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Dr. Eric Berg DC — How Your Food LIES to You!!. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
Propel Fitness Water With Gatorade Electrolites, Zero Sugar, and Vitamins, Propel hydrates better than water to help you get the most out of your workout and get back to your best self. What propels you? Propel with Gatorade Electrolites On any journey using Uber, it helps to know you're getting into the right car. Pin verification adds an extra step to make sure your ride is your ride. Before the trip begins, your app gives you a unique pin. Just tell it to your driver and they'll enter it in their app before the ride can start. Hey, what'd you pin? 2538. That way you know you're in the right car taking the right trip and your driver knows you're the right passenger. Make sure your ride is your ride with pin verification from Uber. One more way Uber is putting safety at every turn. Learn more on the Uber app. I have a quiz for you today and I want to see which one of these do you think is healthier. We're mainly only looking at the nutritional facts. So we have product A and product B. On the left, there's 29 grams of total fat on the right, there's eight grams of total fat.
On the left, there's four grams of saturated fat. On the right, there's only one gram of saturated fat. On the left, there is 17 grams of carbohydrate. On the right, there's 16 grams of carbohydrate. On the left, there's one gram of sugar. And on the right, there's zero grams of sugar. So based on that data, which one is healthier? Now, you're probably gonna pick B, right? Well, let's take a look at what A is avocados. Let's be the redos. That's right, the redos. Tip number one, you cannot determine the health of a product by the nutritional facts. You must look at the ingredients. Let's take a look at these ingredients. The first one is corn, and then we have vegetable oil, corn, canola, and or sunflower oil. And then we have multi-dextrin, and we have a bunch of other things, and then we have monosodium glutamate, and then dextrose.
And in a minute, I'm gonna simplify this whole thing for you. So really, there's only three ingredients you have to watch I4. Everything else is a side note, but let's just do one more test. Okay, we have label A and label B. On the left, we have zero grams of total fat. On the right, we have zero grams of total fat. Of course, there's gonna be saturated fat on either one of those. So now we're at the total carbohydrates. A is 25 grams of total carbohydrates. B is only 13 grams of total carbohydrates. A is 19 grams of sugar, and B is 11 grams of sugar. Based on the data, which one is healthier? If you said B, okay, let's take a look at A. Hmm, A is an apple. Let's take a look at what B is. Oh, what's that? That is something called SunnyD. It's like an orange drink. But let's take a look at the actual ingredients in this orange drink. Oh, we have the first ingredients, which is water.
And then we have high fructose corn syrup. And then we have like 2% or less of all these concentrated juices, right? And then we roll right into the modified corn starch in canola oil. If you just depend on the nutritional facts, that would be healthier than an apple. All right, so what are we dealing with? We're just dealing with what is called ultra-process foods, AKA junk foods. Processed means removal. So you're taking away the fiber, the vitamins, the minerals, the trace minerals, the phytonutrients, the enzymes, we're taking everything out of it and we're leaving some basic material. And then we get the word ultra. Ultra means severe. So when we're severely taking away things, we're going through many different industrial processes or chemical reactions, including grinding something down, pulverizing it, high pressure, high heats,
adding chemicals like solvents to extract certain things, taking out the colors with chemicals, taking out the flavoring or odors from it. And then you're ending up with this something that doesn't even resemble the original food. And so this is why they have to add flavoring, they have to add coloring, they have to add textures, they have to add preservatives, they have to add some synthetic vitamins to prevent certain diseases, and then they have to package it and make it look really amazing for you to eat. So the big question is, if we compare ultra-process food to the definition of food. With Gatorade Electrolites, Zerosugar, and Vitamins, propel hydrates better than water to help you get the most out of your workout and get back to your best self. What propels you? Propel with Gatorade Electrolites. On any journey using Uber, it helps to know you're getting into the right car. Pin verification adds an extra step to make sure your ride is your ride.
Before the trip begins, your app gives you a unique pin. Just tell it to your driver and they'll enter it in their app before the ride can start. Hey, what'd you pin? 2538. That way you know you're in the right car taking the right trip and your driver knows you're the right passenger. Make sure your ride is your ride with pin verification from Uber. One more way Uber is putting safety at every turn. Learn more on the Uber app. Which is this. Food is that which is eaten to sustain life, provide energy, and promote the growth and repair of tissues. So it has to keep you alive, give you energy, help you grow, and help you repair. So can ultra-process calories actually do that? Now, it can't. In reality, ultra-process food is not food. Now, out of all the things that cause disease, that destroy your health, I would venture to say that ultra-process foods are the most significant factor
in causing health problems. If you disagree, please make a note down below and tell me what you think. Is it infection? Is it old age? Is it lack of activity? Or is it more junk food? Simply because 80% of the calories in the grocery store are ultra-process food. So the countries that consume the most ultra-process foods have the most health problems. And United States is right up there at the top. So how can we make this really simple? Number one, ignore the nutritional facts, okay? Go right to the ingredients. And there's three things that you want to avoid. Seed oils, all the forms of sugar, and you want to avoid the starches. A lot of times when people define junk foods, they throw in the saturated fats. But when I went to the store last week, and I was looking at all these junk foods, I didn't see a lot of saturated fat. I saw a lot of unsaturated fat seed oils. Our diet is about almost 30% seed oils.
That's creating a lot of damage. Implamation, insulin resistance, neurodegenerative problems. And by the way, I have a link down below that you can download a little cut out for your wallet that basically describing detail, the three things you should avoid, and all the other kind of names for the sugar starches and seed oils that you might not recognize. So you can pull this out of your wallet and just have it right there when you go shopping. All right, let's move to sugar. And a lot of times when you see sugar, it doesn't tell you if it's beet sugar or cane sugar or other types of sugar. But sugar is also in other forms. Glucose syrup, high fructose corn syrup, dextrose, and just straight glucose. Now let's move to the starches. Corn, corn starch, modified corn starch, modified food starch, maltodextrin, dextrin, corn flour, wheat flour, modified wheat starch.
Now there's two more things that are kind of on the side that I would also recommend not consuming as well. Soy, protein, isolate. This is kind of an ingredient that fits into the definition of ultra-process food because it's so altered and so refined. And then model sodium glutamate because that's a flavor enhancer. So go ahead and click the link down below and download the little card cut out so you can put in your wallet and start reading labels and start getting this stuff out of your diet. On any journey using Uber, it helps to know you're getting into the right car. Pin verification as an extra step to make sure your ride is your ride. Before the trip begins, your app gives you a unique pin. Just tell it to your driver and they'll enter it in their app before the ride can start. Hey, what'd you pin? 2538. That way you know you're in the right car taking the right trip
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