Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

So today we're going to talk about the 10 most popular things that Americans eat on a regular basis.

First one is soda drinks, okay?

An average American consumes 44.7 gallons of this liquid carbonated syrupy sugar every single year.

That is 374 pounds.

So you're not just dealing with sugar, you're dealing with phosphoric acid, you're dealing with caffeine, all sorts of chemicals.

Next one, bread. An average American consumes 53 pounds of bread per year.

So bread contains not only the refined carbohydrates that raise insulin, but bread also contains gluten.

And gluten can really tear up your intestine and create all sorts of digestive problems.

Not to mention cognitive issues as well.

There's a lot of other things in bread. There's dough softeners.

There's hidden sodium, MSG.

And of course, when you combine bread with protein as in meat, as in the sandwich, and you eat that together, you get a bit of what's called glycation.

Glacation is a term to describe combining a carbohydrate with a protein or a carbohydrate and fat, and you heat it up.

Now when you're eating the food, you're actually raising the temperature, and that can develop a glycated process whereby your blood becomes very, very sticky.

I mean, if you think about like a diabetic, okay? They have high blood sugar.

And the high blood sugar combines with the protein in the blood, hemoglobin.

So that protein and sugar combine. So if the sugar is too high, it gets stuck in the protein.

And that is a test called A1C, which is an average of your blood sugars for three months.

And they have a whole rating scale that you can evaluate if your sugars are okay or not.

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