Comments by "KGS" (@kgs2280) on "Brain Rejuvenation Breakthrough: Can Avoiding This Save Your Brain?" video.

  1. I think a lot of restaurants are adding more sugar to their meals, probably to get people “hooked”. My favorite food when eating out is Thai, and I found that, apparently some restaurant supply person has been going around to Thai restaurants telling them that they should add sugar to their meals because “Americans love sugar”. I figured out that every time I eat at a new Thai restaurant I have to ask them if they add sugar. And they usually add it to sauces and things that are made ahead, so you can’t just ask them to leave it out. It’s crazy because the beauty of Thai food is their incredible way of combining various flavors so that you can still taste all the separate flavors, and adding sugar pretty much ruins it that. I think even American restaurants are doing the same as well, because almost every time I eat in a restaurant, by the time I get home, I’m in such a deep mental fog that I have to go lie down for a couple of hours just to feel like I’m connected to the earth plane again. It is not at all pleasant. I’m going to start checking my blood sugar as soon as I get home now as I am diabetic, although I always take both kinds of pills (Metformin and Glipizide) before I eat. I think the “Sugar Council”, or whatever organization is behind restaurant foods is probably literally profiting off our impaired health (like they always have). If I start finding that my sugar levels are going way up after every restaurant meal, I’m going to just have to start learning how to make Thai food at home, although I’ve tried it before and it’s very labor intensive, and I enjoy going out. I really wish our food companies would quit dicking around with our food.
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  2. I heard that! I think I left a couple of them permanently back in the 70s!
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  3.  @DrunkenUFOPilot  Have you felt any of the effects I described after eating in a restaurant? I’m probably a generation older than you from your description of the foods you grew up on. We weren’t allowed much sugar at all. A lot of “plain” food, as in seasoned with some salt and pepper and a few herbs, and we only had dessert once a week. For sweet treats, we’d eat a handful of raisins or maybe an apple. (And, no, I wasn’t raised on a farm, though I realize it kind of sounds like it. My mom was pretty much into “clean-living” food wise). Very much unlike the following generations. Thanks for the recommendation of Thom’s book (yeah, I’m old enough that I don’t often use last names anymore). I’ve been looking at his books on Amazon, and trying to decide which one to start with. That’s one prolific author! He and Stephen King must be in a race.
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  4.  @3mountains307  Good times, though.
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  5.  @3mountains307  That is great news! Congratulations!
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