The Never Ending List of Nutrition Truths Influencers Don’t Want You to Know
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Hello Abby thanks for sharing these helpful nutrition truths!
Hey, a lot of great points made here!
I just want to say something about the bacon: I don’t think people are saying that eating bacon is like smoking cigarettes.
Bacon, like other processed meats, has been linked to increase risk for cancer. The main health problems with bacon are the high content of saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium.
While eating a single piece of bacon probably want cause any health issues, it is still not considered a health food (I know you didn’t say that, but many of the carnivore and keto quacks believe this).
It is just frustrating when we look at “food” purely through a nutritional standpoint, even if a single slice of bacon isn’t a cancer causer, it is made from pigs who are highly intelligent and sentient beings who don’t want to or deserve to die and suffer unnecessarily.
This is a dietician’s channel so ofc it’s going to be diet focused and not necessarily “animal suffering”. That is more suited to a vegan channel. I’ve seen a lot of vegans claim that all meat is going to give you cancer, even the fresh unprocessed kind. I’ve seen that one vegan doccie on Netflix (I think it’s called what the health?) That had footage of cigarettes cooking in the pan for dramatic effect, telling people that them giving their kids meat is like serving them cancer on a plate. That is intellectually dishonest garbage. I immediately stopped watching. That is cult behavior.
The truth is that there are lots of carcinogens we come into contact with on a daily basis, even the sun. It’s about mitigating those risk factors.
Health and ethics are two different spheres and should really remain so. Unprocessed (ideally lean) meat can be healthful.
@Lily
I understand that this is a dietitian’s channel, and if you noticed I mentioned that it is frustrating that we separate ethics from nutrition, because nutrition isn’t all that matters. I wasn’t critiquing her for not doing her “job”, I was just mention that this statues que is unfortunate.
Yes it was What the Health, which has a lot of problems with it, but I don’t see anyone today saying that eggs are like smoking cigarettes today..
You said that ethics should be separated from nutrition, and I disagree with that. When there are things that we do that inherently harm others we should always be aware of that and strive to not harm anyone. When people go to the army they don’t just learn how to fight and protect themselves, they also learn how to minimize casualties. We do this from the understanding that one action has an effect on another. Even if one action gains us benefit, we should seek to not unbenefit others though that action.
@T Gethics are subjective, though, while nutrition is measurable and objective. Especially on the topic of a type of food that a minority of people need (still a lot of people in the grand scheme, but I can agree that most people technically don’t need meat products, even if it can make their lives easier). I think these things are separated for a reason. Or rather, they’re separated while talking about nutrition, but not when talking about ethics, because part of the ethical argument has to reference nutrition. But not vice versa.
How about there’s no such thing as “good” and “bad” foods? You can eat anything as long as you’re aware as to how much you’re consuming.
So I can only eat fries and be healthy?
sorry but im classifying ultra processed food like fruit pebbles pancake syrup and hot cheetos as bad foods
@Keeper Nod Not what I said, but no, you cannot ONLY eat fries and still be healthy. You need a balanced diet. You can eat fries though as long as it’s in moderation.
@honey bun And that’s your prerogative. Doesn’t actually make them bad foods though.
@oliviaocasain9980 it depends on what someone considers “bad”. I do consider them bad food, but importantly I don’t consider people who eat those foods to be bad. That’s where things go awry. The fatphobes see an overweight person eating a bit of cereal and they froth at the mouth. But if a skinny person eats that same cereal, they are lauded for “knowing their limits”.
I want to know what they orange hit 😂
Oh good the anti nutrient in vegetables thing… I could hear the howl of anguish by the thousands of carnivores in the distance 😂
Seriously have these people never heard of something called…COOKING your veggies? 🙃
Anti-nutrients are a genuine concern if you’re deficient in something. For example: iron. I am someone who is almost always severely anemic and the only thing that works for me is eating some liver at an isolated time away from other potentially iron-blocking foods.
Most iron-rich vegetables have:
Phytates
Oxalates
Calcium
Polyphenols
I’ve heard plenty of times that vitamin c solves this. But for someone who struggles, it really doesn’t. No amount of orange juice and bell peppers with my veggies raises my iron enough to get up to proper levels.
So when the doctor told me to “eat plenty of leafy greens” because of their “high iron content”, I had no idea I was sabotaging myself. A chocolate bar is better at giving you iron than spinach is.
I can’t digest vegetables. I have to stick to a extremely strict diet because my nervous system and immune system are so screwed up. They only things I can eat are eggs and meat, and I know I’m not the only person who unfortunately deal with these random health issues that pop up out of nowhere :/ that’s why a lot of fad or health diets dive so deeply into the quality of nutrients in food and that includes anti-nutrients too.
@Wrangle Wolfeexactlyy
Tf is antinutrients????
Certain compounds found in plants, e.g phytic acid.
Not something you should be concerned about.
They are basically compounds found in certain plant foods, many of them are reduced or eliminated when cooking. The consumption of these compounds is not something the average person should ever care about. The benefits of many of the foods high in phytic acid and oxalates outnumber the cons by a lot.
Love the debunks, but there are supplements including Cats Claw that have been shown to increase immune activity and there is some evidence they can make autoimmune conditions worse! But yes, in general totally agree!
Idk if it’s proven, but elderberry really improved my poor immune system
Almost all your nutrition truths are going to make most of them mad 😂 Good Facts Though! Thanks For Sharing 👍
love this series of shorts, always learning!
Fasting for me really helps my weight in control. Im so bad at overeating😂
Yea I don’t think fasting is terrible, like in your case. I was fasting during lockdown cause I was binge eating and though I’m normally active, laying around and working remote while still eating huge amounts was not helping my waistline lol
The fasted exercise myth got me for a while. I weight train early AM and would go fasted. I would either be so hungry when I got home or thinking about food the whole time I was working out. Now I have a little snack before I go and feel so much better – also found that it gives me a bit of an energy boost for those early hours! I am a breakfast person for sure and am always hungry when I wake up, so the morning fasting rhetoric made me feel like I was doing something wrong by listening to my hunger cues. Frustrated at how long that took me to realize! 😅
I will never get the not eating veggies 💀
Love your videos. My love for real science and health care thanks you😊
Can you do a video on the 4 food additives that California banned? The law won’t go into affect for 3 more years. But now I’m concerned about eating those foods in the meantime. Trying to balance healthy choices and thoughtful consumer choices with not creating a place of fear around food that could send me down another bad trail
I’ve always hated when people said not to eat after 8pm bc the body ‘stops digesting and stores everything as fat’
Like where did you hear that from? That’s such bs 😂 our bodies doesn’t have an off switch after 8pm. Our body is digesting 24/7
Didn’t hear about anti nutrients until today.
Love the debunking of not eating after 8 pm. All that does for me is ensures I’m hungry and need a snack around 11 (because I have dinner around 5 or 6 and don’t need to eat for awhile). If I skip the snack at 11, I can’t fall asleep, and end up eating peanut butter toast at 12:30 and feeling tired and grumpy the next day.
Peanut butter just hits different after midnight.
Same ate dinner early was so hungry I ate 2 cheese toast at 1 in the morning bcz I couldn’t sleep. Better to eat at at around 6 thirty and have a small bed time snack like dry fruits and nuts or banan yoghurt
I’m a huge fan of fasted cardio and think it is great for some people. I personally get nauseous very easily and when I stopped eating breakfast and fasting until after my workouts it made a big difference. I think it’s something everyone should try to see if they are one of those people or not
Yes, it really depends! It works great for some people and totally wreaks havoc on the energy levels of others (I’m one of those, I need food to work out, otherwise I’ll faint halfway through).
Now i want some nachos 😂
Okay but drop the recipe for those chips??