Why Are We Doing This to Our Kids?

Why are we feeding our kids ultra-processed foods? In 1948, the childhood obesity rate was less than 1%, and food allergies, asthma, and autism were virtually non-existent. Discover the detrimental health consequences of the ultra-processed food diet in this video.

today we’re going to call my dad and actually ask him some questions about what people ate in 1948 hey hi is Dad there yep he’s right here he’s ready great hi Dad hi so now everyone knows my uh my name you called me other than Dr Berg they all call me Snooks so great thanks for that how about oh no no anything but that some people are gonna probably say well why are you asking your 87-year-old dad about what they ate back in 1948 when people don’t realize you remember every single name of every single kid in your class in fifth grade question I have is uh did you see a lot of overweight people back in 1948 in your class were there a lot of obese kids in 48 no no not really at all was diabetes common children uh I only know one I had one friend that had diabetes uh um but other than that no what about like uh food allergies uh or Autism was that popular back then no no it wasn’t yeah when you walked to the grocery store and you looked for cereals did they have things like Froot Loops and Captain Crunch and Flintstone pebbles no no no uh they you’d have candy bars Baby Ruth I remember that you know the the original uh Baby Ruth and uh maybe Snickers MH but but that that was not a lot of bagged you know stuff like they have now was high fructose corn syrup popular in a lot of the candies and sodas not that I know didn’t you tell me that you mainly had oatmeal with milk that’s that was your cereal yes what about your teacher did the teacher remind all the kids to hurry up and take their midm morning snacks because it’s so important to snack no no absolutely not what about your mom did your mom ever tell you that don’t spoil your appetite by eating something before dinner that yes yeah yeah snacking was not a big thing back then was it no my snacks I would have maybe it would be a a piece of fruit an apple or something on that order wow what about the concern of saturated fats being bad back then was was that like a real big thing where you have to avoid saturated fats no not that I know that I had never heard of that at that age really didn’t your parents cook with lard and beef fat taow yes uh lard was the the main one I would think what about uh red meat was was that a a danger thing like people would say Don’t eat red meat because it’s gonna cause cancer no no how about um was there such a thing as uh at the grocery store did they have sweetened and flavored yogurts uh not that I know of they had they I think they had yogurt and my grandparents would make theirs didn’t most people have a garden back then yes and they did canning right that was a big thing for Wow preparing for the the foreseeable future everyone had a cell phone back then too right no no I don’t think he even had a TV wow well thanks for the interview dad I appreciate it and uh I’ll talk to you later okay good to talk to you back in 1948 you had literally less than 1% obesity with children now it’s off the charts it’s probably 25 30% if not more food allergies asthma autism non-existent now very common is it all the C-sections infant formulas or was it the introduction of fluoride in our water in 1945 when you go into the grocery store the largest area of junk food or alra processed food is under a category called snack foods problem with snacking in general is every time you eat anything you create a spike in insulin regardless of what the food is and of course if you’re eating carbohydrates you’re creating a larger Spike of insulin currently not only are we snacking but we’re snacking on the worst snacks you could possibly consume we’re getting a constant elevation of insulin through the entire day that insulin level doesn’t ever have a chance to come down to normal that Port pancreas has to constantly put out so much insulin to take all that Sugar from the blood and get it out of the blood insulin resistance is literally behind nearly every chronic illness from uh fatty liver high blood pressure diabetes obesity inflammatory diseases not to mention all the mood disorders and the dementia and The Chronic cognitive decline if you compare the grocery stores in America then you go to Europe like France or Italy a lot of people go to the food market on a regular basis they have raw cheese they have meats they have vegetables they have fruits and yes they do sell bread but it’s not the refined bread that you would get in the American Grocery Store the quality food in Europe is just way better than America icial bread right you have dough conditioner preservatives to increase shelf life even high fructose corn syrup they put that in the bread homemade bread flour water yeast salt in America we have restaurants in fact you don’t even have to drive to the restaurant they’ll deliver to you you have these kids that go to the fast food restaurants they superp siize it drinking these huge liquid candy made from corn corn sugar and high frose corn syrup these are all new ingredients and we’re doing this huge massive experiment back in 1948 we did not have Ultra processed food calories now a teenager consumes over 65% of all of their calories being ultr processed food calories an adult’s calories are over 50% and a toddler’s calories for Ultra processed food is 45% yes Sugar’s bad but I think there’s a bigger problem in the area of ultra process food calories that I want to share with you the number one alter processed food ingredient that makes the most money of all of them seed oils let right seed oils over $240 billion a year talking about corn oil soy oil cotton seed canola 25% up to 30% of all our calories are seed oils somehow seed oils have been made to be heart healthy this next ingredient is number two on the list and it generates 220 billion dollars a year grain based starches the highly processed industrial starch modified food starch modified corn starch it’s the molto dextrin it spikes your blood sugar sometimes a lot higher than actual sugar yet it’s not classified as a sugar you’re focused on gluten-free sugar-free what about the starches when you buy gluten-free products what do they replace it with rice starch tapioca starch maltodextrin like I said before it’s it’s just bizarre to me that you have heart healthy seed oils but you have something else that’s super interesting about whole grains right they’re perceived is being healthy you get this little seal of approval from the American Heart Association certified says it can help you lower your cholesterol and help your heart on top of everything our children are told 60% of their calories should be grains in the meantime our children are not getting healthier they’re getting sicker if you’re over the age of 50 or 60 or 70 please comment down below and tell me your experience of what you did back in 1948 or 1950 or or even before that