I've really appreciated Ellen introducing more foods into her diet. She even featured beyond burgers in a grocery haul about a year or so ago! She seems to have gotten a much better balance between whole foods and adding some 'processed' stuff into her diet. I eat similarly but with a bit more protein focus (trying to get 120-140g a day with mock meats, protein powder, etc at every meal). Also it is SO CUTE when your kid talks on camera. I understand you want to keep the privacy and totally respect it but Im glad you allow for a few peeps from them to come out- so so cute! and it is so sweet to watch you intereact with them

@plantahari

2 жыл бұрын

what do you do and how big are you that you're aiming for 140g protein? 6ft tall construction worker? mining? professional athlete?

@hayleysilbert4259

2 жыл бұрын

@@plantahari haha no, Im around 130 lbs and workout in the gym 5 days a week with heavy strength training. I aim for 1 g per lb of bodyweight. So i try to average around 130g a day :)

@whatever7588

2 жыл бұрын

Just eat real meat for real protein and better for the environment and animals

@kylerrodriguez5658

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I remember them she was mostly raw and now she has a balance of raw and cooked foods

@lisanyugenhascancer6332

2 жыл бұрын

@@whatever7588 says a white guy

I love the commentary videos on other vegans. It's my crack.

@maxchenowith9060

2 жыл бұрын

Same here

@simoneconde5564

2 жыл бұрын

YUP

@emmaskov

2 жыл бұрын

Same!

@simoneconde5564

2 жыл бұрын

@@MdoubleHBxx How have you not been banned yet?

@jdr297

2 жыл бұрын

@@MdoubleHBxx is that you, fully raw Kristina?

I actually love eating higher fat foods. The fat phobia in plant based foods is just not my thing. I am glad to hear she actually is not scared about fat.

@GarudaLegends

2 жыл бұрын

be careful eating vegetable and seed oils.

@JuliasHairJourney

2 жыл бұрын

@@GarudaLegends I disagree with you a 120%. My mom is almost 70 and we do not drink gallons on vegetable oil, but she is super healthy and has ate this. I am a strong cookie who goes my own way. Vegetable fat is not scary in my book. I already took meat and dairy out of my diet, that is enough. I am going to eat avocadoes and coconut ice cream occasionally. I am going to make yummy hummus with tahini and olive oil.

@GarudaLegends

2 жыл бұрын

@@JuliasHairJourney olive is a fruit, not a vegetable.

@JuliasHairJourney

2 жыл бұрын

@@GarudaLegends I am aware of this. You are getting too precise.

@GarudaLegends

2 жыл бұрын

@@JuliasHairJourney vegetable and seed oil is like to dietary disease.

Ellen's diet does seem to have improved a lot recently. From the videos I've seen, she tends to eat protein at lunch and dinner and sometimes a bit with breakfast, when she has her granola, which has quite a bit of of quinoa. Kids also seem to be eating more protein overall. She seems more relaxed about processed stuff too. I even saw a video where they all ate the granola with some sort of store bought, fortified, plant milk! The shock!

the trick for making non-bitter quinoa is to soak it overnight, discard the water, then rinse again. Cook as usual, but cooking time will be reduced somewhat. It's never bitter when prepared this way. I discovered it when sprouting quinoa.

@UnnaturalVegan

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'll try that!

@heidih3048

2 жыл бұрын

@@UnnaturalVegan glad to help! I used to dislike quinoa for the bitterness before I discovered this!

I don’t consume any of Ellen’s media anymore, but I’m happy to see she’s widening her scope of foods. It’s actually almost a realistic vegan diet now 😅

@whatever7588

2 жыл бұрын

No vegan diet is realistic long-term

In regards to your comment about magnesium ("who on any sort of plant-based diet would be deficient in Mg?"), at the moment there is actually interesting evidence that points to magnesium being used up and excreted a lot faster during periods of intense stress or longer periods of chronic stress. Since Mg is quite important in a series of processes in the body, including sleep regulation and relaxation, having a higher intake of Mg can actually be helpful in reducing overall levels of stress. So according to its advantageous sodium-potassium ratio and high magnesium content, coconut water seems like a great drink to me to add to a varied diet :)

I recently had a baby and will say that I craved coconut water after labor and the first weeks after birth. I think it helped my milk supply and definitely made me feel better in my recovery.

Toddler: Will the new baby love me? Uber Practical UV: We’ll just have to wait and see sweetie.

What's standing out to me is how privileged she is! I don't know if she's even aware of this but eating avocados every day, sometimes twice a day? And fresh coconut water every day? Maybe that's affordable for her on Hawaii as an influencer that moved there but at other places? You have to be rich rich to be able to afford this kind of diet!

@spasticfurchild

2 жыл бұрын

That’s how I feel about people who live off of packaged vegan junk food

@conisalgado1294

2 жыл бұрын

This!

@skelet0r23

2 жыл бұрын

well to be fair it's what she eats for a healthy pregnancy and not saying you're a horrible mom if you don't eat avocado everyday

@MrMrRadiergummi

2 жыл бұрын

@@skelet0r23 Of course not, that's not what i meant to say with my comment. Her extreme privilege just always gets to me as a person who's always had to think twice before spending money on anything, especially groceries.

@twitchybird8074

2 жыл бұрын

@@MdoubleHBxx You're the worst form of child abuse.

Electrolytes are super important for me when living in hot climates, especially when pregnant. Probably not an issue living in Portland lol

Hi professional gardener here. Your fruits should taste sweeter home grown - you may be picking them too early or late if they're not or they aren't being given the optimal growing conditions, particularly soil health. :)

I really appreciate that you also make it a point when you agree with the person in videos like this.

Pretty funny that in Finland they recommend to avoid all seeds during pregnancy because they may sometimes contain heavy metals 🤷🏼‍♀️ and seaweed too 😄 this is like opposite to the recommendations we get from healthcare lol

@cruelaz

2 жыл бұрын

I mean she also doesnt believe in vaccinating her kids which I think most healthcare says is a good idea haha

@krakowska19

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know where Ellen is located, but if Finland's recommendations are a bit old they could still take into consideration the Chernobyl aftermath. Right now all of that radiation should be gone but I suspect because of that tragedy recommendations for at least half of the Europe could be much different than for example in Australia or US

@Elfuxxx

2 жыл бұрын

@@krakowska19 I don’t believe it’s because of that. At least the seeds one is pretty newly added. Maybe especially from the omnivore perspective it’s safer to get omega 3 from safe fish and avoid seeds just in case. When I was pregnant I avoided seeds and used canola oil and took a epa+dha supplement.

@conisalgado1294

2 жыл бұрын

@@Elfuxxx fish is not recommended for omnivores during pregnancy

@Elfuxxx

2 жыл бұрын

@@conisalgado1294 At least Finland it is. Only certain fishes which can contain heavy metals are not. (I'm a vegan so I don't eat or recommend fish but those are the recommendations :))

I wish the awareness of our needs of Iodine would shift our recognition away from sea vegetables and get back to using just simple iodized salt. Seaweed/Kelp products just aren't regulated the same way. Good luck finding out where these things are grown or harvested. The Iodine content, as correctly stated in this video, ranges wildly. You can have modest amounts of seaweed containing 700%+ daily value or you can have some with only trace amounts. Like what was said, you really really do not want to be consuming too much iodine on a regular basis. Iodized salt is extremely cheap and highly regulated. You only need 1/4 tsp to get around 40% of your daily value. Another thing about seaweed, it's been known to absorb heavy metals which is very difficult for us consumers to really know how much is in there. Sea veggies are totally fine to eat if you like them, but don't delude yourself by trying to treat them as a supplement when we actually do have regulated sources you can trust as supplements.

I'm infertile and I take a CRAPLOAD of B12. This is the one thing my mother drilled into me when I first decided to become vegetarian as a teenager over 20 years ago (and probably the only thing she knows about plant based diets and supplementation needs).

Yes! Thank you for the call out on maple syrup. So many "healthy" recipes with like 1/4 to 1 cup of maple syrup in there. It's still sugar, man. It isn't magically not sugar when you make cookies with it. Spare me. 😂

People with a background of eating disorders should stop commenting on other people with eating disorders and they shouldn't try to give "diet advice" in general. This also applies to Ellen Fisher, Freelee, Durianrider etc., they're all in the ED club.

@rachele932

2 жыл бұрын

Would this not apply to unnatural vegan too? she was bulimic but still gives diet advice.

@tomlauris

2 жыл бұрын

@@rachele932 Yes.

Lol I was hospitalized with a heart arrhythmia. Turns out I just had low potassium 😂 so now I make sure to eat bananas and avocados everyday. Not sure how that happened but it did. Also I’m vegetarian, mostly vegan

@nps571

2 жыл бұрын

maybe a medication side effect?

@Ethelgiggle

2 жыл бұрын

oof that's scary I hope they checked if your kidneys are fine tho, those little beans can cause some nasty electrolyte imbalances if they don't work correctly

@jupitherdanach7643

2 жыл бұрын

I was so surprised UV claimed that potassium and magnesium are never an issue, for people doing a lot of endurance sports those get emphasized a lot... I hope your heart is fine now!

@goranbreskic4304

2 жыл бұрын

These things happen sometimes. A relative of mine fainted one day. A middleaged man. It turned out he was extremely anemic. They practically turned him inside out trying to find the cause. They found nothing. He's fine now. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@sarahlove8564

2 жыл бұрын

I never realized how important potassium is until I stated nursing school

The "tell them to suck your..." comment at 6:17 killed me! haha

Congrats on the 3rd! Ours is definitely a ray of hilarious sunshine and he actually helps the other two be better buddies as well as being buddies with him. Can’t imagine life without him even though it seemed CRAZY when we first got pregnant with the 3rd.

Yeah, I don't see enough people take iodine seriously and you need to be really really careful with it. I know this would be extreme example, but my mom was like 6 months pregnant with my brother when Chernobyl happened (and we live in a neighboring country) and at that time a 'prevention procedure' was taking iodine solution and the amount that was recommended...effed us up. We all have thyroid problems. My mom has, my brother has (and doctor's say it isn't common that men get thyroid problems), I have those problems even though I was born 8 years after him, and our doctor recommended my younger sister to monitor her hormones cos it is highly probably she will also suffer from this. So be mindful about your iodine cos it's usually really small doses that can tip the scale and cause a lot of damage, and let me tell you, thyroid problems aren't fun

@liatm3042

2 жыл бұрын

Was it the iodine that they took that caused the issue though? I haven't actually looked into this but a few of my family members lived in Romania at the time and, though they didn't take any iodine, they all now have hashimoto's. It could be genetic I guess but it's suspicious that no one else in our family (we lived quite far from the incident at the time) has ever experienced anything similar. We always assumed their thyroid issues were caused by radiation exposure, since radioactive iodine was said to cause such things, but maybe the same can be said about normal iodine?

@mariaRD

2 жыл бұрын

It was not because of the iodine it was because of the radiation that affected your thyroid

@goranbreskic4304

2 жыл бұрын

No, thyroid problems are usual in men too and it runs in families.

@krakowska19

2 жыл бұрын

@@liatm3042 the practice than was 'take this iodine solution so when the radiation reaches us, your thyroid took so much of 'good' iodine that it would not 'have space' for the radioactive one'. But also, it was Poland, it was a really weird time for us, we were taking information from USSR, cos the west was still 'officially evil'. It was basically 'hurt yourself so you won't be hurt even more' situation'. So that could be, that we both are right, in both countries we had different actions that resulted in the same thing. But it's also probably a different case since my mom was pregnant at that time (and worked in a place that manufactured some meds so she had really easy access to them) and she was the first to get anything 'preventative'.

@krakowska19

2 жыл бұрын

@@mariaRD no, it probably was that iodine solution cos the recommend dose turned out to be higher than radiation that reached us. And also it is fresh to me since war in Ukraine started. In first few days we had info that Russian went into no-go zone and by that the radiation levels went up. People started to panic buy iodine solution and the people that study radiation were like 'please don't freaking do this cos you're gonna hurt yourself much more with this than if the radiation reaches us'. And as I said, my mom was bit far into pregnancy so she was first in line for 'preventative' measures

Made the coconut ice cream. It was nice but effort. My local supermarket sells vegan ice cream for 80p (I’m in the uk). Would rather have that every now and again

@DaisyLaPierre

2 жыл бұрын

which supermarket is that? 80p ice cream sounds right up my street 😅

@amy06788

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaisyLaPierre Lidl do a pint for £1 however they are only chocolate and vanilla flavours... also in London they're like £1.50 for some extortionate reason

@vegankatemate4809

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaisyLaPierre Morrisons own is 80p but the main ingredient is oil whereas the more expensive vegan ice creams will have oats or cashews or soya as their main ingredient . I did try the Lidl salted caramel and it had so little flavour I wasn’t impressed

@annieridesagain3262

2 жыл бұрын

@@MdoubleHBxx Especially when you're just a little pony.

I don’t watch many of Ellen’s videos anymore (busy with my own littles) but I seem to remember them showing fortified milks they buy at Costco

With my first pregnancy I worked IA deli and everytime they brought out the saurkraut or the kimchi I had to leave the room the smell was so awful and I would start gagging even though it was on the other side of the room. Omg I can't imagine trying to eat that while pregnant

@Reznic007

2 жыл бұрын

I LOVE sauerkraut but I’m 22 weeks pregnant and during my first trimester I would literally gag thinking about sauerkraut and even now haven’t been wanting to eat it like I normally do so yeah, she clearly is a little out of it if she thinks that’s a good tip for most people LOL

"You are probably not going to be wanting to make a lot of bread" This is the moment where the four kids come in. She thought it through

I love Ellen and her perspective and lifestyle. ❤️

maybe try cooking quinua with veggie broth? I actually came from "eh" to really loving it that way

@mikekuppen6256

2 жыл бұрын

I´ve tried all the tricks with quinoa as well, including cooking it in broth or with spices. It just remains bitter/soapy for me. I do like it popped though, in my müsli.

Saturated fat is life.

I have never kept up with Ellen so I was actually so shocked to see them eating lentils and rice for dinner and bread wow hahahha😂

Coconut water tastes terrible to me. I just don't get it. (I love coconut flesh/milk/cream)

@isislee919

2 жыл бұрын

i think it’s delicious and refreshing when it’s ice cold

@maryloumccaslin4417

2 жыл бұрын

Same, I hate coconut water and I looooove coconut everything else

I don’t know if you’ll already addressed this already, but how are y’all managing/ plan to manage with the formula shortage? Do you stick with the soy formula by any means necessary or count this situation as a necessary consumption of animal products? I remember you mentioning you’ll try to breastfeed again (but I understand it’s difficult for you and many other mothers). I’ve also seen some sketchy formula recipes, I’d love to see you address.

@UnnaturalVegan

2 жыл бұрын

Partner suggested we buy some similac soy in advance, but I'd rather save it for those who really need it. I've never had problems with production, just issues with latching/pain. If I have to exclusively pump again, I'll do it. I'll probably cry and curse a lot, but I'll do it lol

@laurenwalker9339

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for responding!

@kangaroomommy4457

2 жыл бұрын

I can still find soy, store brand as well brand name, in store and online. It seems less affected overall.

@oakesmartha1991

2 жыл бұрын

I have a 2 month old and exclusively formula feeding due to a medication I take that’s not safe to breastfeed on. My baby is on soy formula due to a lactose intolerance and the soy formula has luckily been the easiest type to find cause less babies are on it. Similac is hard to find but the Gerber plant based and the off brands always seem to be available at my local stores. I also live in Portland.

@cherrybearylemondrop

2 жыл бұрын

This is a good question. Keeping a baby fed is definitely a necessity. For people who can't nurse/pump, store-bought formula is essential. If there are shortages on vegan/reduced animal product formulas, this is definitely an acceptable time to use conventional formula.

Hot vegan tips from someone who had 40 weeks of "morning sickness" (hyperemisis garvidarum)- lick a lemon before sipping water, it helps fight off nausea for 5 seconds at a time. Live in Canada so health care is free. Other than that just accept modern medicine and get all of your nutrients and meds from an IV. This is obviously just a joke but thought I would share my experience from my pregnancy. I'm so jealous of people who get to eat food while pregnant hahah.

@goranbreskic4304

2 жыл бұрын

Healthcare is free in lots of countries, not just Canada.

@brettcameron101

2 жыл бұрын

@@goranbreskic4304 yes, that is true. Just speaking from personal experience.

@candicewilson2703

2 жыл бұрын

Same! I vomited through all 10 months of my 3 pregnancies. If I didn’t, I might have had more. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Totally jealous of people who had a typical pregnancy. 😑

She looks great! They must be doing something right. Her kids are really advanced in their education too. She puts her heart and soul into her family, always so energetic and happy.

Could you please do a video on the plant based toddlers book? I just bought it based on your recommendation, but I’d love to hear your thoughts on it.

Weird agreeing with Ellen Fisher for a change. I remember when she first started and was fully raw or close to it.

Never comment on her videos, but here I am :) ❤️

Can't agree on the potassium. I have a potassium deficiency at least once a year which causes muscle cramps and chest pain. I do not find that I can easily hit 100% on the chronometer even though I eat a healthy amount of fruits and veg (unless I eat half a kg of potatoes that day). I have to supplement potassium. (On a vegan diet for 6 years do a blood test every six months. I am never ever low on iron, b12 etc- just potassium..)

@Marissatro1773

2 жыл бұрын

This is pretty rare though, most people do not deal with potassium deficiencies. Source: I’m a dietitian

@Kaaamilkaaaaa

2 жыл бұрын

@@Marissatro1773 ''I'm a dietitian' isn't a source. I take arterial blood gas samples from patients every day. I see low potassium regularly. Or high but that's with elderly patients with low renal function.

@Kaaamilkaaaaa

2 жыл бұрын

''Of 364,955 participants, 69.4% had 1-2 potassium tests, 16.7% had 3-4 tests and the remaining 13.9% had > 4 potassium tests/year. Hypokalemia occurred in 49,662 (13.6%) individuals, with 33% recurrence.'' Source: Nilson, et al. 2017. Incidence and determinants of hyperkalemia and hypokalemia in a large healthcare system. Not so rare then.

I can't drink plain water too, but for some reason sparkling water works perfectly for me. I think it's the adhd that drinking plain water isn't enough of a stimulus.

@thaliacrafts407

2 жыл бұрын

Interoception, I think it's called. I have autism and I can't pick up on stimulation well either. I know my body needs something, but is it energy or fluids? I just have to drink water first and wait an hour to see if it helps. If it doesn't, then I'll try food.

@treefrog1018

Жыл бұрын

Really. I have ADHD and can't seem to convince myself that I can get hydrated with flavored, carbonated drinks. 😂 I can drink a whole 6 pack of LeCroix and be convinced I am not hydrate...whilst peeing on the toilet for 3hrs afterwards. 😂 I need just plain jane water and a little bit of my unflavored electrolytes on occasion.

Fat in general, omega 3 fats, omega 6 fats, including a certain implied ~7% minimum percentage of saturated fat, is critical to human development for pregnant women, breastfeeding women (bio throughout, tbc), and children. The need for fat as a percentage of the diet drops over time as we age from gestational to adult, especially for men. 10-20 percent of calories from fat (about a minimum of 20 grams to 45 grams of fat per day for almost everyone) is enough for most adults (20+ grams for a 5 foot 4 inch man who needs 1800 calories per day to maintain body weight, 30+ grams for average 5 foot 4 inch height women who needs 1800 calories per day to maintain body weight, 25+ grams for a 5 foot 9 inch man who requires 2200 calories to maintain body weight, 36+ grams for a 5 foot 9 inch woman who requires a 2200 calories per day to maintain body weight, 30+ grams for a man who is 6 feet tall and requires 2450 calories per day to maintain bodyweight, or 45+ grams for a woman who is 6 feet tall and requires 2450 calories per day to maintain bodyweight). However, infants require over 25% of calories from fat, and over 12.5% of calories from saturated fat (50% and 25% is closer to ideal). This only drops to over 15%-20% of calories from fat for weaning 1-3 year olds (and likely more than 7.5% to 10% of calories from saturated fat), but closer to 30%-40% of calories and 15% to 20% from saturated fat is best. 4 year olds and pubescent tweens and teens require over 12.5% to 15% of calories from fat, depending mostly on age (25% to 30% is closer to ideal) and likely over 1.25% to 7.5% of calories from saturated fat (again depending mostly on age), but (2.5% to 15% is closer to ideal). Ordinarily, our intake of saturated fat would be more than 7% of or your overall fat requirement (1.4-3.5 grams for almost everyone), and your need for omega 3s should be about 7% or your overall fat requirement (1-4-3.2 grams, and your need for omega 6 is about 28% of your overall fat requirement (5.6-12.6). However, the upper limits for saturated fat are more than 5 times thins, about 5% to 10% of calories (the government recommendation is below 10, but below 7% is really where CVD risk starts to drop), or about half the fat minimums stated above (i.e. no more than 10 to 19.4 grams per day of saturate fat for almost all adults). So, its really a matter of getting enough fats in general, but not so much saturated fat that it is more than 5%-7% of calories (10 to 19.4 grams per day of saturate fat for almost all adults) overall. But eating say 100 calories of mature coconut, which provides 8.4 grams of saturated fat is on occasion or even every day is fine, especially for children and pregnant or nursing women. So, although the body produces the saturated fat needed by the fetus and nursing infant for the most part, for pregnant and nursing mothers, it is best to consume at least about 175% your minimum saturated fat needs of approximately 1.8% of your normal calorie requirement (or at least 3-4% of total calories). So, if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, you want to push this closer to or even exceed 5% of calories from saturated fats (10 to 19.4 grams per day of saturated fat for almost all adults), and also make sure omega 3s are as adequate. It would be OK to consume more than this much saturated fat because the understanding is that even if you were pregnant or breastfeeding constantly for a large part of your life, say 20 years even, there would be a period from about age 40 when you could eat much less saturated fat, and that is significant. Also, there are other reasons why if you want to live as long as possible, you shouldn't be pregnant or breastfeeding for 20 years. Electrolytes are an issue for most people, even vegans. Even vegan diets can me deficient in potassium. But also other minerals can be deficient on any diet, even vegan diets. High sweet fruit diets (>2/3 of calories from sweet fruit) are apt to be low in salt unless you add salt. If do not salt your food at all, for example if you eat almost nothing but sweet fruit, have a caloric deficit, or you exercise a lot or work outside in the heat, you may be deficient in salt. its just one of those issues where its much better to be vegan, but possibly not enough to be perfectly optimal. Eating a lot more fruit and veg is not usually bad advice for most people, starting from where most people are. However, if you are a fruitarian or low fat high carb raw or even raw til 4 person, probably the advice is going the opposite direction: add more fat and take any needed supplements at least.

Your reviews are great! Thank you. Very rational and fair. I am also glad Ellen Fisher is eating more varied and putting sunscreen on her children.

Can we talk about how Swayze is literally not aging

I sweeeeaaaar by coconut water for hangovers.... but ya, that's relatively anecdotal.. and not the same as pregnancy, haha

Have you seen the allegations about Alice and fern. There’s strong evidence that fern has rickets and rotting teeth and she edits the pictures to hide it. There’s also videos about her husband threatening fern and her feeding toxic food to her rabbit.

I'm confused why being super active while pregnant is a bad thing? I do a strength workout everyday (Sydney Cummings) and usually a walk, run, or bike ride. Then usually a hike or a swim on the weekend. Makes me feel so much more energized!

@thaliacrafts407

2 жыл бұрын

Being active during pregnancy is GOOD!! Not just for the baby's development (lower stress levels in the mother, for starters), but women in good shape have less complication during child birth.

@katelijnesommen

2 жыл бұрын

It's good if you were active before pregnancy, and there are a few activities that aren't great during pregnancy (also depends on which trimester you're in). Always a good thing to discuss with your GYN because it just varies a lot depending on your fitness level and how your pregnancy is going.

I like the idea of a “Top 15 foods for health” video!

The antinatalist in me wants to be mad at them having 5 kids (it Is excessive, imo), but a bigger part of me wants to just leave people like this alone... i.e. people who are actually fit to raise happy/healthy children, which I do think the Fishers are- I don't agree w them on everything, but I do think overall they're really good parents. There are a lot of really unfit people having a whole bunch of kids, and those are the people who are the problem.

@goranbreskic4304

2 жыл бұрын

Or you can just stay out of other people's choices for their families?

@danigdb1694

2 жыл бұрын

Antinatalist wtf, mind your own bsns

“Many people don’t get enough vitamin C” I thought that was the vitamin that is the easiest to get in? I get so much every day, probably more than I should

@danikadestinikey7477

2 жыл бұрын

You’ll just pee out any excess Vitamin C, that’s pretty much the only consequence to having too high of a Vitamin C intake since it’s water soluble

Ok but I made the coconut ice cream and it was sooo freaking good- but I appreciate a good vanilla ice cream, for those who like different flavors it may be the best

Im not sure if this logic would make sense but since salt makes coffee less bitter, would salt help with quinoa too? Like salting the water during the cooking process 🧐

“If it was up to me our entire yard would be fuckin’ rocks” I laughed so hard at this.

Few foods for a healthy pregnancy 1. Red meat 2. Fish 3. Liver 4. Eggs 5. Yogurt or kefir X. Anything else you desire, including fruits and vegetables

Would you be willing to do a response video to her pro life pro choice podcast episode?

Dark greens (especially kale, sprouts etc) make me nauseous year round but flavored kale chips really seem to mask the taste

Yes, I would like a What I Eat in a Day video. 🌻

Love green smoothies. It's been years since I had them. But my mum got a nutribullet when I was a teen. My favorite was green smoothie with or without banana, a literal couple of nuts(walnuts, almonds etc) Mum liked to stress not to use to many because of the nuts being "fattening" X3. Put anything else in and it was too much though. Mum would always give me shit saying putting just banana for flavour was too plain and surely I want more fruit and stuff... No thanks lol I mean I liked it without the banana and just the greens and some avocado and nuts. If you didnt notice I'm happier with less flavour sometimes.

@NANA-su5ql

2 жыл бұрын

I love them too, they just have such a satisfying color. Best combo for me is frozen mango, 1/2 banana, and spinach or kale. Use the other half of the banana to make a smoothie bowl.

You’re so obviously envious of her, it’s hilarious

One reason to cook dry beans: you can use iodized salt.

13:26 Does she mean just ice cream and not specifically coconut?

@hay1609

2 жыл бұрын

yes i think so haha

Hell yea! Sourdough bread for life! Mash some avocado on there with some tajin and OMG. One of my favorite things to eat for breakfast this pregnancy.

Hi Swayze, You may have to look into freelee’s recent video, and I am curious about your thoughts overall.

The coconut water for “preconception” and “restoring your energy” just was phrased weird like you need to recharge from conceiving lol?? 😅😂

Loved hearing your babies voice 😊

We eat seaweed every day in Japan but the quantities are small. Kombu we use a bit to make vegan dashi for souses etc instead of chicken stock or similar. Would be easy to eat too much and overdo the iodine. Most commercial coconut water have too much sugar but coconut is better as you only eat a small amount to be full. A table spoon or so. Like avocado and quality peanut butter it’s not possible to eat a lot as you get full. Canola oil in a salad or similar is fine just don’t cook with it.

@Sarah-fm8yk

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was going to say kombu is usually used to make stocks and I wonder how much iodine it transfers!

@suginami123

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sarah-fm8yk One flat piece is used could be two if making a big soup. According to my Japanese partner.sounds vague, right? So sampling and tasting is big part. Umami flavour. Japanese food can often be too salty.

I rarely eat fruit, unless you count tomato sauce or canned and diced tomatoes. Then again I don’t claim to be healthy, and my diet is certainly not a healthy one, though I’ve been vegan for at least 6 years (pretty long for a 23 year old if I do say so myself). The fruit around here tends to be really expensive and it’s awful in quality. Produce in general, really, aside from the blackberries I picked from the yard. A small bag of romaine lettuce costs about $3 here, which is borderline offensive. It’s hard to be a broke ass bitch in Alabama, but I make it by. Learning how to cook rice without burning it really helped, lmao. Lentils are my shit though. Like, literally, they make me shit.

@goranbreskic4304

2 жыл бұрын

Lentils are healthy food. They saved a lot of people in the world from starvation and malnutrition. Sad to learn about the produce, though. 3 dollars for a few leaves. 😱 They're never above the dollar where I live (rural Southeast Europe - very long growing season, very fertile soil) and sometimes as little as 25 cents.

@nicolewaithera1814

2 жыл бұрын

Woah I’m so sorry about the produce situation! If you have a yard/ small patch of land, you could consider growing a few vegetables! Carrots, lettuce and peppers are extremely easy to grow :)

@thaliacrafts407

2 жыл бұрын

Tomatoes definitely count! So do bell peppers!

@embarrassedcap

2 жыл бұрын

@@MdoubleHBxx as someone who was literally abused as a child, no. eating cooked food is by far not the worst thing I've experienced. I've seen you comment on other videos and genuinely hope you seek professional help.

@embarrassedcap

2 жыл бұрын

@@goranbreskic4304 thanks! I live in a small town in southeast U.S., so things are certainly a little different here but lentils are a lifesaver. very good in a soup with cabbage and potatoes.

There’s no way in hell I could’ve drunk a green juice at any stage of my pregnancy it would’ve come straight back up.

Really enjoyed this commentary!

Your commentary about stirring ice cream every hour 🤣

Where does Ellen live in that video? Last time when she was living in Bali she was making crazy claim. Being Indonesian i can confidently say no Indonesian pregnant woman drink a whole lot of coconut water.

4:45 I drink coconut water because I like the taste and I like to drink it specially while I'm at work, I don't like the taste of sugary drinks and I what something else than water, tea or coffee

Hi I recently read The proof is in the plants by Simon Hill. I would be interested to hear your opinion about it.

I'm usually eating like I was just released from prison... runs in the family. It's hard for me to eat slowly.

I literally just ate salted crackers and ginger tea for my first trimester

when I lived in India, any time I visited the doctor, the very first question I was immediately asked was always 'did you drink some coconut water?' for any and every ailment 😂 I quickly learned to buy one from a vendor on the way and chug it so I wouldn't be told to go drink one and come back if not better. they're just too used to white people not knowing how to keep their systems in balance over there 😅

Any “fermented” benefits of sourdough is lost in the cooking of it 🤷‍♀️

lol i'm with you on stirring the coconut milk ice cream. i like to just use shea butter as a moisturizer, but it comes in chunks and you have to melt it, then stir it every 15 minutes until it hardens for it to take on a nice smooth texture. i have 1 toddler and i have been trying to find a convenient time to melt and stir my shea butter for months 🤣

@treefrog1018

Жыл бұрын

*just do it when they are napping* My Toddler: *will only nap in the stroller if I walk them to the park near the freeway for white noise* 😂

"Abstract: The recommendation to limit dietary saturated fatty acid (SFA) intake has persisted despite mounting evidence to the contrary. Most recent meta-analyses of randomized trials and observational studies found no beneficial effects of reducing SFA intake on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and total mortality, and instead found protective effects against stroke. Although SFAs increase low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol, in most individuals, this is not due to increasing levels of small, dense LDL particles, but rather larger LDL which are much less strongly related to CVD risk. It is also apparent that the health effects of foods cannot be predicted by their content in any nutrient group, without considering the overall macronutrient distribution. Whole-fat dairy, unprocessed meat, eggs and dark chocolate are SFA-rich foods with a complex matrix that are not associated with increased risk of CVD. The totality of available evidence does not support further limiting the intake of such foods. " Saturated Fats and Health: A Reassessment and Proposal for Food-based Recommendations: JACC State-of -the-Art Review To appear in: Journal of the American College of Cardiology Received Date: 30 March 2020 Revised Date: 7 May 2020 Accepted Date: 12 May 2020

I pregnant with my second, week 26. Still eating medication for nausea and haven't been able to take supplements at all during this pregnancy. It sucks and I'm aware of it etc but I can't. My stomach can't handle it (same with legumes. Food aversions and fucked up stomach sucks). I hope my baby will be ok anyway. Videos like Ellen's makes me a bit sad lol, can't eat like that.

@xSwordLilyx

2 жыл бұрын

Is your doctor ok with you doing that?

@maria_theresia_von_habsburg

2 жыл бұрын

@@xSwordLilyx yes. I mean, I can't do anything more than I already do, I'm doing my best. Baby seems to be doing fine also 😊 it's a really hard pregnancy for me and Im longing so much to it to be over. 🙏

I don't like quinoa either and have stopped trying to like it.

Thanks for kicking my ass and reminding me to stop slacking on my B12 supplements

Sourdough bread is not a health food? *cries in german* 😢

@elluc1510

Жыл бұрын

You miss the point it is healthy but you can buy any wholemeal bread, thats it.

It's seems like tastewise I'm completely different from you. I love Quinoa and I also love ginger. Ginger tea, dark chocolate covered ginger bites even the pickled ginger that comes with sushi. I think you also mentioned in another video you don't like stevia(?) well I like it too or I don't mind it in protein powders and beverages except coffee but I hate sweet coffee in general. The only vegetable I really don't like that I can think of right now is eggplant. I think I get more offended by some foods textures.

stir it every hour during four hours as a KZread with 5 homeschooled kids... 😩 Gosh I have 1 kid and I don't even stir my coffee lol.

I hate quinoa but I add it to my yummy lentil soup, so subtle 👌

16:46 - Are any types of squash root vegetables?

Hi Swayze, could you do a vid talking about the supplements you take? Thx.

@mairzydoats4879

2 жыл бұрын

She has one from 10 months ago, "All of the supplements I take on a vegan diet (not sponsored)"

@carlaa4140

2 жыл бұрын

@@mairzydoats4879 thx.

Coconut water.. Stable energy because it stabilises blood sugar because it’s a starch maybe? Dunno

Naive question, not pregnancy related. It seems that many dairy and meat alternatives are fortified with b12 (ex beyond has 100% RDA). If you are eating these foods daily, do you still need a supplement? Just added assurance? Thanks!

@treefrog1018

Жыл бұрын

They probably add a little more for bioavailability purposes.

Have you tried cooking quinoa in broth instead of water? That works for me.

I feel like freelee has taken a turn for the worse. I’ve always watched her out of fascination. But recently I can’t even get through her videos. She’s talking more and more nonsense and generally being even more disrespectful around topics like eating disorders. And to top it off her cult following seems even more obsessed and she’s really doing the most to keep them in the group. The culty parallels are getting scary and it’s not even a joke about her being a cult leader now…. I’ve had this on my mind a lot lately and didn’t know were to say it as there’s no point on commenting on her videos.

My sister had potassium deficiency and it is a real thing.. so stop assuming things..

An orange might not be a lot cheaper, depends where you live... I can only dream of apples and oranges - so expensive! Mangos, coconuts and papayas? those I grow in our garden...

I know Ellen means well and she is trying hard to teach others. But her extreme way of looking at things and her perfectionism fill me with a lot of anxiety. Even though It sounds like she has a lot of good and reliable information. I wish Ellen well and i thank you for doing this video

Have you done a video on the seed oil panic?

if you are getting nauseous just drink some baking soda water that is cold. sip on it for a bit. after eating

Can you respond to Freelees response to Ellen?

@UnnaturalVegan

2 жыл бұрын

let me guess...she's mad about the "old grains" bread?

@leahjenner6765

2 жыл бұрын

@@UnnaturalVegan yes lol but also shockingly she has completely changed her stance on her anti natalism ! I had kind of guessed since she now makes so many videos responding to pregnant women and women with children but someone in the comments of the videos asked if she was planning on having kids and she said maybe 😦 never thought she would change her mind on that

@UnnaturalVegan

2 жыл бұрын

Wow! Guess it gets pretty lonely in the jungle lol

@mimifaartje4084

2 жыл бұрын

@@UnnaturalVegan 😆

@leahjenner6765

2 жыл бұрын

@@UnnaturalVegan I think her political /world views have changed a lot and she no longer believes the don’t have kids because of overpopulation thing .

Not relevant to the video, but I just wanted to ask your opinions on calcium supplements in pill form, as I've heard a lot of not so great stuff about them, or that they may be ineffective. I worry about my calcium intake but don't want to end up with issues down the line just from taking a supplement. I try really hard to eat a lot of kale and fortified things, but sometimes it's difficult. Also, loved the video as always. :)

@lisaw8619

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been vegan for 8 years, and I take calcium every day. If I don’t take it, my teeth get really sensitive and I notice it right away.

@thaliacrafts407

2 жыл бұрын

They work fine. My nails are so much stronger since I started taking them a few months ago, so obviously it's doing something 😃

Does Ellen think that the good bacteria survive the baking and end up in sourdough bread? She says it’s good for gut health lol

Have you done a video on Alice and baby Fern? Seems that Alice is pregnant again.

i eat plant-based diet ... I have PCOS and I am low in magnesium zinc and manganese.