Comments by "JLH" (@Kyarrix) on "You're Eating Too Much Sugar! - You May Never Eat It Again After Watching This | Dr. Robert Lustig" video.

@Siegfried5846 He is overweight therefore the knowledge he is trying to share is inaccurate? Do you see how that doesn't scan? Why is he overweight? Because he probably eats too much. He has never claimed to be a paragon of perfect diet. He has never claimed that his diet is perfect. And being overweight isn't on its own an indication of ill health. There are metabolically healthy overweight people and millions of thin people who are metabolically unhealthy. That doesn't mean that anyone is advocating for people to be overweight but the fact that he could drop 30 lb doesn't equate to him being metabolically unhealthy. He is a human being subject to the same stressors and temptations as everyone else. He lives in a processed food environment. When you are working hard and busy and stressed it is easy to reach for the wrong food. That doesn't mean that that food isn't bad, it doesn't mean that food isn't poisonous. It is. He is equally able to make the wrong choices as everyone else. And we don't know that he does make the wrong choices. He probably does sometimes, everyone does. It could be that he is eating too much of the right foods and for that reason has gained some weight. I saw a talk where he made clear that he isn't a paragon of perfect nutrition. That doesn't detract from his information being accurate. We can know a thing and not practice it perfectly. The point of his many books, videos, research and talks is to educate people. To try to persuade the government to address the problem of processed food and make real food more available. Poor people in food deserts don't have options. Elderly people in care facilities don't have options. Children who are fed by their parents, who live with their parents and eat what their parents buy, don't have options. Changing the food environment will result in less sickness and greater health for all of us. Your comment boils down to "He's overweight therefore everything he says is meaningless." I'm trying to maintain courtesy because I want you to be healthy. Do yourself a favor, read his books, watch his videos, learn. Edited for clarity.
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@gaurav2k Please just stop that's not what anyone is saying. Fruit comes packaged together with the naturally occurring fiber that slows down the absorption of the fructose. You can have fruit in moderation. Seasonal fruit in moderation is fine if you are metabolically healthy. The issue is when you take six or seven apples and you make apple juice. You can't eat that many apples because of the fiber, but you can drink an amount of fructose that is significantly larger when you juice them. That's why apple juice is not good but eating an apple is okay. Fruits have been altered, changed to increase the amount of sugar in them. Try to get natural fruits, organic fruit that is not bred for extra sweetness. When you have some fruit have it with a healthy source of dietary fat and protein to slow the absorption of the fructose down further. Ice cream and cake are not naturally occurring they are concentrated. You can have a little ice cream or cake occasionally as a treat the problem is that people in the United States and in the UK eat what is essentially dessert at every meal and for every snack. You can have a little bit of processed sugar as long as you're eating real food, unprocessed food 95% of the time. If you have any questions I'll be happy to try to answer them.
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No, he's right. Don't encourage people to drink pounds and pounds of fruit in smoothies. The burden of fructose is too high. You can eat an apple but you can drink five or six apples. Dr Lustig is absolutely right. And I agree, he is a genius and deserves the Nobel prize.
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And avocado, lots of healthy fats like avocado everyday. The eggs should be pasture raised if possible, they're much healthier that way. Also wild caught salmon. If you eat nuts don't get them pre-roasted because they often use toxic seed oils, canola oil, etc. Roast them yourself or make sure the oils used are good ones. Congratulations on losing weight and getting healthier. It sounds like you're doing a great job!
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@grandpa1011 This is the reverse of good accurate information. If you want to lose weight you stay away from carbohydrates. You stay away from potatoes and bread and grains. You do eat healthy animal products. You eat animal products from sustainably healthily raised animals. You eat eggs from pasture raised hens. You eat full fat dairy not low fat dairy from cows that are pasture raised. You eat meat from grass-fed cows. Please educate yourself before giving advice to others. You don't want to risk giving bad advice to someone who might listen.
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@Siegfried5846 I responded to your comment. I hope it is helpful. I've spent years on this. Like many others I was overweight. I am no longer overweight. My A1C was high, now it is 4.4 which is fantastic. I was told that I would probably end up diabetic and now I won't. I lost weight and got healthy. There is no processed food in my house. I won't say that I never eat sugar because like Dr Lustig I'm a human being and subject to the same stressors and weaknesses as everyone else. I love sourdough bread. I love gelato. I love chocolate. But I do my best to ensure that these things are rare treats. In the US, people eat processed cereal with sugar for breakfast. They have Pop-Tarts, they eat things that come out of cartons in the freezer. They have muffins and cookies for a mid-morning snack. Then they have lunch that is more of the same. Then a snack in the afternoon and something processed for dinner and an after dinner snack. Our rate of death from covid compared to countries where people eat real food is astronomically high. The problem with processed food is that it doesn't have fiber which is necessary to feed the gut and it does have tremendous amounts of added sugar and pro-inflammatory omega-6 oils. The vast majority of Americans have underlying inflammation. That inflammation is a factor in all chronic disease. I can't summarize it all in one comment. We don't learn unless we do the work for ourselves. Please take the time to do the work, take the time to educate yourself. It's easy to sneer at someone and say "they're overweight so the information they're sharing has to be wrong" but the person you hurt most with that approach is yourself. Yourself and anyone you end up feeding. He isn't perfect. He probably eats too much sugar, he has said many times in the past that he loves dessert but dessert is okay if it is dessert and not what we eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It's also important to point out that being overweight isn't the problem. There are metabolically healthy overweight people. And there are metabolically unhealthy thin people. The medical concept of TOFI, thin on the outside, fat on the inside exists for a reason. Subcutaneous fat is not damaging. It isn't pretty but it is protective for longevity within reason. It is the visceral fat that is the problem along with fatty liver whether that fatty liver is a result of alcohol or NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) something that didn't exist until recently. Take the time and learn. There are few things more important than this information. Knowing how to eat to avoid chronic disease, to be healthy, emotionally, psychologically and physically is one of the most important things you can do for yourself and for your family and friends. Once you have learned, try to help someone who responds the way you responded to me, show them patience and help them learn in turn.
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@candicemay You learn to cook for yourself. It's not difficult, it does require the willingness to learn and to care. You already have those because you're watching these videos. Intermittent fasting and eating real food are the answers. The fact that processed food and sugar are everywhere doesn't mean that we have to eat it. The fact that poison is all around you doesn't mean you have to engage with it. We have the ability to make better choices. Once you know, once you really know how bad these things are for you you won't want them anymore, at least not as much. I've lost 130 lb over the past few years. I'm keeping it off. I'm not hungry, I don't feel deprived and I'm healthier than I have ever been. I usually eat two meals a day, sometimes one. I'll make an omelette or scramble some eggs for my first meal which is in the late morning or early afternoon, I'll put cheese and vegetables in it and eat that with half an avocado with lemon juice and salt. Avocado is delicious with lemon juice and salt and very satiating. I do have coffee mid morning with about an ounce of heavy cream. No sugar. Really good coffee does not need sugar. I would have laughed if someone had told me this 10 years ago but it's true. If I don't have time to make that first meal I'll take some macadamia nuts with me or beef jerky without sugar, it exists you have to find it, there are a couple of good brands. Kalahari Biltong is one of those, it comes in 2 oz packages I get the original flavor. Zero carbohydrate. Epic also makes jerky that is low carbohydrate, they have a salt and pepper venison and a wagyu steak in addition to a salmon jerky that I haven't tried. The wagyu has four grams of carbohydrate but it tastes better it's a good option for occasional use. The Kalahari is my daily go to for a no carbohydrate portable food. For dinner I'll have grass-fed beef or wild caught fish or pasture raised chicken with oven roasted green beans or any other oven roasted vegetable. Oven roasting results in browning and crispiness and makes the vegetable taste better. I also saute spinach in the pan that I cooked the steak in, the fond from the steak makes any vegetable you cook in that pan delicious. If I know I'm making steak I'll be sure to have a pile of greens waiting to cook in that pan. Spinach, any kind of green, baby bok choy, whatever you like. I also buy olives stuffed with garlic they are delicious and having a few of those with your meal is filling and gives you an additional source of healthy fat. I'll eat some cheese if I'm hungry and a kiwi or blueberries at the end of the meal occasionally. You won't be hungry because after all of this you will have eaten a plate of food of good food that will leave you full for hours. The key is to not to starve yourself. When we eat, we eat until we are comfortably full. Not stuffed but not hungry. Healthy food is more expensive but if you are only eating once or twice a day and not buying junk, not eating takeout or fast food most of us can afford to spend a few more dollars on better quality food. It's a process, over time you learn to cook. You find good resources. It isn't something that happens overnight. You will figure out right away what things you like. It doesn't take a lot of knowledge to make scrambled eggs or an omelette, to cut an avocado and squeeze some fresh lemon juice on it and add some salt. Making steak in a pan takes a little bit of practice but it's not difficult you very quickly learn how you like it. Medium well, medium rare, you learn. If you don't already know you'll learn how to cook a whole chicken and put the bones in the ziploc bag in the freezer to make stock out of. Not everyone does this but homemade stock is phenomenal for cooking. Getting used to not eating prepared foods might take a few weeks but it's worth the effort. If you have any questions please let me know and I'll try to answer them.
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@kathleenking47 what I meant was that we eat processed foods that aren't intended to be dessert but they are de facto desserts because of the amount of sugar in them. When someone feeds their child cereal in the morning they don't intend to be giving them dessert for breakfast but they are. The overwhelming majority of cereals are in fact dessert because of the sugar. The same is true for most yogurt. Almost all the food in a supermarket has been adulterated with sugar. It's okay to have dessert very occasionally if we are metabolically healthy but most Americans are not. Avoid eating processed food at all that way you won't be inadvertently eating dessert when you think you're eating a meal.
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@lesabooth5243 It's hard to get away from it but it's possible. We just have to buy real food and not buy prepared things. That's what I do. My grocery cart is full of ingredients versus prepared foods.
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