Dr. Michael Greger

We're keeping our salt intake as low as possible, under 1,500 milligrams.

That's not no salt.

Very minimal.

If you just avoid processed foods, you're going to go a lot of way there.

Way less salt.

Even fresh foods.

Number four and five, what would those be?

And so then it's eating more whole grains.

So you're having an oatmeal for breakfast, right, instead of bacon and eggs.

Right, right.

Yeah, the kernel of truth, which is kind of a little of a pun for whole grains, is refined grains.

Refined grains are terrible for us.

So when you take something like whole wheat and you strip away all the fiber, and you're left with white flour, or you do the same with brown rice to white rice, or you kind of strip out the nutrition,

And you're left with basically kind of sheer carbohydrates.

Or you can take something like a sugar beet, where most sugar comes from these days, actually not from cane.

And you basically take all the nutrition away.

You're left with table sugar, right?

I'm assuming it's like pure calories.

And look, you only have about- No value.

2,000 calories in the calorie bank every day.