Grew up eating all these foods. I never understood why I had such bad acne, why my stomach hurt frequently or even the weight gain that occurred since it was the same diet everyone else ate around me. Once I lived on my own I decided for myself what to buy. I had to re-educate myself which took years but I’m finally on track. I can proudly say every health issue I ever had has disappeared. You are what you eat and that’s the hardest lesson to learn. Thank you for this great video. Continue with the excellent content
You are wise. Many people think they can handle it until they are older. Reality hits hard and it’s too late to fix a lot of their ills. Half of the people I know over 65 are type 2 diabetic or pre-diabetic
Seems it's almost impossible to avoid sugar in this modern culture. It's in cereal, ketchup, milk, etc. It's impossible to eliminate it from our diets completely, so it's just about minimising the intake.
Keep to a good clean diet/ have a piece of CAKE and don’t feel bad . I drive my self krazy sometimes trying to always improve my diet don’t worry be happy 80 %20
Very sad how people live on fast food, take away food, uber eats. I believe it has a lot to do with today's culture that both parents work to buy bigger houses and more things to put in them. The foccus is not on eating healthy. No time for cooking any more. I used to have sushi after gym sometimes but then they started Uber eats deliveries and they added MSG to the sushi which I felt stright away. My body is very sensitive. I cook all my meals. However now at 67 if I have sweet stuff my toes go numb. Even from dates. So I do have to stop sugar. I am very happy I can still have honey in my cacao drinks in the morning.
Yes, covid took a greater toll in metabolically unhealthy populations, as do all infections. However, the U.S. reported deaths from covid was artificially inflated, grossly inflated due to unethical reporting requirements. Do the research 😊
Who is “they”? And to the person who said, “Do the research”, please share the research. Please provide the links for the evidence-based research that you’ve done to support the idea that the number of covid deaths were “artificially” and “grossly inflated due to “unethical reporting requirements”- given your comments imply that you’ve done the research. Additionally, what were the “unethical reporting requirements” of which you’re aware? I’m no research scientist, data specialist, or data collector (at least not in the realm of covid related death data collection), but I am a fellow human with a science background and a generally open, curious, mind. Thus, to the best of my understanding, “margin of error” is a known and accepted concept in any scientific research and/or statistical data collection…and that’s utilizing the best research or data collection designs and methods. In other words, “margin of error”, in either direction (+/-) is automatically a consideration in reporting as far as I know. The goal is to minimize, to the highest degree possible, gross over- or under-reporting. So, ok, let’s go with your statement that there was gross inflation of the death count. What’s that grossly inflated number and was/is it statistically significant enough to drop our numbers of covid-related deaths below those of other developed countries? From all indications, the prevailing knowledge appears to still be that we fared worse in the U.S., with covid mortality, than many other developed countries and probably worse than needed to happen, but that’s a different conversation. Also, since we seem to be making empirical observations, it’s important to note, too, that some U.S. hospitals were at risk of collapse under the weight of covid disease burden. And many people across the country, with other major conditions, suffered unnecessary delays in treatment (and possibly death) subsequent to the heavy burden of covid disease at the various peaks of the pandemic. Furthermore, how many of those other people eventually contracted covid, while waiting at home to have a critical procedure done, and ultimately died at home as a result of now known covid complications that potentially hastened their demise? More to the point, how many people died at home with covid, in general, who never made the covid related death count because they never made it to the hospital and it was assumed they died of natural causes or as a direct result of whatever pre-existing condition they had? So, my guess is that covid related deaths may have been underestimated. Nevertheless, I’ll refrain from saying things like the numbers were “grossly” and “artificially” over…or…underestimated. Either way, share the vetted, reliable, research and “let a ‘yes’ be yes and a ‘no’ be “no”.
Title is wrong. It should says refined starch. Healthy starches like potatoes, rice, beans, corn are excellent to eat. It should say refined foods, not starch.
@ericbarry3639 if you have a food processor, you can blend, chopped frozen banana, a few dates, strawberries or plain cocoa powder, add vanilla essence and a splash of plant milk, blitz into a creamy dessert, it’s called “nice cream”.
Is this really true also for resistant starch..ie cooked and then cooled starches? It is supposed to be good for gut healthy gut bacteria and weight loss.
Yes it is true for that too, starches break down like sugar in the body, so no big difference there. your gut biome does not need starches ( doesnt need any plants really.)
@@OGAesthetics kefir, plain ofc, and meat and fat. That is if you were on a carnivore diet to begin with.. if not, do add some carbs, and wean yourself off them over time. Our stomacj is very well equipped to break down meat and fat into a very absorbable "slush", and without fiber making isses ( some plants are very low fiber), it should work as a charm.
@@Goldenhawk583 hmmm. Makes sense. I have candida thats the issue. Ive tried carnivore but it didnt help my candida at all, and my gut issues stayed the same. I didnt heal at all. I might try carnivore + kefir what do u think?
Hey people's, a vegetarian diet is a sweet diet to follow, but a strict vegetarian diet. as in potatoes not potato chips! loose the cookies & cakes & 🎂 so on , 🥧 🍩
@@youtoober808 First.. you eat what you want to eat. Im not here to decide for others. All I am trying to do, is make sure people are aware of what they are actually eating:D Second, and sorry, those are not good for you either. Both are almost 100% carbs, carbs= sugar. There are no essential carbs for humans, what we do have is sugar addiction, aja carb addiction, and yes, its hard to drop. It should be obvious to anyone that if you get withdrawel symptoms when you stop eating something.. its not good for you. Meat with the fat on ( thats important), is the only food that contains everything you need, all the essentials are there, and bioavailable, Plants dont have any of it. Eggs , butter , fish etc, goes under "meat " here btw. Again, eat what you want.. just know what you eat, and what it can do to you:) Best wishes:)
@@isabellezablocki7447 Potatoes contain antinutrients like protein trypsin inhibitor and lectins, which can interfere with your body's digestion and absorption of nutrients, but I guess thats healthy. They do taste great tho...
I'm on the mediterranean diet but I can't give up eating a half bar of a good quality milk chocolate a day and a cup of cocoa with milk with a teaspoon of sugar to get rid of bitter taste. Is this a bad product in your opinion? I've searched a lot of data and everywhere they say that milk chocolate prevents inflammations instead of making them.
Dr. Chatterjee, it is irresponsible of you to title this segment “sugar and starch”. Our bodies are designed to run starch. How can you equate a potato to a potato chip?
Actually there are essential fats and essential proteins but no essential carbs. If you do not eat glucose, the body manufactures its own from fat - that's how humans survived the ice ages.
@@simonround2439 If you don't eat carbs you eventually run an electrolyte deficit and you have to come off that diet. The science shows that whole carbs make for healthier humans. The more the better. Animal products raise inflammation.
@@simonround2439 Mayo Clinic, 2023: 'While this way of eating can be beneficial for some people, it can also lead to imbalances in electrolytes. Specifically, a carnivore diet can lead to low levels of potassium and magnesium, which can cause symptoms like muscle cramps, fatigue, and irregular heartbeat.'
In may this year, I couldn't walk very far without having to sit down. I was drinking a lot and going to the toilet a lot. The final straw was that my eye sight change over a weekend. I really struggled with my long vision. So I decided immediately to cut out sugar. 8 weeks later, my eye sight went back to normal. I've lost 2 stones. I feel healthier. I'm able to walk long distance and I'm sleeping much better. I eat want I want, except for anything that contains sugar. Thrust me a high intake of sugar is not good for our body.
More emphasis on STARCH!! I was concerned about diabetes so I ate low sugar! I had unsweetened cerial for breakfast, 2 sandwhiches (4 slices of brown bread) for lunch and Mac and cheese or spegetti for supper because no one told me starch turns to sugar. I am in worse shape than my siblings who didn't watch their diet.
A lot of brown bread is dyed brown. While bread is not the healthiest thing to eat, if you are going to eat it, choose the heaviest loaves on the shelf.
just cut carbs and eat meat/fish and be healthy. Of course ultra processed foods are awful. They are not food. They are creations concocted by Big Food companies who know we are addicted to sugars.
We love Mark Hyman, but he is making the same mistake most low-carb advocates are making when it comes to sugar. Starch, which is glucose, and table sugar, which is 50 percent fructose and is very sweet are NOT metabolically the same on our body. When experts say "sugar is sugar," they don't know what they are talking about. Humans have been eating various amounts of starch in the form of potatoes, rice, corn and wheat for about 10,000 years without getting metabolic diseases like insulin resistance and diabetes. This is a fact. All you have to do is look at history, and this pattern is crystal clear. People on the island of Tukisenta were studied. They ate a diet of 94 percent starch, yet were free of heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. The question I have, is with how high their insulin was, how come they did not get sick or get insulin resistance? It's because they completely avoided fructose, the sweet sugar that history tells us is the REAL cause of metabolic disease for the most part... And yes, I am on the carnivore diet...
@@barriobarrancohi. How long before the start of your race/training do you eat the potatoes? I’m also trying to experiment with low carb but it effects my energy performance for sports etc. so just trying to see what works for others
Mark Hyman is the new Dr. Oz. He is constantly pushing books or some other type of product. Look at his PBS specials, and you will see a few that at times contradictory from previous shows.
It IS possible to live life without consuming these problem foods, but it requires commitment and feeling like a freak in western society. Eating a carnivore diet has helped me.
Great tutorial on encouraging people to eat healthy. THEN you mentioned LIFE EXPECTANCY going down. That is not true, people are living longer these days? I'm confused. Aged 65 ate sugar & drank beer for 40 years & feeling just fine. Did I just get lucky? 😁
@@KernowFay There is also studies that up to 24 hours after eating beans, potatoes, yams, lentils etc that the body is protected glycemically keeping all the rest of the eating lower than if you did not eat those. Good carbs like this are also absolutely essential for testosterone production and protecting the body's blood sugar level, and slowing down mitochondrial damage which helps you live longer. Centenarians have those things in their diets and the ones that do are out and about at 90 like they are 60.
I think everyone looks at it wrong. U need knowledge of what real food is, u also have this separate food like, as he says, I say drugs, that we enjoy and would like to have. There is no reason to live without. U have to determine the ratio that works for u. For me its 1 out of 7 but I could probably get away w 2 at this point. I give myself a cheat day and it's done. And holidays and rare occassions. The other it's real food, low glycemic and nutrient dense, herbs and spices. No feeling of missing out and healthy. But this idea that u can live on sugar morning to night everyday w no exercise is just c'mon.
I am a fan of Mark's, but again, what about Asians eating white rice by the truckload and living longer than anyone else (i.e. Japan)? I am still waiting for a real answer to this question. It can't be just 'carbs'. Thank you.
@@jenwilson9414 That does not answer my question. They eat a highly-refined high-carb diet (white rice) and live longer (in Japan) than anyone else. ??? Whatever else they are eating isn't relevant to my question. The healthiest diet on the planet for longevity is based on a highly refined carb...white rice. Can anyone explain this?
The quantity of processed carbs and hidden sugars in different types of food that they consume is far far far less, plus the rice is gluten free which means that it doesn’t cause inflammation like wheat and products derived from wheat…
@@johnandrew2370 they consume less inflammatory forms of a carb (rice is gluten free) and eat more antioxidant and anti inflammatory foods such as seaweed and purple yams and leafy vegetables… and fish …
Wheat flour is “highly refined”. Any American sweetener is “highly refined”. See the difference? AND what you eat in combination with your rice has an effect on the human insulin response. It’s not just as simple as you imply. Japanese diet is much different than American. Think about it.
I do it and it’s wonderful. Been doing it for 8 years and very rarely get sick. I love dr. McDougall and I think he is more knowledgeable than this one. I’m slim, and a runner and I don’t eat any saturated fats. I find this to be BS.
@@undergrace1808 it's not BS it's scientific research. If you don't eat meat and saturated fats you are deluded. Starch is in effect sugar. Get you bloodwork done. I am sure you will find your metabolic health is shot.
Life is too short to not enjoy everything. Stop trying to live forever, you won't. Just enjoy things like sugar etc, in moderation. My uncle ate candy all the time and just died at 99 and was very healthy up until then. It's 95% genetics people. Diet can help, but it's not a magic solution that will make you healthy and live forever.
@@annemutisya298 Luck? Genetics is real, luck is not. Genetics are by far, the thing that will determine your health and now long you will live. Some people can smoke and eat junk their whole life and live to 100. Others can be perfect in their diet etc and not make it to 50. It's not luck.
It's starts in childhood. My mothers loved sweets and I had caries at a young age. Also now in adulthood when eating sweets, you end up eating much more than you should. The best sweets is natural fruits which is not tampered with ie. containing natural sweetness! Starch is in potato I'd argue they are healthy and yummy anyways.
Endurance athletes (not extreme endurance athletes) have a lower risk of all cause mortality and type 2 diabetes yet they eat sugar all day. Overconsumption, lack of exercise is the problem. The overconsumption is due to ultra processed foods that are high in calories and low in nutrition. Ultra processed food are usually high in both fat and sugar making them high in calories. It is not the sugar alone that is causing the problem it is the combined fat and sugar calorie load. Exercise is one of the single most effective ways to control blood sugar. If your sugar consumption is less than you muscle utilisation then sugar in not an issue apart from not being the most nutritional thing to consume.
Tell Dr Tim Noakes that. He was a long-term marathon runner who advocated the use of carbs for endurance runners. Then he got type 2 diabetes. He stopped the carbs and sugars, reversed his diabetes and also managed to improve his running.
@@simonround2439 That doesn’t prevent him eating carbohydrates above his utilisation just saying it is harder for endurance athletes. Each person has most likely got a different baseline also. Stopping carb doesn’t mean you have reverse type 2 diabetes. If your not consuming carbohydrates there is no reason for glucose rise. If you lost enough weight and ate under your bodies utilisation pancreatic functions can return to normal and you can eat carbohydrates again. Know heaps of people doing HCLF that have reversed diabetes. Some of them even increasing the amount of refined sugar they where eating. If sugar was the cause of their diabetes shouldn’t have they gotten worst. It’s 2023. We all know that obesity is the cause of diabetes in the 97%, not sugar. I don’t promote any diet. I think people should find what works for them and there is significant data to make an educated choice.
@@nicktheodorou3474 If you cut right down on your sugar and carbs you won't be obese and you won't have type 2 diabetes. Sure, you can try other things too but that doesn't alter those facts.
@@simonround2439 If you have to cut carbs to control diabetes and your still overweight, then chances are you still have diabetes. Decreasing insulin resistance and increasing insulin sensitivity would be reversing diabetes. This in a lot of cases is simple achieved by loosing weight be it restricting carbs or fat. It’s the reason people can do this with HCLF or LCHF as both help reduce calories. It’s like blaming your jeans because they don’t fit anymore not the fact that you put on weight.
@@nicktheodorou3474 thousands upon thousands of people have reversed type 2 diabetes on a low carb diet - it's fully scientifically established and not even controversial. Here in the UK a doctor called David Unwin has published some amazing material about the patients he has enabled to reverse their diabetes by this method. Excessive carbs and sugar causes T2. Removing excessive carbs and sugar reverses it.
Dr Chatterjee Clips NEVER GO OUTSIDE AGAIN unless you are wearing a gas mask because you dont wanna be "breathing in that bad air" now do ya, doctors will always say random stuff just so they can make money for other companies.
