it's with how you feel about the products you consume. for example. heinz ketchup and nothing else you drink your favorite. everyone has a favorite snack food. or restaurant. you have come to believe that betty crocker and the pillsbury doughboy and. your internal dialogue rationalizes these products can be dangerous otherwise some government agency would put a stop to it. wrong this perception is carefully crafted by all the parties that stand to make a financial gain. to these companies you are dead a projection a demographic. a potential purchaser or revenue generator there's nothing more to the story don't let tony the tiger. i received a phone call from stephen joseph he told me about

a high school teacher when. she was teaching advanced health class at a specialty high school in new york city her students were doing research about the use of trans fats in our food so we met up with them to talk about the project. how many people trans fats. really. keep your hands up. i mean i like what you said over here you had a great comment obviously if these words aren't good for you i mean nobody goes and it's a twinkie or big mac thinking it's healthy food you know it's not good but this is amazing because this is the thing that really got me was that foods that i thought were healthy foods that i was feeding my two and a half year old daughter at home and that's what really got me upset. oh. i thought i was always.

the hydrogenated oils everywhere. which is the way it's always literature and. i think i need a gun so it's not when i'm babysitting and i looked in the back and said there were a chance but i was surprised to see that hydrogenated must think it's the whole. pop tarts all those part of the street spread logs which. you would look out for because it's. a labeling is really confusing it's been an important step forward to require the transplants be on the food label sort of gives consumers some awareness about the amount of transfer out there but it's very confusing because it's legal to own up to half a gram of transfer out you know product and still have a zero there in the line for trans fats.

everybody knows when zero means except in washington zero does not mean zero zero means up to half a gram when we're talking about transfer hydrogenated vegetable oil the optimal safe amount is zero. they only have to label half a gram per serving so you still need to read your ingredient label. so that the chance that. one knows that it's. all off store there see transfer because. you need major scientific equipment to determine whether or not this translates into probably what you're supposed to do take the equipment to a restaurant with you and test the food to see if it's got transcribed and if zero doesn't mean zero that food companies might be lying when they put zero grams of trans person on the front of packages. i had to spend a weekend at the university of maryland chemistry lab to find out. i have been

presented with these five samples of. films and they've asked me to analyze them or transfer content. first one is a promise. and it has zero trans on the label and the new chris go has zero trans on the label. so will take the sample and homogenize it. and that's what will be analyzed for the trans fatty acids.

every food sample that we had tested was labeled as having zero grams of trans fat per cent of it unfortunately all of these foods contain the deadly grade in the most surprising promise margarine which contains zero point four six grams of trans fat per serving. and so if the savvy consumer looks at the ingredients partially hydrogenated vegetable all of that means trance fats so how can it say zero and still be contained partially hydrogenated vegetable oils confusion is not a good thing i think we really probably should not be allowing zero there unless there is no partially hydrogenated vegetable oil in the product after i started really reading labels i noticed some truly disturbing processed foods. bars are

designed specifically for people with diabetes. you know those two harvard researchers just told us how transplant them hydrogenated oils insulin resistance and lead to diabetes. why would any companies partially hydrogenated oil in a product made exclusively for diabetics. what about slim fast if trans fats are causing obesity why on earth are they putting these oils in the diet products that is crazy. this really got me thinking about the foods i've been feeding my daughter. my food companies using other dangerous ingredients in these foods. during my research on the effects of trans fat i was surprised by some other corporate ingredients that i found. bleached wheat flour this is the first ingredient on so many product labels. during processing the

wheat is sprayed with chlorine gas the same thing as your household bleach but in gas form. that leach bottle in your laundry room has a warning against consumption written on it for a reason. why are they putting this in our food. why are we eating foods that are manufactured like this. by processing wheat flour with bleach these corporations are doing more than adding a potentially poisonous ingredient there stripping the wheat of its nutritional value and creating a need for enriched vitamins. and you think of vitamins what do you visualize is it a picture of an orange pill form. if so you have the wrong image. right right. the a bridge vitamins they put cereals breads and other food products do not come from natural sources like an orange. to be vitamins and in rich flour come from

chemicals petroleum bacteria and rocks. modern dike less right up the last part of the trans fat puzzle. safire's used to replace expensive ingredients like butter cream and eggs because they have a marker shelf life if you bake your cakes in home you don't get all if you do whatever make your own home hollandaise sauce or some people you know you don't so it's all part of the. i don't have time to cook and we thought quick there are thousands of them on the market but the only way to examine the and greedy and tomato and legless rides is by reading the patent application on file at the u.s. patent office according to documents many contain partially hydrogenated oils as the base for their formula since there is less than half a gram per serving of companies using these ingredients have no legal obligation to tell you that trans fats are present. the only way to eliminate this poison from

your diet is to read the label on everything you eat if we stop buying it they will stop making it. the majority of the food that you can comes from somewhere just like this. and the stuff that doesn't come from the well you get it from a place like this or even some place like this or in a place like. more than any other country but what you're here. for.

growth in the restaurant industry has skyrocketed from one nine hundred fifty. back then restaurant sales were about fourteen billion dollars a year in two thousand and eight in the restaurant industry reached over five hundred fifty dollars that's five hundred fifty thousand million dollars. in comprehensible number the fast food industry claimed over one hundred seventy billion dollars and mcdonald's the undisputed champion of fast food captured a billion dollars in one year. the food industry uses the cheapest ingredients and food to sell their goods and affordable price to the consumer. this results in the most gradients and processes to deliver the cheapest possible product. in the meantime as we keep these adulterated foods their wage and. speed in the disease process and.

irresponsible health care system. most people think the f.d.a. will protect them from these harmful practices. from the truth right now the f.d.a. is doing more to protect the manufacturers. now that you have entered the health care machine you get to deal with all the

paperwork and red tape that come with any insurance company but now it applies to your health. the emotional burden of being processed given the standard package solution usually drugs. more drugs means more money and you spend your money on treatment all you can afford is more cheap food. it can be pretty tricky for consumers to navigate the treacherous waters of food choices and honestly trans fats are just the tip of the iceberg. did you know that the f.d.a. allows over fourteen thousand chemical food additives in our food supply and nobody nobody is testing the interactions of these chemicals inside your body. not the

people making them not the people selling them and not even the people regulating them. there's a lot of lawyers in washington d.c. some good some bad bending going as one of the good ones for eighteen years he was a researcher investigator and legal counsel at the food and drug administration he explained how the regulatory agency does its job. i've case primary mission is to protect the public. their job is to to both try to prevent unsafe products from getting on the market that could affect consumers their jurisdiction is actually quite broad they have jurisdiction over over foods and pharmaceuticals and f.d.a. has a lot of responsibility and a wide jurisdiction so it's easy to get confused about how they actually operate what does the f.d.a. do. you have to help me with my diet out there presumably. to

make sure that. so i work for the f.d.a. i say. it's regulated. and we regulate about a third of the nation's economy third of the nation's economy they're trying their best but they were overwhelmed by all the different products that are out there right now and it makes pretty scary keeping out of the public is losing confidence in the food supply the safety of the food supply and that's bad news for the food industry if people don't trust that these products are safe enough to protect. the f.d.a. doesn't have the authority to recall foods he relies on food companies in a sense the industry. is kind of regulating itself and has been for probably twenty

years and so you end up with the agency trying to balance the interests and this is where i think they're one of the political conflict because many people would argue that they're the only injuries they should be balancing is the risk for the consumer that's what they should be focusing on for many years the food and drug administration has considered partially hydrogenated oil to be generally recognized to say and for many years who was but in the last twenty years it's been generally recognized as dangerous and the f.d.a. is derelict in not getting it out of our food supply. we tried to set up an interview with someone from the f.d.a. and we even stopped by the headquarters for a visit staying outside. it denied it and only had one question i. think it was last. represents one third of our economy why isn't the food and drug administration doing a thorough job of regulating it all thanks to some early security people in films

not. we came we saw. and they conquered i know a lot of people who are having difficult times reaching the agency and some of them are in the press and some of them are consumers and some of them are consumer advocates and some of them are attorneys trying to represent their clients there's a lot of work there for the f.d.a. to do to protect the public's health it doesn't have the funding to do it in all too often it doesn't have the will to do it either thanks to wealthy corporations and a dysfunctional government the f.d.a. lacks the funding and staff to protect the food supply that has been left to private citizens i'm a former lobbyist i used to lobby in washington d.c. i love it there for you testified in congress i never bothered trying to get anything done in washington d.c. because i knew immediately i was going to be coming up against congressman services who would be. on the receiving end of campaign contributions from food companies and a part of it is the media we have so much media hype today i call it media nutrition

media supplements and individuals today are really being told by magazines and newspapers what's healthy and what's not healthy term and here's something very significant you are being told what the food manufacturers want you to hear. all in favor by post of. the parents thank you very much a unanimous vote by the new york city board of health means by july of two thousand and eight to serve at all of new york city's twenty six thousand restaurants will be free of trans fat. it is up to the state law to make sure of the food supply they focus on the kind of morning you know the deli component in our food supply in

the cooking oil we should take it out and make sure that the health and well being of california are of most importance to all of those awful years especially here in california for example we've got the use of lead paint so we know the lead of that for public health but we know the track that is that a lot alike than that of the. doctor first or told us earlier that modern medicine has failed in preventing the diseases that are affecting us most he says it's because our focus has been on treatments and the treatments are far too expensive. so what we should do it now we have to focus our attention we should search why we fail. is greed is created that's what. you talk about dreaming dreaming. and getting paid are directly

correlated. i believe the reason that people not associated food with the disease is because a part of it is they don't understand that what you eat becomes you transfer that in some ways really like ionizing radiation we know that it's very dangerous a million doses of high doses and it's really impossible to say that there's any safe level so i think the sensible thing is really to have no trans fats from partially hydrogenated oils in our diets people forget the major impact the diet has on the public's health it's easy to forget when the food tastes so good kind of foods we're reading are a major cause of obesity heart disease cancer diabetes still pro-science tooth decay and are in fact one of the great challenges we have today how we promote health or how we prevent strokes and heart attacks so what is the. the answer is not me telling you

these the answer is you because the american public knows very well they would take a mention see how it is markings bad blood pressure back lack of it just say see spot but then you'll know. so these she's not to have to tell you the issues are you ready in your life to put yourself as a priority or you are not. health should be everyone's priority and the bottom line is that trans fats and processed foods do not contribute to healthy living i was suing because trust make sure i was certain because trans for which. foods that contain these harmful fats are not part of the nutritional diet and if you're eating trans fat i urge you to stop. learning more and more about how what we need facts are one term health and well being we find that over processing

of food is having many severe consequences. eliminating them from your diet can be a first step on the road to healthy living killing ourselves and we killing ourselves are we digging our own graves with our teeth. personal responsibility is the cornerstone of any diet change the other is good information . you have to look past the food companies in the media because their sales german enterprises they're not concerned with your health. their main concern is the shelf life of the product and army concerns the shelf life of the individual . all markets are sales driven. if we start buying healthier foods in these companies may be forced to sell us healthier foods. you have to take responsibility for yourself you can't wait for your government or these corporations to regulate the safety of our food the f.d.a. is is is inspecting virtually nothing when it comes in the united states market.

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kevin owen with our top story and his most famous movie role was the terminator but now his mission is innovation rather than extermination california governor arnold schwarzenegger has come to moscow with high tech investment prospects in mind for a trip on a vintage car with dmitri medvedev has shown the side of russia's own silicon valley thoughts nigga said that california would help russia build the project and will happily share scientific. expertise the government was joined by leading american business figures interested in investing in russia's future and the wife was busy sched jewel the governator also found time for an unexpected journey to because. it was morning rush hour in the most the subway the passengers album wring their way through the crowd there is little that can make them pause at this time but here he was the terminator i'm not sure if they did you know the more i saw lots of people on camera flashes then the security service came out fall.