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georgian genesee q. field dollars and the false impressions from talking friends. for russia they claim it's ascetic a message to the restroom which is the media can you see. a number of people worldwide so i have heart disease every year a special coming up next traces the connection between the grim statistics and what's in our modern day things. you're not born with a bio chemistry or psychology degree so every second of your existence or birth or graduation people make decisions for you what you do what you wear what you learn and most important what you eat. as you grow older your parents obsess over paying the bills keeping everyone fed is their main priority and here's the problem they come home from a long day of work and exhausted a fiction dinner what is it processed food why because it's cheap
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quick and they've been convinced it's good for you. when they need a babysitter who becomes your new best friend the television and as you watch the t.v. you see all those food commercials with slogans like good or a little keyboard elves who are constantly telling you how great their products are . one day you wake up and you're twenty five what happened to all those years by now you've been thoroughly branded by the food and chemical companies. all of your daily food purchases are made in accordance with how you feel about the products you consume for example you only heinz ketchup and nothing on. your favorite soft drink on bit chilly everyone snack food candy or restaurant. you have come to believe that betty crocker and the pillsbury doughboy are safe and friendly. your internal dialogue rationalizes these products can be dangerous
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otherwise some government agency would put a stop to it they care about you right or wrong this perception is carefully crafted by all the parties that stand to make a financial gain. to these companies you are dead it a projection a demographic. a potential purchaser or revenue generator there's nothing more to the story don't let tony the tiger or two can sam for you. i received a phone call from stephen joseph he told me about a high school teacher lori terrorism and. she was teaching in advanced health class at a specialty high school in new york city or 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 found trans fats in foods that they thought were healthy.
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really. keep your hands out i mean i like what you said over here you had a great comment obviously of these who 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. i hope they are far as i can oh no sars has had a pulse. i trust me because i've always. bounced out of science i think i think that i was the hydrogenated was a pretty good which is the way it's always the church. i think grannies and grandes always i want to be was there and i looked in the back and said they were transferred and i was surprised to see that i'd made one thing reading it is the whole the last breath for spots on all those prophecies the free transfer would be
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how laws are on their records you would think to look out for the stores. or labeling or is really confusing it's been an important step forward to require the transcripts to be on the food label so i give consumers some awareness about the amount of transfer out there but it's very confusing because it's legal to or perhaps up to half or ground or transfer out you know project and still have a zero there in the line for transfer outs. everybody knows with zero means except in washington zero does not mean zero zero means up to half a grain when we're talking about transplants from hydrogenated vegetable oil the optimal safe amount is zero. they only have the label i have gram per serving so you still need to read your ingredient label. coffee you know this so that the
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chance that you know. that what that was. all. there you can't see trans fat you can't smell transfer 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 see this contract i think it's zero doesn't mean zero but food companies might be lying when they put zero grams of trans for serving on the front of packages. i had to spend a weekend at the university of maryland bio chemistry lab to find out. i have been presented with these five samples of food on my survival films and asked me to analyze them. by the ethics content. first one is a harness on margarine and it has zero trans on the label the new christo has zero chance on the label.
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so will take a sample and homogenize it. and that is what will be analyzed for the trans fatty acids. from. every food sample that we had. asked it was labeled as having zero grams of trans fat person or object unfortunately all of these foods contain the deadly grade and
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the most surprising or strongest margarine which contains zero point four six grams of trans fat person again. and so if the savvy consumer looks at the ingredients they see partially hydrogenated vegetable or may know that means transplants so how can it says euro and still be contained partially hydrogenated vegetable or confusion is not a good thing i think we really probably should not be allowing zero there are less there is no partially hydrogenated vegetable product after i started really reading labels i noticed some truly disturbing processed foods. to sort of bars are designed specifically for people with diabetes or will it meir stampfer harvard researchers just told us how transparent them hydrogenated oils accelerate insulin resistance and lead to diabetes. why would any companies partially hydrogenated oil
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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. our food companies using other dangerous thing credence in these foods. during my research on the effects of trans fat i was surprised by some other corporate greed and said 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 police bottle in your laundry room as 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
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are doing more than adding a potentially poisonous ingredient there stripping the wheat of its nutritional value and creating a need for enriched vitamins. when you think of vitamins what do you visualize is it a picture of an orange pill form. if so you have the wrong and edge. right on the right. we have bridged 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. like less rights of the last part of the transplant puzzle. they're almost suppliers use replace expensive agreements like butter cream and eggs because they have a congress shelf life if you bake your cakes in home you don't get all if you do
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whatever off make your own call and they offer some people you know you don't pay and don't so it's all part of this. i don't have time to cook everything up quick there are thousands of them on the market the only way to examine the and gradients a modern type was rides 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 consume comes from somewhere just like this and the stuff that doesn't come from here well you get it from a place like this or even some place like this or in
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a place like this americans eat out more than any other country but what are you eating while you're here. pete. king cakes. french fries. pop tart french fries burgers. for. everybody. in the trans fat epidemic growth in the restaurant industry has skyrocketed from one hundred fifty until present and restaurant sales were about fourteen billion dollars a year in two thousand and eight in the restaurant industry reached over five hundred fifty billion dollars that's five hundred fifty thousand million dollars.
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in comprehensible number the fast food industry claimed over one hundred seventy billion dollars and mcdonald's the undisputed champion a fast food captured eighty two billion dollars in one year. the food industry uses the cheapest ingredients in food to sell their goods an affordable price to the consumer this cost cutting results in the most hideous of ingredients and processes to deliver the cheapest possible product. in the meantime as we keep eating these adulterated foods they are waging war on the body at a molecular level speeding the disease process and plus the consumer into a expensive irresponsible health care system.
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that. most people think the f.d.a. will protect them from these harmful practices nothing could be farther from the truth right now the f.d.a. is doing more to protect than a factory. now that you have entered the health care mission and you get to deal with all the paperwork and red tape that come with any money but now it applies to your health. the emotional burden of being processed given a standard package solution usually drugs. more drugs means more money and after you spend your money on treatment all you can afford is more cheap food.
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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 and. 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 ending on as one of the good ones for eighteen years he was a researcher investigator and legal counsel at the food and drug administration he
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explained how the regulatory agency does its job. i'm case primary mission is to protect the public. their job is to to both try to prevent unsafe products from getting on the market because it could affect consumers their jurisdiction is actually quite broad they have jurisdiction 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. to. help me with my diet out there presumably. i would assume to make sure that. the consumption so i work for the f.d.a. i say. it's like you take a lady there. and we regulated by the third of the nation's economy third of the nation's economy they're trying their best but i think for over well for all of the
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products that are out there right now and it's pretty scary i have trouble keeping it out of the public is losing confidence in the food supply the safety of the food supply and that's good news for the food industry because people don't trust the products are safe enough to protect. the f.d.a. doesn't have the authority to recall foods and relies on food companies in a sense the industry is 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 conflicts because many people would argue that they are the only injuries they should be balancing is that is the risk 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
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to say and for many years who wants 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. we did stop by the headquarters for a visit staying outside at. night if we only had one question. it was long. since one third of our economy why isn't the put into an illustration doing a thorough job of regulating it all thanks to some early security people in films. 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 here for the f.d.a. to do to protect the public's health and doesn't have the funding to do it and all
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too often it doesn't have the will to do what you think 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 loved it for years and testified in congress i never thought that try. washington d.c. because i was going to be critical for against congressman services who would be. on the receiving end of campaign contributions from food companies and part of it is the media we have so much media hype today 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 to them and here's something very significant you are being told what the food manufacturers want you to hear.
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only theory our eyes closed and thousands of preparing to be very much a unanimous vote by the new york city board of health. two thousand and eight served at new york city's twenty six thousand restaurants three trans fat. is up. to a share of the food supply is safe to consume a ton of money over the daily component in our food supply. we should think it out can ensure the health and well being of california. of most importance to all the business owners especially here in california for example we ban the use of lead paint code no lead at that. but we know the trans fats that
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are about to collide can we do that as well. dr 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 now we have to focus our attention we should search why we fail. is green is created as what he. believes about dreaming dreaming. and getting paid directly correlated. i really want to reason that people are not associated food with the diseases 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 your transference from
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partially hydrogenated oils our diets people forget the major impact the diet he 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 process tooth decay and are in fact one of the great challenges we have today is how we promote health or how we prevent. in heart attacks so what is the answer the answer is not me telling these the answer is you because the american public knows very well they would pay mention it is more blood pressure back lack of accusations but obesity is what we all know. so the she's not the have to tell you the issues are you ready in your life
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to put health as a priority to you or not. health should be everyone's priority and the bottom line is that transplants and processed foods do not contribute to healthy living i wasn't suing because trust makes you fried i was certain because transfer. foods that contain these harmful fats are not part of the nutritional diet and if you're eating transparent i urge you to stop it's really learn more and more about how what we are facts are long term health or moping 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 giving our all grades which are taking. personal responsibility is the cornerstone of any diet change the other is good information
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. you have to look past the companies in the media because they are sales driven enterprises they're not concerned with your health. and their main concern is the shelf life of a product and army concerns the shelf life of the individual. all markets are sales driven. if we start buying healthier foods in these companies then forced to sell us healthier foods. you have to take responsibility for yourself and can't wait for your government or these corporations to regulate the safety of our food the f.d.a. is is a is inspecting virtually nothing when it comes in the united states market. i think the problem of great grief with killing the part of a great breed growing. shit.
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