BETTER Than Ozempic! Lose Belly Fat Faster

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Find out how to lose visceral fat by avoiding the 6 foods that prevent belly fat loss. In this video, I’m going to tell you what NOT to eat to lose belly fat. Avoid these foods if you want a flat stomach!

Visceral fat surrounds the organs and keeps your body in a state of inflammation, preventing fat loss. Avoid these 6 foods that prevent fat loss.

1. Low-fat yogurt

Low-fat yogurt is typically high in sugar and often contains industrial food starches like modified food starch, modified corn starch, or maltodextrin. Starch is not sweet, so people consume much more than sugar. It’s higher on the glycemic index than sugar and is used to add bulk to a product.

2. Processed meat

Hot dogs contain industrial sugars such as corn syrup that will spike blood sugar. Adding sugar to meat creates advanced glycated proteins. Organic grass-fed beef hot dogs are a good option!

3. Atkins products

These products are marketed as low-carb and keto-friendly but contain very low-quality ingredients such as soy protein isolates, seed oils, GMOs, and synthetic fibers. These can cause bloating and diarrhea and also prevent fat loss.

5. Juice

Many products marketed as “juice” often only contain minimal amounts of fruit juice and have high amounts of sweeteners, such as high-fructose corn syrup. Juice from concentrate is devoid of nutrients. Fructose found in fruit juice can only be broken down by the liver, which can contribute more to a fatty liver than glucose.

6. Agave nectar

This sweetener seems healthy but is very high in fructose, which is hard on the liver. Coconut sugar and honey are better options but should be avoided when focusing on fat loss.

7. Mayonnaise

Processed mayo is mainly composed of soy oil. This type of fat is stored in the fat cells and isn’t burned by the body as quickly as saturated fat. Seed oils like soy oil may be at the root of chronic disease.

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0:00.0	If you want any chance of burning off belly fat, you need to watch this entire video.
0:04.1	I'm going to explain six foods that will directly prevent you from ever losing your belly fat.
0:08.4	I'm talking about a type of fat called visceral fat.
0:11.3	That is a fat around the organs, keeps your body in a state of inflammation.
0:15.5	And when your own fat is inflamed because you have visceral fat, that alone keeps you from burning it. Let's start with
0:22.1	the first food, and it's this right here, low-fat yogurt, 27 grams of carbohydrate. There's only
0:28.9	19 grams of sugar, but there's an additional eight grams of hidden sugar as starch, but they don't
0:35.2	really tell you. You have to read and understand the label because the
0:38.5	first ingredient is low fat milk. The second is sugar, water, and then the next one is modified
0:44.1	food starch. That is hidden sugar. This is what it is right here. It's a powder. And let me tell
0:50.7	you about industrial starch. It's not just modified food starch. It's modified cornstarch,
0:55.0	multidextrin, and many other types of starch. The reason why it's worse than sugar is that
1:00.4	it's not really sweet. So people are consuming a lot more of it than actual sugar. If you look at
1:06.3	the glycemic index, it turns into glucose a lot faster than table sugar turns in the glucose.
1:11.6	So even though it's not classified as a sugar, it acts like a sugar, but worse than sugars.
1:15.6	It's creating this constant elevation of blood sugar, which is going to burn out your pancreas a lot faster.
1:21.6	It's going to lead to more diabetes.
1:23.6	What's really wild is the purpose of the starch and food is just to act as a filler.
1:29.8	It's something to add bulk in a product. Industrial starch goes through high heats, chemical
1:35.0	processing, deodorizers. They take out the color with different chemicals. So you're ending
1:39.3	up with this like completely dead product that then has to be flavored, colored. And if we look at the bottom of the
1:46.1	label, it'll say made with bioengineered food ingredients. That is another word for GMO, genetically
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