Science-Backed Weight Loss Tips and Reversing Disease | Chef AJ LIVE! with Dr. John & Mary McDougall
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Thank you for doing these programs. I find I do best on Dr. M.'s programs if I'm inundated with info about them. You are helping to make a difference in lives. Again, thank you.
I disagree with Mary about Mary's Mini getting boring. There are so many ways to make potatoes, get creative! From Mashed potatoes to potato pancakes!
A lot of people are successful on a raw food diet if you get the majority of your calories from fruit. We have the teeth and digestive system of frugivores. We just do. However you have to eat a lot of food and it does take time out of the day so cooking helps add calories for sure.
Oh my goodness. As soon as they joked that he should be president I thought “he would be assassinated right away. No one who tells the truth about health, the pharmacutical industry, the meat industry, etc. can be president and live in our ridiculous country.
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I truly love chef AJ and Dr. McDougall. I felt a little bad when they were laughing at people who believe that omega 3 fatty acid fats are beneficial for brain health. As someone who watched multiple family members suffer and die with Alzheimer’s Disease, this topic interests me. My dad was tested and found to have the risky Apo4 gene. Anyway, there is some research showing low DHA levels associated with dementia. Drs. Dean and Ayesha Sherzai are neurologists and specialists in neurodegenerative disease. Their book clearly recommends 250 mg DHA supplements a day. I think people deserve to know that highly respected doctors- in addition to the Sherzais- read reliable research and they disagree on this point. They are not stupid people who should be laughed at. Also, AJ, isn’t it true that you test your DHA levels and test you consume purslane …. and your levels are over 4? Here in Chicago, I can’t get purslane. Nor can I eat enough greens to get my levels up. There are also doctors like Kristi Funk- a breast care specialist and surgeon- who recommend a Tablespoon of ground flax for the lignan content. This is thought to help prevent breast cancer. Flax is a food with two known benefits. My point is that specialists in their fields have looked at research supporting these things. At least we should say that respected doctors disagree. Even Dr. Esselstyn includes flax. I personally have read all the doctors and will make my own decision. Being super skinny is not my only concern. My family has breast cancer all over the place and Alzheimer’s disease running through the generations. It has heart disease too. I’m trying to do the right thing. Watching this discussion it felt like people who take DHA or flax were stupid and being ridiculed. I saw recently Dr. Klapper stopped recommending DHA. I’m still taking an extremely low dose and following this area of discussion. I have a sprinkle of walnuts in my salad and a tablespoon of flax on my oats. If those are making me slightly heavier- well, I still have a BMI under 20- so it’s minimal. It’s a different issue if a person is an out of control food addict and three walnuts triggers them into an eating binge. That’s a totally different issue than whether a food is optimal to eat. I was an addictive eater when I ate the SAD diet, but after switching to WFPB nearly 9 years ago, I am not addicted. I can have a couple nuts on a salad or a sprinkle of pumpkin seeds on my chili. There are people like Dr. Greger who feel that nutrients are better absorbed with a tiny amount of healthy fats. I understand Dr. McDougall doesn’t agree. And I love Dr. McDougall and I love potatoes and rice too! There are a few substantive disagreements here, but also there are differing emphases. I truly feel better when I include a wide variety of veggies and leafy greens along with starch. I have to watch overdoing starch! I do love it. But the truth is that I feel better when I eat a higher proportion of veggies to the starch. I wish I could eat two pounds of potatoes for lunch! But I do better with a big salad that has some beans in it along with other veggies. It’s all good! Different strokes. We should be kind in understanding that people have real health concerns and are listening to respected experts who may disagree.
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Wonderful 👌 information 👌 🙏 👏 👍
rice is my kryptonite
Both of them can do with a bit more weight. Seniors looks well with fuller faces.
Enormous knowledge. I always listen to him with pleasure and I always learn something new.
I still don’t know what to eat on mary’s mini. This video was all over the place. Each time mary wanted to talk Dr McDougal interrupted her. If she said yes he said no. They said eat the same starch for every meal
But then add popcorn for s snack… confusing.. lease help
Have u seen Dr Elizabeth Lambaer? She's a raw food vegan, in her 60's and thriving!
Where do beets fit? Starchy veggie or non starchy?
I did Mary's mini and then ended up binging for a few days afterwards 😔
I felt great during but wanted to eat everything in sight afterwards 😕 😒
Going to try again
if you pick rice as your preferred starch for ten days: can you have white rice one day, brown rice another day, wild rice another day? is glutinous rice included in the rice family?
Rice noodles are made by rice flour, so is rice flour = refined grain? if noodles are allowed, then bread made by using rice flour will be accepted too?
Love these weight loss videos, I have a mental illness & food addictions! Achieved weight loss goals but my weight always fluctuates by 10 lbs. Boxed cereal is the worst in the winter because I'm drinking hot coffee & munching on dry cereal with it! Dr. Mcdougall is so right about avoiding tofu, nuts, seeds, olives, avocados & nut milks, weight goes right back on me the next day.
I love the basic McDougall program and I met it as a kind of macrobiotic starch based program that in just 10 days healed me of terrible migraines that had disturbed my life since I was 16- untill I finally found this basic way of eating – and it by far was the best that happened to me – and I was just Stinnes that it was not know by the doctors in the system
The basic McDougall program is so tasty, so satisfying, pretty simple to cook – its in a way a magic stick that everybody should know about – and especially the professional health system – 🙏💚🍀
I was 125lbs, at 15, to 25 y o,"I. I looked great, 6' 1", super busty, & buxom. When I got up to 225lbs, still looked great, but I knew, I was deadly sick. Everyone's warnings were "oh, don't diet, you'll get sick!"!!! I'm now 173lbs, & I shrank to 5'10". I have scoliosis, 1 leg a millimeter longer, pre-diabetic, high blood pressure, on statins, no children or family to stop me. I'm a sweet potatoe/winter squash lover, I hate corn & white potatoes. I consume no high fructose corn syrup, g.m.o's, sugar, or soda/pop. I'm so glad for the least weight list, thank you. 1 Mary to another Mary. Great minds think alike. 🥔🧄🧅🍄🌶🫑🌰🥜🥑🥥🫒🍋🥒🥬🥦🍆🥫🍅🍚🥢🧉🍮🍯🍵🫖☕🌻🌿🌾🍃☘🍀🌱🪴🍁🌳🌲🌴
McDougall and Mary talk about "refined" grains when they are just "processed". Refined means the bran and/or germ is removed. But whole grain flour is not "refined", it is "processed".
Love you people, great info
Great lecture! A little note: if you have a mostly kapha body type (slow, with tendency of gaining fat easily, etc) normal potatoes are reccomend for you, instead of sweet ones, according to the ayurveda system. 🙏
yes, traditionally most diets have been starch BASED, but what MacDougall always fails to mention is that meat has always played a role too and did oil. I mean the Bible clearly states that Jesus' first miracle was that of the fishes and the loaves of bread. So, meat was eaten commonly with the starch also, in lentil soups and stews whatever clean meat they could get was often added into it. Meat has been eaten in almost every culture and by the Lord Jesus himself, so I guess Dr. Macdougal is smarter than the Lord Jesus and saying that the Lord fed his disciples food poison. I guess Jesus didn't live a perfect life after all
Starches have 1 calorie per gram, not 4g/meat/cheese/sugar or 9g like fat? No wonder I've been confused. Finally the PROOF that I've needed to make starch the staple of my diet too. I've tried Starch Solution MANY times, but I didn't see the weight loss I needed. And I've only gotten fatter and sicker with every diet I've tried. I've been a fan of Dr. John McDougall since the early 1980's when I bought his first book, the gold one in 1982. I too was living in Hawaii at the time, in Makaha on Oahu, and thought what he said made sense, but I needed weight loss too! Weight loss was so slow, maybe 1lb a month that I became too discouraged and became the pawn of every other diet guru that came down the pike. I've been tried to talk myself into this RAW vegan fad too – I HATE IT. I am so sick of living a life of Hell on deprivation diets. At this point, I think I'd rather just die fat. DAMN IT! What a waste of a life.
When I walk my dogs – I used to listen to music. Now I listen to Chef AJ & the McDougals. I went vegan in January of 2021 and immediately lost 11lbs. Trying to get my other 11 off has been a struggle. Monday I started the Mary’s Mini and I hope to get another jump start to get this last 11 off. My husband & I saw Dr. McDougal speak at the VegFest in Portland about 10 years ago. We followed his plan until different situations took over. I’m happy to say we’re back on it and I pray we stay healthy for many years to come.
Great interview and discussion! I am having a very hard time with the Kempner weight chart because I have never been that weight since I was about 10-12 years old and I have never been overweight in my youth or in my teens or much in my adulthood. So that will never be a standard I hope to achieve. And I do disagree… you can lose too much weight and look just as sick as someone who is highly overweight. Moderation is key. Extremism one way or the other in unappealing to me in the diet world. While I fundamentally disagree on these points, my experience in the McDougall program in general is a sound one that I have benefited from and I am thankful for the scientific work of Dr. McDougall.
Is it possible that following this way of eating will help resolve my wheat/gluten intolerance? I diagnosed myself based on how bloated I get after eating certain wheat bread or pasta. I just feel my whole system is out of balance.