Top 10 Foods That Can't Be Called HEALTHY ANYMORE!

Hello Health Champions! Today we're going to talk about 10 foods that used to be able to be called healthy that now may not have that privilege anymore. So the healthy have turned unhealthy. And one of those foods would be something like fruit pebbles where they have way too much sugar, a bunch of artificial colors, a bunch of processed grains. And this is no big surprise to most people. And neither is lucky charms, exact same scenario or fruit loops. So a lot of these foods are going to be cereals, but we'll talk about them and there is a whole bunch more foods. So most people are not surprised. We know that this is absolute garbage and it's a tragedy that we're putting this stuff in kids. So most people are going to say, well, it's about time, but it's not that simple because we are basically in for a food fight. And what's happening now is that the FDA is proposing some changes to the rules about how manufacturers are allowed to label food products. So a lot of things that have been able to be called healthy, that's going to change if the FDA gets their ideas through. Now let me preface this by saying that in general, I am not a fan of what the FDA or the USDA recommends. I do grant them that the guidelines they put out are slightly better than the standard American diet because the standard American diet is ultra processed. It has tons of bad fats and tons of processed sugars and added sugars. So the guidelines are slightly better in that they recommend a little bit less sugar, a little bit less fat and more whole foods, whole grain in this case, which I don't agree with because I don't think that people should eat grains as a staple. It should not be a foundation of any diet, especially not the modern wheat. But these guidelines are still slightly better than what people are eating. However, in the way that they recommend low fat and high grain with high glycemic indexes that drive blood sugar up and they still allow a significant amount of sugar, when people try to cut back on fats, they generally eat more of something else. And that other thing would be carbohydrates. And now we're promoting insulin resistance and degenerative disease. So again, I'm not a fan. The guidelines are slightly better than what people are eating. But I still think that they contribute or even cause disease ins susceptible people. Even so, I'm going to give the FDA some credit now that they finally they do something. And this is super, super exciting to me. It's a step in the right direction. It's a sign of some kind of awakening that they can't just put unlimited amounts of sugar in products and get away with calling them healthy. So as part of this new proposal, they are saying that in order for a food to be able to be called healthy, it has to provide certain nutrients, certain base groups. And one of the base groups is fruits and vegetables. Another one is that it has to have more than a certain amount of grains, especially whole grains. It has to have more than a certain amount of protein and it has to have more than a certain amount of dairy. So again, I don't agree with these, but this is what they're putting out that in order to be called healthy, they have to have more of one of these basic food groups that they consider a foundation. And of course, the dairy, they're recommending is low fat. But on the other hand, in order to be able to be called healthy, it also has to have less than a certain amount of sodium and less than a certain amount of saturated fat and also added sugar. So again, I don't agree with most of these because fruits and vegetables are not the same thing. Non-starchy vegetables, leafy greens, you can eat almost unlimited amounts as long as you're not sensitive to that particular food, but fruits should not be grouped together with vegetables. Fruits is more like candy. You eat it once in a while, you eat it sparingly, you eat it seasonally. It's not more is better. Vegetables, I agree. If you tolerate them well, more is typically better. But we can't group fruits and vegetables together like that. Also grains, I don't think should be part of our diet hardly at all. I think there's some ancient grains that some people can tolerate in moderation, but it should not be a staple of our diet, especially not the modern wheat and the modern strains of grains that they're promoting. I agree the protein is something that's a good foundation, especially if it's from a healthy animal. And dairy, I don't agree with the way they're promoting it because they're saying that the milk and the low fat milk are the things that you should promote and increase. Whereas I think you should increase the high fat, the butter and the cheese and the fermented foods like yogurt and sour cream because those are the ones that have much less sensitivity and they have a much better food value. I think that the sodium recommendations are completely misguided and I'm not going to get into depth because I've done several videos on that. But sodium does not cause disease. It can make a disease worse if you already have it in a small percent of people who don't have functioning kidneys. But if you are a healthy person, then sodium does not create any kind of problem. There's probably more people who are deficient in sodium as a result of the guidelines. Also saturated fat is not a problem unless maybe I would say it's a slight problem if you eat it together with a bunch of processed foods. So if you eat sugar and donuts and beer etc. Then you can't really burn through that saturated fat and the saturated fat would contribute to your metabolic disease. But it's not the saturated fat that's doing it. It's the insulin that is causing the body to hold on to things. And finally about the sugar, I completely agree that you should cut way way back and nothing with sugar in it should be able to be called healthy. However, I think that the guidelines are not nearly strict enough. I think you should eat way less, probably less than half or even less than a quarter than what the guidelines recommend about added sugar. And the other huge problem about the added sugar is that it's a separate item on the food label. So if something like orange juice has tons and tons of sugar where the sugar molecules are identical to the added sugar, then if it's naturally occurring in the orange before you squeeze it, then you don't have to label it as added sugar. So it's very deceptive. It gives people the idea that the sugar in orange juice is somehow very different from the sugar in table sugar, which it is not. But as a result of these new guidelines or proposed guidelines, things like frozen pizza cannot be called healthy anymore. It has too much sodium according to the guidelines. It has too much saturated fat. And it probably also doesn't have enough whole grain because it needs to provide something from one of those basic food groups. And if it's just all white flour, it doesn't count anymore. Same thing with TV dinners, a lot of frozen food, a huge, huge industry has typically more sugar, more sodium, and not enough whole grain. Again, if you make the noodles from white flour, then it doesn't count. But on the flip side of this, very interestingly, there's now some foods that used to be called unhealthy that we can now call healthy. So this is a wonderful step in the right direction. So we have salmon, avocado, olive oil, canola, and water. According to the previous guidelines from 30 years ago, we could not call these things healthy, but now we can. So salmon, obviously, especially if it's wild caught, is a fantastic food. Lots of omega-3s, lots of good protein, avocado. I don't think there's many question marks about any more. There's still some people, of course, with fat phobia that don't recognize what an awesome food it is. But if you watch this channel, and if you're low carb, or keto, you know how fantastic avocado is. I typically buy these two or three bags at a time, because we go through them so quickly. Olive oil can now be called healthy, and canola can. And of course, I am going to point out here the difference between the two that if you were able to find cold pressed unfiltered canola. It would not be the worst thing in the world. It wouldn't be the best either. It wouldn't even touch olive oil, or in my opinion butter, but it wouldn't be the worst. However, 99.99% of all the canola oil that you're going to buy and that you're going to find as a result of the recommendations that this is something good, is going to be very, very harshly processed. It's a seed oil. So the Omega-6 Omega-3 balance isn't terrible to start with, but whenever they process it with chemicals, with high heat, they filter it, they deodorize it, they degum it just like all other mass-produced oils, they ruin it, they make it rancid, they take away any sort of benefit that it might have, and it becomes a very, very bland and processed and bad food. So I would stay away from canola. If you really, really like it, and you can find it cold pressed and unfiltered, then sure go for it, but I would just suggest get the olive oil. And finally, water can now be called healthy. Before it didn't have enough nutrients, you couldn't make any sort of claim about it, but now, at least because it's not harmful, if it's clean water, whether it's still water or carbonated, you can now call that healthy. But as much as I'm in favor of anything that can help people eat more real food and less garbage, the proposed changes may not even pass, because it would mean that a whole bunch of foods, or packaged foods, so-called foods, could no longer be called healthy. And there's a lot of companies that depend on that for their financial gain. So as soon as the FDA announced these changes, very powerful interest started drafting letters of protests. And the Consumer Brand Association, which represents over 1700 major brands, they wrote a 54-page paper to the FDA, where they're saying that these proposed changes are overly restrictive. And here's the kicker, because if they go through, then that would automatically disqualified the vast majority of all packaged foods. So to me, that's like an admission. They know that all the stuff that they're producing is garbage, because as soon as you put any kind of restriction on these things, then they can't label it the way they want it. So what are we talking? We're talking 230,000 different products. And I found an article where they tested that number of products, and they defined 71% of them as ultra-processed. And there's probably more than 70% of them that would not pass the new guidelines. And just to give you kind of an idea, these products sell over a trillion dollars a year. So there could be a substantial loss of money for these companies if the guidelines went through. And those were not the only complaints. The Consumer Brand Association would just mention, but in addition to that, Kellogg's post and General Mills, which are the three biggest serial producers, and they don't just own Syrials, they own hundreds of different other products and brand names of packaged processed foods that would all stand to suffer and lose from this. And another one that's been published is called the Washington Legal Foundation. And this was really, really cute. Because this turns out they state very clearly that, hey guys, we don't have any vested interest. We are a non-profit. We're just doing this from the goodness of our hearts. So this is really a bunch of lawyers with spare time that have nothing better to do than in their free time out of the goodness of their heart. They just want to help the food industry. But also it's very clear that they're donors where they get the money to this non-profit. It's not disclosed anywhere. And it is also well known that this Washington Legal Foundation has represented the high fructose core Syripe industry previously. So it's basically a front for a lobbying organization. And what it all comes down to is that they're claiming that in the end, their argument is that it violates the First Amendment, which is the right to free speech. So basically what they're saying is that if they can't call it healthy just because it is actually unhealthy then that violates free speech. So basically they should have the right to be deceptive and even lie when it's clearly known and there is strong, strong evidence that their ingredients are harmful. They should still, in their opinion, be able to call it healthy. And they're not going to lay down willingly because there's so much at stake. I think that it's going to be quite a fight. And we've not seen the last of this because these powerful companies have pretty much promised lawsuits if the FDA tries to push this through. So the sugar is serious, that's pretty obvious. Most people get that. But like I said, it's going to affect hundreds of thousands of different foods. And some additional ones would be things like Campbell's tomato soup or most other tomato soup out there. I'm not just singling out them, but they're just a big brand. They have way too much sugar and way too much salt for those guidelines. Another one would be raisin brand that has way too much sugar. It does have some whole grain, so it would qualify from that standpoint. But here's another example of where the guidelines are kind of missing the point because they fail by the added sugar, but the sugar in the raisins that are naturally occurring is just as bad because raisins are just dried up grapes, and it's just a concentrated form of sugar. And that sugar is no different in chemical composition than the added sugar. And then even some things that people don't think of as having any sugar has actually too much. So corn flakes has too much added sugar and too much sodium, same thing with special K, too much sugar, too much sodium. And one more example would be yogurt, fruit yogurt, like yo-play, which of course they have promoted as very, very healthy people have thought about this as a health food because it has some bacteria in it. And of course, they've been doing it low fat, but they add so much sugar that it has as much sugar per unit volume as Coca-Cola. And that amount of sugar would more than outweigh and wipe out any sort of benefit that that smidgen of beneficial bacteria would have. So what's next in store here? Well, I think it's a giant leap forward for the FDA because at least they're taking steps. They're taking some initiative to move forward, but it's still a small step forward for mankind. So I would not hold your breath that this is going to dramatically transform the way we look at food in general. So first of all, we may be facing lawsuits. There may not be any changes at all. And if it does become some changes, then it may take a long, long time. But most of all, I would point out that the existing guidelines, the USDA and the FDA guidelines, I would say that they can't get 10% of it right. They do get that sugar is bad. They do get that vegetables are for the most part okay or good for you, but the rest of it, they're really missing the point. So if you really want to get healthy, then don't wait for these changes, but instead I would suggest that you take some steps to become a health champion. And that's what this channel is all about. It's teaching people how the body works, how to take charge. And rather than ever needing to read food labels, if you watch a few hundred videos, this channel has over 500 videos, then you'll start learning how the body works, what the body actually needs. And you don't have to read food labels. You could read it once just to get an idea, but then you know way, way more than the food label would ever tell you. And if you want to take even further steps toward health, I've created a blood work course, and I'll put some information down below if you want to check that out. If you enjoyed this video, you're going to love that one. And if you truly want to master health by understanding how the body really works, make sure you subscribe, hit that bell, and turn on all the notifications so you never miss a life saving video.