The 6 Foods You Should Never Eat

Mar 14, 2022

Dhru Purohit, a podcast host and health entrepreneur, dives into the hidden dangers of ultra-processed foods. He reveals alarming statistics about how these foods can drastically increase health risks. The conversation covers harmful ingredients like trans fats and high fructose corn syrup and critiques the U.S. food labeling system. Purohit also emphasizes the addictive nature of processed foods, advocating for more sustainable agricultural practices and the need for consumer awareness to make healthier choices.

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ANECDOTE

Grocery Store Challenge

Dr. Hyman's son couldn't find any junk food without trans fat in the grocery store.
This highlights how pervasive trans fats are, despite being deemed unsafe.

INSIGHT

Food Addiction

The food industry designs foods to be addictive, creating "heavy users."
They engineer the "bliss point" to hook consumers through taste and mouthfeel.

ANECDOTE

Milkshake Study

David Ludwig's milkshake study showed that high-sugar milkshakes triggered the brain's addiction center.
Rats chose sugar over cocaine, highlighting sugar's addictive nature.

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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.

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In this episode, we discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

Six foods to never eat (3:58 / 1:11)
Four foods to limit (13:05 / 10:20)
Common food products with ingredients to avoid (15:57 / 13:01)
The food industry’s role in harmful ingredients (20:21 / 17:20)
Why to avoid gums and emulsifiers (27:07 / 24:03)
Determining your personal processed-food consumption (31:49 / 28:24)
Questions from our community, including how processed foods impact the body, agricultural policies for processed foods, are vegetable oils really that bad, and more (34:05 / 30:57)

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