10 Worst Foods For Your Health (Don’t Eat These!)

good day my friend it's Dr Anthony  balduzzi from the fit father project fit  mother project welcome to today's video  where we're going to cover the 10 worst  foods that are absolutely destroying  your health and your energy and these  are my 10 foods that I think are like  the landmines when you're out in the  world that you absolutely must avoid and  you probably know some of these foods  but what you're going to get in this  video is you're going to know why these  foods are so bad and the why is super  important because it can be tempting to  go for some chips or a donut or  something like that but you actually  have the understanding of how much these  things are wrecking your body it's going  to be a lot easier to not eat those  things but even better what I'm going to  do is show you some of my favorite  healthy alternatives for each of these  so that you can have a nutrition plan  you enjoy sticking to that still enjoys  snacks desserts and different kinds of  things it's just better options that's  we're going to cover in today's video  let's get into food number one worst  Food number one is chips yes chips I can  almost hear you groaning from here we  all love them many of us grew up on them  lays Ruffles my personal favorite salt  and vinegar chips but the problem is the  chips are literally the living  definition of empty calories it's taking  a low quality potato putting  inflammatory oils on it and deep frying  that thing and then covering it in Salt  there is basically no nutritional value  so many calories these things do not  keep you full and they're often chock  full of a bunch of preservatives and  other crap that's bad for your health  and in prep for this video I look this  up if you have three ounces of chips a  week that adds over 24  000 calories to your diet every single  year equivalent of around seven pounds  of added fat just from that so you got  to get chips out of your life and the  key to do that is actually go into your  pantry and throw those things out if you  have low quality chips in your pantry  get rid of them and you can replace them  with some healthier versions of chips so  here's one brand siete that I like and  there's some other brands you might find  in your local grocery store these chips  are typically made with better kinds of  flour not potato often almond or cost of  a flour and they use avocado oil which  is a much healthier oil so the next key  is make sure you actually eat a proper  serving so instead of just reaching your  hand into that endless black hole of a  bag and eating chips pour them into a  little bit of a container and then put  the bag away and then enjoy your chips a  little bit of salsa or something like  that and other things you can do that I  personally do with my family is we make  apple chips so slice some apples put  them in the dehydrator with a little  cinnamon and salt on them very good and  other people online have made zucchini  chips you can do the salt vinegar  zucchini chip style if you want to do  that you can put them in the oven at 200  degrees Fahrenheit for around three  hours with all any kind of season you  want very good let's move on to food  number two on this list  worst Food number two is non-organic  bread and I particularly want to pick on  non-organic bread and bring up bread  this early in the video because look it  is a straight fact you can eat bread and  still lose weight it just has to be the  right kind and the reason I can say this  with such confidence is our program  members inside fit father and fit mother  have lost hundreds of thousands of  pounds and the majority of them have  bread and sandwiches into their life but  they're eating organic sprouted bread  typically a bread like Ezekiel Bread  Dave's Killer sprouted bread is an  option or an organic sourdough these are  much better Breads and organic is the  key word because if you're eating  non-organic bread your bread is sprayed  with a pesticide called glyphosate which  is also known as Roundup and this  is toxic excuse my language but it's  just the truth it's all over our Foods  it wrecks your gut microbiome it's a  known carcinogen causes fertility issues  neurologic issues and it is everywhere  and I want to give you an action item  here there's actually a really cool  report called the detox project report  of 2022 I'll link that in the  description they actually went to  Boulder Colorado when they bought all  these different foods and then they lab  tested them for the amount of  glyphosates you can look at that report  if you want to learn more about foods  that are really high in these there are  certain brands from like Whole Foods for  example that was super high in  glyphosate but I want you to get a  healthier bread and if you do get a  healthy bread like my number one  recommendation is Ezekiel bread organic  flourless sprouted so good you can have  a sandwich it's 35 grams of  carbohydrates it's got protein and fiber  it has some nice protein in there you're  good to go and if you sprout your bread  most people can tolerate it better and  if you really are weed sensitive you  don't have to have bread at all but you  can also try an ancient wheat like iron  corn wheat which is one of the oldest  varieties of wheat that hasn't been  adulterated and stuff like that a lot of  people tolerate it really well if they  have any kind of gluten sensitivities  let's move on to food number three  worst Food number three is baked goods  like pastries Donuts strudels and stuff  like that and you're probably thinking  duh that stuff's obviously bad for me  but I want you to know why it's  particularly bad for you so a baked good  like this has the flour often not  organic adds in some kind of low quality  vegetable oil like vegetable shortening  with sugar so already not looking too  good but the problem with a lot of these  baked goods they actually add these  things to them called bromides and it  uses this element bromide to make these  bromides it's kind of like a thing that  makes it fluffier makes things  consistency is better that's why they  use it in these baked goods but the  problem is these bromides actually get  into your thyroid gland the gland in  your neck that controls all your  metabolism hormones and it binds to that  thyroid gland in the thyroid receptor  that normally needs iodine this key  nutrient we know we want for our Foods  iodine makes thyroid hormone bromide  blocks this whole process so you have a  more sluggish metabolism you can  experience fatigue if you're a woman  menstrual irregularities hair issues and  just not feeling good at all so baked  goods aren't so in this innocent and you  want to look on your labels potassium  bromate is one way these bromides hide  in there but there's also something  called brominated vegetable oil  BVO and this is found in a lot of soft  drinks Citrus drinks Gatorades powerades  Mountain Dew still has it fonta Citrus  things like this so bvos and bromide  stuff you do not want in your diet and  obviously for all the other reasons  these baked pastry goods are not good  and also because many times people eat  these for breakfast and breakfast is the  time of day you want to keep your carbs  lower and keep your Protein healthy fats  higher you don't want to dysregulate  your blood sugar super early in the  morning so get these things out of your  life and instead of pastries you could  do that Ezekiel Bread in on the with the  avocado toast kind of scenario you could  have an egg-based recipe for breakfast  you could just get some higher quality  stuff and make sure that you're  protecting your thyroid let's get into  food number four on this list  worst Food number four is pasta  specifically with some kind of  cream-based sauce like chicken alfredo  or pasta Alfredo and I want to bring  pasta in just because kind of like the  bread I want to defend it a little bit  people on our plans inside fit father  and fit mother tens of thousands of them  have pasta on a weekly basis and still  lose weight but they're getting  healthier pastas either on organic wheat  maybe they're doing a chickpea pasta  brown rice pasta but they're getting a  higher quality pasta and they're not  loading it with really high fat sauce so  even like a cup of chicken alfredo has  like 500 calories and like let's be  honest this stuff's so good you want to  eat like six cups of that and your  stomach hurts afterwards so if you're  gonna have pasta you absolutely want to  go with a low sugar marinara sauce  something like a red sauce you can you  want to look on the back of it and make  sure it has less than four grams of  sugar or no added sugars ideally organic  and this actually has a ton of health  benefits these crushed up tomatoes are  high in vitamin A they're high in this  nutrient called lycopene that's so so  good for our vision good for guys  prostates as Vitamin K and it tastes  really delicious so a pasta with a red  sauce or maybe drizzle with some olive  oil with a little salt now we're talking  that's something you can have and  incorporate into your diet but get the  cream sauces out anything that's really  cream based cheese based is going to  wreck your health long term get that out  still enjoy the kind of pasta with a red  or a lighter sauce let's get into our  next Food worst Food number five on our  list is fried fish and fried chicken and  really just fried foods in general but I  want to Zone in on those two what is  fried food well it's taking some kind of  meat oftentimes a lower quality protein  putting it typically in non-organic  wheat and then dipping it in low quality  oil at a high temperature and creating  all these trans fats and other BS and I  want to specifically show you some  research here and prep for this video I  looked up a study and it actually is  called fried fish and heart failure and  I want to read this to you right now  what they found is that eating five or  more servings of baked or broiled fish  how healthier preparation version per  week lowered the risk of heart failure  by 30 percent that's good this effect  was attributed primarily to the  consumption of the dark fish like the  salmon the sardines that have those  Omega-3s and in contrast they found the  eating fried fish one or more times a  week was associated with a 48 increased  risk of heart failure this top fried  foods is toxic for your cardiovascular  system it has all these kinds of  inflammatory fats that get into your  arteries and then your body lays down  plaque in response to the inflammation  and then over time if you keep on doing  this you get atherosclerosis you can  have a heart attack you can have a  stroke fried foods are not good now if  you have a cheat meal or a free meal  once in a blue moon and you have some  fried fish on Fridays that's what we  used to do when I lived in the east  coast okay but if this is a part of your  life you got to get it out and the cool  thing is you can still enjoy beautiful  fish or beautiful Chicken in other ways  just prep it better best preparation  methods in my opinion are check out  something like an air fryer grilling  baking or honestly try a sous-vide  sous-vide is like where you actually  package it in like the cooks in the  water in these little packages and the  cool thing about sous-vides you can cook  it at low temperature which makes it  even healthier for you whatever works  for your family get the fried foods out  prepare with just baked grilled and  broiled and if you ever go to a  restaurant that's going to be the best  thing to order find the protein that you  like bake grilled something like that or  the side of some veggies and you'll  always be able to find a healthy meal  wherever you go let's get into the next  food on this list  worst Food number six on our list is  highly processed meats and I'm talking  about hot dogs sausages deli meats if  there is one resounding thing that  nutritionists agree on it's that  processed meats are bad for you they  increase your risk of colon cancer which  is a major killer it's because they have  these things called nitrites and  nitrates in them that get into your  digestive tract and they irritate the  colon damage DNA and colon cancer will  completely change your life if not take  your life you do not want to mess with  that stuff but they're also not great  for your heart a lot of these low  Quality Meats honestly have like the  worst parts of the animal kind of like  put together plus they're often high in  a bunch of salt plus they're often high  in very low quality saturated fats so  it's just like a recipe for disaster so  instead of hot dogs that are low quality  just have some ground beef just have  some grass-fed steak get something  that's less processed instead of like a  sausage you may like turns out that  getting like an organic chicken sausage  is better the chicken and the white meat  is better than the dark beet when it  comes in the sauce sausage form in terms  of like those salami or hard cold cuts  and look I'm Italian from the East Coast  my grandma was a grocer my grandpa was a  grocer like Meats were part of our life  they're not anymore because quite  frankly eating something like turkey  breast or chicken breast is going to be  so much better for you even though  that's processed but if you can cook an  actual chicken breast and slice that  that's going to be the best option get  the low quality processed Meats out of  your life occasionally if you want to  have an all beef organic grass-fed hot  dog in the summer go for it but not on a  weekly basis it'll definitely hurt your  health let's get into the next food on  this list  worst Food number seven on our list is  french fries and like duh of course  these are not good for us but I want you  to 100 understand why and it's actually  very similar to The Reason Why chips are  not good we're taking a potato cooking  it with crappy oils on high heat and  it's super addictive but here's the  science when we actually take  carbohydrates like potatoes and cook  them on high heat with vegetable oils it  creates a compound called acrylamides it  sounds like it sounds like acrylic but  acrylamides these things are super toxic  they age you they increase the risk of  cancer and french fries are like the  best source of acrylamides if you want  to kill yourself eat french fries every  single day and here's the thing if  you're going to go out to fast food  eventually with your family maybe you're  into sports or doing some stuff and  you're on the go you need to eat some  food the cool thing about this is you  can still have that burger or whatever  on occasion from a fast food or get the  chicken sandwich even better just skip  the fries it's you can still enjoy  yourself but the fries are just terrible  and if you absolutely insist you're like  Dr a fries are my life I need them make  your own here's how you do it get some  sweet potatoes because they're actually  much better for you than white potatoes  on a lot of reasons more nutrients and  actually a completely different variety  of plant itself cut those things into  slices they can be like this they can be  like this however you like to do it a  little bit of olive oil a little bit of  salt maybe some cardamom or cinnamon if  you want a little punch that thing put  it in the oven and bake it until it's  crispy it can be around 30-40 minutes  you just made your own homemade fries so  much better not deep fried still gives a  lot of benefit and I'll still say this  if you're used to getting like the  Frozen pre-packaged fries from the  grocery store they're like already cut  those are not as good as you making them  on your own because they're still  lathered in some low quality oil so if  you can do it fresh fresh fruit is  almost always going to be healthier for  you so get the natural fries get the  french fries out of your life and let's  move on to the next food worst Food  number eight is eating too much Dairy  and in particular ice cream so let's  talk ice cream first because that one's  like a slam dunk ice cream is dairy  typically not organic mixed with a bunch  of sugar bunch of preservatives  flavorings candy stuff in there and  we're almost always eating it at night  at a time where we don't want to be  jacking up our blood sugar so that's a  problem and the way to fix that is to  understand that hey we like ice cream  it's so good to have something that's a  little comforting but there's such  better options what my family does is we  buy these low sugar coconut ice cream  bars from a brand called so delicious  they literally I think have zero or one  grams of sugar they have actually no  Dairy it's made from the coconut milk  and they have a nice chocolate outer  coating vanilla in the middle I give one  of these to my daughter and she crushes  that thing runs around the house eating  this So Delicious coconut bar she loves  it knows no different and I really like  them for when I need a treat and the  cool thing is if you go into the frozen  section your grocery store particularly  like a health and natural kind of  grocery store so many options these days  so go ahead and throw out the high sugar  crappy ice cream dreams buy a healthier  version and use it on occasion and now I  also want to talk about Dairy because I  lump dairy in here as well Dairy certain  kinds can have health benefits I'm  talking like Greek yogurt a fermented  yogurt with probiotics like kefir like  sheeps or a goat's cheese on occasion as  a little sprinkle on a salad but if  you're crushing Dairy on a high basis  chances are you're having some problems  a lot of people are allergic to the  proteins in Dairy up to 90 of the world  because a lot of black people and Asian  people including yours truly also is  allergic to the milk or we can't break  down the milk lactose intolerance but  either way Dairy is a food that's pretty  complex and cause a lot of problems it  can cause mucus production it actually  has a compound called beta casomorphin  that is a natural opioid that's when we  eat dairy we often feel good it's  because literally it's got natural  opioids that go into our central nervous  system and make us feel happy a little  doped up and addicted you can literally  be addicted to Dairy so I keep Dairy as  like a thing that happens occasionally  if I'm on a restaurant Dairy finds me if  I have a salad and I have a little bit  goat cheese fine if I put a little  parmesan on top of my pesto cool but I'm  not crushing Dairy on a big basis but if  you do feel good on Dairy you can get  those fermented dairies the Greek  yogurts the kefir have that in the  morning with some berries and of course  try those uh better quality desserts at  night it's gonna be a great snack for  you and your family you're going to save  a ton of calories and enjoy yourself in  the process let's get into the next food  worst Food number nine and I actually  like think about my hands at this point  nine where's food number nine is highly  processed plant-based Foods now I am a  big advocate of actually including more  plant-based things into your diet things  like a vegetarian chili maybe you make a  power bowl with some quinoa some avocado  some hemp seeds different kinds of beans  in there that's awesome stuff what's not  awesome is a lot of these fake foods  that are trying to be vegan buffalo  chicken vegan Teriyaki something another  and what they're typically doing is  either taking gluten protein or low  quality soy protein that's sprayed with  all sorts of different terrible  pesticides mixing that with vegetable  oil with a bunch of binders and fillers  with food coloring and putting in a  package for you and now I look there's  lots of reasons why people do eat  plant-based but if you're going to eat  plant-based you need to eat Whole Foods  plant-based not a lot of this crap and  now I'm gonna pick on Beyond burgers for  example these are the things that got a  lot of traction over the last few years  because of the plant-based documentaries  people want to eat more there's a lot of  crap in these you don't necessarily want  to be having a bunch of canola oil with  hydrolyzed pea protein with food  colorings in there so on occasion sure  but if you're gonna have Burgers  plant-based all the time get a high  quality organic black bean burger that's  probably going to be a lot better for  you and if you do want to have more  plant-based proteins what I and my  family do we make bomb vegetarian chili  get a bunch of black beans different  kinds of beans tomatoes spices throw all  that stuff in there it's delicious super  super good if you want to throw a little  shredded cheese on top it's a really  really good meal high protein without  needing meat I also make those power  bowls and if you're going to eat tofu  needs to be organic non-organic tofu is  sprayed with a different kind of  pesticide called atrazine that actually  interfaces the hormone receptors  disrupts hormones causes a lot of  problems you don't want that in your  body either just like the non-organic  wheat so better plant-based foods good  for your health let's move into the  final and potentially surprising food on  this list  we're here at number 10 the last worst  Food on our list and that's these fake  healthy high sugar fruit drinks you're  going to see these things are called  like green goddess or mango antioxidant  explosion all these different kinds of  drinks that look healthy and they say  tons of vitamins tons of this these  things are glorified sugar shots if you  look in the ingredients they always have  a bunch of these few fruit purees mango  puree orange juice apple puree and it's  loaded with like 30 40 grams of sugar  okay it has a little vitamin C you can  get that absolutely anywhere and the  fact is fruit can be okay in your diet  if you're eating whole fruit when you  eat whole fruit it's coming with the  water it's coming with the fiber it's  coming with those fresh vitamins and  minerals and it actually time releases  in your body and when fruits are fresh  they have tons of beneficial compounds  in them I'm actually going to do a new  video upcoming on some of my favorite  healthy foods to include for weight loss  and health and one of those for example  is blueberries eating blueberries  although it has some sugar it also has  fiber and vitamins actually increases  your genes that help you burn more fat  so fruit can be good but don't get these  fruit drinks get them out now here's an  exception if you're someone who likes to  juice and what this means is you have a  good juicer and you're making a solid  juice it's like apple carrots celery  Ginger kind of juice that has health  benefits but that's fresh juice from  good produce not something that's been  sitting in a can that's loaded up with  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