Why Are We Doing This to Our Kids?

Why are we feeding our kids ultra-processed foods? In 1948, the childhood obesity rate was less than 1%, and food allergies, asthma, and autism were virtually non-existent. Discover the detrimental health consequences of the ultra-processed food diet in this video.

0:00 Introduction: Obesity, disease, and diet in 1948
3:46 Obesity in children
4:10 Ultra-processed foods
4:34 The problem with the ultra-processed food diet
6:07 Ultra-processed food calories today
6:29 Seed oils
7:00 Refined starches

When my father was a child in 1948, he recalls a different way of life. Sugary cereals like Fruit Loops, Captain Crunch, and Fruity Pebbles did not line the aisles of the grocery store. Children did not have mid-morning snacks at school and were told not to spoil their appetites by eating before dinner.

Saturated fats were not demonized as they are today. Lard and tallow were found in every kitchen, and red meat was a dietary staple. Most people had gardens and relied on the skill of canning to get them through the winter.

Obesity and chronic disease in childhood were uncommon, while childhood obesity, food allergies, asthma, and autism plague the children of today!

The largest category of ultra-processed foods are snack foods. The problem with snacking is that you spike insulin every time you eat. Carbohydrates create the most significant spike in insulin. Not only are we snacking, but we’re snacking on the worst foods!

The pancreas is constantly working to pump out insulin to remove sugar from the blood. This eventually leads to insulin resistance, which is behind almost every chronic illness, including a fatty liver, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, inflammatory diseases, mood disorders, dementia, and more.

In 1948, we did not have not have ultra-processed food calories. Today, 65% of the teenage diet comes from ultra-processed food calories. This number is around 50% for adults and 45% for toddlers.

Seed oils, such as soy, corn, cottonseed, and canola, are the worst ultra-processed food ingredients. Around 25% to 30% of all our calories come from seed oils.

Grain-based starches generate 220 billion dollars per year! Highly processed industrial starches such as modified food starch, modified cornstarch, and maltodextrin spike blood sugar—often higher than consuming sugar does!

Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio:
Dr. Berg, age 59, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media.

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Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients, so he can focus on educating people as a full-time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose, and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, prescription, or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.

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Thanks for watching! I hope this increases your awareness about the problems with our modern high-carbohydrate diet. I’ll see you in the next video.

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  1. @FatherH3lpus2 on January 25, 2025 at 12:05 pm

    It’s truly a blessing to still be able to speak with your elderly parent(s) ❤

    • @luckyguy600 on January 25, 2025 at 12:26 pm

      I wish I could, but eating bad food speeds up the process.

    • @beatricesiaw8776 on January 25, 2025 at 12:44 pm

      Lucky 😢

    • @mbank3832 on January 25, 2025 at 12:55 pm

      True that. They are lucky they can do so!

    • @lanagrahamntx on January 25, 2025 at 12:58 pm

      I live with the last one, my Mother, and I’m grateful to be her caregiver. I get to spend all of my time with her. She’s 81. Daddy will be gone a year on January 31st.

    • @BalancedBloodSugar on January 25, 2025 at 2:29 pm

      Absolutely! Being able to talk with our elderly parents is such a precious gift. Moments like these remind us to cherish every conversation and every word of wisdom they share. ❤

  2. @MsBuffalopoo on January 25, 2025 at 12:07 pm

    My Mom passed a couple of years ago at 95. She told me there was no such thing as a grocery store until she was about 20 years old. I was floored.

    • @BarBeeHoney on January 25, 2025 at 1:49 pm

      My dad was born in 1925 in southern Illinois, in the City. They had a market in their neighborhood. Markets were small, selling from local farmers. No such thing as a big groc store! But in the 1800’s there were General stores, people bartered a lot. Ie: The pig farmer & cattle farmer exchanged meats. Btw, my FIL from Oklahoma born in 1930 (95) is still alive, he was raised on a farm. He really wants to make it to 100.

    • @jimmcluhan2455 on January 25, 2025 at 3:06 pm

      You raise a good point. There was a butcher, a vegetable market, and a general store that sold dry goods, canned goods, eggs etc, and a hardware store.

    • @janepatty5682 on January 25, 2025 at 3:36 pm

      Yeah u grew or butchered most your food – esp if u lived rurally.

    • @belvajennings on January 25, 2025 at 3:55 pm

      Your mom and mine were the same age. She would tell me how, in the fifties, there were people who would bring carts to the neighborhood with fresh vegetables, baked goods, etc.

    • @GuitarsAndSynths on January 25, 2025 at 3:57 pm

      because of local small family farms!

  3. @mikegagnon1 on January 25, 2025 at 12:08 pm

    Omg the thumbnail says it all. We absolutely need to take drastic measures

    • @Talmurid on January 25, 2025 at 12:42 pm

      It’s AI generated…

    • @mikegagnon1 on January 25, 2025 at 12:50 pm

      @Talmurid  even if it is, the image depicts exactly the issue and is 100% relevant.

    • @SpamMouse on January 25, 2025 at 1:13 pm

      @@mikegagnon1 Agreed.

  4. @redmoondesignbeth9119 on January 25, 2025 at 12:08 pm

    I was a 50s baby. We were outside ALL the time. Playing games. Riding bikes. Climbing trees. I was always on the move as a kid. And now at 70 I am still on the move and in great health.

    • @luckyguy600 on January 25, 2025 at 12:25 pm

      Yup. We all had a kid with polio/ one chubby ( he was called Chubby as a nickname) stretch, and shorty.
      We as a group were pretty much interchangeable all over North America. I am a Canadian.
      Now. Everybody is at least chubby, with a heart issue.

    • @baldbuthandsome on January 25, 2025 at 12:30 pm

      Very true sport was the main reason I went to school, No TV till 1964, walked or biked every where, Totally different life, I was basing being a grandad on shows like Andy Grifiths, fishing camping etc. I can’t get a hello grandad more likely be told to shut up I’ve put them off their PC GAMES

    • @antoniodarosamartinez9372 on January 25, 2025 at 12:36 pm

      Same here 1954 ⛹🏄‍♂️🚣‍♀️ 🏊‍♀️. Those were the days my friends.🙋

    • @Sara_Rockafella on January 25, 2025 at 12:55 pm

      60s baby and was the same. My babies were 90s babies and were the same.
      We had 1 fat child at school back in the 70s. 1 out of 300 children!!

    • @Pilot.Lindsay on January 25, 2025 at 12:58 pm

      Same. I was Born 1954.

  5. @aliciamartinez853 on January 25, 2025 at 12:15 pm

    Our children are precious, why do we allow this? Also, what about the childhood vaccines? I believe it’s a very valid question to ask in conjunction with modern day diets.

    • @earthdog9552 on January 25, 2025 at 12:29 pm

      I’m surprised your comment got though! My Granddaughter had the biggest smile, until that C V… Metal detox and lots of work, especially on the water she drinks, got her better, but took years.

    • @lloydcollins6477 on January 25, 2025 at 12:34 pm

      Very sad

    • @GiGiC14 on January 25, 2025 at 1:09 pm

      🙌💯❤️

    • @Leslie537 on January 25, 2025 at 1:10 pm

      ​@@earthdog9552What kind of water? Thank you.

    • @ianstuart5660 on January 25, 2025 at 1:43 pm

      Extremely valid question, for sure. Don’t expect many honest answers, though!
      😢😢

  6. @mamanicks937 on January 25, 2025 at 12:15 pm

    I’m totally ashamed of what I picked up nowadays in supermarkets. Lord help me to make a change 🙏

    • @earthdog9552 on January 25, 2025 at 12:25 pm

      You shouldn’t feel ashamed! _They_ don’t exactly make it easy… Look at a Zero water filter, have a read ~ that is where I would start 🙏

    • @luckyguy600 on January 25, 2025 at 12:26 pm

      I have. Just look at the label.

    • @booswalia on January 25, 2025 at 12:38 pm

      Don’t wait until you get sick. Your journey starts with one step.

    • @cynthiaweber1646 on January 25, 2025 at 12:54 pm

      Don’t be. Start small, one change at a time. And knowledge is key. Good luck and good health to you.

    • @Tennessee968 on January 25, 2025 at 1:27 pm

      Works great​@@earthdog9552

  7. @selfloveisthekey on January 25, 2025 at 12:21 pm

    It’s soooo important to have older people with good brains and memory! They’re trying to rewrite history and act like all these things were always normal. They’ve been normalizing all this madness! Thanks for bringing light into the darkness of modern days, Dr. Snooks! 😁

    Wishing a blessed weekend to us all! 🙏💖

    • @ianstuart5660 on January 25, 2025 at 1:40 pm

      Very true, it’s anything but normal!
      😢😢

    • @BarBeeHoney on January 25, 2025 at 1:54 pm

      Well said!! I’ve caught them changing historical facts from the timeframe of me being alive & it disgusts me. It leads me to believe history we’ve been taught has been tainted. Your comment is very good. 👍

    • @selfloveisthekey on January 25, 2025 at 1:56 pm

      @@ianstuart5660 😕

    • @selfloveisthekey on January 25, 2025 at 1:58 pm

      @@BarBeeHoney Thanks! And I believe you’re 100% right. History is whatever story they force down our throats. And with all the dementia and autism they are bringing about through our tainted diets, the people who witnessed things and can tell us become fewer each year. ☹️

    • @pinkgummybear766 on January 25, 2025 at 4:22 pm

      My grandma is 96 and still very sharp So I get to hear so many cool stories from her ❤🥰🥰

  8. @EE-hi4re on January 25, 2025 at 12:24 pm

    This video with your dad is so wholesome! Please interview more wise individuals.

    • @istandinawe6319 on January 25, 2025 at 4:46 pm

      I loved it too. My favorite part ❤

  9. @JVfsail on January 25, 2025 at 12:45 pm

    Love this interview😊. I came here in 1961. We had a large veg garden and fruit trees and vines in the city. My folks brought 1/2 cow and froze it. They brought their manure home to fertilize our land. We played outside. We got kicked out of the house after our chores. Came back before dark. Made home made ice cream and corn bread.

    I still cook my food the way my family did. I still eat a well balanced meal. My children do the same.

    • @BarBeeHoney on January 25, 2025 at 1:45 pm

      Same!

  10. @laurelgailusher359 on January 25, 2025 at 12:55 pm

    Born in 1951, stayed active all my life., doing pretty good now. I walked back and forth to school twice a day. We started day in mass, giving thanks for all we had. We ate three meals a day with emphasis on fruit vegetables, eggs, meat. My parents had an area in cabinet with things like brewers yeast, black strap molasses, iodine, castor oil. We were given stewed prunes and apricots for constipation. Fresh oranges were such a heavenly delight. I got two if I was sick. Cod liver oily was forced down our throat, haha. I take it now. We played outside for hours and hours, I rode my bike all over my little town, once we had our dinner we rarely snacked. We did get sucked into convenience foods in the late 60’s. I studied nutrition in college, taught it all my life. My husband says it has paid off in the dividend of health.

    • @WhytePip on January 25, 2025 at 7:14 pm

      Taking time to say a few words of thanks before a meal is, in my opinion, vital to good health.

  11. @dueone820 on January 25, 2025 at 12:55 pm

    I am 31 years old and from Lithuania. I clearly remember the year 2000 when I was about 7 years old. I used to eat berries, apples from trees, drink raw milk, eggs and consume a lot of meat. When I came to the UK, I was shocked by how many people had disabilities, mental health problems, or obesity. Another shock was when I tried berries, apples, tomatoes, and other foods like meat; everything tasted fake, and I couldn’t understand what was wrong with the flavor..

    • @thehoteldeveloper on January 25, 2025 at 2:14 pm

      That’s wild. We live in a complete delusion here in the US. They truly have no idea why things are getting so bad. And good luck explaining it to them.

    • @BalancedBloodSugar on January 25, 2025 at 2:31 pm

      Thank you for sharing your experience! It’s fascinating how our upbringing and diet can shape our perceptions of food and health. It’s sad to hear how different and artificial things can taste in some places. Your story is a powerful reminder of the value of natural, unprocessed foods and how they contribute to our well-being. 🍎🌱

    • @mariuspirgariu5272 on January 25, 2025 at 3:09 pm

      same borned in romania, would drink milk sometimes directly from the source or most of the time boiled. Snacks would be fruits from trees or veggies from the garden, eat a lot of eggs from farm animals and the meat soo tasty.. came in italy and the meat or most of veggies-fruits taste of nothing mostly. i was allways asking myself why all the kids here have such bad teeth..

    • @СтефанСтоилов-р9т on January 25, 2025 at 6:05 pm

      @@mariuspirgariu5272 East europe wasnt poisoned till 1990 . Im Bulgarian , remember 1980 – 1990 , real food , real houses , btw today most bulding materials and most new houses are just poisonous . Not to mention food.

    • @progkast on January 25, 2025 at 6:18 pm

      And it´s ten times worse in the US.

  12. @rrrmmmm5059 on January 25, 2025 at 1:13 pm

    Hello 😊. I’m over 50. Almost every meal I ate growing up was prepared by my mother. Breakfast I ate oatmeal or cornflakes, lunch a sandwich and dinner was always meat with veggies and rice&bean or potato.
    No sodas, we had juice, water or tea.
    I was quite active, in marching bands, gymnastics and walking the streets in NY almost every Saturday for 4 years.
    I was lucky. Thanks for the video

    • @BarBeeHoney on January 25, 2025 at 1:43 pm

      We were all active back then bc there was nothing to do indoors. We grew up in such a great time. Sometimes I wish I could go back!

  13. @jerseyreddevil3139 on January 25, 2025 at 1:13 pm

    I remember as a kid my Mom stopping the use of butter, Bacon fat, lard and whole milk. She went to crisco and margarine and 2% milk. All due to government propaganda. She thought she was making a healthy choice for the family.

    • @ianstuart5660 on January 25, 2025 at 1:49 pm

      Most of the population did the same. You can now clearly see the results!
      😢😢

    • @thehoteldeveloper on January 25, 2025 at 2:16 pm

      I have a theory that’s what happened to my grand parents. Do you remember about what year she made that change? My mother doesn’t remember when my grandmother switched to that stuff.

    • @lavinianegru4303 on January 25, 2025 at 2:30 pm

      So true…they promoție only unhealty things

    • @Alex_Plante on January 25, 2025 at 2:33 pm

      Back in the 1970s, my grandmother switched to margarine, because it was supposed to be “healthier” than butter. I refused to eat the stuff, and still refuse to.

    • @thehoteldeveloper on January 25, 2025 at 2:46 pm

      @@Alex_Plante You were smart not to. Hate that stuff. Thanks for the info. I wasn’t sure if it came along earlier than the 70s.

  14. @HealthyDisrespectforAuthority on January 25, 2025 at 1:20 pm

    Cherish every moment with your father. My dad would have been 90 this year. We lost him 6 years ago… a couple of days after his doctor bullied him back on to the blood pressure meds that made him feel like crap.

  15. @janicemaxwell6542 on January 25, 2025 at 1:22 pm

    I took my children to a chiropractor in Butler NJ due to digestive issues in the 80s, his name was Dr Berg. At that time he said read the labels and not to give my children anything containing corn syrup which I did. He also said that GMO foods were going to cause a huge health crisis in this country.

    • @nobody123-b5r on January 25, 2025 at 3:30 pm

      Was it THE Dr berg?

    • @kakestuff4267 on January 25, 2025 at 3:56 pm

      Oh my goodness I grew up in Kinnelon NJ! Was it this Dr Berg?!?

    • @christinadavis5582 on January 25, 2025 at 5:02 pm

      Wow, he was a Smart Dr!! 👍🏼

    • @laureldevine on January 25, 2025 at 5:12 pm

      No way! I grew up in West Milford NJ, 5 minutes up Rt 23 from Butler! Was it OUR Dr. Berg???

    • @lindseykipp9175 on January 25, 2025 at 5:21 pm

      @@janicemaxwell6542 Haha I grew up in Kinnelon too. I shared a house with friends in Butler in 1981. I love small world moments!

  16. @pamelastorer8570 on January 25, 2025 at 1:53 pm

    I was a child in post war England during the 1950’s. The only cereal we had was oatmeal porridge made with FC milk; we have a one third pint full cream milk during the morning at school, provided by the Government. We had concentrated orange juice with cod liver oil until we were 6 yrs old, again supplied by the Gov. (My younger brother hated his and wouldn’t take it, so I took it, thus getting this supplement every day until I was 12. I think it’s a big reason I am so healthy today, in my seventies)
    We also had something called shredded wheat, which was made purely from old style wheat, dried and spun into fine strands. We had it with warm milk. We had a meal at lunch, meat and veges, and a smaller meal early in the evening. A meal at home might be one lamb chop, half a medium potato, a dessertspoon of other veg and that was that. My Father had two chops and a whole potato. When I got to secondary school, I took cheese sandwiches or marmite – an English concentrate made mainly from beef products – plus dinner plus a light meal early in the evening. We never snacked, never ate biscuits, never had what my parents called “rubbish” food. I never knew a kid to be sick, never heard of diabetes, obesity, autism. When I was 18 I became a hospital trained nurse, and was shown a child with autism, the senior medic telling me it was a very rare condition, and I would never see another one.
    The world I knew has changed in every way imaginable – and we had it better. We were brown from long days spent out in the sun exploring, climbing, running, playing, we were skinny, and fit. The most anyone got was the odd cold or summer tummy upset. Boht were gone in two days.
    We had it better, and that’s not seeing the past through rose coloured glasses – the facts support it.

    • @sorrykay3450 on January 25, 2025 at 6:02 pm

      Interesting. I’m 58, born mid-sixties in the UK. Lots of junk was already in the supermarkets.

      Marmite, I believe, is made from vegetable extracts. Aren’t you thinking of Bovril?

  17. @Inga464 on January 25, 2025 at 1:59 pm

    I was born in 1956. My parents were German immigrants. They had a huge garden and all kinds of fruit trees. They had a subscription to organic gardening magazine. Mom canned and froze everything. The only time we had sweets was around the holidays when mom would bake traditional German cookies and cakes. Our snacks were fruits. In grade school we had a carton of milk mid morning. There weren’t any fat children that I recall. We played outside most of the day on our swing set and just running around with the neighbor kids.

  18. @ronaldwhite9954 on January 25, 2025 at 2:17 pm

    I remember as a kid eating a piece of white bread in front of my grandmother. (This would of been probably early 1990s). She scolded me and told me all of that white bread would turn my stomach into a knot. With the current health crisis I am convinced prior generations knew what was appropriate food. Maybe they didn’t have the scientific understanding, but they knew what was good and what was bad. For reference, my grandmother was born in 1919. Only meat I ever saw her eat was ground beef and Thanksgiving day turkey. Otherwise, it was vegetables raised in her garden and she had her own flock of chickens for eggs. She bought a minimal amount of groceries from the store. I don’t recall her ever eating bread or cereals. She spent a lot of time outdoors tending her garden every year. She lived independently until she was 93 years old. Her mind stayed sharp, and she was never over weight.

  19. @kayheart1413 on January 25, 2025 at 2:39 pm

    Such a blessing to have a father in his 80’s.

    • @gojohngo106 on January 25, 2025 at 4:56 pm

      True. My dad passed four years ago at age 87. I was very blessed to have him as long as I did.

    • @josephgaviota on January 25, 2025 at 6:01 pm

      💯Agree with that!

  20. @quackersplatfarm on January 25, 2025 at 3:11 pm

    I’m an 80s born kid (played outside all the time, but raised on convienence foods) and my husband and I developed all sorts of chronic health problems in our 20’s. For the past 10 years we’ve been homesteading, so I grow a huge garden, can our food, raise our own meat, etc. We buy very little from the store. We are the healthiest we’ve ever been now. My kids are doing so much better too living this “old fashioned” lifestyle too.

    • @BrianPalmieri-k8u on January 25, 2025 at 4:32 pm

      60’s-70’s kid here we spent more time outside. Mom made food more from unprocessed sources we had a garden. My grandfather made his own wine. My dad would go out hunting, and fishing.
      Unfortunately as I went out on my own you tend to go with the flow. My weight has been up to 320 lbs and my health is crap.
      Recently I cut out most of the fat all of the sugar and a lot of the salt. No grains because of the GMO,s and glyphosate, no seed oils. No meat most of the protein I get is now from beans (no baked beans too much sugar and fat) my health has gotten better, and my weight is down to 156 lbs.

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