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Chances are you're probably been eating foods you thought were healthy but are not. Luckily for you I'm going to share foods you should absolutely avoid so you can live a long healthy life.

From trendy healthy breakfast to common ingredients and some of your favorite meals it's time to give these the boot. And speaking of the boot you probably heard me say to give fruit the boot.

But that does not mean to give fruit up entirely. In this episode I share how you can still enjoy it while keeping your health at optimal levels. You don't want to miss this.

Why you should never have avocado toast for breakfast?

Well as you probably know avocado toast has become one of the trendiest meals across the globe especially when it comes to breakfast. And if you're like most people you probably convinced avocado toast is a healthy option.

Well sorry to disappoint but that's certainly not the case. In fact one of my patients actually went on an avocado toast kick.

And I can tell you with this patient who we do monitor their levels of leaky gut and we had pretty much cleared his leaky gut completely by following our program but when he went on the avocado toast kick his leaky gut returned with a vengeance.

So what the heck is happening? Well don't get me wrong. Avocados are great. You have heard me say on this podcast. Avocados are probably the best fruit you can eat but when it comes to avocado toast there's several reasons I stay far away.

The most obvious is the bread. Unfortunately bread is loaded with lectins. Lectins as you know are those plant proteins that are particularly common in wheat, rye, barley that are one of the main causes of leaky gut intestinal permeability.

They're incredibly inflammatory but interestingly enough whole grains, whole wheat, whole oats, whole rye, brown rice are loaded with wheat germaglutin which is a little tiny lectin that can actually cause major inflammation in your blood vessels and you don't even have to have leaky gut for it to happen.

This opens the door for actually fat cells to store fat. So WGA actually hits on to insulin receptors in fat cells and actually tells fat cells no matter what you're eating to please store more fat.

Not the sort of thing you want from your food. Plus bread is loaded with sugar. There are actually four teaspoons of sugar in every slice of bread and as you know sugar is one of if not the worst thing for your health.

So if you're having two slices of avocado toast you're actually having eight teaspoons of sugar which is actually more than you're going to get in the typical candy bar.

And I'd be willing to bet that most of you would rather have a candy bar for breakfast than avocado toast.

And this sugar is going to make you gain weight like crazy. Remember these are refined carbohydrates that instantly turn into sugar in your blood.

Okay well that doesn't sound very good but what if you have gluten free bread surely that's the answer.

Well as you know gluten is one of the most common lectins and it's present in wheat, rye, barley, a gluten like molecule is present in oats and wheat German gluten is also present in brown rice.

There are thousands of other lectins besides gluten. So gluten free bread is a no go. Also plus almost all gluten free breads have more sugar added to make up for the lack of texture in gluten free bread.

Unfortunately as many of you have listened to me gluten free breads are often made with corn rice and oats or other lectin loaded grain products.

Now there are a couple of safe bread options out there. I personally love the brand up rising foods and you can find a link in my new book unlocking the keto code.

Barely bread or bread seriously is also a great option but bread users beware in general. Whatever you're going to put your avocado on is likely to contain a lot of sugar.

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