5 Healthy Foods that Inflame Your Body and Increase Body Fat
Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition
Dr. Jockers
4.8 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dr. Jockers reveals the five "healthy" foods that may be doing more harm than good. You’ll learn how smoothies, often thought of as a nutritious choice, can be loaded with sugar and processed ingredients that trigger inflammation.
You’ll also discover how granola, which many believe is a health food, can actually spike blood sugar and increase body fat. Dr. Jockers dives deep into the hidden dangers lurking in foods marketed as healthy options.
Finally, you’ll hear why many salad dressings contain harmful oils and sugar additives, turning a simple salad into an inflammation-inducing meal. Listen in to find out how to make these foods work for you instead of against you.
In This Episode:
00:00 Introduction: The Hidden Dangers in Restaurant Olive Oil
00:28 Podcast Welcome and Episode Overview
03:22 Five 'Healthy' Foods to Avoid
04:02 The Smoothie Sugar Trap
07:30 Yogurt: The Hidden Sugars
10:15 Protein Bars: Convenience at a Cost
14:07 Salad Dressings: The Inflammatory Culprit
18:13 Granola: The High Glycemic Misconception
23:24 Conclusion: Making Healthier Choices
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“Granola is marketed as healthy, but one cup can have over 30 grams of sugar, spiking your blood sugar and increasing inflammation.”
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| 0:00.0 | Most restaurants, even if it's labeled olive oil in the kitchen, it's tainted with some sort of seed oil, canola oil, soybean, safflower, something along those lines. |
| 0:09.0 | So again, you've got the refined seed oils in there. |
| 0:12.0 | So at best, a lot of these restaurants are using like a 50% cut olive oil. So it's like 50% olive oil, 50% corn oil. |
| 0:19.0 | This is why I'm an advocate of bringing your own olive oil. |
| 0:21.8 | If you're going to have a salad or something that you might want that oil with, bring your own |
| 0:25.8 | or bring your own homemade dressing. Well, welcome back to the podcast. Today I'm talking about |
| 0:30.8 | five foods that most people think are healthy that are actually inflaming your body and increasing |
| 0:37.1 | body fat. These are foods that I |
| 0:38.4 | used to think were healthy many years ago as well and I used to consume them on a regular basis, |
| 0:43.2 | thinking I was doing a lot of good for my body. But when I really looked at the science and what these |
| 0:48.2 | foods were doing, I realized they were driving inflammation. They were damaging my gut and they were |
| 0:54.0 | blocking my body's ability to burn fat effectively for fuel and poisoning my mitochondria. |
| 0:59.3 | So you're probably wondering, what are these foods? |
| 1:01.0 | Well, I'm going to break it all down in this episode. |
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