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Doctor Eric Burg.

I want to talk about the absolute most unhealthy diet in the world, hospital foods.

I remember I broke my left shoulder, I had to get surgery in the hospital,

and they served me jello, orange juice, it was a hundred percent orange juice,

yogurt, which is sweetened in these little crackers, okay?

And literally when I woke up from the surgery I was starving, so I ate that.

And man did that put me in a low blood sugar situation about, I don't know, half hour later

I, my head was hurting, I felt sick, and I was extremely hungry and craving for sweets.

Hospital is a place you go to heal, right?

And to recover, well it's actually the worst place to go to recover.

Let's talk about their meals.

The meals are constructed with dietary concerns in mind.

The problem is whoever came up with these dietary concerns needs to be majorly updated

because they're operating off of completely false information, okay?

Now they contract out these meals with companies who specialize in preparing institutional foods, okay?

What are institutional foods?

Well foods that you would maybe serve in prisons, maybe the school system, governmental agencies, things like that.

So these foods are designed for high volume, low cost, they're usually prepackaged,

pre-cooked, and you just reheat them, right?

The macros on these foods are typically with the proteins 10 to 35%.

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