TikToker Shares 6 Dark Food Industry Secrets They Probably Don't Want Us To Know

It’s no huge secret that many of us should be eating healthier, me included. Though, a healthy diet requires a bit of research and dedication on our part: we can’t go charging in blindly. One thing that can help us on our journey towards better health, however, is realizing that some of the food that we’re eating might not be as healthy as we think.

For instance, the European Union has a far stricter approach towards limiting food additives than the United States. There’s nothing new there. What might surprise you, however, is to learn what some of these additives are. TikTok video creator Kassandra Escandell, aka k4554ndr4, created a video showing the dark side of the food industry.

Scroll down to check out her comments about how the food industry works, as well as for her insights about weird but interesting McDonald’s facts. The part about free-range chickens and 'freedom' being open to interpretation in the US was particularly shocking to us.

Bored Panda got in touch with fitness expert Jack Bly to have a chat about the relationship between our diet and our health, and how to get rid of the habit of consuming things that are unhealthy for us. Jack told me that there's a lot of truth to the statement that "you can't out-train a bad diet."

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Jack told Bored Panda: "The only people I’ve seen 'out-train a poor diet' are athletes who are moving their body a ton. For everyone else, diet needs to be a priority if you want to see real changes in your body. You eat 500 calories in a minute. But it would take an intense hour of exercise to burn those same 500 calories." Scroll down for his insights on giving up bad habits and what food group we should focus on.

Fitness expert Jack told Bored Panda that his favorite approach to limiting our consumption of fast food, sugar, alcohol, and other unhealthy things is to "optimize our environment." This, however, extends to more than just our physical environment: we need to be aware of our social circle, too.

"If alcohol is a problem, don’t keep any in the house. Same goes for any other junk food," he explained. "The other part of the environment is the people around you. Make sure they know your goals so they hold you accountable instead of being you down."

According to Jack, he has one core approach when choosing what he eats. "My meals vary but one principle always remains constant. And that is every single meal I sit down to eat must have a good source of protein in it," he said.

Kassandra has over 632k followers on TikTok and she has amassed a whopping 21.8 million likes across all of her videos on the platform. Her TikToks are as entertaining as they are informative, so it’s no wonder that people like them.

The video creator touches upon a very important topic—our health and how the food that we eat relates to it. Some time ago, I had an in-depth conversation about diet and fitness with certified personal trainer Paulius Lipskis from Lithuania, who is the founder of the ‘Mes Geresni’ (‘We’re Better’) project on Facebook that promotes healthy living.

He told Bored Panda that our weight is an important factor when considering our overall health, however, it’s not the only thing we should keep in mind.

According to personal trainer Paulius, if we aim to lead a healthy lifestyle, our primary aim should be to overcome our harmful diets and to create positive habits related to the types of movement that we enjoy. We should also keep in mind that if we’re forcing ourselves to do what we’re not comfortable with, it might backfire.

"Our bodies can deal with everything by themselves under the right conditions. However, if you want a point of reference, you can get a body composition analysis done which is a cheap option (though it can have some issues with accuracy),” he suggested.

"I can tell you from my professional experience that one of the most common problems is having an 'all-or-nothing' mindset. These people tend to either exercise a lot without taking any breaks or they don't exercise at all," he explained to Bored Panda.

"This kind of mindset paves the way to letting yourself down and burning out because we think, 'What do you mean I couldn't do it?! Why could others? I obviously need to try harder.' Once you get rid of this point of view, your confidence in your abilities will slowly but surely grow, you'll feel less stress, and that will automatically lead to you loving your own body more,” the personal trainer said.