Ever since I was diagnosed diabetic, I've had to pay attention to nutritional labels and lemme tell you, it's nothing short of frustrating to see just how many things have wayyy too much sugar in them! Even things that really shouldn't have added sugar at all!
That's actually what made me quite mad when I lived in US. Sugar/corn syrup/artificial colors in number of places you won't even remotely expect them to be. I mean, why add corn syrup and artificial colors to dried mango? Why?
😢 that’s also been my problem since diagnosed diabetic. I don’t even use the artificial sweeteners because of cancer risk but to find something no sugar added is nigh impossible.
its worse when you want to know how much sugar you are getting from a can of something like chef boyardee and in canada they do not give you total per can where the do in the states now and that is one policy i would like to see come across the boarder. as it was the whole fat free kick was because the sugar industry duped the world blaming fat for all the health problems when the problem is sugar as humans are not supposed to have sugar which is why many of us become diabetic.
I’m Haitian-American. I really appreciate you not sugarcoating (pun intended) the impacts of slave labor and capitalist greed both historically and modern-day. Im going to re-watch this later
Bread (in the US at least), especially hamburger/hot dog buns, white bread, pretty much any processed form of bread, not even including pastries, has a ton of sugar in it too
You are absolutely correct. In the US, condiments such as ketchup, BBQ sauce, mustard, salad dressing all contain sugar. Even canned soup and pasta sauce contain sugar, as well.
More like driven by the back and forth between the goody-two-shoes who work for the FDA and the food manufacturers who want those goody-goods off their backs...
Sugar cane/sucrose is one form of a carbohydrate. When you look at the food's label you see: added sugar. This comes from many things that are actually sugar, especially High fructose corn syrup. You should do a video on all the names of "sugar" in foods.
Excellent video!! Doctors have known that sugar isn’t good for us for quite a long time, but as the video says, greed shouted louder. As a Type 1 diabetic, I *always* read the nutrition label! I wish more people would and then maybe we could get all of the horrible chemicals out of our foods.
@@ladymacbethofmtensk896 the problem is that it’s so hard to avoid sugar, it’s in way too many things that don’t need it and there aren’t options without it most of the time.
@@The.One.True.B It is much easier to simply not snack on junk food all the time. Merely limiting my consumption of sweets to a couple times a day (afternoon for tea and evening after dinner) left me in a calorie deficit that, coupled with a tendency to walk as much as possible and a ballroom dance habit, led to a frightening and inconvenient bout of weight loss so severe, I needed to gain back twenty pounds just to make my clothes fit properly.
@@ladymacbethofmtensk896 sugar is in a LOT more than just junk food, you’re missing my point and for some reason really being defensive about sugar in several comment threads. Do you work for the sugar companies? lol ideally one shouldn’t eat sugar on a daily basis, at least not this kind of sugar. Daily natural sugars from fruits and such are fine but we should live in a world where we can grab food somewhere without sugar being in every entree, every side dish, every sauce, every drink, etc
@@The.One.True.B You are missing MY point, which is that the sugar that is in everything would not be anywhere near as harmful if SOME people didn't constantly gobble and gulp large portions of food all the time. You may not be able to avoid sugar, but you CAN consume less food total. It is about limits, and limits are the responsibility of the consumer.
this is a really great way to use your platform. informative yet entertaining. Good or bad, the more entertaining someone is the more people listen. Big ups weird history staff!!
However, you still need to correctly identify the issue. Whether sugar is healthy or not is the wrong question. While there is indeed a correlation between sugar consumption and obesity, the causation is much more nuanced; the truth is that sugar itself is harmless, and the real problem is connected more to excessive consumption of sugar. What is to be done about it? There is nothing government mandates can do about it, because trying to impose dietary reform via state coercion will lead to resistance. What we need is a different conception of healthy diet, one where it is not WHAT we eat but HOW that matters.
not really. I happen to be trained in research science. I think this video spent a lot of time trying to shock us, but didn't give us anywhere NEAR enough evidence! Cite your sources, dammit!
I thought I heard recently that aspartame is no longer considered to cause cancer, and it no longer has the cancer warning on its packages. Also, you didn't mention that one of the artificial sweeteners, Xylitol, is highly deadly to dogs. in fact, I know lady whose dog nearly died because he swallowed some chewing gum that was sweetened with Xylitol.
You mean the Reddit post about the lady that left an entire cardboard box full of the stuff on the counter where she knew her regularly counter surfing dog could reach it simply because "she didn't think he'd be interested in gum", and then tried to sue the gum makers afterwards? Bruh.
@@teamgb5756 No, I mean a lady I personally know who left a container of gum on her nightstand in her bedroom, and the dog came in and got a hold of that container of gum.
And then at the very end of the video someone apparently became the victim of one of the sugar lobby's most persistent lies. Rest of the video is great. Thanks!
1:00 Sugar didn't originated from Brazil. It looks like this because there was so muchh sugar production in Brazil that people started to think it comes from there but it actually is not true
I live in a small town with a huge sugar factory and I can tell you one thing the industry doesn't want you to know - it really reaally stinks when its fresh. (Beetroot sugar)
The sugar used in canned fruit is what preserves it. For years, you got the sugar syrup in the can, with the fruit. Companies want to seem lighter, more natural and having less sugar, so they drain off the canning syrup and fill the can with mostly pear juice. It sounds healthier.
Just like Sugar the key to everything in life is Moderation. Noone says this when it comes to Sugar. Sure I like my Big Mac meal with a Coke but I'm not going to eat one everyday.
the same lawyers who represent big tobacco, big alcohol, big dairy also represent big sugar. a high sugar diet is also a high fat diet because the liver has to store it somewhere so its placed in visceral fat and not to mention organ fat and fat in your heart and clog arteries. sugar is additive as cocaine but its not federally regulated because its profitable. even if you dont eat any sugar flour is actually worse then sugar in that it spikes blood sugar higher and strips minerals from your body. artificial sweeteners are no better for the body in that we dont know the long term affects of these chemicals on the body so its a gamble. agave syrup / honey and other non sugar alternatives are no better then sugar because the effect is the same: spiked blood sugar. sugar or high fructose corn syrup is used in large amounts in just about everything on store shelves, grab a can of spaghetti sauce the next time your at the store and be surprised how much salt and sugar it has. salt and sugar are preservatives, and all processed food has the fiber removed to have better shelf life. try to only grab food staples that have no preprocessing like dried beans, rice, lentils, potatoes, kasha. avoid sugar, large amounts of salt, white flour, milk, oil, meats, cheese. not all flours are bad, whole wheat is ok, atta is ok, multi grain flour atta flours are excellent (corn, wheat, barley) by cooking at home from minimally processed basic food staples(dried beans, lentils, rice) you can nearly counter diabetes and heart disease with the help of a bit of exercise your a1c should be in the 5 range ez.
I don’t understand the hate for the female narrator, however I do understand how transitions work. The transition at around 4:16 was such a leap in subtopic and really jolts the narrative.
Sugar is not inherently bad for you, your body uses sucrose to make glucose, which your body needs. Your brain is dependant on minute by minute glucose in your bloodstream or it can't function. Too much sugar is the problem.
Also, you showed vitamin water ZERO, which has no table sugar, I think it's sucralose. Agree on ketchup, BBQ, and spaghetti sauces. Sugar soda is not part of any healthy diet imo. Most sugar substitutes are not harmful, but like all things moderation.
Aspartame and similar additives are far sweeter. The idea is for a healthier substitute that surpasses sugar in sweetness so people use the healthier substitute instead.
I drastically cut back on sugar for my health but after watching this, I feel like I should just kick all of it. Besides, the smell of white sugar repulses me to no end. I am not sure why I smell it; I just do. When it is frying, the smell is a million times worse.
You know back in the days of great battles like Waterloo , after the battle the corpses of horses and maybe soldiers were thrown by "farmers" in a big pit and lit on fire at a high temp. to make SPODIUM and that was used to purify white sugar 😖🤦♂ and that why there are no mass graves and skeletons found from the Battle of Waterloo .
Uh, sugarcane originating in Brazil and the west indies? You know the Spanish had transplanted them there, after the arabs had spread the culture from Persia to the Canary islands?
@@SimuLord it is about gender and race, those things dictate everything. if you’re gonna say that issue is an S tier narrator vs an A tier narrator….something so trivial then it is about race and gender….like come on
We’ve known sugar was bad since the late 80s/early 90s. That’s why there was a big push to change kids cereals to have less sugar and why brands like Wheaties and Honey Nut Cheerios were known (back then anyway) as the healthier alternative because they didn’t have much sugar. Then there was an even bigger push by the FDA to force everyone to label how much fat, sugar, and different types of sugar were in their products. Suddenly people realized Oreos weren’t just a snack, but week’s worth of calories. America was doing half way decent until recently when for some reason we’ve gone full reverse trying to pretend fat and sugar is good and that being a 300 pound whale is “healthy.”
The only people trying to pretend sugar is good for us are the sugar industry. Nothing has changed there. And if you're talking about body positivity, trying to shame people into losing weight is generally counterproductive - many overweight people overeat as stress relief, and insulting people for being fat, even if it's a direct result of their diet and the commentary comes from a place of honest concern for their health, is not a great way to get them to stop stress eating. I lost a quarter of my bodyweight during lockdown when I put myself on a diet and started exercising regularly, but I was only able to do that *after* I stopped being so disgusted by how I looked - because my immediate reaction to feelings of disgust tended to be to look for the easiest form of stress relief, which was usually food. I had to make peace with myself first before I could make healthy changes. As long as fat acceptance is nuanced enough to not persuade people that they're wrong to try and lose weight, it's generally a good thing, and, counter-intuitive as it may seem, can actually help people lose weight.
An interesting video, but it's littered with inaccuracies and makes wild claims with no citations to back any of it up. It makes me seriously question the rest of the content on this channel.
Artificial sweeteners were made to be a healthier substitute for sugar, and I say healthier, because the nutrition geeks hold that for something to be truly healthy, it has to be so bland and flavourless that it is a chore to eat it
You are showing products that use High Fructose Corn Syrup in the making of the products. HFCS is made in a lab and is a poison. Sugar is a natural substance and is not poisonous in its natural state, It depends on what is added to the sugar if it is changed to a poison. It is up to the individual how much sugar they intake. Don't blame sugar for the disease, you can blame the companies that make the products that put sugar in everything for getting us hooked on sugar. If you want to do a vid on complaining about how bad something is do it on High Fructose Syrup. That with scare a lot of people.
Calling sugar poison and complaining about fruit juice as being horrific are a bit of propaganda. Sugars are carbohydrates and necessary. Sugar in fruit is normal and fine. Miracle fruit has issues with freshness and shipping Aspartame is bad, but sugar alcohols are natural and readily available, but if you eat too much of them they can have some ugly side effects.
Huh wow we have miracle berry bushes growing here in Miami, at least at a garden I once managed in downtown, we had an enormous bush by the Suriname cherry tree. Yes, it's really that sweet and a shame politics got involved. Aspertame and Xylitol are the devil for true lol 😆
I really tried giving the narrator a chance over several videos but I just can't anymore. The charm of this channel is the personality not the topics per say. Gonna have to skip certain videos now. Sorry.
Viewers who enjoyed this video might like "Metabolical" by Dr. Robert Lustig! It's a comprehensive, attention-holding lecture that treats the reader intelligently, while ensuring the content is perspicuous for us non-scientists. Dr. Lustig cares about giving the 'why' behind the evidence; rather than just saying "this is bad for you," he breaks down the subcellular pathologies caused by processed foods and especially sugar, and the downstream effect this has on our bodies, our healthcare system, and our economy.
Why would you tell us we likely have things in our pantry that financially benefit this exploitation of human beings but NOT tell us how to go about avoiding buying it or even how to identify it?
There’s another plant called stevia that can replace sugar in term of sweetness. It has different type of sugar (not sucrose) which won’t be used up in your body.
Ever since I was diagnosed diabetic, I've had to pay attention to nutritional labels and lemme tell you, it's nothing short of frustrating to see just how many things have wayyy too much sugar in them! Even things that really shouldn't have added sugar at all!
I had the same problem. It's tough when you're first diagnosed trying to figure out what you can and can't eat.
That's actually what made me quite mad when I lived in US. Sugar/corn syrup/artificial colors in number of places you won't even remotely expect them to be. I mean, why add corn syrup and artificial colors to dried mango? Why?
FUCK Corn syrup.
😢 that’s also been my problem since diagnosed diabetic. I don’t even use the artificial sweeteners because of cancer risk but to find something no sugar added is nigh impossible.
its worse when you want to know how much sugar you are getting from a can of something like chef boyardee and in canada they do not give you total per can where the do in the states now and that is one policy i would like to see come across the boarder. as it was the whole fat free kick was because the sugar industry duped the world blaming fat for all the health problems when the problem is sugar as humans are not supposed to have sugar which is why many of us become diabetic.
I’m Haitian-American. I really appreciate you not sugarcoating (pun intended) the impacts of slave labor and capitalist greed both historically and modern-day. Im going to re-watch this later
capitalism has freed more slaves than any other economic system in the world. Facts are facts.
It's not really strictly capitalism, it's what you said prior. Human greed. Human greed comes in all forms whether capitalist or socialist.
You niggas couldn’t fight back😂😂😂
cool it with the anti-semitic remarks : )
@@OfficialRickHarrison you're welcome. 14
Finally.. someone explains dopamine properly! It isn't the 'pleasure chemical', it's the 'I *want* pleasure' chemical!
Bread (in the US at least), especially hamburger/hot dog buns, white bread, pretty much any processed form of bread, not even including pastries, has a ton of sugar in it too
You are absolutely correct. In the US, condiments such as ketchup, BBQ sauce, mustard, salad dressing all contain sugar. Even canned soup and pasta sauce contain sugar, as well.
Could you do a video on the food pyramid and variations of it, which have been mostly driven by food producers?
More like driven by the back and forth between the goody-two-shoes who work for the FDA and the food manufacturers who want those goody-goods off their backs...
Food Theory has a great video on this!
Yes, they did. I love all the Theory channels! I would also love to hear how Weird History would approach this subject.
anyone who thinks any corporation is any industry has the people's best interest at heart really needs to wake up.
Should do a video about corn and the shady dealings along with it.
yes! and how monocrops can damage soil ecology over time if over planted and using bad farming policies
That’s corny!
soy too...
Sugar cane/sucrose is one form of a carbohydrate. When you look at the food's label you see: added sugar. This comes from many things that are actually sugar, especially High fructose corn syrup.
You should do a video on all the names of "sugar" in foods.
I gave up almost all sugars back in October. Bout only sugar I get is a few beers on wknds. I lost over 40 lbs and feel so much better.
Cooking is the answer, you know exactly what you put in, and in general, it's a lot healthier.
@@asterixky steak or chicken with a Lil seasonin. On the grille. Good to go.
Agree. I stopped eating anything that is sweet.
hell yeah! well done, Joe!
This video seems to focus a lot about the US sugar cane trade but forgets the atrocities committed by the Spaniards with the first cane trades.
Excellent video!! Doctors have known that sugar isn’t good for us for quite a long time, but as the video says, greed shouted louder. As a Type 1 diabetic, I *always* read the nutrition label! I wish more people would and then maybe we could get all of the horrible chemicals out of our foods.
I really don't care if sugar is good for me or not. EVERYTHING is bad for you in excessive quantities.
@@ladymacbethofmtensk896 the problem is that it’s so hard to avoid sugar, it’s in way too many things that don’t need it and there aren’t options without it most of the time.
@@The.One.True.B It is much easier to simply not snack on junk food all the time. Merely limiting my consumption of sweets to a couple times a day (afternoon for tea and evening after dinner) left me in a calorie deficit that, coupled with a tendency to walk as much as possible and a ballroom dance habit, led to a frightening and inconvenient bout of weight loss so severe, I needed to gain back twenty pounds just to make my clothes fit properly.
@@ladymacbethofmtensk896 sugar is in a LOT more than just junk food, you’re missing my point and for some reason really being defensive about sugar in several comment threads. Do you work for the sugar companies? lol ideally one shouldn’t eat sugar on a daily basis, at least not this kind of sugar. Daily natural sugars from fruits and such are fine but we should live in a world where we can grab food somewhere without sugar being in every entree, every side dish, every sauce, every drink, etc
@@The.One.True.B You are missing MY point, which is that the sugar that is in everything would not be anywhere near as harmful if SOME people didn't constantly gobble and gulp large portions of food all the time. You may not be able to avoid sugar, but you CAN consume less food total. It is about limits, and limits are the responsibility of the consumer.
this is a really great way to use your platform. informative yet entertaining. Good or bad, the more entertaining someone is the more people listen. Big ups weird history staff!!
However, you still need to correctly identify the issue. Whether sugar is healthy or not is the wrong question. While there is indeed a correlation between sugar consumption and obesity, the causation is much more nuanced; the truth is that sugar itself is harmless, and the real problem is connected more to excessive consumption of sugar. What is to be done about it? There is nothing government mandates can do about it, because trying to impose dietary reform via state coercion will lead to resistance. What we need is a different conception of healthy diet, one where it is not WHAT we eat but HOW that matters.
not really. I happen to be trained in research science. I think this video spent a lot of time trying to shock us, but didn't give us anywhere NEAR enough evidence! Cite your sources, dammit!
@@scottdoesntmatter4409 🤓 erm axsually I love keeping dialogue about important topics out of the public eye.
I thought I heard recently that aspartame is no longer considered to cause cancer, and it no longer has the cancer warning on its packages. Also, you didn't mention that one of the artificial sweeteners, Xylitol, is highly deadly to dogs. in fact, I know lady whose dog nearly died because he swallowed some chewing gum that was sweetened with Xylitol.
and human gabapentin sometimes has xylitol so don't substitute even if the dose is the same
You mean the Reddit post about the lady that left an entire cardboard box full of the stuff on the counter where she knew her regularly counter surfing dog could reach it simply because "she didn't think he'd be interested in gum", and then tried to sue the gum makers afterwards? Bruh.
@@teamgb5756 No, I mean a lady I personally know who left a container of gum on her nightstand in her bedroom, and the dog came in and got a hold of that container of gum.
Yes it is.
@@leelalo6625 Yes what is? I'm not sure what you are replying too.
I LOVE THIS, I love you guys at Weird Food
I’m not used to hearing her voice but it’s growing on me, she did a great job on this one.
And then at the very end of the video someone apparently became the victim of one of the sugar lobby's most persistent lies. Rest of the video is great. Thanks!
I thought aspartame was studied multiple times that it doesn't cause cancer. Part 2 of this video: those studies about aspartame
1:00
Sugar didn't originated from Brazil. It looks like this because there was so muchh sugar production in Brazil that people started to think it comes from there but it actually is not true
I wish they would teach how to read and decipher food labels in schools
they used to...at least in Canada
I live in a small town with a huge sugar factory and I can tell you one thing the industry doesn't want you to know - it really reaally stinks when its fresh. (Beetroot sugar)
Ditto
The sugar used in canned fruit is what preserves it. For years, you got the sugar syrup in the can, with the fruit. Companies want to seem lighter, more natural and having less sugar, so they drain off the canning syrup and fill the can with mostly pear juice. It sounds healthier.
Just like Sugar the key to everything in life is Moderation. Noone says this when it comes to Sugar. Sure I like my Big Mac meal with a Coke but I'm not going to eat one everyday.
Sugar is in a ton of things that most people would never guess, that’s the issue.
SO my takeaway here, is that I should give up SUGAR for COCAINE. (Gotcha.)
Great video, Donald Rumsfeld still looking for WMD. Too funny 😂😂😂
He’s dead
@@tiffprendergast appreciate ya. I didn’t know that. They could have made a Still lookin in Hell remark. Better they took the higher road!😁
the same lawyers who represent big tobacco, big alcohol, big dairy also represent big sugar. a high sugar diet is also a high fat diet because the liver has to store it somewhere so its placed in visceral fat and not to mention organ fat and fat in your heart and clog arteries. sugar is additive as cocaine but its not federally regulated because its profitable. even if you dont eat any sugar flour is actually worse then sugar in that it spikes blood sugar higher and strips minerals from your body. artificial sweeteners are no better for the body in that we dont know the long term affects of these chemicals on the body so its a gamble. agave syrup / honey and other non sugar alternatives are no better then sugar because the effect is the same: spiked blood sugar.
sugar or high fructose corn syrup is used in large amounts in just about everything on store shelves, grab a can of spaghetti sauce the next time your at the store and be surprised how much salt and sugar it has. salt and sugar are preservatives, and all processed food has the fiber removed to have better shelf life. try to only grab food staples that have no preprocessing like dried beans, rice, lentils, potatoes, kasha.
avoid sugar, large amounts of salt, white flour, milk, oil, meats, cheese. not all flours are bad, whole wheat is ok, atta is ok, multi grain flour atta flours are excellent (corn, wheat, barley)
by cooking at home from minimally processed basic food staples(dried beans, lentils, rice) you can nearly counter diabetes and heart disease with the help of a bit of exercise your a1c should be in the 5 range ez.
I don’t understand the hate for the female narrator, however I do understand how transitions work. The transition at around 4:16 was such a leap in subtopic and really jolts the narrative.
I didn't expect Rumsfeld to pop up in a video about sugar, but here we are.
In some not so distant future someone will make a video about the dark side of aspartame and other not so healthy sweeteners😮
Enjoying this video with a cup of coffee sweetened with Dominican sugar.
Sugar is not inherently bad for you, your body uses sucrose to make glucose, which your body needs. Your brain is dependant on minute by minute glucose in your bloodstream or it can't function. Too much sugar is the problem.
Also, you showed vitamin water ZERO, which has no table sugar, I think it's sucralose. Agree on ketchup, BBQ, and spaghetti sauces. Sugar soda is not part of any healthy diet imo. Most sugar substitutes are not harmful, but like all things moderation.
FACT: Aspartame is the most tested food additive the FDA (and others) have ever tested.
And it wouldn't exist at all if not for the health geeks constantly demonizing everything that tastes good.
why did it fail to get approval multiple times?
Just like the Covid “vaccine “?
Honey is the best sweetener for me, good for the environment too with the bees and also health benefits
Thanks for the sermon
Learned so many things from this video. Hope I can find more videos like this in the future
In Ireland Subway's bread is classed as cake due to the high sugar content
Why does something that's bad for you have to taste so good?!
Because in America this issue is a binary that actually NEEDS to be questioned.
Sugar is so sweet that the *sugar industry* has to be the veritable flavor of evil to counterbalance things.
Aspartame and similar additives are far sweeter. The idea is for a healthier substitute that surpasses sugar in sweetness so people use the healthier substitute instead.
Sugar is most definitely not "a poison"
I drastically cut back on sugar for my health but after watching this, I feel like I should just kick all of it. Besides, the smell of white sugar repulses me to no end. I am not sure why I smell it; I just do. When it is frying, the smell is a million times worse.
This isn't weird history. It's just history. What's with the channel? It seems to have changed in tone recently.
You know back in the days of great battles like Waterloo , after the battle the corpses of horses and maybe soldiers were thrown by "farmers" in a big pit and lit on fire at a high temp. to make SPODIUM and that was used to purify white sugar 😖🤦♂ and that why there are no mass graves and skeletons found from the Battle of Waterloo .
Me smh at the evils of sugar while drinking coffee sweet enough to kill a rat.
You definitely don't need that much sugar in your coffee.
Uh, sugarcane originating in Brazil and the west indies? You know the Spanish had transplanted them there, after the arabs had spread the culture from Persia to the Canary islands?
Thank you so much for covering this topic!
Video ends with a straight up lie lmao
Quite a few burried throughout the video too. 🙄.
A video on the flawed Ancel Keys 7 countries study into fat would be an amazing follow up to this video!
Do a video on corn syrup or just corn in the US?
Just added some sugar to my coffee and it tastes sooooo good.
Oh you mean another way that Bidden is helping to increase inflation?
Sugar is indeed low in fat
Sugar is high in sugar though. /bigbrain
Low fat is a joke
Bravo! Thanks.
Lol the baby at 5:46 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Reject breakfast cereal, return to bacon and eggs.
Do the soda industry next and the hold they have on Americans being addicted due to the sugar content.
Thank you for this
And thats why I mostrly cook myself and eat very little processed food.
this narrator is doing fine. keep up the great work! embrace change men…
Are you for real?
No
^ y’all are probably single virgins…..who think a woman’s place is in the home and not taking a “man’s job” lol
@@SimuLord it is about gender and race, those things dictate everything. if you’re gonna say that issue is an S tier narrator vs an A tier narrator….something so trivial then it is about race and gender….like come on
@@markjackson6431 you are lame and annoying
Talks about sugar in sports drinks while showing stock footage of a sugar free sports drink. Makes sense.
We’ve known sugar was bad since the late 80s/early 90s. That’s why there was a big push to change kids cereals to have less sugar and why brands like Wheaties and Honey Nut Cheerios were known (back then anyway) as the healthier alternative because they didn’t have much sugar. Then there was an even bigger push by the FDA to force everyone to label how much fat, sugar, and different types of sugar were in their products. Suddenly people realized Oreos weren’t just a snack, but week’s worth of calories. America was doing half way decent until recently when for some reason we’ve gone full reverse trying to pretend fat and sugar is good and that being a 300 pound whale is “healthy.”
The only people trying to pretend sugar is good for us are the sugar industry. Nothing has changed there.
And if you're talking about body positivity, trying to shame people into losing weight is generally counterproductive - many overweight people overeat as stress relief, and insulting people for being fat, even if it's a direct result of their diet and the commentary comes from a place of honest concern for their health, is not a great way to get them to stop stress eating. I lost a quarter of my bodyweight during lockdown when I put myself on a diet and started exercising regularly, but I was only able to do that *after* I stopped being so disgusted by how I looked - because my immediate reaction to feelings of disgust tended to be to look for the easiest form of stress relief, which was usually food. I had to make peace with myself first before I could make healthy changes. As long as fat acceptance is nuanced enough to not persuade people that they're wrong to try and lose weight, it's generally a good thing, and, counter-intuitive as it may seem, can actually help people lose weight.
@@TalisguyW comment
The WHO isn't exactly looking good recently either.
That group of nazi weirdos who think they run Europe? Oh wait, that's the WEF. :P
Because?
@@xX60DemonDrummer09Xx It is a three letter agency. It cannot be trusted like every other three letter agency around us.
@@xX60DemonDrummer09Xx hey pal you just blow in from stupid town? Ever hear of this thing called covid and all the lies the WHO pushed
@@Lawrence_Talbot Oh yeah I forgot COVID-19 was massive plan by the WHO. What did it do? Idk but they did for sure.
Just fyi not all slaves are black
Thanks
An interesting video, but it's littered with inaccuracies and makes wild claims with no citations to back any of it up. It makes me seriously question the rest of the content on this channel.
FACT: Our consumption of sugar in America has GONE DONE since the 70s (because of artificial sweeteners)
Artificial sweeteners were made to be a healthier substitute for sugar, and I say healthier, because the nutrition geeks hold that for something to be truly healthy, it has to be so bland and flavourless that it is a chore to eat it
Texas tea...sweetener.
Lol such a great video and I like this narrator, but the end about aspartame? Facts guys!
I can agree that it tastes like shit tho
Thanks W.H.F.🖤
You are showing products that use High Fructose Corn Syrup in the making of the products. HFCS is made in a lab and is a poison. Sugar is a natural substance and is not poisonous in its natural state, It depends on what is added to the sugar if it is changed to a poison. It is up to the individual how much sugar they intake. Don't blame sugar for the disease, you can blame the companies that make the products that put sugar in everything for getting us hooked on sugar. If you want to do a vid on complaining about how bad something is do it on High Fructose Syrup. That with scare a lot of people.
Amen!
Greed Over People
I trust the WHO as much as I trust the sugar industry. Unless you believe Taiwan isn't areal place
I trust the sugar industry a hella lot more than I trust the WHO or the CDC.
Suggestion: Caviar. Why are fish eggs so expensive?
Breeding and harvesting costs, plus demand. Same as truffles and saffron.
Calling sugar poison and complaining about fruit juice as being horrific are a bit of propaganda.
Sugars are carbohydrates and necessary. Sugar in fruit is normal and fine.
Miracle fruit has issues with freshness and shipping
Aspartame is bad, but sugar alcohols are natural and readily available, but if you eat too much of them they can have some ugly side effects.
Huh wow we have miracle berry bushes growing here in Miami, at least at a garden I once managed in downtown, we had an enormous bush by the Suriname cherry tree. Yes, it's really that sweet and a shame politics got involved. Aspertame and Xylitol are the devil for true lol 😆
not xylitol it's a natural product unlike aspartame
@@deathhulk8860 makes your poop runny, no thanks
Without sugar, life will not be so sweet.
But then, I suppose, it would be more moral
video dropped the focus on history too quickly
Thanks for this! ▫ #WeirdHistoryFood #FoodHistory #Sugar
I really tried giving the narrator a chance over several videos but I just can't anymore. The charm of this channel is the personality not the topics per say. Gonna have to skip certain videos now. Sorry.
aren't you an adult
They are having her as the narrator a bunch of videos on a row in hopes that some of you haters will unsubscribe
@@stefanoraz27 lol
Agreed
Cringe take and weird as hill to die on
Lol the heart has 4 ventricles? That’s a negative weird history food.
First...to ask, "Where's Tom?"
White cis male go bye bye due to equity
Who
@@tiffprendergast Tom Blank, the narrator.
Whenever I bake unhealthy goods, I warn people of how unhealthy it is, but it's so damn tasty lol All things in moderation.
I think you did great
I'd like to see video on energy drinks from you guys. Great videos
good video
I think this video spent a lot of time trying to shock us, but didn't give us anywhere NEAR enough evidence! Cite your sources, dammit!
Liked this channel more before Michael Moore signed on script writer..
Sweet
Oh and at this point we might as well only have water, ice cubes, fatty foods and other stuff
Whats with the hate for the VA?
Viewers who enjoyed this video might like "Metabolical" by Dr. Robert Lustig! It's a comprehensive, attention-holding lecture that treats the reader intelligently, while ensuring the content is perspicuous for us non-scientists. Dr. Lustig cares about giving the 'why' behind the evidence; rather than just saying "this is bad for you," he breaks down the subcellular pathologies caused by processed foods and especially sugar, and the downstream effect this has on our bodies, our healthcare system, and our economy.
What a sad world we live in. Keep people from getting sick or get richer? Mmmmmmmmm
Why would you tell us we likely have things in our pantry that financially benefit this exploitation of human beings but NOT tell us how to go about avoiding buying it or even how to identify it?
Is the fruit still banned? Is that why can't say the name?
I looked it up, it's literly called "miracle fruit", looks like you can buy it online
It is a West African berry named Miraculin.
@joebroke76 @alexrgee thank you, I guess I didn't pay enough attention XD lol
That fruit sounds like something some left-wing science fiction writer made up.
Good try, sweetener manufacturers, but I'll keep buying sugar
ICYMI: you don't need ANY sugar, ever, in your diet. Try making a career saying that.
Should sugar be phased out in favor of sweet grasses? If so, then support my idea because I supported this idea!
Um, sugarcane IS a sweet grass! What an idiotic idea!
@@MatthewTheWanderer Wait! it is?! But I heard some people talked about it like they are both two completely separate things!
There’s another plant called stevia that can replace sugar in term of sweetness. It has different type of sugar (not sucrose) which won’t be used up in your body.
👍Blood Sugar
So the alternative is........
The Vitamin Water ZERO in your video, that you insist contains an unhealthy amount of sugar... contains ZERO sugar.... hence the name.
I’m not gonna lie…😒…😏you might be growin on me 👍
The constant drumming in the background mixed with music WHILE talking is extremely exhausting