Top 10 Foods That DESTROY Your HEALTH

Hello Health Champions. Today we're going to  talk about the top 10 foods that can destroy your health and why would anyone eat something  that could destroy their health and this is why you really need to watch this video and pay  close attention because maybe you don't care maybe you're saying hey life is too short to not  enjoy it to the fullest I'm going to eat what I want no matter what even if my health suffers  or it could be that you don't think it matters a whole lot there's a lot of people who don't  feel very different based on what they eat maybe they haven't gotten really sick yet maybe they're  young and they just haven't noticed a whole lot or it could be that you've been told the wrong  thing and this is the biggest reason that you want to watch this video carefully because this  is most people out there do not really understand what food is there's a growing number of people  who are sick and who are trying to do the right things they're trying to learn they're trying to  eat the right things and take care of themselves but they keep being told the wrong things now  here's the thing health is not complicated it's really quite simple and so is food but we have to  stop nitpicking we need to understand the bigger picture we need to stop just looking at lists  of food and hearing tidbits of information and getting more and more confused what we need to  do is to understand the mechanisms because the more lists you read about things the more you're  going to find lists that conflict with each other and if you don't understand why the foods are on  the list you just get more and more confused food number 10 is white bread and you're probably  going duh because everyone has been told you have heard that white bread is really bad but I'm  also willing to bet that you have been told that wheat bread is really good but here's the problem  they're both wheat wheat is just the type of grain and when they call it white that's not really  something very different it just means that there's less five F and less vitamins left because  it has been more processed and when they say wheat bread they're not really talking about the type  of grain they're usually referring to a whole grain bread that has a little bit more fiber and a  little bit more vitamins and now what we're being told is that white Bread's bad because it's empty  calories it's highly processed Etc but that we should eat lots of whole wheat whole grain bread  because this fiber slows down the absorption and lowers the glycemic index is what we're being  told so glycemic index is a measurement of how quickly your blood sugar Rises after you eat a  certain food so let's take a look at how big a difference it is and for white bread the glycemic  index is 75 which is really really fast and for wheat bread it's 74 that's not a big difference  when I talk about a low glycemic index food I'm talking about things like meat and avocado and  nuts and healthy fats and so forth and those are going to measure in single digits or maybe in  the teens and the amount of fiber that you're getting from these grains is not a whole lot the  white bread would have a half a gram per slice the wheat would have 2. 0 two grams per slice  that's not a whole lot because you would get that much or more from virtually any serving of  vegetables and what we're really looking for is the soluble fiber so fiber is just anything that  we can't digest they call it roughage sometimes but the really use part of fiber is the soluble  fiber because that can be used as food by your gut bacteria even though you can't break down  fiber they can break down the soluble portion so in white bread the soluble portion is only  0.

15 grams and in whole wheat it's 0. 6 so the whole grain wheat will give you a little bit more  but neither of them will give you a substantial amount there's nothing to write home about and  you're much better off eating other vegetables and getting several servings because what white  bread and what any kind of bread does mostly is just to jack up your blood sugar and cause insulin  spikes and blood sugar roller coasters but how is it that something that's called a complex slow  carb gets absorbed so quickly and why is it that so few people know about this you may have seen  me draw this out before but I'm going to do it one more time because this is still a mystery to most  people this is called a glucose molecule this is a sixc carbon ring that when we eat foods containing  glucose this gets into the bloodstream and becomes blood sugar blood glucose now we understand what  a sugar is it tastes sweet but if we have this in the form of chains if we take these same glucose  molecules and we link them up in long chains and this could be chains of hundreds or thousands  or even tens of thousands of molecules now it's called a starch but it's the exact same molecule  it's just hooked together by a linkage and this is called a sugar this is called a starch but as  soon as you put this in your mouth as soon as you take a bite of bread there's an enzyme called amas  that starts breaking down these little linkages and you already are going to break off some of  these individual glucose molecules already in the mouth before you even have finished chewing or  swallowing some of these are going to be separated and they're ready to be absorbed as soon as you  swallow and this is why starches contribute so much to increased blood sugar and the fact that  there's a little bit left of fiber little more fiber in the wheat and the whole grain bread  these still break off so quickly that there's virtually no difference between them so next time  you're told to avoid white bread you need to put the white in parentheses and you need to underline  bread and understand that the same properties hold true for both of them and here's a little tidbit  for comparison when insulin dependent diabetics take too much insulin or they don't eat enough  for a while then their blood sugar could drop to the point where they become unconscious and  if you come across a person like that then you need to get give them some sugar you need to give  them something that raises blood sugar very very quickly and what you usually told to give them  is a candy bar or more popularly orange juice or a soda something that's very sweet and orange  juice is indeed very sweet but it only has a glycemic index of 48 so that's still high on on  my scale but it's not as high as starch because these little things get lopped off so quickly that  they are becoming glucose within minutes and then to make things worse wheat and the grain wheat is  one of the most allergenic foods that we have most people have some degree of sensitivity to wheat  whether they know it or not and when you have a sensitivity reaction now that creates inflammation  and and it can also contribute to digestive issues so now that we understand this principle here  now we have a few dishonorable mentions on to add to the list and that would be things like rice  and quick oats and pretty much grains in general because they're all mostly starch now I don't  think everyone needs to avoid grains completely but if you eat some grains then you need to focus  on the Ancient Grains the ones that humans haven't changed or manipulated grains that are pretty much  the way they were tens of thousands of years ago and the earliest grains were called emmer and in  corn and some more of these Ancient Grains would be spelt which is another wheat and rye and oats  and if you eat some of these grains then you need to focus on the whole grain which means you take  the whole kernel and grind it down to flour or better yet you eat the whole kernel for example  if you have oats and you keep the kernel intact maybe you chop it into a couple of pieces that's  called steel cut oats and now you still have the whole kernel and it is vastly different than  the quick oats that have been steamrolled and flattened to paper thin because they're going to  be absorbed much much quicker it takes the body seconds to minutes to start breaking off these  molecules of glucose whereas in the whole kernel the surface area keeps it together the surface  area is much smaller and therefore we're going to absorb it much much slower another thing you've  probably heard is to go glutenfree and I think that's true for most people I think that the vast  majority of people would do better to reduce or eliminate gluten from their diet but it's far  from the only thing that matters there's other things especially in the modern wheat that's  been hybridized so many times and it's grown with glyphosate and so forth even so most people  would do better without gluten in my opinion and the only things up here that don't have gluten  would be rice and oats and then you want to keep in mind that you need to get if you're very  sensitive to gluten you need to get the certified gluten-free oats because they don't have gluten  in themselves but they're usually processed on the same type of equipment so if you buy it in  the store and it doesn't say glutenfree it will have some gluten in it and then food number nine  is fruit juice and number eight is sugary cereal and I'm going to talk about them together because  they are so often considered part of a healthy breakfast how many million times have you heard  that in a commercial and a typical healthy such breakfast which a lot of people eat if you eat a  breakfast buffet in a hotel or in a restaurant you would probably get some orange juice some skim  milk with cereal you might get some toast and jam and then of course some coffee with sugar  and cream or half and half and a lot of people you'd be surprised how many people would pick this  breakfast over something like sausage or bacon or eggs or omelet and the biggest reason they would  pick it is that this is a lowfat breakfast but fat is not the thing that matters what matters is what  is it that's going to jack up your blood sugar and how processed is it and these are highly highly  processed whereas if you got some sausage and eggs they are minimally processed they're very close  to how that food occurs naturally and now if we add up the carbohydrates here we're going to get  about 25 grams from the orange juice 12 from the milk 34 from the cereal 49 from toast and jam and  about 11 from the sugar and the creamer or milk or half and half and if we add this up we're going  to get 131 gram of net carbohydrates and it's different for different people but in my opinion  that's about twice as much carbohydrate as you should eat on a daily basis this is twice as much  as you should have on a in a whole day and if you are overweight or if you're trying to reverse a  condition of inflammation or diabetes or insulin resistance then it should be e even less than half  of that if you want to make some good progress but that's not even the worst of it because what  really matters is also the type of sugar that we have so glucose is one type of sugar that's a  single ring but when we talk about sugar for the most part and when people talk about sugar that  you want to avoid it's going to be the added sugar or sugar in orange juice because that sugar has  has two sugars in it they're linked together so it's a six carbon ring called glucose and then  there is a five carbon ring called fructose and this is white table sugar and the reason you're  told to avoid the table sugar the added sugar is that this is more than twice as bad with these  two molecules the glucose portion will raise blood sugar and that's bad enough but that's not really  a disaster by itself the fructose is the disaster because fructose is very much like alcohol in  that it can only be processed through the liver and therefore if you eat a little bit no problem  if you eat a lot now you will quickly overwhelm that liver and cause a fatty liver and this is  the difference between cultures that have eaten starch for centuries they've eaten rice they've  eaten bread and they haven't developed a whole lot of chronic disease or diabetes but then they  become sedentary and they add the added sugar with the fructose portion and now we see diabetes rates  increasing exponentially so if we go back and look at this so-called healthy breakfast we see that  the orange juice almost all of the carbohydrates are sugar and even though this is not added sugar  the naturally occurring sugar in orange juice is exactly the same as the added sugar as white  table sugar it is no difference it's glucose and fructose in roughly a 5050 ratio and then  the skim milk is going to have about 12 grams of sugar cereal depending on if we eat more of a  kid cereal or an adult cereal is going to vary so 18 gram is more on the sweeter side but it's not  extreme and then we have the toast and the jam and most of this is from the jam but believe it or  not something like six to eight grams of sugar is going to be in a couple of pieces of toast because  they add sugar to the toast as well and then we have a couple of teaspoons of sugar in the coffee  and now we have 83 gam of sugar in this breakfast and the only sugar that's not exactly this the  50/50 ratio of glucose and fructose is the skim milk because the sugar in milk is different  it's lactose which isn't nearly as bad but if we subtract the lactose and divide by two we're  getting that the fructose portion of this that is going to clog up the liver and act like alcohol  pretty much is 39 gram of fructose and this is why once we have started eating all this sugar that  Sugar specifically fructose is the number one cause of fatty liver it used to be that alcoholics  only could get fatty liver now most is called non-alcoholic fatty liver and it's the fructose  doing it and we start getting adult onset type 2 diabetes in pre- teenagers so I hope you can  see that it's not such a healthy breakfast after all and it breaks my heart when I see families in  hotels and they feed their kids this stuff and the kids are so addicted to it they won't even have  a slice of ham or a little bit of an egg because this is the stuff that's the sweet stuff they're  hooked on food number seven that destroys your body is fast food and very often if you read these  nutrition sheets in fast food restaurants they're going to talk all about macros and calories and  macros is how many calories what percentage of calories come from fat protein and carbohydrates  and very often they're not going to look terrible compared to the recommendations so they promote  this food as being relatively healthy or no wor worse than the average fair so let's look at some  of the differences between the fast food and the real food for starters real food is going to  have much more nutrients it's going to have enzymes processed food fast food is really not  going to have any enzymes at all and real food is also going to have a whole lot more fiber so most  people don't realize this but real food contains all the nutrients and all the en enzymes that we  need to process it and break it down the reason food has vitamins is that we need the vitamins to  utilize the food we need the vitamins to turn it into energy and into body parts and reconfigure  something called metabolism and anabolism to break down and rebuild we need the nutrients the  minerals the vitamins and the enzymes and one of the big reason we get nutritionally deficient from  fast food is that they have killed off they have depleted most of the nutrients and they've killed  off all the enzymes in the food so instead the fast food is going to have sugar and chemicals  and hormones sugar makes people eat this Bland tasteless food chemicals will add more to create a  flavor profile because they killed off everything that tastes any and because they use the cheapest  possible ingredients it's going to have all of the worst chemicals and some hormones left in there so  in other words real food is going to be complete it's going to have everything in it that you need  whereas fast food will be incomplete or depleted real food which has more protein more healthy  fats and more fiber is going to be absorbed slowly your blood sugar is barely going to budge  at all so if you start off at 85 which is a good fasting blood sugar you could eat a big meal  of whole food and it probably won't go over 110 whereas with fast food it is harshly processed  it is depleted has tons of sugar tons of starch which is processed so that the starch is released  very very quickly so now you're going to get these blood sugar spikes and with Whole Food real food  you will stay full much much longer whereas with fast food you get hungry again after a couple of  hours and also real food is going to have real fats they're going to have healthy fats that heal  the body that's going to be the polyunsaturated fats in fish it's going to be the saturated and  monounsaturated fats in meat and olive oil and nuts whereas the fast food is going to have all  of it is going to be processed plant oils there's going to be a little bit of fat in from the meat  but the vast majority of fat in the fast food meal is going to be plant-based harshly processed oils  and food number six that can kill you is alcohol now the thing we need to understand is alcohol  is natural it's a natural substance it has often been associated with longevity with living longer  having a good life and there's a lot of cultures that drink wine as a food beverage it's part of  their culture to drink on a regular basis and I don't think that there's really anything healthy  about alcohol but what it does do is it helps with stress reduction it helps people feel good and  feeling good is one of the the most important things if you want to get healthy because when  you're happy the body heals when you're stressed and feel miserable you're interfering with that  healing mechanism now here's the problem though the wines the alcohol's ability to make you feel  better is what we sometimes call psychotrophic it can change how the mind works it can change  how you feel and now it also becomes very very addictive so while some people can have a glass  of wine and relax other people will just want more and more and more and it's this excess that  is very very dangerous very destructive because now not only do you get addicted to alcohol but  you don't really care about eating either so you get most of your calories from alcohol you get a  fatty liver you get severely nutrient deficient and this excess alcohol will destroy both the  brain and the liver and the fifth thing you want to stay away from is artificial sweeteners and I  can't tell you enough how much I dislike these the main ones are going to be aspartame sucrose acis  sulfane potassium or acis sulfame K and an older one was sacarin this was the first one on the  scene and it's not used so much anymore because these others are preferred flavor-wise so these  four sweeteners are noncaloric meaning your body cannot derive any calories or any energy from them  and that's why they're so popular because we think calories are the enemy and if we just eat things  without calories we'll be fine and you've probably heard people use these words interchangeably they  say non-caloric or artificial sweetener as if they were the same thing no but there are also some  things that are non-caloric but not artif icial and here I'm talking about Stevia and monk fruit  which are plant extracts so artificial sweeteners they are artificial chemicals that are similar  to pesticides and sucrose for example belongs in a family of chemicals known as chlorocarbons and  the type of bond between chlorine and carbon that occurs in sucralose does not occur in nature  no matter what you've been told instead it's similar to a lot of pesticides that have been  banned such as DDT for example and there's dozens of other chlorocarbons that have been banned and  cancerous and recently they found that sucralose will actually break down DNA so these are things  that you absolutely want to stay away from on the other hand the stevia and the monk fruit are  plant extract and you can use them safely but in moderation because large amounts of anything can  start upsetting especially because these things are extracted if you ate the whole stevia plant  then you'll probably be fine and eat as much as you like and the only drawback that I've heard  about Stevia and monk fruit and this is kind of new and not very well known exactly how it works  is that some of these sweet tasting things may still affect your gut Flora negatively so I would  say for the time being use them sparingly use it for a treat but don't just bury everything you eat  in Stevia and monk fruit the fourth thing you want to avoid is deep fried foods for the most part  because it's not the deep frying in itself that's a problem even though that's what you've been told  that fried food has too many calories that's not what the problem is the problem is the type of oil  so they start off with a plant oil from either a soybean or a canola or a corn oil typically and  these are fairly high in polyunsaturated fatty acids and we've been told that those are generally  good that those are the fats you want that's not true we need a tiny tiny little bit of poly unsat  at at fats called EPA and DHA but they should come from fish oil the other polyunsaturated fatty  acids are very very sensitive they break down they're not supposed to be consumed for energy  for us to use as fuel and when we process these plant oils we take these polyunsaturated fatty  acids we expose them to high heat and pressure and they are super sensitive they'll go rancid  in a matter of hours or days in room temperature and now we expose them to this high heat and  pressure so we destroy them very quickly and to make matters even worse they even use chemicals  and solvents like acetone to get the last bit of oil out of the raw materials so the first problem  with deep frying is that almost all of it is using this type of oil the second problem is that  because it's very very expensive they can't throw the oil away after each batch so they keep  reusing it over and over and over and now that oil for every time the longer it sits there it gets  more oxidized and more rancid and more toxic and food number three is margarine this used to be  something that we were told was so healthy it would revolutionize our health we should eat all  margarine and no butter and this was introduced in the 1950 50s and 60s and it really took off  and the oil that they use for mine is exactly the type of oil that we just talked about how  they destroy the oil how it's so unnatural and unhealthy to start with but then they do one  more thing to make margarine because oil is liquid and margarine is solid how do they do that  well they use a process called hydrogenation so now they take the oil and they bombard it with  hydrogen under heat and pressure and now you get something called partially hydrogenated oils and  these are also known as trans fats and these are universally recognized as so bad that they haven't  been banned but almost you have to label all food packages whether they have trans fats or not but  it's not quite that simple either because there are ways to get around it and a lot of packages  that you find are going to say trans fat free and some of them are going to say trans fat free per  serving so what does that mean well it means that they shrink down the serving so that as long as  there's less than half a gram of trans fats they can round it to zero so if you have 0.