Well, hi everybody it's Dr. Jamnadas again from cardiovascular interventions.
And this is an introduction to a three part series that I've made
on shopping and choices that you make when you go out shopping over this holiday
season. And of course the whole emphasis here is to buy real food.
And my emphasis is always to eliminate sugar,
artificial ingredients, all processed foods,
all processed vegetable seed oils,
and buy foods that are in their natural state full of fiber.
So I hope you enjoy this. It's in the three part series. And if
you need more information, I've put lots of links at the bottom of this video,
and I hope you enjoy it and have a good, healthy shopping season.
Thank you.
When it comes to eating our lunch and our main meals over here these folks
have brought me some food over here and told me how they use it.
So let's start with the chicken.
Chicken is a whole food and I like organic chicken.
And if you read the label on it, it really does not have a breakdown.
Normal natural foods don't need a label.
If it doesn't have a label, it's probably good for you.
So chicken has hardly any carbs in it.
There's a lot of protein and has some fats in it and it's high quality protein.
Then I have here some pork loin chops. Again,
I like organic chops and I think they're fine, cause they're high protein sauce.
It's a good protein source, high quality protein source, just like that,
egg white. And over here,
I have some sirloin steaks and boneless skinless breast
tenderloins as well. And I think that these are all fine.
Cause they're gonna give you high concentration of proteins in your diet and
that's, that's lovely that that's good for lunch. So processed meats.
Can I have bacon? I think Bacon's okay. Occasionally once in a while,
but generally processed meats are to be avoided.
Eat the real meats and try to eat organic grass fed meats.
Now let's look at some of the seasoning.
This is a seasoning that a lot of people use for these particular foods.
And when I look at yes, you got zero calories.
But look at the ingredients it says here, monosodium glutamate. First
Ingredient. Now why, if the first ingredient is monosodium glutamate,
then comes salt and dehydrated garlic, cumin,
yellow number five and coriander and red number 40.
MSG. Do I have a problem with MSG. I do,
because although the FDA has classified it as generally regarded as a safe,
that means grass. They give it that denomination.
That simply means that we don't have studies or we haven't done studies to show
its detrimental effect.
But we know that a lot of people have what we call the MSG syndrome.
After eating something that is high in MSG, they get facial flushing,
they get a headache, their eyes tear. Some people even break out in a rash.
Very, very bad. Also, we know that it makes you more hungry.
It doesn't satiate you there's rat data to suggest that there may be some
addiction, but we are not too sure. And it's not good for your gut flora either.
So MSG must be avoided. I want to see, this is some sort of ham preparation.
Look at the ingredients here. And number one ingredient is salt.
Then MSG, then corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup.
All these are on my no list. Sugar, onion powder, smoke,
flavorings, natural flavorings.
All these flavorings are nothing but chemicals that taste like the real thing.
And they add it in here. Avoid it. Any chemicals, avoid it.
Just make it yourself. Make it yourself. You want to put something in there?
Make your own spices. Can we, can we make our own spices? Yes we can.
There we go. You got coriander. You got garlic.
You can buy some other types of herbs and create your own.
You got an onion there. So I'd say to people,
stay away from these ready made things.
They come in a box that's already suspicious. Now here is another thing here.
These are plantains. Uh, do I have a problem with plantains? Let's take a look.
So in this label with the plantains, it's saying that total carbs is 35 grams.
So 35 grams, 35 times four. That's 140.
So 140 of the 170 calories is all pure carbs,
pure solid carbohydrates. So what is a carbohydrate?
A carbohydrate is nothing but sugar molecules join together.
Now you have a carbohydrate. Sugar molecule join together.
A hundred of them in a row. You have a carb. So another carb would be potatoes,
take these potatoes. So these are all just strings of sugar put together.
That's all it is. And it's got some fiber in it too. So you,
it's not that you can't have the potato.
You could have the potato occasionally and you one, not too much.
It's a good food because it does have some other nutrients in it too,
especially the fiber. So I have no real problem, but eat it real like this,
not like a processed potato, show me a processed potato.
Somebody went out shopping and bought some French fries. Ah,
let's take a look at these French fries. So this is processed
and it's in vegetable, this is in a vegetable oil.
They used to fry them in lard. And honestly that was much better.
But now it's all done in vegetable oil.
And I think that that that's not very good.
Plus there are other ingredients also in these.
So I generally prefer not to process my carbohydrates and eat
them the way they should. You can make French fries at home too,
but you gotta watch what you're frying them in another word about the oil that I
was telling you earlier on. If you reheat oil,
you create trans fats. So you have oil, you cool it down.
Then you reheat it again. You're creating trans fats.
You take a processed food and you're reheating it in the oven or in the
microwave. You're gonna create trans fats. So if you're gonna fry foods,
you fry it and then throw away that oil don't reuse that oil because you're
gonna have a lot of trans fats in there. And here's some rice.
Rice is also pure carbohydrate. It has a few good things in it. Other than that.
But very little look, dietary fiber, almost zero,
all the calories come from carbohydrates. This is pure carbohydrate.
So you can see the overwhelming trend just way too much carbs in our diet
way, way too much. That stimulates your pancreas,
over does it and causes your insulin secretion,
which cause a lot of weight gain because insulin puts you into storage mode into
your liver, then your pancreas and then into your visceral fat.
So the body understands that sugar
is very toxic.
So it immediately gets it out of the bloodstream and into storage within
an hour. It wants to get it out. It's a very toxic agent actually.
And glycation of proteins caused by sugar is very bad. That's why the higher,
the hemoglobin A1C, the more dysfunctional the tissue you have.
So I like these whole foods over here. And now this is it. These are vegetables.
I love all vegetables. There's no label on this.
It doesn't need a content because it all comes fully packaged by nature.
It's all very good for you can have as much as of this as you want.
You can find different ways to cook zucchini. You can make spaghetti out of it.
If that's what you like to do and you can roast it and you can, you can boil it.
You can do whatever you want with that. That's wonderful. Now other great foods,
let's talk about good foods. Some broccoli, again, no label on it.
You can many ways to make that. By the way, I love broccoli sprouts.
My daughter made broccoli sprouts at home.
She grew them and I put them on all my salad every day.
Very high content of very nutritious foods sprouts.
So broccoli sprouts, but yes, broccoli, you find ways to cook it.
If you don't like that way, cook another way. Find a way to use this.
So one type of cruciferous vegetable every day.
So either broccoli or brussels sprouts or cauliflower,
here's another one cauliflower. So you're having chicken.
You're gonna have another vegetable with it. You have to have a vegetable.
This will give you the fiber. This will give you more nutrition.
A lot of magnesium also in it phytochemicals in here.
And you need that to balance the protein intake with one of your high protein
foods. Here's some red peppers and yellow peppers and green peppers.
I love these because these are extremely nutritious. The more color there is,
the more phytochemicals. So phytochemicals are not for you.
They are for you bacteria, right. Here, an onion, here's beans.
Beans are fantastic. These have a lot of, you see the green.
There's a lot of chlorophyll, chlorophyll has magnesium.
There's a lot of fiber in here too. So guess who's gonna be happy.
Your gut bacteria is gonna be happy. And this is some more lettuces.
I think iceberg lettuces, fantastic stuff. I love this.
Cilantro was extremely good for you too. Here. We have lots of salads.
Salads of course are very good for you, but the variety is very important.
Put lots of variety of different things in your fiber. So you color it up.
The more colors you put in there, uh, the more,
the more healthy it's gonna be good.
It's gonna have more pH or chemicals in you. So you have some more, uh, salads.
So I'm very glad to see that you all chose that.
So no salads without a salad dressing. Right?
So let's talk about the salad dressings.
So here's a salad dressing and I'm just gonna tell you what's the ingredients.
It says, number one, ingredient, soybean oil. That's the number one ingredient.
So this is more soybean oil than anything else and needs to be avoided because
it's a polyunsaturated fat. Second ingredient is water.
Third ingredient is vinegar, then sugar,
then egg yoke, then salt buttermilk,
and then a bunch of other things such as monosodium glutamate, xanthan
gum, wheay, phosphoric acid, onion, potassium sorbate,
calcium disodium and disodium glutamate,
disodium inosinate. I can't even pronounce some of these words. Folks.
This is to be avoided, make your own dressing.
Use balsamic vinegar and olive oil,
high quality virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
So you want to put in your salad,
some fermented foods or balsamic vinegar is fermented.
Fermented foods are good for who? Your bacteria.
So you want to consume some kimchi or some sauerkraut
together with your salad. You throw that into the salad.
Now you have your fermented food with your salad. You have the right dressing,
which is olive oil together with balsamic vinegar. Mix it up.
And then you add lots of pepper or anything else that you want to do.
Avoid these regular salad dressings,
read the label and you'll see what I just saw down there. So for children,
the take home message really is water is the best drink,
eat infrequently. Don't eat every two, three hours.
You're supposed to eat real food and eat infrequently so
that your body gets a chance to change.
Its metabolic pathways is called metabolic flexibility.
So you should be able to work on glucose metabolism,
and then you change to ketone body metabolism when you're not eating.
And that flexibility is in you. You are born with it.
You're supposed to be using it feasting and fasting.
So look at my programs on how too fast and when you should fast,
we should all be fasting. Even during the daytime. I fast,
I only eat one meal a day and if I eat a second meal,
it'll be within six hours of the first one. So 18 hours.
I'm giving my gut a break. My bacteria, my mitochondria,
they all are happy. So folks,
I think that if we eat the right stuff and learn how to eat infrequently.
If you're not hungry, learn to skip the meals.
So I hope that we can become better shoppers and make better selections for our
families. And there'll be more video,
more detailed videos that I'll come up with in the future.
And I want to thank you both for going out,
shopping for me and bringing all this out here today and thank you for watching
and we'll see you for our next video. Thank you. Well,
I hope you all enjoyed this short series and don't forget to watch the other two
videos and don't forget to subscribe to our channel because there's gonna be
lots of good educational materials coming on and also look at the bottom.
There's lots of links to other videos. So have a great, healthy,
happy holiday.