Zero Sugar Foods Have TONS of Sugar: WHAT???

Is hidden sugar hiding in your favorite “zero sugar” foods? Find out the truth about hidden sugar in this short video!

can’t eating sugar be part of a a balanced healthy diet if consumed in moderation I mean come on they actually help make healthy foods palatable Dr David Katz says that it’s a preferred fuel for your brain and he also mentioned that what’s the point of being healthy if you can’t really enjoy yourself and if we go to the sugar Association and you read on their page regarding cardiovascular disease it says this nutritional patterns may play a role in several of these risk factors however scientists have heavily debated and not fully settled whether there’s evidence for a specific role of carbohydrates or sugar in cardiovascular disease so this is a really common tactic that the tobacco companies use all you have to do is put doubt in people’s minds definitely doubt in the scientific research I mean we know that the American Heart Association gets major funding from big food and we know that the major dietetic associ the group that organizes uh events for dietitians get major funding to the magnitude of like 23 million so I have a question on average how much sugar do you think a person really consumes it’s 23 teaspoons of sugar 23 teaspoons of sugar is roughly around a half of a cup of sugar every single day it’s a lot but is that really all the sugar well there’s hidden sugars that I want to make you aware of that a lot of people don’t talk about and what do I mean hidden sugars well this food right here this has zero sugars this one has zero sugars this one has zero sugars zero sugars what about goldfish zero sugars so that’s interesting because that is a good comparison of uh junk food alter processed food calories but there’s really no sugar in those Foods so why are those so bad if you take the total carbohydrates and you minus the sugars and you minus the fiber you’re left with what a starch that’s this stuff right here and on the glycemic index this stuff is way way higher than actual sugar and when you’re talking about starch in these products you’re not talking about like a potato or rice or anything like that you’re talking about maltodextrin or modified food starch or modified corn starch so in other words starch has a bigger effect on your blood sugars than actual sugar if we take a look at the average person’s consumption of starch take a while guess how much sugar that really is if you guess 75 teaspoons you are correct that is roughly about a cup and a half of sugar every single day from the hidden sugars from starches now let me just give you another example I used to consume a much bigger bag of Doritos going through college and this right here has 11 serving sizes I’ll guarantee no one is going to consume one 11th of this bag Chez itss zero sugar but if you look at the hidden sugar of starches it’s about 30 teaspoons of sugar Pringles the this has like 60 tspoons of hidden sugar is starch about a cup and a half okay so there’s a lot of sugar and a lot of different foods but what’s so bad about the sugar I mean sugar is natural right well at least this sugar is natural well it might be from nature or it might be synthetic but there’s a big difference between actual sugar in the refined form and the sugar in a banana or fruit fruit or other Foods what is the difference well with refined sugar this is not just empty calories this is something without nutrients without antioxidants it’s very very different than actual fruit and what people do not realize is that when you try to consume that and use that as fuel it requires a tremendous amount of nutrition I’m talking about magnesium calcium zinc B vitamins and this is really unknown to a lot of people because the biochemistry of your body in your little factories called the mitochondria need nutrients to process that type of fuel and so if you’re chronically consuming that type of fuel there’s only one choice and that is to deplete your reserves to the point where you don’t have any nutrients anymore now there’s a backup engine that’s outside the mitochondria but the problem with that is it doesn’t produce a lot of energy it only produces like two units of energy called ATP versus in in the mitochondria you produce like 36 to 38 units of energy or ATP so now you’re running on an old clunky motor and everything starts going downhill because now you don’t also have the antioxidants to protect you against all the damage that has occurred in your cells so this is why we develop chronic diabetes Alzheimer’s inflammation skin problems so we’ve known this for a very long time and this is why if you look on the ingredients in some these Foods you’ll see that they’re all fortified with nutrients because they know if you’re deficient and even one nutrient you can get a major disease I mean just to make a point about that if you completely block one nutrient vitamin B3 you will die what the food manufacturing companies have done is enriched or sprayed some a couple synthetic vitamins and you might think that might be enough but it’s not even close spraying like seven synthetic vitamins from petroleum is not the same as consuming Whole Foods okay you’re not going to get the same nutrition from these junk Foods so this is what I recommend that you do okay number one stop eating sugar but you might not have considered also eliminating starches and I’m not concerned with you eliminating all the starches from vegetables I’m talking about the starches from this stuff right here because if you did that what’s going to happen is you’re going to start to reverse this whole disease cycle you’re going to start to lower the blood blood sugars you’re going to start to get rid of a fatty liver you’re going to start to cause the body to burn its own fat and that’s called ketosis because ketones are a much better fuel for the heart than glucose and all of a sudden your body organs start working better and better and better and your Cravings go away and your mood is elevated now if you haven’t seen my other video on sugar that had over 17 million views I put it up right here check it out