Sadly, I’ve eaten all these foods at some point in my life and thoroughly enjoyed them;
but it's hard to continue eating them when you know that they're slowly killing you.
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Making better choices in the food that you eat is a bit of a journey and a process;
and the fact is unless you're like my kids or you were raised by parents who knew better,
then you probably enjoyed most of these high-fat, unhealthy foods that I’m about to cover. Because
the fact is that you can find them in any grocery store, any convenience store, and
they're a huge part of the standard American diet. Now, the first food we're going to focus on is one
that many people eat because it's easy to grab on the go. When you order food at a restaurant
typically, it comes on the side, and that's potato chips. Now, with these potato chips,
they have a very low nutritional value and very high fat content, but that's what we're focusing
on, but there is one side note that I want to mention. The American Cancer Association
actually deems potato chips to be cancer-causing, and here's why: because when you take a starchy
food like that and you put it under high heat with a very low-quality fat, essentially what happens
is you create a compound called acrylamide; this acrylamide is a cancer-causing agent and that's
what you get with potato chips. So, though just a little side note, probably pretty important.
When we look at potato chips, the other thing that we have to look out for is that they are
fried in hydrogenated oils, which is a highly inflammatory oil. So, you combine that really
starchy food which is going to do bad things for your blood sugar, and also with a little
bit of inflammation, you're going to have some problems if you keep eating these types of foods.
Now, the next food that people eat all the time--and I might as well mention it now, because
a lot of times when you're eating potato chips, you're also eating a sandwich, and that has this
just lathered all over it--and that's mayonnaise. Mayonnaise is an extraordinarily high-fat food;
but unfortunately, it's typically made with the worst fats available in order to keep the cost low
and the profits high. And just so I don't lose anyone as we're talking about these bad fats,
these bad fats are going to be the fats that are made in a lab but not found in nature. Typically,
when you look at a nutrition fact label, you'll see them under names like "hydrogenated" or
"partially hydrogenated" vegetable oils. Some prime examples would be a fat like margarine
or Crisco. Now, when we look at these bad fats, they're not only in mayonnaise and potato chips
like we already mentioned, they're in many other foods as well which we'll get to in just a second.
Now, the other bad fats that we have to avoid are going to be the heated process
oils. When you're looking at nutrition labels and reading the nutrition facts,
here's some of the ones I want you to look out for. It's going to be ones like peanut oil,
sunflower oil; also, we want to watch out for the safflower oil, that's a highly used one,
palm oil, corn oil, and lastly, soybean oil. And why do these food manufacturers use these oils,
you might ask? As I mentioned before, it's to keep the cost of the food low, but the profit's high.
Now, let's take a look at the next high-fat food that most people eat. The interesting thing about
this one is that most people perceive it to be a very healthy food; this is going to be salad
dressing. Now, most salad dressings on the market is loaded with just tons of bad fats and also
sugar; and so, when you just cover your leafy greens with a high fat sugar, it's not going to
do much good for you in the way of health; when you go to a restaurant and you think, "Well,
I’m making a better choice because I’m getting the salad," the salad dressing is probably killing
all of that better choice you just made. This next food on our list is going to be,
well, an all-American favorite. I’d be lying to you if I said that this food didn't taste good,
but the fact is now that we know how to make better choices we have to do so,
and this is going to be French fries. The fact is most of these restaurants are grabbing the
cheapest genetically-modified potato they can get their hands on and frying it up
in the cheapest hydrogenated oil that they can buy, and then serving it to you. And this oil,
of course, has been reheated and reused all week long. The fact is that you can
make some better choices here: you can take some potatoes, you can slice them up and roast them,
you also could even fry them at your home and just use avocado oil, which can actually withstand
the high heat. It's a much better option. Now, before we get into the next high-fat
food--well, I was about to say "food", but this one's actually a beverage.
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the email list, and you can join there. Now, let me ask you a question:
if you were to go to the store and buy a creamer, where would you assume that that cream came from
if it wasn't specified directly front and center on the label? Put it in the comments below. For
me, I would assume that it came from a cow because that's where cream is supposed to come from.
But the fact is many of these creamers on the market aren't cream at all; in fact, they have
no cream in them. They're big huge bottles of flavored, sugar-filled hydrogenated oils;
and the fact is--the most scary fact about all of this--is that when I first learned this,
I about fell out of my chair because this is what I drank almost every single day in
my coffee and in my tea growing up. It's not a wonder that my brain didn't work properly,
and it's not a wonder that so many people out there are having hormonal problems and all kinds
of issues in their body and can't figure out why. But the problem isn't only about the bad fats,
it's what's silently happening in your body when you consume them. The problem is referred to
as AGES, this stands for Advanced Glycation End Products. These Advanced Glycation End Products
occur in the body when you consume either protein or fat, and combine it with sugar; this is known
as glycation. And these AGES cause problems in the body in many diseases such as diabetes,
it's linked to heart disease, kidney failure--I mean this is serious stuff--Alzheimer’s,
chronic inflammation, premature aging as well. I mean these are fats that many people are eating
every single day combined with sugar, combined with protein
and you're getting this occurring in your body. It's not doing anything good for your health.
Now, the other thing that you have to watch out for--and this is a big one--is those who
are suffering from high blood sugar--which is many people--combining that with these bad fats,
what it does is it just speeds up this process of producing too many AGES in the body and
therefore it speeds you along to a chronic disease. Many health care professionals are
actually calling for the Advanced Glycation End Products to be measured in people's body
and be one of the true markers of health. And so, if you're sick and tired of being sick
and tired, you have to take this stuff seriously. As you go around the store, start paying attention
to the nutrition labels; what you're going to find very quickly is that these bad fats are in
literally everything--and they're not only just in the cookies, crackers, chips, and high carb foods,
they're also in many of the foods which are perceived to be healthy. Also, I want to mention,
don't be tricked by going to the local health food store and thinking that they just did all the due
diligence and pulled that stuff out because that is not true at all; in fact, one time I went to
Whole Foods and I remember trying to find a barbecue sauce there; and literally, I went
in the aisle looked at every single one of them. Finally, I found a store associate and I said,
"Do you guys have any barbecue sauce that doesn't have either corn syrup or hydrogenated oils in
it?" And he looked at me and kind of laughed, he goes, "Oh, it's Whole Foods, we don't sell that
kind of stuff here." Well, the fact is he went to the aisle then and he started looking with me
and guess what, we couldn't find a single one of them. And I left the store empty-handed.
Now, the other thing I want to mention, as health trends come and go, one of the big
health trends out there right now is going to be the ketogenic diet. Now, this is a great diet
with a lot of benefits, but many keto dieters fall into the trap of eating hydrogenated oils,
especially the dirty keto dieters out there. And this is why I do not ever consider following a
dirty ketogenic diet, a healthy or viable option; in fact, it's crazy because you don't want to be
so focused on following the ketogenic diet that you're willing to do it improperly and cause
yourself further health problems down the road. I mean, sure, it's going to help you lose weight,
but the fact is it does you no good to be the skinny person in the room with cancer.
You really have to focus on getting yourself healthy first, and as you focus on getting
yourself healthy, the weight loss will come. Now that I’ve told you all the bad fats that you
have to avoid and stay away from, let's move to a more positive note and talk about the ones that
you can have; because these fats are amazing, they nourish your brain, your cell health,
your nervous system, they promote good quality health in your body, and there's a ton of them
out there, you just have to look for them and you have to make sure you use them.
Let's take a look at the list here. First, we're going to have MCT oil or MCT powder.
This is a great one that you can use; it gives you direct brain energy, many people like to
put this in their tea or coffee. The next one on our list is going to be grass-fed butter,
and then we have ghee; we then move down to coconut oil or coconut butter as well; you can
use things like avocado oil, which is great for frying and if you're going to fry anything because
it can handle that high heat; another great one is going to be flaxseed oil, and then we have
extra virgin olive oil--I love putting this on salads--we have sesame oil, walnut oil, and lard.
And then when you take these good fats and you go and you look for them on the labels,
and you buy the healthier version of mayonnaise with these fats in it and you buy the healthier
version of the salad dressings with these fats in it, and then all the different snack
foods that you might buy, if it has these fats in it, it's so much better for you.
Now that you've learned how to improve your health naturally by choosing proper foods,
check out my other videos on the channel so that you can take your health next level.
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