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Hey everybody, Dr. Gundry here with three surprising foods that ruin your health.

Number one, here's a shocker, smoothies, fruit smoothies, or eating fruit year-round in in large quantities.

Yes, you may remember one of my most favorite sayings is give fruit the boot. Now why do I say that? Interestingly enough, great apes who are our cousins.

Only gain weight during fruit season, and fruit season only occurs once a year, even in the jungle.

Fruit fructose was designed to make us fat, to make us deposit fat, and it works in a very intricate mechanism that we inherited from great apes.

Fruit dose also is converted into triglycerides, and triglycerides, as many of you know, is actually the worst predictor of heart disease.

In other words, the higher your triglycerides, the more likely you are to have a heart attack and develop heart disease.

Yes, high triglycerides, not necessarily high triglycerides.

Fruit dose also causes fatty liver disease, and those of you who have been told you have a fatty liver, and now almost 50% of Americans have a fatty liver that they don't even know about, and most doctors don't know how to look for it.

It's from the amount of fruit dose that you eat from fruit, but also fruit dose that's been added to most of our fast foods and processed foods in the form of high fruit dose corn syrup.

Finally, my good friend, Dr. David Prominer, recently showed in his new book, Drop Acid, that fruit dose is the driver of uric acid production, and uric acid not only causes gout, it causes high blood pressure, it causes kidney stones, but it actually causes you to gain weight and to hold on to fat.

Multiple reasons why you need to give fruit, the boot.

Let me give you a patient story from last year. I have a patient who's a diabetic. We were doing very well on lowering his hemoglobin A1c, which looks at how much sugar and protein he's handling for the two months prior to the test.

Now, this is a gentleman who used to run a hemoglobin A1c of 10. Normal is up to 5.6 to give you an example.

We had gradually got him down over a year to about 6, a lot better than 10.

He read a book that said the key to eliminating diabetes is to follow basically a high fruit diet. So he said, hey, what a great idea.

I'm going to do that for three months before my next blood test, and I'm really going to surprise Dr. Gendry with the results.

Loanbold, when I saw him, his hemoglobin A1c had gone from 6 on the previous test to 12, much higher than when we started, and he had gained 15 pounds in three months.

So why did he do that? Because he just stimulated his ancient genetic program to take fruit and store it as fat from the winter.

Our problem now is that we used to only see fruit in the summer and early fall, and unless you lived in California or Florida, you didn't have fruit the rest of the year.

Now we have fruit 365 days a year. We have 747 cargo planes bringing fruit from Mexico, from Argentina, from Chile, from South Africa, all season.

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