I stopped eating Sugar, bread, and processed foods - 7 years ago. I intermittent fast daily( stopped eating 5 hours before bed) lost weight, my brain function improved, no foggyness in morning when waking and tons of energy… no more migraines.. I’m 68 and feel fantastic. Lift weighs too- You can do it too
Brilliant! I was an addict to both sugar and alcohol and was miserable. Now free of both and people around me think my life must be miserable because my diet is so restrictive. If only they knew
Same, people put so much stock in what they eat. Honestly, food is just energy and I want the best fuel for my body. Some people are more concerned with the fuel they out in their cars rather then what they put in their body. It’s crazy!!
That’s what’s so annoying. Is only “restricted” since every company just wants money and doesn’t care about the consumers health. Imagine if it wasn’t profits over people.
Been sugar free, bread free, and fast food free for 30days and I feel awesome!! Deep sleep, no crash during the day, tons of energy, no brain fog, I’m 39 and weigh 140, so a 10lb loss so far!!
I AM NOW IN THE 30 DAYS...I FEEL SO GOOD. I stay with this food change , I do not go back to the unhealthy food. In german we have 2 different words for food. NAHRUNGSMITTEL or LEBENSMITTEL. So I prefer LEBENSmittel, means FOOD FOR LIFE... Not only to eat something to get satisfied. Take care...we are responsible for our body❤ FOOD FOR LIFE. Not only
Stopped drinking alcohol and eating sugar and fast food 4 months ago lost 34 pounds and my blood pressure is now normal I stopped taking my blood pressure pills last month after 20 + years of high blood pressure im in my mid 40s now and healthier than ever
@@maffbuckley600 I eat iplain oatmeal every morning with blueberries and raspberries in it. baked boneless chicken breast or salmon if I fry it I fit it in olive oil. I eat a lot of broccoli Brussels sprouts cabbage whole grain pasta whole grain oat bread, I usually snack on raw or unsalted almonds,apples,oranges spinach. I drink lemon water green tea and plain black coffee. no sugar no sodas no sweets it takes a while to get used to it I do miss eating fast fast foods and drinking a coke but I cut it out completely and I’m seeing the results. I can tell you my every day routine from breakfast to lunch and dinner if you need anyway stay strong brother will power and a strong mindset prayers to you hope that helped a lil bit
@@xbudsmoke9016: IF you’re on a serious ride to loosing weight and better health, stop the bread and pasta, and no spinach. Spinach is EXTREMELY HIGH in oxalates. Eaten other greens but spinach can cause serious problems you never want to have. Google oxalates and look at the images. It’s exactly like broken glass. If you cook spinach the oxalates levels double. If you do eat it, just limit the amount. Almonds are also high in oxalates. A lot of natural foods are high in oxalates so you’ll have to search and print out that list. You just don’t want to over do it with those foods. Bread and pasta will PREVENT you from obtaining your goal, no matter how much you cut out the other bad stuff. They’d a fact Jack. Don’t believe this…..try cutting out bread and parts for a month. Watch what happens. A warming lol. You’ll be hungery more often, but after a while your body will adapt and the cravings will be much less. Eat when you’re hungry. I’m not doing this myself right now, but I have in the past and have followed a strict diet for over a year. IT WORKS ! But sorry to say, “carbohydrates” is what you must avoid to obtain your goal. If you have the will power you can have some here and there AFTER you have obtained your goal. The truth is….if you have it once in a while, you’ll fall back and destroy the process you’ve made. Carbohydrates 😂. It’s the key to that locked door that leads to weight loss. Give it time and great things will continue to happen. Junk food……let’s not even talk about that be a it’s foolish. The best of luck to you ! You CAN do it ! Time ….
Been sugar free, no gluten, whole foods since 2010. I'm 43 and look like years younger. People think I'm my oldest son's sister. It really makes a BIG difference to get off sugar.
If you look much younger than you are, that's a predisposition. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with cutting out sugar. I'm almost 50 now and look much younger. Someone recently estimated that I was in my early 30s - no joke! I eat a lot of sugar and would describe myself as a serious sugar addict.
@@bubus682 Hard boiled eggs, cheese, fruit, vegetables , water, chicken, fish. About 1500 calories a day. Im now 160 and have lost 60 pounds. Had to raise calories intake and eat normally now. I lost enough lol
The way Dr Lustig stated this TRUTH is SO powerful! I've backslidden to eating sugar often, but Dr Lustig's words that: "sugar poisons the mitochondria" are what I'll repeat to myself to overcome that urge to feed the SUGAR ADDICTION. I will also repeat "ULTRA PROCESSED FOOD IS NOT ACTUALLY FOOD." This is extremely helpful.
even if it is keto I think it is impossible to just not eat sugar, there is sugar in many foods, at least some... with carnivore diet though it is like that@@simongarner5340
@@sophiam9886 Find me some legitimate scientific proof that "sugar addiction" is a thing and I'll admit I was wrong. Bear in mind a lot of these doctors/researchers are trying to sell you books and diets.
Started down this rabbit hole almost 2 months ago and there’s no going back for me now. Ketogenic intake for about 45 days now. Triglycerides down from 197 to 138. EGFR from 50 to 64. Creatinine down from 1.66 to 1.33. Triglyceride level to HDL ratio down from 3:1 to 2:1. Was 6’3, 205 lbs., lean and muscular - down to 185 lbs. and shredded, 34 waist to 32. Feel so much better. Sleep is wonderful. No mood swings. No energy spikes and crashes. High animal fat / protein whole foods, raw dairy products, a few veggies and fruits here and there and NO PROCESSED SHIT that I used to call food…once you see…you can’t unsee…
I stopped eating sugar and did alternate intermittent fasting. and i only allow myself 100grams of rice twice a week.. I'm heavy on vegetables and nuts and protein- excluding the veggies high in oxalates. I started June 14- Today Sept 16th- I lost 19kgs. My only exercise is slow walking 10-20k steps 5x a week.. 2Liters of water, green tea, chia seeds in lemon water.. never been healthier in my life. I was watched closely weekly because I was diagnosed with stage 1 endometrial cancer last May..i refused hysterectomy and hopefully- can conceive this year or next year.. I started 84kilograms. I'm 65 kgs now.. my goal is 57kgs until November.. I think I can do it, my cancer didn't change size- i hope I could shrink it
Try removing all carbs completely, since that’s what cancer live of. And maybe try longer fasts, three days or longer, to promote autophagy, where the body uses old and damages cells as energy. Good luck!! ❤
Add simple calisthenics to your walking.... 10 min most...3 days a week... resistance training will contribute to your health a lot more than just walking.... simple Push ups and bodyweight squats will change your life... your bones, muscles and internal organs will thank you.....
Check out an old guy....Dr Robert Morse (as there's two with some name on RU-vid) and type in cancer. He knows so much and has healed a shed load of people from chronic illnesses. Cancer isn't something to be afraid of once you understand what it actually is and change your diet. He's worth a watch, you will learn so much from him. He's also had many of his videos taken down off RU-vid as big Pharma don't want us healthy
Dr. Lustig is the Truth. I have Cut out sugar for 160 days and I lost 60 lbs and I feel better than ever. My energy is at an all time high. I can walk for hours now without crashes or energy spikes. Food tastes so good and my cravings for sugar are gone. I love life again. I feel like I have hacked the matrix...
@@007cambon Carbs are not the main part of my meals anymore, but do not limit my carbohydrate intake. Once I detoxed off sugar my appetite dropped so volume of food I eat now is so much lower and the level of Carbs I eat compared to my main diet is significantly less. Glucose is different than Fructose so carbs in moderation is fine. If I do eat carbs its from Starchy root vegetables like potatoes or bread (once or twice a week). Rice if it is in something. Again I do not limit anything other than sugar and fake sugar and my cravings for Carbs has gone down as well. Too many Carbs is bad. Glucose gets to the liver too but at a lower percentage. Too much Glucose causes the same problem on a larger scale. @007cambon @007cambon Carbs are not the main part of my meals anymore, but do not limit my carbohydrate intake. Once I detoxed off sugar my appetite dropped so volume of food I eat now is so much lower and the level of Carbs I eat compared to my main diet is significantly less. Glucose is different than Fructose so carbs in moderation is fine. If I do eat carbs its from Starchy root vegetables like potatoes or bread (once or twice a week). Rice if it is in something.
@@TNT-km2eg It is weird but I was so addicted to sugar and had built up such a tolerance over time it made me so hungry and irritable all the time. Cutting out Sugar did not magically increase my wages or give me financial stability. It did improve many things and my overall mental health and physical health. Our Gut regulates everything in our bodies... If we do not feed it, deficiencies in everything can occur. Refined Sugar kills the gut and poisons the liver. If your body is always playing catchup its time to run a different race. Humans were never made to run with the amount of sugar available today. For me my sweet tooth is gone. I could not say no to sweets and now I do not want them at all. I walk by the doughnuts at work and just look at them like beautiful little art projects... Admire the colors and the craftsmanship, but there is no part of me that wants to take a bite. I now know sugar only is good on your tongue. Once it is not on your tongue it only hurts your body... For me it was the key to sustaining long term success.
If you have been eating sugar for a lifetime, fasting can do an amazing amount to get you metabolically healthy again and prevent cancer and high blood pressure and much more! Some benefits of doing occasional extended fasting: High blood pressure is lowered to normal levels very quickly while fasting. Fibrosis/scarring is reversed over time, including in the heart and lungs. Vitamin D plasma levels are increased as fasting improves metabolic health, and vitamin D in turn increases autophagy. Fasting stimulates phagocytosis, the ingestion of bacteria, plaques and viruses by the immune system. It will also remove any 'foreign material' like spikes that are not supposed to be there. Whether natural or unnatural in origin.. Blood sugar and insulin are lowered when fasting, allowing white blood cells to move more freely throughout the body and do their job. Fasting increases nitric oxide release. Fasting restores NAD+ to healthy levels. Blood clotting is reduced and blood clots and arterial plaque are reabsorbed into the body. Fasts from 36-96 h increase metabolic rate due to norepinephrine release! Telomeres are lengthened and fasting also increases anti-aging Yamanaka factors. After 72 hours or more fasted, your body recycles up to 1/3 of all immune bodies, rejuvenating your entire immune system. This helps prevent the onset of new autoimmune conditions, which develop through a leaky gut and damaged immune system. Fasting can help with MS, Depression, BPD, Autism and seizures. Thymus is regenerated, which suppresses aging and renews the immune system. The thymus also plays a vital role in fighting cancer. Weight loss from daily caloric restriction has 1/4 to 1/3 of the weight lost as lean tissue while many studies show fat loss from 36 h fasts without losing any lean tissue! The obese will lose extra tissue like loose skin while fasting, but the skinny or frail will have increased growth hormone release than the obese, which helps to make more lean tissue and reduce frailness. When you move out of MTOR your body shuts down the building blocks of the cell required for viruses to replicate. The hunger hormone ghrelin also lowers with extended fasting and rises from dieting. What breaks a fast? Anything with protein or carbohydrates in it will break a fast. Most teas and herbs are OK. Most supplements and meds will either break ketosis directly or contain a filler that will. Many meds are dangerous to take while fasting. Does fasting lower testosterone? No, it raises it when the fast is broken by increasing lutenizing hormone. Fasting also increases insulin sensitivity, which helps with muscle building. Fasts of 36-96 will not affect short term female fertility or affect menstrual cycle. They also may increase long term fertility, especially in women with PCOS. Fasting reduces pain and anxiety by stimulating the endocannabinoid system in a similar way to CBD oil. One day of fasting can cut your leptin levels in half and gets your immune system working properly again! This reduces leptin resistance, which impairs immune function. Stomach acid is reduced over time while fasting and can allow for the healing of treatment resistant ulcers. Some patients may need continued acid reduction medication while fasting. Does the body preferentially prefer glucose as a fuel? No. Except for brief periods of very intense exercise, your body mainly burns fats in the form of free fatty acids. Your brain also prefers to burn ketones at a rate of around 2.5 to 1 when they are available in equal quantity to glucose. Fasting stimulates the AMPK complex and activates autophagy. Autophagy (literally self eating) will cause cells to recycle foreign matter such as viruses and kill cancerous and senescent cells Lowering insulin via fasting virtually eliminates chronic inflammation in the body. It increases mitochondrial function and repairs mitichondrial DNA, leading to improved ATP production and oxygen efficiency. Increased mitochondrial function also has the added benefit of increasing your metabolism, fighting infection and cancer prevention! Fasting releases BDNF and NGF in the blood which stimulates new nerve and brain cell growth. This can help a great deal with diseases like MS, peripheral neuropathy and Alzheimers. Fasting also increases telomere length, negating some of the effects of aging at a cellular level. When you fast, this stimulates apoptosis in senescent or genetically damaged cells, destroying them. Senescent cells are responsible for many of the effects of aging and are a root cause of the development of cancer. A fasting mimicking diet for 3-5 days in a row also provides many of the same benefits as water fasting. FMD usually has 200-800 calories, under 18 g of protein and extremely low carbs. Exogenous ketones can aid with fasting, making it easier in healthy people and allowing some people with specific issues to fast in spite of them without worrying as much about hypoglycemia. They also help with dementia and many other issues even if you take them while not fasting! Glycine and trimethylglycine can also be useful supplements while fasting that won't break ketosis and have many benefits. Children, pregnant or nursing women should not fast for periods longer than 16 hours. People with pancreatic tumors or certain forms of hypoglycemia generally cannot fast at all. Type 1 diabetics can also fast but it is more complicated and should be approached with caution as it could lead to ketoacidosis. If you experience extreme symptoms of some kind, especially dizziness or tremors, then simply break the fast and seek advice. 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Feel free to copy and paste this anywhere you like, no accreditation needed! My community tab will always contain an updated version of this list of fasting benefits. I also have playlists on fasting and health topics.
Today at work, we celebrated a few people's birthdays. I took two bites of a canoli cake, and damn! I used to eat this with no problem. Now, it tastes so sweet and artificial to me. I'm not trying to be unthankful, but I can't do it anymore. 🥺
I find I can’t eat chocolate anymore, tried it and it tastes so disgusting. I used to eat chocolate everyday and loved it before I cut out sugar and started intermittent fasting.
I stopped eating sugar about a year ago when I realized the horrifically painful reaction my body was suffering through. Now I'm eating carnivore (was keto, but that was still too much wrong stuff for my body to handle), and I don't miss sugar at all. I also stopped all sweeteners, even the so-called "keto friendly" ones just because of their negative impact on my mind, causing me to want sweet stuff all the time.
I appreciate the simple and clear way Robert Lustig delineates the nutritional facts I was never taught at medical school - I didn’t have a single lesson on nutrition! Thank you so much for this private coaching - it’s never too late 😊
Dr. Lustig has it right. There is so much emphasis on fat and animal foods as foods we should avoid. But people keep eating more sugar and processed food (seed oils). I read about an initiative the other day to tax meat, eggs and animal products. But skittles, Oreos, Lucky charms, and all the other junk on the shelves are fine….so wrong! I have significantly reduced sugar, stopped eating bread, pasta, gluten. All my metabolic health markers improved. I eat Whole Foods, and I don’t fear pasture raised/organic animal products. Stop listening to mainstream health advice if you want to maintain health!
Take a look into what the government did around the time of the food pyramid release, raiding labs that were working to use the miracle berry as a food additive so they could make a sweet treat with no sugar or chemical sugar alternatives, pushing down a study on the long term effects of seed oils, and so much more. It was never an accident
Im 32, im 7 days into no sugar, low carbs and i feel like im 22 again. I was bloating, gaining weight rapidly, extremely fatigued, i had to make change. I now only eat 2 small meals a day and i have unbelievable energy and i never feel hungry. I sleep better and wake up with no brain fog. My bloating is 95% gone. ALL in 7 days. No joke, its mind blowing how bad sugar and carbs are.
Stopping sugar a year ago was the best thing I ever did I also started on 20k iu vit d with K , my best mate owns a pharmacy and 80% of drugs dispensed by him are diabetes and insulin related. One year on I feel amazing have lost over 3 st lost 6 inches off my waist , I had tinnitus / vertigo / colitis and they have all gone , Sugar is evil and the cravings went a long time ago there are so many great keto channels on here , I also sleep like a baby which I hadnt done for years ,, great vid thanks keep spreading the facts..
Your best mate who owns a pharmacy should have told you 20,000 iu of vitamin d is not good. 4000 a day is the upper limit. Look up what consuming to much vit d does to people. I was surprised because I did exactly the amount you are doing for a couple years and started having problems because of it. Hypercalcemia is one issue arising from to much vit d and many others. People have been hospitalised because of it
If taken with correct dosage of vitamin K and magnesium this is not the case have also read countless peer review studies of people taking much more than this without side effects I feel amazing and I don’t miss how I used to feel but whatever works for you my friend good luck
0:13: 🍬 Consuming high levels of sugar has negative effects on our health, similar to trans fats in the past. 3:47: 🍔 The video discusses the controversial topic of whether ultra processed food should be considered as food. 7:28: 🍎 Switching to a real food diet can help mitigate chronic diseases, but the prevalence of ultra-processed food is contributing to a health crisis. 10:49: 🍽️ The speaker recalls their experience with processed food and the impact of dietary recommendations in the 1960s and 1970s. 14:16: 🍺 The video discusses how the first pass effect in the stomach and intestine metabolizes alcohol and sugar before it reaches the liver, and how excessive consumption can be harmful. Recap by Tammy AI
Super conversation! And so valuable ❤️🙏 I have recently started on the path of no sugar. Sugar was my tough spot, so I gave up wheat first 😄 However, this opened the door for me, where I felt it possible to not eat sugar as well. Baby steps, right 😊. Sometimes babysteps are the most powerful thing to do! It's been a few months of no wheat, and it has cured my migraine, I don't have acne any more, my energy levels got more stable and it stopped my food cravings. Now I am a few days into not eating sugar and I feel this energy I haven't felt for so long. I feel like running up and down the stairs just for the fun of it, like a kid 😂. Also, as I was washing my face this morning, my skin felt totally different, smooth and plump and, young!! And my mood, well all of a sudden I feel happy, for nothing ❤ What I also really like is, I don't feel restricted. It's the opposite! I feel satisfied, relieved and free 🕊️ To anyone wondering, try it, do it. You have nothing to lose!
Bs. Nothing aside from a phenol peel will ever improve my skin. And how can I be happy if I can’t even eat a strawberry in my day? I don’t have a family, kids, friends, a car, a home, nothing meaningful whatsoever. The last thing I wanna deprive myself of is a variety in food choices. Only chewing meat all day long and having diarrhea from the constipation that it causes, is gonna be super boring and depressing af. Not doing that. Thanks!
All sugar is sugar, and all carbs are sugar. Add them together and really know how much sugar you get. Its probably much more than you think. And include your drinks...
You get tired after you eat because your body needs to make digestive fluids, about 6-8 liters a day of it, most of it is re absorbed in the intestines so you dont need to drink 6-8 but thats probably why. Your blood loses alot of fluid and so it doesnt have alot of pressure to send blood to your upper body and so the body makes your arteries and veins tighter to increase pressure (like putting your finger on a hose it helps build pressure to send blood back to the heart) This can come with the side effect of sleepiness and tiredness. Take your time with your food and you’ll be fine. Cut carbs out if you only really need to, otherwise it can have some health associated drawbacks (fairly minor to those with high fat stores) but it can still cause some unwanted side effects. Consult your doc and see what they think, we all function differently afterall
I can vouch for this - Since December 15th (today is 5th January) I have lost 21 pounds by walking, intermittent fasting and then the last week without sugar (it was during the sugarless last week where the weight loss has accelerated. I can also confirm that I have no brain fog, feel great in the mornings and my sleep is so much better. I'm normally one of the biggest doubters but get rid of sugar and it will change your life for the better. It feels like I have had a film removed from my eyeballs (can't explain it)
When you "without sugar", do you mean you stopped adding sugar to things (such as coffee), or do you mean when you see sugar as an added ingredient, you don't eat whatever food that is?
A prime example of inflammation and sugar is just a couple months ago when Halloween came around. The candy that was bought to hand out was not all given out, I would grab a few small pieces several times a day. I couldn't figure out why I was hurting all over. After it was mostly consumed, then I realized that it was the sugar. I dumped the remaining candy in the trash. Still have addictions to chocolate, my weakness. My pain. Very informative video. Thank you guys.
If it was poison, it would kill you faster than 60 years. Is it good for you? Of course not, but lots of things are not good for you. Exercise and eat junk food in moderation.
Look, I stopped eating sugar to the degree one can 5 years ago. While I was not a heavy drinker, I stopped drinking completely. I also intermittent fast 16 hours a day for the last two years. I also work out 6 days a week an hour a shot also for the last two years. Out of all those things quiting sugar was by far the absolute hardest. I would literally dream about it! For a long time I had to mix artificial sugar in milk just to lick the cravings. It took literally years to stop dreaming about eating sugar. We don't realize it but it's a highly addictive substance. A few months after I quit I noticed I was gaining and retaining more muscle. In combination with my healthier life I am in better shape then I was in my late 20's at 38. I'm down 30lbs and I'm stronger and more muscular then I've been in years. It's like I've left a genie out of a bottle that my body has silently been begging me to for years to let loose. Sugar and booze are killing us all. I know you won't believe me until you try, but quit today, cold turkey. The next 6 months will be tough but I'm telling you there is a happiness on the other side you haven't experienced since you were a kid! I promise you absolutely all aspects from your health, your brain, your job, relationships will all be far, far better! Please, please, please, just give it a shot, do it for the people you love and who love you. Today you think oh well, maybe my lifestyle will kill me, I use to think the same. Now I know, looking back, I was an idiot.
Do you still consume fruits? I'm curious to know. I have autoimmune issues. It comes and goes. I cut out soy, dairy, and gluten out of my diet. It has helped. But I'm willing to cut out refined sugar as well. I don't consume much of it already, but I hope fruits are a good alternative.
@@vprez4925 I'm not a doctor first and foremost but from all of my research so long as you are eating a good diet fruit actually is not a necessity. I personally and I stress personally do not eat nor have I eaten any fruit in five years. That in mind though 98% of my meals are home cooked and veggies are a regular part of our diet so I'm still getting my nutrients. That being said fruit has enough fiber to balance the sugar so fruit is still a healthy choice within reason. But again I'm not a nutritionist and I'm not a doctor, this is just my own research. So far I have been very healthy but my overall lifestyle is also geared in a healthy way.
@@masamasa1815 thanks :) peppers, cucumbers and a bunch of plants we call veggies are actually fruits, so idk maybe just low sugar fruits are good. That's why sometimes I'm a bit confused.
Everybody is saying they are stopping sugar. But keep in mind, there are sugar in many products. Like ketchup, sweet chili sauce. In some sweet sauces, there are 55g of sugar in 100g. So just stopping sugar is not enough, one needs to check every product and look how much sugar it has.
Saw "Sugar: The bitter truth" nine years ago. Quit sugar the next day, never missed it big way. Now I have found the problem of oxalates, and have similar health progress. Knowledge is good!
@@JoAnnaPriestIsGreat do not oversimplify, there is a difference. Even calories are not the same from a same food for different people. Could you answer why some people can eat a croissant for breakfast and have no spike in blood sugar and others do? The key information missing in a video is how much is that little sugar?
Natural sugar and refined sugar are very very similar i.e sucrose. The issues is what are you eating your sugar with e.g a table spoon of 100% sugar will elicit a larger insulin response than the same tablespoon sugar bound up is strawberries etc. Sugars when bound with other things such as fibre and like will buffer the load into the system
@@888jucu What about the other sugars though? Glucose, fructose etc? The simple fact is humans - the apes in general - are evolved for a sugar diet, through an abundance of fruit and vegetable consumption. Their diabetes levels are a fraction of humans. Refined sugar isnt natural. The closer your diet is to natural, and the closer your lifestyle is to your nomadic simian ancestors, the longer and healthier your life will be. And that includes a diet heavy in fruit-based sugar.
@@silverburn55 Not sure what question you have but sucrose (table sugar) is a disaccharide made up on one molecule glucose and 1 molecule fructose. When we digest sucrose it is broken down to glucose and fructose. I agree with you our bodies know how to handle sugar as our species has been eating sugars since our ape ancestors. The issue modern humans in very recent times have is the sheer abundance of this substrate which we consume and it overwhelms our system creating metabolic disorders
Dr. Lustig is obviously a very informed person and his knowledge and insights are incredibly valuable. Every time I listen to this man I learn something important. A wealth of valuable information available here.
When I had a garden, I thought I could dilute sugar into the water. It actually attracted pests and didn't help the growth of the plant. Molasses mixed into the compost teas would help the lawn soil however rain was always best. Thank you for sharing about sugar being so detrimental to our cells. I am quitting sugar/processed foods immediately.
I've been reading "Decode your fatigue" and "Glucose revolution", man it's hard but I'm trying to ween myself off of eating sugar. There are times when my cravings aren't bad but when stress gets high I fall into the trap of milk chocolate and potato chips. Thankfully it hasn't been too hard giving up certain carbs and processed foods, never been a fan of sugary drinks just the odd soda once month. But when it comes to milk chocolate...darn thing is my kryptonite.
I cut down on carbs such as sugar, bread and pasta and reversed my prediabetes to a normal A1C and also my cholesterol and BP went down to normal and I no longer take meds for them. I did not totally eliminate sugar only eat a lot less of it. 66 and in better shape than I ever been.
I just celebrated 3vyears no alcohol. After being a complete pisshead all my life. I can tell you sugar and carbs are proving to be a much harder but to crack for me 😢❤ great video
@@sheepshearer2705you should, it kindof sucks the first 2 weeks but at the same time u will feel major improvements, and u will still get cravings when you are hungry but they go away once you eat some meat again, and the meat keeps you full for a long time
i dont go to extremes. i cut down on sugar and white bread without eliminating them. i reversed my prediabetes to a normal a1c. in the process i lost 30 pounds and now have normal cholesterol and bp levels and no longer take meds for them.
Cut all Sugar, eat a Keto Diet, I lost over 60 lbs and my doctor cut my Diabetes medicine in half. My Blood Pressure is Normal now as well. Diet absolutely works.
As a month ago I started intermittent fasting 18/6. I eat at 12pm usually eggs, sometimes cheese with green veggies and tomato’s. I do have 1 sourdough bread. Then I eat second meal at 6pm. I will eat chicken, salmon, shrimp or ground turkey (organic when possible) plus veggies. I now cook only with organic ghee and organic grass fed butter. If I need a snack between meal time I get a hand full of organic walnuts, almonds or pistachio’s. I drink green tea and a lot of water. I have lost 13 pounds I feel great. I was a Coca Cola drinker everyday until I got cancer and immediately changed my eating habits. I guess it’s never too late to start eating healthy and stop the sugar poison. Thank you for these video’s that have inspired me to start a different lifestyle. Sending positive vibes for those of you struggling with something!😉😁
When I was a kid, I was so skinny that my mom actually was worried about it at one point. I could literally stick my fingers behind my ribs. Us three kids got one 32 ounce bottle of soda a week and a 3.5 oz bag of crisps. These were to share, not individual portions. Also, my mom said that other people were surprised by how few potatoes we ate as a family. So basically, we were on a low carb, very low sugar diet and the results were astonishing. Now, I'm reorganising my food intake, I try to avoid ultra-processed food and limit my sugar, I already lost about 5 pounds in a month. Nothing too crazy, but I prefer a slow decline over rapud results.
I was talking to my husband about how much sugar is in almost everything we eat. At the time, he was eating chips. He looked at the ingredients and sugar was the 3rd ingredient! What is sugar doing in potato chips?!?!
I had reduced my sugar intake back in 2017 for 9 months and lost around 65 pounds in that time. I then started drinking regular pop again and slowly went back to my old eating habbits without realizing it and gained everything back between late 2018 and late 2019, then Covid happened and got to my heaviest. Now, I am down 30 pounds from Jan, 2023 and slowly losing weight. Some months I will eat more sugar and gain 5-10 pounds back but then I catch myself and lose it the next few months. I have now 95% stopped sugar from soda and trying to quit candies and icecreams, this last month has been really rough.
I weight train, do cardio, and I'm in good shape, don't take any medication and no health issues. But i do have some sugary things every now and again. I don't feel any guilt and enjoy it. Mankind has been eating refined sugar for thousands of years. So long as you don't live off it, it's fine!
I have good childhood memories with Swanson. I especially remember combining the corn and mash potatoes, add my own butter, and scoop it up with a piece of white bread. They were always a bit salty. While I liked the salisbury steak, chicken was the best...it tasted like a small piece of greasy original KFC. I am older now, maybe lucky, not overweight, blood sugar, blood pressure all normal...I am much more conscious now, but it sure tasted good mmmmmm!
It seems a little vague to just say sugar, I would assume he is speaking of processed sugar, not necessarily something like raw honey or natural sugar within an apple 🍎 etc?
This video is very motivating to me to start cutting out sugar. But I genuinely feel like sugar is added to everything nowadays. How do we really stray away from it?
Its high fructrose corn syrup thats dangerous your body can not disspose it properly it simply does not know how. Real cane suger it can its still not good but nowhere in the realm of high fructrose corn syrup or any artificial sweetner. They are synthetic and your body can not disspose of it properly. The doctor should explain that so all the diet soda people think is better its far worse then real sugar . So a throwback soda with real sugar is safer then high fructrose corn syrup and diet. Now all are bad though😊 and sugar is in everything. Choose wisley
I only eat home made food and as a result if I take a chance on something while out I can taste any additives as chemicals. I gave up sugar in 2018 and have found it added to so many products, almost everything. It is even in crisps / chips if they are flavoured. More shops are wising up to the no sugar movement and it is now possible to obtain foods without sugar in shops. Stevia is the best / healthiest sweetener and it doesn’t affect blood sugar in diabetics.
We can eat whole boiled grain ( steal cut oats , ray ,barley , quinoa , buckwheat, rye) instead bread.The all have lots of fiber and they are not processed food.
I cut out sugar a few years ago to get off of type 2 diabetes meds and I was away from sugar so long that I lost my taste for sweets. Now, I have found that if I eat a donut or other sweet, I want more. But, my yearning to have something sweet now has faded away. It’s all mental.
Iv just started on the OMAD so basically fasting for 24 hours. The meal has no sugar and it's mostly rice n clean meats. I also distill my water with lemon. This isn't for vanity. But my mental health is declining fast. So I'm hoping this will help.
Exactly Mr. Chatarjee, its so normalised today! I stopped consuming sugar, especially in my teas or coffee's and people would get surprised as to how i can drink bitter stuff! Well i do and as a matter of fact i just cannot down coffee if it has sugar in it.
Gave up alcohol since January 1st 2024. However, i don't feel any more different that i did while drinking occasionally. I'll try a sugar free diet till the end of the year and see how i feel.
Great video, full of learning from personal experiences. Many other TY doctors have commented on the same issues about sugar and trans fat( margarines).
I was starting to have gallbladder issues again from my diet (a lot of steak and cheese subs with mayo, biscuits and gravy, lots of ground beef). I had issues 10 years ago so I started eating better and didn't have issues for the longest time but slacked off for a couple of months at the end of last year. I immediately cut all the crap out, no fast food, no more added sugar stuff, no more refined carbs. I lost 10lbs. I have a lot more energy now. Like I did when I was younger.
The peak of my time besting my sugar addiction culminated with me laid out on the floor, shaky, arms burning snd craving chocolate cake. I had no desserts or junk food in the house and it was midnight. The next morning my sugar craving was completely gone. It was worse than when I beat nicotine and alcohol. I'm down 53 pounds.
Not more addictive, just far more accessible, flooding your subconscious with bright colours and glamour photos. And it's completely legal. People need to learn how to use uncommon Logic. If you feel crap after eating something, then it's a good indication you just ate junk. If you feel good after eating something that you know is junk... then you're probably eating too much junk.
Although drinking alcohol is not as simple as he explains. You get alcoholics yes, then chronic drinkers (those drink regularly but not a lot per se) and those who don’t drink regularly. People have different tolerances as well. “When you drink alcohol, it can pass into all the cells and tissues of your body. It has no trouble just passing right into those cells … The fact that it can pass into so many organs and cells so easily is really what explains its damaging effects.” Sugar addiction is quite different.
I'm not giving up my coffee with a teaspoon of raw honey or my steel cut oatmeal with blueberries and Monk Fruit extract powder (sweetener) every morning..!
@@maximum360 Forgot to mention that I use monk fruit extract powder in my oats... You might want to read this about erythritol. www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/erythritol-cardiovascular-events
I have a small amount of sugar in my diet, because it's a real life here in San Antonio . Any more than that and I develop migraines. I also rarely eat packaged food.
Our Singapore diet consist of carbs (Rice, Noodles etc). I know sugar is bad but man, it is hard to have a sugar free food in my Country. Chicken Rice, Nasi Biryani, Laska. You name it, all of our local cuisine consist at least some form of Carbs. Being realistic here, I guess moderation is the key? Avoid the bad sugar?
Mr. Chatterjee are you going to adress the censorship that has been recently applied by RU-vid on channels like yours? Are you considering sharing your content also somewhere else like rumble pls etc before the freedom of speach is completaly surpressed here by these bast...😢
people were put on a rice and cane sugar diet in a controlled trial and diabetes was reversed. it’s mainly the seed oils that cause metabolic syndrome and diabetes, the primary cause of modern illness
Dr. Lustig said that unless a patient CHANGES the way he/she eats, they could NOT be his patient . That’s the FIRST TIME in my life I ever heard a doctor say that, and if more doctors acted on that the mortality/sickness numbers would go down, down, down.
Resistant starch is primary for gut health. Eaten cold even better. Don't be afraid of carbs people. I've been WFPB for 17 years, follow the SOS plant based. Minimum or no sugar, oil and salt. No carbs, no fuel.
I think the better question is to say "would the bodies capacity for absorbing sugar be higher during exercise?" and the short answer is yes. Active muscles will take glucose direct from the blood for metabolism into energy
@@lenblack1462sorry, but I disagree. Read people's comments on here about their experiences with and without added sugar and it goes to show it is not needed. The Dr pretty much explains it in the clip. But people are totally free to consume whatever they like.
What does he define as "sugar"? Mango has sugar, oats turn to sugar, sweet potatos are sugary and also wholegrain sourdough bread is - are they and others in the list?
You may want to do some more research on the whole blood pressure/salt theory. So much of what our doctors have been telling us is BS. You NEED sodium.
I will indulged in alcohol and some sugars now and then but I have it in moderation; I see it as a special treat day. Overall drastically reducing my carbs, sugars and alcohol was amazing for my overall body function and weight. For too many years I was unaware of high carbs and how it can cause inflammation and massively consistent acne breakouts.
Currently going through sugar withdrawal which didn’t think was actually possible but cutting off 90% of my sugar intake definitely has me going through it. Still have a flavored beer every other night cuz going cold turkey from all sugar too fast could be dangerous because you could relapse and wind up binge eating and doing more damage than good. It’s definitely tough when your whole life all you’ve known is eating sugar especially since I have a sweet tooth. But sugar is definitely poison and the faster you cut it out of your diet the better. Just be prepared for the withdrawal in the beginning
I can relate to your childhood in the 60’s & Swanson TV dinners. I believe my focus & poor grades during my childhood… was attributed to SUGAR! We had a Sugar bowl on our table… ate sugary cereals & drank Nestle Quick with our milk. “Sugar Blues” was a book I read Long ago & it explained how sugar cane to white sugar, went through same chemical breakdown, as Opium into Heroin. Occasionally, I ‘fall off the wagon’ & eat sugar… then I pay for it & it takes about 2 weeks to withdraw 😳 Thank You both for your wisdom 👍♥️🧠
