As someone who did manual labor work in my early 20s, you HAD to eat breakfast if you did any sort of manual labor. Otherwise you would not have enough energy to work efficiently / quickly and you'd get fired eventually. When I switched to office work later in life, I found I could skip breakfast without any negative side effects on my performance. But if you do manual labor, you basically HAVE to eat in the morning or you're going to tire out quickly on the job and slow down... and that's a quick way to get fired. The few rare times I went without breakfast while doing manual labor, I found after the first 1 or 2 hours at work, my efficiency and speed plummeted rapidly. On days where I ate breakfast, I never an into issues unless I was injured / sick.
Can definitely support this comment, used to work in construction part time early in the morning and those days I didn't eat anything or eat enough I'd notice I felt a lot more tired, lethargic and just weak pretty quickly into the shifts.
I work construction currently (early 20s) and my experience doesn't match up. I've never really had a habit of breakfast, and when I started construction- no change. And I do just fine. I do eat a large lunch.
@@Eronoc13 Perhaps it depends on the type of manual labor. I was a bicycle messenger in my 20s, delivering small parcels around the city. Had to cycle rapidly all day long, basically did a marathon every day. If I skipped breakfast, I'd get tired after the first couple hours of work and I would slow down / get winded much faster. Speed was vital to remaining employed as a bike messenger, and without energy from a good sized breakfast, I wouldn't last until lunch time and would sometimes fail to deliver packages on time.
@@Eronoc13 Typical case of "your mileage may vary" if you ask me. But generally speaking the whole "no food = less power" thing is pretty straight forward, just ask some buff dude at the gym who is currently cutting. It becomes far worse when "fasting". That's when the body tries real hard to supplement the lack of readily available energy and you get tired a lot faster, cramps become more common etc. Personally, i do not like big breakfasts, eating a lot makes me sluggish and that is not how i want to start my day. The higher the daily caloric intake has to be the more appealing the idea of more meals becomes to me, so i guess a little breakfast is fine.
My grandfather (and I'm 68) ate six eggs with his breakfast. Of course, he'd already milked and fed 8 cows, and he also raised the chickens that provided the eggs. He was a very lean man all his life.
@mouthfula coque it's a combination of Aldi's and the living in the Midwest. I'm surprised though because there is a shortage on eggs due to the bird epidemic
@@powerlifting1012 you clearly meant the bird flu epidemic but i’m laughing thinking about an egg shortage by an epidemic of birds. there are too many birds. it’s out of control. and _growing_
As a doctor, I greatly appreciate your diligence in research and you are correct almost all the time. I was worried you wouldn't get to the calorie burden with eating salad, but you did and I appreciate how thoroughly you presented the information.
I'm French, so here are some reactions about salad: - eating salad as a side dish (i.e. not main dish) is indeed getting less common than it once was, but if we eat salad, it is at the end(ish) of the meal, before cheese, desert, coffee... and yeah, I've never heard that prepare-for-the-wine thing, but it does make sense since if you drink only one glass of wine during the meal, it is with cheese. - several-hours meal is not an every day thing, but we sure finish the meal pretty late for special occasions.
We generally have the salad with the cheese in my family, because it goes well with each other, and some persons don't like cheese or don't like salad, so at least everyone have something to eat ^^
I didn't realize that eating the salad first was typical until I was an adult. I thought it was just something that restaurants did for mysterious reasons because we always ate the salad last at home, and whenever we ate at anyone else's house it was always a relative's house, and they did it the same way we did. (My parents were both kids of Italian immigrants, and ALL of my relatives married paesani.) It wasn't a big deal, it was just our unremarked normal. I still do it as a default when given the chance.
It's all about culture. I was planning to respond that Italians eat salad after the meal, but then you said that you were Italian. Your normal is your normal.
I very much appreciate how Adam recognizes his blessings, good state in life, and fortune to be where he is. His spontaneous TH-cam career and even things like the fact that so many health problems in the US are associated with having too much food. Very refreshing in this day and age for someone to recognize what they have!
I found your talk about paying taxes fascinating. In my country (Italy), tax evasion is really high, and pretty much everyone is trying to evade their taxes. We joke that accountants are here to do that. I always thought it was despicable - but I'm now in a position where if my business keeps going well (I'm a freelance artist, I do online commissions), I might have to file taxes to report my (modest) income. And ohh boy. Even just paying taxes here is difficult - I will need to pay an accountant for help or else it's impossible. And then, when you're self employed, taxation is SO. HIGH. The thought is making me depressed. I might have to try and earn almost double what I need just to make up for all the expenses related to taxes. And you know - this might be acceptable if my country gave me back something from all these taxes. But truth is, political corruption also also a big problem here, even more so in the south. Unless I plan on moving north, I am faced with an appalling public health (so bad people need to turn private anyways), less than adeguate public schools and resources, poorly maintained public spaces, I will almost surely have no old age pension (but am basically gonna pay for it anyways) etc etc. It fuels a kind of rage towards your institutions. It fosters a selfish attitude in people - one that dictates they must be smart, and cunning, and watch out for their own gain and nothing else, since people higher up are clearly doing the same to you anyways. I get why people here try to evade taxes. And I hope to eventually be in a situation where I won't have to ever worry about it. (About salads - my family is used to serving it throughout the meal. I know others are used to eating it at the end. Never met someone who had it as a first thing!)
I’m surprised Adam didn’t mention that bacon for breakfast was the result of a specific targeted advertising campaign to tackle an oversupply in the pork industry. Just as breakfast cereal was the result of commercial endeavour by the Kellogg brother.
@Raj Mahal Also noting the wildly different ‘acceptable’ breakfast foods throughout history and between countries There’s something peculiar to breakfast where it seems very weird when you eat the ‘wrong’ things, in a way that doesn’t seem to apply in the same way to a main evening meal.
@@violetviolet888 Eating beef and eggs, pancakes and cookies, drinking beer, wine and cocktails were either happening before America existed, or happened spontaneously without a specific act by a specific agent… ‘Everything’ is simply false. Eating bacon for breakfast was the invention of Edward Bernays, working for the Beech-Nut Packing Company in the 1920s, so it is quite different.
Candied fennel seeds or just fennel seeds with sugar crystals and/or dry fruit bits is a tradition that's still prevalent in Indian restaurants in India and elsewhere. It's almost a must and very refreshing mouth freshener after spice heavy meal. Also pairs well with almost any kind of soda or just cold water. I eat way too much of it and don't feel saturated by it at all.
I never really got why people had to be reminded to eat in the morning, it just always made sense to me. I have always been incredibly hungry within 10 min after waking up every morning; if I skip this meal for whatever reason, I feel terrible all day and sometimes get shaky even if I eat enough the rest of the day. Then, my friend told me she felt nauseas in the morning and I understood something as simple as 'people are different' lol.
Yes I was always the same as you, hungry right away in the morning and even during the day I'd get all dizzy and shaky if I don't get to eat lunch in time. Then I got pregnant with my now 2yo and got gestational diabetes. I had good levels during the day but always high glucose in the morning, and therefore I had to go on a strickt diet without sugar and refined starches, and it totally went away. Now I can go without food in the morning and by the time I realise I should probably eat something it's already lunchtime. It really made me wonder how glucose and insulin levels affect hunger.
Really enjoyed the money discussion part of this podcast. Would love to hear more of these discussions and your opinions about all things related to finance and politics.
I've left pretty much this exact comment before, but usually I am very skeptical of good TH-camrs starting podcasts, because they often use it as a way to replace their good content with much higher-volume, lower-effort content and often times that lower-effort content is just not worth my time. But your Podcast is so well researched and informative! I really love it and my excitement increases for every new episode that shows up in my feed. Thanks, Adam!
Interesting fact: In my Chinese American family soup at the end of every dinner was a given. We drank it in the same bowl that we ate the rice in, and it would clear your bowl of all the leftover grains of rice. I wonder if this is traditional, and why Chinese restaurants do the opposite.
My family are ethnic Chinese from SE Asia, and we have our soup after the meal as well (though not necessarily in the same bowl). It makes sense as kind of a pallet cleanser, and it's nicer to have something hot and savory rather than just plain water or something sugary.
I think my parents always told me that the Cantonese like to have soup before meals. We aren't Cantonese tho so who knows. I do know most early Chinese in America were coastal southerners so this could have something to do with soup order at restaurants lmao
Please never stop the podcasts. They are my favorite thing from you. I listen on TH-cam and podcasts but rarely ever watch a video at all, just listen and learn.
A funny note on bacon bits, I recently realized that the addictive imitation flavor I was getting from my maple/hickory bacon bits was partially coming from fenugreek so I just replaced them with that and just added sunflower seeds to replace the texture loss.
@@wendigee It’s definitely more rich and caramel-ish when you toast it… I usually do it in a dry pan for control, but an oven would work fine if you can get the timing right.
Hey Adam, i recently caught COVID and am one of the people who lost their sense of smell/taste. It kinda sucks, but that is not my point. Everything kinda tastes like what i would expect drywall to taste like, eating a chocolate cookie is joyless (and in fact a bit yucky right now, yeah i know, weird). It made me realize how much of our food is optimized for taste and what other sensations are there. For example i always liked roasted onions (talking the prepackaged ones here), saved a lot of time and pretty okay to accentuate some dishes. Well, since the taste is gone now, i am left with "crispy bite, then oily mess", which brings me to the thing i am wondering. I see this as an opportunity to explore characteristics beyond taste in relative isolation - like i said, taste is generally so dominant. For example, i had fruit pie today. The crumble is indistinguishable from sand, i guess, but the bits where the fruit seeped into the pie (the moist stuff) becomes a lot more pronounced and i weirdly enjoyed that. It gave me the idea to explore more how food actually feels like in our mouths and i keep wondering what i can learn here (if anything) for when i hopefully eventually recover from this. Maybe this has absolutely no practical value, but it keeps me busy, which is a good thing right now and who knows, maybe it will deepen my understanding of how we experience food.
i have family members who are more specific about food textures and mouthfeels rather then taste you are absolutely right about crumble pie crusts, its a texture i enjoy immensely, dry or where too much fat was mixed in, or where the filling combines gelatinously with the crust. But I always have to make a specific crust from Adam's tutorials when I make a pie for family. consequently i can never touch shaved ice treats or certain types of ice cream substitutes and really enjoy smooth foods like pastry cremes and puddings and custards. my family members who prefer specific kinds of crunches and textures will have a pantry full of 10 types of potato and corn and etc chips whereas i just pick up a small bag of the 1 or 2 flavors i maintain nostalgia for strictly for the flavor because I try and limit my intake on those types of snacks sadly you've hit the nail on the head with the premade crispy onions i can't touch them anymore since a Burger joint I worked at had them in a massive tin.
there has been a large linkage between low Vitamin D (how much you are low greatly impacts how severe it can affect the outcome) / a variety of Vitamin or mineral deficiencies is what I would look into there in your case tho / Deficiencies in the B vitamins, especially B12, as well as certain key minerals like zinc (which gets blocked by phytate heavy foods BTW, so the best advice is to remove / reduce the amounts u consume until you feel normal again) have been associated with loss of taste / this can affect older people in particular as you often get less and less absorption as phytates are blocking things ... and healthy natural fats are necessary to consume with greens to reap the full benefits (vitamin K) / this is one key area where studies in Canada (2018) have shown that organics are necessary to achieve max activation BTW, so treat yourself to some grass-fed butter +/- organic old world olive oils - the ancient Egyptians had olive oil 14,000 years ago ... which is one of the mediterranean diet keys (that somehow gets glossed over due to cost I guess .. but people have them growing in their yard, so cost is irrelevant). I would often plug my nose as a child to wolf down whatever I didn’t want to eat (strict parents), thought that was fascinating how blocking one sensory pathway affects another. must be so many things going on to produce sensations. Adam seems to have a handle on keeping a nice size variability in his chopping / mincing / which provides extra taste (vs where a food processors evenness reduces it). hope u can resolve your taste senses again soon.
@@DeviatingVapors That's a good point: it would not hurt (well technically the phlebotomy hurts for an instant) to check for vitamin deficiencies and calcium as well. Many many people are vitD insufficient and don't know it, in today's modern society. Ironically it's worse in sunny claimants as people avoid going out in the hot sun.
I eat salads WITH the meal just cause I like mixing textures and flavors 😄 But I don’t eat breakfast. Or I do but after midday. If I eat before that I am then hungry all day around for snacks and munchies and overall feel kinda not that great. I can even feel nauseous if I eat a full breakfast before 10am. So eating the way I do is really the best for me. On history of breakfast - in pre-industrial Europe (I watched someone else’s video on research about same topic but with focus on Europe) in villages people ate mainly later in the day, they would wake up early to do early tasks and then they might snack on leftovers and then they eat even more and have a full meal even later than that. Breakfast in Europe became a main thing in industrial times though.
That said my ancestors were half nomadic, half agricultural, so I also wonder how the first meal of the day was treated by nomadic groups. We already know that lactose tolerance developed in Central Asia separately as a parallel evolution path, genes in CA true lactose tolerance is not that high, there’s actual lactose persistence that’s high - like you don’t fully digest but you don’t get side effects of undefeated lactose - and actually is higher in those whose ancestors were mainly nomadic. This was cause milk is a huge source of calories and they needed all calories they could get. So main driver of evolution was calorie intake need, not the need in a specific nutrient like calcium or something. So basically it’s important to look back these things and I wish there were more research on the Great Steppe nomadic tribes and their diet, so interesting
In Italy it's a lot less common to go to a restaurant than in the US, most people go about once every 1-2 weeks. However when you go it is very common to go to the restaurant at about 19 or 19:30 and normally you stay until at least 22, normally even longer. Also I have never seen people eating salad last, normally you eat it with the meal (during the meal), but that could be a regional thing.
22 if it wraps up early 😂 I watch my Italian MIL pour a no-shite half liter of oil on lettuce and some tomatoes and call it a salad… I was like lady, that is olive oil soup with some green stuff 😅
That money talk segment was extremely helpful and well-spoken. Thank you Adam for the amazing insight, it really helps to hear it from that perspective and not from one of someone trying to divert the resources of others, to their self, to paraphrase you. It gives me hope that moving up from lower class will not require greed or taking of opportunities/resources from others.
Please do an in depth look at intermittent fasting! When I was getting my bachelor's in nutrition I also minored in personal training, and the takes of my professors on the subject were vastly different. The nutrition professors all took the stance that you can't possibly get all the nutrients you need with such a restricted diet, while my PT professors endorsed it. I'd love to hear what you dig up.
I worked in a somewhat upscale Italian restaurant in college and noticed that when Italian speakers dined with us they would put the salad to the side and eat it either with their main course or after. Yep. Great ep!
Can confirm, in France, meals can last all evening. But these are home cooked meals that come in many many courses. With meat and vegetables often served separately as well as an aperitif and an entrée (French entrée is a starter) cheese course and desert. Sometimes meals are expedited, but sometimes, when the family get together……..don’t be expecting to get done quickly.
@@isaiahmoungey3193 lol. We ate at a table until we were about 10 then eventually transferred to tv trays. We still did talk to each other though! And it was the same food we always had. We ate at like 5-6 pm everyday because my parents had to be up early for work and they wanted the dishes cleaned up ASAP so they could relax. All the good tv was on around then and we didn't want to miss it
37:49 If there's someone who deserves to have more than enough, it's you Adam. Your videos are just a joy, a refreshing no nonsense, no filler, and direct to the point approach. And geared toward the common man with just common household tools and no industrial stuff a normal house would never have. And backed by science! I also love how you consult scientists and provide links to their studies.
i think salad or soup first is a thing in restaurants because salad takes comparatively little prep time (chop some greens and pour on dressing) or do quite well with being prepared ahead of time and kept warm for long time (most soups get better the longer they simmer) so having them be the first course allows the guests to eat something while the main dish is made to order (assuming a proper kitchen here, not a backroom with a freezer and a microwave)
For me, a light salad (no croutons or cheese or fat-based dressings) is a good way to load up on fiber and fill some of your stomach with sheer mass so that you will eat less of the filling calorie-dense foods.
I was so pleased to hear someone else say they are proud of paying taxes! When I drive on roads, drive by schools, go to national parks and so many other things I have a great pleasure in knowing that I am not a deadbeat citizen!
@@stevestevens7053 but whether you pay your taxes or not, has no effect on government waste. If you want to effect change, you gotta vote and/or be an activist of some kind.
When I was a kid, I usually managed to choke down a slice of toast before I went to school. I always felt vaguely nauseated when I first woke up. And I would usually throw up my breakfast into someone's shrubbery as I walked to school. On weekend mornings, we'd have a "real" breakfast - pancakes, bacon, all that sort of stuff. And I had no problem with that, because I didn't have to go right off to school afterwards. (I was bullied a lot in school, which caused fear-induced nausea. Nobody ever came up with a way to stop the bullying and we couldn't afford to move to a different school district.
I was bullied too. My brother would make me tea and toast and we'd walk to school together. It was the best part of my day. That and when we'd walk home and then play soccer
@@amusliminusa I was an only child, with no relatives to turn to. Adults thought I was telling lies about those nice, respectable boys who got good grades and also beat me up while I was walking home from school. WHy would they do that? Some adult asked one of them why they were picking on me. "She's weird," was the only reply.
@@amusliminusa I like breakfast more than the other meals of the day. I often make breakfast for dinner - omelets, pancakes, popovers. I really really really love bacon. I don't eat salad voluntarily.
Regarding breakfast, I'm glad you mentioned intermittent fasting and hope you dive deeper into that subject in a future pod. Anecdotally, I think skipping breakfasts in my 16/8 routine has worked well for me - but I'm also exercising regularly and am conscious (OK, more like fastidious) about my overall diet... Not representative of the typical subjects in the breakfast studies, I suspect.
Years ago as a kid, I heard my late dad talk with my mom about Europeans eating a salad afterwards to “clear their system” all while at Olive Garden, so I’ve always had that question in the back of my mind if it was true, and why they would do that when I always thought of a salad as either an appetizer/side meal
A salad can be refreshing to eat after a heavy main meal but only if you practice portion control. Something that us Americans have particular trouble with. If you know you will eat mindlessly and without deliberate consideration as most of us do, the salad going first makes more sense.
Sunday morning watching Adam do what is meant to be enjoyed without the visual component is just fine. It compliments my workouts in my home office. However, I encourage you all to support the podcast as it's a great way to multitask, e.g. go for a walk and listen to Adam or get out in the mancave and work on your (fill this space with your favourite item that needs work) and listen to Adam .... you get the idea. Thanks Adam.
1. I think that the health benefits that come from eating breakfast come from the food you eat at breakfast, where I live it's common to snack on fruits (apples and bananas) or vegetables (onion, tomatoes, cucumber, red peppers, usually paired with some form of cheese) in the morning, those who simply don't eat at all miss out on fiber (people would only eat fiber rich products with a low appetite like in the morning) and important vitamins. 2. Very good point with the "fake meat is in junk food" point. Things like chicken breast, important for bodybuilders and diets would probably be absent, I really wish there will be a middle ground in the future. 3. I've honestly never heard of this debate and I always thought it's normal to eat salad WHILE eating the main meal to cut down the heaviness of it, although I do have to say eating in the beginning likely makes you eat the entire salad and there just won't be a lot of room for other food, probably a great idea. 4. I like the money talk since I'm bad at finance so it was a welcome segment. You deserve all the fame you've been getting and it's nice to see you being humble about it. I never listen to podcasts but make time to listen to yours. Pods that talk about garbage drama usually have more success but I seriously don't believe you should do the same. I think all it takes is for the TH-cam algorithm to be kind to you again, from there people would move to Spotify etc.
Thank you for speaking about not minimizing your taxes. I find that as an American everyone I talk to is trying to reduce what they pay in taxes. But I honestly look at the good things my taxes are paying for and generally my taxes aren’t terribly high.
Hey Adam, love the podcast! This is the first one I've seen so far and love the content/topics. Is it possible for you to link the scientific articles you are reading in the description? Many thanks regardless.
My mother loves her some Andes Candies. Now that most restaurants don’t give you an after dinner mint/treat, she has started buying boxes of Andes, and keeping some in her purse. If we go out to eat, she usually doles out the candies to our party after the meal, my kids naturally love it.
8:24 this is a good point, the chinese study says it drops if you skip breakfast as much as once a week, which would imply those who consistantly eat breakfast are more likely to, just be more diciplined and be more health conscious.
Great content ;) In Poland we generally eat our salads/vegs along with the main dish, but we have a tradition of starting normal dinner with a soup. I wonder if there is any health benefit behind it, or is it just a custom. And I only heard of the long, multiple-hours dinners in France (and I attended some while visiting friends in France, however it was a Sunday or festive thing, an opportunity to talk and celebrate the relationships, certainly not a standard mid-week dinner)
People know "breakfast is the most important meal of the say" from an advertising slogan for breakfast food, ie: cereal. That usually also said, "part of this complete breakfast", while showing a table with eggs, toast, etc, along with the cereal.
We don't have that cereal culture here in the philippines but eating breakfast is a norm. It's a full meal of, rice, meat, and eggs every morning, maybe bread some times.
@@JohnDlugosz Shows how often I shop the cereal isle these days, I guess. I try to keep to eggs, sausage, cheese, sourdough, etc, mostly, plain oats or plain Greek yogurt with blackberries at times - and very occasionally homemade waffles or pancakes. I rarely use sugar unless it's required, like for rising bread or molasses in my baked beans. For oils I use olive or butter, and cook in cast iron. Don't eat lunch unless I do a ton of work. Dinner is usually a stew, baked beans, pea soup, chilli, taco salad - and rarely baked goods like tortierre, bran muffins, etc. Stick to what my great Gramma always lived on, because she still lives by herself and drives! Also have a full set of 50's kitchen appliances, but that's more of a hobby.
Thanks for your good work! I grew up with salad last, and every day. BUT, there were tons of vegs with the mains, and on holidays, there might well be a vegetable (fruit)-heavy appetizer, like an avocado with fish roe. Or grapefruit. Or some leftovers made into a salad. Or a caprese. I've served my own children bowls of peas, edamame, kohlrabi and cucumber for appetizers most days, either with soy sauce or a yogurt-dill dip. About the long meals: our extended family dinners were definitely very long, at home or at restaurants, but only on Sundays and holidays. For the Christmas holidays, they would start at about 4 PM every day from the 25. till New Years Eve, and end at 8 PM. But we would have no other meals. We aren't Christian, but we had the time off, so... About productivity: I have never had a job where we didn't have a lunch break of one hour (at least). But one is expected to eat together with colleagues, using a knife and fork, and talk informally about different work issues. Maybe the last 20-30 minutes of the break, you can take a walk or do emails, if you really need to. In my current job, people are not respecting this, and it is definitely a problem, both socially and in terms of productivity.
Growing up, salad between main dish and dessert was normal for my family. My dad grew up in France where it's still normal. I was confused the first time I visited the USA when the salad arrived first. I still think it's just weird.
Its normal everywhere.. Just americans swapped it some time in the 20th century in restaurants as a fad.. Just like thry began using the wrong words for the entire meal and other things.... America is a silly goofy nonsence place.. Normally things make no sense in your land... Its whatevers "cool" at the time and then the previous thing is forgotten rapidly.. Leaving cobfusion to its origins
I found that skipping my breakfast made my heartburns back in the day worse so that’s why i still keep eating the breakfast too Because i noticed that the simple breakfasts i eat are able to keep me going better since i tend to always be active. Most of the time i eat stuff like (dried) fruits, nuts or wholewheat knäckebröd with cheese and tomato or cucumber or so
Also Adam, many of us vegetarians who do like the taste and texture of plant-based 'burgers' do not hold up McDonald's burgers as the benchmark for what an enjoyable 'meat-like' experience should be. Honestly, when I was a meat eater years ago, McDonald's was NEVER the gauge for burger enjoyment. If that's your benchmark, you should re-evaluate. 😄
I think the idea is that the meat in McD burgers are the absolute basic of what I'd expect. Meat replacements in a similar price range should at a minimum taste as good as the meat in a fast food burger.
Except I think that's what beyond and impossible are trying to recreate? They are selling to major fast food restaurants to be sold alongside their normal burgers.
I assume some of those “controlled” breakfast tests control for lifestyle, iq, income, temperament etc because I could imagine that someone organized enough in their lives to eat a good breakfast every morning is also organized in other ways that ends up having a statistical difference in health. Like if they make sure to have their good breakfast they also probably make sure to get their 8 hrs sleep, exercise, not take those extra couple shots or pints Saturday night that will ruin Sunday etc etc
I think you're referring to the uncontrolled ones. The "controlled" ones Adam mentions, are more like One meal with A/B configurations given to different subjects, followed by some studies to check for variables.
@@the-mush No I meant controlled, that’s why I said I “assume” as in I know what a controlled test is and what I think it should be controlling for. But there’s a lot of leeway in what can make a “controlled” test, sometimes things are unaccounted for.
I have a question as a long time breakfast skipper: how long between waking up and breaking your fast are we talking about bc i tend to have my first meal of the day ~3-4h after waking up. Also: Where i come from we tend to eat the biggest meal of the day around midday, unlike americans who tend to eat the biggest meal in the evening (as far as I understand)
A lot of rural Americans who cram breakfast before work will do so within 30 minutes of waking up, often in portable form on the way to work, or as soon as they get there. Coffee is often consumed before food on a daily work basis.
It's usually as soon as you wake up, since typically your next meal is lunch at 12 noon, which is typically 7~6 hours away since work and school start as early as 7:30 am
I would absolutely consider the tax burden when thinking about moving. I feel like as long as you consider democratic countries, say NATO countries, the higher the burden, the better the governance. Living in Germany as opposed to Bulgaria or Czechia really makes me happy to pay more taxes.
@@LastBastion you say that but the only time I had to deal with the government directly was to get the Meldungen and that was fine. There's other ways I interacted with the gov indirectly and those times were/are great.
@@gebjan No kidding. Relativity matters here. Dealing with local government or HOAs in the United States is...just more proof the great American experiment is a failure
Thanks for the actual captions for the Deaf. Breakfast is different in Israel. Interesting about order of eating and salad. I try to learn something new each day.
Not sure I knew bacon bits were soy; I think I presumed they were preserved bits of bacon, so thanks, Adam! I love eating my salad first! As you said, hunger is the best sauces, and I love eating my veggies before my protein.
Bacon bits are bacon bits. Bacos is a trade name for fake versions of it. When you go to the grocery store look in the salad dressing aisle. Likely you will see either Bacos or the store brand version which is usually quite pink red, right next to the normal colored bacon bits.
With the salad the idea is that you eat the fiberous food first, before a carb heavy meal, to slow down the release of sugar from your food. This helps with blood sugar spikes. It's also quite bulky and can help you to eat less of the main course after if you're watching your weight.
25:54 what you had would've most probably been _mukhwaas_ , literally translated as 'mouth smell'; they can be any combination of large-crystal sugar or lump sugar, raw or lightly roasted fennel seeds, candied fennel seeds and cardamom. In many restaurants in India, the waiters don't bring the check/bill to you, you have to go to the cashier near the front door to pay; and often there is a plate or bowl of _mukhwaas_ there, as an after-meal mouth freshener. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukhwas
@@JVerde853 it is usually complimentary (i try to be careful using the word 'free') with your meal; you can put a spoonful or two into your hand and then put it into your mouth during the process of settling the bill... or else you can ask the staff, no harm in asking, right?
I usually skip both breakfast and lunch, and my first (and main) meal of the day is a very late dinner (around 19-21). Then sometimes I grab a small snack later. Even if I happen to get hungry around lunch time, I usually don't have the apetite for a full meal.
Even though I am now profoundly deaf in my latter years, I prefer watching (and hearing) you on TH-cam as I am a somewhat accomplished lip reader. CC has made my life considerably richer and usually decline watching a movie without CC!
Hi, in France, the entrée is often salad. But there's also the habit of serving salad with the cheese (between the main course and dessert). I've been raised with the idea that salad first helps limiting pics of glucose, hence helping with the insulin.
german here, my family (especially my grandparents) usually eats salad alongside or primarily after the main course. interesting to see those small differences
Do you think freezing sauces, like for example in your Bolognese sauce video, actually diminishes or dilutes the intensity of the flavour of the sauce prior of freezing it ?
Really love your section on taxation. It always bugs me when people treat taxation like it is inherently bad. I would go further than you did, you don't have to be altruistic at all to *want* to pay tax. Taxation is an *investment* in a nicer society around you. If you live somewhere with higher taxes, you get less money, but in return, you get a lot of things you *can't buy*. The fact my friends and family won't ever be unable to afford healthcare because I pay taxes that fund the NHS is a great thing for me personally, even if I were never to use the service. When tax is spent housing a homeless person, rehabilitating someone who has a drug problem, giving someone welfare so they don't feel the need to perform petty theft to survive, these things all make my life better and safer, even if you ignore the huge value to those people's lives. Of course we'll never agree with all of how public money is spent, but especially in the US you have options, if you are going to move somewhere because of tax, don't *avoid* tax altogether, surely you should seek the place where you feel your tax is being used to most effectively improve where you live, and maximise the return. Pure minimisation ignores the fact that living in a nice place is nicer, and taxation can make place significantly better to live in. There will always be the megarich who think they can just hire private security, live in a gated community, and in general provide for themselves all these things, but for most normal people it's not viable to do these things privately, most of us can't disconnect ourselves from the society we live in, and even if you can, I'd argue you need to be a sociopath to *want* to.
@@SimuLord Seems like a terrible way to look at it. You pay less tax on your income up to a point because people earning that little *need* it to survive and can't afford to pay more of it. You are still getting all the value I describe for your taxes, you are just lucky enough to earn enough to be contributing more towards it. Yeah, as you earn more you get to keep less of it, because we understand that we can't ask as much of people we expect to survive on very little. It's frankly silly to treat that as a bad thing for you.
@@SimuLord @aragusea the problem I have with it is wealthy people tend to not pay their share or any at all. The whole trickle down theory has literally never worked. I grew up under Reagan and even as a young kid I reasoned that it made no sense because it relied on people deciding to do what was better for society but I understood people do what what they think is better for them and not society. That's a big difference and I got it when I was 6 and the topic of trickle down economics came up. I thought it was shit then and it still is now. It's just like the Republican idea that regulation is bad because industry can stop that itself because they literally refuse to regulate themselves. Exxon and the rest of the oil industry admitted in court that they new in the 1950s and 1960s that humans were causing global warming and it was the fossil fuel industry that was the cause. They literally lied for decades and paid millions to Congress people to get elected to represent the interests of the fossil fuel industry. And that's just a single industry. If you're my age or close you probably remember recalls on toys that were painted with lead paint which is super bad regardless but when it comes to children's toys... They absolutely will put that in their mouth because that's what kids do.
This biggest problem isn't even the taxes. It's how poorly the taxes that we do give are being used. So much of it slips through the cracks of the system, and that's ignoring corruption
I work in cleaning and housekeeping and I'm a passionate cyclist. If I don't have a good high protein breakfast, my default is one scrambled egg and a cottage cheese frozen berry smoothie, I can't get through the day.
I love the taxman fact, 100% true. Also the first Beatles song that mentioned a real person by name (Mr Wilson and heath were the leaders of the two parties at the time)
Thank you so much for talking on tax minimization. I don't see a lot of comments on here that focus on that question over the others, but it was something that is wonderful to offer as an alternative understanding for some others that don't quite see it that way. We have this weird tendency in the US to treat tax savings as universally good or desirable and ignore the fact that the government, you know, does some important stuff.
Adam your content always makes me happy. You've also grown a lot over the last few years, and I can see it in large portion when watching your earlier content vs your current content. Your content has gotten better for sure in a lot of ways, but it's also your own personal growth and confidence. You're comfortable acknowledging when you aren't 100% sure, you're comfortable acknowledging when there's an unfair privilege involved in a situation, and you're comfortable just acknowledging that people are all different in their facets. From addressing that different cultures and countries have their own food context and histories, (which is a moderate-large part of your content) to acknowledging that non-binary and other-gendered folks exist. (which isn't a content focus, but still wonderful to see.) I'll never stop appreciating that effort.
I'm not surprised you aren't aware of it, since the chain is nearly universally reviled by both Italian-Americans and "foodies", but Olive Garden does still do the mint-with-the-check thing. ( It's my Father's favorite restaurant, we took him for Father's day. )
i thought salad first was the best. stops you from over eating, and gets the stomach ready for digestion. ideally, drink some water and eat a salad. then cook dinner or dinner after salad.
piworower, there are very few studies to support that one is better than the other. In the end, your stomach digests everything at it's own rate. Most of the perceptions of one is better than the other is in our heads and based how we were raised.
@@violetviolet888 i think you are absolutely right. the stomach is an absolute beast. i heard as well that you shouldn't mix carbs and proteins. but it is like you said, there is no clear evidence. salad before does help curb your appetite and so you don't binge on the meat and potatoes. but yeah, i have a very physical job so eating is more then being a bit hungry for me and yeah, before bed or in the morning or what ever. once it is past your teeth your stomach will do its thing and you can trust in that. juggernaut.
1. Breakfast To my personal experience, I feel much much better during the day after having breakfast, which is furthermore as an award for great morning exercises. The only downside, it’s harder to keep a diet, as at the afternoon the organism forgets I had a breakfast for 800-1000 kcal 2. Salads Only DURING the main meal, eating salad only is imo boring and not that appetising
What salads are you making? A nice dressing, a lightly charred and spiced lean protein, and a variety of textures makes a salad better than the main course
I'm glad to hear that Adam is planning podcast production efficiencies, hope it helps the podcast continue. I was wondering, is failure of the week segment no longer going to be included? It seems like you've skipped that the last few weeks.
Here from Belgium, a several hour meal is common for a family feast. Which does happen several times a year. I can imagine there are families that come together much more often.
Was introduced to the salad after the meal when I went to Europe and is something I do quite often. Where everyone around me is going for a cold sweet dessert, I get that satisfying "bliss" from leafy greens since I'm not a big eater of desserts. I also find that I enjoy the main course from start to finish alot more because I haven't put a filler into my stomach before it arrives.
I have found that by not eating breakfast, I am less inclined to eat throughout the day, which is helping with dieting. Eating first thing in the day after you wake up indeed charges up your metabolism but that doesn't just mean you'll be more active and burn more fat. It means your rate of operation increases, so you'll likely eat more throughout the day.
That's generally my thing. If I eat breakfast early after I get up I'm much more hungry at lunch (or whenever I eat next( and am more likely to be hungry throughout the day.
I hardly ever had breakfast in my lifetime. And now, 60 years and four fullterm child deliveries later, I am enviably healthy and weighing exactly the same as I did when I was 20. My secret: Eating everything and as much of it as you want AS LONG AS YOU ARE HUNGRY. No matter what time of the day it is, no need to stuff your body with calories and nutrients it's not asking for.
I find that that my total daily caloric intake pretty much correlates with the total amount of hours elapsed in the day since my first meal in the day.
I’m an American expat retired to France and, yes, restaurant meals are leisurely things. Two hours is the expected time. But it's not at all unusual for people to stay in a restaurant for longer than that. And most stores are closed at lunchtime - for two hours. In the more southern parts of France, stores can be closed from noon to 4PM.
The benefits of eating breakfast can pretty much be boiled down to healthy user bias. People who listen to the advice of “eat breakfast to be healthier” tend to do a lot of other things that benefit overall health. A simple example: good sleep hygiene that allows you to wake up early enough to eat a decent breakfast. In that case, the sleep hygiene is a lot more beneficial than actually eating the breakfast. And “jump-starting your metabolism” isn’t a thing, at least not in a practical sense. You might burn a few extra calories, but a few out of 2000 is meaningless. Lean mass and overall activity levels affect your metabolism by orders of magnitude more than the timing of a meal (or frequency, for that matter).
Interesting ideas. I will say that jump starting metabolism is something that is very important for diabetics. Though it is less jump starting and more eating food at spread out over the day and understanding the effects of time on glucose uptake.
Hello Adam, you probably won’t read this but here is my opinion/perspective on the podcast. For background, this is the first podcast I got inspired? to watch and I thank you for that. It was really good. Anyways, the content of the podcast was really good and really puts you to think on a lot of stuff. I really like how you involve your life, experiences and opinions without ruining the scientific / objective view. Your form of attacking a question and boarding it is pretty awesome as well. Really the only thing i didn’t like was that you gotta considerate not all of your viewers are from the US (excuse my english) or know the situation there so some background information wouldn’t hurt. As a last note, I am eager into listening your other podcasts and I am for sure recommending this to friends and family. Keep making videos!
Hey Adam, my theory on health and breakfast consumption comes from personal experience being fat and later thin. I am hungry immediately when waking up when I am thin but only hungry by the afternoon when overweight. So my theory us that eating breakfast doesn't make you healthier but you are more likely to want eat breakfast when you are thin. Most people in America and other similar countries would be healthier if they lost some weight.
I've had a BMI of the low end of the healthy spectrum all the way to pretty overweight but not obese and I didn't experience any difference in my willingness, or rather unwillingness, to eat breakfast. No idea which of our experiences is more common
My weight too has varied over the years but I am always hungry in the morning and when I did skip breakfast (not by choice) my whole day was crappy. Many times I skip dinner - usually out of laziness. Just from talking to people about this subject I think my pattern of eating is more rare for some reason.
Adam can you please put chapters separation in the podcast? I listened to the actual podcast and had finished the fake meat and breakfast parts. I wanted to jump directly to the salad after dinner part.
Morning Star Griller's Prime burgers, when dressed up like a mcd burger, taste eerily similar! Make sure you pan fry them in oil (or butter!) and get a little crisp.
@@jaloux8583 or just dont eat a burger. Emulating unhealthy food will result in unhealthy good. Healthy vegan food is more healthy that omnivore alternatives.
@@jaloux8583 well there are plenty of wrong things with eating meats, but the largest one for non vegans is probably that meat is just not that healthy. You can be healthier if you don't eat meat
45:33 this surprises me! I didnt even know you had recorded in multiple locations because i am literally never watching the video. Tho I am on youtube and not a dedicated podcast app, I only ever set my phone down and listen while cooking or sorting laundry.
I had one the other week when they were 99p and I thought it tasted nothing like their burgers. It was fairly nice in its own right, if a little small. I haven't found any plant based burgers that actually taste like beefburgers but I see a lot of people online claiming various brands do, but it's never worked for me. Like Adam I still prefer something like a veggie or bean burger if I'm going to have a non-meat option as the products I've tried so far have failed to come close, so ironically I just end up wanting a real beef burger. If I have a bean burger I'm expecting and enjoying a bean burger and don't feel like I'm getting an 'inferior' product because it stands up in its own right.
I don't get hungry for about the first hour after I get up. But I do need to eat at least a bit before I work out or I have a much harder time getting started and finishing the entire workout. I have found it works best for me to eat two breakfasts. A small one before I start exercising, and then more afterward.
Hey Adam I’ve got a question that could use your scientific mind. Why when at the seaside, or visiting the coast, can you taste/smell the distinctness of (salt) in sea water? I’m pretty sure it’s not just me who feels it. Is it a question of perception of flavour as we have certain associations with the coast?
@@benockendon8939 Aerosol. Wind and waves create some tiny droplets that get carried in the air, all the way into your nose. It's possible there are some substances in sea water that can travel through the air independently, but there's definitely aerosol involved.
I'm one of those people who has no appetite in the morning, plus I have a manual labor job. The first part of the day is sluggish if I don't force down a light breakfast, but I've notice that a nice lunch after a morning fast makes me feel better in the second half of the day. If I eat a normal 3 meals a day, I feel sluggish at the end, instead of the beginning.
The sluggishness is probably the insulin kicking in a few hours after a meal. I always had an energy drop in the early afternoon, but not when I skip breakfast.
i've started skipping breakfast ( trying intermittent fasting ) mostly because i just ate cereal for breakfast and it really wasn't doing much for me. I'd end up starving again by the time lunch break at work rolls around ,actually less hungry this way ( still eating the same amount though ,my appetite hasn't lessened whatsoever )
Cereal has a lot of carbs with out good fiber to balance it. A great thing to try to help with hunger is fruit or yogurt. I will drink a fruit smoothie or some slim fast and it helps keep down the hunger for a few hours.
@@MezzoForteAural i made the same observation as the OP in the same context (intermittent fasting) but i ate specifically fiber-rich and completely sugar-less porridge with greek yoghurt (high in protein) so i think it could also be a matter of being conditioned for appetite at the time of day maybe
Brit here. It's not a regular thing, but meals really can last 5 hours or more in France + Italy. My parents once went to a wedding in Sardinia that genuinely lasted pretty much all the way from late morning through to the evening. Every table had a hog roast to itself. God knows how much wine was consumed. My parents, being too British for these continental habits, left a few hours before the end.
Eh, "one meal a day" is the current non-extreme standard for longevity. Couple with the natural evening hunger trend, and skipping breakfast and skipping or delaying lunch is likely better. My guess is that breakfast eaters are consistent and these studies likely capture that consistency, not breakfast itself. As you said, skipping once a week was enough to wipe out the benefits.
You just described my 80-something year old father: daily exercise, daily breakfast (he might skip dinner if he's had large lunch), BMI at the low end. Hes basically ALWAYS been disciplined. It shows in his health outcome (no diabetes, no cardiovascular disease)
I personally don't like breakfast. I don't have much of an appetite when I wake up in the morning. And sometimes if I do eat breakfast it will make me tired and not a good start to the day. But if its a day I'm staying home i eat breakfast just because i love food
From Turkey where it is custom to eat meals whit salads. But because i hated how my mom used to make salads (too much vinegar / oil / somehow always bitter) i ate it long after (1/2 hours) i ate my meal and it stuck for me. I generaly make a salad right after i finish washing the dishes so i can slowly eat it while doing something else.
In the Netherlands, where I'm from, the importance of a varied diet is stressed. Even in elementary school we were taught that eating from all food groups is the healthiest. Could it not simply be that habitual breakfast eaters automatically have a more varied and therefore slightly healthier diet, just because of the extra meal? It would seem reasonable to assume that in general people don't eat for breakfast, what they would also eat the rest of the day, right?
I'm Dutch as well and can confirm the education claim. And interestingly enough, I live pretty healthily despite never eating breakfast. However, I eat just about anything at lunch and dinner, so I still eat quite varied. So, you may have a point there.
As someone who did manual labor work in my early 20s, you HAD to eat breakfast if you did any sort of manual labor. Otherwise you would not have enough energy to work efficiently / quickly and you'd get fired eventually. When I switched to office work later in life, I found I could skip breakfast without any negative side effects on my performance. But if you do manual labor, you basically HAVE to eat in the morning or you're going to tire out quickly on the job and slow down... and that's a quick way to get fired. The few rare times I went without breakfast while doing manual labor, I found after the first 1 or 2 hours at work, my efficiency and speed plummeted rapidly. On days where I ate breakfast, I never an into issues unless I was injured / sick.
Can definitely support this comment, used to work in construction part time early in the morning and those days I didn't eat anything or eat enough I'd notice I felt a lot more tired, lethargic and just weak pretty quickly into the shifts.
I work construction currently (early 20s) and my experience doesn't match up. I've never really had a habit of breakfast, and when I started construction- no change. And I do just fine. I do eat a large lunch.
@@Eronoc13 Perhaps it depends on the type of manual labor. I was a bicycle messenger in my 20s, delivering small parcels around the city. Had to cycle rapidly all day long, basically did a marathon every day. If I skipped breakfast, I'd get tired after the first couple hours of work and I would slow down / get winded much faster. Speed was vital to remaining employed as a bike messenger, and without energy from a good sized breakfast, I wouldn't last until lunch time and would sometimes fail to deliver packages on time.
@@Eronoc13 Typical case of "your mileage may vary" if you ask me. But generally speaking the whole "no food = less power" thing is pretty straight forward, just ask some buff dude at the gym who is currently cutting. It becomes far worse when "fasting". That's when the body tries real hard to supplement the lack of readily available energy and you get tired a lot faster, cramps become more common etc.
Personally, i do not like big breakfasts, eating a lot makes me sluggish and that is not how i want to start my day. The higher the daily caloric intake has to be the more appealing the idea of more meals becomes to me, so i guess a little breakfast is fine.
@@Eronoc13 erakel are you still eating a 1000 calorie protein shake or something
My grandfather (and I'm 68) ate six eggs with his breakfast. Of course, he'd already milked and fed 8 cows, and he also raised the chickens that provided the eggs. He was a very lean man all his life.
🎶But now that he's grown he eats 12 eggs with his breakfast, so he's roughly the size of a barge! 🎶
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Eggs are a $1 a dozen where I live so I have that with some oatmeal and fruit for breakfast and it's cheap and very healthy
@mouthfula coque it's a combination of Aldi's and the living in the Midwest. I'm surprised though because there is a shortage on eggs due to the bird epidemic
@@powerlifting1012 you clearly meant the bird flu epidemic but i’m laughing thinking about an egg shortage by an epidemic of birds. there are too many birds. it’s out of control. and _growing_
As a doctor, I greatly appreciate your diligence in research and you are correct almost all the time. I was worried you wouldn't get to the calorie burden with eating salad, but you did and I appreciate how thoroughly you presented the information.
I'm French, so here are some reactions about salad:
- eating salad as a side dish (i.e. not main dish) is indeed getting less common than it once was, but if we eat salad, it is at the end(ish) of the meal, before cheese, desert, coffee... and yeah, I've never heard that prepare-for-the-wine thing, but it does make sense since if you drink only one glass of wine during the meal, it is with cheese.
- several-hours meal is not an every day thing, but we sure finish the meal pretty late for special occasions.
Agree generally, though I'll also add in that it's not uncommon for the cheese to be pre-meal.
We generally have the salad with the cheese in my family, because it goes well with each other, and some persons don't like cheese or don't like salad, so at least everyone have something to eat ^^
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Like during the apéro? If I've had some cheesy canapés, I can't say I've ever encountered a proper cheese plateau during an apéro.
i (a german) never had a 5h meal but usually my parents will have a 3 to 4 hour dinner every friday
I was so surprised when i got cheese as a course at the end of the meal in France
I didn't realize that eating the salad first was typical until I was an adult. I thought it was just something that restaurants did for mysterious reasons because we always ate the salad last at home, and whenever we ate at anyone else's house it was always a relative's house, and they did it the same way we did. (My parents were both kids of Italian immigrants, and ALL of my relatives married paesani.) It wasn't a big deal, it was just our unremarked normal. I still do it as a default when given the chance.
I believe part of it has to do that salad can be served pretty quickly, while the kitchen prepares the main dish.
In turkish culture salad is almost always eating with the meal itself, often turkish breakfast is entirely salad
Also pretty standard for France to have salad after the main dish
Another good reason is that eating up salads and cheaper carb sources for buffets, saves them a lot of money
It's all about culture. I was planning to respond that Italians eat salad after the meal, but then you said that you were Italian. Your normal is your normal.
I very much appreciate how Adam recognizes his blessings, good state in life, and fortune to be where he is. His spontaneous TH-cam career and even things like the fact that so many health problems in the US are associated with having too much food. Very refreshing in this day and age for someone to recognize what they have!
I found your talk about paying taxes fascinating. In my country (Italy), tax evasion is really high, and pretty much everyone is trying to evade their taxes. We joke that accountants are here to do that. I always thought it was despicable - but I'm now in a position where if my business keeps going well (I'm a freelance artist, I do online commissions), I might have to file taxes to report my (modest) income. And ohh boy. Even just paying taxes here is difficult - I will need to pay an accountant for help or else it's impossible. And then, when you're self employed, taxation is SO. HIGH. The thought is making me depressed. I might have to try and earn almost double what I need just to make up for all the expenses related to taxes.
And you know - this might be acceptable if my country gave me back something from all these taxes. But truth is, political corruption also also a big problem here, even more so in the south. Unless I plan on moving north, I am faced with an appalling public health (so bad people need to turn private anyways), less than adeguate public schools and resources, poorly maintained public spaces, I will almost surely have no old age pension (but am basically gonna pay for it anyways) etc etc. It fuels a kind of rage towards your institutions. It fosters a selfish attitude in people - one that dictates they must be smart, and cunning, and watch out for their own gain and nothing else, since people higher up are clearly doing the same to you anyways. I get why people here try to evade taxes. And I hope to eventually be in a situation where I won't have to ever worry about it.
(About salads - my family is used to serving it throughout the meal. I know others are used to eating it at the end. Never met someone who had it as a first thing!)
How is all that related to salad
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I’m surprised Adam didn’t mention that bacon for breakfast was the result of a specific targeted advertising campaign to tackle an oversupply in the pork industry.
Just as breakfast cereal was the result of commercial endeavour by the Kellogg brother.
@Raj Mahal Also noting the wildly different ‘acceptable’ breakfast foods throughout history and between countries
There’s something peculiar to breakfast where it seems very weird when you eat the ‘wrong’ things, in a way that doesn’t seem to apply in the same way to a main evening meal.
Toby: *Everything* that is popular and normalized in America is "the result of a specific targeted advertising campaign".
@@violetviolet888 Eating beef and eggs, pancakes and cookies, drinking beer, wine and cocktails were either happening before America existed, or happened spontaneously without a specific act by a specific agent… ‘Everything’ is simply false.
Eating bacon for breakfast was the invention of Edward Bernays, working for the Beech-Nut Packing Company in the 1920s, so it is quite different.
To be fair, bacon is delightful. I just prefer it on a sandwich for lunch or dinner.
I’m curious about why you thanked Obama for no longer having thin mints with restaurant checks.
Candied fennel seeds or just fennel seeds with sugar crystals and/or dry fruit bits is a tradition that's still prevalent in Indian restaurants in India and elsewhere. It's almost a must and very refreshing mouth freshener after spice heavy meal. Also pairs well with almost any kind of soda or just cold water. I eat way too much of it and don't feel saturated by it at all.
I picked up this habit a few years ago and don't understand why this isn't a thing in the US.
It’s also a wonderful digestive
I never really got why people had to be reminded to eat in the morning, it just always made sense to me. I have always been incredibly hungry within 10 min after waking up every morning; if I skip this meal for whatever reason, I feel terrible all day and sometimes get shaky even if I eat enough the rest of the day. Then, my friend told me she felt nauseas in the morning and I understood something as simple as 'people are different' lol.
Yes I was always the same as you, hungry right away in the morning and even during the day I'd get all dizzy and shaky if I don't get to eat lunch in time.
Then I got pregnant with my now 2yo and got gestational diabetes. I had good levels during the day but always high glucose in the morning, and therefore I had to go on a strickt diet without sugar and refined starches, and it totally went away. Now I can go without food in the morning and by the time I realise I should probably eat something it's already lunchtime. It really made me wonder how glucose and insulin levels affect hunger.
Really enjoyed the money discussion part of this podcast. Would love to hear more of these discussions and your opinions about all things related to finance and politics.
I've left pretty much this exact comment before, but usually I am very skeptical of good TH-camrs starting podcasts, because they often use it as a way to replace their good content with much higher-volume, lower-effort content and often times that lower-effort content is just not worth my time. But your Podcast is so well researched and informative! I really love it and my excitement increases for every new episode that shows up in my feed. Thanks, Adam!
Interesting fact: In my Chinese American family soup at the end of every dinner was a given. We drank it in the same bowl that we ate the rice in, and it would clear your bowl of all the leftover grains of rice. I wonder if this is traditional, and why Chinese restaurants do the opposite.
Pretty sure the restaurant's switched to soup first to appease the local expectations and thus get/keep costumers.
My family are ethnic Chinese from SE Asia, and we have our soup after the meal as well (though not necessarily in the same bowl). It makes sense as kind of a pallet cleanser, and it's nicer to have something hot and savory rather than just plain water or something sugary.
Hm, we do exactly the opposite. Rice comes after the soup in the same bowl.
I think my parents always told me that the Cantonese like to have soup before meals. We aren't Cantonese tho so who knows. I do know most early Chinese in America were coastal southerners so this could have something to do with soup order at restaurants lmao
I have the same experience as darthryking and Sean Chung above me.
Please never stop the podcasts. They are my favorite thing from you. I listen on TH-cam and podcasts but rarely ever watch a video at all, just listen and learn.
A funny note on bacon bits, I recently realized that the addictive imitation flavor I was getting from my maple/hickory bacon bits was partially coming from fenugreek so I just replaced them with that and just added sunflower seeds to replace the texture loss.
Does it taste like bacon or just the maple/ hickory flavor? I have to try this with chickpeas!
Can you roast fenugreek in an oven? Would that give it a little more smokey/charred flavor to further simulate bacon flavors?
@@wendigee It’s definitely more rich and caramel-ish when you toast it… I usually do it in a dry pan for control, but an oven would work fine if you can get the timing right.
"Fungus never lets us down."
-Adam Ragusea, 2022
Farmed fungus.
See Death Cap and people that have destroyed their livers despite being experienced mushroom hunters.
What about fungal infections in the lungs?
“You know what else is surprisingly hard?” -also Adam Ragusea, 2022
Hey Adam, i recently caught COVID and am one of the people who lost their sense of smell/taste. It kinda sucks, but that is not my point. Everything kinda tastes like what i would expect drywall to taste like, eating a chocolate cookie is joyless (and in fact a bit yucky right now, yeah i know, weird). It made me realize how much of our food is optimized for taste and what other sensations are there. For example i always liked roasted onions (talking the prepackaged ones here), saved a lot of time and pretty okay to accentuate some dishes. Well, since the taste is gone now, i am left with "crispy bite, then oily mess", which brings me to the thing i am wondering. I see this as an opportunity to explore characteristics beyond taste in relative isolation - like i said, taste is generally so dominant. For example, i had fruit pie today. The crumble is indistinguishable from sand, i guess, but the bits where the fruit seeped into the pie (the moist stuff) becomes a lot more pronounced and i weirdly enjoyed that. It gave me the idea to explore more how food actually feels like in our mouths and i keep wondering what i can learn here (if anything) for when i hopefully eventually recover from this.
Maybe this has absolutely no practical value, but it keeps me busy, which is a good thing right now and who knows, maybe it will deepen my understanding of how we experience food.
i have family members who are more specific about food textures and mouthfeels rather then taste
you are absolutely right about crumble pie crusts, its a texture i enjoy immensely, dry or where too much fat was mixed in, or where the filling combines gelatinously with the crust. But I always have to make a specific crust from Adam's tutorials when I make a pie for family.
consequently i can never touch shaved ice treats or certain types of ice cream substitutes and really enjoy smooth foods like pastry cremes and puddings and custards.
my family members who prefer specific kinds of crunches and textures will have a pantry full of 10 types of potato and corn and etc chips whereas i just pick up a small bag of the 1 or 2 flavors i maintain nostalgia for strictly for the flavor because I try and limit my intake on those types of snacks
sadly you've hit the nail on the head with the premade crispy onions i can't touch them anymore since a Burger joint I worked at had them in a massive tin.
there has been a large linkage between low Vitamin D (how much you are low greatly impacts how severe it can affect the outcome) / a variety of Vitamin or mineral deficiencies is what I would look into there in your case tho / Deficiencies in the B vitamins, especially B12, as well as certain key minerals like zinc (which gets blocked by phytate heavy foods BTW, so the best advice is to remove / reduce the amounts u consume until you feel normal again) have been associated with loss of taste / this can affect older people in particular as you often get less and less absorption as phytates are blocking things ... and healthy natural fats are necessary to consume with greens to reap the full benefits (vitamin K) / this is one key area where studies in Canada (2018) have shown that organics are necessary to achieve max activation BTW, so treat yourself to some grass-fed butter +/- organic old world olive oils - the ancient Egyptians had olive oil 14,000 years ago ... which is one of the mediterranean diet keys (that somehow gets glossed over due to cost I guess .. but people have them growing in their yard, so cost is irrelevant).
I would often plug my nose as a child to wolf down whatever I didn’t want to eat (strict parents), thought that was fascinating how blocking one sensory pathway affects another. must be so many things going on to produce sensations.
Adam seems to have a handle on keeping a nice size variability in his chopping / mincing / which provides extra taste (vs where a food processors evenness reduces it).
hope u can resolve your taste senses again soon.
I hope you publish your results. At least, keep a blog.
@@DeviatingVapors That's a good point: it would not hurt (well technically the phlebotomy hurts for an instant) to check for vitamin deficiencies and calcium as well. Many many people are vitD insufficient and don't know it, in today's modern society. Ironically it's worse in sunny claimants as people avoid going out in the hot sun.
For a practical application I am thinking if I could switch off taste receptors I might eat less... Obesity and health in general are big businesses.
I eat salads WITH the meal just cause I like mixing textures and flavors 😄
But I don’t eat breakfast. Or I do but after midday. If I eat before that I am then hungry all day around for snacks and munchies and overall feel kinda not that great. I can even feel nauseous if I eat a full breakfast before 10am. So eating the way I do is really the best for me.
On history of breakfast - in pre-industrial Europe (I watched someone else’s video on research about same topic but with focus on Europe) in villages people ate mainly later in the day, they would wake up early to do early tasks and then they might snack on leftovers and then they eat even more and have a full meal even later than that.
Breakfast in Europe became a main thing in industrial times though.
That said my ancestors were half nomadic, half agricultural, so I also wonder how the first meal of the day was treated by nomadic groups. We already know that lactose tolerance developed in Central Asia separately as a parallel evolution path, genes in CA true lactose tolerance is not that high, there’s actual lactose persistence that’s high - like you don’t fully digest but you don’t get side effects of undefeated lactose - and actually is higher in those whose ancestors were mainly nomadic. This was cause milk is a huge source of calories and they needed all calories they could get. So main driver of evolution was calorie intake need, not the need in a specific nutrient like calcium or something.
So basically it’s important to look back these things and I wish there were more research on the Great Steppe nomadic tribes and their diet, so interesting
In Italy it's a lot less common to go to a restaurant than in the US, most people go about once every 1-2 weeks. However when you go it is very common to go to the restaurant at about 19 or 19:30 and normally you stay until at least 22, normally even longer.
Also I have never seen people eating salad last, normally you eat it with the meal (during the meal), but that could be a regional thing.
22 if it wraps up early 😂
I watch my Italian MIL pour a no-shite half liter of oil on lettuce and some tomatoes and call it a salad… I was like lady, that is olive oil soup with some green stuff 😅
@@seitanbeatsyourmeat666 Yes, it's not strange to stay out until midnight, even when not barhopping.
That money talk segment was extremely helpful and well-spoken.
Thank you Adam for the amazing insight, it really helps to hear it from that perspective and not from one of someone trying to divert the resources of others, to their self, to paraphrase you.
It gives me hope that moving up from lower class will not require greed or taking of opportunities/resources from others.
Please do an in depth look at intermittent fasting! When I was getting my bachelor's in nutrition I also minored in personal training, and the takes of my professors on the subject were vastly different. The nutrition professors all took the stance that you can't possibly get all the nutrients you need with such a restricted diet, while my PT professors endorsed it. I'd love to hear what you dig up.
I worked in a somewhat upscale Italian restaurant in college and noticed that when Italian speakers dined with us they would put the salad to the side and eat it either with their main course or after. Yep. Great ep!
Can confirm, in France, meals can last all evening. But these are home cooked meals that come in many many courses. With meat and vegetables often served separately as well as an aperitif and an entrée (French entrée is a starter) cheese course and desert. Sometimes meals are expedited, but sometimes, when the family get together……..don’t be expecting to get done quickly.
i prefer the US method of scarfing down food in 15 minutes while you watch TV and pray your family doesn’t talk to you
@@isaiahmoungey3193 lol. We ate at a table until we were about 10 then eventually transferred to tv trays. We still did talk to each other though! And it was the same food we always had. We ate at like 5-6 pm everyday because my parents had to be up early for work and they wanted the dishes cleaned up ASAP so they could relax. All the good tv was on around then and we didn't want to miss it
37:49 If there's someone who deserves to have more than enough, it's you Adam. Your videos are just a joy, a refreshing no nonsense, no filler, and direct to the point approach. And geared toward the common man with just common household tools and no industrial stuff a normal house would never have. And backed by science! I also love how you consult scientists and provide links to their studies.
i think salad or soup first is a thing in restaurants because salad takes comparatively little prep time (chop some greens and pour on dressing) or do quite well with being prepared ahead of time and kept warm for long time (most soups get better the longer they simmer) so having them be the first course allows the guests to eat something while the main dish is made to order (assuming a proper kitchen here, not a backroom with a freezer and a microwave)
For me, a light salad (no croutons or cheese or fat-based dressings) is a good way to load up on fiber and fill some of your stomach with sheer mass so that you will eat less of the filling calorie-dense foods.
No lies detected. I always try to organize things around cook time, pretty sure people actually getting paid would do this as well.
I was so pleased to hear someone else say they are proud of paying taxes! When I drive on roads, drive by schools, go to national parks and so many other things I have a great pleasure in knowing that I am not a deadbeat citizen!
As a government employee, I say… cheers to you!! And I feel the same way!
@@stevestevens7053 but whether you pay your taxes or not, has no effect on government waste. If you want to effect change, you gotta vote and/or be an activist of some kind.
@@stevestevens7053 boycotts are a voluntary way of voting with your dollars. Paying taxes is not voluntary. Why not try voting with your vote instead?
When I was a kid, I usually managed to choke down a slice of toast before I went to school. I always felt vaguely nauseated when I first woke up. And I would usually throw up my breakfast into someone's shrubbery as I walked to school. On weekend mornings, we'd have a "real" breakfast - pancakes, bacon, all that sort of stuff. And I had no problem with that, because I didn't have to go right off to school afterwards. (I was bullied a lot in school, which caused fear-induced nausea. Nobody ever came up with a way to stop the bullying and we couldn't afford to move to a different school district.
I was bullied too. My brother would make me tea and toast and we'd walk to school together. It was the best part of my day. That and when we'd walk home and then play soccer
@@amusliminusa I was an only child, with no relatives to turn to. Adults thought I was telling lies about those nice, respectable boys who got good grades and also beat me up while I was walking home from school. WHy would they do that? Some adult asked one of them why they were picking on me. "She's weird," was the only reply.
@@purplealice I'm weird too. I like being weird. I'm sorry that happened to you. Kids and people in general can be so cruel.
@@amusliminusa I like breakfast more than the other meals of the day. I often make breakfast for dinner - omelets, pancakes, popovers. I really really really love bacon. I don't eat salad voluntarily.
Regarding breakfast, I'm glad you mentioned intermittent fasting and hope you dive deeper into that subject in a future pod. Anecdotally, I think skipping breakfasts in my 16/8 routine has worked well for me - but I'm also exercising regularly and am conscious (OK, more like fastidious) about my overall diet... Not representative of the typical subjects in the breakfast studies, I suspect.
I've been playing catch-up and find this format easy to follow...at 1.5x playback. Great content, good info, enjoyable host, so worth it to me.
Years ago as a kid, I heard my late dad talk with my mom about Europeans eating a salad afterwards to “clear their system” all while at Olive Garden, so I’ve always had that question in the back of my mind if it was true, and why they would do that when I always thought of a salad as either an appetizer/side meal
My mom and i ate the fried potatoes first because they'd cool off otherwise.
A salad can be refreshing to eat after a heavy main meal but only if you practice portion control. Something that us Americans have particular trouble with.
If you know you will eat mindlessly and without deliberate consideration as most of us do, the salad going first makes more sense.
Sunday morning watching Adam do what is meant to be enjoyed without the visual component is just fine. It compliments my workouts in my home office.
However, I encourage you all to support the podcast as it's a great way to multitask, e.g. go for a walk and listen to Adam or get out in the mancave and work on your (fill this space with your favourite item that needs work) and listen to Adam .... you get the idea.
Thanks Adam.
1. I think that the health benefits that come from eating breakfast come from the food you eat at breakfast, where I live it's common to snack on fruits (apples and bananas) or vegetables (onion, tomatoes, cucumber, red peppers, usually paired with some form of cheese) in the morning, those who simply don't eat at all miss out on fiber (people would only eat fiber rich products with a low appetite like in the morning) and important vitamins.
2. Very good point with the "fake meat is in junk food" point. Things like chicken breast, important for bodybuilders and diets would probably be absent, I really wish there will be a middle ground in the future.
3. I've honestly never heard of this debate and I always thought it's normal to eat salad WHILE eating the main meal to cut down the heaviness of it, although I do have to say eating in the beginning likely makes you eat the entire salad and there just won't be a lot of room for other food, probably a great idea.
4. I like the money talk since I'm bad at finance so it was a welcome segment. You deserve all the fame you've been getting and it's nice to see you being humble about it. I never listen to podcasts but make time to listen to yours. Pods that talk about garbage drama usually have more success but I seriously don't believe you should do the same. I think all it takes is for the TH-cam algorithm to be kind to you again, from there people would move to Spotify etc.
what a wise and wholesome dude you are, Adam
Thank you for speaking about not minimizing your taxes. I find that as an American everyone I talk to is trying to reduce what they pay in taxes. But I honestly look at the good things my taxes are paying for and generally my taxes aren’t terribly high.
Hey Adam, love the podcast! This is the first one I've seen so far and love the content/topics. Is it possible for you to link the scientific articles you are reading in the description? Many thanks regardless.
love the podcast - great variety I would hate to see it discontinued - I hope more people listen in.
Hi mam
There is a Spotify version too which means there are more listeners than the view count would suggest
My mother loves her some Andes Candies. Now that most restaurants don’t give you an after dinner mint/treat, she has started buying boxes of Andes, and keeping some in her purse. If we go out to eat, she usually doles out the candies to our party after the meal, my kids naturally love it.
8:24 this is a good point, the chinese study says it drops if you skip breakfast as much as once a week, which would imply those who consistantly eat breakfast are more likely to, just be more diciplined and be more health conscious.
X: There are also studies that prove that eating less can cure diseases and lengthen life span.
Great content ;)
In Poland we generally eat our salads/vegs along with the main dish, but we have a tradition of starting normal dinner with a soup. I wonder if there is any health benefit behind it, or is it just a custom. And I only heard of the long, multiple-hours dinners in France (and I attended some while visiting friends in France, however it was a Sunday or festive thing, an opportunity to talk and celebrate the relationships, certainly not a standard mid-week dinner)
People know "breakfast is the most important meal of the say" from an advertising slogan for breakfast food, ie: cereal.
That usually also said, "part of this complete breakfast", while showing a table with eggs, toast, etc, along with the cereal.
@@SimuLord Hah, I love that quote. I'll remember that for later when I look at sugar crisp or whatever they're trying to get kids to eat every day.
We don't have that cereal culture here in the philippines but eating breakfast is a norm. It's a full meal of, rice, meat, and eggs every morning, maybe bread some times.
@@mikafoxx2717 They changed the name to "Golden Crisp" when sugar went out of fashion.
@@JohnDlugosz Shows how often I shop the cereal isle these days, I guess.
I try to keep to eggs, sausage, cheese, sourdough, etc, mostly, plain oats or plain Greek yogurt with blackberries at times - and very occasionally homemade waffles or pancakes. I rarely use sugar unless it's required, like for rising bread or molasses in my baked beans. For oils I use olive or butter, and cook in cast iron.
Don't eat lunch unless I do a ton of work. Dinner is usually a stew, baked beans, pea soup, chilli, taco salad - and rarely baked goods like tortierre, bran muffins, etc. Stick to what my great Gramma always lived on, because she still lives by herself and drives!
Also have a full set of 50's kitchen appliances, but that's more of a hobby.
Thanks for your good work!
I grew up with salad last, and every day. BUT, there were tons of vegs with the mains, and on holidays, there might well be a vegetable (fruit)-heavy appetizer, like an avocado with fish roe. Or grapefruit. Or some leftovers made into a salad. Or a caprese. I've served my own children bowls of peas, edamame, kohlrabi and cucumber for appetizers most days, either with soy sauce or a yogurt-dill dip.
About the long meals: our extended family dinners were definitely very long, at home or at restaurants, but only on Sundays and holidays. For the Christmas holidays, they would start at about 4 PM every day from the 25. till New Years Eve, and end at 8 PM. But we would have no other meals. We aren't Christian, but we had the time off, so...
About productivity: I have never had a job where we didn't have a lunch break of one hour (at least). But one is expected to eat together with colleagues, using a knife and fork, and talk informally about different work issues. Maybe the last 20-30 minutes of the break, you can take a walk or do emails, if you really need to. In my current job, people are not respecting this, and it is definitely a problem, both socially and in terms of productivity.
Growing up, salad between main dish and dessert was normal for my family. My dad grew up in France where it's still normal. I was confused the first time I visited the USA when the salad arrived first. I still think it's just weird.
Its normal everywhere.. Just americans swapped it some time in the 20th century in restaurants as a fad.. Just like thry began using the wrong words for the entire meal and other things.... America is a silly goofy nonsence place.. Normally things make no sense in your land... Its whatevers "cool" at the time and then the previous thing is forgotten rapidly.. Leaving cobfusion to its origins
I found that skipping my breakfast made my heartburns back in the day worse so that’s why i still keep eating the breakfast too
Because i noticed that the simple breakfasts i eat are able to keep me going better since i tend to always be active.
Most of the time i eat stuff like (dried) fruits, nuts or wholewheat knäckebröd with cheese and tomato or cucumber or so
12:12 "I cant go vegan because Cheese it just too good to pass up" this is me with all Dairy
Say all vegetarians before they go vegan lmao
Or rather before they learn what veganism actually means
I've had some great vegan cheese.
@@CTimmerman I don't believe you 😂
@@wendigee I think it was by Vemondo.
The only reason I get average 80% on every home economics exam is this channel, keep it up Adam!
So excited to hear that you're thinking of doing a black bean burger recipe! I'm not vegan/vegetarian but they're so good when done right.
Also Adam, many of us vegetarians who do like the taste and texture of plant-based 'burgers' do not hold up McDonald's burgers as the benchmark for what an enjoyable 'meat-like' experience should be. Honestly, when I was a meat eater years ago, McDonald's was NEVER the gauge for burger enjoyment. If that's your benchmark, you should re-evaluate. 😄
I think the idea is that the meat in McD burgers are the absolute basic of what I'd expect. Meat replacements in a similar price range should at a minimum taste as good as the meat in a fast food burger.
the mcdonalds hamburger patty has the texture of a fresh wine cork
@@kevin-bf4ww Fresh?
Except I think that's what beyond and impossible are trying to recreate? They are selling to major fast food restaurants to be sold alongside their normal burgers.
His name is gus? When is he gonna open a chicken food chain with some sketchy things happening in the background?
when has gus been sketchy? all i know is that his chicken is so good it'll blow your mind
Colonel Sanders beat him to it.
You’re god damn right
Gus? Sounds familiar, he does fring a bell.
I assume some of those “controlled” breakfast tests control for lifestyle, iq, income, temperament etc because I could imagine that someone organized enough in their lives to eat a good breakfast every morning is also organized in other ways that ends up having a statistical difference in health.
Like if they make sure to have their good breakfast they also probably make sure to get their 8 hrs sleep, exercise, not take those extra couple shots or pints Saturday night that will ruin Sunday etc etc
red wine and chocolate and red wine and chocolate and please look away from socialized healthcare factors and red wine and chocolate 😉
@@kevin-bf4ww lol
@@kevin-bf4ww red wine and chocolate seems like the weirdest combination to me, unless the red wine is port, of course.
I think you're referring to the uncontrolled ones. The "controlled" ones Adam mentions, are more like One meal with A/B configurations given to different subjects, followed by some studies to check for variables.
@@the-mush No I meant controlled, that’s why I said I “assume” as in I know what a controlled test is and what I think it should be controlling for. But there’s a lot of leeway in what can make a “controlled” test, sometimes things are unaccounted for.
I have a question as a long time breakfast skipper: how long between waking up and breaking your fast are we talking about bc i tend to have my first meal of the day ~3-4h after waking up.
Also: Where i come from we tend to eat the biggest meal of the day around midday, unlike americans who tend to eat the biggest meal in the evening (as far as I understand)
You understand correctly, we love loading on calories and then doing nothing for the rest of evening.
I eat my biggest meal
A lot of rural Americans who cram breakfast before work will do so within 30 minutes of waking up, often in portable form on the way to work, or as soon as they get there. Coffee is often consumed before food on a daily work basis.
I'm a breakfast skipper too, for as long as I can remember I wouldn't eat anything until lunch, and I didn't get hungry during the morning
It's usually as soon as you wake up, since typically your next meal is lunch at 12 noon, which is typically 7~6 hours away since work and school start as early as 7:30 am
My health for sure improved when I stopped having breakfast! Admittedly my breakfast of choice was a coffee and a cigarette
In the last 5 months, have lost 6 kg from not eating breakfast.
Exactly...thanks for the laugh
Wait you ate cigarettes?! 🙀😱jk lol
@@victoriarasmussen2496 Well, at least he didn't have intestinal worms😝
i didn't watch these at first but now I love them and have watched pretty much all of them
I would absolutely consider the tax burden when thinking about moving. I feel like as long as you consider democratic countries, say NATO countries, the higher the burden, the better the governance. Living in Germany as opposed to Bulgaria or Czechia really makes me happy to pay more taxes.
Bureaucracy in Germany is pretty terrible and slow tho
@@LastBastion you say that but the only time I had to deal with the government directly was to get the Meldungen and that was fine. There's other ways I interacted with the gov indirectly and those times were/are great.
@@gebjan No kidding. Relativity matters here. Dealing with local government or HOAs in the United States is...just more proof the great American experiment is a failure
Thanks for the actual captions for the Deaf.
Breakfast is different in Israel.
Interesting about order of eating and salad. I try to learn something new each day.
Not sure I knew bacon bits were soy; I think I presumed they were preserved bits of bacon, so thanks, Adam! I love eating my salad first! As you said, hunger is the best sauces, and I love eating my veggies before my protein.
Bacon bits are bacon bits. Bacos is a trade name for fake versions of it. When you go to the grocery store look in the salad dressing aisle. Likely you will see either Bacos or the store brand version which is usually quite pink red, right next to the normal colored bacon bits.
With the salad the idea is that you eat the fiberous food first, before a carb heavy meal, to slow down the release of sugar from your food. This helps with blood sugar spikes. It's also quite bulky and can help you to eat less of the main course after if you're watching your weight.
25:54 what you had would've most probably been _mukhwaas_ , literally translated as 'mouth smell'; they can be any combination of large-crystal sugar or lump sugar, raw or lightly roasted fennel seeds, candied fennel seeds and cardamom. In many restaurants in India, the waiters don't bring the check/bill to you, you have to go to the cashier near the front door to pay; and often there is a plate or bowl of _mukhwaas_ there, as an after-meal mouth freshener.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukhwas
So, much the same function as the after-dinner mints in the US.
@@chezmoi42 yes, but also, _mukhwas_ is rumored to aid in digestion too
Is the mukhwaas free near the counter? I recall seeing it last time I was at an Indian restaurant but I thought it was mostly for decor or something.
A very distinctive taste. Takes me back.
@@JVerde853 it is usually complimentary (i try to be careful using the word 'free') with your meal; you can put a spoonful or two into your hand and then put it into your mouth during the process of settling the bill...
or else you can ask the staff, no harm in asking, right?
I usually skip both breakfast and lunch, and my first (and main) meal of the day is a very late dinner (around 19-21). Then sometimes I grab a small snack later. Even if I happen to get hungry around lunch time, I usually don't have the apetite for a full meal.
What the fuck
@@tonysoprano4883 People have been doing that for literally thousands of years
you have breakfast at the same time that I go to bed
@@james6028 You probably wake up before I go to bed some days then. I'm not a morning person.
yeah true that haha I'm up at 5
Even though I am now profoundly deaf in my latter years, I prefer watching (and hearing) you on TH-cam as I am a somewhat accomplished lip reader. CC has made my life considerably richer and usually decline watching a movie without CC!
quite literally the only reason I click on the ask Adam videos is because of the jingle. I stay for the subject matter.
Hi, in France, the entrée is often salad. But there's also the habit of serving salad with the cheese (between the main course and dessert). I've been raised with the idea that salad first helps limiting pics of glucose, hence helping with the insulin.
german here, my family (especially my grandparents) usually eats salad alongside or primarily after the main course. interesting to see those small differences
I enjoy the way you think and talk even more the information I get. Thank you Adam.
anecdotally ive found im much less productive throughout the day if i eat breakfast
me too
Do you think freezing sauces, like for example in your Bolognese sauce video, actually diminishes or dilutes the intensity of the flavour of the sauce prior of freezing it ?
Really love your section on taxation. It always bugs me when people treat taxation like it is inherently bad. I would go further than you did, you don't have to be altruistic at all to *want* to pay tax. Taxation is an *investment* in a nicer society around you.
If you live somewhere with higher taxes, you get less money, but in return, you get a lot of things you *can't buy*. The fact my friends and family won't ever be unable to afford healthcare because I pay taxes that fund the NHS is a great thing for me personally, even if I were never to use the service. When tax is spent housing a homeless person, rehabilitating someone who has a drug problem, giving someone welfare so they don't feel the need to perform petty theft to survive, these things all make my life better and safer, even if you ignore the huge value to those people's lives.
Of course we'll never agree with all of how public money is spent, but especially in the US you have options, if you are going to move somewhere because of tax, don't *avoid* tax altogether, surely you should seek the place where you feel your tax is being used to most effectively improve where you live, and maximise the return. Pure minimisation ignores the fact that living in a nice place is nicer, and taxation can make place significantly better to live in.
There will always be the megarich who think they can just hire private security, live in a gated community, and in general provide for themselves all these things, but for most normal people it's not viable to do these things privately, most of us can't disconnect ourselves from the society we live in, and even if you can, I'd argue you need to be a sociopath to *want* to.
@@SimuLord Seems like a terrible way to look at it. You pay less tax on your income up to a point because people earning that little *need* it to survive and can't afford to pay more of it. You are still getting all the value I describe for your taxes, you are just lucky enough to earn enough to be contributing more towards it. Yeah, as you earn more you get to keep less of it, because we understand that we can't ask as much of people we expect to survive on very little. It's frankly silly to treat that as a bad thing for you.
@@SimuLord @aragusea the problem I have with it is wealthy people tend to not pay their share or any at all. The whole trickle down theory has literally never worked. I grew up under Reagan and even as a young kid I reasoned that it made no sense because it relied on people deciding to do what was better for society but I understood people do what what they think is better for them and not society. That's a big difference and I got it when I was 6 and the topic of trickle down economics came up. I thought it was shit then and it still is now. It's just like the Republican idea that regulation is bad because industry can stop that itself because they literally refuse to regulate themselves. Exxon and the rest of the oil industry admitted in court that they new in the 1950s and 1960s that humans were causing global warming and it was the fossil fuel industry that was the cause. They literally lied for decades and paid millions to Congress people to get elected to represent the interests of the fossil fuel industry. And that's just a single industry. If you're my age or close you probably remember recalls on toys that were painted with lead paint which is super bad regardless but when it comes to children's toys... They absolutely will put that in their mouth because that's what kids do.
This biggest problem isn't even the taxes. It's how poorly the taxes that we do give are being used. So much of it slips through the cracks of the system, and that's ignoring corruption
bruh this is the only podcast i listen 2 and its entertaining AFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
I work in cleaning and housekeeping and I'm a passionate cyclist. If I don't have a good high protein breakfast, my default is one scrambled egg and a cottage cheese frozen berry smoothie, I can't get through the day.
30:45 - “But speaking of shit-!”
🤣 🤣 🤣
This completely made my night! 😂 😂 😂
I love the taxman fact, 100% true. Also the first Beatles song that mentioned a real person by name (Mr Wilson and heath were the leaders of the two parties at the time)
Thank you so much for talking on tax minimization. I don't see a lot of comments on here that focus on that question over the others, but it was something that is wonderful to offer as an alternative understanding for some others that don't quite see it that way. We have this weird tendency in the US to treat tax savings as universally good or desirable and ignore the fact that the government, you know, does some important stuff.
Adam your content always makes me happy. You've also grown a lot over the last few years, and I can see it in large portion when watching your earlier content vs your current content. Your content has gotten better for sure in a lot of ways, but it's also your own personal growth and confidence.
You're comfortable acknowledging when you aren't 100% sure, you're comfortable acknowledging when there's an unfair privilege involved in a situation, and you're comfortable just acknowledging that people are all different in their facets.
From addressing that different cultures and countries have their own food context and histories, (which is a moderate-large part of your content) to acknowledging that non-binary and other-gendered folks exist. (which isn't a content focus, but still wonderful to see.) I'll never stop appreciating that effort.
preach
I'm not surprised you aren't aware of it, since the chain is nearly universally reviled by both Italian-Americans and "foodies", but Olive Garden does still do the mint-with-the-check thing. ( It's my Father's favorite restaurant, we took him for Father's day. )
i thought salad first was the best. stops you from over eating, and gets the stomach ready for digestion. ideally, drink some water and eat a salad. then cook dinner or dinner after salad.
piworower, there are very few studies to support that one is better than the other. In the end, your stomach digests everything at it's own rate. Most of the perceptions of one is better than the other is in our heads and based how we were raised.
@@violetviolet888 i think you are absolutely right. the stomach is an absolute beast. i heard as well that you shouldn't mix carbs and proteins. but it is like you said, there is no clear evidence. salad before does help curb your appetite and so you don't binge on the meat and potatoes.
but yeah, i have a very physical job so eating is more then being a bit hungry for me and yeah, before bed or in the morning or what ever. once it is past your teeth your stomach will do its thing and you can trust in that.
juggernaut.
1. Breakfast
To my personal experience, I feel much much better during the day after having breakfast, which is furthermore as an award for great morning exercises.
The only downside, it’s harder to keep a diet, as at the afternoon the organism forgets I had a breakfast for 800-1000 kcal
2. Salads
Only DURING the main meal, eating salad only is imo boring and not that appetising
What salads are you making? A nice dressing, a lightly charred and spiced lean protein, and a variety of textures makes a salad better than the main course
I'm glad to hear that Adam is planning podcast production efficiencies, hope it helps the podcast continue.
I was wondering, is failure of the week segment no longer going to be included? It seems like you've skipped that the last few weeks.
he has just never failed at anything in the past week, lol. /j
Here from Belgium, a several hour meal is common for a family feast. Which does happen several times a year.
I can imagine there are families that come together much more often.
you're killing it. dude, how awesome is life right now?
Was introduced to the salad after the meal when I went to Europe and is something I do quite often. Where everyone around me is going for a cold sweet dessert, I get that satisfying "bliss" from leafy greens since I'm not a big eater of desserts. I also find that I enjoy the main course from start to finish alot more because I haven't put a filler into my stomach before it arrives.
I have found that by not eating breakfast, I am less inclined to eat throughout the day, which is helping with dieting. Eating first thing in the day after you wake up indeed charges up your metabolism but that doesn't just mean you'll be more active and burn more fat. It means your rate of operation increases, so you'll likely eat more throughout the day.
That's generally my thing. If I eat breakfast early after I get up I'm much more hungry at lunch (or whenever I eat next( and am more likely to be hungry throughout the day.
I hardly ever had breakfast in my lifetime. And now, 60 years and four fullterm child deliveries later, I am enviably healthy and weighing exactly the same as I did when I was 20. My secret: Eating everything and as much of it as you want AS LONG AS YOU ARE HUNGRY. No matter what time of the day it is, no need to stuff your body with calories and nutrients it's not asking for.
I find that that my total daily caloric intake pretty much correlates with the total amount of hours elapsed in the day since my first meal in the day.
I’m an American expat retired to France and, yes, restaurant meals are leisurely things. Two hours is the expected time. But it's not at all unusual for people to stay in a restaurant for longer than that. And most stores are closed at lunchtime - for two hours. In the more southern parts of France, stores can be closed from noon to 4PM.
The benefits of eating breakfast can pretty much be boiled down to healthy user bias. People who listen to the advice of “eat breakfast to be healthier” tend to do a lot of other things that benefit overall health. A simple example: good sleep hygiene that allows you to wake up early enough to eat a decent breakfast. In that case, the sleep hygiene is a lot more beneficial than actually eating the breakfast.
And “jump-starting your metabolism” isn’t a thing, at least not in a practical sense. You might burn a few extra calories, but a few out of 2000 is meaningless. Lean mass and overall activity levels affect your metabolism by orders of magnitude more than the timing of a meal (or frequency, for that matter).
Interesting ideas. I will say that jump starting metabolism is something that is very important for diabetics. Though it is less jump starting and more eating food at spread out over the day and understanding the effects of time on glucose uptake.
Hello Adam,
you probably won’t read this but here is my opinion/perspective on the podcast.
For background, this is the first podcast I got inspired? to watch and I thank you for that. It was really good.
Anyways, the content of the podcast was really good and really puts you to think on a lot of stuff. I really like how you involve your life, experiences and opinions without ruining the scientific / objective view. Your form of attacking a question and boarding it is pretty awesome as well. Really the only thing i didn’t like was that you gotta considerate not all of your viewers are from the US (excuse my english) or know the situation there so some background information wouldn’t hurt.
As a last note, I am eager into listening your other podcasts and I am for sure recommending this to friends and family.
Keep making videos!
Hey Adam, my theory on health and breakfast consumption comes from personal experience being fat and later thin.
I am hungry immediately when waking up when I am thin but only hungry by the afternoon when overweight.
So my theory us that eating breakfast doesn't make you healthier but you are more likely to want eat breakfast when you are thin. Most people in America and other similar countries would be healthier if they lost some weight.
I've had a BMI of the low end of the healthy spectrum all the way to pretty overweight but not obese and I didn't experience any difference in my willingness, or rather unwillingness, to eat breakfast. No idea which of our experiences is more common
My weight too has varied over the years but I am always hungry in the morning and when I did skip breakfast (not by choice) my whole day was crappy. Many times I skip dinner - usually out of laziness. Just from talking to people about this subject I think my pattern of eating is more rare for some reason.
@@limiv5272 interesting to know that its not some everyone experiences
Adam can you please put chapters separation in the podcast? I listened to the actual podcast and had finished the fake meat and breakfast parts. I wanted to jump directly to the salad after dinner part.
Morning Star Griller's Prime burgers, when dressed up like a mcd burger, taste eerily similar! Make sure you pan fry them in oil (or butter!) and get a little crisp.
And, eerily, more unhealthy.
Eat a real burger period.
@@jaloux8583 or just dont eat a burger. Emulating unhealthy food will result in unhealthy good. Healthy vegan food is more healthy that omnivore alternatives.
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Moderation, nothing wrong with eating meats.
@@jaloux8583 well there are plenty of wrong things with eating meats, but the largest one for non vegans is probably that meat is just not that healthy. You can be healthier if you don't eat meat
45:33 this surprises me! I didnt even know you had recorded in multiple locations because i am literally never watching the video. Tho I am on youtube and not a dedicated podcast app, I only ever set my phone down and listen while cooking or sorting laundry.
McDonald's in the uk has a McPlant burger made with beyond meat™ and it tastes almost the same as their beef, as far as I can remember
I had one the other week when they were 99p and I thought it tasted nothing like their burgers. It was fairly nice in its own right, if a little small.
I haven't found any plant based burgers that actually taste like beefburgers but I see a lot of people online claiming various brands do, but it's never worked for me. Like Adam I still prefer something like a veggie or bean burger if I'm going to have a non-meat option as the products I've tried so far have failed to come close, so ironically I just end up wanting a real beef burger. If I have a bean burger I'm expecting and enjoying a bean burger and don't feel like I'm getting an 'inferior' product because it stands up in its own right.
I don't get hungry for about the first hour after I get up. But I do need to eat at least a bit before I work out or I have a much harder time getting started and finishing the entire workout. I have found it works best for me to eat two breakfasts. A small one before I start exercising, and then more afterward.
Hey Adam I’ve got a question that could use your scientific mind. Why when at the seaside, or visiting the coast, can you taste/smell the distinctness of (salt) in sea water? I’m pretty sure it’s not just me who feels it. Is it a question of perception of flavour as we have certain associations with the coast?
are you referring to different flavors of mineral concentrations in the saltwater at different coasts / beaches / places?
@@kevin-bf4ww not specifically no. It’s just the distinct taste and smell of sea air/water on the coast has made me ponder
@@benockendon8939 Aerosol. Wind and waves create some tiny droplets that get carried in the air, all the way into your nose. It's possible there are some substances in sea water that can travel through the air independently, but there's definitely aerosol involved.
I'm one of those people who has no appetite in the morning, plus I have a manual labor job. The first part of the day is sluggish if I don't force down a light breakfast, but I've notice that a nice lunch after a morning fast makes me feel better in the second half of the day. If I eat a normal 3 meals a day, I feel sluggish at the end, instead of the beginning.
The sluggishness is probably the insulin kicking in a few hours after a meal. I always had an energy drop in the early afternoon, but not when I skip breakfast.
Please talk about poop more Adam. You're good at it and you clearly enjoy talking about it as much as I do hearing about it.
i've started skipping breakfast ( trying intermittent fasting ) mostly because i just ate cereal for breakfast and it really wasn't doing much for me. I'd end up starving again by the time lunch break at work rolls around ,actually less hungry this way ( still eating the same amount though ,my appetite hasn't lessened whatsoever )
Cereal has a lot of carbs with out good fiber to balance it. A great thing to try to help with hunger is fruit or yogurt. I will drink a fruit smoothie or some slim fast and it helps keep down the hunger for a few hours.
@@MezzoForteAural i made the same observation as the OP in the same context (intermittent fasting) but i ate specifically fiber-rich and completely sugar-less porridge with greek yoghurt (high in protein) so i think it could also be a matter of being conditioned for appetite at the time of day maybe
Saturday, podcast day. I love this longer style of content!
Brit here. It's not a regular thing, but meals really can last 5 hours or more in France + Italy. My parents once went to a wedding in Sardinia that genuinely lasted pretty much all the way from late morning through to the evening. Every table had a hog roast to itself. God knows how much wine was consumed. My parents, being too British for these continental habits, left a few hours before the end.
Eh, "one meal a day" is the current non-extreme standard for longevity. Couple with the natural evening hunger trend, and skipping breakfast and skipping or delaying lunch is likely better.
My guess is that breakfast eaters are consistent and these studies likely capture that consistency, not breakfast itself. As you said, skipping once a week was enough to wipe out the benefits.
You just described my 80-something year old father: daily exercise, daily breakfast (he might skip dinner if he's had large lunch), BMI at the low end. Hes basically ALWAYS been disciplined. It shows in his health outcome (no diabetes, no cardiovascular disease)
There’s work being done on Salmon that can be used for sushi! It’s still a bit away from general public market use but we’re getting there!
I personally don't like breakfast. I don't have much of an appetite when I wake up in the morning. And sometimes if I do eat breakfast it will make me tired and not a good start to the day.
But if its a day I'm staying home i eat breakfast just because i love food
From Turkey where it is custom to eat meals whit salads.
But because i hated how my mom used to make salads (too much vinegar / oil / somehow always bitter) i ate it long after (1/2 hours) i ate my meal and it stuck for me. I generaly make a salad right after i finish washing the dishes so i can slowly eat it while doing something else.
In the Netherlands, where I'm from, the importance of a varied diet is stressed. Even in elementary school we were taught that eating from all food groups is the healthiest.
Could it not simply be that habitual breakfast eaters automatically have a more varied and therefore slightly healthier diet, just because of the extra meal?
It would seem reasonable to assume that in general people don't eat for breakfast, what they would also eat the rest of the day, right?
I'm Dutch as well and can confirm the education claim.
And interestingly enough, I live pretty healthily despite never eating breakfast.
However, I eat just about anything at lunch and dinner, so I still eat quite varied.
So, you may have a point there.