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 josh 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. oh yes no clue i have no idea but i think it's really good for you start a good oil hydrogenated oil and leave this boil that is humanly altered oil cooked

or animal fat there's no to manufacture in a way to get toxic something blunt through it. as a more environmentally safe magic something you massage from member. station cars. comes a. tragic turn. in oil that has been refused water a lot of packages of food must be preserved some time spent discussing something to raise crops in the city. 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 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. 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 trans fats 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 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 fishing 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. 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 energy that way but we've come to realize after decades of research that the specific fatty acids which make up fat creek 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 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 than 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 inefficient as time progressed. eventually we learned to cultivate the land and agriculture began. it's been here since humans planted the first crops. 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 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. allowed people to buy 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 oil in the early one thousand nine hundred. because. 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. i 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 that ad it is 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 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. unlike butter the 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 to miami from austin to minneapolis and count on the familiar logo something donaldson burger king taco bell and chili's. at the travelers hungry as a place to eat in san francisco with the same accustom 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. behavior problem to. the world he's 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. then women consuming higher levels of trans even just a couple grams a day had substantially higher risk of heart to think twenty thirty forty percent higher depending on how much chance 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 for this transfer increase 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. 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 we did in our own graves with our teeth. these are the number one cause of death in the world. only in developed countries now even

import of. these heart attack. snow equal to infectious diseases ha the. problem of significantly. we've learned the transcripts have many adverse metabolic are facts we first. elevate the bad cholesterol to. good cholesterol but then we found the transcripts increase inflammatory factors throughout the body meaning it really creates a general cysts condition of. every organ of the body plus also part of the issue what caused this cluster all to increase its inflammation. and here's what they look like h.d.l. cholesterol. and is represented by the blue spears.

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here's the tricky part. they increase. production. and there isn't enough to remove the excess. effect. too expensive. one. 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. sir sir it's a. first charge will be for the ambulance. so the cost are chatting up quickly. this time. here comes some oxygen 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 happened at. that. point.

the waiting room. behind curtain 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. it's time. to take a party. to your heart. and do a stress test. normal. i

know it's a lot. 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. 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. plants 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 in the midst of a diabetes epidemic along with our obesity epidemic trans 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 and italy were supposed to be. for ten years we're supposed to be thinking it's good for total it's 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 inactivity in epidemiologic studies individuals who consume high amounts 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 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 healthy or oils the monkeys who were on the trans fat diet actually gained more weight. specifically creasing abdominal obesity. is they're struggling to reach. everybody but the whole country. so why were you all right. or to put it six. sugar enriched flour cautiously hydrogenated vegetable oil ali still beats sixty. five.

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the grand imperial truly the torch was the. new kind of let's go to the ocean as you say don't need to go publicly and run this in the kennel was her job as a retreat. russian billionaire alexander lebedev expresses interest in buying the news of the world shot by media tycoon rupert murdoch over phone hacking scandal has engulfed the british prime minister david cameron given a grilling in parliament over his ties with this crazy news corporation executives . serbia has captured the last outstanding suspects being sought for war crimes in the yugoslav conflict in the one thousand nine hundred sixty expected extradition of one turn of the page should now pave the way for talks on serbia joining the european union and some no doubt this will ever become a reality. and colonel gadhafi is a resignation is not an option according to the libyan foreign minister speaking after meeting with his russian counterpart here in moscow russia has again

reiterated its willingness to become a mediator in the ongoing conflict. and while the u.s. is rapidly running out of time to deal with its debt crisis parties peter lavelle asks his guests whether it's all about politics rather than the economy our debate show cross talk is just that. if. you. well the crosstalk 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 disasters do americans have an appetite for are scared. to cross talk the debt impasse i'm joined by my guests in new york doug henwood he is editor and publisher of the left business observer and howard gold he's 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 as the u.s. that steadily creep story that's legal limit democrats and republicans agree that if they were to avert a default would trigger an economic catastrophe a catastrophe that would not only hit the u.s. but would also under.