You're not really contradicting OP, just outlining simple and obvious ways to reduce calories. The end effect is the same. The best part of the salad is not that it's vegetable, not that it's more natural, but that it's low in calories.
> 2 strips of bacon vs a 500gr monster salad..? I know my pick.
I don't know, what else do you have in that salad? Sauce? What kind? Croutons?
Nope. It about nutrients/calorie, which is high in a salad. Try playing with the cronometer.com app and you'll see what I mean. It's not so easy to get all the bars in green.
> I don't know, what else do you have in that salad? Sauce? What kind? Croutons?
WFPB salad, no oil, no processed junk.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wfpb+salad+dres...
The salad underneath the dressing is usually WFPB as it is, so needs little adjustment.
I also like just salad, with a little salt, pepper and balsamico. But tastes differ. IMHO oil is still not a health food, no not even olive oil. There is science to back it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbtwwZP4Yfs
My personal conclusion: i eat very little (<1tblsp/d) and very high quality coco or olive oil.
"10 people", "18 men" etc. Most are blood tests some hours after a meal.
Nothing about long term effect on health. Just full papers published from what should be one data point and a lot of speculation from the youtuber.
You avoid processed foods, but you add balsamico to your salad?
Balsamico is made by concentrating down grape juice through boiling, and then fermenting the resulting must for years. Isn't that processing, and far away from "whole food"?
And the oil thing is simply scaremongering. Of course oil is calorie dense, but as long as you keep that in mind, it's fine. The papers cited by the guy in the video you linked don't really back up your claims.
(Besides, something doesn't become true, just because there's a paper or two on it)
Do you mean that literally? Because almost every single fruit and veggie you bite into today was improved by humans, for nutritional value, taste and ease of growing.
The exceptions are basically some berries, mostly. And they're sour as hell without processing.
Worst case you will feel hungry if you eat the wrong calories, but you will definitely lose weight.
Food has many parameters and so does health. Reducing it to calories is... Hmmm. Over simplifying?
Which makes it dead simple. Not easy, simple.
If you want obese people to lose weight you want instructions making it not complex.
"Should I learn a new way to eat food, new recipes or start cooking for real? No thanks."
"Oh! I can just eat less and switch to 0 sugar soda; no need to make my life harder? Let's try this"
Once they have learned to eat less you can add the trick which is you can stuff your belly with 2lbs of veggies and get less than 1k calories. But for people used to the 5mn in the microwave way of cooking it's an added hurdle.
Also I doubt that people trying to diet would just eat a few candys for lunch and try to live with that.
And surprisingly the full-feeling does actually correlate with the amount of calories you eat. If you eat 2 strips of bacon (which doesn't seem much) and let it sit for some time (without eating more) hunger passes. Maybe not as much as with better food, but it still does to some degree.
When moving towards a WFPB myself I had to get used to eating much larger portions. Its bizarre to know how many olives one needs to eat to get the same amount of fats as in one tbsp of olive oil. Also, combined with the fiber in the olives, that same fat is suddenly not that harmful.
Counting calories sucks. I hope we can fix our notion of food in a way that we do not have to teach all children to count calories. Just teach them to differentiate between real food (as it was growing on this planet before we evolved into humans) an what comes from a factory. The go to the beach and show them how your food choices affect you.
> Bad food in small portions is better than huge amounts of healthy calories.
2 strips of bacon vs a 500gr monster salad..? I know my pick.