THIS Is Why You Should STOP Eating Sugar - by Dr. Berg

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, we’re going to take a look at some of the amazing health benefits you’ll experience if you eliminate sugar from your diet for two weeks.

The following side effects can occur in as little as two weeks without sugar:

•Slimmer face (less round/puffy)

•Less puffy eyelids

•Reduced belly fat

•No more carb cravings

•Decreased hunger/more satisfaction after meals

•Improved mood

•Improved attention and focus (mental clarity)

•No more fluid retention

•Decreased pain and inflammation

•Decreased bloating and abdominal pain

•Improved sleep quality

•More relaxation/decreased adrenal stress

•Improved skin

When avoiding sugar, you also need to avoid refined starches, which can be even worse than sugar! Refined starches go through a refining process known as hydrolysis, which breaks the starches down. This process causes a more significant effect on your blood sugar than sugar itself.

For example, maltodextrin has a glycemic index between 110 and 136, while sugar and glucose have a glycemic index of 65 and 100, respectively.

Maltodextrin is found in countless food products, including certain health food products. If maltodextrin is added to a food product at less than .5 grams per serving size, manufacturers can claim that the product does not contain carbohydrates.

If the manufacturer uses a hydrolyzation process, they can also claim that the product contains zero grams of sugar! This means that many people are unknowingly consuming hidden sugars.

While dietary sugar consumption is going down, the percentage of ultra-processed food consumption is on the rise.

The good news is that there are healthy alternatives that are tasty too! Just be sure to look closely at the labels on the products you buy to avoid consuming excess sugar.

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0:00.0	So what would actually happen to your body if you actually gave up sugar for two short weeks.
0:05.0	And I know a lot of people who tell you that the trend for eating sugar is a lot less than it was before.
0:11.0	And so how can that account for all of our health problems? Well, you're
0:16.0	about to find out. Let's first dive into the benefits of what would happen after just
0:20.9	two weeks of not eating sugar.
0:23.0	The first thing you would notice is your face would be less round, okay?
0:27.0	Less puffy.
0:28.0	I used to have kind of a puffy, roundish face.
0:31.0	Now, it's not a full-blown moon face but it was definitely rounder
0:35.1	and it wasn't as thin as it is now. So the shape of your face will change because
0:39.7	you're going to have less fat in your face. Number two you're going to notice less puffy eyelids. You can
0:45.3	always identify how much sugar someone's consuming by looking at how puffy their
0:50.3	eyelids are. In fact I had puffy eyelids for many years I didn't know what it was.
0:54.8	But after I get rid of the sugar that puffiness went away. Number three your midsection
0:59.8	your belly fat will reduce. Too much sugar converts to excess liver fat, which then spills over into
1:06.6	your gut, the fat around the organs, giving you belly fat. So belly fat is a really good indication
1:12.4	that you're eating too many carbs.
1:14.0	Number four, your cravings for carbs will go down to zero.
1:18.0	You just will not want carbs anymore.
1:20.0	But even a little bit of sugar here and there, we'll keep that craving persisting to the point
1:23.6	where it's going to be really hard to give it up.
1:25.6	This next one, number five, your hunger is going to go way down.
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