Obesity and illness -- caused by the same thing

John McDougall MD explains why so many Americans are obese and sick. There's really only one reason (hint: it's the food, silly).

This is an excerpt from the documentary PROCESSED PEOPLE. To learn more and get a copy of the full 3 hours of fascinating material, go to http://www.ProcessedPeople.com

Category:

Education

Tags:

• health
• obesity
• john
• mcdougall
• vegan
• diet
• disease

[feelosodan]

good but a little short

[headveg]

True, but get the DVD and you can have 3 more hours... :-)

[mOOds999]

so simple and obvious and most people don't care - stupid fucks...

[Fitchpatrick99]

mOOds999....I always remember what my mother told us, "People who can not think of something intelligent to say use profanity". Why the profanity? All you did was show all of us who you are.

[lucasboden]

A starch based diet is not full of nutrients. Seeds, nuts, beans, greens are superior to pasta, rice, wheat, potatoes.

[elementz1986]

I wonder how he feels about nomadic Mongolian people whose diet is almost completely comprised of meat and dairy...they don't get heart disease and cancer at the rates we do either. Processed, industrial food, pesticides, sugar and sedentary life is 90% of the problem.

[pablobirdie]

@BachScholar I do not drink diet soda or snack foods, and yet I was overweight. I cut dairy and meat from my diet and now eat a plant based diet and am no longer overweight. Given that many of the calories from cheese, beef, pork and milk comes from fat, it's no surprise that people who lots of cheese are overweight. I'm sure there are people who eat meat and dairy who aren't fat; I guess they don't eat a lot of the stuff. What about high cholesterol?

[AFFIRMATIONS1]

THANKS

[Greensery]

I just have to say that things aren't so simple. I know vegans who look like "the kings" according to this. People come in different sizes no matter what their diet is. (eating junk makes it worse, though.) I'm a vegan myself and I'm not thin and gorgeous looking or anything. :D

[BachScholar]

@SandCmpbll (continued, part 3)...Sorry for driving this into the ground, but I need to make my point. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to conclude that the main cause of obesity over the last 40 years has been......(you will never believe this).....(oh Dr. McDougall if you just put two and two together).....the main cause of obesity is not meat and eggs, but in this order......

1. DIET SODA

2. SNACK FOODS

[BachScholar]

@SandCmpbll (continued)....Over the past 40 years the increase of meat consumption in the U.S. has paled in comparison to the increase in diet soda consumption. In fact, meat consumption has hardly gone up at all. Why is it that I eat more saturated fat than all the overweight people I know, yet they all seem to be addicted to diet soda? I know someone who lost over 100 pounds from simply quitting diet soda.

[BachScholar]

@SandCmpbll You are making a statistical error. Grouping bacon and meat with cookies, soft drinks, and junk food is the biggest error the low fat people make. I eat bacon, eggs, and real butter almost daily and I am not obese. Just take a look at my most recent video at the piano on my channel (Liszt Transcendental Etude). Since the one thing I do not consume is diet soda, this overwhelmingly suggests IT is the cause of obesity, and not bacon and eggs.