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hi guys in this video we’re going to

talk about how much sugar is really

needed by the body okay

sometimes when I ask people this they’ll

help say random thing with five grams a

day a gram this many milligrams so it’s

all over the board okay well here’s the

thing you should know and the answer is

zero grams you don’t need any sugar

there’s no such thing as an essential

sugar or even essential carbohydrate

there’s essential fatty acids there’s

essential amino acids which are protein

but there is no such thing as an

essential carbohydrate the reason why we

need carbohydrates is number one a lot

of the vegetables are fed to the

microbes to feed the microbes food

that’s what they live on is fiber not

necessarily grain fiber I mean I don’t

recommend that I recommend vegetable

fiber but also we get our in the carbs

especially the vegetable family we need

the vitamins and minerals and trace

minerals that’s why we need those foods

okay we don’t necessarily need the

glucose energy from those foods why

because we can run our bodies on fat

fuel if you’re eating sugar your body

will not burn your fat so we we can also

your body can also convert dietary fat

in dietary protein into glucose and

sugars okay but typically you’ve heard

of normal blood sugars right it’s like

oh 90 to 100 is normal right like what

that means that’s only really one

teaspoon of sugar in your entire body

that’s one teaspoon per all of the blood

in your body you have about a gallon and

a half of blood in your body and all you

need is one little tiny teaspoon this

doesn’t mean that has to come from

actual sugar you can get them from

eating you know a piece of protein so

the point is the amount of sugar you

need is zero but the average amount of

sugar that an average American consumes

every single year is a hundred and fifty

pounds of sugar 150 pounds in one’s

lifetime that comes out to a dumpster

full of sugar that’s 31 teaspoons at

day yeah when our requirement is zero so

when we consume so much sugar you’re

going to create problems with the

hormone that control sugar called

insulin okay now most of the diseases

out there right now six of the top 10

killers included our insulin related not

only do we have belly fat

we have Alzheimer’s that’s called type 3

diabetes and then we have actual

diabetes that’s coming from an insulin

problem then we have heart disease high

cholesterol clogged arteries all these

things even strokes that comes from high

levels of insulin so your brain goes

your heart goes your arteries go and

then you get this big belly

other than that you’re perfectly fine so

the point is you don’t need any sugar

but because we’re addicted you know we

need that sensation of sweet but there’s

so many things you can do to get off the

sweet and also you know alternatively

have like certain pleasure foods made

with xylitol or stevia or a wreath wrote

all those are the things that you want

to consume to transition off this okay

all right thanks for watching I’ll see

you later