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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🗓️ 16 January 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, we’re going to talk about the absolute worst food for your heart! Here are some of the side effects:
•Primary driver of heart disease
•Creates inflammation inside the arteries
•Consumption directly correlates with heart disease
•Creates oxidative LDL inside your arteries
•Increases the risk of developing metabolic syndrome
•Causes lipid peroxidation
•Increases the risk of clotting
•Creates oxidative stress
This food is an industrial product that is heated five times, contains added chemicals, and is devoid of anything living at all. The food we’re talking about is seed oil!
Vegetable oil is one of the most commonly used seed oils and isn’t really made of vegetables at all. Seed oils are generally composed of corn, cottonseed, canola, or soy oil.
Vegetable oil is an unsaturated fatty acid, so it’s very unstable and susceptible to oxidation. Light, air, oxygen, and temperature can all cause seed oils to oxidize.
Seed oils are in so many of our foods. They’re used in cooking but also used in salad dressings, condiments, and in almost all ultra-processed foods.
Most of the information available to the public tells us that polyunsaturated fatty acids (seed oils/PUFAs) are not bad for us.
Two popular studies on PUFAs are The Finnish Mental Hospital Study and The Los Angeles Veterans Administration Study. Both of these studies have several flaws. They weren’t randomized, and there were many other variables, like participants on medications and those who smoked.
Check labels to avoid seed oil consumption. Condiments and salad dressings often contain seed oils, so opt for versions without, or you can even make your own. Use butter, olive oil, coconut oil, avocado oil, and lard for cooking instead of seed oils.
Seed oils are too high in omega-6 fatty acids. Typically, you want a 1:1 ratio of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. When omega-6 fatty acids are too high, it can cause inflammation and other issues.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk about the number one worst food for your heart. |
| 0:04.2 | Hint, it's not sugar. |
| 0:06.2 | I did a video on this before, but the problem is the food that I talked about before, |
| 0:11.2 | it's not really in the average person's diet, nearly as much as it used to be, and that was trans fats. |
| 0:18.1 | Trans fats are really bad for us, but they ban that. So if we take away trans fats, |
| 0:23.2 | what do you think would be the food that would be at the top of the list as far as destroying |
| 0:27.6 | that inside of that artery? So let's see if you can guess and get it right, okay? Number one, |
| 0:33.1 | it's a primary driver of heart disease. It creates potent in massive inflammation inside your arteries. |
| 0:41.7 | And also, this food is directly correlated as far as the consumption and introduction into our |
| 0:47.1 | food supply and the exact statistics of getting heart disease. I mean, they're on the same |
| 0:52.1 | trend going up. Another thing that this food does, |
| 0:55.8 | very specifically, to the inside of your arteries, is it creates what's called oxidative LDL. |
| 1:02.9 | Now, let me just explain what that means. Now, maybe you've heard that LDL is the bad cholesterol, |
| 1:07.8 | but really, the LDL is not bad until it gets modified. It changes. |
| 1:14.1 | This particular ingredient that I'm going to tell you about in a minute goes into that LDL |
| 1:20.2 | and it modifies it and it makes it so it can penetrate inside the artery wall and start the cascade of damage. |
| 1:30.1 | And it's this repetitive chronic consumption of this thing that keeps this irritation or |
| 1:35.1 | inflammation going. And then you have a cascade of problems like incomplete healing with |
| 1:40.8 | proteins and cholesterol to the point where you're developing this plaque and that can |
| 1:45.5 | break off, etc. But it really starts with this oxidative LDL. This food also increases the risk |
| 1:52.6 | of getting a metabolic syndrome. What is that? That's a combination of several things. |
| 1:57.7 | Low HDL, high triglycerides, high blood glucose, belly fat, and also high fasting insulin |
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