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 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. oh yes no clue i have no idea but i think this week if we start a good oil hydrogenated oil it believe is oil that is humanly altered oil could. and the fact that you know to manufacture in a way to get oxygen or something blunt through it. as a more environmentally safe magic something you might. remember. steve cars.

becomes a. truck turning. in oil that is then if you use water a lot of packages and food must be preserved sometime i suspect discussing something to the right. so what is a hydrogenated oil hydrogenated oil is a man made fat a trans fat you see that'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. 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 the most commonly used aluminum. and cobalt none of which should be consumed by humans. finally hydrogen gas is blasted into the tank and bonded to the oil the result is two types of hydrogenated oils. 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 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 sure some community has really not serve the public well. the reason for that is that. some fats are essential some fats are ok and some 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 it's.

a simplification that is simply wrong. that yes it's 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 it and got 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 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 response to inflammation and many many other really essential biological pathways and so this idea that is bad is a bad idea.

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 all have to live on a different kind of diet than we're consuming no some of the things we were eating were the kinds of i think some people wouldn't 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. 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 in 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 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. 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 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 holes in the toxins in the additives that are put in the food supply. in one thousand nine hundred five a new processed food revolution. the depression was over the troops were home and back to their domestic jobs the economy was finally stable everyone was happy.

conditions led to a population explosion creating a new generation of consumers and packaged food market. shelf life uniformity. for the new standards and market forces responded appropriately. in one thousand nine hundred eighty six congress passed legislation to build an interstate highway system. by linking the forty eight states with state of the art . and. manufactured hydrogenated oils which gave life to marginal like chris. packaged foods across the country. the manufactured. product that. would still be fresh when it got to washington state and for months and years to come. today. from austin to minneapolis

and. it's a burger king taco bell and chili's. at the travellers' hungry as a place to eat in san francisco with the same accustomed 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 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 have occurred in our food supply and then of course your add on or activity levels that have 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. is a behavior problem to. the world he's fighting with you and one of the leading cause of the heart disease is poor dietary choices called the wolf from some. unfortunately even in developing countries and in poor countries these evolving believe that men and women consuming higher levels of command even just a couple grams a day had substantially higher risk of heart to twenty thirty forty percent higher depending on how much they were eating and we did find that even quite small amounts of transfer in a put supplies such as one or two percent of the calories for this transfer 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. 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. with our teeth. these are the number one cause of death in the world look only in developed countries but now even more of. these heart attacks and so there's no equal to the infectious diseases ha ve. really been thrown at the

problem of significantly. we've learned that transcribes have many adverse metabolic effects we first transfer outs 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 cyst condition of inflammation every organ of the body plus also part of the issue what caused this cluster all to increase its inflammation ok so there are two types of cholesterol and here's what they look like. and as represented by the blue spears. it's. enough.

to. now. it's the company that makes it. a tribute tribute to honor. but. it's been reported that there's. now remember. like a dump 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 h.d.l. production the inflammation keeps driving the 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 on an individual basis you have to make a decision whether health is a priority and you are not if not society will make it for you and they will say you know you are eight such you will not have these three women because it's too expensive these will happen with these in the united kingdom for example so i think we're going to get. possible it will be possible to support the system so we're facing a situation which is an economic one if we continually will do for you to make this issue which is a personal one in that these i am interested in. doctor says the treatments of heart disease are too expensive let's take a closer look at what a heart attack really cost meet bob he says their.

first charge will be for the ambulance. probably sent to m.t.s. for chest pain so the cost arts' adding up quickly. lucky. this time. now it's off to the hospital so. first we need. and some fluids. and more drugs. we're here. for. the waiting room. behind.

she makes pretty good money and. here. drugs. a cardiologist. expensive. heart. normal. it's a lot. then it's off to surgery which is usually. a complete.

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 of car accidents only a thousand. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themself. while some of us are killing each other and others are killing themselves one hundred seventeen thousand die annually in careless accidents we have sent american troops into war many times over. and all the wars 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 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. 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 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 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 donut 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. was . today in the united states nearly two thirds of the population is overweight almost one in three americans. 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 inactivity in. these individuals who consume high amounts of trans fats 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 when they had the same amount of calories and diet with

either trans fat or or the oils the monkeys who were on the trans fat diet actually gained more weight specifically increasing abdominal of the cd just. struggling to reach. everybody but the whole country is getting will be. so why are you all right. to put it six. sugar in rich flour will be hydrogenated vegetable oil. sally sall be sixty and. just everything.

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it's why i'm here in moscow welcome you watching our team was made and first for the fate of the euro teetering on a knife's leaders of how to deal for a second bailout for greece which they hope will save the single currency private lenders will also be contributing for the first time to a state rescue while the fun for debt stricken nations is to be increased but economic journalist patrick young told me it's far from the end of the crisis. but i think it's going to prolong the agony unfortunately a lot more money has been thrown at the greek economy in the hope that that can stop the contagion but really a lot of it just looks like hype and i'm very very concerned that we haven't actually find a cure we've just got another sticking plaster you know what really the european union are trying to do here is they're trying to staunch the blood that's flowing the money that's flowing out of the greek economy that can has been kicked down the road the danger of contagion still leaking to other countries such as ireland

portugal even italy and spain are there and therefore we don't have a cure but what we've seen so far unfortunately looks like hollow words and hollow words do not inspire confidence in markets and that has got to be some degree of a problem for the euro in the longer term the sense of impending doom is being felt among european economists and politicians for some time now with continuing crisis surrounding the euro and debt stricken nations that has done a bushel reports that that the latest decision could do more harm than good in quelling public fear over the state of the a use fiscal health the single currency will be did within two years warn analysts within the european crisis there's a really. serious threat now. europe might serve disintegrate politicians the richest states voters refuse to foot the bill but i don't think i've ever met anybody in the united kingdom in london.