This is a YouTube video titled "How To Start Eating Real Food" containing a monologue or talk from October 17, 2020, discussing how to train your mind to eat real, nutritious food by understanding ingredients and avoiding harmful additives like TBHQ. The speaker explains the negative health effects of certain preservatives and encourages awareness of food contents.
And this is kind of how you start the process of really training your mind to eat real food. You start with the question, the first question, what are the ingredients? So you have to know kind of everything that you're eating. And so if you sit down for a meal and you don't know the ingredients, stop eating that meal and find out. And once you read the ingredients and look at them, do you understand them all? Are they real food? Are they, you know, is it an apple, cinnamon, and sea salt, or is it tea TBHQ and, you know, blue number one. TBHQ, by the way, is a very popular synthetic preservative that they use in very popular products. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups comes to mind. Oh, no, I used to love those. Oh, yeah. And, you know, this is actually an ingredient that negatively affects your T-cells in your bodies and promotes allergies. So, like, if you have an allergic just an allergy to anything. It can just increase your immune response to that allergy and you can have a very adverse reaction. And if you eat a lot of foods with this, it's been linked to vision disturbances, stomach cancer, behavioral problems in children, all sorts of things. And this is a preservative that's in a lot of things. But when you read that on a label, TBHQ, you have to ask yourself, what is that? Right? And so that comes That leads you to the second question, which is, are these ingredients nutritious?