is it because refined grains or excess sugar intake what about chemical food additives what role they play in 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 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 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 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 a hydrogenated oil oil. and. i don't know. that's a good question i judge unaided oil is something you put in your car to make it run smooth an 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. are good no clue i have no idea but i think it's pretty good start

a good boy hydrogenated oil and leave his boil that is humanly altered oil cooked. in the fact that melted manufactured in a way to get talks to something blunt through it. as a form pharmacy magic something you may. remember. cars. comes at a. traffic trend. in oil that is going to fuse water a lot of packages and food must be preserved some time spent discussing something to raise crops in the us 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 processing of 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 transplants 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 minimum nickel and cobalt none of which should be consumed by humans.

finally hydrogen gas lasted 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 you know 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 fishing community has really not served the public well . the reason for that is that. some facts are essential

something that you're ok and so 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 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 than we're consuming now some of the things that we were eating were the kinds of what 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 here since humans 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 rest is history. the next advancement in food technology irrigation. allowed humans to diversify the location 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 and most developed countries. which leads us to our first food.

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 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 teens it's the 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 that ad it is that are put in the food supply. when will 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 forever changed how americans would shop. 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 but. 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 logo is a 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 a custom menu as a place in st louis or charleston toronto or london. in the last hundred years there have been very major changes in our food supply and two 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 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. can be a problem to. the world he's fighting and one of the leading causes of heart disease is. choice called the world. unfortunately even in developing countries and in poor countries these evolving believe. 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 hands they were eating and we did find that even quite small amounts of transfer in approved supplies such as one or two percent of the calories for the transfer increased heart disease risk by twenty going up to about eighty percent 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. 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 we did in our own graves with our teeth. these are the number one

cause of death in the world. only in developed countries but now even important can. these heart attack and so there's no equal to infectious diseases ha ve. really influenced the problem of significantly. we've learned the transcripts have many adverse metabolic effects the first transfer outs elevate the bad cholesterol the l.d.l. to. good cholesterol but then we found the transference increase inflammatory factors throughout the body meaning it really creates a general says general condition of inflammation every organ of the body you know plus also part of the issue but what caused this cluster all to increase its inflammation ok so there are two types of cholesterol and here's what they look

like. represented by the blue spears.

and. here's the tricky part. they increase and inhibit production. and there isn't enough 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. sir. let's take 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 the scary part. has no idea what happens next.

that it. gets to. the waiting room directly behind number twelve. 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. 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. trance 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. i mean member every soda. candy and slice of white bread because 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 and italy were supposed to be. for ten years we're supposed to be thinking for twenty minutes a. state 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 or 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 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 disease and they also have an increased risk of diabetes and 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 abdominal obesity he just learned is they're struggling to reach. this country every well these are not everybody but the whole country. so why were you all right. or to put it six. sugar enriched flour possibly our drug made a testable oil ali still beats sixty. five.

in india oldies are made to believe the move to join the hotel rooms the violence

the gateway hotel the grand imperial truly the torch was still. new can a letter to the socialist good to see don't need to go publicly and read this and the colonel was hoto as a retreat. media speculation points to a possible resurrection of the disgraced defunct news of the world under russian ownership but billionaire alexander lebedev making money tight lipped about the subject meanwhile pressure mounts on the british prime minister who gets a grilling in parliament over his ties with displaced new school board executives. last remaining the war crimes suspect wanted by the un from the balkans conflict is captured as of serbia rests its fugitive commander go on objects it's part of the country's latest attempt to overcome obstacles to its new membership. and to

tripoli will not consider that often stepping down and that's the producer's position revealed by libya's foreign minister at a meeting with his russian counterpart must go the visiting diplomat expressed disappointment with several western countries for recognizing the opposition's council as libya's of legitimate government. while the u.s. is rapidly running out of time to deal with its debt crisis artie's peter lavelle asks his debts whether it's all about politics rather than the economy our debate show cross talk is just a. few. fish fish fish . if you. want. the low end welcome to cross talk i'm hearing about that

deadlock as the deadline for the u.s. to increase its debt ceiling looms would appear to be more about politics and upcoming elections than fixing a crippling problem as the u.s. courts financial disaster do americans have an appetite for a staring. and. to cross talk the debt impasse i'm joined by my guests in new york doug henwood he is editor and publisher of left business observer and howard gold he is a columnist for market watch and founder of the political blog the independent agenda all right gentlemen this is across time that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's have a look at the debate unraveling on capitol hill. just under two weeks this is how much time washington has left to raise the federal debt ceiling set at fourteen point three trillion dollars and it's the u.s. that steadily create stories it's league.