Bread is not bread in Nord America. French bread has 4 ingredients : flour, water, yeast and salt. That it! No sugar, no fat, no product you can not even remember the name!
Brioche is not bread. Pain brioché is not bread. When we want to eat bread, we eat bread, we don't cheat eating "special" bread, eating what makes the specificity with the illusion to eat bread. Bread is bread.
Dr. Berg you forgot a very important point in the kind of bread we have in France. It's done with quality medieval flour as organic Spelt and made from the simplest ingredients - just flour, water and salt. Long-fermentation dough promotes good gut health and bacteria. The dough is allowed to ferment for twenty-four hours, allowing the natural yeasts to grow . No chemical yeast.This improves digestibility, especially for people with gluten intolerance problems.
Ahh, yes, but is the GRAIN you use to make the flour SPROUTED first? All SEEDS are supposed to be SPROUTED BEFORE consumption to get rid of the phytic acid (which pulls calcium OUT of your teeth and bones, giving you dental cavities and osteoporosis) and to increase the DIGESTIBILITY of those seeds so that you get ALL of the nutrients that are in those seeds!!
Also, the French taking their meals seriously. They actually sit down and eat and enjoy their time. Not like us who eat ‘crap’ in our cars, eat at our desks, eat while standing, etc…
1h to 1h30 ? What is this heresy ? 2h break or nothing ! It's the time to go to eat properly, talk and laught with your friends/familly/colleagues Many thing come from America in France, but i hope this "art de vivre" regarding lunch/food will never fade
European countries have also kicked out Monsanto. Their wheat is non-GMO, and they don't use American methods of harvesting, which includes spraying the wheat with roundup to force it to ripen quicker in order to harvest it on a timetable. So, their wheat flour is much healthier. When I was in Germany once, I noticed that eating bread there did not cause bloating and weight gain, as it does for me here in the US.
@Candy Morgan yes it's because they (gates and all) want to own the control of the crop supply and have everyone eating from select companies which have their gmo crop patent as opposed to heirloom organic foods. The farmers are aware of this and are fighting back.
Candy Morgan, that's right. And Gates has been buying up farmland in the US, in several states. I think he's now one of the largest farmland owners. For what purpose?
True. I am European but lived in the USA for almost three decades. I cannot eat anything here that contains flour, and for that reason I buy an Italian flour at an Italian market. Thousands of chemicals are prohibited in Europe but allowed in the USA. Additionally, I know many Americans that cannot eat flour here in the USA but they are fine when they eat any flour products in Europe. When I visit Europe I eat all I want and I never gain an ounce but in the USA I have to be very careful because I gain weight easily.
French here. Unfortunately there are less and less good bakeries, and more and more industrial products (or products made with industrial/processed ingredients) in many so called "bakeries". But it's still easy to find relatively good breads.
Earlier this month I visited my niece in France, Their baguettes are freshly made and purchased daily either from bakeries or vending machines. They add no preservatives so by the following morning they are hard enough to double up as a baton!!!
@@kweenb168 When I have to much baguette left, I cut it in slices before freezing it. Actually, slices of frozen bread toasted in a toaster are pretty nice in the morning with some butter.
@@pierrebluteau it's a countryside things, it's like a soda dispenser but for baguette, they are managed by the closest bakery and they are refilled with fresh baguette every day in fact it's just like buying normal baguette but from a machine, it works 24h/24h wich is very uselfull when you came back late from work and the bakery is already closed. or when you wake up at 1 am and suddently want fresh bread, just go to the closest baguette dispenser and voila ( i've done that )
Another huge factor as well is the portion sizes. Traditional French meals are very small compared to the "super sized" meals we typically see in North America.
It is true about the portion size. I live in Europe, also often have work trips to USA. Not just in France, in many European countries, when you eat in restaurants, the portion size is suitable and I as a small woman can it all. In USA, when I eat in restaurants,, starter already makes me full. Once I ordered a steak, so big and so thick, I can only eat a corner of it.
Every single time I go out to eat, I am shocked by the portions that I witness being served. I can actually make, at least 2 meals from 1 plate, every single time. I find the Lumber jack plate size portions unappealing, and sad. Specially for women. Aquired this habit, as a child, that I do not enjoy over eating. I quit, as soon as I feel full. In restaurants, second thing I order with my meal, is a carry out container. When my plate arrives, I portion out the amount I don't plan to eat. My second option would be, to over eat, or waste part of my meal. Too uncomfortable with overeating. I do not like wasting food. I am still over wieght some. Carbs. are my food of choice. Meats are my least favorite foods.
I am an Aussie and I received a box of chocolate-coated shortbread from an American recently and upon trying them was surprised that shortbread and the chocolate had to be that sweet. The shortbread I normally get from the UK and Australia is 50% as sweet as that. It was supposed to be a branded US box of treats but I had to stop eating it after only trying two pieces.
We French people cook our meals (take out food is a treat, not an everyday thing) and sit eating them (usually not in front of a tv) We drink water (soft drinks are ok for a party, not with every meal) We rarely snack
@@kittykitkat4968 Really? When I was in Pakistan I was shocked by how much people eat takeaway, like every night, and how much infrastructure they have around quick home delivery of food, despite poor infrastructure with everything else. In fact, homeowners are generally clueless and blank on how to do anything, cooking, washing clothes, cleaning, etc. Most have servants who cook for them and the food is always super oily (with the shittiest oils), fatty, and with little to no veggies. I know it's a different country but I thought trends on the subcontinent would be approximately the same?
You could be right, I've been back to India 2 times in 15 yrs and lots have changed since than. I'm from Kolkata and ate street food but didn't gain so much weight But in western countries processed food are eaten on a regular bases which is unhealthy.
French person here : - The amount of bread you think we eat is vastly overstimated - Portions size are much smaller - We have a LOT less sugar in everyday processed foods - We're not as thin as you think.
I bought some imported French digestive biscuits off Amazon recently (Guillon) to go with my tea in the morning. As far as processed food goes, it's much healthier than even America's "healthy" snacks you can get in our supermarkets over here. There's alot less sugar in the biscuits than comparable American foods. Americans just like sugary foods way too much.
asphalt hedgehog I went on Vacation to France twice, they are always moving, biking Ect... Great quality food there 👌🏽and you NEVER get that heavy feeling after a meal like in the US.. I went on a cruise there and came back smaller and I ate EVERYTHING 🤷🏽♀️
I think the biggest difference is people actually buying ingredients and spending time in the kitchen preparing meals. That alone is a limiter to how much you eat and the quality of what you eat.
@@ryannechvatal9888 I am an European living in NY, USA. Since your name sounds Czech or Slovak (pardon if I'm wrong) you know where the kitchen in an apartment should be. Perhaps in cities and villages with more space to build a house or apartment the kitchens are in the right place, I only saw one-two cases, but in NY their placement in the middle of the house/apartment, with no windows etc, making every cooking a smelly experience in the entire apartment, is a clear sign that the apartments here were not built for cooking. And newyorkers confirmed that to me quite often, they didn't cook that much. Maybe now with Covid things have changed.
@@dveydah "Apartments here were not built for cooking" that sounds very strange to me.. Haha thanks for the input I learned something interesting today. Oh and you are correct I am Czech. Where are you from?
Well if they don't have real wheat in France, then where on earth do they have it? And can you purchase it online? Please somebody share if you know. I would be so grateful!
I lived in France for a long time and when I returned to the US, I gained weight within 3 months without increasing my calorie intake. Here I have to read every label. Everything Dr. Berg said in this vid is exactly what I believe happens and it’s really difficult to find the right food here to eat as they do in France.
I’m French. I’ve several times travelled to North America. The main differences I have noticed about food are: 1- we don’t snack in France. We only eat 3 times a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Children can have an afternoon snack (le goûter) around 5 when they come back home from school, because afternoons are too long for them between the lunch time (noon) and the dinner one (8 pm). But it’s a kids’ thing. When children get older and want to behave like the adults, they stop le goûter. 2- meals times are very important. It’s a family event. With modern life, in big cities, people don’t come back home for lunch, but families still have dinner together. Each member relates his day, we eat while talking to each other. Meals are always a good moment. We like food and we like sharing these moments together. 3- we like good food, good quality. Children are taught to taste everything when they are very young. My mum used to tell me: don’t say you don’t like it before tasting. Now, with the TV ads, women working, people living far from the work place or school, the American way of life is gaining influence, so does the obesity.
LOVE THIS 💗 I totally agree with the t.v. Ads and women working. Women are too exhausted to make sure meals are healthy and appealing... they want to get the kids some food and get them in bed!!! ‘Cause they have to get them up in the morning and shuffle everyone around again the next day. Are dads the ones worried about how healthy and when kids take baths-and if their children are well-adjusted or not? (Are dad’s concerned about breastfeeding?) Not as much as moms, that’s all I can say about that! Moms play a HUGE role in how food choices are for their kids, and shaping the way adults will view food. If we aren’t valuing the sanctity of what mothers are doing for their children we’re probably lost as humans. Half of what makes us human is due to the mom, the other half comes from dad. 😂 family is important!
I studied in Spain for a bit and when I got back to New York I was thinner, healthier, my skin glowed and I felt more energy. This was despite eating voraciously through the country. Oh, and I loved their breads dipped in heaps of olive oil.
Im french (from France) so i can talk a little bit of what's going on with food. In France when we eat we take our time, it's a 2 hour meal if possible, and we eat different dishes during the meal. Dinner time is also usually around 6 or 7 pm maximum, we won't eat that much during night. Food quality is also much better with less colorants and less conservators. The type of food we eat is also completely different from the south to the north or the east or west: people eat more fish in the south with more oil, it's more Mediterranean, in the north it's more bovine food, and in the east it will be with more sausages for example, each food type is different from one city to another one also, but they have also a much better quality of life in France, with more vacation, and more time to take care of their lives and they are usually happier, so happier people are skinnier. ... etc So it's food with the lifestyle. French people tend also to walk alot compared to Americans, b/c the climate is not extreme in France, it does not get hot like Phoenix AZ and it does not get cold like FAirbanks AK. PS: I had to edit this post to add the following paragraph: In France I also eat probably 85% of my food from my potager (garden) and I buy the rest from the grocery store. I can get my physical exercises from gardening, 1 hour a day should help us to burn calories. I also eat different dishes during a meal and as it might seem natural for me, the reason to eat different dishes in a meal is mainly dietetic: we will start with something that is called 'entree', an entree is something that is light, composed of fibers with low calories and usually there is oil inside, the entree is a dish that will make you feel not satiated but it will slow down your hunger and put your stomach and your organism slowly into a better food absorption process. Once you are done with your entree, then you proceed with 'le plat de resistance', which is the main dish, this is something highly rich in calories, it is made of mainly meat for proteins (poultry, fish, red meat, raw meat depending on your subcultural attachment in France), this is something that usually satisfies your hunger and it will make you feel satiated. Then there is usually a break from that meal, you won't go right away after the next meal, people usually wait for the digesting process, 10 or 15 or 20 minutes. Then once this is done, you can go ahead and start eating your cheese with your glass of redwine. Cheese is important in France, and we need it because we get our omega-3 from the cheese and it helps breaking the enzymes into the digesting process and accelerates the metabolism. Once this is done we have a dessert, then we will drink a coffee like a capuccino because it will help regulating our insulin and blood pressure. This is the basic meal from french people, at least this is how i was raised to eat my food. In some parts of France such as the North some people will mix their food in one dish only but this is not healthy. Eating food takes time, and enjoying your food will help you digesting. However the constraints of life through globalization is slowly changing cultural eating habits and the eating process became less important in people's life and they prefer relying more and more on food processing to satisfy their eating habits. This is most certainly the case for people who are younger, and they tend to live in a globalized mentality, and this is unfortunate as the rate of obesity and overweight people is in an upward curve. There you have it in a few words. I tried to reply to everyone who replied to me in 1 text only. Edit: the French spends on average 2 hours a day to eat their food, this is the national average. If you cannot spend 2 hours a day to take your time to eat your food this is not healthy at all. You have to taste your food, and take your time to digest it. This is part of our life and we should not undermine it. In the middle of the day I will stop working at noon and go back to work at 2 pm, and whatever I do at noon at work will have to wait 2 pm, my health has the priority over my job, this is also a requirement to fulfill my job. I live in the countryside so my way of life is completely different from people who live in the south or people who work in the cities. For example I wake up very early every mornings, around 4 AM and I also go to bed early, and I will make sure that I get enough sleep, i need my 8 hours at least. I also live far from the big cities, b/c I want to breathe a better air, and nothing's better than a walk in the forest with my dogs. The rat race is not for me, as long as I am free spiritually with myself, this is all that matters to me. In France it's perfectly fine not to work and to be a homeowner with a 15 years mortgage. Bisous de France.
Hello! I'm French and the biggest reason we are "thinner" (for now anyway) is that we eat slowly, we chew our food a lot, one of the reasons our meals take so long, we chew our food so the saliva prepares are food for digestion in our stomach! I have been living in the US for many years now and I couldn't believe how fast people eat, gobbling up their food. As I said, chewing allows the saliva to do its job, which is to prepare/predigest your food for your stomach to finish the digestion process but also it keeps you satisfied, so you eat less or at less smaller portions because chewing longer releases more flavor into your mouth, food tastes better and is more satisfying. Most American gobble up their food because they are not satisfied with it, they do not allow their mouth to experience their food... Also, most of our cheeses are fermented, some are made with raw milk.
@@bradford_shaun_murray Yep, McDonald's and other fast food joints have been very popular in France, sadly, which changes French's people health for sure...
I grew up in Spain and Sweden. In Spain we had Siesta (a several hour break from school and work) where families meet up and eat together - so no school food there. In Sweden we had chefs cooking our school meals which are free of cost: several huge bowls with different salads (sauerkraut, vegetables, been salad, shredded carrots) and several dishes to choose from (vegetarian, fish and meat - all cooked from scratch) - I loved our school food. No sodas served; we where offered water and milk to drink. (But I know the food quality varies a lot from school to school.)
If you buy a baguette on Monday morning, by Tuesday morning it is a fossil. That's what actual bread is like. The reason your bread lasts all week is that it isn't bread.
Preservatives-almost all US food has preservatives. Supposedly this is to make the food shelf stable. If one buys pre cut fruit, it has a “bite” in the flavor as the grocery store has placed another type of preservative on the pre prepared fruits. It is best just to buy it fresh, wash and prep it yourself. Most Americans go to the grocery store 1x a week or 1x a month. They “stock up” where everyone else in the world goes to the store almost daily or every other day. No need for preservatives in that fantastic real French Bagette!
I make my own sourdough bread and it lasts quite a few days, it’s just that baguettes are thin and will turn into a brick very quickly (tested on my own baguettes)
You are dead wrong. Any long fermented, proper bread (especially sourdough) is fresh and delicious for quite a long time. If it goes stale quickly, then it probably contains too much yeast and produced rapidly.
@@mateuszptaszynski685 yep although baguettes just dry out because they are so thin. but my proper loaves stay fresh for long times and sometimes i forget about leftover pieces and they just turn into a dry brick, no mold or anything ever. sourdough is great
Be sure to check your store bought breads for preservatives...Check the ingredients..there are lots of preservatives to keep the bread “fresh”. I don’t believe sourdough was being written about in Chris’s comment. Anything that sits for a ‘quite a long time’ is not in my humble opinion ‘fresh’. My home baked breads do not stay for any long time.
I'm English and have lived on the continent for 17 years and have been visiting France regularly for 35 years or so. I live in France now and trust me, the French are getting fatter. It is like the UK about 20/25 years ago. All the points you make are still valid for a large percentage of the population, but there is a growing proportion of people who eat very badly. You can see it in their shopping trolleys. I look at the people and look what is in their shopping trolleys and it is as clear as daylight. These trends are particularly evident in younger and poorer people, and are not very different at all, from the rest of Europe and North America.
it's true, I lived in rural France and, was shocked how poor the diet is for the average french man. It's a myth that the French eat like well, most cannot afford much. Only the rich in Paris can.
you are right...it depends on how the kids are being fed at home...people with less budget will buy crap food, I know a youngster who prefers to buy a good piece of bread, a dried saucisse and some red wine while the others go to Macshit.
Same everywhere. Nowhere is immune. I'm Irish and I noticed at a work conference recently that everybody over 40 had endless cups of tea at break and everybody under 30 had a bottle of lucozade. The group in their 30s weren't as hard to pigeon hole! But it wouldn't occur to me to have a lucozade when I'm thirsty but to a younger generation, that's the sort of thing you do every day, it's like tea to them!.
Very surprised you didn’t touch on them walking more. My time in Europe I noticed people walk numerous miles to places vs the US where we drive 1/4 mile down the road.
@American Hero I walk everywhere. I don't own a car. I'm 62 and in great shape. Walking is essential to your circulatory system, your digestive system and your very breath.
Drive 1/4 mile down the road 🤣 sounds like my girlfriend that she’ll drive to the gym when it’s less than 10 min walk away down the road when she does go that is 😂
I feel like people that do that are the type of people to drive to a park to go jogging instead of just running there themselves and it's a park less then 30 minutes walking distance maximum
The way we built our states, isn't the way Europe set up their design. Village design vs suburb/city and everyone needing a dang car to get around has killed us
Well done. I was married to my sons' (French) dad 24 years, and we visited his family and France several times. They eat a lot more natural, unprocessed food, follow meals with salads, and don't seem to snack at all. As you say, there are fat people there, but nowhere near as many as here. I think one of the worst things Americans do is eat mindlessly, alone in front of the TV, while driving, when bored, when lonely, ... etc.
@@vitorfernandes651 Because what they're eating doesn't require a knife and fork, a dining table, nice crockery and linen, and a glass for the wine ... tells you what kind of crap they're eating, no?
@@vitorfernandes651 we road trip alot. We eat in the car all the time. And so do millions of others. We see it all the time... Sadly they are mostly eating taco bell, bk, mickey D's.... Healthy food should be available convenient and reasonably priced too. We bring most of our for in the car....
The French also consume a great variety of fruits and vegetables every day. It is strange that this point was barely mentioned while so much focus was placed on their intake of fats and protein.
Fat and protein are essential nutrients. Carbs are not. Fruit used to be seasonal, as well as most veggies. Most people who say "eat a varied diet" are close, but not 100% accurate. You can get away with eating vegetables all day every day because they are low carb (mostly), but eating a ton of fruit can definitely cause too much sugar intake.
Because his videos are about eating a ketogenic (very low-carb, higher fat content) diet. Sugary fruits and many vegetables contain too many carbs or too much sugar to keep you in a state of ketosis and burning fat instead of sugar, along with spiking your insulin levels. That's probably why it's not mentioned in this video. 🙂
French don't eat so many fruits at all, actually. Vegetables: mostly lettuce, which has almost 0 carb, tomatoes. They eat a TON of butter, which is good for health and is a lot of fat.
@@enhanced6892 yes. We try to shop when needed only, and take only what we need to cook something. Avoid sodas, avoid even water in plastic bottles. We also try to vary (personally I do not make lists, I take new ideas in the market, and purchase things according to the season. Like in spring: try asparagus and artichoke...
No. it isn't. Where do you get this idea? The most expensive stuff may be made with these things but most bakers buy in their confectioners custard, flavours and creams and doughs from catering companies. You are at least 30 years out of date. sorry.
The French & Italians and most of the European countries do not eat processed food. They cook fresh foods & most shop for their produce on a daily basis. It's a lifestyle difference, we in America cannot switch over to this type of living very easily because we choose to chase the dollar first vs a healthy lifestyle that will give us a good long life. In all my years as an Expat, I never saw the degree of obesity in France/Italy/Spain/Germany, as prevalent as it is in the USA. We have a very destructive lifestyle. That's why the medical community is the biggest employer wherever you live in the USA.
@@angelafernandez9927 yes. Fried is such an American way because it is fast. People eat on the go. I will never forget my trip to France, many years ago, and seeing people shopping the fresh air markets and taking a two hour lunch to prepare food and relax. There were freshly plucked whole chickens hanging from an overhead wire near the counter. Folks would select fresh meat and vegetables, and I notice that they cook healthfully fairly quickly. Americans believe it is such a pain to chop/slice fruits and vegetables. When you get used to it and have the right tools, it's not bad. The USA needs to slow down, badly. We're dying a slow, painful death. Maybe this pandemic is a wake up call?
I am French and you are right! We eat much better in France. When I moved to U.S. I was horrified to discover that everything was so much salter, sweeter and the quantity in restaurant were enormous . I love your videos. Thank you.
In the USA when you don't finish your food they automatically pack it for you to take away. In Europe, by default it's thrown away, you have to ask yourself to take away the rest. Lots of free refills in the USA, again I've almost never seen that in Europe, if there is then it's a very special place. So when you're about to finish your huge sugar drink in the USA, they refill it lol! I remember also ordering a chocolate cake, and I chose it because it didn't look too big, and guess what? When I received it, it was twice the size it should have been, and the lady who brought it was so happy and said: "Look I made it myself, and I gave you a double portion for the price of one" or something, and I was NOT happy :D
@@youuuuuuuuuuutube not anymore. There's a law now that allows you to ask for restaurants to pack your unfinished food so you can take it back, in France.
I honestly believe there is something harmful in US wheat. There has been a rise of something that seems like gluten intolerance in people who were not previously intolerant. These people can eat wheat and pasta in Europe but not in the states.
Global Adventurer Me too but mine appeared immediately after a 28 day water fast. I believe it is SIBO and am about to start the carnivore diet at Dr. Berg’s suggestion in an earlier video.
@@blinkybill2198 Let me clarify my statement. Even those who think it is glyphosate and want to prove it, haven't been able to. You would also think that if it is glyphosate we would see the same reaction from eating other vegetables with high levels of glyphosate, but we don't. I do actually think it is related to glyphosate, I just wish we had some confirmation to back our position.
I'm from Ireland and I have to say when I visited the US 🇺🇸 I was shocked at the portions of food as well as the amount of sweets, sodas, chocolates, fast food restaurants etc it was frankly disgusting. I was sick of the food after three days and put on nearly half a stone in a week. People were on mobility scooters everywhere. I left so disappointed. I'd never go there again it was gross.
Being French and watching your video :D I agree, the quality of food here is better and we are very suspicious of overly processed food. We also walk a lot and do portion control.
I can't speak to home cooking, but I know what catered food and restaurant food is like in France, and it doesn't seem particularly more wholesome or healthy to me--about the same as in the US in that respect. However, the portion sizes are a whole different world and the walking is universal. I think those are the big differences. I believe that the french are suspicious of processed food, but I don't think that's the major difference. Plenty of fat Americans--most, that I know--are highly suspicious of processed food. But those portions...
@@bendirval3612 I agree with you but I think that the quality of some ingredients make a big difference. For example, even American bread would not be considered bread in France because it has too much sugar. I notice that American products tend to contain a lot more sugar, high fructose corn syrup, salt and such. So, if you eat a processed meal from France or from the US, because of those differences in ingredients or their quality, it has a big impact on one's health or weight.
@@DavesRabbitHole agreed. I´m French and I did my PGCE (post graduate certificate in education) in England. I taught French in two secondary schools in Lancashire for a year. One was the 5th best secondary school in the UK at the time, the other one was in the bottom ten. I really saw interesting things. In the "bad school" I saw obese kids arriving at school in the morning, heading straight to the cafeteria and having pizza for breakfast. That really shocked me because it would be impossible in France. Our cafeterias are not even open in the morning. They only offer lunch and it is healthy and varied. In Lancaster, the cafeteria didn't really provide anything varied. They always had beans, jack potatoes and ham, fries, pizza. Those were the staples. You had some salads or pasta sometimes. In the "good school" what shocked me was hearing the students from difficult backgrounds who were there on scholarship really divide themselves in terms of social class. For example, I told them that, in winter in France, we like to roast chestnuts on a fire and eat them. A year 7 kid told me "I don´t eat no chestnuts. I´m not a posh kid, miss." That really shocked me that at his age he was already excluding himself from eating something so simple because of his perceived "class". I told him that there was absolutely nothing posh about eating chestnuts. You pick them off the ground, you make a fire and you eat them roasted. I grew up in a small village of 3000 people in what some would call a white trash family, but I never put limits like this on what I could eat, so it blew my mind to hear it that way. Also, when I taught them fruits and vegetables in French in the difficult school, many of the kids didn't even know the English translation of the French word I wanted them to learn.
@@DavesRabbitHole Completely agreed. Hopefully, with internet nowadays, information is more available. Let's hope it impacts our health and environment positively (as long as we listen to scientists but not necessarily big pharma ^^)
@@Raphanne rather than the perceived class, i think he's just mimicking what the class he is in curently, I think- his surroundings, how adults around him think and talk, etc. Interesting story tho
Kung fu Master: "Do you know why they call it 'Fast' food." Apprentice: "Why?" Master: "Because it hastens your journey to the grave . . ." From the 1985 Kung fu comedy 'Remo, Unarmed and Dangerou'. By and large; the French don't do junk food.
What am I reading? 2019 TH-cam comments and someone mentions Remo. Don't remember where but in my youth on the 80's I found some old Remo paperbacks. Those were pure awesomeness. Close second spot went to Morgan Kane paperbacks I had acquired as well. Those were the days..
I’m from Poland and we have very traditional way of baking bread. Bakeries are on every street with sourdough bread which is fresh and not packed with preservatives. Quality of European bread is incomparable to US breads which are actually highly processed toast breads packed In plastic bag. US breads are on a level of cotton candy :(
Ugh. It's bad. I bake my own hamburger and hot dogs buns because supermarket buns are mostly air and they seem to just melt (not in a good way) in your mouth and has an awful mouth-feel. I don't remember supermarket bread being so airy and bad when I was growing up. Now it's just so awful.
I have always heard it said that in the South of France in particular there is less heart disease because they eat alot of olive oil. The key point here i think is the importance of fresh, more wholesome less processed ingredients
The French government ban TV advertisements for fast foods. EDIT: I HAVE BEEN CORRECTED. France restricts TV food ads but does not eliminate them 100 percent.
Everyone should ignore all TV commercials - mute them the second they come on. Besides fast food, it's commerical drugs, movie ads, auto insurance, video game commercials, beer ads, snacks, etc. Ad infinitum. I don't get why adults willingly watch them.
Oh and basicly, this isn't true at all. We have macdonalds and KFC commercials just like you. But look at the french mcdonalds logo, it's green. Cause they try to give us the food we deserve as we are the picky ones.
Truth. I went to the Sorbonne Paris IV for 2 years and the university cafeteria had really decent food. Salads, meat and veggies and of course lots of baguettes.
Thank you for your input. Yes, that walk is just as important to our diet. I don't walk at all, but I try to compensate, I do yard work, verses paying someone to do it for me. I opt to use a regular mower, verses the tractor. I rake, verses picking up leaves with the mower.
You know, I thought about that too!!! The walking part, and I think it's True, they don't Add Sugar to their Bread and probably to most of their Foods the way they do here in the USA.
I live veg close to France and the French are not so thin these days. You can see the difference between city living where there’s access to more American style food and the rural areas for sure.
We walked everywhere in Paris and ate a ton of croissants and pastries. We walked 8 to 10 miles on average each day. We lost weight. If we ate the same amount here in the US without walking those distances, we’d be fat.
@@mbd501 same here. When I go to France, I stay several months (I am now retired and have family there ). I usually come back 10lbs lighter. But not last time. Stayed 9+ months. With the confinement and enjoying baguette everyday, I gained 12lbs! Really enjoyed the baguettes. Much less walking, that's the difference.
Thats right most old houses dont have elevators , so after walking home from work we carry our supermarkt shopping 5 floors up some small winding stairs ...
I found this to be true in Italy as well. While on holiday there, I lost 7 pounds while eating pasta, some bread, and gelato. Even drinking wine and I’m not a consistent drinker. Yes we walked, but overall my system felt better. No stuffy nose, no achy joints, no stomach issues. I was so confused how this happened but it definitely opened my eyes.
Could also just eat less at any given meal. Macdonalds only makes people fat who overeat it. Obviously. So sorely obvious that it hurts to see this comment section.
@@michaeljordan4457 You actually have a valid point there. We don't need to supersize our orders. I get ill when I see people with those huge meals. I could never put away that much burger, fries and soda all at once and I am overweight.
@@icecreamladydriver1606 Hi. So I didn't mention metabism which is like half the battle. Personally I have to eat insane amounts of food just to gain weight and I can't afford to, so I remain underweight
@@michaeljordan4457 Hi to you. Have you ever been checked for tapeworm. I know that sounds gross but some people do have them and they eat up all the nutrients and leave you thin. You may also have a high metabolism. I hope you will be able to get some testing done and especially a full thyroid panel. Dessicated thyroid is the best treatment but most doctors don't know about that and you will have to gently teach them. Best of luck to you. Most people want to say you should be grateful by my daughter had issues with being underweight and people always told her how lucky she was but she didn't feel lucky because she couldn't eat much at all and was always hungry. Thankfully in her mid twenties she grew out of it and can eat most things now.
Been strict Keto 2 years & normal weight. Just back from 2 week vacation where I ate brown bread, veggie soups, fish & chips and drank cider or beer everyday. I lost 5 lbs and decided either I needed a carb load to kick start my metabolism OR the U. S. poisons our foods!
Were did you vacation? I was on and off with Keto for about a year, then I decided it wasn't for me, I lost my joy of cooking and I missed all the traditional food and wasn't happy. After eating too much during Christmas I decided to start back Intermittent fasting combined with prolonged fasting once a month, walking everywhere. Comes a birthday or holiday or a friend inviting me for coffee or dinner, I eat whatever I want, but I look in the whole week and make sure to balance, like if I co birthday on Saturday, I have a bun with butter, hot chocolate or coffee and 1 or 2 pieces of cake(that's pretty normal for a birthday) then on Sunday I will just have my evening meal and I will make sure it is with good fat and protein and no sugar. I make my own Sourdough bread and most of the milk products, so I can get the fat I want. I don't weigh myself, but I have come down 1 clothing size since January 1, it's slowly but I don't deprive myself of anything really(only process food) and I don't feel I'm on a diet 😊😁
Yes where were you? I am so ready to leave and go someplace sane. Go back to being positive! I complain so much! It is the one vice I allow but don't want that habit at all. :/
frkhenriksen Great story. Do you think it took your successes and failures with keto and various diets to learn what works for you? Basically, cut back on sugary and highly processed foods, eat more natural foods, eat good fats, etc. I make my own sourdough bread during winter. Do you keep the starter on the counter or in the refrigerator? I found the fridge works best for me because I don’t go through that much bread. I use the Panera Bread recipe but looking for one with a better sourdough flavor.
My scandinavian boyfriend goes home at christmas and when he comes back he says all he did there was eat and he lost 10lbs. It's because of the "healthy food", he says.
@@tonyhogg9839 LOL, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, Ha, Some of us Gain Weight with just water, and You cannot Gain Weight with all the fattening American Food, ha, ha, ha, LIFE.
i'm european and i love going on holiday in the usa. my experience is that i loose weight in the usa. maybe because of all the moving around while traveling and maybe because of the high fat content of foods, it goed right through your system. so it's not all bad imo
I live in rural Scotland and about 8 years ago I noticed that farmers started spraying grain crops with something that killed them. After speaking with a couple of farmers I was told they sprayed the crops to kill them off to harvest ( Scotland has a short growing season). The spray turns all crops a dirty, burnt orange colour and some heads have actually turned black prior to harvest (as I noticed today). Neither do we have beautiful, light golden straw any longer due to this killing of crops to harvest. When I contacted the government about it I was told it was probably a growth accelerator. I argued that the crops growth wasnt accelerated, they just went a dirty orange and were harvested. This toxic rubbish is going in our food! Stick to organic if you can👍
10 years ago due to heart problem I was singing in my car in kitchen everywhere alon.. MY HEALTH PROBLEM HAS DESTROYED MY DREAMS well not anymore. I am into Keto and sport. Now I am in good health and my dreams are getting into reality. I am very active with my life. Thank you doctor Berg.
I went to Paris recently and here’s what I noticed: 1. There actually are many ethnic restaurants in the city (Italian, Asian cuisine, middle eastern) 2. People value food more 3. They are very active. Many bike and walk everywhere 4. The food doesn’t have junk in it. Even the purina dog food is healthier 5. Their foods are cream based..butter all around!
3 is most likely not by choice, it is almost impossible to go by car in Paris as there is so much traffic especially hours where everyone is going to work at the same time (7-9am and 6-8pm are the worst) and don't get me started on finding a parking spot, it might take you a solid 30mins at best lol. So most people go for public transports, bikes or simply walk.
5) I slightly disagree; it depends on which part of France we are talking about. In Paris and the Northern part of France, the dishes have a creamy/ buttery base and/or sauces for sure: it can be explained by the fact that the production of butter in France is usually made in the North. but in the South, the dishes are heavily influenced by Mediterranean cuisine (Italian, Spanish, North African,Greek cuisine...) and so we usually cook with olive oil.
In the States, they put bromide in their flour so yeah...that's another reason. They used to use iodine but wanted more patients so they pretty much banned iodine and promoted bromide and chlorine/floride.
I worked in an international technology company with lot of French people, the employees were mostly French, Chinese and a minority of Japanese. I did notice that the French really take care of themselves even more than the Japanese generally speaking, they dressed fashionably, and were really conscious about their skin condition, hygiene and diet. They typically brought their own homemade lunch bentos to the office and never went out to eat in the surrounding restaurants serving mostly oily and GMO-filled Chinese and Southeast Asian cuisines, though I am not sure if this is their typical ethnic phenomenon or just their elites as I have never been to France before.
Same as spain. No preservatives. No self raising rubbish Just natural.levitation Next day bread is no good. I was eating heaps of bread Potatoes Amd beer..amd still lost weight.
@@Earthian000 currently its also speculated that modern day crops contain higher or modified resistance components which could be causing the problems we falsely blame the gluten for.
I lived 5 years in Germany and was very healthy I was 160 lbs after I moved back to las Vegas NV I gained 100 lbs but food is natural and lifestyle is more active I walked 15k to 20k steps a day every day so all that together keeps people more healthy but people also have more time because they work less hours here I work 12 hours a day plus about 1.5 hours travel time an average person in EU have a way better life then we have here in USA
Paying attention and changing our lifestyle the past month ! We already have more energy and feel positive even waking up in the morning,,I don’t feel depressed :) I’m shocked at the difference..I’m 61 ,,thank you for caring and I hope more people see your videos! I’m sharing with everyone I know !!
Hello. I am from Lithuania, but I live in Sweden now. I noticed a big difference between foods even if both countries still are in Europe. A lot of foods marketed as "organic" here makes no sense to me, we don't have that in Lithuania, because everything is organic and you don't need to pay double for that. Many people still growing their own food: vegetables, fruits, chickens-very common in Lithuania. Here in Sweden almost all people are allergic to something, many are lactose intolerant (I became one of them being 10 years in Sweden, still think is nonsense) or gluten intolerant, don't get me started on other allergies...Would be very interesting to hear about Sweden, what is it in the food that it makes people sick? Is their bread+sintetic vitamins in it, drinking milk instead of water with everything or Norwegian salmon, which is fed antibiotics and other trash (as my French fisherman friend informed me...). 🤔 Would be very interesting to hear.
The secret behind the health of the French is not only what they eat but also how they live. They have a very specific work-life balance, where work is not the highest priority. They do a lot of sports, they socialize a lot. The french walk a lot because (like other Europeans), car traffic in the cities is very limited. This is my observation after living both in the US and in France.
According to my wife, walking 5 or 10 minutes to go to the butcher's or the baker's can be a *pleasure* and makes you feel in good shape ! I'm a little less brave than her, I must admit ;-(
I wondered this too about the heavy pasta consumption in Italy. But everyone there had very high levels of sunlight each day and was quite active. Kids playing beach tennis or vollyball. I think we really underestimate how much the sun exposure plays a critical role in cadence and sleep which does the majority of body repair.
@@TumbleSensei so far as I'm aware, most people there don't eat pasta like that. They make it at home themselves, only enough for the meal they're eating! :)
They also get 2 hr lunch breaks and sit as family more reducing stress. Vacation time is very high decreasing stress. Cortisol and insulin are best friends in crime..
This summer I walked over 1,200 kilometers through France. Not only is food of better quality, but they also eat slower and they eat much smaller portions each meal. As an American, I was eating at least double of what the others were eating!
@@Dregomz02 germany fat people? Damn. Spain? Ok yes theyre probably 2nd in % of obesity. Italians are quite thin not sure what you mean and polish? No idea but they often seem to share some english traditions so maybe
Very importantly, food in France is shared with family, friends and guests. Virtually every house has a giant dining table with many chairs, usually in the kitchen and this is where everyone gathers and stays and talks together often for a great part of the evening. Food is not rushed, and lunch time in particular is sacrosanct and is known as the pause dej. This is a two-hour period when offices, factories, supermarkets, schools, in fact the whole of France stops everything to sit down and take a calm, unhurried, relaxing midday meal. This de-stresses everyone, aids digestion and is a leisurely, enjoyable and nurturing part of everyday life. In schools, children are served excellent food in appropriate portions with an increasing emphasis on plant-based menus, so from an early age, they are taught to recognise and appreciate traditional, wholesome nutrition. As far as bread is concerned the law states that 'traditional baguettes (long French bread) have to be made on the premises where they're sold and can only be made with five ingredients: wheat flour, water, salt and yeast. They can't be frozen at any stage or contain additives or preservatives...' And to be called a 'boulangerie' (bakery), all the different types bread have to be made from scratch on the premises and a high number of the ingredients have to be of an approved variety, weight and quality.
Wow hated my elementary and jh 15 minute lunch 😭 i dunno why? Then kick u out for 15 mins which sucks in the winter. Training cold resistant canadian kids? I heard in Quebec it's better tho.
As others have pointed out, American food causes not cures hunger, leading to overeating not satiation. After quitting all junk fast food, it was amazing how noticeable it was. I ate french fries and then after was literally like wondering what is going on, why am I thinking about eating still?! Stood out like night and day and made me say goodbye to all that mess for good. I dont like being played.
@@jdamommio Really? Well, I did see a restaurant in San Francisco whose main offering was Belgian fries, but when I was in France, they had what they called "frites." Patates frites that is. Whether they are French or Belgian, they certainly don't originate in the U.S.
@@jdamommio Hey, it's not my fault you took my original comment out of context. It was in response to B. Colwell who complained about American food, using only French fries as his example. So there was nothing wrong with the way I communicated. I used to teach French, so I think I know what "frite" means. My mistake was using the Canadian "patates frites" instead of the French "pommes frites." I might as well correct your English grammar and French spelling: Fried potatoes ARE "pommes frites."
@@Piineapple. For me, I lose weight from exercise while eating whatever I want. My weight loss is 95% due to exercise. Every person's body is different. Same way that some people eat lots of junk food and stay skinny, while others put on weight if they eat a bit of junk food.
Atle Andersen Yep. Today’s monster grains, wheat at the top, have created ‘gluten intolerance’ and other food allergies. Federal state and local governments have made it nearly impossible to go into the countryside and buy unprocessed foods. I used to be able to buy meats fresh veggies and stone ground grains in small towns and farmers markets. Government, in the name of public health, has put those people out of business. They want a fat stupid population. Cheeseburgers and reality shows are the new bread and circus.
The French have healthier DNA for thousands of years. America has allowed hersheys and general mills and monsanto to wreck this fledgling nations health.
Do you think we are living in the middle age? Our grain is the same overbred as yours. To me there are 2 major differences. 1. the size of the meal is bigger in the us. 2. much more People do cook at home with relatively fresh ingredients. Thats all to me. When you are an owner of a restaurant, of course you want your food to taste delicious, so the customers come back. Thats why u put more fat sugar and salt in it. thats one more difference to when you eat at home.
@@tobik2627 I not sure about the middel ages or who the "we" refers to. I do however know that the hybrid wheat that hit big agro in 1978, has a glycemic index of 108 - or slightly higher than ordinary white sugar. I also know that spelt and eincorn has a glycemic index in the low 50's and that these much less complex proteins and starches can be broken down by traditional sourdough. Granted, if we old world folk decide to roll with the convenient American junk food franchises and quick petrol station bakeoff, then we are just a few pounds of lard behind our American cousins.
They also walk a lot more ... and their portion sizes are a lot smaller. I lost 5 lbs. when I visited Europe a couple of years ago and I've never eaten so well.
SO TRUE! It’s not France alone. Those of us from the Caribbean can testify that we seemingly suddenly become fat after migration. In addition to the freshness of food & limited fortifiers & preservatives, we tend to be more active without trying to be. I’ve recently just tried living/eating like I did back home & cut out the gym in exchange for daily stretches & 15min strength training 3 days a week. I’ve lost 11lbs in 3 weeks 🤷🏾♀️
As someone who lives in Switzerland I can confirm we eat differently :) our law in food is very strict. Not perfect at all but it's indeed less processed than in America. Thanks for the video! Very informative.
And regarding the French: they eat different courses, they eat little mostly, and they dislike fizzy drinks and fast foods in general (though chains like McDonalds existed there since the 80s) However, they are big on fruit consumption, yet that was years ago. Now: I imagine it became the same as the majority of our world, when it comes to fast foods culture.
I am French, American, and African (Ivory Coast). I have been living in France for 15 years after over 20 years in the US. So, I do agree, the way the French eat is vastly healthier than in the US. This video tells it all except that the French consider the ritual of eating a very important part of social life. We eat at a specific time, with a consistent balance of food and a sequence of meals that is always the same. For instance, you have salad and cheese at the end of the meal. Indeed it is a lot more fat.
The part where everything in your country shuts down for an hour to eat lunch sounds like heaven as at my job I’m lucky if I can take a 30 minute unpaid lunch break on a 9 hour shift…we seriously need to normalize that like everywhere it would solve so many problems…
Agreed. Especially on those specific times for eating. I lived a few years in France and it's really as you said, you're not really allowed to snack because if you ask, people will say "just wait, dinner is in less than 2 hours". So you just wait, and then when it's time for dinner, you're happy because you're hungry and everything looks delicious, and then you eat a lot.
The first thing that I noticed when I arrived at the Airport in Paris was how Fat all of us Americans getting off the Airplane were (incl. me ) , and how Slim all the French people working at the Airport were, and I mean SLIM, and they don't even Kill themselves in a Gym, I don't know how they do it eating So Much Bread, it Could be that they Walk a Lot More than us, maybe, and we have to Consider that STRESS in the USA is on TOP of every nation in the world, this is a Stressful nation, Americans just LOVE STRESS, and that Makes Us FAT, it's a Stress hormone, our bodies are Suffering over here, because it's all mental and hormonal. We don't know how to Relax, and everybody is So hateful here, and that Creates Stress for everybody around them. Think about that.
Probably from all the stress though. I get stressed out often just living here and I hate it. Of course not all of America is stressful to live in but living in impoverished Alabama can be very stressful or livinging in Detroit or New York . The stress people face also varies by region in the US..
@@hailervin Nah, just the diet I stress toms and tons and I am like a stick. Sure it affects some people but it also causes an adverse effect on others.
Dr. Jason Fung also brought up that consuming vinegar/acids with carbs cuts the absorption rate of those carbs by about 50%. Maybe the wine they drink helps with this?
Even in poor neighborhoods where people mostly eat kebabs and "french tacos" (nothing to do with tacos it's just a bigger burrito loaded with fries and fried meat like chicken tenders a very cheesy sauce and other unhealthy stuff) people remain mostly thin because people tend to walk a lot. And normal meals are controlled portions
It's like being fat is celebrated. Mannequins are even fat. TV shows like My Big Fat whatever. It went from "don't be ashamed of your size" to "see how damn fat you can get". The over weight person was the exception in the 70s.
I grew up in the 80s (in the U.S.), and the few overweight friends I had were not flabby. We lived in the city and walked a lot (our parents didn't drive us to school) and nobody tried to get out of P.E. class. We also didn't eat a lot of fast food. It was a treat when we did.
Actually when I was in Spain I was shocked by the amount of bread that got served. Every time I ordered a beer or a wine I basically got served a loaf of bread. Yet I observed very few obese people
Actually not so much bread in Spain. I lived 9 months there. Maybe you were going to tapas places and then they give you some free food whenever you order a beer. They do eat a lot of meat and fish though.
I'm an American who has lived in France for the past 4 years. This is all true!!! The French, in general, eat everything in moderation, and quality food is a huge part of life here. We sit down with my husband's family and take hours for a meal: savoring every bite. I love the food here! The quality is amazing and much less expensive when you compare it to the quality of the food in the U.S.
Woah This is eye-opening! In Canada we think that all the fortified flours and grains in our breads and boxed cereals are good for us, and that canola oil like Becel is the heart-healthy alternative to butter. I've got to start making better choices in the grocery store and eat like a European : )
It could also have something to do with the fact that in France you just tend to get a normal human-appropriate amount of food put in front of you. So you end up with normal sized humans. In the US, it usually appears as if one's accidentally turned up to a feast for elephants. So you end up with elephants.
The wheat in France is quite different to the wheat in Australia. French wheat has much, much less gluten. Australians visiting France have reported that their pastries and bread does not trigger Coeliac disease (an autoimmune condition) reactions from gluten.
Been to France most of the food is made on the spot and made the traditional way. Amazing wine and cheese not forgetting the butter croissant and chocolate crepes
Yep! I'm 75% French third generation American and I am overweight. So is my father. We're active people and were not always overweight, but we didn't eat right so now in our older age (I'm 49 he's in his 70's) we're both type 2. I'm changing my health thanks to keto and fasting, he's learning to cut carbs. Wish I knew back then what I know now, could have saved myself a lot of grief later in life. It catches up to you.
As an Australian speaking...when I went to the USA for work I noticed.... this was a nation obsessed with sugar. Sugar everywhere...vending machines. Adults drinking "pop" / "soda" which we call soft drinks. Donuts....pure sugar...plus very few fruits and vegetables. But don't worry...Australia is catching up fast. Thirty years ago it.was.rare to see obese people. Now it is normal...and very sad. They struggle to walk.
Most of the French people live in flats/units/apartments in multistory building less than 10 stories high. But most of them don't have elevators in them. Have you ever lived on the 6th floor and had to manually carry up lots of food! And as Dr Berg said they don't snack as much, or drink sugar loaded soda drinks. Ive never seen them lug up bottles of soda to their apartments. The wine is generally much drier (ie no residual sugar)
I follow French women on TH-cam - they don’t eat like tourists in Paris. I bought yogurt from France the portion is baby size. I bought a coffee cup from Shakespeare and Company the mug is half the size we are use to drinking from. They make cappuccino and do not add sugar. They do not snack in between meals. If they have a desert it is a fruit. They might have a small amount of dark chocolate. They usually go to the grocery store once a day. They go to farmers markets. They eat the because quality food no preservatives. No roundup on their farms. So glad RFK Jr is going to do something about the food in American.
Bread is not bread in Nord America. French bread has 4 ingredients : flour, water, yeast and salt. That it! No sugar, no fat, no product you can not even remember the name!
you may add sugar and/or butter or even cream, in order to make brioche
Brioche is not bread. Pain brioché is not bread. When we want to eat bread, we eat bread, we don't cheat eating "special" bread, eating what makes the specificity with the illusion to eat bread. Bread is bread.
The flour used in baguette contain lot of glucide and its depend of the quality of the flour because bad flour contain lot of "bad" sugar
They put fat in bread? Wtf
@@rymikaiwe do not classify brioche as bread
Dr. Berg you forgot a very important point in the kind of bread we have in France. It's done with quality medieval flour as organic Spelt and made from the simplest ingredients - just flour, water and salt. Long-fermentation dough promotes good gut health and bacteria. The dough is allowed to ferment for twenty-four hours, allowing the natural yeasts to grow . No chemical yeast.This improves digestibility, especially for people with gluten intolerance problems.
Now I am craving a baguette from a corner boulangerie!
@@MCM214 same here 😭 missing so much!
That’s very interesting.
Ahh, yes, but is the GRAIN you use to make the flour SPROUTED first? All SEEDS are supposed to be SPROUTED BEFORE consumption to get rid of the phytic acid (which pulls calcium OUT of your teeth and bones, giving you dental cavities and osteoporosis) and to increase the DIGESTIBILITY of those seeds so that you get ALL of the nutrients that are in those seeds!!
can you post a traditional french bread recipe? Thanks in advance.
"We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons." - Alfred Newman
👏 Wow. Very thought provoking...🇬🇧
Right! I still have never seen a pink lemon 🤨
How ironic!!!😶
@@cheesesteak22 I seen one and it tasted terrible.
@@tylerbonser7686 😲😆
Also, the French taking their meals seriously. They actually sit down and eat and enjoy their time. Not like us who eat ‘crap’ in our cars, eat at our desks, eat while standing, etc…
Or watching TV
Taking a one hour break or more at work for lunch is pretty usual here in France
@@manuman5319im french and of cours we take 1h or 1h30min for lunch at work
1h to 1h30 ? What is this heresy ? 2h break or nothing ! It's the time to go to eat properly, talk and laught with your friends/familly/colleagues
Many thing come from America in France, but i hope this "art de vivre" regarding lunch/food will never fade
My Friend from Switzerland said the bread in the States makes him still feel hungry after he eats it unlike the bread in Switzerland .
That s totaly right, i had that same feeling from US to France about bread
Yeah..the bread in germany is made by a farmer and brought to us...
That's bc the bread here in the US is fortified.
Bread in the usa like wonderbread is loaded with sugar causing insulin to spike and get even hungrier.
I'm from Switzerland, it's true!
European countries have also kicked out Monsanto. Their wheat is non-GMO, and they don't use American methods of harvesting, which includes spraying the wheat with roundup to force it to ripen quicker in order to harvest it on a timetable. So, their wheat flour is much healthier. When I was in Germany once, I noticed that eating bread there did not cause bloating and weight gain, as it does for me here in the US.
Statement confirmed
Many health ailments may be tied to Monsanto
@Candy Morgan yes it's because they (gates and all) want to own the control of the crop supply and have everyone eating from select companies which have their gmo crop patent as opposed to heirloom organic foods. The farmers are aware of this and are fighting back.
I have done some research on this as well and this true. Good of you to share this on here so people become aware.
Candy Morgan, that's right. And Gates has been buying up farmland in the US, in several states. I think he's now one of the largest farmland owners. For what purpose?
True. I am European but lived in the USA for almost three decades. I cannot eat anything here that contains flour, and for that reason I buy an Italian flour at an Italian market. Thousands of chemicals are prohibited in Europe but allowed in the USA. Additionally, I know many Americans that cannot eat flour here in the USA but they are fine when they eat any flour products in Europe. When I visit Europe I eat all I want and I never gain an ounce but in the USA I have to be very careful because I gain weight easily.
They have many local bakeries that use high quality flour and yeast. French bakers are very proud of their quality bread.
Plus, they do not allow GMO grains, which are standard in North America.
French here. Unfortunately there are less and less good bakeries, and more and more industrial products (or products made with industrial/processed ingredients) in many so called "bakeries". But it's still easy to find relatively good breads.
Earlier this month I visited my niece in France, Their baguettes are freshly made and purchased daily either from bakeries or vending machines. They add no preservatives so by the following morning they are hard enough to double up as a baton!!!
Yes and that's when we use them to make french toast, bread pudding or croutons to add in our salads.
@@kweenb168 When I have to much baguette left, I cut it in slices before freezing it. Actually, slices of frozen bread toasted in a toaster are pretty nice in the morning with some butter.
@lesfreresdelaquote1176 good idea.
Vending machines? No, never 😮
@@pierrebluteau it's a countryside things, it's like a soda dispenser but for baguette, they are managed by the closest bakery and they are refilled with fresh baguette every day
in fact it's just like buying normal baguette but from a machine, it works 24h/24h wich is very uselfull when you came back late from work and the bakery is already closed. or when you wake up at 1 am and suddently want fresh bread, just go to the closest baguette dispenser and voila ( i've done that )
Another huge factor as well is the portion sizes. Traditional French meals are very small compared to the "super sized" meals we typically see in North America.
Fake food doesn’t satisfy so over the time portions have increased.
Yes. I've been to both continents and I observed that Americans tend to eat a lot more than Europeans.
It is true about the portion size. I live in Europe, also often have work trips to USA. Not just in France, in many European countries, when you eat in restaurants, the portion size is suitable and I as a small woman can it all. In USA, when I eat in restaurants,, starter already makes me full. Once I ordered a steak, so big and so thick, I can only eat a corner of it.
Every single time I go out to eat, I am shocked by the portions that I witness being served. I can actually make, at least 2 meals from 1 plate, every single time. I find the Lumber jack plate size portions unappealing, and sad. Specially for women. Aquired this habit, as a child, that I do not enjoy over eating. I quit, as soon as I feel full. In restaurants, second thing I order with my meal, is a carry out container. When my plate arrives, I portion out the amount I don't plan to eat. My second option would be, to over eat, or waste part of my meal. Too uncomfortable with overeating. I do not like wasting food. I am still over wieght some. Carbs. are my food of choice. Meats are my least favorite foods.
very true
I lived overseas for over 10 years, when I returned I really noticed how sweet everything is in the States.
so true especially the bread! After living in the UK for 4 years when I moved back, I could not tolerate the bread.
Your Abusive Dr You are the abusive dr.... Watch your mouth dear... Your lack of education is showing ... What a vile comment...😠
I am an Aussie and I received a box of chocolate-coated shortbread from an American recently and upon trying them was surprised that shortbread and the chocolate had to be that sweet. The shortbread I normally get from the UK and Australia is 50% as sweet as that. It was supposed to be a branded US box of treats but I had to stop eating it after only trying two pieces.
Your Abusive Dr
You are absolutely right
@@happysoul6436 Commercializing food was not a good idea.
We French people cook our meals (take out food is a treat, not an everyday thing) and sit eating them (usually not in front of a tv)
We drink water (soft drinks are ok for a party, not with every meal)
We rarely snack
Voilà
Correct, same in India, we drink tea or water after meals, take aways are a treat.
@@kittykitkat4968 Really? When I was in Pakistan I was shocked by how much people eat takeaway, like every night, and how much infrastructure they have around quick home delivery of food, despite poor infrastructure with everything else. In fact, homeowners are generally clueless and blank on how to do anything, cooking, washing clothes, cleaning, etc. Most have servants who cook for them and the food is always super oily (with the shittiest oils), fatty, and with little to no veggies. I know it's a different country but I thought trends on the subcontinent would be approximately the same?
You could be right, I've been back to India 2 times in 15 yrs and lots have changed since than. I'm from Kolkata and ate street food but didn't gain so much weight But in western countries processed food are eaten on a regular bases which is unhealthy.
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French person here :
- The amount of bread you think we eat is vastly overstimated
- Portions size are much smaller
- We have a LOT less sugar in everyday processed foods
- We're not as thin as you think.
I bought some imported French digestive biscuits off Amazon recently (Guillon) to go with my tea in the morning. As far as processed food goes, it's much healthier than even America's "healthy" snacks you can get in our supermarkets over here. There's alot less sugar in the biscuits than comparable American foods.
Americans just like sugary foods way too much.
And you French people walk a lot more than here in US
So you're not wolfing down whole baguettes as we are made to believe
🤦 gotta love the "American" mind.
@@nygardenguru i do
Now on Holliday in France: a lot of people biking here. A lot of fish restaurants. Enormous amounts of fresh food (and fish) in the supermarches.
asphalt hedgehog I went on Vacation to France twice, they are always moving, biking Ect... Great quality food there 👌🏽and you NEVER get that heavy feeling after a meal like in the US.. I went on a cruise there and came back smaller and I ate EVERYTHING 🤷🏽♀️
Isn’t there fish restaurants in USA ?? Aren’t you famous in some parts of USA for your lobsters restaurants ?
I think the biggest difference is people actually buying ingredients and spending time in the kitchen preparing meals. That alone is a limiter to how much you eat and the quality of what you eat.
Most people already do that
@@ryannechvatal9888 I am an European living in NY, USA. Since your name sounds Czech or Slovak (pardon if I'm wrong) you know where the kitchen in an apartment should be. Perhaps in cities and villages with more space to build a house or apartment the kitchens are in the right place, I only saw one-two cases, but in NY their placement in the middle of the house/apartment, with no windows etc, making every cooking a smelly experience in the entire apartment, is a clear sign that the apartments here were not built for cooking. And newyorkers confirmed that to me quite often, they didn't cook that much. Maybe now with Covid things have changed.
@@dveydah "Apartments here were not built for cooking" that sounds very strange to me.. Haha thanks for the input I learned something interesting today. Oh and you are correct I am Czech. Where are you from?
@@ryannechvatal9888 Ryan, I'm the Scourge of Carpathia, the Sorrow of Moldavia, as the Ghost Busters say ;)
(the half called Republic of Moldova:)))
@@dveydah I see that you have a great sense of humor!
And they have banned GMO’s and glyphosate, too. Also they still have real wheat, not the poisonous grass seeds crap we have here.
not in France unfortunately, yet. but we shall overcome!
I thought they had banned things like transfats and HFCS in a lot of Europe.
Well if they don't have real wheat in France, then where on earth do they have it? And can you purchase it online? Please somebody share if you know. I would be so grateful!
Spring Hellams Europe has real wheat, especially Italy. I try to but the pasta De Cecco makes, if I’m going to indulge
@@arisemylove siyez wheat in Turkey is real wheat
I lived in France for a long time and when I returned to the US, I gained weight within 3 months without increasing my calorie intake. Here I have to read every label. Everything Dr. Berg said in this vid is exactly what I believe happens and it’s really difficult to find the right food here to eat as they do in France.
I’m French. I’ve several times travelled to North America. The main differences I have noticed about food are:
1- we don’t snack in France. We only eat 3 times a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Children can have an afternoon snack (le goûter) around 5 when they come back home from school, because afternoons are too long for them between the lunch time (noon) and the dinner one (8 pm). But it’s a kids’ thing. When children get older and want to behave like the adults, they stop le goûter.
2- meals times are very important. It’s a family event. With modern life, in big cities, people don’t come back home for lunch, but families still have dinner together. Each member relates his day, we eat while talking to each other. Meals are always a good moment. We like food and we like sharing these moments together.
3- we like good food, good quality. Children are taught to taste everything when they are very young. My mum used to tell me: don’t say you don’t like it before tasting.
Now, with the TV ads, women working, people living far from the work place or school, the American way of life is gaining influence, so does the obesity.
Ben moi je garde une collation saine l'après-midi comme beaucoup d'adultes aujourd'hui. Par contre je fais de plus petits repas.
Pardon me, 'women working'?) Wtf?))
@@unchikenboy it plays a huge role in obesity. Things take time to do and the American mindset of “do it all” doesn’t work.
LOVE THIS 💗 I totally agree with the t.v. Ads and women working. Women are too exhausted to make sure meals are healthy and appealing... they want to get the kids some food and get them in bed!!! ‘Cause they have to get them up in the morning and shuffle everyone around again the next day. Are dads the ones worried about how healthy and when kids take baths-and if their children are well-adjusted or not? (Are dad’s concerned about breastfeeding?) Not as much as moms, that’s all I can say about that! Moms play a HUGE role in how food choices are for their kids, and shaping the way adults will view food. If we aren’t valuing the sanctity of what mothers are doing for their children we’re probably lost as humans. Half of what makes us human is due to the mom, the other half comes from dad. 😂 family is important!
You are so right about women working.
I studied in Spain for a bit and when I got back to New York I was thinner, healthier, my skin glowed and I felt more energy. This was despite eating voraciously through the country. Oh, and I loved their breads dipped in heaps of olive oil.
What city did u study in? I was studying in Marbella, Spain and then came back to Russia. Feel the same way as u described.
In France we don t eat like in Spain. Totally different.
@@laurencerogissart35 does what Dr Berg is saying line up with what is the typical French diet is? How is it different from a Spanish diet? Thank you.
@@laurencerogissart35 don't leave us hanging please explain differences!!
@@laurencerogissart35 Yes please what is the difference?
Im french (from France) so i can talk a little bit of what's going on with food. In France when we eat we take our time, it's a 2 hour meal if possible, and we eat different dishes during the meal. Dinner time is also usually around 6 or 7 pm maximum, we won't eat that much during night. Food quality is also much better with less colorants and less conservators. The type of food we eat is also completely different from the south to the north or the east or west: people eat more fish in the south with more oil, it's more Mediterranean, in the north it's more bovine food, and in the east it will be with more sausages for example, each food type is different from one city to another one also, but they have also a much better quality of life in France, with more vacation, and more time to take care of their lives and they are usually happier, so happier people are skinnier. ... etc So it's food with the lifestyle. French people tend also to walk alot compared to Americans, b/c the climate is not extreme in France, it does not get hot like Phoenix AZ and it does not get cold like FAirbanks AK.
PS: I had to edit this post to add the following paragraph:
In France I also eat probably 85% of my food from my potager (garden) and I buy the rest from the grocery store. I can get my physical exercises from gardening, 1 hour a day should help us to burn calories. I also eat different dishes during a meal and as it might seem natural for me, the reason to eat different dishes in a meal is mainly dietetic: we will start with something that is called 'entree', an entree is something that is light, composed of fibers with low calories and usually there is oil inside, the entree is a dish that will make you feel not satiated but it will slow down your hunger and put your stomach and your organism slowly into a better food absorption process. Once you are done with your entree, then you proceed with 'le plat de resistance', which is the main dish, this is something highly rich in calories, it is made of mainly meat for proteins (poultry, fish, red meat, raw meat depending on your subcultural attachment in France), this is something that usually satisfies your hunger and it will make you feel satiated. Then there is usually a break from that meal, you won't go right away after the next meal, people usually wait for the digesting process, 10 or 15 or 20 minutes. Then once this is done, you can go ahead and start eating your cheese with your glass of redwine. Cheese is important in France, and we need it because we get our omega-3 from the cheese and it helps breaking the enzymes into the digesting process and accelerates the metabolism. Once this is done we have a dessert, then we will drink a coffee like a capuccino because it will help regulating our insulin and blood pressure. This is the basic meal from french people, at least this is how i was raised to eat my food. In some parts of France such as the North some people will mix their food in one dish only but this is not healthy. Eating food takes time, and enjoying your food will help you digesting. However the constraints of life through globalization is slowly changing cultural eating habits and the eating process became less important in people's life and they prefer relying more and more on food processing to satisfy their eating habits. This is most certainly the case for people who are younger, and they tend to live in a globalized mentality, and this is unfortunate as the rate of obesity and overweight people is in an upward curve. There you have it in a few words. I tried to reply to everyone who replied to me in 1 text only.
Edit: the French spends on average 2 hours a day to eat their food, this is the national average. If you cannot spend 2 hours a day to take your time to eat your food this is not healthy at all. You have to taste your food, and take your time to digest it. This is part of our life and we should not undermine it. In the middle of the day I will stop working at noon and go back to work at 2 pm, and whatever I do at noon at work will have to wait 2 pm, my health has the priority over my job, this is also a requirement to fulfill my job.
I live in the countryside so my way of life is completely different from people who live in the south or people who work in the cities. For example I wake up very early every mornings, around 4 AM and I also go to bed early, and I will make sure that I get enough sleep, i need my 8 hours at least. I also live far from the big cities, b/c I want to breathe a better air, and nothing's better than a walk in the forest with my dogs. The rat race is not for me, as long as I am free spiritually with myself, this is all that matters to me. In France it's perfectly fine not to work and to be a homeowner with a 15 years mortgage. Bisous de France.
Yes great point! Happier people eat less. No binging.
@@miguelmejia4656 lol how come? You know American is not a race?
Exactly
@@miguelmejia4656 it is not racist it is just US love to eat too much junk foods.
Much better explanation than that simplified one from that dr. As a Swiss I agree with you totally
Hello! I'm French and the biggest reason we are "thinner" (for now anyway) is that we eat slowly, we chew our food a lot, one of the reasons our meals take so long, we chew our food so the saliva prepares are food for digestion in our stomach!
I have been living in the US for many years now and I couldn't believe how fast people eat, gobbling up their food. As I said, chewing allows the saliva to do its job, which is to prepare/predigest your food for your stomach to finish the digestion process but also it keeps you satisfied, so you eat less or at less smaller portions because chewing longer releases more flavor into your mouth, food tastes better and is more satisfying. Most American gobble up their food because they are not satisfied with it, they do not allow their mouth to experience their food...
Also, most of our cheeses are fermented, some are made with raw milk.
I've heard some French are fat though 0:11. Maybe they eat more McDonalds in France?
Do french people love McDonald’s and eat McDonald’s frequently? Lol 😂
@@bradford_shaun_murray Yep, McDonald's and other fast food joints have been very popular in France, sadly, which changes French's people health for sure...
@@SandrineVoxServices dang rip!
@@lyndonmacaraig6108 🤣
I saw a 60 minutes episode on what French children eat for lunch in school. Better than most American restaurants
I grew up in Spain and Sweden.
In Spain we had Siesta (a several hour break from school and work) where families meet up and eat together - so no school food there.
In Sweden we had chefs cooking our school meals which are free of cost: several huge bowls with different salads (sauerkraut, vegetables, been salad, shredded carrots) and several dishes to choose from (vegetarian, fish and meat - all cooked from scratch) - I loved our school food. No sodas served; we where offered water and milk to drink. (But I know the food quality varies a lot from school to school.)
Children are "gourmets" already 😊
If you buy a baguette on Monday morning, by Tuesday morning it is a fossil. That's what actual bread is like. The reason your bread lasts all week is that it isn't bread.
Preservatives-almost all US food has preservatives. Supposedly this is to make the food shelf stable. If one buys pre cut fruit, it has a “bite” in the flavor as the grocery store has placed another type of preservative on the pre prepared fruits. It is best just to buy it fresh, wash and prep it yourself.
Most Americans go to the grocery store 1x a week or 1x a month. They “stock up” where everyone else in the world goes to the store almost daily or every other day. No need for preservatives in that fantastic real French
Bagette!
I make my own sourdough bread and it lasts quite a few days, it’s just that baguettes are thin and will turn into a brick very quickly (tested on my own baguettes)
You are dead wrong. Any long fermented, proper bread (especially sourdough) is fresh and delicious for quite a long time. If it goes stale quickly, then it probably contains too much yeast and produced rapidly.
@@mateuszptaszynski685 yep although baguettes just dry out because they are so thin. but my proper loaves stay fresh for long times and sometimes i forget about leftover pieces and they just turn into a dry brick, no mold or anything ever. sourdough is great
Be sure to check your store bought breads for preservatives...Check the ingredients..there are lots of preservatives to keep the bread “fresh”. I don’t believe sourdough was being written about in Chris’s comment. Anything that sits for a ‘quite a long time’ is not in my humble opinion ‘fresh’. My home baked breads do not stay for any long time.
Salut from France, you could add that WE eat with pleasure and not for pleasure.
Very smart reply!
Such a wonderful reply. Thank you for that.
And the key is that we cook what we eat, at least WE try to do that as much as possible !
From Lyon, capitale de la Gastronomie 😉
Yes, some people eat so they can live, some people live so they can eat!
Totally agree. Eating with pleasure & joy has to be the number 1 difference. How many people are sad or ashamed when they eat...or in a rush.
I'm English and have lived on the continent for 17 years and have been visiting France regularly for 35 years or so. I live in France now and trust me, the French are getting fatter. It is like the UK about 20/25 years ago.
All the points you make are still valid for a large percentage of the population, but there is a growing proportion of people who eat very badly. You can see it in their shopping trolleys. I look at the people and look what is in their shopping trolleys and it is as clear as daylight.
These trends are particularly evident in younger and poorer people, and are not very different at all, from the rest of Europe and North America.
it's true, I lived in rural France and, was shocked how poor the diet is for the average french man. It's a myth that the French eat like well, most cannot afford much. Only the rich in Paris can.
you are right...it depends on how the kids are being fed at home...people with less budget will buy crap food, I know a youngster who prefers to buy a good piece of bread, a dried saucisse and some red wine while the others go to Macshit.
Same everywhere. Nowhere is immune. I'm Irish and I noticed at a work conference recently that everybody over 40 had endless cups of tea at break and everybody under 30 had a bottle of lucozade. The group in their 30s weren't as hard to pigeon hole! But it wouldn't occur to me to have a lucozade when I'm thirsty but to a younger generation, that's the sort of thing you do every day, it's like tea to them!.
They have no corrupt FDA, that would be the top of my list!
I was gonna say the better question is "if we know what is broken with the standard diet in the Americas why don't we fix it?"
@paul zulauf... Because its big business. Look at the grocery store. Except for the outer rim of the store, the rest is junk. Follow the money trail!
Any agency in America does the opposite of what the are supposedly there for
It’s all a lie
If the FDA staff and scientists weren't cut by Republicans, we would have better oversight in our food content.
Big amen on that one!
Very surprised you didn’t touch on them walking more. My time in Europe I noticed people walk numerous miles to places vs the US where we drive 1/4 mile down the road.
@American Hero I walk everywhere. I don't own a car. I'm 62 and in great shape. Walking is essential to your circulatory system, your digestive system and your very breath.
Drive 1/4 mile down the road 🤣 sounds like my girlfriend that she’ll drive to the gym when it’s less than 10 min walk away down the road when she does go that is 😂
I feel like people that do that are the type of people to drive to a park to go jogging instead of just running there themselves and it's a park less then 30 minutes walking distance maximum
The way we built our states, isn't the way Europe set up their design. Village design vs suburb/city and everyone needing a dang car to get around has killed us
They walk more...and faster.
Well done. I was married to my sons' (French) dad 24 years, and we visited his family and France several times. They eat a lot more natural, unprocessed food, follow meals with salads, and don't seem to snack at all. As you say, there are fat people there, but nowhere near as many as here. I think one of the worst things Americans do is eat mindlessly, alone in front of the TV, while driving, when bored, when lonely, ... etc.
People eat while driving? How’s that even possible?
@@vitorfernandes651 Oh Yes, My Brother used to eat and Drive...He would steer with his knees...lol 🤣
@@vitorfernandes651 Because what they're eating doesn't require a knife and fork, a dining table, nice crockery and linen, and a glass for the wine ... tells you what kind of crap they're eating, no?
@@vitorfernandes651 omg u haven't noticed??
@@vitorfernandes651 we road trip alot. We eat in the car all the time. And so do millions of others. We see it all the time... Sadly they are mostly eating taco bell, bk, mickey D's.... Healthy food should be available convenient and reasonably priced too. We bring most of our for in the car....
The French also consume a great variety of fruits and vegetables every day. It is strange that this point was barely mentioned while so much focus was placed on their intake of fats and protein.
Bc we had a fat free pandemic in America.
Fat and protein are essential nutrients. Carbs are not. Fruit used to be seasonal, as well as most veggies. Most people who say "eat a varied diet" are close, but not 100% accurate. You can get away with eating vegetables all day every day because they are low carb (mostly), but eating a ton of fruit can definitely cause too much sugar intake.
Because his videos are about eating a ketogenic (very low-carb, higher fat content) diet. Sugary fruits and many vegetables contain too many carbs or too much sugar to keep you in a state of ketosis and burning fat instead of sugar, along with spiking your insulin levels.
That's probably why it's not mentioned in this video. 🙂
French don't eat so many fruits at all, actually. Vegetables: mostly lettuce, which has almost 0 carb, tomatoes.
They eat a TON of butter, which is good for health and is a lot of fat.
I'm french and don't really like vegetable, but eat fruit everyday like after gym or when i'm hungry and its not lunch or dinner time
They love pastries and chocolate but everything is made with pure products. No preservatives.
Yes, we do live pastries however it is too much especially when we work in offices! There are birthday's nearly every day with "croissants, etc".
They also walk. And they dont stack the refrigerator with rubbish. They shop for fresh ingredients as needed.
@@enhanced6892 yes. We try to shop when needed only, and take only what we need to cook something. Avoid sodas, avoid even water in plastic bottles. We also try to vary (personally I do not make lists, I take new ideas in the market, and purchase things according to the season. Like in spring: try asparagus and artichoke...
And also do not purchase salad sauce: do you own with olive oil. You wouldn't not add sugar. The industrials do...
No. it isn't. Where do you get this idea? The most expensive stuff may be made with these things but most bakers buy in their confectioners custard, flavours and creams and doughs from catering companies. You are at least 30 years out of date. sorry.
Bread in France is processed with 24-hour fermentation vs. quick rising yeast.
That makes it less sweet, and more sour :)
I would like to know how to do that.
@@silglonot if you use a little sugar. I make delicious sourdough sandwich bread.
@@silglogood, bread should not be sweet
The French & Italians and most of the European countries do not eat processed food. They cook fresh foods & most shop for their produce on a daily basis. It's a lifestyle difference, we in America cannot switch over to this type of living very easily because we choose to chase the dollar first vs a healthy lifestyle that will give us a good long life. In all my years as an Expat, I never saw the degree of obesity in France/Italy/Spain/Germany, as prevalent as it is in the USA. We have a very destructive lifestyle. That's why the medical community is the biggest employer wherever you live in the USA.
Literally a medical building on almost every corner now.
So sad...(I'm Italian)
Yes. The Dutch and French walk and bike ride casually. They get fresh foods daily and actually cook.
I am from BCN Spain, and i love salads, grain, fruit .
I think the way we Cook benefit morè as well, not fried all t'he time ...
@@angelafernandez9927 yes. Fried is such an American way because it is fast. People eat on the go.
I will never forget my trip to France, many years ago, and seeing people shopping the fresh air markets and taking a two hour lunch to prepare food and relax.
There were freshly plucked whole chickens hanging from an overhead wire near the counter. Folks would select fresh meat and vegetables, and I notice that they cook healthfully fairly quickly.
Americans believe it is such a pain to chop/slice fruits and vegetables. When you get used to it and have the right tools, it's not bad. The USA needs to slow down, badly. We're dying a slow, painful death. Maybe this pandemic is a wake up call?
I've been to Italy and France, most of the meals including desserts have less sugar. And they use more olive oil, it is cheaper over there.
Also they sprout and ferment their bread dough, which decreases the phytates and anti-nutrients and increases bioavailability of nutrients.
I am French and you are right! We eat much better in France.
When I moved to U.S. I was horrified to discover that everything was so much salter, sweeter and the quantity in restaurant were enormous .
I love your videos.
Thank you.
In the USA when you don't finish your food they automatically pack it for you to take away. In Europe, by default it's thrown away, you have to ask yourself to take away the rest. Lots of free refills in the USA, again I've almost never seen that in Europe, if there is then it's a very special place. So when you're about to finish your huge sugar drink in the USA, they refill it lol!
I remember also ordering a chocolate cake, and I chose it because it didn't look too big, and guess what? When I received it, it was twice the size it should have been, and the lady who brought it was so happy and said: "Look I made it myself, and I gave you a double portion for the price of one" or something, and I was NOT happy :D
C'est la triste vérité des États-Unis d'Amérique
Ah yes Europe that famous country where we all do the same thing@@youuuuuuuuuuutube
I think that the food portions in the US are higher because the food in the US has less nutrients and therefore we need to eat more to be satiated.
@@youuuuuuuuuuutube not anymore. There's a law now that allows you to ask for restaurants to pack your unfinished food so you can take it back, in France.
I honestly believe there is something harmful in US wheat. There has been a rise of something that seems like gluten intolerance in people who were not previously intolerant. These people can eat wheat and pasta in Europe but not in the states.
Some say it is glyphosate but it is not confirmed.
Global Adventurer Me too but mine appeared immediately after a 28 day water fast. I believe it is SIBO and am about to start the carnivore diet at Dr. Berg’s suggestion in an earlier video.
@@jenniferlawrence1372 I have a feeling it will never be confirmed until they have an alternative that won't be confirmed aswell
Kiran Govind you figured it out. Exactly right on the money there.
@@blinkybill2198 Let me clarify my statement. Even those who think it is glyphosate and want to prove it, haven't been able to. You would also think that if it is glyphosate we would see the same reaction from eating other vegetables with high levels of glyphosate, but we don't. I do actually think it is related to glyphosate, I just wish we had some confirmation to back our position.
I'm from Ireland and I have to say when I visited the US 🇺🇸 I was shocked at the portions of food as well as the amount of sweets, sodas, chocolates, fast food restaurants etc it was frankly disgusting. I was sick of the food after three days and put on nearly half a stone in a week. People were on mobility scooters everywhere. I left so disappointed. I'd never go there again it was gross.
And it's not like the Irish don't have it's share of fat people.
one of the many reasons I left my country.
Interesting. I actually thought the Irish ate a lot of sweets, chocolate etc. Didn’t seem any less to me.
Being French and watching your video :D
I agree, the quality of food here is better and we are very suspicious of overly processed food. We also walk a lot and do portion control.
I can't speak to home cooking, but I know what catered food and restaurant food is like in France, and it doesn't seem particularly more wholesome or healthy to me--about the same as in the US in that respect. However, the portion sizes are a whole different world and the walking is universal. I think those are the big differences. I believe that the french are suspicious of processed food, but I don't think that's the major difference. Plenty of fat Americans--most, that I know--are highly suspicious of processed food. But those portions...
@@bendirval3612 I agree with you but I think that the quality of some ingredients make a big difference. For example, even American bread would not be considered bread in France because it has too much sugar. I notice that American products tend to contain a lot more sugar, high fructose corn syrup, salt and such. So, if you eat a processed meal from France or from the US, because of those differences in ingredients or their quality, it has a big impact on one's health or weight.
@@DavesRabbitHole agreed. I´m French and I did my PGCE (post graduate certificate in education) in England. I taught French in two secondary schools in Lancashire for a year. One was the 5th best secondary school in the UK at the time, the other one was in the bottom ten. I really saw interesting things. In the "bad school" I saw obese kids arriving at school in the morning, heading straight to the cafeteria and having pizza for breakfast. That really shocked me because it would be impossible in France. Our cafeterias are not even open in the morning. They only offer lunch and it is healthy and varied. In Lancaster, the cafeteria didn't really provide anything varied. They always had beans, jack potatoes and ham, fries, pizza. Those were the staples. You had some salads or pasta sometimes.
In the "good school" what shocked me was hearing the students from difficult backgrounds who were there on scholarship really divide themselves in terms of social class. For example, I told them that, in winter in France, we like to roast chestnuts on a fire and eat them. A year 7 kid told me "I don´t eat no chestnuts. I´m not a posh kid, miss." That really shocked me that at his age he was already excluding himself from eating something so simple because of his perceived "class". I told him that there was absolutely nothing posh about eating chestnuts. You pick them off the ground, you make a fire and you eat them roasted.
I grew up in a small village of 3000 people in what some would call a white trash family, but I never put limits like this on what I could eat, so it blew my mind to hear it that way.
Also, when I taught them fruits and vegetables in French in the difficult school, many of the kids didn't even know the English translation of the French word I wanted them to learn.
@@DavesRabbitHole Completely agreed. Hopefully, with internet nowadays, information is more available. Let's hope it impacts our health and environment positively (as long as we listen to scientists but not necessarily big pharma ^^)
@@Raphanne rather than the perceived class, i think he's just mimicking what the class he is in curently, I think- his surroundings, how adults around him think and talk, etc. Interesting story tho
Kung fu Master: "Do you know why they call it 'Fast' food."
Apprentice: "Why?"
Master: "Because it hastens your journey to the grave . . ." From the 1985 Kung fu comedy 'Remo, Unarmed and Dangerou'.
By and large; the French don't do junk food.
Fast food is "too fast". They don't care how gross they are making it as long as it gets sold.
Ah, used to LOVE reading "The Destroyer" aka Remo Williams... The Executioner too aka Mack Bolan.
You are hilarious....
What am I reading? 2019 TH-cam comments and someone mentions Remo.
Don't remember where but in my youth on the 80's I found some old Remo paperbacks. Those were pure awesomeness. Close second spot went to Morgan Kane paperbacks I had acquired as well.
Those were the days..
😂😂😂😂😂😂 woah bro😂 that got deep out of nowhere. Love the username-Intj. (Unless you don't know what I'm talking about then nevermind)
I’m from Poland and we have very traditional way of baking bread. Bakeries are on every street with sourdough bread which is fresh and not packed with preservatives. Quality of European bread is incomparable to US breads which are actually highly processed toast breads packed In plastic bag. US breads are on a level of cotton candy :(
Cześć Joawia :)! I am from Poland too and I agree. Our food is a lot better
Polish and Ukrainian food are the best!!!
This is the reason my mom makes her own sour dough without any preservatives or yeast!
Ugh. It's bad. I bake my own hamburger and hot dogs buns because supermarket buns are mostly air and they seem to just melt (not in a good way) in your mouth and has an awful mouth-feel. I don't remember supermarket bread being so airy and bad when I was growing up. Now it's just so awful.
The same in Czech Rep
I have always heard it said that in the South of France in particular there is less heart disease because they eat alot of olive oil. The key point here i think is the importance of fresh, more wholesome less processed ingredients
The French government ban TV advertisements for fast foods.
EDIT: I HAVE BEEN CORRECTED. France restricts TV food ads but does not eliminate them 100 percent.
Really? When?
Everyone should ignore all TV commercials - mute them the second they come on. Besides fast food, it's commerical drugs, movie ads, auto insurance, video game commercials, beer ads, snacks, etc. Ad infinitum.
I don't get why adults willingly watch them.
Oh and basicly, this isn't true at all.
We have macdonalds and KFC commercials just like you.
But look at the french mcdonalds logo, it's green. Cause they try to give us the food we deserve as we are the picky ones.
They didn't ban it but heavily restricted it and you have to mention in the commercial that too much of it kills lol...
Lol, so untrue. TV advertisement for fast foods are actually HUGE.
French TV usually copies from the US.
I lived in Europe. They have real chefs preparing meals in schools. Also ate on real plates.
Truth. I went to the Sorbonne Paris IV for 2 years and the university cafeteria had really decent food. Salads, meat and veggies and of course lots of baguettes.
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Here in Japan we also have real chef and dietitian in our schools. Its mandatory by law.
almost like they get treated like people not prisoners...
Sumida Ryogoku hai sumida.. I’m really hope to go to Japan one day
*Because French people don’t add sugar to bread 🥖 and everything else like we do here in the USA 🇺🇸. And they walk a lot!*
Thank you for your input. Yes, that walk is just as important to our diet. I don't walk at all, but I try to compensate, I do yard work, verses paying someone to do it for me. I opt to use a regular mower, verses the tractor. I rake, verses picking up leaves with the mower.
@@ritagamez3732 Having a very physically active lifestyle helps a huge deal to keep healthy for sure. It’s all in the habit!
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You know, I thought about that too!!! The walking part, and I think it's True, they don't Add Sugar to their Bread and probably to most of their Foods the way they do here in the USA.
White bread tastes like a dessert lol
I live veg close to France and the French are not so thin these days. You can see the difference between city living where there’s access to more American style food and the rural areas for sure.
Walking up 5-6 flights of stairs to one's Parisian apartment may be slimming.
"If Bread is so Bad, Why Are the French so Thin?", that's an odd question. The answer is "Because Bread is so Bad, the French are so Thin".
Many French do not live in Paris.
Paris is NOT France
Go to a french restaurant and you will find that French meals are tiny compared to American meals - high in butter and fats but small meals.
If you eat small portions in America you will get used to it. It's all a matter of what you are used to doing. Overeating begets more overeating.
True :o
That’s true. The portions in America are gigantic. We would oder one portion and share between two of us and still would have a left over.
Small in the US is probably the right size.
But, do you want to super-size that?
We walked everywhere in Paris and ate a ton of croissants and pastries. We walked 8 to 10 miles on average each day. We lost weight. If we ate the same amount here in the US without walking those distances, we’d be fat.
Great point and i thought the same. Don’t know why it wasn’t mentioned. They have a constant calorie furnace in the form of walking.
When I was 22, I traveled in Europe for 3 weeks and walked like crazy (and ate a ton of great food, too). I returned 15 lbs. lighter.
@@mbd501 same here. When I go to France, I stay several months (I am now retired and have family there ). I usually come back 10lbs lighter. But not last time. Stayed 9+ months. With the confinement and enjoying baguette everyday, I gained 12lbs! Really enjoyed the baguettes. Much less walking, that's the difference.
@@bnice2all the flour and gluten is non gmo- plus smoking and eating less helps.
Thats right most old houses dont have elevators , so after walking home from work we carry our supermarkt shopping 5 floors up some small winding stairs ...
I found this to be true in Italy as well. While on holiday there, I lost 7 pounds while eating pasta, some bread, and gelato. Even drinking wine and I’m not a consistent drinker. Yes we walked, but overall my system felt better. No stuffy nose, no achy joints, no stomach issues. I was so confused how this happened but it definitely opened my eyes.
The English were thin until the fast/junk food arrived from across the pond. We need to stop the processed food and cook from scratch.
Could also just eat less at any given meal. Macdonalds only makes people fat who overeat it. Obviously. So sorely obvious that it hurts to see this comment section.
@@michaeljordan4457 You actually have a valid point there. We don't need to supersize our orders. I get ill when I see people with those huge meals. I could never put away that much burger, fries and soda all at once and I am overweight.
@@icecreamladydriver1606 Hi. So I didn't mention metabism which is like half the battle. Personally I have to eat insane amounts of food just to gain weight and I can't afford to, so I remain underweight
Iain Dennis yes we do👍
@@michaeljordan4457 Hi to you. Have you ever been checked for tapeworm. I know that sounds gross but some people do have them and they eat up all the nutrients and leave you thin. You may also have a high metabolism. I hope you will be able to get some testing done and especially a full thyroid panel. Dessicated thyroid is the best treatment but most doctors don't know about that and you will have to gently teach them. Best of luck to you. Most people want to say you should be grateful by my daughter had issues with being underweight and people always told her how lucky she was but she didn't feel lucky because she couldn't eat much at all and was always hungry. Thankfully in her mid twenties she grew out of it and can eat most things now.
Been strict Keto 2 years & normal weight. Just back from 2 week vacation where I ate brown bread, veggie soups, fish & chips and drank cider or beer everyday. I lost 5 lbs and decided either I needed a carb load to kick start my metabolism OR the U. S. poisons our foods!
Yup, me too! I think it's the latter.
I’d say it was both
Were did you vacation?
I was on and off with Keto for about a year, then I decided it wasn't for me, I lost my joy of cooking and I missed all the traditional food and wasn't happy. After eating too much during Christmas I decided to start back Intermittent fasting combined with prolonged fasting once a month, walking everywhere. Comes a birthday or holiday or a friend inviting me for coffee or dinner, I eat whatever I want, but I look in the whole week and make sure to balance, like if I co birthday on Saturday, I have a bun with butter, hot chocolate or coffee and 1 or 2 pieces of cake(that's pretty normal for a birthday) then on Sunday I will just have my evening meal and I will make sure it is with good fat and protein and no sugar. I make my own Sourdough bread and most of the milk products, so I can get the fat I want.
I don't weigh myself, but I have come down 1 clothing size since January 1, it's slowly but I don't deprive myself of anything really(only process food) and I don't feel I'm on a diet 😊😁
Yes where were you? I am so ready to leave and go someplace sane. Go back to being positive! I complain so much! It is the one vice I allow but don't want that habit at all. :/
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Great story. Do you think it took your successes and failures with keto and various diets to learn what works for you? Basically, cut back on sugary and highly processed foods, eat more natural foods, eat good fats, etc.
I make my own sourdough bread during winter. Do you keep the starter on the counter or in the refrigerator? I found the fridge works best for me because I don’t go through that much bread. I use the Panera Bread recipe but looking for one with a better sourdough flavor.
My scandinavian boyfriend goes home at christmas and when he comes back he says all he did there was eat and he lost 10lbs. It's because of the "healthy food", he says.
LOL, LOL, LOL, Yeah, I noticed the Food Quality in Europe is different than the USA. definitely.
I often eat the fattening American food hoping it will help me gain weight, but it never works. I would like to gain about 10 or 15 pounds.
@@tonyhogg9839 LOL, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, Ha, Some of us Gain Weight with just water, and You cannot Gain Weight with all the fattening American Food, ha, ha, ha, LIFE.
i'm european and i love going on holiday in the usa. my experience is that i loose weight in the usa. maybe because of all the moving around while traveling and maybe because of the high fat content of foods, it goed right through your system. so it's not all bad imo
I live in rural Scotland and about 8 years ago I noticed that farmers started spraying grain crops with something that killed them. After speaking with a couple of farmers I was told they sprayed the crops to kill them off to harvest ( Scotland has a short growing season). The spray turns all crops a dirty, burnt orange colour and some heads have actually turned black prior to harvest (as I noticed today). Neither do we have beautiful, light golden straw any longer due to this killing of crops to harvest.
When I contacted the government about it I was told it was probably a growth accelerator. I argued that the crops growth wasnt accelerated, they just went a dirty orange and were harvested. This toxic rubbish is going in our food! Stick to organic if you can👍
Thats disgusting... government will.cover that up they are probably subsidising it. You are right organic 💯
10 years ago due to heart problem I was singing in my car in kitchen everywhere alon.. MY HEALTH PROBLEM HAS DESTROYED MY DREAMS well not anymore. I am into Keto and sport. Now I am in good health and my dreams are getting into reality. I am very active with my life.
Thank you doctor Berg.
I went to Paris recently and here’s what I noticed:
1. There actually are many ethnic restaurants in the city (Italian, Asian cuisine, middle eastern)
2. People value food more
3. They are very active. Many bike and walk everywhere
4. The food doesn’t have junk in it. Even the purina dog food is healthier
5. Their foods are cream based..butter all around!
Monika Biernat is pet food in France better than most foods in America?
3 is most likely not by choice, it is almost impossible to go by car in Paris as there is so much traffic especially hours where everyone is going to work at the same time (7-9am and 6-8pm are the worst) and don't get me started on finding a parking spot, it might take you a solid 30mins at best lol. So most people go for public transports, bikes or simply walk.
@@mimoleta The same goes for most places in America hun.
And they don't eat big portions of food. Good quality in a decent amount it's the key.
5) I slightly disagree; it depends on which part of France we are talking about. In Paris and the Northern part of France, the dishes have a creamy/ buttery base and/or sauces for sure: it can be explained by the fact that the production of butter in France is usually made in the North. but in the South, the dishes are heavily influenced by Mediterranean cuisine (Italian, Spanish, North African,Greek cuisine...) and so we usually cook with olive oil.
In the States, they put bromide in their flour so yeah...that's another reason. They used to use iodine but wanted more patients so they pretty much banned iodine and promoted bromide and chlorine/floride.
It is sad but true.
This is the reason that the thyroid epidemic exists! Iodine in bread is key!
William Robert ::: Just a drop of good quality Nascent Iodine on your wrists everyday leaves the fake stuff out of the food we eat.
Your Abusive Dr : Your hatred and filthy comments say more about "you" than those you spew them at.
We eat but Europe Rejects
I worked in an international technology company with lot of French people, the employees were mostly French, Chinese and a minority of Japanese. I did notice that the French really take care of themselves even more than the Japanese generally speaking, they dressed fashionably, and were really conscious about their skin condition, hygiene and diet. They typically brought their own homemade lunch bentos to the office and never went out to eat in the surrounding restaurants serving mostly oily and GMO-filled Chinese and Southeast Asian cuisines, though I am not sure if this is their typical ethnic phenomenon or just their elites as I have never been to France before.
Buying food in France is an absolute joy. The supermarkets are fantastic enough, but the markets are amazing!!
The best thing it is when you take your meat with a butcher. This is a useful job!
Same as spain.
No preservatives.
No self raising rubbish
Just natural.levitation
Next day bread is no good.
I was eating heaps of bread
Potatoes
Amd beer..amd still lost weight.
make toast with old bread or breadcrumbs
Ate tons of baguettes in Paris and they never messed with my blood sugar! We walked a lot as well!
Interesting about the blood sugar
@@Earthian000 currently its also speculated that modern day crops contain higher or modified resistance components which could be causing the problems we falsely blame the gluten for.
I lived 5 years in Germany and was very healthy I was 160 lbs after I moved back to las Vegas NV I gained 100 lbs but food is natural and lifestyle is more active I walked 15k to 20k steps a day every day so all that together keeps people more healthy but people also have more time because they work less hours here I work 12 hours a day plus about 1.5 hours travel time an average person in EU have a way better life then we have here in USA
Can you please elaborate how vegetable oils and/or GMO foods cause insulin resistance (0:52)?
"They eat four times as much butter"
Challenge accepted.
I live on butter, tallow, and good bacon (and other high fat foods). I lost weight, feel great.
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anon mouse I’ve never given up on butter😂🥰
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Kerrygold grassfed butter, DE-LISH
Fats are king. Secret to french omelette is a lot of butter.
@DJ Jeff cheese and animal fats don't cause cancer lmao, maybe too much well done red meat
It's the only way I make my eggs yum.
john lul Fats or protein and carbs = cancer
@DJ Jeff We eat our meats blue at least the beef and duck breast (magret)
@DJ Jeff Interestingly enough America isnt in the top 10. But if theres one thing that Americans love, it's meat.
Paying attention and changing our lifestyle the past month ! We already have more energy and feel positive even waking up in the morning,,I don’t feel depressed :) I’m shocked at the difference..I’m 61 ,,thank you for caring and I hope more people see your videos! I’m sharing with everyone I know !!
Hello. I am from Lithuania, but I live in Sweden now. I noticed a big difference between foods even if both countries still are in Europe. A lot of foods marketed as "organic" here makes no sense to me, we don't have that in Lithuania, because everything is organic and you don't need to pay double for that. Many people still growing their own food: vegetables, fruits, chickens-very common in Lithuania. Here in Sweden almost all people are allergic to something, many are lactose intolerant (I became one of them being 10 years in Sweden, still think is nonsense) or gluten intolerant, don't get me started on other allergies...Would be very interesting to hear about Sweden, what is it in the food that it makes people sick? Is their bread+sintetic vitamins in it, drinking milk instead of water with everything or Norwegian salmon, which is fed antibiotics and other trash (as my French fisherman friend informed me...). 🤔 Would be very interesting to hear.
The secret behind the health of the French is not only what they eat but also how they live. They have a very specific work-life balance, where work is not the highest priority. They do a lot of sports, they socialize a lot. The french walk a lot because (like other Europeans), car traffic in the cities is very limited. This is my observation after living both in the US and in France.
According to my wife, walking 5 or 10 minutes to go to the butcher's or the baker's can be a *pleasure* and makes you feel in good shape ! I'm a little less brave than her, I must admit ;-(
@@AlainNaigeon your wife is right. All is missing is the firs step towards doing it. :)
Love it why am I here!
I’ve worked a lot in Paris and can’t agree with this. It seems part of the French culture to stay in the office until 8-9pm to keep up appearances
End of the day the French are super boring meanwhile Americans are way more open & interesting !
Look into the bromine content in flour. It displaces iodine. The french don't allow it or GMO grains.
Unbleached flour?
@@sharroon7574 Only King Arthur is no bromine. It's written on the bottom. Some people buy European flour online or at a deli because theirs is good.
@@imboss3879 thanks! I so want to make some good bread
IM Boss thanks! If you know any other brands of flour with no bromine, please share☺
Patty Jovial - Einkorn imported from Italy
I wondered this too about the heavy pasta consumption in Italy. But everyone there had very high levels of sunlight each day and was quite active. Kids playing beach tennis or vollyball. I think we really underestimate how much the sun exposure plays a critical role in cadence and sleep which does the majority of body repair.
It's because they don't enrich the wheat there with toxic iron filings, and no glyphosate
@@solera1109 could be possible. But much of USA pasta is from Barilla manufacturing in Italy.
@@TumbleSensei so far as I'm aware, most people there don't eat pasta like that. They make it at home themselves, only enough for the meal they're eating! :)
They also get 2 hr lunch breaks and sit as family more reducing stress. Vacation time is very high decreasing stress. Cortisol and insulin are best friends in crime..
Tumble Sensei .That is only true for southern Italy.
This summer I walked over 1,200 kilometers through France. Not only is food of better quality, but they also eat slower and they eat much smaller portions each meal. As an American, I was eating at least double of what the others were eating!
Excessive amount of sugar, carb, processed
Food and low quality oil. High stress and sedentary life style?
Sounds like south africa..no respect for human or animal life with all the junk they put in food sources
I went to Europe and the only fat people I saw were Americans. If I needed to find someone who spoke English I would look for the fat people-
@Harold Callahan🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣,your comment is so hilarious.
Lmao
You just need to visit england ;)
@@darkwolf1739 and germany, spain, poland and italy they have plenty of fat people
@@Dregomz02 germany fat people? Damn. Spain? Ok yes theyre probably 2nd in % of obesity. Italians are quite thin not sure what you mean and polish? No idea but they often seem to share some english traditions so maybe
Very importantly, food in France is shared with family, friends and guests. Virtually every house has a giant dining table with many chairs, usually in the kitchen and this is where everyone gathers and stays and talks together often for a great part of the evening. Food is not rushed, and lunch time in particular is sacrosanct and is known as the pause dej. This is a two-hour period when offices, factories, supermarkets, schools, in fact the whole of France stops everything to sit down and take a calm, unhurried, relaxing midday meal. This de-stresses everyone, aids digestion and is a leisurely, enjoyable and nurturing part of everyday life. In schools, children are served excellent food in appropriate portions with an increasing emphasis on plant-based menus, so from an early age, they are taught to recognise and appreciate traditional, wholesome nutrition. As far as bread is concerned the law states that 'traditional baguettes (long French bread) have to be made on the premises where they're sold and can only be made with five ingredients: wheat flour, water, salt and yeast. They can't be frozen at any stage or contain additives or preservatives...' And to be called a 'boulangerie' (bakery), all the different types bread have to be made from scratch on the premises and a high number of the ingredients have to be of an approved variety, weight and quality.
This is very impressive and equally depressing.
Wow hated my elementary and jh 15 minute lunch 😭 i dunno why? Then kick u out for 15 mins which sucks in the winter. Training cold resistant canadian kids? I heard in Quebec it's better tho.
Nowadays we have only a one hour meal time at work or school. And breads are often frozen before cooking in many supermarkets.
I miss France so much
Je suis Québécoise et c’est comme ça dans ma famille.
2:14- Let’s be real, the real threat with having too much Iron in your body is Magneto could show up and tear you to shreds.
I've only been 3 times to France, a total of 3 months. One thing I saw the French NOT do is overeat.
Also, they are more active, they walk a lot.
As others have pointed out, American food causes not cures hunger, leading to overeating not satiation.
After quitting all junk fast food, it was amazing how noticeable it was. I ate french fries and then after was literally like wondering what is going on, why am I thinking about eating still?! Stood out like night and day and made me say goodbye to all that mess for good. I dont like being played.
@@coppersense999 That's strange. French fries are French!
@@jdamommio Really? Well, I did see a restaurant in San Francisco whose main offering was Belgian fries, but when I was in France, they had what they called "frites." Patates frites that is.
Whether they are French or Belgian, they certainly don't originate in the U.S.
@@jdamommio O.k., but that was my point.
@@jdamommio Hey, it's not my fault you took my original comment out of context. It was in response to B. Colwell who complained about American food, using only French fries as his example. So there was nothing wrong with the way I communicated.
I used to teach French, so I think I know what "frite" means. My mistake was using the Canadian "patates frites" instead of the French "pommes frites."
I might as well correct your English grammar and French spelling: Fried potatoes ARE "pommes frites."
I studied abroad in France for a semester and lost 15 pounds while eating absolutely anything and everything.
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I bet you walked more too.
It is important to understand that sport is not the key to lose weight, eating healthier is much more important
@@Piineapple. For me, I lose weight from exercise while eating whatever I want. My weight loss is 95% due to exercise. Every person's body is different. Same way that some people eat lots of junk food and stay skinny, while others put on weight if they eat a bit of junk food.
The glycemic index of the older European grain types, are much, much lower than modern hybrid Frankenstein wheat.
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Atle Andersen Yep. Today’s monster grains, wheat at the top, have created ‘gluten intolerance’ and other food allergies. Federal state and local governments have made it nearly impossible to go into the countryside and buy unprocessed foods. I used to be able to buy meats fresh veggies and stone ground grains in small towns and farmers markets. Government, in the name of public health, has put those people out of business. They want a fat stupid population. Cheeseburgers and reality shows are the new bread and circus.
The French have healthier DNA for thousands of years. America has allowed hersheys and general mills and monsanto to wreck this fledgling nations health.
Do you think we are living in the middle age? Our grain is the same overbred as yours. To me there are 2 major differences. 1. the size of the meal is bigger in the us. 2. much more People do cook at home with relatively fresh ingredients. Thats all to me.
When you are an owner of a restaurant, of course you want your food to taste delicious, so the customers come back. Thats why u put more fat sugar and salt in it. thats one more difference to when you eat at home.
@@tobik2627 I not sure about the middel ages or who the "we" refers to. I do however know that the hybrid wheat that hit big agro in 1978, has a glycemic index of 108 - or slightly higher than ordinary white sugar. I also know that spelt and eincorn has a glycemic index in the low 50's and that these much less complex proteins and starches can be broken down by traditional sourdough. Granted, if we old world folk decide to roll with the convenient American junk food franchises and quick petrol station bakeoff, then we are just a few pounds of lard behind our American cousins.
This is something I’ve been wondering about for awhile and my conclusion that it’s about our lack of standards for our foods
They also walk a lot more ... and their portion sizes are a lot smaller. I lost 5 lbs. when I visited Europe a couple of years ago and I've never eaten so well.
I think this is the biggest reason. All across Europe, people walk more. We also cycle.
SO TRUE! It’s not France alone. Those of us from the Caribbean can testify that we seemingly suddenly become fat after migration. In addition to the freshness of food & limited fortifiers & preservatives, we tend to be more active without trying to be. I’ve recently just tried living/eating like I did back home & cut out the gym in exchange for daily stretches & 15min strength training 3 days a week. I’ve lost 11lbs in 3 weeks
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True.
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You left out PORTIONS and VARIETY. Having multiple course meals of smaller portions helps with satisfaction/satiety. Much more common in France.
Amazingly straight forward and good stuff! Thank you Dr.Berg
As someone who lives in Switzerland I can confirm we eat differently :) our law in food is very strict. Not perfect at all but it's indeed less processed than in America. Thanks for the video! Very informative.
And regarding the French: they eat different courses, they eat little mostly, and they dislike fizzy drinks and fast foods in general (though chains like McDonalds existed there since the 80s) However, they are big on fruit consumption, yet that was years ago. Now: I imagine it became the same as the majority of our world, when it comes to fast foods culture.
I am French, American, and African (Ivory Coast). I have been living in France for 15 years after over 20 years in the US. So, I do agree, the way the French eat is vastly healthier than in the US. This video tells it all except that the French consider the ritual of eating a very important part of social life. We eat at a specific time, with a consistent balance of food and a sequence of meals that is always the same. For instance, you have salad and cheese at the end of the meal. Indeed it is a lot more fat.
Smh
The part where everything in your country shuts down for an hour to eat lunch sounds like heaven as at my job I’m lucky if I can take a 30 minute unpaid lunch break on a 9 hour shift…we seriously need to normalize that like everywhere it would solve so many problems…
Agreed. Especially on those specific times for eating. I lived a few years in France and it's really as you said, you're not really allowed to snack because if you ask, people will say "just wait, dinner is in less than 2 hours". So you just wait, and then when it's time for dinner, you're happy because you're hungry and everything looks delicious, and then you eat a lot.
The French are not that thin, the Americans are just often way way way too fat.
The first thing that I noticed when I arrived at the Airport in Paris was how Fat all of us Americans getting off the Airplane were (incl. me ) , and how Slim all the French people working at the Airport were, and I mean SLIM, and they don't even Kill themselves in a Gym, I don't know how they do it eating So Much Bread, it Could be that they Walk a Lot More than us, maybe, and we have to Consider that STRESS in the USA is on TOP of every nation in the world, this is a Stressful nation, Americans just LOVE STRESS, and that Makes Us FAT, it's a Stress hormone, our bodies are Suffering over here, because it's all mental and hormonal. We don't know how to Relax, and everybody is So hateful here, and that Creates Stress for everybody around them. Think about that.
Most of you eats shitty food. And a lot of it. Here’s why. Simple.
Probably from all the stress though. I get stressed out often just living here and I hate it. Of course not all of America is stressful to live in but living in impoverished Alabama can be very stressful or livinging in Detroit or New York . The stress people face also varies by region in the US..
@@hailervin Nah, just the diet
I stress toms and tons and I am like a stick. Sure it affects some people but it also causes an adverse effect on others.
@@jenniferlorence185 dude compare big size cups in french restaurants to small size in the US and you will understand why
Dr. Jason Fung also brought up that consuming vinegar/acids with carbs cuts the absorption rate of those carbs by about 50%. Maybe the wine they drink helps with this?
simple:
they eat food. real food, not processed, not fast food, not industrial food.
Actually has nutrients
Even in poor neighborhoods where people mostly eat kebabs and "french tacos" (nothing to do with tacos it's just a bigger burrito loaded with fries and fried meat like chicken tenders a very cheesy sauce and other unhealthy stuff) people remain mostly thin because people tend to walk a lot. And normal meals are controlled portions
5000 mc donald in France , In Italy ot's not like that.
I've never seen so many obese people until I immigrated to the US. That was in the 1980s. Fast forward to 2019, it's even worse.
You can tell when immigrants start eating the Standard American Diet instead of their traditional food...they get fat.
It's like being fat is celebrated. Mannequins are even fat. TV shows like My Big Fat whatever. It went from "don't be ashamed of your size" to "see how damn fat you can get". The over weight person was the exception in the 70s.
I noticed that when we immigrated from England in 1969?
How much do you weigh and what's your height?
I grew up in the 80s (in the U.S.), and the few overweight friends I had were not flabby. We lived in the city and walked a lot (our parents didn't drive us to school) and nobody tried to get out of P.E. class. We also didn't eat a lot of fast food. It was a treat when we did.
Actually when I was in Spain I was shocked by the amount of bread that got served. Every time I ordered a beer or a wine I basically got served a loaf of bread. Yet I observed very few obese people
Same in Portugal
Actually not so much bread in Spain. I lived 9 months there. Maybe you were going to tapas places and then they give you some free food whenever you order a beer.
They do eat a lot of meat and fish though.
I'm an American who has lived in France for the past 4 years. This is all true!!! The French, in general, eat everything in moderation, and quality food is a huge part of life here. We sit down with my husband's family and take hours for a meal: savoring every bite. I love the food here! The quality is amazing and much less expensive when you compare it to the quality of the food in the U.S.
Woah This is eye-opening! In Canada we think that all the fortified flours and grains in our breads and boxed cereals are good for us, and that canola oil like Becel is the heart-healthy alternative to butter. I've got to start making better choices in the grocery store and eat like a European : )
It could also have something to do with the fact that in France you just tend to get a normal human-appropriate amount of food put in front of you. So you end up with normal sized humans. In the US, it usually appears as if one's accidentally turned up to a feast for elephants. So you end up with elephants.
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You have obviously never been to France. lol
Because the food lacks nutrition; the brain sends a signal to keep eating UNTIL the level of nutrients is reached, overloading their plates .
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Here's the deal if you Pig out at every meal of the day you are going to BE FAT> Doesn't matter what the food is.
The wheat in France is quite different to the wheat in Australia. French wheat has much, much less gluten. Australians visiting France have reported that their pastries and bread does not trigger Coeliac disease (an autoimmune condition) reactions from gluten.
Wow.. I’m gluten intolerant so this is really interesting!
@@melaD333 .....time for research
They still have Celiac in France, it's not that rare at all in Europe, frankly. And eating wheat for a French person with Celiac's is still a no-no.
French bread is fermented. Sourdough 3:55
No, not anymore, the boulangeries selling it are very rare.
Been to France most of the food is made on the spot and made the traditional way. Amazing wine and cheese not forgetting the butter croissant and chocolate crepes
Yep! I'm 75% French third generation American and I am overweight. So is my father. We're active people and were not always overweight, but we didn't eat right so now in our older age (I'm 49 he's in his 70's) we're both type 2.
I'm changing my health thanks to keto and fasting, he's learning to cut carbs. Wish I knew back then what I know now, could have saved myself a lot of grief later in life. It catches up to you.
It's never too late to start! That's great that you are trying to get better!
When you go to Europe and you eat the bread you will suddenly exclaim "OMG this is what bread actually tastes like!!!".
I really love that Dr. Berg writes on the board. I often pause the video and read the notes👍🏾🌹
I noticed that When I’m visiting US, the bread is so sweet, it’s almost like sugar bread 😩 idk why
Bc it has sugar in it. Just like ham has sugar.
You don't see that in France.
Not sugar...HIGH FRUCTCOSE CORN SYRUP--100x WORSE! 😫
@@bluebutterflywellness2273 You don't have to buy bread with hfcs in it. Read labels.
As an Australian speaking...when I went to the USA for work I noticed.... this was a nation obsessed with sugar. Sugar everywhere...vending machines. Adults drinking "pop" / "soda" which we call soft drinks. Donuts....pure sugar...plus very few fruits and vegetables. But don't worry...Australia is catching up fast. Thirty years ago it.was.rare to see obese people. Now it is normal...and very sad. They struggle to walk.
@Ray S You are right. The bread was confectionery
Most of the French people live in flats/units/apartments in multistory building less than 10 stories high. But most of them don't have elevators in them. Have you ever lived on the 6th floor and had to manually carry up lots of food! And as Dr Berg said they don't snack as much, or drink sugar loaded soda drinks. Ive never seen them lug up bottles of soda to their apartments. The wine is generally much drier (ie no residual sugar)
Yes ! Soft drinks are for birthday kids ! No adults drink soft drinks.
But alcohol in their wine IS sugar.
So how do the elderly and disabled get up to their apartment?
And the French drink lots of water.
JK theu dont drink huge amounts like BIG GULPS
Also our cheese is “pure” and not plastic and yellow
What colour is the cheese 🧀
@@JesusIsGodsSelfie the same color as the milk it's made from. 😏
I follow French women on TH-cam - they don’t eat like tourists in Paris. I bought yogurt from France the portion is baby size. I bought a coffee cup from Shakespeare and Company the mug is half the size we are use to drinking from. They make cappuccino and do not add sugar. They do not snack in between meals. If they have a desert it is a fruit. They might have a small amount of dark chocolate. They usually go to the grocery store once a day. They go to farmers markets. They eat the because quality food no preservatives. No roundup on their farms. So glad RFK Jr is going to do something about the food in American.