I have been a vegetarian since I was 13. I recently cut the dairy and MAN OH MAN... my energy went up and my waistline went down.

Thanks for the info, I've been on a weight loss journey for 4 months now, and using basically the same idea. More veggies, little to no red meat, and whole grain only. Lost 26 lbs and start finding the energy to exercise everyday. Now , my weight is like a thermostat that I can control instead of it controlling me.

Ditto for me! These guys are preaching the gospel...I just don't know how many people are listening. I would also add...Neal Barnard, MD! Thanks for posting!

I started out a few weeks ago eating grilled veggies and never felt satiated but my wife was fine. Then we read the starch solution and I discovered how satisfied potatoes are - baked fries and mashed potatoes with no added fat with mushroom gravy. Keeps me full and satiated for many hours. Unless you're used to eating just fruit and vegetables or have different receptors you might try some starch like potatoes/rice. I used to think I need fat to be satiated like peanut butter/nuts.

What my problem is i'm still young,15, living with my parents obviously, but my parents work alot and dont have time to cook food or go shopping for healthy food. so they buy whats easiest which is fast food. I want to change but im just a kid in they're eyes and they don't think its a problem. I want to change but i dont got the money to go out and buy healthy meals and neither do my parents. I just want to change. any ideas?

After following the vegan diet religiously for 2 months, my weight dropped from 229 to 189 (30#, but still overweight), blood pressure from 130/82 to 109/70, cholesterol from 184/29/132 to 107/26/69 (total /HDL=good /LDL=bad ), triglycerides from 116 to 62, and my PSA from 1.7 (high for my age of 51 and I have a very strong family history of it) to 1.0. Good cholesterol is more of a relative number to your total cholesterol. Initially 29 good/184 total is 15% and improved to 26/107 which i

I thoroughly enjoyed Dr. Lisle's lecture. He is truly a thought leader that will undoubtedly bring much needed change. My only concern is that unlike humans, dogs and cats are obligate carnivores and a biologically appropriate diet for humans is not going to be biologically appropriate for these two other species. I am a devoted vegan but do not impose what is best for me on my pets.

Whole foods plant based eating leads to natural effortless gradual weight loss until your weight stabilizes at your natural weight.

Please provide English subtitle or audio transcribe for the hearing impaired.

Plants re-grow after they're harvested. They don't actually "die" Plants are extremely resourceful.

Cats cannot make their own taurine, that is why they are obligate carnivores. Commercial cat food has to add taurine due to the high heat and processing of the meat used. The same taurine that is added to cat food that contains meat is also added to cat food that is vegan. That is how cats can eat vegan. If you read the ingredient list on most commercial cat food the majority of protein comes from plants like corn and wheat gluten.

Please make this a podcast...it would be great to listen to on my daily long commute

Great every American should watch this and share with another Person in the rest of the world and prevent spread of fast food chains unless they change their menu, thanks for informing the world.

I will never eat at MacDonalds again.

I agree, I'm a vegetarian (trying to transition to veganism) but my cat has sharp canines for tearing MEAT so meat I shall feed her

There is an abundance of acorns where I live and the squirrels are fat

Overall, this is GREAT. Too bad the light pointer doesn't register. I wish Doug could go back into the video and put a computer pointer on the slide to help describe what he's talking about.

It's in an Adventist Christian church. Adventists practice a vegetarian dietary lifestyle because of their belief in the holistic nature of humankind.

Watch forks over knives

Great talk..... at the end of the day it is all about the mind. Keep the mind in control and you will eat the right thing, do the right thing and make the best of every situation life throws at you.

This is the most honest information regarding weightloss that I've heard!

I also believed the myth that we need protein from meat. It's just not true. We can get all the protein we need from veggies, beans and grains like oatmeal, black, kidney & pinto beans, broccoli, brown rice... (and the list goes on and on).

This is a great lecture, I now understand how I must tweak my diet to meet my weight loss goals. Thanks a million!

I really appreciate what Dr. Lisle is saying. And the cat cartoons make it charming!

I love the animation and the title. Great info

The vegan cat upsets me (and I am near-vegan myself). Feeding a species that is naturally a true carnivore vegan food is cruel and wrong, just as feeding cats commercial cat food that contains mainly grain is wrong. Their digestive tracts aren't made to digest a larger portion of grain and veggies than would be found in the stomach of their prey. Of course overweight pets are a huge problem... but the problem lies in the amount you feed, and feeding species-inappropriate isn't the solution.

tell your parents and i know they will try their best to change the diet of the house and you can make them see the video to convince them , best luck and i hope you lose the weight for ever ^_^

Just got educated on eating cleaner and healthier. I was not aware about GMO's and traces of pesticided left on vegtables and fruits that are not organic. I am certainly going to do more research and so far, eating cleaner is benificial for mind and body. What I have found so far, is that the benifits are immediate and lasting. Farmers markets are a blessing especially the people behind the foods that are offered, which take pride in what they have available for the day. Thank you.

I've got to try this. Im having such a hard time doing portion control, its depressing. I get so hungry and after a couple of days I just BINGE on food. :( The fat issue is important too. I was thinking about the vegan wraps I eat out... The dressing has a lot of fat and sugar. That would bump the calories of that wrap to about a 400-500 hundred calorie wrap, without counting the nuts I put in it... damn

where can you find the calories per pound of various foods?

Thank you for sharing this. A podcast would be fantastic....

I stiil have 65(I have lost 20 so far) pounds to lose. I have The book from Forks over knives and have watched the movie this has helpped to clarify some of the information in to a form that I can start to use today to adjust my eating. Thanks for posting!

wow this video is awesome ! thanks for sharing the info

People should watch the video before making their comments.

This has inspired me a lot! Thank you!

I should say, I do like what he's saying. Having seen Forks Over Knives, totally on board with these concepts. But I think it's oversimplifying the issue a bit.

simply WOW! I'm not overweight but this is gonna help some of my family member's a lot!! Now, i just have to figure out how to make teach them this :p

This is the BEST talk of its kind I've seen to date, and I've seen MANY. Thank you.

Great video, excellent public speaker I would put this chap right up there with Dr. Fuhrman. The content gets a 10/10.

Watching an hour long free information filled video and only commenting on the tiny illustration with a cat is more absurd

Horses over eat on their own natural food. I've got a few horses that over eat grass to the point of obesity and laminitis. If I let them, they would kill themselves with grass. These are horses that NEVER get any sort of concentrate or grain. During the summer, these horses must be kept up in a dirt pen and have their grass limited. This is very common in certain breeds of horses.

love this video , why did'nt I watch this before....everyone needs to watch this it makes senses..OMG

I asked my cats and they threatened to kill me if I withhold meat.

Processed food is the problem. I don't eat meat and am very healthy, suit youself though

So intelligent and so wise!!!

This is truly amazing!

Great video

How do you imagine that horses in the wild ever survived then if they could founder on grass? Wouldn't the wild mustang itself be extinct if that were the case? Apparently there is something in the equation of the wild horse vs the tame one that causes it to eat to founder?

Excellent!

Well, we have a dilemma here. There's a local deli I go to. Between the counter and the door is a bowl of bread and butter up for grabs. I have watched people come in, grab some bread and butter. Order. Grab more bread/butter. Eat a HUGE sandwich. Maybe a cookie. And, on the way out, more bread and butter. The people who are doing this tend to be from a little to a lot overweight. Isn't overeating a small part of the cause? I eat bread too, but I'm not going for the bread and butter 3x

Not disputing this method of eating, choose carefully as it may not be for everyone. If you look very carefully during the end of the movie during the test results scene at time marker 1:25:00 clearly show a borderline high level of triglycerides. As it is said with any food intake modification for health reasons always test before and after to show it's results and question it even if the numbers are in the normal/abnormal range.

Please provide us closed captioning or audio transcribe for the hearing impaired. I am anxiety to hear Dr. Lisle's speaking.

habría forma de encontrar este video con subtitulos en español?? gracias!!

I know what to do, but since I don't exactly know why, I forget

fantastic!!!

I've been overweight for a long time. I don't eat more than most average people, but I do think I eat higher amounts of fat calories.

Amazing information. Love it.

Good talk for theist part , but cats are NOT vegan. Cats are obligate carnivores.

This is a great theory.

I need to listen to this.

Will someone now show me how to lose my mind without losing the weight?

@traceyeakin While you are 100% correct about a cat being an obligate carnivore, dogs are obligate omnivores, and like us, find pleasure in the taste of sweet carbohydrates(plant foods)

The person introducing the speaker, wasn't she on an episode of "The Dog Whisperer"?

this was so interesting! Thanks for the great info :)

but cats are a meat eaters,not vegans

Awesome !

I am impressed thank you for sharing this with others. The solution is right under our noses -- eat whole foods, plant based, complex carbs --- wow, more food than most people can handle and still lose weight and feel great! Congrats on those amazing numbers.

Did you not watch the video? The man very easily proved you wrong.

Cats need a high-protein, low-carb diet with adequate taurine, vitamin A (not carotenes), niacin, and vitamin D supplementation. Aside from the taurine, their protein requirement can be satisfied with high arginine proteins (like soy), with a high water content (as in tofu). It might not be happy with the arrangement, but cats can thrive given planning. Even the commercial manufacturers add synthetic taurine to their food (its lost in rendering/processing).

portion control is crap? well, not for me..since i have started to control my portion sizes again, i lost weight...SURPRISED?for me the only truth is:if u take in more energy than u use throughout the day, ur body will store it!!! THATS valid for MY body!! and no, i dont feel hungry during the day.i have three good meals, the size of one of my hands..and that s it! and i m TOTALLY happy.for me it s all about QUALITY meals and not quantity meals! but that s just me!

VERY HELPFUL VIDEO Thanks for posting

This is an excellent video : )

A lot less plants have to ''die'' for vegans because we eat the plants directly. Whereas meat eaters consume 10 to 15 times as many plants because this is the wasteful ratio of conversion from animal fodder to meat. For example, to produce 1 pound of meat, the animal has to eat 10 to 15 pounds of valuable plants. This is a terrible waste that humanity cannot afford. Furthermore, to produce a pound of beef 2,500 gallons of water are wasted and polluted. Besides, a lot of oil gets wasted .

Appreciate all the helpful tips. I usually start my day off with a green smoothie or high quality protein shake.

Don't be afraid! You can do it! :-)

Just like bears getting into garbage dumps! and that coyote that sneaks over our 6' backyard wall in the city to shop for chickens and bunnies to eat.

If calorie intake exceeds calorie output, you will gain weight... unless you have super-fast metabolism, like skinny people who eat a lot and never put on weight

About the animal-based products being bad for you, what do we use to replace the milk? :/

I don't eat anything that had a face

captions?

is the rest of the lecture some place?

Natural rice is a good grain as well.

people to lose weight, while others lose weight via a low fat, high carb diet. It has to do with satiety. I eat a serving of cheese or nuts and I feel satiated, whereas, if I eat the equivalent in bread, rice, or pasta, I'm starving 30 minutes later having never reached true satiety. I agree that it's about whole foods and calorie intake, although, I do think some foods process differently in different people's systems. Tell me about your fruit fast. How did you do with satiety on it?

How unfortunate that this video is NOT accessible to people who need CAPTIONS!

It's interesting that some people become constipated on Atkins, while others don't. In my case, I INCREASED the fat and high density foods in my diet and lost weight. Additionally, I became more regular. I think this had to do with the fact that I also introduced way more veggies into my diet, as well as, the possibility that bread kills regularity for me. I think it's what is easiest for the person to handle. There are doctors who will tell you that a low carb, high protein/fat diet causes some

15:20 - The only superbird I love has roughly 430 HP.......

I'm a vegan (on and off) but I am suspicious of any all or nothing theory. No doubt a vegan diet is better, however, studies have shown that overweight people DO usually eat more, although they're often not aware of it because they don't compare themselves to others, and obese people definitely do. Weight and dietary health is a complex issue. It's not good to ignore other factors in favor of your favorite idea.

If you want to lose weight don't eat bread, chips, table sugar, or any grain except maybe oatmeal because they spike your blood sugar which causes cravings when they hit the bottom.

*applaud*

100% Vegan IS the best diet for a person.

What did you eat?

I get constipated when eating too much meat, so the rest of the calories must come from carbs or fat, right? I enjoy eating tubers, so thats a lot of carbs, so I cant be raising both carbs and fat, thus I try keep fat lower than my carb. I tried atkins, and I didnt go to the bathroom for almost a MONTH. a WHOLE MONTH. Didnt loose much weight, didnt gain much fat weight either. Went on a fruit fast, lost ten pounds. I think weightloss its about calories and whole foods. Not going low carb.

@lovebigboobs29 Link me to a study plz You'd struggle to run a marathon on a high meat diet anyway - without seriously carbing up before hand at least. And I'm glad you have some solid anecdotal evidence to bring to the discussion.

Under Fuhrman plan, I am eating more and losing weight.

That makes sense. Or it could be because of space and the amount of people in attendance!

it's not really a 'problem' now is it, if it helps them survive!

so that means no milk, right? (faces on the cartons of those missing kids). :)

@lovebigboobs29 and what proof is this statement based on?

Watch out for colon cancer and hardening of the arteries

@lovebigboobs29 It's high fat. High fat foods make you fat. Are you going to argue that high carb foods make you fat or are you part of the crowd that believe grass fed and organic meat has a different nutritional make up to the rest of it?