Top 10 Foods That Can't Be Called HEALTHY ANYMORE!

Hello Health Champions!. Today we're going to talk  about 10 foods that used to be able to be called  

healthy that now may not have that privilege  anymore. So the healthy have turned unhealthy  

and one of those Foods would be something like  fruit Pebbles where they have way too much sugar  

a bunch of artificial colors a bunch of processed  grains and this is no big surprise to most people  

and neither is Lucky Charms exact same scenario  or Froot Loops so a lot of these foods are going  

to be cereals but we'll talk about them and there  is a whole bunch more Foods so most people are not  

surprised we know that this is absolute garbage  and it's a tragedy that we're putting this stuff  

in kids so most people are going to say well it's  about time but it's not that simple because we are  

basically in for a food fight and what's happened  now is that the FDA is proposing some changes to  

the rules about how manufacturers are allowed to  label food products so a lot of things that have  

been able to be called healthy there that's going  to change if the FDA gets their ideas through now  

let me preface this by saying that in general I am  not a fan of what the FDA or the USDA recommends I  

do grant them that the guidelines they put out  are slightly better than the standard American  

diet because the standard American diet is ultra  processed it has tons of bad fats and tons of  

processed sugars and added sugar so the guidelines  are slightly better in that they recommend a  

little bit less sugar a little bit less fat and  more whole Foods whole grain in this case which I  

don't agree with because I don't think that people  should eat grains as a staple it should not be a  

foundation of any diet especially not the modern  wheat but these guidelines are still slightly  

better than what people are eating however in the  way that they recommend low-fat and high grain  

with high glycemic indexes that drive blood sugar  up and they still allow a significant amount of  

sugar when people try to cut back on fats they  generally eat more of something else and that  

other thing would be carbohydrates and now we're  promoting insulin resistance and degenerative  

disease so again I'm not a fan the guidelines are  slightly better than what people are eating but I  

still think that they contribute or even cause  disease in susceptible people even so I'm going  

to give the FDA some credit now that they finally  they do something and this is super super exciting  

to me it's a step in the right direction it's a  sign of some kind of Awakening that they can't  

just put unlimited amounts of sugar in products  and get away with calling them healthy so as part  

of this new proposal they are saying that in order  for a food to be be able to be called healthy it  

has to provide certain nutrients certain base  groups and one of the base groups is fruits and  

vegetables another one is that it has to have more  than a certain amount of grains especially whole  

grains it has to have more than a certain amount  of protein and it has to have more than a certain  

amount of dairy so again I don't agree with with  these but this is what they're putting out that in  

order to be cold healthy they have to have more of  one of these basic food groups that they consider  

a foundation and of course the dairy they're  recommending is low fat but on the other hand  

in order to be able to be called healthy it also  has to have less than a certain amount of sodium  

and less than a certain amount of saturated fat  and also added sugar so again I don't agree with  

most of these because fruits and vegetables are  not the same thing non-starchy vegetables leafy  

greens you can eat almost unlimited amounts as  long as you're not sensitive to that particular  

food but fruits should not be grouped together  with vegetables fruits is more like candy you  

eat it once in a while you eat it sparingly  you eat it seasonally it's not more is better  

vegetables I agree if you tolerate them well more  is typically better but we can't group fruits and  

vegetables together like that also grains I don't  think should be part of our diet hardly at all  

I think there's some Ancient Grains that some  people can tolerate in moderation but it should  

not be a staple of our diet especially not the  modern wheat and the modern strains of grains  

that they're promoting I agree that protein is  something that's a good foundation especially if  

it's from a healthy animal and dairy I don't agree  with the way they're promoting it because they're  

saying that the milk and the low-fat milk are  the things that you should promote and increase  

whereas I think you should increase the high fat  the butter and the cheese and the fermented foods  

like yogurt and sour cream because those are the  ones that have much less sensitivity and they  

have a much better food value I think that the  sodium recommendations are completely misguided  

and I'm not going to get into depth because I've  done several videos on that but sodium does not  

cause disease it can make a disease worse if you  already have it in a small percent of people who  

don't have functioning kidneys but if if you are  a healthy person then sodium does not create any  

kind of problem there's probably more people  who are deficient in sodium as a result of the  

guidelines also saturated fat is not a problem  unless maybe I would say it's a slight problem  

if you eat it together with a bunch of processed  foods so if you eat sugar and donuts and beer  

Etc. then you can't really burn through that  saturated fat and the saturated fat would  

contribute to your metabolic disease but it's not  the saturated fat that's doing it it's the insulin  

that is causing the body to hold on to things  and finally about the sugar I completely agree  

that you should cut way way back and nothing  with sugar in it should be able to be called  

healthy however I think that the guidelines are  not nearly strict enough I think you should eat  

way less probably less than half or even less than  a quarter than what the guidelines recommend about  

added sugar and the other huge problem about  the added sugar is that it's a separate item  

on the food label so if something like orange  juice has tons and tons of sugar where the sugar  

molecules are identical to the added sugar than  if it's naturally occurring in the orange before  

you squeeze it then you don't have to label  it as added sugar so it's very deceptive it  

gives people the idea that the sugar in orange  juice is somehow very different from the sugar  

in table sugar which it is not but as a result  of these new guidelines or proposed guidelines  

things like frozen pizza cannot be called healthy  anymore it has too much sodium according to the  

guidelines it has too much saturated fat and it  probably also doesn't have enough whole grain  

because it needs to provide something from one  of those basic food groups and if it's just all  

white flour it doesn't count anymore same thing  with TV dinners a lot of frozen food a huge huge  

industry has typically more sugar more sodium  and not enough whole grain again if you make the  

noodles from white flour then it doesn't count  but on the flip side of this very interestingly  

there's now some foods that used to be called  unhealthy that we can now call Healthy so this  

is a wonderful step in the right direction so we  have salmon avocado olive oil canola and water  

according to the previous guidelines from 30 years  ago we could not call these things healthy but now  

we can so salmon obviously especially if it's wild  caught is a fantastic food lots of Omega-3s lots  

of good protein avocado I don't think there's  many question marks about anymore there's still  

some people of course with fat phobia that don't  recognize what an awesome food it is but if you  

watch this Channel and if you're low carb or keto  you know how fantastic avocado is I typically buy  

these two or three bags at a time because we  go through them so quickly olive oil can now  

be called healthy and canola can and of course I  am going to point out here the difference between  

the two that if you were able to find cold pressed  unfiltered canola it would not be the worst thing  

in the world it wouldn't be the best either  wouldn't even touch olive oil or in my opinion  

butter but it wouldn't be the worst however  99.99 of all the canola oil that you're going  

to buy and that you're going to find as a result  of the recommendations that this is something good  

is going to be very very harshly processed it's  a seed oil so the omega-6 omega-3 balance isn't  

terrible to start with but whenever they process  it with chemicals with high heat they filter it  

they deodorize it they degum it just like all  other mass-produced oils they ruin it they make  

it rancid they take away any sort of benefit that  it might have and it becomes a very very Bland and  

processed and bad food so I would stay away from  canola if you really really like it and you can  

find it cold pressed and unfiltered then sure go  for it but I would just suggest get the olive oil  

and finally water can now be called healthy before  it didn't have enough nutrients you couldn't make  

any sort of Claim about it but now at least  because it's not harmful if it's clean water  

whether it's still water or carbonated you can now  call that healthy but as much as I'm in favor of  

anything that can help people eat more real food  and less garbage the proposed changes may not  

even pass because it would mean that a whole bunch  of foods or packaged Foods so-called Foods could  

no longer be called healthy and there's a lot of  companies that depend on that for their financial  

gain so as soon as the FDA announced these changes  very powerful interests started drafting letters  

of protests and the consumer brand Association  which represents over 1700 Major Brands they wrote  

a 54-page paper to the FDA where they're saying  that these proposed changes are overly restrictive  

and here's the kicker because if they go through  then that would automatically disqualified the  

vast majority of all packaged Foods so to me  that's like an admission they know that all the  

stuff that they're producing is garbage because  as soon as you put any kind of restriction on  

these things then they can't label it the way they  want it so what are we talking we're talking 230  

000 different products and I found an article  where they tested that number of products and  

they defined 71 of them as Ultra processed and  there's probably more than 70 percent of them  

that would not pass the new guidelines and just  to give you kind of an idea these products sell  

over a trillion dollars a year so there could be  a substantial loss of money for these companies  

if the guidelines went through and those were not  the only complaints the consumer brand Association  

would just mention but in addition to that  Kellogg's post and General Mills which are the  

three biggest cereal producers and they don't just  own cereals they own hundreds of different other  

products and brand names of packaged processed  foods that would all stand to suffer and lose  

from this and another one that's been published  is called the Washington Legal Foundation and this  

was really really cute because this turns out they  State very clearly that hey guys we don't have any  

vested interest we are a non-profit we're just  doing this from the goodness of our hearts so  

this is really a bunch of lawyers with spare time  that have nothing better to do than in their free  

time out of the goodness of their heart they just  want to help the food industry but also it's very  

clear that their donors where they get their money  to this non-profit it's not disclosed anywhere and  

it is also well known that this Washington Legal  Foundation has represented the high fructose corn  

syrup industry previously so it's basically a  front for a lobbying organization and what it  

all comes down to is that they're claiming that  in the end their argument is that it violates  

the First Amendment which is the right to free  speech so basically what they're saying is that  

if they can't call it healthy just because it  is actually unhealthy then that violates free  

speech so basically they should have the right  to be deceptive and even lie when it's clearly  

known and there's strong strong evidence that  their ingredients are harmful they should still  

in their opinion be able to call it healthy and  they're not going to lay down willingly because  

there's so much at stake I think that it's going  to be quite a fight and we have not seen the last  

of this because these powerful companies have  pretty much promised lawsuits if the FDA tries  

to push this through so the sugary cereals that's  pretty obvious most people get that but like I  

said it's going to affect hundreds of thousands of  different foods and some additional ones would be  

things like Campbell's tomato soup or most other  tomato soup out there I'm not just singling out  

them but they're just a big brand they have way  too much sugar and and way too much salt for those  

guidelines another one would be Raisin Bran that  has way too much sugar it does have some whole  

grain so it would qualify from that standpoint but  here's another example of where the guidelines are  

kind of missing the point because they fail by  the added sugar but the sugar in the raisins that  

are naturally occurring is just as bad because  raisins are just dried up grapes and it's just  

a concentrated form of sugar and that sugar is  no different in chemical composition than the  

added sugar and then even some things that people  don't think of as having any sugar has actually  

too much so Corn Flakes has too much added sugar  and too much sodium same thing with Special K too  

much sugar too much sodium and one more example  would be yogurt fruit yogurt like Yoplait which  

of course they have promoted as very very healthy  people have thought about this as a health food  

because it has some bacteria in it and of course  they've been doing it low fat but they add so much  

sugar that it has as much sugar per unit volume as  Coca-Cola and that amount of sugar would more than  

outweigh and wipe out any sort of benefit that  that smidgen of beneficial bacteria would have  

so what's next in store here well I think it's a  giant leap forward for the FDA because at least  

they're taking steps they're they're taking some  initiative to move forward but it's still a small  

step forward for mankind so I would not hold  your breath that this is going to dramatically  

transform the way we look at food in general so  first of all we may be facing lawsuits there may  

not be any changes at all and if it does become  some changes then it may take a long long time  

but most of all I would point out that the  existing guidelines the USDA and the FDA  

guidelines I would say that they kind of get  10 percent of it right they do get that sugar  

is bad they do get that vegetables are for the  most part okay or good for you but the rest of  

it they're they're really missing the point so if  you really want to get healthy then don't wait for  

these changes but instead I would suggest that  you take some steps to become a health champion  

and that's what this channel is all about is to  teaching people how the Body Works how to take  

charge and rather than ever needing to read  food labels if you watch a few hundred videos  

this channel has over 500 videos then you'll start  learning how the Body Works what the body actually  

needs and you don't have to read food labels you  could read it once just to get an idea but then  

you know way way more than the food label would  ever tell you and if you want to take even further  

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