Before keto, I used to avoid bacon like the plague. NOW, having lost over 100 lbs EATING BACON and frying my salmon in the bacon grease, bacon is my new daily food or at least every other day depending on the meat for the day. Eating keto has helped to give me so much more energy and a lot less aches and pains. I wish I was eating keto all my life!! BACON DAY YAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
From an energy perspective it would 95% energy from meats and fats and 5% vegetables but from a volume perspective you can eat more green vegetables as they contain a lot less calories.
Been 100% Carnivore now for 18 months..feeling amazing .but thanks for this video which I will share ! By the way.....Dr. Berry...you are looking younger every time I see you on here !
@@hirsimusejenecadeAn example for you. I eat 2 meals usually. Very very rarely eat breakfast. Mostly lunch/brunch. That might be an omelette, maybe a cheese one, or scrambled eggs and bacon. Or liver (beef, lamb) pan-fried with bacon in suet, or 200g salmon pan-fried in butter and suet. Or a tin of sardines in olive oil (can't seem to buy them in sild oil (sardine oil)). I add a bit of apple cider vinegar for tartness, and eat the oil as well. Then for dinner I'll generally have a 250g or 300g rare porterhouse or rib eye, or a couple of large lamb loin chops with AcV. Don't eat chicken (inferior protein, all grain fed and tasteless unless smothered in spices, which I'm also avoiding). I do have coffee and red wine as well as the AcV, but no "plant matter" as such, on the plate. And I used to "eat the rainbow" with salad and vegs. Now none (8 months in). If I feel like a bit more, I'll cut a slice of grass fed organic salted butter, or have a cup of homemade bone broth with butter and real salt (that is often lunch by itself) , or a couple of tablespoons of triple cream, or sour cream, or a bit of blue cheese or triple cream brie. When I feel full I stop. Sometimes I leave half the steak, often I leave half of the omelette, enjoy it cold for lunch. Miraculous health improvements! 😍 🐂🐂❤️
@J F this only applies for people with diabetes and/or insulin resistance! Populations throughout history have been thriving on these foods. Just look at the at the Japanese! They live forever and eat 90% of these foods.
@Val Brenneman white button aren’t that great for you either. They contain hydrazine, which is rocket fuel, make sure to never eat them raw. Always cook mushroom. You’ll need to cook white button or portobello mushroom on a high heat for a bit to remove as much hydrazine as possible.
Oh I know. I love all 3 of these myself. Life is too short to cut out all these healthy veggies. I want to lose weight but the joy of life would be missing if I could only eat meat and just a handful of veggies. My favorite food I enjoy with my eggs in the morning is old fashioned oat meal. It is healthy so I'm going to eat it and stay fat and just die when the good Lord takes me.
@@StreetTruckinTitan Of course not. I have some common sense. I don't tolerate animal protein. That may have something to do with the fact that humans aren't designed to eat meat. Plant based cultures have life expectancies of 90 years plus. Carnivore cultures 40 unhealthy years.
@@StreetTruckinTitan There are no 100% carnivore animals. The longest living mostly carnivore animals. 8 years. The longest living herbivore animals 70 plus years. Almost all degenerative disease is the result of eating animal protein and refined junk food. Going whole plant food diet returns. HEALTH!!
@@herbbowler2461 if humans arent supposed to eat meat why did God give us carnivore incisors and not flat teeth like a cow? Enjoy your lectins and oxalates I'll stick to keto / carnivore.
I'm just going to state publicly my pledge to never eat rutabagas. I know it's a huge sacrifice, but it shows the depth of my commitment to good health.
I’m currently in the process of communicating this information to my wife who loves almost all of these veggies and now I know why. My wife is a sugar addict and it turns out she’s a sugar addict even with her vegetables. My hope in the future after I’ve made my own health progress that she’ll start to take me seriously on this stuff. At the moment she questions everything I tell her, but I guess we’ll see what happens when I lose all my extra weight. She might just take me seriously then.
@@sovietarmy7485 pretty good! I got through to my wife and the amount of starchy foods in our house is very minimal and she has adopted more of a paleo diet which does reduce more starchy foods in general. I’m still Ketovore but she’s making her way slowly.
What I do with these problem vegetables is to ferment them in pickling spices & solution using a probiotic starting lactobacillus culture and although their sour when fermented, the nutrients are still there and in fact some of them are enhanced like vitamin C and vitamin K2.
I have a fermentation crock with an airlock lid and let it go sometimes longer than a week if I’m using multiple types of vegetables at one time, are use a starting solution that contains the insides of a probiotic capsule or two. I let it go sometimes longer than a week but since so you say starting solution that contains the insides of a probiotic capsule or two I have anywhere from 70,000,000,000 to 140,000,000,000 colony forming units of active bacteria so a week maybe two weeks but certainly after four or five days much of the sugar is gone. If you want a ferment solution, one rule of thumb is: 1 gallon of well or spring water, 1 cup of white vinegar and one cup of plain salt. The vegetables will ferment without it, but if you want to keep them whole or close to that or create a mixed variety of fermented vegetables like broccoli cauliflower carrots colored pepper, the solution is helpful because it’s the right pH for the bacteria to thrive but yeast or mold will not. I’ve never had a bad fermentation experiment go bad using the solution and especially the probiotic capsules rather than relying on the wild yeast in the air.
Thank you for the list Dr. Berry. I enjoy your video’s so much. I’m glad I don’t eat most of these. I’ll eat occasionally carrots when I choose to purchase a frozen bag of cauliflower, broccoli, and carrots. I’ll air fry a sweet potato when I’m wanting “fries” like once a month or even longer. Been maintaining my 140 pounds since last November.
I am stunned. Vegetables like corn, sweet potatoes and carrots, I knew had sugar in them. Onions and Shitake Mushrooms, though? I'm shocked. Great video, Dr Berry. Thank you. xo~linda
As a handful or part of a dish they are fine obviously not if a person was eating a large bowl of them on its own but who would possibly attempt something that crazy?
I have been eating onions since my teen years to fight off colds and flu with great effect and have grown very fond of them. What about garlic? It’s another food long known to help the body against infection.
The key that he starts of with is that some people can be ok with it but others not so much. I think what really needs to be discussed is the volume of the foods rather than just consuming a small amount.
I only eat Cruciferous veggies only in my Ketogenic diet and one meal a day Intermittent Fasting since June/2022. I lost over 90 pounds and completely reversed my insulin resistance and all of its related conditions and full of energy. Thank you for this great video. Great advice. You are saving lives..😊
I personally don't demonize beets at all. I think benefits from it are over-weighting relatively high sugar. I prefer eat it before training, because due to vasodilation pump is amazing. And vasodilation itself is very good, because high pressure is the one of many accelerators of aging.
Still learn something new every time I listen to Dr. Berry. I was eating mushrooms on my steak, while out to dinner ordering sweet potato fries. Great information. I've never been a veggie person anyway, so not so hard to give up!!!
He said Shittake mushrooms. Other schrooms may have less sugar. One of my fav meals is a burger with grill jalapenos, schrooms and onions with sharp cheddar...no bun. The amount of onion is very small
Hi Ken I have learned so much about health and foods that I didn't know before .If it wasn't for your information I know my health would be a lot worse then it is .Thank You for everything.
Thank you Dr. Berry. I have been waiting patiently for this video, as I am a person that loves vegetables. So far I have to minimize the onions and take out red cabbage. This last one was a big surprise as cabbage is so good for you and you spoke about its benefit on an older video.
Great video. Your amazing insight & helpful advice will indeed give us a better understanding when we prepare our juices & meals whether we are on keto or not. Appreciate everything you do for humanity's better health & wellbeing. You are one of my favourites go to person for all things involving ones health. Keep up the excellent work love all your videos. God bless you love from New Zealand ❤
Hi, Dr. Berry.....here you go....the veggie is called BrussellS sprouts because it was originally cultivated and shipped to the rest of the world from Brussels. Belgium.
You probably do not need to actually weigh them and measure the in terms of a handful is probably a good way to go. So if eating nuts just a handful once a day is fine. If eating a large bowlful that would be an issue.
@AmyBEgirl They are fine when eaten in sensible moderation such as a handful of onions in a dish such as a stew or mixed in with a salad. Most people can handle these things in moderation. They would start to become an issue of you sat down at night and started to have a big full bowl of onions but what mad person would attempt that?
Just put a small handful of them into your dishes rather than eating a large bowl of them on their own. A vegetable and beef soup for example with a single sweet potatoes is not going to cause many people issues. Or a handful of onions mixed in. A little handful of peas on the side of a chicken and green veg dinner plate is not that bad either.
I have multiple fibroids and I am so confused over what to eat. The consensus is I should eat no animal products, no bread, no grains, no rice, no potatoes, etc. Only some vegetables and fruit. I have tried this and I am naturally underweight. This diet put me in severe weight loss. I started eating pumpernickel bread with peanutbutter to keep my weight up between smoothies and salads. My mate is a carnivore and i eat meat with him occasionally but this is a big no no. I would love to nix vegetables but I get so much feedback about acidity and hormones. Insulin also makes them grow which is in all the vegetables. No meat and no fruit and vegetables seems like a diet that is incredibly unsustainable.
i think glycemic load is a better indicator then the number of grams of sugar...its more then just grams of sugar per vegetable that needs to be considered .. when it comes to blood sugar spikes
Corn isn't digested, is it? Corn, processed with lime, was a staple among early S. Americans. The lime releases all kinds of nutrients, not bioavailable otherwise. Montezuma's revenge was when the Soldiers went back to Spain on ships ladened with corn. They saw how healthy the S. Americans were eating it. Many of them died of nutrient deficiencies, because they didn't know to process it with lime.
@@holoholohaolenokaoi2299 First of all, I loooove your avatar! hahaa The best!! And I don't know if that would break down the sugars. We should google that. lol
Thank you Doc for your honesty and integrity! In my opinion anymore most doctors know less about medicine than I do. I spent 11 years as a Medic in the armed forces and civilian life! I swear today's doctors are dumber than a bag of hammers!
Dr. Berry, Thank you so much for sharing this information. Most of the veggies you mentioned I did eat at one time, but I now eat leafy greens and most above ground veggies. I also add beet greens to my salad instead of the beet itself as the leafy part has the most nutrients. I appreciate you sharing this information as it will help me to make better choices on my Ketogenic Diet journey.
So, basically, I’ve been average and athletic all my life but ended up with a severe vitamin B and vitamin D deficiency, which created metabolic syndrome which then led to type2 diabetes and I got up to 335 pounds. The minute I found out I was diabetic, I stopped drinking alcohol, started exercising and went on a vegan diet at 1400 cal a day (about 100 carbs per day) and easily lost 70 pounds within a year. On this diet I consistently lost a couple pounds a week. There were many times when I was lightheaded and dizzy and did not feel well but I pushed through it. However, I think I lost a considerable amount of muscle and my hair was falling out like crazy. I can see all of it growing back and now being on the keto diet with so much fat and protein. I’m 46, height is 5’7 and my current weight is 285, as I gained back 20 pounds over this last holiday season. Basically the 70 pound weight loss turned into a 50 pound weight loss. A few years ago, I did a special machine exam at my naturopath that measured my visceral fat and my muscle. She told me that I had about 40 pounds more muscle than a normal woman my age and height (due to being a paramedic and doing a lot of lifting and cardio for years). So she pretty much told me when I get on the scale, to take the number I see and minus that muscle weight from it. Not sure if that was wise advice but regardless, based on your lowest calculations on my real current actual weight, my protein should be 102.6. I also have a fatty liver from the previous diabetes, so I know that this is the very best diet for me in that regard. I don’t understand why the lower fat/higher carb vegan diet worked so well for me, when I’m doing less than 20 carbs a day and sticking to my macros and measuring and weighing everything I put in my mouth. calories tend to run between 1600 and 1900 a day. Luckily, I still have a considerable amount of muscle under my fat but I’m no longer a paramedic, as I have a broken vertebrae in my lower back. Between that and covid, and a yet undiagnosed autoimmune disease, I’m not getting the same kind of exercise I got when I was on my vegan diet a year ago and could walk every day and go swimming. I don’t look my weight. I carry it very well and the doctor is always shocked when I get on the scale because he can’t believe I weigh as much as I do. I have a pretty large frame. Even if I were to be 130 pounds, I think my shoulders would be fairly wide. Sadly, my feet go along with that. lol Been fairly slender all my life. I was a very skinny kid. I have now completely cured my diabetes by losing that 70 pounds. My A1c is 5.1 and that was before I started keto. Carb manager pretty much has my protein at 100g, and it’s telling me that I need 129g of fat at 1603 calories a day (set at a 30% deficit) to lose 5.9 pounds a month. But I’m really not budging... I have just been going up and down between 283-289 since I started two months ago. Many keto calculators are telling me I need to have more like 1700 to 2000 cal a day for my weight.... but I’m not sure if that’s too much or maybe even not enough? My Fitbit tells me that I am burning about 2500 cal a day right now because I’m pretty sedentary. But even when I was walking a mile a day during my last diet where I lost 70 pounds, I was maybe only burning about 2800 cal a day. Any ideas on whether I should keep my macros the same or readjust them? I think the calories may be what’s really screwing me up. I basically have coffee and a protein bar for breakfast and then I have lunch and dinner but I do have some fat bombs for dessert to keep my sweet tooth down. But I don’t snack a lot during the day. I have only 2 cups of coffee a day with sugar-free powdered coffee mate creamer. I have a fatty liver so I’m pretty sure I’m insulin resistant. I just don’t understand how I lost weight so easily on the last diet and this one is like trying to pull a perfectly healthy tooth out of my mouth! I do less than 20 carbs a day A lot of the time and while I make things like fat bombs with coconut oil, I don’t eat a lot of processed foods or snacks. I’ll be damned if I’m going to give up but I’m taking care of a husband that is terminally ill and I need to get this weight off in order to care of him because it’s putting so much stress on the broken vertebrae in my lower back. I’m frustrated because I worked really hard this last couple months and I should have definitely lost at least 8-10 pounds. I can’t afford home care for him, so I am his sole caregiver and I need to get my body back in shape. Anyone who can give some good expert advice (if Dr. Berg doesn’t comment) would be greatly appreciated!!! I’m definitely going to try to wrap up my walking again. I am also on week three of no longer excessively chewing sugar-free gum, as I felt like that might be keeping my insulin levels up because I was chewing quite a lot of it to keep from snacking -but I’m not seeing a significant difference without it. Thanks so much for taking the time to read this super long post... hopefully it’s not too confusing or annoying!
Hi Dr. Berry, this video is so welcomed. I certainly was very grateful for this. You are excellent as informing me about this is helping immensely. I eat about four on the list but will reduce. Thank you so very much. Take care. Greetings from here in north east of England. Kindest regards to you and your family.
Haven’t gone through every comment so this may have been mentioned already, but very surprised parsnips were not mentioned - one of the worst vegetables, surely!
High sugar, yes, but otherwise nutritionally sound, and one of my absolute favorites. I'm not about to give them up after having had to give up so many others!!
Wow, I didn’t know my beloved red peppers 🌶 was so high in sugar. Moringa would love to know your thoughts on on it. Thank you for all your hard work it is much appreciated!
@@vertigoz In reference to eating low carb or keto lifestyle. Most consume less than 20 grams of carbs in an entire day...so you can see where even one or two extra can add up.
Can I tell you a secret, how to dial down the sugar levels in any high sugar vegetables? Add some lemon juice and you can also add the zest. This neutralises the amount of sugar, the same can be added if you find your meal is too salty. This tip is used by many Asian people from Thailand, Singapore and so on and gives a refreshing flavour to your food. Try it
I'm German. There is no way I will not eat red cabbage. No way. Roast beef with red cabbage is a feast. I avoid the dumplings but the red cabbage is a MUST. ;-)
All of the vegetables listed have a much lower glycemic index number if consumed raw. It’s when they are cooked the glycemic index increases. I could be mistaken, but it appears how these vegetables are prepared for consumption determines their impact on our bodies and an insulin response.
Reading Paul Saladino, MD book "The Carnivore Code" and Steve Gundry , MD book "The Plant Paradox", I have come to the conclusion that it is best to avoid all vegetables. This was initially shocking to me. I went from 10 years of keto with a lot of veg which did cause some bloating when I over did it to now carnivore. No bloating at all on carnivore and stomach is completely flat. Lost an extra 3 lbs but already thin, BMI 17. Incidentally my weight did not change going from very HC to keto as already thin. Did keto for health reasons and not to lose weight. Rarely go to the grocery store since I stock up on meat and freeze it. Very convenient and esp. with the lockdowns.
I'm starting a very low carb/sugar diet. No junk and high processed foods. I read the labels on products, watch videos like these and educating myself on healthy eating. However I will still eat fruits and most vegetables, organic if possible....in moderate amounts. Except corn and sweet peas maybe. I appreciate these videos, I need to loose weight and I already feel better cutting out sugar and starches. But I'm not going on a full blown keto diet nor will I go a day without eating anything. I might skip a meal, if I feel like it.
Onions and beets? That hurt me deep! LOL I can give those up until I get the weight off, the A1c back to normal and blood glucose levels back to normal.
Great video! I do like a few onions and peppers, add the celery, I'm a southern girl, but we enjoy with much less these days. It really doesn't take much! Since we have eliminated most veggies from our diet, both hubby and I are doing much better in the digestion world.
@@demieboo1234 Cereal? Oh heavens no! Not in over 45 years. Cereal is trash food. I refuse to consume anything made from Big Food period. I found low carb at age 19, Keto 17 years now; mostly Carnivore. Dairy, yes, I am allergic to milk, but can eat fermented cheeses in limited quantities, HWC in my coffee, just a couple teaspoons, sour cream does well too.
Don't you have hard stool when on all meat? I stopped all meat because of it. Veggies made me normal, and I've almost always avoided these veggies in this vid. But my weight loss is slow....I'm serious, not being flippant at all. Just wondering.
@@ironbomb6753 my experience as a 6-month carnivore (at age 71) is that if you have hard stool you aren't getting enough water or fat (maybe both!) OR you don't have enough hydrochloric acid in your digestive juices to break down the protein. Try Betaine HCl before each meal. Don't give up on meat!
@@ironbomb6753 The only time I've had that type of problem is when I ate a lot of cheese. I eliminated dairy a while back for the most part, and I'm faring better as a result.
@@lucylu902 I transitioned from keto, myself. It's a smoother transition than jumping straight in from the SAD diet. Whatever makes you feel optimal is best. Personally, I feel exemplary on just meat, predominantly beef.
Just started strict keto.. carnivore two weeks ago. I've noticed my appetite has dropped like a stone. Bacon & egg breakfast, I forget lunch, and sometimes dinner ! Feel good too. I keep sugar free beef jerky around if I want a snack.... or salami & cheese.....
Lucky you that you can still eat dairy. I must admit I sometimes still crave a piece of cheese after almost 2 years full carnivore. Congrats on progressing to carnivore and enjoy! :)
Be careful with Salami, a lot of those sausage style meats contain very inflammatory ingredients like dextrose, sugars or soy even. It sucks since salami is amazing lol but most deli meats have all that stuff too. Good work! Way to love different from most who eat what feels good lol
I can't juice beets because of the sugar (keto) I found some beet juice powder, label showing 0 sugar and 2 grams of carbs. I was concerned about blood pressure so I did this juice powder every day for 2 months. My triglycerides sky rocketed-over 300 and they have never been that high. The day I got the results, I stopped the powder.
@@jamchloe99 Well once I get to my goal weight I may add them back in once a week. I love beets. Or I can find some quality nitric oxide. Thanks for reminding me of that.
Dr. Berry would you please do a video on Cassava? I found some grain-free chips to use with my avacado and then I heard about the high carb, high GI, and dangers of cyanide in Cassava...I was told that this was good for me, but it is NOT. Please address this issue for those of us on a carnivore diet. Thanks!
Oddly enough, my body is just weird. I can have tomatoes and lettuce regularly but most all veggies stall me totally. Most of the ones you listed I dont touch, but I can't really eat peppers, I LOVE peppers but they dont love my keto lol Onions tend to stall me too. Cant even look at a carrot without gaining weight lol
KETO Diamond Channel really? Is that why we see so many obese vegans? Just eat moderately and healthy. Keto can be great, but a carrot is t going to make you fat!
@@takodanobaba well according to the amount of sugar they have in them, eating enough of them certainly can make you fat, or at the very least stall your weight loss. keep in mind you also have those people who can eat fried chicken and honey buns all they want and not gain a pound. Doesn't mean they're healthy though 🤷🏻♂️ People's bodies tend to handle food differently from each other.
Damn I really like shiitake mushrooms. I used them a lot and had no idea at all it was full of sugar. I used them a lot to feel full thinking I was helping lower my sugar. I really like how you get to the point and just provide us what with just what need to know. Not full of nonsense jargon.
Waaa! I miss lovely green peas the most. I remember as a child, my mother grew a garden and one fall, was outside harvesting some snap beans. I walked up to the peas, and snatched a few pods, peeling them and popping them in my mouth as I ran, Mom chasing me as she scolded me for grabbing them. :)
I try and use these foods in moderation like a garnish not a side dish, 100g of shiitake is actually quite a lot of mushrooms as they are light but carrots, rutubaga, sweet potato are super dense and just not part of my world.