Shocking Truth: Dr. Berg's 20-Year Cereal Obsession!
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Let’s talk about what would happen if you added cereal to your breakfast every morning.
Years of consuming cereal can have serious impacts on your health.
Cereal contains hidden sugar, starch, and carbohydrates. Certain starches and carbohydrates can affect your blood sugar levels even more than sugar can.
Many people think cereal is healthy because it contains whole grains. However, sugar, combined with protein in whole grains, can lead to a myriad of health concerns.
Whole grains also contain gluten, and many people have either an allergy or intolerance to it. Phytic acid in whole grains blocks mineral absorption.
The synthetic vitamins in cereal are also completely different from vitamins in nature. Not to mention that the sugar in the cereal will nullify the effects of the synthetic vitamins.
Many types of cereal contain ingredients that are GMO, as well as artificial colorings and preservatives. Cereal is ultra-processed junk food.
Here are the top issues that can arise if you consume cereal for breakfast every day for just a month:
• Prediabetes
• Exhaustion
• Morning grogginess
• Irritability
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Arthritis
• Brain fog
• Weight gain
• Fatty liver
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Today we're going to actually get some wonderful breakfast cereals to do an experiment |
| 0:07.1 | to consume these for about a month. So we're going to pick up some heart healthy whole grain cereals, right, most of them anyway, and maybe some instant oatmeal variety pack and why not even just add this kind breakfast bars, okay, into the mix. |
| 0:25.0 | And being very sarcastic, I'm not going to eat these products, but I'm going to tell you the effects of this because I have eaten this for over 28 years. So what would actually happen to you if you |
| 0:35.3 | had cereal to your breakfast every morning? Now as a child, your metabolism, your body is not |
| 0:40.6 | yet damaged, probably because you haven't done this chronically, but over the years it starts to build up it creates problems |
| 0:46.0 | but I think many children can at least get away with it temporarily because they don't yet have |
| 0:55.0 | damage with their mitochondria. They have a very good what's called metabolic flexibility where they are able to burn off a lot of this |
| 1:00.8 | extra sugar. |
| 1:01.9 | But what happens over time is not good. |
| 1:03.9 | Let's just first take this fruity pebbles cereal right here. |
| 1:09.1 | Now, one cup of this will give you about 160 calories, about 18 grams of sugar, which comes out to about 4.5 teaspoons of actual sugar. |
| 1:18.9 | Now, typically, if we look at sugar, like table sugar, which is not really in there, but let's just say it was. |
| 1:24.0 | That would roughly kind of calculate on the glycemic index to be about 75, |
| 1:28.0 | which is high, but it's not a hundred. |
| 1:31.0 | So you're talking about every cup, you're getting four and a half teaspoons of sugar. |
| 1:34.6 | Okay, that's a lot, but there's some hidden carbs and that has to do with the total |
| 1:39.8 | carbohydrates because if we look at the number one ingredient on this it's rice |
| 1:44.0 | okay as in rice flour and the glycemic index of rice flour is about 95. |
| 1:52.0 | So in other words, this rice flour, this carbohydrate, this main |
| 1:55.8 | carbohydrate in this product acts more to stimulate your blood sugars than |
| 2:01.4 | actual sugar, but it's not classified as a sugar it's classified as |
| 2:06.3 | a starch and of course there is zero fiber so there's nothing to buffer this blood sugar response and so there's no net carbs. |
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