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Americans consume foods every day that are marketed as “healthy,” when they could be quietly destroying their health, one doctor warns.
Dr.Mark Hyman, physician and co-founder of Function Health in California, says that much ofAmerica’s daily dietis filled with unhealthy ingredients.
“The amount of refined starches and sugars that are everywhere is just staggering to me, given what we know about how harmful they are,�“I don’t think people really understand.”
Hyman, author of the new book “Food Fix Uncensored,” said he’s “astounded” by what people are eating, especiallyfor breakfast.
“People just eat sugar for breakfast,” he said.“They have muffins, they have bagels, they have croissants, they have sugar-sweetened coffees and teas.”
Dr.Mark Hyman is the author of the new book “Food Fix Uncensored.”(Function Health;Little, Brown Spark)
In addition to the traditionally sweet options for breakfast, some cereal brands and breakfast staples have adopted new “protein-packed” menu items and products, followinghealth trendsthat encourage eating more protein.
“Highly processed food is not food.”
“Now, we’re seeing this halo of protein in certain things,” Hyman said, mentioning that many protein smoothies are “full of sugar.”
protein and fatfor breakfast, adding that “if there’s a little carbohydrate in there, it’s fine.”
More products marketed as “high protein” have cropped up on supermarket shelves.(iStock)
For his own breakfast, Hyman said he has a protein shake with whey protein, avocado and frozen berries.Eggs and avocados are also a great protein-and-fat combo option, he added.
cycle of obesityand diabetes.One in three teenage kids now has type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes.That’s just criminal.”
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Instead of counting calories and being in a caloric deficit as a way tolose weightand stay healthy, Hyman instead suggests focusing on how certain foods make you feel and how they impact your health.
“When you look at the way in which different types of calories affect your biology, you can just choose what you’re eating, and then you don’t have to worry about how much,�
In addition to the traditionally sweet options for breakfast, some cereal brands and breakfast staples have adopted new “protein-packed” menu items and products.(iStock)
“For example, if youeat a dietthat doesn’t cause your insulin to spike — which is low in starch and sugar, higher in protein and fat — you won’t develop those swings in blood sugar, you won’t develop the spikes in insulin, you won’t deposit hungry fat … You will break that cycle.”
People are more likely to “self-regulate when they eat real food” instead of processed foods, which “bypasses the normal mechanisms of satiety, fullness and brain chemistry,” according to Hyman.
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“Ultraprocessed food and junk food or highly processed food is not food,” he said.“It doesn’t support the health and well-being of an organism.It doesn’t do that.It does the opposite.”
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