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00:00Hello health champions today we're going to talk about the top 10 foods that can destroy your
00:05health and why would anyone eat something that could destroy their health and this is why you
00:13really need to watch this video and pay close attention because maybe you don't care maybe
00:19you're saying hey life is too short to not enjoy it to the fullest I'm going to eat what I want
00:25no matter what even if my health suffers or it could be that you don't think it matters a whole
00:34lot there's a lot of people who don't feel very different based on what they eat maybe they haven't
00:41gotten really sick yet maybe they're young and they just haven't noticed a whole lot or
00:49it could be that you've been told the wrong thing and this is the biggest reason that you want to
00:56watch this video carefully because this is most people out there do not really understand what
01:03food is there's a growing number of people who are sick and who are trying to do the right things
01:10they're trying to learn they're trying to eat the right things and take care of themselves
01:14but they keep being told the wrong things now here's the thing health is not complicated
01:21it's really quite simple and so is food but we have to stop nitpicking we need to understand
01:29the bigger picture we need to stop just looking at lists of food and hearing tidbits of information
01:37and getting more and more confused what we need to do is to understand the mechanisms
01:44because the more lists you read about things the more you're going to find lists that conflict with
01:51each other and if you don't understand why the foods are on the list you just get more and more
01:56confused food number 10 is white bread and you're probably going duh because everyone has been told
02:06you have heard that white bread is really bad but i'm also willing to bet that you have been told
02:13that wheat bread is really good but here's the problem they're both wheat wheat is just the type
02:22of grain and when they call it white that's not really something very different it just means
02:28that there's less fiber and less vitamins left because it has been more processed and when they
02:35say wheat bread they're not really talking about the type of grain they're usually referring to a
02:42whole grain bread that has a little bit more fiber and a little bit more vitamins and now what
02:49we're being told is that white bread's bad because it's empty calories it's highly processed etc
02:57but that we should eat lots of whole wheat whole grain bread because this fiber
03:05slows down the absorption and lowers the glycemic index is what we're being told so glycemic index
03:14is a measurement of how quickly your blood sugar rises after you eat a certain food so let's take
03:21a look at how big a difference it is and for white bread the glycemic index is 75 which is really
03:31really fast and for wheat bread it's 74 that's not a big difference when I talk about a low glycemic
03:42index food I'm talking about things like meat and avocado and nuts and healthy fats and so forth
03:51and those are going to measure in single digits or maybe in the teens and the amount of fiber that
03:57you're getting from these grains is not a whole lot the white bread would have a half a gram per
04:03slice the wheat would have 2.0 grams per slice that's not a whole lot because you would get
04:11that much or more from virtually any serving of vegetables and what we're really looking for is
04:19the soluble fiber so fiber is just anything that we can't digest they call it roughage sometimes
04:28but the really useful part of fiber is the soluble fiber because that can be used as food by your gut
04:37bacteria even though you can't break down fiber they can break down the soluble portion so in
04:45white bread the soluble portion is only 0.15 grams and in whole wheat it's 0.6 so the whole
04:54grain wheat will give you a little bit more but neither of them will give you a substantial amount
05:01there's nothing to write home about and you're much better off eating other vegetables and getting
05:08several servings because what white bread and what any kind of bread does mostly is just to
05:14jack up your blood sugar and cause insulin spikes and blood sugar roller coasters. But how is it
05:20that something that's called a complex slow carb gets absorbed so quickly and why is it that so few
05:28people know about this? You may have seen me draw this out before but I'm going to do it one more
05:34time because this is still a mystery to most people. This is called a glucose molecule this
05:41is a six carbon ring that when we eat foods containing glucose this gets into the bloodstream
05:49and becomes blood sugar blood glucose. Now we understand what a sugar is it tastes sweet but
05:58if we have this in the form of chains if we take these same glucose molecules and we link them up
06:09in long chains and this could be chains of hundreds or thousands or even tens of thousands
06:18of molecules now it's called a starch but it's the exact same molecule it's just hooked together
06:29by a little linkage and this is called a sugar this is called a starch but as soon as you put
06:36this in your mouth as soon as you take a bite of bread there's an enzyme called amylase that starts
06:43breaking down these little linkages and you already are going to break off some of these
06:50individual glucose molecules already in the mouth before you even have finished chewing or swallowing
06:58some of these are going to be separated and they're ready to be absorbed as soon as you
07:04swallow and this is why starches contribute so much to increased blood sugar and the fact that
07:11there's a little bit left of fiber a little more fiber in the wheat and the whole grain bread
07:18these still break off so quickly that there's virtually no difference between them. So next
07:24time you're told to avoid white bread you need to put the white in parentheses and you need to
07:31underline bread and understand that the same properties hold true for both of them. And here's
07:39a little tidbit for comparison when insulin-dependent diabetics take too much insulin or they don't eat
07:49enough for a while then their blood sugar could drop to the point where they become unconscious
07:55and if you come across a person like that then you need to give them some sugar you need to give
08:01them something that raises blood sugar very very quickly and what you're usually told to give them
08:09is a candy bar or more popularly orange juice or a soda something that's very sweet and orange
08:19juice is indeed very sweet but it only has a glycemic index of 48. So that's still high on on
08:26my scale but it's not as high as starch because these little things get lopped off so quickly
08:34that they are becoming glucose within minutes. And then to make things worse wheat and the grain wheat
08:42is one of the most allergenic foods that we have. Most people have some degree of sensitivity
08:50to wheat whether they know it or not and when you have a sensitivity reaction now that creates
08:57inflammation and it can also contribute to digestive issues. So now that we understand
09:04this principle here now we have a few dishonorable mentions to add to the list
09:12and that would be things like rice and quick oats and pretty much grains in general because they are
09:20all mostly starch. Now I don't think everyone needs to avoid grains completely but if you
09:27eat some grains then you need to focus on the ancient grains the ones that humans haven't
09:34changed or manipulated grains that are pretty much the way they were tens of thousands of years ago
09:41and the earliest grains were called emmer and einkorn and some more of these ancient grains
09:49would be spelt which is another wheat and rye and oats and if you eat some of these grains
09:56then you need to focus on the whole grain which means you take the whole kernel and grind it down
10:02to flour or better yet you eat the whole kernel. For example if you have oats and you keep the
10:12kernel intact maybe you chop it into a couple of pieces that's called steel cut oats and now
10:18you still have the whole kernel and it is vastly different than the quick oats that have been
10:26steam rolled and flattened to paper thin because they're going to be absorbed much much quicker it
10:32takes the body seconds to minutes to start breaking off these molecules of glucose whereas
10:39in the whole kernel the surface area keeps it together the surface area is much smaller
10:48and therefore we're going to absorb it much much slower. Another thing you've probably heard
10:53is to go gluten-free and I think that's true for most people I think the vast majority of people
11:00would do better to reduce or eliminate gluten from the diet but it's far from the only thing
11:07that matters there's other things especially in the modern wheat that's been hybridized
11:13so many times and it's grown with glyphosate and so forth even so most people would do better
11:18without gluten in my opinion and the only things up here that don't have gluten would be rice and
11:25oats and then you want to keep in mind that you need to get if you're very sensitive to gluten
11:31you need to get the certified gluten-free oats because they don't have gluten in themselves but
11:38they're usually processed on the same type of equipment so if you buy it in the store and it
11:43doesn't say gluten-free it will have some gluten in it. And then food number nine is fruit juice
11:49and number eight is sugary cereal and I'm going to talk about them together because they are so
11:56often considered part of a healthy breakfast. How many million times have you heard that in a
12:03commercial? In a typical healthy such breakfast which a lot of people eat if you eat a breakfast
12:09buffet in a hotel or in a restaurant you would probably get some orange juice some skim milk with
12:17cereal you might get some toast and jam and then of course some coffee with sugar and cream or half
12:23and half and a lot of people you'd be surprised how many people would pick this breakfast over
12:31something like sausage or bacon or eggs or omelette and the biggest reason they would pick
12:39it is that this is a low-fat breakfast but fat is not the thing that matters what matters is
12:48what is it that's going to jack up your blood sugar and how processed is it and these are
12:53highly highly processed whereas if you got some sausage and eggs they are minimally processed
13:00they're very close to how that food occurs naturally and now if we add up the carbohydrates
13:07here we're going to get about 25 grams from the orange juice 12 from the milk 34 from the cereal
13:1549 from toast and jam and about 11 from the sugar and the creamer or milk or half and half
13:25and if we add this up we're going to get 131 grams of net carbohydrates and it's different
13:34for different people but in my opinion that's about twice as much carbohydrate as you should
13:41eat on a daily basis this is twice as much as you should have on in a whole day and if you are
13:50overweight or if you're trying to reverse a condition of inflammation or diabetes or insulin
13:56resistance then it should be even less than half of that if you want to make some good progress
14:02but that's not even the worst of it because what really matters is also the type of sugar that we
14:10have so glucose is one type of sugar that's a single ring but when we talk about sugar for the
14:18most part and when people talk about sugar that you want to avoid it's going to be the added sugar
14:24or sugar in orange juice because that sugar has two sugars in it they're linked together so it's
14:34a six carbon ring called glucose and then there is a five carbon ring called fructose and this
14:42is white table sugar and the reason you're told to avoid the table sugar the added sugar
14:50is that this is more than twice as bad with these two molecules the glucose portion will raise
14:57blood sugar and that's bad enough but that's not really a disaster by itself the fructose
15:03is the disaster because fructose is very much like alcohol in that it can only be processed
15:11through the liver and therefore if you eat a little bit no problem if you eat a lot now you
15:18will quickly overwhelm that liver and cause a fatty liver and this is the difference between
15:26cultures that have eaten starch for centuries they've eaten rice they've eaten bread and they
15:33haven't developed a whole lot of chronic disease or diabetes but then they become sedentary and
15:39they add the added sugar with the fructose portion and now we see diabetes rates
15:47increasing exponentially so if we go back and look at this so-called healthy breakfast
15:52we see that the orange juice almost all of the carbohydrates are sugar and even though this is
16:00not added sugar the naturally occurring sugar in orange juice is exactly the same as the added
16:09sugar as white table sugar it is no difference it's glucose and fructose in roughly a 50-50 ratio
16:17and then the skim milk is going to have about 12 grams of sugar cereal depending on if we eat more
16:24of a kid cereal or an adult cereal is going to vary so 18 grams is more on the sweeter side but
16:32it's not extreme and then we have the toast and the jam and most of this is from the jam but believe
16:39it or not something like six to eight grams of sugar is going to be in a couple of pieces of
16:46toast because they add sugar to the toast as well and then we have a couple of teaspoons of sugar
16:52in the coffee and now we have 83 grams of sugar in this breakfast and the only sugar that's not
17:02exactly this the 50-50 ratio of glucose and fructose is the skim milk because the sugar
17:11in milk is different it's lactose which isn't nearly as bad but if we subtract the lactose
17:19and divide by two we're getting that the fructose portion of this that is going to clog up the liver
17:28and act like alcohol pretty much is 39 grams of fructose and this is why once we have started
17:38eating all this sugar that sugar specifically fructose is the number one cause of fatty liver
17:47it used to be that alcoholics only could get fatty liver now most is called non-alcoholic fatty liver
17:55and it's the fructose doing it and we start getting adult onset type 2 diabetes in pre-teenagers
18:04so I hope you can see that it's not such a healthy breakfast after all and it breaks my heart when I
18:11see families in hotels and they feed their kids this stuff and the kids are so addicted to it
18:17they won't even have a slice of ham or a little bit of an egg because this is the stuff that's
18:24the sweet stuff they're hooked on. Food number seven that destroys your body is fast food and
18:30very often if you read these nutrition sheets in fast food restaurants they're going to talk all
18:36about macros and calories and macros is how many calories what percentage of calories come from fat
18:44protein and carbohydrates and very often they're not going to look terrible compared to the
18:52recommendation so they promote this food as being relatively healthy or no worse than the average
18:59fare. So let's look at some of the differences between the fast food and the real food. For
19:05starters real food is going to have much more nutrients it's going to have enzymes processed
19:12food fast food is really not going to have any enzymes at all and real food is also going to
19:18have a whole lot more fiber so most people don't realize this but real food contains all the
19:27nutrients and all the enzymes that we need to process it and break it down the reason food has
19:34vitamins is that we need the vitamins to utilize the food we need the vitamins to turn it into
19:42energy and into body parts and reconfigure something called metabolism and anabolism to
19:49break down and rebuild we need the nutrients the minerals the vitamins and the enzymes and one of
19:57the biggest reason we get nutritionally deficient from fast food is that they have killed off they
20:04have depleted most of the nutrients and they've killed off all the enzymes in the food so instead
20:11the fast food is going to have sugar and chemicals and hormones sugar makes people eat this bland
20:19tasteless food chemicals will add more to create a flavor profile because they've killed off
20:27everything that tastes anything and because they use the cheapest possible ingredients it's going
20:33to have all of the worst chemicals and some hormones left in there so in other words real
20:39food is going to be complete it's going to have everything in it that you need whereas fast food
20:46will be incomplete or depleted real food which has more protein more healthy fats and more fiber
20:54is going to be absorbed slowly your blood sugar is barely going to budge at all so if you start off
21:02at 85 which is a good fasting blood sugar you could eat a big meal of whole food and it probably
21:10won't go over 110 whereas with fast food it is harshly processed it is depleted has tons of sugar
21:19tons of starch which is processed so that the starch is released very very quickly so now you're
21:27going to get these blood sugar spikes and with whole food real food you will stay full much much
21:34longer whereas with fast food you get hungry again after a couple of hours and also real food is going
21:41to have real fats they're going to have healthy fats that heal the body that's going to be the
21:48polyunsaturated fats in fish it's going to be the saturated and monounsaturated fats in meat
21:57and olive oil and nuts whereas the fast food is going to have all of it is going to be processed
22:06plant oils there's going to be a little bit of fat from the meat but the vast majority of fat
22:14in the fast food meal is going to be plant-based harshly processed oils and food number six that
22:21can kill you is alcohol now the thing we need to understand is alcohol is natural it's a natural
22:28substance it has often been associated with longevity with living longer having a good life
22:35and there's a lot of cultures that drink wine as a food beverage it's part of their culture to drink
22:43on a regular basis and i don't think that there's really anything healthy about alcohol but what it
22:49does do is it helps with stress reduction it helps people feel good and feeling good is one of the
22:58most important things if you want to get healthy because when you're happy the body heals when
23:04you're stressed and feel miserable you're interfering with that healing mechanism now here's
23:09the problem though the wines the alcohol's ability to make you feel better is what we sometimes call
23:16psychotrophic it can change how the mind works it can change how you feel and now it also becomes
23:24very very addictive so while some people can have a glass of wine and relax other people will just
23:31want more and more and more and it's this excess that is very very dangerous very destructive
23:38because now not only do you get addicted to alcohol but you don't really care about eating
23:44either so you get most of your calories from alcohol you get a fatty liver you get severely
23:51nutrient deficient and this excess alcohol will destroy both the brain and the liver and the fifth
23:59thing you want to stay away from is artificial sweeteners and i can't tell you enough how much
24:04i dislike these the main ones are going to be aspartame sucralose acesulfame potassium or
24:13acesulfame k and an older one was saccharin this was the first one on the scene and it's not
24:20used so much anymore because these others are preferred flavor wise so these four sweeteners
24:27are non-caloric meaning your body cannot derive any calories or any energy from them and that's
24:35why they're so popular because we think calories are the enemy and if we just eat things without
24:41calories we'll be fine and you've probably heard people use these words interchangeably they say
24:48non-caloric or artificial sweetener as if they were the same thing no but there are also some
24:55things that are non-caloric but not artificial and here i'm talking about stevia and monk fruit
25:01which are plant extracts so artificial sweeteners they are artificial chemicals that are similar
25:12to pesticides and sucralose for example belongs in a family of chemicals known as chlorocarbons
25:22and the type of bond between chlorine and carbon that occurs in sucralose does not occur in nature
25:29no matter what you've been told instead it's similar to a lot of pesticides that have been
25:35banned such as ddt for example and there's dozens of other chlorocarbons that have been banned
25:43and cancerous and recently they found that sucralose will actually break down dna so
25:49these are things that you absolutely want to stay away from on the other hand the stevia and
25:55the monk fruit are plant extracts and you can use them safely but in moderation because large amounts
26:04of anything can start upsetting especially because these things are extracted if you ate the whole
26:11stevia plant then you'll probably be fine and eat as much as you like and the only drawback that
26:16i've heard about stevia and monk fruit and this is kind of new and not very well known exactly how
26:23it works is that some of these sweet tasting things may still affect your gut flora negatively
26:30so i would say for the time being use them sparingly use it for a treat but don't just
26:39bury everything you eat in stevia and monk fruit the fourth thing you want to avoid is deep fried
26:46foods for the most part because it's not the deep frying in itself that's a problem even though
26:52that's what you've been told that fried food has too many calories that's not what the problem is
26:59the problem is the type of oil so they start off with a plant oil from either a soybean or a canola
27:09or a corn oil typically and these are fairly high in polyunsaturated fatty acids and we've been told
27:19that those are generally good that those are the fats you want that's not true we need a tiny tiny
27:26little bit of polyunsaturated fats called EPA and DHA but they should come from fish oil the other
27:34polyunsaturated fatty acids are very very sensitive they break down they're not supposed
27:40to be consumed for energy for us to use as fuel and when we process these plant oils we take these
27:48polyunsaturated fatty acids we expose them to high heat and pressure and they are super sensitive
27:55they'll go rancid in a matter of hours or days in room temperature and now we expose them to this
28:03high heat and pressure so we destroy them very quickly and to make matters even worse they even
28:09use chemicals and solvents like acetone to get the last bit of oil out of the raw materials so the
28:17first problem with deep frying is that almost all of it is using this type of oil the second problem
28:25is that because it's very expensive they can't throw the oil away after each batch so they keep
28:32reusing it over and over and over and now that oil for every time the longer it sits there
28:38it gets more oxidized and more rancid and more toxic and food number three is margarine this
28:46used to be something that we were told was so healthy would revolutionize our health we should
28:51eat all margarine and no butter and this was introduced in the 1950s and 60s and it really
28:59took off and the oil that they use for margarine is exactly the type of oil that we just talked
29:06about how they destroy the oil how it's so unnatural and unhealthy to start with but then
29:13they do one more thing to make margarine because oil is liquid and margarine is solid how do they
29:20do that well they use a process called hydrogenation so now they take this oil and they
29:28bombard it with hydrogen under heat and pressure and now you get something called partially
29:36hydrogenated oils and these are also known as trans fats and these are universally recognized
29:45as so bad that they haven't been banned but almost you have to label all food packages whether
29:53they have trans fats or not but it's not quite that simple either because there are ways to get
30:00around it and a lot of packages that you find are going to say trans fat free and some of them
30:09are going to say trans fat free per serving so what does that mean well it means that they shrink
30:16down the serving so that as long as there is less than half a gram of trans fats they can round it
30:25to zero so if you have 0.999999 grams of trans fats you can round it to zero and call it trans
30:33fat free even though it might have five or even ten percent trans fats depending on the serving
30:42size they choose so you want to make sure that you read the label and you look for things like
30:48hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated so that is the absolute worst but you really don't want to
30:57eat margarine anyway because of the oils that they start off with number two is energy drinks
31:05and these are hugely popular you see everyone drinking them because people are so stressed
31:12and they're under so much pressure and they are so sleep deprived that they think that they need
31:18something like this to make it through the day and be productive and that's how these things are sold
31:23and these drinks are usually loaded up with caffeine which is a stimulant and if you wanted
31:31to get caffeine you could of course have a cup of coffee or two but keep it in moderation because
31:37otherwise you're buying into a lot of this as well you know caffeine is a stimulant sometimes they use
31:43other stimulants as well and then of course they pump it full of sugar or these artificial
31:51sweeteners that we just talked about before but the question is do these drinks actually give you
31:58energy well there's sugar in here so sugar could turn into calories and technically give us
32:06some energy but that's not what these drinks do these drinks are stimulants they don't give you
32:14energy they borrow energy as i like to call it it's not that these cause your body to make more
32:21energy they just drive your body harder and i like to compare energy drinks to credit cards and
32:28very often they're marketed the same way they give you all these promises of quality of life it's if
32:35you just get one more credit card then your economy will be better than it's ever been
32:41and it seems on the surface like both energy drinks and credit cards can help you get things
32:48done like if you have a crisis if you're in a bind they could get you through that moment the
32:56short-term moment but the problem with both energy drinks and credit card is that afterwards you have
33:04to pay it back so when you borrow you're kind of depleting resources you're actually getting
33:11the things that you want and then later on you have to pay it back and with the energy drinks
33:19what you're doing is you're borrowing from your health and you have to pay it back and in terms
33:24of side effects and what energy drinks actually do is they increase blood pressure they've been
33:30associated with heart palpitations with heart arrhythmias with anxiety with insomnia with
33:40digestive disturbances and with adrenal fatigue so you tell me do they add to your health do they
33:49give you energy or is it not such a good idea and the number one food that destroys your health
33:56is sugary drinks like soda and like we talked about they're full of sugar that has glucose
34:05and fructose they are very often don't use regular sugar but high fructose corn syrup which
34:11is a little bit worse because instead of being bound to each other like in a disaccharide where
34:18they're linked they're floating freely from each other so now you get a higher glycemic index but
34:25you get all the bad effects from the fructose so you're getting on a blood sugar roller coaster
34:33you are getting empty calories and this is why you can have a soda and 10 minutes later you have
34:41another one and another one and another one because there's nothing satisfying about it
34:46and in terms of negative health effects and chronic disease we have the fatty liver that we talked
34:52about we have insulin resistance type 2 diabetes inflammation and dysbiosis and the reason soda
35:00is the worst is that it's everywhere and it is so easy to continue to consume it most of the stuff
35:09that you eat whether it's a cookie or an ice cream you're going to get some fullness some
35:14satisfaction from it and you're going to get tired of it but soda you just keep going keep going it's
35:21so easy to have this giant tumbler and sip it throughout the day and soda contributes the most
35:30the largest amount of sugar and fructose to our diet and it's since the high fructose corn syrup
35:37and the soda really exploded that we saw this epidemic of type 2 diabetes. So have you heard
35:44about naturalism? This is pretty much a lost cause. It used to be a principle that humans
35:52recognize but we've pretty much gone completely away from it and included in this principle is
35:59that if God or nature made it then it's probably okay. We get a check mark. It's kind of hard to
36:09mess up if you just eat natural things. Now if humans have altered it, if we have changed it,
36:18broken it down, added things, pulverized it, reconstituted it, now we get a question mark.
36:25It's not necessarily bad but usually and it pretty much depends on how much did we alter it. Is it
36:34still closer to the original form or is it completely different? So for example if we had a
36:41steak that would be in the first category. That's the way it was made. It's very natural. Now if we
36:50grind it up into ground beef and make patties it's still very very close. It's minimally processed but
36:59if we take that same meat and we dry it and we soak it in chemicals and MSG and flavoring
37:08compounds and we add 30% sugar now we have altered it quite a bit. Now it's not so great anymore.
37:17And then we have completely synthetic. These are molecules and chemicals that don't occur
37:27naturally in nature and definitely are not supposed to be in our bodies and those would be
37:35things like artificial sweeteners but also things like synthetic drugs, things like medication and
37:44I'm not telling you to get off any medication because there's a reason someone prescribed it
37:49for you but we need to understand that a synthetic medication can't add anything to the body that
37:58your body is looking for. It can never increase your function or your health. Sometimes it's
38:05necessary but if there is a way to support the body with natural things then over time you want
38:13to try to build the body up so that your body doesn't need that synthetic thing anymore. If you
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