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 0.99 9999 gram  of trans fats you can round it to zero and call  

it trans fat free even though it might have five  or even 10% trans fats depending on the serving  

size they choose so you want to make sure that  you read the label and you look for things like  

hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated so that  is the absolute worst but you really don't want  

to eat margarine anyway because of the oils that  they start off with number two is energy drinks  

and these are hugely popular you see everyone  drinking them because people are so stressed  

and they're under so much pressure and they are  so sleep deprived that they think that they need  

something like this to make it through the day  and be productive and that's how these things  

are sold and these drinks are usually loaded up  with caffeine which is a stimulant and if you  

wanted to get caffeine you could of course have  a cup of coffee or two but keep it in moderation  

because otherwise you're buying into a lot of this  as well now caffeine is a stimulant sometimes they  

use other stimulants as well and then of course  they pump it full of sugar or these artificial  

sweeteners that we just talked about before but  the question is do these drinks actually give you  

energy well there's sugar in here so sugar could  turn into calories and technically give us some  

energy but that's not what these drinks do these  drinks are stimulants they don't give you energy  

they borrow energy as I like to call it it's not  that these cause your body to make more energy  

they just drive your body harder and I like to  compare energy drinks to credit cards and very  

often they're marketed the same way they give you  all these promises of quality of life it's if you  

just get one more credit card then your economy  will be better than it's ever been and it seems  

on the surface like both energy drinks and credit  card can help you get things done like if you have  

a crisis if you're in a bind they could get you  through that moment the short-term moment moment  

but the problem with both energy drinks and credit  card is that afterwards you have to pay it back so  

when you borrow you're kind of depleting resources  you're actually getting less of the things that  

you want and then later on you have to pay it  back and with the inner drinks what you're doing  

is you're borrowing from your health and you have  to pay it back and in terms of side effects and  

what energy drinks actually do do is they increase  blood pressure they've been associated with heart  

palpitations with heart arrhythmias with anxiety  with insomnia with digestive disturbances and with  

adrenal fatigue so you tell me do they add to your  health do they give you energy or is it not such a  

good idea and the number one food that destroys  your health is sugary drinks like soda and like  

we talked about they're full of sugar that has  glucose and fructose they're very often don't  

use regular sugar but high fructose corn syrup  which is a little bit worse because instead of  

being bound to each other like in a disaccharide  where they're linked they're floating freely from  

each other so now you get a higher glycemic index  but you get all the bad effects from the fructose  

so you're getting on a blood sugar roller coaster  you are getting empty calories and this is why you  

can have a soda and 10 minutes later you have  another one and another one and another one  

because there's nothing satisfying about it and  in terms of negative health effects and chronic  

disease we have the fatty liver that we talked  about we have insulin resistance type 2 diabetes  

inflammation and disbiosis and the reason soda  is the worst is that it's everywhere and it is  

so easy to continue to consume it most of the  stuff that you eat whether it's a cookie or  

an ice cream you're going to get some fullness  some satisfaction from it and you're going to  

get tired of it but soda you just keep going keep  going it's so easy to have this giant tumbler and  

sip it throughout the day and and soda contributes  the most the largest amount of sugar and fructose  

to our diet and it's since the high fructose  corn syrup and the soda really exploded that  

we saw this epidemic of type two diabetes so have  you heard about naturalism this is pretty much a  

lost cause it used to be a principle that humans  recognize but we've pretty much gone completely  

away from it and included in this principle is  that if God or Nature Made it then it's probably  

okay we get a check mark it's kind of hard to mess  up if you just eat natural things now if humans  

have altered it if we have changed it broken it  down added things pulverized it reconstituted it  

now we get a question mark it's not necessarily  bad but usually and it pretty much depends on how  

much did we alter it is it still closer to the  original form or is it completely different so  

for example if we had a steak that would be in  the first category that's the way it was made  

it's very natural now if we grind it up into  ground beef and make patties it's still very  

very close it's minim processed but if we take  that same meat and we dry it and we soak it in  

chemicals and MSG and flavoring compounds and  we add 30% sugar now we have altered it quite  

a bit now it's not so great anymore and then we  have completely synthetic these are molecules and  

chemicals that don't occur naturally in nature  and definitely are not supposed to be in our  

bodies and those would be things like artificial  sweeteners but also things like synthetic drugs  

things like medication and I'm not telling you to  get off any medication because there's a reason  

someone prescribed it for you but we need to  understand that a synthetic medication can't  

add any anything to the body that your body is  looking for it can never increase your function  

or your health sometimes it's necessary but if  there is a way to support the body with natural  

things then over time you want to try to build  the body up so that your body doesn't need that  

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