There are five terrible ingredients that you're probably consuming every week, if not every
single day. These ingredients offer no benefit to your health and are quite harmful over time.
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In general, the reason that we see bad ingredients in food is because the manufacturers are trying
to come up with a look, a feel, a taste, a consistency that makes the food appealing,
but yet keeps it really cheap, and also keeps profits high. So, they make concoctions in
the labs that are designed to make these foods taste real, even though they're not,
because the natural ingredients found in nature, well, those are just too expensive.
The first toxic ingredient that I want to talk about is going to be artificial flavorings. This
is a synthetic ingredient made in a lab designed to mimic the flavor of something that you would
normally find in nature. Now, when we look at the research, it's actually quite alarming
because what they found is that when they use these artificial flavorings in concentrated doses,
they did some pretty nasty stuff to people. And you might think to yourself, well, you know,
these are concentrated doses. But of course, it begs the question when you’re eating low doses of
it over a lifetime, what's going to happen to you, because in the research, what they found
is that it actually inhibited the production of red blood cells,
it had a toxic effect on your bone marrow, and it also inhibited cell division. Now, these are all
reasons enough for me to want to stay away from anything that has artificial ingredients in it.
As we talk about this topic, a story comes to mind. Now growing up, my dad was in the grocery
industry. And he'd go to these big industry meetings and they would talk about their major
competitors. Now, there's this big grocery chain, these huge stores that are in the United States,
and one of the things that they were doing with their food was pretty incredible. I was blown
away when I found out about this. They would take products, and they would cheapen the ingredients
in order to increase profits and also drive down the cost of the actual product. So, let me give
you an example. They would take something like a pizza. They'd go to the pizza manufacturer of the
frozen pizza that was being sold in their store. And they'd say, “Hey, look, we have to increase
the profit, drive down the cost of this pizza so we can compete at a higher level.” And then the
pizza companies say, “Hey, look, we got to make a buck. And there's nothing we can do to make
this any cheaper.” And they'd say, “No, no, we got you, we got you, here's what you can do send
your pizza off to our facility and we'll analyze it. We'll tell you exactly how you can make your
pizza cheaper.” And they'd look at it. And they'd say, well, instead of using this like real tomato
sauce, we can use like a tapioca sauce. And we can flavor it and change the color of it. And we can
take these ingredients out of the crust and we can, you know, subtract this and add this - all
the sudden you had a pizza, that was far less money that tasted the same or potentially even
better with all these synthetic ingredients in it and then they had a product. And the craziest
thing about it is that you could go and you could take that same pizza company, it could be sold in
a store with all the real ingredients that look exactly the same. And then you could go
to this other store, and they would have cheapened ingredients and it would be a cheaper price. And
most people would pick this side over here because it looks the same, it tastes the same, and it's
far cheaper. So, you have to be really careful in always look at your labels when buying your food.
This next food additive is a very common ingredient that seems like
it's an everyday thing anymore and you must avoid it because it's associated with some of the most
common health challenges that people face today. This food additive is going to be your trans fats,
your hydrogenated oils, and we could probably just sum them up all into bad fats. And these bad
fats are going to be found in pretty much every prepackaged junk food that's on the planet. And
you're also going to find these in pretty much any restaurants that are frying all their food. Now,
these bad fats are associated with insulin resistance. And for many people, this is kind of
a funny concept because they think well, I thought the only way you could get insulin resistance was
by eating too much sugar. But the fact is, is health is a little bit complicated. Now,
there was one study, and they looked at 80,000 women, and what they found is that those women who
ate a lot of trans fats had a 40% higher risk of getting diabetes. These bad fats go on further to
be associated and linked to chronic inflammation, cardiovascular disease, and even cancer. Now,
you can see the real danger associated with these, and over the past couple years, a lot of online
gurus have really jumped on the keto bandwagon looking at dirty keto is a viable option to losing
weight. Yes, you may lose weight, but eating all those bad fats is terrible for you. So, I've been
incredibly critical of this because skinny people still have chronic inflammation and skinny people
still get cancer. So, we can't look at weight loss is the only factor in being healthy.
Now. these bad fats, you got to be careful with them too, because they come in all shapes and
forms. Recently, I had a dietician just explaining to me how delicious the coffee creamer that they
use is. And I thought to myself, “Well, which one is it? I'd like to try that.” And they're like,
“Well, you know, it comes in this blue bottle” and I'm thinking myself, okay, okay. And they say,
“Yeah, it's french vanilla.” And I go. “Okay,” I said, Does it have a red cap by any chance?”
And they're like, “Yeah, it's got a red cap.” I said, “I want you to look at that, but I'm pretty
sure that creamer that you use is literally a non-dairy creamer, which is a 100% hydrogenated
oil that is flavored with sugar in it.” How terrible is that? A dietitian of all people.
Okay, now let's talk about sweeteners. And I'm going to keep this short and sweet, because
this is a huge topic to unpack. And we could talk about it for days. Now, here's the short version,
it goes like this: When we look at the marketplace and we look at all the different ingredients in
all the different names in which sugar goes under, there's going to be over 150 different names.
Now, most of them are going to end in -ose. And if it doesn't end in -ose, it'll be
a name with some type of syrup after it. So, we have to watch out for all of those. And the
reason that it's so important to avoid all these different sugars is because when we look at all
the chronic disease and ailments that you're going to find in the modern industrial society,
they're linked to sugar. And because we now know how bad sugar is for us,
a lot of these manufacturers tried to use other ingredients like artificial sweeteners, things
like aspartame, things like Splenda, but we know that these also are good for us either and we need
to avoid them because they can have a negative neurological impact on our body. Of course,
some argue that. And here's the thing that's very interesting about this is I have this patient,
and he is a executive pilot. And he actually manages a whole fleet of jets for a very large
company. And one of the things I had asked him one day is, “Hey, you know, I've been told that pilots
aren't allowed to drink diet sodas with artificial sweeteners in it. Is that true?” He goes, “Oh,
absolutely. You're not allowed to drink it while you're flying. You're not allowed to drink it
within a certain period of flying an airplane.” I said, “Okay. Well, why is that?” He said, “Because
it alters your response time it has neurological impact on the body and alters your response time
if you had to make a quick decision while flying or piloting an aircraft.” And I thought, oh,
pretty interesting. So, if you are looking for a sweet treat, and you want something that's
not going to raise your blood sugar, you can look for natural sweeteners think Monk Fruit.
You can use things like stevia which comes from nature of the stevia leaf.
You can even use erythritol or even xylitol. And these are all going to be viable options.
This next toxic ingredient is stuck into many foods, and I can't tell you how often somebody
goes and gets my kids a “healthy snack” and then this is in it. And then you look at the label of
that “healthy snack” and it's like all natural, non GMO, certified by this Fair Trade Organization
and you're like, “Oh my gosh, this is a really good food,” and at the end of the ingredient list,
you see artificial colorings. You see food colorings in it. And you know this is very common
to be put into foods because what they're doing is trying to trick your brain to think it's something
you want to eat. Now, if you didn't know this, naturally, we're very attracted to bright colored
foods because bright colored foods in nature are healthy. We're thinking berries, we're thinking
fruit, we're thinking veggies, right? But we're not supposed to think that some sort of, you know,
chemically-made ingredient is supposed to be healthy for us, but we do. So, when you go to an
ingredient list and at the very bottom of it, you see things like red 40, yellow 5, blue 1, blue 2,
you want to avoid that at all costs. And there's a whole bunch of different colors out there. But the
fact is, is that when we look at all of them, they are linked to cancer, and we need to avoid them.
This next ingredient is one that most people aren't familiar with, because it kind of popped
up overnight. It was something like you'd never heard of, and then all of a sudden,
it was there. And this is carrageenan. Now carrageenan is used as a thickener or an
emulsifier and it's actually linked to some pretty nasty stuff. For one, it’s linked to
triggering chronic inflammation, but to it actually is associated with causing ulcers
and gastrointestinal problems. So, you know, as I work with a lot of people with gut issues,
I certainly do not like carrageenan in my food or anybody else's food because there's enough
gut issues going around that we don't need anything that's going to further the issue.
Now, watch out for all these toxic ingredients because I'm telling you, they're in foods that
you would never suspect to see them in. Now, to learn more about foods that will burn belly
fat - trying to lose a little weight, want to burn some belly fat - watch this video right here.
“Now, this next food before I mention it,
I want you to brace yourself because I don't want you to fall out of your chair your bed or
whatever it is that you're watching this from and then blame me for it, so brace yourself,
because this food is the potato. Now hold on and hear me out on this one.”