The 14 Foods You Should Avoid Eating After Watching This! | Dr. Mark Hyman

how do we avoid the danger zones in the grocery store in our kitchen in restaurants let's talk about the 14 foods to avoid for Better Health and there could be 14 15 100 uh but we're going to just kind of you know play with this a little bit today um first of all you know if if if you read something on a label and you don't know what it is and you can't pronounce it don't eat it I mean if it's got uh you know um uh bated hydroxy taline um boy uh do you have that in your pantry is that something you sprinkle on your salad or on your sweet potato at night uh probably not right but hyrox tell you in other otherwise known as BHT is a known carcinogen that's banned in most countries except the United States still in the food so don't eat stuff like that it's not a chemistry project is food if it says sto lactate uh what's that uh is that uh something you have in your salt shaker to put on your uh you know Tomatoes when you're having a salad no so basically you can't pronounce it don't eat it second thing is what did people eat like you know historically and that's probably a good bet from a traditional point of view about what you can eat if your grandmother wouldn't recognize it as food probably not good eat or probably these days it might be your great or great great grandmother right so do they know what Lunchables were or Gogurt or Pop-Tarts or Mountain Dew was probably not right so I think it you know it's it's a it's a really simple thing to think about like what did they eat you know I I people say oh I I organic this and grass-fed that I have news for you folks everything when my I mean my I'm old right so my grandparents were born in like 1898 1900 1903 right everything they ate was organic everything they ate was grass fed there wasn't anything else that's all they had there were no pesticides herbicides chemicals uh fertilizers all that stuff came after World War II a little bit you know after World War I so basically those things were not were not even around so so eat real food uh eat whole food eat eat uh unadulterated food um it's good we're we're kind of moving back towards that next um refined oils these are you know controvers and there are many scientists who believe that these are healthful that they lower the risk of heart disease and I think you know we have to be very careful because the science is really Mucky around Nutrition a lot of it population studies a lot of it is you know uh trial clinical trials but how they were designed what foods were what was included what was not included really makes a difference so you know there was a big study uh there was actually wouldn't be ethical today where they took 9,000 people who were committed to mental institutions and they split them into groups and half got butter and half got corn oil which is an omega-6 oil they followed them for years and they found that the uh and this is actually interesting story they found the people had the corn oil even though their LDL was lowered and their cholesterol was better than the people who had the butter and the saturated fat had a higher risk of heart attack and death they did not publish a study because it contradicted their diet fat hypothesis anel Keys I've written about this and eat fat get then they contradicted hypothesis and they basically didn't publish it and there was a an NIH scientist who knew about this study because it was quite a big study and it was like why wasn't this published he went and found the son of the original researcher and he said hey do you know if there's any data from this or this where the all the the data is and well gosh I don't know my dad died recently and I think it might be in the basement so he like drove a 100 miles to go to his dad's old house and he went in the basement and he found these you know old records and and and and data and he handed over to this guy and he published it you know a few years ago so I think you know we we have to sort of try to figure out what makes sense now some of the oils like soybean oil is 10% of our calories it's industrial soy it's GMO soy it's sprayed with glyphosate uh you can argue that GMO is good or bad or whatever that the actual plant that's produced by GMOs good or bad but there's no argument that glyphosate is bad there's just none it's not good for the soil it's not good for your microbiome it may cause cancer and uh we're eating it in large quantities it's in you know most people's urine I tested mine I thought I eat healthy but I travel a lot so I can't always control what I'm eating and basically you know I I was in the 50th percentile for glyphosate which is pretty freaky I don't like that and I'm trying to you know improve that but it's still you know this is this is um a Roundup or you know what we call uh you know Roundup Ready soybeans made by Monsanto the people who brought you dioxin agan Orange and DDT great company now most people don't even know that they're eating it right it's not like oh I'm I'm taking soybean oil and you know but yeah you can put it on your your salad or you can cook with it but most people are getting it in processed foods it's the main oil it's industrial soy oil that's used in processed food so you really want to stay away from that it's in fast food grains desserts package snacks muffins potato chips you know it's actually inconveniently raised meat um it's probably what's what they're using when they cook in restaurants cafeterias diners and so it's just stay away from that stay away from any of these refined oils uh I always say better safe than sorry there's a lot of great fats out there olive oil avocado oil you know nuts and seeds oils those are fine you know canola oil and soan oil have a mixture of Omega 6 and omega-3 which may offset some of the effects on the heart uh that the cornal had which is just Omega 6 but I would definitely avoid all the Omega six oils and you can eat them right you can eat them from the raw food they're fine to have you need them but not the massive quantities we have I think it's like 10% of our calories is a thousandfold increase in soyan oil intake in the last 100 years okay next is hydrogenated now most soybean oil in food is hydrogenated they should have changed it because of this grass ruling but basically hydrogenated uh fats means they've chemically altered the fat it's a plant oil that that is liquid at room temperature and they've injected it with hydrogen uh to bind to the fat because and it's kind of a chemical thing saturated just means saturated with hydrogen atoms right unsaturated means no not as many or polyunsaturated right which maybe a lot unsaturated or monounsaturated right that's what it means and so the the uh they they basically inject these hydrogen atoms into the plant oil to make it solid at room temperature and have properties like butter right that's what shortening is but they call it shortening because it shortens your life basically so uh you want to stay away from that there's no doubt uh there's no controversy there's no nutrition scientist no professional association no government uh that says that this is something we should be consuming anymore like it's just it's just a a hard no so I would say if there's one hard and fast rule make sure nothing you're eating has hydrogenated fats in it and you have to read the ingredient list you can't just look at the front of the package the next hard rule I would say and I heard this from Andy wild you know he he was one of my mentors really amazing guy who sort of led the integrative Medicine movement uh and and uh he he I heard I think on Larry King or something about diet and nutrition it's really simple just don't eat anything with high fructose corn syrup or hydrogenated fats and that'll cure like 90% of your dietary problems and I think he's right I mean if you look at you know uh high fructose corn syrup again it's one of those things well is it bad how bad is it does it really cause a problem it's you know basically you know just sugar and how is it different and and and and you know we can talk about that a minute but but basically if it's in a food it means it's a highly processed industrial food product it's not whole food so just that alone just should make you put it back on yourself now the hydr uh the high fructose corn syrup is basically again deconstructed food they take the corn and they kind of process it with Alkali it actually has some mercury in it some of the ways they process it cause have mercury and was a actually a study on this which was quite interesting they it was from colleagues of mine who who called up you know the the Archer Daniels Midland who makes high fructose corn syrup and they said hey can we have a that of this you want to study and they're like oh no you can't it's proprietary they called up they said changed it the story hey we're starting a new Beverage Company we want to use your product can we try some and they sent him a barrel of it and then immediately they tested it and they found it actually had Fairly significant levels of mercury uh but that's not the real issue the issue is it's basically deconstructed so in normal sugar uh glucose and fructose are bound together in high fructose corn Sy they're not they're free and it's free fructose now it can be anywhere from 55% to 75% fructose now fructose doesn't raise your insulin levels or or your blood sugar levels but it does go uh into your body in a way that it actually causes insulin resistance causes inflammation elevates uric acid which is something that's an important blood test to check and and and I as I mentioned before on the podcast I'm a co-founder of function Health at function health.com and it's one of the tests we do as part of the function Health panel to look at uric acid because it's so important as an indicator of your overall diet quality and the level of of this problem that can interfere with your metabolism and and in many ways be very harmful and my friend David perut wrote a book called drop acid and it doesn't mean LSD it means drop your uric acid so that's a a deep dive and there's a scientist named Richard Johnson he's actually giving Grand RS at Cleveland Clinic soon uh who's been a Pioneer in this research but it's it's it's really not great for us so the other thing is that it's it's energy using so in order to absorb fructose unlike glucose it requires a lot more energy and so when you're eating a lot of fructose it takes a lot of energy in the gut and that actually causes the gut to weaken and leaky and become leaky and then you get these holes in your intestine and that causes food and bacteria to leak in causing inflammation throughout the body which leads to heart disease diabetes obesity cancer Alzheimer's you know you name it it's really bad so you don't want to do that um next is uh if you see it advertise on TV probably bad for you right when did you see an ad for almonds or broccoli uh on television uh probably never right uh but food the the the the data is really interesting on marketing the worst foods for you have the most dollars spent on marketing and particularly television advertising so basically don't need anything within advertise on TV also um you know if it has a health claim on the label it's bad for you likely right I saw a bag of potato chips recently and it said glutenfree well does that mean it's healthy no it's like it's I saw I saw what I saw a brownie at some concert I went to and I was like no Dairy no gluten no blah blah blah whatever it was and and then I'm looking at the thing it's like it's like so much sugar and I'm like this is not a health food right so basically if it has a health claim on the label don't eat it if it says you know lowers your cholesterol or high fiber or low fat or you know no added sugar or whatever the freaking thing is I guarantee you it's just covering up something that's really bad for you also um you know just Nob brainer don't go to fast food restaurants like just don't like um you know I think a chicken nugget has like I don't know 27 or 30 something seven ingredients one of which is chicken um just don't don't eat that food it's it's it's made in ways that are really bad in fact the the burger at McDonald's is is actually I think only 50% beef and the rest of it's all this weird Spiller and stuff that we shouldn't be eating uh another thing you should pay attention to which is used a lot and there's many names for this so you have to be really diligent and I'd encourage you to Google uh MSG and all the names for MSG or monosodium glutamate now this is an exotoxin uh this is something that glutamate is an important neurotransmitter that regulates something called nmda receptors in the brain and if you over stimulate these it it actually can lead to all kinds of brain issues uh and cognitive dysfunction and you know many people get the Chinese restaurant headache you know because they get that too much MSG in their food um it can be called hydrolized vegetable protein which might sounds good or vegetable protein or natural flavorings even sounds great right it can be spices so you know you don't want to do that now why you know I mean I you could say oh Dr himman you're being extreme what's a little this or that or whatever uh it's not going to hurt you but you know how do they how do they actually induce obesity in Lab Rats when they want to study obesity it's very fascinating they give them MSG because it makes them hungry and gain weight uh also also the most obese population in the world and I learned this from a nutritionist who went and studied their diet and and lived with that in this in in Samoa and and she found that they for breakfast had ramen noodles I think uh with um I think sugar on top and then MSG on top of that so they put like MSG and on the ramen noodles as a way of flavoring them but it it really led to them being the most obese population in the world they like 90% diabetes rates uh also you know if you're if you're looking at aerosol cans there are certain spray cans that are okay but aerosol is just bad for the environment it's bad for the ozone layer and I wouldn't eat it um also you have to be careful when you're eating cheese right first of all Dairy is a problem in itself for for many reasons uh we have hybrid hybridized cows essentially where we breed them to you know create certain properties but it's led to high levels of something called A1 casine and most modern Dairy which is inflammatory but but but you know they're often you know fed all kinds of weird things and they're they're milk while they're pregnant there lots of hormones it's the the modern Dairy is really bad but doesn't say like you know goat cheese or sheep cheese or A2 cows or heirloom cows can't be okay for people who tolerate Dairy and many people don't but there are many cheese likee products out there like Vita cheese maybe you remember that or craft singles you know why they call it craft singles cuz they can't call it cheese why cuz it's not more than 51% cheese and the government says you can't call it cheese if it's not got 51% cheese so it has 51 or 2% it could be a cheeselike product but it's not cheese so stay away from all that weird stuff also artificial sweeteners I'm going to take this one on and and we can talk a lot about this but you know uh there are population studies that indicate that you know it it increases obesity diabetes but those can be confounded because people who drink diet drinks maybe already overweight are prone to it and trying to lose weight so there's that uh it does affect your microbiome there's no doubt about that from the research that can create inflammation and we call metabolic endotoxemia and that's work out of Israel and and there's many other studies on the microbiome I mean I I know when these first came out someone gave me a chocolate bar I said there's no sugar in this chocolate bar and I was at work I was like I'm going to eat this chocolate bar it's like really yummy and I was hungry and I I think I ate the whole thing and uh and it was a disaster you know my friend Dave aspy calls it disaster pants it was kind of like that so it has a huge effect on your microbiome it causes fermentation bloating distension uh and I would really encourage you all just to stay away from the sugar alcohols for that reason uh the other things like uh you know Sac sacran or sucralose or aspartame um you know they're usually in process foods they're usually in poor quality foods they're usually foods with very low nutrients they're you know they can you know there can in some things that are okay but I think better to stay away from them I think Stevia may be all right monk fruit may be all right we're still trying to figure that out but I I would I would really stay away from all the other artificial sweeteners also anything that's like you know uh funky additives preservatives dyes you know we eat about two to pounds of these every year I mean this is this is crazy I mean pounds of this stuff so you know it's a little bit but actually when you add up all the processed food people eat which is 6 % of our diet it's literally pounds of this stuff every year so you want to not eat that stuff and uh in many countries by the way there there the things that we allow here are banned we get stuff in this country that is um kind of based on this this kind of idea uh that you know you're you're innocent until proven guilty which is actually okay for you know uh you know law and for people but not for food you should have to improve safety before you actually introduce in the food supply so a lot of things got grandfathered in like whether it's BHT or BPA or or um you know certain dyes and chemicals we know that these are problematic and I think I encourage you not to eat them uh and also just you know probably to eat food with not too many ingredients right if if they're all ingredients you recognize like you know on a tomato like tomato water basil oregano salt fine but uh that's a good rule although some things with more than five ingredients are okay like I have recipes with obviously more than five ingredients so but it's just like if it's if it's a processed food just be very diligent learn how to read the labels the nutrition facts is super confusing but just turn the thing over and read the actual ingredients and and oh this is an interesting thing I should just mention I wrote about it in food fix in in in most countries um you know they put the percent of the uh thing on the food ingredient label so if it's it's like sugar it'll say 32% right in America you know what they said is you have to put the ingredients in the order of the amount right which okay that's fine but what food companies do then is they'll instead of like saying sugar is the number one ingredient they'll put in five different kinds of sugar they'll put in brown sugar brown rice sugar white sugar you know corn syrup this that and then they and it adds up being like the most sugar is the the predominant ingredient but but since it's broken down to these five different types of sugar it actually doesn't look like that so be really smart about it and uh and just you know stay away from all that crap so I know it seems like a lot but uh it it's really simple just don't eat process Ultra processed food don't eat high fructose corn syrup don't have hydrogenate fats don't eat things you can't pronounce or ingredients you don't recognize and and don't eat things your great-grandmother probably wouldn't eat and you'll be fine so listen we know food is medicine food is information food is instructions it's code it regulates every single aspect of your body biology it's What You're Made Of It regulates your hormones your immune system your brain chemistry your gene expression your microbiome I mean literally everything that is going on inside you is regulated by food so if you're putting the wrong information in you're going to get corrupted biological software and we don't want that because that drives disease it drives not just disease but it drives you feeling like crap it drives you to actually have all sorts of weird symptoms that we don't need to have whether it's just sluggishness brain fog digestive issues pimples whatever it is you don't need it because it's often connected to food and the quality of the food you eat matters more than anything else and and yes uh we need protein we need fats we need carbs we need vitamins minerals fiber Etc phytochemicals but how we eat them Matters How uh they're constructed which food shouldn't be constructed it should just be food right it matters and we're going to talk about what I mean by that in a minute um but if you don't actually have uh the right food you're not going to actually create the right biological instructions that tell your body what to do every minute minute to minute some of you may know this some might be obvious but it's worth a refresher and it's good to sort of circle back and I know I'm amazed it you know sometimes I into trouble because I think something's healthy I pick it up on the Shelf it's you know it's a convenience food it's not always bad to have convenience foods and and I kind of pick up this sounds great on the front of the package and then I kind of go with the ingredient list and I'm like HOH and I put it back on the Shelf so uh it's really really important to think about uh what you're eating there's a big conversation now around Ultra processed food and there's a lot of data coming out around this concept of ultra processed food and what does that exactly mean it means food that's deconstructed from its original form basically pulverized the molecular shape structure of the molecules are changed and it's reassembled into things that look like food but aren't actually food and that actually make you sick and die faster and I'm not just saying this the data is really clear for every 10% of your diet that's Ultra processed food your risk of death goes up by 14% in one study that Kevin Hall did at the ni if you eat Ultra processed food and you can you know have as much as you want versus you know healthy Whole Foods and you can as much you want the people who are offer the ultra proc Pro food and this was the same group just a crossover trial actually ate 500 calories more a day when they were allowed to eat Ultra processed food because it dis reggulator want to eat more because they're looking for the nutrients your body is intelligent like that a kids who are iron deficient will eat dirt to get iron we eat more and more food to try to get the nutrients that are not in our food so processing itself is not bad we as human beings have been processing food forever cooking is a form of processing right fermenting is a form of processing drying foods like dried strawberries or beef jerky is a processed food fermenting foods yogurt or sauerkraut is a processed food that doesn't mean it's bad right but it this is stuff has been going on for thousands and thousands of years we've you know processed olives to make olive oil that's okay but you know it's really about these these Franken foods that are not really food that are deconstructed from wheat corn and soy into ingredients and things that you don't even know where they're coming from if you say maltodextrin on the label well who's got maltodextrin in their cabinet and eats that with their salad right nobody knows what that is that comes from corn it comes from well basically GMO corn and it's spray full of chemicals and pesticides and it's it's highly uh glycemic and you get all these weird things like mono and diglycerides and like what is that stuff well it's a kind of fat but it's it's extracted from soy and it's processed in ways to create a mouth feel that makes you want to eat more and basically actually there was an article came out I think it was in Forbes a few days ago they talked about how the tobacco companies were actually food companies for a while like it was uh RJR Nabisco right uh Philip Morris craft so they they kind of Mer Ed and then they when they own those companies when the tobacco companies own the food companies they actually re-engineered foods to make them more addictive just as they re-engineered cigarettes to and it was very nefarious you really it's not like just a bunch of you know kind of conspiracy theory stuff it's actually very well documented in and this was well documented actually by by uh Michael moss in his book salt sugar and fact who was actually the first guest on the doctor Pharmacy podcast you can go way back to episode one and listen to that if you want so we need to make sure we're eating foods that uh you know are processed in ways we want to eat processed foods they're good for example yesterday I had a can of muscles for lunch H and it was basically you know water and muscles and I opened a can well and it was a BPA free can because I made sure it was BPA free which is a a toxin that's used to line cans so it's not terrible or I had you know I made a tomato sauce the other night and I I had a can of tomatoes those Tomatoes water and salt that's okay but it's it's it's uh really important to understand that that you know having whole foods that are processed in ways that preserve them and and maintain their nutritional um value is is okay like frozen foods are actually okay because they're they're processed but they're frozen but they're actually very nutrient-dense if you take berries it's they're actually much better if you get frozen berries than if you go to the store and buy them because they're you know picked ripe and flash frozen so they actually have much more nutritional value on some foods so you want to get rid of all the food likee substances all the industrial food no Michael pollen said don't eat food that was made in a plant eat food that was grown in a plant right um so get rid of the food likee substances the Franken Foods the chemicals add as preserved as food dyes artificial sweeteners there's no reason we should be consuming these things and we can argue is it is artificial sweeten or bad is it good is it cause cancer is it screw up your microbiome does it cause diabetes weight gain and there's scientists on both sides will argue to the end of time about whether it's good for you or bad for you but B basically my view is eat real food you know that we know that's what we evolved with we know that works and everything else you know we may or may not find out is harmful but increasingly we find out things are harmful after the fact you know krisco was invented in 1911 it was until like 2005 that the or was it 2015 no I think it was 2005 I can't remember I'm I'm old now so I forget things I got Alzheimer's disease and basically uh it was a long time ago that that they invented it but it was almost a century before they actually uh said it's going to kill you if you eat it but by the way it's still on food believe it or not because uh because of the way the food industry and the FDA are tied in together there's all these loopholes allowed them to still have it in the food it's it's it's sort of ruled as generally uh recognizes safe which is called grass GRS it was grass and a lot of things got grandfather grandfathered in but they said it's a non-grass food not generally recognized as safe so it doesn't mean it's banned exactly so it's kind of a little weird thing if you love that last video you're going to love the next one check it out here you're taking all the foods that cause inflammation that are are toxic uh to your system that are inflammatory mess with your gut and you're putting in foods that actually help reset your system and it's pretty much a very simple approach it's lots of veggies so

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Published: Fri Dec 01 2023