welcome back now here's a recap of today's news and this week's top stories on our t.v. grief and despair in the rain as the country mourns the victims of its deadliest terrorist attacks on the suspect tells police the ninety three deaths were quote a gruesome but necessary. thousands of angry demonstrators from across spain finally protested madrid over the country's deaths and unemployment queues all fears remain about the future of the euro despite agreements in the e.u.

to bail out greece which caused it teetering on the brink. and rupert murdoch faces an investigation in the u.s. into more alleged phone hacking by his media firm and that software he was grilled in britain over the scandal but a shake up police and politicians at the frets. all full of news bulletin coming up at the top of the hour but first a special report on the dangers of the food we eat that's next. everybody eats food and we all have our favorites here in america food is abundant

take it for granted. it's about the food you eat what do you know. where does it come from how is it made. me eating before corporations were relentlessly marketing to us. this film is not just about food it's about the changes in our food supply the changes in the quality of our food. as a nurse i work in hospitals and 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 the ball. 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 now nourished as a because refined grains are excess sugar intake what about chemical food additives

what role do they play on our health. thousands of barrels are allowed to be used in our food supply. sixty. one a partially hydrogenated oil. this is the question my producer asked one day will restore i didn't know so he began telling me that it was bad for 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 movie.

what is it hydrogenated oil. it's russia needs oil. i don't know. that's a good question josh unaided oil is something you put in your car to make a run smooth an oil that's healthier for even other oils they've heard of. i don't go and oil that has to be an extra. molecule in it and how it is hard to get no clue nor do i think it's really good sort of good while i draw doesn't it hoyle

italy has oil has surely altered oil. or in fact is built to manufacture in the way to or. something flows through it or not. as a foreigner is it like something in the size. of these cars. comes a. truck making truck. and boil that is if you want to get a lot of packages and food must be a person spent discussing something from the right. so what is a hydrogenated oil hydrogenated oil is a man made fact a trans fact you see that it's just a big molecule that's made mostly of carbon 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 what is transferred and transmits in as a. bizarro type of. unsaturated fatty acids 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 a 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 a hydrogen is on the same side so this we have not evolved to feel with. the 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 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 breached deodorized and eventually pressurized in a tank that is heated two or 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 aluminum fickle and cobalt none of which should be consumed by humans if finally hydrogen gas is the last that is the thing

bonded to the oil the result is two types of hydrogenated oils only and partially partially hydrogenated oils in 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. know i draw the nation you know partial hydrogenation we need to have things that are not altered. the. low fat diet that has and 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 so are really bad but trans fat it goes into the really bad category to lump all fats together and say fat is bad and we should we do stat to improve our health is misguided and not supported by scientific evidence it's it's. a simplification that is simply wrong. 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 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 a 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 inflammation and many many other really essential biological pathways and so this idea of bad is bad it's a bad idea. it 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 all have to live on a different kind of diet when we're consuming know some of the things we were eating were the kinds of things if not i think some people wouldn't like to get their hands on it because they're not really what we consider foods. our methods of

hunting and gathering became more complex inefficient as time progressed and eventually we learned to cultivate the land and. agriculture began. it's been ten thousand years since he has planted the first crops we found the agricultural process to be more productive at hunting and gathering. we peas and flax provided the energy we needed to domesticate animals and the rest is farming head straight. for the next advancement of food technology was irrigation this advancement allowed 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 in most developed countries. which leads us to our first food additive. 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 one thousand nine hundred 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. kaiser was a chemist who perfected the hydrogenation of conti the oil in the early one nine hundred. because 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 block and he placed it on the desk of cooper proctor proctor said what's this cotton seed oil cries a reply. procter and gamble quickly hired kaiser and by nine eleven the company had

perfected the production of what would come to be known as chris go. 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 christo is introduced at night to 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's why you said it doesn't tell you genius to figure out that it's related to the adulterated chemicals the

hydrogenated oils and the toxins in the additives that are put in the food supply. one won't war two ended in one nine hundred forty 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 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. manufactured hydrogenated oils which gave long life to margin and that's before the like chris could be used to preserve the processed packaged foods being chucked

across the country. unlike butter and 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 die. donaldson burger king taco bell and chili's. for travelers hungry as a place to eat in san francisco at the same accustomed menu as a place in st louis or charleston toronto or much. 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 that a large amounts of refined carbohydrates 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 ever occurred in our food

supply and then of course you add on or activity levels sort of also changed a lot in the last hundred years and we really have a perfect storm of medical practice ouster. 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 to start was bad the past present of both the american heart association and the world heart federation. he said he'd be a problem to. the world he's fighting with you and one of the leading causes of heart disease is poor dietary choices called the world from such unfortunately even in developing countries and in poor countries these have all been believe properly why is this and then women consume the higher levels of command even just a couple grams a day had substantially higher risk of heart fifteen twenty thirty forty percent

higher depending on how much and the we and we did find that even quite small amounts of transfer out in a put supplies such as one or two percent of the calories were in his transfer out or the increased heart since risk are twenty and even up to about the percent the harvard school of public health estimates that trans fat has been caused. upwards of fifty thousand premature deaths from heart attacks every year so this is a very toxic chemical that doesn't belong in the food supply there are two hundred feet of heart attacks last year and also in the city of. homicides that one hundred thirty two homicides but people don't focus on one the heart attacks carsten are violent as homicides but the reality of death is is the death we killing ourselves and we killing ourselves in our own graves with our teeth.

which is 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 the fixtures the cecils ha the need molé yet into we're sure we have really influenced the problem of significantly. we've learned the transcripts have many adverse metabolic the facts we first heard the transcripts elevate the bad cholesterol there are still the good cholesterol but then we found the transcripts increase inflammatory factors throughout the body to me it really creates a general says general condition of information every organ of the body you know plus all the 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 h.d.l. cholesterol is like silly putty and is represented by the blue spheres. l.d.l. is like sticky jell-o. globs here and yellow. is what we call. very important. they. will give us. enough to sift clearly. the about cholesterol the l.d.l. cholesterol is the one that gets the forces that is the deal with. now cholesterol in the brain molecule it's the company that makes it good or bad it's the thirty carbon that valuable compound. good or bad and then we shouldn't attribute moral attributes 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. now remember cholesterol is a carrier like

a dump truck l.t.l. carry stuff to where it is needed and h.d.l. carry stuff away. 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 wonder food has this catastrophic effect on individual bases you have to make of this issue whether health is a player if you are not even not society will make it for europe and they will say you know you want it such you will not. because he's too expensive he's we're talking with dialysis in the united kingdom for example so i think we're going to get to some. people it will be possible to support the system so we're facing a situation which is an economic one if we. will do for you have to make a decision which is personal and that is the. dr

foster says the treatments of heart disease are too expensive let's take a closer look at what a heart attack really cost me bob he says international center. for. a. first charge will be for the ambulance. probably said to have keys for chest pain for the cost arts adding up quickly. bob's lucky they sent a paramedic this time and. here comes some oxygen and some drugs. now it's off to the hospital so strap in for your ambulance ride. more money. first we need an i.v. and some i.v. fluids. and more drugs. ok we're here now comes the scary part. but has no idea what happens next.

ok i am the one. gets 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 it is a from the e.r. doc. are you feeling that's not she. still having some chest discomfort to ship him off to the cardiac unit. here i'll have a private room a cardiac nurse more drugs and a console from a cardiologist dr helene it's very nice to hear i'm a cardiologist your doctors ask me to come talk to you this is where things start getting real expensive but fortunately we see extending a lot of what we're going to do we're going to do good tests to see if you're having a heart attack to echocardiogram which is not your heart. and do

a stress test a stress test happen or mold you want your cardio tuckers east. to any questions i know it's a lot to get. now if the cardiac cath is positive then it's off to surgery which is usually stents to the corner your arteries for a complete bypass up. 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 from car accidents only a thousand. seven hundred thousand people. and thirty two thousand were killed

himself. while some of us are killing each other and others are killing themselves one hundred seventeen thousand died annually in careless accidents we have sent american troops into war many times over. and all the wars since korea and there's 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. has an adverse effect on the resistance that is it makes the body. and work harder to metabolize. and this is the first step on the road. so most people. who are overweight have some degree of insulin resistance. if you have

a lot of trans fat in the diet nixon store workers and things you closer to god will be where we are in the midst of the diabetes epidemic along with our obesity epidemic transfers me on 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 donut 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. are a whole population got down to a b.m.i. of say twenty two or twenty one we carried a three quarters of the guidance. 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 who are going to streams a world where the large majority of americans are overweight at a level that's puts haven't got a person cracks up their risk of diabetes and heart disease but a lot of physical education and italy were supposed to be taught for ten years we're supposed to be taking kids out for trouble and so. they thought 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 help cartoon characters or hawking sugary 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 and there are factors operating or many levels that push us as individuals toward or away resoldering already been going activity in the epidemiologic studies individuals who consume high amounts of trans fat from

hydrogenated questionable or else 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 when they had seen amount of calories in the diet with either trans fat or for healthy or else the monkeys who were on the trans fat diet actually gain more weight specifically increasing up down the road he said and he just rushed there struggling through. these country and we will these are not i would question but the whole country is getting good news so why are you all right. click. here to put it six. sugaring rich flour will cost you hydrogenated vegetable oil ali still beats sixty.

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