The Top 10 Things Americans Consume
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 2 May 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Today we're going to talk about the 10 most popular things American's eat.
Many of these foods have issues with:
• Acrylamide (a carcinogen)
• Glycation
• A spike in insulin
• Soy/corn oil
Top 10 things American’s consume:
1. Soda—An average American consumes 44.7 gallons, or 374 pounds, of soda every year.
2. Bread—An average American consumes 53 pounds of bread per year.
3. Burgers—There are over 50 billion burgers sold every year.
4. French fries—An average American consumes 29 pounds of fries per year.
5. Icecream—An average American consumes 23 pounds of ice cream per year.
6. Hot dog—20 billion hot dogs are sold every year.
7. Pizza—An average American consumes 40 pizzas a year.
8. Oreo cookies—Over 2.5 billion packs of Oreo cookies are sold every year.
9. Chicken nuggets/strips—There are over 2.3 billion servings of chicken nuggets per year and over 1.5 billion servings of chicken strips per year.
10. Donuts—American’s buy 10 billion donuts per year.
Potential complications from this type of an unhealthy diet:
• Obesity
• Insulin resistance
• Fatty liver
• Heart disease
• Increased risk of stroke
• Inflammatory conditions
• Sleep apnea
• And more…
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting |
| 0:05.3 | keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product, |
| 0:10.6 | call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So today we're going to talk about the 10 most popular things that Americans |
| 0:48.2 | eat on a regular basis. First one is soda drinks. Okay. An average American consumes 44.7 gallons of this liquid |
| 1:00.6 | carbonated syrupy sugar every single year. That is 374 pounds. So you're not just dealing |
| 1:09.8 | with sugar. You're dealing with phosphoric acid, you're dealing |
| 1:12.5 | with caffeine, all sorts of chemicals. Next one, bread. An average American consumes 53 pounds of bread |
| 1:21.9 | per year. So bread contains not only the refined carbohydrates that raise insulin, but bread also contains |
| 1:29.4 | gluten. And gluten can really tear up your intestine and create all sorts of digestive problems, |
| 1:35.4 | not to mention cognitive issues as well. There's a lot of other things in bread. There's |
| 1:41.1 | dough softeners. There's hidden sodium, MSG. And of course, when you combine bread |
| 1:47.6 | with protein, as in meat, as in the sandwich, and you eat that together, you get a bit of what's |
| 1:53.7 | called glycation. Glication is a term to describe combining a carbohydrate with a protein or a carbohydrate and fat, and you heat it up. |
| 2:07.6 | Now when you're eating the food, you're actually raising the temperature, and that can develop |
| 2:11.7 | a glycated process whereby your blood becomes very, very sticky. |
| 2:16.9 | I mean, if you think about like a diabetic, |
| 2:18.9 | okay, they have high blood sugar. The high blood sugar combines with the protein in the blood |
| 2:26.1 | hemoglobin. So that protein and sugar combined. So if the sugar's too high, it gets stuck in |
| 2:31.9 | the protein, and that is a test called A1C, which is an average of your blood sugars for three months. |
| 2:39.7 | And they have a whole rating scale that you can evaluate if your sugars are okay or not. |
| 2:44.1 | The numbers go up if you have high sugar and they'll come down if you have low sugar. |
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