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What percentage of the items available today in grocery stores was not available 100 years ago when heart disease, cancer, obesity, autism, Alzheimer’s, fatty liver disease, etc., were rare?
Correct Answer: 80%. According to the Mintel’s Global New Product Database, the “new product introduction of consumer packaged goods” for 2016, food categories with the largest shares of overall new product introductions included beverages; snacks; bakery items; sauces, dressings, and condiments; and candy and gum. The average retail grocery location in the United States carries 38,900 different products.
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Foods can prompt our genes to express in healthy ways. Which one food has more peer-reviewed studies than any other food, indicating it has multiple positive epigenetic effects?
Correct Answer: Curcumin, the active ingredient in the spice turmeric, has more than 5,000 peer-reviewed studies showing its positive influence on many chronic diseases.
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The majority of our body composition is determined by what we eat, not by how we exercise.
Correct answer: True. Many studies have shown exercise will not trigger weight loss nearly as efficiently as changes in diet. When we look at our bodies, many experts say roughly 80% of what we see is determined by diet and 20% is determined by movement/exercise. Also, many Americans take prescription drugs – either prescribed or through the water supply – and these pharmaceuticals can cause weight gain.
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The amount of saturated fat in a hamburger from the average grocery store from “grain finished” cows is the same as what is in a hamburger that comes from 100% grass fed cows.
Correct Answer: False. Animals in stockyards are feed an unnatural diet of grains and corn to fatten them quickly. This gives them an unnaturally higher amount of saturated fat. Cows allowed to eat a natural diet of grasses have less saturated fat.
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Probiotics are good live bacteria and/or yeasts that naturally live in your body. Where do probiotics do most of their work?
Correct Answer: In the colon. The colon is inhabited by colonies of bacteria often referred to as probiotics and are part of a larger picture concerning bacteria and your body – your microbiome. They help digest food, make B vitamins, and keep bad bacteria from getting out of control and making you sick.
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Which is not part of the addictive combination found in processed food?
Correct answer: Pepper. According to many experts, the combination of ingredients which make processed foods addictive is salt, fat, sugar, MSG, and gluten. Dr. David Kessler, former head of the FDA, said food manufacturers have a goal of coming as close as possible to eating’s “bliss point, where the brain’s reward system is captured by this immensely complex, artificially designed food that is as powerful as a drug.” The addictive quality of processed food keeps us coming back for more, and eating big portions.
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Which is not an industrially refined seed oil with adulterated omega-6s?
Correct answer: Olive oil. (However, olive oil may be mixed or “cut” with industrially refined oils to increase profit margins or to make the taste more bland.) Olives are fruits. Corn, soy, canola, and cottonseed oils are seed oils that are often refined, bleached, and deodorized for long shelf life. Those chemical changes in their molecular structure make them unhealthy. Adulterated omega-6s are inflammatory. Also, they are a significant source of trans fats. Industry erroneously markets them as “heart healthy” vegetable oils.
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By 2013, 70% of the fats and oils consumed by Americans came from which source?
Correct answer: Soybeans. Soybean oil is found primarily in cooking oils, frying fats, and baked goods. The amount of soybean oil consumed in 2000 was more than 1,000 times higher than it was 100 years earlier in 1900. The majority of soybeans in the United States are now genetically modified. A better cooking fat would be the old-fashioned kind: butter, coconut oil, lard, tallow.
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Gluten-containing foods like wheat bread are different than other carbohydrates (except sugar) because as gluten breaks down in the digestive process, it:
Correct Answer: Induces a mild euphoria. This is what sets us up for repetitive eating of all things containing wheat. According to Dr. William Davis and other experts, the gluten protein impacts our central nervous system in ways that other carbs (except sugar) do not. This is also why so many autistic children cannot tolerate foods that contain gluten.
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If eating good fats does not make us fat, then what does?
Correct Answer: All of the above. Obesogens are man-made chemicals, a category of endocrine disruptors — chemicals that can interfere with your hormones and cause weight gain. They are found in plastics, food containers, toys, cookware, cosmetics, and some pharmaceutical drugs. A common example of an obesogens is Bisphenol-A, or BPA.
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Which macronutrient has the least impact on blood sugar?
Correct answer: Good fats. Fats raise our blood sugar level the least, then proteins. Starchy carbohydrates like bread raise our blood sugar the most.
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A 12-ounce can of soda has perhaps 10 spoonfuls of sugar in it. The body is designed to tolerate about how much sugar in the bloodstream at any moment?
Correct Answer: 1 spoonful. The human body contains approximately 5 liters of blood. A person is diagnosed as diabetic when fasting blood sugar is over 126 mg/dl. For this person, the amount of sugar in the bloodstream is about 1 ¼ teaspoons.
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