball693 hell no, stay away from grains and starch, keto diet is by far the healthiest, too many carbs will affect metabolism, increase blood sugar and liver fat. Stay away from most fruits (exception being avocado, starfruits, berries, lemon, acerola berries, tomatoes) and grains and stick with healthy fats, protein and most veggies
@@wallacesousuke1433 It seems someone has drunk the Keto koolaid. People might lose some weight on keto or other low carb diets BUT no one can eat that way indefinitely and without suffering degrading health. By contrast ALL successful large populations of people have sustained themselves on high starch diets. Be it Asians on rice, Middle East people on wheat, Mayans on corn or the Incans on potatoes. That’s because STARCHES have always been the basis of the human diet. And this is supported by hard science. A plant based diet is the ONLY one proven to be able to reverse heart disease, type 2 diabetes, early stage prostate cancer and hypertension. For heart disease reversal see the trials conducted by Dean Ornish and Caldwell Esselstyn. For diabetes reversal see the work of Neal Barnard. For prostate cancer reversal see Dr Ornish again. And for hypertension see the work of Dr Kempner and his Rice Diet.
@@dodgeball693 " People might lose some weight on keto or other low carb diets BUT no one can eat that way indefinitely and without suffering degrading health. " Why not? Plenty of people have been on keto for years, and dont forget epileptic patients who have to be on this diet indefinitely (some studies have lasted 12 years and many patients still remained on KD after the completion of the trials). "By contrast ALL successful large populations of people have sustained themselves on high starch diets" That's a relatively recent phenomenon in human history, agriculture became a thing a couple thousand years ago, studies estimate that humans started eating meat and fats 2,3mi years ago. Since agriculture wasn't a thing, our ancestors have no hunt and gather food. Since edible fruits and plants arent available all year-long, they had to spend months eating animal-based foods and fat, add to it the levels of physical activity and voilà, they would be on ketosis for many months each year. And there's also fasting, practiced by many cultures, it also puts us in ketosis so there's that. " A plant based diet is the ONLY one proven to be able to reverse heart disease, type 2 diabetes, early stage prostate cancer and hypertension. " Oh really? Lemme copy-paste here a list of several studies demonstrating the benefits of KD for several diseases: Keto diet treats fatty liver: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7132133/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7379247/ Keto diet more effective than high carb diets in improving lipid profiles, blood sugar levels and helping diabetic patients reduce or discontinue insulin use: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26224300/ Keto diet is very effective in treating Diabetes 2 and improving insulin/blood sugar: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7103851/ bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/2/133.long www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6566854/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22673594/ Keto diet is beneficial for women with policystic ovary syndrome www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7045520/ nutritionandmetabolism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-7075-2-35 www.oatext.com/the-effect-of-ketogenic-and-low-carb-diet-cyclic-alternation-on-the-ovarian-morphology-and-insulin-metabolism-in-polycystic-ovary-syndrome-patients.php Keto diet is highly anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective/anti-dementia: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3321471/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5981249/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31405021/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25686106/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7901512/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32987244/ Keto more effective in treating Parkinsons' patients than low-fat diet pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30098269/ Mediterranean (also high in fats) and keto beneficial for cognition and memory pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32276339/ Keto diet beneficial against psoriasis www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S089990072030040X pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00646# Keto diet helpful against multiple sclerosis journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0035476 www.hindawi.com/journals/msi/2015/681289/ nn.neurology.org/content/6/4/e565 Keto diet vs migraine: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4887398/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25156013/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3620251/ Keto diet for mild and moderate autism www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1750946715001099 digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&context=buwell Keto diet and schizophrenia/mental illness/mood disorders: academic.oup.com/ijnp/article/23/7/434/5861311 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30037619/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652467/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30075165/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11918434/ Keto diet and alcohol withdrawal advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/15/eabf6780 Keto diet and IBS: www.cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(09)00198-0/fulltext Keto diet for cancer prevention and as adjunct treatment (cancer cells usually rely on glucose to grow and multiply (see Warburg effect) so turning the body to ketosis can help starve them) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6375425/ www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212877819304272 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4215472/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3267662/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23755243/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26083629/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26180675/
Reminds me of a co-worker I had almost 10 years ago: she was over 300 lbs and on her first day of work I felt genuinelly bad for her because she swore she didn't understand why she was so heavy, since she ate very healthy and was even a vegetarian. She blamed her genetics and her hormones. Since I worked in the same office as her I saw exactly how she spent her days: eating. She got a Big Mac everyday for lunch with large fries, large shake, etc. She was also always eating: either chips or gummi bears, donuts or some other crap. And she drank several cans of coca cola or energy drinks every day too. She quit shortly after and I never saw her again but a 2 people from the office saw her again after years in different occasions and she was even heavier. Both times she started whining again she didn't understand why she was so big and one of those times she was seen leaving a Mall with a family sized pizza, a gigantic bag from Mc Donald's, supersized cups of soda and a whole box of Kreaspy Kream. But she had no idea why she was so big.
"Counting carbs, counting calories, I've tried it all." Clearly, you didn't. This is the problem, people are naive and uneducated, and the lack of instant gratification leads to people quitting altogether or not giving their all for even a moderate amount of time.
I know person who lost 4kgs in a month but gained it again and more the next month. The problem is obese people don’t realize healthy diet is a lifestyle that need to be adapted for a lifetime and not just couple of weeks.
Yes exactly! People want a diet that will shed the pounds fast w/ no effort on their part. Most don't want to learn about nutrition, work through why they eat the way they do, or continue to work at lifestyle changes for their whole lives & not just a few months
Yeah and if they think all calories all carbs all starches all sugars are the same then they are poorly educated on health and what processes their food goes through from manufacturing to distribution
It wasn't hard for me to lose 100 lbs. I lowered my diet to 1200 a day, and just moved a bit more. It took me about 6 months, but it's possible. And sure, for me to keep it off I have to read all nutritional information, but I want to live as long as possible. You can lose weight, it's just a matter if you actually want to. Trust me, losing weight and keeping it off is a live long commitment.
@@younggun6006 actually shooting for a 1200 is pretty good if you're morbidly obese. Why? Because people in the weight range tend not to be mindful while eating, snaking, or counting calories properly. I once saw a study that followed people counting calories and most undercounted the first 3-6 months. So shooting a 1200 will probably end up being 1500-1800 at least when you start learning how to count, especially if you're not weighing your portions or cooking yourself.
@@TheGabby678 wow what an asshole comment. That would be like you asking a recovering Crack addict how much Crack he smoked in the last week. It's a bitch move to sat that to a person trying to better themselves.
@I’ve Got The Gift Of GOODBYE Doesn't help too much. You gain the habits of your parents and if they are overweight/obese then they are more likely to give that sort of diet to their kids. What is a teen going to do when they don't make money, they can't drive or just started driving, and haven't been taught how to cook? The only way they will shed weight is if they move out of their parents place, have a source of income, and attempt to learn how to cook on their own time. That is a feat to do when you have had about two decades of reinforcement.
Legumes are a superfood: healthy, cheap, and have a long shelf life. Search the internet for recipes and make your own dishes. Forget all of the highly processed food that comes in colorful boxes with a barcode. If it’s recognizable as a basic food product ( one ingredient), you can eat it ( rule of thumb). Spices make all the difference for flavor. NO EXCUSES
When I was in college and an athlete, legumes came in really helpful. Dirt cheap, filling, high in protein etcetera. Like you said, spice then up and they're great
I am at almost the 20 minute point, and have not heard anyone utter the words "fast food," "commercial food" or "pre-packaged food." The pictures flashed across the screen show all of these, while the narrator uses words like "environment," "behavior" or "interaction with our environment." Everyone is so afraid of getting sued, that they have to water down their references to the point of meaninglessness. We have a food industry and a pharmaceutical industry that is in bed with each other. And back in 2008 when morbid obesity hit the fast lane, GMO's were as well. We have no idea what affect GMO's are having on us, and they can talk all they want about how GMO's are wonderful, but there must be an affect on us, and we will never know the collateral damage because no one's talking or doing studies. If they are, they are silenced with lawyers, I expect. Our food has turned into a form of recreational drugs. Refined substances such as sugar, salt, fats, oils, flavorings, flours, corn sweeteners and corn starch, spice and herb extracts, all serve to give us that "high" while we eat, and afterwards as well. That is why there is "comfort food." Industry does what it wants, and the government does not protect us from adulterating of our food supply. The medical establishment is a powerful engine that helps keep America flush with money for those who are investors and corporate owners. Blaming people for becoming obese is like blaming the homeowner for being broke because they pay too high a mortgage payment. Pressure to eat, and often an almost inescapable system of terrible food affects all of us. Even our recipes are rife with the worst stuff, and we are encouraged to make the simplest things with ingredients that we didn't use 40 or 50 years ago. Now we want every recipe to be a show stopper. We want everyone we feed to be awed by our culinary magic. Food has taken on surreal meaning, not just in America, but in many other countries that have an even higher incidence of obesity. The answer? Try to stay with the most natural form of food you can. At buffets, at home, eating out, find that baked potato on the menu and have it with sour cream on the side and no butter. Order a salad with dressing on the side. Have a piece of broiled fish or chicken, and skip the drink, but have water instead, or plain coffee or tea. Even the diet sodas make us eat more. Carry a small shaker of your own herbs and spices, and don't be embarrassed to use them to dress up your food. Our enemy is invisible. If we could see the sugar, see the fat, see all the chemicals designed to make us eat more, we could avoid those foods. But for the most part, they are unseen and therefore dangerous. Our food has gone stealth, and it is up to us to navigate smarter for our health, and help others stay to a whole foods plan without all the oils, sugars and refined flour.
you realise "GMOs" aren't tangible things or a substance, right? it's literally gene modified food, that's it. you realise absolutely all fruits and vegetables we have today have been altered to be easier for us to consume and tastier. take seedless grapes for example, that is what GMO is. they have selected the genes from the grapes with less seeds until they got seedless ones. how is that hurting you? spoiler alert, it isn't! :D
I was 105kg on my peak weight at 5'6" I have tried all diets and simply doesn't work but when I started researching and found out that the sugary , fatty and processed food makes us obese , I put all I have learned into practice, after 13 weeks of proper healthy eating habits and playing basketball and lifting weight I lost 30kg , my diabetes was gone , BP normal, sleep apnea was gone... then after awhile I started eating bread , sweets, processed foods again ,I piled up 10kgs in 2 months then started living health again and lost 4kgs in 3 weeks alone...THEREFORE its all down what we put in our mouth and lack of inactivity that makes us PIG.................
So I was obese for several years. And I came from a family of people who became obese with age. I saw diabetes, hip replacements, etc. I knew the road I was headed down. I changed. It didn't happen overnight. In fact, it took me 4 years to lose 50 lbs. I have been up and down but overall have maintained a downward trend. I have now been a healthy weight for about 4 + years. I am by no means fit, but at a healthy, comfortable weight. And now I am aiming more to focus on reducing BODY FAT and not simply weight. I am building muscle. Many would classify me as skinny but I still have about 30% bf. I can tell you from experience, being obese changes your physiology. Health experts may chime in and disagree, but it DOES. When you cut calories, you lose muscle and energy, not fat. It takes a long time of being consistent for your body to start behaving properly. I understand how hard it is to stay consistent long enough to see even small changes. I am also here to tell you it is not a stop/start thing. Exercise and Healthy Eating must become your normal routine. It is a never-ending life-long process. It becomes your norm and feels like less of a chore over time and just becomes second nature. But it takes lots of time and climbing back on that wagon every time you fall off. It takes inner work. It takes distancing yourself from people who don't support you. It takes learning. It takes SELF LOVE. Without self love and self care, there will be no success in the long run. But it IS POSSIBLE, and doable...one tiny change at a time. You can do it. I will never fo back to the old me.
My teacher told me to watch this because in lesson I told her I’m bored, I’m not overweight, most of my life I was underweight, right know I have a healthy weight, I’m European (German) so I weight myself in kilograms, I don’t know my exact weight but it’s about 45kg to 48kg -> 99 to 105 pounds, I am 5‘2 for my Europeans it’s 157cm. I am really proud of all of you, also even telling your story’s ❤️
The problem with obese and overweight people is that they keep approaching a lifelong issue with temporary and quick solutions. Dieting doesn’t work, but if you make sustainable life changing diet modifications and you exercise regularly and consistently, you WILL see change. I have lost 180 pounds almost 4 years ago and I have kept it ALL off. I eat the same way I did to lose the weight and I permanently changed my eating and removed detrimental foods from my diet. I exercise regularly. It’s hard...but it’s not that hard. Being morbidly obese is harder trust me. I can NEVER go back to being morbidly obese again. I don’t eat sugar or processed foods.
Yeah I know, red meat is actually about the most beneficially nutrient dense food a human being can possible consume. Like with anything else it's about controlling "how much" your body needs which can vary tremendously from individual to individual. Sugar is BY FAR more of an issue than red meat could ever be.
Cutting back to fish and chicken will do nothing for them if they continue to eat processed foods (bread, pasta, desserts) and fail to add plant based, whole food nutrition to their bodies as replacement choices. The cure is not complicated and not costly compared to the disease. I hope there is a part 2 to this doc that addresses optimal food choices.
I’ve lost 60 lbs so far (5’7 16 year old female 220 to 160) the only advice I would give is eat fruits, lean meats, oats, and veggies. Also daily strength training really helps. The more muscle you pack on the more you can eat, and that really helps me personally cause I LOVE eating😂
I am borderline obese (BMI 31 ish) and have been overweight or obese almost my entire life, except for one period in middle school when I became anorexic. The unfortunate flip side of trying to resolve obesity, especially in children, is people can learn to hate their bodies, and attempts to lose weight can actually become damaging. Since that time, I have fluctuated about 40 lb up and down every few months in a roller coaster of anorexic and binge eating behavior. It is really troubling Bc at the end of the day, I am obese and I need to lose weight, but I cannot do that without becoming neurotic and destructive. I know I am not alone, I know there are probably thousands if not millions of people like me in the US, obese kids who grew up being told they were weak willed and lazy, and in an attempt to prove that wrong, end up developing a really unhealthy relationship with food and their self image. Claiming the solution to our weight problem is just diet and exercise is a gross over-simplification, even if true in theory.
I think the focus should be about our inner health, not our outer health. I have a heart condition that I have been on medication for since I was 18, but never been obese (although fluctuated a bit in weight) I also have pollen allergies, sleep problems and other problems related to the nervous system. I notice a huge difference in energy level and inner health from what I eat. For instance if I forget to take my omega fatty acids supplements (fish oil) my allergy flares up a lot, thats how I notice I have forgotten to take them. The right food boosts the immune system, evens out blood pressure, helps with breathing, heart pumping, everything. It is equally unhealthy to starve yourself to lose weight. I wish people knew how great it feels to eat in a way that you have energy and feel amazing on the inside
I was obese for years 276 was my top weight. Lost 90 pounds through eating1 solid meal a day after work, and being active, not working out but just doing stuff been keeping it off for over 14 years now
Try to take it day by day. What you say is right. If the whole community would have better eating habits, it would be easyer, but...And really try to love yourself more. What we see in the media, filmstars,... is very bad for all of us. It's schizofrenic. Keep your chin up girl, you're not alone
yes, that's why it's so important how the issue is tackled in children. it must be about health, about feeling good and learning about nutrition, not about appearance and definitely not with blame. parents constantly telling their kids to stop eating and that they're too fat does absolutely nothing
I am of the opinion that part of the reason healthy lifestyle change is difficult for overweight and obese individuals, or even thin folks who eat a lot of junk food; is because processed/junk food is chemically addictive to our brains, like a drug. It’s possible the withdrawal of being removed from those foods causes adverse side effects. Growing up in a family of overweight/obese folks, when I moved out and changed my diet, it was (and continues to be) a challenge not to eat junk food. I still do, but not every day.
"You don't CRAVE broccoli." Like WUT?! I get psycho cravings for broccoli and veggies! When you cut added sugar from your diet, broccoli, carrots, beets, cabbage and yams become VERY sweet. When you remove added sugar, you can taste natural sugars again-cabbage becomes a cake. They get that sweet!
When you eat real foods and healthy meals... they end up being cheaper than fast food because they keep you fuller longer. In addition, you start to crave them and you find processed food tastes like crap. But it takes time to get all those addictive sugar and fats out of your system.
Stop lying to yourself. I’ll simply comment on the “cost” of “eating healthy”, although I’m extremely tempted to comment on “cravings” too. It costs much more to eat “healthy foods” than it does to eat unhealthy foods. I’ve been “plant-based” for over a decade. Eating “unhealthy foods” is less expensive. It’s worth it because my lifestyle keeps me healthy.
@Elaina Kosmidis how does raw material to cook food cost more than a meal cooked by employees in a restaurant or factory??? You need to stop lying to yourself too.
5'0 86lbs been binging these types of documentaries and videos to keep me focused and motivated to keep going. Most of my family is obese has mobility issues, heart disease, diabetes, and just a million other health issues because they're so big. I swore to myself I will never let myself end up like them. It scares the absolute shit out of me just thinking about it.
I think the problems started when fats started to be considered bad and when sugar usage was increased in everything. If you reduce the fat content of something you got to replace it with sugar. I think sugar is one of the most addictive substances on the planet. I think sugar is more addictive than nicotine. I think there should be warning labels on products that contain a load of sugar.
Losing weight requires commitment, and i truly believe that people get psychologically addicted to bad food just like some get addicted to alcohol or drugs. I was an athlete up to my 20s, then I stopped training and started enjoying food. In 10 years I put on 30 kg. Now I am on a mission to lose them and I am 100 percent focused on this. It is my number one priority. I met with a personal trainer one and a half month ago and his diet and training plan made me lose 8.5 kg since then.
@Bethesda Skyrim Excitotoxin is a made up term by diet researchers. It is the same dopamine response your body gets from eating a variety of healthy foods. Like fruit and meat.
You probably failed that time. I'll tell you why. You believe that it takes a massive commitment. Make some tiny swaps and be patient creating lifestyle changes. At first maybe commit to just drinking water. You'll immediately feel better after your caffeine withdrawal subsides and drinking non water beverages will make you feel like crap. Just feel how good it makes you feel to drink just water. Keep repeating the process until you are where you want to be. It doesn't take discipline when you realize how good you feel eating healthy and how shifty you feel after a calorie dense meal.
I've been very overweight in the past (not obese, though). The problem is that most people that are totally uneducated about what they eat and its consequences. I've been on that boat and the first step into changing my body was acquiring knowledge and learning more about it. Eating habits alone won't solve it- people must be active and drop their smartphones for once
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 exactly. I grew up in the 80's. We had lunch at school (that we brought from home) and had dinner when we got back. I don't ever remember having snacks, and I was rarely allowed to have fast food.
I originally watched this series almost 3 years ago. I was almost 240lbs. I’m watching this series again after I have lost 95lbs! I haven’t been this weight since junior high lol
Thank you for this. I am now morbidly obese. Pushing 300 pounds. My joints hurt. I cannot breathe easily. My mental health is worse. I can't keep up with my 5 y.o. son and now have heart palpitations. Being morbidly obese is NOT healthy. It's equivalent of the ultra skinny models that look like they are a******. Both are selling unhealthy lifestyles.
"it's not easy to take weight off, I tried it all:liposuction, patches, diet" Why not try portion control? for the rest of your life?! cause being healthy it's a lifestyle. And I do crave veggies, I must be an alien. By the way, sorry for my English, it's not my first language
@12:39 When she said, “...maybe y’all would see a new me”, she rolled her eyes. That made me feel bad, because I don’t think she believed that herself.
I'm now a whole-food plant based diet flexitarian-very little meat or dairy consumption, (2 weeks & counting). I already feel better & look forward to the health benefits...losing weight will be an added bonus but good health is my motivator. Wrong side of 45 & staring down 50...I want the last part of my half to be one of quality. Also stopped smoking 2 years ago after 30 years. Even though I only smoked about a pack per week it was still hard. Surviving kidney cancer was my motivator to stop smoking, now on to the weight hurdle. 👍🏽💯🤗
There are so many wonderful people featured in this documentary. We are all prisoners to the time we live in. I remember as a very young person how I ate and the cultural norms around food. For example eating a salad was seen as not masculine. I think that since this was filmed Americans are more aware of the foods we should be eating. I hope that these lessons have been learned and the future is brighter. I still think that getting an appropriate amount of activity is going to be challenging.
Thank you CDC and NIH and community leaders.! This series is so excellent and provides a complete picture of the problem and solution. As a fitness professional..... I watch it over and over and share it with my clients! I want to help people get educated, motivated and empowered! Thank you again!!
Rebecca Reid Just no cheap solution which is a high fat very low carbohydrate diet . The rubbish USDA food pyramid based on the 1977 McGovern commission written by an unscientific vegan !
I was gonna say that. I crave salads too. Also sugar nd junk so I eat a small amount of it or just stare at it for long enough that I don’t want it anymore lol
It’s all in the mindset. If you don’t truly believe you need help and that enough is enough, no one can make you understand the hurt you’re putting your body through.
43:32 "Is it ok to stay obese?" I find it really surprising that someone would ask this question. Of course it's not ok for your health, there is a reason why people of a certain weight are *medically* classified as obesity. But being overweight or obese has become so normal in America that I'm guessing a lot of people ask the same question.
I've been at least a little bit big, but I was active as a child. However, when I reached my 20's my mental health started to drop, and my eating habits were shit, so I gained a lot of weight. At my heaviest I was 88 kg, and that's when I, thanks to a therapist, decided to change. It's been almost 2 years now, and I've reached 57 kg, which means that I've lost 31 kg. Watching this documentary makes me wonder what sort of internal changes I've made by losing such a huge amount of body weight. My BMI went from 35 to 22.
Exactly right. Whenever I decide to stray and eat fast food like Taco Bell or Domino's pizza I always feel hungrier soon after (2-3 hours) I eat all those horrible calories. Instant regret. Poor quality food makes you hungrier and leaves you fatter. It's a horrible exponential growth that leads to disease and unhappiness.
Great, now go watch the documentaries out there that describe how stacked the junk food industry is in this country and how fast food is engineered to make you crave it. I’m not obese and I don’t eat junk food or fast food as a rule, but when I’m in situations when I needed something quick or easy and I do partake, I can feel how badly my system wants more of it, sometimes even the very same day. People talk about personal responsibility, but if that’s the habit you’re in and everyone else around you is too, it would take an absolutely Herculean effort to break those habits. Everyone loves to dog on obese individuals, but we should truly be going after the companies that make the crap in the middle of the grocery store and the fast food chains, because their practices are indisputably unethical.
“The kind of food that we eat is the kind that’s most profitable.” That says it all right there.
People are just pathetic and always looking for a way to excuse their shitty behavior. You watch a show like this, you've learned the tricks, you've learned a better way, if you still don't do it, you have nobody to blame but yourself. But people would rather blame others to excuse their laziness and stupidity.
I'm skinny, have been so all my life, and I'm educated enough to understand why, and, to appreciate my weight, not even so much for the classic health reasons, but because of mobility, and foremost, for the mental benefits exercise proivides (which you have to be physically able to just doing). How is your sports clothing industry doing? Last week I went to as rsident giant here, and XS is too large for me NOW - I'm approaching 52, and my weight is about were it was 30 years ago. What do you think how come? What's the message people take away from buying clothes there? And, qui bono?? Sickening, seriously, and literally.
Sugar.
HFCS... Enough said, there is a reason it's not permitted in many countries. Highly profitable poison made from byproducts
In most countries, when you are poor, you tend to be skinny because you barely have enough to eat but in countries like the US or England, it's the other way around!
I was quite surprised that only 7% of the healthy weight children became obese. Eye opening. The habits we learn in childhood are important
Facts!!!
Training your children to be fat is child abuse
@@Strange9952 Agreed. When I see morbidly obese children, I judge the shit out of their parents. I instantly assume that parents that let their kids get fat are bad people.
They are neglecting the physical health of their child and stealing stealing their childhood away. They're setting their kids up for a bunch of bullying and a lifetime physical and mental difficulties.
Insulin-stimulating carbs are addictive and increase the frequency of feeling hunger. Either directly or as flavoring. Throw in some soda with that macaroni or pasta and that is the foundation of the obesity recipe. Fat becomes an issue when combined with the carb foundation.
Documentaries like these are two-faced, showing how lacking medical science is in really getting people to fix the issue. Stimulation of the release insulin inhibits lipolysis. That is the fundamental rule of nature ignored and obfuscated.
The population would see a boost first by going into some form of keto, even dirty keto.
@@DeanWhiteUK You don't mention fasting, which is why you're also a shill for keeping them unhealthy.
The crappy processed food is addictive. It's almost like obesity is a consequence of addiction.
JEWLES4EVER No. It is not addictive. People are lazy and are gluttons and want to blame their behavior on other things.
@@genli5603 It has been proven it's addictive...
@@genli5603 Processed food is full of sugar. Study after study has proven that sugar has the same effect on the human brain as cocaine. Are you gonna try and say that cocaine isn't addictive either?
And it's an incredibly easy addiction to break.
A month of clean eating and you don't even think about fast food.
@@frankvonfrauner There you have it! Worldwide problem of obesity solved! So easy. Incredibly easy.
To underestimate the addiction is the first step and I did so.
I've lost 130 lbs so far
Daegda Games that’s awesome 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Thats amazing I hope youre doing well!!!
You lost a whole person!
@@Mrs.TJTaylor That's exactly what one of my really good friends says, NOW it's 150lbs lost 2 years after that comment
Great job😀
I'm impressed that those little kids continued to participate in the study into adulthood. This is good that people can work together like this to better our communities and everyone.
Great watch! I’ve lost 120 pounds in the last 6 months! 150 to go! I needed this motivation!!! Video and book coming soon because I plan to reach my goal weight in the next 6 months! 1 year to fit and fabulous baby!!!! Thank you HBO great doc!!!
Edika, this is my first time watching this video because I just started my weight loss journey and I am truly amazed at your weight loss: that is the equivalent of 5 pounds a week for 6months: Wow🔥🔥🔥🔥...
So inspiring!
Aren’t you only supposed to lose 1-2 pounds a week to be healthy?
@@circa134 no worries been so depressed gained so much back and haven’t lost anymore 😂
@@edikalivingston1714 you can keep going :)
@@edikalivingston1714 Just a thumbs up to let you know you're not alone. I hope you feel better Edika! Greetings and kind regards from London UK x
GREATEST QUOTE:
"I will burn your obnoxious body fat and keep you healthy if you feed me right and exercise." -Metabolism
Exercising is not even mandatory. The right food and intermittent fasting works on autopilot.
@@dsgorian2285 i try fasting all the time. I have my binges but keep fasting. I breath better I can go longer without food. And give my body time to relax & heal. These fat fux don't even try...😠
@@dsgorian2285 Exercise is really necessary for maintaining health. It will keep you healthy into old age. Boosts metabolism. It doesn't even have to be a lot of exercise, being active is definitely worth it.
DeviantDespot he is talking about just pure weight loss not health, exercise is not required for weight loss
DS Gorian fasting only works if your all ready thin(and/or have type 1 Diabetes that is a permanent type of life style that is required) you risk having your Metabolism
come to a halt if you do so...I had did a 4month fasting I gained the weight right back I went from 220 to 175 then back to 215 in 5 months time.. so i wasted about 9 months for nothing .
the point is eating right and avoiding the items with "added sugar" (and fake sweeteners ) that is pretty much everything THAT is not in vegetable / fruit section, fruit sugar is 100% legit the fruit contains fiber which bannishes the sugar from being absorbed by the body quickly like over a longer a period of time.. and it's mostly discarded when you poop.
the obesity issue is made by the stores they Sell/Lease shelf space to the junk food manufactures there is *no profit in vegetable / fruit section*.. that is how the lure you in, The idea your coming in for fruit & vegetables at a great price and you leave with a cart full of junk foods.. that is why they force you to enter the fruit & vegetables section first EVERY single store forces you to enter the fruit & vegetables section first it's by design. to get MEGA sized profits... while you leave with garbage that is highly profitable..
IF you hit the vegetable / fruit section as you exit you bet you would be buying more vegetable / fruits instead of highly profitable junk foods mislabeled as being "healthy" .. also many of those junk foods would end up back on the shelf...as you would be thinking twice about wasting all that money on it
just like the gas station has the chips right as you enter it's the first thing you see I almost bought a package and a couple hours later i was thinking about why i did not buy that bag of chips ... It turns out I rather keep my $1.60 :) instead.. I switched to this sugar free diet(No junk food of anykind) i'm losing about 4.6 pounds per week i started at 218.5 pounds i'm at 199.5 pounds. i have been walking about 4 miles everyday (28 miles a week ) and 112 miles a month.. once a year passes it's going to be 1,344 miles :O that is the same amount of walking from Mexico to Canada.( on the west coast) I slowly migrated over from junk food to healthy foods this worked really well.. I donated the rest of the junk food to a local food bank.. they were surprised as no one normally donates junk foods.. Junk food is expensive....
Funny how people say nobody craves broccoli, because I do sometimes. 😳
Yes! You will end up craving what you eat. Our tastes are very malleable!
Me too! And brussel sprouts.
I crave it right now
I am really craving salad for the past few days. gonna go pick up some.. are we weird or what.. and im a fat obese person.
Broccoli's very delicious and I like eating broccoli.
This should be mandatory to watch in schools for Health class. You cannot run away from the Cognitive Dissonance with seeing people and them living with their choices. That elderly couple made me real sad, but in the same time, it opened the door for me to be inspired to be healthy so I don't end up there.
We are watching this in school and I have to write an essay on the video wanna tell me what it’s about?
Please tell me too
It's not that simple when the healthy foods and low carb options are more expensive
@@jamesgentry13 They're not, that's just an excuse. Buying some eggs and veggies for a healthy scramble will cost maybe $5 for several meals vs. $5 for a breakfast from McD's. That's just one example, but there are many. Yes it costs more up front to buy groceries, but averaging it out over how many meals you get out of it, it is almost always cheaper than buying convenience foods. People are just too lazy to learn to cook and can't do math.
And anyway, weight loss isn't about what you eat, it's about how much of it you eat. You can lose weight eating fast food so long as you expend more calories than you take in.
@@shelbyb9965 don't know where you live but a pack of 12 good quality eggs is almost 4 dollars here
Most people that claim to "fail" when it comes to diets, is likely due to them looking at it as a temporary change. When you're talking about making changes to your eating habits, you have to approach it as a full on lifestyle change and not just a temporary diet. I started my weight loss journey at 275 about 2 months ago and I'm currently down to 250. There's nothing complex about what I'm doing. Calories in vs calories out, macros are a good combo of healthy fats, complex carbs and protein. I also use my Peloton 4-5 times a week. I know I still have a ways to go to a healthy weight, but treating this as a lifestyle change has been the difference for me.
The reason most fail is because long term/chronic calorie restriction eventually makes your calories out plummet, which will make you feel like shit until you eat
Just interminent fasting + keto diet. Its the only way :) the old restriction of calories diets and the +5 meals a day cause obesity, along with the procesed food.
Even the word "diet" sabotages them. Your diet is what you regularly eat, it's not inherently related to weight loss and being restrictive. People need to change their diet to change their weight and health and stop thinking that it's only about losing weight.
@@Ahrone1586 IF and keto Diet is not the only way. The Mediterranean diet also works.
@@MorriganFeather13 Or, hear me out, cutting out processed foods; introducing lean meats, fruits, and vegetables; and exercising also works. Don't need a named diet program to be healthy.
77% of obese children become obese adults. 93% of healthy weight children become healthy weight adults. Okay - basically we stay the same but where is the study and follow-up on the 23% of obese children that DID NOT become obese adults? THOSE are the people you want to follow; they hold one, if not more, of the answer(s).
Was thinking that too-be interesting to know the circumstances
Many obese children when they become a fully grown adult are no longer obese especially if they are above average height. Obama for instance.
I was healthy as a kid. Than I got type two diabetes
Obese children develop larger more condensed fat cells from an early age making them predisposed to gaining weight the rest of their lives. Those that end up at a healthy weight into adulthood are living a healthy lifestyle and you better believe showing great self discipline and intellect.
So true and insightful thought
I lost weight no so much by "reducing volume" because hungry people wont stick to that. Rather, substitution from higher calorie ingredients to lower, but similar volume. Also, NEVER drink soda or fruit juice!!!
There are a lot of sodas with 0 calories where you live I would guess? So soda is not bad if you choose the correct one. About one-third of the soda market here have no 0 calories.
john johnson diet drinks make ppl fat. It’s the chemicals.
@@suziecreamcheese211
Do you know what a chemical is? Everything you have ever consumed has a lot of chemicals in it. Even if you only drink water and only eat apples and carrots you have grown yourself.
What has been tested and proven over and over again, is that It's all about the amount of energy(calories).
When you put a big group of 100 + obese people on very different diets, but the same amount of calories guess what happens. They lose the exact same amount of weight given enough time.
And although I'm just a person, I should be super fat, since Diet Pepsi(1kcal per 100ml) is my only "addiction". And it has been for 5 years. But the thing is if you consume the number of calories that I do, you will not get fat.
@@ujmm depends on the person but most of the time 0 calorie fizzy drinks are not your friend. The sweeteners in the drink makes your mouth and brain think you're having sugar which is what makes it feel good right? All the fun but none of the calories, except your body gets way too convinced it's getting sugar and prepares itself by raising insulin. More insulin makes you feel ravenous and makes you eat more later. And overtime the exposure to 0 calorie fizzy drinks make you less sensitive to insulin, which is setting you up for diabetes so just try to drink less of it in general, your teeth will thank you.
I didn't realise how much it triggers your insulin until I break my long fasts with pepsi max and feel that sugar high that makes me rest less until I stuck my mouth. The appetite I felt after having pepsi max was 10 times as strong as my worst hunger pang while fasting.
Even when I'm eating normally, sometimes (not always) it makes me want to over eat so I wouldn't recommend it if you're starting on your weightloss journey
@@ujmm there's far too much information available on this platform alone for you to think that way about sodas. The education on that is free with a "are sodas bad" search...pick any video that drops down after that
This is waaayyy more motivating (and scary) than those BS instagram motivation pages.
You'll probably delete instagram when you grow up
I lost 92 pounds and got rid of high blood pressure and diabetes two. If I could do that in two years (from 63 to 65) and keep it off at 66, ANYONE CAN DO IT. It is a matter of self-discipline, changing the food types one craves, and walking daily. Simply WALKING. Don't lie to yourself. If you want to lose weight and be healthy, you must CHOOSE IT and then take the struggle (it is always a struggle!) DAY BY DAY BY DAY. Life is better when onen is healthy, physically fit and mentally alert. FAT IS DEATH.
congratulations :)
+TheGeekiestWoman True. I am doing it too. It's hard in a hot and humid climate, but possible.
TheGeekiestWoman thanks for sharing this.
You sound like a GILF now.
thank you for sharing your story.
I understand that people feel like it's too hard to change your eating habits and move more to lose weight... but almost EVERYTHING in life takes hard work! I know what it feels like to be obese: I weighed 245lbs. and suffered daily with the stigma and fatigue and frustration and self disgust. However, I made a conscious decision to change... it wasn't easy, but it was worth all the sweat and tears. I lost 133lbs. and have maintained that weight loss for 12 years. Nothing is impossible... surely losing weight isn't either.
It's more complicated than that though.
There's eating disorders, which require more than just hard work to conquer. They require a full psychological treatment and intervention over a long period of time.
There's poverty which limits the meals people can afford to fast food.
There's genetics and physical disorders.
Hard work doesn't cut it for a lot of people.
eating is not even the main problem its the drinks its very easy to have a couple of sodas, a juice, and a glass of milk in a single day and you have pretty much added an extra meal to your daily intake
🙏👏
@@nola1439 one step at a time
@@nola1439 Damn, the excuses are strong with this one
I moved to the US for a few years and gained 50 pounds. The portions were enormous so I took half home for the next day. One meal, I had fish, rice pilaf and broccoli. Healthy, right? The next day I took it out of the fridge and it had about 1/4 cup of butter solidified on it. I moved back to Canada and lost 15 pounds in the first 6 months back, just eating normally. This told me that will power is not enough. The food industry needs to get on board and be part of the solution.
Yes I totally agree. In Norway its rare to ever see an obese person
@@odapunkt 25% of Norwegian men and 20% of Norwegian women are obese. That is one out of four and one out of five. Hardly a rarity. In children, there is definitely lower obesity in Norway than children in the United States. Just remember that Norway is a nation of merely just over 5 million people mostly living in rural country side areas. They are not traveling major roads lined with dozens and dozens of fast food restaurants and eating establishments all over the place as in the US. But if there were, they would definitely be eating there and getting even fatter. The traffic at my new local Norwegian McDonald's proves that by how busy it has become. Also a meal for four people at a Norwegian McDonalds, and all junk foods, is vastly more expensive than a similar meal in the United States where all junk food is very inexpensive so there is also that driver behind eating out for meals. Norwegians also don't typically go out to a restaurant or eatery everyday for their lunch time as they do in the US and portions in Norway are also much smaller in restaurants.
so you didnt cook your own food?
i live in the US,,, the food industry' is the problem. they do whatever they can,,, to give you a New and Yummy dish you'll come back for. (and what they do is use more butter,, it's a restaurant, nobody is going to ask for nutritional content. ) so yep, the Portions are Ridiculous,,,, i really hate crap food. I don't miss restaurants at all,,, i cook fresh,,, i want t know what im eating,,, and you can learn to cook and get better at it. Im italian,,yeah,, we Do eat,, but its about quality fresh ingredients. im not 'thin',,, i never will be,, but Healthy,,, Yes,,, doing well in my 60's,, grow any food and see what ur missing,,, Real Ingredients have FLAVOR.
Lol, keep avoiding fats. Your brain doesn't need them! 😂
I am a health professional and am dismayed by the state of our nations health. I find it shocking that we are taking such poor care of our children and that we have an abundance of food and yet our poorest citizens cannot reach it or afford healthy choices. I am learning that the poorest quality of food including meat that cannot be sold to consumers is processed and fed to our children in school lunch programs. What is the matter with us? Are our mega corporations and government so greedy or stupid that we are willing to shorten our kids lives to make an extra buck???
+Orrene Smith Those mega corporations are giving people what they want. Poor people have access to healthy fruits, grains and vegetables. They are just too lazy, fat and stupid to go to the grocery store and buy them. Most welfare recipients would rather stuff a big mac into kids face instead of getting off of their fat welfare stealing asses and prepare them a healthy meal. Poor people also hate fruits and vegetables unless they are made into a desert.
You have forgotten the working poor where both parents work, one of them at 2 jobs at low pay, may ride the bus, don't have access to large grocery stores and may have to buy at corner stores at inflated prices and cannot afford fresh food which does cost a lot more than a Happy Meal.
+Grizzly907LA The amount of right wing bullshit in this is too strong. You clearly have NO comprehension of the complexities of poverty. It's a depression, a state of mind, constantly seeing reminders as to why you will and should never succeed, and of course poverty breeds crime! If people are feeling hopeless and can't have the same things, if they're already looked down upon and almost criminalized under the law and society, how else do you move forward? How else do you get money? Obesity comes into it, not just because of access to healthy food and costs, but also for the same reason that drugs and alcoholism do; junk food, like heroin, offers an escape from this depressing way of living. The countries with the lowest poverty and the richest countries overall in the world are the SOCIALIST Nordic States (Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland) who are welfare states. Don't blame the poor, blame the system.
BE CAREFULL OF THE FINGER POINTING. FOUR MORE ARE POINTING BACK. I LIVE AMONG FAIRLY WEALTHY FOLKS AND DRUG DEPENDENCY AND CANCER IS RAPIDLY GROWING. NOT TO MENTION OUT OF CONTROL ALCOHOLISM. DAMN THESE FOLKS LOVE THEIR DRUGS. AND TO KEEP IT QUIET THEY GO TO REHAB. THANK YOU.
And the shit YOUR country doesn't deem fit for consumption then gets forced into my Country's market where it is sold for less than the higher quality LOCAL produce to the poorest echelons of society who don't have the means to do anything about it.
I can't understand all the "I've tried it all, nothing works" bullshit. I used to weigh 108 kg (240 lbs). I've lost 26 kilograms (57 lbs) so far just by eating 1800 calories a day and exercising at least 5 times a week, 30-45 minutes a day. And if you don't want to exercise, just WALK and be active troughout the day, so you burn more calories than you consume. There is no special diet, no magic pills. Please, just get off your butt and start now, don't wait until it's too late.
Not all calories are created equal
Greencloud8 yeah 1 g of fat is 9 calories 1 g of carb is 4 or less calories. The fat you eat is the fat you wear.
Lost 57lbs of what...fat, muscle or both?
nikkyo34 53lbs of fat and 4lbs of muscle. Why? Am I doing something wrong according to you? I'm not being sarcastic, I really want to know. :) I've lost another 3 pounds since I wrote the comment.
wendus93 When people say "I lost X amount of weight" its a vague statement. Thats why I asked what you lost. Did you hydrostatic weight yourself to get your readings?
How did you come about 1800 kcal/day to lose fat? Five days a week you exceeded your energy expenditure and lost weight, hmm. (1 lb of fat has 3500 kcal) Wouldn't a lower kcal also lower your bmr?
It's so easy for us who are healthy and fit to watch this and tell these people what to do, but it is not just what they LIKE to eat. It is what they were brought up eating, what they are continuing down through their families. Easy to tell them to exercise or to buy salad, but they need psychological re-training, too. Watching that woman's family chow down on all that garbage made me cringe, too, but they honestly do not know any better. That sounds patronizing. But they just don't.
Yes, this is true. Even the ones who do know better just don't care or they care but do not have a strong enough will to follow through with changing their entire lifestyle. How we grow up shapes our mindsets. People who are taught to finish all the food on their plate and not let any go to waste continue to do that into their adulthood even when they have more than enough food to eat too.
A lot of this whole fat issue is simply psychological. Other parts are genetic, but there are many parts of it that are psychological.
Even the whole, "We are poor, so we can't afford healthy food" argument doesn't make sense. You can get a dozen donuts for the same cost as it would to get about 7 small red delicious apples. Now, apples, are full of sugar and stain your teeth, but they are certainly better for a human than any lump of fried dough unless that human were allergic to apples.
Cynthia we don't take kindly to reasonable, considerate, and empathetic people like you here on TH-cam comment land lol
They need education, better access to natural food and encouragement. We need more people to help make a difference.
I hope the part where you say that apples stain your teeth is sarcastic, sama as apples being full of sugar :)
True, but the doctors are a part of the problem telling them to eat less and exercise (more) - this will simply not work. They must reduce the sugar/carbs they are eating. One doctor told the newly diagnosed diabetic woman to eat whole wheat pasta and brown rice! Each time she does this her blood sugar will rise and insulin will be released that tells her body will store FAT. I hope that people watching this documentary don't buy in to the complete lack of science these doctors are dishing out. The doctors are unfortunately telling them wrong information that was taught to them instead of learning the science for themselves and truly helping these obese people. learn from Dr. Tim Noaks
www.outsideonline.com/2140271/silencing-low-carb-rebel
or even Dr. Lustig (who was on the video)
th-cam.com/video/Ay-8I3H7dIc/w-d-xo.html
I turned vegan 9yrs ago
So far I've lost 250lbs
I weighed 202lbs this morning
Down from 452lbs in 2011
I went vegetarian 3 months ago , havent lost weight but I'm leaner.
@@QueenPcontrolstheuniverse keep up the good work
Your also helping to stop global warming
Second you decide to go vegan you lost the ability to eat 90% of junk food. Back that up with the moral conviction that eating animal products is wrong and you’re almost forced onto a healthier diet.
@@moosestubbings1853 Im doing my best! I've decided to go back to the pool after a year! That should help! I m also gonna use resitance bands for working out! I'm motivated. I also have to accept the fact that the scale doesnt give you the whole picture
@@QueenPcontrolstheuniverse you'll see the change in your muscle tone
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This is the first documentary concerning vascular health I've seen that actually SHOWS you the real organs and vessels and not CI and has pathologists to go with them. Great!
At last, a documentary that acknowledges that a genetic propensity to obesity only becomes realized by environmental factors and personal responsibility.
Oh, and I live in the South Bronx. There's a produce vendor on every street corner, with prices below what my relatives pay in the farm belt.
Steve Weinstein ❤️ Good for you!
Most ppl in the south bronx are living in poverty. Street vendors don’t take food stamps But I agree with everything else.
Genetics loads the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger.
@@shelbyb9965 I totally agree and amended my comment accordingly. Your family may have a genetic propensity to get cancer; but getting cancer is up to you.
@@steveweinstein3222 Oh yeah sorry, I totally got what you meant from your comment! I was just sharing a common phrase that I've heard to sum up what you were describing. Cheers!
Nothing resonated with me more than the elderly couple talking about gaining 3 lbs or so a year and you wake up 10 years later and 30 lbs heavier! I'm just a month postpartum with my second son and luckily I've lost the baby weight but now I need to focus on losing those extra pounds I gained since high school.
The "wakeup call" should have happened well before then.
I started watching this documentary this year to motivate my weight loss lol. I'm 6ft 3, started out at 240ish. I'm now down to about 220. Should be down to a healthy bmi at 205 lbs or lower in about 2 months at this rate.
Damn thats impressive. I lost 10 lbs recently and it was so hard i cant imagine losing 20 haha 😅
Good job! I’m also watching this to keep me motivated
How are you doing now?
@@eddylauterback1312 Hi! This is me (op) commenting from another account! I’m down to 195!
In the not so distance future, when a historian will write a book, "The Decline and Fall of the United States Of America", there will be a chapter on the obesity epicademic.
Douglas Rose it cant be contained in just once chapter though, it’s a comer complex topic that ties into other aspects of our culture
Would that be before or after the chapter on Don Trump?
@@kenbob1071 Donald Trump is a footnote compared to the obesit epidemic, which affects over 1/3 of the population and rising
@@Yetaxa The actions/inactions of Don Trump affect the entire world. Ask Greta Thunberg.
@Amyra Batya Sure, because Europe is doing so horribly right now, oh wait.
It isn't
I do in fact crave veggies, Avocados, salads, cantaloupes and so on. I crave these things all the time. Speak for yourself.
sirgrundel Sry to turn you down...but avocados are not veggies. They are nuts. And as such, they are extremely fat and unhealthy ;] Still better than a BigMac or Popsoda :)
***** Avocados are nuts now are they? Shit, man there's me thinking they were fruits! Silly me!
No but seriously, avocados are NOT "extremely fat and unhealthy". It's true, they are high in fat compared to other fruits and vegetables, but the fat is what is known as 'healthy fat'. They're really quite good for you!
Mmmmm.... I love avacadoes. I will put them on anything..
***** there are good fats and bad fats.Avocados have good fats ,the good cholesterol that your body needs
***** Avocados "extremely fat and unhealthy"?? Are you kidding? You need to do your research, dude. Fat is not the problem (except TRANS fat). Carbohydrates ARE the problem. Avocados are among the healthiest foods out there... heck, they even help to lower your BAD cholesterol! Read this and get educated: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado#Diet_and_clinical_research
Anyone else watching this in quarantine to stay healthy
That being said iv been munching today!!! 🤣🤣
YES! 🍵☕🥗🍗😁
NO. trying to watch this to get myself motivated to diet. I ate like 3 servings of chips today. I feel really guilty
yup ! intermittant fasting atm. 2meals a day.. 2mad. Lost about 25 lbs and eating the best I ever have.
@@helenachase78 FOR SOME REASON I can't get my brain to focus! oh my gosh.. i've been eating bad lately. Any tips of what got you all pumped!?
8 years later and numbers still rising and nothing was done.
8 years later and it’s gotten so bad that we have groups actively promoting being obese like it’s something wonderful.
Have you ever watched Wall-e. The fat guy on the flying machine got bumped and realized what was all around him?
Obesity is a serious issue. I was an obese kid and I know see the life I missed. Obesity prevented me from joining any sports teams and even making more friends. I didn't do anything about it and it is my fault.
Sorry, Daniel, but it was your parents' fault. How the heck were you supposed to know about calorie counting, carb counting, balanced meals, metabolism issues, etc. Aside from that, they bought you the food and let you eat it. They could have taken you to see a nutritionist. But they didn't.
It’s your responsibility now. As a child, it was your parents’ fault.
Blaming others gets you nowhere, never fixate on the things out of your control, focus on what is in your control.
Don't forget to blame crappy school lunches, junk food and candy corporations, government allowing junk food to become cheaper, don't be too hard on your parents, as a kid more activity on your part yes could have been done. But you exercised in school, you weren't born with genetics that allowed you to eat anything, and most importantly don't be too hard on yourself as you needed some more encouragement and help, you had some personal hang-ups. I too have missed out on some things in life growing up obese and could have done more myself but I had mistreatment and an environment that wasn't more encouraging and definitely not the healthiest. I had early childhood abuse: sexual, emotional, physical, psychological and poor eating habits and food all around me growing up. My life wasn't absolutely terrible and I had a lot of good things. But if I could go back and do it again I would have had a vastly different life, but who decides what makes happiness? Buddhists believe true happiness can only be found within and not from external sources and there are people who by society's standards have it all but are still miserable and unhappy. But my children will never grow up overweight and never even near obese.
Some people lost their lives to the food industry. It's sad to see. I was 105 kg. and decided to turn non-sugarist and vegan. Since then, iv'e had a stable healthy BMI. I invest in myself and do no lonher use my body as a waste container.
I grew up relatively healthy, ate good food at home, played sports, etc. Before I went off to college I was 150 as a 5'4 female (my family holds weight really well so I didn't look fat at all). In the years I was in school I got up to 230. I was miserable, depressed, everything hurt - I felt trapped in my own body. At that point I said enough was enough and dedicated my entire senior year to losing the weight and getting back to the healthy habits. Since then I've lost all the weight and am back to my original weight, just in time for graduation. I feel amazing, and I will never let myself get to that low point again. Now, even eating bad food at a social event leaves me feeling like crap for days.
There's a lot of people out there who just don't know what to do and grew up eating like shit. I thank goodness for the healthy habits I grew up with, because that's how I was able to overcome this situation. For someone without that background, they have to learn healthy habits from scratch, it's super tough. But as someone who was obese, I can tell you for certain that nobody is truly happy to be that big - they have just accepted it.
i like the wisdom 'nobody is truly happy being fat - they have just accepted it. ,,,, (by fat, i mean even ten lbs extra on a small woman is going to have to get that dang Fat off)
"...I didn't look fat at all". Says you lol.
@@opieutt9038 says everyone else not me lol. people would be shocked everytime I told them my weight or showed pictures. my family has thick thighs and ass which is desired in my culture, so maybe thats why nobody saw me as 'fat'. If I grew up in an asian or white community I guess I would be considered 'fat' to them.
@@opieutt9038 150 pounds at 5’4 is not in any way “fat” wtf is wrong with you.
Do u have loose skin now? I'm scared to looses weight cus of the loose skin that happens afterwards, and I definitely don't have money to get skin removed surgery
My mom had to change her diet to lose weight for surgery and I decided to join her. We do a modified keto diet, avoid fast food, processed foods, sugar. We cook meals at home. In 5 months my mom has lost 30 plus pounds and I have lost 25. It was 5 months of retraining our bodies, ignoring cravings, cheating some times, but continue to keep going. Totally worth it.
This sounds like an excellent textbook approach to weight loss and I bet you can keep it off with this lifestyle. congratulations.
You can just portion your food and eat a balanced diet this is a bit much
@@kitten_582 ill never understand the need to do some crazy diet when just not eating processed food is the way.
@@kitten_582 What is a balanced diet? Carbohydrates, sugars, fats and proteins are metabolized differently. A calorie of fat does not equal a calorie of sugar. Insulin is a fat storage hormone. Carbs and sugars are converted to triglycerides and stored in fat cells. The human body requires zero grams of exogenous sugar and carbs to sustain life. If you don't eat carbs and sugar your body burns fat. That is why the ketogenic/ carnovore diets work so well.
@@kitten_582 how is this a bit much? All they did was basically cooked good food at home. If this is a bit much I'd hate to see what your way to much is.
My husband and I went plant based a few months ago and the weight is coming off slow and steady. The best part is our grocery bill is a quarter of what it was and we’re never hungry. We spend more time preplanning meals and cooking even when it’s easy to order out but it’s worth it, it’s worth every minute of it. Once you stop eating processed foods your body stops craving it. Your taste buds change and you crave healthy fresh foods. You have to embrace change and take small steps. First we cut out processed foods, then red meat, then poultry, then dairy. We started trying different vegetables, grains, nuts, etc. Start small and never give up!
Great to hear this ! I'm 69 and went plant based two years ago. I switched in about a week but otherwise I had similar experiences. I'd never go back. Pity no one had ever suggested that I giving up animal products if only for a week.
@Gormen Freeman I personally like the keto diet with a ton of veggies with fish or meat and protein and no carbs or sugars. I get most of my minerals and nutrition from green vegetables and the fats omega 3 and 6 to help me to stay full. I intermittent fast and I only eat twice a day from 5am to 12pm range and that's it. No snacking, nothing extra and I only have one meal on Tuesday and no meals on Friday. I am the healthiest I ever been in my entire life. I went from 287 to 259 in less than a month with a no sugar, less carb diet ...... But life is short and you only live once in your current form so I'll always recommend do what makes you happy and healthy! Keto makes me happy and healthy 😊
Plant based is good, so long as you are using the term correctly and not using it to describe veganism which is basically an eating disorder
I’ve had great success by doing the exact opposite! No fruits , No potatoes, No grains mainly meats , animal fats and coffee works for me !
There are NO essential dietary requirements for any carbohydrates in the human diet!
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Hopefully this will help someone out there... If you want to lose weight you need to accept and/or realize a few things:
1) Diets don't work. Don't even start one. Every diet plan out there has one thing in common: A 100% failure rate.
2) You must eat healthy. Fast food, gone. Sodas, gone. Processed food, gone.
3) Eating healthy is not a diet plan, it is a lifestyle.
4) You need to live a healthy lifestyle for the remainder of your life or you will fail
5) Move around/exercise. Get at least 30-60 minutes a day of exercise. Once or twice a week, double it.
6) Build muscle by doing some resistance training. You don't need to bulk up, just put on some muscle.
Jeremy Jefferson my diet and exercise plan helped me loose 4kg in 5 days
@@MeleenGames I don't mean to discourage you, but that is not fat loss. It would take around a 30,000 calorie deficit in that week to lose that much, or 6,300 calories a day. For perspective, if you ate nothing at all over those 5 days you would have to cycle about 125 miles (roughly 8 hours) a day to burn off enough calories to reach that amount.
What you have most likely lost is water weight. Almost everyone who starts a diet sees a 5-10 pound loss in the first week or two. This is simply due to the fact that the "diet" usually decreases carbs and salts so the body releases stored water. This is also why people get discouraged, you will only lose weight at this rate in the beginning and one slippage will bring it all back. Go out and eat some Chinese food or a pizza and you'll be 5 pounds heavier the next day, all due to new water retention.
Again, this is not to discourage you but to bring things into reality. If you continue to exercise and eat healthy you will be successful. However, if your "diet" you speak of is something you can't maintain for the remainder of your life, you will fail the moment you quit. If it's a restrictive diet, you will fail/quit sooner than later.
You probably hate me or are angry at me posting this.... but the problem is people don't realize these facts because all they get is encouragement instead of the cold hard facts about how to be successful. My goal here is to help you.
I wish you the best of luck.
Jeremy Jefferson dude I’m not American no offense if you are but I only put on weight because of certain medications and certain medications are helping me loose weight as well most people in my county live on a calorie deficit it’s not like I ever ate pizza every day or even once a week I’ve gone for years without eating Macdonalds when you are on antipsychotics your body stores every single bit of fat it can find as it stops your fat burning processes and you burn way less calories than you should Tracy marks on TH-cam does a video on it explaining the science behind it. I exercise 2 hours a day I also go for slimming treatments that burn the fat away such as fat freezing and radio frequency treatment that means if you exercise and diet while on those treatments you’ll loose fat way more easily than the average person you only loose cm first then the weight slowly declines but no one ever loose less than 1kg a week on those treatments If they eat well and exercise. I forgot to mention because it’s a lot of extra shit to mention. After 4 weeks of injections and fat freezing and radio frequency I lost a lot of cm everywhere but the weight has only started recently I had the opposite problem I was loosing fat but not weight in the first month I only lost 2kg of just fat but I into started dieting a week ago properly as I had bulimia so yes I know alll about how heavy food can make you if I ever saw food make the scale go up I would purge it immediately and am now on medication for it I can easily stick to a diet instead of binging on healthy foods like lettuce and potatoes as I did I can eat them normally I can’t go out with friends because they will always judge you for eating healthy No one really knew about my binges which is also probably why I was only loosing 500grams a week on my treatment it’s still not bad. I never had a problem with fast food or sugar or unhealthy carbs i can’t just stop eating healthy and eat foods I basically never eat now I didn’t put on weight from that like I said if you look up the effects of antipsychotics and weight gain they’ll explain how the body stores everything you eat and turns it into fats like it does after fasting which is why it doesn’t work. So I’m total I’ve lost 6kg in the last two months even if it was water weight I know I’m going to be loosing fat because I literally am burning it with injections and treatments. You can also notice the water weight when you go for a suna treatment you can sweat off up to 700grams that you just put back on after drinking or eating it’s just to help get toxins out your body. I also have a beautician who works with me so I’ve already lost a lot of the fat I’ve wanted to loose what your saying makes sense but I’m not discouraged because I have been loosing a ton of cm and burning fat so I weigh more than I actually look and probably still have water weight there is a diet called the fast 800 that works the best with it. I don’t do “cheat days” because I know how to cook nice healthy foods for way cheaper than any fast food we don’t have a “dolllar” menu a small macdonalds meal costs the same as a packet of mushrooms, broccoli and a few apples. The most expensive macdonalds meal is enough to feed yourself for an entire week it’s out counties policy on forgiven food cooperations they aren’t allowed to max the size here and it’s called sin tax you don’t pay taxes on healthy foods so it’s cheaper I don’t think western counties do that basically a simple chocolate is the equivalent to a packet of 5 bananas and apples. On the go two bananas is way more filling. Only the rich here have an obesity problem the rest of South Africa lives on vegetables and pap pap is extremely unhealthy though. It makes dieting way easier and it’s one of my counties good policies I suppose. Being healthy and staying that way is easy and more affordable fast food is an extreme luxury.
@@MeleenGames Regardless of all that... it is impossible to lose that much fat in 5 days, period.... unless you have it physically removed through surgery.
Jeremy Jefferson never said I lost fat at a certain amount like I said when you go for fat burning it takes a while to loose weight I said I lost a certain amount of weight not fat in a few days 🤷🏼♀️ you can’t just take people’s words and put them in your own narrative and assume their unhealthy and stupid. I specifically said that you only burn 1kg a week from fat burning from that exercise and dieting. Never said it was a ton of fat that came off in a few days. You initially assumed I’m some idiot who doesn’t know what water Weight is and completely dismissed diets and said I was going to fail which is rude as fuck you should say it’s not going to be easy but it’s possible over a certain period of time with exercise.
Ps. hey A diet doenst just mean less food it means you have to cut out what doenst work for you by going for a test with a doctor where it tells you what foods to eat and not eat it’s the bets way to get results over time I suppose you don’t know about it because some people struggle on foods they didn’t even know their body struggles to digest even if it’s healthy. I forgot the name for it but it’s apparently quite expensive as they test your body with thousands of different foods.
that old couple with the man that lost his leg made me cry:( so sad how it could've been prevented with just a few lifestyle changes. We really need to show people how REAL and potentially FATAL their decisions can be... I think most people just tend to think oh it's fine it's just one meal, or oh i don't really feel like working out, but they don't realize that they are doing it ALL the time.
+Anastasia Proshkina thank you so much for the platitudes. You really added a lot to this thread
Unfortunately it's not that simple,, I wish it was because my dad would still be alive food addiction is real and deadly.
@@jamesmackenzie3111 what were you upset about, goatee boy? She's right. Is that the part that bothered you, that she was correct?
Unfortunately the information is out there people just don't seem to be interested until it's necessary until it affects them and that's the whole problem
they made changes and are doing it together. so there is always hope.
Cindy seems very positive and self aware, despite her issues. I liked her and she was very honest when she said, you fall off the waggon, when you don’t see results.
Hi! I know it's been a while since your comment, but she was my grandmother, so this makes me happy to see! And yes! She was an extremely positive and optimistic person in her everyday life! She was very well known for her cheerful and friendly attitude even in hard times! She unfortunately passed away in 2020, but I'm so glad that she's still able to spread positivity!
Many Thanks to all the people who took part in this documentation. It is not easy to go public with your problems.
Just cut the sugar (meaning cereals, fruit juices, sweet bakeries, soft drinks, candy, etc) from the children.
Aiman Bryan how can you be so ignorant? Sugar triggers insulin resistance and your body can’t handle that much sugar and process it that’s why it turns it to fat.
Aiman Bryan watch That Sugar Film and you’ll see what I’m talking about
Aiman Bryan watch That Sugar Film and you’ll see what I’m talking about
@@aimanbryan1424 Sugar 100 percent does contribute to obesity lol. Carbs pack on the pounds. People were leaner before people started eating so much sugar and wheat (when it was a luxury). That's a fact. There's a reason why cutting sugar/carbs leads to rapid weight loss. You feel full and your insulin isn't going all over the place.
Hari Ng Norte it’s true. I cut sugar out of my diet and lost 20 pounds. The person commenting is either a troll or an idiot.
Sometimes I cheat with sugar (edible cookie dough) and I can literally see the effects it has on my body. My fingers swell, my belly is bloated and I don’t have as much definition.
I hate how they stopped making documentaries like this in the last years because of the fat acceptence movement... so sad and dangerous
I don't think they stopped, media just became a very Diversified and people are able to stay in their niches now. Its a far different world than it was even 30 years ago when they were only 15 channels on the TV and we all consumed the same media.
Body positive movement has left the chat
I encourage body positivity (loving and wanting better for yourself) but like with any movement, there's always extremists
*Fat Acceptance Movement has left the chat
Body positive means accepting an imperfect body. Not embracing obesity. 🙄 Stop twisting it freaks.
@@sammavacaist unfortunately fat acceptance movement has already twisted it.
Out of 30 brands of peanut butter at the store. I found two that had no sugar and nothing weird. It's our food too.
Make your own.
Simple to do.
80% of the processed foods in the grocery store contain added sugar. It's absolutely ridiculous.
The physician at the beginning looking to the government to help fix this problem-the government helped create this problem! The food pyramid with absolutely no basis in science. 10 to 12 breads or starches per day-you know that’s a number some lobbying group came up with.
Love they interviewed a former officer of Quaker Oats and PepsiCo bemoaning the work force obesity rates. Think those companies you worked for had anything to do with this?
A lot of this info is outdated.
Government is NOT the problem in USA. The problem is lobbies and corruption.
Lobbyists for the big food industries prevent the government from doing anything. They lie constantly and pay off doctors to lie about health science. They've had studies on obesity killed. Just like the tobacco industry.
@@sammavacaist damn right and even with COVID lied about the death toll in retirement homes and communities making every frickin anti mask Karen and Ken come out of the wood work to further your point the processed foods industry is making a killing and the lobbyists they send have money from the morbidly obese that pay for their death meals
People didn't become obese because they followed the food pyramid. People became obese because they get the majority of their calories from calorie dense, addictive yet unsatiating foods like chocolate, biscuits, crisps, burgers and Coke. That's the complete opposite of the food pyramid.
Food pyramid is not perfect, but it is pretty good. Where on earth did you got "12 breads per day"? Have you actually seen food pyramid? I actually feel sorry for you if you think government made people obese and not... You know, corporations that spend billions to engineer addictive food and literally kill off people when they raise concerns. Sure, it's "government"... Libertarianism is hell of a disease.
I switched to eating whole food and healthy fat. Cut down on Carb. Eating bacon and all sort of delicious fatty cut of meat. Yeah, I use butter to cook everything.
Losing weight turned out to be one of the easiest and most delicious experience I have ever had.
Same! I'm keto now and the weight is shedding so quickly. You couldn't pay me to eat proccesssd foods, carbs and sugars let along paying personally for that stuff. HARD PASS!
"you don't crave broccoli"
And I'm here craving brussel sprouts all day (plain, boiled in water with just a bit of salt, no butter or anything). Yep, people do crave veggies.
yeah actually you do crave broccoli. Carrots etc If you eat good stuff your body will crave the good stuff!
Not the SHIT stuff.
Why don't you try microwaving them with some chopped bacon (or not), olive oil, salt and pepper?
They taste better when they are still crunchy.
I agree, but with the caveat that it’s something you have to train yourself to crave. I crave roasted veggies but that’s because I taught myself to enjoy them and limited junk food. When I ate junk food on a regular basis, I would crave that because my body thought that’s where my energy would come from. And I still crave ice cream every now and then.
I crave raw carrots and bell peppers
I ❤️ veggies.
The trombone player had me cheering in my seat! Yes my guy!
A friend brought some american foods to test and yeah, you can actually taste the grade of processing. The sweets were almost sharp with sweetness, the savory things didnt resemble anything fresh I know. Learning to live healthy is also a competence gained in childhood and even adolecense. Cooking and eating fresh produce is one big factor, the other is to stay in movement.
Where are you from? Also I don't really understand what you mean with the savory part if you're in a different country of course it's ot going to taste fresh. I grew up on a farm and literally everything we ate was grown or raised and slaughtered by us. You can't get any fresher than straight from slaughter to your plate.
Our food supply has been chemically engineered to be addictive. The food companies have been allowed to do this so people buy more of their products. Obesity is an addiction to food, not a willpower issue. We have come so far in the understanding of drug and alcohol dependence, so why can we not understand obesity? These people need help, not condemnation.
Plant-based Recovery I agree that food can be an addiction. I believe that I have a food addiction. But it’s still a willpower issue. An alcoholic has to decide daily not to drink. I have to decide daily not to eat my trigger foods, processed food, sugary food. I’ve been fighting this addiction all my adult life. Along with length of exercise. And will continue to fight it until I’m in paradise.
Plant-based Recovery agree 100%
why can we not understand obesity? Because those so called authorities like at the CDC don’t want to blame the corporate food companies which ultimately are responsible for this.
Thank you.....
Very well said.
Companies spend billions of dollars globally to figure out how to "trick" us how to eat and what to buy after we are hooked!
It's the food version of the pharmaceutical industry.💥
yes it does if you really want a change, go cold turkey
High fat,low carb has changed my life. Don't eat processed junk ,I eat while foods now. I did Carnivore as an elimination diet. When I started adding low other low carb foods back in you really can see what certain foods do to your body.
I have lost so much and am being more active. Keeping my kids active is important as well and we enjoy doing things together. They are not on any diet other than "we have treats every once in awhile ,they are not an every meal everyday thing". Trying to establish a good foundation so they won't have to battle it will just come naturally.
HBO - thanks for posting this entire series. It is a public service and message that needs be heard by the entire industrialized world. We need a message that looks at the economics of food and counters all the marketing that contradicts the basic tenets of good health and wellbeing.
I totally agree with you on that one. Once I started severely cutting back on processed foods I noticed how cheap healthy food can be. Now don't expect to get rare nuts and fruits on a budget but it is totally doable.
That's interesting!!!! Crazy what the brain does
processed food is way expensive,,, i found this out when i hurt my wrist and couldn't cook
At 50:45, notice how she switches the super high protein fast food she's used to eating for what seems to be a mixed greens salad with a couple crackers and maybe an ounce of shredded cheese. Please make sure you are switching these high fat/high protein foods for options that are going to be satiating, rather than a small, simple salad (assuming this is intended to be a meal and not just a snack/side salad or something). You will not be able to replace a bucket of chicken with a 200-calorie salad.
why are you so anti-protein?
Whole food STARCHES should be the basis of the human diet; so potatoes, corn, rice, other whole grains like wheat...
@@dodgeball693 hell no, stay away from grains and starch, keto diet is by far the healthiest, too many carbs will affect metabolism, increase blood sugar and liver fat. Stay away from most fruits (exception being avocado, starfruits, berries, lemon, acerola berries, tomatoes) and grains and stick with healthy fats, protein and most veggies
@@wallacesousuke1433 It seems someone has drunk the Keto koolaid. People might lose some weight on keto or other low carb diets BUT no one can eat that way indefinitely and without suffering degrading health.
By contrast ALL successful large populations of people have sustained themselves on high starch diets. Be it Asians on rice, Middle East people on wheat, Mayans on corn or the Incans on potatoes. That’s because STARCHES have always been the basis of the human diet.
And this is supported by hard science. A plant based diet is the ONLY one proven to be able to reverse heart disease, type 2 diabetes, early stage prostate cancer and hypertension. For heart disease reversal see the trials conducted by Dean Ornish and Caldwell Esselstyn. For diabetes reversal see the work of Neal Barnard. For prostate cancer reversal see Dr Ornish again. And for hypertension see the work of Dr Kempner and his Rice Diet.
@@dodgeball693
" People might lose some weight on keto or other low carb diets BUT no one can eat that way indefinitely and without suffering degrading health. "
Why not? Plenty of people have been on keto for years, and dont forget epileptic patients who have to be on this diet indefinitely (some studies have lasted 12 years and many patients still remained on KD after the completion of the trials).
"By contrast ALL successful large populations of people have sustained themselves on high starch diets"
That's a relatively recent phenomenon in human history, agriculture became a thing a couple thousand years ago, studies estimate that humans started eating meat and fats 2,3mi years ago. Since agriculture wasn't a thing, our ancestors have no hunt and gather food. Since edible fruits and plants arent available all year-long, they had to spend months eating animal-based foods and fat, add to it the levels of physical activity and voilà, they would be on ketosis for many months each year. And there's also fasting, practiced by many cultures, it also puts us in ketosis so there's that.
" A plant based diet is the ONLY one proven to be able to reverse heart disease, type 2 diabetes, early stage prostate cancer and hypertension. "
Oh really? Lemme copy-paste here a list of several studies demonstrating the benefits of KD for several diseases:
Keto diet treats fatty liver:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7132133/
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7379247/
Keto diet more effective than high carb diets in improving lipid profiles, blood sugar levels and helping diabetic patients reduce or discontinue insulin use:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26224300/
Keto diet is very effective in treating Diabetes 2 and improving insulin/blood sugar:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7103851/
bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/2/133.long
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6566854/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22673594/
Keto diet is beneficial for women with policystic ovary syndrome
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7045520/
nutritionandmetabolism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-7075-2-35
www.oatext.com/the-effect-of-ketogenic-and-low-carb-diet-cyclic-alternation-on-the-ovarian-morphology-and-insulin-metabolism-in-polycystic-ovary-syndrome-patients.php
Keto diet is highly anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective/anti-dementia:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3321471/
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5981249/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31405021/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25686106/
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7901512/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32987244/
Keto more effective in treating Parkinsons' patients than low-fat diet
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30098269/
Mediterranean (also high in fats) and keto beneficial for cognition and memory
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32276339/
Keto diet beneficial against psoriasis
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S089990072030040X
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00646#
Keto diet helpful against multiple sclerosis
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0035476
www.hindawi.com/journals/msi/2015/681289/
nn.neurology.org/content/6/4/e565
Keto diet vs migraine:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4887398/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25156013/
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3620251/
Keto diet for mild and moderate autism
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1750946715001099
digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1050&context=buwell
Keto diet and schizophrenia/mental illness/mood disorders:
academic.oup.com/ijnp/article/23/7/434/5861311
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30037619/
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652467/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30075165/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11918434/
Keto diet and alcohol withdrawal
advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/15/eabf6780
Keto diet and IBS:
www.cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(09)00198-0/fulltext
Keto diet for cancer prevention and as adjunct treatment (cancer cells usually rely on glucose to grow and multiply (see Warburg effect) so turning the body to ketosis can help starve them)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6375425/
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212877819304272
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4215472/
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3267662/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23755243/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26083629/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26180675/
Reminds me of a co-worker I had almost 10 years ago: she was over 300 lbs and on her first day of work I felt genuinelly bad for her because she swore she didn't understand why she was so heavy, since she ate very healthy and was even a vegetarian. She blamed her genetics and her hormones. Since I worked in the same office as her I saw exactly how she spent her days: eating. She got a Big Mac everyday for lunch with large fries, large shake, etc. She was also always eating: either chips or gummi bears, donuts or some other crap. And she drank several cans of coca cola or energy drinks every day too. She quit shortly after and I never saw her again but a 2 people from the office saw her again after years in different occasions and she was even heavier. Both times she started whining again she didn't understand why she was so big and one of those times she was seen leaving a Mall with a family sized pizza, a gigantic bag from Mc Donald's, supersized cups of soda and a whole box of Kreaspy Kream. But she had no idea why she was so big.
"Counting carbs, counting calories, I've tried it all."
Clearly, you didn't. This is the problem, people are naive and uneducated, and the lack of instant gratification leads to people quitting altogether or not giving their all for even a moderate amount of time.
I know person who lost 4kgs in a month but gained it again and more the next month. The problem is obese people don’t realize healthy diet is a lifestyle that need to be adapted for a lifetime and not just couple of weeks.
Yes exactly! People want a diet that will shed the pounds fast w/ no effort on their part. Most don't want to learn about nutrition, work through why they eat the way they do, or continue to work at lifestyle changes for their whole lives & not just a few months
They lie to themselves lol
Yeah and if they think all calories all carbs all starches all sugars are the same then they are poorly educated on health and what processes their food goes through from manufacturing to distribution
It wasn't hard for me to lose 100 lbs. I lowered my diet to 1200 a day, and just moved a bit more. It took me about 6 months, but it's possible. And sure, for me to keep it off I have to read all nutritional information, but I want to live as long as possible. You can lose weight, it's just a matter if you actually want to. Trust me, losing weight and keeping it off is a live long commitment.
ep77 how much have you gained back?
Thank you. That was helpful
1200???? You might need to eat a little more
@@younggun6006 actually shooting for a 1200 is pretty good if you're morbidly obese. Why? Because people in the weight range tend not to be mindful while eating, snaking, or counting calories properly. I once saw a study that followed people counting calories and most undercounted the first 3-6 months. So shooting a 1200 will probably end up being 1500-1800 at least when you start learning how to count, especially if you're not weighing your portions or cooking yourself.
@@TheGabby678 wow what an asshole comment. That would be like you asking a recovering Crack addict how much Crack he smoked in the last week. It's a bitch move to sat that to a person trying to better themselves.
It's not the "Lumber Mill"creating that smell in Bogalusa. It's the PAPER MILL. There's a huge difference, in terms of health effect.
RIP Dr. Berenson, thank you for your work
"you dont crave broccoli" ... believe it or not i crave spinach and avocado , i eat them eryday
Avocado is the shit...mmm love it.
I crave celery. Good celery, still fresh and brightly green, and perfectly crunchy. I have it almost every night for dinner. Mmmm.
renatoyutub I love broccoli and also avocados and spinach. my favorite vegetables. I'd much rather have steamed broccolli than gross fast food.
renatoyutub Spinach is the fucking best.
renatoyutub I crave celery. very interesting vegetable, both roots and stem.
This video is very informative and should be watched by all in the U.S.A.
Layla should be required in health in 9th grade!
I literally said the same thing
@I’ve Got The Gift Of GOODBYE
Doesn't help too much. You gain the habits of your parents and if they are overweight/obese then they are more likely to give that sort of diet to their kids. What is a teen going to do when they don't make money, they can't drive or just started driving, and haven't been taught how to cook? The only way they will shed weight is if they move out of their parents place, have a source of income, and attempt to learn how to cook on their own time. That is a feat to do when you have had about two decades of reinforcement.
I watch these videos while I ride my stationary bike. Very motivating.
Legumes are a superfood: healthy, cheap, and have a long shelf life.
Search the internet for recipes and make your own dishes. Forget all of the highly processed food that comes in colorful boxes with a barcode. If it’s recognizable as a basic food product ( one ingredient),
you can eat it ( rule of thumb). Spices make all the difference for flavor.
NO EXCUSES
When I was in college and an athlete, legumes came in really helpful. Dirt cheap, filling, high in protein etcetera. Like you said, spice then up and they're great
I am at almost the 20 minute point, and have not heard anyone utter the words "fast food," "commercial food" or "pre-packaged food." The pictures flashed across the screen show all of these, while the narrator uses words like "environment," "behavior" or "interaction with our environment." Everyone is so afraid of getting sued, that they have to water down their references to the point of meaninglessness.
We have a food industry and a pharmaceutical industry that is in bed with each other. And back in 2008 when morbid obesity hit the fast lane, GMO's were as well. We have no idea what affect GMO's are having on us, and they can talk all they want about how GMO's are wonderful, but there must be an affect on us, and we will never know the collateral damage because no one's talking or doing studies. If they are, they are silenced with lawyers, I expect.
Our food has turned into a form of recreational drugs. Refined substances such as sugar, salt, fats, oils, flavorings, flours, corn sweeteners and corn starch, spice and herb extracts, all serve to give us that "high" while we eat, and afterwards as well. That is why there is "comfort food."
Industry does what it wants, and the government does not protect us from adulterating of our food supply. The medical establishment is a powerful engine that helps keep America flush with money for those who are investors and corporate owners. Blaming people for becoming obese is like blaming the homeowner for being broke because they pay too high a mortgage payment. Pressure to eat, and often an almost inescapable system of terrible food affects all of us. Even our recipes are rife with the worst stuff, and we are encouraged to make the simplest things with ingredients that we didn't use 40 or 50 years ago. Now we want every recipe to be a show stopper. We want everyone we feed to be awed by our culinary magic. Food has taken on surreal meaning, not just in America, but in many other countries that have an even higher incidence of obesity.
The answer? Try to stay with the most natural form of food you can. At buffets, at home, eating out, find that baked potato on the menu and have it with sour cream on the side and no butter. Order a salad with dressing on the side. Have a piece of broiled fish or chicken, and skip the drink, but have water instead, or plain coffee or tea. Even the diet sodas make us eat more. Carry a small shaker of your own herbs and spices, and don't be embarrassed to use them to dress up your food.
Our enemy is invisible. If we could see the sugar, see the fat, see all the chemicals designed to make us eat more, we could avoid those foods. But for the most part, they are unseen and therefore dangerous. Our food has gone stealth, and it is up to us to navigate smarter for our health, and help others stay to a whole foods plan without all the oils, sugars and refined flour.
you realise "GMOs" aren't tangible things or a substance, right? it's literally gene modified food, that's it. you realise absolutely all fruits and vegetables we have today have been altered to be easier for us to consume and tastier. take seedless grapes for example, that is what GMO is. they have selected the genes from the grapes with less seeds until they got seedless ones. how is that hurting you? spoiler alert, it isn't! :D
I was 105kg on my peak weight at 5'6" I have tried all diets and simply doesn't work but when I started researching and found out that the sugary , fatty and processed food makes us obese , I put all I have learned into practice, after 13 weeks of proper healthy eating habits and playing basketball and lifting weight I lost 30kg , my diabetes was gone , BP normal, sleep apnea was gone... then after awhile I started eating bread , sweets, processed foods again ,I piled up 10kgs in 2 months then started living health again and lost 4kgs in 3 weeks alone...THEREFORE its all down what we put in our mouth and lack of inactivity that makes us PIG.................
you should specify diabetes 2
So I was obese for several years. And I came from a family of people who became obese with age. I saw diabetes, hip replacements, etc. I knew the road I was headed down.
I changed. It didn't happen overnight. In fact, it took me 4 years to lose 50 lbs. I have been up and down but overall have maintained a downward trend. I have now been a healthy weight for about 4 + years. I am by no means fit, but at a healthy, comfortable weight. And now I am aiming more to focus on reducing BODY FAT and not simply weight. I am building muscle.
Many would classify me as skinny but I still have about 30% bf.
I can tell you from experience, being obese changes your physiology. Health experts may chime in and disagree, but it DOES. When you cut calories, you lose muscle and energy, not fat. It takes a long time of being consistent for your body to start behaving properly.
I understand how hard it is to stay consistent long enough to see even small changes. I am also here to tell you it is not a stop/start thing. Exercise and Healthy Eating must become your normal routine. It is a never-ending life-long process. It becomes your norm and feels like less of a chore over time and just becomes second nature. But it takes lots of time and climbing back on that wagon every time you fall off. It takes inner work. It takes distancing yourself from people who don't support you. It takes learning. It takes SELF LOVE. Without self love and self care, there will be no success in the long run.
But it IS POSSIBLE, and doable...one tiny change at a time. You can do it.
I will never fo back to the old me.
The trumpet guy made my heart sing with his determination! 🥰
My teacher told me to watch this because in lesson I told her I’m bored, I’m not overweight, most of my life I was underweight, right know I have a healthy weight, I’m European (German) so I weight myself in kilograms, I don’t know my exact weight but it’s about 45kg to 48kg -> 99 to 105 pounds, I am 5‘2 for my Europeans it’s 157cm. I am really proud of all of you, also even telling your story’s ❤️
The problem with obese and overweight people is that they keep approaching a lifelong issue with temporary and quick solutions. Dieting doesn’t work, but if you make sustainable life changing diet modifications and you exercise regularly and consistently, you WILL see change. I have lost 180 pounds almost 4 years ago and I have kept it ALL off. I eat the same way I did to lose the weight and I permanently changed my eating and removed detrimental foods from my diet. I exercise regularly. It’s hard...but it’s not that hard. Being morbidly obese is harder trust me. I can NEVER go back to being morbidly obese again. I don’t eat sugar or processed foods.
Hope you’re doing well!
58:30 I can't believe she just blamed her husband's obesity and diabetes on red meat consumption without even mentioning sugar!
Yeah I know, red meat is actually about the most beneficially nutrient dense food a human being can possible consume. Like with anything else it's about controlling "how much" your body needs which can vary tremendously from individual to individual. Sugar is BY FAR more of an issue than red meat could ever be.
Cutting back to fish and chicken will do nothing for them if they continue to eat processed foods (bread, pasta, desserts) and fail to add plant based, whole food nutrition to their bodies as replacement choices. The cure is not complicated and not costly compared to the disease. I hope there is a part 2 to this doc that addresses optimal food choices.
@@erickelly4107 I lost 25 lb from not eating red meat.
@@nonewherelistens1906 There is Part 2 uploaded.
Yet red meat has a significant amount of saturated fat shown to have a negative impact on the heart
I’ve lost 60 lbs so far (5’7 16 year old female 220 to 160) the only advice I would give is eat fruits, lean meats, oats, and veggies. Also daily strength training really helps. The more muscle you pack on the more you can eat, and that really helps me personally cause I LOVE eating😂
I am borderline obese (BMI 31 ish) and have been overweight or obese almost my entire life, except for one period in middle school when I became anorexic. The unfortunate flip side of trying to resolve obesity, especially in children, is people can learn to hate their bodies, and attempts to lose weight can actually become damaging. Since that time, I have fluctuated about 40 lb up and down every few months in a roller coaster of anorexic and binge eating behavior. It is really troubling Bc at the end of the day, I am obese and I need to lose weight, but I cannot do that without becoming neurotic and destructive. I know I am not alone, I know there are probably thousands if not millions of people like me in the US, obese kids who grew up being told they were weak willed and lazy, and in an attempt to prove that wrong, end up developing a really unhealthy relationship with food and their self image. Claiming the solution to our weight problem is just diet and exercise is a gross over-simplification, even if true in theory.
I think the focus should be about our inner health, not our outer health. I have a heart condition that I have been on medication for since I was 18, but never been obese (although fluctuated a bit in weight) I also have pollen allergies, sleep problems and other problems related to the nervous system. I notice a huge difference in energy level and inner health from what I eat. For instance if I forget to take my omega fatty acids supplements (fish oil) my allergy flares up a lot, thats how I notice I have forgotten to take them. The right food boosts the immune system, evens out blood pressure, helps with breathing, heart pumping, everything. It is equally unhealthy to starve yourself to lose weight. I wish people knew how great it feels to eat in a way that you have energy and feel amazing on the inside
I was obese for years 276 was my top weight. Lost 90 pounds through eating1 solid meal a day after work, and being active, not working out but just doing stuff been keeping it off for over 14 years now
Try to take it day by day. What you say is right. If the whole community would have better eating habits, it would be easyer, but...And really try to love yourself more. What we see in the media, filmstars,... is very bad for all of us. It's schizofrenic. Keep your chin up girl, you're not alone
yes, that's why it's so important how the issue is tackled in children. it must be about health, about feeling good and learning about nutrition, not about appearance and definitely not with blame. parents constantly telling their kids to stop eating and that they're too fat does absolutely nothing
I am of the opinion that part of the reason healthy lifestyle change is difficult for overweight and obese individuals, or even thin folks who eat a lot of junk food; is because processed/junk food is chemically addictive to our brains, like a drug. It’s possible the withdrawal of being removed from those foods causes adverse side effects. Growing up in a family of overweight/obese folks, when I moved out and changed my diet, it was (and continues to be) a challenge not to eat junk food. I still do, but not every day.
"You don't CRAVE broccoli." Like WUT?! I get psycho cravings for broccoli and veggies! When you cut added sugar from your diet, broccoli, carrots, beets, cabbage and yams become VERY sweet. When you remove added sugar, you can taste natural sugars again-cabbage becomes a cake. They get that sweet!
Watching this while walking on my treadmill!! Looking for part 2 now.
When you eat real foods and healthy meals... they end up being cheaper than fast food because they keep you fuller longer. In addition, you start to crave them and you find processed food tastes like crap. But it takes time to get all those addictive sugar and fats out of your system.
Stop lying to yourself. I’ll simply comment on the “cost” of “eating healthy”, although I’m extremely tempted to comment on “cravings” too. It costs much more to eat “healthy foods” than it does to eat unhealthy foods. I’ve been “plant-based” for over a decade. Eating “unhealthy foods” is less expensive. It’s worth it because my lifestyle keeps me healthy.
@Elaina Kosmidis how does raw material to cook food cost more than a meal cooked by employees in a restaurant or factory??? You need to stop lying to yourself too.
Move. Cut carbs down. Cut refined sugar entirely. Cut seed oils entirely. Consume animal fats and vitamin rich protein.
5'0 86lbs been binging these types of documentaries and videos to keep me focused and motivated to keep going. Most of my family is obese has mobility issues, heart disease, diabetes, and just a million other health issues because they're so big. I swore to myself I will never let myself end up like them. It scares the absolute shit out of me just thinking about it.
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That’s actually a bit underweight
@@nuggets0717 not really I don't even look that small now tbh
@@jayfranks3697 ok but in terms of BMI it’s classified as underweight lol
@@nuggets0717 yah but im underweight now technically so its fine
This is quite a heavy topic.
I see wut u did there!!! (😉) Sweet! LLS
Wow such a good original joke!
Classic
Fat w/sarcasm.
No pun intended...😬
I think the problems started when fats started to be considered bad and when sugar usage was increased in everything. If you reduce the fat content of something you got to replace it with sugar.
I think sugar is one of the most addictive substances on the planet. I think sugar is more addictive than nicotine. I think there should be warning labels on products that contain a load of sugar.
Losing weight requires commitment, and i truly believe that people get psychologically addicted to bad food just like some get addicted to alcohol or drugs. I was an athlete up to my 20s, then I stopped training and started enjoying food. In 10 years I put on 30 kg. Now I am on a mission to lose them and I am 100 percent focused on this. It is my number one priority. I met with a personal trainer one and a half month ago and his diet and training plan made me lose 8.5 kg since then.
@Bethesda Skyrim Excitotoxin is a made up term by diet researchers. It is the same dopamine response your body gets from eating a variety of healthy foods. Like fruit and meat.
You probably failed that time. I'll tell you why. You believe that it takes a massive commitment. Make some tiny swaps and be patient creating lifestyle changes. At first maybe commit to just drinking water. You'll immediately feel better after your caffeine withdrawal subsides and drinking non water beverages will make you feel like crap. Just feel how good it makes you feel to drink just water. Keep repeating the process until you are where you want to be. It doesn't take discipline when you realize how good you feel eating healthy and how shifty you feel after a calorie dense meal.
"You don't crave brocolli" you're right, because brocolli is gross. Sweet potatoes, on the other hand... >:D
Wrong
Fried❤️
Sweet potato casserole is my weakness
I've been very overweight in the past (not obese, though). The problem is that most people that are totally uneducated about what they eat and its consequences. I've been on that boat and the first step into changing my body was acquiring knowledge and learning more about it. Eating habits alone won't solve it- people must be active and drop their smartphones for once
To many parents can’t stop eating junk and in turn can’t tell their children no. But someone has to break this cycle
Notice how in the 1983 video, the children were all healthy weights?
Healthier foods and more outdoor activities, no smartphone hehee.
@@bittercaramel7652 Exactly...
I was there. The portions were smaller. No constant eating. You DID NOT eat in school. 3 meals a day, nothing in between.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 exactly. I grew up in the 80's. We had lunch at school (that we brought from home) and had dinner when we got back. I don't ever remember having snacks, and I was rarely allowed to have fast food.
We played outside back then.
Most of us didn’t have game consoles.
I originally watched this series almost 3 years ago. I was almost 240lbs. I’m watching this series again after I have lost 95lbs! I haven’t been this weight since junior high lol
Wow!Congratulations. Excellent job.
I found this channel so helpful for weight loss awareness. I pleased to follow more parts on this videos.
Thank you for this. I am now morbidly obese. Pushing 300 pounds. My joints hurt. I cannot breathe easily. My mental health is worse. I can't keep up with my 5 y.o. son and now have heart palpitations. Being morbidly obese is NOT healthy. It's equivalent of the ultra skinny models that look like they are a******. Both are selling unhealthy lifestyles.
"it's not easy to take weight off, I tried it all:liposuction, patches, diet" Why not try portion control? for the rest of your life?! cause being healthy it's a lifestyle. And I do crave veggies, I must be an alien. By the way, sorry for my English, it's not my first language
@12:39 When she said, “...maybe y’all would see a new me”, she rolled her eyes. That made me feel bad, because I don’t think she believed that herself.
I'm now a whole-food plant based diet flexitarian-very little meat or dairy consumption, (2 weeks & counting). I already feel better & look forward to the health benefits...losing weight will be an added bonus but good health is my motivator. Wrong side of 45 & staring down 50...I want the last part of my half to be one of quality. Also stopped smoking 2 years ago after 30 years. Even though I only smoked about a pack per week it was still hard. Surviving kidney cancer was my motivator to stop smoking, now on to the weight hurdle.
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There are so many wonderful people featured in this documentary. We are all prisoners to the time we live in. I remember as a very young person how I ate and the cultural norms around food. For example eating a salad was seen as not masculine. I think that since this was filmed Americans are more aware of the foods we should be eating. I hope that these lessons have been learned and the future is brighter. I still think that getting an appropriate amount of activity is going to be challenging.
Thank you CDC and NIH and community leaders.! This series is so excellent and provides a complete picture of the problem and solution. As a fitness professional..... I watch it over and over and share it with my clients! I want to help people get educated, motivated and empowered! Thank you again!!
Rebecca Reid
Just no cheap solution which is a high fat very low carbohydrate diet . The rubbish USDA food pyramid based on the 1977 McGovern commission written by an unscientific vegan !
@@thalesnemo2841 In my opinion, the plate version was much more helpful.
@@lazarus8018
Same rubbish which is factually wrong! There are NO essential dietary requirements for any carbohydrates in the human diet!
Eat Real Food. If it's been processed in anyway don't eat it. Plain and simple. Withdrawals from processed foods only last a few weeks.
I crave broccoli ! One of my favourite vegetables 😋
Irini P. I love it roasted with whole garlic cloves 😋
I was gonna say that. I crave salads too. Also sugar nd junk so I eat a small amount of it or just stare at it for long enough that I don’t want it anymore lol
I have realized that you can learn to love veggies, I never thought i would one day say i love salad and veggies.
Me too! Steamed with lemon juice, salt, and pepper 😋
Me too.
It’s all in the mindset. If you don’t truly believe you need help and that enough is enough, no one can make you understand the hurt you’re putting your body through.
43:32 "Is it ok to stay obese?"
I find it really surprising that someone would ask this question. Of course it's not ok for your health, there is a reason why people of a certain weight are *medically* classified as obesity. But being overweight or obese has become so normal in America that I'm guessing a lot of people ask the same question.
There's a looooot of obese Americans that think they're at a normal and healthy weight.
Jesus... that child had a bp of 155?! Poor kid... I really hope he's doing better these days.
I have got to show this to my Nutrition & Wellness class!!!!!
I’m just curious, how would you have time since each part is over an hour?!
I've been at least a little bit big, but I was active as a child. However, when I reached my 20's my mental health started to drop, and my eating habits were shit, so I gained a lot of weight. At my heaviest I was 88 kg, and that's when I, thanks to a therapist, decided to change. It's been almost 2 years now, and I've reached 57 kg, which means that I've lost 31 kg. Watching this documentary makes me wonder what sort of internal changes I've made by losing such a huge amount of body weight. My BMI went from 35 to 22.
Exactly right. Whenever I decide to stray and eat fast food like Taco Bell or Domino's pizza I always feel hungrier soon after (2-3 hours) I eat all those horrible calories. Instant regret.
Poor quality food makes you hungrier and leaves you fatter. It's a horrible exponential growth that leads to disease and unhappiness.
A bit haunting to look at 12 years later.
To the nurse at 26 minutes, not once did she mention helping them with their nutrition. They need educating.
Great, now go watch the documentaries out there that describe how stacked the junk food industry is in this country and how fast food is engineered to make you crave it.
I’m not obese and I don’t eat junk food or fast food as a rule, but when I’m in situations when I needed something quick or easy and I do partake, I can feel how badly my system wants more of it, sometimes even the very same day. People talk about personal responsibility, but if that’s the habit you’re in and everyone else around you is too, it would take an absolutely Herculean effort to break those habits.
Everyone loves to dog on obese individuals, but we should truly be going after the companies that make the crap in the middle of the grocery store and the fast food chains, because their practices are indisputably unethical.