The #1 Worst Food for Your Heart (HINT: It's Not Sugar)
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Today we're going to talk about the absolute worst food for the heart: trans fats. While sugar is bad for the heart, trans fats are even worse. In 2015, the FDA no longer classified trans fats as safe.
Consuming trans fats increases the risk of several serious health issues, including:
• Heart attack
• Stroke
• Type 2 diabetes
• Cancer
• Increased LDL
• Decreased HDL
• Inflammation
• Autoimmune diseases
• Infertility
• Tendon and bone degeneration
Partially hydrogenated oils contain trans fats, but products that contain either partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated fats should be avoided to help protect against heart disease and other health problems.
It turns out that animal feed still contains trans fats. This means that you could consume trans fats indirectly by consuming animals fed trans fats. Restaurants also commonly serve foods containing trans fats.
There's even a loophole that allows half of a gram of trans fats in one serving size to claim that a product has zero trans fats. Overall, it's crucial to read food labels and be aware of what you're eating, especially at restaurants.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk about the worst food for the heart, okay? Now, this is even worse than sugar, |
| 0:05.8 | but sugar's still bad for the heart, believe me. Now, some of you probably think it was definitely |
| 0:10.7 | the omega-6 fatty acids, right? Like the soy oil, the corn oil, those oils. And you're absolutely |
| 0:16.8 | right. That would be even, you know, comparable to sugar if not worse, but there's something else |
| 0:22.8 | that's even a worse version of these omega-6 fatty acids. And that would be the trans fats. |
| 0:29.6 | Now, you're probably saying yourself, well, I thought they banned them, didn't they? You don't |
| 0:32.8 | see trans fats anymore in the food supply, but the FDA in 2015 no longer classifies them as generally |
| 0:40.6 | recognized as safe, okay? Because they cost some slight minor complications. And it's taken years |
| 0:48.8 | and years and years and years and years to recognize the fact that these trans fats are really, |
| 0:52.6 | really bad for the arteries. It majorly increases the risk for heart attack, stroke type 2 diabetes, |
| 0:59.1 | insulin resistance, cancer. It increases LDL and decreases your HDL. It creates inflammatory |
| 1:06.1 | problems. It's been linked to autoimmune diseases, infertility, and even tendon and bone degeneration. |
| 1:14.0 | But other than that, it's pretty safe. Now, typically when we think of trans fats, |
| 1:19.8 | we're think of the partially hydrogenated oils, okay? So let me just kind of explain simply |
| 1:26.8 | of how they make these. You start off with an unsaturated fat, most of the time, like soy oil or |
| 1:32.0 | corn oil. And then you heat this thing under high heats over a period of time. So it goes through |
| 1:37.2 | this phase. It becomes thicker, right? So you have this partially hydrogenated version, okay? |
| 1:43.5 | It's altering the chemistry. This is an artificial new thing. And the partially hydrogenated oils |
| 1:49.9 | have the trans fats. And then if you leave it in longer, it becomes fully hydrogenated. And apparently, |
| 1:55.5 | at that stage, you don't see the trans fats. Now, it does not mean it's healthier. |
| 2:00.8 | It creates a lot of other problems. I'm like, how can you go through this process and have it |
| 2:04.9 | being really bad? And all of a sudden, if you leave it longer, it'll become healthier. So when |
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