Buff Dudes 5000 calories Bulk day of eating. The internet keeps giving so I keep reacting.
Today we continue with my nutritionist reviews series and we review the BUFF Dudes aka brothers
Hudson and Brandon White. The White brothers have amassed a following
of nearly 2.5 million subscribers so lets see if they are BUFF or more like BUFFOONS.
Ok great. Lets just say right off the bat though there is a big difference between ripped
and bulky and being healthy. You can be ripped and bulky and healthy if the foods that you
are eating are healthy and there is growing evidence to suggest that the muscle max index
can be a good predictor of longevity in older adults.
The problem today that you see on social media is that a lot of weight lifters and bodybuilders
are just throwing absolute garbage down their necks. So lets see what the Buff Dudes are
eating. Just a little 1096 calories to start that
day. I applaud anyone who has the dedication to
look after their body and eat healthy. But food should always be enjoyable and I cant
imagine cramming calories in every few hours is going to be enjoyable. It would just become
monotonous. First piece of truth there
Simple is good. The vast majority of your calories should be coming from whole foods
or as close to whole foods as you can get. So lets see what his interpretation of simple
means. It’s all about context with foods like beef
and salmon. Small amounts are never really going to be problematic but if you are eating
higher amounts over the longer term then it may cause problems. Its for this very reason
why health organisations around the world have guidelines with the amounts of red meat
and fish that someone should consume. Ok therein lies the problem with this dietary
pattern. The world health organisation and other health organisations recommend predominantly
whole food fruit and vegetable intake to get your calories, proteins, carbs and fats. Buff
dudes, ah we don’t need to worry about those guidelines im just going to nail the animal
foods to get my protein. Or a company who were going to pay you a pretty
little penny to push their products. That is all very well. But you are going to
be consuming these foods way above the recommended levels. So it doesn’t matter if it comes
in a pretty little box that’s not going to protect you from the saturated fats etc.
The oceans are getting cleaned out at an unprecedented rate. But that is ok as long as we can overeat
and bulk. You mean the unnecessary proteins that you
are consuming at a very high rate. The proteins that you could easily switch to from fruit
and vegetable sources. That that sales pitch was never going to end.
So 676 calories in that shake. Just around a 100 or so coming from whole foods. The rest
is processed refined sugars and processed refined proteins.
I really look forward to this explanation. So the basal metabolic rate of someone of
his size just to maintain his current weight is around 2400 calories a day give or take.
So he is saying that this calculator recommends 3500-3800 calories which is is 1100-1400 calories
over his basal requirements. Just keep that in the back of your mind.
So the average person will need 500 calories over their basal requirements to put on 1lb
per week. So the calculator is saying around 3500-3800 calories and he is consuming actually
5000 calories which is over 2500 calories more than his body requires. For a normal
average person this would be around 4-5lb increase per week.
The reason it is not working is that his metabolism is working overtime to prevent much of this
being stored as fat. Correct there is a tipping point that at some
point your body will cross and then you will start adding weight to your body.
Like I said earlier I applaud anyone who looks after themselves and lives a healthy lifestyle.
But does anyone who is watching this believe that 5000 calories a day, many of which are
coming from animal sources is healthy? A good analogy for this would be buying a
new car. If you look after the car well, keep it serviced and don’t thrash it about then
it will be good for 100-150,000 miles. What this guy is doing with his body is thrashing
the car around and at some point it will breakdown. What can I say. Its good to see some greens
on his plate. Its more overnutrition. Ok you mean the macronutrient percentages
that scientists have been looking at in detail for decades. It’s the reason why health
organisations around the world recommend that carbohydrates are optimal at around 55-75%
of our calories. Proteins should be around 15% and fats around 15-30% of calories.
Now these numbers are not static and rigid numbers that you have to bind to on a daily
basis. They are guides because we know people who adhere to these guidelines more often
than not will have much better health outcomes. But no Mr Buff Dude doesn’t care about any
of this. He want you to work out your macro ratios based on some random google calculator.
No I would say you are going well over the recommendations of any health organisation
in the world. Again what he is eating here does not fall
inline with any healthcare recommendations around the world.
Ok but does he actually think that nailing fats will have no consequence in the body?
No we are not really that different. We are all made of the same cells and tissues and
organs. The difference on how all of this will largely react is dependant on what we
eat, the state of our microbiome and the environment we live.
Our ancestry comes from primates. Do you ever see primate in the wild so actually I am going
to skip my species specific diet and im going to load up on fats and protein?
Its like a deja vu meal that. I know ive seen that before.
There is nothing with using apps to see how you are tracking for hitting your goals. But
your goals should always be health focussed and not aesthetics focussed.
Yes that is all fine as long as you are a nice healthy weight and you are eating a healthy
diet to get there. So just a very quick interrupt here to say
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on the first of each month. Anyway back to the video.
Nails loads of animal proteins and his actual concern is eating later in the evening. Genius.
No certainly offered no help for me my friend Sounds like no fun to me. Always checking
what you are eating. Swallowing down repeatedly the same foods over and over again. I cant
think of anything worse. Sorry im done with another sales pitch. Lets
delve in and see where he tracked for the day.
So as I said earlier a guy of his metabolic profile would need a basal calorie intake
of around 2400 calories just to maintain weight. His caloric intake for the day was around
5050 calories. In terms of his macros he was much lower on
carbs compared to proteins and fats. He ate around 451g grams of protein give or take
and around 170 grams of fat which are excessively high.
In terms of carbs unbelievably despite eating over 5000 calories he only consumed around
53 grams of fibre which is above the daily recommendations I am just perplexed how that
can be so low given the caloric intake. In terms of fats he ate 51g of saturated fat
which is double the recommendations and in terms of the healthy omegas he only consumed
around 0.61 gram of omega 3 but he ate around 23.8 gram of omega 6’s which
massively skewed his omega 3 to 6 ratio. In terms of his minerals and trace elements
he was generally ok across the board although his sodium intake was high and his selenium
was a little on the low side. His vitamin intake was largely good across
the board but given the amount of food he consumed that is no real surprise.
As a quick macro breakdown, 34% of his calories come from carbs, 35% of his calories come
from protein and around 30% of his calories come from fat.
So what can be said about that day of eating? Well quite simply it was massively excessive.
It falls well outside any health organisations recommendations and it was heavy on the animal
foods. There was also very little in the way of diversity in fruits and vegetables, particularly
greens. And if you enjoyed this video then you
are certainly going to want to watch this one. And beyond that the
only thing for me to say is to remember to look after your
body because it’s the only place you have
to live and I will see
you next time.