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Food Theory: Superfoods Are a SCAM!

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Superfoods are a SCAM! If you’ve taken a stroll down the produce section of your grocery store, you may have come across this term before. This buzzword promotes near-magical health benefits but can one single food actually meet most of your nutritional needs? I fear the food industry is just feeding us more lies…
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38 Comments

  1. What makes you think that the research at 15:00 isn't just as biased and paid for to get people to eat less healthy and more junk food, make them sick and profit off them?

  2. This is basically why I was raised to eat varied meals, not focused on only one type of food.
    A healthy diet is a varied diet!

  3. Surprisingly good video for a channel that doesn't get into the niddy griddy of health science and biology.

    Variety is good. If people try to eat more whole foods with a focus on meat from healthy animals, that solves a lot of health problems for most people.

  4. I'm guessing that green tortilla chips might not have the same nutrients as the alleged superfood ingredient. Probably tasty, though.

  5. These 'superfoods' are nice additions, but they cannot do anything if your baseline nutrients aren't good

  6. why did i think for a moment he sounded like matpat.
    edit: somehow the name came to me at the end of the video.

  7. Honestly, this has to be one of my favorite food theories. It’s such a universal topic in the US. Honestly, each food group could have its own video. Absolutely great work, longtime follower. ❤️❤️❤️

  8. The best superfood is whatever tastes good and makes you feel good both short and long term.
    Everyone's body is different and may need different things at different times. Learn to listen to your body's signals and maybe try something new every once in a while; one day it may be exactly what your body needs.

    Also adjacent to this, learn to not only taste with your mouth, but the rest of your body too. There's a lot of foods, particularly candies and most fast food, that may taste really good at first but it makes you really not feel that great the following hours after.

  9. As someone who eats Salmon and Avocado on a regular basis yey super foods taste good but the won’t solve all your health problems

  10. When I worked at Whole Foods in the early 2010’s the only “superfoods” were spirulina & chlorella, and kale due to the fact you could “survive solely on these foods and not have any deficiencies” as the defining factor. When did all of this happen?!?

  11. We need a new internet dictionary, one that traces back how a word emerged, and determines whether it is scientific, colloquial, political, commercial…

  12. Well all carbs are a scam so there’s that. Then add to that, “Heart Healthy”, “Pasture Raised” and “Organic”, it’s all a scam.

  13. right after he said especially sweet potatoes, i knew why it was a scam, way before finishing the theory, heck im at 1:07 right now

  14. is this a repost? because i feel like i already seen a video about superfood by food theory

    even the joke about sweet potato at the start

  15. You know, since every crop and animal that we farm and ranch is basically entirely unnatural and was selectively bred back during times when we had no idea about Molecular Nutrition, what are the chances that foods that were selectively bred for visible characteristics like size and speed of production have been rendered nutritionally deficient? Like, it's commonly 'known' that Iceburg Lettuce has very little nutrition in it- but what about other foods? Are our crops the living equivalents of Fast Food, in terms of nutritional density, compared to what they used to be?

    Or are our crops stripping the soil of micronutrients to the point where farmland no longer has the micronutrients required to grow food without large quantities of fertilizer?

  16. I've been saying superfoods are a buzzword-based marketing scam since they first started making the rounds. Sorta like how "organic" is way more of a marketing term than a descriptor.

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