Why do people often say they feel better eating food in Italy compared to the United States? 🇮🇹 In this clip from the The Joe Rogan Experience, physicians Casey Means and Calley Means discuss the surprising differences in metabolic health, obesity rates, diabetes, food systems, and lifestyle between countries.
Italy has significantly lower rates of obesity and metabolic disease, while Americans face growing levels of type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, and chronic illness. The discussion explores possible systemic reasons behind this gap, including diet quality, food processing, lifestyle habits, ingredient standards, and the Mediterranean diet.
Topics explored in this clip:
🍕 Why many people say pizza, pasta, and gluten feel different in Europe
🥗 The impact of ultra-processed foods vs traditional whole foods
⚕️ Why some countries spend less on healthcare but have better health outcomes
🧬 The connection between metabolic health, inflammation, and modern diets
🌍 How food systems, agriculture, and lifestyle patterns influence long-term health
Understanding nutrition science, metabolic health, gut health, food quality, diet differences between Europe and the U.S., Mediterranean diet principles, and processed food consumption can help explain why populations experience different health outcomes.
🎙️ Credit: The Joe Rogan Experience
Speakers: Casey Means & Calley Means
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I mean we do walk MUCH more than you do. No poisoning chemicals and the quality of the food is very high, probably the highest in Europe. Also, our diet is pretty varied.
When I lived in the US, I really could not bear the food. Even a simple salad was loaded with unnecessary calories.
The Italian government banned all pesticides from their wheat crops so l buy Italian pasta
Population of italy is almost 60 million, of that over 40 percent is obese or overweight.
Guess the percentage of obese and overweight in the USA. 40 percent. Stop comparing European countries to the US when we have states larger than most eu countries.
Potassium Bromate in American wheat is the reason its banned in Europe
Italians also consume more wine per capita.
Spend your Money in an High quality extra vergin olive oil
Maybe they don’t folic acid spray their wheat? Plus other additives
Italians don't have parking and fines and gasoline are really expensive. This is the reason why we walk, we walk, we walk. Believe in me. I'm Italian and I leave in Italy
Italians walk everywhere, and most of their cities have steep hills and stairways. Their cities and towns were built centuries before cars existed. laziness isn't the issue– structure determines behavior. This is not about food.
Wow Americans figuring it out.
We are all white-minded…
If black food-produdcers; possibly committed genocide, and they were brothers…we might know their father's criminal history report…!!!???
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If brothers did the plan-demic, the citizenry & gov would've implemented a purge.
coz ur food is poison, dude.
amuricans just are feeded with the most chemical shitty food ever
Food is very very strict regulated and yes most of Americans are lazy
It's the chemicals in all the processed foods
It's real food without poison, no roundup, no other hiden ingredients.
yeah continue blaming the ingredients in your food and not the way your cities are built, you can go nowhere without a car, it's not laziness, we italians can walk or bike everywhere, to work, to school
The pharma/food/health insurance machine is making far too many people wealthy for it to change. Anyone on a pension is probably an unknowing beneficiary and if confronted would be happy to just look the other way if it meant less free money each month.
wait till he realizes there's an island in greece where the average living age is 90+ years old
Our government lets them poison our food they don't over there
You can compare the food with amish community……they for sure live healthier lives.
Americans really think gluten is a problem 😂 it's the other crap that you put in your bread 😂
Goy food
Americans love CRAP. And taking crap from people that like it and think it’s their constitutional right to eat crap.
Times are changing. McDonald's, Burger King, and KFC are popping up everywhere, and our youth are glorifying this garbage.