Comments by "Craxin01" (@Craxin01) on "Why grifting health gurus are TAKING OVER TikTok u0026 Insta" video.

If we had better nutrition available instead of factory foods loaded with refined sugar, fats, and salt, these sorts of diet fads wouldn't have nearly as much traction.
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@suzanneemerson2625 Yes, we have doctors telling people to smoke more, eat plenty of sugar, and sit on your ass more so as not to deplete your vital humors. Seriously dude? Doctors all give the same advice. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, cut back on the refined sugar and fats, and exercise more.
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One simple trick often works... for extremely few people. What my exact nutritional needs are will be different from yours. Basic trends are better than specific tricks.
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Everyone's health is personal. Your exact nutritional needs aren't the same as the person sitting next to you. That being said, there are general trends that are applicable to literally every human being. Eating a wide variety of foods, a good mixture of fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, whole grains, and lean meats with fewer heavily processed factory foods or fast foods, especially refined sugar, will result in better health.
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@elmalifico3708 All the major sodas out there were. Coca-Cola had a tincture of cocaine in it. 7-up had lithium. Pepsi Cola had pepsin, a digestive enzyme. They syrup and carbonated water was a means of making the medicine go down easier. After the drugs were taken out, the flavored syrup stuck around because people developed a taste for it.
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@jogafurkelly343 Greed destroys everything. It’s cheaper and thus more profitable to take nutritious foods and process them until they lose all flavor, then dump them full of salt, refined sugars, and fats to make them taste intense/addictive. Make them have low satiety and you have a recipe for massive profits. I mean, look at a photo from fifty years ago, you might see one or two fat people, say 250lbs, but none of the 300-500lbs people you can see every day at Walmart. Hell, even the fresh fruits and vegetables they sell at supermarkets aren’t that great anymore. They taste like nothing and have like half the nutritional value of what was available fifty years ago. I grow my own jalapeños and ferment them to make my own hot sauce. I gave a taste to someone who was setting up medical equipment for my grandfather and you’d swear by his reaction that I had just gave him a taste of ambrosia. A friend of mine spent a month in France. She told me she ate like a pig having the best tasting food of her life and she lost 15 pounds! If it wasn’t for corporate greed and public corruption, we could easily have that here.
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@jamestonweki8071 You'd be amazed by how many people I know that could burn water.
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@KenS1267 Must be nice living in a place where fresh produce is easily available. I’ve lived in places where the nearest grocery store was a two hour drive. Most of the food I could get within a reasonable distance was heavily processed and had the nutritional value of styrofoam. Most people don’t have five hours of free time every week they can spend picking out groceries, much less the cash to spend driving 4 hours.
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@KenS1267 Yes, because the internet is always full of useful and correct information.
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@NYCHFAN I swear... How many people do you think know about these organizations or are capable\interested in growing their own food? It's not nearly as easy to get quality nutrition in this nation as apologists are making it out to be. Not to mention the fresh produce we do get is supermarket produce, which is about half as nutritious as what we had in the past. GMOs could help with that, but people are irrationally afraid of GMOs. Take a fresh tomato from a grocery store. They have no flavor, are picked green, and gassed into redness which isn't ripeness. It hasn't had a chance to develop the nutritional value the fruit could and should get all to make more profit for some corporation. The stuff they do allow to ripen completely aren't sold whole at a grocery store, they're sent to factories to be processed which destroys the nutrients. If nutrition were easy, we'd all be well nourished. 1 out of 4 people in the U.S. are obese and nearly the same number additionally are undernourished. When half of people aren't getting proper nutrition, you can't "but actually" your way out of it.
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