Asian Diet vs. Western Diet...What Is the Best For You?

the New York Times just endorsed the Mediterranean diet as the best in the entire world but let's talk about why everybody's arguing and it just kind of is getting political the Mediterranean diet really is that good for you here's why I just had a Greek solid for lunch we got to talk about it Andrew this sparked a bunch of political debates and maybe it even is tied to why nobody can agree on anything in America in 2024 so make sure you like subscribe and turn on your notifications but you know what fits Within very delicious diet drizzle smalla sauce onto your food to make it taste better it will add a little bit of Mala and aromatics to any dish check it out hey from sichu Sicily Andrew Sicily part of the Mediterranean wow is this part of the Mediterranean diet um honestly this was not that good of an article by the New York Times because they were basically saying yeah the Mediterranean diet is so good for you everybody should adopt it and of course Andrew this sparked a lot of feelings from a lot of people a lot of which were not even related to diet right but also I just feel like it depends on what your goals are and that should determine what diet you should eat obviously what is available what are your goals do you want to get buffed do you want to just stay thin do you just want to lose weight I don't know there's like a million different ways to get everything done yeah and there's a million ways to basically just eat lean and clean but I just don't know why the New York Times was like yeah the Mediterranean the best one you know why Andrew it's rich in fruits vegetables legumes whole grains nuts seeds lean proteins and healthy fats they have a protective effect on your cardiovascular health now David people did point out that there was a lot of inconsistencies with this article what is considered Mediterranean are they talking about avocados and salmon two things that are actually not that common in the Mediterranean they don't even exist right so then a lot of people are like wait what's up with this article what is what is even the Mediterranean diet now like you like you know yeah basically people were pointing out that Americans conception of the Mediterranean diet is based off researchers going to Greek and Italian islands in the 1950s studying lower middle class Fisher Villages basically that's what their diet was to a 10 out of 10 level and then basically bring it over bringing it over to America and then replacing out items that obviously didn't exist in the Mediterranean such as salmon and this sounds pretty uh outdated if you're talking about the 1950s guys I'm not going to lie there's been a lot of Health Discovery since then and not only I Andrew almost everybody was thin back then because there really wasn't a lot of processed food in existence right right right um so yeah anyway we're g to get into it why is this such a western debate like Andrew shouldn't it just be like eat less food eat better food walk more eat lean green and clean like why does it need to have like a region of superiority stamped on it and I'm really surprised the New York Times even tried to like pick a region well well it's not even that New York Times try to come up with a good diet it's just that there's nothing new that they said like they really did not they they made this article almost like the the de facto diet here we go guys and everybody's like yeah we already knew this like everybody's been talking about this stuff for like decades what are you talking about it's not even it is true and it's not true um it food gets political because your diet and what you grow up eating is often times tied to your culture David Asians eat a lot of rice over the past decade it is true a lot of people have come out and a lot of true signs has said that maybe you shouldn't eat that much rice a lot of Asians have lived very healthy lives eating rice all the time now but maybe there was other things about their lifestyle that allowed them to be very healthy or maybe rice isn't that bad for you I don't know really a lot of people were pointing out Andrew ok actually live longer and healthier than Mediterraneans but how come the New York Times didn't endorse the okan diet right because what if a New York Times released the okan diet the best diet in the world you know what I mean then people oh Asians we got to listen to the Asians and stuff like that basically gets political because your region of food or your culture of where you come from has certain dishes that are of that culture and now you're being told that those are inferior to your health while I'll be honest obviously there are certain foods we all know are worse for your health if you eat it in high amounts but there are people of every culture who have lived very long healthy lives that is true yeah I guess if they would have called it the 1950s Greek Islander diet would that have been way more logical because that's what they were eating in the 1950s in the Greek Islands eat like a fisherman in the 1950s that's what you're trying to say wow extremely easy for us to do nowadays than I mean honestly I think that the reason why like the comment section like devolves into this crazy like tribalistic War Wars or whatever in 2024 between vegans versus meat eaters Hindus versus Muslims on whether or not to eat beef or pork um what else was in there uh African-Americans were very angry that obviously the New York Times is endorsing another you know white European diet as superior man oh Andrew some women were mad in the comment section that the study in the from the 1950s only focus on men great job New York Times you guys really uh knocked it out of the ballpark with this one yeah I mean David what do people like you've done a lot of re everybody's done a lot of research you guys let us know in the comments down below if you've done research on actually how to lose weight and live a healthy life but what is the easiest simplest thing that people need to just know about dieting uh just SEO cic calories in calories out uh basically you just have a calorie number that is your maintenance you can either go in a surplus or you can go in a deficit you want to lose weight you go in a deficit you want to gain weight you go in a surplus you want to maintain your stay maintenance now where you get those calories from it does matter to arterial Health cardiovascular health uh you know what I mean like sodium blood pressure right right getting getting all your calories throughout the day just from French fries only is not exactly the same as getting your calories from a bunch of fruits veggies and meat right right nutrient-dense foods but but as far as losing weight calories in calories out is going to be the main factor but that doesn't mean you're super healthy right right so basically I guess what this study was talking about was the arterial health is really good in that region due to olive oil increasing blood flow or something like that like basically but it is true basically if you just eat lean clean and green or if you just eat less eat better and walk more you will be fine if you follow those essentially literally just those two things that rhyme those sound pretty simple but I guess America can't do it they just can't do it like we said there's all this tribalism in the comment SE anyway let's get into the comment section it turned into a argument about European socialism versus American capitalism oh guess what they get free health care over there they get mandatory paid vacations because it is true Andrew in Europe they take more vacay time because they take more like trains and they walk more because I guess the cities are more dense right even though they're shorter there's less skyscrapers and then people were just talking about the economies but I guess what I'm saying is like America you can make a lot of money but it is true that interestingly enough America's the richest country there's a lot of process things here too right because a lot of the commercial food industry here they want to make money off the production of food right like it's privatized right right right but I guess I guess they're saying in Europe a lot of things are like Farm to Table because that's like they never like really hyper commercialized Their Food Industries so I guess I don't know and then people are arguing about that of course Andrew people are arguing about the definition of the Mediterranean diet because how can the Mediterranean died in 2024 in America mean avocados and salmon those don't even exist in the Mediterranean like people in the Mediterranean might never have even eaten those things yeah I mean I guess is this is this just an American and like wrong interpretation of like you're not like Americans have bad geography where they're just like yeah those Mediterraneans that's what they eat yeah I think so I think it was almost like had this person been to the Mediterranean to write this article or something I don't know yeah uh what do you think about people arguing over Beast and there's a big argument over the raising of cattle right now from everything from their farts creating methane burning away the Earth's Oz like obviously some people have religious things against beef some people have religious things against pork hormones and I I think it's more of a I think the issue is not really that it's just cows in itself or red meat or like you know red meat is actually not as bad for you if you just don't eat a insane amount of it like I think if you eat eat a insane amount of just apples you're going to gain weight because apples have a lot of calories everybody always says oh don't drink orange juice uh orange juice has nothing good for you because there's no pulpit in there's just a bunch of sugar and I'm just like well you can't eat too much of anything ultimately that's ultimately what it don't eat too much rice don't eat too much pasta don't eat too much oranges don't eat too much chicken only but it is true that certain things like for example lean beef is much more nutrient-dense than orange juice sure yeah I mean yeah it would be filling right so theoretically you eat less because your body cannot even eat also I think a lot of people tend to think like if you're the type of person that eats a lot of meat how are you cooking that me are you frying it are you burning it are you barbecuing it so there's all these carcinogens are you covering it in batter which is carbs right yeah are you like what else are you eating it with yeah if you're just like boiling meat that's probably a pretty healthy way to eat it to be honest but that's not appealing to a lot of people all right this next Andre the comment section getting spicy for New York Times I'm telling you somebody said my soul food diet has gotten my ancestors through slavery and is do doing perfectly fine by me a lot of arguing about health outcomes and then somebody said I hope we can realize that this sort of headline is not without consequence exalting one Region's pattern of eating um as the best doesn't do much to honor various cultures and preferences we should reconsider this whitewashed nutrition reporting I I don't even like taking the politics out of it and the culturalist out of it obviously because as an Asian person as a Chinese person I can easily say oh they're being like how come they're putting the meteran diet over the Japanese or the Chinese diet or the Korean diet you know what I mean where people live healthy over there it's like it's not really about like even the diet yeah the girl could eat soul food but yeah if you eat too much soul food is not going to be good for you but if you maybe she doesn't eat too much and maybe she has a high metabolism so it's fine for her you know what I mean so it's just like it can work so many different ways and I don't understand why like people just want this is the classic like American healthc care where it's like hey this is a good diet you should just eat this but it's like if you eat too much hummus pea and olive oil and you just sit there and you don't move you're going to get fat too right I mean if you go to Italy right now there's probably people slicing IAL pork on everything and they're they're Mediterranean or they're eating pizzas pizzas are incredibly caloric dense like pizza is like super chalor it's just about what else you're doing with your life and how much you're eating somebody said guess what I got bad news for you Mediterranean diet lovers Andrew fish is high in heavy metals and nanoplastics cuz the oceans are polluted or the fish go through high stress in Salmon farms in Norway where they're all crammed up together you know in those like big tanks or whatever those Nets so that's even bad for you because then you're going to get all the stress from the animal dude everything can be bad for you everything is good and everything is bad I don't know um this person person said try all you can you can't beat your genetics enjoy eat what you enjoy I kind of actually disagree with this it's true if you eat a lot of caloric dense foods that have no nutrients that's generally not a good way to live your life like if you eat foods that are really low in nutrients like macronutrients or micronutrients and then that is really caloric dense it's not going to fill you up and it's going to pump you full of calorie caloric Surplus and a lot of actually all right so yes most diseases in America are related to caloric Surplus right like more than like where you got the calories from okay because there's like a linkage between everything it's really easy to eat a lot of bad foods to get into a surplus if you eat lean uh green and clean it's really hard to get to a super bad Surplus unless you're just like packing your stomach right right I I guess David why can't there be in the future isn't there some type of body scan that can scan your body and your genetics and then you just take a quick K quiz and then it basically just just don't they do that can't they just tell you what to eat because everybody's different right even uh micro gut biome and things like that like oh everybody's body has different allergies and things like that like certain foods may give you diarrhea doesn't give me diarrhea so our diet's got to be different yeah some people are uh allergic to nutritious Foods yeah but it seems like isn't it funny that the comment section just turned into like almost like entari like P more than just like no I don't like I mean do you find this some people found this article offensive I find it offensive as much as it's just incomplete and it's simplified yeah it seemed like it was from 19 like it's almost like where did you pull this out of the archives of like the 1980s like oh Mediterranean diet have you heard of it ah ah salad with some nuts on it right yeah I don't even like Greek salads yeah I can't eat the Greek salad Greek salads it's not going to work for me because I don't like how they taste Greek food is great but the Greek salad whack oh man they got I way rather like a rugula um somebody said yep it's because everything in America is not natural this nation wants us to have high blood pressure so they can put us on big Pharma blood pressure pills they wouldn't do that in Europe other people are blaming it on conspiracy theories from Big Pharma in collusion with the refined carb companies Andrew what do you think so basically they're saying they just don't have that industrial complex set up in Europe but they have it in America yeah I guess I mean it's possible I they they do things differently over there I just think man after watching all these health videos I was like man everything your W bottled water is got nanoplastics in it don't drink bottle water don't eat this don't eat that don't eat eggs with hormones only cage free I don't know man of course Andrew then it turned into man you know not everybody of course just healthy eating is basically healthy eating and people just think that promoting Mediterranean is the only way to get westernized people to adopt a relatively healthy diet because obviously Western people and they're not going to eat Asian food even though like they're not going to eat like okan dishes okan actually has a lot of uh Chinese no I I get that the med saying just eat the Mediterranean diet is a easy way if someone has to just be like I don't know what diet to adopt okay Mediterranean they said it you know I guess it's not like wrong right and then people were talking about oh food deserts this type of food isn't accessible to everybody I don't know yes and no I think that the commercialization of food in America could make it more or less difficult but now there's food delivery and stuff like that I don't really buy that in the richest country in the world you can't eat healthy it's like people don't have those patterns of behavior to eat healthy oh dude America is like the best place like well I don't know I mean depending on where you live in America things are more available but still you could pretty much eat what you want you can get hummus anywhere if you want yeah um andw what are your takeaways man how come this discussion turned into like ding ding ding ding and and is that just everything nowadays it's crazy and in the comment section there's not a lot of talking about SEO calories in calories out there wasn't a lot of talking about I mean some people were but most of the discussion was about a bunch of other stuff at the end of the day man it just depends on what you want to do with your life because in America if you want to eat healthy I don't care where you live you can do it if you try may not be it may be you may have to go there you got to order food from this and that but like probably in 95% of America you can pretty much just eat whatever however you want if you try so it's just about about what your goals are right do you want to look like a bodybuilder do you want to be super shredded that's going to be a little bit different than if you just want to walk around and have like good cardiovascular well you to have good cardiovascular you got to do some cardio actually so even if you just eat a bunch of olive oil and feta cheese all the time time but you just sit there gaming you're still going to gain weight right well cuz you're not getting any calories out yeah so yeah the calories might be coming from a good place but it's like still not going to still going to suffer yeah I mean it's just so stupid I don't get this conversation man I'm shocked that in America with the best like universities the most money everybody is still just so caught up in maintaining their lifestyle and justifying their lifestyle and then demon in somebody else's lifestyle that that's but then everybody's fat but do people argue about exercise the same way uh I see some people argue about like lifting weights versus like slow bur and stuff yeah versus cardio versus lifting weights okay you know how that there's a trend right now just set your incline on seven and walk for 20 minutes on speed six sure yeah why not probably not bad for you get your KNE in I mean it might speed up your KN a little bit but at the end of the day man I just think that that's where we're at right now we're almost like overco complicating everything and like articles about this turning article comments about that and that's just where we're at right now let us know what you guys think it is in the comments section below I think it's this man people want to live how they want and not be accountable for their outcomes I think that's fair I think that's what people want so I guess people just don't want to feel ashamed of whatever they're doing even if what they're doing has no like real logical like good consequences anyway guys let us know what you think in the comments section below until next time with the hop out boys we out peace