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familiar with some better dysfunction. georgian voices of support for three photojournalists accused of icecream knowledge of growing now that critics question the validity of the suspects recent confessions. now on a lonely number of people worldwide die of heart disease every year and special reports coming up next traces the connection between the grim statistics and the ingredients of modern day food stuffs. everybody eats food and we all have our favorites here in america food is abundant

take it for granted. it's about the food you eat what do you know. where does it come from how is it made. me eating before corporations were relentlessly marketing to us. this film is not just about. it's about the changes in our food supply the changes in the quality of our food. as a nurse i work in hospitals one thing remains the same throughout the mall there are too many sick. 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 sick people are increasing there has to be a connection. the majority of americans are overweight and at the same time now nourished as

a because of refined grain for excess sugar intake what about chemical food additives what role do they play our health. thousand chemicals are allowed to be used in our food supply. sixty. you know what a partially hydrogenated oil is. this is the question my producer asked me one day while we were in the grocery store and i didn't know so he began telling me that it was bad for the heart and how he didn't. 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 health 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.

warm. what is a hydrogenated oil. that's russia needed or. i don't know. that's a good question josh and they did all the something you put in your car to make a run smooth an oil that's healthier for you than other oils i've heard of. i don't go and oil that maybe an extra. molecule in it. oh yes no clue noise. because he did it surgically while hydrogenated oil actually isn't boiled it

is shimming the altered oil. and the fact that bill to manufacture in a way tour to toxic something blows through it looks like as i said like something you must. remember. these cars. trucks trucks. and boil that is if you water a lot of packages of food prosecutors are suspect discussing something from the right. so what is a hydrogenated oil hydrogenated oil is a manmade fact a trans fat you see that is just a big molecule that's made mostly of carbon carbon atoms are bonded together like a chain there 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 a non saturated fat get it ok so what is transferred and transmits in as a. bizarro type of. unsaturated fatty acid where the double bind 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. vegetable oils and the bonds get rearranged so the hydrogen atoms are on opposite sides of the chain you might say well who cares where hydrogen atoms are after all. but it turns

out that we have evolved to deal with fatty acids that have. the same side so this we have not evolved can't deal with these new kinds of fatty acids that are produced from industrial processing or vegetable oils and this is actually wreaking havoc with their health. let's take a look at how these transcripts are made. the process of hydrogenation starts with the plant that is harvested and then transported to a processing facility here chemical solvents are used to extract oil from the plant . the oil as them are huge to deodorized and eventually pressurized in a tank that is heated to over four hundred degrees fahrenheit fee's extreme temperatures allow a chemical reaction to occur when heavy metals are added as a catalyst for the most commonly used aluminum nickel and cobalt none of which

should be considered by humans. finally hydrogen gas is blasted to take on the whale 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 you really and truly have no hydrogenation no partial hydrogenation you need to have things that are not altered. but the. low fat diet that has been pushed for many years. by various authorities in the forest and community has really not serve the public well the reason for that is that. some fats are essential some fats are

ok and so are really bad the trans fat it goes into the really bad category to lump all the facts 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 it's. a simplification that is simply wrong. well yes and 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 it into energy that way well we've come to realize after decades of research that the specific fatty acids which make up fat who played. the role some pretty essence are absolutely essential for the structure for making a member and 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 and so this idea that is bad is a bad idea. kind of food that we're 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 all have to live on a different kind of guy and we're consuming know some of the things that we were eating were the kinds of flight i think some people wouldn't like to get their

hands on because they're not really what we consider foods. our methods of hunting and gathering and came more complex and efficient as time progressed and eventually we learned to cultivate the land and agriculture began. it's been ten thousand years since he has planted the first crops we found the agricultural process to be more productive than hunting and gathering. we peas and flax provided the energy we needed to domesticate animals and the rest is farming history. with the next advancement of food technology was irrigation this advancement allow humans to diversify the location and type approx 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 additive so. the next revolution in food wasn't just realize ation more cheap and effective preservatives were needed to prevent spoilage so humans were introduced in modern food processing began consuming and made chemical concoctions. the first known artificial refrigeration was invented in the mid eighty's hundreds the creation of easily accessible cold storage allowed people to buy more food than eat it. once we had cold storage we still needed a way to keep our food on the shelves longer. than b.c. kaiser was a chemist who perfected the hydrogenation of conti while in the early one nine hundred. eleven as you would imagine it was a block and he brought it to procter and gamble in cincinnati ohio he showed up with his block any place and on the desk of cooper proctor proctor said what's this kind seed oil kaiser 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 side coverage that will affect every kitchen in america. dead the american kitchen would soon become a lot of tori 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 a crisper was introduced in one thousand and eleven in the early one nine hundred forty s. the christo kids would have been about twenty years so 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 night 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 really doesn't tell you genius to figure out that it's related to the adulterated chemicals the hydrate or all of

the toxins that added is that are put in the food supply. when will more to end it in one. 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 that. shelf life uniformity consistency and convenience were the new standard and market forces responded appropriately. in one thousand nine hundred eighty six congress passed legislation to build the interstate highway system which by linking the forty eight states with state of the our roadways forever changed how americans would shop commute and eat. manufactured hydrogenated oils which gave long life to margarine and vegetable shortening like christgau could be used to preserve the processed packaged foods

being trucked across the country. unlike butter and 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 time i am from boston to minneapolis and count on the familiar logos of mcdonald's and burger king taco bell and chili's. for travelers hungry as a place to eat in san francisco or the same accustomed menu as a place in st louis or charleston toronto among. the last hundred years there have been very major changes in our food supply and true of the most important one of them being with a large amounts of refined carbohydrates and sugar in our food supply and secondly a partial hydrogenation of work or vegetable oils in our metabolic machinery is just not capable of dealing with there was severe changes that occurred in our food

supply and then of course you add on or activity levels that have also changed a lot in the last hundred years and we really have a perfect storm of metabolic disaster. in order to better understand the heart disease we went to the mount sinai hospital in new york city to meet with the world's leading cardiologist valentyn to start was bad the past present of both the american heart association and the world heart federation. is it became your problem. or what the world is fighting with you and one of the leading causes of heart disease is poor dietary choices called the world from sun. unfortunately even in developing countries and in poor countries these are all being believe properly why is that men and women consuming the higher levels of trans even just a couple grams a day had substantially higher risk for heart fifteen twenty thirty forty percent

higher depending on how much chance they will retain and we do find that you've been quite small amounts of transcribed in the supplies such as one or two percent of the calories for this transparent earth increase hard to see this risk are twenty and even up to about eighty percent of the harvard school of public health estimates the transfer that has been causing accords of fifty thousand premature deaths from heart attacks every year so this is very toxic chemical at present but one surprise there are two hundred fatal heart attacks next year and also the city of cleveland. homicides that one hundred thirty two homicides the people don't focus more on the heart attacks because there are now finally as the homicide rate the reality of death is as the death and we throw in ourselves and we killing ourselves in our own graves with our teeth. he says the number one cause

of death in the world look only in developed countries but now even more crime is these heart attacks and it's still the same. no equal to infectious diseases ha the lead yet into we're sure we have the movie in thrones the problem of significance to be. we've learned the transcripts have many adverse metabolic effects the first transcripts elevate the bad cholesterol the arctic ice cream the good cholesterol. the transcripts increase inflammatory factors throughout the body of many recruits a general says general condition of information every organ of the body you know plus also part of the issue what causes cholesterol to increase its inflammation ok so there are two types of cholesterol and here's what they look like h.d.l.

cholesterol is like silly putty and is represented by the blue spears. l d alice like sticky jell-o. globs that are seen here and yellow. is what we call h.d.l. cholesterol very important. take a stick says polish people from the odd it's just clearly enough to sift clearly and. divide polish the ill deal color still use the one that gets the quotient that is the india will. now quest rolls in the same molecule it's the company that makes it good or bad it's a close call to thirty carbon that valuable compound. good or bad and then we shouldn't attribute moral after abuse to an inert compound i don't think but if the social in l.d.l. molecule. it's been reported that there's a higher risk of heart disease. and i remember cholesterol as a carrier like

a dump truck l.d.l. carry stuff to where it is needed and h.b.o. carry stuff away. now here's the tricky part trans fats cause inflammation they increase l.d.l. and inhibit the our production the inflammation keeps driving the l.d.l. levels higher and higher and there isn't enough h.d.l. to remove the excess and the arteries get clogged. you know whether food has this catastrophic effect on individual bases you have to make a position where the health is a priority and you're not if not society will make it for him and they will say you know you are eight such you will not have these three men because it's too expensive this will happen with a ologies in the united kingdom for example so i think we're going to get them. possible it will be impossible to support the system so we are facing a situation which is an economic one if we continue only she will do for you have to make good position which is

a personal one and that is i am interested in. dr foster says the treatment of heart disease are too expensive let's take a closer look at what a heart attack really cost. these are their rescue. first charge will be for the ambulance. probably center we have to use for chest pain so the cost arts adding up quickly. bob's lucky they sent a paramedic this time. here comes some oxygen and some drugs. now it's off to the hospital so strap in for your ambulance ride. more money. first we need an i.v. and some i.v. fluids. and more drugs. ok we're here now comes the scary part. but has no idea how to direct the fact.

that i want. to go bast registration as the waiting room directly behind curtain number twelve. here's bob's emergency nurse she makes pretty good money and a visit from the e.r. doctor is hard that's not she. still having some chest discomfort to ship him off to the cardiac unit. here to have a private room a cardiac nurse more drugs and a console from a cardiologist dr helene it's very nice to hear i'm a cardiologist your doctor just come talk to you this is where things start getting real expensive which we see standing a lot but we're going to do we're going to put a test to see if you're having a heart attack to echocardiogram which is not your heart checked out and do

a stress test a stress test. to any question i know it's a must see. now if the cardiac cath is positive and it's off the surgery which is usually stents to the coronary artery for a complete bypass of that artery the 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 are accidents only a thousand. 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 like annually in careless accidents we have sent american troops into war many times over. and all the wars since korea and there's been about one hundred thousand tragic casualties of war cancer in all its forms kills five hundred sixty thousand of us here 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're losing friends. has an adverse effect on the system that is it makes the body. and work harder to metabolize and supers and this is the first step on the road. so most people. 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 of course you can grab these and we were in the midst of the diabetes epidemic along with the. fans 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 donut candy and slice of white bread produce you one step closer to tracking diabetes a huge proportion of diabetes is directly attributable to overweight and obesity. or our whole population got down to a b.m.i. of say twenty or twenty one we get rid of three quarters of the diet and.

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 that were weight 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 talk about physical education and i don't believe we're supposed to be. for ten years we're supposed to be taking these kids for a little it's a. state law. got to get rid of junk food marketing to kids totally inappropriate. it's 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 of course just as individuals toward or away resulting from overeating and that activity in the

logic studies individuals who consume high amounts of trans fat from hydrogenated vegetable oils have the substantially higher risk of heart attack sudden death from cardiovascular disease and they also have an increased risk of diabetes and in animal studies that actually has been shown to increase girth when they had the same amount of calories in the diet with either trans fat her or the oils the monkeys who were on the trans fat diet actually gained more weight specifically increasing up down more than just. struggling to reach. this country everybody's another year everybody else but the whole country's got to go with us so why well you're right. it's true. which. of the forty six. sugar enriched flour will cost the hydrogenated vegetable oil

probably still beats sixty.