10 Food Trends That Have Negative Consequences on the World

what's popular in the grocery stores fast-food restaurants and other dining establishments changes throughout the years in more recent days we've seen fast-food establishments at least make more of an effort to look healthy especially with children's food products this is largely because people are more concerned with health than they've ever been before however not all of the trends regarding food are necessarily good while people are more concerned with their health consumer ignorance and misinformation is widespread and many popular food trends of hidden consequences that the average person is completely unaware of number 10 reliance on cows is a huge contributor to global warming aside from those in the world population you find cows sacred and the world's vegetarians we all love our cow me tucking into a delicious burger or steak is a part of life that many of us would be loathe to give up and for many of you would have to pry the steak out of your cold dead hands however it is this love of beef that is helping raise worldwide greenhouse gas levels by alarming amounts cows fart and burp a lot and they leave a lot of cow paths lying around as well all the me thing that is belched into the environment or broken down in their waste is easily the majority worldwide contributor to methane being released in large quantities of course while methane is incredibly bad for the environment it is only one greenhouse gas cows alone are far from the only your biggest major contributor but they are enough to be causing a serious impact scientists are now trying to solve the problem or at least find ways to mitigate it some have suggested changing the cow's diets to our falfa and supplements instead of their usual diet so that there'll be less gassing and they've also emphasized that proper breakdown or reuse of dung can prevent extra methane leaking into the atmosphere either way scientists believe that with the reliance on beef for food by many developing countries the issue is going to be here for a very long time to come number 9 fat-free foods have increased our reliance on sugar to be satisfied perhaps one of the worst fads that still affects us today is the fat free fat this found is so pervasive that even though it began in the 1970s due to a hearing started by Senator George McGovern you will still meet many people watching their way today who despite religious watching their calorie count still bulk at fat content in foods the fact is that if you understand calorie count you'll know that calories plus exercise and to some extent the genetics will decide your weight-loss rate and studies have not shown any health benefit to a low-fat diet but this still persists in the national consciousness and it's still doing damage today stores are full of fat-free or low-fat products and many products today that would have once had more fat in them now have none or little however while they have instead and started having in the late 1970s when the trend began was a whole lot more sugar and coincidentally it wasn't long after this that incidences of diabetes and obesity really took off now it's hard to say for certain if this was the main or only cause of the rise in diabetes but there is no question that a brief time ago we started consuming way more sugar than we once did and it's most definitely bad for us it shows that in our rush to make fat the villain we forgot that all the food groups are an essential part of a good diet and that moderation is the most important thing of all number eight GMO free foods are helping produce ignorant American consumers recently there has been a strong movement for GMO free foods on the one hand this sounds reasonable if you don't understand what a GMO is but when you do it sounds totally a name GMOs are genetically modified organisms the problem is that by the actual definition of genetic modification we have been at practicing this on plants and animals for thousands of years at least however even if you feel that there should be more transparency as to today's biotech practices the fact is that current labeling and GMO free foods are only helping to increase consumer ignorance and take advantage of people who think they are avoiding something bad the truth is that many companies that look like they're bowing to the will of the consumer are making changes just to please people because it's easier to do that than to argue and cause a viral issue on social media companies like Kraft will proudly switch to natural dyes while still selling you a totally processed macaroni and cheese product and subway famously would remove a perfectly harmless ingredients because people get up in arms about it the reality is though they continue to sell many processed foods and they still use the slogan eat fresh what is really bad for people's health is the increasing reliance on heavily sugared products and heavily processed foods companies jump on the GMO free bandwagon because it makes it look like they're doing something while they basically just continue business as usual number seven soy food could be decreasing testosterone levels in recent years soy milk which was once considered more of a nitch drink it's in a health food store has become a full-blown fat women and men alike aren't drinking it not only as a substitute for milk as a growing number of people in America have decided it's trendy to claim to be lactose intolerance without being tested for it but also because they enjoy the taste milk substitutes like soy tend to come in exciting flavors already full of sugar and other artificial flavor boosters making it look way more enticing than plain old milk unfortunately soy milk has been linked with the ability to increase estrogen levels while for most people it would be unlikely to cause anything truly noticeable there is the case of one man who was dealing with a really strange medical issue his body seemed to be increasingly feminizing and he couldn't figure out why he had swollen mammary glands hair loss decreased facial hair growth etc after going to four doctors and starting to get frustrated that had never find the answer his fourth doctor decided to ask him to give him the details of his diet it was then that he discovered the man was drinking three quarts of soy milk per day now this is a lot more than most people would consume in a day so most people would be unlikely to ever show such drastic effects but it shows that sorry can have serious effects on the body's hormone levels number six the low-carb diet fad has caused widespread nutritional deficiency back in the 1990s the Atkins diet really started to become a full-blown fad and before long people were telling you that eating carbohydrates was bad it's easy to see in hindsight that this particular fad was not good anything that tells you - almost entirely cut a large type of food group out of your diet is likely an unbalanced way to eat however at the time it was easy to get on board with the hype if nothing else to see if it would provide any benefit and while many people have lost some weight with it it's also important to note that lost weight does not necessarily equal good health the low-carb fad very likely helped contribute to the rise of besa tea along with the decrease in fat intake and the rise of sugar intake while there was some reason to be bothered by some carbohydrates certain processed carbohydrates like refined sugar the fat did not discriminate and many people now had diets lacking in proper complex carbohydrates such as grains fruits and vegetables the fact is that good carbohydrates are an important part of a balanced diet and will help keep your body in good working order just like all diets you should eat them in moderation but not to the point of eating almost none of them number 5 the recent quinoa fad has been causing extreme hunger in Bolivia if you haven't heard of it quinoa is one of those products that you'll hear people tout it as a secret superfood it's an Andean plant often confused as a grain although it's actually closer to foods like spinach it looks like an incredibly tiny grain like object although it's fira core where rice is over while it is touted by NASA and has been in health food stores for years it exploded in popularity only very recently vegans and hipsters everywhere have flocked to this product as the next big thing and it has created an entirely new export products in the country of Bolivia where it's grown however this is not without issues increased trade with Bolivia is having unintended consequences while the farmers are actually making more money now because of the export market the price of quinoa itself is going up so much globally that many Bolivians who used to rely on it as a food staple can no longer afford it as anything but a treat to make matters worse now that they are trading with the US they are discovering products like coca-cola and processed white bread and the younger generation is becoming attached to it while the older generation simply watches on in horror the processed products being imported there and the unnecessarily overuse of their food staple is helping to contribute to obesity and malnutrition in Bolivia number four deceptive marketing for cage free and free-range hides the problem from view another point where consumers are often misled is when cartons of eggs are labeled cage free or free-range the truth is that the United States government has no legal standard for those terms on egg cartons and such companies can pretty much just say it as a marketing gimmick if they wish to many companies the claim cage-free may actually let their chickens out of cages but never let them see the light of day others may consider free-range to be giving them a small amount of sunlight and fresh air from their cage every day there is simply no real standard to go by so you really don't know what you're getting however it gets a little weird in terms of poultry the rules for chickens raised for poultry instead of egg-laying a fairly well laid out by the USDA and has fairly comprehensible guidelines but these rules don't count at all when it comes to eggs what this means is that when a company slaps a label on non poultry products taking things like free-range it essentially is meaningless since there isn't even a loose industry guideline on what that means for the product the company is likely being deceptive with you and trying to use your ignorance of the issue to temporarily override your common sense number three the multivitamin fad could be causing serious health damage multivitamins are becoming increasingly ubiquitous there's no doubt about that where once you saw them mostly in health food stores and infomercials you'll now find dozens of different bottles of multivitamins in every grocery store they're colorful and there's often some kind of sugary flavor and cute shape in order to make them more enticing plenty of people have come under the impression that everyone would be better off if they had a daily vitamin and many people now take them religiously now for some people this is a good thing but for many people it could actually be quite harmful the matter lies in how healthy is a person taking the vitamin is to begin with and it all ties in to how vitamins work multivitamins have a lot of nutrients in them enough to easily replace anything missing in a deficient diet and if you think you're struggling to keep a diet that has all the nutrients you need then a multivitamin might be a really good idea however the issue is that the people most likely to take multivitamins like clockwork also happen to be the people who already have well-balanced and conscientious diets and thus have no need for one in fact it could actually be harming them because taking large concentrations of a nutrient you already have enough of or more than enough father especially on a long-term basis can damage the body many nutrients found in large quantities and vitamins can be toxic and even cast neogenic if allowed to build up in the body too much number two disposable water bottles aren't devastating the environment back when bottled water first at the scene many people were skeptical and Scott very notion well as strange as it seemed bottled water has skyrocketed in popularity and now buying disposable bottles of water has become a normal way of life for many people for some people in the United States they buy bottled water because they consider it safer and some people just really like the convenience but it's causing a great deal of harm the amount of fossil fuels used to make the plastic for our bottled water would be enough to fuel a million cars for a whole year not to mention that it takes roughly triple the amount of water to produce the average bottle of water than the bottle actually contains while these may sound bad that's just the tip of the iceberg here water bottles are also one of the biggest sources of plastic pollution in the world and due to the poorly organized recycling system in America a large quantity of plastic water bottles simply end up in the landfill or the ocean and they're never reused this is a problem because the plastics used in water bottles tend to break down poorly and leach toxins when they do as for whether they're safer to drink this is not the case either so there's really no advantage to bottled water at all studies have shown that the toxins present in the plastics can affect the water and for those who think it's got less bacteria than tap this is not necessarily true either some bottled water has been tested and found to be similarly unsafe this may be due to the fact that some major bottled water companies have been course using simple tap water for their operations and then simply reselling it to people experts recommend getting a good water filter and cleaning your own tap water number one going gluten-free if you don't have celiac can be really bad for you these days a lot of people are trying as hard as they can to go gluten-free as part of the latest most popular fad diet while this might sound reasonable first the fact of the matter is that there is a reason that food companies are now catering to a large amount of gluten-free customers even though only 1% of Americans have celiac disease and the reason isn't because it's better for you the reason is because it's the in thing to do 21% of people are now trying to cut out gluten from their diet this means that 20% of those people are improperly giving themselves serious dietary deficiencies and also allowing food companies to take advantage of their ignorance for example food companies will happily label products like french fries gluten free even though people who understand what gluten is would know they are naturally gluten-free anyway and it's the same for many other treats that are given the same label the truth is that all the people cutting out gluten may be right to cut out processed and/or refined foods containing gluten but the wheat and whole-grain products that contain gluten are an extremely important part of a normal and balanced diet those with celiac have to follow special dietary guidelines from a doctor in order to avoid gluten and still gets the required nutrients so medical professionals strongly recommends getting tested and then getting proper dietary advice before cutting entire food groups from your diet so I really hope you found that video interesting hopefully we busted some myths if you did like it give us a thumbs up if you looking for something else to watch check out our other channel called bio graphics link on the screen and I'll see you next time

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Published: Wed Jan 30 2019