Name: How to make healthy eating unbelievably easy | Luke Durward | TEDxYorkU
Uploaded: 2019-08-30T11:58:09.000Z
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was very good at a few things from a very young age.

The first thing he was really good at was making everybody laugh without trying.

he should have a little bit of protein after a workout.

He got all excited because he thought I said "poutine."

The second thing he was good at was eating large quantities of food.

it wasn't uncommon for him to outeat most of the adults at the table.

Now, as you may have guessed,  as a five-foot-nothing little boy,

there is, in fact, a downside  to regularly outeating full-grown men.

At just 11 years old, I could already see that, if nothing else changed,

my little brother was headed for an adolescent life

littered with teasing and unhealthy eating.

As his older brother, I wanted to do something about it.

As a nutrition, or kinesiology student, with an intense interest in nutrition,

I knew that I had to do something about it.

Initially, I wasn't sure how, but I was determined to find a way.

I broke my leg while I was walking to class,

Little did I know as I lay there in that quickly melting puddle of ice,

that this moment would forever  change the life of my little brother.

to attach a small titanium plate and a few screws onto my fibula,

and told not to put any weight on my leg for two months.

as there was still plenty of snow and ice on the ground.

And I still had two months left of class,

spread out over one of the largest campuses in the country.

So, with that in mind,  I made a decision

that any hard-working student  in my position would do.

And I obviously decided to stop going to classes.

Now, with all this free time from studying at home,

I had finally figured out how I was going to help my little brother.

I knew that what he needed to do was very simple in theory,

What he needed to do was change his eating habits.

I knew the things that he needed to change, and the things that he didn't.

The problem was that communicating this through somebody else

would most likely just end up like the childhood game of telephone.

but with little misunderstandings and misinterpretations along the way.

There's not much left of the original message,

And my little brother's eating habits are left unchanged.

So, keeping that in mind, I made one of the best decisions of my life,

and I decided to move back home for the next two weeks,

and make every single meal that my little brother would eat,

educating him about proper nutrition along the way.

in the kitchen, I often found myself awkwardly trying to maneuver

holding on to two crutches, hot pans, and sharp knives.

I also had to make sure to take little breaks every few minutes

to make sure that the swelling in my ankle wouldn't become unbearable.

but they were as a result of a strategy that anybody can use.

The reason we were able to see such dramatic and positive results,

which I'm very excited to share with you later,

is that we changed his environment to match his goal.

We made his environment work for him, instead of against him.

This simply meant replacing all of the bad options with healthy ones.

enabled us to easily transform his nutrition,

ironically referred to from its acronym SAD,

to wholesome and nutritious without a hitch.

Because of the planning this wasn't the least bit difficult to do.

wholesome and nutritious food becomes both plan A, and plan B.

is that it takes willpower almost completely out of the equation.

Quite simply, if it's not there, you can't eat it.

is if there's no chips on the counter calling your name,

it's likely that you'll just forget about them,

and completely avoid the feeling of deprivation all at once.

This may sound a little bit too simple to be true,

When you remove the barriers to your success --

in my little brother's case, unhealthy food --

and you replace, or you pave the way, barrier-free,

the road to success becomes a much smoother ride.

so that it works for you, instead of against you.

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