"Food education is the basis of human life" - couldn't agree more.

@betzib8021

Жыл бұрын

Well if that's the basis of human life...then in US schools we have none

@ThingsYoudontwanttohear

Жыл бұрын

Many years ago I used to say to fellow students who thought that health is not so important, that your health is the first and most basic responsibility that you get in life. If you don't want to take responsibility of even such as basic task then how are you expected to be take on more pretentious tasks? So yeah, I agree with the Japanese people on this one.

@user-lj1pr1jn4g

10 ай бұрын

we are made of what we have ever eaten ...

@betzib8021

10 ай бұрын

@@user-lj1pr1jn4g and breathed...and thought...

At school lunches, all the veggies were just boiled, not even salt added. They made the unhealthy stuff taste good but made no effort into making vegetables taste good

@eugenetswong

Жыл бұрын

Honestly, lightly stir frying any brocolli, any "chinese" vegetable, or any cabbage, and then adding a bit of salt is so delicious. I consider it be a huge luxury. 1 reason that I hate cooking stir fry vegetables for others is that it is so hard to not eat it all before serving. People need to get used to it. It's so worth it.

@apriljohnson6191

11 ай бұрын

You know, I never thought of that as a factor of embracing the SAD diet. You hear about all the addicting salt/fat/sugary foods being supplied at school lunches. You never think about the fact that school lunches never had any good alternatives to the poison.

@strider_hiryu850

10 ай бұрын

when you boil a bunch of vegetables together: they become good! kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZGWjyNGLddG-krA.html wait a minute. after i finished rewatching that video i realized something. how do you know they don't add salt? we don't see a lot of shots of cooking. don't see hardly any of them cooking the soup. what the hell is your basis that they don't add salt? seems completely fabricated to me!!

@lottie1144

3 ай бұрын

In high school we had a salad bar and on occasions one of the lunch ladies would be make cheesy cauliflower it was so tasty. I had a weightlifting class prior to lunch and I thoroughly looked forward to the cheesy cauliflower as an addition to my salad.

@lottie1144

3 ай бұрын

@@eugenetswong Add some garlic as well. 😋

Since I started watching your videos I have been chomping a lot more plants

Holy cow. Seeing that kid who wouldn’t eat vegetables just blew my mind! My son is 14 and loves vegetables as long as their raw. Raw green beans, red cabbage, cauliflower, carrots. He eats grape tomatoes like their candy. And he loves nearly all fruit. And yes he is super healthy. He’s thin. Hasn’t been sick in years. My rule, each meal MUST have a fruit and/or vegetable. It’s a hard and fast rule at my house.

@moondog7694

Жыл бұрын

Is it safe to eat raw green beans? I also thought it was unsafe to eat raw snap peas and raw snow peas and raw potatoes.

@MagnumCarta

Жыл бұрын

​@@moondog7694 Raw potatoes are different because potatoes are a member of the solanaceae family which nightshade falls under. Potatoes in their raw state contain a large amount of a compound called solanine which acts as an insect repellent. If you eat too much solanine it will cause a lot of gastric distress. Raw green beans contain some lectins which can cause discomfort if eaten in abundance but if someone is used to eating a low of raw green beans they might grow used to it as their gut flora adjusts to the food supply.

@Runner466

Жыл бұрын

He never has any issues eating them. Also, he eats them while they are still young and tender, and from my garden, not from the grocery store too much. I grow green beans and snow peas in the garden specifically for him. And he eats tomatoes like they are candy, so I always grow grape and cherry tomatoes as well.

@pixievincent2478

11 ай бұрын

@@moondog7694 My husband used to have raw potatoes or green beans for after school snacks. I eat raw snow peas from my garden with hummus. Never had a problem.

@mimo.1467

10 ай бұрын

I am Polish. Our traditional diet can be fatty, it contains meat, but I still think it can be quite healthy. In my opinion, it's all about balance. When I moved to the UK I was shocked that people don't eat vegetables. I just couldn't wrap my mind around it. When I was a child, vegetables were always present in our menu. But so was meat. In most households menu over the week looked like that: Monday to Friday soups (we love soups, cooked usually on chicken drumsticks or wings) but never blended, they look more like stews and done from scratch including broth/stock. Soups always included vegetables. For breakfast sandwiches from sourdough bread, or whole grain bread (we don't eat any other bread), with butter, sliced meat, cheese and cucumber, tomato, bit of onion if one likes. Also scrambled eggs. As snacks fruits: mostly apples, pears, plums, peaches, cherries, etc. Sunday was feast: two courses - chicken soup with pasta and snitzel from pork or burger with mash and ALWAYS salad. Or rice and mince wrapped in cabbage leaves in tomato sauce. Sometimes cake. We also did many types of dumplings filled with basically everything: potatoes and cottage cheese, sour cabbage and mushrooms, fruits, meat. I am 45 and never had serious health problems, never was overweight, and I can't remember many overweight children. We did eat sweets but in no excess. Polish are also known for pickles which supposed to be good for guts. I think nowadays it's mainly very processed food, ready meals, too much sugar, and not enough physical activity. 0:52

We just got back from a trip to Japan. We got the opportunity to spend time helping teach English from preschool to 9th grade. This video is spot on. The lunches were great! The students served and cleaned up after themselves. They also cleaned the school as one large group after school was done. Amazing.... This will never happen in the US. We are a super entitled group of idiots....

This is great, thank you, Chris! As a plant-based family here in Japan, we find it frustrating how much influence the Western diet has on the younger generations. So much meat and dairy everywhere that it's nearly impossible to escape. The school system does a good job of teaching people about good nutrition. Unfortunately, when work life starts it's mostly a life of convenience foods filled with preservatives and long days in the office then off to the bar for nomikai. We recently went to an Earthday event and all you could smell was fried and grilled meat, pretty sad. Some people are starting to figure it out but it's such slow progress. We work as consultants to educate and train places to prepare and serve whole-food plant-based options and we are noticing more interest which is great. Good things are worth fighting for so we keep on keeping on. Thanks again for the great content, you rock!

@eugenetswong

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Chris.

@LazyNoriko

8 ай бұрын

I strongly agree with you! Japanese food was once very nutritious and primarily plant-based, but the influence of Westernized cuisine has significantly changed it.

I am transitioning to a “mostly plants” diet after being on the Weston A Price Foundation bandwagon for the past 12 years or so. As hard as I tried to make it work for my family, we grew heavier and less healthy. Only long fasts were bringing the weight down, and it’s hard to keep that up. I love your vids so much! This vid has been one of my favorites. You have such a great, sane perspective. Thanks for all the hard work.

In high school 20 years ago, I remember having pizza, chicken nuggets, and heavily sauced pasta regularly. The veggies were often soggy and rarely eaten. I imagine it's challenging to feed kids in the US nutritious foods when they're being fed nuggets and pizza at home as well, like I was. When I would get more nutritious foods from grandma's, I would turn my nose up at the beans, peas, and leafy greens that she made so often. I wonder if there are any school programs here in the US that are taking steps to educate kids about nutrition and have found success in introducing fresh foods to them 🤔

@vhs10907

Жыл бұрын

One program is Brighter Bites. Sixteen times per school year and during the summer, Brighter Bites sends qualifying kids home with two bags of fresh seasonal produce. On the day of distribution, teachers discuss the specific foods in the bags, telling how they can be prepared, vouching for their tastiness.😊The organization celebrated their tenth year in January 2023 by opening the tenth city in which the free produce and education are provided. These cities are in Texas, New York, California, and Florida.

@jhunt5578

Жыл бұрын

Jamie Oliver a chef from the UK made a whole TV show about it. Trying to get Americans to eat healthy school meals. He tried the same thing in Britain too, didn't move the needle unfortunately.

@amrutakalenaik

10 ай бұрын

I think more than schools these things should start at home!

@annemccarron2281

4 ай бұрын

Children receive nutritional education in health class, but when you live in a society like ours, how much impact do you think it is going to have? Most teachers and adminisrators are overweight. Junk food is rampant in staff lounges. Cup cakes are allowed to be brought in for birthdays and any other celebrations. My state has one of the highest obesity rates in the nation. Dietary policies were established but they were never enforced. If people like myself tried to enforce them, parents complained. It was a lost cause. So glad I don't work in that environment anymore.

Although I don't personally agree with your plant based bias, props to you for making a great video on food education and touching on subjects outside of the usual "meat vs no meat" discussion. I think the bigger problem is the influence "big food" has on food policy and culture in the west, looking forward to more research and conversations around this topic.

❤I am an Asian living in SE Asia. I am very disciplined in terms of food and nutrition and am also researching topics related to immunology, immunotherapy and Gerontology. Basically home cooked meals and no seasoning, sauces or condiments and of course eschew processed and refined foods. In other words, I go for whole foods. I fully support the Japanese diet when compared with the usual diets in most Asian countries. Portion control is so important including their fruits intake as can be seen from the video. It is my plan to go to Japan for a few months to learn the art of preparing sashimi which I believe is one of the contributing factors towards the divine health spans of many Japanese. 👍🥰 Thank you Chris for this highly informative and educational video. I have been following all your videos for a few years and am like you I go gluten free, with only an occasional small portion of resistant starch rice. 💪💓God bless ✝️🙏

Plant Chompers you should do an episode on fermented foods! I’m a vegan with IBS (long before I became vegan), and fermented foods have helped me manage it unlike anything else. You could review doctors like Justin Sonnenburg, the FE FI FO trial, etc. There seem to be new discoveries every day about the gut microbiome.

@PlantChompers

Жыл бұрын

I saw Justin the other day at Stanford (I live nearby). He gave a great talk and was very entertaining.

@MisoAntro

Жыл бұрын

That's interesting, increased consumption of fermented foods is linked to high rates of stomach cancer and gastric inflammation. Michael Greger has a video here kzread.info/dash/bejne/fqeem7GRm92dl9o.html

Always love your storytelling skills combined with top scientific journalism and food history! 👌

Thank you. Imagine if the dollars from US food subsidies went to whole plant foods and they pushed those at school instead

Growing up we've eaten a lot of vegetables..and it wasn't even something i despised.. as an indian (unlike typical indians , we eat lil to no oil or fried spicy stuff..so i have a baby mouth and i adore bland food as my taste buds have gotten accustomed to the taste of all kinds of veggies) , i couldn't love veggies more cuz my mum would cook the most delicious veggie stews for us to eat.. I ate meat until i was 10 then turned vegetarian and when i was 14 i went vegan.. Also .. we did not eat a lot of meat as it was expensive... So like every twice or thrice a year .. eggs only during the winters.. Also the fishes we ate weren't marine .. they were local small fishes.. i did eat a lot of flaxseed dumpling tho..

New subscriber & may I say that I enjoy your sense of humor & how your video's are presented. I have been binge watching. Thank you for non boring video's. You make me think more about my nutrition which is gearing more towards plant base.

Proud to have graduated from one of those Canadian Universities attempting to glean wisdom from Japanese lunch programs! (Hopefully trains to follow!) At the age of 31, I look back on my childhood Canadian lunches (sandwiches, processed meat and processed sweets sometimes disguised as a source of fruit), and though I'm not sure if having children is right for me (housing crisis), if I did have kids, I would want them to have a diet and food education like they do in Japan!! PS. Still losing 2 lbs per week since your hyper palatability video! You're the man, Chris!

@eugenetswong

Жыл бұрын

Congratulations on your success!

What a high quality content. You rock !

I love the Japanese inverted food pyramid. It emphasizes grains, veggies, and physical activity (!!!) & de-emphasizes milk and meat.

@GregariousAntithesis

Жыл бұрын

USDA A Look at Calorie Sources in the American Diet Over 1000 calories from grain and added sugar and sweetners and 500 calories from seed oils. Around 700 calories from meat, dairy Nd animal fats Vegetables and fruit only amounted to 200 calories. You vegans love to blame all the issues on animal products when they only account for 30% of calories in contrast to 70% from primarily grain, sugar and seed oils. Google the title to see the complete breakdown on the USDA website I will say it once again GRAIN is the foundation of our poor health. Why are vegans to blind to see the forest for the trees, proverbial mushrooms with hands.

@niamhleeson3522

Жыл бұрын

@@GregariousAntithesis even a small amount of saturated fat can substantially impair acute postprandial glucose response, and the calorie sources you listed just contain way too much of it to lead to good health. healthy people can eat low carb for a while, but high carb / low fat with a wide variety of plants for much longer without health issues, and these diets should include some grain to get enough calories. It's simply the healthiest way to eat.

@GregariousAntithesis

Жыл бұрын

@@niamhleeson3522 my diet is paleo no grain 60/30/10 sat fat mostly/protein/carbs lost 40 lbs, reversed pre diabetes snd high blood pressure. You obvious cant see the forest for the trees even when the actual data is in front of you. Its primarily prcessed grain a high glycemic garbage combined with seed oils. Animal products in total including protein and fat didnt even amount to as many calories of just seed oils.

@GregariousAntithesis

Жыл бұрын

@@niamhleeson3522 so many people are loosing tremendous amounts of weight on low carb or no carb diets and you Vegan vegetables keep droning on about archiac rhetoric. Pouring pure sugar grain and pure fat seed oils into a digestive system made for whole food completely contradicts that any animal should be eating grain. It is the foundation of metabolic dysfunction, disease and obesity. You obviously choose not to educate yourself and see the tons of videos of people completely proving your rhetoric as pure propaganda and politics.

@GregariousAntithesis

Жыл бұрын

@@niamhleeson3522 Vegans have been selling this fallacy about metabolic dysfunction for so long and never even do the homework to understand how and why people become metabolically dysfunctional. A humans whole food digestive system cannot handle processed pure sugar and fat from grain and seed. The liver and muscles only have a total of 600 grams of total glucose/glycogen storage and once they are full from a typical grain foundation diet the liver has to convert the excess glucose into triglycerides/fat for storage or fuel. When people habitually over consume pure fuel grain/seed, sugar/fat the liver becomes damaged and so do the fat cells and are unable to uptake the excess triglycerides/fat it all happens because processed grain and seed overload the liverunlike whole foods which are slowly digested. The habitual flood of excess fuel damaging the liver eventually leads to ectopic fat being deposited in the liver, muscles and other organs just like what hapoens to beef cows when fed grain in feed lots, grain promotes dysfunction. Once the liver is diseased and dysfunctional it can no longer convert the excess glucose into teiglycerides and so this is how type 2 diabetes happens. Its a fat storage issue not a glucose storage issue. It only happens when you combine high glycemic processed grain prinarily with fat together. Additionally high glycemic diets and habitually high blood glucose are the source of damage to arteries that lead to heart attack and stroke that cholestetol is trying to repair habitually and then gets blamed for the damage the glucose created. Why do you think diabetics have higher odds of stroke and heart attack and why they go blind and get feet amputated, because the habitual high blood glucose. Vegans whole premise is archaic junk science. Humans were healthy, just like all the other animals on the planet, didnt require tooth brushes to keep their teeth from getting diseased until we invented agriculture and a grain and starch foundation diet.

You forgot to tell people there are no vending machines in the school and no junk food.

Chris, I wish you could put out a new video every single day. Your content is fantastic!

One of the problems in America is that the professionals aren't role models and look like hypocrites. Most nutritionists, nurses, doctors etc. that I see are fat, many are obese.

@moondog7694

Жыл бұрын

I've never seen a fat nutritionist.

I love how the Japanese kids ate in the classroom and cleaned up together. In Michael Moore's 2016 movie, "Where to Invade Next" he showed a French School-employed chef giving his daily talk to the students about the gourmet lunch they were about to eat: Sea scallops, lamb tangine, organic veggies, pâté, organic bread and a cheese. Moore then shows some students photos of what students in the U.S. eat; they react with a mixture of doe-eyed horror and pity. In Central Tuscany where they eat peasant foods, choose olive oil over butter and live like in the blue zones--they have an obesity rate of 8.8%. Sicily following the sugary processed food movement in most of Italy has an obesity rate of 33% in children and 51% overall. Source: Valter Longo: Obesity in Italy.

I completely agree, nutritional education is extremely important for any human being, especially for kids and their tendency to gravitate towards sugar and heavily processed food. The government should really consider putting more resources into nutritional education for the general public and schools should have it as well no doubt (of course parents also need to chip in a little)

5:12 At first I thought the Japanese school nutritionist was a high school student.

You could do Switzerland then. It's #2. Lots of potatoes, kale, cellar-friendly veggies.

My parents are Chinese immigrants. I've always thought vegetables were the tastiest foods of all. I did ate mostly fruits today because I didn't eat lunch earlier so I snacked on fruits after dinner. Even fruits are pretty sugary for me. I eat most vegetables. Wished my family liked brussel sprouts more because I've always loved them despite its bitterness. I am more picky when it comes to red meat than vegetables.

1:40 spinach is high in ecdysterone, the natural anabolic. So, the cartoon is right 😄

FYI: The milk thing is thanks to America pushing it after winning the war. It started with powdered milk which my mother-in-law says was the worst thing in the world for her during school lunch :P

Those school lunches look yummy, for the most part....wish we had that here in the US instead of the utter junk that they serve in schools. Nice video Chris

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] ❤

That was fascinating, and the food looked delicious! I'm from the UK, and grew up very poor and when I had free school meals back in the 80s sometimes it was the only hot meal I got that day and although it was pies, pasties, chips, and soggy veg I did appreciate it. However when mum could cook for us, we always ate our veggies, she makes amazing vegetable stews and curries to this day. I love veggies and always try to have at least three or four servings a day of them. Well I am vegan after all ;)

I just adore the Japanese people and culture. They are much smarter than we Americans. Don't get me started on major companies with profits to be made at our health pay off those in power.

Your last two videos are probably my most favourite of your videos. I appreciate the different perspectives and practical tips to consider through a clever and respectful mix of story, culture and data.

I always feel amazing when in Japan. Almost every meal was fish, vegetables and rice. Salmon, natto and pickled vegetables on rice was the ultimate breakfast. The unagi and sushi to die for. I have tried many times to reproduce the food here in Australia, but the produce just isn’t the same.

@healthglobalinstitute

Жыл бұрын

Yes. I totally agree with you. 👍🤝 Sashimi is my favourite. ❤

@linuxman7777

11 ай бұрын

You have to grow it yourself if you want the higher quality

@nicktheodorou3474

11 ай бұрын

@@linuxman7777 For sure. Work in progress. The hardest past is producing volume. I have the space just not the time.

Imagine you actually try to raise your kids like this in the United States. Then you're considered a hippy kook. Even when you win you lose 😅😔

Must reads: The Big Myth And Merchants of Doubt Got it 👍

My teenage daughter won’t touch any of the healthy WFPB meals that I make. Unfortunately I went veggie six years for health reasons ago and she still wants the food we used to eat. We accommodate her and make separate meals. My cooking is nothing special but really tasty to me. When our vegetarian friends bring their kids over for dinner their kids love my cooking. Kudos to Japan for having such an amazing school lunch system.

The in house commercial kitchen! That’s the key in my view!

Thanks for the vid. One for the algorithm. ❤🙏

Gotta say, your channel is not only extremely informative, but also quite refreshing and fun at it. Loving your vibe! :)

Babe wake up, new plant chompers video

The japanese school program seems really well tought, I think that plays an important role in the reason of why the prevalence of obesity in japan is so low, but I suppose is not the only reason .

@moondog7694

Жыл бұрын

Psychologist Ronald Goldman PhD implies that Japan has lower child abuse rates than USA in his 14-page $5 USD essay on his website. The TV psychiatrist Dr. Drew Pinsky said he thinks that the cause of the increase in obesity is the increase in child abuse, because of the multiplier effect, since most child abusers abuse more than 1 kid (exponential growth). Dr. Felitti of the ACEs study wrote that the top 3 causes of obesity are 1. CSA 2. childhood physical abuse 3. trying to avoid responsibility, because society has low expectations of obese people, so obese people become obese to avoid getting a job or whatever. I read of a study that said 97% of obese people who were currently seeing a psychologist have borderline personality disorder. People with BPD have an insecure attachment style. I saw a video on Japanese parenting versus American parenting, and it said on average a Japanese mom spends 2 hours a week away from her baby, whereas for American moms its like 24+ hours per week (I can't remember the exact # of hours, but it was more than 24). Psychologist Faye Snyder Psy.D writes in her books that babies can't be away from their moms for more than 1 hour per week without suffering permanent damage to their attachment bond.

The Japanese are so bloody marvellous and so is this video

Great work! Kept it coming! 👍🏼

In Japan, children are also taught proper behavior in elementary school. we Americans can learn to do things better by looking outside the U.S. for examples to improve our education system. Japan is one example, so is Finland.

@moondog7694

Жыл бұрын

But Americans are more respectful towards animals. There's a scene in the documentary "The Cove" where a Japanese girl LAUGHS at an American (?) woman crying as she sees dolphins being slaughtered in front of her.

@happycook6737

Жыл бұрын

Bullying is a huge issue in Japanese schools.

@11235Aodh

Жыл бұрын

@@moondog7694 They are more emotional when it comes to animal abuse. But if they really cared about the animals, they would not eat them, meat consumption is huge in the states.

This is an excellent episode, Chris. So glad you're here!

For profit healthcare, food industry and complicit American government regulators have fostered a capitalist death cult. Thanks for another excellent video, Chris!!! Also congrats on 40,000 subscribers!!!!! WOOT WOOT!!!

@freeian2

Жыл бұрын

Wrote an editorial to local paper in April, 2022, encompassing similar theme. Food system rigged against our health for sake of false profit.

@freeian2

Жыл бұрын

Wrote an editorial to local paper in April, 2022, encompassing similar theme. Food system rigged against our health for sake of false profit.

@miken1463

Жыл бұрын

Should be more like 400,000 or 4,000,000

Amazed at the quantity of food in their school lunches. American lunchs are much smaller servings though the calorie count may be about the same. Amazed the Japanese kids are served cow's milk because I had always heard Asians were lactose-intolerant.

That one chunk of animal corpse at 6:40 feeds all those kids (and of course, you don't actually need that), as compared to one "carnivore" or one typical American (over 1-3 days or so). I envy the Japanese culture over American culture...

@StanDupp6371

Жыл бұрын

It's only a small amount of meat because they also serve egg, chicken and milk, small portions but more variety of all foods, it's called a balanced diet which is a copy of what all the Japanese centenarians do.

Well done, and those Japanese kids certainly were trim as a result!

@keithbarbaro7590

Жыл бұрын

One reason they are thin is genetics. They hate fat people. The thinnest most hyper-feminine women are most likely to have kids while heavier people have been eliminated from the gene pool to a large degree.

@happycook6737

Жыл бұрын

​@@keithbarbaro7590 You are joking, right? I lived in Japan. With the widespread adoption of Western processed foods the Japanese are getting fat. In fact the government's socialized medical system requires all citizens over a certain age to have annual waist measurement. If their waist is too big their employer has to pay a fine. Japanese move more than Americans with many doing all their shopping by walking or on a pedal bike especially in the city. There is also enormous societal pressure to be trim. I found the traditional meal sets in restaurants to run about 500 calories and include small portions of veggies, rices, clear soup, and pickles with meat, fish, or tofu as a seasoning. When I first lived in Tokyo in 1999 I rarely saw even a slightly fat person and the biggest woman's size was USA 12. On a recent trip I saw a lot of chunkier Japanese and easily bought woman's USA size 24! It is astonishing to see the difference in body size in just 23 years.

The French school lunch is also phenomenal and so is the military provisions. Of course the lunch or provision isn’t vegetarian or vegan but it’s definitely healthier/ “ancestral.”

Like always, amazing information! Thank you for your videos and your time, you just can see how these are beautifully and carefully researched🌼🌞 Very much appreciated.

Really enjoyed the video with a special ending. STILL I would really love to have more in-depth ,solid explanation about the “Graph”.. That red line dropping downward like a rock…. Thank you for ypur amazing work

Holy cow! When I was in school lunch was a slice of pizza, french fries, chips, a nutty butty bar, a mountain dew, and a cigarette in the boys rooom.

*THANK YOU!* 👍👍👍

Very insightful! Thanks for digging into this. The high school I graduated from got into trouble for serving hotdog buns covered in cheese as “Italian Dunkers” and giving out expired candy apples. 😂

Awesome, so interesting and so well done. Thank you!

Amazing content- love your videos

Thanks Chris a fascinating insight. More please!

The variety of foods in their schools looked awesome compared to the PB&J sandwiches I ate everyday while going to school.

Great watch, love the vids ,thanks

Thanks for sharing ❤ so glad they're eating their veggies. Next plant milk and no more animals 👍

Thanks again for another great insight on how much wrongness western capitalism brought with it. Well, then. I love you.

I found the webinar clips to be quite intriguing. The U.S. doesn't compare. I visited a school a few months back where they only served pre-packaged processed meals in lunch bags. It was probably to keep overhead low. From my personal experience, I recall consuming subpar quality food due to the availability of ala carte items purchased using individual expense accounts. I'm sure the school profited handsomely from this set up.

@magetaaaaaa

Жыл бұрын

This is what I basically did in school - I'd use lunch money to go to breakfast in the morning and then would buy ala carte items at lunch.

I always love your videos so much they contain a huge amount of.information. there is always something new I did not knew. Thank you.

Incredible video.

Great episode! Thanks!!

Well...if you want to do a whole video on Asian cuisine...I'd watch it

For anyone that never ate a vegetable or fruit in Japan --- they taste sweet and amazing in Japan. So fresh and delicious. American typical grocery store fruits and vegetables have very little taste at all. This is why Japanese kids and adults easily eat veg and fruit.

@user-lj1pr1jn4g

10 ай бұрын

i agree. US vegitables →no taste US meat →heavy smells US candy →too sweet US cofee →no! US water →no!

Thank you so much for all you do!!

"Life Where I'm From" is a great KZread channel. His series on homelessness in Japan is fascinating.

A lot can be learned here. The Japanese have strong Zeta reticuli roots.

I live in Japan. Unfortunatly once you're outa school what awaits you is long working hours and uber eats..

@ram-us7ri

10 ай бұрын

I still miss the university cafeteria 😭 it's so fast, convenient. And they tell you what kind of nutrient you can get from your meal on the receipt

The fact one can develop a taste pallet over a few months is an often overlooked aspect of lifestyle change I think. When it comes to making ethical choices of not eating animal products and trying to get friends to change their ways, it feels like a parents struggle to get their infants to eat the meals early on in life.

@eugenetswong

Жыл бұрын

I heard that moms should eat plant based good, while the kids are in the womb, because the unborn are tasting it in the blood.

Michael Moore's documentary Where to Invade Next discusses the poor nutrition provided in most American schools, especially in economically disadvantaged school districts. He features France and Japan's school lunches and nutritional education by way of contrast.

I love this. I thumbed up then thumbed down just so I had the satisfaction of thumbing up again. Thank you sir.

Liked this more than I thought I did. It shows how much pain from junk food the US has profited off of. I wonder though, in your last statements about food addiction - can some not get off of the junk food addiction train even after that period? Do we have studies/data on the subject? I would be curious if you would do a show on calcium - it’s the last “hot button” nutrient you haven’t spoken on and your other videos were extremely informative. :-)

@PlantChompers

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. Yes, research is rolling in on people not able to get off of the addiction to junk food, and drugs like Ozempic are really helping with that.

Very good post but I’ll make a few comments. The main reason this works in Japan is that they are a group oriented society while we value our individual freedom more. Both have pros and cons. This video highlights one of the Japanese advantages and American disadvantages. However there are opposite situations. Also, the Japanese eat more meat then is suggested in this video. They do eat less sugar and that allows for a wider food palate.

Mass production farms corp dominates in the western countries. The Japanese schools turn to their local farmers for local seasonal produce that generates the whole community to work together.

Almost at 40,000 subscribers 🥳

Thank you for mentioning windfall taxes!

I work part time at my kids school, and it's hard to see what the public schools offer, but it's just as bad to see what parents send. It's hard to move more plant based. I've been doing it for almost 2 years, but my family still has a hard time with the simple food. 😕

@magetaaaaaa

Жыл бұрын

I've had coworkers at previous jobs who could not cook at all. They said that if it wasn't some instant meal or microwave thing they couldn't do it.

Great videos! You might want to pay a little more attention to the audio in post processing; in this video especially the base was booming very loudly. You might try some combination of a high pass filter and base rolloff. Thanks again for the videos!

0:00: 📊 Japan has a life expectancy of 85, living nine years longer than Americans, which may be attributed to their public healthcare system and cultural and diet differences. 3:11: 🍱 The video discusses the Japanese school lunch program and its impact on food education. 5:48: 🍽 The video discusses the process of planning and preparing school meals in advance, considering seasonal ingredients, event food, and the rotation of different protein sources. 9:18: ! Children learn gratitude for food and study about the global environment through experiences with farmers and school lunches at shokuiku. 12:01: 🍔 Food companies have gained significant power and influence over the last 50 years, contributing to the obesity crisis in America. Recap by Tammy AI

It would be great if you compared the American school lunch program to the rest of the world based on the graph that you show with public vs corporate healthcare. Expand more on that graphic by discussing other countries like France vs America. Italy vs America. Etc. Now that you’ve covered Japan. It would be great to show how the rest of the world thinks about how to feed and educate their children.

@tayloranderson456

Жыл бұрын

That's an interesting insight. In the US, healthcare is basically the biggest industry. And the bad food system is what keeps it thriving. So for the US to fix the food system and consequent chronic health probs, it would bankrupt the healthcare system and probably cause a Great Depression. In other words, the foundation of the US economy is poor health.

@contextwithjohnmalone

Жыл бұрын

@@tayloranderson456 you’re absolutely correct Taylor. That’s why it (seems) like an insurmountable problem to overcome. But if less financially solvent countries were able to do this, then why can’t American do this as well? And the answer to that question seems like “it doesn’t want to”. For many years the American government and systems used to be to protect the masses from the bad actors (corporations). But now the roll of the government seems to be to protect the (corporations) from the masses. So for now America seems to be in a never ending cycle of feed them crap that makes them sick and prescribe them medicine that also keeps them sick but still alive to keep feeding them crap and repeat as necessary to increase corporate profits.

@dominicboudriau3554

Жыл бұрын

Taylor is half correct! The health system would definitely not crumble! Lots of people would lose their jobs, but the system would actually thrive!

@contextwithjohnmalone

Жыл бұрын

@@dominicboudriau3554 right!?! It’s literally become “too big to fail”. It’s like watching a building fire. If you haven’t put out the flames at the point of origin in a specific amount of time (like ASAP!) the fire grows out of control and all you can do is wait and watch it all burn to the ground until there is nothing for the fire to feed on and then eventually smolders into nothing.

@niamhleeson3522

Жыл бұрын

@@contextwithjohnmalone in the meantime you can sell a lot of fire escapes, ladders, and firemen, but never any hoses or water, because if you put out the fire, you couldn't sell the other things anymore.

Maybe with those extra 9 years you attain Nirvakalpa Samadhi.

Great episode! I like the honesty in the clips you showed. I was raised in Belgium, and the food at school (60s/70s) was simply disgusting. Sure, it was what we would recognise as "real food", at least the ingredients were, but it was so poorly prepared that I would hesitate to feed it to the pigs. The claim was that we were "only children", so it didn't matter that the potatoes turned blue from cooking in aluminum pots or that the Brussels sprouts were stinking to high heavens after boiling for hours on end and that's not speaking of sickeningly sweet carrots or red cabbage with apples. My stomach still churns when I think of it. Most of us ate as little as we could without becoming so hungry that we started vomiting (dry spills). Being forced to eat everything served to me, even if it took hours, was a punishment I don't wish on anybody. While I can't be 100% certain (obviously), I think that the disgusting food we were forced to eat as children is, at least in part, indirectly responsible for my morbid obesity later on. Yet now, I am eating those very same foods. They take less time to prepare than any other foods I know, and they taste great. I like to call it "pragmatic food" or "fastest food".

@moondog7694

Жыл бұрын

Are all of your classmates morbidly obese? I think Dr. Felitti of the ACEs study has the answer of why you are obese.

In discussions on longevity and diet. There is almost always a complete lack of discussion about the place a person's culture and social life play in maintaining their health and achieving longevity.

I found this video engrossing and depressing in equal measure, because such a system would never work here. At this point, Americans are too paranoid about lifestyle choices being arbitrarily taken away from them by some external authority (and are very selective about discerning when it's actually happening). Our society would be suspicious at the mere suggestion that a Japanese-type system is a good idea for us. I appreciate how much work you put into analyzing Asian nutrition research and putting together this analysis of how one country handles nutrition instruction comprehensively. Thanks for posting!

@eugenetswong

Жыл бұрын

I'm not so sure about that. Americans are right to distrust their government, and their government will rarely ever support the Japanese system. That being said, the Japanese seem to be held in high regard in many ways by both sides of the political spectrum. As the video says, the children don't like food when first exposed to it. We also saw in earlier videos that Plant Chompers's daughter had to put in effort to disciplining the children into liking vegetables. That level of success shocked even me. To make it more appealing to Americans, tell them that this Japanese diet has been held back from the politicians on the other side of the aisle. That would be the most honest accusation, because both sides have sold out. Westerners love a good conspiracy.

Great video. That "Lunchables" clip is terrifying; is it satire, or is it for real?

@PlantChompers

Жыл бұрын

It’s for real. 😞

@subliminalfalllenangel2108

Жыл бұрын

​@@PlantChompers I also used to eat junks when I was a kid, but it's never THIS bad...

@micpoc4597

Жыл бұрын

@@PlantChompers Yeesh...

Thank you for sharing. I noticed the red carton on their plates and hoped it was not cows milk, but unfortunately it is. The dairy industry has been pushing dairy products on the Japanese, getting them to eat more yogurt, milk, ice cream, and other high fat cow goodies. How sad to force dairy on children as it enslaves and slaughters millions of momma and baby cows, and is loaded with tons of estrogens. The Japanese show respect for food and want to learn more. This is not saying the Japanese are perfect. Quite a contrast to the USA, where our Goevernment sadly supoports and promotes processed, oversalted, over-sugar-ry (!), animal ag, and GMO foods. And American chomping down of animal proteins keeps growing and growing every year. When I went to Japan years ago I learned, and adopted, their custom of leaving shoes at the door. This keeps your house, condo, or apartment floor-- much cleaner...

@StanDupp6371

Жыл бұрын

Japan is the country with the highest IQ and a no profit healthcare system. The dairy they consume is of higher proper quality and the portion size is small. The dairy they consume has proper absorbable Vitamin A1, B12, D, K2, C15:0, Sphingolipids all 6 which destroy cancer cells and protect the heart. Japan does not serve any plant milk because the highest IQ scientists know those plant milks are the worst for their health and the worst for the environment and do not have the 6 nutrients listed.

New subscriber….loving these videos…have been saying that our food that we eat is what is killing us…I am trying to grow most of my own food. Tastes so much better

It isn’t just food that determines how fat you get. Genes also determine the distribution of fat AND how hungry your brain interprets what you get into your stomach.

since you mentioned spinach in the video can you talk about oxalates? its effects and how much its okay to each food with oxalates?

@PlantChompers

11 ай бұрын

They do seem causal of certain kidney stones in some people. My impression is the people most at risk usually pound spinach instead of eating a variety of greens, especially in green smoothies, where they absorb even better when they are ground up. And almonds also have oxalates, although nothing tops spinach, so if you have a large spinach smoothie with almond milk, uh oh. I think the moral is drink enough water and eat a reasonable amount of spinach like the Japanese do, and it's almost always fine (and healthy).

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!! Make a video on pregnancy on a plant based/vegan diet. Before, during and after 🙏🙏🙏 there is not much of information on such an important topic. Or it’s hard to find and structure in digestible way. It will be so helpful to see your view on this topic!

I am shocked the the US only have a 40% obesity rate.

@niamhleeson3522

Жыл бұрын

Many more are overweight.

@ChadRD

Жыл бұрын

But almost 75% overweight and obese

its really too bad the US can't get its house in order with respect to food. Aside from physical health and environmental issues there's also the impact on mental health (psychological issue etc). Felice Jacka PhD has done good work on this. Just think how much saner our elected officials would be if they were raised good food.

@user-lj1pr1jn4g

10 ай бұрын

US can't control food , medical, and even gun problem.

The photo of the children petting the baby calf had me wondering if they actually teach the children the realities of the meat, dairy and egg industries or if it is an idealized version that leaves out the most horrific parts.

@ChadRD

Жыл бұрын

There are no issues with meat and eggs if they are truly pastured and not from factory farms. You'd have to be fair and present both methods.

@thegratefulsteve

Жыл бұрын

@@ChadRD breeding animals to exploit their bodies is the crux of the problem. Small scale, large scale the problem is the oppression and exploitation.

Surely there has to be some ancient wisdom in those books, something that's a magic fix that's been lost to the west. Surely it can't be what people have said forever. 😂 I do like Asian veg preparation more than the western "boil everything" philosophy. I hated brussel sprouts until I had them pan fried with onion in a little olive oil and seasoned with S&P. And oven roasted root veg is just to die for, especially beats.

If I could go back and change anything in my life, it would have been the food I ate as a child . I eat a vegan diet now. Made the change in 2021. I am sometimes surprised at the volume of fruit and vegetables I eat these days. Still fatter than I want to be, but I figure the damage might be done there.