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nightmare stories, june, 4th. oh d w ah ah . the obesity epidemic has the most important international health problem. let me get that done earlier in my life i thought that my weight was all my fault. i felt like a failure and frankly unworthy. and it took me awhile to really start questioning most beliefs and challenging those thoughts like well,

are you really a failure? and the answer is no, i'm not. i'm not. but it took a while to get to that point. obesity. a blob of our arrows fantasies caught in a web of prejudice. it prompts scolding for poor choices and accusations of laziness. omnipotent genes provide an alibi. but what if obesity were a collective failure? not an individual one. the symptom of a free market that hates fat but produces fat so's an a b. so genic society ah, it's a global phenomenon. not one country has halted. ah, right now there are 2000000000 people adults and children who are overweight. busy

or obese, visited by magic, it takes work and you need to look at who it is that is driving that process. with 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 are governments taken the right tack? ah at least 2 thirds of men and women in the u. k. are overweight and the rates are

still finding the city life changing impacts on the book. it is slowly low your quality of life. according to the messages 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, make the change we are told it's up to us. but is it really for me, the most difficult stigma cope well is this idea that that people have no willpower. the people in larger bodies, people's obesity don't have a well bower or else they wouldn't carry excess. wait because we're told so often that that's all it takes to lose way. go to the gym fowl,

this diet program. you know, if you just stick to it, you'll get there. for public health officials were shrink a little personal will power 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 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 lean person and say, ah, they have set will power there. so moral and strong, and then look at someone with a weight problem and attribute all of these negative traits. oh, they're just weak. they don't have will power. it's not at the individual level.

it's not individual will power. and if we go on believing that will never change this obesity epidemic. hey, every body, you know, getting active every day helps us all be healthy and feel great. the same old ernest advice about exercise is proffered with the best intentions. in 2010, michelle obama launched a campaign against childhood re city. the 1st lady lent her sassy sachet to move your body aiming to set healthy your standards for food served in school lunchroom . we send our kids to school. we have a right to expect that they won't be eating the kind of fatty salty, sugary food that we're trying to keep from them when they're at home. unfortunately, michelle obama was on the right track right from the beginning. and i think she got derailed by a mixture of bad advisors. and by bringing in the food, the food companies and they were able to dilute her very powerful message down to

something where, you know, it's just her own tick television, encouraging people to, to move that way rather than, let's move together. or as a movement to be able to trans wilma food system, better became more beyond, say, easily upstage the public service message. i a boon to the multi nationals who quickly joined the dance in 2015. coca cola created the global energy balance network. a world wide think tank dedicated to solving the obesity problem gets out by promoting exercise. most of the focus in the popular media and in the scientific press is overheating too much eating too much eating too much, blaming fast food, blaming sugar drinks and so, and there's really virtually no compelling evidence at that. in fact is

a co professor, steve blair is one of the head researchers recruited for the network. he's a specialists in physical exercise that may be the reason they're eating more calories than they need is because they're not burning many. so we need to be involved in just a few years due to this campaigns spearheaded by coca cola. thus 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 corporations product and private interest. i just wanna be okay. oh here's how that translates into marketing launch. i just wanna be ok. the industry has been focused on the story of calories and calories out. no, you can drink what you want. just go, go on a job 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 and 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 fat accumulation equals sort of talary then minus calories out. and they say, well that's always true because if you look at from, from a physics perspective, that is always true. but the problem is that that's physics and we're dealing with human physiology and 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 short while,

but your body will fight back. and over the long term we know that metabolism is stronger than will power. mm hm. all right. if individual will power is not to blame what caused the steep rise in the obesity curve starting in the 1980s. so what's the difference between 197-2019? while 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 the, the types of food and the frequency of the foods that we eat. mm hm. and 40 years our eating habits of undergone are real revolution, fomented by public health policies of the late 19 seventies. at the time, cardiovascular disease was the grim reaper causing millions of debts. the senate special committee on nutrition is looking into the connection between diet and hot the sugar lobby succeeded in having

a high fat diet declared guilty. a false verdict that had serious consequences. public health officials recommended that we reduce our intake of fats, grains touted as cluster all free, replaced meat as a staple food. and so eating more brad more rice more potatoes, for example, because they're very low fat and, you know, eating less dairy less meet low fat dairy. that kind of thing. that was the standard advice for so many years. and i think that is the most likely culprit as to why people have gain weight 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 a live? well processed grans and sugar ah, agro industry, slight of hand made the transition, painless, sugar, a cheaper placement for fat,

made light, food, tasty and addictive. chemist went to work extruding, ingredients, supermarket shelves, filled with attractively package, starches, reprocessed, his 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 off and the main hormone that's involved in energy metabolism is insulin. insulin determines whether 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 ourselves. 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 or fat cells, the fat tissue in her body takes up to many calories and holds onto 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 are fast foods shimmery beverages. job foods that were snacking on. they die just very quickly, that they don't provide much satiety. so it's these processed carbohydrates, the dr wager. despite the negative impact these ultra process foods have on metabolism,

nothing has stopped their spread group. it's profitable to sell food. that is fatty and sugary and salty and addictive. is much less profitable to sell food that is wholesome. that is high end fiber and is minimally processed. so what's driving the obesity epidemic? it's corporate profit. mm. this dietary revolution has fathered empires, nestle unilever, coca cola, kellogg's pepsico. 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 not only that food company,

it's not just the nestle and dan arms and cokes and pepsi's. it's the food retailer, if it's the wal mart and curry force, it's the agribusinesses are huge. that control all the supplies commodities. and then it also the marketers, it's all the advertisers making money from marketing junk food and beverages to people. so we're talking about a massive, massive component of our society is focused on selling the world. unhealthy food and beverage. ah, the suit 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 stuck up these low income consumers sitting ducks are the primary victims of the system. ah,

the food industry says it's your fault. but the reality is they've changed the whole food environment. they've created a food environment where every place you turn it on your smartphone. if it's on seeing a billboard, if 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. ah, 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 tv. but the industry is ingenuous. it infiltrates new areas, like social networks or online games. slick

marketing hides the fact that junk food causes one of the most devastating diseases that exists. diabetes to day it kills one person every 6 seconds around the world. 45 years ago, if i told you that i have an 18 year olds, patient in my clinic with type 2 diabetes, you would have said, oh my gosh, it's incredible. it's so rare. it's so strain. now it's very commonplace that young people, children have type 2 diabetes. oh, 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 it. one

of every 2 african american children will develop diabetes. one at every 5 african american children is obese. the rate is even higher among hispanics. a young woman spoke out and triggered a rebellion. we eat like leaf still slaves. yesterday i decided to write down some ingredients my day to day diet birth. there was a 1000000 things back in math for now. and then there was sugar, flour, sugar, hijacking it oil pi, fruitful corn syrup. white powder hi futon for sugar. died on the what he died ready to die, die die. i heard a young woman who was 16 at the time, and she performed a poem that even now it made the 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. in fact, whether christopher, haven't even now diabetes, that by it's white day, it's like suicide. gene shillinger is coordinating the energy his non profit youth speaks, halts writing workshops for young people in the bay area. he wants to use wrap in spoken word to raise consciousness. and thwart food industry propaganda. this idea that they were being lied to. that's what inspired them to become change agents. that's what turned their palm from 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, i'm at the water hole and trying to see which one to make the biggest way. i want to rent the middle, my dad, the weird thing was to wake up home, walked to the bus that passed mcdonalds, the liquor store is past papa. past the 1st burger king. it's the 38 to the 2nd burger king or my favorite around hash browns almost again, brown bodies room. and i don't know if we love burger king or just loving hungry, written and performed chiefly by young hispanics and african americans. the videos garnered over a 1000000 views on youtube. meanwhile,

3000 miles away on the east coast. another activist has risen up and commandeered a podium to tell a community it has been decimated. and how this is a crisis in our community. and for me as 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 own in his combat against this evil, reverend coats is not inhibited by the conventions associated with his calling. now this can of soda palm right. there are 39 grams of sugar. 39 grams of sugar. in one case of soul, now how many teaspoons of sugar is that? anyone know how?

almost 10 d sponsors are. so i want to see how much that is and maybe a hair. ah, this is how much sugar is in just one drink. right? and our children are getting pre diabetic by the age of 9 in tin, borderline diabetes. by the time that 13 years old. and we are sabotage of an entire generation of our people because of sugar. pastor william the more of an dillman coach at mount in and baptist church, and clinton, maryland are so in coca cola and the american beverage association right was do this. the war had moved to the courtroom. delma coats dared to sick the law on the coca cola corporation. ah,

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? we want coca cola to in their deceptive marketing practices. they have spent $120000000.00 in 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 dropped coca cola statement. the allegations here are likewise legally and factually meritus and we will vigorously defend against them. the allegations are like coca cola misled

consumers about the science of sugar sweetened beverages because several of their i executives went out in the press and made statements like there is no link between sugar sweeten beverages and diabetes. and we know that is not the case for over 20 years, the soft drink industry has denied any link between its products and disease to maintain the illusion it employs all sorts of methods. since 2015 coca leaks has revealed that the lobby puts pressure on journalists, keeps discredit on studies. it dislikes finances, favorable research, and hobnob with political leaders to ensure these results contact was established within the senate. we will actively campaign to register that a soft during 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, then to avoid against ground within the party. appointed to serve as scientific expert by the city and county of san francisco. dean shillinger must untangled the truth from falsehood. when we did the analysis of these studies, we found that every study but found that there was no association between sugary beverage consumption and obese in diabetes was funded in some way by the industry. whereas among all the studies that found that there was an association between the consumption of soda and sugary beverages and obesity, diabetes, except for one, were independently funded. so we now know, and there's other evidence that industry has been i'm influencing very deeply. the medical and scientific establishment to create controversy over the question

of whether their products cause disease. mm hm. the junk food industry is cornered all over the globe activists are demanding tighter legislation to protect consumers. the battle has now become political here in the 30 years since warning labels and other forms of regulation were placed on tobacco over 1000000000 lives have been saved. i say that's a pretty good day at the office for people who make policy malea. colin and one of her fellow supervisors have made san francisco the 1st he was 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, a researchers that talked 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 began to tax sugary beverages from imposing attacks is virtually revolutionary in the united states. the industry raged. it's as pitch the line that the government was interfering with grocery shoppers. the beverage a sugary beverage industry 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, the out spent us almost $6.00 to $1.00. give me a break. i can decide what to buy without government help. the government is just

getting to involved in our personal lives, tell the candidates government lease to to remain public health advocates. we're able to mobilize citizen protests against the recalcitrant industry. we're going to win 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 sit back and let the big soda enders drink target and her our community . mm. mm. the tax was finally voted in. the victory was bitter when san francisco moved to require health warnings on soda containers like the ones on cigarettes. the soft drink lobby, sued once again, and one on appeal. the warning labels were shelved the same method had been used in new york city. when mayor michael bloomberg

suggested a law limiting the size of jumbo soda sold and restaurants. bloomberg was marked as a scolding nanny and the courts ruled in the industries favor. ah, in this face off 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 a margaret, 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, that was just really hard to accept. in

theme like people didn't care. the industry didn't care. they continued to target their money and the resources to get people addict it so that they become wealthier. ah, oh, a . we've sweetened the world died because the market no longer were growing in

europe in the us. so coke and pepsi and all the clones, all the local companies that do the same thing exploded and marketing him in low 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. letting the attention of the whole world focused on mexico to figure out why the rate of obesity in overweight had sought to go with the sugar imperialist, attacked one of mexico's greatest treasures. it's cuisine valued by unesco as part of our world heritage and cosmo. the consumption of fruits and vegetables dropped

by 30 percent. of course from water consumption at beams has fallen by 50 percent in 20 years ago. in 14 years, consumption of sweetened beverages has grown by 40 percent in mexico in mexico. oh me you. there are one and a half 1000000 places to buy soft drinks and junk food. they 5 years has required others that only the job is love it for public health. it's a criminal situation or less handles it upholstered about. if 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 alejandro castillo is that okay, for here we are in front of the ministry of health, frank with

a frankenstein only has symbolizing the monstrous obesity prevention policy web created in collusion with the junk food network and soft drink industries. head of a small consumer advocacy group. alejandro castillo, organized the resistance. he found a precious ally within the health ministry itself. simon, back era i researcher and nutrition, iona gala 2 different visions are at war. one is public interest health policy and the other is economic interest. who is going to win us enough of because we're right at us. and it took 11 years of fierce struggle battling sensors 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 so the tax in north america east up was i knew them what the tax was really

effective because in the 2 years that followed consumption of suite and beverages fell, get us in mexico had been the world's largest consumer of soft drinks. it in and it went down to life worth places where encouraged by the success of the tax 20 associations joined the effort led by cal dio and bow kara. they demanded a nutritional labeling system. and they also hoped to raise the tax from 10 to 20 per cent. mm. apparently these demands were unacceptable to mysterious nameless opponents. joris have you miss? i got a message on my mobile is, hey, macy. a text with a league. joy clicked on the link earlier. he, me, i would, he only took me to the website of mexico city's main funeral home idea. they mexico

and thought i understood it was a death threat took on when i'm enough seaman to simon. it is your daughter, me, and they cited her name it the one that has had an automobile accident all is done and she is at the hospital in critical condition. is he good for further information yet? only click here simon. your daughter is just had an accident. it is very serious. come quickly, she has been taken here. police are still trying to identify the suspect, who sent these threatening text me. we live in paradoxical times, although merchandise can easily cross borders, endangering local producers and junk food is conquering the world barriers arrays to keep human beings out. oh. 6 6 ah, the revolution came from

a country at americas southern tip chile, despite the fact that for 30 years, it has been the darling of free market enthusiasts. 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 and overweight and obesity. and not any thought yet. and yet i was called the devil in one newspaper. editorial, a devil persecuting those poor corporations. and besides, they have tried to discredit us. secondly, they've threatened us enough and assaulted us. i sort of, we were not intimidated by pinochet's yogurt. we will not be intimidated by the multinational. so no matter how powerful they may be. in the past several years, senator guido gerardi, a former pediatrician, has attracted the industries ire. he has been a fearless crusader in public health protection. first,

he braved millionaire president sebastian king era's official veto. then he had to overcome the industry's campaign to denigrate him. finally, the law passed in 2016. it was the type of bomb agribusiness dreads most. it will have until the 1st right we gained with this law is the right to know law. we created labels that tell you at a glance off whether the product contains excessive sugar salt fat or calories, cecelia in seconds. your informed thought that he wanted something a 6 year old child could understand. nathaniel blaylock open that if it were products that bear a warning label are banned from television commercial skeleton because we refuse to have trash and advertised on television. they are also banned from online advertising look way that they cannot contain toys or stickers where they are banned from using their sneaky ways to grab children's attention. they don't,

they said you will probably be with the poorly seeing the newest fraudulent advertising violates the human rights of children and all the united nations treaties that are supposed to defend the children's rights and health. we accuse these corporations of pedophilia, of course they abused children. that is why i have had extremely violent conflicts with some of them. let them in. the industry argued that the legislation would be ineffective and would penalize the poor. but only 2 years after it went into effect, a virtuous circle formed lebanon, obese, had the good news, is that many of the products we thought it would be impossible to reformulate. what? because the industry told us that it was technically impossible, are now made with less sodium unless sugar. how is folio lumber, how the industry itself says that 20 percent of its products have been reformulated? the order for certain categories of products. the improvement is even greater. i

think from this viewpoint it really is a success that well the let's say you never fixed the gimmick with in that same 18 months we saw 25 percent reduction and purchases of sugar. we beverages. and surely that's unprecedented. and we're seeing large reductions and all the ultra process junk foods as well. that is the 1st time we've seen the glimmer of a country that might change the norms toward healthy eating, which lay in food revolution has inspired action and neighboring countries. peru has instituted the same labels and uruguay is about to do so. and dramatically mexico is joining them. and it's new president and congress have just passed new legislation requiring the same kind of labeling as chili. what my dear joe, what?

on the other side of the atlantic, the contrast is striking. europe's nutri score labeling is fairly timid compared to the black labels in chile. only a few countries have adopted it and it is not even mandatory. oh, but he's back in 20102011. the european union debated instituting a clear mandatory labeling system. of course the corporations oppose the measure. by their own admission. they spent over 1000000000 euros lobbying to remove the mandatory stipulation writers law. so she'll so another winning strategy for corporate interests in germany has been to play the role of allies and 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?

oh, i know villa and a wave of overweight and obesity. the size of a tsunami is headed for germany, the pretty but politicians refused to admit it yet as associate. it is hard to understand how such a highly developed country can be so backward when it comes to prevention hooks with his does not in but the corporate lobbies are extremely powerful in germany lobby and our talent hot even to day economic interest is invariably a higher priority than public health, hopefully he'll belong on 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. however, it is estimated that by 2040 about 12000000 germans will have diabetes. this is tragic as, as tomatoes ah,

the challenges of our times are clustered in obesity. an explosion of chronic diseases and dangerous health care systems. market leviathan's 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 refused to obey. ah

ah ah, it's small and we wonder which industries are profiting from it? are we on the verge of a global upheaval? and what would that mean? let's take a closer look. me in germany, in 30 minutes, d w. into the conflict zone with to sebastian.

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