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Dr. Eric Berg DC — Widespread Ingredients That Will Kill You!. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
There are four very common ingredients that shorten your life and kill you prematurely. When I was in practice for 30 years, I really tried to get people to change their ways. I tried to get them to eat healthier, but eating healthy is expensive. And I would talk to people until they're blue in the face and not get anywhere. And I stumbled on this when I was going to people's homes and then we would go to the grocery store and we would, you know, teach them what to eat. And I personally had an aha moment. An average person does not recognize the four ingredients in 99.99% of all junk foods. The whole label on foods is just completely confusing and no one can make any sense out of it. You're never going to understand what the food is unless you understand the ingredients in the food. It would be very similar to looking at a label in a different language, right? I mean, it just does not communicate because every single word in there is just foreign to you.
Now, I just want to read off some of these ingredients. Hydroxypropyl di-starch phosphate, interest-terrified soybean oil, hydrolyzed corn oil, maltodextrin, dextrose, dextrin. So just ignore those words right now because you literally fall asleep if I keep talking about it. I mean, can you imagine if I started talking about, you know, the cycle of pentanol-purpan hydrophonanthorins that we're about to discuss, I mean, like, I'm just going to literally make you unconscious. These words are chemical names for junk food ingredients. And I really think they're purposely put in there just to hide what's really in there. So the junk food industry is camouflaging their ingredients. Number one, number two, these companies have normalized junk foods as part of a regular diet. And number three, these companies spend millions of dollars to downplay the bad effects of their ingredients to neutralize these ingredients.
There is no bad food group, right? I mean, that is completely created by Big Food. You know, as long as you're eating a balanced diet, you'll be fine. What they have done very successfully is made their ingredients the same level as other ingredients. Like a calorie from the fructose and higher fructose corn syrup is the same calories as fructose and fruit. They're identical. This is absolutely positively a thousand percent not true. Well, I'll tell you right now, there's a huge difference between the starch and vegetables and the synthetic starch they get from corn. There's also a big difference between cane sugar and then synthetic sugar like glucose syrup. Now, the other thing you need to know is that you cannot determine the quality of the food by looking at this part of the labor right here called the nutritional facts. You have to read this part right here, which is really hard to read unless you have magnifying glasses. I can't even read this right here. I wonder if that's on purpose or not.
So there's a super simple way to identify these four ingredients that are in 99.99% of all junk food. The first one is sugar and I'm not even talking about sugar cane. I'm talking about the synthetic sugars and there's a lot of different chemical names for sugar. Then you have starches. What's the starch? Starches are sugar. I'm not talking about the starches and vegetables. I'm talking about the synthetically made highly processed starches. Then we have seed oils, very, very highly processed and then the before we have highly processed refined proteins, soy protein isolates and you have casing in different forms. That's like milk protein and by the way, there's a significant amount of casing coming from China. It's not really regulated. You have no idea how these cows are treated before they get the milk from them and so many people have allergies to casing and you have also a type of protein that creates more
inflammation called A1 beta casing. You don't want that in your body. You want the A2 and I'll guarantee all the casing protein that they use in junk foods is A1. A lot of people get bloating when they have this concentrated casing protein. Now to mention the soy protein isolates have heavy amounts of hexane which is a solvent. It's in gasoline and there's really no regulation or monitoring how much of that hexane is in that product. Then you also have wheat gluten. I created a little card cut out. You download it, you cut it out and you put it in your wallet and then you match it up with this card and that way I list all the different chemical names and that way you don't have to memorize any of the names. So out of all the things that you can change to make your health better, this is the most important. So click the link down below to download the little cards so you can cut it out and put it in your wallet immediately.
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