earlier in my life. i thought that my way it was all my fault. i felt like a failure. and frankly unworthy. and i took me a while to really start questioning beliefs and challenging thoughts like well are you really a failure and the answer is no i'm not i'm not but it took a while to get to that point. obesity a blob of our errors fantasies caught in a web of prejudice it prompts scolding for poor choices and accusations of laziness and if it didn't genes provide an alibi. but what if obesity were a collective failure not an individual one the symptom of a free market that hates fat produces fat cells and obesity genic society.

it's a global phenomenon not one country has halted. right now to 1000000000 people adults and children who are overweight or obese this doesn't happen by magic it takes work 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 societies 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 multi-nationals. we truly believe that the end astri is wrong and that their poisoning and targeting people and people need to know about it. 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 government's taken the right track. at least 2 sides of men and women in the u.k. are overweight. on the bright side still. pay city life changing impacts on the ball can slowly lower your cola to fly. 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 body is people don't have a well power earle's they wouldn't carry excess weight because we're told so often that that's all it takes to lose weight go to the gym follow this diet program you know if you just stick to it you'll get their. 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 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 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 feel great. the same old earnest advice about exercise is profit with the best intentions in 2010 michelle obama launched a campaign against child obesity thank you 1st lady mentor sassy sashing to movie. padi 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 very salty sugary foods that we're trying to keep them when they're at home unfortunately you know michelle obama was on the right track right from the beginning and i think she got the railed by mixture of data rises and by bringing in the food the food companies and they were able to dilute very powerful message down to something where you know it's just her own take television encouraging people to to move that way rather than let's move together. you know 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 coca-cola 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 progress is over eating too much eating too much eating too much blaming fast food blaming sugary drinks and so on and there's really virtually 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 because this is. inducing ok because any. some time when i can still be. yes just so you can downplay your fault. just gonna be ok here's how that translates into marketing.

just beyond and beyond the industry has been focused on the story of calories in calories out you can drink what you want just go go on 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 he 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 piece of though requires over 2 hours of running. if you look at it from a calorie perspective that is 5 accumulation equals sort of calories in minus calories out and they say well that's always true because if you look at from

a physics perspective that is always true but the problem is that the physics and we're dealing with human physiology really has nothing to do with each other. i think we should take the focus off of calories yes you 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 eat 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 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 replace meat as a staple food. and so eating more brad more rice market tadros for example because they're very low fat and you know eating less dairy less meat low fat dairy that 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 all processed grains and sugar. industries sleight of hand made the transition painless sugar a cheap replacement for fat made like foods tasty and addictive chemist went to work extruding ingredients supermarket shelves filled with attractively packaged starch and reprocessed to spread cornflakes and convenience. 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. it's and call these products health it's public ultimately paid the price.

through a menu where they found one in 4 children here right now is overweight one of the big reasons without thinking to keep them basic it sweets crisps and chocolate every day. eating excessive sugar causes deep dysfunctions inside our bodies starting 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. is you'll be via reflection of reality.

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with too much insulin our fat cells in the fat tissue and our body takes up too many calories and holds on to it 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 show for. ads that were 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 spring. it's profitable to sell food because he's fast and sugary and salty under victim

it's much less profitable. for that is wholesome that is high in fiber. is minimally processed so what's driving the obesity epidemic it's corporate profits. this dietary revolution has sponsored empires nestle you know the 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 the nestle's and van jones and cokes and pepsis it's the food retailers it's the wal marts and car reformers it's the agribusiness is their shoes that 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 beverages to people so we're talking about meth of massive component of our society is focused on selling the world unhealthy foods and beverages. to stude multinationals 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. 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. of the business that i. am still very. good at making good or forgot your growth in washington's wealthier areas the city rate is 10 percent here it affects 42 percent of the population of. today's menu features notches ground beef and tomato sauce with extra sugar garnished with sour cream. you want to do that here you have for a period of a meal the find is that work has shown. that i will now be jesus' name we pray amen.

that. locally owned a 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 where every place you turn if it's on your smartphone if it's on seeing a billboard it's seeing any kind of advertising lens it's watching television or movies you see there are junk food being pushed. the manipulation starts with the children.

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. that's what marketing is supposed to do that's what it's designed to do they're very good at it so the market was successful the question is. was it helpful them i helped. 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

that i have an 18 year old patient in my clinic with type 2 diabetes you would have said oh my gosh it's incredible it's so rare and so strained. now it's very commonplace that young people children have type 2 diabetes. all the 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 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. legs today i decided to write to me it is in my day to day that. there was a 1000000 things. and then there was flour sugar carjack and it caused more heart lake house close. enough. i heard a young woman who was 16 at the time and she performed

a poem that even now it may have 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 and away much more effective messenger when i ever could be. the 1st happened to them and by the light there. is light still is. dean schillinger is cordoning the energy. his nonprofit youth speaks writing workshops for young people and. he wants to use rap and spoken word to raise consciousness and fork food industry propaganda. this

idea that they were being lied to. that's what inspired them to become change agents that's what turned their palm from being a piece of art into a weapon. armed with talent and a video camera they launched an awareness campaign called the big 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 owe it to. my dad the routine was to wake up time to walk to the bus pass the liquor stores pass caught by past the 1st burger king the study into the 2nd burger king order my favor round hash browns and lost again brown body. and i don't know if we love. i just 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 big sort of 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 commandeered a podium to tell a community it is being 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 streets and i'm losing more people die related issues that i am 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 can of soda pop right there 39 grams of sugar 39 grams of sugar in one can of soda now how many teaspoons of sugar is that anyone will. almost 10 dispose of since i say well i want to see how much that is so pastor coats actually is a major demonstration to an assignment. and so that tells me it was like so impactful because i just never realized like how much sugar i was actually putting inside of my body every time i would drink

a soda and so that 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. bts by the time to 13 years old and we are sabotaging tire a generation of people because of sugar people were very shocked when he poured the sugar inside the glass as they were like. this demonstration. showed them what they probably should have learned right from childhood.

americans love. this was a fundamental part of how our political leadership and our country a large understood the bargain you get a hoe and then you know rebel right as the things you don't revolt if you have a stake in the system. be really interesting to dial it back and think about the longer deeper history housings men in the united states not just. question of the american dream but the bigger question of who the dream is for.

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