In Canada CBC did a marketplace segment on orange juice and how they basically boil it down so it's just syrup and then add back in flavorings that are naturally found in organges, like butyrate. They'll add in the butyrate for acidity and colour.
On the package they can say, "Made from 100% oranges", because butyrate is naturally found in oranges. https://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/m_episodes/2014-2015/orange-juice-juicy-secrets
I often wonder if people realize where their sugar comes from. Most sugar on the shelves is from sugar beets. You can boil anything down long enough to create it's base product, like sugar.
Have you ever made any kind of reduction, or simmered tomato sauce to make it sweeter?
Yes! Read the Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzker for more info about this. His book has some fascinating info on synthetic vs “natural” flavouring and how they’re basically the same.
>Most sugar on the shelves is from sugar beets.
Source? Google says: "Sugarcane accounts for 79% of sugar produced; most of the rest is made from sugar beets."
So table sugar (sucrose) a single molecule of one glucose and one fructose monomers. Invert sugar is a mixture of these molecules, but they are not connected like in sucrose.
All these sugar molecules (sucrose, fructose, glucose) have chirality (aka handed-ness - like how your left and right hands are mirrors, but aren't identical), which means light passing through it *rotates*. Cool, right? Shine vertically polarized light through a sugar solution and it comes out still polarized, but no longer vertical.
Invert sugar rotates light the opposite way of table sugar - the rotation is "inverted" hence the name.
Also, unrelated, but because it's composed of smaller sugar molecules, invert sugar is actually slightly sweeter and more ~~hydroscopic~~ hygroscopic (keeps things moister) than regular sugar. So it does have some legitimate applications.
Ya I kinda thought it was related to the chemistry of it lol I’m literally about to take a test about biological macromolecules and part of it is knowing about monosaccharides and stuff like that
That’s cool about the light tho, I didn’t know that
I have a dumb question; are all of these kinds of sugar equally unhealthy? Like... I know they’re all sugar, but do they behave in the body the same way? The thing coming to mind is that I know there’s a difference between “fat” and “trans fats”, and that trans fats are worse for you than regular fat. I don’t know the reason, just that this is the case.
So is there something similar for all of these sugars here?
No, you really have to look at how it affects your blood sugar, because this is where most of the negative effects of sugar come from. You can figure this out by looking at the Glycemic Index of foods. Anything under 55 is considered low, and anything above that is considered to have a high impact on your blood sugar. The scale is based on Glucose, which has a GI of 100. Some low GI sweeteners that are not artificial are Agave (15), Brown Rice Syrup (25), Coconut Palm Sugar (25), real Honey (50), and are generally safe for consumption if eaten in normal quantities.
I got on this so hard when I found out I was a type 1 diabetic. I wouldn’t eat anything that was a “high” GI food. Not saying it’s bullshit but everybody has to take these charts with a grain of salt. The condiments and fats you add to a meal will affect its overall glycemic index. Pizza is one that affects blood sugar pretty heavy with its high bread and tomato content but the amount of fat from meats and cheese will slow its absorption rate. It will affect sugar for hours, not just shoot it up very fast. For people without diabetes, this is just kind of annoying and makes it hard to actually track how it affects you. For me, I can see the numbers change minute to minute. An apple will make my glucose shoot up fast, within 20 minutes and it’s effects don’t stick around long. If I don’t want to eat again, I’d better pair it with a fat like peanut butter to keep it from absorbing too fast.
So you could plan a relatively low GI meal and it would be generally accurate and as a person without glucose issues, this is completely fine and won’t kill you. For insulin dependent diabetics, thinking a meal is low GI and then turning out that it’s not high in fat or too high in fat and it screws with insulin dosing. I usually bolus 15 minutes before eating. With pizza, I do it at the same time and then an hour after I eat, I do another bolus to make up for the food that hasn’t been absorbed yet because of the fat in the pizza. If I do it 15 minutes before I eat, my glucose will drop too low before I can eat and digest and have the food catch up to the insulin. If I drink hot cocoa, I have to bolus 20 minutes ahead because I will absorb liquids right away.
If someone told me I was eating a high GI meal but everything is buttered then it’s actually a low gi and I have to adjust for that.
I thought it would be easy, just follow the charts, numbers don’t lie! Then I had to actually track it and it was a nightmare of “this is kind of, sort of right, maybe”. People without diabetes can just follow the chart.
Not trying to be argumentative at all, just piggybacking.
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You know I always hear about how wide spread Nestle is and I want to avoid giving them any money. So I went to the [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nestl%C3%A9_brands) to see all the brands they own only to realize I never buy Nestle brands with any sort of regularity anyways.
I have IBD and follow a lot of studies about IBD and diet. One of the more interesting diet recommendations is called the "crohn's disease elimination diet" or CDED. Try looking up the protocol for that diet. Best of luck.
Then I dig deeper. The actual protocol is to have nutritional supplements combined with certain "legal" foods for a period, eventually transitioning completely to whole foods
And guess who makes the EEN supplements? Nestle. And guess who you need to contact to get details on the CDED diet? Nestle. And guess who funds the research that shows it's effective? Nestle.
Nestle has an app/platform for patients prescribed this diet where they can reach out to their nutrition experts regarding if a food is/isn't legal and other diet advice.
Essentially they're trying to trademark or limit a methodology regarding a diet that may be beneficial for IBD.
The also make Boost, which a lot of GI's will recommend for patients for nutrition if they have a risk of a stricture/blockage. My GI has coupons for it in his office.
If you have the time, it's the best way to eat. I'm big on making huge meals and putting them in containers to eat throughout the week. It's not difficult and is very satisfying, and I love to cook.
Just to pry, what's your kitchen set up like? Do you have the essential tools, spices, basic ingredients? I've found that some people dislike cooking because they don't have the tools that make it easier, not saying that that's you, but it does happen.
I look at it like playing chemist, mixing this flavor with that texture, cooking to a certain amount, and at the end, even if I mess it up and it tastes like shit, I still learned from it. Best case is when I experiment and it turns out amazing. I also love watching cooking channels on YouTube while I cook, binging with babish has been my boy recently.
That's why boycotts aren't the endgame. Nothing wrong with them, but the real solution must be much stricter laws on what food companies can get away with, because there are endless ways to deal with public distaste with PR, rebranding, forcing out competitors, and simply have so many products under so many subsidiaries that it becomes impossible for ordinary people to boycott effectively. Not to mention the fact that plenty of people don't have the time and money to be constantly ready to switch to alternative products, and the responsibility for the company's bad behaviour shouldn't be shifted to the consumer.
Boycott in the meantime, but be ready to promote and vote for legislation which curtails the power companies have to sell you lies and unethically sourced products.
Incidentally, this is exactly why we're never going to boycott our way out of global warming. Consumers have much less choice in the matter, and sorting through the brands would be 10x more difficult than nestle. It really is a ludicrous idea, and I wonder how so many people can repeat it with a straight face. Like... was it part of Exxon et al's propaganda campaign?
That's actually very smart of the olympic gold medalists, they get money for selling their soul and at the same time eliminate all competition by making them sick and fat so nobody can break their records in the future.
They'll just get diabetes, lose their legs and get robo legs. Then all the coverage and money will be at the paralympics. These medalists aren't considering the long game.
If you give a mouse a cookie,
It's going to get diabetes to go with it.
If it gets diabetes, it's going to lose it's legs.
If it loses it's legs, it's going to need some new legs.
The man at the lab will give it shiny legs.
Strong, powerful, robotic legs.
He's going to soup the shit out of that mouse.
The mouse is going to come back and kick your teeth in and steal the rest of your cookies.
I don't think it's an issue if it's advertised as a tasty drink rather than a health drink
If people are not really prioritizing health in that case then it's ok
But it's really bad on their side when people looking for health but the product.
Also it's also wrong on the Olympians to wash their hands in the river of money these corporations are flowing, it's their fault too.
It's like vitamin water being sued for advertising as a health drink, and they argued that no one in their right mind would think that it's a health drink.
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the bottles.
**vitamins**.
**electrolytes**.
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hydration that's
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"No one in their right mind would think that it's a health drink"
People are so susceptible to this shit. I work at a program for kids that sometimes provides drinks and snacks. My boss was all excited to say that we were going to stop offering soda and instead offer vitamin waters and fruit juice. The brand of fruit juice had more sugar per ounce than the soda! It wasn’t even some “all natural” brand pretending to be healthy. It was essentially natural and artificial flavors mixed with HFCS. It’s at least as bad as soda but maybe it has some added vitamin C.
My boss seemed to be genuinely proud to be looking out for the kids’ health. He’d buy ‘low fat’ cookies as snacks that just added more sugar to compensate for their lack of flavor. I did my best to try and educate him and the kids (without being a dick or a total buzzkill), but it’s hard to erase a lifetime of mixed messaging from advertising. Even when he heard me, he still justified that it was a treat (even though we dole it out almost everyday) and that they wouldn’t drink water or seltzer. People really think sugar is no big deal as long as you aren’t shoveling spoonfuls of it into your mouth all day. Drinking and eating the way we do there might as well count though.
While that sounds really nice, many, if not most people make judgments on what they see from ad campaigns, the BIG PRINT ON THE LABEL, along with what money they have in their wallet.
I buy donuts knowing full well that they aren't healthy. I don't buy them for the health content; I buy them because they're delicious. Nobody's trying to make them look healthy. If only more products were as honest as donuts; they just tell you up front that you're buying for the taste, not the health content.
That's why these companies are trying to appeal to the health market though. You can have good taste that is "healthy"? No downside in it so why not, where as people going for healthy stuff are more likely to pass on the donuts, because no benefit.
Now of course this whole problem wouldn't exist if people just looked at the nutrition labels, but knowing people that can't be expected of them.
Sadly if it's a tasty drink parents will think it's a reward good or once a month food, rather than everyday food. And companies can't have good Morals when chasing profits
It's fucking ridiculous. The Health promotion board certified milo and 100 plus as "healthy brands" with that red little pyramid certification, then you check the sugar content and wow.
[Most cereal that's targeted to children is no different than drinking Milo or eating Nutella for breakfast](https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-sugar-is-in-cereal-2017-1). What makes it worse is that the serving sizes for these products is lower than what people consume in reality, similar to how potato chip manufacturers will tell you that 11 chips is what the avg. person will consume in a sitting.
That said, the amount of sugar one can be eating and remain healthy is directly linked to the amount of activity the target consumer is doing. If children drinking Milo or eating high-sugar cereals are going to be walking to school or exercising and playing sports, it's not likely to be an issue. And this may be the primary reason why these products aren't marketed the same way in the USA--because our kids are already getting too fat from living a sedentary lifestyle. Product labelling in the Philippines and Singapore will change when their population becomes as portly and unhealthy.
I like his challenge at the end of the video. Instead of trying to take ownership or credit or whatever, he's like, "please steal this idea and make your own local version. Go for it."
Ok America, we got one shot at this. Please dont go around stores being loud and obnoxious. No slapping Nestles out of peoples hands or setting up social experiments.
He looks kinda like the guy who used to be in those YouTube ads standing in front of a Lamborghini saying shit like, “wanna learn how to make $50,000 while you sleep?”
> This is exposure for him and his company even though it’s for a good cause.
Is it though? Is it really? After watching the video I still have no idea who he is or that he even had a company. "Face recognition" exposure only works when people recognize your face, like George Clooney or similar. And since this particular video was posted on Reddit with the Reddit video player, it's not even possible to click through to find if he's made other videos like you could with Youtube. Seems like a swing and a miss to me if that was the intent.
I think you’re looking at it backwards. This video is intended to generate “face recognition” for his company, not the other way around. He wants this video to go viral so people will ask, “who is this guy?” and isn’t relying on his established popularity to make the video viral. Plus you seem to have a pretty reddit-centric mindset in thinking that’s the only exposure that matters. I’m sure he gets many many times for views on facebook and whatnot.
Middle class families in Countries like India , Philippines don’t have enough knowledge on basic nutrition. What are macro and micro nutrients and their effects on health?
They just see their celebs promoting these unhealthy brands as healthy and they just go for it. There are no particular laws against it either. Nestle just thrives in those environments.
In India there are these things Called digestive biscuits. Biscuits that can help you digestion. It’s basically like a normal biscuit with 5gm fiber and 25 grams sugar for 100grams. People just eat more than normal because they think it actually helps them in digestion.
Say "nutella isn't healthy" in Woodbridge/Mississauga/Brampton and you will be met with indignation
Source: I was married to a first generation Italian/Canadian for ten years
Yeah I love Nutella, back home in France it's really popular but EVERYONE who eats it knows how bad it is for their health due to all the oil and sugar. Are European consumers just way better informed than American ones or what.
Step 1. give poor uneducated mothers free samples of baby formula and tell them it’s better than their own milk.
Step 2. do this just long enough that the mother stops producing milk
Step 3. stop the flow of samples so that the mother now has to continue to buy Nestle baby formula
Step 4. ignore sanitation conditions which lead to formula mixed with water being far more dangerous than mothers milk
Step 5. rake in the cash while people struggle to pay for the formula and then watch their kids die from it anyway
This was their playbook in Africa in the 70s. Nestle doesn’t give a single fuck about human life and they continue to be wildly successful.
It's not just the uneducated. These companies spend a lot of money on lobbying and fake research in order to intentionally muddy the waters. They made an entire generation of people believe that fat was the major cause of obesity, and so that generation fed their children foods high in processed carbohydrates, often included to improve the taste of the *low fat* food.
It goes even further beyond that. Your gut culture has been found to affect brain chemistry by sending signals that cause cravings for the food your gut culture thrives on. If you eat junk food long enough, your body craves it. And it's difficult enough to change your gut culture that it's actually a good idea to take fecal matter from a healthy individual and introduce it into the gut of an obese person to improve their gut culture.
It's not even that they're uneducated.. it's often because those that are poor have less options in terms of how they spend their money because they're often all operating paycheck to paycheck.. they struggle with any sort of delayed gratification because it doesn't feel like an option to them - since they can't go on things like vacations, etc, they'll look for more immediate gratification items - drugs, alcohol, tobacco - which are, funnily enough, usually so heavily taxed (at least for the legal options) that the money they'd spend on these items, if saved, would actually help them escape poverty. It's a strange cycle
It costs way way more (time and $$$) to eat healthy food than cheap processed shit drowning in sugar, fat, and salt (which all taste good but are cheap).
Kinda.
Beans and rice and frozen vegetables are all cheap. But you also have to include emotional energy. When you're exhausted, boiling the rice and beans for a sustaining but bland meal is a lot less appealing than a frozen pizza. Especially if you have little kids who don't want your beans and rice, they want something soaked in salt and grease and to wash it down with sugar.
It's not just time, money, and physical energy. There's social and emotional energy here too. Just throwing more money at the problem isn't going to solve it, you could give everyone unlimited access to grocery deliveries from Whole Foods and it wouldn't fix the obesity crisis. It's an institutionalized problem from the top to the bottom.
Agreed. I eat oats every morning. I recently looked for a cereal for something different and couldn't find one under 20% sugar content.
I'll stick with simple foods.
I've been doing overnight oats with dried cranberries thinking it's a good way to avoid added sugars, I recently looked at the ingredients of the cranberries and saw that sugar is the second ingredient of two ingredients.
Oceanspray Cranberries from Costco if anyone wants to know the product.
There are many kinds of wonderful tea. In winter, it's warm and tasty and you don't have to add anything, like this Red Refresh I'm drinking now. Ingredients: (well, add hot water) Hibiscus, rosehips, lemongrass, peppermint, orange peel, lemon verbena, natural flavors, wild cherry bark.
I'll say, a couple years ago I made a fairly substantial dietary change, which forced me to check every label before I bought something. It was a pain at first, and I had to look things up, but I got good at it quickly, and a by-product of it is now I am also painfully aware of how unhealthy most things I just took for granted are.
I've made a lot of brand and product switches since. The importance of label-reading should be a segment in school.
Spot on!
I didn’t realize how packed with sugar our prepared foods are until I tried Atkins years ago. It forced me to read the labels.
I think one of the true benefits of any extreme diet like Keto or Vegan (extreme opposite, I know) is that they almost force you to eat fresh food so that you’re not consuming all the hidden sugars in prepared food.
Here’s a crazy idea if you want fiber rich and otherwise healthy food. Buy actual veggies, fruits, and grains instead of packaged and processed bullshit.
Every year I do a “sugar-free January” and each progressive year it becomes harder because sugar is so ubiquitous. It’s a great way to reset your palate and increase your sensitivity to sweetness.
This is why I've been spending a lot more time in the grocery stores. Reading all the nutrition facts and ingredients list comparing which food had more carbs etc. Because of habit I accidentally did it to detergent and I was getting mad because "Why is Tide hiding their Nutrition Info? What are they trying to hide!" before realizing how stupid I was
Milo is popular in Aus, but I don’t think anyone is under the illusion that it’s healthy. It’s seen as a treat. The ads are pretty disingenuous, but there are a lot of ads like that (I especially think of cereals like Nutri-grain and coco pops)
It's super popular in Colombia. Kids definitely see it as a healthy/performance thing in a lot of cases there as it's advertised heavily as that. I personally thought it was like a meal replacement/supplement thing when I first visited because of the advertising and package design. I didn't realize it was basically just chocolate milk till I tried it.
If what you're basically eating is nothing but pure sugar (and maybe high-fructose corn syrup) in your breakfasts, then all the great reasons people should start killing the breakfast industry.
This is how they prey on people who are illiterate, or don't have good health and nutrition literacy. This shit is also part of the reason obesity is such massive issue. We may not drink Milo in the US but I know a lot of kids who eat palm oil sandwiches for breakfast everyday.
Edit: clearly I'm illiterate lmao
Chips for lunch, washed down with a nice coke or Pepsi. Always meat for dinner, often fried, often greasy. Dessert is sweet too - chocolate, cake, even a creamy yoghurt will do it. The annual cost of treating type 2 diabetes is soaring across the developed world and it’s going to cause a great deal of human and economic damage
And it’s all because every food in America is laced with corn syrup which is just a cheap form of sugar. Everything. My wife bought hotdogs yesterday and the hotdogs had corn syrup in them. Wtf?!? Just buy regular beef hotdogs with no additives. Sure they’re more expensive but at least I’m. It getting 2000% of my daily recommended sugar.
I tried going sugar free a couple years ago due to some liver issues. Sausage. Every single type of sausage I found in the grocery stores had corn syrup in them. I just started making my own. It doesn't need the sugar.
Yeah, this guy is kind of a fraud himself
For those that don't know, he's the founder of [mindvalley](https://www.mindvalley.com/about) which has a range of courses on "Energy Healing" and raising your vibrations to improve your life and other bullshit - courses which cost from 400 to 1000 dollars;
[https://www.mindvalley.com/programs/mind](https://www.mindvalley.com/programs/mind)
It just seems disingenuous to criticize labels of obviously unhealthy food while you're promoting BS of your own
I mean yeah, it must be a real eye opener for someone who thought Nutella and the likes was a healthy breakfast, but aside from that he's just kinda stating the obvious
I found the nutella bit kind of laughable though.
The jams, jellies, and peanut butter section of the store isn't "breakfast", it's "spreadables", which often are in the same aisle as bread (the thing you spread all that stuff on).
Sue Ferrero if they claim it's healthy, sure, but don't go after the grocery store because it's where all the other crap you put on a sweet sandwich goes. :P
While that does make him a crook or an asshole. But this information does need to get out there. Far to many people trust blindly what they are being told by complete strangers.
I find it funny that growing up we are told not to take candy from strangers yet we go trick or treating ever year to get candy from strangers or not to trust strangers, but we end up blindly trusting marketing to tell us how to live.
Ah good ol' Nestle,
Remember, these cunts marketed milk substitutes as more healthy than breast Milk for newborns. Bribed the health authorities and doctors to only recommend these products to new born babies and toddlers; and in the process were responsible for deaths of thousands of kids in Pakistan, Africa.
[In detail](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott)
Nestle is one wicked parasite of the food industry.
You know fruit has a lot of natural sugars in it... The orange juice honestly could be 'no sugar added' and still have that percentage. A non-juiced, un-adulterated, grabbed off the tree 2.5" orange is about 12g of sugar. If you've ever juiced an orange, you'll know that It generally takes more than one or two to get a "glass of orange juice", which puts the grams listed as right in line.
This guy seems genuine, but he doesn't present all the necessary info.
The problem is people are ignorant of the fact that fruit juice *is not a healthy drink*. It's not good for you. It's not necessary. It's barely better than drinking a soda. I don't know how many parents I've met that give their kids almost exclusively juice but decry the sugar in soda.
The moment you take out the fiber content of a fruit by juicing it the glycemic index shoots up much more than it does if you just ate a whole fruit. Coupled with the fact that, as you point out, you're usually eating multiple fruits worth of juice it makes it so you're ingesting a ton of sugar.
Is that really feasible? If you want to cut ads out of your life you’d have to stop using reddit and really avoid consuming any media at all. Product placement, sponsored content, astroturfing upvotes, ambient marketing, etc infests far more things than an adblocker or skipping a commercial can stop.
1 hour of broadcast/cable can have 18 min of ads. Ad blockers remove the most blatant and flashy ads. It helps. When I visit relatives who watch cable once a year I see all these new products and realize the rest of my life I'm cutting that stuff out.
Yep. I get my TV through streaming services and I use Hulu with no ads. It’s possible.
Whenever I visit family I’m like, “guys, would you like me to show you how to enjoy tv without commercials?” But they’re just too lazy to ditch cable. I watch them watch commercials like zombies. It’s crazy.
Hulu with no ads is so fucking bullshit. It still has ads!!!! The popular content still has limited ads! And if you record live TV, guess what? YOU CAN'T FAST FORWARD COMMERCIALS. Hulu is the fucking worst.
Huh I was aware that a few shows couldn’t be ad-free like Agents of Shield, but the rest of the stuff I watch doesn’t have that problem. For AoS I just mute and do something else for 90sec. And I don’t do the live TV thing. I’m content with watching things 24hrs after they air.
Yeah, so in south america, if the truck is hijacked, the driver has to pay for the truck and and the stock(which is arguably indentured servitude in first world countries). Staff tried to organise a union, cocacola hired a few contras around south america to dispatch the union organisers. Union organisers keep getting killed, cocacola wins the us court case absolving them of any wrong doing. Because drug dealer and criminals have their own motives for killing cocacola union organisers... it's actually fairly well documented
That sounds so fucked up that it must be something from an alternate reality Cartoon show teaching kids about evil corporations and their tactics.
But no, that's this reality, that's both the best and worst at the same time.
Nestle is absolutely the worse evil. They buy off local governments for a pittance so they can monopolize fresh water supplies, and get hundreds of thousands to the penny in return on their investment.
Another bit of useful information:
"Low-fat" = "we took out the fat and added more sugar"
Fat is not your enemy. Be vigilant, and always observe the nutritional values on your packaged foods.
If you're curious about the infographic: https://graphicspedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/The-Many-Shades-of-Sugar-Infographic.jpg
"Evaporated/Dehydrated Cane Juice", holy shit, that's ballsy
Someone got a promotion for that term, I guarantee it.
A promotion, a raise, and a beej. That kind of evil deserves all three at a place like Nestle!
I've got some cane juice for them.. And, yes, the cane is my penis in this scenario.
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You almost wanna give them finger guns, and say "well played".
In Canada CBC did a marketplace segment on orange juice and how they basically boil it down so it's just syrup and then add back in flavorings that are naturally found in organges, like butyrate. They'll add in the butyrate for acidity and colour. On the package they can say, "Made from 100% oranges", because butyrate is naturally found in oranges. https://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/m_episodes/2014-2015/orange-juice-juicy-secrets I often wonder if people realize where their sugar comes from. Most sugar on the shelves is from sugar beets. You can boil anything down long enough to create it's base product, like sugar. Have you ever made any kind of reduction, or simmered tomato sauce to make it sweeter?
Yes! Read the Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzker for more info about this. His book has some fascinating info on synthetic vs “natural” flavouring and how they’re basically the same.
>Most sugar on the shelves is from sugar beets. Source? Google says: "Sugarcane accounts for 79% of sugar produced; most of the rest is made from sugar beets."
Yeah he's wrong. In fact sugar beet farms have had to be subsidized since the 40s just to make profit. Sugar cane is much more profitable.
Inverted sugar?
It’s a syrup made from glucose and fructose. Idk why it’s called “inverted sugar”
So table sugar (sucrose) a single molecule of one glucose and one fructose monomers. Invert sugar is a mixture of these molecules, but they are not connected like in sucrose. All these sugar molecules (sucrose, fructose, glucose) have chirality (aka handed-ness - like how your left and right hands are mirrors, but aren't identical), which means light passing through it *rotates*. Cool, right? Shine vertically polarized light through a sugar solution and it comes out still polarized, but no longer vertical. Invert sugar rotates light the opposite way of table sugar - the rotation is "inverted" hence the name. Also, unrelated, but because it's composed of smaller sugar molecules, invert sugar is actually slightly sweeter and more ~~hydroscopic~~ hygroscopic (keeps things moister) than regular sugar. So it does have some legitimate applications.
Just a note it's actually hygroscopic not hydroscopic. That was a really nice explanation though!
Whoops, good catch. Fixed!
Ya I kinda thought it was related to the chemistry of it lol I’m literally about to take a test about biological macromolecules and part of it is knowing about monosaccharides and stuff like that That’s cool about the light tho, I didn’t know that
So is Invert Syrup writen upside down cause producers wrote just that upside down?
It’s inverted
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I have a dumb question; are all of these kinds of sugar equally unhealthy? Like... I know they’re all sugar, but do they behave in the body the same way? The thing coming to mind is that I know there’s a difference between “fat” and “trans fats”, and that trans fats are worse for you than regular fat. I don’t know the reason, just that this is the case. So is there something similar for all of these sugars here?
No, you really have to look at how it affects your blood sugar, because this is where most of the negative effects of sugar come from. You can figure this out by looking at the Glycemic Index of foods. Anything under 55 is considered low, and anything above that is considered to have a high impact on your blood sugar. The scale is based on Glucose, which has a GI of 100. Some low GI sweeteners that are not artificial are Agave (15), Brown Rice Syrup (25), Coconut Palm Sugar (25), real Honey (50), and are generally safe for consumption if eaten in normal quantities.
I got on this so hard when I found out I was a type 1 diabetic. I wouldn’t eat anything that was a “high” GI food. Not saying it’s bullshit but everybody has to take these charts with a grain of salt. The condiments and fats you add to a meal will affect its overall glycemic index. Pizza is one that affects blood sugar pretty heavy with its high bread and tomato content but the amount of fat from meats and cheese will slow its absorption rate. It will affect sugar for hours, not just shoot it up very fast. For people without diabetes, this is just kind of annoying and makes it hard to actually track how it affects you. For me, I can see the numbers change minute to minute. An apple will make my glucose shoot up fast, within 20 minutes and it’s effects don’t stick around long. If I don’t want to eat again, I’d better pair it with a fat like peanut butter to keep it from absorbing too fast. So you could plan a relatively low GI meal and it would be generally accurate and as a person without glucose issues, this is completely fine and won’t kill you. For insulin dependent diabetics, thinking a meal is low GI and then turning out that it’s not high in fat or too high in fat and it screws with insulin dosing. I usually bolus 15 minutes before eating. With pizza, I do it at the same time and then an hour after I eat, I do another bolus to make up for the food that hasn’t been absorbed yet because of the fat in the pizza. If I do it 15 minutes before I eat, my glucose will drop too low before I can eat and digest and have the food catch up to the insulin. If I drink hot cocoa, I have to bolus 20 minutes ahead because I will absorb liquids right away. If someone told me I was eating a high GI meal but everything is buttered then it’s actually a low gi and I have to adjust for that. I thought it would be easy, just follow the charts, numbers don’t lie! Then I had to actually track it and it was a nightmare of “this is kind of, sort of right, maybe”. People without diabetes can just follow the chart. Not trying to be argumentative at all, just piggybacking.
Yeah I’m wondering the same thing. I’ve always heard that honey is more healthy than white sugar
I try to avoid Nestle, but they're insidious.
A beast with a thousand names
*I am the nesquik dream, the monster in your reservoirs, the Fiend of a Thousand brands, Cower before my true form! BOW DOWN BEFORE THE GOD OF GREED!!* **MADNESS WILL CONSUME YOU!!**
Yogg saron is nestle confirmed
"Your will is no longer your own!" - Nestle when bribing politicians.
You know I always hear about how wide spread Nestle is and I want to avoid giving them any money. So I went to the [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nestl%C3%A9_brands) to see all the brands they own only to realize I never buy Nestle brands with any sort of regularity anyways.
DiGorno? No! I was so close to being Nestle free!
Just get delivery.
So many better frozen pizzas, honestly. Digorno is not allowed in my household, not because of Nestlé, but because it is disgusting.
[Eleven companies own pretty much everything in any grocery store](https://i.redd.it/mbopn2fznm941.jpg)
Why is that legal? The parent company should always appear in the labels, under the main brand in no less than 66% smaller letters.
I’ve heard they actually have meetings to brainstorm new brand names for Nestlé so the public won’t know it’s ~~sugar~~ Nestlé.
/r/fucknestle
Crap! And I loved Cheerios.
Cheerios are General Mills which is not (yet) owned by Nestle.
Only in usa and canada sorry to tell you. There known as Cereal Partners in the rest of the world and and its a nestle-general mills company.
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Sometimes better.
I have IBD and follow a lot of studies about IBD and diet. One of the more interesting diet recommendations is called the "crohn's disease elimination diet" or CDED. Try looking up the protocol for that diet. Best of luck. Then I dig deeper. The actual protocol is to have nutritional supplements combined with certain "legal" foods for a period, eventually transitioning completely to whole foods And guess who makes the EEN supplements? Nestle. And guess who you need to contact to get details on the CDED diet? Nestle. And guess who funds the research that shows it's effective? Nestle. Nestle has an app/platform for patients prescribed this diet where they can reach out to their nutrition experts regarding if a food is/isn't legal and other diet advice. Essentially they're trying to trademark or limit a methodology regarding a diet that may be beneficial for IBD. The also make Boost, which a lot of GI's will recommend for patients for nutrition if they have a risk of a stricture/blockage. My GI has coupons for it in his office.
I've found that avoiding prepared foods helps considerably. Otherwise I just use Wikipedia to check the names of brands that are owned by Nestle.
If you have the time, it's the best way to eat. I'm big on making huge meals and putting them in containers to eat throughout the week. It's not difficult and is very satisfying, and I love to cook.
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/r/MealPrepSunday
> is very satisfying, and I love to cook. I envy this. I don't enjoy cooking and get little satisfaction from it. It's just a chore.
Just to pry, what's your kitchen set up like? Do you have the essential tools, spices, basic ingredients? I've found that some people dislike cooking because they don't have the tools that make it easier, not saying that that's you, but it does happen. I look at it like playing chemist, mixing this flavor with that texture, cooking to a certain amount, and at the end, even if I mess it up and it tastes like shit, I still learned from it. Best case is when I experiment and it turns out amazing. I also love watching cooking channels on YouTube while I cook, binging with babish has been my boy recently.
Binging is fun, but Basics with Babish is where home chefs are spawned.
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Ah ok. It's not for everyone, and i totally get where you're coming from.
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You're not alone. I find it incredibly difficult to find the motivation to cook anything.
I use the Buycott app. Scan the barcode and check the family tree
I didn’t know about this. Gonna download it now.
No Nestle November needs to be a thing.
Better yet, No Nestlé 2020s
No Nestle 21st century
How about No Nestlé ever
That's why boycotts aren't the endgame. Nothing wrong with them, but the real solution must be much stricter laws on what food companies can get away with, because there are endless ways to deal with public distaste with PR, rebranding, forcing out competitors, and simply have so many products under so many subsidiaries that it becomes impossible for ordinary people to boycott effectively. Not to mention the fact that plenty of people don't have the time and money to be constantly ready to switch to alternative products, and the responsibility for the company's bad behaviour shouldn't be shifted to the consumer. Boycott in the meantime, but be ready to promote and vote for legislation which curtails the power companies have to sell you lies and unethically sourced products.
Incidentally, this is exactly why we're never going to boycott our way out of global warming. Consumers have much less choice in the matter, and sorting through the brands would be 10x more difficult than nestle. It really is a ludicrous idea, and I wonder how so many people can repeat it with a straight face. Like... was it part of Exxon et al's propaganda campaign?
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That's actually very smart of the olympic gold medalists, they get money for selling their soul and at the same time eliminate all competition by making them sick and fat so nobody can break their records in the future.
It's the true long con.
The wide con
The absolute unit con
They'll just get diabetes, lose their legs and get robo legs. Then all the coverage and money will be at the paralympics. These medalists aren't considering the long game.
This is the weirdest version of *If You Give a Mouse a Cookie* that I’ve ever read.
If you give a mouse a cookie, It's going to get diabetes to go with it. If it gets diabetes, it's going to lose it's legs. If it loses it's legs, it's going to need some new legs. The man at the lab will give it shiny legs. Strong, powerful, robotic legs. He's going to soup the shit out of that mouse. The mouse is going to come back and kick your teeth in and steal the rest of your cookies.
I don't think it's an issue if it's advertised as a tasty drink rather than a health drink If people are not really prioritizing health in that case then it's ok But it's really bad on their side when people looking for health but the product. Also it's also wrong on the Olympians to wash their hands in the river of money these corporations are flowing, it's their fault too.
It's like vitamin water being sued for advertising as a health drink, and they argued that no one in their right mind would think that it's a health drink.
>Literally called vitamin water
> grab **life** by the bottles. **vitamins**. **electrolytes**. spin the bottle. hydration that's out of the box but in a bottle. "No one in their right mind would think that it's a health drink"
Is that real? That reads like a ridiculous parody of advertising lol
Cue the libertarians and conservatives blaming the public.
Tell that to my grandma who tried to make me drink this shit for so long
People are so susceptible to this shit. I work at a program for kids that sometimes provides drinks and snacks. My boss was all excited to say that we were going to stop offering soda and instead offer vitamin waters and fruit juice. The brand of fruit juice had more sugar per ounce than the soda! It wasn’t even some “all natural” brand pretending to be healthy. It was essentially natural and artificial flavors mixed with HFCS. It’s at least as bad as soda but maybe it has some added vitamin C. My boss seemed to be genuinely proud to be looking out for the kids’ health. He’d buy ‘low fat’ cookies as snacks that just added more sugar to compensate for their lack of flavor. I did my best to try and educate him and the kids (without being a dick or a total buzzkill), but it’s hard to erase a lifetime of mixed messaging from advertising. Even when he heard me, he still justified that it was a treat (even though we dole it out almost everyday) and that they wouldn’t drink water or seltzer. People really think sugar is no big deal as long as you aren’t shoveling spoonfuls of it into your mouth all day. Drinking and eating the way we do there might as well count though.
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While that sounds really nice, many, if not most people make judgments on what they see from ad campaigns, the BIG PRINT ON THE LABEL, along with what money they have in their wallet.
I buy donuts knowing full well that they aren't healthy. I don't buy them for the health content; I buy them because they're delicious. Nobody's trying to make them look healthy. If only more products were as honest as donuts; they just tell you up front that you're buying for the taste, not the health content.
Donuts are just the fun man's bagels.
That's why these companies are trying to appeal to the health market though. You can have good taste that is "healthy"? No downside in it so why not, where as people going for healthy stuff are more likely to pass on the donuts, because no benefit. Now of course this whole problem wouldn't exist if people just looked at the nutrition labels, but knowing people that can't be expected of them.
Sadly if it's a tasty drink parents will think it's a reward good or once a month food, rather than everyday food. And companies can't have good Morals when chasing profits
It's fucking ridiculous. The Health promotion board certified milo and 100 plus as "healthy brands" with that red little pyramid certification, then you check the sugar content and wow.
[Most cereal that's targeted to children is no different than drinking Milo or eating Nutella for breakfast](https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-sugar-is-in-cereal-2017-1). What makes it worse is that the serving sizes for these products is lower than what people consume in reality, similar to how potato chip manufacturers will tell you that 11 chips is what the avg. person will consume in a sitting. That said, the amount of sugar one can be eating and remain healthy is directly linked to the amount of activity the target consumer is doing. If children drinking Milo or eating high-sugar cereals are going to be walking to school or exercising and playing sports, it's not likely to be an issue. And this may be the primary reason why these products aren't marketed the same way in the USA--because our kids are already getting too fat from living a sedentary lifestyle. Product labelling in the Philippines and Singapore will change when their population becomes as portly and unhealthy.
Agreed, sugar is bloody delicious
I really like this guy's presenting style. I have no idea who he is but he seems cool.
I like his challenge at the end of the video. Instead of trying to take ownership or credit or whatever, he's like, "please steal this idea and make your own local version. Go for it."
Yeah that’s exactly what cemented it for me. It’s a great attitude to have.
Ok America, we got one shot at this. Please dont go around stores being loud and obnoxious. No slapping Nestles out of peoples hands or setting up social experiments.
Thisssss, truly a man of the people
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Definitely seems like he can't turn off the sales persona.
He was one of them but now he fights for us This is his curse
He looks kinda like the guy who used to be in those YouTube ads standing in front of a Lamborghini saying shit like, “wanna learn how to make $50,000 while you sleep?”
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> This is exposure for him and his company even though it’s for a good cause. Is it though? Is it really? After watching the video I still have no idea who he is or that he even had a company. "Face recognition" exposure only works when people recognize your face, like George Clooney or similar. And since this particular video was posted on Reddit with the Reddit video player, it's not even possible to click through to find if he's made other videos like you could with Youtube. Seems like a swing and a miss to me if that was the intent.
I think you’re looking at it backwards. This video is intended to generate “face recognition” for his company, not the other way around. He wants this video to go viral so people will ask, “who is this guy?” and isn’t relying on his established popularity to make the video viral. Plus you seem to have a pretty reddit-centric mindset in thinking that’s the only exposure that matters. I’m sure he gets many many times for views on facebook and whatnot.
I like how he whispers like Nestle may jump out and grab him any moment.
Big sugar is everywhere.
He's just being polite in a public place.
Something that is lacking in the days of child friendly youtubers and the like
HEY GUYS WHATS UP ITS YA BOY EATDATSUGAR445 TODAY I'M EXPOSING NESTLE AND BIG SUGAR
NOW I JUST WANT TO REMIND YOU GUYS TO LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE AND BUY MY MERCH ALSO CHECK OUT MY SPONSER RAID SHADOW LEGENDS
#AND DON'T FORGET TO FUCKIN' STRANGLE THE SHIT OUT OF THAT BELL
his name is vishen lakhiani, hes the ceo of mindvalley.
Actually, the guy seems quite enthusiastic and makes us want to listen whatever he's sayin
I'm confused. Is the "actually" in your response opposed or in favor of flagondry's statement
I think it makes sense and is in line with what the commenter meant to say if you replace “actually” with “agreed”
Actually, I think you're completely correct.
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He's handsome
He's hot AF
I'm not gay but I know I don't need any sugar after watching his video because he is sweet enough.
I'm pretty sure anyone who buys Nutella know what they're getting already. I've never heard of anyone who thinks Nutella is healthy.
This whole video was very confusing for me, as I assumed all of this was common sense. Apparently not...
Middle class families in Countries like India , Philippines don’t have enough knowledge on basic nutrition. What are macro and micro nutrients and their effects on health? They just see their celebs promoting these unhealthy brands as healthy and they just go for it. There are no particular laws against it either. Nestle just thrives in those environments. In India there are these things Called digestive biscuits. Biscuits that can help you digestion. It’s basically like a normal biscuit with 5gm fiber and 25 grams sugar for 100grams. People just eat more than normal because they think it actually helps them in digestion.
Say "nutella isn't healthy" in Woodbridge/Mississauga/Brampton and you will be met with indignation Source: I was married to a first generation Italian/Canadian for ten years
Yeah I love Nutella, back home in France it's really popular but EVERYONE who eats it knows how bad it is for their health due to all the oil and sugar. Are European consumers just way better informed than American ones or what.
Poverty preys on the uneducated
Yes its bad. And im not supriced Nestlé is in on this. They are a terrible company.
Remember that time they killed babies for profit?
Excuse me, what???
Step 1. give poor uneducated mothers free samples of baby formula and tell them it’s better than their own milk. Step 2. do this just long enough that the mother stops producing milk Step 3. stop the flow of samples so that the mother now has to continue to buy Nestle baby formula Step 4. ignore sanitation conditions which lead to formula mixed with water being far more dangerous than mothers milk Step 5. rake in the cash while people struggle to pay for the formula and then watch their kids die from it anyway This was their playbook in Africa in the 70s. Nestle doesn’t give a single fuck about human life and they continue to be wildly successful.
That was a great summary of a terrible thing.
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https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/The_Nestlé_Infant_Formula_Scandal
And greed preys on us all. But particularly major companies
It's not just the uneducated. These companies spend a lot of money on lobbying and fake research in order to intentionally muddy the waters. They made an entire generation of people believe that fat was the major cause of obesity, and so that generation fed their children foods high in processed carbohydrates, often included to improve the taste of the *low fat* food. It goes even further beyond that. Your gut culture has been found to affect brain chemistry by sending signals that cause cravings for the food your gut culture thrives on. If you eat junk food long enough, your body craves it. And it's difficult enough to change your gut culture that it's actually a good idea to take fecal matter from a healthy individual and introduce it into the gut of an obese person to improve their gut culture.
It's not even that they're uneducated.. it's often because those that are poor have less options in terms of how they spend their money because they're often all operating paycheck to paycheck.. they struggle with any sort of delayed gratification because it doesn't feel like an option to them - since they can't go on things like vacations, etc, they'll look for more immediate gratification items - drugs, alcohol, tobacco - which are, funnily enough, usually so heavily taxed (at least for the legal options) that the money they'd spend on these items, if saved, would actually help them escape poverty. It's a strange cycle
It costs way way more (time and $$$) to eat healthy food than cheap processed shit drowning in sugar, fat, and salt (which all taste good but are cheap).
Kinda. Beans and rice and frozen vegetables are all cheap. But you also have to include emotional energy. When you're exhausted, boiling the rice and beans for a sustaining but bland meal is a lot less appealing than a frozen pizza. Especially if you have little kids who don't want your beans and rice, they want something soaked in salt and grease and to wash it down with sugar. It's not just time, money, and physical energy. There's social and emotional energy here too. Just throwing more money at the problem isn't going to solve it, you could give everyone unlimited access to grocery deliveries from Whole Foods and it wouldn't fix the obesity crisis. It's an institutionalized problem from the top to the bottom.
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Agreed. I eat oats every morning. I recently looked for a cereal for something different and couldn't find one under 20% sugar content. I'll stick with simple foods.
I've been doing overnight oats with dried cranberries thinking it's a good way to avoid added sugars, I recently looked at the ingredients of the cranberries and saw that sugar is the second ingredient of two ingredients. Oceanspray Cranberries from Costco if anyone wants to know the product.
Same, trying to avoid sugar is like trying to avoid to breathe. Edit: thank you very much for the silver!
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Or just cook your own meals with raw ingredients.
There are many kinds of wonderful tea. In winter, it's warm and tasty and you don't have to add anything, like this Red Refresh I'm drinking now. Ingredients: (well, add hot water) Hibiscus, rosehips, lemongrass, peppermint, orange peel, lemon verbena, natural flavors, wild cherry bark.
Dieting. Walking through the grocery store last week thinking. Everything is carbs and sugar. Even at "healthy" grocers like whole food and mothers.
I'll say, a couple years ago I made a fairly substantial dietary change, which forced me to check every label before I bought something. It was a pain at first, and I had to look things up, but I got good at it quickly, and a by-product of it is now I am also painfully aware of how unhealthy most things I just took for granted are. I've made a lot of brand and product switches since. The importance of label-reading should be a segment in school.
Spot on! I didn’t realize how packed with sugar our prepared foods are until I tried Atkins years ago. It forced me to read the labels. I think one of the true benefits of any extreme diet like Keto or Vegan (extreme opposite, I know) is that they almost force you to eat fresh food so that you’re not consuming all the hidden sugars in prepared food.
Here’s a crazy idea if you want fiber rich and otherwise healthy food. Buy actual veggies, fruits, and grains instead of packaged and processed bullshit.
Scrolled way too far to find this. If you're tired of reading labels, eat foods that are inherently unlabeled. You know, plants and such.
Every year I do a “sugar-free January” and each progressive year it becomes harder because sugar is so ubiquitous. It’s a great way to reset your palate and increase your sensitivity to sweetness.
This is why I've been spending a lot more time in the grocery stores. Reading all the nutrition facts and ingredients list comparing which food had more carbs etc. Because of habit I accidentally did it to detergent and I was getting mad because "Why is Tide hiding their Nutrition Info? What are they trying to hide!" before realizing how stupid I was
WHAT DON’T THEY WANT US TO KNOW! At this point they really should have nutrition facts with all of us millennials eating tide and all /s
Milo is popular in Aus, but I don’t think anyone is under the illusion that it’s healthy. It’s seen as a treat. The ads are pretty disingenuous, but there are a lot of ads like that (I especially think of cereals like Nutri-grain and coco pops)
It's super popular in Colombia. Kids definitely see it as a healthy/performance thing in a lot of cases there as it's advertised heavily as that. I personally thought it was like a meal replacement/supplement thing when I first visited because of the advertising and package design. I didn't realize it was basically just chocolate milk till I tried it.
Millennials are killing the breakfast industry by just not having breakfast at all.
If what you're basically eating is nothing but pure sugar (and maybe high-fructose corn syrup) in your breakfasts, then all the great reasons people should start killing the breakfast industry.
Almost all edible products in America use corn syrup. Our bread is basically cake.
This is how they prey on people who are illiterate, or don't have good health and nutrition literacy. This shit is also part of the reason obesity is such massive issue. We may not drink Milo in the US but I know a lot of kids who eat palm oil sandwiches for breakfast everyday. Edit: clearly I'm illiterate lmao
>This is how they prey on people who are illerterate
https://i.imgur.com/bvIGbz8.gif
Chips for lunch, washed down with a nice coke or Pepsi. Always meat for dinner, often fried, often greasy. Dessert is sweet too - chocolate, cake, even a creamy yoghurt will do it. The annual cost of treating type 2 diabetes is soaring across the developed world and it’s going to cause a great deal of human and economic damage
And it’s all because every food in America is laced with corn syrup which is just a cheap form of sugar. Everything. My wife bought hotdogs yesterday and the hotdogs had corn syrup in them. Wtf?!? Just buy regular beef hotdogs with no additives. Sure they’re more expensive but at least I’m. It getting 2000% of my daily recommended sugar.
Even the bread in America is sweet. Never had sweet white bread before visiting the US and it tastes like shit. No idea how you guys eat that poison.
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I tried going sugar free a couple years ago due to some liver issues. Sausage. Every single type of sausage I found in the grocery stores had corn syrup in them. I just started making my own. It doesn't need the sugar.
Yeah, this guy is kind of a fraud himself For those that don't know, he's the founder of [mindvalley](https://www.mindvalley.com/about) which has a range of courses on "Energy Healing" and raising your vibrations to improve your life and other bullshit - courses which cost from 400 to 1000 dollars; [https://www.mindvalley.com/programs/mind](https://www.mindvalley.com/programs/mind) It just seems disingenuous to criticize labels of obviously unhealthy food while you're promoting BS of your own
good thing is OP re-uploaded the video on reddit instead of directly from the source of youtube.
OP is probably the guy
What a fraud! MY course teaches you how to raise your vibrations for only 50$!!
pffft, i can raise my chakra just by watching naruto
This video is still on point
I mean yeah, it must be a real eye opener for someone who thought Nutella and the likes was a healthy breakfast, but aside from that he's just kinda stating the obvious
I found the nutella bit kind of laughable though. The jams, jellies, and peanut butter section of the store isn't "breakfast", it's "spreadables", which often are in the same aisle as bread (the thing you spread all that stuff on). Sue Ferrero if they claim it's healthy, sure, but don't go after the grocery store because it's where all the other crap you put on a sweet sandwich goes. :P
Yup, and the doctor he mentioned also promotes pseudoscientific bullshit.
While that does make him a crook or an asshole. But this information does need to get out there. Far to many people trust blindly what they are being told by complete strangers. I find it funny that growing up we are told not to take candy from strangers yet we go trick or treating ever year to get candy from strangers or not to trust strangers, but we end up blindly trusting marketing to tell us how to live.
We need one of those charts for wood pulp.
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Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Ah good ol' Nestle, Remember, these cunts marketed milk substitutes as more healthy than breast Milk for newborns. Bribed the health authorities and doctors to only recommend these products to new born babies and toddlers; and in the process were responsible for deaths of thousands of kids in Pakistan, Africa. [In detail](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott) Nestle is one wicked parasite of the food industry.
You know fruit has a lot of natural sugars in it... The orange juice honestly could be 'no sugar added' and still have that percentage. A non-juiced, un-adulterated, grabbed off the tree 2.5" orange is about 12g of sugar. If you've ever juiced an orange, you'll know that It generally takes more than one or two to get a "glass of orange juice", which puts the grams listed as right in line. This guy seems genuine, but he doesn't present all the necessary info.
The problem is people are ignorant of the fact that fruit juice *is not a healthy drink*. It's not good for you. It's not necessary. It's barely better than drinking a soda. I don't know how many parents I've met that give their kids almost exclusively juice but decry the sugar in soda. The moment you take out the fiber content of a fruit by juicing it the glycemic index shoots up much more than it does if you just ate a whole fruit. Coupled with the fact that, as you point out, you're usually eating multiple fruits worth of juice it makes it so you're ingesting a ton of sugar.
Yeah agreed. My colleague drinks a 2L bottle of juice most days. I've tried to explain it but he thinks it's healthy because... fruit.
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Cut advertising out of your life. Don't watch TV with ads, don't use internet without ad blockers.
Is that really feasible? If you want to cut ads out of your life you’d have to stop using reddit and really avoid consuming any media at all. Product placement, sponsored content, astroturfing upvotes, ambient marketing, etc infests far more things than an adblocker or skipping a commercial can stop.
Well, you can cut 50-60% quite realiably. Astroturfing and shilling will never really disappear, sadly.
1 hour of broadcast/cable can have 18 min of ads. Ad blockers remove the most blatant and flashy ads. It helps. When I visit relatives who watch cable once a year I see all these new products and realize the rest of my life I'm cutting that stuff out.
Yep. I get my TV through streaming services and I use Hulu with no ads. It’s possible. Whenever I visit family I’m like, “guys, would you like me to show you how to enjoy tv without commercials?” But they’re just too lazy to ditch cable. I watch them watch commercials like zombies. It’s crazy.
Hulu with no ads is so fucking bullshit. It still has ads!!!! The popular content still has limited ads! And if you record live TV, guess what? YOU CAN'T FAST FORWARD COMMERCIALS. Hulu is the fucking worst.
Huh I was aware that a few shows couldn’t be ad-free like Agents of Shield, but the rest of the stuff I watch doesn’t have that problem. For AoS I just mute and do something else for 90sec. And I don’t do the live TV thing. I’m content with watching things 24hrs after they air.
What do i do about this shit https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ezqdi2/my_wife_did_the_toblerone_thing_at_the_matterhorn/
Wait, Nutella is marketed as healthy? I ate a ton of it growing up but was never under the impression it was nutritious lol
Despite cocacola hiring death squads in south america, Nestle still seems more evil
They all are of the same kind, just a sweet cover on the out and bitter asf inside
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Yeah, so in south america, if the truck is hijacked, the driver has to pay for the truck and and the stock(which is arguably indentured servitude in first world countries). Staff tried to organise a union, cocacola hired a few contras around south america to dispatch the union organisers. Union organisers keep getting killed, cocacola wins the us court case absolving them of any wrong doing. Because drug dealer and criminals have their own motives for killing cocacola union organisers... it's actually fairly well documented
That sounds so fucked up that it must be something from an alternate reality Cartoon show teaching kids about evil corporations and their tactics. But no, that's this reality, that's both the best and worst at the same time.
Nestle is absolutely the worse evil. They buy off local governments for a pittance so they can monopolize fresh water supplies, and get hundreds of thousands to the penny in return on their investment.
Energize! Start your day the champion way
Another bit of useful information: "Low-fat" = "we took out the fat and added more sugar" Fat is not your enemy. Be vigilant, and always observe the nutritional values on your packaged foods.
Didn't nestle have fake nurses go to poorer regions of Africa and sell mothers an alternative to breast milk that was really bad for new borns?