The Dangers of Broccoli?

Image Credit: Michael Pollan, and to Andrzej 22 and Evan-Amos via Wikimedia Commons.

[Cannulae]

"I don't like where this is going" lol

[MisterBicycle]

I watch Dr Gregger's videos every work day. Love them!

[TheAbbeyClinic]

I am a veterinarian and once removed a piece of a rubber broccoli toy from a small dog's small intestine. So, I guess broccoli can kill after all! Oh, the dog is going fine, thanks for askin'.

[escapefromny]

Thanks for showing the illustration for gastric bypass. I find it insane that anyone would allow a doctor to do that to them, or that a doctor would do that to someone. Wouldn't it be so much safer, and saner, to put that food addicted person into a rehab where they would not be able to eat anything they should not be eating? If they are large enough to even consider gastric bypass, they are most likely so large that they aren't very mobile, and therefore keeping them in such a facility and keeping food away from them should be relatively easy. Of course they would have to consent to this, and friends/family (enablers) coming to visit would have to be watched as if they were trying to smuggle a file into a prison, but certainly it would be safer, and saner.

[weedpot]

I thought about this when my ex girlfriend's mom got by pass surgery. Wouldn't the surgery keep them from eating healthy? How would they get enough calories out of plants when their stomach had been altered?

[nancybeard]

What I like about these clips of information Dr. Gregor posts is that they usually aren’t more than ten minutes long. And they’re quite interesting.

[kandykissesco]

This video should have been called how Broccoli is dangerous to people with stomach staples.

[teresaolofson]

the dangers of having your stomach stapled

[AUdioHipster]

Wow and this is what modern medicine has to offer... no thank you!  

[BourneAccident]

I knew broccoli was dangerous, but my mother never believed me and made me eat it anyway.

[hailingpearl]

kellybliss, the doctor is highlighting the ridiculousness of gastric bypass surgery, especially this extreme type of gastric bypass surgery.

There's nothing wrong with broccoli. It's an absolutely brilliant vegetable!

[PortlandMan]

"Eat mostly plants." Anyone care to explain how you could possibly eat enough calories (2500) if your diet is mainly plants?

[samuelsneed]

You know you big as hell when after surgery you go to a buffet and literally swallow food whole.😮😮😮😂😂😂😂

[quarteracreadventures]

But my Sunday school teacher told me that mastication was a sin...

[FiveAndAHalfCow]

what the heck is a jejunojejunostomy?!?

[ceumareterra]

Simply blend your veggies in a food processor and drink it!

[valnaples]

HELL To the Our dear Dr. Klaper has so many great youtubes about CHEWING up our foods...so *very* important for ALL of us! our teeth are our "blenders" and "juicers" as he so succinctly puts it!

[behappy__]

jejunojejunostomy? what a strange word

[PercivalBlakeney]

+FormerOmnivore
 I wouldn't say Michael Pollan is an idiot (one rarely becomes professor of ANYTHING at Berkeley with a deficiency of brain cells y'know); I think that, just like the rest of us... he's simply not perfect.
Just a thought.
:)

[kellybliss]

Dr. Greger's conclusion demonstrates pre-judgements (prejudice) about large body size. It is assumed that anyone who weighs 316 must be a glutton. The fact is, some very large people dieted their way up to higher weights, some eat healthy, & some eat unhealthily. YOU CANNOT TELL A PERSON'S LIFESTYLE BY LOOKING AT THEIR BODY SIZE. This prejudice is part of what causes people to choose stomach mutilation as a last resort. To help, end size-prejudice & begin a focus on health, at every size.