August 21, 2025 • 30 mins
On this week’s Good Day Health, Dr. Jack Stockwell—NUCCA Chiropractor and GAPS Practitioner—shares his holistic perspective on health and wellness. Dr. Jack reminds us that he’s not the forbidden doctor. The “forbidden doctor” is the most powerful healing force inside your own body—kept hidden by Big Pharma, who profits when people live chemically instead of naturally.
This episode focuses on one of America’s strongest addictions: sugar. From sodas and sports drinks to “healthy” juices and flavored coffees, sugar is everywhere—and it’s keeping us sick. Dr. Jack explains how sugar throws the body out of balance and why the only person who can bring it back into balance is you.
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This episode focuses on one of America’s strongest addictions: sugar. From sodas and sports drinks to “healthy” juices and flavored coffees, sugar is everywhere—and it’s keeping us sick. Dr. Jack explains how sugar throws the body out of balance and why the only person who can bring it back into balance is you.
You’ll learn:
- Why liquid sugars are the most dangerous form of sugar
- Simple strategies to strengthen your willpower against cravings
- How to spot hidden sugars on food labels
- Ways to make water fun and flavorful without sugar (think cucumber, lemon, ginger, or even watermelon with jalapeño)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Good Day Health podcast with doctor Jack Stockwell,
sponsored in part by Caldron, the safe, proven way to
lose weight and keep it off.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm doctor Jack Stockwell at Forbidden Doctor dot com. And
then once again I wanted to mention the moniker Forbidden Doctor.
I am not the Forbidden Doctor. What I refer to
as the Forbidden Doctor is not because there's something evil
or dark or hidden. It's because the Forbidden Doctor is
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the most powerful healing force that exists inside your body.
It's the ability of the body to heal itself. And
we call it forbidden simply because Big Pharma forbids you
to know about this. They do not want you to research.
They do not want you to look into the is
(00:51):
what can be done to trigger the healing forces inside
the human body. They rather you sign up to the
club for the rest of your life and live chemically
rather than naturally. And maybe I can get into that
a little bit during the program. But I've been asked
a lot about sugar again, and I don't have to
tell you that sugars are poison. You know that. And
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I don't have to tell you that sugar is a drug.
You know that. And by a drug. I mean it
has a drug like effect on the human body. So
I want to talk about how some suggestions here on
how to break probably and I think I think I'm
correct in saying it's the most powerful addiction in America,
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the addiction that we have to sugar, because sugar in
its refined condition, I mean like table sugar or liquid
sugars that you're going to get at your fame of
your favorite barista, or the sugars that are added to foods,
because when you read the label, it'll tell you added sugars.
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Because most foods, normally, if it's carbohydrate, it's going to
have some sugar in it anyway that Mother Nature put
in there. But a lot of times added sugars are
put in and you can see it on the label.
Added sugars. These things are extremely addictive, and that's why
our foods are loaded with them because we keep coming back.
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So in a world where you have this dangerous threat
to our health and happiness, I figure, and I've seen
this from other writers on the subject, nearly eighty percent
of the food that's offered to us by our local
grocery stores, where multitudes of shoppers are just misled by
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the seemingly supernatural marketing force, a world of confusion, a
world of addiction. Only one person, only one person in
your life, can possibly bring your body back to a
state of balance, and that is you, simply by recognizing
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that you've exceeded your limits and you desperately need to
take back control. And you've really already taken the first
step in fighting back against sugar because that's already triggering
in your mind. Yeah, doctor Jack, you're right, You're right.
My eating habits when it comes to sugar are simply
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out of control. So I've got three simple suggestions here
that could you know, perhaps supercharge your willpower. And the
first thing you do is, when I'm talking about added sugars,
you simply remove the liquid sugars from your life. Now,
I know I said simply for some people, it's not simple,
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but this means SODA's, soft drinks, energy drinks, sports drinks, syrup,
flavored coffees, sweet teas, liquid meal replacement shakes, flavored milk,
even fruit juices. Basically, almost anything that's pre bottled or
mixed up by your barista contains liquid sugars. And so
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I have a couple of actually a little more than
a couple go to refreshments that a lot of us
will turn to. And there's some rather sticky sweet facts
here in an eight ounce bottle of minute made orange juice.
And you know, an eight ounce bottle is not very big.
Twenty four grams of sugar are in a minute made
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eight ounce bottle of orange juice, and that goes for
other brands more or less. But it's about twenty four
grams of sugar. Now, how much is twenty four grams
of sugar if you were to go on a let's
say a keto type diet, where a keto diet is
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simply a diet that generates ketones, and ketones are an
energy form that your body creates that actually is more
powerful than any sweet stuff that we eat in the
sense of producing energy in the body. But when we
decrease our carbohydrate intake, and a carbohydrate is anything that
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did not have a face or come from a face. Now,
two bottles a minute made orange juice would be nearly
fifty grams of that sixty grams. In other words, there
is no room for an eight ounce bottle of orange
juice in a keto diet. Starbucks Grande, a grand caramel
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frappuccino three times as much, sixty four grams of sugar.
And remember, sugar is the number one food for cancer.
Cancer cells are so primitive they do not take in
the kind of nourishment that your regular cells do. They
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will only eat the most crude form of sugar. And
when we load our bodies up with sugar, you're feeding
the cancer cells. Now, Starbucks grand caramel frappuccino, sixty four
grams of sugar, And you think, well, I would I
would never have that. I'm just giving this as examples.
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A twenty ounce Gatorade thirst quencher thirty four grams of sugar.
How many times do you go into a you pull
up in front of a convenience store for gasoline? How
many times do you go into the store while your
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car is filling up with the gas, or you go
in afterwards a bathroom or whatever else. How many times
do you see somebody coming out with a big old
thermos of mountain dew? Are a some kind of a
slushy type of drink in these big insulated containers. You
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see this all the time. Just a twenty ounce bottle
of mountain dew has seventy seven grams of sugar an
eleven ounce can of Slim Fast chocolate shake that somebody
might be taking because they think it's going to, you know,
a meal replacement help them lose weight. Sixteen grams of
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sugar an eleven ounce can of slim Fast chocolate shake. Now,
what I'm trying to do here is to talk about
how to get rid of the liquid sugars. So simply
cutting out sugary drinks is a very powerful way to
get out from under the influence. The influence of this,
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I don't know what else to call it, but a
dose dependent drug drug, doctor Jack. Yeah, why because addictive?
And while you know that idea might be necessarily all
that popular, it's true refined sugar and the studies on
this are legion is very similar to drugs like nicotine
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and cocaine and its effect on the brain. In fact,
intermittent and excessive episodes of sugar intake, like drinking your
afternoon red Bull to get through till dinner time, have
been shown to be a major player in the drug
dependency on sugar that lots of people exhibit. And so
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you know, well, doctor Jack, what's successive, Well, considering that
the World Health Organization, among other major medical institutions, has
set the recommended limit for daily sugar consumption at twenty
five grams, and many of our sweet beverage choices exceed
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that in a single glass. Which to the second suggestion,
which is simply look at the label, as I've been saying,
and keep it low. Now, thankfully, the FDA requires that
sugar content be included on the labels of all your
your prepackaged foods and beverages, and you add up the
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grams of sugar that you're eating throughout the day, and
when you hit twenty five grams, stop, And so you know,
I'm often talking to my patients that too much of
anything is bad, even those things that are essential for us,
you know, like sunshine. Sunshine is a great example. You
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don't get enough, you have inadequate vitamin D levels. Too much,
you're going to sunburn. Now. I see twenty five grams
of sugar as a point where you begin sunburning the
insides of our bodies. And twenty five grams just isn't
that much. Now, I'm not talking about the rams of
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sugar that are in your normal dietary intake. I'm talking
about the added sugars. A slice of white bread that
you would be making peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and
I don't recommend that, or some kind of a sandwich,
or even toast in your breakfast meal. The standard size
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of a white bread one slice has about eighteen grams
of sugar. If you had two slices of toast in
the morning, you're already past those twenty five grams. Now
when I'm talking about here, primarily are the sugary drinks
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that we intake, reade the labels. You hit twenty five grams,
you stop. But we don't think about sugar like that.
The pain from too much sugar is not as obvious
as a sunburn, but a lot of healthcare professionals have
published peer reviewed reports that headache, fatigue, the inability to
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concentrate allergies are immediate effects brought on by too much sugar,
and long term effects include metabolic syndrome, obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular disease,
kidney disease, diabetes, and a whole host of other problems
and these And I have never taken care of a
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diabetes patient, and I have many diabetic patients that didn't
have a series of high sugar intake before the diagnosis,
and the only exception to that would be diabetes type
one that would show up in people that didn't necessarily
have a large sugar intake. So I'm talking about the
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ways to get this sugar out of our lives. We're
going to go to a break. I'll be back in
just a moment. I'm doctor Jack Stockwil I will be
right back after the break. Don't go away.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Doug Stefan here with Good Day Health. Doctor Jack stockwill
is on the air.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
When you examine those labels, that sugar might be hiding
behind one of sixty one and counting different names. Now,
I'm just going to give you a sample of a few.
I'm not going to take up time for the whole
sixty one, but you're going to see glucose solids date sugar,
cane sugar, caramel, corn syrup, honey, maltose, golden syrup, barbados sugar,
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castor sugar, coconut sugar, brown sugar, dextron, carab sugar, buttered syrup,
cane juice, a gave nectar, barley, malt syrup, beat sugar,
but the confectioners sugar grape sugar, mannose, coconut, palm sugar.
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They don't always have the name sugar in there, but
these are all the names, and in some products you'll
see two or three of these names for sugar in
the ingredient label at various levels of concentration, every one
of which is sugar. And if they were required to
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just call these things sugar without the other name, they
would always be the number one ingredient in many of
these products, especially breakfast cereals, and definitely in baby formula.
So keep your eyes on the prize, as one of
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my mentors taught me once, because frequent, frequent reminders about
just how destructive sugar can be, I think, can really help,
and we can just forget about how wrong something is
for us when we're bombarded with promises of a quick
treat or some moment of bliss when someone walks into
the office with a box of Sees chocolates. Hey, I'm
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a human being, I you know I am. Fortunately I
don't give in all to my temptations, all my temptations,
but occasionally, you know, I will imbibe obviously. Like I said,
I'm a human being. I love chocolate, I love specialty chocolates,
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missus C's chocolates, go dive of chocolates, and you know,
the same thing happens almost every time someone passes those
things around. I take one and I eat it, and oh,
my goodness, that's sweet, syrupy chocolate interior. And I'll tell
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you it's not. It's not. It's not two minutes before
I can feel the surge of insulin in my system.
And then I'm thinking, Ah, you know, why couldn't you
have passed that up? Because when I feel that surge
of insulin, I know that what I just ate is
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going to turn into fat. Insulin's number one job is
not to get sugar out of the blood stream into
the cells. Insulin's number one job is fat storage. Getting
the blood sugar to drop is its second job. And
anytime you have high insulin levels, whatever extra nutrition flowing
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through your bloodstream that is not needed for immediate energy consumption,
it's going to be converted to fat. Oh that's one
of the saddest stories of mankind. I've got more to
tell you about this, to finish up this thought, and
then I want to get into the five ways to
kick your soda have it. But we're going to go
to break. When we get back back, I want to
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wrap this up with a book. I highly recommend.
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Speaker 2 (17:15):
So I want to recommend a book. Now, there's a
good documentary out there that's called fed Up and another
one called That Sugar Film that might be worth your
time to take a look at it. But in my
own clinic, I have offered a book many many times,
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and it was written years ago by William Dufty duft
Y called Sugar Blues and which helps remind us about
sugar every week leading leading up to any kind of
a holiday celebration. But it's something that I that I
highly recommend as a good source. It even talks about
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some of the old Hollywood starlets and what made the
difference between some compared to others by getting right down
to their sugar intake or their sugar avoidance. A good
historical look at that Sugar Blues by William Dufty Dufty.
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You can get it at Amazon. Now there's an aspiration
that I like, and it's actually printed on a business
side card sized card stuck on the front of my refrigerator,
and it simply says this, every time you eat is
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an opportunity to nourish your body. Now, it's easy to
sometimes feel overwhelmed or even powerless when you're trying to
make some health decisions, But remember there is always the
next right thing to do. As I was giving that
example of taking chocolates, the next right thing is Jack,
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don't take another one. One was enough. There's always time
and opportunity to do the next right thing, even choosing
one of the talk of the steps I mentioned here
to get you off the sugar train and back on
the right back because the power, the power comes from
actually doing something, and I think reducing your sugar intake
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is one of the best things that you'll ever do
for your health. Now, five ways to kick the soda?
Have it? What's your favorite soda? You know? Is it
the Pepsi products? Is the Coca Cola products, It's Fanta?
Or I'll tell you what. I'm a sucker for root beer,
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especially homemade root beer. That is that next to ANW
I mean a W root beer. Oh my goodness, I
think I could drink a gallon of that without even trying.
In all honesty between you and me, I cannot remember
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the last time I had a sip of anw root beer,
because if I do, I'm off the I'm off the wagon.
It is still my favorite kind of soda, but these
days I'm drinking a lot more kombucha and carbonated flavor
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of fruit flavored carbonated water, especially something called spin drift
SPI n d r I f T. It's one word,
spin drift, Oh my goodness, And I can. I can
drink two or three cans of that a day because
I like the effervescent feeling of the carbonated water in
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my mouth and my throat. But it's sweetened with real
fruit juice that has almost no sugar content whatsoever because
of the dilution factor. Now, it's not enough for me
to grow up and in all my studies to know
that too much sugar is bad for me. I have
habits like anybody else, and it's very difficult for my
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own internal metal mental prodding to get me out of
a sugar rut now and then. But you know, I wasn't.
It wasn't enough to read about why I shouldn't guzzle
liquid sugar. I had to do something to curb my addiction.
Now I'm talking about oh maybe three decades ago, because
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I'm not sugar free now, but man, I consume a
lot less sugar now than I used to. And so
how did I change it? How did I get rid
of my sugary sweet so toa have it? Well, this
may seem a little simple, but this is really very
effective for a lot of my patients. You make drinking
water fun. Now that may sound a little silly, but
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you get yourself a high quality, decorated water bottle. And
there's three criteria in that I use in selecting mind
and I just got a new one from Standard Process.
It has to be easy to clean. This is a must,
or the habit it is going to take out more
time than it's worth. It had to be something that
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I wanted to show off, maybe Superman, Superwoman, some Marvel character. No,
I'm just proud of the big texts Standard Process on
the side of my water bottle. And it has to
just work. No weird parts, nothing that can crack or
leech into the water, nothing that's going to fall apart.
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And it has to fit fit the cup holder in
my car and just generally be hassle free, and the
combination of those things together reinforced my habits and efforts
to carry around or ready to drink water on a
regular basis. Because I didn't have to spend all day
cleaning it, and because I bought more than one, it
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was easy to incorporate filling my water bottle before I
left the house into my daily routine, which means I'd
always have at least one liter of water with me
wherever I went, and I could just refill my body
on the fly from any water fountain if you have
those that you want to avoid chlorinated water, of course,
but I would get some. It's sitting there on my
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consultation desk and my clinic, proudly displayed right there on
the corner where my patients can see it. Now, if
you're used to the flavory of sugary stuff, plain water,
I know can feel like a chore to drink. So
maybe you want to put in a splash of cranberry juice,
or some lime or lemon juice, or some sliced cucumbers,
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or a slice of ginger, or even a few muddled
raspberries mixed in there. It can do the trick. Now,
I want to take it slow. It's a very slow
transition from soda to a sparkling juice and then from
sparkling juice to flavored carbonated water. Now that San Pellogrino
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sparkling juice, to be precise, still too much sugar, even
though it's only twenty grams, but compared to the anw
ruper I was talking about forty five grams of sugar.
But when you're battling bad habits, going cold turkey usually
is not a winning strategy. So baby steps, which is
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what I talked to my parents, my parents, my patient's about.
And if you're lucky enough to live near a store
that has spin drift sparkling waters, they're they're flavored with fruit,
not artificial, and they only have two grams of sugar
per can, and they taste amazing. They're they're they're they're
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they're sweet enough to make you do a double take
at the nutritional information on the side. You think, wow,
that's gotta be a lot. No, it's not just two
grams of sugar, and it's an easy way to get
a large volume of sugar out of your daily intake.
Now they are are they expensive? Yeah, you know you're
not going to get your hands on them for a
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fifty for a buck. But medical issues from too much
sugar are expensive too, and you're just kicking you know,
that can down the road at fifty cents a pop,
so to speak. Another step to try to at place
with fast food is switching from fountain drinks to bottle,
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or at least from a medium or a large cup
down to a kid's portion. You know, they help you
to control your portions. In some cases for sit down restaurants,
you can always augment your soda with with iced tea
or lemon water, or hold yourself to the rule one
sip of soda followed by a sip of tea or
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water until you're not thirsty. Now, there's something out there
called soda stream. Some of you you might be familiar
with this one. I've got some patients who started doing
it and they claim it's tripled their water consumption almost overnight.
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And you have this canister of CO two and it's
hooked up to your water supply and it just fills
that the carbonation. And what they'll do is they'll put
in a few drops of lime juice or a muddled
strawberry or something like that. And it's just kind of
fun to make. Kids like it. Kids like the fizzy
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water to supplement their milk or whatever else at dinner time.
And half the reason because they get the help to
make it. I mean, you can see the carbon dioxide
being injected into the water bubbling up, and then the
water in the bubble bottles bottle bubbles as you drink it,
and so on. Now, what about lattes, because I asked
about that a lot. You just switch from a flavored
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latte to a flat white when you order your coffee.
You know, from a pumpkin spice latte to just a
flat white latte. A flat white is just unflavored micro
foamed milk with espresso poured through it, so it kind
of disperses for a smooth balance of espresso and foam
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and milk flavored lattes. And you see all the bottles
lined up there behind the counter in these baristas or
coffee places, and a lot of times you watch them
and they'll squirt, depending on the size of the drink,
anywhere from one up to four squirts of these flavored syrups.
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Now that's a ton of sugar, unless, of course, you
get the latte unflavored. I don't drink those because it's
you know, what difference does it make if you go
from one sugar source to another? Trying not to replace
my soda sugar with a latte, I don't know, maybe
the hardest battle I ever fought. But now that I've
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done it, you know, now that I've gone without it
for a while, it's very easy for me to notice
when something has too much sugar. Occasionally, when I'm at
lunch or dinner with some friends that order a soft drink,
doesn't matter what the soft drink is, And I say, occasionally,
I may do this two or three times a year,
just to remind myself. Can I have a sip of
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your drink? Do you mind if I just have a
sip of your coke or your pepsi or your root beer? Whatever? Oh? Yeah,
go ahead, ah. And I think I drank this on
a regular basis. The amount of sugar in one swallow
of the drink from their glass is so overpowering, and
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yet that's what I drank on a regular basis twenty
thirty four years ago in my life. Now, if you're
lucky enough to have a kobucha brewer in your neighborhood.
Your local restaurants might actually serve it. Kibucha is an
acquired taste but has flavors like grapefruit, apple, ginger, blueberries,
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spiced pear. But of course you can buy them in
the stores, but it's also very easy to make it home.
And although it does have a little sugar, it's typically
less than four to six grams per serving, and depending
on the juice that's used to feed the fermentation process,
most of that sugar just gets converted into lactic acid,
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which is great for your gut health. And one serving,
just one serving of kobucha is typically enough to satisfy
some latent soda craving you might have in the refrigerator
in our clinic. I think I have there's three, I can,
maybe more than that bottles of kombucha right now that
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are partially consumed, and every now and then I'll take
a drink out of one of them or so. But
a last word here. You know, if you forget to
order a kids size cup, just fill your cup up halfway.
It's been my pleasure to talk to you about these things.
You can get more information about what I'm talking about
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at Forbiddendoctor dot com. I'm doctor Jack Stockwell at forbiddendoctor
dot com.
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I'm doctor Jack Stockwell at Forbidden Doctor dot com. And
then once again I wanted to mention the moniker Forbidden Doctor.
I am not the Forbidden Doctor. What I refer to
as the Forbidden Doctor is not because there's something evil
or dark or hidden. It's because the Forbidden Doctor is
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the most powerful healing force that exists inside your body.
It's the ability of the body to heal itself. And
we call it forbidden simply because Big Pharma forbids you
to know about this. They do not want you to research.
They do not want you to look into the is
(00:51):
what can be done to trigger the healing forces inside
the human body. They rather you sign up to the
club for the rest of your life and live chemically
rather than naturally. And maybe I can get into that
a little bit during the program. But I've been asked
a lot about sugar again, and I don't have to
tell you that sugars are poison. You know that. And
(01:13):
I don't have to tell you that sugar is a drug.
You know that. And by a drug. I mean it
has a drug like effect on the human body. So
I want to talk about how some suggestions here on
how to break probably and I think I think I'm
correct in saying it's the most powerful addiction in America,
(01:35):
the addiction that we have to sugar, because sugar in
its refined condition, I mean like table sugar or liquid
sugars that you're going to get at your fame of
your favorite barista, or the sugars that are added to foods,
because when you read the label, it'll tell you added sugars.
(01:55):
Because most foods, normally, if it's carbohydrate, it's going to
have some sugar in it anyway that Mother Nature put
in there. But a lot of times added sugars are
put in and you can see it on the label.
Added sugars. These things are extremely addictive, and that's why
our foods are loaded with them because we keep coming back.
(02:15):
So in a world where you have this dangerous threat
to our health and happiness, I figure, and I've seen
this from other writers on the subject, nearly eighty percent
of the food that's offered to us by our local
grocery stores, where multitudes of shoppers are just misled by
(02:38):
the seemingly supernatural marketing force, a world of confusion, a
world of addiction. Only one person, only one person in
your life, can possibly bring your body back to a
state of balance, and that is you, simply by recognizing
(02:58):
that you've exceeded your limits and you desperately need to
take back control. And you've really already taken the first
step in fighting back against sugar because that's already triggering
in your mind. Yeah, doctor Jack, you're right, You're right.
My eating habits when it comes to sugar are simply
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out of control. So I've got three simple suggestions here
that could you know, perhaps supercharge your willpower. And the
first thing you do is, when I'm talking about added sugars,
you simply remove the liquid sugars from your life. Now,
I know I said simply for some people, it's not simple,
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but this means SODA's, soft drinks, energy drinks, sports drinks, syrup,
flavored coffees, sweet teas, liquid meal replacement shakes, flavored milk,
even fruit juices. Basically, almost anything that's pre bottled or
mixed up by your barista contains liquid sugars. And so
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I have a couple of actually a little more than
a couple go to refreshments that a lot of us
will turn to. And there's some rather sticky sweet facts
here in an eight ounce bottle of minute made orange juice.
And you know, an eight ounce bottle is not very big.
Twenty four grams of sugar are in a minute made
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eight ounce bottle of orange juice, and that goes for
other brands more or less. But it's about twenty four
grams of sugar. Now, how much is twenty four grams
of sugar if you were to go on a let's
say a keto type diet, where a keto diet is
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simply a diet that generates ketones, and ketones are an
energy form that your body creates that actually is more
powerful than any sweet stuff that we eat in the
sense of producing energy in the body. But when we
decrease our carbohydrate intake, and a carbohydrate is anything that
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did not have a face or come from a face. Now,
two bottles a minute made orange juice would be nearly
fifty grams of that sixty grams. In other words, there
is no room for an eight ounce bottle of orange
juice in a keto diet. Starbucks Grande, a grand caramel
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frappuccino three times as much, sixty four grams of sugar.
And remember, sugar is the number one food for cancer.
Cancer cells are so primitive they do not take in
the kind of nourishment that your regular cells do. They
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will only eat the most crude form of sugar. And
when we load our bodies up with sugar, you're feeding
the cancer cells. Now, Starbucks grand caramel frappuccino, sixty four
grams of sugar, And you think, well, I would I
would never have that. I'm just giving this as examples.
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A twenty ounce Gatorade thirst quencher thirty four grams of sugar.
How many times do you go into a you pull
up in front of a convenience store for gasoline? How
many times do you go into the store while your
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car is filling up with the gas, or you go
in afterwards a bathroom or whatever else. How many times
do you see somebody coming out with a big old
thermos of mountain dew? Are a some kind of a
slushy type of drink in these big insulated containers. You
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see this all the time. Just a twenty ounce bottle
of mountain dew has seventy seven grams of sugar an
eleven ounce can of Slim Fast chocolate shake that somebody
might be taking because they think it's going to, you know,
a meal replacement help them lose weight. Sixteen grams of
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sugar an eleven ounce can of slim Fast chocolate shake. Now,
what I'm trying to do here is to talk about
how to get rid of the liquid sugars. So simply
cutting out sugary drinks is a very powerful way to
get out from under the influence. The influence of this,
(07:52):
I don't know what else to call it, but a
dose dependent drug drug, doctor Jack. Yeah, why because addictive?
And while you know that idea might be necessarily all
that popular, it's true refined sugar and the studies on
this are legion is very similar to drugs like nicotine
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and cocaine and its effect on the brain. In fact,
intermittent and excessive episodes of sugar intake, like drinking your
afternoon red Bull to get through till dinner time, have
been shown to be a major player in the drug
dependency on sugar that lots of people exhibit. And so
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you know, well, doctor Jack, what's successive, Well, considering that
the World Health Organization, among other major medical institutions, has
set the recommended limit for daily sugar consumption at twenty
five grams, and many of our sweet beverage choices exceed
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that in a single glass. Which to the second suggestion,
which is simply look at the label, as I've been saying,
and keep it low. Now, thankfully, the FDA requires that
sugar content be included on the labels of all your
your prepackaged foods and beverages, and you add up the
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grams of sugar that you're eating throughout the day, and
when you hit twenty five grams, stop, And so you know,
I'm often talking to my patients that too much of
anything is bad, even those things that are essential for us,
you know, like sunshine. Sunshine is a great example. You
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don't get enough, you have inadequate vitamin D levels. Too much,
you're going to sunburn. Now. I see twenty five grams
of sugar as a point where you begin sunburning the
insides of our bodies. And twenty five grams just isn't
that much. Now, I'm not talking about the rams of
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sugar that are in your normal dietary intake. I'm talking
about the added sugars. A slice of white bread that
you would be making peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and
I don't recommend that, or some kind of a sandwich,
or even toast in your breakfast meal. The standard size
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of a white bread one slice has about eighteen grams
of sugar. If you had two slices of toast in
the morning, you're already past those twenty five grams. Now
when I'm talking about here, primarily are the sugary drinks
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that we intake, reade the labels. You hit twenty five grams,
you stop. But we don't think about sugar like that.
The pain from too much sugar is not as obvious
as a sunburn, but a lot of healthcare professionals have
published peer reviewed reports that headache, fatigue, the inability to
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concentrate allergies are immediate effects brought on by too much sugar,
and long term effects include metabolic syndrome, obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular disease,
kidney disease, diabetes, and a whole host of other problems
and these And I have never taken care of a
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diabetes patient, and I have many diabetic patients that didn't
have a series of high sugar intake before the diagnosis,
and the only exception to that would be diabetes type
one that would show up in people that didn't necessarily
have a large sugar intake. So I'm talking about the
(11:56):
ways to get this sugar out of our lives. We're
going to go to a break. I'll be back in
just a moment. I'm doctor Jack Stockwil I will be
right back after the break. Don't go away.
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Doug Stefan here with Good Day Health. Doctor Jack stockwill
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When you examine those labels, that sugar might be hiding
behind one of sixty one and counting different names. Now,
I'm just going to give you a sample of a few.
I'm not going to take up time for the whole
sixty one, but you're going to see glucose solids date sugar,
cane sugar, caramel, corn syrup, honey, maltose, golden syrup, barbados sugar,
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castor sugar, coconut sugar, brown sugar, dextron, carab sugar, buttered syrup,
cane juice, a gave nectar, barley, malt syrup, beat sugar,
but the confectioners sugar grape sugar, mannose, coconut, palm sugar.
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They don't always have the name sugar in there, but
these are all the names, and in some products you'll
see two or three of these names for sugar in
the ingredient label at various levels of concentration, every one
of which is sugar. And if they were required to
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just call these things sugar without the other name, they
would always be the number one ingredient in many of
these products, especially breakfast cereals, and definitely in baby formula.
So keep your eyes on the prize, as one of
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my mentors taught me once, because frequent, frequent reminders about
just how destructive sugar can be, I think, can really help,
and we can just forget about how wrong something is
for us when we're bombarded with promises of a quick
treat or some moment of bliss when someone walks into
the office with a box of Sees chocolates. Hey, I'm
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a human being, I you know I am. Fortunately I
don't give in all to my temptations, all my temptations,
but occasionally, you know, I will imbibe obviously. Like I said,
I'm a human being. I love chocolate, I love specialty chocolates,
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missus C's chocolates, go dive of chocolates, and you know,
the same thing happens almost every time someone passes those
things around. I take one and I eat it, and oh,
my goodness, that's sweet, syrupy chocolate interior. And I'll tell
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you it's not. It's not. It's not two minutes before
I can feel the surge of insulin in my system.
And then I'm thinking, Ah, you know, why couldn't you
have passed that up? Because when I feel that surge
of insulin, I know that what I just ate is
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going to turn into fat. Insulin's number one job is
not to get sugar out of the blood stream into
the cells. Insulin's number one job is fat storage. Getting
the blood sugar to drop is its second job. And
anytime you have high insulin levels, whatever extra nutrition flowing
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through your bloodstream that is not needed for immediate energy consumption,
it's going to be converted to fat. Oh that's one
of the saddest stories of mankind. I've got more to
tell you about this, to finish up this thought, and
then I want to get into the five ways to
kick your soda have it. But we're going to go
to break. When we get back back, I want to
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wrap this up with a book. I highly recommend.
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So I want to recommend a book. Now, there's a
good documentary out there that's called fed Up and another
one called That Sugar Film that might be worth your
time to take a look at it. But in my
own clinic, I have offered a book many many times,
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and it was written years ago by William Dufty duft
Y called Sugar Blues and which helps remind us about
sugar every week leading leading up to any kind of
a holiday celebration. But it's something that I that I
highly recommend as a good source. It even talks about
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some of the old Hollywood starlets and what made the
difference between some compared to others by getting right down
to their sugar intake or their sugar avoidance. A good
historical look at that Sugar Blues by William Dufty Dufty.
(18:22):
You can get it at Amazon. Now there's an aspiration
that I like, and it's actually printed on a business
side card sized card stuck on the front of my refrigerator,
and it simply says this, every time you eat is
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an opportunity to nourish your body. Now, it's easy to
sometimes feel overwhelmed or even powerless when you're trying to
make some health decisions, But remember there is always the
next right thing to do. As I was giving that
example of taking chocolates, the next right thing is Jack,
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don't take another one. One was enough. There's always time
and opportunity to do the next right thing, even choosing
one of the talk of the steps I mentioned here
to get you off the sugar train and back on
the right back because the power, the power comes from
actually doing something, and I think reducing your sugar intake
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is one of the best things that you'll ever do
for your health. Now, five ways to kick the soda?
Have it? What's your favorite soda? You know? Is it
the Pepsi products? Is the Coca Cola products, It's Fanta?
Or I'll tell you what. I'm a sucker for root beer,
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especially homemade root beer. That is that next to ANW
I mean a W root beer. Oh my goodness, I
think I could drink a gallon of that without even trying.
In all honesty between you and me, I cannot remember
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the last time I had a sip of anw root beer,
because if I do, I'm off the I'm off the wagon.
It is still my favorite kind of soda, but these
days I'm drinking a lot more kombucha and carbonated flavor
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of fruit flavored carbonated water, especially something called spin drift
SPI n d r I f T. It's one word,
spin drift, Oh my goodness, And I can. I can
drink two or three cans of that a day because
I like the effervescent feeling of the carbonated water in
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my mouth and my throat. But it's sweetened with real
fruit juice that has almost no sugar content whatsoever because
of the dilution factor. Now, it's not enough for me
to grow up and in all my studies to know
that too much sugar is bad for me. I have
habits like anybody else, and it's very difficult for my
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own internal metal mental prodding to get me out of
a sugar rut now and then. But you know, I wasn't.
It wasn't enough to read about why I shouldn't guzzle
liquid sugar. I had to do something to curb my addiction.
Now I'm talking about oh maybe three decades ago, because
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I'm not sugar free now, but man, I consume a
lot less sugar now than I used to. And so
how did I change it? How did I get rid
of my sugary sweet so toa have it? Well, this
may seem a little simple, but this is really very
effective for a lot of my patients. You make drinking
water fun. Now that may sound a little silly, but
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you get yourself a high quality, decorated water bottle. And
there's three criteria in that I use in selecting mind
and I just got a new one from Standard Process.
It has to be easy to clean. This is a must,
or the habit it is going to take out more
time than it's worth. It had to be something that
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I wanted to show off, maybe Superman, Superwoman, some Marvel character. No,
I'm just proud of the big texts Standard Process on
the side of my water bottle. And it has to
just work. No weird parts, nothing that can crack or
leech into the water, nothing that's going to fall apart.
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And it has to fit fit the cup holder in
my car and just generally be hassle free, and the
combination of those things together reinforced my habits and efforts
to carry around or ready to drink water on a
regular basis. Because I didn't have to spend all day
cleaning it, and because I bought more than one, it
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was easy to incorporate filling my water bottle before I
left the house into my daily routine, which means I'd
always have at least one liter of water with me
wherever I went, and I could just refill my body
on the fly from any water fountain if you have
those that you want to avoid chlorinated water, of course,
but I would get some. It's sitting there on my
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consultation desk and my clinic, proudly displayed right there on
the corner where my patients can see it. Now, if
you're used to the flavory of sugary stuff, plain water,
I know can feel like a chore to drink. So
maybe you want to put in a splash of cranberry juice,
or some lime or lemon juice, or some sliced cucumbers,
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or a slice of ginger, or even a few muddled
raspberries mixed in there. It can do the trick. Now,
I want to take it slow. It's a very slow
transition from soda to a sparkling juice and then from
sparkling juice to flavored carbonated water. Now that San Pellogrino
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sparkling juice, to be precise, still too much sugar, even
though it's only twenty grams, but compared to the anw
ruper I was talking about forty five grams of sugar.
But when you're battling bad habits, going cold turkey usually
is not a winning strategy. So baby steps, which is
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what I talked to my parents, my parents, my patient's about.
And if you're lucky enough to live near a store
that has spin drift sparkling waters, they're they're flavored with fruit,
not artificial, and they only have two grams of sugar
per can, and they taste amazing. They're they're they're they're
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they're sweet enough to make you do a double take
at the nutritional information on the side. You think, wow,
that's gotta be a lot. No, it's not just two
grams of sugar, and it's an easy way to get
a large volume of sugar out of your daily intake.
Now they are are they expensive? Yeah, you know you're
not going to get your hands on them for a
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fifty for a buck. But medical issues from too much
sugar are expensive too, and you're just kicking you know,
that can down the road at fifty cents a pop,
so to speak. Another step to try to at place
with fast food is switching from fountain drinks to bottle,
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or at least from a medium or a large cup
down to a kid's portion. You know, they help you
to control your portions. In some cases for sit down restaurants,
you can always augment your soda with with iced tea
or lemon water, or hold yourself to the rule one
sip of soda followed by a sip of tea or
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water until you're not thirsty. Now, there's something out there
called soda stream. Some of you you might be familiar
with this one. I've got some patients who started doing
it and they claim it's tripled their water consumption almost overnight.
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And you have this canister of CO two and it's
hooked up to your water supply and it just fills
that the carbonation. And what they'll do is they'll put
in a few drops of lime juice or a muddled
strawberry or something like that. And it's just kind of
fun to make. Kids like it. Kids like the fizzy
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water to supplement their milk or whatever else at dinner time.
And half the reason because they get the help to
make it. I mean, you can see the carbon dioxide
being injected into the water bubbling up, and then the
water in the bubble bottles bottle bubbles as you drink it,
and so on. Now, what about lattes, because I asked
about that a lot. You just switch from a flavored
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latte to a flat white when you order your coffee.
You know, from a pumpkin spice latte to just a
flat white latte. A flat white is just unflavored micro
foamed milk with espresso poured through it, so it kind
of disperses for a smooth balance of espresso and foam
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and milk flavored lattes. And you see all the bottles
lined up there behind the counter in these baristas or
coffee places, and a lot of times you watch them
and they'll squirt, depending on the size of the drink,
anywhere from one up to four squirts of these flavored syrups.
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Now that's a ton of sugar, unless, of course, you
get the latte unflavored. I don't drink those because it's
you know, what difference does it make if you go
from one sugar source to another? Trying not to replace
my soda sugar with a latte, I don't know, maybe
the hardest battle I ever fought. But now that I've
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done it, you know, now that I've gone without it
for a while, it's very easy for me to notice
when something has too much sugar. Occasionally, when I'm at
lunch or dinner with some friends that order a soft drink,
doesn't matter what the soft drink is, And I say, occasionally,
I may do this two or three times a year,
just to remind myself. Can I have a sip of
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your drink? Do you mind if I just have a
sip of your coke or your pepsi or your root beer? Whatever? Oh? Yeah,
go ahead, ah. And I think I drank this on
a regular basis. The amount of sugar in one swallow
of the drink from their glass is so overpowering, and
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yet that's what I drank on a regular basis twenty
thirty four years ago in my life. Now, if you're
lucky enough to have a kobucha brewer in your neighborhood.
Your local restaurants might actually serve it. Kibucha is an
acquired taste but has flavors like grapefruit, apple, ginger, blueberries,
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spiced pear. But of course you can buy them in
the stores, but it's also very easy to make it home.
And although it does have a little sugar, it's typically
less than four to six grams per serving, and depending
on the juice that's used to feed the fermentation process,
most of that sugar just gets converted into lactic acid,
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which is great for your gut health. And one serving,
just one serving of kobucha is typically enough to satisfy
some latent soda craving you might have in the refrigerator
in our clinic. I think I have there's three, I can,
maybe more than that bottles of kombucha right now that
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are partially consumed, and every now and then I'll take
a drink out of one of them or so. But
a last word here. You know, if you forget to
order a kids size cup, just fill your cup up halfway.
It's been my pleasure to talk to you about these things.
You can get more information about what I'm talking about
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at Forbiddendoctor dot com. I'm doctor Jack Stockwell at forbiddendoctor
dot com.
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Thanks for joining us. Doug Stephan here with good Day Health.
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This program was produced at Bobksound and Recording.
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Please visit bobksound dot com. It's the Good Day Health
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