Friday Favorites: The Best Diet for Weight Loss and Disease Prevention
The most effective diet for weight loss may also be the healthiest.
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Thanks for the video
What learning and self-education methods do you use to continuously improve in your profession?🧡
Eating plants
This doesn’t work if you like to brew “whole food plant based” beer!! I had to cut out the home brew to see any results…
This is my vice – I’d love to see a whole foods plant based diet that doesn’t restrict alcohol.
Ha, most people know beer is fattening.
I don’t know anyone who is a vegetarian and overweight, and they look healthier as well. As an occasional meat eater, this has been my biggest challenge. I still want to continue with beef broth with the fat removed.
Once you immerse yourself in the awesome, vast array of whole plant foods like legumes, greens, grains, fruits, veggies, mushrooms, nuts, seeds, herbs and spices you have no room for body parts, organs or secretions much less any desire for them after you’ve’ve been away from them. People are just stuck in an infantile habituation toward consuming animals. But you can develop a sophisticated palate by just learning about these plant foods. And then you will be healthier as a result and in line with your ethics. Eating animals inevitably results in abusive concentrated animal feeding operations that are toxic to surrounding communities and create the most violent jobs while causing deforestation, desertification, aquatic dead zones, and zoonotic diseases. Everything about eating animals is gravely wrong, unsustainable, and detrimental to the stability of our future. Once you realize all of this it seems insane to want to foster a future that is so violent based on concentrating animal feeding operations and slaughterhouses instead of community gardens, Peace gardens, food forest, food not lawns, veganic farms, and greenhouses. Best wishes! I have hundreds of vegans on my channel that can attest to the efficacy for any walk of life whether it be the most studious, the laziest, or the most athletic, and especially if you’re wanting to have children. I’m going to be releasing a lot of videos about that throughout the year as it progresses.
dman its hard to listen to this guy. why cant the talk like a normal human being and stop mumbling
Considering the fact that most people love his personality, perhaps you should just try to focus on what he’s saying and enjoy his style and sense of humor, or is he to advance for you?
Carnivore ftw 😂
What is carnivore FTW? For the worst?
Once you immerse yourself in the awesome, vast array of whole plant foods like legumes, greens, grains, fruits, veggies, mushrooms, nuts, seeds, herbs and spices you have no room for body parts, organs or secretions much less any desire for them after you’ve’ve been away from them. People are just stuck in an infantile habituation toward consuming animals. But you can develop a sophisticated palate by just learning about these plant foods. And then you will be healthier as a result and in line with your ethics. Eating animals inevitably results in abusive concentrated animal feeding operations that are toxic to surrounding communities and create the most violent jobs while causing deforestation, desertification, aquatic dead zones, and zoonotic diseases. Everything about eating animals is gravely wrong, unsustainable, and detrimental to the stability of our future. Once you realize all of this it seems insane to want to foster a future that is so violent based on concentrating animal feeding operations and slaughterhouses instead of community gardens, Peace gardens, food forest, food not lawns, veganic farms, and greenhouses. Best wishes! I have hundreds of vegans on my channel that can attest to the efficacy for any walk of life whether it be the most studious, the laziest, or the most athletic, and especially if you’re wanting to have children. I’m going to be releasing a lot of videos about that throughout the year as it progresses.
You da best doc.
“A whole food plant-based diet achieved the greatest weight loss ever recorded at 6 and 12 months compared to any other such intervention published in the medical literature” meanwhile “studies on the effects of low carbohydrate diets show higher rates of all cause mortality” 💚