They're Fattening Us Up

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 7 December 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re going to look at the average American diet and determine what may happen if you start eating like a cow. For the last 200 days of a cow’s life, it’s fed a high-starch diet and given minimal exercise.

According to the food pyramid, most of our diet should come from starch. The average American consumes 65% to 70% of their calories from starches. Starches are actually hidden sugars. In fact, ultra-processed starch is worse than sugar and will raise your blood sugar more than glucose.

There are 2 types of corn: field corn (dent corn) and edible sweet corn. Dent corn is used to fatten cattle and to make products such as ethanol, corn flour, modified food starch, modified corn starch, and maltodextrin. It’s also used to make corn oil, one of the seed oils.

Not only do the refined starches act like sugar in the body, but they’re also GMO. This means they contain traces of glyphosate.

The average American has been eating like a cow for quite some time. This is why we see obesity, fatty liver, heart disease, and more.

Cows are meant to digest grass, not grains. Grass is fermented with bacteria in a cow's stomach, and the fiber feeds its microbes. When a cow is fed grains, the microbes produce an excess amount of acid, causing acidosis. This can lead to infection and isn’t very healthy for the cow, so they’re fed antibiotics to compensate.

Stop eating like a cow! Avoid ultra-processed starch and choose grass-fed, grass-finished beef.

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0:00.0	Now, what would happen if you ate like a cow? I'm not talking about when you look out into the field
0:06.0	and you see this cow grazing on the grass. I'm talking about what a cow eats in the last 200 days of its life.
0:13.0	This cow is forced to consume a tremendous amount of starch. The cow is prevented from doing a lot of
0:18.7	exercise because they're very small spaces and they're put in front of the starch three times a day. Their diet the last 200 days is about between 70 and 90 percent starch. Take a look at our food pyramid for a second. You can see at the very top, use sparingly, fats, oils, and sweets. It says not to eat a lot of sugar.
0:38.3	If we look at the very bottom, the majority of calories, 6 to 11 servings should be in the form
0:45.0	of starch.
0:46.6	And that would be like bread, pasta, cereal, crackers, biscuits, things like that.
0:49.6	The average American consumes between 65 to 70% of their calories as starches. I want to show you something,
0:59.3	corn chips, okay? And we look at the back of the label. Tell me how many sugars we have.
1:03.3	Zero sugars. How many carbohydrates? 18 grams. That's per serving size, per 15 chips.
1:09.3	Now let's look at flour tortillas, zero sugars, 25 grams of carbohydrate.
1:16.2	Let's not forget corn flakes, three grams of sugar, and 35 grams of carbohydrate.
1:21.6	I want to explain a very big confusion that people have related to carbohydrates.
1:25.8	I think everyone knows that sugar is not that healthy.
1:28.1	What about carbohydrates? If we deduct the sugars in the fiber, what is left? And the answer
1:33.4	is starch. What's the difference between a sugar and a starch? A sugar molecule, like we call
1:40.2	glucose, is like just one molecule of sugar. So sugar, and we're just going to talk about the basic
1:44.9	foundation or building block of sugar, is glucose. But with a starch, you have a chain of glucose
1:50.4	stuck together. Now you know what a starch is. And no, we're not just talking about like whole starches,
1:56.6	like potato or even like rice or even whole grains. I'm talking about the refined stuff like this right
2:02.9	here. Corn starch. And by the way, we consume a tremendous amount of this refined corn starch every
2:11.6	single day in a lot of our foods. Let's just go back to this food pyramid for a second. You see the
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