109: How Processed Foods Are Destroying Your Health | David A. Kessler, MD

There are three simple things that you can do to dramatically affect your health... Markedly reduce fast carbs, lower LDL, and engage in moderate-intensity exercise to keep your insulin sensitivity.

By the year 2030... one in two adults are going to be obese—not just overweight, but obese.

The most effective diet to reduce LDL is a vegetarian diet—that reduces LDL by about, on average, it can reduce it 40% or so.

The best way to treat a diabetic is to put them on a low-carb diet.

Nuts have a significantly lower calorie burden than was previously thought. Cashews... have about 16% fewer calories; walnuts have 21% fewer; almonds have 32% fewer.

Reduce fast carbs, lower your LDL, engage in moderate-intensity exercise—boy, we can become much healthier if we focus on those three takeaways.

If you can get LDL and LDL-C down... certainly below 100—and if you have risk factors, down to 70—that's the real goal.

The vast majority of our bodies are in metabolic chaos. Only about 12% of us are metabolically healthy when you look at basic guidelines for weight, your blood lipids, or blood pressure.

If we can get everyone's LDL down in this country, we could basically see the vast majority of atherosclerotic heart disease disappear.

The other thing that is absolutely clear... You can't maintain any weight loss without exercise.