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since before h.b. gary since pay-pal since julia songs since wiki leaks you cannot stop it by arresting people because behind this mask is an idea and ideas are bulletproof that's our show for tonight thanks for tuning in to adam vs the man you can check out our website an aversive the mad account of vote on guess and topics and find me on facebook and twitter where you can get involved in our contest to be an executive producer for an entire blog of the so by reposing are using about sos on the facebook fan page as always you can get me at adam at adam vs the man dot com and catch this broadcast live as it airs at our dot com slash usa and on you tube this is out of focus from washington d.c. tonight.
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mother mission. critical patients three looks for charges three.
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months three. three. three look the old phrase long island mediocre story or. a free media. plug. today. look these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the day plugs. you're not born with a bio chemistry or psychology degree so every second of your existence from birth to graduation people make decisions for you what you do what you wear what you
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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 effects to dinner what is it processed food why because it's cheap quick and they've been convinced that's good for you. and 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 were constantly throwing how great their products are. one day we wake up and you're twenty five what happened to all those years by now you've been thoroughly granted by the food and chemical companies. all of your daily food purchases are made in accordance with how you feel about the products
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you consume. for example your neat heinz ketchup and nothing else your favorite soft drink up actually everyone has a favorite 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 otherwise some government agency would put a stop to it they care about you right or wrong this perception is carefully crafted by all of the parties that stand to make a financial gain. these companies you are a dead git 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
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a high school teacher lori terrorism and. she was teaching advanced health class at a specialty high school in new york city her 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 trance fats in foods that they thought were healthy. really. keep your hands up i mean i like what you said over here you had a great comment obviously if this was are good for you i mean nobody goes and it's a twinkie or big mac thinking it's healthy for them 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. hope mel finds mike i don't know farts has had a pulse. i touch me honest but i always. bounce at stop signs
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i think part of what else i drive an ego is that which is directed towards the church and i think i need a gun so it's i want to be wrestling and i looked in the back and said they were transferred and i was surprised to see that i played it was. just the whole feel of spring from stuff on all those part of the free transfer would be a log on every corner so you would be looking out for the street. or labeling art is really confusing it's been an important step forward to require the transcripts to be on the food label so i gives consumers some awareness about the amount of transfer out there but it's very confusing because it's legal to overpower up to half a gram of transfer out you know project and still have a zero there in the wind for transfer it's. everybody knows with zero means except in washington zero does not mean zero zero
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means up to half a gram when we're talking about transfer from dried you needed vegetable oil the optimal so you can manage is zero. they only have to label a half gram per serving so you still need to read your ingredient label was that company a.o.l. the seven thousand so that the test match because you. have one that was. a whole lot. more scared because see transfer you console transfer you need major scientific inquiry 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 go transcribe it at zero doesn't mean zero and food companies might be lying when they put zero grams of trans person writing on the front of congress i had to spend a weekend at the university of maryland bio chemistry lab to find out. i have been
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presented with these five samples of foods on nicer rebel films and they've asked me to analyze them or transfer the ethnic content. first one is a promise. and it has zero trans on the label of the new chris go to zero chance on the label. so will take sample and homogenize of. the sky and that's what will be analyzed for the trans fatty acids. from.
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the. keep. from. every food sample that we had. asked it was labeled us and zero grams of trans fat person or object but fortunately all of these foods contain a deadly grade and the most surprising the strongest margarine which contains zero point four six grams of trans fat person again. and so if the savage consumer looks at the name gradients partially hydrogenated vegetable or name no that means transplants so how can it says zero and still be contained partially hydrogenated vegetable oils confusion is not a good thing i think we really probably should not be allowing zero there unless there is no partially hydrogenated vegetable or product after i started really reading labels i noticed some truly disturbing processed foods. to sort of ours are
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designed specifically for people with diabetes or will it meir stampfer you know those two harvard researchers just told us how transparent from hydrogenated oils accelerate insulin resistance and lead to diabetes. why would any companies partially hydrogenated oil 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. my 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 ingredients that i found bleached wheat flour this is the first ingredient on so many product labels. during processing the
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wheat is sprayed with chlorine gas the same thing as your household bleach but in gas form. that leach 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 are doing more than adding a potentially poisonous ingredient they are 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 form. if so you have the wrong image. right in the right a movie and that anyone can bridge vitamins they put cereals breads and other food products do not come from natural sources like an orange. to be vitamins and rich
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flour come from chemicals petroleum bacteria and rocks. manu and i quest right of the last part of the trans fat puzzle. promo suppliers use replace expensive ingredients like butter cream and eggs because they have a modest shelf life if you bake your cakes in home you know get on if you do whatever make your own home on a saucer sample you know you don't say i'm done so it's all part of the. i don't have time to cook and we thought well there are thousands of them on the market the only way to examine the and greedy and tomato inside was rides by reading the patent application on file at the u.s. patent office according to documents many could take partially hydrogenated oils as the base for their formula since there is less than half a gram per serving companies using these ingredients have no legal obligation to tell you that trans fats are present. and the only way to eliminate this poison
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from your diet is to be 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 at a place like this americans eat out more than any other country but what do you eat while you're here. everybody.
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growth in the restaurant industry has skyrocketed from one nine hundred fifty present back then restaurant sales were about fourteen billion dollars. in two thousand and eight. five hundred fifty dollars that's five hundred fifty thousand million dollars. in comprehensible the fast food industry over one hundred seven billion dollars and mcdonald's the. fast food. billion dollars in one year. the food industry uses the cheapest ingredients and food to sell their goods at an affordable price to the consumer. this cost cutting results in the most hideous of gradients and processes to deliver the cheapest possible product. in the meantime as we keep eating these adulterated foods they're waging war on the body
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at a molecular level speeding the disease process and plus the consumer into expensive irresponsible health care system. most people think the f.d.a. will protect them from these harmful practices and nothing could be farther from the truth right now the f.d.a. is doing more to protect the manufacturers. now that you have entered the health care machine you get to deal with all the paperwork and red tape that come with any insurance company but now it applies to
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your health. then comes the emotional burden of being processed given a standard package solution usually drugs. more drugs means more money and you spend your money on treatment all you can afford is more cheap food. it can be pretty tricky for consumers to navigate the treacherous waters of food choices and honestly transplants 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
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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. as one of the great ones for eighteen years he was a researcher investigator and legal counsel at the food and drug administration he explained how the regulatory agency does its job. i'm case primary mission is to protect the public. their job is 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 and over foods and pharmaceuticals and their theory has a lot of responsibility and of why jurisdiction so it's easy to get confused about how they actually operate what does the f.d.a. does. help me with my diet out there presumably check to.
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make sure that it's safe for a human consumption so i work for the f.d.a. . so. they protect it's like regular their patients and we regulate about a third of the nation's account third of the nation's economy they're trying their best but i think we're overwhelmed by all of the products that are out there right now and it makes for it scary tropes keep 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 that these 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 a spin is kind of regulating itself and has been for probably twenty years and so
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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 with that they're the only injuries they should be balancing is the risk to the consumer 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 to say and for many years who was 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. i'm sorry we did stop by the headquarters for a visit but staying outside. that if we only had one question. things are well. represented one third of our economy why isn't the put into good ministration doing a thorough job of regulating it all thanks to some really security people in films
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that. 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 there for the f.d.a. to do to protect the public's health and doesn't have the funding to do it and all too often it doesn't have the will to do it. 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 love it for years and testified in congress i never bothered trying to get anything washington d.c. because i knew immediately i was going to be pretty good to get congressmen and senators who would be. on the receiving end of campaign contributions from food companies and a part of it is the media we have so much media hype today i call it media
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nutrition media supplements and individuals today are really being told by magazines and newspapers what's helping what's not healthy to them and here's something very significant you are being told what the food manufacturers want you to hear. only featured on a list of thousands of comparing you very much a unanimous vote by the new york city board of health means by july of two thousand and eight served at new york city's twenty six thousand restaurants three trans cash. it is up to the state law on twenty sure of the food supply is safe for consumers become a point to go to the only component enough to supply the cooking oil we should take
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it on the condition of the health and well being of course. of most of one's to other business owners especially here in california for example we ban the use of lead paint co we know they did it bad for public health but we know that trans fats that probably the like can we do that as well. dr from 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. it's green is greed that's what. you talk about dreaming treatment. giving paying directly correlated. i believe
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the reason that people not associated food with the disease is 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 billion dollars is a 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 no trans fats from partially hydrogenated oils our diets people forget the major impact of the diet here 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 we promote health or how we prevent strokes in heart attacks so what is the answer the answer is not me telling
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these the answer is you because the american public knows very well they would play mention secret is more things bad blood pressure lack of accusations but always it is what they don't know. so these choose not to have to play with the issues are you ready in your life to put health as a priority or you are not. health should be everyone's priority and the bottom line is that trans fats and processed foods do not contribute to healthy living i wasn't suing because trust makes you fry i was certain because transfer rich. foods that contain these harmful that are not part of the nutritional diet and if you're eating transparent i urge you to stop as we learn more and more about how what we are facts are one term health or mobi we find that
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over processing of food is having many severe consequences. eliminating them from your diet could be a first step on the road to healthy living killing ourselves and we killing ourselves are we getting our own graves with our teeth. personal responsibility is the cornerstone of any diet change the other is good information . you have to look past the companies in the media because their sales driven enterprises they're not concerned with their health. and their main concern is the shelf life of the product and our main concern is the shelf life of the individual. all markets are sales driven. if we start buying healthier foods and these companies may be forced to sell itself their 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 is inspecting virtually nothing when it comes in the united states market.
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