Top 10 Foods You Should NEVER Eat Again!

hello health champions today I want to share with you the top 10 foods to avoid

if you want to live a long and healthy life coming right up

hey I'm dr. Ekberg I'm a holistic doctor and a former Olympic decathlete and if

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anything very often we hear that you shouldn't eat this or you shouldn't eat

that and we read these long long lists but we may not understand why these

foods are good or bad so today we're going to talk about we're gonna give you

the list but we're also gonna explain each item so make sure that you really

pay attention to each one so that you understand why it is a good idea to

avoid it also I'm never gonna tell you that you shouldn't eat this or that but

if you understand the consequence then you will want to avoid those foods in

order to have the best possible health and if you notice on the board

I have foods in quotation marks that's because some people think that just

because it's customary to put something in the mouth and swallow that that's

called food that we have all these habits of eating things we think are

food but they're not really food so let's first talk about what food is and

food is something that provides fuel and nutrients something that has building

blocks that you can use to build new tissue and something that contains

catalysts like vitamins and minerals and enzymes to help your body turn the fuel

into energy and to help turn the building blocks into tissue that's what

whole food is whole food has all those different things but when we process

food a lot of times we destroy it we make it non-food all right so health is

the ability to turn the fuel in the building blocks and the catalysts into

energy and tissue and to use this energy to

coordinate the function in the body with signals so the brain receives about a

billion bits of information every second it comes from the body from your

intestines from your tissues from your joints from your muscles and it comes

from the environment the temperature the air pressure gravity all those things

generate signals that your body has to use energy to process and regulate and

that is what health is the ability to manage to produce and manage signals the

better that works the healthier you are the sooner you can return to homeostasis

or balance the healthier you are a poison is something that interferes with

the regulation of signals either with the production of energy war with the

transport and regulation of signals if the body is trying to send a signal

someplace and there's a poison then that signal is either blocked or distorted or

somehow interfered with alright so we're going to keep these in mind as we talk

about these foods and so-called foods so that we understand what it does and if

it's something that we want to eat or not so we'll take this list in reverse

order and we're going to start with number 10 the 10th worst I'm going to

work our way down to the absolute worst so the first thing that I want to avoid

or the 10th thing would be any nonfat product anything labeled nonfat low-fat

reduced fat whether it's yogurt or milk or some other sour cream non-fat sour

cream minutes it's a contradiction in terms

mayonnaise salad dressings peanut butter all these things that naturally have

some fat in them if they're labeled as low-fat or nonfat

Joost fat that means they've taken something out they'd taken the food was

complete the food was hold but they took stuff out because they're afraid of fat

and the fat provided flavor and texture it had that the mouthfeel the richness

the the satisfying properties and when they take those out then we lose that

satiating property of the food and they typically have to put in sugar and

artificial flavors and artificial stabilizers and all these different

chemicals to try to give it the same texture and flavor and feel that the

product originally had so it's usually a destroyed food and the fat was there for

a reason in the beginning if nature put the fat there then it was a good fat

so unprocessed foods have good quality fats and when we take those out like

healthy oils in the salad dressings or in mayonnaise those fats are good but

when we remove them and put something else in it becomes just a chemical

concoction so these would be something that I would never eat if I had the

choice number 9 on the list is deli meats and this is one of those things

that could be good or it could be bad so you have to understand why it would or

wouldn't so if they take a good healthy meat and they don't add a bunch of

chemicals and they don't use a bunch of nitrites especially if the animal was

organically raised and raised on natural food if it was sustainably and and

raised in good conscience then that can be an excellent product but if they add

a bunch of sugar and nitrites and artificial flavors and things that give

it a certain texture and preservatives now it's not a good food anymore now

they've added as much poison and foreign stuff as they've had meat in there and

especially things like hot dogs now who knows what are in those things and

sometimes there is so little meat in there that there's more other stuff

so I was talking to a friend recently and and he said that you know hot dogs

sometimes have like 1020 percent meat in them and back where I come from they

call that bread so we want to know that there are good ones and bad ones so

avoid the bad ones like the plague but the good ones can actually be excellent

snacks number eight on the list is GMOs genetically modified organisms and

modified plants so the primary wants to avoid our corn and soy and sugar beets

there are others and you want to sort of pay attention and find things that are

non-gmo that are labeled non-gmo and if there are certain vegetables that you

eat on a regular basis like maybe eggplant and squash you want to try to

learn which ones would be genetically modified and you want to get organic

whenever you can out of those things that could be genetically modified

because technically the organic is supposed to be guaranteed not to be

genetically modified I don't know if you can trust that 100% but your going to be

a whole lot safer that way and genetically modified organisms those are

where we're sort of playing genetic roulette that these things can combine

with other DNA that can combine with bacterial strains in your gut flora and

create whole new species they can produce things they can produce

pesticides and alcohol and different things that you really don't want in

your body these are organisms these are species that we never had on the planet

so you really don't want to put them in your body the seventh thing or the

seventh category to avoid are commercial oils vegetable oils and anything

deep-fried so vegetable oils those are things that aren't really vegetable

oyster seed oils and bean oils like canola and safflower and corn oil etc

soybean oil and these are very sensitive they're

polyunsaturated and monounsaturated mostly polyunsaturated that means

they're very sensitive to heat and light and oxygen so they oxidize they go

rancid very quickly so in order to make them shelf stable they process them very

very harshly so these are chemically enhanced chemically produced concoctions

they're so far from food that you don't ever want to touch them the other thing

they have is they're very high in omega sixes and these Omega 6s are

pro-inflammatory so when they deep fry things then they can't have something

that's very sensitive to heat and oxygen and light because then it would go

rancid and toxic even faster so a lot of these frying oils are saturated or

hydrogenated partially hydrogenated which makes them trans fats so a lot of

these commercial oils if you go out to eat you really want to avoid deep fried

food period okay if you ever eat anything deep fried it should be made at

home in butter or coconut oil because those are those are stable and you would

only use them sparingly and you'd only use them one time and so forth so

anytime you go to a restaurant you have something deep-fried that's been used

over and over and over and over so it's it's toxic it's more toxic because of

the heat and the repetition but it was toxic to start with because of the

hydrogenation and the fact that it was so harshly processed in the first place

so oils are not necessarily bad fats are not bad in general but bad fats are

really bad so you want to stick with the natural fats like extra-virgin olive oil

coconut oil butter ghee those things that are easy to to process if you take

an olive and you squeeze it you get oil you don't have to use a lot of heat

there are a lot of chemicals to get it out those are the oils that are good

number six on the list is white flour modern wheat and anything made from

those things so white flour is any whole grain flour that has been processed that

has been refined and basically what happens when they make white flour is

they often use chemicals so it's sort of tainted but they basically remove all

the nutrients because the nutrients make it less shelf-stable the nutrients react

with oxygen and heat and light so in order to keep it on the Shelf they

remove all the nutrients and they just save this starchy portion which makes it

white flour so now it can sit there much longer but it doesn't have any nutrients

the other problem with that is that the vast majority of all the white flour is

made from modern wheat and modern wheat is nothing like the wheat that we had on

the planet thousands of years ago so even if you could sort of argue that yes

humans had grain ten thousand years ago and the Egyptians and agriculture and

all those reasons then those grains those species of grain were totally

different from the modern wheat ten thousand years ago they had two grains

they had Emmer and einkorn and then along the way we got the de spelt and

the kamut and so forth but they were very very few and then we had rye but in

the last 50 years or so they've experimented and hybridized and

manipulated and they've gone through tens of thousands of different wheats to

try to find something that had a high yield that was resistant to to weather

and so forth and their objective in making the modern wheat was not health

it was not to make it healthy it was to increase the yield so they could feed a

lot of people and that was a noble intention but along the way they kind of

lost what wheat used to be so it's totally totally different and if you

want a lot of information if really want to solidify your

understanding of why to avoid that I recommend reading the book Wheat Belly

because it's a whole book that just talks about what they did to modern

wheat and what it does to you so then you want to avoid any kind of product

made from those okay I don't eat anything with that in it anymore

so any kind of breakfast cereal and it's kind of scary if you think about how

many yards in the average store is just full of cereal and every one of them has

modern wheat in it and this is waffles and crackers and and toast and and all

those different things and then if it's kid cereals do you love your kids well

don't give them that because it's the modern wheat it's white flour it's corn

GMO corn and then they add sugar and artificial colors and artificial flavors

and then they sprinkle some synthetic vitamins on top and there's nothing in

there that is food it isn't food anymore so I would avoid everything that has to

do with white flour modern wheats and anything made from those products number

five on the list is MSG monosodium glutamate and now we're getting in to

the category so most of these so far they're only either there a lack of food

because we have removed nutrients by processing some of them can turn a

little bit poisonous with the interference with the chemicals and and

however they were they were processed but now we're getting into the stuff

that is actually poison these are chemicals these things have no food

value they don't provide any fuel or building blocks or catalysts there's

nothing in there that your body needs and MSG monosodium glutamate it's a

flavor enhancer and how does it do that well it mimics so monosodium glutamate

glutamate is a neurotransmitter it's something that your body uses to send

signals to and Smit messages to excite activity in

the body but when we add it from the outside

now we trick the body so when you put it on the taste bud it tricks the taste

buds into more activity and it tricks the brain into thinking things taste

better than they are it's like a dream come true for the processed food

manufacturers because they can trick your brain into thinking it tastes

better than it does and into thinking that you should eat more than you want

to and you can't stop because it's it's a drug effect so these are called

excitotoxins and what they do the reason is called also the the Chinese

restaurant syndrome is you stimulate your brain you over excite your brain

and what happens with the brain then it's when you work out a muscle then

that muscle gets lactic acid and it starts burning and you get tired you can

feel it in the brain you can't feel it you just excite that brain cell until

it's overworked and then it shuts down and either it just wiped out for a while

or you actually killed off that brain cell so that's why they're called

excitotoxins and that's in the Chinese restaurant syndrome you feel good you

feel good you feel good and then you crash right that's the reason so you

want to avoid these and this is basically 99.9% of all canned soup of

most flavored potato chips or corn chips or any snack product that has like a

barbecue flavor or jalapeno flavor anything except your basic salt flavor

is going to have MSG in it canned soup we said and then also salad dressings

there is it's basically the thing that gives flavor to ranch dressing ranch

dressing doesn't taste the way it does without msg it's extremely difficult to

make a ranch dressing that tastes like ranch dressing unless you use msg so

just be be aware of that know what it does

and avoid those number four on the list is sugar and the only reason sugar isn't

number one on the list is that sugar is one of those things that it's not poison

all right it doesn't fit in the poison category it's just a refined and highly

processed food it does provide fuel it doesn't provide any building block or

catalysts it can be converted into energy even though it depletes the body

because it doesn't have any nutrients come with it but the dose makes the

poison alright so sugar is the most natural

molecule on the planet everything that is plant-based is sugar it is glucose

it's just different forms trees are glucose grass is glucose fruits and

vegetables or glucose so it's not an absolute it depends on the form it comes

in all right so it's not a poison it's the quantity that makes it a poison and

the way that it becomes a poison is when we have things like refined white sugar

and high fructose corn syrup and we put it in drinks because now it's way too

easy to get too much you have a sweet drink you have a soda you have a sweet

tea it's you're in the American South and it's a hot day and you start sipping

on sweet iced tea and you can drink gallons of the stuff and there's as much

sugar as in soda so it's a it's a bottomless pit it's it's a trap anything

nectar often times they call it nectar instead made with real fruit well it's a

little bit of fruit and then they added synthetic chemicals and sugar energy

drinks don't give you energy there's stimulants there's sugar drinks with

some caffeine and with some other stimulants in there the very popular

coffee drinks now I like Starbucks I get black coffee I get espresso I get a

cappuccino sometimes but I stay far far away from all those

pure drinks the Frappuccino and all the flavors stuff because it's pure sugar

and chemicals their drugs and they're addictive so when you have these drinks

it's so easy to drink hundreds of grams of sugar every day and

now sugar is a poison okay sugar is the root of all evil for these reasons

because it's such a big part of our culture and our habits everywhere we

look there's sugar so the drinks are the worst but then of course anything that

contains sugar like candy or snacks or muffins or waffles or pancakes and syrup

and so forth stay away from sugar I would suggest that you count the sugar

just to kind of learn how much you're consuming and I would suggest you keep

the added sugars at between five and ten or zero to ten grams a day anything

above that I think is too much because now it very easily becomes that the drug

with that addictive effect and it starts putting a burden on your liver because

your liver has to metabolize all that fructose that is in that sugar number

three on the list is margarine margarine is a synthetic man-made food it is a

toxic chemical right everyone pretty much agrees now even the mainstream

government guidelines they say to limit trans fats they finally made it

mandatory to put trans fat on the food labels because they are the only thing

on that food label that is a true poison margarine is a manually saturated fat

they start off with a synthetic with a highly processed plant oil

it's harshly processed using high heat high pressure lots of chemicals so they

get a very toxic product high in omega-6 s then they make it worse then they

shoot at high speed and high pressure and high temperature they bombard this

with hydrogen's with protons and now they so

Lidda fie they turned that polyunsaturated oil into a partially

saturated so they solidify it and in doing that they create a molecule that

doesn't exist in nature and when you eat this

it is very poorly broken down by the bodies very poorly metabolized and you

use fats in the body for fuel but you also use them for cell membranes and the

structure of these fatty acids determine the properties of your cell membranes

and your cell membranes those are the barriers that decide the inside and

outside of the cell that is they determine what is supposed to come in

and what's supposed to be stopped so they make decisions the cells the

membrane is the true brain of the body okay that's where decisions are made

it's like a transistor it's a semiconductor and if you have margarine

in your body that's not broken down and the body is deficient in these proper

essential fatty acids it's going to start substituting whatever fat it has

and it's gonna start putting margarine it's gonna start putting trans fats into

the cell membrane and you disrupt and you destroy and you alter the signaling

properties of that membrane and this has been implicated in every kind of disease

including cancer right you distort the body's normal responses in so many

different ways so margarine is way way way up there with of toxins and sadly

when they did most of the studies on heart disease and they found out they

decided that heart disease was caused by fat then that was at a time when

everybody was eating almost exclusively margarine all right that's the biggest

reason that fat got a bad rap was that that's what people were eating at the

time and they saw that these people they're eating so much fat well sure

they ate some animal fats but they didn't eat butter they ate margarine and

that's why they got sick the second worst food in my opinion is the category

of donuts cake and frosting right because these combine most of the worst

of the properties of all of these so-called foods non foods above here so

donuts are deep-fried they use terrible oil they have trans fats partially

hydrogenated fats they have sugar modern wheats of combining all these different

things and if they're really really bad now they're gonna have all these other

chemicals and flavors and colors and dough conditioners with it as well so I

don't think you could possibly design a worse food with less nutrients and more

bad effects on your physiology than donuts and now cake the only difference

is cake isn't deep-fried but it's still modern wheat and it's still the oldest

sugar and typically cake has some frosting with it and the frosting is

made with shortening which is a partially hydrogenated vegetable fat so

it's really like just another Verge version of margarine but it's worse

so cake and frosting and donuts they sort of combine all the worst of the the

really bad stuff of any of these above so if you have a party if there's a

celebration somewhere and you just feel hey I gotta have some cake then look up

some recipes online look for some keto cake look for some paleo cakes all right

you can make very very tasty desserts on natural foods without using any of the

bad fats without using any processed sugar and you can make it healthy it

it's not something that you still want to eat don't turn it into a staple don't

make it another food group but if you have it for the

occasional celebration you can have it and not feel bad about it and the number

one thing that you want to avoid if you want to stay healthy is artificial

sweetener it made number one worst on my list because it is not a food it is not

a nutrient it is a poison it's a neuro toxin all of them are some of them are a

little bit worse than others so I would say that aspartame is by far the worst

and then we have sucralose ii known as Splenda

so aspartame is NutraSweet sucralose is Splenda saccharin is sweet and low and

asked to sell fame potassium or acesulfame k is usually not sold by

itself but it's put in combination with other things so virtually every time

that you see aspartame or sucralose you're gonna see this kind of as an

add-on and what's so bad about these things well they are neurotoxins they're

chemicals they're mad made they have no function no position no place in the

human body and the reason aspartame is so terrible is it breaks down and the

breakdown products the resulting products are formaldehyde also known as

embalming fluid it breaks down into methanol wood alcohol the stuff that you

go blind and it also breaks down into an excitotoxin a neurotransmitter just like

the MSG so it has a triple effect of super super toxic poisonous effects in

the body and there's a high number of liver toxicities and kidney failures and

all sorts of autoimmune conditions that are in my opinion in my experience

caused by aspartame there were more complaints to the FDA more formal

complaints to the FDA about a sport in the ten years following its release

then the FDA had received on formal complaints in the history of the FDA so

this is a poison the others are not much better they're still man-made they're

still very poisonous chemicals sucralose is a chloro carbon it is chemically

related to DDT and to family of pesticide most have which have been

banned in the entire world for being carcinogenic so stay away from

artificial sweeteners and anything that contains them so you have to be very

careful the obvious giveaway is diet sodas so Diet Coke dye Pepsi Diet this

and that but also low-calorie yogurts they will have artificial sweeteners in

them chewing gum it used to be that you had regular and you had unsweetened well

and the regular had sugar and the other one had artificial sweeteners well now

guess what both regular and sugar-free have artificial sweeteners because it

prolongs the flavor so they put sugar and this stuff in it so you have to look

very very carefully there are some chewing gums on the market that don't

have these there are sweetened with sugar alcohols like xylitol etc and

those would be much better in moderation but the flavor you can tell because the

flavour only lasts of a few seconds and of course that's why they put this

synthetic stuff in there but don't use it because it's poison as far as drinks

the one that I the only drink the only soda that I drink is a diet soda so to

speak but it's called zi BIA and I'm not getting paid for this but it is has

nothing strange in there it's no artificial colors no artificial flavors

it is sweetened with stevia only so that would be the alternative if you're

trying to get off Diet Coke then that's what I would suggest

so the reason you want to avoid all these items all these categories of food

is that they are not food the only thing would be a deli meat if

it is a high quality if you research a little bit how its produced and you read

the ingredients and there's nothing strange in then it can be a good snack

if not then avoid it like the plague it will make you sick it will poison

your body it will shorten your life if you enjoyed this video then you can

learn a whole lot more from that one thank you so much for watching and I'll

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