Top 10 Most Dangerous Foods In The World

Hello Health Champions. Isn't it interesting how  so many people will go to great lengths to protect  

themselves and their children from harm and  danger and accidents, and yet they will fill their  

pantries and fridges with food that is guaranteed  to hurt them. And the reason we do that is that  

we're confused between urgent and important  so better said by john howe one of my favorite  

quotes what a folly to dread the thought of  throwing away life at once and yet have no regard  

to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal  and that's the reason the foods in this video  

are the 10 most dangerous foods because they are  the primary way that we throw our lives away by  

parcels and piecemeal. Number one on the list is  processed grains and in particular white bread  

made from modern wheat and why is that so bad  because that has virtually nothing in common  

with the grains that develop naturally on the  planet this one has been hybridized and developed  

not to be good for you but to give high yields  and to make big white fluffy loaves so it's all  

about appearance and quantity not about nutrition  next they process it so they throw away most of  

the nutrition and just keep the starch then they  add some preservatives some sugar in some cases  

and more chemicals like dough conditioners and  texture enhancers and all these different things  

and then when millions of people start feeling bad  as a result of eating this now they have to blame  

it on something and as a result we have gluten  being the villain in bread and i'm not a fan of  

gluten but it's not the only problem with bread  or with starch so as a result now gluten is the  

villain a whole industry has developed of gluten  free products and therefore in the marketing  

if gluten is the villain then everything else is a  health food and that's of course not how it works  

because when they take out the wheat and they put  something else in sometimes that other thing is  

worse in some ways so the potato starch and the  tapioca starch and the rice flour and the corn  

starch and all those things they add in they  don't have gluten but very often they're even  

more processed and will sometimes give you even  higher blood sugar spikes and insulin responses so  

if you're gluten sensitive of course you want to  stay away from it and you might have an occasional  

gluten-free product just realize it doesn't make  it a health food number two on the list is kid  

cereals and if it's not the first one it's usually  one of the first ingredients is sugar or high  

fructose corn syrup or corn syrup solids or one  of those things and then of course we find wheat  

and corn and some of the other offenders which are  pure starch and they're very very common allergens  

then they add some more coloring some artificial  flavoring and some more chemicals and again  

preservatives and i think most people if they  look at this honestly even without knowing that  

they're not going to look at that and think it  has any resemblance to actual food and then of  

course what do we serve it with we serve it with  skim milk and that is another one of these very  

common allergens and we removed the fat which  was probably the only thing in there that didn't  

cause much of a reaction but let's talk a little  bit more about why we pay so much attention to  

avoiding the urgent dangers but we pay so little  attention to the long-term important things and  

there are two huge reasons the first one is that  we are wired that way that from your genetics  

and from your conditioning your nervous system  is wired to pay attention to things that can  

kill you and hurt you that's just part of what  we are so your nervous system will detect change  

if you're looking at something that's not moving  that there's not much change then your brain kind  

of settles down and you go into a daze and you  lose attention but if there's some change if  

there's something sudden if there's some movement  then your nervous system gets activated and  

all the people in media and marketing they know  this and that's why they change the pictures  

every second and they change the angles and they  flash things and they make sounds because it's  

the only way they can get your attention anymore  and the reason of course we wired this way is that  

that's how we detect threats and it's a great  survival mechanism to be wired this way but we  

have to understand that that keeps you alive in  the moment but if that's all you do it might hurt  

you in the long run the second big reason is  that we never had to you never needed to worry  

about the long term because all the important  stuff was short term the things that hurt us  

was accidents and tribal warfare wild animals  infection and starvation that's what people  

died from and to the extent that we could find  enough food it was never a problem because  

all of the food was good quality it's like a  lion doesn't have to worry about the quality  

of the antelope or the zebra he's about to hunt  down he knows that it's part of the ecosystem it's  

going to be good food we never encountered any  sugar any chemicals anything processed but today  

it's a completely different story because  all the things that killed our ancestors  

are not really a big problem anymore  90 to 95 percent of what we die from is  

three different things they wear us down  slowly and number one is structural stress  

so sitting doesn't seem like much of a stress but  it is it's a bad posture and your body is made to  

move and that movement stimulates your whole body  every system in your body including your brain and  

nervous system follows a principle called use  it or lose it so when you're sitting you're not  

moving the body you're not stimulating your body  in a positive way and if you don't stimulate it to  

regenerate then it degenerates second is emotional  stress it wears us down slowly and often people  

have a sense of overwhelm and we have this massive  sensory overload like i said with our attention  

span the only way they can get our attention is to  shock us and that's because we have this sensory  

overload and it's very very stressful because your  nervous system is designed to respond to big stuff  

one at a time a wild animal you're being chased  you fight you survive and then as soon as things  

settle down you can calm down and that's the sort  of stress we're designed for big changes and today  

it's completely different it's small things all  the time it just never slows down never turns off  

number three and maybe most important is chemical  stress and why would that be most important  

they're all important but chemical stress  is where we have gotten the furthest  

off track because there's so many things like  with pollution there's hundreds of thousands  

of chemicals that have been developed since  the 1950s our ancestors had none and the food  

for many people most of what they eat is sugar  and fake food our ancestors had none of that and  

here's one more reason we fall into this trap  is that our bodies are so good at repairing and  

regenerating and handling different stressors  that we take health for granted but because of  

how much the world has changed it's changed more  in the last 50 years than the previous 50 000  

we can no longer afford to take health  for granted we have to start understanding  

these factors and how they affect the body  number three most dangerous food is fruit juice  

and as usual this is gonna get a lot of people  angry because fruits and vegetables are like  

sacred cow we're not allowed to touch  them or criticize them in any way  

and i'm a fan of fruits and vegetables and  plants to some degree i think we need a balance  

of everything but it needs to be whole food and  it needs to be within our carbohydrate tolerance  

and the fruit juice that most people drink is  concentrated sugar so if you had the whole fruit  

you would eat maybe one maybe two and it would be  absorbed rather slowly whereas if you make juice  

out of it it's very easy to consume the sugar  from six or seven or eight different fruits and  

that of course is going to raise blood sugar it's  going to trigger insulin spikes and predispose us  

to insulin resistance now if all you ate was whole  foods and this was the worst of it that may not be  

a huge problem but if in addition to all of the  different foods that people eat if you eat the  

bread and the cereal and the sugar and the candy  and the donuts and the waffles and the pancakes  

and you have created some insulin resistance  then this is going to make it much worse and  

often people say that well sugar is bad but  this is natural sugar and sure but there's not  

much difference because sugar is still glucose and  fructose and this natural sugar in fruit is still  

50 fructose on average so like i said in addition  to all the other factors this is going to further  

aggravate fatty liver and prevent the reversal  of fatty liver which probably a majority of the  

population today have some degree of this fatty  liver it used to be that alcoholics alone got  

fatty liver today 12 year olds get fatty liver  next problem is that this is fairly processed  

they pasteurize it they concentrate it they  remove the water they add the water back and  

whenever you change it whenever you alter it now  you're also changing the nutrition to some degree  

so if you eat the whole fruit then you're getting  the whole package the more you change it the more  

you destroy nutrients so if you're healthy if  you're in maintenance if you're metabolically fine  

i think you can have some juice once in a while  but i would suggest you have it fresh meaning you  

squeeze it yourself you do it occasionally and  seasonally and most of all get over the idea of  

part of a healthy breakfast so most people will  get cereal and toast and orange juice all together  

so now you're getting plus the skim milk so  you're getting all these different forms of  

sugar just added on top of each other number four  is anything low fat and you can fill in the blanks  

things like yogurt sour cream ice cream salad  dressing peanut butter and i'm not saying that  

it's bad because it's low fat because there are  plenty of low-fat things like lettuce and broccoli  

cauliflower asparagus all sorts of things that  are naturally low fat there are still whole food  

but if something used to have high fat or  more significant fat and now they market it  

as low fat now you have to start really worrying  because what did they do to this food and if it  

has less fat that means it has more sugar  more chemicals more artificial flavorings  

more texturizers etc etc it's becoming a chemical  cocktail full of non-foods and a perfect example  

would be this thing which cheese is supposed  to have two or three ingredients like milk  

cream and bacteria and this is no longer food and  you should be very scared of lists that look like  

this so when they promote it as low fat that  means you're just getting a chemical concoction  

number five is plant oils and usually we're  told that fruits and vegetables are so good  

so if they can market oils from vegetables  that has to be a good thing well these are not  

vegetables they're made from seeds like safflower  they're made from beans legumes like soy and from  

grain like corn and the first problem is that  they're very high in omega-6s so that's a type of  

fatty acid and we need both omega-3s and omega-6s  but we need them in a certain ratio and if we eat  

whole food then we're going to get them close to  a one to one ratio or maybe a one to two ratio  

but when we add a bunch of processed seed oils  and plant oils we can get as much as a 20 to one  

ratio and now these omega-6s become very very  inflammatory they promote inflammation and  

even insulin resistance not as much as sugar but  they're a very significant factor next problem is  

that they're extremely highly processed because  if you squeeze an olive it's going to release  

that oil pretty readily that's not true for these  things they don't give up their oil very easy so  

you have to add things like pressure and high heat  and even chemical solvents and as a result now  

you have chemical residues the fats are damaged  and rancid as a result and when they're rancid  

now they taste terrible so nobody would consume  this stuff unless they cleaned it up so they  

de-gum it and deodorize it and make sure they  remove any trace of flavor or nutrient from it  

number six on the list is margarine and  this of course is made from seed oils so  

all the things we said on the previous slide  still applies but now in addition to that  

they're taking it they're turning it from a liquid  to a solid so now they have to change it even more  

and that's a process called hydrogenation so  now they bombard it with a hydrogen cannon  

under high heat high pressure and they literally  change the shape of the molecule and turn it into  

a franken food that your body has never ever seen  before and that new product is called a trans fat  

and this is so bad that this is universally  agreed that we need to avoid this so they require  

food labeling now but it doesn't mean  that they've actually done away with this  

because the labeling people are tricky so  they call it zero grams of trans fat which  

simply means that it's 0.49 grams or less per  serving which is rounded down to zero so you could  

actually have 10 percent trans fats in a teaspoon  of this oil would you like your margarine to have  

10 lead in it well i don't think so  right so don't fall for this trick  

you want to use things that are not hydrogenated  or partially hydrogenated at all so read the  

labels if it says that get something else or  just go with what nature made which is butter  

olive oil coconut oil natural fats so which  foods are the most dangerous are they the ones  

that kill you the fastest or are they the ones  that kill the most people oftentimes we hear  

that something is bad for you and it doesn't get  a whole lot of attention we don't really care  

and if it's harmful then maybe we pay a little  more attention a little stronger is dangerous  

or lethal or can kill you or will kill you and on  the lower end of the spectrum here now we think  

of poisons we think of something that will  kill you in a matter of seconds or minutes  

and that's sort of what we worry about that's  exciting that's interesting but this stuff not  

so much but when we think like that we really  get it backwards and if we instead look at  

what kills the most people then the stuff that  kills you instantly kills the least people  

because we have the good sense to avoid it  whereas stuff that most people eat every day  

and they say oh yeah i know it's bad for you but  it's on every corner and it's cheap and whatever  

but that's what kills the most people so  quick comparison between the fast and slow  

things that hurt you fast would be things  like poisonous fish poisonous mushroom or food  

poisoning food that is contaminated with something  that eventually kill you the slow stuff would be  

again the things most people think of as food and  the slow then would cause cancer and heart disease  

and stroke and diabetes and hypertension so all  of these foods that are just bad for you they  

are related to this metabolic syndrome that  causes slow grade inflammation and chronic  

degenerative disease top category here gets about  3 000 lives per year whereas the slow method kills  

30 million people every year now think about that  which one is the more dangerous number seven is  

diet soda so now you're getting chemicals  sucralose sulfame potassium and aspartame  

and what these have in common is that they  are chemically related to pesticides they were  

developed from pesticides which are designed  to kill things the aspartame breaks down into  

formaldehyde which is embalming fluid it breaks  down into methanol which is wood alcohol that will  

get you blind if you consume a large quantity but  if a large quantity can do that you have to wonder  

if a small quantity over a long period of time is  that actually doing nothing or is it creating slow  

harm it also contains aspartate aspartic acid  which is a neurotransmitter in the body it's  

an excitatory neurotransmitter it stimulates  things and that sounds like a good thing right  

well in balance it is because in the body  naturally it's very delicately balanced but  

when you're throwing it in from the outside  it's usually in bursts that the body doesn't  

anticipate and now it becomes an excitotoxin and  that is probably part of the reason why this is  

so addictive and every time i bring up artificial  sweeteners there's a lot of people who say that  

well there's no conclusive proof there  is no evidence so i'm just going to keep  

drinking it of course that's their choice but  my opinion is that if you instead understand  

nature if you understand that the human body is an  organism that we're part of an ecosystem and that  

these are poisons they're man-made very strange  chemicals that play no natural role in the body  

then i don't think that you have to wait you have  the choice to wait for conclusive proof or you  

can save some time and just use some common sense  number eight most dangerous food is sugary snacks  

because snacks have a positive connotation they're  that little treat it's that little energy boost  

that gets us through the day but realize that  all you're doing is you're fueling an addiction  

and with the candies and cookies and cakes you're  just pushing yourself further and further toward  

insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome with all  of those problems and don't be fooled when they  

call it a protein bar now they're better ones and  worse ones but for the most part they have almost  

as much sugar as the candy and instead they've  just added some protein powder that many times  

it's not a whole lot better it's very highly  processed it's soy protein isolates and things  

like that because it's cheap they can fill it up  and they market it as if it's a health food but  

it's slightly better probably but it's almost  the same and then of course it's things like  

pop tarts and donuts and cinnamon buns that  some people actually believe it's food and  

they will give their kids this stuff for  breakfast i know this is hard to believe  

but i've i've heard stories like that so just  realize it's empty calories and you're just  

feeding an addiction number nine is sugary drinks  and this is a little bit worse because oftentimes  

people don't even realize they're eating  something they just think they're thirsty  

and of course they're getting a little bit of  water but mostly they're getting sugar so sodas  

and soft drinks energy drinks sweetened  juice coffee drinks sweet tea sports drinks  

they're all sort of becoming the same  thing an energy drink is just a soda  

with caffeine or another stimulant in it sweetened  juice it has a little bit of juice but it's really  

just sugar and water on top of that coffee drinks  was becoming popular because some chains some  

popular coffee places brought decent coffee but  it didn't really take off and people didn't really  

become hooked until they added a bunch of sugar  so today you can get 50 60 70 grams of sugar from  

a coffee drink and in the american south of course  we have the traditional sweet tea which is again  

it's just sugar and water with some tea and sports  drinks is another example of something that's  

marketed as being healthy as something positive  that if you're an athlete if you're exercising and  

you sweat now you're going to lose electrolytes  so they have artificial colorings and they have  

sugar and high fructose corn syrup and  water and then they add a little sprinkle  

of salt and they call it an electrolyte drink so  don't fall for it if you need some electrolytes  

have a sprinkle of salt and then drink water so if  you eat a diet where these foods are a staple then  

you can be sure to reduce the quality of life and  to take decades of your life but if you don't feel  

like that's fast enough then if you want to speed  up your demise a little bit more then the ultimate  

insult is to combine as many of these as possible  so one example would then be to have a doughnut  

with frosting or glazing on it and wash it down  with a soda because now you're combining the worst  

of all these you're getting white flour you're  getting seed oils you're getting the trans fats  

and these oils are not just the worst but they're  heated repeatedly and every time they reuse it and  

reheat it they destroy it and make it a little  bit more toxic and of course you're getting  

plenty of sugar artificial color if you make the  soda diet then you're also getting the aspartame  

and you're getting a whole concoction of chemicals  i mean you can't look at this and really think  

food so i hope you have a little bit more urgency  to avoid these foods and to not throw your life  

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