@healthspanedit: Your grocery cart may be slowly putting your health at risk. Neuroendocrinologist Dr. Robert Lustig says 73% of the items in an American grocery store are poisoned; because sugar is hidden in the foods, under 262 different names. The food industry uses all of them, because when they add it, you buy more. That sugar gives you a dopamine hit. Dopamine is addictive; that’s when you have a biochemical problem. The data: ultra-processed food has been associated with dementia, diabetes, cancer, and every mental-health disease. Association, not proof, but the pattern is consistent across large cohorts. His two label rules: • 1st, if a food has a label, it’s a warning label. • 2nd, if any food has a sugar in the first three ingredients, it’s dessert. The fix starts simple; build meals around vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, nuts, and minimally processed protein. And, read labels: added sugar, sodium, fiber tell the real story. Design your cart so the healthy choice becomes the automatic choice. 📌 Save this for your next grocery run. What takes up more space in your cart, whole foods or packaged? 👇 Eat like your future depends on it ➡️ follow @healthspanedit. Speaker: Robert Lustig, MD | 🎥 @The Diary Of A CEO

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