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come from how is it made. me eating before corporations were relentlessly marketing foods 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. 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 of 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 of 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. you know what a partially hydrogenated oil is. this is the question my producer asked me one day while we were in the grocery store and i didn't know so he began telling me that i was going after the heart and how he didn't. 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 more.

horrible. what is it hydrogenated oil oil. or. i don't know. that's a good question i charge an agent all the something you put in your car to make a run slower with an oil that's healthier for even other oils they've heard of. i don't and i will that may be an extra. molecule in it now it is hard to get no clue nor do i think it's really if. i struck oil actually it isn't boiled it is shaming the altar boy. in the fact that you know to

manufacture in a way tour to talk to something blunt through it i'm not quite as a former monk said something. cars. trucks try. and avoid all that is going to fuel water a lot of packages of food must be present spent discussing something that's crossing the road. so what is a hydrogenated oil hydrogenated oil is a manmade fact a train track you see that is just a big molecule that's made mostly of carbon the carbon atoms are bonded together like a chain there 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 nonsense rated that get it ok so what is transferred and transmits in as a. bizarro type of. unsaturated fatty acid where the double bind 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 cis but with industrial process same. vegetable oils the gonds get rearranged so the hydrogen atoms are on the opposite sides of the chain and you might say well here's where hydrogen atoms are after all. but it turns out that we have evolved to deal with fatty acids that have.

the same side so this we have not evolved something with the most new kinds of fatty acids that are produced from industrial processing of vegetable oils and this is actually breaking havoc with their health. let's take a look at how these transcripts 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 reached deodorized and eventually pressurized in a tank that is heated to over four hundred degrees fahrenheit fee's extreme temperatures allow a chemical reaction to occur when heavy metals are added as a catalyst for the most commonly used for little or no physical and cobalt none of which should be consumed by humans if finally hydrogen gases last with a fine for 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 need to 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 fearsome community has really not served the public well. the reason for that is that. some fats are essential some fats are ok and sound 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. well 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 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 role some are absolutely essential for the structure for making a membrane around every single cell in our body and other fatty acids play a critical role as 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 it's a bad idea. 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 all have 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 things if not i think some people would like to get through. 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 walla agriculture began. it's been ten thousand years since he has planted the first crops we found the agricultural process to be more productive that hunting and gathering. we peas and flax provided the energy we needed to domesticate animals and the rest is farming history. the next advancement in food technology was irrigation this advancement allow humans to diversify the location and type of crops 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 additive so. the next revolution in food wasn't just realize ation more cheap and effective preservatives were needed to prevent

spoilage so humans were introduced to modern food processing and began consuming man made chemical concoctions. the first known artificial refrigeration was invented in the mid eighty's hundreds 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 is 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 glock and he placed it on the desk of cooper proctor proctor said what's next cons you know 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 will affect every kitchen in america and dead 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 crisscross was introduced in one thousand and eleven in the early one nine hundred forty s. the christo kids would have been about twenty years old 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's why you said it doesn't tell you genius to figure out that it's related to the adulterated character ols the hydrogenated oils in 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 grand new packaged food market. shelf life uniformity consistency and convenience where 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 marginal national sorta like chris could be used to preserve the processed packaged foods and trucked across the country. and might butter and manufactured hydrogenated vegetable fact 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 boston to minneapolis and count on a familiar logo something down. donaldson burger king taco bell at chili's. for travelers hungry as a place to eat in san francisco with the same accustomed menu as a place in st louis or charleston toronto among. the last hundred years there have been very nature 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 a 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 you 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 brewster was bad to pass president of the american heart association and the world heart federation. is a behavior problem. well what the world is frightening we see and one of the leading causes of heart disease is poor dietary choices which would be called the wolf from such unfortunately even in developing countries and in poor countries these have all been believe properly why is this million women consuming the higher levels of trans even just a couple grams a day had substantially higher risk of heart fifteen twenty thirty forty percent higher depending on how much chance they were making and we did find that you can

quite small amounts of transfer in the food supplies such as one or two percent of the calories for his transfer out of the increase is hard to see through twenty you're going up to about eighty percent of the harvard school of public health estimates the transfer that has been caused. fifty thousand premature deaths from heart attacks every year so this is really very toxic chemical it doesn't belong in a food supply your competitor for your heart attacks that i've seen here in the old city of. homicides we had one hundred thirty two homicides but people don't focus more on the on the heart attacks because they're now the violence is the homicides but the reality of death is that the death and we killing ourselves and we killing ourselves we get in our own graves with our teeth. he says the number one cause of death in the world look only in developed countries but now even in poor.

these heart attacks and his throat there's no equal to an infectious diseases ha ve led us into a lawsuit sure we have really in thrones the problem of significance to be. we've learned the transcripts have many adverse metabolic the crux we first heard the transcripts elevate the bad cholesterol the world to ice the good cholesterol but then we found that transcribes increase inflammatory factors throughout the body to me it really creates a general cyst general condition of information 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. h.d.l. cholesterol is like silly putty and is represented by the blue spheres. the alice

like sticky jell-o. globs that are seen here and yellow. is what we call h.d.l. cholesterol very important. things clearly enough to sift clearly that. l.d.l. cholesterol is the one that gets the forces it is the deal with. now and with a molecule it's the company that makes the food or pay on it the burning carbon. compound. good or bad and then we shouldn't attribute more after a few to an inert compound i don't think but if the. l.d.l. molecule. it's been reported that there's a higher risk of heart. and remember cholesterol is a carrier like a dump truck. carry stuff to where it is needed and h.d.l. carry stuff away now here's the tricky part trans fats cause inflammation they

increase l.d.l. and inhibit production the inflammation keeps trying 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 you know whether food has this catastrophic effect on individual bases you have to make a decision whether. or not not society will make it for europe and they will say you know you are you will not. because it's too expensive. in the united kingdom. so i think we're going to get this will be. possible it will be impossible to support the system so we are facing a situation which is an economic one if we continually place in what you will do for you have to make a consumption which is a personal one 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. bob he says. china. will be for the ambulance. probably chest pain for the cost arts adding up quickly . bob's lucky. this time. here comes some oxygen and some drugs. now it's off to the hospital so stopping. more money. first we need an i.v. and some id fluids. and more drugs. ok we're here now comes the scary part. but has no idea what happens next. that i want. to go past

registration as the waiting room directly behind curtain number twelve the first here's bob's emergency nurse she makes pretty good money and a visit from the e.r. doctor is hard that's not she. still having some chest discomfort so the ship i'm off to the cardiac unit. here will have a private room for cardiac nurses more drugs and a console from a cardiologist dr helene it's very nice to know i'm a cardiologist if your doctors come to talk to you this is where things start getting real expensive we're actually seeing is tightening a lot but we're going to do we're going to change your blood tests to see if you're having a heart attack to echocardiogram which is your heart. and do a stress test the stress this isn't all that normal people should party attackers.

too many questions you know it's a lot to get. through. now if the cardiac cath is positive and it's off the surgery which is usually the coronary artery or a complete bypass of 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 are accidents only a thousand. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand will kill themself. well some of us are killing each other and others are killing themselves

one hundred seventeen thousand enjoy in careless accidents we have sent american troops into war many times with us. 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 parents that. has an adverse effect on the system that is it makes the body. and work harder to metabolize and sugars and this is the first step on the road will die so most people. who are overweight have some degree of insulin resistance. if you have a lot of and it's bad in the diet that makes it still worse and closer to god and

we're we're in the midst of the diabetes epidemic along with horribly and. france 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 donor 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 b.m.i. of say twenty or twenty one we get rid of three quarters of that ideal. 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 extreme civil war where the large majority of americans are overweight or to level with so it's having outbursts a pox on their risk of diabetes and heart disease but a lot is that which case. you don't believe were supposed to be thought for ten years was supposed to be taking these kids out for the answer. they bought 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 or shots as individuals toward or away out of a result of promoting that activity in the epidemiologic studies individuals and consumed high amounts of trans fat from hydrogenated vegetable oils have the

substantially higher risk of 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 you trans fat or or healthy or else the monkeys who were on the trans fat diet actually gained more weight specifically increasing apt on the obesity just like the drug going through. this country everybody's another you everybody's ok but the whole country is getting good news so why well you're right it is true. which. the footage seized. sugar and rich flour sauce of the hydrogenated vegetable oil all the salt beet six thinking of a died of a fine just everything for its.