Why Are French Fries So Addictive?

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In this podcast, we’re going to talk about why french fries are addictive—especially from fast-food restaurants.

What’s in french fries?

• Fried potatoes

• Vegetable oil (corn, canola)

• Natural beef flavoring (wheat, milk)

• Dextrose

• Salt

• Citric acid

• TBHQ - preservative

• Sodium acid (pyrophosphate - color)

The big problem is that when you consume a french fry, you stimulate neurotransmitters in your brain. You actually stimulate the part of the brain that is involved in addictions. This part of the brain will increase the pleasure neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin.

When you add ketchup, you’re also adding high fructose corn syrup with additional corn syrup, which will exaggerate the effects of french fries on your blood sugars.

Glycation is the binding of a sugar molecule with a fat or a sugar molecule with a protein.

Glycation

• Decreases elasticity within your arteries, veins, and tendons

• Clogs up certain connections in the brain

• Creates sticky proteins in the body which accelerates aging

• Creates bloating

• Spikes insulin

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting,
0:04.4	whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product.
0:10.5	Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7.
0:29.0	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Today we're going to talk about why French fries are so darn addictive, especially if you're consuming
0:49.4	them at a fast food restaurant.
0:53.0	So what's in a French fry?
0:55.0	Well, we have the potato,
0:57.0	but we're not talking about a raw potato,
0:59.0	we're talking about a cooked potato,
1:00.0	and when you cook a potato, a starch, those carbohydrates break down into sugar.
1:06.0	And so they're going to create a huge spike in your insulin.
1:10.0	So we have the potato, we have the vegetable oil. Now vegetable oil sounds very very healthy right?
1:16.0	Well it's actually coming from either corn or canola maybe cotton seed, not peanut oil
1:22.1	anymore, mainly corn or canola.
1:25.0	And of course, both of these are gMO,
1:27.6	which means they have traces of glyphosate,
1:31.0	which is an herbicide.
1:32.6	And when you're going to a restaurant,
1:34.3	you don't know how often that oil is used over and over and over.
1:38.4	Next thing, natural beef flavoring,
1:41.4	which contains wheat and milk derivatives.
1:46.5	Then we have dextros, which is a synthetic sugar
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