what we eating before corporations were relentlessly marketing foods to us. this film is not just about food it's about the changes in our food supply the changes in the quality of our food. as a nurse i work in hospitals and one thing remains the same throughout the mall there are too many sick people. it seems all diseases are on the rise. how many people do you know with heart problems diabetes. the hospitals are full and there's not enough nurses to properly take care of them all. the quality of our food is decreasing and the number of sick people are increasing there has to be a connection. the majority of americans are overweight and at the same time malnourished is it because refined grains or excess sugar intake what about chemical food additives what role do they play on our health. thousands of chemicals are allowed to be used in our food supply. what is polysorbate sixty. do

you know what a partially hydrogenated oil is. this is the question my producer asked one day while they were in the grocery store i didn't know so he began telling me that it was bad for the heart and how he didn't eat them he said it's in most processed foods so i started reading labels and found it in hundreds of products. when i realized it was in food that i was feeding my toddler i did my research. i found out it had devastating consequences to our house especially the heart which is the focus of my nursing career as a father a husband a nurse and a filmmaker the next logical step was to make this movie.

war. what is a hydrogenated oil. and russian it boy. i don't know if. that's a good question josh and they did all this something you put in your cotton make it run smooth and oil that's healthier for you than other oils they've heard today i don't know exactly what it is i don't know and while that has maybe an extra h. will molecule in it i don't know what an idea no clue i have no idea but i think it's really defining what sort of good while hydrogenated oil of believe is a boil that is sure mainly altered oil cooked or in the fact that no to

manufacturing the wage were good thoughts if something flowed through it i'm like oh i don't know as i or environments if i did something in my size right i don't remember any other battery of decent cars. comes out of mcdonald's or try to make them trying to. annoy all that is banned if you water get a lot of packages and food must be preserved some time spent discussing something to the scruff of the. so what is a hydrogenated oil hydrogenated oil is a man made fat a trans fat you see that's just a big molecule that's made mostly of carbon the carbon atoms are bonded together like a chain they're hydrogen atoms attached along the chain and if the carbon chain is completely saturated with hydrogen that's a saturated fat and if there are some missing spots. that's an onset treated that

get it ok so what is transferred in transfer it's in as a. bizarro type of. unsaturated fatty acid where the double bond is present but the hydrogen atoms that are attached to the carbon chain are on the opposite side of the carbon chain. just about all of the polyunsaturated fats in nature have the carbon atoms on the same side it's sis but with industrial processing of vegetable oils the bonds get rearranged so the hydrogen atoms are on opposite sides of the king you might say well who cares where the hydrogen atoms are after all. but it turns out that we have evolved to deal with fatty acids that have the hydrogen in the same side so this we have not evolved to deal with these new kinds of fatty acids

that are produced through industrial processing of vegetable oils and this is actually wreaking havoc with our health. let's take a look at how these trans fats are made. the process of hydrogenation starts with a plant that is harvested and then transported to a processing facility here chemical solvents are used to extract oil from the plant . the oil is then bleached deodorized and eventually pressurized in a tank that is heated to over four hundred degrees fahrenheit thiis extreme temperatures allow a chemical reaction to occur when heavy metals are added as a catalyst through the most commonly used a little and all that gold and cobalt none of which should be consumed by humans. finally hydrogen gas is the last into the tank and bonded to the oil the result is two types of hydrogenated oils only and partially partially hydrogenated oils are

the ones preferred by the food restaurant industry but in either case the molecular structure of the oil has been changed and it is no longer in its natural state. problem here is that we really and truly have no. hydrogenation no partial hydrogenation you need to have things that are not altered. the low fat diet that has been pushed for many years. by various authorities in the community has really not serve the public well. the reason for that is that. some fats are essential something that they're ok and some are really bad the trans fat it goes into the really bad category to lump all fats together and say fat is bad and we should reduce fat to improve our

health is misguided and not supported by scientific evidence it's. a simplification that is simply wrong. fatty acids in the diet are really critical for almost every step of human biology in the past there was often thought that fat was just fuel that we burned energy that way but we've come to realize after decades of research that the specific fatty acids which make up fat crew play a critical biological roles some fatty acids are absolutely essential for the structure for making the membrane around every single cell in our body and other fatty acids play a critical roles is the backbone of hormones and other molecules that influence our heart rhythm and our likelihood of clotting our response to information and many

many other really essential biological pathways so this idea that is bad is a bad idea. the kind of food they were eating now which is heavily processed is a very recent phenomenon if you look over the course of human history it's clear that we are all to live on a different kind of diet than we're consuming now some of the things that we were eating were the kinds of this is what makes some people would like to get their hands on because they're not really what we consider foods. our methods of hunting and gathering became more complex and efficient as time progressed.

eventually we learned to cultivate the land and. agriculture began. it's been here since he has planted the first crops. in the agricultural process to be more productive than hunting and gathering. peas and flax provided the energy needed to domesticate animals and the. technology was. allowed humans to diversify the location. they planted. it didn't take long for our small farms to become plantations complex irrigation techniques allowed for an overabundance of food production in most developed countries. which leads us to our first food. the next revolution and food was. cheap and effective preservatives were needed to prevent spoilage so humans were introduced to modern food processing. chemical

concoctions. the first known artificial refrigeration was invented in the mid eighty's hundreds. more food than the. ones we had cold storage we still needed a way to keep food on the shelves longer. he was a chemist who perfected the hydrogenation of concert in the early one thousand nine hundred. it was a block and he brought it to procter and gamble in cincinnati ohio he showed up with his block any place that on the desk of cooper proctor proctor said what's this. replied. procter and gamble quickly hired kaiser and by nine hundred eleven the company had perfected the production of what would come to be known as christgau. first procter and gamble had to give it away it was marketed as

a scientific discovery that will affect every kitchen in america and it dead the american kitchen would soon become a laboratory and mama's little baby learn to love shortening bread. i like to call them the christo kids and what i mean by that is that chris crow was introduced in one thousand and eleven in the early one nine hundred forty s. the christo kids would have been about twenty years though they would have been having children at that point and if you project that into twenty to fifty you know fifty years that puts it into my two hundred sixty nine hundred seventy if you look at the stats that are out there you start seeing a dramatic increase in all of these diseases and it doesn't tell you genius to figure out that it's related to the adulterated chemicals the hydrogenated oils and the toxins in the additives that are put in the food supply. when will the war to end it in one thousand nine hundred five a new processed food revolution began the

depression was over the troops were home and back to their domestic jobs the economy was finally stable and everyone was happy. these prime conditions led to a population explosion creating a new generation of consumers and a brand new packaged food market. shelf life uniformity consistency and convenience were the new standards and market forces responded appropriately. in one nine hundred fifty six congress passed legislation to build the interstate highway system which by linking the forty eight states with state of the art roadways forever changed how americans would shop. and. manufactured hydrogenated oils which gave long life to margarine and vegetable shortening like christgau could be used to preserve the processed packaged foods being chucked across the country. unlike butter the manufactured hydrogenated vegetable that ensured that

a product that started out new jersey would still be fresh when it got to washington state and for months and years to come. today we can travel from new york to miami from austin to minneapolis and count on the familiar logos of mcdonald's and burger king taco bell and chili's. at the travelers hungry as a place to eat in san francisco with the same accustom menu as a place in st louis or charleston toronto or london. the last hundred years there have been very major changes in our food supply and true of the most important one of them being the large amounts of refined carbohydrate and sugar in our food supply and secondly the partial hydrogenation of liquid vegetable oils in our metabolic machinery is just not capable of dealing with those severe changes that have occurred in our food supply and then of course your add on laur activity. well sort of also changed a lot in the last hundred years and we really have

a perfect storm of metabolic disaster. in order to better understand heart disease we went to the mount sinai hospital in new york city to meet with the world's leading cardiologist valentyn. was ben the past president of both the american heart association and the world heart federation. is a behavior problem to. the world he's fighting with you and one of the leading cause of the heart disease is. choice called the world. unfortunately even in developing countries and in poor countries these are. men and women consuming higher levels of even just a couple grams a day had substantially higher risk of heart to the twenty thirty forty percent higher depending on how much trans they were eating and we did find that even quite small amounts of transfer in the supplies such as one or two percent of the

calories were transferred or that increased heart disease risk by twenty and even up to about eighty percent of the harvard school of public health estimates the transfer that has been causing fifty thousand premature deaths from heart attacks every year so this is a toxic chemical that doesn't belong in the food supply. two hundred fatal heart attacks. in. the city of. homicides that one hundred thirty two homicides but people don't focus on the heart attacks because violence is the homicide but the reality of death is is the death and we killing ourselves and we killing ourselves. with our teeth. these are the number one cause of death in the world. only in developed countries now even.

these. equal to the infectious diseases. we've learned to transfer that's have many adverse effects we first. elevate the bad cholesterol. the good cholesterol. the transcripts increase inflammatory factors throughout the body meaning it really creates a general sense. every organ of the body. part of the issue. and here's what they look like. and is represented by the blue spears.

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increase and inhibit. the inflammation. and there isn't enough h.d.l. to remove the excess. effect. too expensive. so we have. dr fewster says the treatments of heart disease are too expensive let's take a closer look at what a heart attack really cost. sir. there

so it's a. first charge will be for the ambulance. adding up quickly. they sent a paramedic this time. and some drugs. now it's off to the hospital so. first we need an i.v. and some i.v. fluids. and more drugs. ok we're here now the scary part. has no idea what happens next. in. the waiting room.

she makes pretty good money and if. that's not. the cardiac unit. here we'll have a private room a cardiac nurse more drugs. a cardiologist. i'm a cardiologist to come talk to you this is where things start getting real expensive. to your heart. and do a stress test. normal. i

know it's a lot. now if the cardiac cath is positive then it's off to surgery which is usually to the coronary artery for a complete bypass of that artery total cost for all of this. since one nine hundred twenty heart disease has been the number one killer of americans let's put this into perspective forty two thousand americans die each year accidents. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themselves. while some of us are killing each other and others are killing themselves one hundred seventeen thousand careless accidents we have sent american troops into war many times over.

and since korea it has been about one hundred thousand tragic casualties of war cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us each year heart disease is even more devastating it kills over eight hundred seventy thousand americans every year we are at war with heart disease and we are losing. plants that. has an adverse effect on insulin resistance that is it makes the body have to work harder to metabolize glucose and sugars and this is the first step on the road to diabetes so most people who who are overweight have some degree of insulin resistance. if you have a lot of trans fat in the diet that makes it still worse and brings you closer to diabetes and we're we're in the midst of a diabetes epidemic along with our obesity epidemic trance is making it worse.

twenty four million americans suffer from diabetes and every baby born after the year two thousand has a one in three chance of contracting this disease which is the leading cause of kidney failure and adult blindness. and remember every soda. candy and slice of white bread brings you one step closer to contracting diabetes a huge proportion of diabetes is directly attributable to overweight and obesity. if our whole population got down to a b.m.i. of say twenty two or twenty one we'd get rid of three quarters of the diabetes. today in the united states nearly two thirds of the population is overweight almost one in three americans is obese this is not just a few people with extremes of overweight the large majority of americans are

overweight at a level that's that's having adverse effects on their risk of diabetes and heart disease and about physical education in italy were supposed to be. for ten years we're supposed to be thinking it's good for to let's. take all the got to get rid of junk food marketing to kids totally inappropriate totally unfair to kids to tempt them to eat foods that are bad for their health cartoon characters are hawking sugar and junk food right past our wallets and into the brains of our children. advertising to children is wrong but that's not the only reason our children are getting fat there are factors operating at many levels that push us as individuals toward or away resulting from overeating and inactivity in epidemiologic studies individuals who consume high amounts of trans fats hydrogenated vegetable oils have a substantially higher this heart attack sudden death from cardiovascular disease

and they also have been increased risk of diabetes in animal studies it actually has been shown to increase girth when they had the same amount of calories in the diet with either trans fat or for the oils the monkeys who were on the trans fat diet actually gained more weight. specifically creasing up down the world he just why is there struggling to reach. this country everybody's one of the you everybody but the whole country. so why were you all right. trying to fire the. weak. or the put it six. sugar in rich flour while washing the hydrogenated vegetable oil always fall between sixty and died.

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we are running down the top stories of today and all this week welcome to the program well it was a terminator time in moscow this week. but on a mission of innovation california's governor was in the capital at the invitation of president to discuss vesting in russia's version of silicon valley he also took time to take in some city life. reports. it was morning rush hour in the subway the passengers album their way through the crowd there is little that can make them pause at this time but here he was the terminator.