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🗓️ 22 October 2025
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If you have diabetes or if diabetes prevention is your goal, avoid these foods at all costs. Your health depends on it! Discover the 10 worst foods for diabetes that you should eliminate from your diet NOW!
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0:00 Introduction: Avoid these foods
0:13 Insulin resistance explained
2:30 Seed oils and type 2 diabetes
6:53 Insulin resistance and diabetes
8:16 What not to eat if you have diabetes
12:42 How to detox aldehydes
Long before prediabetes and diabetes comes insulin resistance. You can be insulin resistant for 15-20 years before you develop diabetes!
Chronic sugar consumption can lead to insulin resistance, but seed oils can be equally problematic. Seed oils cause damage to the cell membranes (which contain insulin receptors) and damage to the mitochondria.
There is evidence that unsaturated fatty acids can reduce the risk of diabetes, but this is not the case with rancid, oxidized seed oils. These highly refined seed oils are full of toxic byproducts such as aldehydes, which create irreversible damage in the insulin receptor. The average person consumes 25%-30% of their calories from seed oils.
You can have high insulin and normal blood sugar for many years. Over time, this overworks the pancreas, causing the beta cells that produce insulin to become overworked and eventually stop producing insulin, leaving the body without a mechanism to regulate blood sugar levels.
Normal blood sugar should be around 80, which is equivalent to a single teaspoon of sugar in the blood, even though the average person consumes 81 to 131 teaspoons of sugar every day!
If you have diabetes or you want to avoid it, avoid these foods:
1. Fast food fries and fried chicken
2. Deep-fried restaurant foods
3. Chips/crisps/corn chips
4. Doughnuts and pastries
5. Sweetened drinks
6. Frozen breaded foods
7. Commercial salad dressing and mayo
8. Instant noodles
9. Granola/protein bars and cookies
10. Microwave popcorn
To detox aldehydes, consume more of the following nutrients:
•Carnosine: grass-fed red meat
•Sulfur-rich vegetables: onions, garlic, broccoli
•Polyphenols: green tea, dark chocolate, pomegranate
Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals and author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.Disclaimer: Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients, so he can focus on educating people as a full-time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose, and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, prescription, or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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| 0:00.0 | Do not touch these 10 foods if you have diabetes. |
| 0:05.0 | Those 10 foods are on the next board, but I need to give you a foundation first to understand |
| 0:10.0 | why you should be consuming these 10 foods. |
| 0:13.0 | So what do people know about diabetes? |
| 0:15.0 | Well, does it really start off as pre-diabetes and then you have type 2 diabetes |
| 0:19.0 | and then you have type 2 diabetes and then you have type 2 diabetes with |
| 0:21.4 | complications and you get you know your feet amputated or is there something that comes before that |
| 0:26.2 | well there's something that comes before that it's called insulin resistance and insulin resistance |
| 0:32.0 | bruise in the oven for about 15 to 20 years even before you become a pre-diabetic. |
| 0:39.4 | Unfortunately, if you look this up in Wikipedia or even ask any of the medical professionals |
| 0:45.4 | that are mainstream, you're going to get this information. |
| 0:49.0 | Well, we don't know exactly what causes insulin resistance, but I think it relates to obesity, |
| 0:56.0 | inflammation, having a sedentary life being inactive. It could be genetics. It could be that you're just getting |
| 1:01.2 | older. Could be your hormones. Or it's probably excess calories, right? This is what they keep |
| 1:07.3 | saying over and over and over again. But there's a very large elephant in the |
| 1:11.4 | room that they're not talking about. I've done a lot of videos on the relationship between |
| 1:16.0 | consuming a lot of sugar in diabetes, and that is definitely one big major cause, because the |
| 1:23.3 | chronic consumption of sugar, refined sugar, especially fructose over time, is going to constantly |
| 1:28.8 | spike blood sugar and insulin because insulin follows blood sugar, sucking out the sugar out of |
| 1:36.2 | your bloodstream as you put it in. And then over time, the receptors for insulin start |
| 1:40.5 | becoming blocked. Okay. So then insulin doesn't work anymore. |
| 1:45.0 | And then you can't let fuel in from the chronic consumption of sugar. |
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