The 6 Foods You Should NEVER EAT Again! | Mark Hyman

Eating ultra-processed foods—made primarily from wheat, corn, and soy—increases your death rate by 75 percent. How’s that for a sobering statistic! Unfortunately, American grocery-store shelves are monopolized by foods that contain ingredients that you should never eat, like partially hydrogenated oils, high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, and more. These foods have been scientifically proven to cause disease and death, so why do we still keep reaching for them?

In this episode of my Masterclass series, I am interviewed by my good friend and podcast host Dhru Purohit about foods that you should never eat again, foods to limit, and the food industry’s role in why these foods are so pervasive in our supermarkets.

Dhru Purohit is a podcast host, serial entrepreneur, and investor in the health and wellness industry. His podcast, The Dhru Purohit Podcast, is a top-50 global health podcast with over 30 million unique downloads. His interviews focus on the inner workings of the brain and the body and feature the brightest minds in wellness, medicine, and mindset.

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health and Vuori.



Mentioned in this episode:

[kctaz]

My Grandmother was a LPN. Way back in the 1940s and 50s, she was telling people to eat butter, not margarine, not to smoke, don't let doctors take out your kids' tonsils because they are there to fight infection and eat and drink real food, not processed food. This was at a time when doctors were smoking in ICUs, when docs were routinely removing kids' tonsils and cardiologists were telling everyone to eat margarine, not butter.
She was right about everything. It turns out, medical science was way behind her. Amazing woman.

[ManInTheBigHat]

Grandpa lived to 98 and worked until the last two weeks of his life. He grew most of his own vegetables and avoided sugar. Never drank.

[deepost]

My mother and ten of her siblings all started having heart attacks around age 50’s. Their diet included Crisco and Mazzola oil. I realized I was at high risk for heart disease due to heart trouble on both sides of my family. My decisions were to really attend to my diet. In my 80’s now, and there have been no coronary events. Granted is is a study of ONE, but to me, my decision use olive oil exclusively may have spared me hospitalization and early death.

[cscribby]

Avoid completely:
0:50 hydrogenated vegetable oils, such as Crisco
2:30 high-fructose corn syrup and other products high in fructose
5:30 additives of which some are toxic or come with toxic byproducts
6:30 ultra processed food
7:50 artificial sweeteners
8:55 pesticides

Limit:
9:35 flour
10:15 sugar
10:35 refined oils
11:05 GMO foods

[Sandy-bmqc]

Wouldn’t it be great if we had a mandatory class in nutrition and food ingredients in high school or college ?

[patiencefalters]

Just met Ethiopian native whose father & grandfather lived to 110 & 120 YEARS & they ate ONLY natural NEVER touched PROCESSED food. THIS IS SPOT ON.

[cathyvanley]

I started intermittent fasting, cut out sugar in a big way (am eating some now, limited) trying to stay away from breads. I’ve lost 30 lbs in 5 months. I’m 62 and feel so much better! Eat what God makes.

[Henry-fkcq]

I was in large ketosis. I ate ONE SLICE OF PIZZA. It knocked me out of ketosis for several days. DO NOT EAT RESTAURANT FOOD! Cook for yourself.

[eileenrose]

I am a 70 year old female. Three years ago I was prediabetic and morbidly obese. At that point I decided to remove all added sugar from my diet. I ate a balance of protein, good carbs and healthy fats and today I am down to a healthy weight and I lost 70 pounds. As a result of eating healthy I also started weight training in the gym and I’ve gone from someone who didn’t enjoy exercise to a lover of fitness! Obviously, my lab numbers have all gone down to a normal range and I’m feeling the very best I’ve ever felt. If it was possible for me, it is absolutely possible for others!! Btw, I loved this podcast. Thank you for speaking out!!

[phillipstraus]

One of the best decisions I made was growing my own vegetables and herbs in my hydroponic garden in my kitchen.

[kookoomike]

Schools in Korea make real food for students. Soup, banchan(side vegetable dishes), some protein and rice. Kids in Asia perform academically better globally and i believe food has a lot to do w it. Bc gut health= brain health= good emotional & cognitive development.

[Wayfaring-Gal]

I lost 120 lbs. in 1-1/2 years and never ate a single thing that was low-fat or fat-free! I stopped eating refined sugar completely and starches for the most part and did intermittent fasting. I have stage 4 COPD and wasn't able to exercise and still am very limited, but I married the love of my life at 70 years old : ) That all happened two years ago and I'm still amazed...PTL

[gm]

I'm going on 4 years of eating clean because of Mark Hyman. This dude saved my life. Thank You Mark. I love you Broski

[guitarrescue]

I owe you my life my friend. A million thank you. I lost my right leg due to diabetes 4 years ago. Today I visited my doctor he was amazed. My sugar levels never go above 7 even after meals. I have not taken any meds for about 3 months now. Before this I was just warn out, finished! Now I feel 35 again. (I'm 59) You sir are a Saint and an angle, thank you.

[margiecallahan]

I'm 70. As a kid my friends all ate margarine at home. We never did! We ate butter. My mother taught us well.

[lili]

I agree with you, yet I must tell you about my grandmother. She lived up to 105 years. Even though she had arthritis, she never stopped moving. Even as she sat down, she was sewing or crocheting. She mostly ate oatmeal for breakfast, non fat dry milk, and fresh fruits. Her lunch was heavy: rice and homemade beans, an animal protein, and a little desert. Her dinner was extremely light. She was incredible. Never ate anything from a can.

[JJ-kvlx]

Walmart has been fined on multiple occasions in multiple stores by the United States government for marking produce as organic, when in fact, it was NOT organic!

[truthnotfeelings]

Probably my two favourite doctors.

During my education I became very disillusioned with medicine, it seemed like we were treating symptoms not causes and serving big pharma.
Doctors like you give me hope that I will truly helping people. Thank you so much.

May God Almighty bless you both.

[debbiemartinez]

My grandmother was not a schooled student. She lived through the Great Depression in the 1930’s. She always made soups and meat with at least 3 vegetables. Also, she made fish. We ate corn tortillas and rolls. She had her own garden, and cooked vegetables from her garden. We ate spinach, cauliflower, asparagus, zucchini. She had orange, apricot, and walnut trees. She made Spanish rice and pasta in the soups. Any sweets where treats like once a week. We would buy sweets from the bakery. Everything was homemade. I was a child in the 1970’s and was taught to be grateful and appreciate the food I was eating. My grandma lived to be 87 years old.

[cyndijones]

My husband was a chef, so our kids didn't eat a lot of processed foods. Picture this, end of the first day of school, I start to ask the usual how was your day... My oldest son, "Mom, I think the school is trying to kill us. That lunch was not food". They never bought lunch at school again. If they forgot their lunch at home, they would refuse to eat. Bonus tip from hubby: want your kids to eat veggies? Blend them into sauces. Lol, they never knew they were eating tomatoes, squash, carrots, onions, etc. in their spaghetti!