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has halted and. right now there are 2000000000 people adults and children who are overweight or obese this doesn't happen by magic it takes a book and we're going to look at her as he is that is driving the process well otherwise we'll live in societies in which you know one out of every 3 people has diabetes where everybody is obese where people are dying of stroke and heart attack at age 40 i mean that the choice is an obvious one if we don't do something we will collapse as a society is not just in america but in mexico and russia and china and europe it's happening everywhere. almost everywhere in the world men and women are battling this fate political leaders physicians regular citizens they brave the multinationals. we truly believe that the industry is
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wrong and that their poisoning and targeting people and people need to know about it. the. wielding the weapons of law science and public policy they want to help us regain control of our bodies. in the 1st years of the 21st century western countries declared war on obesity to no avail. experts estimate that by 2030 there will be 250000000 obese children in the world. if our governments take in the right track. at least 2 sides of men and women. in the u.k.
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are overweight. on the right still. the basics soft changing impact on the ball can slowly lower your quality of life. according to the messages spread far and wide we alone are to blame for our weight fat people are simply gluttons unable to control their appetites. you have a choice to make the change. we are told it's up to us but is it really. for me the most difficult stigma to cope with is this idea that the people of no will power the people in larger bodies people don't have a well power urls they wouldn't carry excess weight because we're told so often
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that that's all it takes to lose what go to the gym follow this diet program you know if you just stick to it you'll get there. public health officials were sure that a little personal willpower was all it would take to slay obesity eat less exercise more became the mantra of the 2 thousands it would go around the world. so let's start moving let's start pushing twisting climbing and raising the roof let's start moving more every day for 30 minutes or 60 and if you feel like stopping you can always start back up let's start moving to it's so easy for us to look at a lean person and say they have such willpower they're so moral and strong and then look at someone with a weight problem and attribute all of these negative traits oh they're just weak
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they don't have willpower it's not at the individual level it's not individual willpower and if we go on believing that will never change this obesity epidemic hey everybody you know getting active every day helps us all be healthy and feeling great. to say most earnest advice about exercise is profit with the best intentions in 2010 michelle obama launched a campaign against child obesity thank you 1st lady lent her sassy sashing to movie . body aiming to set healthier standards for food served in school lunch when. we send our kids to school we have a right to expect that they won't be eating the kind of fairy salty sugary foods that we're trying to keep them when they're at home unfortunately you know michelle obama was the right track right from the beginning and i think she got the railed by mixture of bad advice and by bringing in the food the food companies and they
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were able to dilute the very powerful message down to something where you know it's just her own television encouraging people to to move that way rather than let's move together. as a movement to be able to transform the food system. better became more. be on c easily upstaged the public service message to. build. a boon to the multinationals who quickly joined the dance in 2015 called who created the global energy balance network a worldwide think tank dedicated to solving the obesity problem. by promoting exercise. most of the folks in the popular media and in the scientific press is over eating too much eating too much eating too much blaming fast food blaming
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sugary drinks and so on and there's really personally no compelling evidence that in fact there's a cause professor steve blair is one of the head researchers recruited for the network he's a specialist in physical exercise but maybe the reason they're eating more calories than they need is because they're not burning man so we need to be invalid this is . into the new ok because any. some time when i kissed. you. yes just place where they felt. just gonna be ok here's how that translates into marketing thing which is. just beyond. the industry has been focused on the story of calories in calories out you can drink what you want just go go on
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a jog and work off your calories well we know that actually is not true that's not the true story. allegedly to avoid waking we would simply have to burn the same number of calories as we eat the theory sounds logical unfortunately it isn't true physical exercise actually plays a minor role in weight control you have to jog for one hour to eliminate a hamburger a pizza though requires 2 for 2 hours of running. if you look at it from a calorie perspective that is from accumulation equals sort of calories in minus calories out of this a well that's always true because if you look at from a physics perspective that is always true but the problem is that that's physics and we're dealing with human physiology and it really has nothing to do with each other. i think we should take the focus off of calories yes you
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can eat less and lose weight for a short while but your body will fight back and over the long term we know that metabolism is stronger than willpower. all right if individual willpower is not to blame what caused the steep rise in the obesity curve starting in the 1980 s. . so what's the difference between 197-2019 well i don't think it's the basic biology of the person but it's something to do with the way that we both that the. types of food and the frequency of the foods that we eat. in 40 years are eating habits of undergone a real revolution fomented by public health policies of the late 1970 s. at the time cardiovascular disease was the grim reaper causing millions of deaths. the senate special committee on nutrition is looking into the connection between
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diet and hot disease. the sugar lobby succeeded in having a high fat diet declared guilty a false verdict that had serious consequences public health officials recommended that we reduce our intake of fats grains touted as cholesterol free replaced meat as a staple food. and so eating more brad more rice more potatoes for example because they're very low fat and you know eating less dairy less meat low fat dairy back kind of thing that was the standard advice for so many years and i think that is the most likely culprit as to why people have gained weight the u.s. government called on the food industry to market thousands of processed foods that were reduced in fat and saturated fat so if you're the food industry and you're supposed to reduce fat what are you going to replace them with well processed grains and sugar. agro industry sleight of hand made
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the transition painless sugar a cheap replacement for fat made light foods tasty and addictive chemist went to work extruding ingredients in the supermarket shelves filled with attractively package starches reprocessed as bread cornflakes and convenience points. in a sense the food industry did what they were told they were happy to do it because sugar is actually cheaper than fat so they could increase the price. threats and call these products health. public ultimately paid the price. through a manual recount one in 4 children here right now is overweight one of the big reasons without thinking we give them biscuits sweets crisps and chocolate every day. eating excessive sugar causes deep dysfunctions inside our bodies starting
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with the hormone imbalance. when you eat certain hormones go up and the main hormone that's involved in energy metabolism is insulin insulin determines whether the calories we eat get burned or get stored as fat. we saw throughout the course or at least a really good image snooch other than that he meant for those who want. to put on the butter is going to do the book released with all that business and just. sort of. be able. to screw up you'll still be stuck or even outsourcing the course for your ph resistor but i'm sure there's just. a few good feel the culture.
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will settle into business compassion. we think you minds be so it soldier to piss off the boots he's wearing. to church to the sold out so quickly move the opposable to put your word would do it and you'll like it i'll be sure stuck in the summer watching the police force sort of us all that. would be needed for the. americans i would say i'm not american but americans helped out really. world war 2 cures the depression far sometimes traces concerned prosperity of course in store.
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for the process the whole world what it what and. historical rewrite ever since world war 2 to foment the cold war against russia against communism and. socialists nish. the soviet all me out she also lost a strike when we're so used to call to go. to world war 2 has been distorted incredibly by the anglo-american media and that's because they wanted to minish the role of russia. and stalin who actually defeated hitler. is you'll be a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe.
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isolation full community. are you going the right way or are you being led so. tightly. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallowness. glucose sugar that is fuels nearly all living cells when we eat our pancreas secretes insulin. and this insulin is what transports sugar to our cells. when our diets are heavy in foods that are starchy and sweet
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by processed foods in fact our insulin levels are constantly high. with too much insulin our fat cells the fat tissue in our body takes up too many calories and holds on to them so there aren't enough calories for the rest of the body there aren't enough calories for the loss for the organs in the brain. and that's why we get hungry. so these highly processed foods fast foods sugary beverages junk foods that we're snacking on they die just very quickly but they don't provide wifes a tidy so it's these processed carbohydrates the driveway. despite the negative impact these ultra processed foods have on a metabolism nothing has stopped their spread.
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it's profitable to sell through this he's fast and sugary and sulky under a big it's much less profitable. for good as wholesome that is high in fiber and is minimally processed so what's driving the obesity epidemic in its corporate profits. this dietary revolution has fathered empire's nestle you know lever coca-cola kellogg's pepsi co. currently a handful of. huge corporations own nearly every brand of food together they pull in $500000000000.00 in annual sales and have taken control of our dinner plates. food there's a huge sector of our society it's not only the food companies it's not just sleaze and then gnomes and cokes and pepsis it's the food retailers it's the wal marts and
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chorus force it's the agribusiness is they're huge to control all the supplies of commodities and then it's also the marketers it's all the advertisers making money from marketing junk food and beverage just people so work talk about meth of ransoms component of our society is focused on selling the world unhealthy foods and beverages. the nationals have a secret weapon price the products they sell are up to 60 percent cheaper than fresh foods the shoppers with the smallest budgets stock up. these low income consumers sitting ducks are the primary victims of the system.
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the hamilton family lives in one of washington's poorest neighborhoods a few miles from the white house. fresh produce is nearly impossible to find within walking distance. business. still. or forgot your growth in washington's wealthier areas the city rate is 10 percent. sent here it effects 42 percent of the population of. today's menu features notching this ground beef and tomato sauce with extra sugar garnish to sour cream. is one of us here is that for a period of a meal in the behind the food at work assume. that that i will now be jesus' name we can pray amen amen. to.
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that. locally owned family restaurants have abandoned the hamiltons inner city neighborhood fast food chains rushed in to fill the vacuum. their impact is multiplied by an implacable marketing strategy that starts on the street corner . the food industry says it's your fault but the reality is they've changed the whole food environment they've created a food environment worth every place you turn if it's on your smartphone it's on seeing a billboard it's seeing any kind of advertisement it's watching television or movies you see there are junk food being pushed. to manipulation starts with the children . with.
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the scientific studies show there is a direct link between the ads children see and the types of food they like to eat. the world health organization recommends regulating food commercials on t.v. but the industry is ingenuous it infiltrates new areas like social networks or online games but. that's what marketing is supposed to do that's what it's designed to do they're very good at it. so the marketing was successful the question is. was it helpful that my health. slick marketing hides the fact that junk food causes one of the most devastating diseases that exists diabetes. today it kills one person every 6 seconds around the world. 25 years ago if i told you
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that i have an 18 year old patient and i click with type 2 diabetes you would have said oh my gosh it's incredible it's so rare it's so strange. now it's very commonplace that young people children have type 2 diabetes. girls. were like fighting a war at home. it's heartbreaking it's unfair it's unjust people are making money off of this suffering it's preventable it's it's dehumanizing to ignore it it's inhumane to ignore it. kinney age 14 and willy 15 must take diabetes medication daily for killing them. it's actually. going away and in
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a country like mine we don't give them health insurance and they've got the diabetes and they have the hypertension we're killing a generation of poor. one of every 2 african-american children will develop diabetes one of every 5 african american children is obese the rate is even higher among hispanics. a young woman spoke out and triggered a rebellion. we still slaves today i decided to write to them it really isn't my day to day that. there was a 1000000 things. in the super flour sugar heart attack and it caused more heart lake house. shipper.
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i heard a young woman who was 16 at the time and she performed a poem that even made made the hair on my arm stand up. and for the 1st time i saw a young person describing the obesity and diabetes epidemic as a social problem and i realized that she in a way is a much more effective messenger than i ever could be. given out that is why this. is my. genes. schillinger is cordoning the energy. his nonprofit youth speaks writing workshops for young people in the area. he wants to use rap spoken word to raise consciousness and fork food industry propaganda. this
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idea that they were being lied to. that's what inspired them to become change agents that's what turned their pom from being a piece of art into a weapon. armed with talent and a video camera they launched an awareness campaign called the bigger picture. so for me each one of those films was a stone. that we were throwing. at the water hole and trying to see which one could make the biggest way. i. was my baby will sing was the lake of hollywood walk to the bus pass the liquor stores gas cop by pass the 1st burger king. to the 2nd burger king order my favor round hash browns and lost again brown body. and i don't know if we love directing i just
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love not being hungry. written and performed chiefly by young hispanics and african-americans the videos garnered over a 1000000 views on you tube. so i think awareness makes it possible for people to make choices. for fighting to be heard. i think we're fighting to get the word out i mean we're fighting against interests that want to see us fail as long as spending money and they don't sleep. that the campaign to fight against them can't sleep. meanwhile 3000 miles away on the east coast another activist has risen up and coming. the podium to tell the community has been decimated and how. this is a crisis in our community and for me it's a crisis because i'm finding that i'm losing more people to sweets than i am to the
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streets and i'm losing more people took diet related issues to the streets to gun violence this is an epidemic and one that i'm deeply concerned about . are already in his combat against this evil reverend coates it's not inhibited by the conventions associated with his calling. this channel soda pop right there on 30. grams of sugar 39 grams of sugar in one can of soda now how many teaspoons of sugar is that anyone know how. almost 10 dispose of shoes i said wow i want to see how much that is so pester coax actually major demonstration to an assignment. and so that tells me it was like so impactful because i just never realized how much sugar i was actually putting
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inside of my body every time i would drink a soda and so i'm doing that at least $7.00 to $8.00 times per day. and maybe. this is how much sugar. is in just one drink. and our children are getting pre-diabetic by the ages of 19. borderline bts by the time to 13 years old and we are sabotaging the time a generation of our people because of sugar people were very shocked when he poured the sugar inside the glass as they were light. this demonstration. showed them what they probably should have learned right from childhood.
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is. that. there are things i would say i'm not american but americans helped out really. world war 2 cures the depression carson said she's concerned prosperity of course in store. for the for us the whole world what it what and. historical ever since world war 2 to foment the cold war against russia against communism of. socialist mishmosh. it was so you call me out just
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a swath of which so you could call. well i think world war 2 has been distorted incredibly by the anglo-american media and that's because they wanted to minish the role of russia. and stalin who actually defeated hitler. so what males have tended to do and still do is we tend to we certainly have empathy and all of that but we also tend to who nurture through aggression so we create things like like soccer and football and you know all of the various hundreds. now women are. very well when you go back they were created those were created for her nurture. to teach
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them how to fix you aggression. i was i. in the headlines this friday morning protests in colombia 24 dead now that a government cracked look at why the u.s. is muffled condemnation no one like during similar unrest in other countries. to porting around a 100 black people who've lived in israel for decades and claim it as their ancestral home and they fear the children who were born there will also be a brute see. this very disturbing to me to think that my children from the land if they have never lived anywhere this is the life that i have spent most of my adult
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