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we'll be stepping down because the most important international health problem. let me that the funny by 2030 half the world will be obese or overweight this is a disaster. it's a manmade tragedy. earlier my life. i thought that my way was all my fault. i felt like a failure. and frankly unworthy. and it took me a while to really start question and those beliefs and challenge and those thoughts . well ari you're

a real your failure and the answer is no i'm not i'm not but it took awhile to get to that point. obesity a blob of our era's fantasies scarred and a web of prejudice that prompts scolding for poor choices and accusations of laziness and dependent genes provide an alibi. for what if obesity were a collective failure not an individual one the symptom of a free market that hates fat but produces fatsos and obesity genic society. it's a global phenomenon not one country has halted and. right now there are 2000000000 people are adults and children who are overweight or obese

. this doesn't happen by magic it takes work and the need to look at her it is that is driving the process. in the 1st years of the 21st century western countries declared war on obesity to no avail. experts estimate that by 2030 there will be 250000000 obese children in the world. if our government's taken the right track. at least 2 thirds of men and women in the u.k. are overweight. right still.

the basis for changing impacts on the ball can slowly lower your quality of life. according to the message is spread far and wide we alone are to blame for our weight fat people are simply gluttons unable to control their appetites. you have a choice to make the change. we are told it's up to us but is it really. for me the most difficult stigma to cope with is this idea that the people have no will power the people in larger bodies people don't have a well power earle's they wouldn't carry excess weight because we're told so often that that's all it takes to lose weight go to the gym follow this diet program you

know if you just stick to it you'll get there. public health officials were sure that a little personal willpower was all it would take to slay obesity eat less exercise more became the mantra of the 2 thousands it would go around the world. so let's start moving let's start pushing twisting climbing and raising the roof let's start moving more every day for 30 minutes or 60 and if you feel like stopping you can always start back up let's start moving it's so easy for us to look at a person and say they have such willpower they're so moral and strong and then look at someone with a weight problem and attribute all these negative traits oh they're just weak they don't have willpower it's not at the individual level it's not individual willpower

and if we go on believing that will never change this obesity epidemic hey everybody you know getting active every day helps us all be healthy and feeling great. to say most honest advice about exercise is profit with the best intentions in 2010 michelle obama launched a campaign against childhood obesity the 1st lady lent her sassy sashay to move your body. aiming to set healthier standards for food served in school lunch when. we send our kids to school we have a right to expect that they won't be eating the kind of very salty sugary foods that we're trying to keep them when they're at home unfortunately you know michelle obama was on the right track right from the beginning and i think she got the railed by mixture of bad advisors and by bringing in the food the food companies and they were able to dilute

a very powerful message down to something where you know it's just her on to television encouraging people to to move that way rather than let's move together. you know as a movement to be able to transform the food system. better became more. easily upstaged the public service message. which. was. a boon to the multinationals who quickly joined the dance in 2015 coca-cola created the global energy balance network a worldwide think tank dedicated to solving the obesity problem. by promoting exercise. most of the focus in the popular media and in the scientific perhaps as over eating too much eating too much eating too much blaming fast food blaming sugary drinks and so on and there's really virtually no compelling evidence that in

fact physical professor steve blair is one of the head researchers recruited for the network he's a specialist in physical exercise but maybe the reason they're eating more calories than they need is because they're not burning man so we need to be involved in just a few years due to this campaign spearheaded by coca-cola lack of exercise has become central to the question of obesity whereas it is based on a theory that was pulled out of a hat to defend the corporation's product and private interest. just gonna be ok here's how that translates into marketing she's. just gonna be on the industry has been so focused on the story of calories and calories out you can drink what you want just go go on a jog and work off your calories. well we know that actually is not true that's not

the true story. allegedly to avoid weight gain we would simply have to burn the same number of calories as we eat the theory sounds logical unfortunately it is untrue physical exercise actually plays a minor role in weight control you have to jog for one hour to eliminate a hamburger a pizza though requires over 2 hours of running. if you look at it from a calorie perspective that is 5 accumulation equals sort of calories then minus calories out of this a well that's always true because if you look at from from a physics perspective but is always true but the problem is that that's physics and we're dealing with human physiology it really has nothing to do with each other. i think we should take the focus off of calories yes you can eat less and lose weight for a short while but your body will fight back and over the long term we know that

metabolism is stronger than willpower. all right if individual willpower is not to blame what caused the steep rise near b.c.g. curve starting in the 1980 s. . so was the difference between 197-2019 well i don't think it's the basic biology of the person but it's something to do with the way that we eat both that the types of food and the frequency of the foods that we eat. in 40 years our eating habits of undergone a real revolution commented by public health policies of the late 1970 s. at the time cardiovascular disease was the grim reaper causing millions of deaths. but the senate special committee on nutrition is looking into the connection between diet and hot. because sugar lobby succeeded in having

a high fat diet declared guilty of false verdict that had serious consequences public health officials recommended that we reduce our intake of fab's grains tugun as cholesterol free replaced meat as a staple food. and so eating more brad more rice market tadros for example because they're very low fat and you know eating less dairy less meat low fat dairy back nothing that was the standard advice for so many years and i think that is the most likely culprit as to why people have gained weight the u.s. government called on the food industry to market thousands of processed foods that were reduced in fat and saturated fat so if you're the food industry and you're supposed to reduce fat what are you going to replace them with all processed grains and sugar. agro industry sleight of hand made the transition

painless sugar a cheap replacement for fat made light foods tasty and addictive chemists went to work extruding ingredients supermarket shelves filled with attractively package starches reprocessed as bread cornflakes and convenience foods. eating excessive sugar causes deep dysfunctions inside our bodies starting with the hormone imbalance. when you eat certain hormones go up and the main hormone that's a volved in energy metabolism is insulin insulin determines where the calories we eat get burned or get stored as fat. glucose sugar that is fuels nearly all living cells when we eat our pancreas secretes insulin. and this insulin is what transports sugar to our cells. when our diets are

heavy in foods that are starchy and sweet like processed foods in fact our insulin levels are constantly high. with too much insulin our fat cells the fat tissue in our body takes up too many calories and holds on to them so there aren't enough calories for the rest of the body there aren't enough calories for the muscle for the organs in the brain. and that's why we get hungry. so these highly processed foods fast foods sugary beverages junk foods that we're snacking on they digest very quickly but they don't provide watch tidy so it's things processed carbohydrates the driveway. despite the negative impact these ultra processed foods have on

a metabolism nothing has stopped their spread. it's profitable to sell food because he's fast and sugary and salty and addictive it's much less profitable. food that is wholesome that is high in fiber and. minimally processed so what's driving the obesity epidemic it's corporate profit. dietary revolution has fathered empire's nestle unity for coca-cola kellogg's pepsi co. currently a handful of huge corporations own nearly every brand of food together they pull in $500000000000.00 in annual sales and have taken control of our dinner plates. food is a huge sector of our society it's not only the food companies it's not just the

nestle's and then gnomes and cokes and pepsis it's the food retailers it's the wal marts and car reformers it's the agribusinesses that are huge that control all the supplies of commodities and then it tells the marketers it's all the advertisers making money from marketing junk food and beverages to people so we're talking about a math of massive component of our society is focused on selling the world unhealthy foods and beverages. yes. the 3rd multinationals have a secret weapon price the products they sell are up to 60 percent cheaper than fresh foods the shoppers with the smallest budgets stock up. these low income consumers sitting ducks are the primary victims of the system.

the food industry says it's your fault but the reality is they've changed the whole slewed environment they've created a food environment we're every place you turn if it's on your smartphone if it's on seeing a billboard it's seeing any kind of advertisement if it's watching television or movies you see their junk food being pushed. the manipulation starts with the children. of. scientific studies show there is a direct link between the ads children see and the types of food they like to eat. the world health organization recommends regulating food commercials on t.v. but the industry is ingenuous it infiltrates new areas like social networks or online games. the. slick marketing hides the fact that

junk food causes one of the most devastating diseases that exists diabetes. today it kills one person every 6 seconds around the world. 25 years ago if i told you that i have an 18 year old patient in my clinic with type 2 diabetes you would have said oh my gosh it's incredible it's so rare and so strange. now it's very commonplace that young people children have type 2 diabetes . but. we're like fighting a war at home. it's heartbreaking it's unfair it's unjust people are making money off of this suffering it's preventable it's it's dehumanizing to ignore it it's inhumane to ignore.

one of every 2 african-american children go to the diabetes one of every 5 african american children is obese the rate is even higher among hispanics. a young woman spoke out and triggered a rebellion. likely fills legs began this kind of frightening to me with kids in my day to date not 1st there was a 1000000 things happening. and never sugar flour sugar carjacker native calls for start way counter high fructose corn syrup sugar died of 40. i heard a young woman who was 16 at the time and she performed a poem that even now it may have made the hair on my arm stand up and for the 1st time i saw

a young person describing the obesity and diabetes epidemic as a social problem and i realized that she in a way is a much more effective messenger than i ever could be. but it is the perhaps even. by. the. light. dean schillinger is cordoning the energy. his nonprofit youth speaks holt's writing workshops for young people in the bay area. he wants to use rap and spoken word to raise consciousness and thwart food industry propaganda. list idea that they were being lied to. that's what inspired them to become change agents that's what turned their pawn for being a piece of art into

a weapon. armed with talent and a video camera they launched an awareness campaign called the bigger picture. so for me each one of those films as a stone. that we were throwing at. the water hole and trying to see which one could make the biggest way. i was of the middle my baby would think was the wake up home block to the bus stop passing exams the liquor stores gas cap by cast the 1st burger king maybe into the 2nd burger king or in my favor round hash browns are lost again brown body. and i don't know if we love burger king i just love not being hungry. written and performed chiefly by young hispanics and african-americans the videos garnered over a 1000000 views on you tube.

meanwhile 3000 miles away on the east coast another activist has risen up and commandeered a podium to tell a community it is being decimated and how. this is a crisis in our community f m a s a crisis because i'm finding that i'm losing more people to sweets than i am to the streets and i'm losing more people took diet related issues that i am to the streets to gun violence this is an epidemic and one that i'm deeply concerned about . already in his combat against this evil reverend coats it's not inhibited by the conventions associated with his calling. this can of soda pop right there are 30. grams of sugar. 39 grams of sugar in one can of soda now how

many teaspoons of sugar is that anyone tell how. almost 10 dispose of shoes i say want to see how much did it and maybe a half. this is how much sugar. is in just one drink right. and our children are getting pre-diabetic by the ages of 19. borderline diabetes by the time to 30 years old and we are sabotaging the entire generation of pot people because of sugar pastor william the more of an delman coats at mount annan baptist church in clinton maryland are suing coca-cola and the american beverage association. writers do this . the warhead moved to the court room delman coat stand to sic the law on the coca-cola corporation.

we know that the consumption of sugar in these products exceed the american heart association what are you asking for from coca-cola well what do you want this company when you want coca-cola to end their deceptive marketing practices they have spent 120000000 dollars and 5 years between 201-2015 falsely advertising the product. the multinational retaliated by accusing the pastors of freedom of speech violations. and after suing for legal expenses a threat with several $1000000.00 coca-cola now demands that the case be trucked. coca-cola statement. the allegations here are likewise legally and factually meritless and we will vigorously defend against them the allegations are that

coca-cola misled. about the science of sugar sweetened beverages because several of their executives with the press and made statements like there is no link between sugar sweetened beverages and. we know that is not the case. for over 20 years the soft drink industry has denied any link between its products and dizziness to maintain the illusion it employs all sorts of methods since 2015 coca leaks has revealed that the lobby puts pressure on journalists discredit on studies it dislikes finances favorable research and hobnobs with political leaders. to ensure this results contact was established within the senate we will actively campaign to register that a soft drink tax is discriminatory regressive and will not address the challenge of obesity we have commissioned the economic institute to complete

a study which will prove inefficiency of such tax it will be ready in 15 days which will give us another tool to communicate both to the media and to avoid it gains ground within the party. appointed to serve as a scientific expert by the city and county of san francisco dean schillinger must untangle the truth from falsehood when we did the analysis of these studies we found that every study that found that there was no association between sugary beverage consumption and obese in diabetes was funded in some way by the industry. where's among all the studies that found that there was an association between the consumption of soda and sugary beverages and obese and diabetes except for one were independently funded so we now know and there's other evidence that industry as ben . influencing very deeply the medical and scientific establishment to create controversy over the question of whether their products cause disease.

and. the junk food industry has cornered all over the globe activists and demanding tighter legislation to protect consumers the battle has now become political. in the 30 years since warning labels and other forms of regulation were placed on tobacco over 1000000000 that lives have been saved. so that's a pretty good day at the office for people who make policy. illegal cohen and one of her fellow supervisors have made san francisco the 1st u.s. city to declare war on sugary sodas. when people realize how much sugar they are consuming in one can of soda they stop

and they think so we had testimony right here in this chamber of doctors of nurses of researchers that talk to us about the effects of sugar in our body and it was through these ongoing dialogues for years that we came up with that idea to begin to tax sugary beverages. imposing a tax is virtually revolutionary in the united states the industry really it's sad speech the line that the government was interfering with grocery shoppers the beverage the sugary beverage and history came out they hired lawyers they hired lobbyists they found people within the community to come out and say please don't tell us what to eat or what to drink this is not a nanny state we want to make decisions on our own they spent millions of dollars as a matter of fact they outspent us almost $6.00 to $1.00 me a break i can just side what to buy without government help the government is just

getting too involved in our personal lives. government. health advocates were able to mobilize citizen protests against the recalcitrant industry we're going to. this bad doctors and politicians lining up outside of san francisco city hall framing the sugar sweetened beverage debate as the people versus big soda he no longer can think back and let the big go to enda street target and hurt our community. the tax was finally voted in. the victory was better. when san francisco moved to require health warnings on soda containers like the ones on cigarettes the soft drink lobby sued once again and won on appeal. the warning labels were shelved. the same method had been used in new york city when mayor michael bloomberg

suggested a loan limiting the size of jumbo sodas sold in restaurants. bloomberg was mocked as a scolding nanny and the courts ruled in the industry's favor. in this faceoff between corporate freedom and consumer protection freedom once again seemed to be the private property of the most powerful i represent a part of san francisco that was emigrate people people who speak english as a 2nd language people who live in subsidized housing public housing tenements and the one thing that we all had in common was that we were dying from preventable diseases dying and you know it was just really hard to accept. and

thing like people didn't care the industry didn't care they continued to target their money and their resources to get people addicted so that they become wealthier. we sweeten the world wide because the markets no longer were growing in europe in

the u.s. so coke and pepsi and all the clones all the local companies that do the same thing exploded their marketing in the lower and middle income countries mexico was the 1st country to be colonized by these agribusiness conquerors. today 73 percent of the population is obese or overweight 10 percent have diabetes which has become the primary cause of death. that's in the attention of the whole world focused on mexico to figure out why the rate of obesity and overweight and sort of. sugary imperialists attacked one of mexico's greatest treasures its cuisine valued by unesco as part of our world heritage because the consumption of fruits and vegetables dropped by 30 percent because well

if consumption of beans has fallen by 50 percent in 20 years in 14 years consumption of sweetened beverages has grown by 40 percent. and make it in mexico there are one and a half 1000000 places to buy soft drinks and junk food. is one for public health it's a criminal situation where the police are. nothing else. each mexican drinks a whopping $144.00 quarts of soda per year on the average a world record. in a country that elected a former coca-cola executive to the presidency challenging the food industry might appear to be impossible but not for a $100.00 cal deal. is the perfect day for here we are in front of the ministry of

health with a frankenstein symbolizing the monstrous obesity prevention policy created in collusion with the junk food and soft drink industry s. . head of a small consumer advocacy group and the under. organized the resistance. he found a precious ally within the health ministry itself simon back era i researcher in nutrition i do not have that 2 different visions are at war one is public interest health policy and the other is economic interest who is going to win. because we're right. it took 11 years of fierce struggle battling censors who rejected clip after clip before the researcher and the activist finally succeeded in taxing sodas and junk food in mexico. it was the 1st soda tax in north america. was i do them what the tax is really effective because

in the 2 years that followed consumption of sweetened beverages fell in mexico and in the world's largest consumer of soft drinks in with and it went down to 4th place where. encouraged by the success of the tax 20 associations joined the effort led by kelly oh and back era they demanded a nutritional labeling system and they also hope to raise the tax from 10 to 20 percent. apparently these demands were unacceptable to mysterious nameless opponents. your theme is i got a message on my mobile. a text with a link to joy i clicked on the link. in the i would your it took me to the website of mexico city's main funeral. making. those understood it is

a death threat. cmon. your daughter and they cited her name has had an automobile accident and she is at the hospital in critical condition for further information click here. simon your daughter is just had an accident it is very serious come quickly she's been taken here. police are still trying to identify the suspect who sent these threatening text. me now i live in paradoxical times other merchandise can easily cross borders in danger and local producers and junk food is conquering the world barriers are raised to keep human beings out the. eat eat eat was yes yes 6. the revolution came from

a country at america's southern tip chile despite the fact that for 30 years it has been the darling of free market enthusiastic the anti obesity movement is led by a senator. for years he has been fighting to dislodge his people from their rank as 3rd world wide in overweight and obesity and if you thought you had been good i was called the devil in one newspaper editorial a devil persecuting those poor corporations they have tried to discredit us but if they have threatened us and assaulted us i miss you but if we were not intimidated by pinochet we will not be intimidated by the multinationals no matter how powerful they may be. in the past several years senator greedo girardi a former pediatrician has attracted the industry's ire he has been a fearless crusader in public health protection. first he braved the billionaire

president sebastian pinera as official data then he had to overcome the industry's campaign to denigrate him. finally the law passed in 2016 it was the type of song agribusiness dreads most it would inevitably the 1st right we gain with this law is the right to know who we created labels that tell you at a glance whether the product contains excessive sugar salt fat or calories. in seconds you're informed if we wanted something a 6 year old child could understand. that if it were products that they're a warning label are banned from television commercials because we refuse to have trash advertised on television they're also banned from online advertising they cannot contain toys or stickers they are banned from using those sneaky ways to grab children's attention. to be with. the

police when the newest fraudulent advertising violates the human rights of children and all the united nations treaties that are supposed to defend children's rights and health. we accuse these corporations of pedophilia because they abuse children that is why i have had extremely violent conflicts with some of them. but the industry argued that the legislation would be ineffective and would penalize the poor but only 2 years after it would into effect a virtuous circle for. a little piece of good news is that many of the products we thought it would be impossible to reformulate because the industry told us that it was technically impossible are now made with less sodium and less sugar. the industry itself says that 20 percent of its products have been reformulated for certain categories of products the improvement is even greater from this viewpoint

it really is a success. that let's say you have a textbook. chemical company. and that same 18 month with 25 percent reduction and purchases of sugary beverages and children. that's unprecedented and we're seeing large reductions of all the ultra processed junk foods as well. that is the 1st time we've saved the glimmer of a country that life changed the norms toward healthy eating. that she lay in food revolution has inspired action in neighboring countries peru has instituted the same labels and iraq way is about to do so and dramatically mexico is joining them its new president and congress have just passed new legislation requiring the same

kind of labeling rice chile with my years. on the other side of the atlantic the contrast to striking europe's neutral score labeling is fairly tenet compared to the black labels in chile only a few countries have adopted it and it is not even mandatory. but is back in 20102011 the european union debated instituting a clear mandatory labeling system of course the corporations opposed the measure by their own admission they spent over 1000000000 euros lobbying to remove the mandatory stipulation. another winning strategy for corporate interests in germany has been to play the role of allies in the fight against obesity. this commercial produced by a supermarket chain promises a commitment to promoting healthy foods to help children make their dreams come true. but is it really wise to trust the industry.

and a wave of overweight and obesity the size of a tsunami is headed for germany but politicians refuse to admit it it is hard to understand how such a highly developed country can be so backward when it comes to prevention that has . does hurt him but the corporate lobbies are extremely powerful in germany and. even today economic interest is invariably a higher priority than public health at the here but. the german government counts on the industry's ability to regulate itself it does not impose either taxes on sugary beverages or restrictions on advertising. it is estimated that by 2040 about 12000000 germans will have diabetes this is tragic.

the challenges of our times are clustered in obesity. an explosion of chronic diseases endangers health care systems. market leviathans limit action on government policy. capital intensive agriculture drives the junk food juggernaut. the whole sugar peddling mass market food industry wants to addict us to cheap empty calories that lead to chronic disease let's refuse to obey.

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this is deja vu news live from berlin germany's covert 19 crisis with daily infections and deaths are still at very high levels chance i'm going back oh it is alive in berlin right now preparing to field questions from the press among them is likely to be why does the country's vaccination drive appear to be stalling. if i'm serious almost.