How JUST living in EUROPE made me HEALTHY...

This is a sign everyone need to leave usa and move to healthier countries. I honestly don’t know how usa managed or have athletes when that country been known to be out of shape since it’s creation

I crave sugar and just food in general as an American. I was dreaming of the day I would arrive in Germany and have Bavarian pasties, Venice and pig put on Italian food and go to Switzerland and fondue everything. Well I had my first pastry in Frankfurt. Then something weird happened. I saw pasties wherever I went but I lost interest. I had many opportunities in Venice to eat but seemed full after only ½ a plate. The Swiss fondu was great but again I lost interest. I got back home and although I made no attempt to eat in moderation or cut down on sugar I gained no weight. I always gain weight when traveling. We fill our foods with poisons. Just do a little research…take APEEL, Bill Gates new outer coating put on fruits and veggies for example.

Awesome! Good for you man!

It is typical for Europe to somehow 'feel better'. We call it slowing down.

What a moron. He posts this with no answers, and PS, be sure to skip through his 3 minutes of begging you to promote his MyHeritage.

I had the same issue with bread in the USA and I came to Portugal thinking I could not eat it. One day I said I’d eat it and bear the pain! No pain! Now I eat bread daily and no issue. So clearly it’s bread in USA and I was eating artisan bread there not just white sliced

also living in Europe, makes you lose chest hair, apparently! I lost my head hair without moving to europe!

so long usa thanksd for nothing

Yes when I get to go back home i/we ride bicycle everyday and the food is 100x better than US

Brother, if you want to be Portuguese (thin, healthy, poor and happy, you have to eat soup) every day, twice a day😜It's the secret to being happy in Portugal

It's because all the toxins, chemicals, hormonesxallowed in us food

I encourage you not to shave your chest

Sick care is big business in US.

I hear this but in Italy my GI issues were way worse. I strongly suspect the Mozzarella di buffala was the culprit. It must have a different lactose that caused me all sorts of issues.

Okay so what you eat and how much you move your body are choices you make. If you eat better food and exercise you will stay healthy. Question, what’s up with all the smoking in Europe!? 😮

I've had the opposite experience, I'm from Europe and I've been in the US for the past few months for an exchannge smester, the lifstyle here (the food, no walkable cities...etc) makes me sick. My body feels wrong, I'm craving good food (not like the fluorescent cake frosting they give us every morning for breakfast), I want to walk but I can't here. And the worst, is when I talk about it to people living here, no ome sees a problem. They've all become so uaed to it that it seems normal.

SUGAR is number one reason for obesity

Of course coming to Portugal help me lose 20kgs just like that in a month

why do all Americans treat Europe as a country? Europe is not a country nor a state...

Dave: you live in Portugal, and you don't mention air quality ??? Come on: air quality at the coast is usually excellent for all pollutants, except ozone (maritime born ozone is made by the sun, not by human activities). I suffered from very bad asthma for decades; arriving at the Algarve, I was breathing better after one week, much better after two weeks and I reduced my medication, and I stopped all medication after three weeks. My doctors didn't believe me at first, but my allergy tests were so much better. my allergies for cats, dogs, horses etc were gone after two months. Same for my soon who was on chronic lung inflammation and was prescribed antibiotics for months: when he came to visit us, he was healed after three weeks. Most Portuguese doctors are not aware of this. My CT scans show much cleaner arteries. And I too had no problems to loose weight and to improve my fitness and my well being through lumino-therapy. Sorry, I forgot to mention that I am a Dr too. So, in two years you can repeat this video and add that you have added two decades to your probable life expectancy.

Sorry, the US is a piece of sh*t. I know this may hit sour, but American life-style is a permanent ticking bomb. Food here in europe is natural, much less chemicals. Again, I am happy you left that hell on earth of a country...

Is any adult here fed like a baby ? Ok then , so is up to anyone what you put on your mouth , the energy you spend , and if you exercise ,not dependent on where you live actually.

I was baffled once when a visitor from the US ordered an Uber to skip a 15 minute walk. Explicitly, to "not have to walk so much". On a nice day.

The main similarity in Europe is walking on food every where. In a lot of cities you can walk on food from the suburbs into the city center. All streets are provided with side walks. In the cities there are often predestrian zones, with shops. And after work we walk outside for a relaxation in medium ir slow speed. In the USA I would miss my daily walk.

In the US you move less and for some reasons there is added sugar in everything.

Spent 6 months in the USA, the junkfood and processed food there is bad for you. By the end, I started to gain weight. Moved back to germay, lost the weight again.

Ha, ha ! How do you tell people to eat healthier, move to a healthier country, and get more excercise without telling people to eat healthier, move to a healthier country, and get more excercise ?🤣

There is definitely a lot more walking. I lived there as a kid in Obidos. I would have to get a bucket walk all the way to the well, come back, and fill up the shower with it lol. The food there is very fresh so I agree with you. Even the ice cream tastes better. I miss the kinder surpresa eggs. I miss many things.
I'm glad you're enjoying the beauty of Portugal. You look great btw! Hope everything works out for you.

Softdrinks, sugar and walking are the main reasons in my opinion.

Covid derailed my husband and I. We were doing so well IF for 2 years prior and living a Ketovore/Carnivore and sometimes Mediterranean diet. We haven’t been able to get back into it fully due to the additional stress and anxiety. I long to live in Germany, where I grew up as an Army brat. I long for a slower pace of life

There is no magic, but there’s choices. Living in Europe my whole life, Poland and now UK, I can see how much healthier I was when eating what my parents cooked for me back home, they used to cook from scratch, with healthy farm fresh ingredients, than having Indian and Italian takeaways all the time.

I think the secret to being healthy is as you said, everything in moderation, moderate portion sizes, no junk food (or very occasionally), walking culture definitely helps, pavements everywhere, drinking more water, teas and coffees. Looking at my parents, both in their 60s now, I can confirm non-smoking, non-alcohol drinking, and making your own food from fresh ingredients definitely helps to keep fit as well.

I really enjoyed the time i spent in europe, but i gained arround 30 pounds, i just ate so much junk food, because compared to brazil, healthy food (mainly lean meats) was much more expensive, so i ended up ingesting much more dairy and fatty meats, and industrialized foods in general because they where so much cheaper than back home. Coming back was way easier to get healthy, i didn't loose that much weight but my skin and health improved significantly, here it's not cheap but it's affordable to eat a propper healthy natural meal on the streets, in europe it was not. Altough Portugal was specially cheap compared to Germany.

It’s likely because you’ve diversified your gut micro biome

The big reason you see this difference in food quality in Europe is that the EU very strictly regulates food and does not allow for any adulteration, it is called the General Food Law and can be read on the EU website, it is quite expansive and what keeps Europeans generally healthier than Americans.

Maybe you feel more happy over here, more at ease, less stressed. The 'work to live' thingy.
As if you came home after a long time. I mean, Europe is your ethnic homeland.
You even dare to speak out and criticize the United States, by far the best country in the world where everyone who's willing to work his pants off can realize his own version of the American Dream.
Or can he..?

🎉

Hi Dave,

I spent two weeks in Portugal last month, and my wife and I had a great time! I’m 62, and I’d been wondering if Portugal would be a good place to retire. I’m a technical writer, and my wife is a
Psychotherapist, and we both work remotely. I’m also a diabetic, and I ate such good food, and I walked and cimbed so much, that I lost nine pounds, and I didn’t need to take short acting insulin every day.

I’m a Canadian living in the States. Since I returned to the States, I’ve been watching your videos while I exercise on my elliptic trainer. I’m impressed with your writing skill, your performance skill, your production skill, and your drone piloting skill. Kudos to a job well done! I haven’t made any serious plans to return to Portugal yet, but I’d like to return in a year or so. If/when we return, I’d love to meet you (maybe take you out for dinner).

I love your shows. They’re making me fall in love with Portugal. Keep up the good work Dave! You were meant to do this work. :-)


Chris Boorman

I am Canadian and have lived in Japan growing up and I have definitely noticed how healthy I am. Whenever I go back to Canada for the summer I feel like I get fatter.

Fuck I'd be a whale in America

I am a french citizen living in Spain since several years now and here we have rarely fast foods...Few who tried to make an implantation here, had to closed down because of the spanish tapas culture (tuna, sardines, tomatoes, olive oil, farm cheese...) No Starbucks except Madrid and few big cities. As there is no consumers and no demand for this, you don't have those US brands. But in Europe unfortunately yes we starts to have higher obesity because of the industrial food. Kids have been targeted by marketing here and unfortunately it starts. Despite local authorities (France as Spain) tries to stop the rise of that obesity phenomena. Indeed in Europe we walks much more than in US ( I went few months in different states when younger) because of the cities configuration. It is just impossible to walk a lot in the US. We did that with a friend in LA and didn't realize how far we were from a 🚇 stop...As around 11pm, we have been arrested by a police officer of LAPD because he thought we were suspicious...as walking in the streets and not driving a car 😂 Then after checking our passports despite we were exhausted and just wanted to reach our hotel, gave us lessons: " you are not in Paris here or France, you can't walk here. You need a car because it's dangerous..." Awkward...The USA for holidays or studying there no problem, but culturally to decide to make your life there, I will not be able. We like to walk, explore areas, etc and find easily correct food while traveling and not being home. That quality of life is priceless.

GMOs and chemicals/pesticides do not make you fat! Eating too much food with high sugar/ fat content makes you fat!

Your personal dressing style improved to. Snazzy glasses.

It didn't "make" you healthy. You can walk, exercise, eat healthy anywhere. You were making choices in the US. You have made different choices in PT. Not US fault. Not PT credit. That is on you....

I lived in the US as a European and I not only gained weight but had hair loss that I didnt recover until I came back. I mean I liked it there but one of the worst aspects of it was the food. Not only is America bombarded with Fast Food advertising all over the place, its even everywhere. On top of it all, the food just seemed to taste less that it did back home and places like Trader joes which sell "Organic" overprice products, in Europe is the average supermarket. Also the driving culture is another massive problem. I missed walking.

Exactly the same thing happened to me when I moved to France 14 years ago!

I’m from Spain, move to North America and one of the first things shocked me was that I needed a car to go almost everywhere. Every time I decided to go out for a walk, I realize that people were looking at me like.. where is that guy going walking? In fact wasn’t easy to find safe, good and clear side walks for this. Found myself walking over the gras or even the side of the road with the vehicles passing too close to me. Still happy, don’t get me wrong, at the end of the day I think it is all about actitud. I don’t eat out much, I like to get my fresh food at aldi and cook at home. Not a fan of sodas either so.. still keeping my health to a pretty much acceptable level. 155 p. I’m 5,9 f. Saludos

I just got back from my first trip abroad- Paris.
Here in the US I can't eat wheat products. I'm in the bathroom off & on for a few hours, my guts are on fire for a few days, and my face breaks out in a painful rash for 7-10 days.
The first day in Paris I vowed to eat some pastries and bread so I can experience them regardless of what wheat does to me... and you know what? Nothing bad happened. In fact, the entire week I was there I had a normal GI tract. I at EVERYTHING and I walked so much I lost some weight, too.
Also, I don't smoke (former smoker) and the cigarettes don't smell that bad in Paris. They smell cleaner.
But I'll tel you what- I just had M&M's the other night and it tasted like insecticide was sprayed on them. There was a distinct chemical flavor I'd never tasted before.