The Top Foods You Should Never Eat According to a Renowned Physician

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In this video, Dr. William Li, a world-renowned physician and longevity expert, shares the top foods you should avoid to live a longer, healthier life. Learn how ultra-processed foods, sugary snacks, and processed meats can impact your longevity, and discover simple, healthy swaps to protect your health.

What You'll Learn:

- The harmful effects of ultra-processed foods on your gut microbiome, metabolism, and DNA.
- Why processed meats are linked to cancer and other chronic diseases-and the truth about "meat glue".
- The risks of sugary snacks like candy bars and healthier snack alternatives.
- How lifestyle choices, like reading food labels and avoiding harmful ingredients, can improve your health.

Key Topics Covered:
00:00 – Factors that Influence Longevity: Genetics, lifestyle, and diet
03:19 – Ultra-Processed Foods: Why they harm your health
07:33 – Chronic Diseases Linked to Processed Foods
17:21 – Processed Meats: What you need to know about their risks
25:07 – Sugary Snacks: Healthier swaps for candy bars
31:31 – Chips and Fried Snacks: Why you should limit them

Healthy Swaps and Solutions:
Dr. Li provides actionable tips for replacing harmful foods with nourishing, natural alternatives, like tinned seafood, tree nuts, and homemade snacks.

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[lindag]

Awesome! Adding chapters is a nice touch too!
I have been doing an anti-inflammatory eating plan for the past year and 8 months. It helps me minimize painful arthritis inflammation flare-ups and hopefully prevent new arthritis and also help slow down the progression of existing arthritis. Weight loss has been a great benefit too.
And I am trying to warn some other people about ultra processed foods. But I only mention this to people who are interested in making changes. Unfortunately the current Standard American Diet is fill of ultra processed stuff, and people don't know how to eat real food any longer.
I grew up with real food because my father grew our own vegetables and fruits, and my mother froze and canned them for the winter. Although we did eat bologna sandwiches on white bread for lunch.
So I have no excuse for eating lots of ultra processed junk as an adult, although I did that for decades.
Thanks so much for your videos and your Eat to Beat Disease book. Life changing information to me.

[terrenceishere]

Thank you for sharing Dr. Li watching from Singapore!

[maryannwheeler]

I have noticed a lot of tree nuts are roasted in seed oils. I look for nuts that are free of these oils.

[carolynsager]

Back in the "1960's" I was a little scrawny girl that would not eat. My Mom was very young and could not cook well yet. With having just the one child TV dinners were easier to make for me, they were new. My Mom her thing was The new potted meats. So tasty espectally when fried. It was pretty fun really, so many new foods were out.

[fatimamelicio]

Precious Informations. Gratitude Dr. Li🙏🏽

[michellejenkins]

14:40 Avoiding those things is pretty much almost the entire grocery store. I literally walk around it all because so much of what is “food” isn’t good. So I focus more on nutrients & gut health.

[mariatan]

Bulk tree nuts, dried fruits, slightly roasted, cool. Avoid convenience stores snacks ( pork skins, chips, etc) high sodium content n preservatives. Binge eating temptation, artificial flavoring. Clean roasted nuts, ok ! Summary of this podcast😢

[esthertanseahsk]

Happy New Year 2025, Dr Li. Thanks for another great learning lesson. :)

[CTXgirl]

I try to make my own food because I KNOW what’s in it. There’s just too many seed oils and preservatives and chemical garbage, such as RoundUp that’s sprayed on wheat in the fields. It’s been found in cereals, which I haven’t eaten in 7 years. Natural Flavored/Flavor is a very deceptive tactic in labeling on foods, because it can be anything BUT NATURAL.

[neilmcleod]

Aren't the cans such as those used for "tinned fish" lined with plastic? I wondering if the canned food I eat is contributing to microplastics in my body?

[KJSvitko]

Read the nutrition labels. You will stop eating processed foods.
The ingredients you can't identify are numerous.

[kimwatsonhillcountrygirl]

What about Kamut which they say is antinflamstory and freshly ground at home in reason of course

[gracedash]

Betty White lived to be 99 and her favorite meal was a hotdog & potato chips.

[albertnetoth-xnof]

I' ve always been concered about processed foods. Chips, candy?Never.❤

[jukijunk]

Hey Dr. Li, you have any advice on acne and skin health? I'm in my 30s, and still suffering from acne, particularly the type of acne that always forms pus and whiteheads.

[CC-cfzm]

Another lovely video! 
But Dr Li, the meat glue is mostly used to put pieces of fresh meat together to create a larger meat cut in the meat section of the store as well as some other chemical to make the meat look more red/pink.
I am plant-based for a loooong time now but grew up in another country and my granny used to make bologna, and other meat like products and she wasn't using anything except her chickens/pork, and spices and she was making the shapes round, she also make it in square shapes, etc., so I am saying that making ground meats in different types of shapes it is possible without meat glue, not saying corporations aren't doing this, but you said "where have you seen a square chicken"... It is a bit amusing that you mentioned the shape of those products but not where the actual problematic spots of meat glue is. 
People think they buy steak, etc. but that is actually a multi-piece of meat glued together to pass it as a nice piece of steak.



Meat glue, also known as transglutaminase, is used in protein-rich products like beef, poultry, seafood, and dairy. It's primarily used by chefs in restaurants to bind ingredients together or improve their texture.
Uses
Binding meat scraps: Meat producers can use transglutaminase to bind small pieces of meat together to create larger cuts.
Improving texture: Transglutaminase can improve the texture of cheese.
Binding bacon to meat: Transglutaminase can be used to bind bacon to meat.
Creating new dishes: Chefs can use transglutaminase to create new dishes, like shrimp noodles.

[suryanew]

Dr william many videos memtiom saturater fat in tedmeat is good Please explaik