Top 10 Foods That Have Almost 0 Calories

Hello Health Champions Today we're going to talk  about the top 10 foods with almost zero calories,  

or rather the foods that are worth eating  despite the fact that they have almost no  

calories. One such food is shirataki noodles and  it's very popular because people love pasta. And  

here they can get one with zero calories. And  if you read up a little bit on it you can read  

things like it causes weight loss it lowers  cholesterol, but it can also be associated  

with bloating and diarrhea. So when I read things  like that I'm not focusing primarily on the zero  

calories some people think oh that must be  a dream food I want to know does it really  

cause weight loss and if so how does it do that  does it do it by restoring some sort of balance  

in the body or does it do it by shutting  something down and interfering and cause  

damage and same thing with lowers cholesterol  what's the mechanism bloating and diarrhea what's  

the mechanism what's going on does this help the  body or does it hurt the body so we're going to  

talk about a few things to understand that aspect  better what we're looking for in low calorie foods  

and then we're going to come back and answer the  question if this is something you want to eat zero  

calories doesn't mean that you should or shouldn't  eat the food per se but it's the very last reason  

that you should use to decide if it's good for  you and we have to get over this Obsession this  

delusion that a food is good because of what's not  in it so we have this marketing frenzy now where  

we hear that things are gluten free and sodium  free and cholesterol free and low fat and fat  

free and even though it's very important to know  if you're Gluten Sensitive you need to be able to  

buy foods that doesn't have gluten but now we have  the opposite we're turning we go to the extreme  

and we say that if it's missing if it's free of  all these different things then we pronounce it  

a superfood simply because of what it doesn't  have and it doesn't work like that by comparison  

you know we have things like cardboard and sawdust  and gravel and they are also gluten free and zero  

calories but it doesn't mean that we should start  cooking with them we want to focus more on what  

food does have we want to remember that there's a  purpose for eating in the first place that food is  

supposed to give us certain resources we can't  survive without calories and energy and then  

we're also looking for some other nutrients some  micronutrients vitamins and minerals and enzymes  

to help us turn this into energy and building  blocks so before we look at the calories we need  

to ask ourselves does this have anything that the  body needs imagine if animals were as crazy as we  

were and you had two cows out in the pasture and  one says to the other that man you should check  

out this new kind of grass I found over in the  corner here you can eat twice as much grass and  

not gain any weight and the other cow says that  just sounds really dumb because I have a hard  

enough time getting enough grass in my body enough  resources in my body and all I do is eat grass  

right or if you had two lions and they're  munching away and one says to the other that  

dude I found this new kind of gazelle and  it's completely indigestible it doesn't  

matter how many of them you eat you can hunt  and eat all day and you never gain any weight  

and the other one says well you know I kind of  like it the way I have I just have to hunt once  

and eat once a day and it gives me everything I  need why would I want to change that and that's  

how nature works it has checks and Bounds they  have mechanisms that we have hunger because the  

body tells us it wants some resources we have  satiety because the body says we've had enough  

for a while so animals are way too smart to mess  with the system but humans that's another story  

we don't eat only to get resources we also eat for  emotional reasons to change how we feel and that's  

not all a bad thing we have social reasons  we have social Gatherings there are there's  

a culture around eating and that's all fine as  long as we eat real food then we can still make  

maintain this balance of hunger and satiety and  getting what the body needs the problems start  

when we start compensating when we're feeling  bad and we learn to eat to change how we feel  

and then there is a trillion dollar industry of  processed foods that feed into this that learn to  

push all our buttons with sugar and chemicals and  flavor enhancers that change how we feel and now  

these so-called Foods become drugs and they become  addictions and now we have this industry to keep  

pushing it and we don't know how to get out of  it and this is why humans have become so foolish  

as to start counting calories and we're the only  species on the planet that does and here's how we  

want to think about it to understand a little bit  about why it got this way so if humans have been  

around for a really really long time time it's  something like ten thousand generations and for  

thousands and thousands of generations our DNA has  stayed the same our genetic material that codes  

for our enzymes and our ability to break down food  has remained pretty much the same like 99.99 it's  

the same and all of these changes with processed  foods that we're talking about has happened in the  

last five generations it's such a short time that  on this scale it wouldn't even be visible if if I  

didn't draw that line a little bit thicker  and for all this time if we were to measure  

from a hundred percent to zero percent processed  foods all this time humans have had zero zero zero  

zero zero percent processed foods and processed  sugar and abundance of sugar and then in five  

generations it shut up to like seventy percent and  all of that happened in the blink of an eye and  

again humans are the only species that are eating  anything more than zero percent processed foods so  

people often ask me when if I if I heal my body  if I reverse my diabetes and I get healthy when  

can I go back to eating normal food and that's  the whole problem that we've been conditioned  

in this short period of five generations to  think that what we're eating now is normal food  

where in actuality normal food is what they ate  for these 10 000 generations and normal food is  

what you want to eat most of maybe some people can  get back to eating 80 percent what our ancestors  

ate and twenty percent modern but that number is  going to vary by the different person and there's  

going to be some trial and error but the more real  food that's the normal food that your DNA is meant  

to eat that we've had for thousands of generations  the more of that you eat the better off you're  

going to be so food don't have a lot of calories  we want to focus still on what they do have what  

are the benefits that they provide and these are  things like vitamins and minerals they have some  

Fiber they have phytonutrients like flavonoids and  phenolics and these can help with cleansing they  

have a cleansing effect on liver River and gut  and we want to understand that even if something  

doesn't have a ton of nutrients for the human  cells they might still have some benefit for  

the organisms living inside of us so they can act  as prebiotics meaning food for all of the bacteria  

inside us and a lot of people don't realize what  that gut biome does but we have a certain amount  

of genetic material in our human cells but the  total amount of genetic material in the bacteria  

in our gut is about 100 to 150 times greater than  our human DNA and that's the DNA that processes  

all the food that you eat it's like the first  responder it's the first layer of interaction  

with everything that you put in your body and part  of it gets digested part of it gets repackaged but  

it's enormously important so we're not only eating  for our human cells we're also eating for those  

bacteria and leafy greens are a great example of  what we just talked about so things like Romaine  

green leaf lettuce arugula and kale they're leafy  greens and while there's some variation some might  

have a little higher in a vitamin or a little  bit more in a mineral they all kind of make up in  

one aspect for what another one might have and I  want to talk about them a little differently just  

introduce an idea and I'm not saying that this is  like a scientific measurement but it's just a way  

of thinking about it that sugar is something that  gets into the bloodstream very very quickly and  

leafy greens have basically sugar water and fiber  they have very little else and the sugar gets up  

very quickly but if it's packaged in with a lot  of water and a good amount of fiber then that  

sugar is released so slowly and it's such a small  amount and goes out so slowly that you don't have  

to worry about it at all that you can eat as much  as you like of these and here's the reason when we  

divide the Sugar by the fiber we get 0.6 0.60706  so very very low numbers and then a good amount  

of fiber to buffer and then there's this idea  called a zero-sum calorie that if it costs more  

to digest it and break it down then the energy  we can derive for it then it's basically a zero  

sum calorie or me in some cases even negative  they claim so this is an interesting concept and  

there's definitely some truth to it it does work  like that however it's never been proven and it's  

never been Quantified so we don't really know any  numbers or how much to what degree it works like  

that but I prefer still not to pay any attention  to it because it's irrelevant again it brings back  

the focus to what's not in the food if we focus  all on zero calories we're placing a value we're  

assigning a value to what's not there and it's  the wrong way to think about food and what about  

fruits we hear all the time eat more fruits  and vegetables fruits and vegetables and I'm  

not saying that they're not good but I'm saying  we should not group them together we should not  

lump them together as if it was the same thing  and because of that more isn't always better so  

let's look at these numbers based on what we just  heard that the idea that if we spend more than we  

get then we can have all kinds of different foods  with zero calories and they've included things  

like apples and apricots and watermelon in this  but here's how it's very different from other  

types of vegetables other types of plants if we  divide the Sugar by the fiber we get 4.3 4.6 and a  

whopping 15.5 and a lot of people put watermelon  on every list you see is no sugar no calories  

no this or that but it has a ton of sugar and it  really has nothing else it has virtually no fiber  

it has a lot of water but it requires no chewing  you can put watermelon in your mouth and swallow  

straight away pretty much and that's why you can  eat a lot of it even if one little Cube doesn't  

have much sugar or calories by the time you you  finish you've eaten a lot and there was no fiber  

to slow it down what about non-starchy vegetables  how do they compare let's look at celery cabbage  

asparagus cauliflower and broccoli if we do the  same division we find celery has a 1.1 cabbage 1.3  

asparagus 0.6 pretty much like the leafy greens  cauliflower 1.2 and broccoli again kind of like  

the leafy greens it has a little bit more carbs  but it's balanced out by more fiber and that's  

how you want to think about it that these are  very different from fruits so again you can have  

almost as much of the leafy greens and non-starchy  vegetables as you want and you're not gonna really  

make your blood sugar fluctuate but fruits it's  a different story it doesn't mean you can never  

eat it but get away from the idea that more is  better and then berries very interesting because  

that's always lumped together with the fruit  and how do they compare raspberries Blackberry  

strawberries and blueberries now if we do that  division we find that raspberries are 0.4 less  

than a tenth of the other fruits that we looked  at and still they're usually grouped together  

Blackberry 0.7 strawberries 1.6 and blueberries  2.1 so we can see that raspberries and  

blackberries in this regard I'm not saying that  they're the same thing but in this regard they're  

more like the non-starchy vegetables and the leafy  greens whereas strawberries and blueberries have  

less fiber a little more sugar in the blueberry  so that ratio creeps up a little bit but remember  

you can't live on nothing so don't try to eat  only low calorie foods that's not going to work  

and I often tell people to not count calories  and with that I mean don't count the calories  

as an absolute number and just try to reduce  it to deprive yourself because that's going to  

backfire if you feel deprived you can suffer for  a few weeks but then it's going to backfire the  

only way you're going to have long-term success is  to eat Quality Foods of the right balance to get  

entirety so counting calories is okay but only  in the sense of comparing foods and understanding  

the nature and the characteristic of a food so  you understand how to compare them and how they  

relate but don't count calories to try to just cut  back that's not going to work what you want to do  

then is to find the best balance and that is the  best balance for you not what someone else says  

you understand the mechanisms and then you start  playing around with them and even though they're  

good low calorie foods you don't want to think  of it as giving up dense foods you still want  

the dense foods with the proteins and the fats  because they provide the building blocks and the  

long-term satiety that's going to keep you from  overeating and then you add in the foods with the  

lower calorie density and in those you're still  looking for some thing you're looking for high  

nutrients high fiber and high bulk and here's  how you can play around with that so let's say  

that you've been eating this much food and that  you had a certain proportion of it that was dense  

food with fat and protein and another percentage  of low calorie foods low density calorie foods  

now you have two ways to play with this either you  eat high quality foods and because you do that you  

can reduce the quantity and still be satisfied  but you're still eating the same proportion and  

your body gets what it needs another way would  be to eat the same volume quantity or even a  

larger volume but now you cut back on the amount  of high density the fat and protein and instead  

you increase the bulk of low density foods that  still has the fiber and the good quality nutrients  

and now you're all wondering what about those  shirataki noodles where do they fit into what  

we've talked about well they do have zero calories  but the reason is that they are fiber only  

so they don't have much of anything else but  that's not a totally bad thing because we do need  

some Fiber and it's not an artificial food the  fiber comes from a root and the fiber is called  

glucomannan it's been used in Asian cooking  for centuries so it's not like a synthetic or  

man-made product it's still a natural thing just  remember that it's fiber supplement essentially  

it doesn't have any flavor doesn't have any  nutrients but you can add things on top of it  

that have nutrients and does it cause weight loss  no it can assist the body with weight loss if you  

eat it as part of your diet and you eat other  good healthy foods with it that help stabilize  

blood sugar then it can assist in weight loss  and what about the bloating and the diarrhea  

well the fiber that you eat goes down and it's  digested by your gut bacteria so the result is  

going to depend on the quantity and the type and  the balance of gut bacteria that you have and also  

how much of this stuff you eat at a time so with  any fiber it's a good idea to add it gradually to  

let your gut bacteria develop and change around  a little bit until they get used to it so you're  

going to regulate you're gonna build up more  of certain kinds and and reduce other kinds  

depending on the food you eat and this food is  no different your gut bacteria always adapt to  

the type of foods you eat so just realize it's not  a superfood it's basically a fiber supplement that  

you can have in conjunction with other food if you  eat sensibly overall and like with all other Foods  

don't turn it into to a food group on its own  variety is always best but now here's the thing  

one of the best ways to find that perfect  balance for you is to know your Baseline  

and if you didn't see last week's video that's  where I was talking about how you can do blood  

work and if you understand what those markers  mean you can catch imbalances much much sooner  

and you can get a truer picture of where you  are for example if you're more or less insulin  

resistant you can also find out some markers that  most people don't test for most doctors never test  

for things like homocysteine or ferritin and if  homocysteine and ferritin are high then you can  

actually aggravate insulin resistance you can  promote insulin resistance simply by those two  

markers being elevated and because most people  have no idea and unfortunately most doctors have  

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