An epidemic is spreading across the entire planet. It’s known as obesity and it’s a “time bomb.” How can it be stopped? This documentary is an unconventional, surprising international investigation that will quash many prejudices around the issue and sort facts from fiction.
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Food addiction is a thing. ( sugar and carbohydrates, not pork chops). Insulin is a fat storage hormone. Eat protein and fat.
Globesity: How the USA got fat
In the early 1980s we were told to cut fat, then everyone started getting FAT because all the good fats were replaced with sugar.
I could be convinced that the weight problem in the US was caused by the acceptance of eating food stuff with our fingers rather than forks and spoons. Fatter straws contribute as well.
Here’s how I keep my weight low after meno at 68. I eat 1,300 aa day . Walk 4 miles. Yes it’s hard but it’s how I’ve always lived. I hate the way extra fat feels
eat groud food, do Keto, go to Gym. And you will get healthy as god as well
Are you responsible for what you put in your mouth?
The biggest thing here is to get going and start moving (one step at a time here and do not dwell on your diet, do not dwell on the scales). Change you habit of not moving into a habit of moving (be it physical labor or physical exercise). Be patient your situation will not change overnight, you did not get FAT overnight. With the passage of time your resting metabolism will increase and what you like to eat will change because these sugary starchy foods will begin to taste bad. Now this may take many years to accomplish, but you will also gain many years of life and the balance will come. Everyone wants instant solutions. Instant solutions will not stand the test of time, but a long-range plan will. Impatience will introduce failure, but patience will introduce success. 🥸👍👍👍👍👍👍
Ich finde wenn wir nicht die Verantwortung dafür übernehmen was wir essen und wie wir leben, wird es nicht klappen mit dem Abnehmen…. Ich spreche aus Erfahrung und weiß, wie schwer eine Umstellung ist. Ich habe schrittweise alte Gewohnheiten gegen bessere ersetzt. (Weniger Zucker, mehr Bewegung und nur noch 3 Hauptmahlzeiten und eine Obstmahlzeit am Tag. Das allein bringt schon viel.) Wenn das Leben irgendwann nur noch anstrengend ist und ich kaum noch etwas alleine machen kann, oh nein. Wir wollen doch alle ein erfülltes und gutes Leben haben. Liebe Grüße aus Berlin.🎉😊🎉
I was at a resort in Jamaica 2 months ago, I could not believe how fat people have become. wearing their small bikini's without any shame and telling the world that "fat is beautiful" ……How has society got here????
Eu faço comida fresca e somente eu como o restante vai de ultraprocessados
Now, most recipes have loads of canned soup, cheese, fatty meat, sour cream and additives. No wonder, we are fat!
Don't watch TV. All the slick advertisements on fast food make you hungry.
We care more about money than anything else in this world. We allow people to make money anyway they can. People need to understand the Governments and Corporations don't care about you. You must care about yourself. Never forget; obese people are humans too.
Perhaps we should think about how much good food would cost before we have so many children
Ich war als Kind und bis 40 schlank. Jetzt als Seniorin habe ich Übergewicht. Ich muss aber hier einiges anmerken! ALLE fettleibigen (ich auch!) essen zu fett, zu süß und zu viel. Niemand zwingt Mexikaner und Chilenen Limos zu trinken und Junk Food zu essen! Sie sollten sich nicht als Opfer selbst bemitleiden! Tut was! JEDER kann Gemüse und Kräuter selbst anbauen!! Bildet Gemeinschaften für Anbau und Kleintierzucht die man selbst schlachtet! Kocht eure traditionellen Speisen wieder! Macht euch unabhängig! Ich sehe täglich, was dicke Menschen einkaufen: Snacks, verpackte Lebensmittel, Süßigkeiten, Fertiggerichte! NIE haben sie Gemüse, Obst, Früchte, Joghurt und Frischfleisch oder Fisch im einkaufswagen!!!! Dafür Eis, Alkohol, Weißbrot und Limonaden! Jeder dicke kann es schaffen wieder abzunehmen und gesund zu werden! Grüße aus Österreich 🇦🇹
Closing 80% of fast-food restaurants and teaching schoolchildren about healthy food choices (by introducing culinary classes into the school curriculum) will largely solve the obesity problem. Governments are not doing their job of keeping people healthy.
Used to be an American thing to be obese with metabolic diseases. It's everywhere now. It shows how american food gets another country fat.
Lazy over indulging people with no self-discipline where exercise is simply not on their agenda
Then, when they have a deliberating illness in there fiftes they cite "why me"
It's not rocket science look in the mirror look in your fridge there lies the answer
Los edulcorantes artificiales tienen tantos efectos secundarios y está en casi todos los alimentos industrializados, con su leyenda más efectiva CERO CALORÍAS
Bravo, Latin America, for leading this fight. The makers of soft drinks and ultra processed foods really are like Big Tobacco, prioritizing their profits over the health and lives of consumers. If only Hell were a thing, there would be a special corner.
Food isn't like drugs or alcohol, you have to eat every day so its a lifelong relationship to food.
the food in the USA only poison and slowly killed its citizens. It’s impossible to lose weight if you are eating corn syrup, carrageenan, all kinds of addictive food enhancers. Most of the USA food is forbidden in the rest of the developed countries across the world! The FDA only caters to the evil food industry, never the US citizens
It's also portion sizes. Portion sizes have got too large.
If I didn't have access to fresh fruit and vegetables, I would buy and eat canned. It's still better than corn chips.
We don't need to eat less. We need to eat more, and different.
Nothing with a label. Eat real, fresh, whole food.
I dumped junk food some time ago, both fast food and supermarket stuff, I’m not obese any more. I don’t crave those foods anymore, I occasionally have a burger if I’m in a hurry (1 in the last 12 months), I even have a McDonalds near by now and I drive past it on a regular basis, but it doesn’t pull me in. I prefer to save up and go to my local sushi place for prawns and salmon, or to a local fish restaurant that doesn’t even have fries on the menu, or if I want to be naughty I’ll have a Chinese with all my favourites.
go carnivore
The Nutriscore label is disfunctional. We definitively need a more direct and explicit labelling system in Europe, like the one in Chile. Plus a taxation on sugar.
We live in a toxic food environment while being told we have to have the perfect odd. It’s insane.
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Was all done on purpose to weaken the human race, so we cannot fight the 1% psychopathic owners of all food sources on planet. Weak humans can be controlled. Governments? come on they could care less and must obey the 1% psychopaths and their corporate GMO, toxic, poison food and water other products. Gov must do as these same 1% psychopaths own the Rockefeller monatized western industrial medical complex system RX, unnecessary, expensive surguries, testing…
Sugar, sugar, sugar in everything….
Excellent documentary. Thank you. We can no longer have multinationals control our food system and environment. Our politicians failed years ago to curb the onset of this tsunami of nutrition-related globesity. If our politicians have largely failed to maximize healthy affordable food choices, the public needs to expect and demand more from them. We cannot afford to be complacent. Even if we do not care about our own personal health, let’s consider our children and their lives living with and suffering from chronic diseases for decades and, the final insult, their being bankrupted by health care costs. They do not need to suffer. It is the adults in the room who need to act. Professor-Elizabeth
If you are obese, it is not ALL your fault, but it is not all anyone else's fault, either. The world puts out a lot of bad choices for us to be exercised in. It is not just will power that is weak. Intellectually, we are a very stupid people, and stupid people cannot make good choices because they are too lazy to think hard enough to discover the facts that are, clearly, right before our eyes.
I could see that something was wrong. Both with me, and in society in general. But, life is full of distractions. Your twenties and thirties, when you are fighting and scraping and scrapping to get ahead in the world, is what I call The Cortisol Zone. The time when a constant, slow drip of cortisol is keeping you at a constant, steady state of stress, which makes taking the time to just think difficult.
Well, my daughter went to college. To study nutrition! I was so happy, because finally I was going to know how to stop being obese. Fad diets are clearly not good, but a good diet, and good lifestyle, are essential. I just did not know what that is, because, like many, many others, I did not see myself overeating. Because I wasn't. Until I gave up! Then I got fatter!
Then my wife almost died due to complications due to Type II DIE-a-betes. I typed into YouTube "How to cure diabetes" and went from there. The lifestyle changes that are needed to go from where we are to where we need to go are seriously dramatic. Catastrophic, to be honest. But, so is pain, suffering, and dying.
I am so glad I discovered the truth about food, and about how God designed humans to eat.
They want you sick….prove me wrong..
I disagree that it's capitalism making people fat, it's climate change and Maga.
Corporate greed. Horrible additives that make products taste good but eventually kill us. And they call it progress.
In the USA the food stamp program does tremendous damage. The vast majority of recipiants are morbidly obese. The program used to be for staples, but under the Biden admin it was expanded to cover healthy foods like Red Bull….even convenience stores here accept the program for the junkiest of foods.
What I don't understand: why do adults (parents, teachers, coaches/trainers etc.) not simply consistently explain to children that highly processed foods developed and marketed by the food corporations are harmful and thus dangerous – because that's what they are – and that these companies manipulate them with artificial flavourings, additives, colourings, the packaging and the marketing into buying and liking these products (they do not qualify to be called food). Kids are smarter than many adults assume. They understand certain concepts quickly if you only teach them consequently AND live them at home. People should start to see and to call these corporations out as what they are: end customer suppliers to the pharmaceutical industry!!! For me, hatred was a strong motivation. When I quit smoking, I promised myself never to give one of my hard earned Euros to an industry that is willing to cause my death by consuming its product ever again. Works also perfectly for the food giants. I do not buy from them. And if only more people followed that example, the whole food industry would have to change to the better. We have to follow this through as long as we still have alternative choices. Otherwise, one day in the near future, all food supplies will be controlled by only 1 mega-corporation (agenda is already in place) and we will be forced to eat whatever they produce. So better make smart choices today or your children will have to pay for your negligence in the future!
Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ( NHANES ) indicate that roughly 43% of U.S.adults are classified as obese, and an additional 31% are overweight. 85% to 90% of individuals who have type 2 diabetes are overweight.
I’m worried that with so many fat people in the world the rotation of the Earth will be affected.
Any mention of RFK jr’s efforts thanks to Trump or is that too right wing to say?
This is the result of turning food into a commodity. I remember growing up in Africa in the 80's. Back then diabetes, high BP etc were called the diseases of the rich.
Lol, you get obese and istead of loosing weight, you stay obese and start to blame the corporations.
Cmon, if you are adult, act like a one, don’t blame others for your failures.
Just take care and eat healthy, use your brain.
Obese people love to blame society, producers, everybody except themselfes, what a sick mindset.
Coca-Cola is a worse company than Philip Morris.
Just because you can eat it doesn't make it food
I remember growing up. My parents served me dinner in big portions and in many cases wouldn’t let me leave the table until my plate was cleared. I wasn’t taught to “eat until you feel full” this was a very basic concept that I had to learn as an adult. When you constantly eat too much, your stomach stretches and so you feel full when you eat bigger amounts. When you eat slower, and eat smaller amounts, you can notice when you feel full sooner, making it easier to eat what you need and not overeat.