Food Choices Page #5

- Well, you know, the

biggest lies in the world

are the ones that

have a little truth.

We all know that.

It's a great tactic.

It's true, I happen to agree,

that we should cut down

on simple carbohydrates.

You see, that's out of

context to the whole.

You know, sugar, white flour.

That makes sense.

So in that sense,

there's a little truth.

But they don't always

point that out.

They just say, low carb,

low carb, low carb.

- Listen, forget about

what you like and dislike,

think about what

your objective is.

Alright, let's just

acknowledge we all like eating

junk food.

If you put chocolate in front

of me today, I'll have some,

right, but that

doesn't lead to health.

- I personally

knew several people

who experienced amazing

healing and health

benefits after

adopting some kind

some kind of a plant-based

diet, including myself.

But at the same time,

i had also met others

who are still experiencing

health issues,

or were struggling

with their weight,

after adopting this lifestyle,

some for many years.

So it made me wonder.

Was there a flaw in this diet?

- First vegetarian

that I knew well

about 40 years ago,

was actually a vegan

he was a very strict vegetarian,

he lived on Coca cola

and potato chips.

He was fat, greasy,

and unhealthy.

So being a vegetarian

means really nothing to me.

- 90% of the vegetarians

are still consuming dairy.

90%.

And they also consume

sometimes some fish,

and sometimes some chicken,

and eggs, and so forth.

The nutrient composition

of the vegetarian diet

is not very different

from the non-vegetarian.

So, as a result, if you compare

the health of vegetarians,

with non-vegetarians, you

can't expect to see very much.

- But somebody's decided

they're going to be vegan,

in other words eat no

animal foods, they've made

a declaration as to

their physical and mental

strength, and their interest,

and their willingness

to work hard.

After all, if you become vegan,

you have to stand up

to your mother-in-law,

and your doctor or your

dietitian, you have to,

quote, risk protein

and calcium deficiency,

even though that's not true.

But the problem is

that too many vegans

they don't look good.

They're overweight,

they're unhealthy looking.

- I don't really like

to use the words vegan

and vegetarian because,

that's not describing

the kind of science

I'm talking about.

- I would call myself a

fat vegan when I first

started out, that's

exactly what I was, and I

was trying to tell

everyone how great this

lifestyle is, and it

saved me, and it reversed

my heart disease.

But yet, I was still walking

around, about 75 pounds

to a hundred pounds overweight.

- Now why is

somebody a fat vegan?

Not because they give

up the animal foods.

That's a good thing, you need

to give up the animal foods.

But what they haven't

given up is the oil.

The olive oil, the

other vegetable oils,

the fat you eat is the

fat you wear, whether

it comes from a

plant, or an animal.

- So, I made the change.

I removed the foods

in my diet that were

empty calories, the

oils and the fats,

the sugars, the processed foods,

the food additives

that kept me coming

back for more, those

companies add those

things purposely to

get us to not eat

just one potato chip.

We need the whole bag.

There's millions of overweight

people in this country,

and they're all struggling,

trying this diet,

or that diet, and they

try this diet for a week,

or that diet for a week,

and they're spending

a lot of money on all these

different diet programs,

and pills, and supplements,

and adding things

to their diet to lose

weight, or to get healthy,

and that's where we need to

realize that a whole foods

plant-based diet is

free, there's no shakes,

there's no bars,

there's no powders,

there's no counting

calories, we eat until

we're full and

satisfied, and stop.

And that's it.

- As much as

i liked the idea of eating

exclusively a plant-based diet,

especially since it

had worked for me,

I wanted this film

to be very accurate

with the latest science on food.

So I wondered, if realistically,

from a scientific perspective,

could every person

in this day and age

eat a plant-based

diet 100% of the time?

- I can't say, and I don't

thing science can say,

that everybody has to be 100%.

You know, all the time.

I can argue the case, i

think, for the vast majority

of people, we ought

to be at least 90,

probably 95%, we've got

good science for that.

And in many cases, if

people already have

a disease, it's a good idea

they should be

100% all the time.

So that's my

scientific argument.

I have another practical

argument, though

on this question, concerning

how far do you go.

And that is that if

we're going to adopt

this dietary lifestyle,

it's really important that

we become accustomed to it.

And we should go

probably 100% if we can.

And stay there.

And don't tease ourselves

with the other things.

Because what happens, we

never become accustomed

to this, where our taste

preferences change.

- If you do it right,

there are no health issues.

In fact, the side effects are

you're going to lose weight,

you're going to look

better, you're going to have

more energy, you're going

to avoid most of the common

degenerative conditions,

most of the time,

you're going to have a

longer life, and a healthier,

and a better life.

You know, that's

about what happens

when you do this.

So there isn't a downside.

- We often hear

that the key to good health

is moderation, and

it makes sense.

But why then does

it not seem to work

for most people?

- You know for some people,

that's a really

easy thing to do.

But unfortunately for most,

finding moderation is

like finding a needle

in a haystack.

And, because others can do it,

they feel lost, and they

feel like an absolute

failure because they can't.

And the truth be

told, most people

can't find moderation,

so they're actually

in the majority and

not the minority.

But this minority few

that are on television,

that have never, ever been fat,

never, ever been sick,

have genetics very

much on their way,

they're out there saying,

"it's all about this,

"and all about that."

I mean, how are

they going to relate

to that poor person

sitting at home,

that's 350 pounds,

that feels like their

world is over?

Now, I know what they feel like.

I was 310 pounds.

I was loaded up on

medication for eight years.

I understand, I can relate.

I won't tell anybody

that moderation's easy.

Moderation's damn hard.

Really hard.

I still haven't mastered it.

I'm a work in progress when

it comes to moderation.

But what I'm finding

is that I'm away

from an extreme now,

of 93% of my energy

coming from this processed

and fun part of

town, animal fat,

I've now got this moderation up,

I've now moved it

up, and it's working.

- So how are

people supposed to get

all this information?

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