list of fad diets 2013

alright this is john kohler from okraw.comto give another exciting episode for you coming at you from my backyard garden. i thoughti’d take time out of the day here to share with you guys some of my opinions on a veryimportant topic that’s important to me. this is my ten reasons why i don’t eat meat.before you think any further, before you think about turning this video off, all i’m gonnasay is this. these are my reasons for not

list of fad diets 2013, eating meat. i’m not trying to force youor coerce you or make you think you need to not eat meat like i do. i’m just sharingmy opinions and my research with you guys to help you guys out because i do recommendthat, especially my family, minimise or eliminate their meat consumption because it’s notthe best for health. we are all adults here,

unless you’re under eighteen then you’renot an adult, everybody gets to make up their own mind. i personally don’t mind if peoplewanna consume meat, if they wanna raise their own pigs or sheep or cows and kill them toeat them. i’m not here to judge anybody and by all means, i like to teach one of myprincipals is good, better, best, by all means raising your own animals, slaughtering them,killing them yourself and eating them is far better than getting the crap out of the grocerystore. before i get into actually sharing my ten reasons on why i don’t eat meat what’sreally important for me to share is all the ten reasons that i will be sharing with youguys today, there are numerous documented scientific journal published studies, youknow, collaborating, my opinions on this subject.

i know people are gonna say… you could pickapart any topic and a human, we could justify doing anything, we could justify raping somebody,you know “she was dressed in a slinky dress, that’s why i raped her” you could justifyanything, doesn’t mean its right. i’m saying that based on my research eating animalsis not the healthiest. on the flipside, if you wanna look and you could find documentedpublished studies on why eating meat is good and beneficial, the thing i would say is youwanna look at who funded those studies number one. the other thing is you will not see studiesin droves, you’ll not find numerous studies pointing to the same conclusion. you may finda handful or one or two that say meat eating shows no difference or whatever but there’san overwhelming majority of studies and things

that are published scientifically that showmeat eating and other animal products are not so good for us. what i’m gonna do inthis video is actually post down below so look in the notes or the comments of thisvideo, my description and actually i’ll have links to some of the different scientificstudies that i’m referencing to make this video. i know a lot of you guys don’t knowme from adam you might have just turned this video on but basically i had to make radicaldietary changes to save my life. i was hospitalised, the doctors said i might not make it out aliveand i needed to do drastic things to be here today and share this with you guys so i’mgrateful for that. one of the things, one of the many things i did was stop eating meat.i believe that if i was still eating meat

i would definitely not be as healthy as iam today and the reason why i know this is my brother is two years younger than me, hestill eats junk foods, processed foods and animal foods and he’s having a lot of healthchallenges right now, inflammation, aches and pains, he’s clinically obese my sameheight but he weighs like forty pounds more than me, really not a good thing so i knowwhat would’ve happened to me if i didn’t go the way that i did. let’s get into thetop reasons why i don’t eat meat. the first reason why i don’t eat meat is because numerousstudies, and i’ve just a handful linked down below, say it’ll increase the possibilityof disease and increase your mortality. they did over half a million people studied andthose with higher levels of meat consumption

lived less, not as long. i don’t know aboutyou but i wanna have fun and live a super long time and by kicking the meat habit youwill live longer provided you do other healthy things in life. other diseases such as cancer,heart disease, cataracts, kidney stones, urinary tract infections, i could probably sit hereforever, list documented scientific studies that have been implicated that levels go upwhen there is meat and other animal products involved, this video mainly concerned withthe meat. if you wanna learn more about this, i’m gonna stop talking about it, you cancheck some of the links down below. the second reason why i don’t eat meat is because itages you prematurely. just like i said you’ll have a shorter life if you eat meat it agesyou prematurely so you’re gonna look old

and haggard and jacked up before your days.generally people say i tend to look about ten years younger than i actually am whichi think is probably about legitimate and my brother who is two years younger than me heabout looks his age. he’s a bit bigger, i’m still fit, still trim i have boundlessenergy to do whatever i want to do. i believe this is one of my many secrets to anti-ageingand especially when you get older you’re really concerned about looking good and stayinghealthy longer. meat has been implicated in different disease conditions, it can causeskin wrinkles, due to the ages, advanced glycation end products, that aren’t even fully brokendown by us, that can cause free radical damage. in addition, iron is actually well absorbedby meat and that’s why they say you should

eat meat but the problem is it just keepsgetting absorbed so you could have too much iron and when you have too much iron it causesexcess oxidation and what is oxidation, well to me oxidation is just simply ageing. ifwe look on the flip side if we look at a diet rich in colourful fruits and vegetables there’sstudies that show it makes you look more attractive and in my opinion younger than people noteating them. also there’s things in the meat that actually are obeseogens that actuallycause you to gain wait in the stomach area. the final thing about meat is that kids thesedays, i remember when i was going to school girls didn’t get their breasts until theywere like maybe 17 but now kids are developing at like 10,11,12,13. i mean i heard on thenews the other day there’s some 12 year

old kid that got pregnant. this is insaneand this is because in my opinion partly due to the poor diets and the meat that is beingconsumed and there’s a study that i’ll link down below that show premature ageingbecause of meat consumption and animal consumption. furthermore meat accelerates your ageing,i don’t wanna age at all and eating meat will basically put you on the fast track soanother reason why i don’t eat meat. the third reason why i actually don’t eat meatis because it increases your inflammation. my brother was just talking to me on the phonethe other day and he has a lot of inflammation and aches and pains around his body. thingslike arthritis, all these kind of things, anything that ends in ‘its’ is inflammationin your body. meat and other animal products

actually increase the inflammation and plantfoods in general decrease your inflammation. one of the reasons why meat can increase yourinflammation is because of the arachidonic acid there’s actually a study link downbelow. also inflammatory bowel disease is higher when animal products are consumed andespecially things like arthritis’ they have links between arthritis and meat consumption.for those of you guys that think you’re safe because that only applies to the crappystore bought meats that are fed corn and soy, there’s even a study that i’ll link downbelow that yes even grass fed cows when you eat them they still cause inflammation inyour body. the fourth reason why i don’t eat meat is because all the toxins in themeat. whether the animals are eating things

that are toxic when they’re being grownwith cheap foods with gmo corn and soy they could be getting gmo contaminants within themthat then you’re gonna eat second hand or whether they’re gonna get fertilisers puton the corn and soy that have heavy metal contamination, those go on the soy and corn,the cows eat a ton of that stuff and basically they accumulate all these biological toxinswhether they’re heavy metals, antibiotics or other drugs. also they are contaminatedwith all different kinds of bacteria the meats whether that’s staph, whether that’s e.coliwhich can cause bloody diarrhea and all these other crazy things. pcbs in the fish, forthose of you guys that eat fish meat you guys aren’t safe either. we polluted the environmentand unfortunately when animals eat tonnes

of food to put on the weight so that you caneat them they’re concentrating all these toxins in the environment and they’re biologicallyaccumulating it so when you kill them and eat them you’re getting their life timesupply of biologic accumulation or toxins in you so one of the thing i used to try anddo in my diet was decrease my toxic load and by eating meats you’re increasing your toxicload something i definitely don’t wanna do. reason number five why i don’t eat meatis because it actually activates your immune system it’s like the boy who cried wolffairy tale. every time you eat an animal product you get raised levels of white blood cellswhich are collectively known as your immune system. this is one of the reasons why i turnedto a plant based raw food diet way back when

is because i heard any cooked food can causethis leucocytosis reaction in your body, since that time i’ve learned that that was wrong.even cooked vegan products, even the crappiest cooked vegan cookies will not cause leucocytosisbut there is many other reasons not to eat crappy cooked vegan processed cookies. eatingany time of animal products including animal products will cause leucocytosis so me havingan auto-immune type condition, after i got out of the hospital the doctor told me i hada ____ immune deficiency. i knew i needed to do something to basically lessen the loadon my immune system and one of the ways i did that was not eating animal products thatactually activates your immune system even though, is meet a virus that’s attackingyou or anything, no you’re just trying to

eat a meal man and now you’re immune systemis being activate. something in meat is not good for us. the example i could give, ifsomebody had to give a kidney transplant, i’ve got my brother’s kidney in me, imean i don’t have that but if i did have to get it which i probably wouldn’t, mybody would react because that’s a foreign kidney, it’s not part of me. every cellin my body has dna signatures or however they do that and it knows it’s me but if i gotmy brother’s, even though we’re pretty close in genes we’re not the same and mybody would say “hey this is a foreign invader i’m gonna attack it” so i would have totake amino-suppressive drugs the rest of my life so that i could have his kidney and myimmune system would not attack it. when you

eat animal products your body’s constantlyunder bombardment and attack, there are studies that show increased elevations of things likeasthma and eczema when you eat meat. in addition your body can have auto-immune type conditionsdue to the meat. auto-immune conditions are rampant these days whether that’s allergies,asthma, lupus and all these other new kind of diseases they’re coming up with all thetime, the body’s attacking itself and it shouldn’t be but it gets confused i thinkwhen there is so much animal consumption. whether the meat is raw or not, guess what?there’s still foreign proteins and they’re still gonna react in a negative way in yourbody. the sixth reason why i don’t eat meat is because it can make you fat. seriouslyi’m not joking with you guys. one of the

things that i strive not to do is become overweightbecause my dad when i was younger be overweight and he couldn’t look down and see his johnsonwhen he was going pee and stuff and i’m like i’m never gonna get that big man soit’s always been one of my goals to stay thin and trim and healthy and by eating meatit contains obeseogens and yes there’s study on all this stuff. it also lowers your body’sprotection from __ and also one of the main reasons other than being high in calories,way more than in fruits and vegetables, it lowers your metabolism. i like to have a nicefast paced metabolism so any food i eat i’ll burn it off instead of luring your metabolismso you just don’t burn off the food as quickly so you’re more likely to gain weight andthat’s one of the reasons i think why my

brother is the same height as me but fortypounds more than me and the doctor told him he was obese. the seventh reason why i don’teat meat is because it has no or very little if any anti-oxidants. i mentioned before meatcan increase your aging. one of the vehicles it does this is through oxidation so not onlyare you getting the iron in the meat that’s causing oxidated damage there’s other thingsand other chemicals produced in the meat or produced in the cooking that is pro-oxidantthe ages, ____ all these different crazy chemical compounds but they don’t have things thatnegate those effects. check it out, in all fruits and vegetables there’s plenty ofanti-oxidants. vitamin c, it’s an anti-oxidant. there’s plenty of anti-oxidants includinglicopenes and _________ in my greens, all

kinds of anti-oxidants and these are the foodsthat i want to be protected against not only anti-ageing but also diseased. anti-oxidantsare huge in disease and this is not even a topic that’s fully researched and we don’teven know all the different properties of what’s even in a tomato. there’s over300 different chemical compounds created naturally by the tomato plant so it can fend off theinvaders in the garden whether that’s bugs, pests, disease or whatever. the plant createsthese vital chemicals or plant chemicals for itself to protect itself and when we eat theplants we get imparted that protection from the plant and this does not happen when youeat meat. the eight reason why i don’t eat meat is because it is actually rich in protein,yes you heard that right. but john i thought

we need protein. well actually we do needprotein but there are better and worse sources of protein in my opinion. people say thatplants, you can’t get enough protein on plants if you’re plant based diet, veganwhatever but ask a person this, where does a cow get it’s protein to make all the protein?the cow’s not eating other cows, well it shouldn’t be although cows are being fedother cows sometimes which is definitely not good because that causes further disease.all the plant foods have protein in them, most people just simply do not eat enoughvaried amounts of plant foods to get enough protein. if you’re under eating you’reprobably not gonna get enough protein. you need a balanced diet rich of fruits and vegetables,greens, legumes, other things, you’re gonna

get enough protein if you’re eating enough.there are significant challenges with eating too much protein, i’ll put a few links downbelow. eating too much protein will lower your life span. i eat low on the food chainto increase my life span, i don’t want to have a short life span by eating meat. i wannastop here and all you guys have a choice, if you want to lower your life span by eatingmeat it’s a trade-off and i don’t care what you guys do, i’m not gonna lower mylife-span because i wanna eat meat i’d rather have a longer life span than eat meat butyou know, “i like my hamburgers” fine, go eat some hamburgers man, go enjoy it toobut i want you guys to be aware of the information of what you’re doing so you can make a choice.in this marketing age we’re being told you

could find one article that says meats areright focus on that, oh yeah it’s alright, but in my opinion based on all the numerousresearch out there meat eating and eating too much protein is not a good thing to do.the ninth reason why i don’t eat meat is because i like to be in a good mood. yes,aside from all these health benefits right. there’s documented studies that show, andi’ll put the links down below, that by limiting your consumption of meat or eliminating it,you will feel better. there’s opposite studies that show eating high vegetable, plant baseddiets, you’ll be feeling better and have a better mood. so many people are on all thosepharmaceutical drugs because they’re clinically depressed and in my opinion, pharmaceuticaldrugs are not the answer. it’s about eating

a proper diet so we can feel good naturallyand most plant based people that i know are in really good moods and it’s not an actwhen i’m happy making a video for you guys because i’m just happy in life. i’m notgonna say i’m perfect and there’s a day or two here or there where stuffs happeningin my life but overall i have a really good outlook on life. that’s because we forgetthat we are what we eat, your brain chemistry is made up of your chemistry and your chemistryis made by the different constituents in food whether that’s in rue or whether that’sin coloured greens or napper cabbage or lettuce or tomatoes or cactus fruits like i’m madeup of or corn. actually there’s a movie you guys should see, king corn if you haven’tseen it. most people in the us, their dna

is made up of corn because they’re eatingcorn and all these processed corn products but that’s another topic. increase moodby not eating your meat. the tenth reason why i don’t eat meat actually is not a healthreason at all but because i consider myself somewhat of an environmentalist. animal productsand meat, yes even free range grass fed and all this stuff, it’s not sustainable inthe long term. yes i go to plenty of farms that have meat and cows and all this stuffand yes i definitely believe that doing animal agriculture in a small area, in limited quartersand i think the answer is if everybody wants to eat meat they raise their own meat in theirback yard, have their own chickens, goats, sheep, whatever, rabbits, kill them themselvesand eat it. that’s way more sustainable

than how the system is being portrayed andeven large scale animal farming is not sustainable. i’ve put links down below, to make one poundof meat takes incredible amounts of water, i could probably fuel my whole garden withthe amount of water it takes to produce one cow in a year which is insane that’s onlyone cow. it’s much more intensive on natures’ resources whether that’s water whether that’sfeed, think about it, you’ve got to grow the greens and all the water that it tookto grown the greens then you feed those greens to the cow and it drinks the water and thenit poops out all the poop and pee water then you’ve gotta deal with the contaminantsand there’s multiple studies that show it’s not sustainable in the environment of today.i think that’s one of earth’s major problem

we keep cutting down more rainforest so wecan grow more corn and soy to feed cows so people could eat more animals. from and environmentalstand point it’s much more beneficial to give up meat than to drive your prius or drivean electric car. it’s not one or the other, you don’t have to drive an electric carand eat no meat, you can actually drive an electric car and not eat meat, did it comeout right you guys know what i’m saying. do the best that you guys can to conservenature’s resources and conserve the planet. we’re not heading in a good direction andi’m here to do my part to help change that by making videos like this to share my opinions.i tend to think that i’m fairly pragmatic, if i found truly overwhelming research thati need animal products to be healthy and i

have been eating meat free for the last 20years, i would do it. but i haven’t found anything to that extent, i’ve found thateating animals is not a good thing and whether you guys want to eliminate it completely whichwould be good or whether you guys just want to minimize and just have a handful a day.don’t get me know i’m not gonna be one of those people that say you’ve gotta becomevegan and all that crap do what you guys want, don’t care if you guys are vegan, plantbased, omnivorous what i do care about is you guys eat way more fruits of vegetablesthan you are eating. eat the majority of your diet fruit and vegetables and even if youjust had 10% or less of your calories in meat a day you could not have many of the negativeeffects of the meat as you’re pouring more

water onto the fire than you’re creatingbut unfortunately most americans are creating more fire than water and the fruits and vegetablesare the water and the meat is the fire don’t spontaneously combust. the last thing i’dlike to say about environmental impact is i really want to encourage you guys to watcha documentary made recently, it’s on netflix, i’ll post a link to the website down below,cowspiracy where it shows about the negative environmental aspects of eating animals. sothose are my top ten reasons why i don’t eat meat and i wanna go ahead and show twoquick more that aren’t scientific but if you think about it they just make sense andi’m kind of a think about it make sense kind of guy. as i mentioned before studiescan be funded by certain parties and things

can be swayed and you could design a studyto prove anything that you want. i look at results. number one i look at people who areeating a certain way. i have friends who have been long term plant based eaters, vegan,and they’re actually quite healthy if done appropriately. i’ve also met plenty of plantbased eaters that are maybe not so healthy but i can even learn from people doing itnot so healthily. i’m on this constant learning and evolving journey. i learn and evolve andshare these in my videos with you guys and not maybe people know i do this and not tomany people that i know have watched this because my videos don’t have a lot of viewslike the crazy raw foods or vegan recipe videos out there which is good for them but i reallywant to make a difference in your guys’

life and really explain to you how i thinkand why i think the way i do. another reason why i don’t eat meat is because if i dideat meat it would crowd out severely the amount of food i’d be eating and enjoying. meatis so high in calories and when you eat a little bit of meat it basically displacesa lot of vegetables. so if you just eliminate it you’ll be able to have more fun in lifeby eating more food, eating more fruits and vegetables that are more healthy for you.and as i mentioned before, fruits and vegetables contain these anti-oxidants so the more meatyou eat, the less vegetables you eat, the less anti-oxidants you’re gonna get, themore powerful effects from the meat you’re gonna get. the final thing i’d like to saywhy i don’t eat meat is because believe

it or not i’m a freaking cheap ass, i’mlike so frugal and meat, that shit’s expensive dude. i don’t know if you’ve priced itout lately but a pound of non-organic potatoes which in my opinion are still better thaneven organic meat, are like a dollar for ten pounds at the local store and meat, cheapmeat is a couple bucks a pound and you probably don’t want to eat it because it’s crappy.then they add all different kinds of things to make it look bright and pink even thoughit would have been grey and dull but it’s super cheaper to eat a plant based diet thanan animal centric meat based diet. in the end, i hope, and the goal of my videos isto share my opinions with you and i hope my family members watch this and make steps toeating less meat, less animal products in

their diet and eating more fruits and vegetablesand that’s just my message to you guys. even if you want to eat meat, i don’t care,eat your meat, be happy about it, raise your own, kill your own. if you’re buying atthe store you just don’t know what’s in there because you didn’t process it yourselfand that’s what i recommend too about fruits and vegetables as much as i grow my own fruitsand vegetables i still purchase some at the store and get organic almost all the timeexcept some of the things that are on the clean 15 list and other foods that i can’tget. but do the best you can, that’s the whole message of my video today, do the bestyou can and eliminate or minimize meat consumption if you don’t want to have the negative effectsof eating meat. the last thing i’d like

to mention is give you guys some resourcesfor you guys who are considering eating less meat. once again our lives aren’t aboutall or nothing i’ve never met someone who only eats meat and doesn’t eat fruits andvegetables it’s a balance, you could be 50/50, 75/25 i hope you guys get to 90% minimum,80%, 90% would be better minimum fruit and vegetable based diets and 10% animal productin your diet. as i mentioned earlier i believe by eating high plant based food diet and lowanimal foods you can minimize your negative effects. while i did cover meat in this video,other animal products such as dairy, cheeses, eggs and milk have many of the same consequencesas the meat do. don’t think i’m safe because i’m vegetarian you could still have manyof the challenges including with the igf one.

if you want to avoid the challenges with animalproducts you’ve got to stop or massively reduce your consumption of them. some resourcesi want to give you guys. number one is pcrm.org that’s physicians committee for responsiblemedicine it’s a great website, good resources on there so the guys could start eating moreplants. another of my favourite youtube channels is nutritionfacts.org. they also have a websitenutriotionfacts.org non-profit organisation run by dr mike o’greggor. i’ll post alink down to one of his hour long videos that i was in attendance to hear him speak personallywhich is really good information that will change your life if you sit through and watchit all. it’ll definitely motivate you to eat less meat and less animal products. ihope you guys enjoyed this episode, if you

did give me a thumbs up so i’ll do moreepisodes like this. i want to not only teach you not only what’s healthy to eat but what’snot healthy i’ll be having an episode coming up other toxins in my life that i’ve eliminatedbesides just the foods around the house. things that i’ve learned, one of the goals forthis video is the day that i do have kids with my girlfriend lauren, high lauren, iwant my kids to watch these videos to learn so much from their dad and be proud of theirdad as well. be sure to check my past episodes, i have over 400 videos on this channel talkingabout all aspects of eating a healthy fruit and vegetable based diet and also be sureto click that subscribe button down below to be notified by new and upcoming episodesand be sure to share this video with others

that you think it may help. so once againmy name is john kohler with okraw.com. we’ll see you next time and until them remember,keep eating your fresh fruits and vegetables, they’re always the best.