The BIGGEST LIE You Were Never Meant to Find Out

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Today, I’m going to tell you about the biggest food lie that could be ruining your health. It can take decades for dangerous foods to be removed from the food supply.

Crisco is an alternative cooking oil developed in 1911. It's made from repurposed cottonseed oil, traditionally used for lanterns. The trans fats found in Crisco cause the most damage to the heart, brain, tissues, and cells. When first developed, there were never any safety studies on trans fats. It took over 100 years to get them banned!

Similarly, it took 90 years to get asbestos off the market. DDT, a toxic pesticide, took 30 years to be removed from the market.

Glyphosate, fluoride, sodium nitrate, and saccharin are still used in the food and water supply, despite significant health concerns. Biosolids are repurposed sewage waste used as fertilizer to grow our food.

Dent corn is an inedible, GMO field corn used to make over 4000 different products, such as animal feed, high-fructose corn syrup, maltodextrin, modified food starch, synthetic vitamin C, and seed oils. It is not heart-healthy and causes inflammation in the body.

Are carbs essential? No! This is the biggest food lie and the most damaging. Most chronic diseases in the US are caused directly by high-carbohydrate diets.

Lowering your carb intake can produce the most significant health benefits. Keto is attacked because it works! A keto diet can help reverse type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, mood disorders, cognitive dysfunction, and more.

Most Americans have at least one chronic disease. Our dietary guidelines should include a low-carb diet as an option. Although the guidelines are often ignored by the general public, doctors can be penalized for recommending diets outside of them.

Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:

Dr. Berg, age 60, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.

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0:00.0	Over 90% of all chronic disease stems from this one big lie related to a lot of other lies
0:07.5	that have taken decades before they were debunked and corrected. Before we get into the underlying
0:14.3	cause of most chronic disease, let me share some other fascinating things that contribute to
0:19.9	disease. Let's just take, for example,
0:21.8	Crisco. It's an alternative cooking oil they came up with in 1911. It actually had to do with repurposing
0:27.7	candles. A lot of those candles and lanterns used cottonseed oil. Someone had a broad idea. Let's use it
0:34.5	for cooking oil. Get people to start using that instead of butter, instead of
0:39.5	tallow and lard. Out of all the things that destroy the heart, brain, tissues, and cells, trans fats
0:45.2	are at the top of the list. There was never any safety studies done on trans fats back then.
0:51.3	It literally took over a hundred years to get these trans fats banned,
0:56.9	or at least create enough public outrage to get people not to consume them. Asbestos. All the
1:02.5	insulation in your house, we used to use asbestos. That took 90 years to get that off the market.
1:07.8	What about DDT? It's a very, very toxic pesticide. That took 30 years.
1:12.0	Yeah. The whole DDT thing didn't work out, but you know what's even better than that?
1:17.6	Glyphosate, Roundup Ready. Initially it was used to clean out pipes. Let's use it as a weed killer.
1:24.5	How about that? Then we have fluoride, which is still being used in the water supply, and it's in our toothpaste as something that prevent cavities. Do you realize where
1:32.0	fluoride came from? The aluminum industry. Someone had this bright idea. Oh, I have a great idea.
1:37.1	Let's put it in the water supply. Let's use it to help prevent dental decay. And we'll get the American
1:42.6	Dental Association to promote it.
1:44.8	And I think now in certain states, they're starting to ban it because fluoride does lower
1:50.4	your IQ. Do you realize that sodium nitrate, the stuff in preserved meats like bacon and sausage,
1:56.1	it was used to protect explosives? Sodium nitrate stabilizes gunpowder. You realize that saccharine is made from
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