Worth watching I think (especially for Amreekans).
But now I feel like I want to rip out my fat covered insides.
So let’s discuss what things we can eliminate/avoid that contain high fructose corn syrup. The most obvious is fizzy drinks but it appears to be in a lot of breads as well. I imagine it’s also a staple in shop bought cakes (also apparently in cake mix) - what’s wrong with going back to baking at home from scratch?
I already stopped eating cereal last year, which is one item which a lot of this.
Wow amazing yo!. Thanks for posting this up to create awareness. The process food that we buy in the market..we have to be very careful. Hopefully and me and everyone else learnt a lot from this.
Well given the amount of views but lack of comments, either everyone was already very aware of this issue and is avoiding processed foods and/or foods with a high sugar content or they would rather not know.
I find it very sad if it's the latter.
For me, the TOFI part was very important. It goes someway to explaining why so many desi's suffer from diabetes and PCOS especially. Diet shouldn't be something that we change once we start suffering.. we need to look at fixing this for our next generations.
IMO our children should be kept away from the majority of food that is normal in our diets. We never have sodas in our house anyway, fruit juices very occasionally. But I don't want my kids to get in the habit of eating stuff like cereal and snacking as we were accustomed too either.
What about all the sugar that is in so many desi desserts?
I already told the WW ladies it's worth them watching but not sure if any of them bothered.
Yo stoppit, I watched it yesterday .. and found it interesting, thanks for posting. I had to wait till my kids were busy before I could watch or comment here. Sugar is bad is something that we know but that its so harmful especially this fructose corn syrup is new for me.
We have stopped buying processed food. We eat home made stuff and lately I am making more veggies .. its hard to get kids to eat but there is a trick, I grind the cooked veggie salan with a bit of hot water and put it on pasta, so they though it was sauce and eat it.
I even make my own cakes from scratch. I try to have fruits every day and we are in process of changing our eating habbits.
guess what this weekend I was at a desi gathering, there was chola poori, u know its cooked in oil and kheer that was cooked in sugar literally. the females were holding a religious gathering, as how to do namaaz or parda but no one talks about healthy life style .. exercise and healthy food is something that is not in their vocabolary. sigh
Hey Saadia, thanks for posting. The pasta idea for kids sounds really good! And I've seen your cakes :D
That's soooo true about the desi gathering. A healthy lifestyle and not eating to excess is part of our religion too but something mostly ignored. I think there are a number of hadith about eating habits and not eating until you are full.
I've been meaning to watch this but just can't take out time! How long is it?
I've decided it's impossible to have a healthy diet with only desi food. Most of our curries have so much oil and the veggies we cook are so mushy by the time we're done cooking that all their nutrients are lost. I was talking to this fitness person who told me how unhealthy biryani is because it's white rice covered with oil. It would be nice for a desi chef to come up with healthy options because I see these desi cooking shows on tv and I cringe at the oil they use and how they deep fry so many things. plus our sweets have an insane amount of sugar in them as well.
I think, if cooked right and with a bit of fusion most desi dishes can be as healthy as other food. In regards to this topic, it’s sugar that is the devil.
Ok so in my family, the way my mum cooks and taught me to cook, there are only a few tbsps of oil to brown the onions when you make the masala… the masala is not oily at all once done and any oil after cooking is usually from the meat itself. So for example, chicken salan is not oily at all, where as keema will have a bit of oil from the fat of the meat itself. Same for biryani, she does the traditional way of making the meat+masala (minimal oil) then regular chawal with no/minimal oil and layers the two… the flavour in the rice comes from the masala.
Veggies salans are always a bit firm. My mum often makes a slow cooked lamb in the oven and then we have lots of lightly cooked vegetables - stir fried and then lightly wilted spinach and cabbage which is yummy when soaked in gravy. And home made wholemeal bread.
We rarely deep fry… probably just the stuff during ramadan.
What about dairy products? I've heard they inject cows with hormones to increase production. Those hormones end up in dairy products making us fat. Hmm???
and if you eat bread avoid white bread… etc
don’t eat cereal
try drinking skim milk as you don’t need full cream milk it may seem watery at first but you’ll get used to it later…
cherry on top - I disagree on your with the desi diet.
I think desi diet is pretty well balanced. subzis, daals, BBQ meats with little oil are all good food. Especially because desi food is cooked at home and uses less processed things.
I will be surprised if people did not already know much of the information provided by this documentary. I don’t necessarily agree with all of it though, especially the main premises of shifting the blame on “the man”. Just like tobacco is bad for health but its smoker is to blame and not the industry.
May be in 70s people were unaware of the danger of high caloric food but there is no excuse now.
The real debate is the subsidizes given to corn farmers and thus making the products with corn syrup cheap and accessible. But if you are eating fruit loops everyday in the morning without reading the nutritional information than its your fault. Having an ice-cream or a macdonalds hamburger once in a while is not going to kill anyone but when you are not making wise food choices yourself (snaking on milk chocolate) than it is not anyone’s fault.
Some one mentioned desi food and I have to say that our food is most healthy if we avoid putting tons of oil in curries. Basmati rice is not bad for you but yeah eating two plates full of it means more calories and if we eat more than we can burn then it will get stored as fat.
Obesity rate in lower socioeconomical group however, is a valid argument against readily available cheap junk food and govt’s role in it.
chocos. 