What all of the naysayers here need to do is research BOTH SIDES of this issue. It's easy to throw out "It can't be true because..." without substantiation. If you have proof - put it in writing. I'd love to see it.
This doctor is wrong on his history. His mummy explanation suggests that only the rich and regal Egyptians were mummified. This is not the case. Once word of the process got out, the public demanded to be mummified and eventually almost everyone was mummified, including animals. Almost every western disease has been found in mummies, NOT limited to kings, but rather everyday folk who would have NOT eaten as many animal products as the regals did.
@jaredcisme But such a large powerful society must have been dependent on animal products/ especially being a north African country..its harder to support yourself with fruit and veg the further you get from the tropics
@JimITheBanDit Yes I agree..I was illustrating his fallacy. His claim is the rich Egyptians ate animals, got diseases, and died. Then we found their mummies. This is a revisionist view of history. There are plenty of mummies of average workers (who obviously would not have eaten as "high on the hog" as the kings) riddled with diseases, including cancer.
@JimITheBanDit Yes I agree..I was illustrating his fallacy. His claim is the rich Egyptians ate animals, got diseases, and died. Then we found their mummies. This is a revisionist view of history. There are plenty of mummies of average workers (who obviously would not have eaten as "high on the hog" as the kings) riddled with diseases, including cancer.
@Gieszkanne Dr. McDougall says at 25:30 "They are mummies. Who do you think got to be a mummy? Y'know, the pharaohs and the kings and the queens." This means he attributes those who ate a regal diet to be unhealthy. Mummies have been found with almost every degenerative disease known today in ALL types of mummies. He is attempting to revise history to fit his agenda.
It was at 24:58. His agenda is to help and cure people with the right diet. And he is obviously and fortunately successful with it. Its just historical every where the same in all cultures. There where no factory farming and the farmers where slaves or serfs. The few animals they breed where for the kings and landlords. They hardly ate meat.
@Gieszkanne I agree he wants to help people and he believes lectures like this are apart of that, but you cannot deny his agenda is veganism. What I pointed out is his misrepresentation of mummies being "only the king and queen pharaohs." This is again, not true. According to this logic, the serf/slave Egyptians would not have eaten a western diet (lots of animal products) and been therefore healthy? Nope, western disease has been found in all socioeconomic background mummified Egyptians.
And for the mummies. The most important point he made is that the mummies with western diseases had a western diet. You lost the confirming point just because you want him proofed wrong. Maybe he revealed not quite exact but you still dont know if the mummies on which he refers where kings etc.
@Gieszkanne Yes I agree, the western diet is the cause of most degenerative disease. I also agree with a lot of his thoughts on starch. When eaten as part of a whole food diet, starch has much more nutrient density than a loaf of white bread or cheeze whiz.
You could live by eating starchy foods but definitely this is not the optimum and this also is not part of the human nature as this doctor tries to convince us. "When humans can freely eat starchy grains, roots, tubers, and legumes such as wheat, potatoes, and lentils in their raw state to satiation and proclaim the experience a gourmet treat, then both you and I might accede that we are starch eaters". and about the vitamins in the starchy foods he mentioned - what happen when cook? ;)
Come on Dr., you say starch based diets are good because Asians aren't fat. Put those same Asians on ANYTHING based diet and keep their calories the same as they were while eating rice and they'll weigh the same. This isn't to say they'll be healthy.
@PrimalRhythm He says that we should get enough during the summer to last the winter, and recommends getting a week or two away in the sunshine in winter.
weelll i disagree about corn, thats a hidden allergen. Grains are a no no, starch or no starch.
But I wanted to say that I have candida overgrowth an hypoglycemia, and while grains and sugars massively feed my candida and give me yeast infections and mouth infections, and sugar highs etc, for some reason starchy things (Beans, sweet potatoes) do not spike my blood sugar and do not feed the candida. Does not rid it, candida still feeds on it, but very slowly and stable.
@raaaaaarr Eliminate fat from you diet completely, no nuts, no avocado, no fat beans.. eat potatoes, pumpkin, yams ect.. and or fruits... you will experience a change I`m sure.. watch this video to learn more.. /watch?v=rMjcXQyiSQw
I have been on a starch base diet as detailed by Dr. Mcdougall. The first 2 week my chest pain disappeared by week 4 I had lost 14 pounds and i felt great. My cholestrol dropped and so did my blood pressure. Everything he said was true for me, I had doubts as well. After starting it my life changed. I do on occasion eat meat (shrimp) maybe twice a month but that's it. If anyone has doubt try it for 12 days and see i did.
Fats have more calories per gram than carbohydrates, but it also requires the body to expend more energy to process. Carbohydrates require less energy to process, which is why it's more fattening (because of excess). If someone ate a high-fat, low-carb. diet, the body will end up having less excess from carbohydrates, and use more energy to process fats. It is entirely possible to lose fat while eating carbohydrates. If you don't believe this, check out "Mark Haub" and "Chris Voigt".
Dr. Fuhrman looks younger than Dr. McDougall because he is almost six years younger (as of November 2011) than Dr. McDougall. Dr. Fuhrman is almost 58 while Dr. McDougall is around 64. Also, Dr. Fuhrman's diet has more nutrients and anti-oxidants per calorie than Dr. McDougall's.
By the way, Dr. Fuhrman was a professional athelete for years (figure skating, I think). Dr. McDougall has just been a practicing doctor all this time. Their bodies and aging process were bound to be a little different. I will say that I would MUCH rather look like McDougall when I'm that age. Fuhrman looks emaciated.
I read the report by Stanislaw Kazimierz Kon and Aniela Klein about the potato diet, and in it it said that:
"The diet consisted of potatoes, supplemented with BUTTER or PORK FAT with the addition of a few fruits (apples and pears); tea or black coffee and sugar were also occasionally taken. The amount of FAT consumed was not accurately estimated, it varied from 120-150 g. daily"
So the diet did have animal products because of the butter and pork fat. Just saying. I am a vegetarian.
Veganism isn't really McDougall's purpose. Starch-centered diets are what he teaches. And the Kon diet only added the butter later, because the subjects of the experiment were so active that they were losing too much weight. Most people who come to Dr. McDougall for help are not worried about losing too much weight ;-)
It seems that every major civilization always had some type of combination of grains and legumes. In Mexico, it was maize and black beans. In Europe, it was wheat (or barley, rye, oats) and peas. In India, it was rice and lentils. In China and Japan, it was rice and soya beans (fermented). And it also seemed that despite the starches and carbohydrates in grains and legumes, it is only during the past few decades that people started developing "grain and legume" disease like obesity.
@cheesewedges Retinol, Cholecalciferol, DHA, EPA, Vitamin B12, Creatine, Taurine, Carnitine, Heme Iron. The body can produce only a few of these, but at very small amounts.
Any sane person knows that the only way to obtain all nutrients healthily is through meat eating. If you tried that only with plants, you are going to be deficient in minerals, vitamins, mess up your omega 3-6 ratio, and end up with medical problems due to an excess of carbohydrate consumption. If you tried to limit carbohydrates while on a plant-only diet, you would end up with too little energy, and nutritional deficiencies.
the amount of self contradiction in this video is staggering. and if he's so concerned about the ocean and the environment like he claims, why is he procreating and having kids and grandchildren? the immediate threat to the environment is human overpopulation.
The eskimos (Inuit) are small because they've adapted to their environment by means of an anthropological principle known as Allen's rule (look it up). And they are very successful in surviving a very harsh environment, which takes cunning ingenuity. Conquering large empires and waging war shouldn't be ones standard of success. This guy makes so many broad generalizations about people that it's near offensive.
...eskimos(Inuit) also have to eat the stomach contents of most of the large game animals they bring down, and eat raw meat because you can gain vitamin C...because you have to get vitamins somewhere. plus living to 30 doesn't sound very successful to most people, have you made it past 30?
"Why is it that everyone who lives on a starch based diet is thin"
That's not true. America, believe it or not, currently has a starch based diet...in the past 25 years we've cut back on fat consumption and carb consumption has skyrocketed. Problem is, we get a lot of our carbs from sugar and we don't limit portion sizes as well as the Asians. This guy needs to stop making broad generalizations.
@elementz1986 That's not true. Most Americans eat a high fat/protein meat based diet, and a lot of the carbs they're eating come not from healthy fruits and vegetables, but from refined sugars (soft drinks, sugary cereals, white flour, etc.). That's not a starch based diet by any stretch.
@elementz1986 That's not true. Most Americans eat a high fat/protein meat based diet, and a lot of the carbs they're eating come not from healthy fruits and vegetables, but from refined sugars (soft drinks, sugary cereals, white flour, etc). That's not a starch based diet by any stretch.
@elementz1986 That's not true. Most Americans eat a high fat/protein meat based diet, and a lot of the carbs they're eating come not from healthy fruits and vegetables, but from refined sugars; soft drinks, sugary cereals, white flour, etc. That's not a starch based diet by any stretch.
Damn it. I have just watched another team of experts who say this: "Starch is just sugar by another name. Starchy diets are what turned us into a nation of diabetics"
No wonder we get confused. My Mum who was not a large person, always said "Everything in moderation" I think I'll go with that advise because I am not large either at 66 and I am on no medication either..
Thank you for share this video. But I wonder because we can not digest Grains without cooking. But no animal in the world cook his "naturally" Food for can better digest it?!?!?! So if we need to cook the starch Food like potatoes and rice, how it can be our perfect naturally human food?!?!
Maybe i misunderstand something in this video . If i do please sorry. I am german and my english is not very well :-)
@RDLprivat You are right - the best food is fruit. But we evolved and learned to cook grains and live in places where you don't have fruit all days of the year. Fruit is best, but grains are great.
I have eaten nothing but porridge, brown rice, beans, potatoes, etc. (McDougall diet) and my digestion was terrible...stinky gas, abdominal pains, etc. On all meat/fat I feel wonderful and have perfect digestion. Everybody's different.
@luna57 You're eating the wrong kind of beans. Don't eat beans that are toxic in their raw state (Kidney, black, pinto, etc.). Instead try lentils, split peas, and garbanzos. The potatoes and rice shouldn't cause gas, but certain beans will. Also, try not to too many foods into a single meal. Give that a try and see if you notice a difference.
@luna57 When a person goes vegetarian, it is at least 2-4 months before their systems are cleaned out. You can expect a 'different' digestion system. BUT, nothing beyond tolerable. You will have increased gas from the toxic organisms dying off in your gut. Choice-change and live without chronic illness, or stay the same, live with future chronic disease and be my patient someday, hey, I have a new car to pay for!!
@luna57 Everyone's body is different, but not that different. Most likely, the abdominal gas, pains and digestion trouble was due to beans. The beans that you ate were most likely UNfermented. I get a lot of smelly gas when I eat soy beans (tofu) that are unfermented, but not when they are fermented (natto or tempeh). Beans need to be fermented before they can be digested, so when you eat unfermented beans, the fermentation happens inside which produces putrid gas, and causes pains.
This is not science this is psudo-science. I have skipped Carbs for a month and I never felt better and lost weight, yeah living on carb is the humans natural diet and the earth is flat as well?
I notice Dr McDougall is whizzing and clearing his throat a lot during his presentation here and in the last few videos in the past year. He looks sick here.
He must be under a lot of stress from working so hard about his health books, conferences, fighting dairy/milk industry against misrepresentation "Milk Does Body Good", etc... Dr McDougall you are truly an inspiration to many people and specially to young people.
Ummm... do a little evolutionary research, please. It's irrefutable, we evolved BECAUSE we ate meat AND vegetables. Grains and wheat from the Neolithic are the real poison.
I apologize, if you believe this tripe, there's no amount of evidence that will convince you otherwise. Enjoy your starch!
The simple E V O L U T I O N A R Y TRUTH is that the amount of energy needed to procure animal foods would not have been met by the SOLE consumption of animal foods. Meat and vegetables ...... To be certain, early Homo Habilis and Homo Erectus did NOT reach maximum level by simply eating things that scurried on the ground or brought to surrender wooly mammoth. WRONG. Animal foods were adjunct to tubers and nuts, etc. Once we learned HOW, we PLANTED food. Okay ?
@delafoo Click above under the video to display the info about it you will see a link to the Expo and a link to purchase a DVD with all 13 hours and all speakers at the Expo.
That's not what I heard. I've listened to ppl who worked on potato farms and they say the chemicals get LOADED onto the growings.
Good point tho, media coverage on bacterial contaminations seems very slanted towards low-coverage meat industry, high coverage plants. Then comes the excuse to starve people by banning community gardens.
Irish survived off potatoes while the english landlords instigated the so-called "famine" or potato blight.
I think that the American obesity crisis has a lot less to do with meat, and more to do with the extreme ubiquity of sugar (mostly fructose). Throw in that most americans would rather wait five minutes for a parking space 20 feet from the entrance than drive 50 feet further and walk it....voila- a nation of fat asses.
And let us not forget that McDougall's Irish ancestors who lived on potatoes ate them almost invariably with a lot of delicious and pure Irish butter. There is hardly a world culture that doesn't mix their starches with animal fat in some form. I agree with a lot of what McDougall says, but his fat phobic attitude annoys me.
I am willing to bet that fat family at the restaurant eat just as much starch as the thin family. I am also willing to bet the thin family eats animal products such as fish and even beef. McDougall and the anti-fat fanatics assume the "western diet" is one of predominantly meat and dairy, but they fail to see that it is really a diet of a lot of soda and snack foods. I know someone who lost 100 pounds simply by quitting diet soda.
McDougall and all the anti-fat fanatics forget that the Asians and others who eat lots of starches almost always combine it with animal fat in some form or another. The Japanese mix rice with fish, the Chinese mix rice and noodles with basically anything that walks, and the Mexicans mix beans with lard and beef or pork. There is hardly a culture on the planet that is totally vegan. McDougall misses the large picture and confuses a starch-based diet with 100% low fat veganism.
You're certainly right about the need to distinguish "starch-based" from "starch-only". I wonder if it really gets us anywhere, though. I mean, a vegan diet can be high in fat as well. Soybeans, for example, are one of the fattiest foods on the planet. Even plain potatoes are 10% protein and 1% fat. So the question is not, did indigenous cultures mix their starch with animal fat - of course they did. The question is, were they necessarily healthier as a result.
@honeybear64 They were probably much healthier than most junk food eaters today and perhaps even healthier than the extreme low fat eaters today. McDougall mistakenly assumes an indigenous starch-based diet is synonymous with low fat and vegan. He and his crowd are so unrealistically fat phobic. That plate of potatoes and starchy vegetables needs a big blob of salted butter to make it appetizing. Also, many important nutrients are fat soluble only.
@BachScholar The "fat soluble" argument has been thoroughly debunked. The 5-10% fat present in a plant-based diet free of added oils is plenty of fat to properly process all needed nutrients.
By the way, I'm sitting here right now having a dinner of baked potato wedges dipped in a bit of ketchup or BBQ sauce, and absolutely NO "big blob" of butter or any other oil or fat. and I'm perfectly happy.
It is obvious that human beings, adaptable as we are, are able to survive on a remarkably wide variety of diets. But that still fails the address the question of which diet is optimal. The tradtional Okinawans, for example, who ate what is probably closer to a vegan diet than any other culture in history, had a much higher life expectancy than the traditional Inuit, who ate primarily meat. But put people of either ethnicity on the standard Western diet, and the health of both goes downhill.
@honeybear64 What is "optimum"? There's a well-known Dr. from Poland who has healed many fat and sick people with a diet of 70% saturated fat. It's called the "optimal diet". He and other alternative researches and doctors claim humans were meant to eat about 50-70% fat, mostly saturated and from animals. This is, by the way, how much fat mother's milk contains. Why isn't McDougall complaining about babies consuming too much saturated animal fat and not eating enough starch?
@BachScholar A "well-known" doctor, whom you could not be troubled to actually name. And since when are the nutritional requirements of a growing infant the same as those of somebody who is full-grown?
Finally, are YOU eating a diet of 50-70% saturated animal fat? Somehow I doubt it.
@BachScholar What the hell are you babbling ( writing ) about ??!! " Doctor in Poland ..... 70 - 70 % calories from fat ...... " What sort-of primitive, purely anecdotal clap-trap is this ? Names, PLEASE. Research, PLEASE. As far as the percentage of aclories from FAT in mother's milk : INFANTS' GLANDS AND MEMBRANES, THE WHOLE SYSTEM, ARE GRWOING AT A FASTER RATE THAN THEY WILL GROW AT ANY OTHER TIME IN THEIR LIVES. You, sir, will not be growing that rapidly at age 20, 30, 40 and on.
Eskimos? Maybe brain size isn't all it's cracked up to be. Alaskan Eskimos have higher rates of fatty-plaque lined arteries than other Americans, possibly because they smoke more and are increasing other unhealthy behaviors. An observational population study found that 60% of adult Eskimos smoke at least three times more than other US populations. Researchers said heart protection that should come with Eskimos’ high fish diet may be negated by smoking.
BY the way, it has been proven that eskimos, eating mainly seals and fish (for older generations - new generations have health problems with the introduction of Western diet), have the largest brains among different human populations; on another hand people closer to the equator have smallest brains. I am sure eskimos would just die in lack of vit D, if they would not eat meat, cause the sun is not strong enough in summer to make vit D on the skin.
There is no dietary need for starch. Your body is capable of making glucose from protein for the few tissues that do not have enough mitochondria to burn fatty acids or ketones for fuel. You are better off eating nutrient-dense food and few starchy foods, even whole foods, meet that criteria.
@danaseilhan "No dietary need for starch?" What?! So what are you suggesting - getting by on protein alone? As it is the vast majority of us in the developed world eat far too much protein. Too much and the kidneys can't process it all.
@danaseilhan Making glucose from protein is very inefficient. Hi protein diets can cause osteoporosis and kidney damage. You ever hear of a marathon runner that "protein loads" before a race? NOPE
@MrChiangching - You would be surprised. Many of the top elite runners will eat some form or protein for their pre-race morning meal. Many seem to be on a ZONE type diet keeping a balanced protein-carb-fat ratio. Less elite runners are on a high carb diet of the 80s.
Dr. McDougall uses the wrong word. In his video he mentions mostly complex carbohydrates (whole corn, barley, natural red potatoes, legumes, buckwheat, brown rice and so on) which is (together with vegetables and fruits) a very good diet, beause they come together with their natural fibre and minerals and are not processed down to white powder.
But the word starch is interpreted by most people as bread, pasta, pizza and so on. Empty white powder.
Well spotted. Dr Fuhrman and Dr McDougall are the two best known doctors around who advocate a vegetarian diet. The big difference is (I think) that Dr Fuhrman advocates far less starchy carbs. They both defend their positions in a Q&A session a few years ago, which was filmed and put on You Tube. Be warned though - the exchange got a little testy!
This is dangereous nonsense!!! Industrial carbohydrates as in modern rice, corn, potatoes etcetera is an overdose that will cause diseases like diabetes.
All the fibre is removed, and the carbohydrate intake is far above any reasonable amount.
Salad, vegetable and a little amount of fruit is the right diet.
@101011001 You have to be getting your calories in and veggies and salads aren't calorie dense, fruits are however and don't give me this 'too much sugar' bullshit, every cell in the human body runs on sugar. Also don't give me the 'hybridized' bullshit because every single plant on the planet is a hybrid, it's a natural process.
I don't know where You got Your qualification from.
Too much sugar is not 'bullshit', but the main cause (to be correct: too much low quality carbohydrates) of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular problems.
I did not mention hybrids, I said that todays rice, wheat, corn has nothing to do with the natural forms, which come with fibre, minerals and are slowly digested.
So the blood sugar rises slowly, but with todays processed food blood sugar explodes. Stop telling dangereous nonsense !!
Where is the dangerous nonsense?! This man has helped thousands of people do away with their type 2 diabetes, heart disease, obesity and even various forms of cancer. It sounds like you are suggesting a life without carbohydrates completely - exactly how long could anyone last on that regime?!
Respected international studies with tens of thousands of probands have proven that reduction of 'cheap' carbohydrates (white bread, pasta, pizza, fructose, sugar) has dramatic effect on the rates of obesity, diabetes and heart problems.
Seems to me that a diet based on cooked starches is not that much more 'natural' than a diet based on cooked meat. What is 'natural' is raw food, mainly fruit. I do like the taste and warmth of cooked food, though.
I would say the Atkins diet is as far removed from how we are supposed to eat as you can possibly get. A fraudulent doctor managed to convince so many people to eat that way because it DOES result in weight loss. The problem is, what results in weight loss does not necessarily equate to what is healthy. Most of the time, especially in America, the two don't equate AT ALL.
@FM897 Hi! I agree that Atkins is almost exactly the opposite of the way we are designed to eat. (Dr. Atkins did help bring attention to the deleterious effects of refined carbohydrates - I mean, there is a universe of difference between a grain of rice and a few granules of refined sugar, though the dietetics world is often blind to this.) At the same time, I think that calling someone "fraudulent" does not open doors and make room for discussion... perhaps he was well-intentioned.
@meeshlabelle Okay maybe fraudulent wasn't the right word. But even forgetting about the carbohydrate issue for a second, leading people to believe that eating as much fatty meat and dairy as they want is benign - that is definitely NOT looking out for their best interest. ANY doctor knows that that isn't healthy.
@FM897 Well, I think he may have been misled by faulty evidence... We know more now than they knew back then. I do feel that blaming will get us nowhere... anyway, those are my thoughts. The rise of the (related) "paleo diet" mentality concerns me more. That myth is really ensnaring a lot of people. This video really helps blow that out of the water. :) My hope is that we would confront the lies with truth... and let God (or the Universe or time, whatever) deal with the "liars."
@FM897 But kudos, for sure, on getting to the heart of so many of our problems - "what results in weight loss does not necessarily equate to what is healthy."
@FM897 What do you think humans evolved to eat prior to agriculture? I would assume fruits, veggies and nuts. Carbs are most necessary after exercise, and can come from fruits as well. Carbohydrates are a common source of energy in living organisms; however, no carbohydrate is an essential nutrient in humans. It is not unhealthy to avoid carbs, in fact carbs are not necessary building blocks of other molecules, and the body can obtain all its energy from protein and fats.
But see, how do you know that the information being presented isn't being spun in order to help the starch businesses? It's still about making money, how do you that this information is genuine and isn't about making starch companies mroe money by telling people to buy and eat their products more?
Here's an idea; Spend a day or 2 eating nothing but animal derived foods and see how rotten your digestive system is. Then allow nothing but starchy carbs (eg porridge, brown rice, beans, potatoes, pearled barley etc) and vegetables with just a little fat allowed. Go for a brisk walk. Then observe your digestive system. You will see that starch and veg is humanity's natural fuel.
At least you're getting the spinach - good for you! And you now know of this Dr McDougall lecture if you decide you want to lose weight or defend yourself against disease. Best wishes.
@watcher9999999999999 I have eaten on LCHF diet and feel better than ever, vegetarian diet will make you weak and sick. These guys get probably huge ammount of money from monsanto to spread this bullshit!
@Nefus1988 Monsanto = GMO foods. They believe we need to tamper with nature to feed our growing population. 80% of the food (plant food) we produce goes to feed livestock. Doubt it.
@questionsleadtotruth I'm sorry, but I've never heard of the starch industry. Hell, I don't think there's a fruit and vegetables industry either. Everyone knows you need to eat plant foods to be healthy. Everyone has been duped by the meat and dairy industry into thinking that we need to eat animals to be healthy, when in fact the opposite is true.
i'm on the "i can't believe this is cheese" diet - you eat nothing but rice. all jokes aside, John McDougall is absolutely right. Starches are made for human to eat. Not animals. Not cows' milk. Starches.
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ACLogikel 1 week ago
Misguided info people.
RORYKJAMES 2 weeks ago
I wish this Dr had said something about GMO foods. It looks to me like he works for Monsanto pushing their GMO foods.
dixiepassion 3 weeks ago
What all of the naysayers here need to do is research BOTH SIDES of this issue. It's easy to throw out "It can't be true because..." without substantiation. If you have proof - put it in writing. I'd love to see it.
frelnc 3 weeks ago
glutamate receptor mouth
cmorera 3 weeks ago
This doctor is wrong on his history. His mummy explanation suggests that only the rich and regal Egyptians were mummified. This is not the case. Once word of the process got out, the public demanded to be mummified and eventually almost everyone was mummified, including animals. Almost every western disease has been found in mummies, NOT limited to kings, but rather everyday folk who would have NOT eaten as many animal products as the regals did.
jaredcisme 3 weeks ago
@jaredcisme But such a large powerful society must have been dependent on animal products/ especially being a north African country..its harder to support yourself with fruit and veg the further you get from the tropics
JimITheBanDit 3 weeks ago
@JimITheBanDit Yes I agree..I was illustrating his fallacy. His claim is the rich Egyptians ate animals, got diseases, and died. Then we found their mummies. This is a revisionist view of history. There are plenty of mummies of average workers (who obviously would not have eaten as "high on the hog" as the kings) riddled with diseases, including cancer.
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@JimITheBanDit Yes I agree..I was illustrating his fallacy. His claim is the rich Egyptians ate animals, got diseases, and died. Then we found their mummies. This is a revisionist view of history. There are plenty of mummies of average workers (who obviously would not have eaten as "high on the hog" as the kings) riddled with diseases, including cancer.
jaredcisme 2 weeks ago
@jaredcisme
How do you know that the mummies he was talking about were not "high society"!
Gieszkanne 1 week ago
@Gieszkanne Dr. McDougall says at 25:30 "They are mummies. Who do you think got to be a mummy? Y'know, the pharaohs and the kings and the queens." This means he attributes those who ate a regal diet to be unhealthy. Mummies have been found with almost every degenerative disease known today in ALL types of mummies. He is attempting to revise history to fit his agenda.
jaredcisme 1 week ago
@jaredcisme
It was at 24:58. His agenda is to help and cure people with the right diet. And he is obviously and fortunately successful with it. Its just historical every where the same in all cultures. There where no factory farming and the farmers where slaves or serfs. The few animals they breed where for the kings and landlords. They hardly ate meat.
Gieszkanne 1 week ago
@Gieszkanne I agree he wants to help people and he believes lectures like this are apart of that, but you cannot deny his agenda is veganism. What I pointed out is his misrepresentation of mummies being "only the king and queen pharaohs." This is again, not true. According to this logic, the serf/slave Egyptians would not have eaten a western diet (lots of animal products) and been therefore healthy? Nope, western disease has been found in all socioeconomic background mummified Egyptians.
jaredcisme 1 week ago
@jaredcisme
And for the mummies. The most important point he made is that the mummies with western diseases had a western diet. You lost the confirming point just because you want him proofed wrong. Maybe he revealed not quite exact but you still dont know if the mummies on which he refers where kings etc.
Gieszkanne 1 week ago
@Gieszkanne Yes I agree, the western diet is the cause of most degenerative disease. I also agree with a lot of his thoughts on starch. When eaten as part of a whole food diet, starch has much more nutrient density than a loaf of white bread or cheeze whiz.
jaredcisme 1 week ago
You could live by eating starchy foods but definitely this is not the optimum and this also is not part of the human nature as this doctor tries to convince us. "When humans can freely eat starchy grains, roots, tubers, and legumes such as wheat, potatoes, and lentils in their raw state to satiation and proclaim the experience a gourmet treat, then both you and I might accede that we are starch eaters". and about the vitamins in the starchy foods he mentioned - what happen when cook? ;)
xitsox 4 weeks ago
Come on Dr., you say starch based diets are good because Asians aren't fat. Put those same Asians on ANYTHING based diet and keep their calories the same as they were while eating rice and they'll weigh the same. This isn't to say they'll be healthy.
Elite1987 1 month ago
@Elite1987
Have you seen the third and 4th generation of asian americans? They look exactly like the rest of us, fat and decrepit
xJustynLx 1 month ago 8
@PrimalRhythm Take Solarium..10 min.. but don`t get burned... just do it once a week or every other day until you get a little tan. :)
Mekelsior 1 month ago
Richard Dawkins' less pretentious American brother
JCarter3000 1 month ago
@PrimalRhythm He says that we should get enough during the summer to last the winter, and recommends getting a week or two away in the sunshine in winter.
brianv00 1 month ago
this guys voice sounds like ron paul
raaaaaarr 2 months ago
weelll i disagree about corn, thats a hidden allergen. Grains are a no no, starch or no starch.
But I wanted to say that I have candida overgrowth an hypoglycemia, and while grains and sugars massively feed my candida and give me yeast infections and mouth infections, and sugar highs etc, for some reason starchy things (Beans, sweet potatoes) do not spike my blood sugar and do not feed the candida. Does not rid it, candida still feeds on it, but very slowly and stable.
raaaaaarr 2 months ago
@raaaaaarr Eliminate fat from you diet completely, no nuts, no avocado, no fat beans.. eat potatoes, pumpkin, yams ect.. and or fruits... you will experience a change I`m sure.. watch this video to learn more.. /watch?v=rMjcXQyiSQw
Mekelsior 1 month ago
I have been on a starch base diet as detailed by Dr. Mcdougall. The first 2 week my chest pain disappeared by week 4 I had lost 14 pounds and i felt great. My cholestrol dropped and so did my blood pressure. Everything he said was true for me, I had doubts as well. After starting it my life changed. I do on occasion eat meat (shrimp) maybe twice a month but that's it. If anyone has doubt try it for 12 days and see i did.
phollow174 2 months ago
thankyou
georgesbackyardgym 2 months ago
The word "starch" sounds weird in my head now.
chatcatastrophique 2 months ago
im offensive and i find this fat
AZZABful 2 months ago 2
Fats have more calories per gram than carbohydrates, but it also requires the body to expend more energy to process. Carbohydrates require less energy to process, which is why it's more fattening (because of excess). If someone ate a high-fat, low-carb. diet, the body will end up having less excess from carbohydrates, and use more energy to process fats. It is entirely possible to lose fat while eating carbohydrates. If you don't believe this, check out "Mark Haub" and "Chris Voigt".
sabby123456789 3 months ago
Everyone's body is different, but not that different.
sabby123456789 3 months ago
Dr. Fuhrman looks younger than Dr. McDougall because he is almost six years younger (as of November 2011) than Dr. McDougall. Dr. Fuhrman is almost 58 while Dr. McDougall is around 64. Also, Dr. Fuhrman's diet has more nutrients and anti-oxidants per calorie than Dr. McDougall's.
sabby123456789 3 months ago
@sabby123456789
By the way, Dr. Fuhrman was a professional athelete for years (figure skating, I think). Dr. McDougall has just been a practicing doctor all this time. Their bodies and aging process were bound to be a little different. I will say that I would MUCH rather look like McDougall when I'm that age. Fuhrman looks emaciated.
Mentat1231 2 months ago
I read the report by Stanislaw Kazimierz Kon and Aniela Klein about the potato diet, and in it it said that:
"The diet consisted of potatoes, supplemented with BUTTER or PORK FAT with the addition of a few fruits (apples and pears); tea or black coffee and sugar were also occasionally taken. The amount of FAT consumed was not accurately estimated, it varied from 120-150 g. daily"
So the diet did have animal products because of the butter and pork fat. Just saying. I am a vegetarian.
sabby123456789 3 months ago
@sabby123456789
Veganism isn't really McDougall's purpose. Starch-centered diets are what he teaches. And the Kon diet only added the butter later, because the subjects of the experiment were so active that they were losing too much weight. Most people who come to Dr. McDougall for help are not worried about losing too much weight ;-)
Mentat1231 2 months ago
I love the "CHICKEN IS NOT STARCH" bit. :D
ladycalliereneegaspe 3 months ago
It seems that every major civilization always had some type of combination of grains and legumes. In Mexico, it was maize and black beans. In Europe, it was wheat (or barley, rye, oats) and peas. In India, it was rice and lentils. In China and Japan, it was rice and soya beans (fermented). And it also seemed that despite the starches and carbohydrates in grains and legumes, it is only during the past few decades that people started developing "grain and legume" disease like obesity.
sabby123456789 3 months ago
@cheesewedges Retinol, Cholecalciferol, DHA, EPA, Vitamin B12, Creatine, Taurine, Carnitine, Heme Iron. The body can produce only a few of these, but at very small amounts.
AntiVeganism 3 months ago
Dr John McDougall. It would be great if you put this video up on Netflix. That way Many people could watch this.
n6qqm 3 months ago
I can't believe people are still scared of carbs
DaveJales 3 months ago
Now I just want some potatoes.. immediately.
organicheart 3 months ago
I don't think "starch" is an offensive term. Starch rocks!
lovelygirl2141 3 months ago
Any sane person knows that the only way to obtain all nutrients healthily is through meat eating. If you tried that only with plants, you are going to be deficient in minerals, vitamins, mess up your omega 3-6 ratio, and end up with medical problems due to an excess of carbohydrate consumption. If you tried to limit carbohydrates while on a plant-only diet, you would end up with too little energy, and nutritional deficiencies.
AntiVeganism 3 months ago
the amount of self contradiction in this video is staggering. and if he's so concerned about the ocean and the environment like he claims, why is he procreating and having kids and grandchildren? the immediate threat to the environment is human overpopulation.
joy1ess 5 months ago
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joy1ess 5 months ago
The eskimos (Inuit) are small because they've adapted to their environment by means of an anthropological principle known as Allen's rule (look it up). And they are very successful in surviving a very harsh environment, which takes cunning ingenuity. Conquering large empires and waging war shouldn't be ones standard of success. This guy makes so many broad generalizations about people that it's near offensive.
elementz1986 5 months ago
@elementz1986
...eskimos(Inuit) also have to eat the stomach contents of most of the large game animals they bring down, and eat raw meat because you can gain vitamin C...because you have to get vitamins somewhere. plus living to 30 doesn't sound very successful to most people, have you made it past 30?
xanderbock 3 months ago
"Why is it that everyone who lives on a starch based diet is thin"
That's not true. America, believe it or not, currently has a starch based diet...in the past 25 years we've cut back on fat consumption and carb consumption has skyrocketed. Problem is, we get a lot of our carbs from sugar and we don't limit portion sizes as well as the Asians. This guy needs to stop making broad generalizations.
elementz1986 5 months ago
@elementz1986 That's not true. Most Americans eat a high fat/protein meat based diet, and a lot of the carbs they're eating come not from healthy fruits and vegetables, but from refined sugars (soft drinks, sugary cereals, white flour, etc.). That's not a starch based diet by any stretch.
1imesub 5 months ago
@elementz1986 That's not true. Most Americans eat a high fat/protein meat based diet, and a lot of the carbs they're eating come not from healthy fruits and vegetables, but from refined sugars (soft drinks, sugary cereals, white flour, etc). That's not a starch based diet by any stretch.
1imesub 5 months ago
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@elementz1986 That's not true. Most Americans eat a high fat/protein meat based diet, and a lot of the carbs they're eating come not from healthy fruits and vegetables, but from refined sugars; soft drinks, sugary cereals, white flour, etc. That's not a starch based diet by any stretch.
1imesub 5 months ago
@elementz1986
your a broad generalization.
xanderbock 3 months ago
@xanderbock
Compelling rebuttal.
elementz1986 3 months ago
You will not get diabetes from starchy vegetables like potatoes, rice or sweet fruit.
Check out some of Dr. Neil Barnard's lectures on diabetes.
1imesub 5 months ago
Damn it. I have just watched another team of experts who say this: "Starch is just sugar by another name. Starchy diets are what turned us into a nation of diabetics"
No wonder we get confused. My Mum who was not a large person, always said "Everything in moderation" I think I'll go with that advise because I am not large either at 66 and I am on no medication either..
johnmalcstan 6 months ago
I live in Thailand where rice is eaten all the time. enlarged spleens are the result.
johnmalcstan 6 months ago
I wonder if all that Dr5 John says will still be true once MONSANTO are finished splicing animal genes to veges.
johnmalcstan 6 months ago
Thank you for share this video. But I wonder because we can not digest Grains without cooking. But no animal in the world cook his "naturally" Food for can better digest it?!?!?! So if we need to cook the starch Food like potatoes and rice, how it can be our perfect naturally human food?!?!
Maybe i misunderstand something in this video . If i do please sorry. I am german and my english is not very well :-)
RDLprivat 7 months ago
@RDLprivat You are right - the best food is fruit. But we evolved and learned to cook grains and live in places where you don't have fruit all days of the year. Fruit is best, but grains are great.
Rad1ka1 3 months ago
This was a great lecture! I have been vegan for only a few months but this sealed the deal...again.
There are so many reasons to be vegan, not just the all powerful emotional response. I feel like transcending, how about you?
steveogurule 7 months ago
THANKS
AFFIRMATIONS1 7 months ago
I hate the meat and dairy industries...
1imesub 8 months ago 16
@watcher9999999999999
I have eaten nothing but porridge, brown rice, beans, potatoes, etc. (McDougall diet) and my digestion was terrible...stinky gas, abdominal pains, etc. On all meat/fat I feel wonderful and have perfect digestion. Everybody's different.
luna57 8 months ago
@luna57 You're eating the wrong kind of beans. Don't eat beans that are toxic in their raw state (Kidney, black, pinto, etc.). Instead try lentils, split peas, and garbanzos. The potatoes and rice shouldn't cause gas, but certain beans will. Also, try not to too many foods into a single meal. Give that a try and see if you notice a difference.
1imesub 8 months ago
@luna57 Try not to *mix* too many foods into a single meal.
1imesub 8 months ago
@luna57 When a person goes vegetarian, it is at least 2-4 months before their systems are cleaned out. You can expect a 'different' digestion system. BUT, nothing beyond tolerable. You will have increased gas from the toxic organisms dying off in your gut. Choice-change and live without chronic illness, or stay the same, live with future chronic disease and be my patient someday, hey, I have a new car to pay for!!
fineartmarcella 7 months ago
@luna57 Everyone's body is different, but not that different. Most likely, the abdominal gas, pains and digestion trouble was due to beans. The beans that you ate were most likely UNfermented. I get a lot of smelly gas when I eat soy beans (tofu) that are unfermented, but not when they are fermented (natto or tempeh). Beans need to be fermented before they can be digested, so when you eat unfermented beans, the fermentation happens inside which produces putrid gas, and causes pains.
sabby123456789 3 months ago
This is not science this is psudo-science. I have skipped Carbs for a month and I never felt better and lost weight, yeah living on carb is the humans natural diet and the earth is flat as well?
Nefus1988 9 months ago
I notice Dr McDougall is whizzing and clearing his throat a lot during his presentation here and in the last few videos in the past year. He looks sick here.
He must be under a lot of stress from working so hard about his health books, conferences, fighting dairy/milk industry against misrepresentation "Milk Does Body Good", etc... Dr McDougall you are truly an inspiration to many people and specially to young people.
talusan909 9 months ago
Thank you, Jeff and Sabrina!
ababsurdo1567 10 months ago
How come Dr Fuhrman looks healthy and Dr John McDougall doesn't?
lucasboden 10 months ago
@lucasboden I believe McDougall looks quite healthy considering he is above 60 years old, not sure how old he is but. =)
Mekelsior 10 months ago
@lucasboden Sixty something Dr. McDougall goes wind surfing.
huguenot67 9 months ago
@lucasboden a 60 year old guy who does windsurfing??? reallly?
PAU31090 8 months ago
"The more rice, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and beans you eat, the trimmer and healthier you will be"
Unless you are like me - allergic to rice, corn, potatoes, etc. in which case, this diet will kill you.
marcelleqb 11 months ago
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@marcelleqb And you would be in a tiny, tiny minority.
MrChiangching 11 months ago
Looks like TWO people had to stop-by for a burger on their way to the conference.
They apparently haven't HEARD A WORD THIS MAN HAS EVER SAID ...............
See you at the cardiac rehab, you two !
Oh, right ! I will NOT be seeing you there.
Ya' see, I actually HAVE heard what this man has said, so I WON'T be seeing you there. Raise you glass ( of fruit juice ! ) to LIFE !!!
Mr111810 1 year ago
Ummm... do a little evolutionary research, please. It's irrefutable, we evolved BECAUSE we ate meat AND vegetables. Grains and wheat from the Neolithic are the real poison.
I apologize, if you believe this tripe, there's no amount of evidence that will convince you otherwise. Enjoy your starch!
moksaman 1 year ago
@moksaman YOU ARE MISLED.
The simple E V O L U T I O N A R Y TRUTH is that the amount of energy needed to procure animal foods would not have been met by the SOLE consumption of animal foods. Meat and vegetables ...... To be certain, early Homo Habilis and Homo Erectus did NOT reach maximum level by simply eating things that scurried on the ground or brought to surrender wooly mammoth. WRONG. Animal foods were adjunct to tubers and nuts, etc. Once we learned HOW, we PLANTED food. Okay ?
Mr111810 1 year ago
MRWhiteFolksCakes 1 year ago
Ahh.... tempting me to get the 2010 Expo... I have 2003-2007. Never gets old, love the wealth of information you provide!
delafoo 1 year ago
What expo is this from???
delafoo 1 year ago
@delafoo Click above under the video to display the info about it you will see a link to the Expo and a link to purchase a DVD with all 13 hours and all speakers at the Expo.
headveg 1 year ago 4
That's not what I heard. I've listened to ppl who worked on potato farms and they say the chemicals get LOADED onto the growings.
Good point tho, media coverage on bacterial contaminations seems very slanted towards low-coverage meat industry, high coverage plants. Then comes the excuse to starve people by banning community gardens.
Irish survived off potatoes while the english landlords instigated the so-called "famine" or potato blight.
101101101777 1 year ago
I think that the American obesity crisis has a lot less to do with meat, and more to do with the extreme ubiquity of sugar (mostly fructose). Throw in that most americans would rather wait five minutes for a parking space 20 feet from the entrance than drive 50 feet further and walk it....voila- a nation of fat asses.
orgamikrikit 1 year ago
And let us not forget that McDougall's Irish ancestors who lived on potatoes ate them almost invariably with a lot of delicious and pure Irish butter. There is hardly a world culture that doesn't mix their starches with animal fat in some form. I agree with a lot of what McDougall says, but his fat phobic attitude annoys me.
BachScholar 1 year ago
I am willing to bet that fat family at the restaurant eat just as much starch as the thin family. I am also willing to bet the thin family eats animal products such as fish and even beef. McDougall and the anti-fat fanatics assume the "western diet" is one of predominantly meat and dairy, but they fail to see that it is really a diet of a lot of soda and snack foods. I know someone who lost 100 pounds simply by quitting diet soda.
BachScholar 1 year ago
McDougall and all the anti-fat fanatics forget that the Asians and others who eat lots of starches almost always combine it with animal fat in some form or another. The Japanese mix rice with fish, the Chinese mix rice and noodles with basically anything that walks, and the Mexicans mix beans with lard and beef or pork. There is hardly a culture on the planet that is totally vegan. McDougall misses the large picture and confuses a starch-based diet with 100% low fat veganism.
BachScholar 1 year ago
You're certainly right about the need to distinguish "starch-based" from "starch-only". I wonder if it really gets us anywhere, though. I mean, a vegan diet can be high in fat as well. Soybeans, for example, are one of the fattiest foods on the planet. Even plain potatoes are 10% protein and 1% fat. So the question is not, did indigenous cultures mix their starch with animal fat - of course they did. The question is, were they necessarily healthier as a result.
honeybear64 1 year ago
@honeybear64 They were probably much healthier than most junk food eaters today and perhaps even healthier than the extreme low fat eaters today. McDougall mistakenly assumes an indigenous starch-based diet is synonymous with low fat and vegan. He and his crowd are so unrealistically fat phobic. That plate of potatoes and starchy vegetables needs a big blob of salted butter to make it appetizing. Also, many important nutrients are fat soluble only.
BachScholar 1 year ago
@BachScholar The "fat soluble" argument has been thoroughly debunked. The 5-10% fat present in a plant-based diet free of added oils is plenty of fat to properly process all needed nutrients.
By the way, I'm sitting here right now having a dinner of baked potato wedges dipped in a bit of ketchup or BBQ sauce, and absolutely NO "big blob" of butter or any other oil or fat. and I'm perfectly happy.
progrocker69 1 year ago
It is obvious that human beings, adaptable as we are, are able to survive on a remarkably wide variety of diets. But that still fails the address the question of which diet is optimal. The tradtional Okinawans, for example, who ate what is probably closer to a vegan diet than any other culture in history, had a much higher life expectancy than the traditional Inuit, who ate primarily meat. But put people of either ethnicity on the standard Western diet, and the health of both goes downhill.
honeybear64 1 year ago
@honeybear64 What is "optimum"? There's a well-known Dr. from Poland who has healed many fat and sick people with a diet of 70% saturated fat. It's called the "optimal diet". He and other alternative researches and doctors claim humans were meant to eat about 50-70% fat, mostly saturated and from animals. This is, by the way, how much fat mother's milk contains. Why isn't McDougall complaining about babies consuming too much saturated animal fat and not eating enough starch?
BachScholar 1 year ago
@BachScholar A "well-known" doctor, whom you could not be troubled to actually name. And since when are the nutritional requirements of a growing infant the same as those of somebody who is full-grown?
Finally, are YOU eating a diet of 50-70% saturated animal fat? Somehow I doubt it.
progrocker69 1 year ago
@BachScholar What the hell are you babbling ( writing ) about ??!! " Doctor in Poland ..... 70 - 70 % calories from fat ...... " What sort-of primitive, purely anecdotal clap-trap is this ? Names, PLEASE. Research, PLEASE. As far as the percentage of aclories from FAT in mother's milk : INFANTS' GLANDS AND MEMBRANES, THE WHOLE SYSTEM, ARE GRWOING AT A FASTER RATE THAN THEY WILL GROW AT ANY OTHER TIME IN THEIR LIVES. You, sir, will not be growing that rapidly at age 20, 30, 40 and on.
Mr111810 1 year ago
Eskimos? Maybe brain size isn't all it's cracked up to be. Alaskan Eskimos have higher rates of fatty-plaque lined arteries than other Americans, possibly because they smoke more and are increasing other unhealthy behaviors. An observational population study found that 60% of adult Eskimos smoke at least three times more than other US populations. Researchers said heart protection that should come with Eskimos’ high fish diet may be negated by smoking.
I'll stick to being vegan and very healthy.
quicksilver3x3 1 year ago
BY the way, it has been proven that eskimos, eating mainly seals and fish (for older generations - new generations have health problems with the introduction of Western diet), have the largest brains among different human populations; on another hand people closer to the equator have smallest brains. I am sure eskimos would just die in lack of vit D, if they would not eat meat, cause the sun is not strong enough in summer to make vit D on the skin.
VZCopenhagen 1 year ago
potato...until they GMO it
jaba987 1 year ago 2
There is no dietary need for starch. Your body is capable of making glucose from protein for the few tissues that do not have enough mitochondria to burn fatty acids or ketones for fuel. You are better off eating nutrient-dense food and few starchy foods, even whole foods, meet that criteria.
danaseilhan 1 year ago
@danaseilhan "No dietary need for starch?" What?! So what are you suggesting - getting by on protein alone? As it is the vast majority of us in the developed world eat far too much protein. Too much and the kidneys can't process it all.
watcher9999999999999 1 year ago
@danaseilhan Making glucose from protein is very inefficient. Hi protein diets can cause osteoporosis and kidney damage. You ever hear of a marathon runner that "protein loads" before a race? NOPE
MrChiangching 11 months ago
@MrChiangching - You would be surprised. Many of the top elite runners will eat some form or protein for their pre-race morning meal. Many seem to be on a ZONE type diet keeping a balanced protein-carb-fat ratio. Less elite runners are on a high carb diet of the 80s.
lucasboden 10 months ago
@lucasboden Two words: Scott Jurek.
stephlovesthejobros 8 months ago
Dr. McDougall uses the wrong word. In his video he mentions mostly complex carbohydrates (whole corn, barley, natural red potatoes, legumes, buckwheat, brown rice and so on) which is (together with vegetables and fruits) a very good diet, beause they come together with their natural fibre and minerals and are not processed down to white powder.
But the word starch is interpreted by most people as bread, pasta, pizza and so on. Empty white powder.
He should use the right word to be understood.
maximilianUTU 1 year ago
@frugalbeauty
Well spotted. Dr Fuhrman and Dr McDougall are the two best known doctors around who advocate a vegetarian diet. The big difference is (I think) that Dr Fuhrman advocates far less starchy carbs. They both defend their positions in a Q&A session a few years ago, which was filmed and put on You Tube. Be warned though - the exchange got a little testy!
watcher9999999999999 1 year ago
This is dangereous nonsense!!! Industrial carbohydrates as in modern rice, corn, potatoes etcetera is an overdose that will cause diseases like diabetes.
All the fibre is removed, and the carbohydrate intake is far above any reasonable amount.
Salad, vegetable and a little amount of fruit is the right diet.
maximilianUTU 1 year ago
@maximilianUTU More like a lot of fruits and vegetables and salad on the side :b
101011001 1 year ago
@101011001 You have to be getting your calories in and veggies and salads aren't calorie dense, fruits are however and don't give me this 'too much sugar' bullshit, every cell in the human body runs on sugar. Also don't give me the 'hybridized' bullshit because every single plant on the planet is a hybrid, it's a natural process.
101011001 1 year ago
I don't know where You got Your qualification from.
Too much sugar is not 'bullshit', but the main cause (to be correct: too much low quality carbohydrates) of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular problems.
I did not mention hybrids, I said that todays rice, wheat, corn has nothing to do with the natural forms, which come with fibre, minerals and are slowly digested.
So the blood sugar rises slowly, but with todays processed food blood sugar explodes. Stop telling dangereous nonsense !!
maximilianUTU 1 year ago
@maximilianUTU
Where is the dangerous nonsense?! This man has helped thousands of people do away with their type 2 diabetes, heart disease, obesity and even various forms of cancer. It sounds like you are suggesting a life without carbohydrates completely - exactly how long could anyone last on that regime?!
watcher9999999999999 1 year ago
> do away with their type 2 diabetes, heart
> disease, obesity and even various forms
> of cancer
... and on a bald head bushy hair grows.
Is this proven by independent studies?
Respected international studies with tens of thousands of probands have proven that reduction of 'cheap' carbohydrates (white bread, pasta, pizza, fructose, sugar) has dramatic effect on the rates of obesity, diabetes and heart problems.
maximilianUTU 1 year ago
Thank you for this information!
capedchameleon 1 year ago
Seems to me that a diet based on cooked starches is not that much more 'natural' than a diet based on cooked meat. What is 'natural' is raw food, mainly fruit. I do like the taste and warmth of cooked food, though.
sums100 1 year ago
I was a victim of this insanity
MKawood 1 year ago
Vegan power!
101011001 1 year ago 2
I would say the Atkins diet is as far removed from how we are supposed to eat as you can possibly get. A fraudulent doctor managed to convince so many people to eat that way because it DOES result in weight loss. The problem is, what results in weight loss does not necessarily equate to what is healthy. Most of the time, especially in America, the two don't equate AT ALL.
FM897 1 year ago 16
@FM897 But most of the time, people would rather take extreme short cuts and embrace unhealthy fads than actually make a serious lifestyle change.
FM897 1 year ago
@FM897 Hi! I agree that Atkins is almost exactly the opposite of the way we are designed to eat. (Dr. Atkins did help bring attention to the deleterious effects of refined carbohydrates - I mean, there is a universe of difference between a grain of rice and a few granules of refined sugar, though the dietetics world is often blind to this.) At the same time, I think that calling someone "fraudulent" does not open doors and make room for discussion... perhaps he was well-intentioned.
meeshlabelle 1 year ago
@meeshlabelle Okay maybe fraudulent wasn't the right word. But even forgetting about the carbohydrate issue for a second, leading people to believe that eating as much fatty meat and dairy as they want is benign - that is definitely NOT looking out for their best interest. ANY doctor knows that that isn't healthy.
FM897 1 year ago
@FM897 Well, I think he may have been misled by faulty evidence... We know more now than they knew back then. I do feel that blaming will get us nowhere... anyway, those are my thoughts. The rise of the (related) "paleo diet" mentality concerns me more. That myth is really ensnaring a lot of people. This video really helps blow that out of the water. :) My hope is that we would confront the lies with truth... and let God (or the Universe or time, whatever) deal with the "liars."
meeshlabelle 1 year ago
@FM897 But kudos, for sure, on getting to the heart of so many of our problems - "what results in weight loss does not necessarily equate to what is healthy."
meeshlabelle 1 year ago
@FM897 In addition, his family tried to cover up his real cause of death. Yeah, Atkins fell on ice, but not because he slipped.
newgtguy 1 year ago
@FM897 I know! People are often so preoccupied with being thin that they neglect their health.
stephlovesthejobros 8 months ago
@FM897 What do you think humans evolved to eat prior to agriculture? I would assume fruits, veggies and nuts. Carbs are most necessary after exercise, and can come from fruits as well. Carbohydrates are a common source of energy in living organisms; however, no carbohydrate is an essential nutrient in humans. It is not unhealthy to avoid carbs, in fact carbs are not necessary building blocks of other molecules, and the body can obtain all its energy from protein and fats.
basch155 4 months ago
@FM897 The Atkins diet ruins your health!
FrozenMermaid666 4 months ago
Just headaches, dizziness, muscle weakness, cramps, halitosis, and constipation. A small price to pay to eat as much bacon as you want.
MrDarrylR 4 months ago
But see, how do you know that the information being presented isn't being spun in order to help the starch businesses? It's still about making money, how do you that this information is genuine and isn't about making starch companies mroe money by telling people to buy and eat their products more?
questionsleadtotruth 1 year ago
@questionsleadtotruth
Here's an idea; Spend a day or 2 eating nothing but animal derived foods and see how rotten your digestive system is. Then allow nothing but starchy carbs (eg porridge, brown rice, beans, potatoes, pearled barley etc) and vegetables with just a little fat allowed. Go for a brisk walk. Then observe your digestive system. You will see that starch and veg is humanity's natural fuel.
watcher9999999999999 1 year ago 32
@watcher9999999999999
I feel much happier when I eat mostly meat than mostly starches. My mental clarity is highest when I eat a small steak + a ton of spinach
klined 1 year ago
@klined
At least you're getting the spinach - good for you! And you now know of this Dr McDougall lecture if you decide you want to lose weight or defend yourself against disease. Best wishes.
watcher9999999999999 1 year ago
@watcher9999999999999 I have eaten on LCHF diet and feel better than ever, vegetarian diet will make you weak and sick. These guys get probably huge ammount of money from monsanto to spread this bullshit!
Nefus1988 9 months ago
@Nefus1988 Monsanto = GMO foods. They believe we need to tamper with nature to feed our growing population. 80% of the food (plant food) we produce goes to feed livestock. Doubt it.
Also, did you watch the whole video?
stephlovesthejobros 8 months ago
@watcher9999999999999 Very true mate. Great comment!
ImaRiseToThaTop 5 months ago
@watcher9999999999999 two days is not enough time. try a month each
basch155 4 months ago
@questionsleadtotruth I'm sorry, but I've never heard of the starch industry. Hell, I don't think there's a fruit and vegetables industry either. Everyone knows you need to eat plant foods to be healthy. Everyone has been duped by the meat and dairy industry into thinking that we need to eat animals to be healthy, when in fact the opposite is true.
stephlovesthejobros 8 months ago
i'm on the "i can't believe this is cheese" diet - you eat nothing but rice. all jokes aside, John McDougall is absolutely right. Starches are made for human to eat. Not animals. Not cows' milk. Starches.
chadpopstar 1 year ago 4
@chadpopstar thru evolution man has evolved to become omnivores AND humanity is the only species on earth able to drink milk from other animals. :|
Whisper95Productions 1 year ago
@Whisper95Productions Ah, no. Man has not evolved; society has. Check out "the comparative anatomy of eating" on vegsource (dot) com.
stephlovesthejobros 8 months ago
so what about the 80/10/10 diet so many different diet lifestyles to choose from
eddief86 1 year ago 2
@eddief86 thank you, i was thinking that, having experience with it myself
ocergnairb 1 year ago
@eddief86 That is only designed for a raw food diet.
FM897 1 year ago