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Do not recognize this europe you are describing. Few things I remember from visiting America... taking the car EVERYWHERE, even it is just a 100, 200 meters trip. MUCH bigger portion sizes and much more added sugar and chemicals. And if all these dashcam videos I've seen is any indication... the stress levels in the average american is through the roof.
Well you see, that would require changing the broken system instead of selling a useless nutrition app. We wouldn't want that now, would we? That'd actually change things.
Yes, it was funny, wasn't it? In Ayurveda, letting the stomach digest one meal before considering the next one is - basic. I see it as ... ha ha, doing the laundry = digestion. You don't add a dirty T shirt to a load that is being rinsed...
Hey, for some people, it is. I have a co-worker who eats Goldfish crackers literally all day, and another who keeps a candy dish through which other coworkers dig throughout the day. I'm OMAD and I don't tell anyone anymore, because those I've told in the past took it as a personal affront.
@@julieaskingforafriend to me, all these labels make things more complicated that they need to be . I have 10 kg to lose , I eat less than usual during meals and I don't snack, and it works . eating crackers or candy all day sounds like a bad idea. is the job boring? I work outdoor so I can't do that anyway. on the rare days I have paperwork to do I will keep a cup of herbal tea and don't feel the need to snack.
one thing I want to add in my country (have no clue elsewhere in europe) drinking soda or fruit juices in considered a treat. you'l drink some if you have guests or on celebrations not daily.
"No urgency, no drama" in our work?? "They don't diet"??? 😂 we wish! I really like your guidance (I'm following your recommendations and it's working!), but Europeans are not this relaxed 😜 hello and thank you from Italy ❤
"compared to the 'average' American..." we are, i just spent a week in Barcelona, as a Dutch woman, to visit my son, and i was awestruck at how mellow he has become, how not stressed and how much he enjoyed mealtimes... and that was just the difference between northern and southern Europe
@@daanh8194 Im from the South of Spain. You have 30 min or 1 hours for your lunch, you cant go home and cook so you eat at work. Eat a meal for hours even in work days she says...
As a German, I have to say: A lot of Germans have stressful jobs, work long hours, have short lunch brakes. A lot of Germans fight obesity. Many have experience with dieting. It may not affect as many as in the U.S., but it's not as if it were two completely different worlds.
Exactly, more than half of Europeans are overweight and Germany is one of the countries with the higher rates. You just don't see as many morbidly obese people as in U.S. but that does't mean that people are that much healthier.
Yes. The German mindset poisoned American culture and health. It’s a shame that Italian/Sicilian immigrants could not transmit the healthy parts of Mediterranean culture to America.
Food quality is also higher, especially in fast food. I noticed this both when I went to England and New Zealand, and we had a long discussion about it with a new Zealand rancher. The low quality meat used in American fast food was so rejected by those populations that the companies had to up their quality or lose business. But us Americans will accept any old trash if it has enough film flam and razzle dazzle on it. Add in how so much of our cities is unwalkable, deliberately designed food deserts, over subsidizing corn syrup, and our total lack of any semblance of balance in working hours and of course people grab fast trash food more often than is reasonable.
It is also worth to mention that the food quality in Europe is different to North America. My husband is from Canada and has toured through the US. He says the food quality in Germany is much better. I do think that also adds up in terms of health and body composition.
Well, it doesn't. You basically consuming the same macronutrients. It is important to mention that they may have organic quality, but they are just as expensive as organic. Meat, especially beef, is a lot more expensive in Europe generally.
I noticed this traveling in Europe. Even though I rarely eat processed food and never eat highly processed food, in the US, I cannot drink milk or eat dairy without severe gastro issues. Even avoiding dairy, gluten, etc in the US, my guts often hurt. When in Europe, I start my day with a coffee with milk and a pastry - and my guts are fine. I eat whatever, whenever, and no gastro issues at all. I often wonder what they're doing to us here in America?
@loriki8766 my husband said the same thing. He avoided a lot of things in Canada including dairy. In Germany, he started eating cheese and cream again and never had any issues. I wondered the same thing: what are they doing over there?
european here: we absolutely diet. its just extremely frowned upon to talk about it. you see us eating a croissant in joy? bet that its tracked on my fittness pal or at least unconciously tracked. its always "we didn't try, its the stress, some mysteriousl appetite loss" etc. We have half hour lunch breaks, for sure we don't take all the time it needs to eat lol. Don't know a single woman with a healthy eating behaviour in my country
Well, via social media, many US Norms came over. I remember a time when everybody laughed Starbucks off as being a full meal with cavities on the side. Now, it's just "coffee".
this is an American in love with Europe. It's a lot of BS. the real difference is that in Europe we have stronger local food traditions and healthier food regulations. It's true that we walk more and enjoy meals, but the whole part about not dieting and not stressing over work is complete BS. Also... she notices the "balanced and organic approach" and recommends using apps, tracking and scheduling micro changes, trying on all sports... completely contraddicting what she's observing and preaching. A streotype of an american in Europe.
Spain takes three hours for lunch?? Where have you been in Spain, in Christmas day!!? Come on!! Stop this topics please!! Maybe on a sunday if you have a family or friends gathering you stay longer around the table but from this to write that 3 hour lunch is a norm in Spain is completely false.
yeh, i raised an eyebrow at that too but the concept of la sobremesa is not one that really exists in America. People do take their time sometimes but they don't have a word for it.
I’ve been studying Japan for 18 years since I met an international classmate at age 7. I basically just report every American made video on Japan for misinformation. They hide so much stuff for ease of watching and engagement that makes Japan look so much worse or better in ways that would cause conflict if you tried using them as real info and not slop. So much foreign focused content is full of half truths with just the mundane stuff and lies and exaggeration for the important stuff
@@peanutforever2191 she has helped my entire family get so much healthier. In a super sustainable way that we’ve actually enjoyed. In my 40s I am in the best shape, my teens are super healthy and so is my husband. All of this from changing the way I was taught to do things here in the US and actually taking advice from someone so reasonable. I have been a nutrition coach and personal trainer/ fitness instructor and international presenter for 23 years and I have never encountered someone who is actually reasonable and honest about how to improve health. I don’t understand your logic here as her channel is actual GOLD. If someone needs help with fat loss- listen to her. She’s steering folks in the “actual “ right direction!!!! ❤🎉
I found a recipe online for "healthy" gummybears and I was so weirded out because there was a sh'tton of sugar in it. At the end came a disclaimer: If you have access to European gummy bears: don't bother. So healthy just meant without extra weird stuff...
I noticed that Americans often idealise Europe... They say: "In Europe people walk a lot". I live in Cyprus. Very few people walk. Almost everyone uses a car even for a one-minute trip. I pay attention as a ten-thousand-steps-per-day pedestrian.
It might depend on where. We walked the Camino de Santiago. Obviously that's mostly rural areas. Most everyone was slender or slender-ish. Very few actual obese people.
Europe has many countries and even in the same country, the capital city and rural areas can be pretty different... I saw that in my country, it was shocking when I moved to the capital city, even many young people acted like walking a bit would be super tiresome...
What the heck is a "European diet" in the first place? What's supposed to be the commonality between what people eat in Scotland vs Sicily, Andalusia vs Hungary? Yes, it's true that food is of better quality across Europe compared to the US, and that European cities are by and large more walkable than North American. The rest is over-generalisation.
The formation of the European Union did that. And Americans find it hilarious that the rest of the world thinks we're one big homogeneous race. Yeah, we may have been born here, and we're American by nationality, but my ancestry is German, Hungarian, Scots, British, Irish and American Indian.
She Is right in this case though. We europeans have good quality of food and ingredients, from north to south, west to east. The quality of water and air too
When I first visited the USA I was shocked at the high sugar, high fat available and the portion sizes were much bigger. Also, we had to drive everywhere. There were also more fast food outlets. People in the UK don’t take 1 to 2 hours to eat lunch!
Too true! First time in the States, the size of the CHAIRS in the airport! OMG! It made me feel like I was 4 years old again, sitting in adults' HUGE chairs. Then I saw HUGE people walking around, and I understood why they needed those HUGE chairs. An American friend of mine who was visiting actually demolished a chair by sitting in it. It crashed under his weight. He was so embarrassed, poor man. but when I was in Hawaii, the portions being GIGANTIC, I could go to a restaurant and they have that excellent custom of "you can wrap the leftovers and take it home" - so for the price of dinner, I had my dinner, AND breakfast AND lunch the next day. Yay!
@ yes! I visited an all you can eat restaurant called the Ponderosa. That was the first time I really saw very overweight people. And they were stacking pancakes up and drenching them in syrup.
Born and raised in the Netherlands, living 10+ years in Sweden. Netherlands = Tiny country with extremely good infrastructure for walking and cycling, like every road has a bike lane attached to it. There are more bikes than humans there. Rant: (With all that talk about climate) I find it insane that not every country attaches a walk/bike lane next to their roads, tbh. I mean i get that here in Sweden for example it's maybe a bit much to do and maintain on every countryside side road, but at least next to the main roads, with a little lamp here and there...wouldn't hurt anyone 🤷♀I'm not interested cycling on a road where cars can swoosh past me with 70 or 80 km/h. Dutch people eat really simple food too, but it fills you up. Sweden = Just a lot of nature (and heavy duty never ending yardwork?!), and people really enjoy sports here. I also think the EU is more strict with their food rules, but idk if that matters in regards to weight. Maybe the processed foods in the USA are more addictive? Overall i think movement is probably the biggest factor, that extra movement throughout the day adds up.
Living in a big city in Canada, people always hate when they put in new bike paths everywhere because it decreases the size of the already narrow streets when you account for parking areas. Also bikers here are dangerous and don't always follow the rules. I guess it depends where you live. (The drivers here are also a bit wild though so. ). People aren't chill in North America like they are in Europe, life is too fast here, bike lanes and biking not as safe.
@@banjohole Yes, it's a whole infrastructure overhaul and the culture. Most inner cities in the Netherlands are car free or have only 1 big circle road that goes in 1 direction. Kids get their "bike diploma" from the police in primary school after doing a "driving exam" on their bikes, where they need to show that they know the rules. I think it's silly for people to be up in arms over the climate, plant those hideous windmills, yet don't improve public transport/cycling-walking infrastructure OR fast fashion import etc. Less car/boat traffic, where possible, would be a good plan.
Agree 100%. What’s with this lumping all of us Europeans into one big melting pot? Our food and customs are very different going from one country to another. For example, in Norway dinner time is around 4:30/5:00 pm while dinner time in Spain is at around 10:00/11:00 pm. Wine and alcohol are an integral part of Spanish meals while wine and alcohol are severely restricted in Norway. They couldn’t be more different.
Correct, these are fairytales by the Americans for the Americans. Not much different from a mum slamming his lazy teenage son citing example of some super high-achiever cousin.
@@val-schaeffer1117 I spent eight years in the US, and other than consumerism being even worse over there (with it being a much bigger economy than that of any EU country, the competition is so much fiercer as far as choices go), I really don't see much of a difference. Because of the aforementioned competition for customers, I would actually have a much easier time, for example, finding near-zero Cal foods over there. Not to mention that European peoples can be very different - are differences even between the north and the south of Italy, let alone Italy and Norway. Whatever tiny niche of "the European life" this person saw (or thought she saw), is neither what "European" is, nor is it anything she wouldn't be able to find within certain groups of people in the US.
@ Speaking Of competition, fierce competition in USA is far more fair than in Eurrope, thanks to weaponised language barriers along with non recognition of foreign degrees, apprenticeship based placement to shelter the native population from actual competition.
We also have a TON of chemicals in our foods that cause weigh gain here. I have a friend from Russia and she told me their foods are just food, our food labels are chemicals. When I grocery shop here half the food i see says bioengineered on the label. I am not buying those foods any more, I hope it helps. I wish the US would change their food standards to what Europe has.
That's a very weird claim for your friend to make. Russia has plenty of ultra processed snacks, sweets, condiments, pre-made frozen meals and convenience foods, beverages etc, all made by the same industrial methods with industrial additives. They may comprise a smaller part of an average person's diet (maybe. who knows), but unless a person is from an uncontacted indigenous tribe, they have ultraprocessed snacks and "chemicals" where they're from.
@@TasteOfButterfliesRussia has banned gmos so their wheat is quite different from ours. I kinda doubt they pump their meat with hormones too. Of course they have processed foods but their natural foods are less full of extra chemicals than the US.
@@TasteOfButterflies Sure thing, there are many ultra-processed foods, especially when it comes to snacks, but if speaking about basic everyday foods that make up 80% of a person's diet, it's just food. Like milk is just milk, oats are just oats. Enriched? Fortified? - there is no such thing. And at the same time, it's easy to find, for example, mass-produced cakes that my 3-year-old can eat because they are made of the ingredients that I use when baking: real eggs, real butter, cream, flour etc., and not some chemical alternatives.
People, Europe is made up of many very different countries with many different cultures. The things you eat in Norway are very different from the things you eat in Greece as are the meal schedules. This lady putting all of us Europeans into one big lump is just ignorant! 🤣
Im sorry, but i have to politely disagree. Im from Eastern Europe and when you said that we enjoy drinks slowly i had to laugh… in many european countries alcohol is gulped for fun like anywhere else (unfortunately :/ ) I think that main difference between US and european countries is walkability and food quality. Its normal to cook at home and carry your groceries on foot, because i have 6 different supermarkets (all very affordable) in less than 20 min walk from home. I buy fresh food every day, i count it as my daily walk.
Lol you wont die if you dont eat for 4 hours. We have two words for hunger. Ik heb trek. It means I have apetite. You want to eat but you are ok energy wise. So you dont need to eat. Ik heb honger. It means you are really hungry and you are starting to have low or irritable mood because you have not eaten. This typically happens after 8-24 hours.
After changing my diet...due to I'm living with a diabetic, and changed to eat many raw veggies half a plate, depends on the veggie 200-600 gramms per day, it cleared my thoughts and I realized most of the time like 80% of the time I was eating out of frustration or boredom... I get a good breakfast with veggies-fiber and fat-eggs or meat, maybe a slice of wholegrain bread and Im good for the whole day. I don't do physical work. That is a different story. My dad (73) cuts grass, cuts wood, does things in the garder the whole day, and he needs 3-4000 kcal per day and he is muscular as I have never been. He has stonehard abs and functional muscles. Ex bus driver physical worker. He wouldnt have lasted this long if he was eating processed crap. Most of his excollegues get physically sick in that job due to wrong eating habits, and the doctor bans them from busdriving because it is unsafe. He had 1 diabetic collegue whom was keeping his permit from their doctors to work for 20 years, and he was keeping a strict diet and on point with his insulin.
The only thing I recognized was the part about exercise being there for fun. Because that's actually true to a large extent. These issues dig deep into how our societies are built. In the US they are taken seriously, because you usually have to pay a ton to even do it. While in Europe there's just clubs run by volunteers. It's easy to do X for a year, then Y for two and then go back to X again in terms of sport. Noones earning much money with it, so they don't have to sell it to you as something you MUST stick with.
@@thecashier930 I lived in New York (as a European) for eight years. A very expensive city. Large gym chains ran insane sales, especially in January where you could sign up for an entire year for literally less than 100 bucks, and that was the LES, not some obscure Queens neighborhood near JFK. LOL Do you really think there are no non-profit sports clubs in the US? There are PLENTY. There are loads of different ones in large cities, and in smaller towns, you have churches and youth groups. Also, just like there is no such thing as THE one European person, there certainly isn't THE one American person, and that's certainly true for those who practice sports.
@ No, I'm saying it's largely true, not that it's 100% this way. The prevalence of non-profit sports is just factualy a lot lower than in most, if not all European countries. I'm not talking about gym prices either, most people don't go to the gym anyways. I'm just saying that the attitude to it is a different one. I can see that whenever I talk to people doing the same sport as me in the US, vs here in Europe. Here nearly every club I know is run non-profit. While in the US there's maybe a non-profit student group here or there, but the vast majority across the country does it for profit. I pay about 80€ a semester, they pay more than that every month. That's not me assuming anything, it's just me talking to the Americans in our sport.
Who are the Europeans you are talking about? European here, currently living in Germany. What you say in your video doesn't apply to any of the European countries where I've lived.
@ I live in Vienna, 9th district. Yes, we do have a very good Public transportation system, nevertheless, especially compared to the US, we walk everywhere. And we do effectively walk a lot. It just doesn’t feel like this.
@ Nice, Viennas great! But you can Google it on average per country - most european countries are like 10% more than US averages. And some walk a lot during their work too like nurses, waiters, laborers 👍🏻
I spent 3 months in Russia in 1992 at a time in life when I was quite overweight, never counted calories, ate unrestricted/plenty as a vegetarian. I lost 18 lbs, which immediately returned once back in the USA. My microbiome, (probably due to water, type of bread and sour cream) had changed!
Sou portuguesa e professora do ensino publico secundário, o meu marido é engenheiro agrícola e temos 3 filhos. Tenho 45 minutos para almoçar, assim como os meus alunos. Almoço uma sanduíche com um copo de leite e cafe, o chamado galão, a correr e a reunir com colegas para prepararmos atividades, aulas e materiais. Não me revejo nada neste retrato. Ao jantar, de facto tentamos não comer fora nem encomendar. Fazemos refeições simples e baratas. Não temos metade do prato com vegetais pq isso não faz parte da nossa cozinha tradicional e alguns dos meus filhos e marido não gostam de sopa, a nossa fonte tradicional de legumes. As proteínas são de facto mais ou menos do tamanho da palma da mão pq são caras e não temos poder de compra para mais. Ao jantar estamos mais ou menos 30 min à mesa. Os meus filhos por serem universitários ainda vão trabalhar ou fazer reuniões com colegas para fazer projetos ou trabalhos. Eu ainda me sento a acabar tarefas para o dia seguinte. O único que já não trabalha à noite é o meu marido, que já trabalhou tanto que teve uma espécie de esgotamento e parou de o fazer. Volto a repetir, não me revejo nada neste retrato dos europeus e muito menos dos portugueses. Nós, os portugueses não temos slow life, temos mt stress e somos dos países menos felizes e com menos poder de compra da europa!!!
What on earth is "the Norwegian diet" (mentioned at 1:09)? Ask any Norwegian and they'll tell you all about frozen pizza and "taco" (which is sort of like burritos without the rice). Norwegians don't eat nutritious food. A lot of them do get outside in nature a lot, though.
I'm English but I worked in a French state primary school in Paris. Each day there was 2-hour lunch break. The first hour is for eating and the second hour is for rest. Children often went home for lunch with their families. On Wednesdays there is no school which was great because it meant as teachers we could do all our planning preparation and marking on that day. Teachers even sometimes drank wine with their lunch in Paris! I definitely feel they have a great work-life balance over there.
It’s time and socialized healthcare….Americans have no workers protections and we idolize the grind with bad health insurance. In Asia they also have a grind culture but they have some socialized medicine so there’s the difference. This video puts a lot of responsibility on the individual when this is a societal problem. You can’t pretend that we can have a relaxed take your time mindset when the work playing field isn’t leveled by other workers being protected for taking time for their health.
6:13 I am sorry to say this: Europeans eating only lean meat is nonsense; it is a completely false statement. If I think about the amount of types of sausages, meat stews, cold cuts and pasta sauces (especially pork...) that are consumed daily in Germany, but also in Spain and Italy, you will be surprised; not to mention the cheeses. Many Europeans eat only 2 times a day on busy weekdays . They never call it intermittent fasting but eating normally. Only on weekends do we eat a few more meals.
Hungarian here :D Yeah, we love our more or less but often super fatty pork :) Even pure fat tissue is popular, it's not my thing but Mom had that with bread for breakfast a lot... Just like many other people. Of course, there are groups (dieting women, bodybuilders...) who typically eat lean meat and some people simply prefer chicken breast (I eat fatty chicken but certain pork cuts are my typical, lean options) but if I look at the meat counter, it's full with fatty meat while my acquaintances in some other countries (in Europe too) complain about the low availability of fatty cuts. That's sad. Our first highly processed (but pretty okay) item is sausage according to a study I have read about lately. It sounds about right, it's surely popular and far from lean... 2 meals a day may be intermittent fasting and may be not. And of course, some people never heard about it, they just do it :) I had been doing IF since many years when I first have heard about it.
@@shiNIN42 I miss the days when my father and uncles "prepared" ( you know what I mean..) porks in winter. It is sadly true when you say that today's counter meat is too lean. That naturally fatty meat is almost unobtainable. My mother was Serbian and my father Italian; in my childhood I ate pig's feet and ears preserved in salted lard, homemade sausages, offal, etc. My son would be horrified at the mere thought of tasting them; it's a pity. Today I am 46 years old and weigh the same as when I was 20; while my son is always on a diet :(
Overweight and don't actually enjoy food. It's like a job I have to do and wish was fun, but no matter what I eat, it's never enjoyable. Meals were miserable when I was a child due to family dynamics. Food was a substitute for love, but like substituting salt for sugar. Doesn't work.
I don’t relate to this as a european. I believe it’s 1) infrastructure (more walking and cycling) and 2) food environment (environment is prone to make healthy choices and healthy whole food vegetables and fruit are affordable)
it's not having a car. This is not weird here. I don't have a car. I walk to work. I walk to pilates. Walk to the shops. I know this would all sound so pitiful and poor to an American.
Trust me, many Americans would love to be able to walk places, but it would be nearly impossible- we totally screwed ours with our city designs. There's only one small neighborhood grocery store within a reasonable walking range of my home, but there's at least 4 gas stations. I won't go into the political reasons why this would never change, but we all know a lot of large companies would prefer to keep us fat, sick, and dependent on cars, processed food, etc. so that is how it will stay.
I wish I didn’t agree with @roguered706, but I do! I am lucky to have in-laws in Europe and a job that involves travel, so I have lived there several times, and our year without a car was probably my fittest year. Where I live in the US it would really be a struggle to do everything walking or biking, and I live in a relatively bike-friendly city. Just such a car society! And people spend so much of their income on car payments, insurance, maintenance etc.
Doesn’t sound pitiful; it sounds like living in a city. I live rurally and the grocery is 12 miles away. It’s hard to walk 24 miles for groceries. I could move to a city and not do that, but I don’t like crowds. I get to see bears, bobcats and moose, among other things…right on my property!
7:55 if you need to drive somewhere where you can take a walk, that's atrocious and I'm sorry. We can talk about "habits" and "personal responsibility" all day long, but if you live in a place where taking a walk requires first to pay 1000s of $ for a car, your environment is set up in a way that devalues your health and that deserves a mention.
As an European I like this video. Thee part with choosing the stairs instead of the elevator is true. A lot of people do it for couple of reasons - it helps you stay fit, spares electricity, and many old European buildings don't have elevators 😁 We also have good bike lanes. The food is also a big factor. As a Bulgarian living in Germany, the veggies here don't taste that good, however all of my friends that went to America reported that for the first couple of months their stomachs were hurting and they didn't like the food. Well, maybe they were not shopping Bio, although here I personally rarely do, because it is still a bit expensive for my pocket.
It´s not only the quality of the food that is better here in Europe, we Europeans MOVE much more in our free time. We often walk or cycle from A to B instead of taking the car. Here, where I live (a village in Central Europe), many people even grow their own food, they enjoy gardening as a hobby and eat own-grown foods. That´s why many stay at normal weight without going to the gym and as you correctly mentioned: Sports is a hobby. We do sports, because we enjoy it! We´re active in our free time, because we like it that way - that´s where CONSISTENCY comes into play! It´s all about sticking to your good habits and the reason why we stay consistent is because we enjoy them! We enjoy good, high-quality food and being active. Another important point is that fast food is in fact very expensive here!! So, if you want to save money, you better stick to whole foods and home-cooked meals!
I've been slowly but steady moving from high sugar, big appetite, eating sweets while on the computer, towards more exercise and less snacking. I've only lost 2kg, but I've gained muscle and I feel better. And well I'm from germany - I did feel bad about my weight and habits, because many people seem to have no trouble being a healthy weight and exercising regularely.
Me too - I have lost 3kg over 6 weeks doing a similar thing. I am focussing on developing good habits. I am only weighing myself once a fortnight & also taking my waist measurement. It feels so good to nourish my body with more natural foods. I am enjoying this for once. Keep going Ann, we've got this !!!!!! EDIT : Check out "Joey Sorts" channel. He is a wealth of information
In Europe food is also generally less loaded with additives. My brother and a friend both went to the US and told me there were sugar, syrups, and other similar additives in a lot of products that just don't contain them in Europe. Those are all hidden calories we just don't eat.
In terms of finding a good sport/ recreation hobby I remember seeing a great quote online. "If you can't figure out how to be good at something, just learn to enjoy beinging bad it"
In Europe we do ask eachother what we work. Also what do you mean by calling not eating for 3-4 hours intermitent fasting? That's just normal, do you eat continuously in the US?
There is more: The food is more flavorful, therefore, more satisfying. Also, we walk a lot. And - we take proper lunchbreaks and lunch is the most important meal of the day. Growing up, at school we had free lunches, consisting of soup, main course, a piece of fruit and a small dessert. If you have a lunch like this, you are not that hungry later and dinner is light.
There are foods that help prevent cravings. Beans digest slowly, and keep blood sugar stable longer. Liver gives a B vitamin boost, plus multiple minerals, in case you had a slight deficiency.
I am from the Netherlands and have lost about 25 kilos or 55 pounds when I was overweight. Since then I have maintained a stable healthy weight for about 7 years now. I have done this by visiting a dietician and changing my eating habits for good. I do many things that are shown in the video, but this is by no means a standard here. When I was in the USA, I actually gained a few kilos in two weeks. This is what I have noticed there: bigger portions, free refills of (sugary) drinks, a lot of takeaway food is deep fried, we used the car for literally everything while I usually walk here, a lot more added sugar in products. I remember repeatedly asking to leave the sugar out when ordering coffee. Here, people do snack after dinner. About 50% of the adults are overweight (the highest number ever), we too have a lot of processed junk, people do diet but not everyone is keen on admitting it because Dutch have a tendency to be reserved about that.
Europe on a whole eats beef that eats grass (not gmo grain), has not outlawed raw cheese and raw milk, has outlawed many harmful chemicals from their food, does not have glyfosate-laden gmo wheat and corn and eats a lower amount if toxic seed oils/ultra refined vegetable oils. They also are less likely to load everything up with sugar. Those changes alone in America would drastically reduce our epidemic of chronic disease and obesity. And probably improve mental health significantly also.
Food in Europe is pure and not as chemically processed or modified as in the US, so their bodies react naturally and don't hold on to fat as much. Also, they eat satisfying portions, not gluttonous ones. I visited a friend in Venice, and lost five pounds!
Our meal sizes also tend to be much smaller, we tend to appreciate home cooking more and when we do go out to eat we may want to eat something a little fancier, however that is quickly changing nowadays. Many people eat a lot of fast food also, but the sizes are smaller. We walk, bicycle and use public transport probably more. We don't snack as much and eat at set times without rushing. We like to take it easy.
Actually I think what really is the most important thing is, prioritising human connection over chasing fame and admiration. Human connection requires time. Time you invest into listening to, caring for and sharing with others instead of focusing on yourself and your goals. This makes you feel filled with warmth and love. You don't need to fill that empty space inside you with food, consumerism or extreme activities. You need less stuff, have more time and are more relaxed.
One issue with Americans trying to slow down when eating or drinking out is that a bar or restaurant would be kicked out for taking up space that they could be making more money off of. And people with children never seem to have time for anything but entertaining their kids in the U.S. so socializing goes out the window. Not a lot of people can take a 2hr lunch in the U.S. With all of the sidehustles you tend not to have a moment to breathe let alone lounge
I gained weight while living in Europe. I didn’t eat like a European though. I now eat keto and exercise regularly, sometimes intensely like CrossFit a few times a week. I lost a lot of weight. Therefore, her comment at 6:42 is bullshit.
Coach Viva helped me to return to loving the food I eat instead of connecting food with guilt or punishment. At the topmost level, that is why 30 lbs have been gone for 3 years now. Life is more fun when I don't have to be perfect living it and it helped me develop an "off button" to where I can appreciate that I just enjoyed something and then have an interval of doing something else not related to food, instead of obsessively "eating it all, all at once."
So glad you addressed this issue. I’ve noticed the same thing whenever I visit Europe. I’ve also noticed that Europeans don’t consume processed foods as much as Americans/westerners do.
The quality of the food in Europe is significantly better...bread is less processed and is a religion in many countries. There are fewer chemicals as well.
No one has a clue how Europeans actually live their lives if they just randomly visit and look at a tiny niche of their world that they happen to see. Tourists do touristy things and see other people that do touristy things. Has nothing to do with the reality of their lives. I am European and could relate to nothing in this video, and personally know no one whose life resembles the picture painted in this video. I lived in the US for eight years, and it is astounding the stereotypes Americans have about "Europeans". LOL
@ really? you couldn't identify with the insanity of sales tax added when you buy and not to the price? You think the gap in toilet cubicals that runs vertically is normal? Where in Europe are you from?
The Norwegian diet? I know we consume lot's of black coffee, lot's of salmon, lot's of boiled potatoes(some eat it with every dinner at home and doesn't consider it a proper dinner without), quite healthy Taco and whole-grain bread(that actually taste good). -sincerely a Norwegian
American food is garbage, which is why we asked Kennedy to investigate and make changes. I spent a couple of months in Thailand, eating literally everything I could get my hands on - good, clean, fresh food, even the fried tonkatsu - but I also walked everywhere, and spent my days on my feet in a classroom rather than sitting at a desk. I was losing about a pound and a half a week. Then I came back to the States and put it all back on.
As an American who moved to Europe, these are just confusing to watch because I did not lose weight....I don't even have a car anymore and I guess I just eat pretty similar to in US. Meaning mainly from the grocery store, but yes there's beer & fast food in Europe too.
The food in the U.S.A. is so filled of garbage, sugar, chemicals and their helpings are enormous! It tastes terrible, too. The shock when I visited the States and saw how obese everyone was! And the amount of pop people drank like water.
I'm a little confused, because when you look up the the biometrics of middle aged women in France, you see almost the same biometrics as in America. I wonder how old the stats are that are listed on here? I was very surprised given the difference in eating, pacing, and walking that the difference was not much more, in my own research.
Nonsense. It the movement, not the mindset. If you’re coming from car centric suburbia where you need a vehicle to get a cup of coffee… just doing marginally more walking makes a huge difference
Like many other in the comment section, i don't recognize at all that european person she talks about. But i think it's because she was stating what she thinks are facts instead of saying "europeans are more likely to ..." or "europeans usually ...". My 2 cents on the matter on a more structural point of view rather than cultural : - many people in the comment section write about the quality of the food but i would say the quantity is much more representative of the difference between usa and europe and more impactful, specifically portions in restaurants. - walking is facilitated in cities, big ones. People in rural areas would probably use more their cars due to a lack of alternatives. But maybe walking as an leisurely activity is more a thing in europe ? - i'll contradict myself and will point out a cultural/habit difference, i am to understand that for americans, eating can also be a way to pass the time, you eat while driving, walking or whatever. When malls were more popular, people would meet there and go eat in the food court not because it's time to eat but just more like an activity. Can anyone from the united states confirm this last part if it sounds somewhat correct ?
@natachamgreen Lol "They just exist in a slow and steady rhythm" is not a statistic. That's my point. I'm not saying weight stats and gym membership numbers are wrong, just that what's identified as "root" does not compute with the life experience of me and everyone around me while we live here in Europe. It's a fantasy made by and for Americans to sell her program.
Every food in the US has more sugar, it’s way too sweet. Soft drinks, ketchup & many other items are made with high fructose corn syrup in the US but made with sugar in Europe Fructose is 2 x more harmful than sugar.
I've tried the link to your calorie counter under several videos, but it just takes me to a white screen. Is the link broken? I'd love to use the tool!
@@CoachViva Yeah, it just leads me to an off-white page. Header and website name loads so I know it's connecting, and I'm guessing the slightly off-white is the website background colour. But no other elements load in!
Thanks for showing this truth. I walked a Camino, Porto to Santiago, with two friends last autumn. We enjoyed plenty of food at meal times. It was better quality than in the US, and we enjoyed it more. A Camino is an experience, not a competition. In 20 days, we ALL lost weight & felt better than ever.
I am a European and I am thinking that is is an overhyped over stereotyped belief about fatty American and the fit European counter part. One can say that about SE Asians though and anyone else.
"I drink copious amounts of wine and beer.." So you are promoting alcoholism, then? To promote drinking "copious amounts" daily does suggest creating a routine based around legalized substance abuse to treat a different problem altogether. Not healthy at all, especially for the millions of people who are in recovery from alcoholism and/or are genetically predisposed to become alcoholics with regular drinking like this video suggests.
I live in austria and everyone who is semi-slim watch their diet and goes to the gym reguarly or does at least sone home-workout. Do you know how often I saw someone saying that they est a lot and then couldn‘t even finish a tiny plate. Or some people are so stressed out they forget to eat for a whole day.
Swedish here- how many times does Americans boiling potatoes? I have never seen one. Always baked, mashed or fried. And what is the ridiculous thing keeping the potatoes peel/skin on the potatoes as fried and in mashed potatoes- you practicing for survival week or? 😂 Anyway as passing through USA sometimes I believe it's because of very unhealthy food. Your portions are huge, value for money yes but it's too much. Some stuff you have approved in food is not allowed in Europe. And like I noticed- not easy to walk in the US, it's made for vehicles only it seems like.
What you said about fun movement reminded me about the TV show Friends. Phoebe told Rachel she should run like a little kid. That was one of my favorite scenes.
I appreciate your efford to better peoples live, and it's ok to generalize a bit, but you must understand the outlash when we "Europeans" (being thrown in one pot here is the first unforgivale mistake) call out statements that are just plain out bullshit (like nobody is eating on the go - people do it all the time at least in Switzerland) Edit: ooooh and the relaxed mindset... man you couldn't be further from the truth here. Swiss people voted against more holliday in order to stay productive - and "What do you do fot a living" is DEFINETLY the first thing anybody will ask you about (not on Vacation maybe, but in every other setting) People are stressed out to the max here - it just depends on where you look.... Edit Edit: AAAAh wtf not snacking.....We even have a Name for Morning and Afternoon Snack, it's called "Znüni" and "Zvieri" and every little Child has it! I just... this Video makes me angry!
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Do not recognize this europe you are describing. Few things I remember from visiting America... taking the car EVERYWHERE, even it is just a 100, 200 meters trip. MUCH bigger portion sizes and much more added sugar and chemicals. And if all these dashcam videos I've seen is any indication... the stress levels in the average american is through the roof.
Well you see, that would require changing the broken system instead of selling a useless nutrition app. We wouldn't want that now, would we? That'd actually change things.
the fact she called not eating between meals "intermitent fasting" blew my mind
This ☝️🫣
I get called extreme for doing 16/8
Yes, it was funny, wasn't it? In Ayurveda, letting the stomach digest one meal before considering the next one is - basic. I see it as ... ha ha, doing the laundry = digestion. You don't add a dirty T shirt to a load that is being rinsed...
Hey, for some people, it is. I have a co-worker who eats Goldfish crackers literally all day, and another who keeps a candy dish through which other coworkers dig throughout the day. I'm OMAD and I don't tell anyone anymore, because those I've told in the past took it as a personal affront.
@@julieaskingforafriend to me, all these labels make things more complicated that they need to be . I have 10 kg to lose , I eat less than usual during meals and I don't snack, and it works .
eating crackers or candy all day sounds like a bad idea. is the job boring? I work outdoor so I can't do that anyway. on the rare days I have paperwork to do I will keep a cup of herbal tea and don't feel the need to snack.
one thing I want to add in my country (have no clue elsewhere in europe) drinking soda or fruit juices in considered a treat. you'l drink some if you have guests or on celebrations not daily.
True, and in schools only water is allowed
"No urgency, no drama" in our work?? "They don't diet"??? 😂 we wish! I really like your guidance (I'm following your recommendations and it's working!), but Europeans are not this relaxed 😜 hello and thank you from Italy ❤
She is likely trying to convince Americans by using stereotypes they have about Europeans so they can relate.
"compared to the 'average' American..." we are, i just spent a week in Barcelona, as a Dutch woman, to visit my son, and i was awestruck at how mellow he has become, how not stressed and how much he enjoyed mealtimes... and that was just the difference between northern and southern Europe
@@daanh8194 Im from the South of Spain. You have 30 min or 1 hours for your lunch, you cant go home and cook so you eat at work. Eat a meal for hours even in work days she says...
As a German, I have to say: A lot of Germans have stressful jobs, work long hours, have short lunch brakes. A lot of Germans fight obesity. Many have experience with dieting.
It may not affect as many as in the U.S., but it's not as if it were two completely different worlds.
Exactly, more than half of Europeans are overweight and Germany is one of the countries with the higher rates. You just don't see as many morbidly obese people as in U.S. but that does't mean that people are that much healthier.
I live in Germany and know very overweight Germans here too.. but still much fewer than in the US.
Yes. The German mindset poisoned American culture and health. It’s a shame that Italian/Sicilian immigrants could not transmit the healthy parts of Mediterranean culture to America.
I don’t think it’s just the way people eat in Europe va the US. It’s the things inside your food. A lot of US food & ingredients are banned in Europe.
That's true. But also the amount of sugar added to US food is insane! Walking as "meaning of transportation" is also not in the mind of many people.
Exactly!
It's very bald and not based on any factual data claim, not better than all nonsense from video
Food quality is also higher, especially in fast food. I noticed this both when I went to England and New Zealand, and we had a long discussion about it with a new Zealand rancher. The low quality meat used in American fast food was so rejected by those populations that the companies had to up their quality or lose business. But us Americans will accept any old trash if it has enough film flam and razzle dazzle on it. Add in how so much of our cities is unwalkable, deliberately designed food deserts, over subsidizing corn syrup, and our total lack of any semblance of balance in working hours and of course people grab fast trash food more often than is reasonable.
Yep! Yep! Exactly!
It is also worth to mention that the food quality in Europe is different to North America. My husband is from Canada and has toured through the US. He says the food quality in Germany is much better. I do think that also adds up in terms of health and body composition.
Well, it doesn't. You basically consuming the same macronutrients. It is important to mention that they may have organic quality, but they are just as expensive as organic. Meat, especially beef, is a lot more expensive in Europe generally.
I wonder what was his reaction on 2y.o. farm chicken instead of broileri 3months old overstuffed babychicks.
If you pay for organic meat in the US, you get organic meat. Same in Europe.
I noticed this traveling in Europe. Even though I rarely eat processed food and never eat highly processed food, in the US, I cannot drink milk or eat dairy without severe gastro issues. Even avoiding dairy, gluten, etc in the US, my guts often hurt. When in Europe, I start my day with a coffee with milk and a pastry - and my guts are fine. I eat whatever, whenever, and no gastro issues at all. I often wonder what they're doing to us here in America?
@loriki8766 my husband said the same thing. He avoided a lot of things in Canada including dairy. In Germany, he started eating cheese and cream again and never had any issues. I wondered the same thing: what are they doing over there?
european here: we absolutely diet. its just extremely frowned upon to talk about it. you see us eating a croissant in joy? bet that its tracked on my fittness pal or at least unconciously tracked. its always "we didn't try, its the stress, some mysteriousl appetite loss" etc. We have half hour lunch breaks, for sure we don't take all the time it needs to eat lol. Don't know a single woman with a healthy eating behaviour in my country
As an european I Never felt so uneuropean as this video describes 😳
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Well, via social media, many US Norms came over. I remember a time when everybody laughed Starbucks off as being a full meal with cavities on the side. Now, it's just "coffee".
this is an American in love with Europe. It's a lot of BS. the real difference is that in Europe we have stronger local food traditions and healthier food regulations. It's true that we walk more and enjoy meals, but the whole part about not dieting and not stressing over work is complete BS. Also... she notices the "balanced and organic approach" and recommends using apps, tracking and scheduling micro changes, trying on all sports... completely contraddicting what she's observing and preaching. A streotype of an american in Europe.
Spain takes three hours for lunch?? Where have you been in Spain, in Christmas day!!? Come on!! Stop this topics please!! Maybe on a sunday if you have a family or friends gathering you stay longer around the table but from this to write that 3 hour lunch is a norm in Spain is completely false.
yeh, i raised an eyebrow at that too but the concept of la sobremesa is not one that really exists in America. People do take their time sometimes but they don't have a word for it.
I’ve been studying Japan for 18 years since I met an international classmate at age 7. I basically just report every American made video on Japan for misinformation. They hide so much stuff for ease of watching and engagement that makes Japan look so much worse or better in ways that would cause conflict if you tried using them as real info and not slop. So much foreign focused content is full of half truths with just the mundane stuff and lies and exaggeration for the important stuff
I guess she was referring to "la siesta".
Yeah, she is making shit up. LOL
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It's because American food compared to European food is adulterated. Compare ingredient lists for US and European versions of the same product
I found a recipe online for "healthy" gummybears and I was so weirded out because there was a sh'tton of sugar in it. At the end came a disclaimer: If you have access to European gummy bears: don't bother. So healthy just meant without extra weird stuff...
@@i.b.640yes, standard problem all "healthy" sweets. It's not unique to US
In Europe we struggle the same as anywhere else. The gap between fat and super fit is the same
I noticed that Americans often idealise Europe... They say: "In Europe people walk a lot". I live in Cyprus. Very few people walk. Almost everyone uses a car even for a one-minute trip. I pay attention as a ten-thousand-steps-per-day pedestrian.
It might depend on where. We walked the Camino de Santiago. Obviously that's mostly rural areas. Most everyone was slender or slender-ish. Very few actual obese people.
Europe has many countries and even in the same country, the capital city and rural areas can be pretty different... I saw that in my country, it was shocking when I moved to the capital city, even many young people acted like walking a bit would be super tiresome...
But "the fat" has an other dimension in America (outside GB)! Unfortunately the American habits are entering the poorer parts of society.
This objectively and verifiably untrue.
What the heck is a "European diet" in the first place? What's supposed to be the commonality between what people eat in Scotland vs Sicily, Andalusia vs Hungary? Yes, it's true that food is of better quality across Europe compared to the US, and that European cities are by and large more walkable than North American. The rest is over-generalisation.
It’s always so funny when the Americans refer to us as “Europeans” as if we were a nation 😂
Right😁
That’s true! We are all so different!
The formation of the European Union did that. And Americans find it hilarious that the rest of the world thinks we're one big homogeneous race. Yeah, we may have been born here, and we're American by nationality, but my ancestry is German, Hungarian, Scots, British, Irish and American Indian.
She Is right in this case though. We europeans have good quality of food and ingredients, from north to south, west to east. The quality of water and air too
@@julieaskingforafriendScottish is British, plus yeah we all have ancestry in Europe too 😂
When I first visited the USA I was shocked at the high sugar, high fat available and the portion sizes were much bigger.
Also, we had to drive everywhere.
There were also more fast food outlets.
People in the UK don’t take 1 to 2 hours to eat lunch!
Too true! First time in the States, the size of the CHAIRS in the airport! OMG! It made me feel like I was 4 years old again, sitting in adults' HUGE chairs. Then I saw HUGE people walking around, and I understood why they needed those HUGE chairs. An American friend of mine who was visiting actually demolished a chair by sitting in it. It crashed under his weight. He was so embarrassed, poor man.
but when I was in Hawaii, the portions being GIGANTIC, I could go to a restaurant and they have that excellent custom of "you can wrap the leftovers and take it home" - so for the price of dinner, I had my dinner, AND breakfast AND lunch the next day. Yay!
@ yes! I visited an all you can eat restaurant called the Ponderosa. That was the first time I really saw very overweight people. And they were stacking pancakes up and drenching them in syrup.
There you got the short answer to why ... 😄 No long explanations necessary
Uk is also the second fattest country in Europe.
nobody takes 2 hours. In Spain is 1 hour or less. You dont have time to go home.
Born and raised in the Netherlands, living 10+ years in Sweden.
Netherlands = Tiny country with extremely good infrastructure for walking and cycling, like every road has a bike lane attached to it. There are more bikes than humans there. Rant: (With all that talk about climate) I find it insane that not every country attaches a walk/bike lane next to their roads, tbh. I mean i get that here in Sweden for example it's maybe a bit much to do and maintain on every countryside side road, but at least next to the main roads, with a little lamp here and there...wouldn't hurt anyone 🤷♀I'm not interested cycling on a road where cars can swoosh past me with 70 or 80 km/h. Dutch people eat really simple food too, but it fills you up.
Sweden = Just a lot of nature (and heavy duty never ending yardwork?!), and people really enjoy sports here.
I also think the EU is more strict with their food rules, but idk if that matters in regards to weight. Maybe the processed foods in the USA are more addictive? Overall i think movement is probably the biggest factor, that extra movement throughout the day adds up.
Living in a big city in Canada, people always hate when they put in new bike paths everywhere because it decreases the size of the already narrow streets when you account for parking areas. Also bikers here are dangerous and don't always follow the rules. I guess it depends where you live. (The drivers here are also a bit wild though so. ). People aren't chill in North America like they are in Europe, life is too fast here, bike lanes and biking not as safe.
@@banjohole Yes, it's a whole infrastructure overhaul and the culture. Most inner cities in the Netherlands are car free or have only 1 big circle road that goes in 1 direction. Kids get their "bike diploma" from the police in primary school after doing a "driving exam" on their bikes, where they need to show that they know the rules.
I think it's silly for people to be up in arms over the climate, plant those hideous windmills, yet don't improve public transport/cycling-walking infrastructure OR fast fashion import etc. Less car/boat traffic, where possible, would be a good plan.
my mum suggested going cycling in Barcelona (we're from NL) and i politely declined, watching how cars drive like everybody hates each other.... 😂
There is no such thing as a European. We all are different countrys with our own language. Culture. Politics. Rules. Eating habbits. Food.
This is like a Japanese person saying Asians don't exist
Agree 100%. What’s with this lumping all of us Europeans into one big melting pot? Our food and customs are very different going from one country to another. For example, in Norway dinner time is around 4:30/5:00 pm while dinner time in Spain is at around 10:00/11:00 pm. Wine and alcohol are an integral part of Spanish meals while wine and alcohol are severely restricted in Norway. They couldn’t be more different.
@ yes. And the kind of food you eat in the Netherlands is so different than in the south European countrys.
At least we have some common rules concerning industrial food an the use of chemicals…
European here, and could barely relate to anything you claim Europeans do. I don't really know anyone who is like you describe Europeans.
Correct, these are fairytales by the Americans for the Americans. Not much different from a mum slamming his lazy teenage son citing example of some super high-achiever cousin.
@@val-schaeffer1117 I spent eight years in the US, and other than consumerism being even worse over there (with it being a much bigger economy than that of any EU country, the competition is so much fiercer as far as choices go), I really don't see much of a difference. Because of the aforementioned competition for customers, I would actually have a much easier time, for example, finding near-zero Cal foods over there.
Not to mention that European peoples can be very different - are differences even between the north and the south of Italy, let alone Italy and Norway.
Whatever tiny niche of "the European life" this person saw (or thought she saw), is neither what "European" is, nor is it anything she wouldn't be able to find within certain groups of people in the US.
@ Speaking Of competition, fierce competition in USA is far more fair than in Eurrope, thanks to weaponised language barriers along with non recognition of foreign degrees, apprenticeship based placement to shelter the native population from actual competition.
Very true
We also have a TON of chemicals in our foods that cause weigh gain here. I have a friend from Russia and she told me their foods are just food, our food labels are chemicals. When I grocery shop here half the food i see says bioengineered on the label. I am not buying those foods any more, I hope it helps. I wish the US would change their food standards to what Europe has.
That's a very weird claim for your friend to make. Russia has plenty of ultra processed snacks, sweets, condiments, pre-made frozen meals and convenience foods, beverages etc, all made by the same industrial methods with industrial additives.
They may comprise a smaller part of an average person's diet (maybe. who knows), but unless a person is from an uncontacted indigenous tribe, they have ultraprocessed snacks and "chemicals" where they're from.
@@TasteOfButterfliesRussia has banned gmos so their wheat is quite different from ours. I kinda doubt they pump their meat with hormones too. Of course they have processed foods but their natural foods are less full of extra chemicals than the US.
@@Hewillreturn777 you think they haven't discovered hormones or intensive animal agriculture yet in Russia? Okay
And Russians eat a lot of vegetables.
@@TasteOfButterflies Sure thing, there are many ultra-processed foods, especially when it comes to snacks, but if speaking about basic everyday foods that make up 80% of a person's diet, it's just food. Like milk is just milk, oats are just oats. Enriched? Fortified? - there is no such thing. And at the same time, it's easy to find, for example, mass-produced cakes that my 3-year-old can eat because they are made of the ingredients that I use when baking: real eggs, real butter, cream, flour etc., and not some chemical alternatives.
I have to say as a European having lived in different countries, I don't agree with your analysis
People, Europe is made up of many very different countries with many different cultures. The things you eat in Norway are very different from the things you eat in Greece as are the meal schedules. This lady putting all of us Europeans into one big lump is just ignorant! 🤣
Im sorry, but i have to politely disagree. Im from Eastern Europe and when you said that we enjoy drinks slowly i had to laugh… in many european countries alcohol is gulped for fun like anywhere else (unfortunately :/ )
I think that main difference between US and european countries is walkability and food quality. Its normal to cook at home and carry your groceries on foot, because i have 6 different supermarkets (all very affordable) in less than 20 min walk from home. I buy fresh food every day, i count it as my daily walk.
Lol you wont die if you dont eat for 4 hours.
We have two words for hunger. Ik heb trek. It means I have apetite. You want to eat but you are ok energy wise.
So you dont need to eat.
Ik heb honger. It means you are really hungry and you are starting to have low or irritable mood because you have not eaten. This typically happens after 8-24 hours.
After changing my diet...due to I'm living with a diabetic, and changed to eat many raw veggies half a plate, depends on the veggie 200-600 gramms per day, it cleared my thoughts and I realized most of the time like 80% of the time I was eating out of frustration or boredom... I get a good breakfast with veggies-fiber and fat-eggs or meat, maybe a slice of wholegrain bread and Im good for the whole day. I don't do physical work. That is a different story. My dad (73) cuts grass, cuts wood, does things in the garder the whole day, and he needs 3-4000 kcal per day and he is muscular as I have never been. He has stonehard abs and functional muscles. Ex bus driver physical worker. He wouldnt have lasted this long if he was eating processed crap. Most of his excollegues get physically sick in that job due to wrong eating habits, and the doctor bans them from busdriving because it is unsafe. He had 1 diabetic collegue whom was keeping his permit from their doctors to work for 20 years, and he was keeping a strict diet and on point with his insulin.
Such an American video
Yup. So full of the dumbest stereotypes.
The only thing I recognized was the part about exercise being there for fun. Because that's actually true to a large extent. These issues dig deep into how our societies are built. In the US they are taken seriously, because you usually have to pay a ton to even do it. While in Europe there's just clubs run by volunteers. It's easy to do X for a year, then Y for two and then go back to X again in terms of sport. Noones earning much money with it, so they don't have to sell it to you as something you MUST stick with.
@@thecashier930 I lived in New York (as a European) for eight years. A very expensive city. Large gym chains ran insane sales, especially in January where you could sign up for an entire year for literally less than 100 bucks, and that was the LES, not some obscure Queens neighborhood near JFK. LOL
Do you really think there are no non-profit sports clubs in the US? There are PLENTY. There are loads of different ones in large cities, and in smaller towns, you have churches and youth groups.
Also, just like there is no such thing as THE one European person, there certainly isn't THE one American person, and that's certainly true for those who practice sports.
@ No, I'm saying it's largely true, not that it's 100% this way. The prevalence of non-profit sports is just factualy a lot lower than in most, if not all European countries. I'm not talking about gym prices either, most people don't go to the gym anyways. I'm just saying that the attitude to it is a different one. I can see that whenever I talk to people doing the same sport as me in the US, vs here in Europe. Here nearly every club I know is run non-profit. While in the US there's maybe a non-profit student group here or there, but the vast majority across the country does it for profit. I pay about 80€ a semester, they pay more than that every month. That's not me assuming anything, it's just me talking to the Americans in our sport.
Who are the Europeans you are talking about? European here, currently living in Germany. What you say in your video doesn't apply to any of the European countries where I've lived.
I think one of the main differences:
We just walk everywhere. Like this you have a steady training. And we go by bike and so on.
Who's we? Where do you live? No I don't "walk everywhere" - we have public transportation...
@ I live in Vienna, 9th district. Yes, we do have a very good Public transportation system, nevertheless, especially compared to the US, we walk everywhere.
And we do effectively walk a lot. It just doesn’t feel like this.
@ Nice, Viennas great! But you can Google it on average per country - most european countries are like 10% more than US averages. And some walk a lot during their work too like nurses, waiters, laborers 👍🏻
I spent 3 months in Russia in 1992 at a time in life when I was quite overweight, never counted calories, ate unrestricted/plenty as a vegetarian. I lost 18 lbs, which immediately returned once back in the USA. My microbiome, (probably due to water, type of bread and sour cream) had changed!
1:35 Germans DEFINITELY walk and eat at the same time much to the horror of our French neighbors.
Sou portuguesa e professora do ensino publico secundário, o meu marido é engenheiro agrícola e temos 3 filhos.
Tenho 45 minutos para almoçar, assim como os meus alunos. Almoço uma sanduíche com um copo de leite e cafe, o chamado galão, a correr e a reunir com colegas para prepararmos atividades, aulas e materiais. Não me revejo nada neste retrato.
Ao jantar, de facto tentamos não comer fora nem encomendar. Fazemos refeições simples e baratas. Não temos metade do prato com vegetais pq isso não faz parte da nossa cozinha tradicional e alguns dos meus filhos e marido não gostam de sopa, a nossa fonte tradicional de legumes. As proteínas são de facto mais ou menos do tamanho da palma da mão pq são caras e não temos poder de compra para mais. Ao jantar estamos mais ou menos 30 min à mesa. Os meus filhos por serem universitários ainda vão trabalhar ou fazer reuniões com colegas para fazer projetos ou trabalhos. Eu ainda me sento a acabar tarefas para o dia seguinte. O único que já não trabalha à noite é o meu marido, que já trabalhou tanto que teve uma espécie de esgotamento e parou de o fazer.
Volto a repetir, não me revejo nada neste retrato dos europeus e muito menos dos portugueses. Nós, os portugueses não temos slow life, temos mt stress e somos dos países menos felizes e com menos poder de compra da europa!!!
What on earth is "the Norwegian diet" (mentioned at 1:09)? Ask any Norwegian and they'll tell you all about frozen pizza and "taco" (which is sort of like burritos without the rice). Norwegians don't eat nutritious food. A lot of them do get outside in nature a lot, though.
Fish and potatoes
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I'm English but I worked in a French state primary school in Paris. Each day there was 2-hour lunch break. The first hour is for eating and the second hour is for rest. Children often went home for lunch with their families. On Wednesdays there is no school which was great because it meant as teachers we could do all our planning preparation and marking on that day. Teachers even sometimes drank wine with their lunch in Paris! I definitely feel they have a great work-life balance over there.
It’s time and socialized healthcare….Americans have no workers protections and we idolize the grind with bad health insurance. In Asia they also have a grind culture but they have some socialized medicine so there’s the difference. This video puts a lot of responsibility on the individual when this is a societal problem. You can’t pretend that we can have a relaxed take your time mindset when the work playing field isn’t leveled by other workers being protected for taking time for their health.
6:13 I am sorry to say this: Europeans eating only lean meat is nonsense; it is a completely false statement.
If I think about the amount of types of sausages, meat stews, cold cuts and pasta sauces (especially pork...) that are consumed daily in Germany, but also in Spain and Italy, you will be surprised; not to mention the cheeses.
Many Europeans eat only 2 times a day on busy weekdays . They never call it intermittent fasting but eating normally.
Only on weekends do we eat a few more meals.
Hungarian here :D Yeah, we love our more or less but often super fatty pork :) Even pure fat tissue is popular, it's not my thing but Mom had that with bread for breakfast a lot... Just like many other people.
Of course, there are groups (dieting women, bodybuilders...) who typically eat lean meat and some people simply prefer chicken breast (I eat fatty chicken but certain pork cuts are my typical, lean options) but if I look at the meat counter, it's full with fatty meat while my acquaintances in some other countries (in Europe too) complain about the low availability of fatty cuts. That's sad.
Our first highly processed (but pretty okay) item is sausage according to a study I have read about lately. It sounds about right, it's surely popular and far from lean...
2 meals a day may be intermittent fasting and may be not. And of course, some people never heard about it, they just do it :) I had been doing IF since many years when I first have heard about it.
@@shiNIN42 I miss the days when my father and uncles "prepared" ( you know what I mean..) porks in winter.
It is sadly true when you say that today's counter meat is too lean.
That naturally fatty meat is almost unobtainable.
My mother was Serbian and my father Italian; in my childhood I ate pig's feet and ears preserved in salted lard, homemade sausages, offal, etc.
My son would be horrified at the mere thought of tasting them; it's a pity.
Today I am 46 years old and weigh the same as when I was 20; while my son is always on a diet :(
Overweight and don't actually enjoy food. It's like a job I have to do and wish was fun, but no matter what I eat, it's never enjoyable. Meals were miserable when I was a child due to family dynamics. Food was a substitute for love, but like substituting salt for sugar. Doesn't work.
I don’t relate to this as a european. I believe it’s 1) infrastructure (more walking and cycling) and 2) food environment (environment is prone to make healthy choices and healthy whole food vegetables and fruit are affordable)
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it's not having a car. This is not weird here. I don't have a car. I walk to work. I walk to pilates. Walk to the shops. I know this would all sound so pitiful and poor to an American.
Trust me, many Americans would love to be able to walk places, but it would be nearly impossible- we totally screwed ours with our city designs. There's only one small neighborhood grocery store within a reasonable walking range of my home, but there's at least 4 gas stations.
I won't go into the political reasons why this would never change, but we all know a lot of large companies would prefer to keep us fat, sick, and dependent on cars, processed food, etc. so that is how it will stay.
I wish I didn’t agree with @roguered706, but I do! I am lucky to have in-laws in Europe and a job that involves travel, so I have lived there several times, and our year without a car was probably my fittest year. Where I live in the US it would really be a struggle to do everything walking or biking, and I live in a relatively bike-friendly city. Just such a car society! And people spend so much of their income on car payments, insurance, maintenance etc.
@@roguered706yeah sadly US cities are built around car infrastructure. Even if people want to walk, it’s just not safe
Pitiful? That sounds like the dream! I wish our towns were like this
Doesn’t sound pitiful; it sounds like living in a city. I live rurally and the grocery is 12 miles away. It’s hard to walk 24 miles for groceries. I could move to a city and not do that, but I don’t like crowds. I get to see bears, bobcats and moose, among other things…right on my property!
7:55 if you need to drive somewhere where you can take a walk, that's atrocious and I'm sorry. We can talk about "habits" and "personal responsibility" all day long, but if you live in a place where taking a walk requires first to pay 1000s of $ for a car, your environment is set up in a way that devalues your health and that deserves a mention.
You can walk at home though. I have a small flat (47m2) but I still manage to walk inside for an hour every day when the weather is cold/too rainy
In the US the portion sizes are just so much bigger than in any of the 3 western European countries I have been living in
@@simplystrokebystroke6306 and I would love to try that! Whoops, wrong place to admit it 😅
As an European I like this video. Thee part with choosing the stairs instead of the elevator is true. A lot of people do it for couple of reasons - it helps you stay fit, spares electricity, and many old European buildings don't have elevators 😁 We also have good bike lanes. The food is also a big factor. As a Bulgarian living in Germany, the veggies here don't taste that good, however all of my friends that went to America reported that for the first couple of months their stomachs were hurting and they didn't like the food. Well, maybe they were not shopping Bio, although here I personally rarely do, because it is still a bit expensive for my pocket.
It´s not only the quality of the food that is better here in Europe, we Europeans MOVE much more in our free time. We often walk or cycle from A to B instead of taking the car. Here, where I live (a village in Central Europe), many people even grow their own food, they enjoy gardening as a hobby and eat own-grown foods. That´s why many stay at normal weight without going to the gym and as you correctly mentioned: Sports is a hobby. We do sports, because we enjoy it! We´re active in our free time, because we like it that way - that´s where CONSISTENCY comes into play! It´s all about sticking to your good habits and the reason why we stay consistent is because we enjoy them! We enjoy good, high-quality food and being active. Another important point is that fast food is in fact very expensive here!! So, if you want to save money, you better stick to whole foods and home-cooked meals!
I've been slowly but steady moving from high sugar, big appetite, eating sweets while on the computer, towards more exercise and less snacking. I've only lost 2kg, but I've gained muscle and I feel better. And well I'm from germany - I did feel bad about my weight and habits, because many people seem to have no trouble being a healthy weight and exercising regularely.
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Me too - I have lost 3kg over 6 weeks doing a similar thing. I am focussing on developing good habits. I am only weighing myself once a fortnight & also taking my waist measurement. It feels so good to nourish my body with more natural foods. I am enjoying this for once. Keep going Ann, we've got this !!!!!! EDIT : Check out "Joey Sorts" channel. He is a wealth of information
In Europe food is also generally less loaded with additives. My brother and a friend both went to the US and told me there were sugar, syrups, and other similar additives in a lot of products that just don't contain them in Europe. Those are all hidden calories we just don't eat.
In terms of finding a good sport/ recreation hobby I remember seeing a great quote online. "If you can't figure out how to be good at something, just learn to enjoy beinging bad it"
In Europe we do ask eachother what we work.
Also what do you mean by calling not eating for 3-4 hours intermitent fasting? That's just normal, do you eat continuously in the US?
Yeah. They DO just eat continuously in the US! I get almost bullied with "concern" if I skip a meal in the US or refuse the meal on a flight.
I don't think that's it.
The first problem is that in Europe, poisoning the food chain isn't allowed by the laws.
i absolutely hate the gymn
I lived in Germany for 7 wonderful years and you absolutely nailed it! 100% I miss my days in Europe.
It's hard not to have cravings in the land of Pastel de Nata.
In Europe, people do not eat as much processed food as in the US. I believe this to make a huge difference.
There is more: The food is more flavorful, therefore, more satisfying. Also, we walk a lot. And - we take proper lunchbreaks and lunch is the most important meal of the day. Growing up, at school we had free lunches, consisting of soup, main course, a piece of fruit and a small dessert. If you have a lunch like this, you are not that hungry later and dinner is light.
There are foods that help prevent cravings. Beans digest slowly, and keep blood sugar stable longer. Liver gives a B vitamin boost, plus multiple minerals, in case you had a slight deficiency.
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I am from the Netherlands and have lost about 25 kilos or 55 pounds when I was overweight. Since then I have maintained a stable healthy weight for about 7 years now. I have done this by visiting a dietician and changing my eating habits for good. I do many things that are shown in the video, but this is by no means a standard here. When I was in the USA, I actually gained a few kilos in two weeks. This is what I have noticed there: bigger portions, free refills of (sugary) drinks, a lot of takeaway food is deep fried, we used the car for literally everything while I usually walk here, a lot more added sugar in products. I remember repeatedly asking to leave the sugar out when ordering coffee.
Here, people do snack after dinner. About 50% of the adults are overweight (the highest number ever), we too have a lot of processed junk, people do diet but not everyone is keen on admitting it because Dutch have a tendency to be reserved about that.
Europe on a whole eats beef that eats grass (not gmo grain), has not outlawed raw cheese and raw milk, has outlawed many harmful chemicals from their food, does not have glyfosate-laden gmo wheat and corn and eats a lower amount if toxic seed oils/ultra refined vegetable oils. They also are less likely to load everything up with sugar. Those changes alone in America would drastically reduce our epidemic of chronic disease and obesity. And probably improve mental health significantly also.
Food in Europe is pure and not as chemically processed or modified as in the US, so their bodies react naturally and don't hold on to fat as much. Also, they eat satisfying portions, not gluttonous ones. I visited a friend in Venice, and lost five pounds!
Our meal sizes also tend to be much smaller, we tend to appreciate home cooking more and when we do go out to eat we may want to eat something a little fancier, however that is quickly changing nowadays. Many people eat a lot of fast food also, but the sizes are smaller.
We walk, bicycle and use public transport probably more. We don't snack as much and eat at set times without rushing. We like to take it easy.
Not a doctor or something similar but I believe that if you just start by ditching soda you'll see immediate improvements.
Actually I think what really is the most important thing is, prioritising human connection over chasing fame and admiration. Human connection requires time. Time you invest into listening to, caring for and sharing with others instead of focusing on yourself and your goals. This makes you feel filled with warmth and love. You don't need to fill that empty space inside you with food, consumerism or extreme activities. You need less stuff, have more time and are more relaxed.
Thanks… finally someone understands!!!
One issue with Americans trying to slow down when eating or drinking out is that a bar or restaurant would be kicked out for taking up space that they could be making more money off of. And people with children never seem to have time for anything but entertaining their kids in the U.S. so socializing goes out the window. Not a lot of people can take a 2hr lunch in the U.S. With all of the sidehustles you tend not to have a moment to breathe let alone lounge
Nobody has a 2 hours lunch. In Spain and Portugal usually is 45 min, and you stay at work because you dont have time to go out
I gained weight while living in Europe. I didn’t eat like a European though. I now eat keto and exercise regularly, sometimes intensely like CrossFit a few times a week. I lost a lot of weight. Therefore, her comment at 6:42 is bullshit.
They do not live to work, as we do. Less stress, less weight.
Europe is not a country, we’ve different genetics and diet influences
Good info.
Coach Viva helped me to return to loving the food I eat instead of connecting food with guilt or punishment. At the topmost level, that is why 30 lbs have been gone for 3 years now. Life is more fun when I don't have to be perfect living it and it helped me develop an "off button" to where I can appreciate that I just enjoyed something and then have an interval of doing something else not related to food, instead of obsessively "eating it all, all at once."
I'll notify my boss that I need an hour and a half for lunch.
So glad you addressed this issue. I’ve noticed the same thing whenever I visit Europe.
I’ve also noticed that Europeans don’t consume processed foods as much as Americans/westerners do.
are you saying that europeans aren't westerners?
The quality of the food in Europe is significantly better...bread is less processed and is a religion in many countries. There are fewer chemicals as well.
No one has a clue how Europeans actually live their lives if they just randomly visit and look at a tiny niche of their world that they happen to see. Tourists do touristy things and see other people that do touristy things. Has nothing to do with the reality of their lives.
I am European and could relate to nothing in this video, and personally know no one whose life resembles the picture painted in this video.
I lived in the US for eight years, and it is astounding the stereotypes Americans have about "Europeans". LOL
@ really? you couldn't identify with the insanity of sales tax added when you buy and not to the price? You think the gap in toilet cubicals that runs vertically is normal? Where in Europe are you from?
Just drink water, plain real water instead of soda, soft drinks and whatnot. Juices are ok too as long as it's with no added sugars.
The Norwegian diet? I know we consume lot's of black coffee, lot's of salmon, lot's of boiled potatoes(some eat it with every dinner at home and doesn't consider it a proper dinner without), quite healthy Taco and whole-grain bread(that actually taste good). -sincerely a Norwegian
American food is garbage, which is why we asked Kennedy to investigate and make changes. I spent a couple of months in Thailand, eating literally everything I could get my hands on - good, clean, fresh food, even the fried tonkatsu - but I also walked everywhere, and spent my days on my feet in a classroom rather than sitting at a desk. I was losing about a pound and a half a week. Then I came back to the States and put it all back on.
As an American who moved to Europe, these are just confusing to watch because I did not lose weight....I don't even have a car anymore and I guess I just eat pretty similar to in US. Meaning mainly from the grocery store, but yes there's beer & fast food in Europe too.
The food in the U.S.A. is so filled of garbage, sugar, chemicals and their helpings are enormous! It tastes terrible, too. The shock when I visited the States and saw how obese everyone was! And the amount of pop people drank like water.
A lot of countries in Europe to do not spray the crops with Monsanto products like Roundup, which is mortal for humans hormones and for the gut!
I'm a little confused, because when you look up the the biometrics of middle aged women in France, you see almost the same biometrics as in America. I wonder how old the stats are that are listed on here? I was very surprised given the difference in eating, pacing, and walking that the difference was not much more, in my own research.
America has a MAJOR food quality problem. European food is much higher quality in general.
Nonsense. It the movement, not the mindset. If you’re coming from car centric suburbia where you need a vehicle to get a cup of coffee… just doing marginally more walking makes a huge difference
The French Woman's lunch - several Marlboros and an espresso is a huge component of their diet.
Like many other in the comment section, i don't recognize at all that european person she talks about. But i think it's because she was stating what she thinks are facts instead of saying "europeans are more likely to ..." or "europeans usually ...".
My 2 cents on the matter on a more structural point of view rather than cultural :
- many people in the comment section write about the quality of the food but i would say the quantity is much more representative of the difference between usa and europe and more impactful, specifically portions in restaurants.
- walking is facilitated in cities, big ones. People in rural areas would probably use more their cars due to a lack of alternatives. But maybe walking as an leisurely activity is more a thing in europe ?
- i'll contradict myself and will point out a cultural/habit difference, i am to understand that for americans, eating can also be a way to pass the time, you eat while driving, walking or whatever. When malls were more popular, people would meet there and go eat in the food court not because it's time to eat but just more like an activity.
Can anyone from the united states confirm this last part if it sounds somewhat correct ?
Your claims about europeans are ridiculous
Show me the facts!
Everything she said it statistically correct. Lots of studies have been done about diets in Europe vs US.
Get yourself informed.
@natachamgreen Lol "They just exist in a slow and steady rhythm" is not a statistic. That's my point. I'm not saying weight stats and gym membership numbers are wrong, just that what's identified as "root" does not compute with the life experience of me and everyone around me while we live here in Europe. It's a fantasy made by and for Americans to sell her program.
Lots of BS and senseless generalisations.
Every food in the US has more sugar, it’s way too sweet.
Soft drinks, ketchup & many other items are made with high fructose corn syrup in the US but made with sugar in Europe
Fructose is 2 x more harmful than sugar.
I've tried the link to your calorie counter under several videos, but it just takes me to a white screen. Is the link broken? I'd love to use the tool!
Glad you found this video helpful! To confirm, this link isn't working for you? calories.coachviva.com/?RUclips&Long&BodyFat&QzW5Sd9GEk
@@CoachViva Yeah, it just leads me to an off-white page. Header and website name loads so I know it's connecting, and I'm guessing the slightly off-white is the website background colour. But no other elements load in!
Thanks for showing this truth. I walked a Camino, Porto to Santiago, with two friends last autumn. We enjoyed plenty of food at meal times. It was better quality than in the US, and we enjoyed it more. A Camino is an experience, not a competition. In 20 days, we ALL lost weight & felt better than ever.
Eat food, not calories. Beware passive drinking alcohol. Cook from basics.
Not all Europeans get 6 weeks holiday a year. Its 4 years in my country.
Food quality is no.1
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What happened to the tattoos in the before and after man at 43 seconds in. Totally different tattoos
Maybe less stress and more social connection and more walking
Thank you!
I am a European and I am thinking that is is an overhyped over stereotyped belief about fatty American and the fit European counter part. One can say that about SE Asians though and anyone else.
"I drink copious amounts of wine and beer.." So you are promoting alcoholism, then? To promote drinking "copious amounts" daily does suggest creating a routine based around legalized substance abuse to treat a different problem altogether. Not healthy at all, especially for the millions of people who are in recovery from alcoholism and/or are genetically predisposed to become alcoholics with regular drinking like this video suggests.
I live in austria and everyone who is semi-slim watch their diet and goes to the gym reguarly or does at least sone home-workout. Do you know how often I saw someone saying that they est a lot and then couldn‘t even finish a tiny plate. Or some people are so stressed out they forget to eat for a whole day.
Swedish here- how many times does Americans boiling potatoes? I have never seen one. Always baked, mashed or fried. And what is the ridiculous thing keeping the potatoes peel/skin on the potatoes as fried and in mashed potatoes- you practicing for survival week or? 😂
Anyway as passing through USA sometimes I believe it's because of very unhealthy food.
Your portions are huge, value for money yes but it's too much.
Some stuff you have approved in food is not allowed in Europe.
And like I noticed- not easy to walk in the US, it's made for vehicles only it seems like.
What you said about fun movement reminded me about the TV show Friends. Phoebe told Rachel she should run like a little kid. That was one of my favorite scenes.
Germans drink fast and reckless, just saying.
BS, lunchbreak is 30min
She obviously didn't go to Birmingham, If America's bad then...
I appreciate your efford to better peoples live, and it's ok to generalize a bit, but you must understand the outlash when we "Europeans" (being thrown in one pot here is the first unforgivale mistake) call out statements that are just plain out bullshit (like nobody is eating on the go - people do it all the time at least in Switzerland)
Edit: ooooh and the relaxed mindset... man you couldn't be further from the truth here. Swiss people voted against more holliday in order to stay productive - and "What do you do fot a living" is DEFINETLY the first thing anybody will ask you about (not on Vacation maybe, but in every other setting) People are stressed out to the max here - it just depends on where you look....
Edit Edit: AAAAh wtf not snacking.....We even have a Name for Morning and Afternoon Snack, it's called "Znüni" and "Zvieri" and every little Child has it! I just... this Video makes me angry!