You Will QUIT Sugar After Watching This (Guaranteed) - Dr. Berg
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Is sugar bad for you? Yes! Let’s talk about why.
Sugar has been heavily studied, and it’s been concluded that a high amount of added sugar is significantly associated with 45 negative health effects.
Some of the potential side effects of sugar consumption include:
• Diabetes
• Asthma
• Depression
• Stroke
• Heart attack
• Gout
• Hypertension
• Dementia
• Cancer
• Early death
Even if you don’t have a weight problem, it’s crucial for your health to cut down your sugar intake. Forty percent of people with normal weight have metabolic syndrome.
Metabolic syndrome includes high blood glucose, fatty liver, and high cholesterol. Sugar is very toxic—fructose may be as toxic as alcohol.
When you eat sugar, you’re supporting the harmful sugar industry. On top of that, you’re destroying your body.
Switching to keto-friendly desserts and sugar-free chocolate is a great way to transition off of a high-sugar diet.
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| 0:00.0 | Now you may just end up quitting sugar after watching this video. |
| 0:03.7 | I'm just warning you. |
| 0:04.6 | Don't get mad at me, I'm just the messenger. |
| 0:06.3 | There are 73 meta-analysis that make up 8,600 different studies on sugar. |
| 0:15.2 | And the conclusions are a high amount of added sugar, |
| 0:18.1 | okay, is significantly associated |
| 0:21.0 | with 45 negative health effects ranging from diabetes to asthma, depression, stroke, heart attack, gout, hypertension, dementia, cancer, and early death. |
| 0:34.0 | Other than that, it's totally fine. |
| 0:35.0 | Now, it's interesting because the World Health Organization |
| 0:38.0 | allows people to consume up to 12 teaspoons of added sugar, right, before it becomes unhealthy. |
| 0:46.0 | I've talked to many people who say, well, I don't need to do the ketogenic diet |
| 0:48.8 | and go on a low-carb diet because I don't have a weight problem. |
| 0:52.1 | I usually say, have you ever heard of skinny fat chances are if they're |
| 0:55.6 | consuming on a sugar they have visceral fat they have liver fat they just |
| 1:01.7 | don't know it yet, but 40% of people of normal weight have metabolic |
| 1:07.5 | syndrome. That includes high blood glucose, fatty liver, high cholesterol. |
| 1:13.6 | And there's another point about obesity I want to make. |
| 1:15.7 | There's a certain percentage, |
| 1:17.8 | it thinks 20% of obese people have normal metabolism |
| 1:22.3 | and they live a long life |
| 1:24.0 | and so just because someone's overweight doesn't necessarily mean |
| 1:28.0 | they're super unhealthy or they're healthy |
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