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Why Two Diet Sodas a Day May Raise Your Risk of Death by 25% | Dr. Oz | S11 | Ep 27 | Full Episode
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A diet soda health alert.
I have at least 25 cans a day.
It may save us some calories.
I've only drank my diet soda.
But is it slowly killing us?
New insurance says that just two glasses of diet sodas may increase your rift to death by 25%.
Pretty scary.
Plus, Rachel Ray serves up some Oz-approved homemade meals.
This is the food of your people.
Coming up next.
Are you ready for season 11?
Today, a new health alert about, listen carefully, diet sodas.
Y'all love them, right?
You think they're making you healthier.
In fact, you think they're a healthy choice?
That's why you drink them.
But new research says that just two glasses of diet sodas, right, may increase your risk of death by 25%.
And we're investigating what you need to know before you crack open your next can of diet soda.
Is it really that bad for you?
And is there a healthy amount that you can actually drink?
And I know a lot of you love this stuff, right?
And so we uncovered a lot of these diet soda confessions.
Take a look.
Dr. Oz, I have a serious confession to make.
I am obsessed with diet soda.
I wake up in the morning and the first thing I do is crack open a can of diet soda.
I drink probably five diet sodas before 3 p.m.
I have at least 25 cans a day.
I cut out all my other sugary drinks and all my other juices and I only drink my diet soda.
It's zero calories, zero sugar, so I like to think that it allows me to eat cake and jelly beans and the things that my sweet tooth demands.
I call it diet soda math.
I still eat my burgers and my french fries, but the diet soda saves me the extra calories.
Diet soda.
Oh, what a sound.
Oh, it's bubbling over.
It's so good.
I really do love you guys.
I mean, you're honest.
You're telling the truth.
They're here to break down the latest as former diet soda lover.
Maybe even addict, Dr. Michael Roizen, who's also the chief wellness officer at the Cleveland Clinic.
Now Mike used to drink 30 diet sodas a day, maybe a little more, right?
But he gave it up.
A little more.
Yeah, a little more.
10 years ago he gave it up, why?
Well, up till 2010, there was pretty weak data that it wasn't okay.
And what's not to love?
Great taste, no calories.
Now, I used to get a pallet delivered, literally seven high, four cases every month to my home, and when I would go to your home and I stayed with him, I would have to smuggle a six pack in, because Lisa, his wife, didn't tolerate it very much.
So then in 2010, the data was accumulating.
It wasn't all that good.
And you did an intervention on me.
I can tell you the exact time.
4.20 p.m.
September 4th, 2010 was my last diet soda.
And that's because the data were there.
You know what?
We've turned it on.
My kids found the diet soda in the fridge, and we've never had soda in the fridge.
So they were the ones who came and complained.
They said, well, if Dr. Roizen can drink it, why can't we drink it?
And that prompted me to say, it's true, if we're all not paying attention, then no one's gonna do it.
So a lot of folks think they're making the right decision.
And we did a little survey here, right?
We were asking you this question.
You think, okay, it's zero calories, no sugar, what's the problem?
One third of you here, and I suspect at home, are drinking more than two cans of diet soda a day.
Now remember that statistic.
One third of all you drinking two cans of diet soda a day.
What is the new research, just breaking news, say about that specific population, two cans a day?
So they followed 450,000 people in 10 different European countries for 16 years.
So this is a real long study.
A lot of folks.
And they excluded people who had pre-existing condition, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, so they wouldn't be prejudiced.
And what they found was just two sodas a day increased your risk of heart disease and increased your risk of dying from all causes by 25%.
So, really big number.
And there are other risk factors besides, I mean obviously dying is a big problem, but they also had other things they discovered.
Right, so they had increased stroke, increased blood pressure, a whole bunch of other problems.
Diabetes and obesity they developed.
So the question is, there must be something in this soda that's causing this.
Or maybe not.
Maybe there's some other factor unrelated to it, right?
We don't know.
So let me bring in nutritionist J.J. Smith, who's going to wait out for us, deconstruct, deconstruct the diet sodas for us.
Walk us through it.
Okay, as you can see, even though there's zero calories, look at all this!
There's so many other things that are going into a diet soda to make it taste and look like the regular kind.
Now, the carbonated water, I'm 100% okay with.
But then they have dyes and colorings, particularly caramel color.
Now, studies show that in animals, they increase inflammation.
And even though the studies don't show this for humans yet, this is something that we want to be aware of and be very concerned about.
Alright, so we don't want inflammation and that comes as a side effect of this.
You actually have a concern with the artificial sweeteners.
Right.
The aspartame or other artificial sweeteners change the bacteria in your gut so that you will absorb more of the calories that is in your food.
It's the bacteria in our gut?
It's the bacteria in our gut.
Now the second problem is, so that's one problem, the second is you get an intense sweetness.
I love that sweetness, right?
You get an intense sweetness, but your brain doesn't get satisfied, doesn't get any sugar up there.
So you then say, I want something more, and that's where you go to other sweet foods that increase your risk of diabetes and obesity.
Let me show everyone what we're talking about with this.
So we made a little model here of you, the average consumer of two cans a day, right?
And normally when you consume sugar, right?
A regular soda, for example, your brain knows what you've done, right?
That it's had enough sweets, so you shut down the cravings to the chocolates, the donuts, the other things that are sweet.
But when you eat or drink foods with artificial sweeteners, right, you put them in your mouth, those signals, those natural signals are blocked.
The artificial sweetener doesn't tell you, hey, don't eat the donuts, the candies, the chocolates, right?
Your tongue tastes the sweetness, but your brain knows better, right?
It doesn't get the same sensation.
It does with real sugar.
So it sends you looking high and low for more sweets, which will take your weight high and low, right?
So we reached out to the calorie council.
It's called the Calorie Control Council for a statement on the way artificial sweeteners may affect the body did not get back to us in time for this taping.
So JJ, you say that craving sweets It's part of a problem, because it creates a, as you say, fuzzy math around diet sodas.
Definitely fuzzy math.
So a lot of people, when they, I think they assume that because I'm drinking a diet soda, I can really have something unhealthy.
So what happens is, I say I had a diet soda, and so I can have the french fries.
Right?
So we have the french fries.
Right?
And then we say, okay, a lot of times because that sweetness is not satisfied, you still want something sweet, you say, because I had a diet soda, I can have some brownies.
Add a little something extra to the mix.
Why not?
Yeah.
But this math doesn't work.
You really should throw these away.
Right.
Because what's happening is a lot of people are drinking diet sodas because they want to cut calories and they really want to lose weight.
But this, you can see the fuzzy math doesn't work for losing weight.
All right, so we just went through, I thought what you want to know, but I know what a lot of you are actually thinking, right?
You're thinking, is it better to go back to drinking regular soda?
I know, I know how it goes, so up next, should you do that, is there a healthy amount of diet soda you can drink, and is there a healthier soda alternative that I approve of?
But for all that, stay with us.
Your home is your castle.
But what if your neighbor wants to burn it down?
Get up on my property!
An Oz Investigation.
Neighbors from Hell.
He began to vandalize my home.
All caught on tape.
We're gonna live here until you die.
They're pointing a gun at your door.
He wanted very much to terrorize me.
They want to provoke you.
All new Oz.
That's coming up tomorrow.
We're back at Best Game, a new health alert on diet sodas.
And the big question is, everyone is wondering, is there a healthy amount of diet soda that you can drink?
What's the best, healthy soda alternative that even I approve of?
So we've got some diet soda lovers here.
We just talked about how two glasses of diet soda has been associated with a 25% higher risk of death.
So has this changed your thoughts, your opinion about your diet soda habit?
Well, Dr. Oz, I mean, I wanna trust you and believe you.
My head is spinning like the carbonation in the soda.
I'm open, I'm open.
You're open to changing.
Next time you reach for one of your diet sodas, what's gonna go through your mind?
Your sign that says death.
But basically, I'm a chemist.
I've been at these facilities that make the diet sodas.
And it was shocking.
It was for me to see that sign today.
So I really appreciate this because I am trying to quit.
So I'm gonna examine a couple questions that a lot of you probably have right now.
I'm gonna ask you two ladies to run over to my tasting table.
I'm gonna give you some alternatives to think out.
But in the meantime, Dr. Michael Royce is back with us, nutritionist J.J. Smith as well.
Is there a healthy amount of diet soda you can drink?
And I just want to say this, we're all on the same page.
This was an association, right?
So people who drink a lot of diet soda were dying.
We don't know if the diet soda's causing them to die.
Odds are there are other things they're probably doing as well, they're contributing.
So I don't want you running away.
So is there an amount that people can get away with?
We don't know.
My answer would be no right now, but we really don't know.
So the key is, whatever you do, do it in very small amounts, the smallest you can, and then you're going to show us some substitutes that are even better.
Before I take folks through that, would you switch to regular soda from a diet soda?
No.
You wouldn't?
No.
J.J.? Regular versus diet.
Okay, so I have a little confession.
I drank too much diet soda.
But if you tell me diet soda versus regular soda, I'm trying to get my sexy back.
I'm gonna go with diet because it is no calories and it's gonna help me stay slim.
So I'm gonna choose diet soda, but everything in moderation.
I'm gonna drink a lot less after I learned what I learned today.
And Dr. Oz is willing to do an intervention.
I'll bring the kids over.
Alright, let's walk through the best new healthy soda alternatives that might make your choice a little easier on this.
The first are these fresh juice seltzers.
JJ, teach us about these.
Okay, so I really love these.
Now, if you're looking for something to satisfy the sweet tooth, these are great.
So what they are is sparkling water.
They have a little bit of fruit flavor.
I call them that full-body flavor, so they're very good.
Just a touch of fruit.
And these are great because they have no artificial sweeteners.
I know you love that.
How many calories roughly in these?
Well, anywhere from 5 to 15. So this is a win-win if you're concerned about calories and you want to lose weight.
All right, so I know the audience doesn't care about my taste buds.
They don't trust them.
But our two women who joined us today, thoughts.
Is there enough sweet in this?
What do you guys think?
Enough flavor?
No, I'm sorry.
Not enough?
Not for me.
There's a lot of seltzer in it.
A lot of seltzer, yes.
A lot of seltzer, not a lot of taste.
All right, all right, well, chemists can be tough.
Yes, we are.
Next up, sparkling iced tea.
Dr. Orson, tell us about these.
Well, the great news is this is iced tea, has some caffeine with it, low calories, no added sugar, and the best thing is, again, no artificial sweeteners.
Any benefits to our health besides the avoidance of sugar?
Well, you avoid the artificial sweeteners, you avoid the sugar, it has some caffeine, which is healthy, and it's got a lot of a mineral, manganese, which helps heal bones and joints.
All right, diet soda lovers, thoughts on this?
I like this one.
You do?
You know, first of all, because it has the caffeine and you need the boost.
And it has the tea taste that I can perceive it throughout my mouth.
It's really good.
Alright, so this next idea is sort of cool.
I want you to take a look at the funny reaction to this next healthy soda alternative.
You're about to taste kombucha.
It really smells like a public restroom.
It smells like a public restroom!
You know what?
No. .
Well...
I don't know.
Are you interested in tasting this, Mike?
I've had it, so I actually...
I'm gonna taste the public restroom.
In the meantime, this is actually one of your favorites, JJ. Oh yeah, this is one of my favorites.
I just like saying it, kumbacha.
It just sounds like you're doing something really good, kumbacha.
But what I love about it...
It's got a little punch to it.
What I love about it, it has that healthy bacteria, the good bacteria that we like.
And I love anything that improves gut health, and this drink does.
Latrine was a word that came to mind from that last lady.
I actually think it's better than that.
But this option has the most calories.
How many are we talking about?
Yeah, calories, 25 to 50 calories, so it's a little bit higher on calories.
It's not that much.
That's okay.
It's not bad, but if you're going to look for it, you can look for a brand that is lower in calories, like 12 grams of sugar or less would be ideal.
All right.
I know it can be an acquired taste, so I'm going to ask you guys for your opinion.
What do you think?
I love it.
You love it?
Yes.
Why?
Because it has a ginger taste.
Yes, it does have some ginger taste.
I love ginger taste.
I'm the type of person that in sushi will eat all that ginger that they put right next to it, so I do like that kombucha.
I like the ginger, but honestly, I don't like the aftertaste.
It reminds me of a mixed drink that I would get at a bar.
Well, that's a thought, too, by the way.
So which is your favorite of the three?
I would go with the tea.
I would go with the kombucha.
You know, I'm gonna say my vote.
I didn't expect this, it's the kombucha.
And I gotta say guys, I don't mind 30, 40 calories.
That's two teaspoonfuls of sugar, that's fine.
It's 160 calories that throw me off.
Guys, toast to you all.
Cheers!
Thanks for all the wonderful advice.
Thank you.
Be sure to pick up a copy of What To Eat When Today, superbly written by Dr. Rose and Dr. Croupane.
It'll teach you a lot about life.
We'll be right back.
Next, Rachel Ray is here and she's cooking up a celebration with one of my favorite foods.
You guys are gonna learn that sardines are your friend.
We're gonna make those quote-unquote stinky fish into a dinner your whole family will actually love You can count your life in minutes days and years Or, if you're a world-famous chef like Rachael Ray, you can count it in the delicious meals that you've eaten.
That's right, Rachael Ray is back.
She's giving us a sneak peek at her favorite recipes in her new cookbook, Rachael Ray 50, Memories and Meals from a Sweet and Savory Life.
And she's both those things.
Please welcome my good friend, Rachel Ray.
How are you?
How are you?
My mom sends her love.
God bless her.
She was so envious I'm here with you today.
I was just saying my mom, my whole family sends their love.
Whenever I come here they get jealous that I'm here without them.
I like making them jealous.
And John too.
John never says anything.
Don't please.
I adore your husband.
Tell Mehmet I love him.
Tell them I said a good morning.
They're the sweetest people, and you come over for dinner, and it is just a wonderful...
I feel like the pages in your book, which is so beautifully done.
Thank you.
By the way, how did you celebrate your 50th?
Happy 50th birthday.
My friends, I do not...
I don't enjoy surprises and I rarely take my birthday off, so my friends threw me a surprise party in November, although my birthday is in August.
That's how to trick somebody.
It was a true surprise during like the biggest snowstorm in New York history last fall.
So they did get a great surprise in there for me.
But really the way I celebrated my 50 years was to write this book to look back on my life and what I'm grateful for.
It's a bit of a foodography.
It's about food, but the biography of your life at the same time.
Why tell the story that way?
Well, it's a scrapbook, really.
It's not a memoir in that I don't look back and go through tearful moments or things I would change, because I wouldn't change anything.
I'm most grateful for, out of my 50 years, was growing up with my grandpa and my mom, the family that I was born to, and work ethic.
Let's talk about your grandfather a little bit.
You talk about him a lot.
He's in the book event.
He taught you the true meaning of food.
Colored so much of how you talk to all of America, all the world about food.
So there's this little bucatini con la sarde, which is such a perfect way to start.
My grandpa was very proud to come to America.
The four youngest of 16 kids, 14 lived, and four youngest came here.
My grandpa was one of them.
He was my best friend when I was little.
And he taught me my first word, and he taught me how to read.
My first word was vino, by the way.
My mom put a formula in my bottle, and I didn't like formula, so I'd throw it across the room.
And my grandpa, at that time, needed a walker on occasion.
He had type 1 diabetes.
He didn't like chasing after the bottle, so he would get to the point of frustration that he would fill my bottle with water and wine.
And he'd hold up my baba and go, vino, vino, vino, vino.
So I thought that I was asking for my baba when really I was asking for grandpa's wine.
What grandpa was thinking was, I'm gonna calm that girl down.
Yes.
This will really get her down.
It did, it did!
Gave me rosy cheeks and quieted me right down.
And these are fresh sardines.
And I love this recipe because it reminds me of my grandpa.
You can make it with fresh sardines or sardines from the can.
When I was a little girl, my grandpa cooked for us.
And my grandpa sent me to school.
The first day of school, I had to wear my best dress.
I had to wear fancy shoes.
Everybody made fun of me because I was in a dress in fancy shoes, like I was going to church, not to school.
And then I really became super popular when we went to the lunchroom, and I opened my lunch sack, and it had a sardine and onion sandwich on stale Italian bread.
Oh, I love this.
So I smelled like sardines and onions.
So I went home the least popular child in the world.
But I still love sardines, and if you've never cooked with them, once you cook sardines or anchovies in oil, it becomes a natural salt.
It's full of great nutrition, as you know.
You get all those great fish oils.
Vitamin D, omega-3s, it's fantastic.
It's really great for your body and your bones, but it mellows the fishy flavor.
What this dish tastes like in the end are these ingredients.
Sweet fennel, garlic, nice salty capers, little baby currants that gives it a sweetness, and red pepper flake.
Why don't you sweat the onions first before you add the anchovies?
You do.
They're just showing an example here of what we did.
We sweat the onions and fennel.
Very good, Oz.
Daphne's teaching me.
I'm learning.
Yes, you're doing well.
Yes, you sweat them first in olive oil, and then you take them out of the pan and break down the sardines last minute.
These are nice, beautiful, fresh, sweet sardines.
So you get all this done.
You get this beautiful and add that back now.
That was it?
It was already done?
Yeah, those are fresh.
This is a fast meal.
And then we add a little bit of our anise liquor, Pernod, a little bit of that licorice-y flavor, and a splash of white wine.
Oh, beets, don't be so cheap, Oz.
Don't be so cheap.
Okay, we've got that as high as it's gonna go.
And then we add the bucatini, big fat spaghetti.
Yep.
And some nice toasted breadcrumbs in there.
Delicious.
And you're gonna have a very healthy breakfast.
Now, you're getting cheap with the toppings.
I'm trying to get them off.
You're getting really cheap with the toppings here.
You're gonna have a delicious, nutritious breakfast like my old school lunch.
I'm gonna eat it.
Is this how I eat at home?
Eat it right out of the pot.
Eat it right out of the pot.
Yeah.
Oh, go for it.
There you go.
I'll have a little sardine for breakfast.
It tastes as good as the smell.
It's just unbelievable.
It's so yummy!
How fucking that would go?
So I was so inspired by your book that I actually decided to replicate it in video, the story of my life.
Oh!
In food, life and meals.
Take a look.
My favorite childhood meal is called kabak dolmasa.
It's Turkish.
It means basically stuffed zucchini, and my aunts would make it, especially my oldest aunt.
And she would make a huge festival around my coming to Turkey event, and it was fantastic to realize that she shared her love with me, but also with the whole family getting us together.
In medical school, I didn't have a lot of time to cook.
I bought these big vats of chicken legs.
When I got home from school and I was starving, I'd pull out one of those legs and I'd throw it in the oven.
I'd go up and study for half an hour.
By the time I came down at 350 degrees, the chicken was cooked.
It actually got me through school.
High protein, low carb diet.
When I met Lisa, I never tasted food, especially vegetables, the way she made them.
And my favorite meal seemed so simple in retrospect, where she would take beets, cut them up, mix them with little garlic, salt, pepper, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, and then she'd add gorgonzola cheese to it.
It was unbelievable.
I cook lots of meals with my kids, but usually I'm the griller.
And the best memories I have are going fishing with my son, Oliver, because we've gone all over the place.
And what I really love doing is taking that fish that we just caught and then put it on a grill.
And it's the conversation that I appreciate the most.
And I always tell Oliver, and I know he doesn't like hearing this from me, but it's true, that I didn't come fishing to catch fish.
I came fishing to catch him.
I don't brag about it much, but I actually have a sweet tooth.
My favorite dessert, I have it once a year for my birthday, is German chocolate cake.
The best part of it is I'm gonna have all my kids coming home, because that's my one obligation, they gotta come home for my birthday.
That was beautiful, Mehmet, beautiful.
Inspired by you, all the things you wonderfully do.
Here, listen, when we come back, there's a special recipe that Rachel makes to celebrate.
It's simple, it's delicious, and it's healthy too, which is why I love it so much.
Find out how to make Rachel's most memorable meal.
That's next.
We're back with the great Rachel Ray, who just celebrated her 50th birthday.
Doesn't look it, but she's given all of us a gift.
Thanks for turning the tables, as you always do.
Always given.
Rachel's sharing the memories of meals that have marked her life.
And we're going to make a dish that celebrates love for Rachel.
It's the love of good food, of good places, and her husband, John, who I adore as well.
Baked ricotta and roasted grapes.
Yeah, every year we take our friends that are cooks and our friends that are musicians literally back to the scene of the crime, back to where we were married in Tuscany.
We bring all of our friends with us and my friends that know how to cook go in the kitchens with me and our friends that know how to play music go with John and rehearse and they form a super group that we named for the company that rents us all the equipment.
Emporio is the name of the super group.
And all of the cooks and I spend all day cooking for the musicians, and then they spend all night singing for their supper.
So it's kind of a quid pro club.
Like the good old days.
Before you just added the parmesan.
So this...
This is a dish that we make frequently there because my friends love it so much.
It's baked ricotta and it's delicious as an appetizer or as a simple dessert.
And you take fresh ricotta cheese, you add some eggs, lemon zest, Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, any herbs you like.
In this case we have a little rosemary, a drizzle of EVOO, and roasted garlic paste.
Now you're talking.
Then we dump it into a springform pan, and you roast it in the oven, and then you let it cool, and it looks like that over there, Mehmet.
And then we take black grapes.
We can get beautiful, these are moondrop grapes, beautiful seedless grapes here.
But in Italy, you eat the seeds, you know.
Yeah.
That's how you fertilize them.
It keeps you more regular.
Exactly.
That's just fiber.
So how long do you roast them for?
You roast them until they slump in a very hot oven, about 15, 20 minutes in a very hot oven, depending on the size of the grape.
And I've tossed them.
With fennel and rosemary.
Oh my goodness.
And you pile them all over the top of the baked cheese with the lemon, right?
And then we drizzle Thick-aged balsamic all over that.
Oh, look at that.
And then you top that with mint and nuts.
You've traded food porn.
True food porn.
Isn't it crazy?
Now, I've noticed something.
There are no forks on this table, and I'm told...
There's bread, baby.
Better than a fork.
Edible fork is called bread.
See?
Edible forks.
Mmm.
Mmm!
You have to finish the jug when I'm eating.
Well, I'll tell you, I wouldn't bother with a fork either.
This is the best way to have it.
It's delicious.
Crust them up.
The ricotta's to die for.
But I never have baked, you don't have to use these grapes.
You can use any grapes you want.
Roast any grapes you want.
And you can just roast figs.
You can roast your favorite fruits.
Any of your stone fruits work during the summer months.
You know, as a friend, I've been thinking about you a lot.
And I always wondered, why does Rachel Ray not have a restaurant?
There must be a reason, isn't there?
Over the years, I've wanted to.
Look at these people, these are all customers of yours.
What are you, I'm calling John.
John, hello.
We've never been able to get it together, and I do have so many jobs it would be hard for me to be in a restaurant.
What's cool about this book is we're working with Uber, And in 15 cities across America, from October 17th through December, you're going to be able to order my food and get the book and my food to your house.
So it's sort of like I can eat with you.
The book is fantastic.
Not just the recipes, the memories.
But here's the thing.
Rachel wants you to all have memorable meals.
So she's giving the entire audience this.
My lasagna lugger!
Music!
You're all going over one!
God bless you.
I love you.
I love you being here.
We'll be right back.
All right, good job.
Up next, breaking news about a new type of cholesterol that you need to know about.
It is called ugly cholesterol.
Do you have it?
Find out how you can lower your risks.
Breaking news today.
Researchers have made an alarming discovery about a new type of cholesterol.
And it is not pretty.
Today, what you need to know about ugly cholesterol, that's the word, ugly cholesterol.
New study says higher levels could be more threatening to your health, and could you be at risk becomes the big question we should all be asking.
So superfan Dolores is here.
And Dolores, you've learned a lot about cholesterol here on the show.
Yes, yes I have.
How's it changed your life?
I've learned that I need to make sure that I control it and watch it.
I'm a mom of three and I have a strong family history of heart disease.
I'm sorry.
So I want to make sure that I will be here for my children.
Alright, so cholesterol, you know about the good cholesterol, you know your bad cholesterol, you know your numbers, right?
Yeah, I hope.
Have you kept them in check sort of?
Sort of.
Yeah, I monitor them and I make sure that I'm eating healthier and making sure I get my cardio in because I know it's important to get my heart going.
You're the poster child for what to do if you're not happy with the cholesterol numbers.
It's fantastic.
Come over here.
So here's the thing.
On this show, I've spent 11 years talking to people about the good and the bad of cholesterol, right?
So the question becomes, what about the ugly of cholesterol?
So the good cholesterol, that's the healthy stuff, they're like little Mighty Mouse.
They go in there and they take out the cholesterol and they get rid of it.
It's fantastic, right?
That's why you want to have the good cholesterol.
The lousy cholesterol, they're like these big bloated Thanksgiving floats.
They bang into the wall and they spew cholesterol, right?
That's the bad LDL cholesterol.
But the good and the bad has to have an ugly too.
And it does.
And we've never talked about it before, in part because I wasn't sure how important it was.
But the ugly cholesterol is the cholesterol that it carries around the triglycerides.
Triglycerides basically are fats.
That makes your blood creamy.
So now you know all three kinds, and now we know this last kind is ugly cholesterol is really a problem.
So let me show you what the researchers found.
You like playing with Play-Doh?
Yeah.
Good, because this is not Play-Doh.
Okay.
I'm just curious.
All right, you get one glove, I get one glove.
We're gonna share, all right?
So, you know what bad cholesterol does, right?
Yes.
But today I'm gonna teach you about ugly cholesterol.
This is a tube that's carrying blood in your body.
These tubes are in your brain, they're in your heart, they're in your legs.
Right.
Right?
And so if you have blood, represented by this little Red fluid, right?
Normally, it should just flow.
And it flows so quickly that you can do whatever you wanna do in the world.
But if you have too much of the bad cholesterol, here, I'll give you some.
Plop it in there.
Just use your hand.
There we are.
I'll get some too.
And you plop that bad cholesterol in there, right?
And it begins to layer a little bit, right?
And so when you put the fluid in, what ends up happening?
It gets stopped.
Some of it, but enough gets through that it's still not that big a deal.
Because the thing about bad cholesterol, it's just part of how your body scars over wounds.
Right.
So you need to have a little cholesterol in your body.
But here's the problem.
If you have too much of this bad boy.
This is the ugly cholesterol because what the cholesterol does is it tends to accumulate and block off the areas because it goes into the artery wall directly.
So now you end up with this problem.
You get a blockage.
You get a blockage.
And this is life-threatening.
And as this plaque gets worse and worse, you end up with a blockage that's so severe that nothing gets through.
And that's a heart attack.
Watch.
This, my friends, boom.
When that happens, you're in trouble.
Because nothing's getting down.
Right?
The little trickle's not enough for you.
No, it's not.
Doctors have to rush in there and deal with the stroke or the heart attack or whatever else you're facing.
And in one study, they show the ugly cholesterol was actually the strongest correlated with heart disease.
In fact, it was more of a problem if you're over age 40 and you had risk factors for heart disease.
So we've been ignoring this huge clue that we could've taken advantage of.
So, if you're overweight or you have family history, you end up being at risk for the ugly cholesterol.
Well, you're taking care of the family history a little bit by being preventive.
Yes.
But you were brave enough to let us test, because here's the thing about life.
There's some things that are knowable, and there's some things that aren't.
Right.
And if something's knowable, you oughta know it.
And when it comes to the heart, you can know your numbers.
Then you don't have to guess.
You can actually figure out if what you're doing makes a big enough difference.
Yes.
Okay?
So come on over here.
We'll walk back over, and I'm gonna show you your cholesterol number, if it's okay.
You can sit right there.
Now, are you okay with this?
I'm good.
All right, you want your ugly cholesterol number, which is in there, it's called your triglycerides, to be between 10 and 149. Okay.
Your number is, drum roll please, put it up there, 107!
Yes!
107!
Which is perfect.
This is the first test that I look at when I check a patient, because if it's under 150, I know you're trying.
I know you're doing your best.
We may have to do other things as well, but this is a sign that you're doing all the right things.
So let's share some wisdom.
I'm gonna show you what kinds of fats I eat a lot because the best way to get that good fat number in there is to replace some of the fats that we might like, like the fats in animals.
Right.
Right?
When you have a piece of steak or a hamburger or milk, dairy.
It's not that it's bad for you, but it has more of those saturated fats.
And if you can have nuts, which you know I always walk around with.
Nuts are great.
Do you eat a lot of nuts?
Yes.
How much do you eat?
I try to limit it so I don't overdo.
But I try to, you know, like when I'm at a baseball game or whatever.
Handful?
Handful of nuts.
So I'm gonna give you a recipe for this.
I'm gonna say you can have a quarter cup.
Quarter cup.
Quarter cup's a fair amount of hazelnuts, pecans, pistachios, real nuts.
Ooh, pistachios are good.
Yeah, these grow on trees, right?
Yeah.
Peanuts don't count.
I happen to like peanuts too, but they grow beneath the ground.
They're not really tree nuts.
They're legumes, right, because under the ground.
You want a quarter cup of tree nuts in your diet, replacing some of the saturated fats, and everyone can get the same numbers you got.
Awesome.
Loris, I'm very proud of you.
Thank you.
You can find our printable cholesterol, she's here at DrRoz.com, and I'll keep your numbers in check.
Be right back.
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And we have natural abilities to heal this, but it can't keep up, especially as the weather changes.
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*Ding* Fifteen years ago, I was a young, broke, single mom.
I was unhealthy financially, physically, mentally, emotionally.
I really didn't know where I was going in life.
And I just knew that I wanted something more for myself and for my kids.
I started working on a master's degree.
I met and married my best friend who legally adopted my children.
I even started a career in teaching.
I had actually lost 35 pounds back then in about 13 weeks.
And I would love to be on your show, Dr. Oz, and share that anybody can create the life that they want.
So I love this video so much, I asked Sandy to be here today.
I'm just going to show you, this is her before and her after picture again.
I always commit this to memory.
So Sandy, since you've been there and figured it out, just share with everybody, anyone watching now for whom it has not yet clicked, how do they show up in their own life?
How do they change what they're doing to become what they want to be?
Well, first and foremost, you have to learn how to take radical responsibility for your life, okay?
It's very easy to cast blame and say, because this happened, because that happened, my life, my parents, whatever.
But really, we have the power to choose whatever life we want to have.
And it starts with really making a decision of what you want.
It's very easy to answer the question, what I don't want, right?
Ask a woman that, and we know you won't get anywhere.
What do you want?
Make that decision.
Know that you have the power to choose.
You can't control what happens around you, but you can choose how you allow it to affect you, how you relate to it, and how you use that information.
So, what do you want?
Why do you want it?
And commit.
Radical responsibility, that's what I heard.
It's brave, it takes a lot, but it works.
God bless you for what you've done.
Congratulations.
Thank you very much.
Remember, please keep sharing your stories.
Remember, the power of one lies in the power of you.
One person, one voice, speaking the truth, just like you did.
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