Did you know that 50 years ago, the average grocery store in North America had between 600 to 800 food items on their shelves? Today in 2022, it’s 30,000 items!
The food industry is made up of a conglomerate of about 10 companies that own it all. They’re not interested in our health but instead making us into consumers for life. Their bottom line is more important than the health of their customers.
Join Dr. Martin as he discusses several articles about how the food we eat has changed over the last 50 years.
TRANSCRIPT OF TODAY'S EPISODE
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Dr. Martin: Well, good morning, everyone. Once again, welcome to another live this morning. Hope you're having a great start to your day. So now couple of stories I want to talk about this morning. There's a couple of articles, so they're not studies, but listen to this. Anybody that's around my age, we'll appreciate this 50 years ago. Okay. In an average grocery store, there were 600 to 800 food items 50 years ago. Okay. So I don't know who counted, but somebody must have, you know what it is today, the average grocery store has listened to this 2022, 30,000 food items. <laugh> a lot of it is fake food, processed food, highly refined food, sugar Laden food interest in it, 600 to 800. The produce section was huge. And the middle aisles of the grocery store are not like they were today. Obviously we're now averaging 30,000 items in a grocery store.
Incredible. Let me make a statement that I think all of you would agree with all the pills, all the surgery, all the medicines in the world and all the tea in China in terms of money will not overcome what the food industry has done to people. It will not overcome it. And you guys know me enough to know that when I speak like this, I'm speaking in generalities and listen, last week I brought to you, there are a hundred and what is it? I can't remember was 130 million Americans that are diabetic or pre 93% of the population have metabolic syndrome, which is a problem with insulin. It's a food problem. And here we are in 2022, and we have 30,000 items in our grocery stores. And all I can tell you is it costs 16,000 in change, us dollars for every diabetic metabolic syndrome means that they're on the Titanic.
And here we are, the food industry, big food, really a conglomerate of about 10 companies that own it all. And I've said this as an overarching principle, they're not interested in our health. They really are not. And if it is left up to them, here's things are gonna add to our diets. I mean, all the processed foods, all the sugar, all the bad fats, the fake oil that they use. And now they're adding fake meat and grasshoppers coming to a theater near you. And they're gonna try and sell it like, it's good for you guys. This gives me a splitting headache, because like I said, all the pills, all the surgery, all the tea in China, when it comes to money, I mean, think of it, diabetics. The average cost is over $16,000 a year, just to maintain medically at diabetic 16,000 us. And you can build more hospitals.
You know, when people think of healthcare because the mainstream media, when they think of healthcare, you know what they think of, they think of, well, we don't have enough doctors and we don't have enough nurses and we don't have enough people in our hospitals. Yeah, that's probably true, but they never, ever, ever talk about prevention. How about you and I, as much as we possibly can, unless we get into a car accident, how about us staying out of the hospital? You know, I'm not against hospitals. They should be first aid when you need it, but not for chronic diseases that are self-inflicted. It's like telling the alcohol to drink more alcohol and it's right in moderation.
If you're a carboholic, just, you know, you're right. Just have a little bit of, you know, you can have carbs and eat and moderation. No, anyways, I was kind of shocked. I never really thought about all the items in the grocery store. You know, when I was a kid, I was thinking, you know, I used to go, not often to the dominion <laugh> that was a grocery store. And the other one, like if we needed just stuff, we had a red and white down the street, or if you needed milk, you went to the corner store. Right. And I always tell my grandchildren, well, grandpa, I know I was born in the days of Noah. We had cookies and ice cream too, you know, and soda, but nothing like today, nothing like today. Isn't that incredible story guys. 30,000 on average items in a grocery store.
Wow. Can I venture to say about 80 to 90% of it? Isn't good for you from the sodas to the juices, to all the crappy vegetable oil foods in the middle aisles of your grocery store, my friend crazy. But that's where we're at today. It's a big, big industry and big pharma. People are sick. They gotta take medication according to big pharma and big food. Anyway, I just thought I'd bring that to you crazy. Here's another story of vitamin D and depression, vitamin D new study out, and you might have seen it cuz it actually hit the mainstream. I read the study before I saw it on a mainstream, but I saw it on Canadian mainstream news. Vitamin D helps depression. Hello? Hello. How long have we been saying that? Vitamin D would win a Nobel prize in medicine. If it weren't a vitamin, if they could patent it, it's in my new book coming out soon.
Hopefully I'll have it up by Christmas. That's my goal. And for people who are asking about the metabolic reset, I'm sort of rewriting that in my new book. Okay. There'll be a section on the metabolic reset because that's me. I gotta talk to you about how to eat properly and I'm gonna double down on it every day. Vitamin D helps depression. Now this study was talking about vitamin D helps depression because it lowers markers of inflammation guys. One of the best antiinflammatories that you can take is vitamin D and get it from the sun, the best source. Okay? The best source Vima, get it in a supplement. And it's not long now for those who do what I do coming September. When in Norton, Ontario, see, we didn't get the memo here on climate change. We are having beautiful weather right now, by the way.
Okay. It is it's August. Beautiful. I always tell people in Northern Ontario, guaranteed, we get climate change. Cuz we get four seasons. <laugh> you know, we get fall, we get winter and we're gonna get spring. And then we get a summer last about two weeks. Cause we don't get the memo on the other climate change where the planet is heating up. Uh, not so much in Northern Ontario. Okay. Although we've had very nice weather for the last couple of weeks. I'm thinking I'm in Florida. So beautiful. Okay. Now if you can get out in the sun, get out in the sun. 20 minutes, 10,000 I use, but you can't have any sunscreen on okay? No sunscreen. And by the way, let me bring you another study. This is another study on by DMA. If people insist on eating crappy cars and vegetable oils, those seed oils, those fake oils, you're much more likely to get sunburn.
What? Yep. You're a bad eater. You're much more likely to get sunburn. And I've always said this. Okay guys, you know me? Your skin is an organ. Okay. It's just the one you see. I mean, you can't see your liver. You can't see your heart. You can't see your pancreas. You can't see your kidneys. You can't see your bowel. Thank God. They're all ugly. <laugh> okay. They're ugly. They're beautiful to me. But they're ugly to look at. Okay. A liver. Uh, I can't think of anything that's uglier than your liver, but it's important. Your skin is an organ that you see. Okay. And what goes on on the inside. When people insist on filling their faces with sugar and crappy carbohydrates and fast foods, they're much more likely to suffer from sunburn. Isn't that interesting? I can tell you, there are over the years, thousands and thousands of people that will attest to that. Now once they've changed their diet, it's amazing how much their skin became and how they didn't burn anymore in the sun. Now, listen, I'm not telling people to go out and burn in the sun, ever cover up, wear a hat.
But the news on skin cancer is very, very dramatic. And that is people that don't go in the sun, get the most aggressive skin cancer melanoma that my friend is a fact. So you need the sun and the sun helps you in depression. And when you can't see the sun and you can't get out three or four times a week to get into sun for at least 20 minutes, your arms and legs exposed even better to get that vitamin D to get those 10,000. I use, let me ask you a question. Think along with me here, because you know, hoo, the boogeyman is vitamin D. It's gonna again, yeah. Kidney stones. And you're gonna get to say it's fat soluble. So yeah, you know, many times and millions of times I've heard that. And I used to say fake news, what does high vitamin D do to you?
You get 10,000. I use in 20 minutes of the sun. How can that be bad? Your body tops up anyway. It's soon time to take those vitamin D supplements if you're not taking them, but folks, depression, what did they find? Low levels of vitamin D. And when they give them vitamin D wow. Of very inexpensive supplement, they do better. Can I give you some reasons why one, I told you anti-inflammatory your C R P C reactive protein goes down. Yeah. It's an anti-inflammatory which I got to do with depression. Well, inflammation affects the brain. Inflammation affects the heart inflammation, chronic. Okay. Remember, there's two types of inflammation. One, when you kick me in the knee, of course it's gonna become inflamed. Your body's ambulance system, races to the scene. That's normal. Your body's smart, your body's fearfully and wonderfully made. It knows exactly what to do.
You rub that knee and even more blood comes. That's the ambulance coming. That's normal inflammation. But what if it's a silent inflammation type two inflammation. You don't even know it and it can be around your heart. It can be around your brain and you don't even know it. It damages, it damages blood vessels. And remember inflammation's not Houdini. It always comes from somewhere. And as we explain at the Martin clinic over and over and over again, the biggest source of inflammation is insulin resistance or high circulating insulin. My friend that's food, bad food, and two free radical damage. That's sugar <laugh> and chemicals. And you know, we live in a plastic world. We live in a, you don't want me to even talk about plastic mass that we wore around our faces. Ooh.
Okay. So inflammation. The other one is because you know what vitamin D does it elevates your nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is a molecule inside of your body, inside of your blood vessels that tell your blood vessels to relax. You get more blood flow to the brain, very effective for a lot of things. Even depression, inflammation comes down, your CRP, your nitric oxide goes up. And one thing that vitamin D does, and especially the sun, is it helps for you, your body to produce feel good hormones. Isn't that amazing? And it's true. Isn't it? I mean, look, a kid can understand this. When do you feel better? When it's pouring rain out and dark and the dark days of winter, and you know, when you don't see the sun or on a bright day, you people that are living in Florida, you make me mad. You people that live in Arizona, you make me angry. Why? Cause you bought the lie about the sun and you don't get in the sun. Oh, how silly is that? Floridians don't have any more vitamin D than we do. And they get what? 322 days or whatever it is on average of sunshine.
How silly is that? Oh yeah, but I can't go in the sun. I'm gonna get skin cancer. Oh, it makes me shake my head guys. The boogieman, the sun's the boogieman. No, it's your friend. Don't fear the sun. It's beautiful. Don't even wear sunglasses. When you first go out, don't look right in the sun, but let your eyeballs get the sun. Your eyeballs benefit. Your brain benefits. Your third brain benefits, your pin plant. They all benefit from the sun. What causes sunburn? Bad food. Seriously. What's one of the causes of depression? Low levels of vitamin D aren't these studies. Unbelievable. I got one more study to do this morning. Can I tell you why you need to eat cheese? Okay. Why do you wanna eat cheese? You guys know because cheese is nature's perfect food. So RAs and so is meat. Nature's perfect food.
When I hear people pontificating on why they shouldn't eat cheese. Because it's fat. It's saturated fat. It'll elevate your cholesterol. Cheese is no good for you. Cheese is a sin. Cheese is a, and then we get a new study out that tells you the best thing that you can eat for your bones is cheese. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Why you guys know this? You guys know that. Why would cheese and butter? Why would cheese and butter? I want you guys to tell me the answer cuz I already know, you know it, but what vitamin is there in cheese? Highest sources in cheese curds. Okay. Think along with me. What vitamin is in cheese, Sandy and meta. You got it already. Vitamin K two. I'm giving you all an honorary degree. Rosa Lee, you got it. It's vitamin K two of all the vitamins that get no ink.
Georgie, you got it right Wendy. You got it right now. Listen, when you eat a piece of cheese, think you like cheese. I do. Why is cheese? Why is it eggs, meat, and cheese. Why is that? You think I just made that up. You think I just got up one morning and did that. Now my background is nutritional science and guys, what has God done in nature in food? Think about it. You eat cheese, you get calcium, which is good. You want calcium? I love calcium. I do. But calcium on its own in a supplement that don't help your bones. One, a Iot of doctors because they don't know anything about nutrition. They'll tell you, well, cheese will make you fat and cheese has got saturated fat and limit your cheese. And it's not good for you. And you can have a little bit or don't have any, and then you get vegans and oh, I'm having a nervous breakdown.
The best food in the world for your boat is cheese. Why perfect ratio of calcium and vitamin K2 and vitamin K2 takes your calcium and puts it in your bones where it belongs. And the study is showing this study. I didn't, you know, I'm, I'm pontificating. Now the study shows that the hormone osteo calcium is increased. When you eat cheese, how could it be bad for you? How could it be bad for you? How could anybody tell you to limit it? Now look some of you out there and I know you're unique and you can't eat cheese. Some of you just, but most of the people, when they talk about dairy and they say I've got lactose and top, well there's, you know how much lactose there is in cheese, not enough for a mouse. There's not a lot of lactose in cheese. Lactose is the milk sugar that's found in grocery store milk in abundance. They paint dairy with the whole brush. Oh, it's bad for you dairy. No, it's not. No, it's not. Now. You know what I think of grocery store milk, white Pepsi, but cheese.
And, but there's no limit to it. God put it together for you to what? Look at it. No, eat it better than any calcium supplement you'll ever take. Let me tell you that my friend, you like cheese enjoy. And every time you think of it, think of calcium and vitamin K2, which will bring the calcium. Won't leave it in your bloodstream and it'll bring it to your bones and teeth where it belong. Okay. Have you had fun today? I'm all worked up. I'm all worked up. Okay. We're gonna have a great week, right? We're just getting started guys. Okay. I told you about our million download. We're well past that. Now we're gonna have a party. Okay. I said to Tony junior, you gotta have a party for that somehow. Some way we're partying over the million download. Okay. And so we're getting ready to have a party.
We'll let you know how we're going to celebrate that. I'll leave it up to my son. Okay. <laugh> he's the brains of the operation. Believe you me when I tell you that. Okay. So when you book coming out, okay. It we're getting there. There's a lot of work putting a book together. It really is, you know, but I love it. I, I enjoy it. I just gotta discipline myself to sit myself down and to get it done so you can look for that. Okay. And we love you guys dearly. If your friends and family are not a member of the private Facebook group, I was showing people at church the other day, how to do it and I didn't even know how to do it. <laugh> I said, I think you have to go to our website, Martin clinic.com. I don't know. Don't ask me. I'm a dinosaur. Okay guys, we love you dearly. We'll talk to you soon.
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