Top 10 Foods That DESTROY Your HEART

Hello Health Champions today I'm going to talk about the top 10 foods that destroy your heart and that's super important to understand because cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of people in the world 18 million people a year die globally from this which is twice as many as the number two problem which is cancer and that number includes both heart attacks and strokes so we could have a problem where the heart doesn't get enough oxygen and we get a myocardial infarction but it could also be a clot in the brain or a bleed in

the brain called a stroke so both of those will be included in the cardiovascular disease and there's very little disagreement on the fact that cardiovascular disease is caused by food it's our lifestyle it's the way that we eat that causes most of those problems and yet we can't agree on which foods cause the problems so that's what we're going to talk about and we're going to understand that really clearly so it's important you follow through on all of this so you understand the mechanisms because otherwise you will just fall in the trap of believing the

next list or the next person who claims something because if you do a Google Search and you look up, which I did, foods that cause heart disease then what you're going to find is out of 759 Million results the number one results at the top of the page which was not a paid ad, was better health Channel it I think it was in Australia or something but it doesn't really matter because they all say the same thing and they say saturated fat is bad it causes heart disease and it does that because it raises LDL

cholesterol which is a bad cholesterol that causes heart disease and we want to start understanding that that is not how it works that was a truth a myth established 50 60 70 years ago that still stays with us even though the evidence is very very clear that this is not how it works that people who eat good quality saturated fat actually live longer they don't get heart disease it's actually the way to reverse heart disease the mantra that we hear over and over is to avoid animal products such as butter coconut oil and lard we

should not eat beef, lamb, eggs or bacon and all the dairy products should be non-fat or low fat is what they tell us and that is the problem so we need to understand what the mechanisms are instead and then they throw in pastries and biscuits down at the end kind of like an afterthought and they don't realize that these two things don't belong in the same category that the animal products are stable saturated fats there are good for you whereas the pastries are actually really bad because the fat there is primarily a vegetable fat that

they have hardened and turned partially saturated through a process called partially hydrogenated and that turns a fat the vegetable fat that was processed and bad to start with turned it very very toxic that creates all sorts of problems but that's not even the only problem with pastries and biscuits because they also contain sugar and preservatives and modern wheat and other grains and starches so throwing that into a list we often see these different categories of foods that they just mix them together haphazardly without understanding anything about why they would have anything to do with heart

disease so let's understand the real cause of heart disease once and for all and we'll start we'll go backwards we start with cardiovascular disease and we'll work our way up and cardiovascular disease is caused by damaged blood vessels so vascular disease means just that vascular vessels and when they get damage that's when we experience the heart disease if we get little cracks and damage on the inside then we body repairs it and we get sometimes these atherosclerotic plaques and calcifications if we get a bunch of blood clots then they can dislodge and flow into the

brain and cause a stroke so what then causes the damage and the answer is there's two things there's two things that initiate that actually causes the damage and that is inflammation and oxidative stress those that's the end tool that inflicts the damage if you will so then the question is of course working our way up here what causes inflammation and oxidative stress which foods do that and the number one mechanism the number one adaptation in the body that causes these problems is called insulin resistance and it causes both inflammation and oxidative stress and it's the

number one problem for the vast majority of people but it's not the only problem because you can get heart disease without having insulin resistance even though it is the cause in most cases and if you don't have insulin resistance then it could be something like toxins it could be stress or it could be bad fats and we're going to talk about what those are fat is not bad there are good fats and there are bad fats and the number one problem with insulin resistance is sugar and also to a large extent these processed oils which

will explain why they are bad and which ones they are but if we know that this is the sequence this is the causation and we know that the inflammation and the oxidative stress those are the things that execute that inflict the damage we can't talk about the foods without paying attention to this sequence of causation and insulin resistance is an adaptation it is not a disease it's not a state it's an adaptation it's a 10 temporary state that the body develops based on our lifestyle when we change the lifestyle the adaptation changes so insulin resistance

which is basically the same thing as advanced insulin resistance is type 2 diabetes is almost completely reversible in almost all cases and if we can reverse the insulin resistance then we can also reverse the diabetes but then we have to avoid the foods that actually cause it so up at the top row here we have the actual causes of cardiovascular disease because this is a sequence of causation food number 10 is rice and it's not as bad as some of the other Foods we're going to talk about but it can still be a problem and

here is why so we need to understand what glucose and carbohydrates are when we talk about carbohydrates it's plant food that we eat that gets picked apart and we absorb it into the bloodstream as glucose is called blood sugar or blood glucose and that's a six carbon ring that is called glucose now that's a monosaccharide and all plants are made up mostly of glucose when we eat something sweet then it is usually a table sugar it's a disaccharide and if we have glucose on the one side and fructose on the other we have a six

carbon ring and a five carbon ring that is called sucrose or table sugar so this side of it is the same thing and then depending on which disaccharide it is then this one will change up it could be different things and here's the part that most people Miss because they say that sugar is bad but complex carbs are good and here's what they don't understand that they are exactly the same thing that if we take this glucose and we start chaining it together then it becomes long long chains and they're called starch that is what

we find in rice potatoes and Grains Etc when the body stores carbohydrate then we chain them up a little bit different and it's called glycogen but it's the same stuff even wood and fiber is still made up of glucose except it's just configured a little differently so in some cases we can't break it down so now that you understand this once and for all that virtually all carbohydrates are glucose that becomes blood glucose now you can see that starch is 100 glucose and therefore it will raise blood sugar and therefore it will also raise insulin

so anytime that we raise blood sugar the blood sugar cannot get into the cell where it needs to perform work and turn into energy until insulin helps it through the gate so to speak so whenever blood sugar goes up the body responds with insulin it's a beautiful mechanism it works beautifully unless we start using excess carbohydrate if we eat some now and then and seasonally then it's not a problem the system balances itself but when we eat carbohydrate as the foundation of our diet and we eat at 365 days a year all day long now

it becomes a problem it becomes too much and the system becomes overwhelmed and we kind of clog up the system if you will and we develop insulin resistance so the question I always get is well how come Asia could eat rice for all those years and the reason they could do that was that historically there was not an abundance of food they ate their rice but they didn't eat all the processed food in addition they were physically active they had physical labor most of the day they ate two or three meals per day not six

meals they didn't have soft drinks and Coca-Cola to sip on all day long and they had no processed foods because processed foods contains a lot of grain and a lot of sugar and a lot of chemicals so if you eat the rice by itself and that's all you eat or very little else there's no abundance then your body can tolerate it but once you start eating the rice plus the processed foods now it becomes a problem and once you have become insulin resistance once you have already clogged up your your body now rice becomes a

bad thing because it keeps you from reversing it and I want to mention one more thing about what we just talked about relating to carbohydrates because a lot of people know that white sugar is bad and a lot of people have heard that high fructose corn syrup is bad so they say I'll avoid I'll avoid those too but there is really no difference to all the other kinds of sugar so whether we call it brown sugar or light brown sugar or powdered sugar Agave or honey or dextrose or grape sugar or molasses or glucose syrup

it is all the same stuff it is different combinations and ratios of glucose and fructose that's all it is so it's still going to affect your blood sugar the same way it's still going to create insulin resistance and it's going to prevent the reversal and then people go okay I get it I understand that those are not so great but of course fruit is still fantastic right we need to eat more fruits and vegetables right actually no and fruit it's not a bad thing unless you have already developed insulin resistance and poor metabolic health so

most people can have some fruit but if you're trying to reverse a disease condition the sugar in fruit is exactly this it's different ratios of glucose and fructose there is no different the body doesn't metabolize it any differently fruit is better than candy bars because it has more water it has some Fiber and it's processed a little differently in terms of speed but the sugar and the insulin required is exactly the same so if you're metabolically healthy enjoy some fruit if you're diabetic then cut it down to a bare minimum you can still have some

berries here and there but I would avoid fruit and definitely don't buy in to the slogan of eating more fruits and vegetables more fruits and vegetables you eat more vegetables and less fruit and like we said starch is 100 sugar it breaks down into glucose and that includes things like rice and potato and beans they have some other things in there but they're very high in carbohydrate corn is very high that's why they make corn starch from it and tapioca and sorghum are also different forms of starch so a lot of people think that yeah

I don't eat the grain I heard that gluten and wheat is bad so I eat gluten-free pizza and I eat gluten-free bread and so forth well you're still eating 100 sugar in the starch that they substitute so they often put in rice flour or tapioca or sorghum but it's still all starch so don't fall for that food number nine is bread and all the things we talked about for Rice holds true for bread but this one is a little worse the starch is the same the insulin is the same but the allergies are much much

more common with bread and with wheat and with gluten and a lot of people having trouble with gut health is because of allergies to bread and to gluten so even if you don't test as allergic to gluten you might want to cut it out and just see what happens to these things and if you have allergies if you have poor gut health that creates inflammation that contributes to cardiovascular disease food number eight that causes heart disease is alcohol and why would that be well alcohol is natural in small amounts it is a natural substance we

have an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase that is a fit that we can break that down so it's not a poison in that sense however when we have X success then it overwhelms the liver because the liver is the only place that can process and break down alcohol so you put it in the body and it circulates and it affects every cell but the liver is the only place that can break it down and get rid of it to neutralize it if you will so a lot of things that are not necessarily toxic they become bad

when we have too much so a glass of wine here and there is not a problem a bottle of wine every day is a big problem and when we overwhelm the liver we create something called fatty liver it used to be the most fatty liver was called alcoholic fatty liver disease and now most fatty liver is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease caused by fructose so if you remember sucrose is half glucose white table sugar is half glucose and half fructose that fructose is very similar to alcohol in the sense that only the liver can process it

so a little bit is Perfectly Natural like a few berries here and there not a problem excess of fructose and sugar and soda and candy and processed food now we overwhelm the liver and we create a fatty liver and once that liver is filled up with fat it becomes very insulin resistance and because the liver is kind of the metabolic Hub that fat spreads into the abdominal cavity and sets the tone for the rest of the body so we become insulin resistant when we have a fatty liver so if you want to enjoy a drink

now and then less is better but if you do then I would suggest to you that liquor pure liquor gin vodka whiskey rum cognac Etc is the best one to do because it is distilled it's evaporated so it is basically sugar free wine is fermented grapes which have a lot of sugar but the yeast consume a lot of the sugar so most of the sugar from the grapes are gone and there's just a little bit left in the wine so again it's not a good thing that I recommend but if you're going to have some

you might as well not have the worst so a little bit worse than Wine is beer because beer has a lot of carbohydrate it's made from grain and malt and the worst would be mixed drinks because now you get the alcohol from the drink but you also add a bunch of sugar so now you have two things that only the liver can process it's like you're giving it a double load or more compared to the liquor and I would say that sugar is probably even worse than alcohol because alcohol you know when you consume too

much but sugar you don't know that it's very very addictive and when you had one you just want one more and one more and one more of whatever it is you're consuming number seven is ultra processed foods so Whole Foods like meat and nuts and eggs and fish and vegetables and tubers and fruit they are natural Whole Foods like the Earth produced it but when we chop it up and we dry it and we pulverize it and we add things we we put it in a box now it becomes Ultra processed and that type of

food has been around for a while but up until maybe 50 years ago it was less than 10 percent of the food that we consume and today in the United States it's 73 percent of the food we eat 73 of the calories come from Ultra processed foods and for the world as a whole it's a little lower than that but it's becoming more and more of a problem a lot of countries are up to 50 percent or more and the problem here is the ultra processed foods they are full of sugar they're full of all

these things that we're going to talk about in this video that you don't want you find them in processed foods so toxic chemicals preservatives flavor agents things that turn make you addictive and there's a whole chemical industry that come up with concoctions to make this bland food taste more so they base it on salt and sugar and and artificial flavorings to make it attractive and of course they also use seed oils and oftentimes hydrogenated seed oils and shortening because that oil is so bad that not even the bacteria want it so it helps turn the

food stable and there is also devoid of nutrients when they process it so harshly they they destroy a lot of nutrients to start with but they also don't want they remove a lot of nutrients on purpose because the nutrients that can do good in the body they are also the things that would react with air and heat and light so if they the more they can put these processed oils and remove nutrients the longer the food lasts on the Shelf which is of course good from a manufacturer or a store point of view because it

doesn't spoil but it's bad for us because it's not food anymore and as a result the whole world is becoming overfed and undernourished we get lots and lots of calories but we don't get the building blocks that we actually need as a result we overeat because the body says I'm still not getting all the things I want keep eating and of course they've added all these chemicals that make it attractive so we keep eating and as a result we clog up the body so poor metabolic health and insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome and all these

things it's really just that we're not processing through where the bodies we're putting more stuff in and it's becoming clogged so if we can just stop doing that then the body can process through and clean it up again number six is fast food which is a type of processed food but a lot of people think that because it's warm and it looks like food and it's kind of similar in some ways and they do put some meat and things in there then it looks to them like real food it seems like it would have some

protein from the burger and the fish and the chicken and the bun has some grain in it and there's some veggies sometimes a little bit of pickles and onion and so forth but the problem is also then you get a sugary bun with it and the sugary bun is like we talked about it's bread it is pure sugar made of starch the dressing has a bunch of seed oils and sugar in it and then they cook the potatoes which is pure starch in seed oils and they reuse the oil we're going to talk more about

that oil so fried food also contributes to all these problems and then of course they sell you a soda and or a milkshake with that so recently I did an experiment where I ate 100 hamburger patties in 10 days and with that I mostly ate salads and I contrasted that because I ate about 2500 calories per day and I contrasted that with if you had eaten the 2500 calories in a fast food restaurant and what I came up with was very very scary this is not what I ate this is what it would have been

in a fast food restaurant with the same number of calories you would get over 300 grams of carbohydrate you only get 70 grams of protein and about a hundred grams of fat which isn't all that much but it's the wrong kind of fat and so carbs were 65 which is pretty much on par with the recommendations nine percent protein and 25 fat so these match the macros that we get recommended so the fast food industry they jump on the bandwagon and say hey look we have the carbs and the fat and the protein that they

recommend but it is way way too much carbs and what they don't mention is that with this kind of food you also get 150 grams of added sugar per day which is pretty close to the norm to the average of what people eat so now let's talk about seed oils that's number five so recently someone asked me why does he always bash the seed oils which and the plant oils and the vegetable oils but then he says that extra virgin olive oil is good so let's clarify find that yes they're all made from Plants but

there's an enormous difference between them so the seed oils made from seeds are high in omega-6 and we do need both Omega-3s and omega-6s but they need to be a approximately in a one to one ratio and when we eat these seedels they're about a 20 to 1 where the omega-6 being the high one which is pro-inflammatory so again if it's in Balance it's not a bad thing when it's out of balance it becomes pro-inflammatory and when we make these oils not only are they high in omega-6 but we process them very very harshly it's

not that easy to get oil out of seeds you have to apply a lot of pressure a lot of heat and very often even chemicals they add solvents like acetone to extract the fats out of the seeds or whatever grain in some cases and in doing that the fats become oxidized and rancid so when we talk about vegetable oils or seed oils there's three oils in particular that account for something like 99 the vast majority that soybean oil canola oil and corn oil and of course soybean oil is the bean it's a legume canola is

a seed it's from rape seed and corn is a grain and it's not all that easy to get the oil out of these raw materials so that's why they have to use the pressure the Heat and the chemicals so now they damage it and the oil tastes terrible so now they have to bleach it and they have to de-gum it and deodorize it and go through all these different chemical processes and in the end you end up with this Bland absolutely tasteless absolutely destroyed oil that can sit on a shelf for years so when I

say that vegetable oils are bad these are the kinds I'm talking about because they've gone through that process there's nothing wrong with oil per se just because it comes from a plant so if it's been minimally processed then it's perfectly okay so when they make extra virgin olive oil the olives are very very high in fat coconut is very very high in fat and if you just apply a little bit of pressure then you can get the oil out and you haven't destroyed the oil in any way even canola you can't get as much oil

out of it but you can do cold pressed canola and now it's a completely different things it wouldn't be my favorite oil but it would be okay if it is cold pressed and organic and then it's still fall in this minimally processed and it's very very different from this harshly over processed vegetable oil and there are other oils as well such as Walnut or avocado oil that they can do a cold pressing but what you will find is that these are all going to have a fairly strong flavor if they don't process them a lot

of the flavor compounds are still going to be in the oil which I think is kind of nice but a lot of people don't like that because they're accustomed to that bland oil so if you make mayonnaise or something then these are going to have too strong a flavor for the most part problem food number four is fried food and it's not specifically the fact that we're frying it it is again about what kind of oil are we using and I'm calling it seed oil but it's really all these harshly over processed Bland vegetable oils

and as if that's not bad enough it's the fact that we reuse it over and over that we reheat it over and over then it stays at a high temperature all day long and in doing that it gets damaged it gets more and more oxidized and it gets more and more rancid so it start off with a terrible product and then it gets worse and worse and doing that it creates a lot of oxidative stress on the body so if you were to fry something it wouldn't be a terrible idea if you wanted to once

in a while to use lard or Tallow or coconut oil and these are stable they're heat stable they resist oxidation and turning rancid because they're already saturated and that's why these oils these fats are good because they don't get rancid they don't become oxidized when exposed to air you can keep them on the counter you can keep your coconut oil on the counter for months and it's still good food number three is margarine and that's kind of taken a step back lately not as many people use it and they have developed some better forms but

it's still a huge problem and they still make them from the same oils that we talked about there are some Brands now they're starting to use some some olive oil Etc but don't believe all that hype because they're not using extra virgin olive oil they're using a much more processed version of olive oil otherwise it the flavor would be too strong so there are some decent margarine or butter Alternatives but be very careful and know that they're not always putting the best stuff in there and in order to get an oil to stop being an

oil and turn into something spreadable they need to hydrogenate it they need to harden it and it used to be that they did partially hydrogenated and that turned out to be really really bad so now they do more fully hydrogenated but if you check the labels you'll find that virtually all margarine still has partially hydrogenated on the label and when you partially hydrogenate something you turn it into a trans fat and a trans fat it starts off being one of these oils we talked about but then we change the molecule even more so now it's

really really super toxic and it changes the function of your mitochondria and it basically poisons them your mitochondria is the thing inside your cell that makes 95 percent of your energy the energy for your thinking and doing everything you do comes from the energy from mitochondria and these mitochondria are very sensitive to oxidative stress to free radicals and these trans fats just one of a thousand bad things they do is they interfere they increase the free radicals in the mitochondria and basically poison them so a lot of longevity has to do with how healthy your

mitochondria are so that's why they figured this out and now trans fats are banned basically and they have to put it on the label if they have any trans fats so it must be disclosed but can you trust it what does it mean if something is trans fat free because we know when something is partially hydrogenated it does have trans fats the question is how much so you'll find very often on the label that it's partially hydrogenated and yet it says on the front of the package trans fat free and the reason they can do

that is they reduce the serving size down to something very very small and as long as there is less than 0.4999 grams of trans fats per serving they round it to zero and now they call it trans fat free but it's not trans fat free it's just less than half a gram per serving which can still be a huge problem so just understand what they're doing and and how this stuff works food number two is donuts and it's not just donuts but understand as I'm going through these categories it's the food I talk about and

all related Foods that's why we have to understand the principles and the mechanisms rather than just memorizing a list so what's so bad about Donuts well it combines virtually every one of the bad things that we have talked about in this list so they're Shock full of sugar they are full of starch in the flour they make them they have gluten in them which causes allergies and sensitivities they cook them fry them in seed oil they have some oil in the dough already and then they fry them in more of this oil and with the

deep frying they go through all of the same problems it's like it's almost like they tried to combine all the bad things the only thing we don't have in here really is alcohol and they would probably try to put it in there but it would cook out when they deep fry it so they missed that one and of course they'll have some chemicals on those artificial fake flavors that they put in all that processed foods and problem food number one I would say is sugar and the reason I put that I would say Donuts are

probably a little worse in how it combines all those bad factors but sugar is the number one worst food because it's everywhere it's empty calories we don't get any nutrition it upsets virtually every metabolic process in the body fifty percent of the sugar is the fructose which acts very much like alcohol and creating fatty liver and it is very very addictive so a lot of the things that are bad for you there's kind of a limit in how much you will eat you'll have a few things you'll have a few bites and then then you're

good you go eat something else but sugar doesn't work like that after you've had a soda or you can have another and very often people can drink a two liter bottle in a day they can drink a bottle or a half a gallon or a gallon of sweet tea in a day because sugar is so addictive and it doesn't leave any sense of fullness at all and like I said the problem is that it is in so many things some people are aware of it some people don't really think about it but in things like

soda that you can drink one after the other and when I say sugar I'm including high fructose corn syrup they're the same molecule just slightly different configuration it's in cookies and desserts and ice creams and in food that we all very often don't think about like barbecue sauce is sweeter than Coca-Cola even and it is ubiquitous it's in virtually all processed foods and that's the problem with sugar is that we get it everywhere and remember that everything that we talked about here is bad because it contributes to inflammation oxidative stress and insulin resistance and virtually

all of the foods you're told that causes heart disease are fine if you lay off the stuff that we talked about as bad if you enjoyed this video you're going to love that one and if you truly want to master Health by understanding how the body really works make sure you subscribe hit that Bell and turn on all the notifications so you never miss a life-saving video