 Today we're going to critique a video called the myth of bad food Hey there njrew22.com here with a little bit of a I guess it's a low carb Keto carnivore video, but we're going to critique a video together. It's from a filmmaker Matt Devella. I believe that's his name Devella He's a pretty popular YouTube guy, and he's an exceptional filmmaker. I like his work a lot I wish I had the time and skills that he does And he's made a lot of interesting videos a lot about minimalism and all sorts of stuff and the guys on the younger side I believe he may be in his 20s. I think he's a millennial He looks like a really nice guy and and he tends to be very thoughtful in what he does so What I'm going to do today is I watched his video called the myth of bad food And he had a I guess a bodybuilder guy fitness deadlifting Competition they're talking about food and guilt and all this other stuff So we're going to go step by step through this eight minute video together, and I'm going to stop the video I may speed up his video In between points just to make it a little bit easier for us to watch But I'm going to stop the video and offer my commentary. I'm going to shrink myself down into the corner so we can So you can watch the video and I may bring myself back up when I have commentary and blur the screen out in the background And I'll reduce myself back down to small and play his video in between Sections of comment. So let's get started here with the myth of bad food Okay, when we talk about food, it's usually in absolutes. There's good food and bad food Spinach is good for you milk is bad for you quinoa is good for you Gluten is going to kill you in your sleep. Could it possibly be this simple? See, let me explain. Is it possible this simple? They're talking about like things that are popular things that aren't and I guess he's just randomly cherry picking things To but there are good foods and bad foods I just you need to know that or are we missing something when we talk about food as unhealthy as the American diet has become Presently 62% of adults are overweight or obese. Our relationship with dieting is just as unhealthy. Take for instance By the way that bar he ate bad high carb It's one survey by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that found that 75% of American women say that they Endure some unhealthy thoughts feelings or behaviors related to food or their bodies food can be a source of pleasure Yeah, that that women have a problem with that and that's not because it's food It's because of social images and so on and social media in particular There's a lot of false ideas going back and forth Joy and it can help bring people together By the way speaking of bringing together I've talked about how eating at restaurants does not have to be it's not like you killed a Bison out in the wilderness and you and your cavemen buddies are eating. It's totally different in 2019 or it can be a place of shame guilt and remorse And yes one donut leads to the next donut and it will eventually kill you because you can't break the donut habit Jordan Sy is a world record power lifter and strength coach today He trains entrepreneurs like Gary V and helps people create a better relationship with food I sat down with him to talk about how we can make progress to not only live healthier lives But to also enjoy food without guilt okay before he starts his interview you need to understand There's a huge difference between people who expend a whole lot of energy with lifting weights and and training It's a completely Completely different scenario because they have a lot more flexibility in terms of what they can eat But it's important that we say that even if they're eating their donuts and their sugar and they burn off all their Calories and and have incredible muscle mass that that just gives them like a hidden passport to be able to eat these things But they're still doing damage to their body internally and mentally just because they look good physically It does not mean they are healthy. Let's see what they have to say. I love to keep things simple Mm-hmm, and I would love to say that we could just create these two separate categories of good and bad food But would you say that that's just a complete over simplification of food? It's a massive oversimplification, and it's it's a marketing tactic. It's almost like when you let me explain it is a massive Simplification, but it's absolutely true. There is good food and bad food, and it there's no there's no arguing that Perhaps when you're like a high-intensity Lifter like this guy, maybe there isn't Physically appearing good food and bad food like when you're not lifting, but I'm telling you right now They're they're selling you the wrong idea here watch look on Instagram You have like the green checks and the red X's I work with a lot of people who struggle with food anxiety and with binge eating and First and foremost more people struggle with binge eating than they would like to admit by the way binge eating is caused Because you raise your blood sugar, and you can't stop eating. It's simple It's been proven and and there's no arguing that and one of the first things I like to say is if you struggle with binge eating if you struggle with food anxiety if You know going out to dinner with friends or family on Friday night is almost anxiety You're producing because you don't want to ruin all your progress The first thing I say is you're not alone because a lot of people struggle with it But very few people actually discuss it, right? You're not alone doesn't make it good FYI It shouldn't make you feel better that you're not alone and don't go out to eat. We've told people this in the past going out to eat with friends and family on a Friday night shouldn't be a Requirement don't go out to eat if it if you have a problem with it And by the way if you're low carb and keto or carnivore You won't want to eat I mean like restaurants don't have to be this part of your life and and the way they're talking about it as if it's a Given is a big mistake because you don't have to go to a restaurant From that point When we place a morality on food whether food is good or bad right or wrong You're setting yourself up for more food anxiety when you say ice cream is inherently bad When you say pizza is inherently bad when you go out to eat with your friends and family and there's ice cream or pizza You're gonna more likely to get anxiety about it. No, not true Yes, food is good and bad things that are available today in 2019 in mass like Bananas all year round from all over the world and other inflammatory foods like a like all these grains and and greens that people are eating That are actually causing pain in your body It's just it and like they're showing bread here and they're talking about guilt Again, you gotta remember these guys have a little bit of a passport to eating Bad that would normally be and it doesn't affect them personally or I mean physically But other people and they're they're basically making it okay to have your burger And they're gonna eat a burger later in the video you watch or a doughnut or a 50 gram of carb energy bar Bad and they can't just because they're in shape and eating it doesn't They're sending the wrong message and this is the disservice to many other people Yes, both are inherently bad the high in sugar and high in carbs period you shouldn't eat them You'll get anxiety about eating ice cream and pizza when you feel the stomach ache afterward It's there's no problem. You just have to get through The initial period of not wanting and then you're gonna realize over time as you eat your meat and your eggs and your cheese You're gonna realize I don't want that in my body I don't care how good it tastes on my tongue and in my mouth the after-effects I Don't want you you start seeing cake and pizza and cookies as poison. It's it's a fantastic level to reach by the way Because you think you're doing something bad But when we understand that our health isn't made up by one meal or one bite You know one no one got fat from having one doughnut Just like no one got skinny from having one salad no one lost all their progress by missing one workout No one got jacked and shredded by having one amazing workout Our health is dictated by it see what he's doing here by by using this simple comparison of all It's only one bad workout or one great workout. I think he's he's missing missing the point that short Working out it can be a long-term thing and missing a workout is not a big deal Unless you're in a competition or you have to make gains within a set period of time but the food slippery slope is absolutely Something that you're gonna realize later on in life is not a good thing because slipping sucks Because if you're doing low-carb and you're on a nice roll And you're just feeling great Eating a white bread Italian hoagie can set you back not just a week in in making gains If you're at that initial stage where you're making really good downward progress But it also can make you feel pain for several days three days at least you're gonna feel sick you might have bowel issues He's putting too much. He's making it too. He's oversimplifying these big solutions Everything we do over time and the more we can realize that one meal isn't good or bad one meal isn't right or wrong The less anxiety we're gonna have with food, which is really what my main goal is to have a healthier relationship with food See there. I have to say he's a wrong again. He's basically letting people make an excuse. Oh, it was only one It was only one doughnut or only one pizza pie eight before the first quarter was over in the stupid game. I was watching He's giving people an easy out to saying all this do it next week I'll recover it. You don't want to make these mistakes with doughnuts and crappy processed foods So great We can eat whatever we want whenever we want and there will be no negative outcomes for our health because there are no good Or bad foods except not exactly changing how we look and talk about food doesn't mean that we're magically changing the nutritional components So what does it mean? And this is one of the main arguments that people will use when they go against what I'm saying like oh really? So you're just saying like you should have pop tarts and pizza and and candy for every meal I'm like no just because there's no such thing as a good or bad food does not mean I'm saying go eat whatever you want Like that's not what I'm saying So what he's saying is basically two separate things He's he's saying something that sounds like a good sound bite for this interview and then he's saying it's not good See, I really don't like this what I'm saying is don't place a morality on it Don't shame yourself if you decide to at your son's birthday party have a slice of pizza. It's okay By the way, there they go. They're throwing an emotional hook in there. Oh your son's birthday Having a slice of pizza on your set your son's birthday party doesn't change the experience for your son Okay, he doesn't give a crap what you eat You don't have some sort of bonding like you're like putting your you know blood brothers and everybody has to shed blood to No, you do not have to do what everybody else is doing at a birthday party eating ice cream cake and pizza and cookies See that he's trying to say oh at every good event and you're gonna find yourself at happy events every week Oh, it was a Fran's birthday over at the office. They had cake. Oh, it's my son's He won last-place trophy in little league. We got to have pizza, you know It's a bad precedent to set you don't want to do it Don't feel guilt about what you eat at somebody else's party even if it is your own son But that doesn't mean I'm saying eat pizza for every meal like generally speaking To be a healthy individual and maintain a healthier body weight and have a healthier mindset like yeah Minimally processed lots of fruits lots of vegetables lean proteins that should make up the majority of your diet. He's wrong again I mean, he's sort of right, but fruits and vegetables generally You're gonna be really Making slow progress on that and his idea of lean proteins may only really work when you're like a Higher-end bodybuilder, but you still need you need fat most of the time Don't eat like an asshole when you do eat like an asshole Don't treat yourself like an asshole. I think a lot of times, too Like we need to think about what our goals are from the beginning because it's very easy to just follow trend I hate this. This is an attitude a lot of the younger people are having where they have almost have this Moral superiority over oh, yeah, I can have it. Yeah. Yeah, it's like an ego thing where they refuse to admit They're wrong and 80 20 sucks if you're gonna do anything make it 99.9 and 0.01 you really don't want to mess up because as you go on a Nice streak of feeling great and no pains. No sickness. No anxiety. No skin problems And you eat that horrible thing You're just not gonna want to do it anymore So his 80 20 rule just you're gonna be in the in the swamp of suck For a long time until you figure out what I'm telling you right now But we're so Individual and it's like do you want to gain strength or do you want to focus on your body? Do you want to get lean right? What is it? And I think if we focus on those things first then we can figure out maybe what's the best kind of lifestyle to live What kind of food we should be eating? Again, like they're he didn't really say anything right there what food you should be eating it's Proven and it's it's a guaranteed fact that if you go carnivore or it lived the very least of a very low Carb diet or man. I'm not big fan. I put keto in the in the description just to hopefully attract some people who Who type keto as a keyword it really should be carnivore slash low carb He really said nothing there's really only honest to God one way to have the best diet and that is carnivore The health and fitness community can be a confusing place to navigate It's overloaded with opinions pseudo science and proclaimed experts while there's a wealth of helpful knowledge It can be difficult to discern what's best for you By the way those smoothies he eats with tons of veg Your that's like the worst thing never drink one of these veggie smoothies and with with 9,000 different ingredients in it It's a calorie packed nightmare and the truth is it really depends where you're at on your own fitness journey One of my favorite examples of this For one person progress might be saying no to the donut because it's gonna help them stay on track It's gonna help them eat fewer calories and that's gonna help them lose weight Which is what their goal is for another person that FYI the calories don't matter. I've told people this before It's the carbohydrate content that counts You know I can eat five pounds of meat in a day or I can eat a pound of meat a day My weight stays the same or goes down Sometimes your body just wants protein when you've been particularly active you'll naturally feel hungry or if you've been A little bit more sedentary your your appetite isn't there. That's the beauty of a carnivore diet Both progress might be saying yes to the donut because now they can eat it without anxiety Because I think a lot of people only look at progress from a physical perspective like fat loss By the way, I see a lot of people that eat donuts without anxiety. They're like 900 pounds and they don't give a crap I suppose when they're a meeting their maker they might say I guess the donuts weren't worth it Muscle gain but mental progress is huge mental health is massively important and it's seriously under discussed especially in fitness and for me if someone can have a donut Without leading to a further binge and or have a donut without Shaming themselves and feeling guilty and just driving themselves in the ground feeling like lesser person like they failed That's also huge progress. It's probably by the way if you eat a donut you failed You made no progress you ate crap crap food that that satiated this pleasure center in your body And you got nothing from it you got 30 seconds of pleasure and you and you there's no it's not worth it It's not worth it probably better right to make the decision consciously Then to slip up and make mistakes and then or see them as mistakes if we say okay I'm gonna go out and have a burger tonight Then we can feel better about that experience a lot of people they'll go get the burger I don't understand these younger people. They just they're they're they're over complicating They think they're like all religiously or psych you know, they're like little mini psychiatrists They've crafted a way to become at ease when they know deep inside. It's wrong They're did there this is just fluff to be okay with being wrong because they're weak and they can't handle the the importance of not eating these stupid bread Sandwiches and and 9,000 carb smoothies. They have no idea. They'll wake up one day Err, but every bite they're like I shouldn't be doing this I shouldn't be doing this and they feel terrible about it and they can't even enjoy it The funny thing is they're they're telling themselves that they feel terrible, but they keep eating each bite Why because it's addictive the blood sugar raising bread in that burgers just it's it turns off their Lodger you can't control it at that point when you're eating that delicious burger and you're feeling guilty about it and you keep Eating then what what's the point of feeling guilty? You just don't eat the crap and then when they're done. They feel so bad They're like why screwed everything up so screw it and then they get the ice cream and they have a whole box of cinnamon toast crunch and then they have it's like What if you just enjoyed the burger? You'll still get the ice cream in a cinnamon toast crunch if you enjoyed the burger. That's the problem. See this guy is he's Word salad. He is a word salad What if you just enjoyed the burger? When you first get in there comes this slow motion It's almost like a Burger King commercial or some sort of a burger joint commercial where they zoom in they show the pleasure Watch their eyes the pleasure of eating that burger You know how many people went out and ate a burger with no guilt after this and now they're like 10 pounds heavier Forget about it Healthy eating it can be very easy to place large red X's on some foods and green check marks on the others FYI why they see you could tell they're from a younger generation because they're using this stupid simple caveman hybroglyphics of check marks and X's from Instagram stop reading Instagram But this might not be the best long-term approach Especially if your goal isn't to just shed excess fat But to instead rediscover a love of food without shame or guilt as long as we're giving our body the nutrients It needs most of the time by the way a nice juicy steak or some nice Rare a ground beef has more vitamins and minerals than a giant bowl of these quinoa salads at these dopes eat and then they eat too much fiber and it Rushes the nutrients to their body too fast So they don't even get the benefit of having those nutrients as Jordan said focusing on eating less processed foods more fruits more We agree with less process But you got to be careful because the fruits and vegetables out there are also not meant to be eaten in mass quantities by human beings It's just industrialized nation that we live in now We can get fruit and vegetables from all over the world And that's why we're having a problem with overeating things that really weren't Made by mother nature to be overeat for vegetables and more lean protein We can indulge ourselves every once in a while. We can eat guilt-free while on vacation We can kick our feet up and have a few beers after all life can be pretty damn boring if we don't break our own rules from time to time By the way, you can have a very unboring life and you that doesn't have to involve complex food rituals and Dishes and all sorts of Selfies of taking the pictures of your food. It does not have to be that way But these people have it programmed in their mind that that's what life is all about having all these these Interwoven food moments our burgers good for you Well, they taste pretty good and for this meal. That's good enough for me Okay, that that was the end of the mats video and I He I like he I think he's a very good filmmaker, but his Script and the ideas behind this particular video were very very wrong and misleading and I think a lot of people are gonna take it hook line and sinker and say oh I can be I can be okay, and they're gonna realize or maybe never realize that a year or two or five later They're gonna say man. I didn't make any change that guy Matt was wrong He better revise his video and in his calm his concepts There are good and bad foods the best foods are our meat animal-based products and No processed foods at all and no heavy high glycemic fruits and vegetables Fruit in general like we said in the past that a blueberry here and there But there's really no need for just drink your water eat your meat, and you will be fine So that's it. I hope you enjoy my critique and if you have any problems with what I said That's fine. I I don't mind you can disagree with me But I think he's wrong and he has a lot of experience to go you don't just experience life going on Instagram and Working out a little and feeling good some people are genetically predisposed for having a pretty decent body and eating Whatever they want, but they run into big problems later on in life Internally, so that's it. Thanks for watching. Please subscribe hit the bell all that stuff