The Whole Foods Diet | John Mackey | Talks at Google

today we're excited to have John Mackey, Founder and CEO of Whole Foods, for the second time in conversations on the Google stage, last time John Murphy was talking about his book Conscious Capitalism, which is about how this can be profitable but also serve a greater purpose I think it's something we can all relate to here at Google today, however, John is here to talk about his latest book, the Whole Foods Diet, which is about how a lifestyle based on Plants can help us live longer and live well, so we have a big round of applause for John Mackey.

I'm super excited about the spread. I'm very proud of it. This sums up my 39 years of healthy living experiments and what I have learned. I wrote it with bees. I saw his movie. Forks on knives, anyone sees those cells and the two doctors who were the two young doctors in the movie Alona Pulde nmap Letterman work for all

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and that's why they are my co-authors of the book because I'm a ghost or not a doctor. I'm very good when someone asked me those difficult medical questions to say I'm not a doctor, but this is what Matt and Alona said, so I dedicated this presentation about to do.

I'm working with a very young audience. everything is still bulletproof, but the statistics that I am going to present are a bit depressing. Also, I'm looking at a very young audience, but they also seem very healthy and health conscious, so some of this will improve the numbers with those even if it doesn't apply to you or your friends, then we are an incredibly unhealthy nation, most people don't realize how unhealthy the United States is, but by most global health indicators we don't score very high and you can see here that what pollutes is the cause of death in the United States, the heart disease is still the leading cause of death, cancer is almost caught, but if you have a stroke in the cardiovascular category along with heart disease, heart disease is still far ahead, interesting enough, metal clubs, healthcare itself is the third leader. cause of death in our country and then the D diseases that worried us about a hundred years ago, the turn of the century in the 19th century with infectious diseases and those that have been eliminated, I mean, they are not the same type of killers as Where came back or years ago?

People were dying from tuberculosis and they were dying from taking antibiotics, so children get infected, get blood poisoning and die, so our problem now is that the things that are saying that lifestyle disease. Dietary diseases, lifestyle mainly and clear medical reasons are the third cause of death, it is not something that doctors want to tell people, but adverse medications affect more people. There are many more people who die from prescription drugs in the United States than from illegal drugs. year and mainly because of the interactions of these different medications that people take combined with the type of infections that they get when they go to hospitals, so those two together that are the lines are impulses, stupid mistakes that hospitals make and that They are the third leading cause of death. for health care through the grim statistics now up to 71% of all adults in this country are overweight, 71% and 30% of adults are now obese, the thing is that the trend lines are not yet have stabilized, continue to increase steadily and It is not estimated that obesity costs our nation about 190 billion dollars a year, so it has gone from 15% obesity in the US in 1971, it is now approximately a third and eight percent statistically before, so it's more than doubled in the last 40 years and it's not just a problem in the United States, it's a problem around the world again, this doesn't work like it used to.

We turned it around here and we can see the green, the blue represents the level of obesity of those countries in 1980 and we consider what happened, we are in 2008 and we have mainly started to export our

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ary patterns of eating that we do in the United States in around the world and the result is a crisis and obesity and yes that is the fattest country we will see, the United Kingdom, Mexico and South Africa are very close and the trend lines show that Mexico will probably pass the United States at some point of the next decade. more or less for the fattest country in the world a dubious honor this is probably the most disturbing thing is what has happened to children 17% of children today between the ages of 2 and 19 are already obese, not only They are overweight, obese and 70 percent of children or 12 year olds already show signs of heart disease by age 12 and 19 percent show chronic diseases related to

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, how did it happen?

I know this happens, we move certain people, we have more calories and this is the truth. We don't talk, we have 25% more calories per capita than 40 years ago, so we are eating more high-calorie

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and that is why we are fatter. It's not like a science, we were just eating, although we are eating all kinds of foods. a lot more calories, so if you look at the different food groups that we've increased, sugar is generally considered a state code and I'm not going to defend sugar, sugars are not a healthy food, but they usually resisted and then Brooks DUPLO Todd's and all the low level people made sugar the villain nutrient and sugar went up per capita in the last 40 years, up about 10 percent like the world was 40 years ago, in terms of sugar per capita. has increased a lot, by far, the largest increases are in terms of three main categories: the first, oils, vegetable oils, if we are now producing around 67% more oil, you know, 40 years ago, in per capita, and that's what I blame Mediterranean Diet for that because people became convinced that our royalty was a healthy food and is relatively rich through the Mediterranean diet in the Mediterranean countries what they were doing and the research found that yes , the Mediterranean people which includes and in this Sardinia and some of the Mediterranean countries that have these excellent health results study their diet and find that they eat a lot more fruits and vegetables they eat less meat they eat more beans they move a lot and they have their own gardens They are reading a lot more

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grains and there is a little more fish that didn't need as much week and they used olive oil instead of butter and they drank red, that always took Americans away from the Mediterranean diet exactly olive oil and red wine and possibly People are healthy not because of those two foods, but even though they mean fresh fruits and vegetables,

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grains, beans, and fewer animal foods, not to mention that, you know, people in Crete walked like nine miles every day. the days.

And with you we draw the wrong conclusions, so while I was a big cause of weight gain, also refined flours, the amount of donuts, bagels, croissants and simply the type of white bread that has been consumed is increasing considerably in recent times . 40 years and the end is very fast, particularly cheese, in 1915 per capita consumption of cheese was 3 pounds per person per year in the US. today, 100 years later, it is thirty-four and a half pounds of cheese , so that's a thousand percent more than a thousand percent increased 10 times and I don't need cheese at all, so someone is probably eating about 69 pounds of cheese, that's the difference and you probably know who you are, so Here's the thing, let's put it in a big global context.

I put it in an evolutionary context. Being fat was not a problem that humans had for most of evolutionary history, quite the opposite, we were simply trying to have enough calories to sustain ourselves. being alive was about survival we were gatherers and hunters there weren't many high calorie foods available people looked for fruits and vegetables maybe they could hear starch two days this is before we had agriculture that through hybridization and selective breeding we could increasing the sweetness of foods increases the carbohydrates that could be found in a root vegetable like sweet potato, squash or potato, so we simply eat massive amounts of very high fiber foods just to get enough calories and when they could .

If you take down a wild animal, then they have a rich source of protein and concentrated calories, although nothing like the kind of meat people eat today, where you have corn-fed beef and we basically fatten up our livestock animals. So what does this translate to? in that we are evolutionarily programmed Kuba's evolutionary position to crave high-calorie foods we like things that have a lot of calories we like sugar we lack that like white rice we like ice cream particularly many things that combine sugar and fat like a good young chocolate bar or we like oil wells, the highest caloric density below a tablespoon of oil has 120 calories, so the battery depends more, we can get high-calorie foods, not on a holiday, no in a way that we can eat twice a day. day or more and so we did and as the world fighter becomes more absolute, that same desire for caloric density remains in play and that is why real hares get fat because we eat more animal foods, we can eat more ice cream to eat more oil. with meat more sugar and we are basically killing ourselves with our craving for high calorie foods and that translates into something that most people are not really aware of these food addictions.

Food addictions are a really serious problem and most people don't. Not that most people are addicted, but they don't know it until we try to quit and then when you try to change your diet you find that it's quite difficult. ; You can change it for a while, but then you tend to go back to the addiction. the old pattern because it is deeply rooted, type 2 diabetes is almost towards a pandemic because now about 12 percent of people are identified as diabetic, but we have 35 percent of the population that is 80 years old, 36 million people are already prediabetics. and on the way to being diabetic, so we're talking about God, I mean, almost half of the adult population is diabetic or prediabetic and the complications of diabetes in the future or absolutely.

I look at what happens to people, I mean, they can go blind, they have to have their feet amputated, they lose their hearing, they can get osteoporosis, they get Alzheimer's, the horrible disease that it is, and subtotal type 2 diabetes is totally a lifestyle disease. I'm going to talk about how you can reverse that disease fairly. quickly my diet changes heart disease nine and a half people a year die from a heart attack or stroke and over 2,200 in value today, which is about the number of people we lost on 9/11 and that's also a dietary disease heart disease like a disease no one should have unless they have some kind of genetics now Doucette is something we do to ourselves with what we eat the cancer squares are out of everyone and there is no one in this room who has not had cancer. or there was someone I knew and stole a good cancer and more people involved in cancer in the last 27 months.

Everyone we've ever lost in a war since the founding of the Republic and well, I identify with cancers mainly. dietary and lifestyle diseases here you can see if you look at the main risk factors for cancer, there are too overwhelming risk factors that you eat and whether you smoke or not, whether pollution, alcohol, radiation and medications through Of our risk factors, there are contributors, but they are relatively small, between 65 and 90 percent of all cancers can be traced back to these main causes of the second part, tobacco use and diet, so this graph The pie chart represents what Americans currently eat and the processed foods in this pie chart equal 54 percent of all the calories we consume. 54 percent of what Americans eat is junk food, highly processed foods, sugar, oil, refined grains, 32 percent of our calories and animal foods, so now 86 percent are vegetables, fruits , nuts, beans and whole grains, and 14 percent of our diets come from those foods.

We argue at Dogyun in our book that at least 90 percent of your calories should come from whole plant foods and the solution is the gopher diet where you will consume animal foods. We are not advocating one hundred percent vegan diets, but where before. I lose 90% plant-based and 90% more, but we are defending a 100% rural food diet. If you really wanttransform your health, you have to stop eating all that garbage. Sorry, but those are the facts and if you do these two things together to save us two years on the diet, we only have food, we eat over 90 percent plant foods, that's the two years on the diet, it's simple to understand but difficult to make, so what are the chances that the foods are all refined vegetables and flowers all concentrated sugars of all kinds all artificial flavors sweeteners colors and preservatives all food oils and concentrated fats such as butter and lard and almost all the processed foods that you find in the center of a supermarket are clearly some of our recognizable foods cokes and cakes and donuts and chocolate chip cookies and oil and white flour and white bread white pasta we are addicted to sugar we are absolutely The typical American consumes 23 teaspoons of added sugar every day, that's a three-pound bag of sugar every 12 days a 12-ounce soda equals 10 teaspoons of sugar here you can see the current annual consumption, the good news is that reached its peak.

This didn't work well on the sly either, but it peaked around 2005 around 2005, that's when everyone our software had a peak and consumption decreased a little bit slowly, but not because people liked to drink more. water, it's been replaced by things like the red bowl and monster and energy drinks and sort of New Age drinks that also contain a lot of sugar. Also here's a good joke about boomers for Millennials when I was a kid. I had coke and then these little six ounce bottles, you could say Museum somewhere and my parents knew what they were, they were just sugar bottles, so they didn't let us have those things, it's like for a child it was like oh my God, that's good, please mom, can I have a Coke?

So there would be these little six ounce bottles and my parents would rescue them if I was, you know, a good kid, a lot of cokes, but today I mean people walk around saying they walk. these, you know, 2 liter bottles of Diet Coke or regular Coke and that's what I've met people saying that the registered ones don't agree with the cooking times. No water, I only drink it at home, it tastes much better. I already told you about that for I mean, in my case we talk about diets low in carbohydrates and high in animal foods and when they coincide it is against, so when the man does not realize it is that starchy foods have been the main source of calories for humanity since we began. since the Paleolithic we are beginners, we have evolved to digest starch as we have enzymes in our mouths that are different from all other primates because we can break down starches more effectively than any other species and you can see that the wives of the rye and barley and oats wheat and millet and sorghum and sweet potatoes legumes potatoes and common corn these I challenge you to name none of the civilization in the history of this planet that did not have the predominant amount of calories in starches there There are none , you might find some strange tribe like the Messiah who, hey, is in Greenland, the best kind of civilization.

These are people who find themselves in an extreme position of marginal life and they make do with what they find, but no. They have a long life and they don't, it's a false argument, but I hear it all the time that starch is the main source of calories, we rebel, you can digest them in abundance, which forces me to increase consumption by 70% since 1940 and the interesting thing is that he was kind. In May we had the depression which went down and then started to rise at the beginning of World War II and kept going up until about the year 2000 and now you can see that it has actually gone down almost. twenty-five to twenty percent from its peak and that's despite the oil and low-carb movement, but still, by any measure, we're reading that 32 percent of our calories come from foods of natural origin. animal and the per capita consumption of them is a pretty phenomenal increase. this all over the world and it's exploding which is very interesting this is based on tonnage so actually pork anyone has an idea why pork is the number one animal food consumed in the world, then wow, Chinese bacon, I can soften even the related, they can add bacon, no, China, China. so much pork for poultry, of course, that was quickly addressed, the orange line and it's just shooting that and will no doubt pass that pork at some point in the next 10 or 15 years.

The lionfish is very now like the number three minutes on the lips, love is off. but if you add farm fish and therefore wild fish you get it on top, if you add all fish together plantation wealth fish but the plunk fish you can see comes from nowhere and grows quickly with more fish because seafood is not sustainable. In the oceans, we are fishing in the oceans and probably one of the tragedies that people are not very aware of is how we are, we are emptying the oceans because we are very good at fishing now that we have such incredible technology that we fish there we have such an opportunity that you hunt them we carry them Hogan I try to get out, you can service consider an increase per capita in the last hundred years so we look at the studies I'm going to do a bold analysis I claim that I'm going to say that all the major studies show an increase and all the causes of illness and death due to 100 local diets.

No study of any high-carbohydrate diet showed similar effects, so here's a study that states state 17 is sort of a meta-analysis of several. different studies observational studies on 700,000 people and low carbohydrate diets were associated with a 31 percent increase in deaths from all causes here is a famous one that the Harvard School of Public Health published in 2012 85 of 120,000 people between 22 and 28 years and there was a 13% increase in deaths for every two to three hours, children consume unprocessed red meat, so two to three ounces is not a lot, so if you eat like you want to eat a good steak every days, the 13% increase will be magnified.

At more than 50% includes whispered dining and the processing of red meats now, so the World Health Organization has classified processed red meats as class 1 carcinogens along with asbestos and tobacco and of course this has been heavily attacked by the meat industry, but I don't have any power over the World Health Organization, so it's quite interesting, especially if you consume animal-based foods. I recommend that you stay away from processed ones. By the way, bacon is one of those processed ones. Currently there are more than a thousand colon cancers. Studies confirm that red meat and processed red meat increase the risk of colon cancer and planning those diets that consist of whole grains, fruits, vegetables and beans decreases the risk of colon cancer, as well as possible research from World Cancer Research and the American Institute recommend eating primarily one plant.

This study shows that when people eat high amounts of animal protein, you can see that the risk of cancer mortality increases proportionally to the amount of animal foods they eat, so it's not too much of a risk, but as Eat more. the risk of things increasing here is one of our breast cancers, so women, now older, start to worry more about breast cancer, men without prostate cancer, this is quite interesting because in this research 87 countries participated. agency for cancer research and tracking the consumption of animal products and was very closely correlated with 12 types of cancer with a laboratory between 15 and 25 years so that cancers know that something appears immediately, it takes a while to grow in In fact, we can even detect cancer in the body until it has been growing for about 10 years, so when there is someone cancer-free, that is just bad when they are not cancer-free, it just means that the body became instruments that cannot detect it.

It doesn't mean it's not there, it just means we can't see it if we can see the breast cancer rag trade, but the more animal foods consumed, the higher the incidence of breast cancer with a lag period of approximately 20 years. The Blue Zones three of you are in a book. I think it is chapter four of the book and the Blue Zones is the work of a guy named Dan Buettner who was very interested in knowing where the oldest people on the planet are and, in particular, those who have the document with both certificates and a reality that we could actually measure, so we did the research and found five places on the planet that had extraordinarily long lifespans and those places of flight are Okinawa, Japan, Italy, Lucario, Greece, Nicoya, Costa Rica and, of all places, Loma Linda, California.

Seventh-day Adventist a lemon concentrated in Linda California, which I'll get to in a minute, so what's very interesting is that if you live with what those people eat, everyone, without exception, will be on a variation of the food diet integral, except for a small subset. of the Seventh-day Adventists and Loma Linda, none of them are vegan, but they all eat raw foods, real hair foods, about 90 percent are plant-based, no exceptions because Okinawans have particularly local knowledge interesting about the diet of the elderly, so seventy percent of their calories come from sweets. potatoes, twelve percent of the rice and seven percent of the grains they ate and then six percent of the soybeans, so they ate about eighty-five percent of their calories came from complex carbohydrates or starches, which is surprising to almost eighty-five percent and we can see that no.

To see the narrator, that's important for pork, tomatoes, one percent for during and one percent for fish, so they were a 96% vegan diet and almost no processed foods​ ​and very, very good with two percent of the calories from the oil on the seventh day. Adventists again, the abacus of the assembly, are a religious group that is very focused on health. His partner believes that his interpretation of the Bible is that God wants us to eat mostly plants, those diets, and he wants us to be very healthy, so we're very interesting about that. These people don't smoke, they don't drink, they have a lot of parts that keep them safe, they have religion after community so they are perfect to study about diet because that's where they vary so they had what you can see on the body . mass index vegans have the lowest body mass index followed by vegetarians and omnivores are much higher omnivores at twenty-nine point nine percent 30 percent of 30 30 point-0 takes you to obesity levels around twenty-four is overweight so one of the vegans really do it in an ideal way, but the vegan Adventists who ate nuts and seeds updating that smoke are the longest living cohort we have ever discovered in modern times and men, on average, 13 years older than men.

The average Caucasian American and women 10 years older and look at those ribs 60% lower risk of cancer seven sectors and advocates two-part disease and even women 98% lower rates of heart disease in Adventist communities that were these statistics of phenomena and I think one of my friends is Dr. Cordova said that if everyone ate like Adventists, everyone would have the same health outcomes, so Dean Ornish Dean Ornish demonstrated the cure for heart disease because he did a study and It consisted of using a very low fat, very high vegetarian diet that starts at 70. 75 percent starches and the results were extraordinary, it was reverse heart disease, so here's a guy who reversed progress that cured heart disease and a no one cares the hair heart industry was about opening people's chests and going in and doing angioplasty or putting in stents. through some kind of heroic technological intervention when they never needed to undergo that kind of surgery, diets that completely reverse their heart disease and yet no one cares, no one seems to know, and it was followed by Caldwell's amazing assistant who made his own.

The work that the people had is a much smaller cohort than the orders that they worked with, but there is a very clear diet that of the 100% plant-based oils I'm not sure that there were no products assigned and it was a starch, those bad, very low in fat and the statistics were phenomenal these are people who already had advanced cardiovascular diseases so 89% of their patients actually follow the diet 11 people who didn't those included unimportant 6% one person explains the coronary event and the three years that followed here iswhere most people would have already had heart attacks and 11 percent of patients had no event, 62 percent of them had some type of coronary event and those three years of phenomenal success nutrient density nutrient density we , our society was obsessed with macronutrients, how much protein should people? eat how many carbs should people eat how fast which is good carbs are bad protein the good fat we used to think is bad melted life is good and that's what most of these diet debates revolve around and These are kind of stupid debates because of the diet.

Whole food plans are mostly going to get the right combination of macronutrients, which is usually left out of the discussion or the micronutrients and these are obviously the most important nutrients from the point of view. view of longevity and health, and those are vitamins and minerals and phytonutrients. Phytochemicals or Phytonutrients It is estimated that there are over 10,000 phytonutrients that we have discovered have healthy effects on our bodies and the foods that are the most nutrient-dense. I hope this one has come to light. Those who started, nutrient density per calorie. Don't know. I know if you can read that it probably connects, but deep down the reason is density.

You can use oil and refined sugars followed by refined grains and then cheese and then for the red meat girl and the Arabs eliminate all the different parts of fish that has the highest micronutrient density per calorie and then the most nutrient-dense food that you can eat, it's not surprising that our vegetables, the filling tip, particularly the leafy greens, are like superfoods, like the water kind of kale and collards, mustard greens, these types of foods, spinach, these. They are like simple nutritionally dense foods or patellar base and all the vegetables in the foods, beans, whole grains, nuts and seeds, so what fuhrman argues joel fuhrman after dr.

Joel Fuhrman maintains that the key to his health system is maximizing micronutrient density per calorie consumed. Health equals macronutrients divided by calories, so who argues that we should eat a diet intensely rich in micronutrients, which means lots of fruits and vegetables? a little bit about low carb diets, that is: the shady low carb diets, the zombies or the food because you can never die to kill them and then another generation comes along and adopts it, so all of these have been bestsellers, the Atkins program, the South Beach diet, which is the best-selling diet book of all time, the Mark Hyman zone is now popularizing this, the Paleo and the primal diets.

You can lose weight on these diets if you are also conscious of your portion control and there is a great deal of sodium on the low carb diet, you stop eating highly processed grains, you stop eating sugar and, by the way, you just eliminate sugar and highly processed grains. I guarantee you will feel better. The problem is that we have not evolved that way. They evolved as plant eaters if we look at our nearest normal degree, so it's not realistic time shift to go even further back evolutionarily to our closest primate cousins, the gorillas, who were 100% plant-based, they were sure that approximately 98% of the gene and chimpanzees and bonobos were close to 99%, gorillas had a high percentage of plant origin and that members and chimpanzees, approximately 95% were plant. -based and they're eating huge amounts of nutrient dense foliage, lots of greens, that's what they eat, tons of greens, tons of food, tons of fish and tons of greens, so if you're going to be a planner, you're a simple diner. necessarily will be a high carbohydrate consumer because carbohydrates are called that in plants, not in animal foods, so when we talk about a low carbohydrate diet, let's translate that a low carbohydrate diet means a diet low in plants and a diet high in animals.

Diet food and eating large amounts of my food correlates very closely, which has been shown in study after study after study after study, which agrees very closely with heart disease, stroke and cancer, and all the standards Local foods will be inherently very high in calories and very low. in nutrient density, so it's good to minimize all simple sugars, but then rule out healthy carbohydrates, healthy starches, and starchy foods like yams, whole grains, winter squashes, they're super healthy foods for us, all these historical civilizations, as I have always argued. They based their diet mostly on starchy foods nowadays, oh but it's the hottest trend at Whole Foods Market.

I'll tell you this right now, today, are you getting ready to separate triplet sales? You just know that everyone wants to avoid carbs, eat, eat protein, stick to the Paleo diet. diet and there are some good things similar to what we talked about with the low carb diet, which is clearly a type of low carb diet, without processed carbs, sugar and white flour, also, if you are really a supporter of the paleo diet, you will not go. eat dairy because Rolla G thinks that well, when we were in the Paleolithic, no one drank the milk of another animal that came later with agriculture and ate a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables, a good typical Paleo diet was going to have a full plate. of vegetables and lean grass-fed beef or some lamb or pasture-raised chicken or something like that, however, the bad thing is that they eliminated all the healthy carbs, they eliminated the beans, they eliminated the whole grains many times.

They put out the statute for starchy foods, vegetables like sweet potatoes, and that results in too many animal foods and proteins, and the ugly part of this is, as I said and showed you some studies, they look at the long-term risk of heart disease. and Cancer is very high with a lag period of 20 to 30 years before symptoms actually manifest. We're talking about plant foods, so our technique doesn't really believe that the government, the medical establishment, universities, or the food industry are going to do it. work to solve this problem vested food interests consumer packaged companies that sell all packaged junk food are very high they make huge amounts of money the dairy industry the meat industry the egg industry these guys fund their own kind of garbage studies that confuse everyone by publishing data so people think they read conflicting information and it's like, oh my god, you know, it's all so confusing.

I don't understand it, in fact, I serve it. I read recently and it showed that for the average American they would rather do their own taxes and then figure out how to try to eat healthier because taxes are simpler to calculate, so we decide how our food, part of our mission has to be to help people to make people more aware about healthy eating, that's the reason. I wrote the book and I'll talk more about that in a second, so we're really going to focus as a company and raising the awareness of our Whole Foods team members.

In fact, we have about 90,000 people working for us and this is a big part of what Whole Foods is about right now, so one thing we do if you work for time so you automatically get 20% off and the other thing that we sell, however, we have four different levels that you can reach so that you leave happy. you're like that, you get twenty to twenty five twenty seven up to 30% platinum and we can make it simple and not too expensive, we only have four criteria that we measure, if you use your cigarette, you can do it with an additional discount and then your blood pressure. total cholesterol or LDL which is better than both and then your body mass index or for a bodybuilder you can also use the shapes to height ratio and you will see how people rate and then that term is what is your discount so We have 11,000 team members. but almost 4,000 participated 16 about 8,000 qualified for a higher level discount card and that search I have done is a win-win strategy because not only are our team members happier as a result of this incentive, but They also say it a lot.

I'm self-insured and Google is probably self-insured too, so I'm sitting with a company that pays nothing for my healthcare. I never get sick, so everyone on our team is as healthy as I am. We spent more than 200 million. dollars a year in healthcare for our team members, you could say that if everyone ate really well, we'd be down like 90 percent, so it's in the company's best interest for our team members to be as healthy as possible now Obviously, it's in their best interest to be as healthy as possible, so what we do is I've heard criticism of our discount program because it says, well, you're favoring the healthy people in your clinic, punishing the people who need it.

More of that Marxist type. argument of the need to succeed, so another program we call it total health immersion program, this is the one that inspires you to write the book because we have sent more than 4000 members of our team, this is 3400, but it is not updated . We have now sent over 4,000 team members through this program since we launched it in 2009, so the one-week program cost us about $4,000 per team member to send someone through the program under medical supervision for a week, we completely control their food, provide intensive education on healthy eating. and a healthy lifestyle, we put them on an exercise program, we take all their biometrics when they come in, we take their blood, we meet with their doctor and a week later we do it all again and we leave, and even in a week people can make amazing progress. amazing these are the average results with a crossbow drops 24 points of raw flight provides 24 drops of BMI drops of blood pressure and makes others wait only a week through this program our companies reverse type 2 diabetes for hundreds of people we have diseases Reversed cardiac arrests for many people and I have seen hundreds of people lose over 100 pounds of weight and in a little less than a year, a little over a year, here is a typical guide or team leader in a Sacramento area.

Nine months taught me to be diabetic and it reversed very quickly. he lost more than 90 pounds his blood pressure dropped from 156 over 96 to 115 over 75 and he was diabetic it was bad for sure there was between 70 and 80 which is an excellence for better than a month there is another guy this guy was on the barrier he was on Colorado and this guy, I mean, he's now lost over 100 pounds in the last 12 months, it wasn't dollar meditation. Leslie wrote a book called The Turnaround because he was so excited about this and I think he left the company. I think now it's like a kind of permanent Biggest Loser promoter, so let me conclude and then I'll answer questions to get our country overweight and healthy, and here's the thing, it's completely reversible, we can reverse it through diet. and lifestyle, we should know which of us had the potential to live.

To get to 100, I know Groove is going to discover some technological innovations that will help us, so we get past 100 and maybe I got the joke I said is that by the time we get to 100, they're going to figure out how to keep us going. I will be alive forever until I am 100, but the truth is that the degenerative diseases that are killing everyone, heart disease, cancer and diabetes, are primarily dietary and lifestyle diseases. 3 percent of what we spend on healthcare goes to treating these diseases that we shouldn't even be getting, so my final message. is that each of us is being called to embark on a hero's journey here in health, first you have to wake up, become aware, you have to change the way you eat, you have to change your lifestyle and then you are in position of going to help. other people I actually wrote this book because I have seen my own health transformed.

I've seen 100s and practices indicate thousands of people in my own company transform their health and felt an ethical qualm in trying to share what I've learned. That is why I am with you today and thank you very much. I will answer some questions. Here at Google, I was very fortunate to be able to take advantage of virtually any dietary option we want River to be lucky enough to have. great food, nutritious food every day, but for the average American, the diet that you've described would actually be cost prohibitive, and so how do we address that?

Because it is not true, it is a myth that is constantly published, but if By eating the Cata diet, we are describing thewhole food diet, which is primarily a starch-based diet, so we'll eat a lot of brown rice, you'll eat beans, you'll eat quinoa, Vanda be. using potatoes, sweet potatoes and starchy vegetables, those are very inexpensive foods that we have to know how to cook, so if you know how to cook and it's not that hard to cook brown eyes, I'll tell you, then you'll have gotten a lot of calories out of that. source, if you're just buying seasonal vegetables and some seasonal fruit, I'm telling you, you're living, you can live on that kind of diet for a single person who can learn that kind of diet for about two or three dollars a day .

The ironic thing is that I am a very rich father but I spend almost nothing on food. I cook. I follow a very healthy diet. I don't spend a lot of money although I do take drugs. discount on all foods, so that's the unspoken truth here is that it seems like all that shitty junk food is cheap, you know, the burgers and fries and stuff like that, but not only that, I would say that the diet that I just described is less expensive, but I will make two other points: the first is that it may be less expensive in terms of calories, but in terms of nutrients, it is an incredibly expensive diet that the average American eats, you don't get any nutrients, you don't get no neutral food.

Micronutrients and calorie risk again keep the fat, you stay alive for a while before lifestyle diseases take their toll and you get older, but that diet that seems cheap is actually very expensive and then you add the cost of health. We are going to spend on healthcare while we try to deal with the diseases we contract. It's prohibitively expensive. The diet that everyone thinks is cheap is much more expensive than our society can afford to pay because healthcare is on the way. to spoil on the next question, it seems like there are two types of similar actionable items or action steps that you are discussing, one is simply awareness that most Americans don't know that the default type of food they are eating is simply not is good and like in this room, as you mentioned earlier, we are not very representative of that group and then there is the secondary action, once you are aware that you need to eat healthy or that the default food is not the healthy one that you want. to optimize that, so for the people in this room, you know we're probably looking at number two, but what are some actionable things that we can take so that most people like step number one?

I mean, the most important thing we can do, obviously. We read by example, that's the most important thing we can do and secondly, we influence our friends and family and even today I had some meetings earlier at Google and had lunch and one of their executives at Google is on our board of directors. from directors of Whole Foods and it's like they went to a lot of trouble to try to feed me because they were so uncomfortable, what was this guy going to eat? He doesn't eat oil, he just wants to be vegan, so it was very difficult, but I know what is good, just fantastic, so I mean we are doing some things with food, but we have a program in call, we have three foundations and one foundation It's in kit one that deals with human poverty, so we have a microcredit loan program.

It's now in about 70 countries, but that's not relevant here. We also have a foundation called Whole Kids Foundation where we make free salad bars and gardens for me. School gardens. Tooele's school, as an American, asks for one, so we've given out more than five. thousand salad bars in almost four thousand gardens in square districts and that's why we are giving fresh fruits and vegetables to the children and when the children grow vegetables the children become vegetarians they are supposed to eat vegetables so we are doing that and then also We have a foundation called The Entire Cities Foundation that will do intensive education in inner cities.

We've opened four downtown stores that don't meet our normal prototype, one in Detroit, one in Chicago, one in Newark, New Jersey and one in New Orleans, and three of those four. The stores are actually successful stores for us, so there are many things we can do, but part of it is raising people's awareness and the problem is that there are very powerful economic interests that don't want people to stop eating the food. that they know we have. predisposition to be addicted to high calorie foods and that is the biggest problem, we have been so addicted and until we are aware of that, let's say an alcoholic or a drug addict cannot really begin to reform until they hit rock bottom for many people, it is Unfortunately, the same goes for food and many times you hit rock bottom and get very sick.

Ours was on tour a week ago and they talked to me at Goldman Sachs. A 23-year-old woman came up to me and told me this horrible thing could have saved her life and I said, well, how's that assistance? I have this really strange disease and I just started eating nothing but a lot of organic vegan plant based fruits and vegetables and I reversed the disease and I am so grateful and I hear that when I travel or go shopping because I have a lot of team members that went through the total health. dive and say you saved my life.

I mean, look at me or show me the before photos are shown with pictures of Raptor and it's amazing, there are so many things we can do, but I can't understand it all. Here's the good news. color you 20 I'm examining well, I mean, I've done a lot of things there 28 you already figured it out, I'll return the challenge; You are a very creative organization, so let's get to work, next question, first of all, thank you. Thank you for the huge amount of plant based foods at Whole Foods which definitely made it very easy for me to go vegan and it's definitely cheaper than what I ate before and I've read about healthier products so we'll be back soon a man.

It had to be an expensive argument, yes, it's definitely much, much cheaper, too, yes, do you think about a pound of sweet potatoes? It's like a dollar, yeah, yeah, but when you're talking about 90% more calories coming from plant-based foods, that's my The question is like, you know, I see that in the book, but I don't really see that in grocery stores. whole foods and I understand that it's like if you have outside suppliers, for example, processed foods and all that could be very difficult to get 90% of your foods in the store to be plant-based, but when you have similar foods, like for For example, the pastries at Whole Foods or the different foods offered there, do you have a plan to move? 90% of your day on the plan is based not only on health.

I wrote a book about it. I mean, let me ask you a question. I know another question, yeah, so the first store I opened before Whole Foods Market was called Safer Way. I open that and I open that imagine 78 and it was a vegetarian store, it didn't sell meat, therefore there was no sugar, so no white flour was sold, there was no alcohol sold, there was no coffee, it was an incredibly healthy store and almost It wasn't doing business, it wasn't until we relocated that store and started selling the food that people wanted to buy. We had a business and it was still a natural or primarily organic food.

We went to their store but they sold natural meat. We need organic meat. We sold the wine. and coffee sometimes contains sugar and the result is a little white flour and the store was a great success, so the definitive answer is healthy foods, like any other business person you have to say hello to the market where you find them and we have the highest standards. I challenge you to find. at every other chain their stories have attrition standards as high as Whole Foods, no one has them yet, it's not the ideal scenario in terms of people's health because people keep making bad decisions and we have to serve customers or they're going to go to the streets to get what they want, so I hear what you're saying, but I'm not sure what to do about it except try to convince people to vote to remove those products.

I spoke last night in Palo. High up at the Commonwealth Club and I had animal rights activists who were disrupting the event, you know, accusing me of killing all the animals and it's like I didn't have to kill any animals. I don't even encourage you not to eat them. but we are in business, we have to serve the market as we find it and that is true for all the food we sell, all I can try to do is educate and persuade, ultimately you make the decisions and if you don't choose, so For me you don't choose sugar and refined products and then we will stop selling them so it may be a pressure from Sephora yeah when you talk about standard so I guess you know I'm actually familiar with the outage that happened yesterday because in my look scenario I don't have a dead battery and it wasn't there yet, okay, I also like to not directly support that interruption at all, you know, I just understand what I grabbed, yeah, but I like it. four housemates including my boyfriend did research at Whole Foods Farms they claim they should be humane and we never claim you through the other claim any of ours tend to be humane yeah we just grade them on animal welfare , it's a five-step program, yes.

We are not stating that that is their name, we are just saying that there are different gradations in which animals are treated. This is the thing about the fair food system, perfect now personally, we can't monitor these farms 24/7, we do. we have to pass inspections and written tests and we eliminate them. The really bad actors get investigated and kicked out, so all I can say is that we're the ones being attacked, and yet we're the only ones trying to do it. something about it who else, even if it's safe, whales do something about it do you think Crater Joe's, Trader Joe's still has dates in cages, for God's sake?

I mean, we haven't had any events or occasions for almost 20 years, we are the only ones trying to make a difference, they are trying to get a more ethical source of animal food and we are the only ones attacked and we are going to take action on behalf of the people who should be making common cause with us, they're not out there picketing Safeway, they're not out there picketing. Trader Joe's is picketing the only company that is trying to make it better. I just think that's incredibly weird, so they actually just protested the gutters of Safeway and Trader Joe's.

Okay, yeah, yeah, just a minute. but you also think there is an ethical way to kill animals or harvest crops, no no, I mean you need to read chapter 13 of the book, you should read that chapter first. I make the ethical argument that the book defends. 10% ml Food format based on science, we do not see that eating up to ten percent is going to have worse health outcomes. Chapter 13 I make a very passionate ethical argument for not eating any foods of animal origin. Read that chapter and tell me if you don't. I don't see that I'm actually on your side, not the enemy, I'm a little angry, the primates are trying to make the world a better place, but you have to find a world where you find it's easy to be quite impure, burn coke, I think . you talk to thirteen, look at one more thing, yeah, hi, my wife and I have recently transferred to you, you know, being Philippe, the plant-based vegan, and it's been just a process, you know, eliminating meat red, right?, vegetarian trip.

I'm fine, yeah, and as you know, education develops, you start to make better decisions, so I'm curious to know what that path was like for you. You know, it was so gradual. Was there a WoW moment over several moments in my case? I had gone through certain stages, the first was when I was 23 and moved to a vegetarian cooperative in Austin, where I live. I wasn't a vegetarian, but I thought I'd meet some really cool people, federal vegetarians, and stuff. It was something very radical back in 1975 to be a vegetarian and when I became a vegetarian and my food consciousness was awakened, when I went there, I changed my life.

I found my higher purpose in life, even though I didn't know it at the time. the food after the cooperative I read. I read so many books about it. I wasn't totally in love with the idea of ​​natural organic and soon after I started more safely and with my girlfriend who I met at that cooperative. -op so um, that was the first awakening and then the second awakening was in 2003, when Hawkins was with Mme Lee and we were being interrupted by animal activists who were very upset about a duck we were selling and who said it was from a farm industrial and to make a long story short, I ended up in a dialogue with one of the activists and we exchanged emails and started a dialogue and after about a month, we were both even frustrated with each other and she sent me emails she said you know mr .

Macky, I can see that you are a very idealistic man,You really want to make the world a better place, but when it comes to lives like animals, you have no idea what you're talking about, you're not very knowledgeable, so I took it. I was taken aback, but I decided that the lady was probably right, so that I read that summer of 2003. I read a dozen books about the way we grow food in America, particularly animal-based foods, and I was scared, it was terrible, I had no idea. It was so horrible, the nightmare and more like I planned to read about four or five books.

I decided that I will have to be born and I cannot, in good conscience, eat this and so I did. It was a great awakening for me. and also that at that time his food would do everything possible to improve animal welfare and that what resulted in our five steps and welfare process was that he had friends who were not happy with it and when my health improved, but then , the next big breakthrough was around 2006 when I read the China study done by Colin Campbell and it was like a big awakening because I didn't really stop at consuming processed foods, there were all kinds, even I wanted to.

For a vegan, I was like a junk food vegan, so when I got read into processed foods, my health became incredible. I'm saying it right now, while I weighed in when I was 18, my cholesterol was like 135 140, my blood pressure 105 over 65. I almost never get sick, my new system is super strong, my telomeres are in the 98th percentile. I really diet. and lifestyle, which is why those three separate events I suffered when I was in my early 20s, but not only did I have part of When I was 23 I was able to pick up the rest as I grew older, so good luck to you.

Yes, it's curious what the role of the food preparation method is in the whole foods diet and the role of fats when I think about even cooking healthy vegetable things I think about that I put a little bit of oil to dress the salad or oil to roast it or roast it in turn is to cook it or not cook it a dimension and what type of fats if any would be good I am your diet And again, do not give importance to a large amount of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, we consider that this is misleading for people.

If you eat a diet of whole foods, mostly plants, you don't have to worry about any of that you're going to get. in that protein you will get enough Club, you will get enough fat, but you are using oil to cook and in the book we argue against oil that you don't need, you never need oil that you don't need. You don't need to cook with it when I make ice cream with my vegetables and it's easy to do just make it with water or vegetables or even a little bit of wine that will hold that dish so you don't need to skip it and if we do.

We're talking about fats as a kind of sauce to put on, for example, vegetables and stuff, it's very easy if you get a high powered blender like a Vitamix or Blendtec, even a little nutribullet that you can make, just blend some nuts and seeds in a simple way. To make it is kind of see a little bit of some kind of vinegar or lemon juice and fat and acid and then either make it salty with garlic and mustard and like that or make it sweet just by sewing like blueberries or blackberries. in your cherries and you will get the most delicious sauces you can imagine and a typical dinner for me, for example, is a piece of sweet potato to steam a large plate of vegetables, prepare a kind of net dressing and put it on the vegetables and Voila, it takes me ten minutes to cook dinner or insight, the sweet potato, you have to pick it or steam it, but that takes very little time, it's not expensive at all, it's delicious, it's incredibly nutritious and it couldn't be easier. but then I would get my fats from the whole foods network, avocados, nuts and seeds, mostly added concentrated sources, but what people realize quicker there and everything that's not possible that's not trendy, I mean, if it had a steel cut. oatmeal for breakfast and 13 percent fat oats, use regular oats.

I mean, it's true, they're just there and it's not just something to worry about, guys. Thank you so much. Good luck from Google. Kiko in the world.