THE 4 WORST FOODS THAT PREVENT WEIGHT LOSS!

Hey guys, hello and welcome to Total Health with Dr. Nick. Today in this video I want to talk to you about the four worst foods that prevent weight loss. Now it's that time of the year you're trying to get in shape, you're trying to look good, ladies you want to look good in those bikinis and guys never wear a Speedo, okay? Just a word of caution here, Speedos should be outlawed. In fact, I think you should get some background checks or requirements for those. So anyway, so like I said you're trying to get in shape, you're spending hours in the gym and I see so many times people are like two, three, four hours in the gym. It's insane, you don't need to spend that much time. Guys, you cannot work off a bad diet. So we're going to be talking about today, like I said, the four worst foods to eat that could be absolutely sabotaging your efforts. The reality is 70% of your weight loss or your muscle gains are coming from your diet, not time in the gym. So you can't, like I said, exercise those pounds away. There's no way you can burn enough calories for a poor diet. So you are sabotaging results without a doubt. So guys, if you like what we're talking about today, please make sure you like, give me that thumbs up, make sure you comment, you share or really more importantly that you subscribe. So please go ahead and do that. Anyway, let's jump right on in. Number one is sugar. Yes, sugar is a poison. Sugar is a drug and I know you're probably thinking there's no way, you know, you can't prescribe sugar. Doctors don't prescribe sugar. I'm telling you sugar is a drug because the way sugar affects your brain, it's like literally crack cocaine. It is worse than that. In fact, studies have been done where Dr. David Ludwig and his colleagues over at Harvard did studies where they tested the glycemic load of patients who had a lot of sugar and what they found was the higher the glycemic load, it triggered an area in the brain called the nucleus accumbens and that part of the brain as you can see is literally the same part of the brain that controls things like alcohol, that controls things like cocaine. So when you are eating sugar, you are actually stimulating the same part of your brain as cocaine. In fact, it gets worse. When they checked this with laboratory rats, what they found was they wanted the sugar more than the cocaine. They had opportunities to get injected with cocaine, but they wanted the sugar water instead. In fact, it was eight times more prevalent where they wanted the sugar water more than a cocaine. So guys, learn from the rats. Sugar is bad news. It is a drug. It is a poison. Not only that, it will down regulate your immune system making you sick all the time. I see patients that come into my office, one of the first things I get them off is the sugar, whether it be the cola drinks, things like that. Some of your highest amounts are coming from there. So where do we see a lot of this? We see a lot of this in your drinks. We see a lot of it in your foods that you don't even realize they're hidden in this. So number one is going to be things like your colas. Those drinks, your Cokes, your Pepsis and so on, they have of course high fructose corn syrup, which we're hearing all the time now. And by the way, if you've ever seen a commercial, there's a commercial they run on TV where the guy's sitting there on a blanket and they're having a picnic with his wife and he's saying, honey, don't you know corn's good for you? It's natural. And the wife is saying, no, honey, it's got high fructose corn syrup. They have totally hijacked corn where corn off the cob is not bad. It's okay, a little bit starchy. But when they took that and concentrated it into high fructose corn syrup or even just corn syrup, that's where you know what broke loose. It got really, really bad at that point because they're putting it into everything now. And why? Because it's cheap. In fact, I got a food label right here from, I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to throw this company under the bus a little bit. And by the way, it's not just this company. This is all your barbecue sauces are all going to have this type of ingredients. But look at the ingredient list here. And this is literally just what I copied off the back. Your number one ingredient is not barbecue scent. It's not mesquite. It's not hickory. Your number one ingredient is high fructose corn syrup. Down the list, you see sugar starch in here. So modified food starch. That's another sugar. You're actually seeing juice from pineapple. That's another sugar. You're seeing molasses, corn syrup, and actually sugar as if it wasn't bad enough. They have all these other sugars, one, two, three, four, five, six. Then they actually add sugar. I mean, it's insane. But you are trying to give your families healthy foods and trying to do the right thing and saying, hey, let's grill some chicken, put a little barbecue sauce on it. But meanwhile, you are absolutely sabotaging your weight loss results by using this. My daughter the other night said, dad, can I have some of this on my food? I said, no way. If you're trying to get trim and lose weight for the summer, this is horrible. You've got just two tablespoon is equating out to 18 grams of carbs. And how many guys do you think you put a little more than that on there? I mean, you lather up those ribs and you lather up that chicken. You're dipping it in there. So I guarantee you're getting more than two tablespoons where it's coming out to well over 18 grams of carbs. I mean, you're getting your whole carb requirement in a day just by having some ribs. Now, another thing that's bad about sugar, too, is this. Cancer loves sugar. Okay, when research was done, they found out that the cancer cells wanted sugar more than anything else. In fact, they have 10 to 70 times the receptor sites of normal cells for sugar. In fact, one of my patients came in who was having a lot of cervical cancer, and she ended up beating it based on the requirements and the protocols that we put her on. But one of the things I told her, I said, is when they test you for cancer, what they're going to do is inject into you a sugar solution. And they're going to modify it or watch it based on the sugar being sucked up by the cancer cells. And she thought I was crazy at first until she came back and she said, Dr. Nick, you were right. They injected this sugar solution into me, and the cancer cells just sucked it up. And then they were able to do the PET scan and see exactly where the cancer was located, or in her case, not located. So anyway, next, number two, is you've got to eliminate gluten. Eliminate gluten, guys. I hate to say it, but this is in everything today. This is everywhere. It's all over. You see it in just even tea bags. You see this in gum. You see this in foods that you would never think gluten is in. And the reality is this is not the same gluten that we had when our ancestors were growing up. Your grandparents, my grandparents, this is a completely different kind of gluten now. It's a lot more high-powered. The wheat that our ancestors grew years ago is not even the same kind of wheat today. So this is very, very powerful gluten. What's happening with gluten sensitivity, and you know this, you don't have to be even gluten intolerant to have a gluten sensitivity. But what we see is this, brain fog, irritability, mood changes. You see skin problems. You see eczema, rashes. Sometimes people have mouth sores. You see problems with menstrual problems, infertility, okay? So this is causing all kinds of problems with even you trying to get pregnant. It's causing joint swelling. I had a patient named Ed who years ago used to come in and literally in tears, he told me, he said, Dr. Nick, I just came back from the barber. I could barely sit there while he was cutting my hair. My joints ached, and Ed was taking something called Remicade, which is an extremely, extremely expensive medication for rheumatoid arthritis. And I said, Ed, you need to get off the sugars. You need to get off the wheat. Because he always told me that whenever he ate chocolate chip cookies, he was always much worse. And then one day he comes in, and he tells me, Dr. Nick, I figured it out. I read this book called Wheat Belly, and I found out that when I have too much wheat, my joints ache. I was like, yeah, that's amazing that you figured that out on your own. But anyway, I'm glad he did. But you also see nausea, constipation, stomach bloating. And you see this a lot. You can eat a crumb of a piece of bread. My wife used to say to me, Nick, I don't get it. I ate just a little smidgen, a little piece of a sandwich or a little corner. And next thing you know, I'm all bloated. Well, guys, that's what happens. That little bit creates an inflammatory reaction in your body, and it will absolutely stop your weight loss in its tracks. So get off the gluten. Where is gluten? Well, your main things are wheat, rye, and barley. Those are your main sources of gluten. But you can see it in everything else, from crackers to pretzels to bagels, pastries, croutons, stuffings. You would never think it's maybe in gravies and sauces, but they have to thicken it up somehow. So they add gluten to it. They add, in fact, guys, believe me, I'm Italian. I love a good pizza. But when they start to open up that dough, when they're spreading that dough out and they're airing it out, part of it's show. But the other part of it is they get that gluten activated, that elasticity in the pizza dough that gets it to where they can open it up like that and twirl it around and spin it. That is the gluten. So next, eliminate grains. Guys, grains are huge. Once again, and I don't fault you because you were taught this. You were taught this back from the 50s on, especially in the 80s when they said get off the fats and eat your healthy whole grains. Guys, they ruined us with that because as soon as we started getting into more of the whole grains, our diabetes started to skyrocket. I want you to think about this. You want to lose weight. You want to get ready for the summer or just lose weight in general. When they want to fatten cows up, what do they give them? Fat? Think about it. No, they give them grains. You know it. They give them grains. So if they're going to fatten up cows with grains, guess what that's going to do to your waistline. So think about that. Now, there's something you also need to know about grains that makes them also highly addictive, not just like the sugar. Although grains, by the way, turn into sugar. So sugar is a smaller molecule. Grains are just big molecules that just break down to sugar. So really they're all the same, but you think of it as different because it's in different forms. But what they found in research was that when they took things like bread and broke it down chemically in a laboratory, it broke down into something they called an exorphin. An exorphin meant an exogenous morphine, meaning a morphine outside the body, okay? That's where the EX comes from. They then named it gluteomorphin, which means it was the morphine that was produced by the gluten. And that they found affected, once again, just like I talked about earlier, the same parts of your brain that are affected by heroin and opium. And they figured this out because they were able to give patients something called naloxone, which is a drug that was able to break that high that they were getting from actually using bread. So yes, cheaper than heroin. Eat your bread if you want to get high. And by the way, this high lasts for hours. Not only that, the grains cause something called leaky gut syndrome. And it's in the news a lot. You read about it. You hear about it. That's when the actual intestinal walls become more permeable. So the cells open up and you get these junctions that are supposed to be tight to where toxins and bacteria can't get through. But instead, they start to open it up, especially with something called glyphosate. And glyphosate is the same ingredient they use, ready for this, in Roundup. And guys, this is used in all the crops that you're eating. Every time you eat something with corn or grains, you're getting glyphosate in your diet. And this glyphosate is horrible for these gap junctions, these junctions we see in the intestines that's leading to leaky gut. And then you get those poisons that leak into your body. They come through the intestinal walls and it creates an enormous, tragic, and I mean by that, tragic inflammatory response. I mean, it's incredible. And then your body goes into full-blown DEFCON 5 mode. Another thing, too, you need to know is people would say to me, well, you know what? I will give my kids bread, toast in the morning, but I would never think of giving them a candy bar. Well, here's the problem. First of all, the glycemic index of a Snicker bar is about 41. The glycemic index of a piece of whole wheat toast is about 73. Now, here's the problem we see with this, guys. Watch this. The reason this is so bad is because when we look at something like fructose, sucrose, or glucose, by the way, those are the three main sugars that you get in your body. Fructose, sucrose, and glucose. Fructose is, of course, just made of fructose. It's fruit sugar. The fructose has to go through your liver to be processed before it goes into your bloodstream. Sucrose, which is a molecule, two molecules, one of fructose, one of glucose, part of that has to go through your liver before it goes into your bloodstream, and the other part goes right into the bloodstream. So the fructose portion goes into the liver, just like it did previously, and the glucose portion is going to go right into your blood, raising your blood sugar levels. Now, bread is pure glucose. So bread goes right into your bloodstream. It's like a superhighway. It's going right in, guys. It is spiking your blood sugar, and here's the thing. This is the secret, right? Any time you spike insulin, you're going to put on weight, okay? Any time your body has insulin flowing through it in small or large amounts, your body goes into storage mode. So any food that you eat, I'm going to say it again, that makes your body produce insulin, you go into storage. Now, here's a problem. If you happen to also take in a food that spikes your insulin and has fat with it, guess what? You are storing that. So let's think of one. Sugar, cream, let's put it together, and we'll make ice cream. Now, guys, I like ice cream myself, but if you're eating it every day, especially at nighttime, not a good thing, because you are now combining the sugar and the fat, and your body's in full-blown storage mode. So guess where that's going, okay? So you want to avoid the bread. Once again, why do we reduce the grains or eliminate the grains from our diet? Because it is full-blown chaos sugar, okay? It elevates your sugar levels. And I know you're probably thinking, but I need the fiber, Dr. Nick. I've got to have the fiber. If I don't, I'm going to get bound up. My doctor says I need the fiber. Guys, there's plenty of fiber you're going to get in your vegetables. So we eat more vegetables. Your broccoli, your kale, your bok choy, your cauliflower, your cabbage, a lot more fiber in that than in your healthy whole grains. Another problem we see is this. When you're eating too much grains, once again, like I said, it spikes that insulin. So you go up in blood sugar. What does your body immediately want to do? It wants to get that sugar out of your blood and put it into the muscle and into the liver. So it secretes insulin. What did I say about insulin earlier? It's going to make your body start to store. And what it's going to store is belly fat. This is the big difference between if you eat a candy bar or if you eat bread. The sugar that's in a candy bar is sucrose. The bread goes right to your gut. So guys, if you don't want those moobs and you don't want that gut, you've got to get off the grains. The grains are your biggest problem. Sugars in the form of candy bars and things like that, like a Twix or a Snickers bar, that puts it on your thigh. That's going to put it on your butt and your thigh. What makes it more dangerous and more deadly is visceral fat. And I know you guys have heard about that. But your visceral fat is all the fat that's around the organs. Now you could look skinny and be fat at the same time because it's all internal. You have fat around your heart. You have fat around your liver. In fact, that's a delicacy over in France. But you don't want it here and you don't want it in you. Okay, so if you're eating too many grains, it is going to put it on its belly fat and that's dangerous because it is visceral fat and that is deadly. And here's another problem. The more belly fat you get, the more your body becomes an estrogen factory. Literally, guys, you do this too, you will start to make estrogen out of those fat cells. So you've got to avoid the grains. Number four, and the final one, is eliminate dairy. Now I know it makes no sense, but you know what? You've got to have dairy as a kid. You've got to grow. You've got to drink milk for strong bones. Brilliant marketing by the dairy association. You get much more calcium from spinach. Now, do I use some milk sometimes? Yes, but it's in moderation. It's sparingly and preferably if you can get it grass fed and raw, even better. But guys, this is the problem we see with dairy. It creates an inflammatory response. A lot of inflammation, skin conditions, eczema, allergies. You see this because you're thinking, well, it's the lactose. My kid has a lactose intolerance or a lactose allergy. Guys, it's the milk in general. Milk is made for animals that are going to grow, like cows, to 400 pounds or so in their first year. Your kids aren't doing that. Or maybe they are if they're drinking this kind of stuff. But congestion, you see. You see post-nasal drip. You see that mucus. You get that congestion in your lungs. It's coming from the dairy. You get skin eruptions. You might get eczema, irritable bowel, constipation. You know it. You get bound up. And it's funny. I got to laugh because I was just thinking of a movie. One of my favorite movies is Cat in the Hat with Mike Myers. And in one of the scenes, the kids ask him, hey, Cat, do you want some milk? He goes, no thanks. It gums up the works. It does it to us, too. So you don't want so much milk. And it will cause weight gain. One of the causes, too, is the fact that they use a lot of steroids. They use antibiotics. The cows get so many infections. And so you're getting in all those hormones. You're getting into steroids. You're getting into antibiotics with the amount of grains that you eat. I'm sorry, the amount of milk that you eat or drink. So guys, I hope this is good information for you. I hope you liked it. If so, please, you know what to do, right? Comment, like, share, and even more importantly, subscribe. So we can be able to give you more and more information. You'll get notifications. Turn on that little bell over there so that you can get notifications of whenever we put a video out. So guys, I hope you liked it. Let me know what your comments are. If there's any other topics you want me to do, let me know and I'll be more than happy to. This is Dr. Nick. Have a blessed day and take care.