 Question is from Bear Bowen. What are some causes of the obesity epidemic? Oh, man, did you see my post today? I like to pull and trigger people no way Which one was it? It was on that the study that you say do you shared in the intro today? The the obesity of the I actually I don't think I shared it No, you talked about on the intro to the talk about. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Did we talk about the show? I don't think so. I don't know. No, I don't think we did. Oh, we didn't no No, no, no, no, we talked about it. I was gonna bring it up Before oh, so there's I mean we should talk about it right now Then there's a you know, somebody shared in our form a really great article. I shared it in my stories earlier the last week and It's showing that by 2030 That more than 50% of our country will be considered obese if we just keep on stays on the trend Which I mean, it's we're not slowing down We're doesn't look like any of the trends take the trends technically speeding up So it looks like that that's the direction that we're going And so I on my pole. I did a poll saying that do you think that the Healthy at every size is is positively affecting this or negatively affecting it said negative You know, there's a lot of people that there's 4% of my following that disagreed Well, so I you know what's happening. We offended somebody on that last topic by the way I'm sure we did. Yeah, I pissed somebody off when I went on when I went on my rant about how terrible I think it is it's not the cause of the obesity epidemic by the way Oh, no, no, I think what ends up happening is when you get enough people That that are in a category then they start to it's they start to demand being treated a particular way or whatever You know, like when airlines get sued and you know, they're changing the size of chairs now They're saying changing this like extra-larges aren't the same size as they used to be extra-larges now Or to normalize it on all because it becomes because it's normal when half of everybody is obese, right? It is a normal thing, right? True. Well, okay So I have there's been a lot of theories as to what is caused now, of course if we boil it down We really break it down. We're not burning as many calories and we're eating more calories. That's a duh, right? But why what is exactly what exactly has happened to cause that so there's two things that though the lack of burning calories? Well, that's an easy one life has gotten much easier things have gotten automated You don't you know washing clothes now. We're not done by hand. We don't have to carry jugs of water everywhere Jobs are typically behind a desk now where they used to be very very physical So we're just daily life is just far more sedentary But I don't think that's the main cause of obesity. In fact when they do studies on that they find that The lack of calorie burn has a small Maybe a small part to blame of the obesity epidemic really the big chunk is how much more we eat Yeah, I think it's I think it's really the combination of the two of them, right though Because you're right like when you look at you it's far easier to Sit down and over consume 700 calories than it is to take a daily habit that's changed now by 700 calories, right? like even somebody who Let's say like a Carpenter versus a engineer at work all day long, you know The carpenter doing a physical activity and by the way his body starts to adapt to that after he's been in carpentry for after six They're not burning as many calories you think they're not they're not burning that many more calories More than the engineer who's healthier right exactly, but they're not burning that many calories So that's the reason why that study is true when you read that that you're right it but I think the combination of a sedentary lifestyle with The over consumption and how easy it is to consume calories is just the fucking recipe for disaster What you end up what you have is you know, and we'll start with America because we started the trend right when we talk about You know, you know Western Dietary practices that are contributing to number one America started it now. How did America start it? Why is it that way? Okay, so America? Became one of the wealthiest countries the fastest and we have we had some of the best markets in the world And what do markets do better than anything? Give people what they want they give people what they want So if people really value You know shoes then the markets can reproduce a shit ton of awesome shoes If people really value the way food tastes if that's what we value the most more than anything is I want food that tastes really good The market is going to create as that as much as possible The second thing that Americans or that people in general really values convenience We want tasty food that doesn't take a long time to make in fact I don't want to make it I want to buy it and I want to be able to eat it And so we have this this huge Flood of hyper palatable process foods that started to come into the market And so that's the main cause of obesity because that's what causes people to eat more food now We used to think it was sugar carbs fat. Oh, you know people are eating too much fat We got to make everything low fat and then what food manufacturers do they find a way to make food tasty without fat By adding more sugar. Oh, no, it's too much carbs cut the carbs out So then food manufacturers figure that out. No, that's okay now Let's make food with with fat or whatever the bottom line is super hyper palatable foods Encourage you to eat more. That's what they do They're designed to do that and they do it in such a way that it's almost I hate to use the word unfair But your body's natural ability to tell you to okay It's you've had enough food It gets a little hijacked and studies now show that people will eat about five to six hundred more calories a day When given access to hyper palatable processed food versus whole natural food, even when people aren't they're not counting macros or anything They're just going about their day. You'll eat five or six hundred more calories of Process food Then you will other food so when you look at the the rise of obesity in America and you slap on top of that a chart of hyper palatable processed food penetration in the market they match and Americans used to eat homemade dinners and those started to kind of fall out of favor more and more processed food homemade breakfast homemade lunch homemade dinners those start to fall out of favor more and more processed food as that started happening more and more obesity and It's just and every time another country adopts our You know these types of foods you look at Mexico for example their obesity Exploded over two decades. They went from having no obesity becoming one of the fattest I also I also think that having us having obese kids now is greatly contributing that I mean just a couple decades ago. That was rare. It was everywhere. It was rare to see a child Under the age of 10 or 12 that would be literally like obese where it's extremely common now and I think a lot of that has to do and you know to again kind of Debate the the movement point because you know, I was a kid who could get I ate a lot I ate shitty food and candy as a kid growing up and I got away with it as a kid because I was extremely active I was playing all the time like now they did all day all day. I was playing like I My parents got to settle me down like sit me down or bring me in the house Like I was not Sitting on a phone or on a computer or an iPad All day long and then also shuttling all that career I was eating slurpees and having candy and and eating desserts and I was doing a lot of that stuff as a kid But I was also digging holes and building forts and fucking playing tag and playing flag football like I mean all day long Yeah, to me it seems like We started out like we've solved all these problems for adults in their jobs like less You know laborious jobs that we had to do and like now we can now we can kind of sit in the con You know in the comfort of our own chairs and on on screens and you know now it's trickled into to play And you see this a lot with kids now where it's like, you know, lots of the entertainment The excitement is revolves around video games. It revolves around, you know, whatever the latest social media thing Is that they can interact with you know, and they're just not Outside being interactive like and using their body to do things as much and but there's another part to that Yes, you burn more calories because you're playing all day, but you're also too busy to eat So right it's a it's a yeah because when I was a kid if we were out all that long That's why the snacking that's why the study of showing that like oh when you look at it Just like how many calories more they're burning it doesn't really affect It's also affecting that you don't have time to sit in front and eat and sitting in front of a fucking a Screen being sucked into a video game and the pantry is right there Right, I mean much easier to sit there and suck on sodas and even like these like I my kids are in sports And like half the kids will come in their parents will give them all this junk food and shit to fuel Quote-unquote their Activity, you know and so it's like they're getting activity But now they're pumping them full of like cookies and all this bullshit before they even get started My mom used to have to chase my siblings around to make them eat They just have to chase them to eat because they didn't want to stop playing Yeah, that's how we were like you'd eat breakfast and then you'd be playing And then lunch you come in and eat whatever your mom made real come in just starving like ah And you'd eat it real fast and get the fuck out Yeah, well if you're on your computer or on an iPad all watching tv all day long Yeah, you're shoveling food while your food's right there Yeah, the food and you're mindlessly eating and then of course the again It's in a hundred percent. I place most of the blame on the hyper palatable food now this Now this makes the argument for why people need to be healthy because remember markets reflect what people want And when anytime we look at markets and we think oh my gosh, this is terrible. Why are we making these things? Why are we feeding ours because we're paying for if we if humans were truly healthy in the in the in the Fullest sense the decisions that we would make and the value that we would the values would have would push the market to make things that were Better for us. So if everybody valued real whole foods and if everybody Really understood the true value of food and and and wanted to be healthy and enjoyed eating certain healthy things Because they love themselves the market would go in that direction But the problem is people have a bad relationship with food Food is a way to make yourself feel better about your emotions or your anxieties You only value food for its taste ask somebody, you know next time you go out with your friends And you say hey, what do you guys want to eat for lunch? 100 percent of the decision is based off of what they it's going to taste the best None of it's going to be like oh, you know what I think I really need to eat some You know vegetables for my digestion or yeah, I'm feeling kind of low energy. It's always like oh, I don't feel like Mexican I feel like oh, you know, it's really good. Let's try eating. It's all based off of the taste So when you go to the grocery store all of the foods that were made and manufactured are all I mean All the money goes into making them as tasty and enjoyable to eat as possible Not inherently a bad thing, but if that's all you eat you're going to eat more Yeah, and that's 100 what caused and again when you look at countries that adopt this The more processed foods they start to eat the fatter fatter society gets and sicker they get Again, Mexico is a phenomenal example. It's like 20 30 years ago obesity was Rare in Mexico today. I believe Mexico is uh either mirroring America's obesity rate or might even have surpassed us Because they started to eat a doctor. I've heard this from a lot of immigrants coming in and culturally like getting into Like the way americans are eating with the product and it just like Like totally affects them like all of them get obese and I don't want I don't want to demonize processed food because by By no means does the day go by that. I don't have something that's processed. So I want to I want to make that clear But you're aware. Yeah, so I think it's just that but a bulk of my food still comes from whole foods What happened was we went and we we came up in a time where we're at one point We were mostly eating whole foods then processed foods came in and then it went from being Whole foods a little bit of processed foods whole foods than half processed foods Whole little bit of whole foods mostly processed to now all processed foods for a majority of people And that's where we went really wrong It's not that you can't have something because so much is processed our protein powders process that we talked about today That's processed, right? So there's so many things that are processed in processed foods allow food to be transferred and moved And allows them and it's fed a lot of people. There's a lot of value to it Uh, but I think you have to be aware. Yeah, you just gotta you just have to be aware of how much of it If it's making up a bulk of your day and a bulk of your You're eating it. It should be mostly conscious of it Right, it needs to be mostly whole foods and then you and then you use those processed foods I think the uh occasion when it makes the most sense It's one of the main reasons why I fear the demonization of meat that we're starting to see in a lot of these documentaries and stuff is because a lot of people aren't aren't going to go Vegan for the right reasons they're going to just avoid meat and if you look at the typical person's diet the typical american's diet It's mostly processed food But the very few things that are on process tend to be what chicken meat eggs milk So then they're going to be afraid of those things and now you've eliminated all their whole natural process now It's a hundred percent Process food if you look at europe for example europe's obesity rates are climbing right starting to match Hours but one country in western europe kind of fell behind with the obesity that was italy For a long time itaians had one of some of the lowest now It's not like that anymore the obesity is climbed quite quite high or starting to climb pretty high But they had low obesity rates compared to other countries Part of the reason for that is because itaians are they have a pride In homemade foods. They have a culture around it. So they resisted For a long time the processed food culture now. They didn't win Process food has won and obesity among itaians now is it's going through the roof including shift Children dees made its way, but I remember this is it's I remember there was a story I read a lot. This is maybe 15 years ago where a mcdonald's opened in a town in italy And the itaians protested it made it shut down Because they because they're so like no we love our homemade, you know food or whatever But actually protected them from obesity for for a little while now now they're they're climbing. It's a little terrible