Your Brain on Processed Foods
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 1 September 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr. |
| 0:07.7 | Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. |
| 0:13.4 | So, there's a really interesting book that I'm reading now called Hooked by Michael Moss |
| 0:27.7 | fascinating. And he talks about your brain on processed foods. And he does this interesting |
| 0:35.0 | comparison between alcohol, tobacco, and drugs, versus an addiction to cheeseburger fries |
| 0:41.1 | or ice cream, which is interesting because the speed at which the sugar touches your tongue |
| 0:48.2 | and connects to the reward circuitry of your brain is about 600 milliseconds. That's |
| 0:55.4 | a little more than a half of a second. And that's 20 times faster than if you were to smoke |
| 1:01.4 | a cigarette and have nicotine enter the brain. And so this book is about really how much |
| 1:07.6 | more addicting these processed foods are compared to alcohol smoking or even drugs, which is actually |
| 1:13.9 | you would think those are much more addictive. And he gets into some interesting data with food |
| 1:19.3 | companies and how they have suppressed a lot of the research with sugar and how they have |
| 1:26.1 | influenced various laws to prevent being sued by any side effects that occur from consuming |
| 1:35.2 | processed foods. And another thing that's interesting is that in the 70s food companies started |
| 1:40.5 | buying up the diet industry. So, for example, the company Hines bought weight watchers. I'm not |
| 1:48.4 | sure who owns it now. The company Unilever, which makes those Klondike bars and they even own |
| 1:54.9 | Ben and Jerry's, they bought SlimFast for $2.3 billion. And of course SlimFast right now also sells |
| 2:02.7 | their keto version. So you can have the sugar version or the keto version depending on who you are. |
| 2:09.8 | Nestle bought Jenny Craig. So it's interesting that the companies that are making processed foods |
| 2:16.1 | are also the companies that are helping you lose weight. And so the other thing I want to talk |
| 2:21.2 | about is how they actually diagnose an addiction slash substance use disorder. There are actually |
| 2:30.3 | 11 criteria that are used. Okay, I'm going to go through this. Number one, hazardous use is the |
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