Overfed but Undernourished
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Overfed but Undernourished
In this week's Wellness Wednesday episode, Evan breaks down how the U.S. and many parts of the world are currently overfed in terms of caloric intake yet, they are lacking in nutrients. Here in the U.S. we have all you can eat buffets and cheap processed foods implying that we are well fed. While it's true that most people in the U.S. are able to fill their stomachs with food, a majority of the population is lacking in nutrition. We know this simply by looking at the rise of diseases such as cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, and etc. If we were achieving our necessary levels of nutrition, then these diseases would be much less common.
Tune in to hear Evan cover:
- What food groups make up a majority of our calories.
- Why these foods are nutrient deficient.
- What foods are nutrient dense and should be on our plates.
- The amount of sugar found in many foods.
- The difference in caloric intake from 1970-2010.
- What changes you can make to become properly fed and properly nourished.
Evan hopes that you walk away from this episode with the tools to make a change in your health and be the best version of yourself possible. Remember to always connect to your elements, and do everything with good intentions.
Disclaimer:
This podcast is for educational purposes only, it is not a substitute for professional care by a doctor or other qualified medical professional. Evan Roberts is not a medical professional and this podcast is provided on the understanding that it does not constitute medical or other professional advice or services. Statements and views expressed on this show are not medical advice, this podcast, including Evan Roberts and any guests on the show, disclaims responsibility for any possible adverse effects from the use of information contained in this episode. If you think you have a medical problem please consult a medical professional.
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Transcript
going on, everybody.
Speaker:Welcome back to another episode of the elemental Evan show.
Speaker:Today is a wellness Wednesday episode, which means it is going
Speaker:to be a full length episode.
Speaker:Uh, these are typically a little bit longer than the Monday episodes,
Speaker:which are more of a mini episode.
Speaker:Uh, but today I have a topic that, uh, came to me just a few weeks ago.
Speaker:Actually, I heard this saying of being overfed, but undernourished.
Speaker:Uh, on actually I think it might've been another podcast.
Speaker:Uh, they didn't really dive into it.
Speaker:They just mentioned it.
Speaker:And I was thinking to myself, This is incredible topic that needs to be
Speaker:discussed because it's so, so true.
Speaker:Uh, so none, nonetheless, uh, I did a deep dive on how we are truly
Speaker:overfed, but undernourished, meaning we are intaking way more calories.
Speaker:Uh, then we were back in the day and yet we are sicker than ever.
Speaker:So obviously we are undernourished and the information I found
Speaker:was really, really incredible.
Speaker:And I'm excited to share it with all of you.
Speaker:But before I jump into today's episode, I just want to take a minute and kind of
Speaker:reflect on the meaning of this episode or not just this episode, this whole podcast.
Speaker:And the reason I named this podcast, the elemental Eben show
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Speaker:Is simply because I truly believe that we can live a healthy, modern life as long as
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Speaker:So, all right, now let's get into today's episode, which I'm
Speaker:super excited about because.
Speaker:The information I came across was actually pretty surprising to me.
Speaker:Every time I do these episodes and I, you know, do hours of research on
Speaker:each topic, I always find something that's really, really interesting.
Speaker:And a lot of the times it's stuff that I had no idea about myself personally.
Speaker:So it is a true learning experience for me as well.
Speaker:And I get to provide this knowledge to all of you in the most digestible form
Speaker:that I can put it in so that you can just take it in a quick, you know, quick
Speaker:episode and apply these, you know, ideas.
Speaker:and health practices into your life right away.
Speaker:So today's episode, like I said, it's all about being overfed, but under nourished.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:This is.
Speaker:So, so important today.
Speaker:I think we, you know, we don't really pay much mind to this.
Speaker:Um, we know that we're not doing so well as a nation in terms of health, but we
Speaker:don't really look at it in terms of the fact that, you know, we are eating more,
Speaker:but we're getting less out of that food.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:Um, the way this is possible.
Speaker:Um, I used, eh, the research found through pew research center.
Speaker:That's pew, pew.
Speaker:Um, and they found that in a comparison of the 1970s food trends compared to
Speaker:2010 food trends, they found that in just that 40 year gap from 1970 to 2010,
Speaker:The average American consumed about 23% more calories at 2,481 calories.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So almost 2,500 as compared to 2025 calories in 1970, which is, you
Speaker:know, roughly a little bit less than.
Speaker:500 calories.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:So in just 40 years, we increase our consumption here in the us by, you
Speaker:know, roughly, uh, 500 calories, right.
Speaker:A little bit less.
Speaker:So, if you look at that, you would think, okay, Obviously we're eating more so
Speaker:we should be more nourished from it.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:But that's not exactly the takeaway that we found here.
Speaker:Also a quick note.
Speaker:In the research I was doing, I found varying numbers in terms of how much.
Speaker:Like how many calories we're consuming now compared to back in the day.
Speaker:Um, I felt that this was one of the better research studies that I could find online.
Speaker:So if you go and look, you'll find varying numbers, although they all pretty much.
Speaker:We'll show the same thing that we have increased our calorie intake.
Speaker:Um, the only thing that I don't agree with is.
Speaker:I actually think we consume more calories than.
Speaker:What is being stated here, and I'll kind of explain why as the episode goes on.
Speaker:But nonetheless, I just kind of wanted to make that point.
Speaker:Uh, just in case any of you are, you know, doing your own
Speaker:research, which I highly recommend.
Speaker:Um, but you know, that way in case you're fact checking me, which absolutely do so.
Speaker:I just wanted you to understand that, you know, this is the link that I was
Speaker:using, which I'll have in the show notes, by the way, for the pew research center.
Speaker:Um, but if you do look online, don't be confused if you're like, wait, hold on.
Speaker:There's all these other numbers, but anyways, getting into the episode.
Speaker:So, uh, like I said, if we're consuming more calories than how is it that
Speaker:we're undernourished well, As with most things in life and definitely
Speaker:in health, there really isn't just a one straightforward answer.
Speaker:There's kind of multiple components to it.
Speaker:Um, so we're going to have to kind of unpack a few different things.
Speaker:So for one, we need to look at the types of food that we're eating.
Speaker:That make up a majority of our consumed foods.
Speaker:So referring back to the pew research centers.
Speaker:Uh, findings.
Speaker:Uh, I found that nearly half of the calories came from just two food groups.
Speaker:It was flowers and grains, which made up 23.4% of the calories and from fats and
Speaker:oils, which made up 23.2% of the calories.
Speaker:So two food groups making up.
Speaker:What about a little over 46% of our food of our calorie intake.
Speaker:Then you combine that with the fact that we have been consuming here in
Speaker:the U S roughly 77.3 pounds of sugar.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:And that's sugar, like, um, you know, sugar, corn syrup.
Speaker:Those are the main two ones.
Speaker:Like high-fructose corn syrup.
Speaker:Those are the two that we mainly consumed.
Speaker:This is not including artificial sweeteners, like aspartame.
Speaker:Uh, so we're just talking about basically sugar here.
Speaker:77.3 pounds.
Speaker:K.
Speaker:I.
Speaker:I think this is actually really hard for people to understand, because you
Speaker:hear this number and you're like, okay.
Speaker:Yeah, it sounds like a lot, but if you actually go online
Speaker:and, you know, type in Dr.
Speaker:Google, Hey, you know, uh, what, what does a 50 pound bag of sugar look like?
Speaker:You can go ahead and find that they are these massive bags.
Speaker:Like almost like a bag of concrete, actually even
Speaker:larger than a bag of concrete.
Speaker:And that's just a 50 pound bag.
Speaker:So we're consuming more than that.
Speaker:You could even think of it in terms of, if you had a wheelbarrow.
Speaker:It would be pretty much like filling that wheelbarrow depending on how deep it is.
Speaker:About two thirds to maybe even full.
Speaker:That's how much sugar.
Speaker:We are eating.
Speaker:Every single year here in the U S so, uh, obviously.
Speaker:We have an issue with sugar and I'm sure there's a lot of people who are
Speaker:kind of wondering, like, how does all this sugar get into my diet?
Speaker:If you know, I'm not going and just dipping a spoon into
Speaker:sugar and eating it like that.
Speaker:Um, which if you are doing that, please don't do that.
Speaker:Um, But sugar is very elusive.
Speaker:Sugar is obviously very addictive and it's very easy to slip into
Speaker:our foods, which is being done.
Speaker:So just to give you an idea of how much sugar is in a few common, uh, beverages.
Speaker:You have in just a 12 ounce can of Coke.
Speaker:39 grams of sugar.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:And just a 12 ounce can of Coke already, right there.
Speaker:That's over nine teaspoons of sugar, which by the way, if you broke 77.3
Speaker:pounds down into teaspoons, it's about, I think it was 22 teaspoons a day.
Speaker:So already over nine teaspoons from just one can of Coke.
Speaker:Now, if you take a 16 ounce mocha frappuccino, get that mocha frappe.
Speaker:From Starbucks.
Speaker:That has 51 grams of sugar in it.
Speaker:Okay, so a massive, massive amount of sugar and just a 16 ounce drink.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:I don't know about you, but I can crush 16 ounces of fluid.
Speaker:With no problem at all.
Speaker:Not necessarily that I'm drinking these frappuccinos, but
Speaker:still I could drink 16 ounces.
Speaker:No problem.
Speaker:Uh, if you're saying yourself, Hey, I also don't drink, you know, these
Speaker:frappuccinos or these sodas will.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:That's great for you.
Speaker:But we also have to take a look at things like fruit juices, where we tend to
Speaker:think these are a little bit healthier.
Speaker:It turns out that in a 12 ounce glass of orange juice, you have 36 grams of sugar.
Speaker:That is almost the same amount as a can of Coke.
Speaker:So, you know, even on the things that we're thinking are
Speaker:healthier, they're really not.
Speaker:And the reason fruit juices, I mean, I hate bashing it because it's coming from
Speaker:fruit, like as a, more of a whole food, but at the same time, you're really just
Speaker:extracting all of the sugar out of the fruit and you're taking away all the pulp
Speaker:and the different enzymes that are going to really help to digest that sugar.
Speaker:So you're really just extracting the sweetness and, you know, in a glass
Speaker:of orange juice, it's not just one orange, it's multiple oranges, it's
Speaker:eight or 10 oranges and just one glass.
Speaker:Whereas if you were to eat oranges, it would be extremely difficult to eat
Speaker:eight to 10 oranges in a sitting, right?
Speaker:Like typically, maybe two or three maximum.
Speaker:Um, but not like eight or 10.
Speaker:So, uh, yeah, you're really just getting the sugar portion of this now.
Speaker:To give you a little bit of a breakdown of the sugar.
Speaker:Cause I know when, once again, putting sugar in terms of grams is kind
Speaker:of difficult to really comprehend.
Speaker:Um, at least it was for me, uh, in terms of okay, really?
Speaker:How much is that?
Speaker:Well, I figured it'd be a good idea to kind of break this down into calories
Speaker:because obviously more people count calories and it kind of holds more value.
Speaker:So, and also we're talking about being overfed and undernourished.
Speaker:So in terms of calorie intake here,
Speaker:Um, just one gram of sugar has 16 calories in it.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So just one gram of sugar has 16 calories.
Speaker:In a gram of high-fructose corn syrup, which is, um, one of the
Speaker:more common sweeteners as well.
Speaker:You have 19 grams of sugar in just, or sorry, 19 calories of sugar in just
Speaker:one gram of high-fructose corn syrup.
Speaker:So, if you were to take that 12 ounce can of Coke.
Speaker:Yeah, Coca-Cola uh, you would have about 624 to 741 calories in just
Speaker:that 12 ounce can of Coca-Cola.
Speaker:Um, and you know, for the, uh, For the orange juice it's going
Speaker:to be, you know, pretty close to probably about 600 calories as well.
Speaker:So still a ton of calories and just a tiny little drink.
Speaker:Like I said, the 12 ounces you can crush that really, really quickly.
Speaker:Uh, and then if you go on to the Frappaccino.
Speaker:And this is just a 16 ounce frappuccino.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:There are way worse drinks at Starbucks and other places that like this.
Speaker:But still you would have 816 to a whopping 969 calories.
Speaker:Just in that mocha frappuccino.
Speaker:So obviously you can see that we are getting a majority of our calories from
Speaker:just pretty much three food groups.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Also quick note.
Speaker:If you ever look on the back of a can of Coca-Cola, which by the way, I looked
Speaker:on the back and I saw that it was a corn syrup, at least here in the U S I know.
Speaker:Like Mexico and a few other countries, they still use sugar cane sugar.
Speaker:But, uh, in terms of here in the U S I saw that it was high fructose corn syrup.
Speaker:So we're on the higher end of, you know, 741 calories per can.
Speaker:However, if you look at the total amount of calories on that,
Speaker:can they only put 150 calories?
Speaker:And they say that there's only one serving in that can.
Speaker:And so they are just saying that it's 150 calories.
Speaker:Where did those other like 600 calories go?
Speaker:I mean, I don't know.
Speaker:Um, maybe this is, you know, something I don't, I'm missing here.
Speaker:Maybe the way we can put calories on a can is different.
Speaker:I have no idea.
Speaker:I'm just connecting dots here.
Speaker:Um, but I found that to be really, really odd.
Speaker:The fact that they can just put 150 calories on there, where if you just
Speaker:did a quick Google search, you can see that one gram of sugar is 16
Speaker:calories obviously does not add up.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Moving on.
Speaker:So, as I said earlier, we have three main food groups that are giving
Speaker:us a majority of our calories.
Speaker:So that is once again, the flours and grains, fats, and oils and sugars.
Speaker:So now let's go ahead and look at the nutrition of these different foods.
Speaker:So when we get into sugar, Sugar is typically a refined form of sucrose.
Speaker:K.
Speaker:So typically we're just having the white sugar, right?
Speaker:And it's literally just fruit, toasts and glucose, two things.
Speaker:That's it?
Speaker:Nothing else?
Speaker:No calcium, no fiber, no vitamins, no minerals, nothing.
Speaker:It is a completely empty calorie.
Speaker:That is how it is labeled.
Speaker:If you go look online right now, it will show you that sugar is an empty calorie.
Speaker:It is providing nothing, but these simple carbohydrates, the simple sugars.
Speaker:Um, for energy essentially, which we don't need that much.
Speaker:Okay, so sugar and empty calories, literally providing like zero
Speaker:nutritional value to you personally.
Speaker:So already right there.
Speaker:Um, that to me is like a big, you know, Um, red flag in terms of like being
Speaker:undernourished, but taking in way more calories than we would have in the past.
Speaker:Uh, and then if we look into the flowering grains group, according
Speaker:to the pew research center, once again, this group is primarily wheat.
Speaker:So although corn has been on the rise, uh, it is still primarily
Speaker:wheat as the, uh, main consumption, the main form of calorie intake.
Speaker:So looking at wheat, we can see it's at least a little better than sugar.
Speaker:Um, actually kind of a lot better than sugar because sugar is an empty
Speaker:calorie, but, uh, in 125 grams of wheat, we have a small amount of sodium.
Speaker:Uh, three hundred, a hundred and thirty four milligrams of potassium.
Speaker:Uh, 95 grams of carbs.
Speaker:3.4 grams of fiber, 13 grams of protein, some iron.
Speaker:Uh, some vitamin B6, magnesium, and a few other vitamins and minerals.
Speaker:So this is going to vary depending on the type of wheat that you're consuming.
Speaker:But nonetheless, a little bit better than sugar still could be a lot better though.
Speaker:Then we move on to fats and oils.
Speaker:And this is where I have a huge issue.
Speaker:If you haven't already listen to this podcast, um, then you wouldn't know that,
Speaker:but, uh, if you are a long-term listener to this show, then you know that I have a
Speaker:real issue with the fats and oils that we aren't consuming, which by far the largest
Speaker:consumption of oil and fats comes from.
Speaker:Vegetable oils like canola oil, soybean oil, and corn oil.
Speaker:Yes, vegetable oil.
Speaker:It fits in those categories.
Speaker:If you go look on the back, you will see it is probably corn oil or soybean
Speaker:oral oil or something of that nature.
Speaker:Um, by the way, rapeseed oil fits in there as well.
Speaker:So these oils are terrible for you.
Speaker:And they essentially contained nothing but fat and it's not healthy fat either.
Speaker:It's the fat that is oxidized and rancid.
Speaker:Uh, and these are the oils that are wreaking havoc in your body
Speaker:and causing inflammation because these are poly unsaturated fats.
Speaker:These are fats that are not meant to be heated up.
Speaker:They are meant to be an aid, dark glass bottle, not a clear plastic bottle
Speaker:because the sunlight can actually cause them to oxidize become rancid,
Speaker:heating them up, makes them rancid.
Speaker:Um, they are a fatty acid, so they are literally able to break down
Speaker:parts of the, uh, plastic that.
Speaker:They are placed in, which is really bad, obviously.
Speaker:Um, so yeah, these oils are.
Speaker:A hundred percent, really, really terrible.
Speaker:And if you were still using them, then please switch them out for a healthier
Speaker:fat like avocado oil or an animal fat.
Speaker:Um, you can even use like ghee or butter would be so much better finding
Speaker:a high temperature oil is going to really, really be beneficial here.
Speaker:I personally use a lot of avocado oil and other animal fat oils.
Speaker:Now.
Speaker:These fats do have some micronutrients to them, but there's nothing really major.
Speaker:Um, I could mention a few of them, but there's essentially
Speaker:not a whole lot going on.
Speaker:So that's really, really bad.
Speaker:Plus the fact that, that they have to undergo such a massive process to
Speaker:even make their way into the kitchen.
Speaker:Um, the process that they go under is something that if
Speaker:you were to go back a hundred.
Speaker:You know, a couple of hundred years ago, we could have been able to make
Speaker:these because they require so much work to really be processed and made.
Speaker:They even have to go under a deodorizing process because they smell so bad.
Speaker:Um, it's just really, really bad.
Speaker:And as we know, the less processing that you do to a food.
Speaker:The much better off that food is going to be for you.
Speaker:So, uh, skip the vegetable oils please.
Speaker:Um, and yes, so they don't really contain any, um, you know, They don't really
Speaker:contain any micronutrients to them.
Speaker:Um, yes, they are a fat.
Speaker:So I guess there is that benefit to it, but still.
Speaker:You know, you go from sugar to the flower, which honestly the
Speaker:flowers kind of the breadwinner.
Speaker:Pun intended, I guess, um, in, in terms of these three food groups and then you
Speaker:have the fat and oils and those three are largely making up the American diet and
Speaker:what are causing us to be so basically overfed and undernourished and just sick.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Um, if we were to kind of compare these now to more of like whole foods and
Speaker:foods that are much, much better for you.
Speaker:Then we can kind of really compare the, um, you know, the, the level
Speaker:of nutrients that receiving from the same amount of food from.
Speaker:You know, like, let's say like meat or vegetables or fruits or nuts, or
Speaker:any of those kind of whole foods.
Speaker:So I'm jumping in to compare beef, for example, and this is just normal beef.
Speaker:This is not grass fed beef or, um, any kind of special type of beef.
Speaker:It is just beef.
Speaker:Alone.
Speaker:Just beef, like muscle meat.
Speaker:So if we take 85 grams of beef, we have 13 grams of fat.
Speaker:That's going to be saturated fat, which was thought to be a bad thing.
Speaker:Although, now we are finding out that saturated fat is
Speaker:actually a much healthier fat.
Speaker:It is much more stable at higher heat, which is why it makes it a better
Speaker:cooking oil as compared to the poly unsaturated fats, like vegetable oils.
Speaker:Um, it also has 77 milligrams of cholesterol, which also once again,
Speaker:cholesterol has been painted in a pretty bad light where it turns out
Speaker:cholesterol itself is not the culprit.
Speaker:It's not really the bad thing.
Speaker:I mean, your brain is made up mainly of cholesterol or
Speaker:largely of class cholesterol.
Speaker:It is actually the carrier of the cholesterol that is bad.
Speaker:So when we look at things like LDL or VLDL, so what does that LDL stand for?
Speaker:Well, it stands for low density.
Speaker:Lipoprotein that is the carrier of the cholesterol.
Speaker:And that is more so what is bad?
Speaker:So anyways, Cholesterol really not as bad as we thought it was.
Speaker:And you get 77 gram, uh, milligrams of it here in just 85 grams of beef.
Speaker:You get 61 milligrams of sodium, 270 milligrams of potassium, 22 grams of
Speaker:protein, which by the way, that is a complete protein meaning that it
Speaker:has all the essential fatty acids.
Speaker:In it, which are very important to have, because those are literally
Speaker:essential for a reason because your body cannot produce them.
Speaker:So we have to receive them through the food that we eat.
Speaker:Um, you also get some iron vitamin B6, magnesium, calcium,
Speaker:vitamin D, and more so already.
Speaker:Just beef alone.
Speaker:Out beats all three of the other.
Speaker:Uh, main foods.
Speaker:The sugar, the flour.
Speaker:And the fats and oils.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Now moving in to a more common veggie.
Speaker:So for myself personally, I really like eating brussel sprouts.
Speaker:Um, they're common food for me.
Speaker:I probably eat them at least once a week, if not more.
Speaker:And if we look at 88 grams of brussel sprouts, we have 22 milligrams of
Speaker:sodium 342 milligrams of potassium.
Speaker:Eight grams of carbs, 3.3 grams of fiber, 1.9 grams of sugar, which
Speaker:is obviously naturally occurring.
Speaker:Three grams of protein, a ton of vitamin C, some iron vitamin B6,
Speaker:magnesium, calcium, and more.
Speaker:Once again, just in those two foods, we are already seeing
Speaker:so much more nutrient density.
Speaker:In these two foods and, uh, obviously they are not making up enough of our diet.
Speaker:Now, if we go into something.
Speaker:Uh, more of a fat than we can see in grass fed butter.
Speaker:Just one tablespoon you'll have 12 grams of fat vitamin K a and
Speaker:E potassium, phosphorus, calcium conjugated, linoleic acid, and butyrate,
Speaker:which is really good for your gut.
Speaker:So these are three easy comparisons and it's really, you know, so easy to see
Speaker:the difference, you know, um, in terms of sugar, it provides nothing for you.
Speaker:We, like I said was probably the best one, but still doesn't compare to these three.
Speaker:I'm looking at the fats and oils.
Speaker:They're doing way more harm to your body.
Speaker:In any of these three foods are going to do.
Speaker:So it's really obvious that we need to start putting more, a more
Speaker:variety of meat, veggies, fruits, nuts, and healthier fats in our diet.
Speaker:But like I said, I can go on and on about the different types of
Speaker:foods and how good they are for you.
Speaker:You know, these meet.
Speaker:Meats fruits, veggies nuts.
Speaker:Um, but you pretty much get that point.
Speaker:These foods are way more nutrient dense than any sugar.
Speaker:You know, any wheat and any kind of, um, uh, vegetable oil.
Speaker:Now as we go back in time.
Speaker:We see that not only did the calorie consumption lower.
Speaker:But the use of sugar, vegetable oils, and wheat all went down.
Speaker:Now, I think out of all these three.
Speaker:The only one that you can really say has been used for a long time as this
Speaker:is going to be wheat, because obviously people have been making bread for
Speaker:quite a long time, but I think a really important, uh, Point to make here is that.
Speaker:While the bread we eat.
Speaker:Now, if you were to take that and compare it to the bread that we ate.
Speaker:Like a thousand years ago.
Speaker:The bread is going to be so, so different.
Speaker:So for example, you're not going to have, um, you know, well, first off it would be
Speaker:a, probably a different type of wheat, um, because of the kinds that we have, have
Speaker:been genetically modified and, you know, different species and varieties of it.
Speaker:Um, there was zero pesticide usage back in that time because
Speaker:pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, all those were not created yet.
Speaker:Um, you know, the bread typically only contained like two to
Speaker:four ingredients, uh, you know, Water flour, yeast, and salt.
Speaker:If you ever have made sourdough, then you know that you pretty much
Speaker:only need two to three ingredients.
Speaker:And that is literally just water and flour.
Speaker:When you mix those two together and you allow it to grab natural yeast out
Speaker:of the air so that it starts to rise.
Speaker:That's your starter for making the dough?
Speaker:That's just two ingredients plus natural yeast from the air.
Speaker:And then maybe a little bit of salt when you go to bacon, that's four ingredients.
Speaker:I bet you, if you go grab a bag, Of bread right now and read the ingredient
Speaker:list unless you're shopping at a really good, you know, bakery or something like
Speaker:that, then you're going to see probably a list of like 10 to 15 ingredients.
Speaker:Why, why do we have all these other ingredients in there?
Speaker:They're absolutely unnecessary.
Speaker:So the, the bread, while we were consuming it back in the day was much different
Speaker:than the bread that we're eating today.
Speaker:So then here's my takeaway for you in this episode.
Speaker:Stop worrying about the calories.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:I know that I did a whole show right now on how we were overfed and undernourished,
Speaker:but really at the end of the day, if you just focus on eating whole foods
Speaker:that are not under one of those three categories of Wheaton, or even include
Speaker:corn in there, like wheat and corn.
Speaker:Um, fats and oils and sugar.
Speaker:Then you are going to be doing so, so much better.
Speaker:You're going to be way more nourished.
Speaker:And you're going to have way less calorie intake than the average person.
Speaker:Like I said, in just 40 years, we found that we have increased our calorie
Speaker:intake by like 500 calories per day.
Speaker:That's way more calories and we're doing way worse.
Speaker:Obviously.
Speaker:We're literally the sickest nation in recorded history.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:And that is coming from Sean Stephenson.
Speaker:I did not come up with that, but I just love it so much.
Speaker:And it's so true.
Speaker:We are truly the sickest nation in recorded history.
Speaker:It's not something to be proud of, obviously.
Speaker:Um,
Speaker:And it's something that we need to work on.
Speaker:And I think by focusing on the whole foods and really, you know, getting
Speaker:foods that are nutrient dense, that is how we are going to move the scale from
Speaker:being overfed to just properly fed.
Speaker:And also properly nourished.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:I think.
Speaker:That's pretty much the best way to put it.
Speaker:Um, you know, I think if you compare this to, you know, people back in
Speaker:the day as well, do you go back a hundred, 300, 700 years ago?
Speaker:You really see what I'm saying here?
Speaker:They were really just focusing on eating whole foods and it's not
Speaker:even that they were focusing on it.
Speaker:It's just what they had.
Speaker:It was more common to just eat these whole foods because they
Speaker:didn't have processed foods.
Speaker:They didn't have fast food.
Speaker:You know, they, a lot of times people had gardens or they had
Speaker:to go out and hunt for the food.
Speaker:Um, oh, and by the way, I did not mention, um, the fact that liver and
Speaker:kidneys and all the other organ meats are also super, super high in nutrients.
Speaker:They're actually way higher than the muscle meats.
Speaker:So if you are, um, a person who enjoys eating meat or, um, it fits your diet.
Speaker:Or your, uh, dietary preferences then absolutely be including some
Speaker:of these really, really nutrient dense organ meats into your diet.
Speaker:I did an episode on a liver and just how amazing it is, and I
Speaker:consider it a superfood personally.
Speaker:And if you go and listen to that episode, you can hear just how many
Speaker:vitamins and minerals are in liver.
Speaker:In small, small portions of liver too.
Speaker:You don't have to eat a lot of it to receive so much benefit.
Speaker:So if you do eat meat, make sure you're trying to include
Speaker:some Oregon meats in there.
Speaker:And for anyone who eats, um, well, I mean, you can be vegetarian, vegan.
Speaker:Uh, carnivorous, whatever.
Speaker:Um, Include some of these plants as well, that are really, really beneficial and
Speaker:nutrient dense, such as algae and cacau.
Speaker:Um, you know, there's a whole list of superfoods that are, um, you
Speaker:know, vegan and vegetarian approved.
Speaker:Um, my favorite personally is going to be the algae.
Speaker:Um, if you haven't already listened to the episode with Catherine
Speaker:Arnstein, I believe it was episode 67.
Speaker:Um, then go ahead and check that out.
Speaker:You're first off, she's going to blow your mind because the.
Speaker:The amount of knowledge she has on spirulina and chlorella is
Speaker:insane, but, uh, overall compare.
Speaker:You know, um, in terms of this episode, Spirulina and algae are so nutrient dense.
Speaker:They are literally one of the most nutrient dense foods in the world.
Speaker:It's not a supplement.
Speaker:It is a whole food.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:These algae are, you know, they have 40 vitamins and minerals.
Speaker:Uh, spirulina has all nine essential FA uh, essential fatty acids.
Speaker:Chlorella is able to cleanse the blood.
Speaker:Uh, spirulina is great for the brain.
Speaker:I like, they're just incredible.
Speaker:The stuff that they do is so, so good.
Speaker:They, you know, energize and, uh, take care of your mic mitochondria.
Speaker:They do so much.
Speaker:So literally, uh, I have this right here.
Speaker:Because I take this every single day.
Speaker:It's, uh, it's through energy bit.
Speaker:So from Catherine's company and this one here is the vitality.
Speaker:So this has both the spirulina and chlorella in it, but I literally take
Speaker:this every day because it has allowed me to reduce my supplement intake.
Speaker:So I, I already reduce my supplement supplement intake to
Speaker:about seven supplements about, you know, I did this years ago.
Speaker:Um, I was just tired of taking so many supplements and I
Speaker:focus more on whole foods.
Speaker:But even with just taking this, I have reduced it even more down to
Speaker:like three or four supplements a day.
Speaker:Um, and that's including the, uh, spirulina and chlorella.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:This stuff has incredible.
Speaker:If you would like to get your hands on some of it and go from being
Speaker:undernourished to properly nourished with literally taking just a few tablets a day.
Speaker:Then go ahead and check out the website.
Speaker:I'll make sure to have it in the show notes and for being a listener,
Speaker:Catherine was nice enough to provide everyone with a 20% discount code.
Speaker:That's elemental, E L E M E N T a L a.
Speaker:So apply that at checkout and you get 20% off your entire order just
Speaker:for being a listener to the show.
Speaker:Um, it's an incredible product.
Speaker:And honestly, like I said, I've been taking this every single day.
Speaker:Uh, for about a month now and I'm really, really enjoying it.
Speaker:Uh, and noticing the benefits as well.
Speaker:So, yeah, it's really about focusing on these nutrient dense foods like algae,
Speaker:like cacao, like, um, liver and kidney and heart and, um, you know, eating.
Speaker:Vegetables and fruits and nuts, and just really focusing on the nutrient
Speaker:density and not worrying about the calories, because like I said, the
Speaker:calories will take care of themselves.
Speaker:You don't have to worry about counting your calories.
Speaker:If you're just eating the right types of food.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:Let's all work together to become a healthier nation and,
Speaker:uh, become more nourished.
Speaker:So that's going to do it for today's episode.
Speaker:I hope you all really enjoyed this and found some benefit.
Speaker:Um, I hope I wasn't too all over the place with this.
Speaker:Uh, there was a lot of information and research here.
Speaker:Um, I will go ahead and link the P research, um,
Speaker:webpage that I was utilizing.
Speaker:So you can go ahead and reference that.
Speaker:And yeah, just, you know, if there's any takeaway from this episode, it's
Speaker:to really cut out the sugar as much as possible, cut out the, um, terrible
Speaker:vegetable and seed oils and, uh,
Speaker:Lower your intake of wheat and corn, and definitely start eating more, um, you
Speaker:know, nutrient dense foods, like, you know, if you eat meats and, you know,
Speaker:high quality meats and organ meats and, um, you know, increasing your vegetable
Speaker:intake, your fruit intake, um, some nuts as well would be really good.
Speaker:And then also focusing on some super foods like spirulina and.
Speaker:Uh, chlorella and cacau, uh, just to name a few.
Speaker:And yeah, I would say that's definitely going to make a huge change in your life.
Speaker:Um, that's really my goal, as I've already stated previously.
Speaker:I just want to give you all the tools to really make these healthy
Speaker:and, you know, health and wellness changes in your guys's lives.
Speaker:So, uh, focusing on food is a big one.
Speaker:You know, that's connecting to the element of earth and water, um, because
Speaker:those two really make our foods up.
Speaker:And, uh, so really connecting to those elements and becoming
Speaker:nourished is so, so important.
Speaker:And I hope this helps you all.
Speaker:Move forward on your health and wellness journey become the best
Speaker:version of yourself possible.
Speaker:That's why I would love to see from all of you.
Speaker:Um, if you have all really enjoyed the show and found some, uh, great knowledge
Speaker:here and some beneficial tools that you can apply to your life, then please go
Speaker:ahead and leave a review on apple podcast.
Speaker:It means so much to me, I read all the reviews, um, and dropping the five star
Speaker:review really helps to boost the show and get it seen by other people so we
Speaker:can help spread this message and these, um, health and wellness tips and tricks.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:Thank you all very much.
Speaker:I appreciate your listenership.
Speaker:Oh so much.
Speaker:Um, I have a really great episode coming up next week as well.
Speaker:Uh, really excited for it.
Speaker:And I think you will all find it very, very interesting.
Speaker:So please stay tuned and, uh, until then, just remember to connect to your elements
Speaker:and do everything with good intentions.
Speaker:I appreciate all of you so much.
Speaker:Have a beautiful rest of your week.
Speaker:And just go out there and live your best life and share some
Speaker:love and happiness with everybody.
Speaker:Thanks everyone.
Speaker:Have a great one.
