@@scottvelez3154even a dr said you had diabetes and you need to cut carbs? I loved pasta and potatoes dr told me I was borderline diabetic & I needed to make a change with carbs so I did & now blood sugar is controlled. If you’re life depended on it I’m sure you would cut back
@@winninglifeyoI’m not gonna argue with you, but I can absolutely guarantee you were not bordline diabetic because of pasta and potatoes, you were probably eating alot of other bullshit, or maybe massive portions
How is it chat doesn’t comprehend that insanely unhealthy sugary foods are not the default state of the world and “it would be better if our society disincentivized this model comparative to what it does today” is not the same as “id youve ever drank Dr Pepper that’s pathetic”
And the sugar is so sneaky! It keeps getting rebranded under all these different names to trick the consumer out of realizing its sugar, they put it in tons of crap where you would otherwise assume would be low sugar, and the corn industry has completely corrupted the entire field of nutritional science in the US! Seriously, deep dive into how much stuff you get in the US is made from corn, I'm from Iowa so it's been a little pet project of mine for a while, it's maddening
@@darkshadowrule2952The “added sugar” labeling is so disingenuous. The sugar that naturally comes from fruits and the sugar you add to soda are the same thing as far as your body is concerned. Sugar is sugar. Patients can drink the same amount of OJ or Coke to bring up their sugar in episodes of hypoglycemia because their sugar content is the same. Obviously there is more nutritional value in OJ from vitamins and minerals but it having no ADDED sugar does not erase the fact it still has a crap ton of sugar in it naturally.
@@IsaRican810 Sugar from fruit juice is actually digested differently from whole fruits due to the lack of fiber. Oranges for instances won't have the same metabolic effects that orange juice or coca cola would.
I've been saying this. When people make obesity a "personal problem" I just roll my eyes. when 2/3 of a population are obese you can't just call it a personal issue. It's obviously a societal issue.
NO it is absolutely NOT. I am literally fat phobic and its really hard for me not to blame people, but the truth is, its the food companies. My sister has a PhD in nutrition. *MOST AMERICAN FOOD IS ILLEGAL HERE IN THE EU* but the American food companies keep finding new ways to get around the regulations and to make the food, more addictive and more fattening. The latest one is, they liquefy the meat and extruded it, then glue it back together with food glue, cover it in a crispy coating, this makes it incredibly satisfying to eat, but it never fills you up because chewing food is needed in order to get cessation of appetite. So the chemical analysis of the food looks good, but you eat tons of it, and you don't secrete the correct enzymes to digest it properly, so you just absorb the sugars.
Its a Macro level problem that can be resolved by people individually at the Micro level. When systems set you up to fail it takes effort to break out of them.
@@iamkrohn sure but my point is we aren’t going to see any major changes unless we make those macro changes. People lose wight all the time but if we’re talking obesity rates? Yea that has only been increasing over time.
Chat seriously tried to bad mouth rice, the most common food in the world, eaten by roughly half the human population. Yeah I’m sure it’s totally a real problem worth bringing up in a discussion of America’s absurd sugar problem.
rice is ace, and tofu is cheaper than meat, so thats dinner baby! throw in a couple veggies and save the leftover rice for tomorrow for stir fry and thats lunch!
You'll hear people say "obesity is an epidemic and people need to lose weight" but the moment you actually talk about doing anything meaningful to counter overly processed, high sugar foods, you get immediate blow-back.
i’ve noticed that ONLY americans have this defence mechanism. others will just admit that they need to eat healthier. it’s probably because americans have been so insanely brainwashed by these companies that their food is healthy, that they don’t trust anyone giving health advice anymore (we weren’t that brainwashed in europe bc it’s illegal lmao) + they have been completely living off of this garbage for decades that now they don’t even know what real food IS anymore. they’ll often say “what am i supposed to eat then?”
@@smtandearthboundsuck8400 it's not the sugar. It's the calories. He mentioned Japanese food right at the start. Rice is just completely unsweetened sugar. 🤣 Whether it's rice, sugar, or bread, once it gets past your gullet, it turns into the same thing. Asked my friend who is a biochem phd. First, HFCS is probably not food. Please don't eat it, unless you can't wait to meet God. Some studies shows a link between HFCS and metabolic syndrome. It's not settled yet, but it took decades to decide that tobacco thing. In the meantime, do you want to be the labrat? Second, yes, it is a question of discipline. I go to KFC maybe 6 - 10 times a year, buy one of the 3-piece dinner plate and bring it home. Then we eat it with rice. I have an automatic rice cooker. Takes about 30 minutes, but only half a minute of actual work. It's automatic. Three adults, one large piece of chicken each. A meal intended for one person. Nobody in my family is fat. And diet is not a word that is ever said here. We also do that with other shops selling oversized single servings. We buy them, bring it home. And share. Sometimes we share it right there, though usually we eat at home. Just ask for an extra plate. I've never been charged for an extra empty plate they've had to wash.
It was actually so infuriating to see chatters compare this to drug decriminalization. Here's an analogy that might not be completely accurate, but it's miles better than chat's understanding so idc. Imagine weed is legal, ok cool. Now also imagine Meth is legal. Not a good thing to take, but hey, maybe shouldn't be outright criminalized anyway. Now imagine you go to your weed dealer, and he spikes your stuff with meth to get you addicted and coming back for more and harder stuff. Should that be legal? No? Oh, you mean that's the whole problem we're trying to avoid by making weed be sold at reputable and monitored sellers instead of some rando around the street corner?? Cool, we agree then. This is what's happening with the corn sugar. Nobody is asking to make soda illegal. Nobody is asking to make sugar illegal either, or even HFCS. All we're asking is that corporations shouldn't be allowed to put tons of this addictive and borderline poisonous crap into EVERYTHING without being transparent and giving the customer the choice. It's just basic regulation, not even remotely comparable to criminalizing drugs.
So if we're comparing it to drugs, then the correct analogy is dealers cutting their drugs with increasing amounts of incredibly lethal additives without telling anyone to produce more intense highs, ignoring all the geometric increases in lethality. That's comparable to this nonsense of increasing the sugar content in food by like 1000% for no goddamn reason. Edit: brainfart, that's the exact point you made in the few lines my brain skipped. Except the actual stuff being added is way worse.
The people defending big sugar are pathetic and a dangerous problem. They are hopeless and drag this country down with their BS lifestyle choices. This is why we can't have universal healthcare. People don't want to subsidize other people's crappy unhealthy lifestyles.
Vaush: "Corporate greed is leading to food being addictive and unhealthy and video games being dull uncreative Skinner boxes" Chat: "how dare you criticise my favorite slop 😡"
@@mememachine-386 Them being stupid was them saying "dont ban stuff" you know, the Nazis actually banned a lot of surgary stuff and enforced excercise. I guess we really do need to return to tradition.
Watching twitch chat say "dogshit take" when he is saying that soda is objectively bad for you, and then other people reflexively defending diet soda because it's "not the same as regular soda" is actually sad...I try to believe that most people can think logically but twitch chat does a great job at proving me wrong.
Really, it was him being fairly hyperbolic when it comes to soda, speaking as someone actively cutting their soda intake. The only thing in sodas that would fulfill his claim of "your body is telling you that this is caustic" is the carbonation, the rest is syrup. And you can make homemade syrups with a fraction of the sugar that taste just as sweet. And if he is talking about the sugar content, then it would be consistent to want alcohol consumption monitored due to how the human body breaks it down into sugars. Hell, he'd have to ration eating his nuggies with ketchup or bbq sauce, both of which have the same amount of sugar in 100g as an entire can of soda. His statement came across as holier than thou, but chat absolutely weren't charitable to him. The big issue is adding sugar in everything cheap and gatekeeping healthy food behind prohibitive prices and food deserts
@@brandongarcia2929 Literally nobody consumes the sugars in ketchup and bbq sauce at the rates at which Americans guzzle soda. Also, your body absolutely does not metabolize alcohol into sugars, lol. Alcohol WILL release insulin and prevent your liver from releasing glucose which will raise and then plummet your blood sugar levels. All alcoholic beverages are going to have sugars in them. But no, alcohol does not break down into sugars in your body. Soda is a huge problem in America. Vaush is correct on this. I believe this to be the case with many sugary drinks we have, like juice, or slurpies, or coffee like mentioned in the video. We drink a lot of bad shit and not nearly enough water.
@@brandongarcia2929to be fair. You tipically don't eat 100g of ketchup in one sitting, just one tablespoon. But you can totally have a can of soda in one sitting. Even multiple cans.
Chat is doing the equivalent of defending the Tobacco industry adding chemicals to cigarettes to ease the absorption of nicotine (BTW this is an actual thing). Internally, tobacco companies have understood and have readily admitted that cigarettes are nothing but a convenient means of delivery for their actual product, nicotine. I wouldn't be surprised if certain elements in the food industry think of their products in the same way, i.e. as sugar delivery mechanisms. Chat be acting like Vaush is trying to start the Diet Communist Revolution, introduce the Diet-ctatorship of the Pro-Light-ariat, writing "Das Zucker, Vol. 1", and then they go defensive, reactionary, bad faith, disingenuous and honestly what irks me most, acting like Vaush is some rando from whom they don't know if he can engage in proper skepticism, critical thinking, and in revising his beliefs when new data comes along. Immediately they play defense for the Food-Industrial Complex in the name of "Individual Freedom™." I swear, I can't stand Hasan's foreign policy disaster of a position, but credit where credit is due, as the years have passed I've come to appreciate his generally somewhat itchy ban-finger, at least. At some point people have to be taught to listen for a moment and engage thoughtfully before they barf a comment out. And if one isn't willing to do that perhaps one's "based political positions" or whatever are just not enough. You can be correct regarding ideology and policy in general and still be a factor in turning a place into a toxic cesspool of mistrust and bad faith interpretation and argumentation.
@@gaiafanti1885I work at a grocery store and seeing people buy 3-6 cases of soda at one time is so baffling to me. I grew up on Mountain Dew but I’ve been mostly soda-free for about three years now and it’s been amazing. I cannot stand overly-sugary drinks in any form now. It leaves a film in your mouth.
As an overweight man, please, can we get the corn syrup out of the ALL THE GODDAMN BREAD so I can avoid dying early because our sandwiches are basically made of cake? Our bread is way more unhealthy and way WORSE than everyone in Europe. I would kill for a regular supply of normal decent bread.
My advice as a European would be to make your own. Especially sourdough (I‘m German and we BREATHE sourdough bread). Get some type 405 wheat flour (regular flour) or even better whole wheat (or type 1005) flour. All you need is flour, water, salt, and a sourdough culture which shouldn‘t be too difficult to get a hold of, you only need to buy it once and it then carries on and evolves with you (like a family pet 😊). There are plenty good tutorials on how to make good proper bread, get a recipe by either a German or a French person though. Those two are Europe‘s primary bread powerhouses with a millenia old tradition of baking bread.
Once you start reading food labels you realize almost everything in the grocery store is filled with sugar. Even random shit like bread. We don't need everything to be sweet, it's such bullshit
As a Dutchie, I can confirm that German bread is really good. Kaiserbrötchen is the first thing that comes to mind but it's not good that, in order to eat healthy, you can't eat the local food
I think the bakery section in your supermarket makes fresh quality bread but doesn't have a bunch of corn syrup preservative in it because it goes bad in like a day.
I also often think about how unnecessary the amount of food coloring we add to stuff. There is no reason why any soda has to be toxic slime green and why the flaming hot Cheetos I’m eating rn has to be neon red
When seeing that food as an English person (such as the colour of Fruit Loops), it is alarming! I’d be scared to eat those colourings and wouldn’t want my child to either.
Half the stuff in the US like that is banned everywhere else in the world. Literally we lack a certain color in skittles here cause food regulations here state it's life threatheningly dangerous.
I´ve spent time around multiple US expats living in Europe and ALL report both losing weight and feeling various health issues fade away while not dieting or holding back from sampling our most delicious cuisines in any way. When you can go to somewhere like Italy and eat pasta-based stuff all day, not up your exercise and still lose a bunch of weight, something is seriously wrong with the US diet.
I’ve heard that same story from many other places too. It’s amazing what just having better regulations and traditions about what goes into regular foods can do for people’s health.
Yes, 'cause pasta here will make you fat. If you're low on money, you go to the dollar store and get a pound of pasta and you eat for a week. It's why the people who are poor are the biggest.
I've started making a conscious effort to make my own sweets so I can regulate the sugar content and I find it tastes better and leaves me satisfied. It's gotten to a point I struggle eating pre-made goods because of how sweet and bland it is in comparison
It’s incredible how important beverages are in terms of healthy diets. I have grown up with water and juice*, lemonade only for events, and guess what? The world wasn’t any less tasty. The more sugar you eat/drink, the number you become to it. If you drink lemonade or similar drinks two thirds of the time, of course water will taste like hell … duh. *) I mean actual juice, not those sugar bombs which once lay next to an apple and half an orange in 20 inches distance.
Exactly, the hippie grocery store I work at sells a pack of gummies with 3g sugar in the whole pack because it used substitutes but the sugar makes it taste the same
As a girl with a fat fetish and loves being fat u right, it needs to be more of a challenge, its sad seeing people have trouble being a size they dont want to be
This is based. Chat freaking out is exactly proving the point: we are all sugar addicts. And their defensive behavior is the same as if they were alcoholics taking offense at people ripping on alcohol and suggesting they have an addiction
Chat getting mad is totally an American response. Corn subsidies is only the tip of the iceberg you literally can’t get away from the slop if you consume processed foods period
This so much... reading chat was so cringe. If this is truly how most Americans think... the future ain't looking so bright for the US of A, that's all I can say.
Vaush: >Makes a correct take about health and lifestyle Chat: "WHAT ABOUT THIS OTHER THING!?!?! DON'T ASK ME TO INVESTIGATE MY LIFE CHOICES!!!!" This happens every time. I cannot believe how much cope Vaush's fanbase has about being weed addicted, sugar loving, time wasting gremlins.
I think the comparison with alcohol or tobacco would work a lot better it those things werent age restricted. Because yes, I think I am opposed to giving beer or cigarettes to 5 year olds actually.
What really really gets me is how many corporations get away with marketing foods that are basically sodas and candy as healthy foods. Like juices, most granola, sugar-added dried fruit, or yogurt with literal jam at the bottom.
Yogurt and jam is a pretty normal and tasty breakfast. High protein Greek/Icelandic yogurt with a spoonful of strawberry jam is a great post-workout food.
@@matt2.019 I'm mostly talking about the ultra-processed "jam" at the bottom of american yogurt brands that adds unnecessary amounts of sugar to an otherwise healthy food.
Honestly we could make a big improvement by literally just, like, not _subsidizing_ a sweetener that's, like, second to lead in terms of how bad it is for you.
I have stopped eating sugar for about 3 months now and have lost about 50 pounds. I had one tiny piece of cake for my daughter’s birthday and I thought I was going to die. Not having sugar for so long made me realize how much sugar is in the stuff we eat. Even the bread in the US isn’t considered bread in some countries because of the high sugar content.
I remember I did that once , then had a bag of chips and a huge cup of soda, I thought I was gonna puke all night. I really need to get on that again but it is a challenge considering I'm poor af
You could have achieved that weight loss without cutting out sugar as long as you had a calorie deficit. The biggest problem with sugar is that it's an easy way to pack on calories. Especially in drinks.
I gained weight in the US and I was visiting for a month. Now back home the weight is coming off. It seems so hard to stay healthy while living over there and I commend anyone who does. Sugar in everything, food advertised like crazy, so many food places you drive past with easy accessible drive thrus and big flashy signs. It's not right.
Not to mention a nearly complete lack of healthy quick options. People are busy, many have to work two fulltime jobs to survive, the only food we CAN GET sometimes is premade slop. Many of us don't have the time to meal prep or a loved one to do it for us. The default is carcinogenic slop they can't even legally sell in Europe.
Its not just getting fat as well, the damage to teeth is insane, without modern toothpaste, mouthwash, and dentistry a shitton of people would be dying from dental infections in their 20’s and 30’s.
Facts i was reading a book about English history and this happened when sugar was first brought to Englandand became available around the tudor period. people started eating it in EVERYTHING. They had sweets made of PURE sugar and nothing else. It was crazy, and part of why people died so young in that period.
?? toothpaste is a nothingburger. always was. what cleans your teeth is the brushing. the paste just tastes nice. whatever you brush on your teeth that isnt medical sealant specifically for teeth (that is burned in at the dentist to actually give you cavity protection) is essentially just for taste and smell. and mouthwash, in most cases, actually hurts your flora if you use it regularly (without an ongoing infection like a thrush, cut or parontitis)
@@HoaxManTheOne this is just wrong, toothpaste contains mild abrasives that will loosen food particles and plaque making brushing more effective, and the fluoride in toothpaste accretes on tooth enamel to assist in regeneration of the enamel layer protecting your teeth.
Lemme tell you, when I was in highschool I worked for a Dunkin and I would always do a pump and a half less than what the customer ordered because of just how much sugar and corn syrup was in their drinks. They didn't notice the difference and it made me feel better that they weren't getting as much sugary death in them.
@@SahnigReingeloetet i did what i could, especially since I was actually a good barista who could make drinks properly. But there were customers who would order like 6+ pumps of syrup and would watch me to make sure I put it in.
@@ToxicAWOL Dunkn made me stop eating any kind of sweets straight up. Babysitting an entire store for 10 hours with the smell of sugar and shit will do that. I ironically stopped drinking coffee during college when I stayed up for 3 days straight and started to have auditory hallucinations.
As someone who has recently started experiencing severe hypoglycemic episodes from a combination of insulin resistance and overconsumption of sugar, I whole-heartedly agree with this message. I have recently changed my diet to cut out added sugars and eat more whole grains/whole foods, but it is incredibly challenging when you are tempted at every grocery store, gas station, etc. by excessively sugary options. Cutting out sugar severely limits the kinds of foods you can purchase considering just how much sugar is found in nearly everything currently on the market, even supposedly "healthy" options.
Even just cutting out fast food and sugary drinks has helped my numbers. I'm too broke to go full-scorched-earth on sugar and processed foods entirely, but I've made big improvements just cutting out fast food.
Trans fat is another corporate thing. Crisco debut'd back in 1911 when Procter & Gamble purchased rights to a German patent on hydrogenated* oils. *btw: it's _hyd-ROG-en-ated,_ like you'd say _and-ROG-y-nous._ You hear people saying _HY-dro-gen-ated_ and that ain't right. It's not like you got some hydrogen and ated it. And yet that's exactly what you did. Just don't say it that way. And don't ate it too often.
Maintaining a healthy weight in the US is a genuine challenge. We should make real steps towards reducing healthcare demand. Bike subsidies. Health food subsidies. As a Democracy 4 player, I know this will work.
@@jackmakila3776 XD this is genuinely how a lot of people think. The American South having such a high obesity rate obviously is related to the level of urbanism and typical diet. Genetics plays some role, and there's evidence that epigenetics has a role (i.e. your parents being fat can make you more likely to be fat, independant of other factors).
As a soda drinker. I drink a lot of water too, but soda is addictive too. I quit cigarettes easily, and I quit abusing pain pills with relative ease as well. But soda.... I struggle with severely. Ive tried switching to diets and zeros to try and cut the sugar out and itll stick for like a month but then Ill get a "real" soda at a restaurant or event and fall right back down the hill. Sugar and soda are real addictions, and while Im not sucking dick on the street for a soda, I do get jittery and on edge when I dont have one for a while. Im with Vaush on this, and the government should step in on HFCs, and maybe that will start helping a lot of people.
For people who don’t know “pumpkin spice” things arnt always going to have pumpkin cause pumpkin spice is a seasoning blend not a flavor in itself. What your getting is the seasonings used in pumpkin based dessert
Seriously, we all friggin KNOW pumkin spice flavor is doesn't have pumkin. If this guy wants to make a point about horrific sugar content, that's valid. But fuck, trotting out the "thars no punkin'n thar!" schtick is an excellent way to make people roll their eyes and ignore the other info. Because it's just talking down to the audience at that point.
Sugar doesn't make you feel full it just gives you cravings to eat more food. Food companies know this and this is why sugar is added to everything in America.
Also I hate the fact that all the blame is put on us, the consumer. If we’re overweight or have eating issues, it’s our faults. That’s what many doctors promote and what society at large likes to blame. Not the companies making food on the levels of addiction equivalent to crack
Because they make a shit ton of money on selling “diet foods” and programs they know aren’t going to work. The diet industry is a billion dollar business.
One of the reasons is that this is how the sugar industry (with Coca Cola at the top) have managed to move the blame. Just like how the plastic industry have managed to make it our problems for not recycling enough when it is them that produce the shit that pollutes our environment.
This is literally always always always the grift. The displacement of corporate responsibility onto the consumer. It's all conservative moralism for the exact same reasons, power and control. "Turn off your lights", "stop using cars and just bike everywhere", "go vegan", and so on are the same shtick for climate change: You, the individual, should Make Sacrifices and work overtime to compensate for the entire orders of magnitude more impact corporations have on the planet! Yes, you! It's your job to take a tiny napkin to the gigantic (almost literal) oil spill that is corporate emissions! And also to just magically fix your health despite how often it's literally impossible to find decent food that won't kill you with sugar, fat, or inflated costs, by the way.
This! People’s default thought on overweight people is that they eat too much, but nowadays you can eat 3 small meals a day and still gain weight because everything has so many calories in it for no reason!
theres a shit ton you can do to not be fat. activity and excersize which are lifestyle choices make up a huge part too. obviously, its a systemic issue- but still take accountability.
As much of a crazy conservative my mother has become, she always tried to instill healthy habits to me. She'd buy bread without high fructose corn syrup, reduce the amount of salt in everything, and reduce the amount of soda and sugar in the household. Also, I think Vaush lowkey "uncovered" a conspiracy among data analysts who stopped studying sugar/caloric intake after 2000. Big Sugar has bought out academia! /s
Actually there’s a food youtuber Adam Ragusia (think I spelled that wrong) who has mentioned how hard companies have fought to keep the unhealthy aspects of corn syrup on the down low
The Nazis did this too. They banned a lot of sugary stuff and enforced excercise on the path to creating the master race. Not a great tree to pick from.
Bug sugar gained a real foothold when president Eisenhower had a heart attack. The public became aware of fata/cholesterol in processed foods and instead, sugar became the norm to make food more palatable
This shit fucking scares me. I'm fucking burnt out from my soul-sucking job and sometimes when I go home I just grab something quick because I'm exhausted, and of course I go to a sugary comfort food. I'm trying to exercise "personal responsibility" and defiantly go for a healthier choice, but even having to do that is adding to the mental weight of just getting through the fucking day. Sorry for the rant, just thought the experience was relevant.
I feel you there but small changes will lead to great outcomes over time. You'll lead yourself to a much more comfortable wellbeing. Best of luck to you.
The part about Medicare for all having this as a trade-off is extremely sensible and common sense. I live in the UK, and the whole reason why we have such high alcohol, sugar and tobacco taxes are that if you want to have those vices and the associated health issues, you should contribute towards the health system that will eventually help cure you.
Although I agree with this, I think the NHS would do far better if it adopted more of a preventative care approach rather than treating the symptoms of the cause. It is not right to put extra funding into an inefficient system. The NHS should also be about informing citizens of the dangers of high sugar and alcohol. The dangers and costs it presents to the NHS.
@@inbb510 one could argue that the disproportionately high taxes are preventative since they're a purchase disincentive that also telegraphs to the buyer they're a health risk.
My old roommate was Japanese and he had a giant rice cooker that was always full of rice. It was amazing. He taught me my favorite breakfast which was dropping a raw egg in hot rice and stir with salt and pepper. It's like a really good porridge with tons of protein and energy for breakfast
1 egg on 1 cup of cooked rice is about 10g of protein. Not very high protein but still delicious. Eggs are high in protein and very healthy, but rice is quite low
rice cooker is so great I had a similar situation when I lived with a phillipino guy he always had a big rice cooker full of rice we could just snack on and make meals around it was great. I have one now but its like small and i just use it to make rice for a specific meal im making usually curry.
i used to put literally 5-ish tbsp (TABLESPOONS!) of sugar in my coffee/tea and one day i was like WTF am i doing??? i quit cold turkey that day. it's been years and i no longer put any sugar in my coffee/tea and do not enjoy super sugary drinks or desserts anymore. it also pisses me off that companies are allowed to do whatever tf they want to our food and it's normalized here! it's so not normal though!
The big realization I had about the stupid amount of shit American food can get away with was when I started shopping at Asian supermarkets more. Specifically when I got “classic American” lays chips because I thought it was funny. But because the regulations, the chips were less greasy and less salty and honestly tasted better because you could actually taste the potato. Now it’s probably not healthy or anything, I didn’t check the nutrition label, but I felt less shitty after eating it. Really puts into perspective that regulation could literally solve the obesity crisis.
Omg i‘m used to German lays chips and love them because they taste so much like potato. Went abroad and had the same lays but imported from the US and i couldn’t eat them because they were so salty, it hurt!! And the regular bag was so huge. Actually started to hate Lays for a while after i gotdone with the bag. and i was so thirsty afterwards, my god.
Vaush: says soda is bad for you, which is a fact Chat: "You must be fun at parties" Also, Adam Ruins Everything has an episode about health and it has a segment on how the sugar industry was arguing that sugar is good for you and fat is bad for you, and how they were lobbying to make studies that align with that.
I have a lovely Asian coworker who is about 60 years old and she has to get her weight down but feels desparate because it keeps going up and she has no idea why. I literally had to tell her that she has to cut out all liquids with sugar. Juices, balsamic vinagrette, soda, sweet tea, sauces, etc are PACKED WITH SUGAR. When I mentioned balsamic vinagrette and juice she had no idea those could be unhealthy. Also, I lost 30 pounds and am at the maximum healthy BMI and people think I got too skinny. It was eye opening how normalized seeing overweight people is.
I can't believe America kind of just forgot about the obesity crisis. When I was younger it was everywhere and everyone was talking about it. Now, nothing changed and America just learned to ignore it, just like school shootings. I have also noticed that there is no recent data about this stuff, all videos about it, on youtube, are like more then 5 years old.
@@snekdoodnah culture war nonsense has infected people's brains and has them distracted on that than the real issues. Now it's constant debating about whether or not trans people deserve rights
As a European that knows about nutrition and looks at labels fairly often. Those numbers were outrageous. I have never seen anything like that on any product in the store and that is unimaginable that that tiny drink has half of a days calories and almost 200 grams of sugar, I know I'm just repeating the video, my mind is just blown so I had to put this out there. I'm from Finland btw, so our foods are particularly low-fat compared to just the rest of europe, I don't know if we have less sugar though, but I sure as hell know that ain't no drink having 200 grams of sugar here. I often wonder how people get really obese, now I get it, one of those a day and you're omega obese in no time
I’ve been saying it for years: sugar is a drug. It’s a drug we’ve become culturally numb to, but we’ve coined the term “hangry” to describe sugar withdrawals.
I kind of agree, but as someone who backpacks and so does in fact somewhat regularly have to ration HEALTHY food, or go hungry during the hike between breakfast and dinner, hangry is very much a thing in the absence of additional sugar. Being hungry sucks, just like being tired, and it’s no more a withdrawal from sugar than being emotional when you’re tired is a withdrawal from sleep.
You can definitely feel hangry. I am on a no sugar diet thanks to health reasons. But I will still get pissed when I am hungry and can't immediately solve it because hunger is an unpleasant feeling. It's distracting. And if you stub your toe you're also pretty pissy and annoyed. We literally got hormone changes when we get a hunger signal that will make us more aggressive because we're on a time crunch to refuel. It's survival instinct talking. However you don't always need to eat if you are hungry. Because it's really just a signal that our stomach is empty. Not that we don't have enough nutrients.
its crazy that soda is basically the default drink when you go out to eat. When i stopped drinking soda altogether like 2ish years ago and just started to order water instead, my family genuinely found it weird and asked me why. there have been several times when my family orders sodas from fast food places and not any waters and I just need to refuse drinking anything till get home. Its so normalized, and not many people know how horrible it is for them.
Who is drinking soda by default when you eat out? Is this just an American thing because that seems extremely juvenile. For adults in non American countries it's usually coffee, tea, beer, wine or water. Depending on the meal, of course.
One of the big reasons companies switch to corn syrup in addition to the cost factor is it is more shelf stable than regular sugar so the product will stay "fresh" longer and the supply lines can be stretched further and further.
@@bacaestrife3615 why do you think the 5000 year old honey they found near Tblisi is still edible? same for 3000 year old honey found in Egypt, sugar is/ can be used as a preservative..
@@bacaestrife3615 Very true, but there is a reason sugar should be stored in a sealed container in a cool dry place is because it is extremely hygroscopic. (readily absorbs water0 It is so hygroscopic that it will pull moisture straight out of the air. And if you put one of those fancy and super delicate sugar sculptures in a refrigerator overnight, any exposed surface will literally start melting. If you do any baking from scratch, you typically mix all the dry ingredients thoroughly and separately mix all the wet ingredients before mixing the wet and dry together. Well, because sugar absorbs moisture so easily, when scaling out a recipe it is considered a wet ingredient. So again, while what you said about properly stored sugar not ever expiring is correct, as soon as it is mixed with anything else, it is no longer plain sugar losing that property. Source: I had a carer as a pro chef once upon a time. I even went to culinary school with an entire tern dedicated to baking/pastry where i first learned all this fun stuff.
I moved to the US 10 years ago from Asia. I went to Walmart for groceries and got some pastries. I went home and was excited to try a red velvet cake I got but the moment I bit into it I was shocked to find that it’s so sweet that it almost tasted bitter. I asked my German roommate to try it and he also immediately spat it out. I’ve visited many countries and none makes desserts as sweet as the ones in the States. Then some of my colleagues kept sharing cake recipes on social media where the baker would melt candies for cake coating or frosting… It’s wrong how the corporations get away with turning the public into sugar addicts who are likely to face lots of health problems in their later years.
I used to be 300lbs and the chatter was right. No one who is obese is happy. They lie, and I know because I lied to myself and others. Being that heavy effects every part of your life, from your sleep to how you learn. It’s misery.
I have a BMI of 30 and I feel huge. I fell down the fat acceptance rabbit hole where it's people much larger than me acting like they're content with their life. They can barely walk, they can't bend down. I can't imagine they aren't crying themselves to sleep at night.
Hey fam, how did you do it? Im not lying to myself, i always feel horrible. Like anytime i see a candid picture of me my fucking stomach drops, every time. And its not even just that, like being fat is uncomfortable in general lmao. Im probably like 350-400 lbs, and its so past time to make a change, im just not entirely sure where to start, other than will powering my way into a daily caloric deficit. Can you point me in the right direction to some resources that would help with nutrition, exercise, etc?
@@Stunnacrew87hi!! I struggle with my weight but I can give you some tips that did help me drop weight off the bat. Cutting calories and shit does not work in the beginning stages imo, but making switches to things does. I swapped soda to sparkling water (sparkling ice is a favorite for me). I cut sugar by buying low/no sugar alternatives or protein bars. (Recommendation: power crunch bars taste great) Portion sizes come next, but I would really recommend just swapping to low/no sugar alternatives first. You won’t believe how much that does for you.
@Stunnacrew87 one piece pf advice I've heard for losing weight is to find tasty foods that are filling. Refined carbs are generally something you want to avoid because you'll feel hungry quicker. You can replace white bread with whole wheat bread for example. Olive oil, fats, and protein can make food more filling. I'm not exactly an expert on this, but hopefully it helps.
LOL fucking chat goes into "how can you be against my favorite death sludge if you are for drug decriminalization" like a proper death sludge junkie would.
cooking advice: learn to make a goddamn stew meat, onions, cabbage, carrot, garlic, spices, beans, corn make 8 goddamn quarts (approx 8L) at a time and there's half your meals for the next week for $30 and an hour or two of your time
buy the japanese curry mix, add it to your stew, now it's curry or boil some potatoes for 15 minutes first and mix them in with a bunch of cheese, now it's chowder
Also if you're not COMPLETELY dirt broke and can get an instant pot somehow, it takes all the brain work out, yeet everything into the thing in the morning and take it back out at dinner.
That's my strategy. Stew usually tastes even better when you reheat it. I usually freeze a few portions though, so I don't have to eat the same food for a week but still have food for the days I can't make myself cook.
The part that's wild to me is you can make deserts with around the same calories as 1 can of soda. And coke and pepsi advertise their drinks like they are just a normal part of your meal.
I wish so much there was a reduced sugar version, not diet or zero calories or whatever, I just want a regular Mnt Dew with like, a quarter of the sugar. It would taste so much better
It is I drink a dr. Pepper can with dinner every night. Granted, my meals are also homemade, but I'm not giving soda up because people don't make their own meals.
Don't forget about orange juice with your cereal or panCAKE breakfast, nobody needs to start their day like that besides athletes that're constantly burning it off on the daily.
It's so bad that a pint of most icecreams can easily have as little as 25 to 30 percent of the sugar content as a single 20oz of (insert soda here). and that same 20oz is almost guaranteed to have over 200% of the max recommended daily sugar intake.
@@darkshadowrule2952Unironically, that would be pretty great. They could also probably get a good flavor profile by using a little bit of sugar and filling in a bit more with artificial sweetener, avoiding the weird fake sugar finish. The real argument against excess sugar is that that amount of it tastes disgusting.
except republicans will block it i don't blame republican people, i blame republican politicians. republican people are being manipulated into thinking that republican politicians are liberal, when in reality they're conservative authoritarian. authoritarianism only works when it isn't motivated by money and hate. The Enclave is real and they hate us. for context, I'm societally traditional, but overall progressive because progressivism's entire philosophy is bending the government to work in favor of the people and what is best for everyone.
You should be able to buy those in authorized drug stores. People should be able to go to a pharmacy and buy heroin without a prescription. That way the street dealers and drug cartels don't make as much money. Who in their right mind would buy street heroin cut with who knows what if pharmaceutical grade heroin is legal and relatively cheap? To quote Ron Paul during a Republican presidential debate. "If heroin were legal how many of you would go out and try heroin?"
you cant force people into rehab. The moment they will be released they will go back on the drug. There are way more complicated reasons for addiction than withdrawal.
@@nehriim3748 given that every country can and do force people into literal prisons, I'm sure more or less forcing them to rehab facility wouldn't be as problematic. Point is, decriminalized doesn't mean not discouraged
@@dr_birb It wouldn't be 'as problematic' indeed. But it would be a complete waste of resources. Which is, suboptimal. There are many ways to reduce drug use, but trying to force a drug person off a drug never actually works. Things that will work in my experience: A healthier environment and psychiatric care. From my many years of experience with drug users, and as someone who has had substance abuse issues in the past. People get on drugs because its the only thing that they feel can make their life less miserable. It is a reaction to a situation. Sometimes this can be mental problems, sometimes this can be a horrible economic situation. But its never 'purely' the fear of withdrawal.
Tgis is genuinely one of the best takes i have heard from vaush. The fact that you can just stumble into ruining your life by eating these things is horrifying.
as someone who had the opportunity to spend two weeks in japan for an art course - can confirm on the food/sugar topic. i remember feeling my blood sugar get low from how much walking in the summer humidity and decided, reluctantly, to get a donut. it was a snack. it was literally a snack. it satiated my need for sustenance without making my body/stomach feel heavy like i just consumed a bag of sugar. it was wondeeful and i miss having a donut like that every time i see a donut.
I agree about not being educated on liquid calories. When I was in highschool everyone drank soda, usually multiple times a day. It wasn't till after I had already graduated and saw a random picture showing how much sugar was in 1 soda that I stopped drinking it. Looking at the physical amount of sugar legitimately scared me, I hadn't ever thought about it like that before. I immediately stopped drinking sugary sodas, I still drink a diet soda every now and then
be careful! diet sodas usually replace sugar with some form of artificial sweetener and since those don't count as "sugar" they actually won't tell you the exact amount of sweeteners contained nor their caloric value on the label... that being said, it's ok to drink soda like twice a month, just make sure you're not drinking it too often and you'll be fine c:
@@DaCavola i dont think its legal to lie on the nutrition label about how many calories something has, calories arent just counted for sugar they are a unit of measurement of energy. if a soda doesnt contain sugar but does have calories they have to list them on the label, the way some diet sodas (like coke zero) are made just makes them have zero calories (or close to zero) its not some kind of trick lol. they arent good for you or anything and have a similar effect on ur brain as regular soda which can make you crave more sweet unhealthy things (and this is completely unscientific but they just taste like theyre bad for you lol) but they are the better option. there isnt really any evidence for artificial sweetners being harmful, while we have a pretty good understanding of the harm sugar causes.
@@BlisaBLisa I know what calories are and there is no way you can convince me the artificial sweeteners in a coke zero have 0 calories, our bodies digest them and burn them just like sugar. As for the legal side of this, I'm a medical student, not a lawyer, so I might be mistaken: afaik they must include them in the ingredients list, sure, but they are able to get away with not including them (and their calories) on the table of nutritional values.
Fun fact: Several zoos have stopped feeding their animals actual fruit because of how much sugar they now have while also having less nutrition. *Even our zoo animals are getting fat because of how much sugar is put into everything.*
@@mrgaudy1954 fruit in general has been selectively bred over the years to be sweeter and sweeter or grow bigger and faster. Both usually causing the actual nutritional benefits of the fruit to drop.
Me and my wife (we're from Spain) went to the USA about 5 years ago, and we always tell people the same anecdote when we talk about it- After about 4 or 5 days of eating in restaurants and doing a supermarket shop and being totally lost over what to buy, one day we saw a store which had a salad bar, and we dashed in, made a salad, and then ate it right there in he street 😂 . We liked the food, we both eat too much junk food at home, and the portions were amazing and the price was great, but it's exactly what Vaush is saying, the problem is we COULD NOT BUY a normal, sensible meal ANYWHERE. We were both feeling awful, just lethagic and icky, and we both felt desperate for some fresh vegetables after only a few days (of eating well and enjoying the meals). Something with a healthy amount of protein, some complex carbs, and a few fresh vegetables. A bit of chicken breast and some steamed veg, a fish fillet and a salad, just something recognisable as a meal. If you get a salad, it's covered in sauce (they call it dressing, but it's sauce), or if you want to make pasta at home you can't just buy tomato sauce that doesn't taste like a desert. Again, we have MacDonalds, Taco Bell etc in Spain, and we're getting more and more unhealthy in general, but you always, always have an option to walk into a bar, grab some grilled meat and a tomato salad, and go.
I’m also from Spain and when I travelled to the USA this summer I gained 4-5 kgs in only 3 weeks. Now that I’m back home the weight is slowly coming off but I was so shocked when I got on my scale and saw what American food did.
I'm American and you can buy meats and veggies in the grocery store here. There's unsweetened tomatto sause, heck even unsweetened pasta sause.... if you look careful through all 18 options for the one expensive one that has real ingredients, and only in large stores, you won't find anything like that at a dollar general lol
I'm an amarican and I am very fit I have a rule, sugar only in my food. I do not eat beef. Chiken and alot of rice. I could use more fresh veggies tho, they are abit expensive here. But chiken is the key to health in amarica imo
I gained 6 pounds wen I went to America for a few weeks even depsite working out. The food there is awful. I couldn't wait to get back to Europe, I lost the extra pounds wen I got back
"You're way madder at sugar addicts than you ever have been at weed addicts" A: I don't think that is true, and chat gets just as triggered when vaush criticises pot heads anyway B: YES 100% yes, BASED. Sugar is FAR more dangerous for you than weed, guaranteed.
@@fortheloveofnoise even then though, sugar does so much more destruction to your body than weed does. what does weed do for psychosis? make someone a bit more paranoid and anxious? tbh id take that over sugar, personally.
The weed is just as bad for me because it gives me THE WICKEDEST sweet tooth ever 😂 usually I'm not a huge sweets fan, but once those munchies kick in.....
@@snekdood i mean ive heard of some people who are already predisposed to schizophrenia having it or psychotic episodes triggered for the first time by smoking weed so like, that's pretty bad. & there's cannabis hyperemesis, which is also not great. But those aren't really comparable to to the issues chronic overconsumption of sugar cause because those are waaaayyy more common
I felt it when you said sodas feel like they want to kill you. I never really liked soda; it's fun for like a sip or two when the carbon bubbles are still fresh, then it just feels like an obligation to drink the rest. Drinking it is like angry carcinogenic sugar liquid being poured down my throat & I can feel myself dehydrate with every sip.
100% this. I didn’t use to feel that way when I was younger, but last year I decided to stop having soda so often. Even at family gatherings I always just have water or milk. Having pop now just feels like I’m getting no hydration, and I always think while drinking it about how I’d rather just have water right now.
@@davidradtke160 Yeah, sparkling water is a good alternative over soda -- especially because the familiarity of carbonation can play a role in the addiction. The trick is finding the right sparkling water for you. I, for one, hate Buble and it as my first sparkling water experience turned me off. But when a good friend of mine introduced me to Bubblr? Game changer.
Knowingly doing cocaine and unknowingly drinking an entire box of donuts every morning are two different things. And personally, I'd rather knowingly eat that entire box of donuts. 🍩
@chearththecactus eh, I work nights with the occasional morning. I could see eating a whole box of donuts through my work day after a shitty morning. Edit: and as much as I'd love to lose a foot, I like my nose just as well.
@@alessandromorosin3251 honestly I think this is unironically why people prefer homemade food tbh. You feel better eating it and it actually has real flavor. And a LOT of fruits and veggies naturally have enough sugar tbh as someone who does use a lot of them in her cooking. *So I do unironically actually agree with the eating more plants thing.* _(Of course as someone with heart issues, _I'll sadly have to pass on the little bit of cocaine.)_
And even those 40g are pretty copium. We don‘t need sugar period. It‘s not that they‘re recommending 40g it‘s that they actively don‘t recommend going above 40g.
Chat is being so purposefully dense. How is it hard to understand that bread, which is flour, yeast, salt and water in most of the world, should NOT have sugar in it
Spanish here and I experienced the same. First day we went to a bbq place on times square, and we saw the people ordering some kind of huge ass milkshake with marshmallows and wtv, and it was kinda obvious to me that it was pretty much as sugary as that oreo milkshake thing, and I wonder how people actually dealt with that. I'm a little fat, mostly due to not being super active, but even I know to avoid that shit...
@@italucenaz Nah, our meat has the good stuff. Ireland grass feeds their animals so the fat is flavoured more. It’s actually pretty popular internationally, agriculture is a major export for us
@@michael.471 i was just scared whan i saw the typical ireland breakfest and the ammount of sausage, beans, eggs and meat made me think I will spend the whole week in Dublin super constipated
I live in Iowa, which is essentially the corn capital of the States. We subsidize the shit out of ethanol, corn syrup, and literally anything else corn because 90% of the land in the entire state is farmland and a shit ton of it is corn. There’s no reason for corn in my state to be this artificially widespread when tons of other crops can be used to do what corn does but healthier and more efficient. The culture around corn in Iowa is so fucked, too. Since agriculture is like the main thing in Iowa, anytime anyone says anything about maybe toning it down with the fucking corn for 2 seconds, your career as a politician is basically over at that point
Howdy, neighbor. I'm in Wisconsin and the big agriculture subsidies are wild here too. Like, maybe we shouldn't produce so much milk we just pour it down the drain? Just saying?
I had a friend that recently passed and she ate Canes, McDonald's, and Dunkin seemingly every day. I'm honestly convinced that Dunkin killed my friend. I look at the menu and I know they're healthier items, but once someone is addicted and finds those kinds of items, it's just the same as an overdose to me. This is absolutely unacceptable and no human being should be put through the painful death and life that my friend went through. People can say that it was her choice but you can't tell me that addiction isn't real no one wants to be an addict. so many people long for love and affection and when they can't find that in their communities they turn to substances. Cindy I miss you like crazy and I promise to do everything I can to be a healthier person because I want you to see how beautiful life can be on the other side of addiction. I wish I could talk to you and we could talk about boys and work
I’m so glad I live in a rural area, the only fast food we have is subway and McDonald’s. We don’t have Dunkin or Taco Bell or other crap like that. If you avoid McDonald’s and some stuff at subway you’re good. Still have to avoid crap at the grocery store of course, but it’s not hard.
Ha I went to Japan in highschool and brought my host family 2 jars of home made jam. They loved it but had never really had it before. I agree with you, like people in Japan actually eat quite a lot of sweets imo but the quality of them is much higher and they cost more 🙂🤷♂️
hmmm probably because the issue isnt sugar per se. its consuming mostly carbs and in excess. same happens if you only eat rice or only eat fries. if you fill your daily calories with dogshit you get malnurished. if you mostly eat healthy and are moderately active, your body couldnt care less about a few sweets or soda. it will probably even reward you for providing a quick and easy boost to fast digesting glucose
That guy in the video at the beginning has been absolutely annihilated by every doctor/dietician on TikTok for being super anti-science about normal food (I think he pushed the carnivore diet for a while), but it’s good to see that not every single video he does is garbage. Pretty much every informed person knows we have a major sugar problem in the US.
Finally someone framed leftist thought around healthy eating. I don’t understand how it’s somehow subversive and anti capitalist to support processed food being subsidized. Like you said, if people want unhealthy food, it should be more expensive, not the other way around where healthy food is more expensive. How is this not a leftist take to advocate making healthy food cheaper and more accessible and just use the current funding for processed food to help fund healthy food instead and other policies like that. Well, the reason is healthy foods have shorter shelf life so corporations make more money from processed food and then they lobby to subsidize it on top of that. It’s another example where capitalism run rampant will lead us to eat less healthy so as long as we aren’t in post capitalism we need to regulate this and how that’s not a common leftist take and instead most leftists defend processed food is weird to me and glad someone in the community spoke out otherwise.
Chat badmouthing rice is wild to me. That shit is the bomb, you can do a trillion things with it, pair it with vegetables, all kinds of meats fish lentils anything under the sun.
And it's so easy to prep-- do a little fried rice and toss everything in there (carrots, broccoli, egg, ginger, onion, peas, peppers, bok choy, pineapple even) and you have a solid nutritious dinner for like a week straight
You can eat it but you can’t have 5 cups of it in one sitting. I monitor my blood sugar like it’s an art form. I can eat 1/2 cup of rice and my GL is only a few points. Pairing with veggies works for me!
Spanish rice, fried rice, rice based soups, literal rice wine. The food is so brand, but can taste like heaven with the smallest flavoring. Infinite creations can be made of this godly plant.
Watched a doc recently about Cadbury developing a chocolate bar with 30% less sugar, but with the same amount of calories. One of the people tasting it clearly didn't understand that sugar kills you. She said if it has the same amount of calories it's pointless to remove the sugar.
I stg I've gotten so much conflicting information about nutrition. I thought the problem with sugar was the caloric load, is there something innately bad about sugar to where the same calories from different source would be better?
@@johnthomason9980it is always better to have complex carbs instead of simple carbs. Sugars are just one or two monomers while complex carbs like starch are thousands. Your body expends energy breaking those bonds in the complex polysaccharides. There are also nutritional benefits to eating actual food as opposed to sugar. It's better to eat a baked potato than a plate of sugar that has as many calories as a baked potato.
Wait, but were they trying to keep the calorie count the same? Why IS it the same, anyway? What did they put in it that makes up that difference? Like, why not just have a bar with 30% fewer calories?
I’m a mom of 6 kids and I spend hours making my kids meals and snacks from scratch because I refuse to feed my children this shit that they put into food for no reason. I pay top dollar for the best quality food and travel far out of my way to get it. The fact that you have to reinvent the wheel to not poison your family in America is disgusting and it should be illegal! No other country in the world allows all of this toxic waste into their food like we do in the US.
I'm UK and a lot of traditional UK meals (and I dont mean beans on toast) like roast dinners, shepards pie, full english breakfast ect is designed to fortify us against harsh weather and its good for winter diets because its basically lots of potatoes and lots of meat but these dishes dont even come close to what a fast food company can pump into one drink
@@asherroodcreel640 the fact you asked proves your not a real water drinker 😂 bro probably can’t tell the difference between vending machine Dasani and McDonald’s Dasani 💀💀
This reminds me of a food company the Colbert Report made up, which sold chicken meat from chickens fed exclusively on oreos. Their advertisement jingle was "why not eat like you've just given up". This was way back when it was possible for satire to exaggerate reality.
I feel like this should be studied, like chickens fed with normal bird diets vs pure sugar. And this also makes me think: do turkey, duck, and quail actually taste game-y or do they just have regular bird diets? Because our chicken is not fed with their natural diet so they taste way better to us than wild birds.
I caught this segment live, and said in chat how losing 60 pounds and accidentally regaining 40 in a year after dieting hard has fucked my mental health.
I lost 50, then just wasn't paying attention and regained 20 over 2 months. I think what makes it so hard is the constant vigilance. Unless you completely switch out your household's food with nothing but "clean" food and never eat out, it feels like a never ending watch of counting calories.
@@devingilmanexactly. Food isn't supposed to be this damn calorie dense. I'd be fine eating the same size portions of food I do now from literally anywhere else in the world. Shit sucks :/
I spent 6 months dieting and exercising and lost around 15lbs. I then had major surgery and was totally unable to move for 6 weeks and gained all that weight back. Now it’s so hard to get it back off even on a diet and it’s really fucking me up mentally :( People think being overweight is about eating too much food but it’s really not, I really don’t eat that much food; it’s just all full of so many calories for no reason!
@@devingilmanI realize that not every diet works for everyone, but for me intermittent fasting has been working really well, for about 3 years now. What makes it great to me is that it's not just about what you eat, or even how much of it, it's also just about not eating ANYTHING for a certain period of time, ideally enough to get your body to start burning its own fat. If you just come up with strict rules for when you eat then that's a simple absolute rule that you can follow without having to think about it, while in the time that you do eat you ideally still put in a bit of effort to pick healthy foods, but you don't have to think as much about it.
Agree, we should all be eating home cooking waaay more often. I realize that most people don't have the time to make elaborate meals, but there are ways to make healthful food with minimal effort. For example, when I first moved away from home, I often threw a cut of meat and vegetables with olive oil and seasoning into a hand me down crock pot to cook while I was away at work and came back to a tasty roast for dinner. It was also quite economical, as this gave me leftovers that would last me through the week.
I’ve recently got into baking everything from scratch. My guys it tastes soooooo good. Plus using pure cane sugar helps your brain get full from the calories versus corn syrup
Citation needed. Preferably a study published in a reputable peer reviewed journal. I would like to see some evidence that corn syrup is worse for your health than sucrose. If they ditched corn syrup and used sucrose, soda would still be empty calories. Mexican coke is isn't a healthy alternative to American coke because it's made with sucrose instead of corn syrup.
@@jennoscura2381 im saying that it is more satisfying to eat a homemade sweet with cane sugar versus corn syrup. From my experience more natural sugar causes me less bloating and brain fog. I dont fully understand it on thr chemistry level tho
Cutting out liquid calories isva great way to lose some weight. I save myself at least 290 calories by using sucralose AKA splenda in my coffee instead of granulated sugar.
This is exactly the reason i'm glad i got the bariatric surgery cheat codes. Because, the way they change your stomach makes you highly sensitive to fats and sugars. So if i were to eat a delicious bowl of iced cream it would taste good, but the pain and suffering i would experience from the dumping syndrome is worse than any benefit from the taste in the iced cream. So years later whenever i see something high in sugar it my brain has been reprogrammed to think of nothing but pain. You wonder why i avoid dunkin donuts like the plague... Then again i'm down to 286lbs from 500lbs so i'm not complaining rofl!
I get this!! I got so scared of all the crap in our foods and drinks, so if I couldn’t find produce without sugar and or corn syrup and all that stuff, I would substitute and not eat that exact thing until I found a healthy one.
0:44 okay, to be fair: "pumpkin spice" doesn't mean "pumpkin". Pumpkin spice is a spice blend that is usually used in pumpkin flavored deserts (pies, loafs, cakes, etc) it is that spice blend that is being referenced with "pumpkin spice". Usually its a combination of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger. Very popular fall/winter flavors that happen to go really well with pumpkin based deserts and because they go really well with pumpkin-based deserts, they have become synonymous with pumpkin. You could also refer to that spice blend as "chai" imo because chai is often made with the same spices. (If you like pumpkin spice lattes, and you have never tried chai, please do, you can get chai lattes too. They don't taste the same, but they are similar enough that if you like one you'll probably like the other) One of the reasons I like Bigelow's pumpkin spice tea is actually because they _do_ include pumpkin (or at least, they used to, I haven't checked the new boxes for this season).
It’s seriously so sinister how much sugar is in basic stuff. A 20oz hot chocolate at Starbucks has 70g of sugar. People shouldn’t obsess over sugar content, but if you’re just a regular consumer and don’t check these things out, you’ll stumble into more than half of your daily value of sugar for one seemingly normal drink. The sugar lobby is evil. The reason you don’t see a daily value percentage for sugar is because more than half of the things you eat/drink in America roughly reach at least 25% of what would be the daily value for one serving size. People might make different choices if you included it. Again, obsessing over this stuff isn’t healthy, and a can of Coca-Cola isn’t going to kill you, but some people don’t realize what they’re consuming, especially when it comes to liquids.
keep in mind, here in the EU (while things are not perfect by a long shot) a lot of these foods exist too with much less sugar and quite different ingredients. a tasty milkshake can be 300 calories and be sweet and creamy. how the fuck do you get to over 1000 calories with that? its literally pumped in there.
I'm a caregiver who works in people's homes and the majority of my clients are obese. A lot of my tasks involve buying groceries and prepping meals, and let me tell you.... A life of "I don't like water, I only drink soda/gatorade" and tons of processed food universally leads to a miserable end-of-life experience. It is really sad to watch these people suffer from late stage kidney disease, infections, diabetic complications, etc. and I feel like I'm constantly walking a fine line between helping and enabling. All of these people know they are unhealthy but face a number of complex barriers to making changes. Some of them literally only buy all their food from the dollar store or a gas station. I think removing subsidies for certain foods would help, but there are many systemic social issues at play too.
I was born in 1992. Living in the south you have to drive everywhere, and fried food is the norm. I grew up eating fried chicken, fried potato wedges, and cornbread with butter. That was *bad*, and I weighed about 270 pounds in 2014. But as part of my transition goals and because I was feeling more positive, I knuckled down and cut my calorie intake down to 1,500 and walked for two hours or five miles every single day, and I managed to lose a hundred pounds in a year off of that hardcore level of work cuz I just wanted it that bad. Then, Trump happened, and my positive mood died and I fell back into stress eating and stopped walking - both from the increasing heat and just not having the energy to. Despite not eating fried foods and bread literally every single day like I was growing up, I gained all of it back and more over the last seven years, because it’s just that easy to put on the weight. I can’t even have multiple meals, because a simple, good tasting dinner annihilates like two thirds of my daily calories. I wish I could ditch soda, but I just can’t. I limit my intake with the half cans and I literally always carry water with me so it’s not the only thing I drink, but going without is agony. I really despise this idea we can’t do anything about it, because I know directly it’s incredibly easy to fall down the wrong hole.
Could you make your own soda? I drink a TON of sparkling water, to the point it seems kind of silly to buy it by the case and have looked into getting a soda stream and flavor drops and whatnot. I bet they make actual sugary flavor drops that you could buy, or just use syrup to add sweetness and you could relatively control how much sugar is in it. After all, that's how soda fountains started out You could just try replacing a drink here or there at first, or like half store bought / half home made
You can ditch soda, but you need to want to do it. The day you truly decide that you don't want that sh** anymore I pomise you it is going to be suprisingly easy to stop. (Sidenote, if it is actually the caffeine you are addicted to, switch to unsweetened green tea, more caffeine and allround better for you.)
I listen to people who travel from or to the US and they all say how the food is the biggest problem. You could eat "less" junk food in the US, but still get worse food because everything has so much sugar and the food quality is worse than other developed countries.
Sugar addiction is such a nightmare. Even though I know how bad it is for me, just listening to you talk about how soda is killing us has me craving it.
If that’s how easily you are triggered to crave it, that’s all the more reason to fight the craving. I know it doesn’t sound like very satisfying replacement, but having some fruit around you can just grab can be a lifesaver when you are craving high sugar foods. Because your body can’t tell the difference between the sugars.
im thin and im highly addicted to sugar. That paired with parental neglect its cost me 30 dental fillings im from the fattest european country, croatia
@@lil_weasel219 i also used the be very thin and addicted to sugar and honestly that pairing is the absolute worst, i'm just incredibly thankful that i like diet sodas lol
Same.. I use to have a ED .. some could stay I still do, I have a bad relationship with food where I am pretty scared of it still… so what do I do when I crave food? I DRINK something sweet instead … coffee, juice seeet teas ect, tho I know it’s bad for me it doesn’t freak me out the same as eating something with substance so now I have a sugar addiction and don’t know what to consume besides a sugar drink ….
That's why I follow the golden rule of "don't drink sugar." Drinks typically contain far more sugar than pastries or other types of sweets. Stick to water.
Sodas are also quite easy to make. You need a syrup, sparkling water and optional additives. Lemon soda is easy, just mix lemon juice, sugar syrup (I use 2:1 sugar to water ration, simmer until dissolved, it'll keep until you turn to dust). You mix (or even better, shake in a shaker with ice) the lemon and syrup, top with water. My favorite is to switch out the regular syrup wirh elderflower syrup (my grandma makes it). If you want, you could also add some gin and turn it into a Tom Collins. Glen and Friends Cooking has a great recipe for a ginger and spice syrup (I just simmer it for an hour or more). Mix that with soda water, you could also add a few dashes of Angostura bitters.
frrr!! super easy! ive severly cut down my sugar intake, and dont drink any pure sugar or added sugar any more, ive found teas and kombucha or jun are good low sugar alternatives. even like a table beer which is like 1% abv is pretty tasty and basically none alcoholic.
I used to down orange-cream sodas constantly every summer, but lately found that there's these orange-vanilla seltzer waters. Sometimes if I want to replicate the vibe of that drink I'll add a splash of vanilla creamer and it's way less sugar that way.
Vaush: Maybe we shouldn't have single drinks with more sugar than you need for a week. Maybe high fructose corn syrup shouldn't be so subsidized it becomes a waste product they dispose of it in everything. chat: I only have one joy in life it is my occasional soda! FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS! HOW DARE YOU!
Also, sharing a coffee with your significant other and adding veggies to your plate goes a looooong way in improving overall health, not just weight. Riced cauliflower is cheap, it's a superfood, and is a good replacement for rice. Frozen spinach is also cheap and easy to make delicious. Fresh brusslesprouts, carrots, green beans, etc are great and easy to roast in the oven with a small amount of olive oil, salt pepper, etc. And simply only having water or a light snack after 8pm is good, too. A lot of people, myself included sometimes, eat half a day's worth of calories late at night.
A lot of healthy eating isn't cutting out everything you enjoy, but it's preparing them from home instead of consuming their highly processed, corn syrup pumped alternatives.
@@LaBlueSkuld you can buy riced cauliflower for $2 per bag, and each bag is good for 2 people if you're replacing rice. And it doesn't have a smell (or a very minor one at most)
@@MiaoNya very true. It's a mix, right? By preparing things at home, you are inadvertently or intentionally also cutting out other things. Like Vaush said, if people wanna eat a ton of food, power to them. But I think a lot of people just don't have a solid knowledge on how easy it can be sometimes to make healthy choices, so they make choices that fit into their usual pattern. That's how it was with me, anyway, and im still working on it
People cannot say “Soda tastes good don’t take it from me!” and then say “Rice is unhealthy, don’t eat it” and expect anyone to take them seriously
As a european citizen, i was flabbergasted by that opinion.
I don't care what anyone says I'm eating all the pasta and all the potatoes 😋
@@scottvelez3154even a dr said you had diabetes and you need to cut carbs? I loved pasta and potatoes dr told me I was borderline diabetic & I needed to make a change with carbs so I did & now blood sugar is controlled. If you’re life depended on it I’m sure you would cut back
@@winninglifeyoI’m not gonna argue with you, but I can absolutely guarantee you were not bordline diabetic because of pasta and potatoes, you were probably eating alot of other bullshit, or maybe massive portions
It's also the same fuckers that say "oh well if sugar is a problem, then don't eat fruit lol".
How is it chat doesn’t comprehend that insanely unhealthy sugary foods are not the default state of the world and “it would be better if our society disincentivized this model comparative to what it does today” is not the same as “id youve ever drank Dr Pepper that’s pathetic”
It seems like the ad campaigns from these food companies have worked. It's that, or chat has never baked a loaf of bread before.
Seriously, that one chatter who was like "I'm an athlete and I have a soda every so often it's fine chill" could not have been listening.
And the sugar is so sneaky! It keeps getting rebranded under all these different names to trick the consumer out of realizing its sugar, they put it in tons of crap where you would otherwise assume would be low sugar, and the corn industry has completely corrupted the entire field of nutritional science in the US! Seriously, deep dive into how much stuff you get in the US is made from corn, I'm from Iowa so it's been a little pet project of mine for a while, it's maddening
@@darkshadowrule2952The “added sugar” labeling is so disingenuous. The sugar that naturally comes from fruits and the sugar you add to soda are the same thing as far as your body is concerned. Sugar is sugar. Patients can drink the same amount of OJ or Coke to bring up their sugar in episodes of hypoglycemia because their sugar content is the same. Obviously there is more nutritional value in OJ from vitamins and minerals but it having no ADDED sugar does not erase the fact it still has a crap ton of sugar in it naturally.
@@IsaRican810 Sugar from fruit juice is actually digested differently from whole fruits due to the lack of fiber. Oranges for instances won't have the same metabolic effects that orange juice or coca cola would.
I've been saying this. When people make obesity a "personal problem" I just roll my eyes. when 2/3 of a population are obese you can't just call it a personal issue. It's obviously a societal issue.
*in america. i think you guys are just a bit dull in the general sense (60%+)
@@HoaxManTheOne um no lots of countries have high obesity rates it’s not just the US.
NO it is absolutely NOT. I am literally fat phobic and its really hard for me not to blame people, but the truth is, its the food companies. My sister has a PhD in nutrition.
*MOST AMERICAN FOOD IS ILLEGAL HERE IN THE EU* but the American food companies keep finding new ways to get around the regulations and to make the food, more addictive and more fattening.
The latest one is, they liquefy the meat and extruded it, then glue it back together with food glue, cover it in a crispy coating, this makes it incredibly satisfying to eat, but it never fills you up because chewing food is needed in order to get cessation of appetite. So the chemical analysis of the food looks good, but you eat tons of it, and you don't secrete the correct enzymes to digest it properly, so you just absorb the sugars.
Its a Macro level problem that can be resolved by people individually at the Micro level. When systems set you up to fail it takes effort to break out of them.
@@iamkrohn sure but my point is we aren’t going to see any major changes unless we make those macro changes. People lose wight all the time but if we’re talking obesity rates? Yea that has only been increasing over time.
Chat seriously tried to bad mouth rice, the most common food in the world, eaten by roughly half the human population.
Yeah I’m sure it’s totally a real problem worth bringing up in a discussion of America’s absurd sugar problem.
For real. Comparing complex carbohydrates to simple ones from a nutritional standpoint is objectively silly.
rice is ace, and tofu is cheaper than meat, so thats dinner baby! throw in a couple veggies and save the leftover rice for tomorrow for stir fry and thats lunch!
To be fair, even though I agree with Vaush here rice sucks ass
@@vonvonkarmz Add this chicken bone, a couple a vegetables...you got yourself a stew going!
some chicken breast, brown rice, and broccoli is literally a great dinner most people could probably make
Imagine having a coffee that was so bad for you that a dozen glazed donuts would be a healthier alternative.
Yeah if I’m gonna do that to myself I’d rather pig out on the donuts with a cup of regular coffee tbh
Huh. I wouldn't have expected to see you here, S1ap.
Neither I, you, mister Gribble@@Noonecanknow879
@@PM-xu2nqhonestly a super sweet donut and a plain black coffee is an underrated combination.
The donuts have a gut-wrenching amount of carbs and fat that the coffee drink doesn't though.
You'll hear people say "obesity is an epidemic and people need to lose weight" but the moment you actually talk about doing anything meaningful to counter overly processed, high sugar foods, you get immediate blow-back.
Ya everyone’s addicted; they can’t imagine life without ultra processed food
"noooooo the real problem is fat because we say FAT people not CARB people!"
i’ve noticed that ONLY americans have this defence mechanism. others will just admit that they need to eat healthier. it’s probably because americans have been so insanely brainwashed by these companies that their food is healthy, that they don’t trust anyone giving health advice anymore (we weren’t that brainwashed in europe bc it’s illegal lmao) + they have been completely living off of this garbage for decades that now they don’t even know what real food IS anymore. they’ll often say “what am i supposed to eat then?”
@@smtandearthboundsuck8400 it's not the sugar. It's the calories. He mentioned Japanese food right at the start. Rice is just completely unsweetened sugar. 🤣 Whether it's rice, sugar, or bread, once it gets past your gullet, it turns into the same thing. Asked my friend who is a biochem phd.
First, HFCS is probably not food. Please don't eat it, unless you can't wait to meet God. Some studies shows a link between HFCS and metabolic syndrome. It's not settled yet, but it took decades to decide that tobacco thing. In the meantime, do you want to be the labrat?
Second, yes, it is a question of discipline. I go to KFC maybe 6 - 10 times a year, buy one of the 3-piece dinner plate and bring it home. Then we eat it with rice. I have an automatic rice cooker. Takes about 30 minutes, but only half a minute of actual work. It's automatic.
Three adults, one large piece of chicken each. A meal intended for one person. Nobody in my family is fat. And diet is not a word that is ever said here. We also do that with other shops selling oversized single servings. We buy them, bring it home. And share. Sometimes we share it right there, though usually we eat at home. Just ask for an extra plate. I've never been charged for an extra empty plate they've had to wash.
It was actually so infuriating to see chatters compare this to drug decriminalization. Here's an analogy that might not be completely accurate, but it's miles better than chat's understanding so idc.
Imagine weed is legal, ok cool. Now also imagine Meth is legal. Not a good thing to take, but hey, maybe shouldn't be outright criminalized anyway. Now imagine you go to your weed dealer, and he spikes your stuff with meth to get you addicted and coming back for more and harder stuff. Should that be legal? No? Oh, you mean that's the whole problem we're trying to avoid by making weed be sold at reputable and monitored sellers instead of some rando around the street corner?? Cool, we agree then. This is what's happening with the corn sugar.
Nobody is asking to make soda illegal. Nobody is asking to make sugar illegal either, or even HFCS. All we're asking is that corporations shouldn't be allowed to put tons of this addictive and borderline poisonous crap into EVERYTHING without being transparent and giving the customer the choice. It's just basic regulation, not even remotely comparable to criminalizing drugs.
So if we're comparing it to drugs, then the correct analogy is dealers cutting their drugs with increasing amounts of incredibly lethal additives without telling anyone to produce more intense highs, ignoring all the geometric increases in lethality. That's comparable to this nonsense of increasing the sugar content in food by like 1000% for no goddamn reason.
Edit: brainfart, that's the exact point you made in the few lines my brain skipped. Except the actual stuff being added is way worse.
The people defending big sugar are pathetic and a dangerous problem. They are hopeless and drag this country down with their BS lifestyle choices. This is why we can't have universal healthcare. People don't want to subsidize other people's crappy unhealthy lifestyles.
PERFECT analogy
Also, we wouldn't allow the licensed weed store to specifically advertise and sell to minors.
super good arguement
Vaush: "Corporate greed is leading to food being addictive and unhealthy and video games being dull uncreative Skinner boxes"
Chat: "how dare you criticise my favorite slop 😡"
Fr chat was extra defensive and stupid this segment
Chat is always insufferably defensive and stupid. IDGI
@@mememachine-386 that's sugar addiction for you...
@@mememachine-386 Them being stupid was them saying "dont ban stuff" you know, the Nazis actually banned a lot of surgary stuff and enforced excercise. I guess we really do need to return to tradition.
The chat is behaving as the average american who barely ever drink water because the only liquids they consume are 90% sugar slop
Watching twitch chat say "dogshit take" when he is saying that soda is objectively bad for you, and then other people reflexively defending diet soda because it's "not the same as regular soda" is actually sad...I try to believe that most people can think logically but twitch chat does a great job at proving me wrong.
In fairness its only dumbasses who actually say anything. If you agree with vaush what are you gonna send in chat, just thumbs up?
People just want to not feel guilty there just trying to hide there addictions there scared of being wrong once
I like how Vaush said "stop companies from putting out diabetes in food form" and chat took it as "You can't drink soda"
Really, it was him being fairly hyperbolic when it comes to soda, speaking as someone actively cutting their soda intake. The only thing in sodas that would fulfill his claim of "your body is telling you that this is caustic" is the carbonation, the rest is syrup. And you can make homemade syrups with a fraction of the sugar that taste just as sweet. And if he is talking about the sugar content, then it would be consistent to want alcohol consumption monitored due to how the human body breaks it down into sugars. Hell, he'd have to ration eating his nuggies with ketchup or bbq sauce, both of which have the same amount of sugar in 100g as an entire can of soda.
His statement came across as holier than thou, but chat absolutely weren't charitable to him. The big issue is adding sugar in everything cheap and gatekeeping healthy food behind prohibitive prices and food deserts
@@brandongarcia2929 Literally nobody consumes the sugars in ketchup and bbq sauce at the rates at which Americans guzzle soda. Also, your body absolutely does not metabolize alcohol into sugars, lol. Alcohol WILL release insulin and prevent your liver from releasing glucose which will raise and then plummet your blood sugar levels. All alcoholic beverages are going to have sugars in them. But no, alcohol does not break down into sugars in your body.
Soda is a huge problem in America. Vaush is correct on this. I believe this to be the case with many sugary drinks we have, like juice, or slurpies, or coffee like mentioned in the video. We drink a lot of bad shit and not nearly enough water.
@@brandongarcia2929to be fair. You tipically don't eat 100g of ketchup in one sitting, just one tablespoon. But you can totally have a can of soda in one sitting. Even multiple cans.
Chat is doing the equivalent of defending the Tobacco industry adding chemicals to cigarettes to ease the absorption of nicotine (BTW this is an actual thing). Internally, tobacco companies have understood and have readily admitted that cigarettes are nothing but a convenient means of delivery for their actual product, nicotine.
I wouldn't be surprised if certain elements in the food industry think of their products in the same way, i.e. as sugar delivery mechanisms.
Chat be acting like Vaush is trying to start the Diet Communist Revolution, introduce the Diet-ctatorship of the Pro-Light-ariat, writing "Das Zucker, Vol. 1", and then they go defensive, reactionary, bad faith, disingenuous and honestly what irks me most, acting like Vaush is some rando from whom they don't know if he can engage in proper skepticism, critical thinking, and in revising his beliefs when new data comes along. Immediately they play defense for the Food-Industrial Complex in the name of "Individual Freedom™."
I swear, I can't stand Hasan's foreign policy disaster of a position, but credit where credit is due, as the years have passed I've come to appreciate his generally somewhat itchy ban-finger, at least. At some point people have to be taught to listen for a moment and engage thoughtfully before they barf a comment out. And if one isn't willing to do that perhaps one's "based political positions" or whatever are just not enough. You can be correct regarding ideology and policy in general and still be a factor in turning a place into a toxic cesspool of mistrust and bad faith interpretation and argumentation.
@@gaiafanti1885I work at a grocery store and seeing people buy 3-6 cases of soda at one time is so baffling to me. I grew up on Mountain Dew but I’ve been mostly soda-free for about three years now and it’s been amazing. I cannot stand overly-sugary drinks in any form now. It leaves a film in your mouth.
As an overweight man, please, can we get the corn syrup out of the ALL THE GODDAMN BREAD so I can avoid dying early because our sandwiches are basically made of cake? Our bread is way more unhealthy and way WORSE than everyone in Europe. I would kill for a regular supply of normal decent bread.
My brother went to New York and told me the bread tasted like cake, so yeah...
My advice as a European would be to make your own. Especially sourdough (I‘m German and we BREATHE sourdough bread). Get some type 405 wheat flour (regular flour) or even better whole wheat (or type 1005) flour. All you need is flour, water, salt, and a sourdough culture which shouldn‘t be too difficult to get a hold of, you only need to buy it once and it then carries on and evolves with you (like a family pet 😊). There are plenty good tutorials on how to make good proper bread, get a recipe by either a German or a French person though. Those two are Europe‘s primary bread powerhouses with a millenia old tradition of baking bread.
Once you start reading food labels you realize almost everything in the grocery store is filled with sugar. Even random shit like bread. We don't need everything to be sweet, it's such bullshit
As a Dutchie, I can confirm that German bread is really good. Kaiserbrötchen is the first thing that comes to mind but it's not good that, in order to eat healthy, you can't eat the local food
I think the bakery section in your supermarket makes fresh quality bread but doesn't have a bunch of corn syrup preservative in it because it goes bad in like a day.
I also often think about how unnecessary the amount of food coloring we add to stuff. There is no reason why any soda has to be toxic slime green and why the flaming hot Cheetos I’m eating rn has to be neon red
Welcome to Red 40-ville
When seeing that food as an English person (such as the colour of Fruit Loops), it is alarming! I’d be scared to eat those colourings and wouldn’t want my child to either.
Half the stuff in the US like that is banned everywhere else in the world. Literally we lack a certain color in skittles here cause food regulations here state it's life threatheningly dangerous.
That’s not a problem at all. I don’t drink soda no matter what they put in it.
I´ve spent time around multiple US expats living in Europe and ALL report both losing weight and feeling various health issues fade away while not dieting or holding back from sampling our most delicious cuisines in any way.
When you can go to somewhere like Italy and eat pasta-based stuff all day, not up your exercise and still lose a bunch of weight, something is seriously wrong with the US diet.
I’ve heard that same story from many other places too. It’s amazing what just having better regulations and traditions about what goes into regular foods can do for people’s health.
It probably the reduced driving and increased walking as well
Yep. Lost 20 lbs after moving to France even while eating croissants and cheese. Wtf
Yes, 'cause pasta here will make you fat. If you're low on money, you go to the dollar store and get a pound of pasta and you eat for a week. It's why the people who are poor are the biggest.
@@jellyhorizonfood is less calorically dense
I actually highkey agree because a sweet tooth can be solved by way less sugar than what pre-made drinks/snacks can provide.
I've started making a conscious effort to make my own sweets so I can regulate the sugar content and I find it tastes better and leaves me satisfied. It's gotten to a point I struggle eating pre-made goods because of how sweet and bland it is in comparison
Yeah whenever I have a sugar craving now I just eat fruit. Much healthier and I don’t feel like shit afterwords
It’s incredible how important beverages are in terms of healthy diets. I have grown up with water and juice*, lemonade only for events, and guess what? The world wasn’t any less tasty. The more sugar you eat/drink, the number you become to it. If you drink lemonade or similar drinks two thirds of the time, of course water will taste like hell … duh.
*) I mean actual juice, not those sugar bombs which once lay next to an apple and half an orange in 20 inches distance.
you can just eat a banana and that'd be enough for most people...
Exactly, the hippie grocery store I work at sells a pack of gummies with 3g sugar in the whole pack because it used substitutes but the sugar makes it taste the same
As a girl with a fat fetish and loves being fat u right, it needs to be more of a challenge, its sad seeing people have trouble being a size they dont want to be
😅
@ColourDork i am unbound
Wtf
@@diaatlus Nah fam, keep going and gravity will bind you to yourself.
I do however, jokes aside appreciate your honesty.
@@diaatlusBASED
This is based. Chat freaking out is exactly proving the point: we are all sugar addicts. And their defensive behavior is the same as if they were alcoholics taking offense at people ripping on alcohol and suggesting they have an addiction
Chat getting mad is totally an American response. Corn subsidies is only the tip of the iceberg you literally can’t get away from the slop if you consume processed foods period
This so much... reading chat was so cringe. If this is truly how most Americans think... the future ain't looking so bright for the US of A, that's all I can say.
@@afujimoto3843 The future isn’t bright. We are basically living as if the movie Idiocracy was reality
I actually don't really like sugar.... besides raw honey.
@@Sarah-with-an-H I bet you've been saying that for a decade now.
Vaush: >Makes a correct take about health and lifestyle
Chat: "WHAT ABOUT THIS OTHER THING!?!?! DON'T ASK ME TO INVESTIGATE MY LIFE CHOICES!!!!"
This happens every time. I cannot believe how much cope Vaush's fanbase has about being weed addicted, sugar loving, time wasting gremlins.
A hallmark of the terminally online.
Also the total inability to pick up on Vaush being Hyperbolic or Sarcastic, its truely impressive, i know a lot of vgg is autistic but COME ON.
I think the comparison with alcohol or tobacco would work a lot better it those things werent age restricted.
Because yes, I think I am opposed to giving beer or cigarettes to 5 year olds actually.
I'm slowly trying to crawl my way out of that lifestyle and I think it's because it's insanely hard and terrifying to think about
@@Jeremy-hx7zj once you claw your way out you won't look back bro
What really really gets me is how many corporations get away with marketing foods that are basically sodas and candy as healthy foods. Like juices, most granola, sugar-added dried fruit, or yogurt with literal jam at the bottom.
Yogurt and jam is a pretty normal and tasty breakfast. High protein Greek/Icelandic yogurt with a spoonful of strawberry jam is a great post-workout food.
@@matt2.019 I'm mostly talking about the ultra-processed "jam" at the bottom of american yogurt brands that adds unnecessary amounts of sugar to an otherwise healthy food.
@@matt2.019why would anyone put jam on yogurt. That sounds disgusting. I put protein powder and mixed berries.
Glad he brought up the Medicare for all and needing to tax sugar and stuff. It’s the only way it can work
no fr!!! or at the very least medicare for all would incentivize the government to restrict this garbage bc its actively costing taxpayer money
With medicare for all it stops beeing your problem and start beeing everyones problem.
Yeah we have a sugar tax in Denmark for the same reasons. We actually have tax on nearly anything that have strong connections to desserts.
Belgium just instituted a nationwide subsidy for biking to work, increasing for the distance biked. Get that cardio in.
Honestly we could make a big improvement by literally just, like, not _subsidizing_ a sweetener that's, like, second to lead in terms of how bad it is for you.
I have stopped eating sugar for about 3 months now and have lost about 50 pounds. I had one tiny piece of cake for my daughter’s birthday and I thought I was going to die. Not having sugar for so long made me realize how much sugar is in the stuff we eat.
Even the bread in the US isn’t considered bread in some countries because of the high sugar content.
I remember I did that once , then had a bag of chips and a huge cup of soda, I thought I was gonna puke all night. I really need to get on that again but it is a challenge considering I'm poor af
You could have achieved that weight loss without cutting out sugar as long as you had a calorie deficit. The biggest problem with sugar is that it's an easy way to pack on calories. Especially in drinks.
sugary drinks are the most disgusting shit I dont get it, like the "coffee" people drink is so absolutely disgusting.
@@jennoscura2381 why make it harder? sugar creates the desire for more sugar. cutting it out is just better
You did eat carbs though starches? Potatoes for example is very satiating
I gained weight in the US and I was visiting for a month. Now back home the weight is coming off. It seems so hard to stay healthy while living over there and I commend anyone who does. Sugar in everything, food advertised like crazy, so many food places you drive past with easy accessible drive thrus and big flashy signs. It's not right.
Not to mention a nearly complete lack of healthy quick options. People are busy, many have to work two fulltime jobs to survive, the only food we CAN GET sometimes is premade slop.
Many of us don't have the time to meal prep or a loved one to do it for us. The default is carcinogenic slop they can't even legally sell in Europe.
Its not just getting fat as well, the damage to teeth is insane, without modern toothpaste, mouthwash, and dentistry a shitton of people would be dying from dental infections in their 20’s and 30’s.
Oh fuck you're right! I didn't think about that 😬
Facts i was reading a book about English history and this happened when sugar was first brought to Englandand became available around the tudor period.
people started eating it in EVERYTHING. They had sweets made of PURE sugar and nothing else.
It was crazy, and part of why people died so young in that period.
?? toothpaste is a nothingburger. always was. what cleans your teeth is the brushing. the paste just tastes nice. whatever you brush on your teeth that isnt medical sealant specifically for teeth (that is burned in at the dentist to actually give you cavity protection) is essentially just for taste and smell. and mouthwash, in most cases, actually hurts your flora if you use it regularly (without an ongoing infection like a thrush, cut or parontitis)
@@HoaxManTheOne this is just wrong, toothpaste contains mild abrasives that will loosen food particles and plaque making brushing more effective, and the fluoride in toothpaste accretes on tooth enamel to assist in regeneration of the enamel layer protecting your teeth.
so true
Lemme tell you, when I was in highschool I worked for a Dunkin and I would always do a pump and a half less than what the customer ordered because of just how much sugar and corn syrup was in their drinks. They didn't notice the difference and it made me feel better that they weren't getting as much sugary death in them.
Oh because of working at Dunkin I NEVER get any drink that is not just a straight espresso shot. Even then I don’t get that often wither
The hero we need
@@SahnigReingeloetet i did what i could, especially since I was actually a good barista who could make drinks properly. But there were customers who would order like 6+ pumps of syrup and would watch me to make sure I put it in.
Actually I noticed but I was trying to be nice and didn't tell you >:(
@@ToxicAWOL Dunkn made me stop eating any kind of sweets straight up. Babysitting an entire store for 10 hours with the smell of sugar and shit will do that. I ironically stopped drinking coffee during college when I stayed up for 3 days straight and started to have auditory hallucinations.
As someone who has recently started experiencing severe hypoglycemic episodes from a combination of insulin resistance and overconsumption of sugar, I whole-heartedly agree with this message. I have recently changed my diet to cut out added sugars and eat more whole grains/whole foods, but it is incredibly challenging when you are tempted at every grocery store, gas station, etc. by excessively sugary options. Cutting out sugar severely limits the kinds of foods you can purchase considering just how much sugar is found in nearly everything currently on the market, even supposedly "healthy" options.
Even just cutting out fast food and sugary drinks has helped my numbers. I'm too broke to go full-scorched-earth on sugar and processed foods entirely, but I've made big improvements just cutting out fast food.
Vaush claims to be an ally, but doesn’t know what trans fat is
TRANS FAT IS WOKE
ha
I mean, a little bit of trans fat is better than what you would normally eat of sugar/corn syrup in a day
Trans fat is another corporate thing. Crisco debut'd back in 1911 when Procter & Gamble purchased rights to a German patent on hydrogenated* oils.
*btw: it's _hyd-ROG-en-ated,_ like you'd say _and-ROG-y-nous._ You hear people saying _HY-dro-gen-ated_ and that ain't right. It's not like you got some hydrogen and ated it. And yet that's exactly what you did. Just don't say it that way. And don't ate it too often.
@@L2_Impart also arguably preferable to cis fat
Maintaining a healthy weight in the US is a genuine challenge. We should make real steps towards reducing healthcare demand. Bike subsidies. Health food subsidies. As a Democracy 4 player, I know this will work.
Thankfully I was born with good genetics cant say the same for most of my family though
@@jackmakila3776 XD this is genuinely how a lot of people think. The American South having such a high obesity rate obviously is related to the level of urbanism and typical diet. Genetics plays some role, and there's evidence that epigenetics has a role (i.e. your parents being fat can make you more likely to be fat, independant of other factors).
its really not that hard... stop eating trash... move more. calories in calories out. EASY
@@William-Morey-BakerIt's not that simple to change behaviors that have been instilled since childhood.
@@William-Morey-Baker What I'm saying is that it's easier in a country in which eating garbage isn't normalized and incentivized.
As a soda drinker. I drink a lot of water too, but soda is addictive too. I quit cigarettes easily, and I quit abusing pain pills with relative ease as well. But soda.... I struggle with severely. Ive tried switching to diets and zeros to try and cut the sugar out and itll stick for like a month but then Ill get a "real" soda at a restaurant or event and fall right back down the hill. Sugar and soda are real addictions, and while Im not sucking dick on the street for a soda, I do get jittery and on edge when I dont have one for a while. Im with Vaush on this, and the government should step in on HFCs, and maybe that will start helping a lot of people.
For people who don’t know “pumpkin spice” things arnt always going to have pumpkin cause pumpkin spice is a seasoning blend not a flavor in itself. What your getting is the seasonings used in pumpkin based dessert
You are not getting PUMPKIN flavor, you are getting pumpkin PIE flavor
basically mulling spice
Yeah, it’s cinnamon, allspice, cloves, nutmeg and ginger. It’s the spices we put into pumpkin to get that classic flavor
Seriously, we all friggin KNOW pumkin spice flavor is doesn't have pumkin. If this guy wants to make a point about horrific sugar content, that's valid. But fuck, trotting out the "thars no punkin'n thar!" schtick is an excellent way to make people roll their eyes and ignore the other info. Because it's just talking down to the audience at that point.
Thank you, now I finally understand why the way Americans talk about pumpkin things is so weird
Sugar doesn't make you feel full it just gives you cravings to eat more food. Food companies know this and this is why sugar is added to everything in America.
They have corporate owned labs to research what triggers the best rewards to keep people coming back...
The people who are saying, "It's a discipline issue." are also unironically taking Ozempic they don't need.
Also I hate the fact that all the blame is put on us, the consumer. If we’re overweight or have eating issues, it’s our faults. That’s what many doctors promote and what society at large likes to blame. Not the companies making food on the levels of addiction equivalent to crack
Because they make a shit ton of money on selling “diet foods” and programs they know aren’t going to work. The diet industry is a billion dollar business.
One of the reasons is that this is how the sugar industry (with Coca Cola at the top) have managed to move the blame. Just like how the plastic industry have managed to make it our problems for not recycling enough when it is them that produce the shit that pollutes our environment.
This is literally always always always the grift. The displacement of corporate responsibility onto the consumer. It's all conservative moralism for the exact same reasons, power and control.
"Turn off your lights", "stop using cars and just bike everywhere", "go vegan", and so on are the same shtick for climate change: You, the individual, should Make Sacrifices and work overtime to compensate for the entire orders of magnitude more impact corporations have on the planet! Yes, you! It's your job to take a tiny napkin to the gigantic (almost literal) oil spill that is corporate emissions! And also to just magically fix your health despite how often it's literally impossible to find decent food that won't kill you with sugar, fat, or inflated costs, by the way.
This! People’s default thought on overweight people is that they eat too much, but nowadays you can eat 3 small meals a day and still gain weight because everything has so many calories in it for no reason!
theres a shit ton you can do to not be fat. activity and excersize which are lifestyle choices make up a huge part too. obviously, its a systemic issue- but still take accountability.
As much of a crazy conservative my mother has become, she always tried to instill healthy habits to me. She'd buy bread without high fructose corn syrup, reduce the amount of salt in everything, and reduce the amount of soda and sugar in the household.
Also, I think Vaush lowkey "uncovered" a conspiracy among data analysts who stopped studying sugar/caloric intake after 2000.
Big Sugar has bought out academia! /s
Actually there’s a food youtuber Adam Ragusia (think I spelled that wrong) who has mentioned how hard companies have fought to keep the unhealthy aspects of corn syrup on the down low
The Nazis did this too. They banned a lot of sugary stuff and enforced excercise on the path to creating the master race. Not a great tree to pick from.
Lol Joe Rogan has been talking about this since the beginning of his podcast, windows explorer levels of discovery
@@biggripper9795 isnt that guy a anti-vaxxer, and took Horse Medicine thinking it was better?
Bug sugar gained a real foothold when president Eisenhower had a heart attack. The public became aware of fata/cholesterol in processed foods and instead, sugar became the norm to make food more palatable
This shit fucking scares me. I'm fucking burnt out from my soul-sucking job and sometimes when I go home I just grab something quick because I'm exhausted, and of course I go to a sugary comfort food. I'm trying to exercise "personal responsibility" and defiantly go for a healthier choice, but even having to do that is adding to the mental weight of just getting through the fucking day. Sorry for the rant, just thought the experience was relevant.
I feel you there but small changes will lead to great outcomes over time. You'll lead yourself to a much more comfortable wellbeing.
Best of luck to you.
The part about Medicare for all having this as a trade-off is extremely sensible and common sense. I live in the UK, and the whole reason why we have such high alcohol, sugar and tobacco taxes are that if you want to have those vices and the associated health issues, you should contribute towards the health system that will eventually help cure you.
Fucking based
Although I agree with this, I think the NHS would do far better if it adopted more of a preventative care approach rather than treating the symptoms of the cause.
It is not right to put extra funding into an inefficient system. The NHS should also be about informing citizens of the dangers of high sugar and alcohol. The dangers and costs it presents to the NHS.
@@inbb510 one could argue that the disproportionately high taxes are preventative since they're a purchase disincentive that also telegraphs to the buyer they're a health risk.
My old roommate was Japanese and he had a giant rice cooker that was always full of rice. It was amazing. He taught me my favorite breakfast which was dropping a raw egg in hot rice and stir with salt and pepper. It's like a really good porridge with tons of protein and energy for breakfast
1 egg on 1 cup of cooked rice is about 10g of protein. Not very high protein but still delicious. Eggs are high in protein and very healthy, but rice is quite low
rice cooker is so great I had a similar situation when I lived with a phillipino guy he always had a big rice cooker full of rice we could just snack on and make meals around it was great. I have one now but its like small and i just use it to make rice for a specific meal im making usually curry.
Tries this in the UK and instantly gets salmonella
@@Shannon_Lynch Gotta be careful to do it only with pasteurized eggs. In Japan they will also have labels to say whether they can be eaten raw or not.
From what little Japanese I know “meals” mean “rice+food”.
i used to put literally 5-ish tbsp (TABLESPOONS!) of sugar in my coffee/tea and one day i was like WTF am i doing??? i quit cold turkey that day. it's been years and i no longer put any sugar in my coffee/tea and do not enjoy super sugary drinks or desserts anymore. it also pisses me off that companies are allowed to do whatever tf they want to our food and it's normalized here! it's so not normal though!
The big realization I had about the stupid amount of shit American food can get away with was when I started shopping at Asian supermarkets more. Specifically when I got “classic American” lays chips because I thought it was funny. But because the regulations, the chips were less greasy and less salty and honestly tasted better because you could actually taste the potato. Now it’s probably not healthy or anything, I didn’t check the nutrition label, but I felt less shitty after eating it.
Really puts into perspective that regulation could literally solve the obesity crisis.
I ate the 50% less sodium lays chips and cant go back. It's so much better
Omg i‘m used to German lays chips and love them because they taste so much like potato. Went abroad and had the same lays but imported from the US and i couldn’t eat them because they were so salty, it hurt!! And the regular bag was so huge. Actually started to hate Lays for a while after i gotdone with the bag. and i was so thirsty afterwards, my god.
Vaush: says soda is bad for you, which is a fact
Chat: "You must be fun at parties"
Also, Adam Ruins Everything has an episode about health and it has a segment on how the sugar industry was arguing that sugar is good for you and fat is bad for you, and how they were lobbying to make studies that align with that.
anyone who drinks soda at a party is a bitch, have an old fashioned or a martini or something, wtff
I have a lovely Asian coworker who is about 60 years old and she has to get her weight down but feels desparate because it keeps going up and she has no idea why. I literally had to tell her that she has to cut out all liquids with sugar. Juices, balsamic vinagrette, soda, sweet tea, sauces, etc are PACKED WITH SUGAR. When I mentioned balsamic vinagrette and juice she had no idea those could be unhealthy.
Also, I lost 30 pounds and am at the maximum healthy BMI and people think I got too skinny. It was eye opening how normalized seeing overweight people is.
I can't believe America kind of just forgot about the obesity crisis. When I was younger it was everywhere and everyone was talking about it. Now, nothing changed and America just learned to ignore it, just like school shootings.
I have also noticed that there is no recent data about this stuff, all videos about it, on youtube, are like more then 5 years old.
Yeah it's pretty sad tbh. America is a deeply fucked country to live in 💔
Ppl ignore it bc too many ppl are unwilling to changw or even see an issue with their actions.
@@snekdoodnah culture war nonsense has infected people's brains and has them distracted on that than the real issues. Now it's constant debating about whether or not trans people deserve rights
As a European that knows about nutrition and looks at labels fairly often. Those numbers were outrageous. I have never seen anything like that on any product in the store and that is unimaginable that that tiny drink has half of a days calories and almost 200 grams of sugar, I know I'm just repeating the video, my mind is just blown so I had to put this out there. I'm from Finland btw, so our foods are particularly low-fat compared to just the rest of europe, I don't know if we have less sugar though, but I sure as hell know that ain't no drink having 200 grams of sugar here. I often wonder how people get really obese, now I get it, one of those a day and you're omega obese in no time
It's not tiny and it's not a drink
@@iceman5117how is it not a drink?
@@iceman5117 that looks like a .5l cup and that's small. If you're supposed to use a straw them buddy i got news for you it's a drink
@@popejaimie it's a dessert
@@sacrilegioussasquatch a half l cup is big, especially by euro standards. And it's a dessert
I’ve been saying it for years: sugar is a drug. It’s a drug we’ve become culturally numb to, but we’ve coined the term “hangry” to describe sugar withdrawals.
I kind of agree, but as someone who backpacks and so does in fact somewhat regularly have to ration HEALTHY food, or go hungry during the hike between breakfast and dinner, hangry is very much a thing in the absence of additional sugar. Being hungry sucks, just like being tired, and it’s no more a withdrawal from sugar than being emotional when you’re tired is a withdrawal from sleep.
You can definitely feel hangry. I am on a no sugar diet thanks to health reasons. But I will still get pissed when I am hungry and can't immediately solve it because hunger is an unpleasant feeling. It's distracting. And if you stub your toe you're also pretty pissy and annoyed.
We literally got hormone changes when we get a hunger signal that will make us more aggressive because we're on a time crunch to refuel. It's survival instinct talking. However you don't always need to eat if you are hungry. Because it's really just a signal that our stomach is empty. Not that we don't have enough nutrients.
its crazy that soda is basically the default drink when you go out to eat. When i stopped drinking soda altogether like 2ish years ago and just started to order water instead, my family genuinely found it weird and asked me why. there have been several times when my family orders sodas from fast food places and not any waters and I just need to refuse drinking anything till get home. Its so normalized, and not many people know how horrible it is for them.
thats fucked bro... water is goated ngl. Or coffee or tea... but not damn soda...
The peer pressure to drink soda is real. Its so stupid.
Who is drinking soda by default when you eat out? Is this just an American thing because that seems extremely juvenile. For adults in non American countries it's usually coffee, tea, beer, wine or water. Depending on the meal, of course.
@@Rossy167 yes this is very much an american thing and yes adults do it all the time here
@@Rossy167 alot of americans when they say "eat out" mean fast food. because in a shit ton of places in america there are no affordable restaurants.
One of the big reasons companies switch to corn syrup in addition to the cost factor is it is more shelf stable than regular sugar so the product will stay "fresh" longer and the supply lines can be stretched further and further.
I'm not sure this holds water, mostly because if it's kept dry, processed sugar has no expiration date.
@@bacaestrife3615 why do you think the 5000 year old honey they found near Tblisi is still edible? same for 3000 year old honey found in Egypt, sugar is/ can be used as a preservative..
@@bacaestrife3615 Very true, but there is a reason sugar should be stored in a sealed container in a cool dry place is because it is extremely hygroscopic. (readily absorbs water0
It is so hygroscopic that it will pull moisture straight out of the air. And if you put one of those fancy and super delicate sugar sculptures in a refrigerator overnight, any exposed surface will literally start melting.
If you do any baking from scratch, you typically mix all the dry ingredients thoroughly and separately mix all the wet ingredients before mixing the wet and dry together. Well, because sugar absorbs moisture so easily, when scaling out a recipe it is considered a wet ingredient.
So again, while what you said about properly stored sugar not ever expiring is correct, as soon as it is mixed with anything else, it is no longer plain sugar losing that property.
Source: I had a carer as a pro chef once upon a time. I even went to culinary school with an entire tern dedicated to baking/pastry where i first learned all this fun stuff.
I moved to the US 10 years ago from Asia. I went to Walmart for groceries and got some pastries. I went home and was excited to try a red velvet cake I got but the moment I bit into it I was shocked to find that it’s so sweet that it almost tasted bitter. I asked my German roommate to try it and he also immediately spat it out. I’ve visited many countries and none makes desserts as sweet as the ones in the States. Then some of my colleagues kept sharing cake recipes on social media where the baker would melt candies for cake coating or frosting… It’s wrong how the corporations get away with turning the public into sugar addicts who are likely to face lots of health problems in their later years.
Eh the food coloring also tastes bad
I used to be 300lbs and the chatter was right. No one who is obese is happy. They lie, and I know because I lied to myself and others. Being that heavy effects every part of your life, from your sleep to how you learn. It’s misery.
i know the anecdote is correct because i also have a similar anecdote lmao
I have a BMI of 30 and I feel huge. I fell down the fat acceptance rabbit hole where it's people much larger than me acting like they're content with their life. They can barely walk, they can't bend down. I can't imagine they aren't crying themselves to sleep at night.
Hey fam, how did you do it? Im not lying to myself, i always feel horrible. Like anytime i see a candid picture of me my fucking stomach drops, every time. And its not even just that, like being fat is uncomfortable in general lmao. Im probably like 350-400 lbs, and its so past time to make a change, im just not entirely sure where to start, other than will powering my way into a daily caloric deficit. Can you point me in the right direction to some resources that would help with nutrition, exercise, etc?
@@Stunnacrew87hi!! I struggle with my weight but I can give you some tips that did help me drop weight off the bat.
Cutting calories and shit does not work in the beginning stages imo, but making switches to things does. I swapped soda to sparkling water (sparkling ice is a favorite for me). I cut sugar by buying low/no sugar alternatives or protein bars. (Recommendation: power crunch bars taste great)
Portion sizes come next, but I would really recommend just swapping to low/no sugar alternatives first. You won’t believe how much that does for you.
@Stunnacrew87 one piece pf advice I've heard for losing weight is to find tasty foods that are filling. Refined carbs are generally something you want to avoid because you'll feel hungry quicker. You can replace white bread with whole wheat bread for example. Olive oil, fats, and protein can make food more filling.
I'm not exactly an expert on this, but hopefully it helps.
As a person who have been extremely overweight my entire life and also done cocaine... sugar has been the harder one to break away from
Wow!
You weren't overweight from sugar. You were overweight from eating at a caloric surplus.
@@kyol420
That's literally such a stupid comment. The excess calories were _in all the excess sugar_ you absolute dingus😂
Bro, I've tried many drugs but none of them are even close to being as addictive as sugar
I’ve heard that a lot tbh
LOL fucking chat goes into "how can you be against my favorite death sludge if you are for drug decriminalization" like a proper death sludge junkie would.
cooking advice: learn to make a goddamn stew
meat, onions, cabbage, carrot, garlic, spices, beans, corn
make 8 goddamn quarts (approx 8L) at a time and there's half your meals for the next week for $30 and an hour or two of your time
buy the japanese curry mix, add it to your stew, now it's curry
or boil some potatoes for 15 minutes first and mix them in with a bunch of cheese, now it's chowder
could you post a recipe perhaps. understandable if not
Also if you're not COMPLETELY dirt broke and can get an instant pot somehow, it takes all the brain work out, yeet everything into the thing in the morning and take it back out at dinner.
That's my strategy. Stew usually tastes even better when you reheat it. I usually freeze a few portions though, so I don't have to eat the same food for a week but still have food for the days I can't make myself cook.
Also look into Korean soups if you can, they damn tasty and easy.
The part that's wild to me is you can make deserts with around the same calories as 1 can of soda. And coke and pepsi advertise their drinks like they are just a normal part of your meal.
I wish so much there was a reduced sugar version, not diet or zero calories or whatever, I just want a regular Mnt Dew with like, a quarter of the sugar. It would taste so much better
It is I drink a dr. Pepper can with dinner every night. Granted, my meals are also homemade, but I'm not giving soda up because people don't make their own meals.
Don't forget about orange juice with your cereal or panCAKE breakfast, nobody needs to start their day like that besides athletes that're constantly burning it off on the daily.
It's so bad that a pint of most icecreams can easily have as little as 25 to 30 percent of the sugar content as a single 20oz of (insert soda here). and that same 20oz is almost guaranteed to have over 200% of the max recommended daily sugar intake.
@@darkshadowrule2952Unironically, that would be pretty great. They could also probably get a good flavor profile by using a little bit of sugar and filling in a bit more with artificial sweetener, avoiding the weird fake sugar finish. The real argument against excess sugar is that that amount of it tastes disgusting.
We should literally just adopt EU standards over one year period and start from there
except republicans will block it
i don't blame republican people, i blame republican politicians. republican people are being manipulated into thinking that republican politicians are liberal, when in reality they're conservative authoritarian. authoritarianism only works when it isn't motivated by money and hate. The Enclave is real and they hate us.
for context, I'm societally traditional, but overall progressive because progressivism's entire philosophy is bending the government to work in favor of the people and what is best for everyone.
but that would be “communism” and would turn us into blue haired pronouns
Decriminalization of drugs doesn't mean you may buy it in the grocery store, it means you will be sent to rehab and not prison.
You should be able to buy those in authorized drug stores. People should be able to go to a pharmacy and buy heroin without a prescription. That way the street dealers and drug cartels don't make as much money. Who in their right mind would buy street heroin cut with who knows what if pharmaceutical grade heroin is legal and relatively cheap? To quote Ron Paul during a Republican presidential debate. "If heroin were legal how many of you would go out and try heroin?"
you cant force people into rehab. The moment they will be released they will go back on the drug. There are way more complicated reasons for addiction than withdrawal.
@@nehriim3748 given that every country can and do force people into literal prisons, I'm sure more or less forcing them to rehab facility wouldn't be as problematic.
Point is, decriminalized doesn't mean not discouraged
@@dr_birb It wouldn't be 'as problematic' indeed. But it would be a complete waste of resources. Which is, suboptimal. There are many ways to reduce drug use, but trying to force a drug person off a drug never actually works.
Things that will work in my experience: A healthier environment and psychiatric care.
From my many years of experience with drug users, and as someone who has had substance abuse issues in the past. People get on drugs because its the only thing that they feel can make their life less miserable. It is a reaction to a situation. Sometimes this can be mental problems, sometimes this can be a horrible economic situation. But its never 'purely' the fear of withdrawal.
@@nehriim3748 idk, state sponsored rehab seems less expensive than prison...
Which is a rehab in addition to suspending your human rights.
Tgis is genuinely one of the best takes i have heard from vaush. The fact that you can just stumble into ruining your life by eating these things is horrifying.
as someone who had the opportunity to spend two weeks in japan for an art course - can confirm on the food/sugar topic.
i remember feeling my blood sugar get low from how much walking in the summer humidity and decided, reluctantly, to get a donut.
it was a snack. it was literally a snack. it satiated my need for sustenance without making my body/stomach feel heavy like i just consumed a bag of sugar. it was wondeeful and i miss having a donut like that every time i see a donut.
I agree about not being educated on liquid calories. When I was in highschool everyone drank soda, usually multiple times a day. It wasn't till after I had already graduated and saw a random picture showing how much sugar was in 1 soda that I stopped drinking it. Looking at the physical amount of sugar legitimately scared me, I hadn't ever thought about it like that before. I immediately stopped drinking sugary sodas, I still drink a diet soda every now and then
be careful! diet sodas usually replace sugar with some form of artificial sweetener and since those don't count as "sugar" they actually won't tell you the exact amount of sweeteners contained nor their caloric value on the label... that being said, it's ok to drink soda like twice a month, just make sure you're not drinking it too often and you'll be fine c:
@@DaCavola there is no evidence that artificial sweeteners like aspartame have any negative health outcomes
@@DaCavola i dont think its legal to lie on the nutrition label about how many calories something has, calories arent just counted for sugar they are a unit of measurement of energy. if a soda doesnt contain sugar but does have calories they have to list them on the label, the way some diet sodas (like coke zero) are made just makes them have zero calories (or close to zero) its not some kind of trick lol. they arent good for you or anything and have a similar effect on ur brain as regular soda which can make you crave more sweet unhealthy things (and this is completely unscientific but they just taste like theyre bad for you lol) but they are the better option. there isnt really any evidence for artificial sweetners being harmful, while we have a pretty good understanding of the harm sugar causes.
Doing research with citric and phosphoric acid, the acidic solvents of many carbonated drinks, to make fertilizer components will help.
@@BlisaBLisa I know what calories are and there is no way you can convince me the artificial sweeteners in a coke zero have 0 calories, our bodies digest them and burn them just like sugar.
As for the legal side of this, I'm a medical student, not a lawyer, so I might be mistaken: afaik they must include them in the ingredients list, sure, but they are able to get away with not including them (and their calories) on the table of nutritional values.
Fun fact: Several zoos have stopped feeding their animals actual fruit because of how much sugar they now have while also having less nutrition.
*Even our zoo animals are getting fat because of how much sugar is put into everything.*
Clearly the zoo animals just need more discipline.
Please tell me the fruit doesn’t have added sugar…
@@mrgaudy1954 fruit in general has been selectively bred over the years to be sweeter and sweeter or grow bigger and faster. Both usually causing the actual nutritional benefits of the fruit to drop.
They don't need a summer fructose pick-me-up when they spend a vast majority of their time locked in exhibits.
@@Woodchucks_woodncrafts YOU CANT ESCAPE THE FATTENING. ON YOUR KNEES LITTILE PIGGIE AND SUBMIT TO THE STATE
A LOT OF AMERICANS EAT FOODS THAT ARE BANNED IN OTHER COUNTRIES.
everyone actually
Me and my wife (we're from Spain) went to the USA about 5 years ago, and we always tell people the same anecdote when we talk about it- After about 4 or 5 days of eating in restaurants and doing a supermarket shop and being totally lost over what to buy, one day we saw a store which had a salad bar, and we dashed in, made a salad, and then ate it right there in he street 😂 . We liked the food, we both eat too much junk food at home, and the portions were amazing and the price was great, but it's exactly what Vaush is saying, the problem is we COULD NOT BUY a normal, sensible meal ANYWHERE. We were both feeling awful, just lethagic and icky, and we both felt desperate for some fresh vegetables after only a few days (of eating well and enjoying the meals). Something with a healthy amount of protein, some complex carbs, and a few fresh vegetables. A bit of chicken breast and some steamed veg, a fish fillet and a salad, just something recognisable as a meal. If you get a salad, it's covered in sauce (they call it dressing, but it's sauce), or if you want to make pasta at home you can't just buy tomato sauce that doesn't taste like a desert. Again, we have MacDonalds, Taco Bell etc in Spain, and we're getting more and more unhealthy in general, but you always, always have an option to walk into a bar, grab some grilled meat and a tomato salad, and go.
I’m also from Spain and when I travelled to the USA this summer I gained 4-5 kgs in only 3 weeks. Now that I’m back home the weight is slowly coming off but I was so shocked when I got on my scale and saw what American food did.
I'm American and you can buy meats and veggies in the grocery store here. There's unsweetened tomatto sause, heck even unsweetened pasta sause.... if you look careful through all 18 options for the one expensive one that has real ingredients, and only in large stores, you won't find anything like that at a dollar general lol
I'm an amarican and I am very fit I have a rule, sugar only in my food. I do not eat beef. Chiken and alot of rice. I could use more fresh veggies tho, they are abit expensive here. But chiken is the key to health in amarica imo
I gained 6 pounds wen I went to America for a few weeks even depsite working out. The food there is awful. I couldn't wait to get back to Europe, I lost the extra pounds wen I got back
@@doctornobody611you look like a zombie from a Tim Burton movie😂. You're not fit at all. Beef is good for you and sugar is very inflammatory.
"You're way madder at sugar addicts than you ever have been at weed addicts"
A: I don't think that is true, and chat gets just as triggered when vaush criticises pot heads anyway
B: YES 100% yes, BASED. Sugar is FAR more dangerous for you than weed, guaranteed.
TRUUEEE
unless you have psychosis....other than that, yes
@@fortheloveofnoise even then though, sugar does so much more destruction to your body than weed does. what does weed do for psychosis? make someone a bit more paranoid and anxious? tbh id take that over sugar, personally.
The weed is just as bad for me because it gives me THE WICKEDEST sweet tooth ever 😂 usually I'm not a huge sweets fan, but once those munchies kick in.....
@@snekdood i mean ive heard of some people who are already predisposed to schizophrenia having it or psychotic episodes triggered for the first time by smoking weed so like, that's pretty bad. & there's cannabis hyperemesis, which is also not great. But those aren't really comparable to to the issues chronic overconsumption of sugar cause because those are waaaayyy more common
I feel like Vaush's chat has the hardest time dealing any time he talks basic nutrition... gets me riled up on his behalf.
I felt it when you said sodas feel like they want to kill you. I never really liked soda; it's fun for like a sip or two when the carbon bubbles are still fresh, then it just feels like an obligation to drink the rest. Drinking it is like angry carcinogenic sugar liquid being poured down my throat & I can feel myself dehydrate with every sip.
100% this. I didn’t use to feel that way when I was younger, but last year I decided to stop having soda so often. Even at family gatherings I always just have water or milk. Having pop now just feels like I’m getting no hydration, and I always think while drinking it about how I’d rather just have water right now.
Bubbly water is my replacement.
@@davidradtke160 Yeah, sparkling water is a good alternative over soda -- especially because the familiarity of carbonation can play a role in the addiction. The trick is finding the right sparkling water for you. I, for one, hate Buble and it as my first sparkling water experience turned me off. But when a good friend of mine introduced me to Bubblr? Game changer.
I've never had a soda, this makes me wonder what it tastes like bur not really
Holy shit, chat is so brainbroken 98% of the time. Idk how Vaush does it.
I would probably get so mad Id do the worm xqc style or something
This video deserves a lot of credit for warning people about stuff that can ruin their organs.
Knowingly doing cocaine and unknowingly drinking an entire box of donuts every morning are two different things.
And personally, I'd rather knowingly eat that entire box of donuts. 🍩
@chearththecactus eh, I work nights with the occasional morning.
I could see eating a whole box of donuts through my work day after a shitty morning.
Edit: and as much as I'd love to lose a foot, I like my nose just as well.
@chearththecactus coke sucks. Do heroin.
Just avoid sweets, be mostly vegetarian and have some cocaine every now and again.
@@alessandromorosin3251 honestly I think this is unironically why people prefer homemade food tbh.
You feel better eating it and it actually has real flavor.
And a LOT of fruits and veggies naturally have enough sugar tbh as someone who does use a lot of them in her cooking.
*So I do unironically actually agree with the eating more plants thing.*
_(Of course as someone with heart issues, _I'll sadly have to pass on the little bit of cocaine.)_
@@Gingersnaps_the_pumpkin_kitty Ill take your cocaine if you arent gonna use it
From what I've read, doctors recommend 40g of sugar a day. That thing in this video is almost a weeks worth.
40g is a LOT. It’s gotta be like half that maybe less for 1 day
40g is insane, we Americans are so fucked lmao
And even those 40g are pretty copium. We don‘t need sugar period. It‘s not that they‘re recommending 40g it‘s that they actively don‘t recommend going above 40g.
@@SahnigReingeloetet Broski the body needs sugar, not a ton, but you *do* need it
@@buckyhurdle4776 no it doesn‘t. It needs carbs, not sugar. You‘re nuking your pancreas with pure sucrose.
Chat is being so purposefully dense. How is it hard to understand that bread, which is flour, yeast, salt and water in most of the world, should NOT have sugar in it
We do have dessert breads that got sugar in them. But you know that for one and secondly you know how much sugar is in there.
I’m Irish and when my family visited America I was shocked how much sugar there is and the volume of food. It’s bizarre to me.
Spanish here and I experienced the same. First day we went to a bbq place on times square, and we saw the people ordering some kind of huge ass milkshake with marshmallows and wtv, and it was kinda obvious to me that it was pretty much as sugary as that oreo milkshake thing, and I wonder how people actually dealt with that. I'm a little fat, mostly due to not being super active, but even I know to avoid that shit...
I'm going to Ireland next year and i'll probably think your food have too much fat in it
@@italucenaz Nah, our meat has the good stuff. Ireland grass feeds their animals so the fat is flavoured more. It’s actually pretty popular internationally, agriculture is a major export for us
@@michael.471 i was just scared whan i saw the typical ireland breakfest and the ammount of sausage, beans, eggs and meat made me think I will spend the whole week in Dublin super constipated
@@italucenaz Nonono, that’s a fry up. If you had that every day yeah, bad times are coming for you.
I live in Iowa, which is essentially the corn capital of the States. We subsidize the shit out of ethanol, corn syrup, and literally anything else corn because 90% of the land in the entire state is farmland and a shit ton of it is corn. There’s no reason for corn in my state to be this artificially widespread when tons of other crops can be used to do what corn does but healthier and more efficient. The culture around corn in Iowa is so fucked, too. Since agriculture is like the main thing in Iowa, anytime anyone says anything about maybe toning it down with the fucking corn for 2 seconds, your career as a politician is basically over at that point
Howdy, neighbor. I'm in Wisconsin and the big agriculture subsidies are wild here too. Like, maybe we shouldn't produce so much milk we just pour it down the drain? Just saying?
😮 another Iowan Voosh watcher
I had a friend that recently passed and she ate Canes, McDonald's, and Dunkin seemingly every day. I'm honestly convinced that Dunkin killed my friend. I look at the menu and I know they're healthier items, but once someone is addicted and finds those kinds of items, it's just the same as an overdose to me. This is absolutely unacceptable and no human being should be put through the painful death and life that my friend went through.
People can say that it was her choice but you can't tell me that addiction isn't real no one wants to be an addict. so many people long for love and affection and when they can't find that in their communities they turn to substances.
Cindy I miss you like crazy and I promise to do everything I can to be a healthier person because I want you to see how beautiful life can be on the other side of addiction. I wish I could talk to you and we could talk about boys and work
I’m so glad I live in a rural area, the only fast food we have is subway and McDonald’s. We don’t have Dunkin or Taco Bell or other crap like that. If you avoid McDonald’s and some stuff at subway you’re good. Still have to avoid crap at the grocery store of course, but it’s not hard.
when i was in japan i actually found many treats to be overwhelmingly sweet/rich. Despite that it still had less sugar and was generally healthier
Those black thunder chocolates are legit 10/10
@@nilscarlson8168 Damn, you made my craving come back. I'll be thinking about black thunder forever now
Ha I went to Japan in highschool and brought my host family 2 jars of home made jam. They loved it but had never really had it before.
I agree with you, like people in Japan actually eat quite a lot of sweets imo but the quality of them is much higher and they cost more 🙂🤷♂️
hmmm probably because the issue isnt sugar per se. its consuming mostly carbs and in excess. same happens if you only eat rice or only eat fries. if you fill your daily calories with dogshit you get malnurished. if you mostly eat healthy and are moderately active, your body couldnt care less about a few sweets or soda. it will probably even reward you for providing a quick and easy boost to fast digesting glucose
That guy in the video at the beginning has been absolutely annihilated by every doctor/dietician on TikTok for being super anti-science about normal food (I think he pushed the carnivore diet for a while), but it’s good to see that not every single video he does is garbage. Pretty much every informed person knows we have a major sugar problem in the US.
Finally someone framed leftist thought around healthy eating. I don’t understand how it’s somehow subversive and anti capitalist to support processed food being subsidized. Like you said, if people want unhealthy food, it should be more expensive, not the other way around where healthy food is more expensive. How is this not a leftist take to advocate making healthy food cheaper and more accessible and just use the current funding for processed food to help fund healthy food instead and other policies like that. Well, the reason is healthy foods have shorter shelf life so corporations make more money from processed food and then they lobby to subsidize it on top of that. It’s another example where capitalism run rampant will lead us to eat less healthy so as long as we aren’t in post capitalism we need to regulate this and how that’s not a common leftist take and instead most leftists defend processed food is weird to me and glad someone in the community spoke out otherwise.
Chat badmouthing rice is wild to me. That shit is the bomb, you can do a trillion things with it, pair it with vegetables, all kinds of meats fish lentils anything under the sun.
And it's so easy to prep-- do a little fried rice and toss everything in there (carrots, broccoli, egg, ginger, onion, peas, peppers, bok choy, pineapple even) and you have a solid nutritious dinner for like a week straight
You can eat it but you can’t have 5 cups of it in one sitting. I monitor my blood sugar like it’s an art form. I can eat 1/2 cup of rice and my GL is only a few points. Pairing with veggies works for me!
@@sharonshumpert1917Who tf would eat 5 cups of rice in one sitting
@@harashe1000you’re making me crave fried rice now, that sounds delicious
Spanish rice, fried rice, rice based soups, literal rice wine. The food is so brand, but can taste like heaven with the smallest flavoring. Infinite creations can be made of this godly plant.
Watched a doc recently about Cadbury developing a chocolate bar with 30% less sugar, but with the same amount of calories. One of the people tasting it clearly didn't understand that sugar kills you. She said if it has the same amount of calories it's pointless to remove the sugar.
I stg I've gotten so much conflicting information about nutrition. I thought the problem with sugar was the caloric load, is there something innately bad about sugar to where the same calories from different source would be better?
@@johnthomason9980I think the problem is mostly the calories
@@johnthomason9980it is always better to have complex carbs instead of simple carbs. Sugars are just one or two monomers while complex carbs like starch are thousands. Your body expends energy breaking those bonds in the complex polysaccharides. There are also nutritional benefits to eating actual food as opposed to sugar. It's better to eat a baked potato than a plate of sugar that has as many calories as a baked potato.
Wait, but were they trying to keep the calorie count the same? Why IS it the same, anyway? What did they put in it that makes up that difference? Like, why not just have a bar with 30% fewer calories?
@@FelisImpurrator They replaced the sugar with fiber. Most people liked it.
I’m a mom of 6 kids and I spend hours making my kids meals and snacks from scratch because I refuse to feed my children this shit that they put into food for no reason.
I pay top dollar for the best quality food and travel far out of my way to get it. The fact that you have to reinvent the wheel to not poison your family in America is disgusting and it should be illegal!
No other country in the world allows all of this toxic waste into their food like we do in the US.
I'm UK and a lot of traditional UK meals (and I dont mean beans on toast) like roast dinners, shepards pie, full english breakfast ect is designed to fortify us against harsh weather and its good for winter diets because its basically lots of potatoes and lots of meat but these dishes dont even come close to what a fast food company can pump into one drink
Vaush is a fellow water drinker 🤝
Does tea count if it's herbal and you don't put anything else in
@@asherroodcreel640 the fact you asked proves your not a real water drinker 😂 bro probably can’t tell the difference between vending machine Dasani and McDonald’s Dasani 💀💀
@@kyle2jj yeah well I Mc donals desoni you'r mom 💀💀💀👰♂️💭💭👣👾🐒
@@kyle2jjcringe.
This reminds me of a food company the Colbert Report made up, which sold chicken meat from chickens fed exclusively on oreos. Their advertisement jingle was "why not eat like you've just given up". This was way back when it was possible for satire to exaggerate reality.
I feel like this should be studied, like chickens fed with normal bird diets vs pure sugar. And this also makes me think: do turkey, duck, and quail actually taste game-y or do they just have regular bird diets? Because our chicken is not fed with their natural diet so they taste way better to us than wild birds.
I caught this segment live, and said in chat how losing 60 pounds and accidentally regaining 40 in a year after dieting hard has fucked my mental health.
I lost 50, then just wasn't paying attention and regained 20 over 2 months.
I think what makes it so hard is the constant vigilance. Unless you completely switch out your household's food with nothing but "clean" food and never eat out, it feels like a never ending watch of counting calories.
@@devingilmanexactly. Food isn't supposed to be this damn calorie dense. I'd be fine eating the same size portions of food I do now from literally anywhere else in the world.
Shit sucks :/
I spent 6 months dieting and exercising and lost around 15lbs. I then had major surgery and was totally unable to move for 6 weeks and gained all that weight back. Now it’s so hard to get it back off even on a diet and it’s really fucking me up mentally :( People think being overweight is about eating too much food but it’s really not, I really don’t eat that much food; it’s just all full of so many calories for no reason!
@@devingilmanI realize that not every diet works for everyone, but for me intermittent fasting has been working really well, for about 3 years now.
What makes it great to me is that it's not just about what you eat, or even how much of it, it's also just about not eating ANYTHING for a certain period of time, ideally enough to get your body to start burning its own fat.
If you just come up with strict rules for when you eat then that's a simple absolute rule that you can follow without having to think about it, while in the time that you do eat you ideally still put in a bit of effort to pick healthy foods, but you don't have to think as much about it.
@@thesilentcomposer1278 hey, on the plus side, billionaires are making more money off you!
European food is also drastically less sugary than north-american
Agree, we should all be eating home cooking waaay more often. I realize that most people don't have the time to make elaborate meals, but there are ways to make healthful food with minimal effort. For example, when I first moved away from home, I often threw a cut of meat and vegetables with olive oil and seasoning into a hand me down crock pot to cook while I was away at work and came back to a tasty roast for dinner. It was also quite economical, as this gave me leftovers that would last me through the week.
I’ve recently got into baking everything from scratch. My guys it tastes soooooo good. Plus using pure cane sugar helps your brain get full from the calories versus corn syrup
Citation needed. Preferably a study published in a reputable peer reviewed journal. I would like to see some evidence that corn syrup is worse for your health than sucrose. If they ditched corn syrup and used sucrose, soda would still be empty calories. Mexican coke is isn't a healthy alternative to American coke because it's made with sucrose instead of corn syrup.
@@jennoscura2381 im saying that it is more satisfying to eat a homemade sweet with cane sugar versus corn syrup. From my experience more natural sugar causes me less bloating and brain fog. I dont fully understand it on thr chemistry level tho
Fresh hot bread from a bread machine or oven is just amazing. I love it so much.
I cut sugared drinks out of my diet and lost 40lbs. Didn't change anything else. Its absird how much sugar they pack into drinks.
Cutting out liquid calories isva great way to lose some weight. I save myself at least 290 calories by using sucralose AKA splenda in my coffee instead of granulated sugar.
People need to recognise that we share an addiction and it's being exploited on a uniquely large scale
This is exactly the reason i'm glad i got the bariatric surgery cheat codes. Because, the way they change your stomach makes you highly sensitive to fats and sugars. So if i were to eat a delicious bowl of iced cream it would taste good, but the pain and suffering i would experience from the dumping syndrome is worse than any benefit from the taste in the iced cream. So years later whenever i see something high in sugar it my brain has been reprogrammed to think of nothing but pain. You wonder why i avoid dunkin donuts like the plague... Then again i'm down to 286lbs from 500lbs so i'm not complaining rofl!
good on you for doing good for yourself :)
Good for you! You keep taking care of yourself, king.
I get this!! I got so scared of all the crap in our foods and drinks, so if I couldn’t find produce without sugar and or corn syrup and all that stuff, I would substitute and not eat that exact thing until I found a healthy one.
It's a bitch sometimes ain't it?@@ravioli1381
0:44 okay, to be fair: "pumpkin spice" doesn't mean "pumpkin". Pumpkin spice is a spice blend that is usually used in pumpkin flavored deserts (pies, loafs, cakes, etc) it is that spice blend that is being referenced with "pumpkin spice". Usually its a combination of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger. Very popular fall/winter flavors that happen to go really well with pumpkin based deserts and because they go really well with pumpkin-based deserts, they have become synonymous with pumpkin. You could also refer to that spice blend as "chai" imo because chai is often made with the same spices. (If you like pumpkin spice lattes, and you have never tried chai, please do, you can get chai lattes too. They don't taste the same, but they are similar enough that if you like one you'll probably like the other)
One of the reasons I like Bigelow's pumpkin spice tea is actually because they _do_ include pumpkin (or at least, they used to, I haven't checked the new boxes for this season).
It’s seriously so sinister how much sugar is in basic stuff. A 20oz hot chocolate at Starbucks has 70g of sugar. People shouldn’t obsess over sugar content, but if you’re just a regular consumer and don’t check these things out, you’ll stumble into more than half of your daily value of sugar for one seemingly normal drink.
The sugar lobby is evil. The reason you don’t see a daily value percentage for sugar is because more than half of the things you eat/drink in America roughly reach at least 25% of what would be the daily value for one serving size. People might make different choices if you included it. Again, obsessing over this stuff isn’t healthy, and a can of Coca-Cola isn’t going to kill you, but some people don’t realize what they’re consuming, especially when it comes to liquids.
keep in mind, here in the EU (while things are not perfect by a long shot) a lot of these foods exist too with much less sugar and quite different ingredients. a tasty milkshake can be 300 calories and be sweet and creamy. how the fuck do you get to over 1000 calories with that? its literally pumped in there.
That’s what I don’t understand, it’s like they are TRYING to make these things as unhealthy as possible.
We truly weren't prepared for comrade Michelle Obama's radicalism.
I'm a caregiver who works in people's homes and the majority of my clients are obese. A lot of my tasks involve buying groceries and prepping meals, and let me tell you.... A life of "I don't like water, I only drink soda/gatorade" and tons of processed food universally leads to a miserable end-of-life experience. It is really sad to watch these people suffer from late stage kidney disease, infections, diabetic complications, etc. and I feel like I'm constantly walking a fine line between helping and enabling.
All of these people know they are unhealthy but face a number of complex barriers to making changes. Some of them literally only buy all their food from the dollar store or a gas station. I think removing subsidies for certain foods would help, but there are many systemic social issues at play too.
I was born in 1992. Living in the south you have to drive everywhere, and fried food is the norm. I grew up eating fried chicken, fried potato wedges, and cornbread with butter. That was *bad*, and I weighed about 270 pounds in 2014. But as part of my transition goals and because I was feeling more positive, I knuckled down and cut my calorie intake down to 1,500 and walked for two hours or five miles every single day, and I managed to lose a hundred pounds in a year off of that hardcore level of work cuz I just wanted it that bad.
Then, Trump happened, and my positive mood died and I fell back into stress eating and stopped walking - both from the increasing heat and just not having the energy to. Despite not eating fried foods and bread literally every single day like I was growing up, I gained all of it back and more over the last seven years, because it’s just that easy to put on the weight. I can’t even have multiple meals, because a simple, good tasting dinner annihilates like two thirds of my daily calories. I wish I could ditch soda, but I just can’t. I limit my intake with the half cans and I literally always carry water with me so it’s not the only thing I drink, but going without is agony. I really despise this idea we can’t do anything about it, because I know directly it’s incredibly easy to fall down the wrong hole.
Could you make your own soda? I drink a TON of sparkling water, to the point it seems kind of silly to buy it by the case and have looked into getting a soda stream and flavor drops and whatnot. I bet they make actual sugary flavor drops that you could buy, or just use syrup to add sweetness and you could relatively control how much sugar is in it. After all, that's how soda fountains started out
You could just try replacing a drink here or there at first, or like half store bought / half home made
You can ditch soda, but you need to want to do it. The day you truly decide that you don't want that sh** anymore I pomise you it is going to be suprisingly easy to stop.
(Sidenote, if it is actually the caffeine you are addicted to, switch to unsweetened green tea, more caffeine and allround better for you.)
I listen to people who travel from or to the US and they all say how the food is the biggest problem. You could eat "less" junk food in the US, but still get worse food because everything has so much sugar and the food quality is worse than other developed countries.
I can’t believe “corporations should be allowed to poison your health to save a few bucks” wouldn’t be a “hot take” lol
Sugar addiction is such a nightmare. Even though I know how bad it is for me, just listening to you talk about how soda is killing us has me craving it.
If that’s how easily you are triggered to crave it, that’s all the more reason to fight the craving. I know it doesn’t sound like very satisfying replacement, but having some fruit around you can just grab can be a lifesaver when you are craving high sugar foods. Because your body can’t tell the difference between the sugars.
im thin and im highly addicted to sugar. That paired with parental neglect its cost me 30 dental fillings
im from the fattest european country, croatia
@@lil_weasel219 i also used the be very thin and addicted to sugar and honestly that pairing is the absolute worst, i'm just incredibly thankful that i like diet sodas lol
Same.. I use to have a ED .. some could stay I still do, I have a bad relationship with food where I am pretty scared of it still… so what do I do when I crave food? I DRINK something sweet instead … coffee, juice seeet teas ect, tho I know it’s bad for me it doesn’t freak me out the same as eating something with substance so now I have a sugar addiction and don’t know what to consume besides a sugar drink ….
That's why I follow the golden rule of "don't drink sugar." Drinks typically contain far more sugar than pastries or other types of sweets. Stick to water.
I'm so disgusted by how much sugar I ingest everyday. I'm done. This video convinced me to change my life.
Sodas are also quite easy to make. You need a syrup, sparkling water and optional additives.
Lemon soda is easy, just mix lemon juice, sugar syrup (I use 2:1 sugar to water ration, simmer until dissolved, it'll keep until you turn to dust). You mix (or even better, shake in a shaker with ice) the lemon and syrup, top with water. My favorite is to switch out the regular syrup wirh elderflower syrup (my grandma makes it). If you want, you could also add some gin and turn it into a Tom Collins.
Glen and Friends Cooking has a great recipe for a ginger and spice syrup (I just simmer it for an hour or more). Mix that with soda water, you could also add a few dashes of Angostura bitters.
frrr!! super easy! ive severly cut down my sugar intake, and dont drink any pure sugar or added sugar any more, ive found teas and kombucha or jun are good low sugar alternatives. even like a table beer which is like 1% abv is pretty tasty and basically none alcoholic.
I used to down orange-cream sodas constantly every summer, but lately found that there's these orange-vanilla seltzer waters. Sometimes if I want to replicate the vibe of that drink I'll add a splash of vanilla creamer and it's way less sugar that way.
As someone from UK, I am SHOCKED at the amount of sugar in American bread! BREAD! What could possibly be the excuse for that???
✨ Corporate greed✨
Vaush: Maybe we shouldn't have single drinks with more sugar than you need for a week. Maybe high fructose corn syrup shouldn't be so subsidized it becomes a waste product they dispose of it in everything.
chat: I only have one joy in life it is my occasional soda! FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS! HOW DARE YOU!
Also, sharing a coffee with your significant other and adding veggies to your plate goes a looooong way in improving overall health, not just weight. Riced cauliflower is cheap, it's a superfood, and is a good replacement for rice. Frozen spinach is also cheap and easy to make delicious. Fresh brusslesprouts, carrots, green beans, etc are great and easy to roast in the oven with a small amount of olive oil, salt pepper, etc. And simply only having water or a light snack after 8pm is good, too. A lot of people, myself included sometimes, eat half a day's worth of calories late at night.
Only problem with making rice cauliflower will make your house smell like rotting garbage for a while.
A lot of healthy eating isn't cutting out everything you enjoy, but it's preparing them from home instead of consuming their highly processed, corn syrup pumped alternatives.
@@LaBlueSkuld you can buy riced cauliflower for $2 per bag, and each bag is good for 2 people if you're replacing rice. And it doesn't have a smell (or a very minor one at most)
@@MiaoNya very true. It's a mix, right? By preparing things at home, you are inadvertently or intentionally also cutting out other things. Like Vaush said, if people wanna eat a ton of food, power to them. But I think a lot of people just don't have a solid knowledge on how easy it can be sometimes to make healthy choices, so they make choices that fit into their usual pattern. That's how it was with me, anyway, and im still working on it
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