Jeffrey Jaime presents data from a White House briefing on youth health: 75% of Americans are ineligible for military service due to obesity, kids get roughly 70% of calories from ultra-processed foods, and mental illness rates are climbing. He argues that when people eat matters as much as what they eat, citing research on time-restricted eating and fat loss.
75% of our nation's youth are ineligible for military service to obesity. Mental illness, suicide, anxiety, developmental disorders, and autoimmunity are all rising at breakneck speed. 70% of the average child's daily calories are from ultra processed foods, which are kind of engineered for addiction and stripped of nutrients and have a lot of harmful additives in them. Kids have a huge amount of screen time these days, and so movement has eroded, sleep has eroded, community involvement has eroded. And so we see this surge in depression and loneliness and despair. So when I'm traveling, if I've crossed multiple time zones, I will actually eat breakfast before the workout rather than work out and have breakfast, because that meal helps align my body to a new time zone. This defies the law of physics, what I'm about to tell you. When both groups ate the same amount of calories, the folks who had some type of mindful time restricted eating actually had decreased fat mass, in some case decreased fat free mass, meaning they even lost some muscle, which is something good to know more than diets without meal time and restrictions.
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