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everybody eats food and we all have our favorites here in america food is abundant take it for granted. about the food you eat what do you know about it where does it come from how is it made. me eating before corporations were 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 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 sick people are increasing there has to be a connection. the majority of americans are overweight and at the same time malnourished as a because refined grains are excess sugar intake what about chemical food additives what role they play our health. thousands of barrels are allowed to be used in our food supply. sixty. partially hydrogenated oil is. this is the question my producer asked one day while we were in the grocery store i didn't know so he began telling me that it was bad for the heart and how he

did. 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. it's russia needs oil. 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 even other oils i've heard of. i don't know aisle that maybe an extra. molecule in it. oh yes no clue nor do i think it's really difficult. to do while hydrogenated oil achilles's boyle has surely altered oil. in the fact that no two manufactured in the wage were. something flung through the market like this like forms like something in the south . seas and clark. was.

trying to try. and oil that is if you want to get a lot of packages and 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 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 fact get it ok so what is transmitted transmits in as a. bizarre zero type. 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 their carbon atoms on the same side it's cis but with industrial process and. vegetable oil it's the gods get rearranged so the hydrogen atoms are on opposite sides of the chain you might say well who cares where hydrogen atoms are for all. but it turns out that we have evolved to deal with fatty acids that have the hydrogen is on the same side so this we have not evolved can deal with. the new kinds of fatty acids that are produced through industrial processing of vegetable oils and this is actually wreaking havoc with their health. let's take

a look at how these transfer actually 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 was then bleached deodorized and eventually pressurized in a tank that is heated to over four hundred degrees fahrenheit physics string temperatures allow a chemical reaction to occur when heavy metals are added as a catalyst for the most commonly used physical and kobol none of which should be consumed by humans if finally hydrogen gas is the last of the things 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 you know partial hydrogenation and 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 fearsome 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 but 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. 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 and we burned it into energy that way but we've come to realize after decades of research that the specific fatty acids which make up fat could play a critical biological role it's some fatty acids are absolutely essential for the structure for making a membrane around every single cell in our body and other fatty acids play a critical roles is the backbone of hormones and other molecules to influence our heart rhythm and our likelihood of clouding our response to information and many many other really essential biological pathways and so this idea that is bad is a bad idea. but

it 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 are all to live on a different kind of diet and we're consuming know some of the things that we were eating were the kinds of if not i think some people wouldn't like to get their hands on it 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 while agriculture began. it's been ten thousand years since he has planted the first crops we found the agricultural process to be more productive in 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 of props 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. the next revolution in food wasn't just realize ation more cheap ineffective preservatives were needed to prevent spoilage so humans were introduced a modern food processing began consuming and made chemical concoctions. the first known artificial refrigeration was invented in the mid one thousand nine hundred sixty the creation of easily accessible cold storage allowed people to buy more

food than they needed. once we had cold storage we still needed a way to keep our food on the shelves longer. e.c. keyser was a chemist who perfected the hydrogenation of concious oil in the early one nine hundred because his oil wasn't a liquid 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 and he placed it on the desk of cooper proctor proctor said what's this cotton 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 chris cuomo. first procter and gamble had to give it away it was marketed as a scientific discovery that was affect every kitchen in america and it 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 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 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 in tonight in 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 if it doesn't tell you genius to figure out that it's related to the adulterated chemicals the hydrate or holes in 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 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 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 art roadways forever changed how americans would shop could view and eat. manufactured hydrogenated oils which gave long life to margarine and vegetable sort of like chris 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 austin to minneapolis and count on the familiar logo something

down. that's and burger king taco bell in chile. if a traveler is hungry as a place to eat in san francisco at the same accustomed menu as a place in st louis or charleston toronto. in the last hundred years there have been very major changes in our food supply true of the most important one of them being the large amounts of refined carbohydrate and sugar in our food supply and secondly a partial hydrogenation of liquid virtue or else in our metabolic machinery is just not capable of dealing with those severe changes that occurred in our food supply and then of course you add on or activity levels that are 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 booster was

bad the past present of both the american heart association and the world heart federation. is a behavior problem very well what the world is fighting with you and one of the leading causes of heart disease is poor dietary choices which would be called the wolf from sunshine unfortunately even in developing countries in poor countries these have all been believe properly why is this a million women consuming higher levels of pain and even just a couple grams a day had substantially higher risk of heart to think twenty thirty forty percent higher depending on how much and who we are through find that you've been quite small amounts of transcribed in the food supply such as one or two percent of the calories for this transparent earth increase hard to see mistress twenty you're going up to about eighty percent of the harvard school of public health estimates that trans fat has been caused. it's

a fifty thousand premature deaths from heart attacks every year so this is a toxic chemical that doesn't belong in a food supply. two hundred three heart attacks last year in the old city of cleveland. homicides one hundred thirty two hundred times the people don't focus more on the on the heart attacks because they're not violent as homicides but the reality of death is is the death one with killing ourselves and we killing ourselves probably did you know our own graves with our teeth. is the number one cause of death in the world look only in developed countries but now even in poor crime. these heart attack and is still in the snow equal to the fixtures the c.d.c. ha the lead us into we're sure we have really been thrown over the problem of

significance to the. we've learned the transcripts have many adverse metabolic effects the first the transcripts elevate the bad cholesterol the eyes the h.d.l. the good cholesterol but then we found the transcripts increase inflammatory factors throughout the body meaning it really creates a general cyst general condition of inflammation every organ of the body you know plus also part of the issue of what caused this cluster all to increase its information 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 spheres. l.d.l. is like sticky jell-o. globs and yellow. we call cholesterol it's very important. to us he said clearly enough to sift clearly the. ill deal but

he's the one that gets the forces that. are. now quest for all three molecules if the company that makes it good or bad it's. bad. compound. good or bad and then we shouldn't attribute more after a few to an inert compound i don't think. if. l.d.l. molecule. it's been reported that there's a higher risk of heart. and remember cholesterol is a carrier truck. carry stuff to where it is needed and carry stuff away now here's the tricky part trans fats cause inflammation they increase l.d.l. and inhibit production the inflammation keep striving to l.d.l. levels higher and higher and there isn't enough h.d.l. to remove the excess and the arteries get clogged. no other food has this

catastrophic effect only legal basis you have to make a decision whether. or not if not society will make it for europe and they will say you know you want to eat such you will not. too expensive. to united kingdom for example. so i think we're going to get them all. possible it will be impossible to support the system so we are facing a situation which is an economic one if we can can only he's not he will do for you have to make a decision which is a personal 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. he says. first charge will be for the ambulance. probably said to have keys for chest pain

so the cost are chatting up quickly. bob's lucky they sent a paramedic this time and. 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 what happens next. that i. just thought gets to go past registration as the waiting room and the record behind curtain number twelve the first here's bob's emergency nurse she makes pretty good money and

a visit from the e.r. doc is hard feeling that's not she. still having some chest discomfort to ship him on to the cardiac unit. here to have a private room a cardiac nurse more drugs and a console from a cardiologist dr when it's raining and i'm a cardiologist your doctors ask me to come talk to you this is where things start getting real expensive but fortunately it's explaining 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 just not your heart. and do a stress test and stress this is all abnormal if you want your card counters. to have any questions i know it's a lot to get. through. now if the cardiac cath is positive and it's off to surgery which is usually stents to the cornea artery for a complete bypass up. that artery total cost for all of this.

since 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 will be a thousand. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themselves. well 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 all the wars since korea have 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. prints that. have an adverse effect on them for the system that is it makes the body. and work harder to metabolize some 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 canned fat in the diet that makes you feel worse and things you cross into dagny were were in the midst of the diabetes epidemic along with our we are in a. trance 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 the number every soda donut candy and slice of white bread crumbs you one step closer to contracting diabetes a huge proportion of diabetes is directly attributable to overweight and obesity. or our whole population got down to a pm i have a twenty two or twenty one we get rid of three quarters of the diving. one. for. 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 an extreme civil war where the large majority of americans are overweight or to level with it's having adverse effects on their risk of diabetes and heart disease what about physical education and health about elite were supposed to be taught for ten years we're supposed to be taking kids out for

trouble it's a. state law. 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 and there are factors operating at many levels to push us as individuals toward or away resolving forwarding that activity in epidemiologic studies individuals from consuming high amounts of trans fat from hydrogenated vegetable oils have the substantially higher was a heart attack sudden death from cardiovascular and we 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 or for

healthy organelles the monkeys who were on the trans fat diet actually ate more we specifically increasing up down the road something just like. i'm going through. this country and we will these are not are you everybody else but the whole country is getting movement so why oh you're like. this transfer. which. refuted six. sugaring rich flour nationally hydrogenated vegetable oil all these forty to sixty. sure is that so much of psychoanalysis commercial comes on its own terms of being a dead end on the deadline for the us to make resisted ceiling looms what appeared to be more mom politics and upcoming elections than fixing

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