You might think you're eating reasonably well, but many common foods actually harbor three major health hazards: sugar, starch, and vegetable oil. Hong Kong people are busy every day, relying on packaged foods to fill their stomachs, but have you really looked into what you're eating?
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🔍 Scanning food ingredients reveals a shocking truth!
- Oat bars: 28% sugar, 15% vegetable oil, 41% starch
- Cheetos cheese sticks: 0% sugar, 35% vegetable oil, 52% starch
- Coca-Cola: Almost full sugar, and made with high fructose corn syrup.
- Lucky Charms cereal: 40% sugar, 40% starch
- Mayonnaise: 82% vegetable oil
- White bread: 57% starch, 4% vegetable oil, 6% sugar
📦 The true nature of processed foods: sugar + starch + vegetable oil
Most junk food consists of three ingredients:
- Sugar: Directly stimulates insulin, leading to obesity and diabetes.
- Starch: It is actually a series of sugars, and after processing, it is more toxic than sugar.
- Vegetable oils, especially industrial seed oils, are heavily oxidized and can become embedded in cell membranes, causing chronic inflammation.
These ingredients themselves have no taste, so manufacturers add artificial flavors, colors, preservatives, and MSG to make you want to eat more. Moreover, they contain almost no protein, so they won't make you feel full, but instead make you keep eating.
🎨 Packaging design: Colorful, misleading consumers into believing it's healthy.
What you're seeing isn't food, but market manipulation. Colorful packaging, cute characters, and health labels are all tools to entice you to buy. But truly nutritious food doesn't need packaging.
💀 Ultra-processed foods: Dead matter is not food
Real food should be able to sustain life, but ultra-processed foods have lost their natural nutrients, leaving only synthetic vitamins. For example, a lack of vitamin B3 can cause pellagra, so manufacturers are forced to add synthetic nutrients to prevent immediate harm.
🍬 Is starch more toxic than sugar?
Starch, being a chain-like structure of sugar, can cause blood sugar fluctuations more easily than sugar after being heated, ground, or chemically processed. Moreover, many starches contain hidden sugars that are not easily detected.
🧠 Will vegetable oils stay in your brain?
Industrial vegetable oils not only embed themselves in cell membranes but also enter organs and the brain, taking up to a year and a half to be eliminated. On average, each person consumes 70 pounds of vegetable oil and over 100 pounds of refined starch per year, accounting for more than 60% of the daily calories of teenagers.
🧩 The key question doctors overlook: What did you eat?
When you see a doctor, they will ask if you drink alcohol or smoke, but they won't ask how much sugar, starch, or vegetable oil you've consumed. These three things are far more harmful to the body than other factors, yet they are often overlooked.
📱 Free app: Helps you pick real food!
Download a simple and easy-to-use app , scan food barcodes, and instantly analyze the sugar, starch, and vegetable oil content, with recommendations for alternatives. No more memorizing ingredient lists; it's like having a nutritionist on your go to help you choose the right food.
🚫 Worst advice: Moderation is key? Wrong!
The idea that "moderation is key" is the most dangerous dietary advice. Some foods are more toxic than others, and not all can be consumed in "moderation." To be truly healthy, one must avoid the three major toxins: sugar, starch, and vegetable oil.
📆 Hong Kong people need to be discerning: stay away from processed foods and rediscover the value of real food!
Stop letting packaging fool you, stop eating "dead food" as your main meal. Knowing how to choose and avoid certain foods will help you stay away from chronic diseases and live a healthier life. Starting tonight, open your kitchen cabinets and take a clear look at what you're eating!
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YouTube source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F7e6p8EGtg
YouTube Column: Dr. Berg's Chinese Health Knowledge
