Can you recommend a low budget healthy food plan? I don't have a lot of spending money(school, bills, etc.), so I have a strict budget for food. So I only buy ramen, since they're only $1 up the street. But if there's a way I can enjoy a nice healthy meal instead of relying on ramen noodles, I'd much rather do that; since I moved out, I haven't had a good home cooked meal. :o
Fresh vegetables and fruits, purchased raw at the supermarket, aren't terribly expensive.
A bottle of virgin olive oil goes a long way.
I'm not enough of an expert to offer a fully balanced diet that's cheap, though. It may not even be possible.
For example, to get enough fish oil for good health (3-4 grams per day), you'd have to eat ocean fish so often that its toxicity would be dangerous. Safe fish oil supplements are expensive.
Science shows that exercise is generally beneficial for health. But for most people, moderate exercise does little to control weight. It will if you run marathons regularly, but not everyone wants, or is able, to put that much into physical conditioning.
No amount of exercise will compensate for bad eating habits. Unhealthy food will take a toll on your health.
I just don't think that counting colories is the right approach to the problem, after all, exercises imo is the only way you can gain normal body shape and health
Exercise helps tone the body. it certainly makes it more attractive.
Eating healthy food is more directly useful for weight control, I think, but it's best to do both.
The main problem is that industrially-processed foods are loaded with unhealthy substances which can lead to obesity and other health problems. Replacing those foods with nutritious foods is vital.
I don't emphasize strict calorie-counting or daily weighings. But being aware of calories helps to avoid eating too much.
It's a mistake to think of the two types of fat as "good" and "bad." There are valid physiological reasons for both kinds. We just need to figure out how fat cells are regulated so we can keep them within healthy parameters.
I'm certain that foods are a key, and that we've been getting food wrong in the industrialized world.
@Urgelt Aye, I concur! I also think in some ways our attitudes about food, especially in this country, are also in some way to blame. We're all so desperate for something quick to scarf down, that we don't really take time to relax and digest and ENJOY the meal. The French, by contrast, are known for taking their time about meals, and not hurrying their consumption of their food, and they are much thinner on the whole than us folks here, in spite of a diet rich in saturated fats.
The funny thing is, many healthy foods aren't inconvenient at all. Many vegetables, all you do is rise them. A tasty yogurt dip can be made in a minute. Fruits are even less work. A crock pot can make hundreds of healthy dishes just by tossing in ingredients and water and letting it cook overnight. Water isn't inconvenient; you don't have to lug bottles of it from the store, just turn on the tap.
None of these are very profitable ideas, though. So companies steer us away from them.
@Urgelt Yep! I have a lemon noodle recipe that takes maybe 20 minutes to make, is flavourful, good for you, and if enough noodles are boiled, can last for days, and still be delicious! If you have any good recipes you'd like to share, I know we'd all be very interested to try them! :D
I don't know if you still respond to these video comments at all or not, but you quoted saying that losing more than 1LB a week is not good. Is that just if you're eating healthier? Or does that include say...you were eating healthier foods and added exercise into your life style?
Most people (98%) who lose weight will put it back on again - they "yo-yo" their weight. That's considered extremely unhealthy, worse than just being overweight, by most doctors. There is no "safe" rate at which to yo-yo your weight.
For people who change lifestyles, weight loss should be more gradual and more permanent.
If you lose more than a half-pound in a week, on average, you're not changing lifestyles. You're dieting. It's not healthy.
I am inspired. I know all this stuff, but I haven't got the courage to undertake the permanent lifestyle change! Right now I am working on eliminating caffeine, cold turkey. But I'm unhappy with doing nothing. What a miserable place to be! Thanks for the video.
Funny thing about a lifestyle change. It's not a big decision. It's a lot of wee little decisions.
Just begin swapping out unhealthy foods and habits and substituting healthier ones. How far you take it or how fast you go is entirely up to you.
I'm not suggesting everyone should train for marathons or join a native tribe in the Amazon Basin to meet their dietary needs. But you know that industrial foods that will cut short your life. Put your intelligence to work. You'll be glad you did.
Urgelt, have you watched Supersize Me? You would love that film, it's quite informative regarding the obesity epidemic in America. Good video by the way.
Recently it was in the news that the wrappers used on fast food by companies, such as Burger King and McDonalds, contains chemicals called diPAPs which make the inside of the wrappers "slippery" and water-resistant. There is now evidence that the chemicals are being transported into humans.
The health implications aren't known. But there are reasons to be concerned which I won't get into here. You can Google it.
That is very interesting, I never knew that. I worked at a McDonalds for brief periods of time and in one occasion I worked the overnight shift. When it got to breakfast time I would sometimes make the breakfast burritos which required wrapping and storing them in the fridge until someone ordered some. Then, they would be taken and heated up in a microwave. After reading this, I have to think that microwaving them in the wrapper cannot be good.
Unfortunately, it's just a single example of the ways industrial chemicals can enter our bodies. Such chemicals are ubiquitous - and our understanding of what they are doing in our bodies is very weak.
We have invented industrialization; now, we probably could not sustain our numbers without it. But we haven't learned to do it well or safely.
I agree that you cannot go too far below your caloric range. I found that I should intake 1400-1600 per day. My ex bf would tell me that I could below 1200 and I said that it's not healthy. Good thing I didn't listen to the jerk. People need to eat and get the proper nutrients or the body will start to store fat when it thinks it is being starved.
Thank you for your oversite you are very healpful and informative in your video's. People like yourself are a positive for you tube. There is another guy out there called TreeClimbingMan who mocks people like yourself and is the reason why you tube is going down the tubes.
In February I decided that I did not enjoy being 215 pounds (at 5'"9"). There are many things that I decided I would not eat again and some only very occasionally.
In 5 months I lost 40 pounds (only by cutting out unhealthy foods) and now weigh 175. I have not felt better in years.
i don't think using drugs for dieting is a good idea at all and i don't really get why the medical profession use old measuring techniques such as the BMI and height and weight to calulate one's calorie needs, it's best to use the up to date techniques calulating ur BMR by getting ur weight in kg times 25, then decide how active u are from there and add more calories onto that
I'm a teacher in the UK working with students with challenging behaviour. In my five years of teaching, I have noticed a DIRECT link between sugar intake and extreme behaviour in teenagers.
I'm working my way through your healthy eating videos [I have just watched number 8] and I intend to use a lot of what you have said in my Healthy Living classes. Thank you for these very informative and well presented lectures.
Please let me steer you to PsycheTruth's videos. He produced two very recently about ADHD that I consider valuable summaries of what is known about the disorder, its link to nutrition, and drug treatment efficacy (or lack thereof).
All diets most of the time failed because NO one diet will work for everyone, (they failed to consider this), and many of the diets out there relies on dangerous powders, pills, or excluding some groups of nutrients that are absolutely necessary for our body (like Atkin's diet, low-fat diet, low-carb diet,etc).Coz i dont want to flood this thread, pls google "nutritional typing" n remember good diet and good exercise come in one package
Don't worry about flooding the thread - there's plenty of room for comments, and conversation is my purpose here.
Nutritional typing has potential. There are problems, though. Lack of peer-reviewed double-blind studies; insufficient understanding of the ways humans differ; and it relies on subjective judgment of the nutritionist or practitioner. Those limitations make it potential quack territory. Buyer beware.
Nutritional typing address each person by considering their own metabolic types and biochemistry, also lifestyle. It's more than losing/gaining weight to achieve slim body, but it is using natural foods as medicine. It is a path to optimum overall wellbeing because it help slim body, prevent and reverse almost any diseases and eliminate cravings
I mostly agree. I will add, though, that we do not really understand enough about cellular processes to make accurate typing decisions. That's coming, though not quickly. It will start with routine sequencing of a patient's genome (not here yet) and also requires a firm understanding of how genes are expressed in downstream processes.
Without that understanding and specificity, all typing can do is a sort of guesstimate.
I agree. What's offered in nutritional typing is the fine-tuning of the diet(type, ratio and combination of foods) over time. Sometimes there willbe a swing between metabolic types n some other disruption. Therefore tuning the diet will help the body towards eating foods synergistically appropriate for the body's cellular process. Although i would say it wont be perfect until we understand fully how the body works.
The Metabolic Typing diet started by Dr Weston Price almost 80 years ago is exceptional. While Dr Mercola has developed it and calls it Nutritional Typing. I would rather say it is more to lifestyle change than a diet.
The answer why only 2% succeeded in their dieting is because they fortunately landed on the right type of diet that promotes the right type of food to be consumed. In Metabolic Typing, people generally classified to have 3 types, Carbs,Protein and Mixed.
A small segment of the population is capable of monomaniacal denial of cravings - as in, anorexia and bulemia, which often begin when a person (usually young) is overweight, and begins to desire to lose weight at any cost.
Unfortunately, the studies haven't looked real hard at that 2% to see what is going on there, so I can't cite which factors have how much influence on the number.
I see. This issue is generally considered as emotional barrier in nutritional typing. Dr Mercola uses EFT (emotional freedom technique) which consider the importance of emotional well-being in combating powerful mental obstacles to achieve nutritional balance.
Dr. Mercola is operating well beyond the boundaries of peer-reviewed science these days. That's not all bad; someone has to get out there and work the fringes, or science will never advance into new territories.
But it means that his methods should come with a warning label: "your mileage may vary."
The statistics and problems with diets mentioned by Urgelt are true. The reasons are each of the diets does not consider that there are infinite number of different metabolic typings and biochemistries in human population, many of the diets do not account/understand benefits of nutrients and how they work and absorbed by our bodies.
Most diets deliberately starve the body of something it needs. It's the starvation that produces weight loss - and snowballs cravings which eventually defeat the diet.
I lossed 20 pounds that month but then had a craving for breads and sugars and had to cease the diet. Right away, I started eating back carbohydrates but made sure to exercise an hour a day. Its been a year and I havnt gained a pound. Can one reason that dieting does and can work as long as one exercises routinely and doesn't eat to excess after his temporary diet?
The numbers argue against you. The studies I mentioned took a longer view than one year. 85% relapsed in 2 years, 95% in 5, 98% in 10. Thousands were studied, and many different diets.
Exercise alone can do a lot of good. But if your body isn't getting lots of high quality fruits and vegetables, and is getting processed foods and sugars, the bill will eventually come due.
Urgelt, i was on the Atkins diet a year ago for about a month. I was 17 year old, chubby, weighing about 160 lbs when i decided to go through with the atkins diet, the carnivore that I am. Apart from dieting, I would make sure to exercise an hour a day, by either jogging or playing soccer.
Most welcome, w3sb, but I don't think they're brilliant - they just tell you a point of view you can't find in mass media. They won't bite the hand that feeds them, and the diet industry feeds them big-time.
well i had to write a little thing on diets and healthy eating and my teacher didnt bealive me on how lifestyle changes work and diets dont so thanks for your help
46 videos plus 15 are the health series! for some reason im losing hunger fast, i am not over weight (nor thin) but gradualy im losing hunger, self awareness and sleep but i don't feel these things like they used to, kinda like a dying battery, forcing my self to eat with no hunger is mostly what makes my whole nutrition, i don't do exercise but i don't eat enough and am not hungry cause maby my energy is allredy full and the neccessary stuff to be hungry is low...
Hmm. Anorexia can produce those symptoms. If you fail to provide your body with enough nutrition, it can start to shut down, and hunger, along with other motivations, can vanish. The "dying battery" analogy resonates. I do recommend that you choose healthy foods and make an effort not to skip meals.
Eniwekwe has produced an excellent series on anorexia that you may appreciate, too.
the this is that im not refusing toi eat, like i want to but... kinda like love you like a girl a lot but not matter how much you like her, you just can't even say hi, food on the other hand don't discriminates :P maby the fact that i gradualy started to eat less and less good foods, i am maby gradualy losing importand vitamins to produce hunger...
ive never been on a diet or cared too much about my weight. However, I do need to eat healthier. Maybe Ill try loosing a little bit of weight based on your suggestions
Focus on eating to live, don't skip meals. Choose good foods, avoid dangerous or addictive ones, don't exceed your daily calorie requirements. Your weight should naturally and gently fall towards your ideal weight.
What do you think the chance is that we could make a difference in the labeling of food...example: instead of the just printing, "Ingredients: Peanuts, salt", they could provide a link where the consumer could find out what they used (chemically) to grom the peanuts. Does this idea have merit?
I favor using government to protect people more directly. Obviously harmful and dangerous foods should be removed from the market. But that may be difficult to sell, politically. Better labeling is certainly better than doing nothing.
I am so amazed by your videos. I just subscribed this evening. I am a registered nurse who has struggled with weight and obesity, had gastric bypass, and still struggles. The advice backed up with study is so beneficial to me. My husband is a doc and is director of a rural health research program. I will make sure he sees your vids. shelly
I agree 100%. Dieting is not the solution to obesity. A balanced diet with proper nutrition, a balanced exercise regime, and willpower will give people the results they desire. Like you said, its not a diet or a fad, but a lifestyle change.
I was struck by the amount of super streaky bacon at Walmart. We lost the passion for square pigs in Europe you see in paintings the time of the Industrial revolution when they needed to feed the new cities. In Florida my kids blew up like baloons after a month even though we hadn't changed our Eurpean habits much. Swimming an hour every day in Orlando I put on weight like a Zeppelin. There seems to be less nutrition in the food, and we ate more looking for the missing elements
Yes. While I will assert that avoiding obesity is a personal responsibility and that personal choices matter, success becomes a much more difficult thing if you are lied to and swindled and fooled.
Selling us food that contains very poor nutrition - and pretending that it's terrific - is nothing less than a swindle. It steals our health, sows misery and shortens our lives.
Hmmmmmmmm, I see. Not sure about ALL of that. But a lot is true!! Whoever talked about the South Beach Diet on here, I would like to reput it out there and say eating there foods really works!!!! but duh if you eat too much or not the right amount it won't do any good.
Diets are, by definition, nutritionally inadequate. That's their purpose: to force the body into using fat reserves, and quickly. Science demonstrates that following diets will result in short-term weight loss. At the 2 year mark, though, 85% have gained it all back. At 5 years it's 95.
People tell themselves "I just didn't have enough willpower" and try dieting again. The truth is, it's the methodology of dieting that's at fault.
Dieting is really a form of controlled starvation, temporarily adopted to achieve a weight goal by denying either adequate calories, or a particular group of nutrients. It aims to produce rapid results and relies heavily on willpower to resist cravings.
A lifestyle change has different objectives, works differently, and isn't temporary.
Urgelt, I am new to you tube and have watched several of your videos. I am really interested in your healthy eating series. It is going to take me awhile to watch all of them and in the meantime i am wondering about the prescription medications and vitamins behind you. Aren't they in contradiction with your healthy eating habits? Just wondering....
I'm also fighting a chronic Lyme infection that my doctors have been unable to cure.
I use prescription drugs and certain supplements, guided by my doctors, to mitigate symptoms and to ensure that no nutritional base is left uncovered.
Obesity is more about self esteem and less about food. Obesity is as a result of an eating disorder that is related to self esteem and a loss of sense of self. People who have gained weight as a result of this may lose weight for a time but will gain it back if they do not address the other issues! Thanks for the lifestyle info! Say more about exercise that can help cravings and the body in general!
I've not addressed exercise in my videos, but it's been well covered in various videos in the Gut to Cut group on YouTube, where I'm a member.
Moderate exercise does tend to reduce appetite, and it elevates serotonin in the brain, which improves a person's sense of well-being, calms anxiety, improves sleep, and has many other benefits.
so you did not know that some people ideal weight could differ and some has obese ideal wieght (sadly, and an ideal weight is your best health/energy/weight ratio) and some people has some hormones that are over or underproduced causing exessive binges and craves, but there is a lot of people like you described, just that i think its like saying that you are shallow while i only saw one post and know not much of you. it would be mean :P)
I'm skeptical of the notion that an obese weight could be an "ideal" weight. Mind you, I've seen a few cases where obese people were active and in good health. But in general it's an undesireable stress on health, and it will have negative long-term effects. And I do think that careful nutrition can help enormously, even in the presence of genetic and hormonal obstacles.
Gawd, this is scary. In this video you and I agree, so much. Unfortunately, we both use variations of the word "calorie." I have found that there is incredible opposition to the idea of portioning calories by most people. This ubiquitous rejection must have something to do with the innate design of our human brains and, thus, our perception.
In my opinion, it is better to replace supplements with real foods. calorie counting is a form of dieting, but for people that dont know how to control portion size it can be helpful.
Supplements are a choice that may help some people in some circumstances, but yes, I agree it's best to obtain what you need from good food.
I don't think it's intuitively easy for everyone to eat exactly what they need and stop. Though I've met some folks who had the knack. It's kind of like having perfect pitch. If you don't have it, you need a reference point.
Very wise words. If you were to approach 100 Americans on the street, and ask them to define diet, I would guess the majority would offer the definition of a verb rather than a noun. Proper nutrition and healthy living demand a commitment to a life long practice.
The point about returning to the earlier weight is true. My mother indoctrinated me into the first Atkins low-carb diet when I was about 12, and I dropped 38 pounds very fast-- but then I shot back up pretty fast.
Consider this: Atkins was on his own "improved" diet when he went comatose and died. Was he too weak to recover because of the diet? You be the judge.
Of course we don't have sufficient data to judge what really killed Atkins. But I sure do agree that the Atkins diet ignores a *lot* of research showing the importance of carbs to health.
Sounds like you're starting to think critically. Good!
I laugh at myself, because encouraging people to be skeptical and think critically is going to rebound. I'll be challenged a lot more by critical thinkers; they're an ornery lot! :P
Thank you for this video! I'm going to make an appointment with my doctor to find out what my carloric intake should be. I want to get from 190 down to 165. I will have to find the right foods to eat, as well as the correct amount.
There's nothing simple about a lifestyle change, and if I've seemed to portray it as simple, I apologize.
Dieting is the adoption of a temporary change in your eating habits. When you end the temporary change, it's over. What I'm doing is not temporary, so it's not a diet.
I have made a choice to cut out refined carbohydrates, yes I am in a restricted-carbohydrate "lifestyle" (not diet). This has been proven to be just as healthy as any vegetarian diet.
Welcome, altebanger. Yep, that's it in a nutshell. My own dieting was a miserable failure. Sure glad there's something that works, even if it's a tad slow.
I myself don't go along with the whole fad diet thing... I guess when I use the term diet, I mean change in food habbits... because that is what it has to be in order to work.
I think your approach to these subjects is totally awesome. What are all the bottles to your left? They look like supplements and prescriptions, and I'm curious. My roomie was craving chocolate one day but opted for a ricecake, and after eating a whole bag of those, she ended up eating chocolate anyways! I'm all about figuring out what it is I'm craving and trying to fulfill that.
I totally agree. I also changed my eating habits about 2 years ago, lost 20 pounds and still manage to keep the weight. Sometimes it's hard, but the ONLY thing that really works. The body needs to get energy to burn calories, so dieting doesn't work!
life style change thats whats up been advocating this for quite some time too. . good blog
fundip43 9 months ago
Can you recommend a low budget healthy food plan? I don't have a lot of spending money(school, bills, etc.), so I have a strict budget for food. So I only buy ramen, since they're only $1 up the street. But if there's a way I can enjoy a nice healthy meal instead of relying on ramen noodles, I'd much rather do that; since I moved out, I haven't had a good home cooked meal. :o
Thanks
jammerjaw 1 year ago
Fresh vegetables and fruits, purchased raw at the supermarket, aren't terribly expensive.
A bottle of virgin olive oil goes a long way.
I'm not enough of an expert to offer a fully balanced diet that's cheap, though. It may not even be possible.
For example, to get enough fish oil for good health (3-4 grams per day), you'd have to eat ocean fish so often that its toxicity would be dangerous. Safe fish oil supplements are expensive.
Urgelt 1 year ago
@jammerjaw dude, 1 dollar?! thats crazy, they only cost me like 1o cents each
dawkinsfan420 10 months ago
this helps alot..i do martial arts and i would be so happy if you were to make vids about exersize and stuff like that thank you
iggymydog 1 year ago
lol, why not to simply do some workout and eat what u want?
psihs 1 year ago
Science shows that exercise is generally beneficial for health. But for most people, moderate exercise does little to control weight. It will if you run marathons regularly, but not everyone wants, or is able, to put that much into physical conditioning.
No amount of exercise will compensate for bad eating habits. Unhealthy food will take a toll on your health.
Urgelt 1 year ago
@Urgelt
I just don't think that counting colories is the right approach to the problem, after all, exercises imo is the only way you can gain normal body shape and health
psihs 1 year ago
Exercise helps tone the body. it certainly makes it more attractive.
Eating healthy food is more directly useful for weight control, I think, but it's best to do both.
The main problem is that industrially-processed foods are loaded with unhealthy substances which can lead to obesity and other health problems. Replacing those foods with nutritious foods is vital.
I don't emphasize strict calorie-counting or daily weighings. But being aware of calories helps to avoid eating too much.
Urgelt 1 year ago
You ever heard about Brown fat? I have heard about it in a few places over the last year or so, and found it pretty interesting.
KulshanRecordings 1 year ago
Yes, I have.
It's a mistake to think of the two types of fat as "good" and "bad." There are valid physiological reasons for both kinds. We just need to figure out how fat cells are regulated so we can keep them within healthy parameters.
I'm certain that foods are a key, and that we've been getting food wrong in the industrialized world.
Urgelt 1 year ago
@Urgelt Aye, I concur! I also think in some ways our attitudes about food, especially in this country, are also in some way to blame. We're all so desperate for something quick to scarf down, that we don't really take time to relax and digest and ENJOY the meal. The French, by contrast, are known for taking their time about meals, and not hurrying their consumption of their food, and they are much thinner on the whole than us folks here, in spite of a diet rich in saturated fats.
KulshanRecordings 1 year ago
The funny thing is, many healthy foods aren't inconvenient at all. Many vegetables, all you do is rise them. A tasty yogurt dip can be made in a minute. Fruits are even less work. A crock pot can make hundreds of healthy dishes just by tossing in ingredients and water and letting it cook overnight. Water isn't inconvenient; you don't have to lug bottles of it from the store, just turn on the tap.
None of these are very profitable ideas, though. So companies steer us away from them.
Urgelt 1 year ago
@Urgelt Yep! I have a lemon noodle recipe that takes maybe 20 minutes to make, is flavourful, good for you, and if enough noodles are boiled, can last for days, and still be delicious! If you have any good recipes you'd like to share, I know we'd all be very interested to try them! :D
KulshanRecordings 1 year ago
I don't know if you still respond to these video comments at all or not, but you quoted saying that losing more than 1LB a week is not good. Is that just if you're eating healthier? Or does that include say...you were eating healthier foods and added exercise into your life style?
MrCirrhosis 1 year ago
Most people (98%) who lose weight will put it back on again - they "yo-yo" their weight. That's considered extremely unhealthy, worse than just being overweight, by most doctors. There is no "safe" rate at which to yo-yo your weight.
For people who change lifestyles, weight loss should be more gradual and more permanent.
If you lose more than a half-pound in a week, on average, you're not changing lifestyles. You're dieting. It's not healthy.
Urgelt 1 year ago
I am inspired. I know all this stuff, but I haven't got the courage to undertake the permanent lifestyle change! Right now I am working on eliminating caffeine, cold turkey. But I'm unhappy with doing nothing. What a miserable place to be! Thanks for the video.
kimly3 2 years ago
Funny thing about a lifestyle change. It's not a big decision. It's a lot of wee little decisions.
Just begin swapping out unhealthy foods and habits and substituting healthier ones. How far you take it or how fast you go is entirely up to you.
I'm not suggesting everyone should train for marathons or join a native tribe in the Amazon Basin to meet their dietary needs. But you know that industrial foods that will cut short your life. Put your intelligence to work. You'll be glad you did.
Urgelt 2 years ago
Urgelt, have you watched Supersize Me? You would love that film, it's quite informative regarding the obesity epidemic in America. Good video by the way.
foolsgoldsoma 2 years ago
I have, indeed, and it's a good film.
Recently it was in the news that the wrappers used on fast food by companies, such as Burger King and McDonalds, contains chemicals called diPAPs which make the inside of the wrappers "slippery" and water-resistant. There is now evidence that the chemicals are being transported into humans.
The health implications aren't known. But there are reasons to be concerned which I won't get into here. You can Google it.
Another reason to be wary of fast food.
Urgelt 2 years ago
That is very interesting, I never knew that. I worked at a McDonalds for brief periods of time and in one occasion I worked the overnight shift. When it got to breakfast time I would sometimes make the breakfast burritos which required wrapping and storing them in the fridge until someone ordered some. Then, they would be taken and heated up in a microwave. After reading this, I have to think that microwaving them in the wrapper cannot be good.
SilentBob20 2 years ago
It might not be good at all.
Unfortunately, it's just a single example of the ways industrial chemicals can enter our bodies. Such chemicals are ubiquitous - and our understanding of what they are doing in our bodies is very weak.
We have invented industrialization; now, we probably could not sustain our numbers without it. But we haven't learned to do it well or safely.
Urgelt 2 years ago
I agree that you cannot go too far below your caloric range. I found that I should intake 1400-1600 per day. My ex bf would tell me that I could below 1200 and I said that it's not healthy. Good thing I didn't listen to the jerk. People need to eat and get the proper nutrients or the body will start to store fat when it thinks it is being starved.
anurre5 2 years ago
With friends like that, who needs enemies? I'm glad you were wise enough to see through his bad advice.
Urgelt 2 years ago
Thank you for your oversite you are very healpful and informative in your video's. People like yourself are a positive for you tube. There is another guy out there called TreeClimbingMan who mocks people like yourself and is the reason why you tube is going down the tubes.
SpaceStationMen123 3 years ago
In February I decided that I did not enjoy being 215 pounds (at 5'"9"). There are many things that I decided I would not eat again and some only very occasionally.
In 5 months I lost 40 pounds (only by cutting out unhealthy foods) and now weigh 175. I have not felt better in years.
trappedwarrior 3 years ago
There is no question that choosing healthy foods is a huge advantage in the battle for health. You've made a wise decision; I salute you.
Now if you can avoid a rebound within 2-5 years, you'll have really achieved something.
Urgelt 3 years ago
That's not likely. I am enjoying all the female attention I am getting!
trappedwarrior 3 years ago
you're inspiring.
akidforever9 3 years ago
A low GI/Alkaline diet is the best.
Great videos.
capricious71 4 years ago
He is so right, if you meet your nutritional needs - and avoid things like monosodiuim glutamate, aspartame and other excipients -
you won't be hungry.
LoricaLady 4 years ago 4
Noted, it's not a drug.
It's beans.
Including legumes in diet is wise... wiser by far than consuming a highly-processed nutritional supplement derived from beans, I suspect.
Urgelt 4 years ago
Lots of short term diets are effective in the short term. It doesn't last. Peer-reviewed studies show 98% of dieters fail in the 2-10 year window.
Carb blocking drugs are dangerous. Don't ever use them without consulting a good doctor.
Urgelt 4 years ago
i don't think using drugs for dieting is a good idea at all and i don't really get why the medical profession use old measuring techniques such as the BMI and height and weight to calulate one's calorie needs, it's best to use the up to date techniques calulating ur BMR by getting ur weight in kg times 25, then decide how active u are from there and add more calories onto that
Psionicman2000 4 years ago
What an interesting lecture! I find your voice very relaxing and easy to listen to. Were you ever a teacher?
batman2909 4 years ago
I did a bit of instructing from time to time during my career, but I was never a professional teacher.
I'm an amateur in everything I do on YouTube, like most of us here.
Urgelt 4 years ago
I'm a teacher in the UK working with students with challenging behaviour. In my five years of teaching, I have noticed a DIRECT link between sugar intake and extreme behaviour in teenagers.
I'm working my way through your healthy eating videos [I have just watched number 8] and I intend to use a lot of what you have said in my Healthy Living classes. Thank you for these very informative and well presented lectures.
batman2909 4 years ago
Most welcome!
Please let me steer you to PsycheTruth's videos. He produced two very recently about ADHD that I consider valuable summaries of what is known about the disorder, its link to nutrition, and drug treatment efficacy (or lack thereof).
Urgelt 4 years ago
I love Urgelts videos! The way he explains everything is so easy to understand. They also keep me motivated!
Thanks Urgelt!
lizboofs87 4 years ago
I'm happy you enjoy them, Liz, and you're most welcome. :-)
Urgelt 4 years ago
All diets most of the time failed because NO one diet will work for everyone, (they failed to consider this), and many of the diets out there relies on dangerous powders, pills, or excluding some groups of nutrients that are absolutely necessary for our body (like Atkin's diet, low-fat diet, low-carb diet,etc).Coz i dont want to flood this thread, pls google "nutritional typing" n remember good diet and good exercise come in one package
omoshiroii 4 years ago
Don't worry about flooding the thread - there's plenty of room for comments, and conversation is my purpose here.
Nutritional typing has potential. There are problems, though. Lack of peer-reviewed double-blind studies; insufficient understanding of the ways humans differ; and it relies on subjective judgment of the nutritionist or practitioner. Those limitations make it potential quack territory. Buyer beware.
Urgelt 4 years ago
Nutritional typing address each person by considering their own metabolic types and biochemistry, also lifestyle. It's more than losing/gaining weight to achieve slim body, but it is using natural foods as medicine. It is a path to optimum overall wellbeing because it help slim body, prevent and reverse almost any diseases and eliminate cravings
omoshiroii 4 years ago
I mostly agree. I will add, though, that we do not really understand enough about cellular processes to make accurate typing decisions. That's coming, though not quickly. It will start with routine sequencing of a patient's genome (not here yet) and also requires a firm understanding of how genes are expressed in downstream processes.
Without that understanding and specificity, all typing can do is a sort of guesstimate.
Urgelt 4 years ago
I agree. What's offered in nutritional typing is the fine-tuning of the diet(type, ratio and combination of foods) over time. Sometimes there willbe a swing between metabolic types n some other disruption. Therefore tuning the diet will help the body towards eating foods synergistically appropriate for the body's cellular process. Although i would say it wont be perfect until we understand fully how the body works.
omoshiroii 4 years ago
The Metabolic Typing diet started by Dr Weston Price almost 80 years ago is exceptional. While Dr Mercola has developed it and calls it Nutritional Typing. I would rather say it is more to lifestyle change than a diet.
The answer why only 2% succeeded in their dieting is because they fortunately landed on the right type of diet that promotes the right type of food to be consumed. In Metabolic Typing, people generally classified to have 3 types, Carbs,Protein and Mixed.
omoshiroii 4 years ago
Well, there is more to that 2% than typing.
A small segment of the population is capable of monomaniacal denial of cravings - as in, anorexia and bulemia, which often begin when a person (usually young) is overweight, and begins to desire to lose weight at any cost.
Unfortunately, the studies haven't looked real hard at that 2% to see what is going on there, so I can't cite which factors have how much influence on the number.
Urgelt 4 years ago
I see. This issue is generally considered as emotional barrier in nutritional typing. Dr Mercola uses EFT (emotional freedom technique) which consider the importance of emotional well-being in combating powerful mental obstacles to achieve nutritional balance.
omoshiroii 4 years ago
Dr. Mercola is operating well beyond the boundaries of peer-reviewed science these days. That's not all bad; someone has to get out there and work the fringes, or science will never advance into new territories.
But it means that his methods should come with a warning label: "your mileage may vary."
Urgelt 4 years ago
The statistics and problems with diets mentioned by Urgelt are true. The reasons are each of the diets does not consider that there are infinite number of different metabolic typings and biochemistries in human population, many of the diets do not account/understand benefits of nutrients and how they work and absorbed by our bodies.
omoshiroii 4 years ago
Most diets deliberately starve the body of something it needs. It's the starvation that produces weight loss - and snowballs cravings which eventually defeat the diet.
At least, that's my take on it.
Urgelt 4 years ago
Great video. Thank you.
Xone7 4 years ago
I lossed 20 pounds that month but then had a craving for breads and sugars and had to cease the diet. Right away, I started eating back carbohydrates but made sure to exercise an hour a day. Its been a year and I havnt gained a pound. Can one reason that dieting does and can work as long as one exercises routinely and doesn't eat to excess after his temporary diet?
steelers316316 4 years ago
The numbers argue against you. The studies I mentioned took a longer view than one year. 85% relapsed in 2 years, 95% in 5, 98% in 10. Thousands were studied, and many different diets.
Exercise alone can do a lot of good. But if your body isn't getting lots of high quality fruits and vegetables, and is getting processed foods and sugars, the bill will eventually come due.
Urgelt 4 years ago
Urgelt, i was on the Atkins diet a year ago for about a month. I was 17 year old, chubby, weighing about 160 lbs when i decided to go through with the atkins diet, the carnivore that I am. Apart from dieting, I would make sure to exercise an hour a day, by either jogging or playing soccer.
steelers316316 4 years ago
thankyou for making these brilliant videos.
w3sb 4 years ago
Most welcome, w3sb, but I don't think they're brilliant - they just tell you a point of view you can't find in mass media. They won't bite the hand that feeds them, and the diet industry feeds them big-time.
Urgelt 4 years ago
wow urgelt thank you, you helped me with my english home work :/
Wllproductions 4 years ago
English homework? Huh. I'd not have expected a tie-in.
Urgelt 4 years ago
well i had to write a little thing on diets and healthy eating and my teacher didnt bealive me on how lifestyle changes work and diets dont so thanks for your help
Wllproductions 4 years ago
Ah, I understand. That's terrific, Wllproductions. You are teaching what you learned. Good on you!
Urgelt 4 years ago
46 videos plus 15 are the health series! for some reason im losing hunger fast, i am not over weight (nor thin) but gradualy im losing hunger, self awareness and sleep but i don't feel these things like they used to, kinda like a dying battery, forcing my self to eat with no hunger is mostly what makes my whole nutrition, i don't do exercise but i don't eat enough and am not hungry cause maby my energy is allredy full and the neccessary stuff to be hungry is low...
Slayer7666COF 4 years ago
Hmm. Anorexia can produce those symptoms. If you fail to provide your body with enough nutrition, it can start to shut down, and hunger, along with other motivations, can vanish. The "dying battery" analogy resonates. I do recommend that you choose healthy foods and make an effort not to skip meals.
Eniwekwe has produced an excellent series on anorexia that you may appreciate, too.
Urgelt 4 years ago
the this is that im not refusing toi eat, like i want to but... kinda like love you like a girl a lot but not matter how much you like her, you just can't even say hi, food on the other hand don't discriminates :P maby the fact that i gradualy started to eat less and less good foods, i am maby gradualy losing importand vitamins to produce hunger...
Slayer7666COF 4 years ago
Could be. Anorexia is associated with certain body image concerns that you may not have.
In any event, choose healthy foods and don't skip meals. And you might want to pay a visit to your doctor and talk it over with her.
Urgelt 4 years ago
ive never been on a diet or cared too much about my weight. However, I do need to eat healthier. Maybe Ill try loosing a little bit of weight based on your suggestions
Annaconda1984 4 years ago
You have a healthy attitude, Anna.
Focus on eating to live, don't skip meals. Choose good foods, avoid dangerous or addictive ones, don't exceed your daily calorie requirements. Your weight should naturally and gently fall towards your ideal weight.
Urgelt 4 years ago
What do you think the chance is that we could make a difference in the labeling of food...example: instead of the just printing, "Ingredients: Peanuts, salt", they could provide a link where the consumer could find out what they used (chemically) to grom the peanuts. Does this idea have merit?
tim121 4 years ago
Probably it does have merit.
I favor using government to protect people more directly. Obviously harmful and dangerous foods should be removed from the market. But that may be difficult to sell, politically. Better labeling is certainly better than doing nothing.
Urgelt 4 years ago
I am so amazed by your videos. I just subscribed this evening. I am a registered nurse who has struggled with weight and obesity, had gastric bypass, and still struggles. The advice backed up with study is so beneficial to me. My husband is a doc and is director of a rural health research program. I will make sure he sees your vids. shelly
shellpooge 4 years ago
I agree 100%. Dieting is not the solution to obesity. A balanced diet with proper nutrition, a balanced exercise regime, and willpower will give people the results they desire. Like you said, its not a diet or a fad, but a lifestyle change.
johnnyscans 4 years ago
Agreed, Johnny, and thank you for your comment.
Urgelt 4 years ago
Healthy foods! I agree. I have lost pounds through changing my diet alone. Excercise too.
Danymity 4 years ago
Glad to hear it, Danymity, good on you.
Urgelt 4 years ago
I was struck by the amount of super streaky bacon at Walmart. We lost the passion for square pigs in Europe you see in paintings the time of the Industrial revolution when they needed to feed the new cities. In Florida my kids blew up like baloons after a month even though we hadn't changed our Eurpean habits much. Swimming an hour every day in Orlando I put on weight like a Zeppelin. There seems to be less nutrition in the food, and we ate more looking for the missing elements
MrLMULES 4 years ago
Yes. While I will assert that avoiding obesity is a personal responsibility and that personal choices matter, success becomes a much more difficult thing if you are lied to and swindled and fooled.
Selling us food that contains very poor nutrition - and pretending that it's terrific - is nothing less than a swindle. It steals our health, sows misery and shortens our lives.
Urgelt 4 years ago
Thanks, your conscientous replies are greatly appreciated.
MrLMULES 4 years ago
Hmmmmmmmm, I see. Not sure about ALL of that. But a lot is true!! Whoever talked about the South Beach Diet on here, I would like to reput it out there and say eating there foods really works!!!! but duh if you eat too much or not the right amount it won't do any good.
ghoulmann 5 years ago
Diets are, by definition, nutritionally inadequate. That's their purpose: to force the body into using fat reserves, and quickly. Science demonstrates that following diets will result in short-term weight loss. At the 2 year mark, though, 85% have gained it all back. At 5 years it's 95.
People tell themselves "I just didn't have enough willpower" and try dieting again. The truth is, it's the methodology of dieting that's at fault.
Urgelt 5 years ago
Hmmmm I see. You are a very smart man!!
ghoulmann 5 years ago
The scientists who thought to study the efficacy of dieting over a 10 year period, *those* people are smart.
Though all you have to do to know the truth about dieting is chart Oprah's weight fluctuations.
Urgelt 5 years ago
it sounds suspiciously like a diet to me!
brendan75uk 5 years ago
Dieting is really a form of controlled starvation, temporarily adopted to achieve a weight goal by denying either adequate calories, or a particular group of nutrients. It aims to produce rapid results and relies heavily on willpower to resist cravings.
A lifestyle change has different objectives, works differently, and isn't temporary.
Urgelt 5 years ago
thanks for those tips
cupidkilla 5 years ago
Most welcome, CK.
Urgelt 5 years ago
Urgelt, I am new to you tube and have watched several of your videos. I am really interested in your healthy eating series. It is going to take me awhile to watch all of them and in the meantime i am wondering about the prescription medications and vitamins behind you. Aren't they in contradiction with your healthy eating habits? Just wondering....
libarnes 5 years ago
I do eat healthy foods.
I'm also fighting a chronic Lyme infection that my doctors have been unable to cure.
I use prescription drugs and certain supplements, guided by my doctors, to mitigate symptoms and to ensure that no nutritional base is left uncovered.
Urgelt 5 years ago
Obesity is more about self esteem and less about food. Obesity is as a result of an eating disorder that is related to self esteem and a loss of sense of self. People who have gained weight as a result of this may lose weight for a time but will gain it back if they do not address the other issues! Thanks for the lifestyle info! Say more about exercise that can help cravings and the body in general!
guardrailgirl 5 years ago
I've not addressed exercise in my videos, but it's been well covered in various videos in the Gut to Cut group on YouTube, where I'm a member.
Moderate exercise does tend to reduce appetite, and it elevates serotonin in the brain, which improves a person's sense of well-being, calms anxiety, improves sleep, and has many other benefits.
Urgelt 5 years ago
so you did not know that some people ideal weight could differ and some has obese ideal wieght (sadly, and an ideal weight is your best health/energy/weight ratio) and some people has some hormones that are over or underproduced causing exessive binges and craves, but there is a lot of people like you described, just that i think its like saying that you are shallow while i only saw one post and know not much of you. it would be mean :P)
Slayer7666COF 4 years ago
I'm skeptical of the notion that an obese weight could be an "ideal" weight. Mind you, I've seen a few cases where obese people were active and in good health. But in general it's an undesireable stress on health, and it will have negative long-term effects. And I do think that careful nutrition can help enormously, even in the presence of genetic and hormonal obstacles.
Urgelt 4 years ago
It makes sense, just as the general outline of the South Beach Diet (hmmmm) does.
tk137 5 years ago
Gawd, this is scary. In this video you and I agree, so much. Unfortunately, we both use variations of the word "calorie." I have found that there is incredible opposition to the idea of portioning calories by most people. This ubiquitous rejection must have something to do with the innate design of our human brains and, thus, our perception.
Cubit100 5 years ago
Counting calories is tough, admittedly. Thank you for your thoughtful comment. :-)
Urgelt 5 years ago
In my opinion, it is better to replace supplements with real foods. calorie counting is a form of dieting, but for people that dont know how to control portion size it can be helpful.
raybloke 5 years ago
Supplements are a choice that may help some people in some circumstances, but yes, I agree it's best to obtain what you need from good food.
I don't think it's intuitively easy for everyone to eat exactly what they need and stop. Though I've met some folks who had the knack. It's kind of like having perfect pitch. If you don't have it, you need a reference point.
Thanks for commenting. :-)
Urgelt 5 years ago
Very wise words. If you were to approach 100 Americans on the street, and ask them to define diet, I would guess the majority would offer the definition of a verb rather than a noun. Proper nutrition and healthy living demand a commitment to a life long practice.
tbillz 5 years ago
Amen, tbillz. Thanks for your comment.
Urgelt 5 years ago
The point about returning to the earlier weight is true. My mother indoctrinated me into the first Atkins low-carb diet when I was about 12, and I dropped 38 pounds very fast-- but then I shot back up pretty fast.
Consider this: Atkins was on his own "improved" diet when he went comatose and died. Was he too weak to recover because of the diet? You be the judge.
kirneh001 5 years ago
Thank you for your thoughtful comment, Henrik.
Of course we don't have sufficient data to judge what really killed Atkins. But I sure do agree that the Atkins diet ignores a *lot* of research showing the importance of carbs to health.
Urgelt 5 years ago
hey man thank u!:)
i absolutelyy agree what u were saying, i have the same thoughts since a feew weeks, nice for me to see im on the right road ^^
Justmedoinnothin 5 years ago
Sounds like you're starting to think critically. Good!
I laugh at myself, because encouraging people to be skeptical and think critically is going to rebound. I'll be challenged a lot more by critical thinkers; they're an ornery lot! :P
Urgelt 5 years ago
Great stuff. Thanks.
coloradoz06 5 years ago
Most welcome, Coloradoz06. Holler if you've got questions or just feel like talking. :-)
Urgelt 5 years ago
Hello Urgelt,
Thank you for this video! I'm going to make an appointment with my doctor to find out what my carloric intake should be. I want to get from 190 down to 165. I will have to find the right foods to eat, as well as the correct amount.
HealthyStealthy 5 years ago
HS, good for you! My next vid will be about cravings and how to manage them - coming soon!
Urgelt 5 years ago
Your info on saturated fat was right on BTW. Thanks for getting the word out.
R0773N 5 years ago
So you dieted, basically. When you watch what you eat, you diet. But I do agree about lifestyle changes. I just don't think it's that simple.
R0773N 5 years ago
There's nothing simple about a lifestyle change, and if I've seemed to portray it as simple, I apologize.
Dieting is the adoption of a temporary change in your eating habits. When you end the temporary change, it's over. What I'm doing is not temporary, so it's not a diet.
Urgelt 5 years ago
I have made a choice to cut out refined carbohydrates, yes I am in a restricted-carbohydrate "lifestyle" (not diet). This has been proven to be just as healthy as any vegetarian diet.
R0773N 5 years ago
No argument from me. I've tried to avoid telling people in too much detail what to eat. There are a lot of valid strategies. Good on you!
Urgelt 5 years ago
Thank you.
R0773N 5 years ago
This time around I've been using this approach instead of just eating less I try to eat right to avoid the desire to binge.
altebanger 5 years ago
Welcome, altebanger. Yep, that's it in a nutshell. My own dieting was a miserable failure. Sure glad there's something that works, even if it's a tad slow.
Urgelt 5 years ago
I myself don't go along with the whole fad diet thing... I guess when I use the term diet, I mean change in food habbits... because that is what it has to be in order to work.
SDSUMarcus01 5 years ago
Albeit its still enjoyable...
PrinceZeris 5 years ago
I'm glad you do. A lot of folks still try to diet though, and it's hurting them. This had to be said.
Urgelt 5 years ago
This is mainly material I already knew...
PrinceZeris 5 years ago
I think your approach to these subjects is totally awesome. What are all the bottles to your left? They look like supplements and prescriptions, and I'm curious. My roomie was craving chocolate one day but opted for a ricecake, and after eating a whole bag of those, she ended up eating chocolate anyways! I'm all about figuring out what it is I'm craving and trying to fulfill that.
angabel 5 years ago
Thanks so much for your kind words!
Yes, I keep my supplements and prescriptions on a table to the side of my computer chair. Silly me, most would put them in the kitchen. :-)
Urgelt 5 years ago
I totally agree. I also changed my eating habits about 2 years ago, lost 20 pounds and still manage to keep the weight. Sometimes it's hard, but the ONLY thing that really works. The body needs to get energy to burn calories, so dieting doesn't work!
muserine 5 years ago
I should hire you to be my publicist! :-)
Urgelt 5 years ago