3 Biggest Mistakes People Make in Their Diets - Dr. John McDougall

In this short video interview, Dr McDougall shares his strategies for avoiding the biggest mistakes that people make in their diets. Dr. McDougall is the founder and medical director of the nationally renowned McDougall Program, a ten-day, residential program located at a luxury resort in Santa Rosa, CA -- a place where medical miracles occur through proper diet and lifestyle changes. For more information please visit http://www.thecoolvegetarian.com See Also: 10 Best Health Tips From the Experts - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQfDaMfFGj0 The Secret to Health & Happiness - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tli7Gkr4dzo What is Health & How to Achieve - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJkjDsR83cw Dr. McDougall is the author of several national bestsellers including: The McDougall Plan: 12 Days to Dynamic Health, McDougall's Medicine: A Challenging Second Opinion, The McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss, The New McDougall Cookbook, The McDougall Program for Women, and his latest ground breaking book, The McDougall Program for a Healthy Heart. Music Courtesy of Sheena Grobb (www.sheenagrobb.com)

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1. God made a Clean and Unclean list of the animals.
   I really like the simple approach! :)
2. YES! I finally came to the conclusion of that simplicity is key. I've seen so many diets where there are a tonne load of ingredients when all you need for a dish is like 2-4 things.
3. Simple and direct to the point.
4. eggs are packed full of vitamans and minerals .
5. Why he recommends eating the same foods over and over makes no sense to me
6. where do you get cholesterol from? with no eggs?
7. Well after going HCFL Hole food plant based diet (McDougall style) for 2 weeks and having my metabolism fucket up, feeling cold all the time, lack of energy, sleep patterns fucket (waking up at 3 am every other night) up and complete loss of morning wood and sex drive here i am back on the omnivorous diet. I'm a so called "lessmeatarian".
   And it wasn't the "shock" taken by my body, I went on the HCFL HFPB diet after a period of transition when i gradually replaced animal foods with plant foods.
   And it wasn't the lack of calories to blame ... i was eating 3-4 meals per day: big plates with startches, legumes, vegs etc. Also ate fruits. Also little salt and no noil, no sugar, no coffee, no processed foods.
   After reintroducing meat (a small peace of meat one meal per day) and rarely eggs my metabolism returned to normal, i wasen't cold all the time, my sleep returned and and my morning wood returned.
   Looking back on it i think one of the cause for my simptoms was too little salt. We need salt. When the season is right (so that i have local fresh fruits and vegs) I will give the diet another try but this time i will not cut back on the salt.
   But the basic conclusion that a i've reached is that the "as long as you get your calories plants give you everything you need" story is not quite true for everyone. Different strokes for differet folks.
   And by the way: it wasn't an excuse to get back into meat. I dint even think about animal foods, i wasn't having any cravings and i was enjoing the food (i'm quite a potato lover)
   So yeah, as i sead, i eat meat but less of it, i eat eggs but once per week, i heven't reintroducet dairy yet (don't know if i will).
   And i feel good.
   I learned something very important ... better listen to my body than to the internet.
   What do you think? Can anyone relate?
8. coconut oil??
9. I found if I hit too low fat my stomach rumbles for food even if I am physically full. Potatoes for me are great because they are so filling in terms of bulk but they are so low in fat that my body protests. I solved this issue by adding in 4 almonds just before or after my meal. Flaxseeds in my oats. Olive oil has been exiled from my diet. With the almonds make sure they are not salted or roasted otherwise you will want to eat the whole bag. Natural almonds are easy to just have 2 or 3. Nuts are very calory dense so keep the quatities small and enjoy them everyday.
10. I find that adding a little oil to potatoes, or a little blanched almond butter, in addition to a little salt, makes the potatoes much more palatable. I generally use cold pressed unrefined sesame oil, but sometimes I'll use hazelnut oil. Just 1/2 a teaspoon per medium sized potato. Plus 1/4 tsp blanched almond butter.
11. And over and over and over and over and over and over and And over and over and over and over and over and over and...
12. Cardio needs to be part of your everyday life style to live a healthy life. One easy way to introduce cardio is to ride a bicycle. Riding a bike is fun and good exercise plus you save money on transportation. Walking, bicycles, mass transit and electric vehicles will all be part of making cities livable. Ride to school. ride to work ride for fun.
    Bike to work day should be everyday. Employers need to provide places to park and lock bicycles and encourage employees to ride a bicycle to work. Children should be riding a bike to school instead of being dropped off by their parents. Cities need to do more to provide safe walking and biking trails and paths that connect homes, schools and businesses. Speak up and ask for more bicycle paths in your community. Obesity is a growing problem around the world leading to an increase in heart disease, cancer and high blood pressure. Walking and biking can help improve health. Buy a child a bicycle, your son, daughter, niece, nephew, grandchild or donate one to a local charity as a fund raiser giveaway. You will change a life.
13. LOVE HIS TIE!! :)
14. wondered what Tim Roth was doing these days...
15. is so confusing because here in the philippines our tsaple foods are rice corn most rootcrops...my grandmother eat evrything fish veeg, animal product, and died at 93..maybe if she had not smoke she can still extend her life..for my own opinion the key to healthy life is balance diet, keep yore body moving, stay away from doktor, eat organic fruits veg and animal product..for me vegan is not a perfect diet at all, bu if u have disease in youre body u eat mostly veg and nimilam animal product..
16. Being fat doesn't equate unhealthy... it's what the Doctor says at the end of the exam that counts. He had me until he reiterated all those old fat scare tactics and shaming methods, I heard growing up as a young girl that in part causes eating disorders in America today, including me for many years. Dr. McDougall should stop shaming fat people and instead just talk about health... not the way someone looks......but health.
    
    Just so everybody knows... it was Dr. McDougall's books and teachings, taught in a class I took, that caused me to try being vegan 4 years ago... and today I'm a healthy OVERWEIGHT vegan lady and I will never go back to the way I was... I respect him greatly but I disapprove of this fat shaming and it clouds my want to promote his work... which is sad to me.
17. doctors should issue the list of things we can eat. if we can't eat sunflower oil , olive , and others then please tell which oil can we use for cooking. so many different views of doctors. some say eat this and others violate it. we are left confused . what to eat ?
18. I love this! ♥♥♥♥ Thank you !!!!
19. Four or five foods only? I don't think so.
20. I've been following Dr. McDougall for years, but he dramatizes things a bit too much. The fact is that many of the healthiest people that has ever walked the face of this earth eat animal products. They may not have eaten a ton of them, but they ate them. Take the Native Hawaiians - before Western contact, they were some of the healthiest and most sturdily built people on earth. Their diet was mostly starch and other plants, but they DEFINITELY ate fish and other seafood such as limpets and crabs. They also ate small amounts of chicken. The royalty ate pig and dog. Many Native American tribes ate eggs, fish, and animals. The Okinawans ate mostly plant foods, but the surely ate fish and small amounts of chicken, pork, etc. The Filipinos also ate a mostly starch/plant based diet, but they also ate fish and chicken. No ancient people were 100% vegetarian. None at all. The key is to eat a starch-based diet that is mostly plant-based. But very small amounts of animal products will enhance the diet, add valuable protein, B-12, iron, zinc, etc.