The #1 Most Dangerous Meal in the World

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

These dangerous ingredients are found in the #1 most dangerous meal. Can you guess what it is?

1. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are byproducts created when you cook, char, or smoke something. Cooking at high temperatures creates these compounds, which have the potential to alter or mutate your DNA and can trigger cancer of the stomach or colon.

2. When you combine sugar with protein, you create AGEs (advanced glycation end products). These sticky proteins found in foods like barbequed meat can cause advanced aging, inflammation, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and other chronic diseases.

3. Sodium nitrate is found in processed meat like bacon and ham. When heated, it turns into a carcinogen, which can trigger cancer.

4. Residue from the weed killer Roundup Ready is often found in GMO foods such as soy, corn, canola, and cottonseed. Roundup Ready contains the ingredient glyphosate, which is considered a carcinogen by the World Health Organization. Glyphosate also disrupts the microbiome.

5. Caramel coloring, which is used in barbeque sauces and sodas, produces a carcinogenic byproduct called 4-MEI.

6. Aluminum can leach into the brain, increasing your risk for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.

7. Potassium bromate is found in barbeque sauces and is often used to increase fluffiness in bread products. This ingredient has been banned in 60 countries, but it’s not banned in the U.S.

The most dangerous meal includes barbequed meat that’s been grilled, covered in barbeque sauce, and typically cooked on or covered with aluminum foil. Many types of meat served at barbeques contain nitrates and are often wrapped in a bun or served with bread. This meal is usually served with a soda in an aluminum can or plastic bottle and served on a styrofoam plate.

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0:00.0	This is a meal that is so dangerous, so toxic, yet a lot of people are consuming this meal
0:04.6	and they have no idea how dangerous it is. As I go through these toxicities, let's see if you can
0:10.3	guess what this meal is. First one is a byproduct that occurs when you cook or char or smoke something.
0:18.1	You're heating with high temperatures. You're creating these chemical compounds
0:21.0	called PAHs. And so when you char something or smoke something, which then has a potential to
0:27.6	alter or change or mutate your DNA and trigger cancer of the stomach and especially of the colon,
0:34.1	that's chemical number one. Number two, when you combine sugar with protein, you create something
0:39.1	called AGEs. Now we have these sticky proteins. As in barbecue, when you're taking the sauce
0:45.0	and the meat and combining them, putting them together. I mean, have you ever read the ingredients in
0:49.7	barbecue sauce? High fructose corn syrup or sugar? It's crazy. What does that do to your body? Well,
0:54.6	it creates advanced aging of your tissues. It puts your body in a state of inflammation, diabetes,
0:59.9	Alzheimer's, chronic disease. Number three, sodium nitrate. See it in a lot of processed meats,
1:05.1	especially bacon. They put it in ham. They put in a lot of different meats. The problem is when
1:09.2	you heat it up and cook it, it turns into a carcinogen, and that is something that can trigger cancer. You would see this
1:14.9	in sausages, bacon, processed meat, and something called cured brisket. Next thing we're going to talk
1:20.3	about is this right here. Roundup ready weed killer in your food. You're probably saying, well, wait a second, there's no wheat killer in my food.
1:30.6	Well, there may be a residue from GMO food.
1:33.9	Anything soy, horn, canola, cottonseed oil.
1:37.5	Not only that, even things that are not genetically modified, like wheat,
1:41.9	potentially could end up in your bread.
1:46.1	In fact, one report showed that they used three times as much weed killer glyphosate on wheat, then they do soy and corn. And so if you're
1:52.5	consuming anything with wheat, like bread, pasta, cereal, crackers, potentially you can have
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