The One Ingredient That Has Spiked by 8000 Percent over the Last 50 Years

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Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 11 May 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In this podcast, we’re going to talk about the one food that has increased in our diets by over 8,000%. From 1970 to 2014, this food has increased significantly more than any other food. Consuming this ingredient depletes vitamins and minerals. It’s one of the most potent triggers of metabolic syndrome, fatty liver disease, and inflammation. We're talking about high-fructose corn syrup. Corn products, skim milk, chicken, turkey, added fats, and oils have also increased, but nowhere near as much as high-fructose corn syrup. Consumption of vegetables, butter, eggs, beef, and refined white sugar has decreased. High-fructose corn syrup is hidden in many foods and drinks. Most high-fructose corn syrup is made from inedible dent corn, which is typically GMO, so it’s herbicide-tolerant. The U.S. is the top producer and consumer of corn. In 1932, farmers extracted 20 ½ bushels of corn per acre, and in 2022, they extracted 173 bushels per acre. The arrival of GMO foods, herbicides, and pesticides allows farmers to grow significantly more corn in a small area, which isn’t good for the environment, soil, or our health. Always check your food labels to avoid high-fructose corn syrup, modified food starch, modified corn starch, maltodextrin, glucose syrup, and seed oils.

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0:00.0	If we take a look over the last 50 years and evaluate all of the foods that we've been eating,
0:08.4	and we have consumed this one food in a massive amount.
0:13.2	Check out this graph.
0:14.3	So on the left here we have various different types of foods,
0:17.0	which I'm hiding right here.
0:19.0	And we can see the relative amounts of certain calories, right, compared from 1970 to 2014.
0:27.8	You can see this one food right here spiked over 8,000 percent.
0:31.7	That's 8,,53 percent. Compared to this food spiked 198 percent, this one 129 percent. And these are quite large but nothing compared to this one
0:46.0	food right here. Can you take a wild guess what you think this food is? Go ahead
0:49.5	and comment down below and it's not refined white sugar. The amount of this
0:53.8	particular ingredient is consumed by the average American that equals about
0:57.9	63 pounds. Most ultra-process foods have three basic ingredients.
1:04.4	The starches that includes multidextrin, modified food starch,
1:08.8	and modified cornstarch.
1:10.8	You have this sugar, which usually is a form of glucose syrup, corn syrup, or
1:16.4	beech sugar. Then you have seed oils, like corn oil and soy oil and canola. So I did not mention this ingredient yet. Can you still guess what it is?
1:26.7	I'll give you another hint. When you consume it, only one organ can break it down and that is the liver and this ingredient acts much like
1:37.1	alcohol even though it's not alcohol in other words the body has to get rid of it and it
1:41.4	uses similar pathways to break it down and it produces
1:44.5	seven times the glycation effect and glycation is when you have the
1:49.0	combining of a protein to a sugar and when you consume it it suppresses hunger. It also depletes your vitamins
1:54.9	and minerals. It's probably one of the most potent triggers to metabolic syndrome, a fatty liver,
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