so hello Wellness Warriors today we're talking about one meal a day so follow up to the video
that i put up a little bit earlier and i have a few things i want to add to help us to really
understand why i'm doing one meal a day and why i'm so not worried about getting enough nutrition
getting enough energy from the foods that i eat the first thing i want to point out is that
our body as i mentioned in the video needs protein carbs and fat vitamins minerals water but one
of the things that we don't think about is the proteins and the fats are more than enough to help
us to be healthy to help us to live our day and it's weird how in our way of eating so standard
American diet standard Canadian diet and standard Caribbean diet we're so focused on carbohydrates
now i do believe that some part of that is due to the fact that let's go back in the way back
machine it's expensive to eat animals and what we were doing was trying to balance our money and our
you know our health and so we would add rice to the plate we would add pasta to the plate
once pasta was invented at some point because rice is obviously natural like
like from the land directly we would add other things to the plate to make it
feel like we've eaten enough and i think part of the reason that we did that is because we moved
away from hunter gathering and we went into this barter system where actually in order to have food
you needed to work and trade and so the fact that we don't live our entire day trying to get food
plus but at the same time sorry at the same time i think it means that the way that we look at food
is different we don't look at food as the main important thing we do every day we look at our
work as that main important thing and food have turned has turned into this thing that we just
kind of do to get by and i want us all to think about the fact that that's just it's not what
it's supposed to be like the truth is go back in history our main goal was keeping our body
healthy by eating properly now with the way that food is it turns out that we're very carb focused
and so part of it being cheaper to put carbs on the plate than meat on the plate but part of it
being carbohydrates are more fun they taste better and better i mean it's weird because
99.9 of us are addicted to carbohydrates and then we say we like it because we can't stop eating it
but it's the same thing like if you know someone's an alcoholic and they're saying i just like
alcohol if you know someone's a drug addict and they say well i just like doing drugs really when
you lose control of your life that's not about like anymore and i'm getting off topic let me get
back on topic we also have this idea of calories versus nutrients and again we can get all the
nutrients that we need from protein and fat but years ago scientists introduced this idea of
calories because they were trying to understand understand food and part of their attempt to
understand food meant that they were investigating how much energy do we get from food so protein
fats and carbohydrates and what's interesting is that they did the car the the scientist thing to
do they burned some of these foods and measured the energy that came off of them does that mean
that that's what our body does with food well actually it's absolutely not what our body does
with food it's what machines do with oils and gas and right that's how machines translate energy
for themselves it's not how humans do as a matter of fact we're much more complex than that
we do some very interesting chemical processes that helps to break the food down into usable
elements that then our body can take to build us and our body can take to fuel us
much more complicated than setting something on fire and measuring the energy output
and i feel like again it's one of those situations where we need to allow ourselves to really look at
what was done and decide does that make sense to say that this translates equivocally like equally
for the human body i'm saying no right i'm this is Violet's opinion i don't believe and it's not
just my opinion there have been many doctors that talked about this it's not a one-to-one
trans translation conversion so if i know that the energy that i'm getting from food
isn't because of calories it's because of my body uses those elements to
fuel me and it's not about burning them it's about using them then the other thing we need to look at
is is the energy source important so carbohydrates are an energy source that the body absolutely does
need that's why it makes them so it needs them i'm not saying it doesn't need them it doesn't
need them in the amounts that we give it though and so carbohydrates when we have too many of them
become dangerous to the body causes inflammation and all kinds of other problems plaquing in the
brain i mean there's lots of things that happens when you have too many carbohydrates in the blood
oops sorry uh so there's lots of things that happen when you have too many carbohydrates
in the blood so one of the things that i want us to think about then is
are fat's a better choice because in fact fats don't cause those problems so two elements we
need to think about we make carbohydrates all the carbohydrates that our body needs and two
eating fats doesn't cause the problems that eating carbohydrates cause if you look a little bit more
interestingly about carbohydrates the other piece of the puzzle is when we eat things
that are high in carbohydrate that are not high in protein and not high in fat so they're just
high in carbohydrate those things tend to just give us energy and nothing else
when you eat protein you're getting energy and building blocks because fat is usually coming
along with protein again why we try to deny that protein sources are the ideal um food for humans i
don't understand the fourth thing i want to point out is that the quality of food actually matters
when we try to get energy and building blocks mostly from plants so mostly our bodies react
now we need to understand that our bodies react because plants don't actually want to be eating so
plants are living organisms and they have defense mechanisms
and those defense mechanisms are there to stop animals from eating them
if we eat enough of something we kind of get used to feeling bad this is one of the good things
about humans but it's one of the dangerous things about humans that we can get used to
not great stuff and because we can get used to these things what ends up happening is that the
other last thing i'm saying is that the quality of the food actually does matter and so what that
means is that when we're allowing ourselves to eat healthy foods and we're allowing ourselves to
choose protein sources and the fat that comes along with a protein source
we still end up getting the right so i mean and again calories don't matter however when you
look at it if you're actually eating quality protein with the fat that comes along with it
your calorie count isn't lower one of the reasons that the first place they attacked when people
were gaining weight and they and they figured out this idea of calories that doesn't apply to
us but one of the reasons that they focused on helping us to look at what can we do to lower
our calorie counts they thought that was going to help us to lose weight and they attacked fat
first because you get more energy from burning fats so actually even if you're worried about
your calorie count on a ketogenic lifestyle if you're eating to satiation and eating good quality
protein source with the fat that comes along with it your calorie count isn't going to be low
this is what i've noticed with myself is that when i eat the amount of meat that i actually
eat if i'm having no veg on the plate my calorie count isn't low it's actually quite high so these
are the things to think about Wellness Warriors i'm so happy that you guys joined me here today
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