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 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.

what is it hydrogenated oil oil. and. i don't know. that's a good question josh and they did all the something you put in your car to make it run smooth and oil that's healthier for you than other oils they've heard of. i don't know and oil that has maybe an extra. molecule in it i don't know what an idea no clue i have no idea but i think it's pretty good start a good while hydrogenated oil and leave this oil that is humanly altered oil cook or animal fat they will to manufacture in a way tour toxic something blunt through it. as a more environmentally safe magic something you may. remember. cars.

comes up with. trying to make a difference. in oil that is then if you use water a lot of packages of food must be preserved sometime i suspect discussing something from the earth and. so what is a hydrogenated oil hydrogenated oil is a man made fat a trans fat you see that it'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 a non saturated fat get it ok so where does trans fat in trans fit 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 process same. vegetable oils the bonds get rearranged so the hydrogen atoms are on opposite sides of the chain 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 to 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 transfer natur 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 aluminum nickel 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 you 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 shift in community has really not serve the public well. the reason for that is that. something that are essential something that you're ok and so are really bad in 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 it's. a simplification that is simply wrong. the very essence of 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 and got energy that way but we've come to realize after decades of research that the specific fatty acids which make up fat creep played 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 and 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 then we're consuming now some of the things that we were eating were the kinds of uses i think 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. 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 and most developed countries. which leads us to our first. the next revolution in 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 one thousand nine hundred. more food than the.

ones we had cold storage we still needed a way to keep food on the shelves longer. was a chemist who perfected the hydrogenation of conti in the early one nine hundred. it was a block and he brought it to procter and gamble in cincinnati ohio he showed up with his blocking he placed it 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. at 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 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 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 world war two ended 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 to forever changed how americans would shop could be you 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 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 the

donaldson burger king taco bell and chili's. if a traveler is hungry as a place to eat in san francisco with the same a custom 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 ever occurred in our food supply and then of course your add on or 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. should be a problem to. the world is fighting with you and one of the leading causes of heart disease is. choices. unfortunately even in developing countries and in poor countries these are. men and women consuming higher levels of trans even just a couple grams a day had substantially higher risk of heart to 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 the increased heart disease risk by twenty going up to about eighty percent of the harvard school of public health estimates that trans fat 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 there are 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 that 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 but now even more of. these. equal to infectious diseases the.

problem of significant. we've learned the transplants have many adverse metabolic are facts we first. elevate the bad cholesterol. the good cholesterol but then we found the transcripts increase inflammatory factors throughout the body meaning it really creates a general. condition of. every organ of the body plus also part of the issue what causes cholesterol to increase its inflammation. and here's what they look like. and is represented by the blue spears.

and. here's the tricky part. they increase and inhibit production. and there isn't enough h.d.l. to remove the excess. effect.

and they will say you know you are. 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. let's say it's a. first charge will be for the ambulance. so

the cost are chatting 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 comes the scary part. has no idea how to. get to. the waiting room. behind curtain number twelve. she makes pretty good money and if. that's not.

to 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. in. 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

a 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. pranced 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 taking kids out for twenty minutes a. day well 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 activity in the epidemiologic studies individuals who consume high amounts of trans fat from hydrogenated vegetable oils have a substantially higher this heart attack sudden death from cardiovascular and they also have an 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 or healthy oils the monkeys who were on the trans fat diet actually gained more weight. specifically creasing abdominal these and he just line is they're struggling to bring. this country everybody's another you everybody but the whole country is getting. so why were you all right. trying to fire. the put it saved. sugar enriched flour washing the our drugs made a testable oil ali still beat sixty. five.

gone but certainly not forgotten the media speculation now pointing to the resurrection of the disgraced and defunct news of the world under russian ownership but billionaire xander limited remaining tight lipped tonight. meantime on the british prime minister he's grilled in parliament over ties with the embattled rupert murdoch and his media empire also. i want to use against him nothing whatsoever experts believe the arrest of god on have h. the last remaining cool prime suspect wanted by the u.n. from the balkan conflict is unlikely to bring close to membership as we report. and tripoli will not consider gadhafi stepping down that's the position revealed by

libya's foreign minister meeting with his russian counterpart in moscow. a minority shareholders in preparing a lawsuit claiming up to ten billion dollars in damages from b.p. for the failed exploration deal with. hello my name's kevin and it's ten pm here in moscow you're watching our take in our top story rumors amounting to neither the russian billionaire alexander lebedev would like to revive britain's news of the world the newspaper recently shut down by rupert murdoch the ex k.g.b. agent has some experience in the u.k. paper business to owning both the independent and the london evening standard. that brings you up to date. there's been a huge amount of media hype here in the u.k. if you can imagine a nation sitting around glued to its t.v.

screens into its radio. as the top executives from news corp and prime minister david cameron have all been paraded before m.p.'s and had to answer some very tough questions a lot of media surrounding that but now and i should this is just reports coming from the media that alexander lebedev hasn't confirmed this himself but it looks like he may be interested in becoming the hero of the piece essentially picking up the news of the world and releasing it under a new name which media reports are saying that he might call it world news instead of news of the world now he does tell you a little bit about leverage if he is estimated by forbes magazine to have a fortune of two point one billion dollars and of course he owns shares in ara floats he also owns a newspaper in russia novogratz yet a banking and construction media assets all that kind of thing but he has been a controversial figure in the u.k. as you mentioned he's a former k.g.b. officer.