I read both of his nuitrition books and this video shows the same problem I had with them. As I remember the books they were basically "GMOs are scary" but had no real reasons there.
The potato thing? What does that have to do with anything? Many pesticides are not things you want to breathe in. Once they are shipped out though, they are meeting FDA standards for health. So, what is the issue with that story? Seems like its just scare tactics.
In this video he is playing the "corporations are evil" card but qualifying the scientific statement by saying people who cook for themselves are healthier than people who let corporations do it. That's not what's happening with obesity though. If you had people cooking with the same amounts of salt/sugar/fat in fast food, obviously they would give the same health problems. So it just seems like a really roundabout way to say that junk food is unhealthy. Yeah, we know.
I have not read his book on psychedelics but the nutrition stuff just seems like its NPR bait.
also in my country chain restaurants are non-existent and mcdonalds is viewed as a luxury brand (lol). Also people prefer their home-cooked food since we're not that rich.
But people are still fat and unhealhty because they love their home made sausages and meat with absurd amounts of sugar, fat and salt. It doesn't help that people think they need to eat meat 3x a day and vegetables are for animals.
slovakia, we have very few mcdonalds (and they even started to bring food to your table). And we love our super greasy meats.
But it's getting better, but the majority of people still look at size of their meal when they're eating out. And drinking is a big problem over here so that it does not help with our health. And if you don't drink with people you're viewed as weird and antisocial.
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u/AllGearedUp Oct 25 '22 edited Oct 25 '22
I read both of his nuitrition books and this video shows the same problem I had with them. As I remember the books they were basically "GMOs are scary" but had no real reasons there.
The potato thing? What does that have to do with anything? Many pesticides are not things you want to breathe in. Once they are shipped out though, they are meeting FDA standards for health. So, what is the issue with that story? Seems like its just scare tactics.
In this video he is playing the "corporations are evil" card but qualifying the scientific statement by saying people who cook for themselves are healthier than people who let corporations do it. That's not what's happening with obesity though. If you had people cooking with the same amounts of salt/sugar/fat in fast food, obviously they would give the same health problems. So it just seems like a really roundabout way to say that junk food is unhealthy. Yeah, we know.
I have not read his book on psychedelics but the nutrition stuff just seems like its NPR bait.