Hello Health Champions!. Today we're going to talk about 10 foods that used to be able to be called
healthy that now may not have that privilege anymore. So the healthy have turned unhealthy
and one of those Foods would be something like fruit Pebbles where they have way too much sugar
a bunch of artificial colors a bunch of processed grains and this is no big surprise to most people
and neither is Lucky Charms exact same scenario or Froot Loops so a lot of these foods are going
to be cereals but we'll talk about them and there is a whole bunch more Foods so most people are not
surprised we know that this is absolute garbage and it's a tragedy that we're putting this stuff
in kids so most people are going to say well it's about time but it's not that simple because we are
basically in for a food fight and what's happened now is that the FDA is proposing some changes to
the rules about how manufacturers are allowed to label food products so a lot of things that have
been able to be called healthy there that's going to change if the FDA gets their ideas through now
let me preface this by saying that in general I am not a fan of what the FDA or the USDA recommends I
do grant them that the guidelines they put out are slightly better than the standard American
diet because the standard American diet is ultra processed it has tons of bad fats and tons of
processed sugars and added sugar so the guidelines are slightly better in that they recommend a
little bit less sugar a little bit less fat and more whole Foods whole grain in this case which I
don't agree with because I don't think that people should eat grains as a staple it should not be a
foundation of any diet especially not the modern wheat but these guidelines are still slightly
better than what people are eating however in the way that they recommend low-fat and high grain
with high glycemic indexes that drive blood sugar up and they still allow a significant amount of
sugar when people try to cut back on fats they generally eat more of something else and that
other thing would be carbohydrates and now we're promoting insulin resistance and degenerative
disease so again I'm not a fan the guidelines are slightly better than what people are eating but I
still think that they contribute or even cause disease in susceptible people even so I'm going
to give the FDA some credit now that they finally they do something and this is super super exciting
to me it's a step in the right direction it's a sign of some kind of Awakening that they can't
just put unlimited amounts of sugar in products and get away with calling them healthy so as part
of this new proposal they are saying that in order for a food to be be able to be called healthy it
has to provide certain nutrients certain base groups and one of the base groups is fruits and
vegetables another one is that it has to have more than a certain amount of grains especially whole
grains it has to have more than a certain amount of protein and it has to have more than a certain
amount of dairy so again I don't agree with with these but this is what they're putting out that in
order to be cold healthy they have to have more of one of these basic food groups that they consider
a foundation and of course the dairy they're recommending is low fat but on the other hand
in order to be able to be called healthy it also has to have less than a certain amount of sodium
and less than a certain amount of saturated fat and also added sugar so again I don't agree with
most of these because fruits and vegetables are not the same thing non-starchy vegetables leafy
greens you can eat almost unlimited amounts as long as you're not sensitive to that particular
food but fruits should not be grouped together with vegetables fruits is more like candy you
eat it once in a while you eat it sparingly you eat it seasonally it's not more is better
vegetables I agree if you tolerate them well more is typically better but we can't group fruits and
vegetables together like that also grains I don't think should be part of our diet hardly at all
I think there's some Ancient Grains that some people can tolerate in moderation but it should
not be a staple of our diet especially not the modern wheat and the modern strains of grains
that they're promoting I agree that protein is something that's a good foundation especially if
it's from a healthy animal and dairy I don't agree with the way they're promoting it because they're
saying that the milk and the low-fat milk are the things that you should promote and increase
whereas I think you should increase the high fat the butter and the cheese and the fermented foods
like yogurt and sour cream because those are the ones that have much less sensitivity and they
have a much better food value I think that the sodium recommendations are completely misguided
and I'm not going to get into depth because I've done several videos on that but sodium does not
cause disease it can make a disease worse if you already have it in a small percent of people who
don't have functioning kidneys but if if you are a healthy person then sodium does not create any
kind of problem there's probably more people who are deficient in sodium as a result of the
guidelines also saturated fat is not a problem unless maybe I would say it's a slight problem
if you eat it together with a bunch of processed foods so if you eat sugar and donuts and beer
Etc. then you can't really burn through that saturated fat and the saturated fat would
contribute to your metabolic disease but it's not the saturated fat that's doing it it's the insulin
that is causing the body to hold on to things and finally about the sugar I completely agree
that you should cut way way back and nothing with sugar in it should be able to be called
healthy however I think that the guidelines are not nearly strict enough I think you should eat
way less probably less than half or even less than a quarter than what the guidelines recommend about
added sugar and the other huge problem about the added sugar is that it's a separate item
on the food label so if something like orange juice has tons and tons of sugar where the sugar
molecules are identical to the added sugar than if it's naturally occurring in the orange before
you squeeze it then you don't have to label it as added sugar so it's very deceptive it
gives people the idea that the sugar in orange juice is somehow very different from the sugar
in table sugar which it is not but as a result of these new guidelines or proposed guidelines
things like frozen pizza cannot be called healthy anymore it has too much sodium according to the
guidelines it has too much saturated fat and it probably also doesn't have enough whole grain
because it needs to provide something from one of those basic food groups and if it's just all
white flour it doesn't count anymore same thing with TV dinners a lot of frozen food a huge huge
industry has typically more sugar more sodium and not enough whole grain again if you make the
noodles from white flour then it doesn't count but on the flip side of this very interestingly
there's now some foods that used to be called unhealthy that we can now call Healthy so this
is a wonderful step in the right direction so we have salmon avocado olive oil canola and water
according to the previous guidelines from 30 years ago we could not call these things healthy but now
we can so salmon obviously especially if it's wild caught is a fantastic food lots of Omega-3s lots
of good protein avocado I don't think there's many question marks about anymore there's still
some people of course with fat phobia that don't recognize what an awesome food it is but if you
watch this Channel and if you're low carb or keto you know how fantastic avocado is I typically buy
these two or three bags at a time because we go through them so quickly olive oil can now
be called healthy and canola can and of course I am going to point out here the difference between
the two that if you were able to find cold pressed unfiltered canola it would not be the worst thing
in the world it wouldn't be the best either wouldn't even touch olive oil or in my opinion
butter but it wouldn't be the worst however 99.99 of all the canola oil that you're going
to buy and that you're going to find as a result of the recommendations that this is something good
is going to be very very harshly processed it's a seed oil so the omega-6 omega-3 balance isn't
terrible to start with but whenever they process it with chemicals with high heat they filter it
they deodorize it they degum it just like all other mass-produced oils they ruin it they make
it rancid they take away any sort of benefit that it might have and it becomes a very very Bland and
processed and bad food so I would stay away from canola if you really really like it and you can
find it cold pressed and unfiltered then sure go for it but I would just suggest get the olive oil
and finally water can now be called healthy before it didn't have enough nutrients you couldn't make
any sort of Claim about it but now at least because it's not harmful if it's clean water
whether it's still water or carbonated you can now call that healthy but as much as I'm in favor of
anything that can help people eat more real food and less garbage the proposed changes may not
even pass because it would mean that a whole bunch of foods or packaged Foods so-called Foods could
no longer be called healthy and there's a lot of companies that depend on that for their financial
gain so as soon as the FDA announced these changes very powerful interests started drafting letters
of protests and the consumer brand Association which represents over 1700 Major Brands they wrote
a 54-page paper to the FDA where they're saying that these proposed changes are overly restrictive
and here's the kicker because if they go through then that would automatically disqualified the
vast majority of all packaged Foods so to me that's like an admission they know that all the
stuff that they're producing is garbage because as soon as you put any kind of restriction on
these things then they can't label it the way they want it so what are we talking we're talking 230
000 different products and I found an article where they tested that number of products and
they defined 71 of them as Ultra processed and there's probably more than 70 percent of them
that would not pass the new guidelines and just to give you kind of an idea these products sell
over a trillion dollars a year so there could be a substantial loss of money for these companies
if the guidelines went through and those were not the only complaints the consumer brand Association
would just mention but in addition to that Kellogg's post and General Mills which are the
three biggest cereal producers and they don't just own cereals they own hundreds of different other
products and brand names of packaged processed foods that would all stand to suffer and lose
from this and another one that's been published is called the Washington Legal Foundation and this
was really really cute because this turns out they State very clearly that hey guys we don't have any
vested interest we are a non-profit we're just doing this from the goodness of our hearts so
this is really a bunch of lawyers with spare time that have nothing better to do than in their free
time out of the goodness of their heart they just want to help the food industry but also it's very
clear that their donors where they get their money to this non-profit it's not disclosed anywhere and
it is also well known that this Washington Legal Foundation has represented the high fructose corn
syrup industry previously so it's basically a front for a lobbying organization and what it
all comes down to is that they're claiming that in the end their argument is that it violates
the First Amendment which is the right to free speech so basically what they're saying is that
if they can't call it healthy just because it is actually unhealthy then that violates free
speech so basically they should have the right to be deceptive and even lie when it's clearly
known and there's strong strong evidence that their ingredients are harmful they should still
in their opinion be able to call it healthy and they're not going to lay down willingly because
there's so much at stake I think that it's going to be quite a fight and we have not seen the last
of this because these powerful companies have pretty much promised lawsuits if the FDA tries
to push this through so the sugary cereals that's pretty obvious most people get that but like I
said it's going to affect hundreds of thousands of different foods and some additional ones would be
things like Campbell's tomato soup or most other tomato soup out there I'm not just singling out
them but they're just a big brand they have way too much sugar and and way too much salt for those
guidelines another one would be Raisin Bran that has way too much sugar it does have some whole
grain so it would qualify from that standpoint but here's another example of where the guidelines are
kind of missing the point because they fail by the added sugar but the sugar in the raisins that
are naturally occurring is just as bad because raisins are just dried up grapes and it's just
a concentrated form of sugar and that sugar is no different in chemical composition than the
added sugar and then even some things that people don't think of as having any sugar has actually
too much so Corn Flakes has too much added sugar and too much sodium same thing with Special K too
much sugar too much sodium and one more example would be yogurt fruit yogurt like Yoplait which
of course they have promoted as very very healthy people have thought about this as a health food
because it has some bacteria in it and of course they've been doing it low fat but they add so much
sugar that it has as much sugar per unit volume as Coca-Cola and that amount of sugar would more than
outweigh and wipe out any sort of benefit that that smidgen of beneficial bacteria would have
so what's next in store here well I think it's a giant leap forward for the FDA because at least
they're taking steps they're they're taking some initiative to move forward but it's still a small
step forward for mankind so I would not hold your breath that this is going to dramatically
transform the way we look at food in general so first of all we may be facing lawsuits there may
not be any changes at all and if it does become some changes then it may take a long long time
but most of all I would point out that the existing guidelines the USDA and the FDA
guidelines I would say that they kind of get 10 percent of it right they do get that sugar
is bad they do get that vegetables are for the most part okay or good for you but the rest of
it they're they're really missing the point so if you really want to get healthy then don't wait for
these changes but instead I would suggest that you take some steps to become a health champion
and that's what this channel is all about is to teaching people how the Body Works how to take
charge and rather than ever needing to read food labels if you watch a few hundred videos
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needs and you don't have to read food labels you could read it once just to get an idea but then
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