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Worldwide, we're looking at approximately
350 million people with diabetes.
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There's no question that
we're in the midst of a diabetes epidemic.
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Right now, one in three
Medicare dollars
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is spent in the care
of people with diabetes.
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One in ten total health care dollars
is spent on people with diabetes.
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There's no question that
this is a major problem.
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What in particular is the
correlation of diet and diabetes?
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I'm not gonna get into that.
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-Into diet?
-No.
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My name's Kip.
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I'm a filmmaker from San Francisco,
and I have a confession to make.
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I'm a recovering hypochondriac.
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Like so many of us, I have a
family history of diabetes,
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heart disease and cancer.
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My dad had his first heart bypass at 49,
his second at age 50.
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My grandpa died young from
diabetes complications,
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and both my other grandpa
and grandma died of cancer.
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I was always paranoid that I would also
get one of these diseases.
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Like any good hypochondriac, WebMD's
symptoms checker was essentially
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my browser's home page.
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Even in my teens I took Metamucil
every day and a daily aspirin.
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I read all the latest
self-diagnosis books,
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I ate every multivitamin
I could get my hands on,
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and I was obsessed with
bodily functions.
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I followed all the large
health organizations'
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recommendations for
preventing disease.
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I exercise regularly, don't smoke,
don't drink soda, get enough sleep,
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reduce stress and grew up eating what
I thought was a healthy diet until--
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The World Health Organization this
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morning has classified processed meat
such as bacon and sausage as carcinogenic,
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directly involved in
causing cancer in humans.
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Processed meat is clearly l
inked to an increase in cancer.
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Hotdogs or, bacon could be just as
dangerous as smoking cigarettes.
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The World Health Organization
had looked at over
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800 studies from
10 different countries,
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finding a direct link to
consuming processed meat and cancer.
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Just one serving
of deli meats daily
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increases your risks of
colorectal cancer by 18%.
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I had no idea
that what we ate affected cancer rates.
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But I never felt like I had eaten a lot of
processed meats until I realized that
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processed meat includes
hotdogs, bacon, sausage,
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salami, ham, pepperoni,
cold cuts and deli slices,
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basically everything
I grew up eating.
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The World Health Organization
classifies processed meat
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as a Group One carcinogen,
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the same group as cigarettes,
asbestos and plutonium,
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and classifies red meat
as a Group Two carcinogen.
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Was this like I had essentially been
smoking my entire childhood?
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If processed meats are labeled
the same as cigarettes,
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how is it even legal for
kids to be eating this way?
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I thought this
was new information,
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but, many of these studies
have been around for 50 years.
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I couldn't believe I'd been eating
processed meats
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virtually my entire life and was just now
finding out how dangerous they are.
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Why hadn't I been hearing about it from
the American Cancer Society,
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the largest cancer group
in the nation?
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When I went on their website,
I was shocked to see that
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none of this information was featured on
their home page.
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But, even more shocking,
on their Eat Healthy page,
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they actually encouraged eating Group One
carcinogenic foods
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like processed turkey
and canned meats.
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This is after the World
Health Organization
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reviewed over 800 studies definitively
linking processed meat to cancer.
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Thanks for calling your
American Cancer Society. My name is Sam,
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I'm a cancer information specialist.
How may I help you today?
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Yeah, I was calling
because I was wondering why
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you all recommend people to eat
processed meat on your website,
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which the World Health Organization
has classified as a Group One carcinogen?
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Which is the same class as tobacco
smoking, asbestos and plutonium.
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This would be like
a lung association
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having a How to Roll Your Own Cigarette
section on their website.
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It's kinda the same thing.
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Well, let me just place you
on a brief hold because…
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He wasn't able to
answer my questions
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and said someone would get back with me.
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I had always been concerned
about cancer
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because both my grandma
and grandpa died of cancer.
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I wondered if things would've been
different had they known the link between
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diet and this terrible disease.
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In the US, one out of every four
deaths is from cancer.
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Oh, sweet!
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American Cancer Society rep
confirmed an interview this week.
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So, we just went in for the interview
with the American Cancer Society rep,
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and the security guard said
there's no interview scheduled.
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So, I went into my phone
and it turns out last night,
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after I told her that the
interview's gonna be about
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the correlation between
diet and cancer,
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she said she could no
longer do the interview.
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After repeated emails
asking why she was declining
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my interview to simply
talk about diet and cancer,
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she stopped
responding altogether.
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Why would an American Cancer
Society rep not want to talk about this?
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I was, however,
able to connect with a growing movement
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of doctors who are willing
to talk about the link
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between the standard
American diet and disease.
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And it goes
beyond just cancer.
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I took my old trusty van
Super Blue once again out on the road.
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Two-thirds of adults are
now overweight or, obese.
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And we have an epidemic cascade of
debilitating disease
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that's overcoming
the country.
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There's no way we can sustain
the current style of care
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with the epidemic that we're creating with
our diet and lifestyle choices.
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The diabetes, the arthritis,
the heart disease, the dementia,
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the obesity, the cancers are affecting
about 70% of deaths.
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All the data is that those
70% of deaths and morbidity
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are largely lifestyle
related and preventable.
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Most kids by
age ten in the US
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already have fatty streaks
in their arteries,
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the first stage of atherosclerosis
leading to heart attacks, strokes.
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Here in American medicine,
we operate from the disease model.
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We are in the business
of treating sick people,
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we are not in the business of trying to
prevent people from becoming sick.
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When you look at
chronic disease risk,
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all the things that we
walk around worrying about.
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Actually, dietary choices trump smoking
when it comes to those risks.
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If I could deliver
one message to the researchers
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who are looking for the cause of diabetes,
and the cause of clogged arteries
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and the cause of high blood pressure and
the cause of obesity,
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I would tell them the
answers in three words:
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It's the food!
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It's what
the Americans are eating.
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Today, with 2/3 of
Americans being overweight,
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clearly there's a food issue.
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In the next 25 years, one out of every
three Americans will have diabetes.
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My name's Michael Abdalla.
I'm from Atlanta, Georgia.
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And unfortunately, I was diagnosed about
10 years ago with diabetes.
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And, eight years ago,
I had two stents put in.
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I don't know where to go,
I don't know what to do, you are just like
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out of options
and you don't know what to do.
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You're taking medicines.
You listen to this doctor.
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And the cardiologist
says take this.
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And the endocrinologist
says take that.
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And your general practitioner
doctor says…
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You don't know
what's going on here.
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It's a real challenging thing
and it is something that
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you don't wanna get.
You just don't wanna get it.
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Government and media
almost exclusively blame
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lack of exercise
and sugary foods as a cause of diabetes.
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But, I wanted to talk with an actual
expert on the role of diet and diabetes.
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I went to speak
with premier physician, diabetes expert
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and researcher,
Dr. Neal Barnard.
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What role does sugar
play in causing diabetes?
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Driving me crazy.
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Diabetes is not and never
was caused by eating
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a high carbohydrate diet,
and it's not caused by eating sugar.
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The cause of diabetes
is a diet
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that builds up the amount
of fat into the blood.
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I'm talking about
a typical meat-based, animal-based diet.
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You can look into the muscle
cells of the human body,
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and you find that
they're building up tiny particles of fat
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that's causing
insulin resistance.
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What that means is,
the sugar that is naturally from the foods
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that you're eating
can't get into the cells where it belongs.
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It builds up in the blood,
and that's diabetes.
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I have never heard that meat was
associated with causing diabetes.
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We had always been told
that sugar or obesity caused it.
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Renowned weight loss
bariatric surgeon
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Dr. Garth Davis,
though, agreed.
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Everyone thinks that
you get diabetic because of carbs.
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They did a huge study in that
EPIC study 500,000 people,
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carbs consumption
was inversely related with diabetes.
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In other words, the more carbs someone
ate, the less diabetes they had.
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But, meat was
strongly correlated.
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Get that "Aha!" moment.
The starches, the carbs are good for you.
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They're not bad for you.
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This idea that
carbs make you fat is utterly ridiculous.
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Carbs cannot make you fat
in and of themselves.
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We have storage
in our muscles
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and in our liver for
carbs called glycogen.
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So, when we eat carbs,
we either store it or we burn it.
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Now eat fat, that goes
straight to your fat.
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Your body can't turn
those carbs into fat
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unless you're really
overdoing the calories.
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And obesity,
it's a death sentence.
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You're at much higher
risk of getting cancer,
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you're almost certainly
gonna get diabetes.
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No one wants to fat shame,
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and we all want everybody to be
comfortable with our bodies,
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but, this movement to be
comfortable with our bodies
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has made us comfortable
with being sick.
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And that's a huge problem.
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I go into the hospital
and I look around me,
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people on dialysis,
all these sick people.
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And just about every disease in there is
because of what people are eating.
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Here's the thing.
If I eat a sugary cookie,
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the sugar lures you in
like the Trojan horse,
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but waiting inside that cookie is a huge
load of butter or shortening.
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And that's what
fattens you up.
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And that's the part that
leads to the diabetes,
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it's the fatty foods,
not really so much the sugar.
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It's not that sugar's
good for you. There's no nutrients in it.
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It's excess calories.
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But, when you eat sugar,
you don't get inflammation right away.
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When you eat sugar, you're not getting
plaques forming in your vessels.
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When you're eating sugar,
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your body's gonna store most of it as
glycogen or burn it as calories.
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And so this focus on sugar
has taken all the focus off meat, dairy,
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eggs, pork, turkey, chicken.
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People need to understand.
If their child gets diabetes,
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you've just taken 19
years off their lifespan.
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We're talking life and death.
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I realized
there was so much more
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about diet and disease
that I hadn't ever learned.
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It felt as if this information had been
practically withheld.
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Processed meat causes cancer.
Sugar doesn't cause diabetes.
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I had doubt about the claims
these doctors were making,
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so I did some searching
on my own.
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Harvard researchers looked
at nine prospective studies
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finding that just
one serving of processed meat per day
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increased risk of developing
diabetes by 51 percent.
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The link between eating meat and
developing diabetes became undeniable.
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But, when I went on a leading
diabetes organization's website,
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the American Diabetes
Association,
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not only did they not
have this information front and center,
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they were featuring recipes
for red and processed meat.
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And on their recipes for healthy living,
they had bacon-wrapped shrimp.
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What the health?
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All right, sent an email to
American Diabetes Association,
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see if they'll get back to us.
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As destructive as diabetes is,
it pales in comparison to heart disease.
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Over 17 million people die
every year from cardiovascular disease.
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It is the leading cause
of death around the world.
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Nearly one out of every three
people will die from this disease.
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The amount of people who die
from cardiovascular disease
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is the equivalent of
four jumbo jets crashing
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every single hour,
every single day, every single year.
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My name's Amy Resnic,
and I'm from Swampscott, Massachusetts,
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a little bit north
of Boston.
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And I recently went to
my doctor for asthma
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because I had
a very hard time breathing.
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And while there,
she did some blood work.
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And one of the tests
was C-reactive protein,
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and on a scale…
There was a scale of one to three,
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one being low
for cardiac event,
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three being high
for cardiac event.
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And my number was 10.82.
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What does that mean?
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That means I am on the
road for heart attack.
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And she said probably
within the next 30 days.
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-30 days?
-30 days.
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If I'm going
the way I was going.
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I take this for
my heart arrhythmia.
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I take this for pain.
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Oxycodone for pain.
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And lorazepam for stress.
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Cyclobenzaprine for
a muscle relaxer.
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Also take Topamax
and Prozac.
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And I also use
a CPAP machine to help me breathe.
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And my asthma has been
so bad this past year.
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I use it during the day
as well to get some air.
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I am tired when I wake up,
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I'm tired during the day.
I take a nap, I'm still tired.
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I can't breathe.
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And I know I need to make
a change for my health.
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Or, else I'm not gonna
be here for my family.
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When we speak
of heart disease,
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I would say the role of
alcohol is pretty small.
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The role of sugar
is very small, too. Smoking is big,
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but, the good news is that most people
have quit or never did smoke.
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The problem with animal-based diet,
its contribution to heart disease is huge,
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and it is pervasive.
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All this expensive imaging,
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procedures, bypasses,
medication.
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None of which has one
solitary single thing to do
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with the causation
of the illness,
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so you dive
a completely benign,
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food-borne illness
that never had its causation treated.
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When we eat these, kind of,
dead meat bacteria toxins,
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within minutes, you get
this burst of inflammation
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within your system, such that you
basically paralyze your arteries,
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you get this stiffening of the arteries,
their inability to relax normally in half.
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So, it's not like decades down the road
eating unhealthy there'll be some damage.
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No, we're talking damage
right then and there,
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within minutes of it
going into our mouth.
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Many people are given
the diagnosis of
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Alzheimer's disease,
when it's not true Alzheimer's at all.
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The vast majority of
people suffer dementia
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due to their tiny blood vessels in their
brain clogging up
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and their nerve cells
being shortchanged of oxygenated blood.
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And guess where
that blood vessel dementia comes from,
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those little tiny
arteries are clogging up
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from that steady stream
of bad cholesterol, et cetera.
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It's really quite clear.
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Both, from
the standpoint of cancer
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and the standpoint of
cardiovascular disease,
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that animal protein
plays an enormous role.
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Is chicken better?
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It's a question of whether
you wanna be shot or, hung.
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The flesh food that I would eliminate from
the American diet would be poultry,
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would be turkey and chicken.
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A brilliant advertising
campaign has convinced people
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that "Oh, it's white meat,
it's healthier."
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The leading source of Sodium,
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in the American diet
for adults is chicken.
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It can be labeled all-natural chicken but,
be injected with salt water.
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I think up to
800 milligrams of sodium.
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Heterocyclic amines are
clear-cut carcinogens,
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and they can form in any kind of meat as
it's heated, as it's cooked.
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But, by far, the
biggest source is chicken.
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We sent researchers
into fast food and family restaurants.
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Not only were there carcinogens in every
single restaurant,
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but, we found them in every
single chicken sample that we took.
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If somebody brings their family in,
and they're buying a bucket of chicken,
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nobody tells them that
there are carcinogens.
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If you're selling
carcinogens to people,
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you've gotta warn them
that they're in there.
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But the American Cancer
Society encourages people
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to switch from red
and processed meat to chicken.
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Why would the American
Cancer Society
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tell people to switch from
eating one carcinogenic food
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to another when a Harvard
University study showed
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that men with prostate
cancer who eat large amounts of chicken,
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increase their risk
of the disease progressing four times.
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The number one dietary
source in America
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of cholesterol is chicken
because of the volume of chicken.
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Chicken's become
grilled chicken and organic chicken.
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It's machismo.
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But it has nearly as much
cholesterol per gram as red beef.
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So, just on sheer volume,
it's the number one source.
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You got eggs
being close behind.
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I never really
thought about eggs much.
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I just thought of them
as a standard part of a healthy diet.
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But, then I found a study
suggesting that eating just one egg a day
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can be as bad as smoking five
cigarettes per day for life expectancy.
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The yolk of a hen's egg is
the most concentrated glom
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of saturated fat
and cholesterol.
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It is made to run a baby chicken for
21 days with no outside energy.
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It is pure fat
and cholesterol.
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And when we put that into our bloodstream,
it coats our red blood cells.
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Our blood gets thicker and more viscous.
It changes our hormone levels.
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It raises
our cholesterol levels.
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There's nothing healthy
about eating the yolk of the egg.
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But I thought cholesterol and
saturated fat wasn't an issue anymore.
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You know, these saturated
fat studies that have come out,
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trying to vindicate
saturated fat?
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There's a campaign
by the dairy industry,
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wherein the number one source of saturated
fat is dairy, it's not meat.
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2008, the global dairy industry
got together at a meeting
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and explicitly,
read their agenda,
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was to neutralize the
negative impact of milk fat
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by regulators and medical
professionals unquote,
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so what do they do?
They funded studies.
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The main study that started the
whole saturated fat media craze
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was funded by
the National Dairy Council.
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The egg industry
similarly funds studies
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that confuse consumers
by making claims that eggs don't
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negatively affect heart function.
That is, only when compared to eating
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a McDonald's
Sausage McMuffin?
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So, what they're really
saying is that
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eating eggs is just as
bad as eating a McMuffin.
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When you eat foods,
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like beef or, steak or,
a processed meat, a hotdog,
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you're not just
getting saturated fat.
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You're also getting other additional
toxins that are in that food.
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There's heme iron,
carcinogens, processing chemicals.
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This is all
a lot more complicated
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than just looking
at saturated fat.
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The strategy is not on
making their products any safer.
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The strategy is to just try to confuse
the public, to introduce doubt.
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You know, there's a famous
tobacco industry memo.
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It's called "Doubt
is our product."
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That's all they had to do.
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They didn't have to convince Americans
that smoking was healthy, all right?
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They just had
to introduce doubt. Then they would win.
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If there's just
enough controversy,
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people kind of throw up
their hands, "I don't know what to eat."
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Confusion is their game.
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I really don't think people thought
what they ate led to heart disease.
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They think,
"Oh, it's genetic, my parents had it."
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I don't think people really
think that what they ate led to diabetes,
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I think, "Oh, my parents had it,
I was gonna get it,"
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and certainly cancer,
they don't think that way.
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People have bad lifestyles
that they've inherited.
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Environmentally, they've
been exposed to a certain way
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of eating and living
that they've carried on
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into their adulthood,
passed onto their children,
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that is why they go on to
develop the same diseases
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that their parents and
grandparents may have had before them.
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But it is not inevitable.
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Even if you have
a genetic predisposition,
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doesn't mean it's going
to necessarily manifest.
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And what determines
whether it manifests or not
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may be those epigenetic variables,
the things that you can control.
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The environmental factors, the dietary
factors, the lifestyle factors.
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So, we can actually change
the expression of genes,
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tumor-suppressing genes,
tumor-activating genes
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by what we eat, what
we put into our bodies.
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So, even if you've been
dealt a bad genetic deck,
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you can still
reshuffle it with diet.
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I had always thought that I would
develop heart disease at a young age
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because both my dad and
grandpa had heart attacks.
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I was taught
that they were genetic.
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But their heart attacks
probably had less to do with genes
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and more to do with
our diets high in meat.
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That's why when I went on the
American Heart Association's
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Heart-Healthy Recipes page,
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I could not believe they had an entire
section on beef recipes?
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This was just like the
American Cancer Society
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encouraging eating
Group One carcinogens on their site.
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Meat loaf, pork loin, steak
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on your recipe list,
are you kidding me?
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It's like this menu
is trying to give people heart attacks.
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On your website, we noticed
Heart-Healthy Recipes
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and we were kind of
bewildered by why
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there was a bunch of recipes on,
a whole section on beef, beef recipes.
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And there was also
a section on egg recipes
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when there's such a strong link
between beef, red meat and heart disease.
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I honestly don't know
'cause I don't do that, I guess.
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That's not what what I do.
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Another organization rep
that wasn't able to answer my questions.
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But, he said that
he'd have someone get in touch shortly.
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I was, however, able to
talk to the president
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of the American
College of Cardiology, Dr. Kim Williams.
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So, the American
College of Cardiology
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is a 47,000-member
and growing organization
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with a dedicated mission
to reduce heart disease
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and to improve
patients' lives.
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And if you look at the incidents of
hypertension and diabetes
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and mortality in men,
they actually get reduced as you go higher
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and higher in terms
of how much you restrict animal products.
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What about fish?
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So, fish is
a little different.
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You've got the four worries,
which is PCBs, mercury,
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um, saturated fat,
and cholesterol.
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And the cholesterol
is all over the place.
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You can have tuna in water
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that'll be almost less
than a glass of milk,
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to salmon, or tilapia
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which is higher
than a pork chop.
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If you look
objectively at fish,
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what you find is they've become,
essentially, mercury sponges.
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And that's why in many
parts of the country they warn you,
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don't have more
than so many of these fish a week
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because getting too much
mercury can kill you.
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Fish are eaten by bigger fish
who are eaten by bigger fish,
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and these pesticides or,
herbicides bioaccumulate in the fish flesh
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and these big fish, including the salmon,
which people think is the healthiest fish,
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truth is, the amount of
pesticides and herbicides
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in the flesh of these fish
are shocking, and they have estrogenic
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and cancer-promoting
properties in them.
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They'll say, "Well, but,
don't sardines have less concentration
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of toxic waste products
than other ones?"
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Something being less toxic
doesn't make it healthy,
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it just makes it less toxic.
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Farmed fish is
by no means healthier.
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All the antibiotics that
these animals have to be fed.
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Similar to chickens
and turkeys
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kept in confinement,
these fish get infections.
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They get fungal infections,
they get bacterial infections,
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you've got to feed them
anti-fungals, antibiotics,
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and these substances accumulate
in the fish flesh as well.
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I always knew
that pollution was bad for our health,
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but I had never thought about the
environmental pollutants affecting food.
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Dioxins being the most toxic,
man-made chemicals known to science
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cause all sorts of things.
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They cause endometriosis,
they cause cancers,
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they cause endocrine
disruption problems.
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But, most of your exposure,
93 percent of it,
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comes from eating meat
and dairy products
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because it climbs up
in the food chain so effectively.
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So, you can
get exposed to them by living near these
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incinerators and breathing it,
but, it will take you 14 years
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to breathe in as much
Dioxin as a cow will
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ingest by eating
the grass in one day.
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And that Dioxin will
accumulate in its fat,
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which includes the milk and the meat and
anyone eating meat or dairy products
467
00:23:41,336 --> 00:23:43,213
is gonna get
that dose of Dioxin.
468
00:23:43,296 --> 00:23:45,340
So, it climbs up
the food chain in every step.
469
00:23:45,423 --> 00:23:49,344
Men have no way
in their bodies to get rid of dioxins,
470
00:23:49,427 --> 00:23:50,971
but, women have two ways.
471
00:23:51,054 --> 00:23:52,931
They're both involving
having a baby.
472
00:23:53,014 --> 00:23:56,476
One is that dioxin crosses
the placenta into the growing infant
473
00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,396
and the other is that
it comes out from the breast milk.
474
00:23:59,479 --> 00:24:02,732
So, if you have a meat and dairy-consuming
mother breastfeeding that infant,
475
00:24:02,816 --> 00:24:05,694
then the highest
impacts of toxic exposure
476
00:24:05,777 --> 00:24:07,904
like mercury and dioxins
will go to that infant.
477
00:24:07,988 --> 00:24:11,283
Pregnant women are told,
"Certain types of fish should be avoided,"
478
00:24:11,366 --> 00:24:14,161
but, what about all these
other animal products
479
00:24:14,244 --> 00:24:17,831
which are introducing,
imagine as the fetus is developing,
480
00:24:17,914 --> 00:24:21,126
introducing these very
harmful toxins which
481
00:24:21,209 --> 00:24:23,837
create reproductive
abnormalities,
482
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,423
develop mental problems
and hormonal issues
483
00:24:26,506 --> 00:24:30,051
right as the child is developing,
the most critical stage of development.
484
00:24:30,135 --> 00:24:32,429
It does make you worry
when people say,
485
00:24:32,512 --> 00:24:34,806
"Don't you wanna have a little bit of milk
because you're pregnant?
486
00:24:34,890 --> 00:24:36,516
Don't you wanna have some
fish 'cause you're pregnant?"
487
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,768
Who do you think is
gonna get the chemicals that are in that?
488
00:24:38,852 --> 00:24:40,604
All these
environmental toxins
489
00:24:40,687 --> 00:24:43,231
and toxins from the feed
that they're being fed
490
00:24:43,315 --> 00:24:47,319
accumulate in their tissues
and are released into the mother
491
00:24:47,402 --> 00:24:49,029
and unfortunately,
to the child
492
00:24:49,112 --> 00:24:51,781
when you eat these products
when you're pregnant.
493
00:24:51,865 --> 00:24:57,621
So, this includes antibiotics,
hormones, steroids in animal feed.
494
00:24:57,704 --> 00:25:01,750
Commercial animals are
largely fed GMO corn and soy
495
00:25:01,833 --> 00:25:04,419
which are very laden
in pesticides.
496
00:25:04,502 --> 00:25:06,630
PCBs have been
banned since the 70s,
497
00:25:06,713 --> 00:25:10,217
but, they persist in
the environment, dioxins.
498
00:25:10,300 --> 00:25:13,011
All of these compounds
can create hormonal,
499
00:25:13,094 --> 00:25:16,556
reproductive, developmental
damage as well.
500
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,768
Eating organic beef,
poultry, pork
501
00:25:19,851 --> 00:25:22,312
or fish will not help
you avoid contaminants
502
00:25:22,395 --> 00:25:25,607
like mercury, like dioxins,
like strontium-90
503
00:25:25,690 --> 00:25:27,901
because they fall out over
all sorts of farm fields
504
00:25:27,984 --> 00:25:31,112
and water bodies, and then
they don't skip over the organic fields.
505
00:25:31,196 --> 00:25:33,615
And so, really,
the contaminants are coming in
506
00:25:33,698 --> 00:25:35,992
regardless of how these
animals are raised.
507
00:25:36,076 --> 00:25:37,327
I had
always been concerned
508
00:25:37,410 --> 00:25:39,287
about the possible
health impacts of GMOs
509
00:25:39,371 --> 00:25:41,373
but, then found out that most
of the world's GMO crops
510
00:25:41,456 --> 00:25:43,208
are actually consumed
by livestock,
511
00:25:43,291 --> 00:25:45,752
with dairy cows consuming
the most per animal.
512
00:25:45,835 --> 00:25:48,546
This fact, with everything
I learned about bioaccumulation
513
00:25:48,630 --> 00:25:50,173
made dairy terrifying.
514
00:25:50,257 --> 00:25:52,968
Especially considering
how much cheese I ate in my life.
515
00:25:53,051 --> 00:25:55,804
Cheese is an amazing product
when you think about it.
516
00:25:55,887 --> 00:26:01,059
It's probably one of the single
best foods at compromising health
517
00:26:01,142 --> 00:26:02,686
that you're gonna
actually feed to people.
518
00:26:02,769 --> 00:26:04,896
Think about it, you've
got an animal product.
519
00:26:04,980 --> 00:26:08,358
So, you've got all the issues
of biological concentration.
520
00:26:08,441 --> 00:26:11,319
You have a highly processed
food product,
521
00:26:11,403 --> 00:26:14,239
and not only does it
have naturally a lot saturated fat,
522
00:26:14,322 --> 00:26:15,991
but, you put
a lot of salt into it.
523
00:26:16,074 --> 00:26:19,369
There's a strong link between dairy foods
and autoimmune diseases.
524
00:26:19,452 --> 00:26:24,374
And so that can show
itself up as excessive production of mucus
525
00:26:24,457 --> 00:26:26,876
and exacerbation
of asthma in kids who are prone to that
526
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,671
and even adults,
and also, there's an association between
527
00:26:29,754 --> 00:26:33,675
dairy foods and multiple sclerosis and
type one diabetes,
528
00:26:33,758 --> 00:26:37,804
which is an autoimmune
disease, and other rheumatologic problems.
529
00:26:37,887 --> 00:26:41,516
Cow's milk is
baby calf growth fluid.
530
00:26:41,599 --> 00:26:43,435
That's what the stuff is.
531
00:26:43,518 --> 00:26:45,895
There's absolutely no child
or human on Earth
532
00:26:45,979 --> 00:26:47,772
who actually needs
the milk of a cow
533
00:26:47,856 --> 00:26:50,775
any more than they need the milk of
a giraffe or, a mouse.
534
00:26:50,859 --> 00:26:53,862
Most people in the world
are lactose intolerant.
535
00:26:53,945 --> 00:26:55,488
That's the normal
state of affairs.
536
00:26:55,572 --> 00:26:58,950
Why would your body create
this enzyme to digest lactose
537
00:26:59,034 --> 00:27:02,329
after weaning, after infancy,
it doesn't make any sense.
538
00:27:02,412 --> 00:27:05,707
73% of African Americans
are lactose intolerant.
539
00:27:05,790 --> 00:27:07,959
95% of Asians,
540
00:27:08,043 --> 00:27:10,795
roughly 70%
of Native Americans,
541
00:27:10,879 --> 00:27:14,507
and about 53% of Hispanic
Americans are lactose intolerant.
542
00:27:14,591 --> 00:27:17,886
Our government
is encouraging Americans of color
543
00:27:17,969 --> 00:27:20,930
to eat foods that it knows
is going to make them ill.
544
00:27:21,014 --> 00:27:22,557
Ultimately,
what that boils down to
545
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,642
is the government
is telling me as an African American
546
00:27:24,726 --> 00:27:26,853
to eat food that's
gonna make me ill for no health benefit
547
00:27:26,936 --> 00:27:29,773
so that it will
benefit dairy farmers.
548
00:27:29,856 --> 00:27:31,775
That's a form of
institutionalized racism.
549
00:27:31,858 --> 00:27:34,778
Yeah, milk is a risky
food for human consumption.
550
00:27:34,861 --> 00:27:38,156
As a pediatrician,
I see on a daily basis
551
00:27:38,239 --> 00:27:41,743
children suffering from
conditions that are linked
552
00:27:41,826 --> 00:27:43,912
or associated to
dairy consumption
553
00:27:43,995 --> 00:27:48,708
such as eczema, acne,
constipation, acid reflux,
554
00:27:48,792 --> 00:27:50,585
iron deficiency, anemia.
555
00:27:50,668 --> 00:27:52,670
Cow's milk protein is
the most allergenic food.
556
00:27:52,754 --> 00:27:54,798
People think, "Well, no,
I want hormone-free,
557
00:27:54,881 --> 00:27:57,217
not injected with
bovine growth hormone."
558
00:27:57,300 --> 00:28:00,637
But milk is
this hormonal fluid,
559
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,889
so it's just packed
with sex hormones
560
00:28:02,972 --> 00:28:06,142
and natural sex steroid hormones
like estrogen, progesterone. In fact,
561
00:28:06,226 --> 00:28:09,771
doesn't matter if it's conventional milk,
doesn't matter if it's organic milk.
562
00:28:09,854 --> 00:28:12,190
Milk without hormones,
that's an oxymoron.
563
00:28:12,273 --> 00:28:15,485
Organic dairy has just
as much saturated fat
564
00:28:15,568 --> 00:28:19,572
and cholesterol and galactose,
all the things that you don't want,
565
00:28:19,656 --> 00:28:21,032
as conventional dairy.
566
00:28:21,116 --> 00:28:22,492
Dairy products,
in general,
567
00:28:22,575 --> 00:28:24,994
have a lot of other
products associated with it,
568
00:28:25,078 --> 00:28:26,996
not the least
of which is pus.
569
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:28,748
I mean, they actually
have laws limiting
570
00:28:28,832 --> 00:28:31,334
how much pus you can actually have in
the milk and still sell it,
571
00:28:31,418 --> 00:28:34,629
I believe it's like
750,000 pus cells per CC.
572
00:28:34,712 --> 00:28:37,507
Because you wouldn't want too much pus and
then it'd be like pure pus,
573
00:28:37,590 --> 00:28:38,550
people might object.
574
00:28:38,633 --> 00:28:39,968
In fact,
you could think of cheese
575
00:28:40,051 --> 00:28:42,887
as kind of coagulated
cow pus, if you would.
576
00:28:42,971 --> 00:28:45,724
But, I was always told
that we need milk for strong bones.
577
00:28:45,807 --> 00:28:49,352
I'm Jane Chapman,
and not too long ago,
578
00:28:49,436 --> 00:28:52,564
I finally got some x-rays
of the hips and back,
579
00:28:52,647 --> 00:28:57,235
severe bilateral
osteoarthritis of the hips.
580
00:28:57,318 --> 00:29:00,363
And actually, I'm scheduled
for two hip replacements.
581
00:29:00,447 --> 00:29:02,031
That's bone on bone.
582
00:29:02,115 --> 00:29:04,659
It's the grinding
of the joints.
583
00:29:04,743 --> 00:29:07,078
My stability is scary.
584
00:29:07,162 --> 00:29:10,331
I hold on to the walls
when I'm at home.
585
00:29:10,415 --> 00:29:12,333
I've been told
to use a walker.
586
00:29:12,417 --> 00:29:14,085
I'm only 61.
587
00:29:14,169 --> 00:29:17,255
This is not how you're
supposed to live when you're this old.
588
00:29:17,338 --> 00:29:20,717
I have a really hard time
believing that
589
00:29:22,677 --> 00:29:24,429
that's all that's left.
590
00:29:24,512 --> 00:29:27,182
Researchers have studied
bone development in kids
591
00:29:27,265 --> 00:29:29,809
and whether they get
stress fractures and that kind of thing.
592
00:29:29,893 --> 00:29:32,270
And the kids who
drink the most milk have zero protection.
593
00:29:32,353 --> 00:29:34,481
Milk does not
build strong bones.
594
00:29:34,564 --> 00:29:37,859
Harvard researchers have looked at a large
group of older women,
595
00:29:37,942 --> 00:29:39,360
over an 18-year period,
596
00:29:39,444 --> 00:29:42,322
the milk drinkers had zero
protection from fractures.
597
00:29:42,405 --> 00:29:45,867
So, this old notion that somehow milk is
gonna build strong bones
598
00:29:45,950 --> 00:29:48,411
or protect your bones
later in life, it's a myth.
599
00:29:48,495 --> 00:29:52,040
People that drink milk
have higher rates of hip fractures,
600
00:29:52,123 --> 00:29:55,585
have more cancer
and live shorter lives.
601
00:29:55,668 --> 00:29:57,045
Turns out that
countries with the highest
602
00:29:57,128 --> 00:29:59,130
dairy consumption also
have the highest rates
603
00:29:59,214 --> 00:30:03,176
of osteoporosis, so clearly, drinking
more milk doesn't protect your bones.
604
00:30:03,259 --> 00:30:05,470
Doing more research,
I found that dairy was linked
605
00:30:05,553 --> 00:30:08,056
to many different types of
cancer as well.
606
00:30:08,139 --> 00:30:11,434
Just like many of us, I thought that the
majority of cancer was due to genes,
607
00:30:11,518 --> 00:30:15,396
but, only five to 10% of
cancer is actually genetic.
608
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:19,275
Any cancer is caused
by DNA mutation, but, that's not enough.
609
00:30:19,359 --> 00:30:23,238
So, that can cause that first cancer cell,
but, one cancer cell never killed anyone.
610
00:30:23,321 --> 00:30:24,989
Two cancer cells
never killed anyone.
611
00:30:25,073 --> 00:30:27,742
But, a billion cancer cells,
now we're running into problems.
612
00:30:27,826 --> 00:30:29,953
So, we need to reduce the
growth factors in our body,
613
00:30:30,036 --> 00:30:32,539
like IGF-1, insulin-like
growth factor one,
614
00:30:32,622 --> 00:30:35,917
it's this cancer-promoting
growth hormone involved in every stage
615
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,420
of cancer cell growth
and spread and metastases.
616
00:30:39,504 --> 00:30:42,882
Any animal protein boosts
the level of IGF-1.
617
00:30:42,966 --> 00:30:44,759
Dairy products
increases your risk for
618
00:30:44,843 --> 00:30:48,304
various forms of cancer,
especially those related to your hormones.
619
00:30:48,388 --> 00:30:51,015
So, breast cancer,
prostate cancer, ovarian cancer.
620
00:30:51,099 --> 00:30:54,227
So, this is not a product
even in its most pure state
621
00:30:54,310 --> 00:30:56,980
you wanna be consuming because
it does come with risk.
622
00:30:57,063 --> 00:30:58,815
I found out that dairy
can increase a man's chance
623
00:30:58,898 --> 00:31:01,568
of getting prostate cancer
by 34%.
624
00:31:01,651 --> 00:31:05,154
And for women who've had breast cancer,
just one serving of whole dairy a day
625
00:31:05,238 --> 00:31:08,324
can increase their chance of
dying from the disease 49%
626
00:31:08,408 --> 00:31:11,494
and dying from anything 64%.
627
00:31:11,578 --> 00:31:14,080
Why weren't breast cancer
sites like Susan G. Komen
628
00:31:14,163 --> 00:31:15,915
warning everyone about this?
629
00:31:17,584 --> 00:31:19,168
Thanks for calling Susan G. Komen,
630
00:31:19,252 --> 00:31:21,546
this is Jocelyn,
how may I help you?
631
00:31:21,629 --> 00:31:22,922
Yes, so we're wondering why
632
00:31:23,006 --> 00:31:24,465
you don't have a huge
warning about the dangers
633
00:31:24,549 --> 00:31:26,009
of consuming dairy
on your website
634
00:31:26,092 --> 00:31:28,386
when there's a direct
link to breast cancer.
635
00:31:28,469 --> 00:31:29,762
There was a study
published in the Journal
636
00:31:29,846 --> 00:31:31,931
of the National Cancer
Institute that found out
637
00:31:32,015 --> 00:31:34,767
women consuming dairy
who has had breast cancer
638
00:31:34,851 --> 00:31:38,271
increases their risk of
dying of breast cancer 49%.
639
00:31:38,354 --> 00:31:40,690
I was wondering why it's
not on your website.
640
00:31:42,859 --> 00:31:44,652
We cannot answer
these types of questions.
641
00:31:44,736 --> 00:31:47,238
Once again, another
health organization rep saying
642
00:31:47,322 --> 00:31:49,699
someone else would have
to answer my question.
643
00:31:49,782 --> 00:31:51,117
Rather than risk
being stood up again,
644
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,703
I went straight to the
local Susan G. Komen chapter
645
00:31:53,786 --> 00:31:55,997
to see if they would answer
my questions.
646
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,589
They didn't want to answer my questions in
person either and told us to stop filming
647
00:32:04,672 --> 00:32:08,635
but, promised they would connect me
to the national office directly.
648
00:32:11,095 --> 00:32:12,931
Susan G. Komen's
pink ribbon campaign
649
00:32:13,014 --> 00:32:15,808
had done a lot to raise
awareness for breast cancer.
650
00:32:15,892 --> 00:32:18,144
Although, it was confusing
to see pink ribbons
651
00:32:18,227 --> 00:32:20,438
on dairy yogurt containers.
652
00:32:20,521 --> 00:32:22,899
Breast cancer can be prevented
653
00:32:22,982 --> 00:32:25,276
with a healthy diet and
lifestyle, but, we're not.
654
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,655
We're talking about pink ribbons and
putting all the money
655
00:32:28,738 --> 00:32:30,365
into research for the cure.
656
00:32:30,448 --> 00:32:34,369
I, for one, know that
I would want my daughter, my mother, me,
657
00:32:34,452 --> 00:32:36,663
I want to focus on not
getting to that point.
658
00:32:36,746 --> 00:32:40,375
And that's where I would
like to see more energy and effort put.
659
00:32:40,458 --> 00:32:42,251
I had been
a hardcore cheese-aholic
660
00:32:42,335 --> 00:32:44,754
virtually my entire life,
despite the risks.
661
00:32:44,837 --> 00:32:47,590
But, like so many others,
I seem to have been addicted to it.
662
00:32:47,674 --> 00:32:53,179
It turns out that the casein protein,
that's the main protein in dairy products,
663
00:32:53,262 --> 00:32:56,140
and particularly in cheese,
it breaks apart in the human digestion
664
00:32:56,224 --> 00:32:59,060
to create what are called
casomorphins.
665
00:32:59,143 --> 00:33:03,398
Casein-derived, morphine-like
compounds that go to the brain
666
00:33:03,481 --> 00:33:07,694
and they attach to the very same receptor
that heroin attaches to.
667
00:33:07,777 --> 00:33:09,696
Don't get me wrong,
they're not as strong as that,
668
00:33:09,779 --> 00:33:11,280
but, they are strong enough
669
00:33:11,364 --> 00:33:14,242
to make you come back
again and again and again
670
00:33:14,325 --> 00:33:15,994
despite the fact that
you're gaining weight,
671
00:33:16,077 --> 00:33:18,287
you're more unhealthy
than you've ever been,
672
00:33:18,371 --> 00:33:20,206
but, that cheese
just calls out to people.
673
00:33:20,289 --> 00:33:24,585
Casomorphin may play a role in SIDS,
in sudden infant death syndrome,
674
00:33:24,669 --> 00:33:28,297
may play a role in autism.
This is one of the reasons why
675
00:33:28,381 --> 00:33:32,218
we don't want infants
drinking milk from cows.
676
00:33:32,301 --> 00:33:35,805
Human breast milk
has 2.7 grams of casein per liter,
677
00:33:35,888 --> 00:33:39,058
compared to 26 grams per
liter for cow's milk.
678
00:33:39,142 --> 00:33:43,229
That's practically 10 times more.
No wonder it's so addictive.
679
00:33:43,312 --> 00:33:44,897
This talk about addiction
made me think about
680
00:33:44,981 --> 00:33:47,025
all the drugs
animals are fed.
681
00:33:47,108 --> 00:33:49,527
I went to the headquarters
of the Center for Food Safety,
682
00:33:49,610 --> 00:33:52,780
the nation's leading
FDA government watchdog group
683
00:33:52,864 --> 00:33:55,742
to see how concerned
we need to be about drugs in our food.
684
00:33:55,825 --> 00:33:59,662
So, that we know of, there are
at least 450 different drugs
685
00:33:59,746 --> 00:34:02,832
that are administered to animals,
either alone or, in combination.
686
00:34:02,915 --> 00:34:06,127
These drugs are given to animals
for a variety of reasons,
687
00:34:06,210 --> 00:34:10,214
very, very few of which are actually
beneficial to consumer health.
688
00:34:10,298 --> 00:34:14,719
We've got drug companies that
work real hard to make sure
689
00:34:14,802 --> 00:34:16,763
they can sell lots of drugs
690
00:34:16,846 --> 00:34:18,890
to people raising cows,
pigs, and chickens.
691
00:34:18,973 --> 00:34:23,144
The pharmaceutical industry sells 80% of
all the antibiotics that it makes
692
00:34:23,227 --> 00:34:25,563
in the United States
to animal agriculture.
693
00:34:25,646 --> 00:34:27,315
Antibiotic residues
are found in the meat,
694
00:34:27,398 --> 00:34:29,567
other antimicrobials
are found in meat.
695
00:34:29,650 --> 00:34:32,904
There has been ractopamine found in meat,
there has been hormones found in meat,
696
00:34:32,987 --> 00:34:35,323
so right there,
you're talking about four different drugs
697
00:34:35,406 --> 00:34:37,825
that could be in
the same piece of meat.
698
00:34:37,909 --> 00:34:39,827
The pharmaceutical company
is supposed to show
699
00:34:39,911 --> 00:34:41,996
the safety of animal drugs.
700
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,083
They're not really testing to see what the
impacts of these drugs are on humans.
701
00:34:45,166 --> 00:34:46,584
They're really looking
to see what the impacts
702
00:34:46,667 --> 00:34:48,169
of these drugs are on animals.
703
00:34:48,252 --> 00:34:52,173
When we try to get information
on some of the health studies
704
00:34:52,256 --> 00:34:55,134
and the environmental studies
from federal agencies,
705
00:34:55,218 --> 00:34:59,847
we get back page after page
of blacked out information
706
00:34:59,931 --> 00:35:04,393
because the company
claimed confidential business information.
707
00:35:04,477 --> 00:35:09,357
Consumers have no idea
what is in the products that they consume.
708
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:14,237
So, how sick something makes me
and how bad it pollutes the environment
709
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,322
is a secret for a company.
710
00:35:16,405 --> 00:35:19,659
In the animal agriculture
industry, as in the tobacco industry,
711
00:35:19,742 --> 00:35:22,453
these companies really
have a vested interest
712
00:35:22,537 --> 00:35:24,497
in making sure that
the public doesn't have
713
00:35:24,580 --> 00:35:26,165
information about their effects
714
00:35:26,249 --> 00:35:29,460
and what risks are really
posed to consuming them.
715
00:35:29,544 --> 00:35:33,422
You have this system where animals are
living in their own waste,
716
00:35:33,506 --> 00:35:36,968
they're living next to
animals that are sick or, even dead,
717
00:35:37,051 --> 00:35:38,886
and they're stuck in
cages with these animals,
718
00:35:38,970 --> 00:35:42,807
that bacteria tends to spread,
that the pathogens that are being created
719
00:35:42,890 --> 00:35:46,352
in these filthy conditions
are breeding resistance to antibiotics
720
00:35:46,435 --> 00:35:48,312
and the public are
becoming exposed to those.
721
00:35:48,396 --> 00:35:49,939
We already have people dying.
722
00:35:50,022 --> 00:35:53,401
From salmonella and other
things that you eat,
723
00:35:53,484 --> 00:35:57,738
we have about 3,000 people
die every year in the United States.
724
00:35:57,822 --> 00:36:00,783
That's more than the
number of people that were
725
00:36:00,867 --> 00:36:04,203
killed in 9/11 in the
Twin Towers in New York.
726
00:36:04,287 --> 00:36:06,831
If we had some terrorist
organization killing
727
00:36:06,914 --> 00:36:10,042
3,000 people a year,
we would be all over it.
728
00:36:10,126 --> 00:36:14,213
The antibiotic-resistant
bacteria deaths that we have
729
00:36:14,297 --> 00:36:18,009
on top of that, you get
20,000 people dying a year.
730
00:36:18,092 --> 00:36:22,680
That's seven 9/11s every year.
731
00:36:22,763 --> 00:36:24,348
Can you imagine?
732
00:36:24,432 --> 00:36:27,101
If that many people
were being killed
733
00:36:27,185 --> 00:36:28,936
by some terrorist group
in the United States
734
00:36:29,020 --> 00:36:30,521
every year,
we would find them!
735
00:36:30,605 --> 00:36:32,607
You know,
the World Health Organization
736
00:36:32,690 --> 00:36:35,484
has said we're nearing
a post-antibiotic era in medicine.
737
00:36:35,568 --> 00:36:38,738
You'll be at risk in minor surgeries to
have a fatal infection.
738
00:36:38,821 --> 00:36:41,574
You'll be at risk going to
the dentist if you have a tooth extracted.
739
00:36:41,657 --> 00:36:43,534
Or, it'll be like
civil war medicine.
740
00:36:43,618 --> 00:36:45,161
You get an infection
in your leg,
741
00:36:45,244 --> 00:36:46,329
and you cut your leg off.
742
00:36:46,412 --> 00:36:48,831
So, you have this
very dangerous situation.
743
00:36:48,915 --> 00:36:50,833
By crowding these animals in,
744
00:36:50,917 --> 00:36:54,253
they become a perfect
engine for generating
745
00:36:54,337 --> 00:36:57,173
a new flu virus that can
come out into the community.
746
00:36:57,256 --> 00:37:00,218
If you lived near
a swine spray field,
747
00:37:00,301 --> 00:37:04,138
not even the CAFO but
the waste disposal field,
748
00:37:04,222 --> 00:37:08,226
you are three times
more likely to have a MRSA infection.
749
00:37:08,309 --> 00:37:13,064
You can't see how that impacts
the average person's life
750
00:37:13,147 --> 00:37:16,943
in Duplin County, North Carolina,
and not be a little upset about it.
751
00:37:18,986 --> 00:37:22,448
From an environmental standpoint,
from a community standpoint,
752
00:37:22,531 --> 00:37:25,952
from all other aspects, North Carolina,
we're in a state of emergency.
753
00:37:26,035 --> 00:37:30,498
We've already had bouts of swine flu,
or H1N1, as they prefer to refer to it.
754
00:37:30,581 --> 00:37:33,000
That particular swine flu
incident was
755
00:37:33,084 --> 00:37:36,295
originated on a farm
here in North Carolina.
756
00:37:36,379 --> 00:37:38,673
There's approximately
the same number of hogs
757
00:37:38,756 --> 00:37:40,549
in North Carolina
as there are people.
758
00:37:40,633 --> 00:37:44,887
Between eight to 10 times
the amount of feces is produced by a hog,
759
00:37:44,971 --> 00:37:48,099
an adult hog as compared
to an adult human.
760
00:37:48,182 --> 00:37:49,809
10 million pigs
in North Carolina
761
00:37:49,892 --> 00:37:53,062
produce the waste equal to
a hundred million humans.
762
00:37:53,145 --> 00:37:56,357
This is the equivalent of the
entire US Eastern Seaboard
763
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,609
flushing their toilets
into North Carolina.
764
00:37:58,693 --> 00:38:00,194
But, there is
no waste treatment.
765
00:38:00,278 --> 00:38:02,405
The pigs' waste falls
through slats in the floors
766
00:38:02,488 --> 00:38:05,950
of the sheds they are forced to live in,
it is then pumped into giant waste pits,
767
00:38:06,033 --> 00:38:10,496
which leech into rivers and streams and i
s pumped out unfiltered onto fields,
768
00:38:10,579 --> 00:38:14,500
further polluting
the environment and neighboring health.
769
00:38:14,583 --> 00:38:16,711
When you go back and
you look at where these
770
00:38:16,794 --> 00:38:20,589
hog facilities are located,
there's a disproportionate number of them
771
00:38:20,673 --> 00:38:23,509
that are located near
communities of color.
772
00:38:23,592 --> 00:38:24,760
Low-income communities.
773
00:38:24,844 --> 00:38:28,139
It is definitely
a human rights issue.
774
00:38:28,222 --> 00:38:32,643
My sister, she have asthma,
you know. Her brother, he have asthma.
775
00:38:33,311 --> 00:38:35,104
He's three.
776
00:38:35,187 --> 00:38:36,814
And we don't know
what she might have.
777
00:38:38,107 --> 00:38:40,985
I have asthma, I have sinus,
778
00:38:41,068 --> 00:38:43,988
I have sarcoidosis,
that's of the bacteria,
779
00:38:44,071 --> 00:38:47,283
and I have a pacemaker,
which is sick sinus syndrome.
780
00:38:47,366 --> 00:38:50,786
But, you know, mostly
everybody in this neighborhood
781
00:38:50,870 --> 00:38:53,205
got asthma or, either cancer.
782
00:38:53,289 --> 00:38:57,460
My neighbor there
died from cancer probably just last year.
783
00:38:57,543 --> 00:38:59,253
My nephew down the street,
he's got cancer,
784
00:38:59,337 --> 00:39:01,922
he's in terminal cancer,
stage four.
785
00:39:02,006 --> 00:39:04,216
Not a smoker, not a drinker.
786
00:39:04,300 --> 00:39:07,261
And it's not in his lungs,
it's in his lymph nodes.
787
00:39:07,345 --> 00:39:10,598
Now see if you live here
and saw the way they do,
788
00:39:10,681 --> 00:39:12,266
we don't eat no pork.
789
00:39:12,350 --> 00:39:15,186
Well, I don't eat bacon
because I know where it come from.
790
00:39:15,269 --> 00:39:18,147
When they die,
they go into a box,
791
00:39:18,230 --> 00:39:22,276
and they decompose because
they swell from the heat.
792
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,904
A truck come and pick 'em up,
793
00:39:24,987 --> 00:39:27,656
take 'em to the processing
plant in Rose Hill,
794
00:39:27,740 --> 00:39:32,578
ground 'em up into feed,
and feed it back to the hogs.
795
00:39:32,661 --> 00:39:33,996
If I come out this door,
796
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:35,748
if he's spraying there,
it's gonna come in my face.
797
00:39:35,831 --> 00:39:37,333
It hits you
right in the face.
798
00:39:37,416 --> 00:39:39,126
Smell like something that you
have never smelled before.
799
00:39:39,210 --> 00:39:42,296
Smell worse than a dead body.
800
00:39:42,380 --> 00:39:43,923
That's the family graveyard.
801
00:39:44,006 --> 00:39:48,052
And I have my grandmother out there,
my sisters, my brothers.
802
00:39:48,135 --> 00:39:50,554
When we go to a funeral,
he use the spray.
803
00:39:50,638 --> 00:39:52,640
-During the funeral?
-During the funeral, yes.
804
00:39:52,723 --> 00:39:56,477
During the funeral.
Yeah, they spray.
805
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,355
And when the people come,
everybody be closing their nose up
806
00:39:59,438 --> 00:40:00,898
saying how it stink.
807
00:40:00,981 --> 00:40:03,859
They can want
to have a cookout on Sunday, he'll spray.
808
00:40:03,943 --> 00:40:05,361
Do you think he does it on
purpose?
809
00:40:05,444 --> 00:40:06,821
I think so.
810
00:40:06,904 --> 00:40:10,449
'Cause he just sprays Sunday.
He always sprays Sunday.
811
00:40:10,533 --> 00:40:14,245
And in most of these area,
hog houses and turkey house,
812
00:40:14,328 --> 00:40:17,748
it's in a black area
or the Hispanic area.
813
00:40:17,832 --> 00:40:19,291
It's either, or.
814
00:40:19,375 --> 00:40:21,377
Do you think it's
also a civil rights issue?
815
00:40:21,460 --> 00:40:23,921
Yes, yes, I do.
816
00:40:24,004 --> 00:40:25,131
Yes, I do.
817
00:40:31,637 --> 00:40:35,224
There have been times
in the past that I have
818
00:40:35,307 --> 00:40:38,686
gotten ready on a Sunday
and gotten ready to go to church
819
00:40:38,769 --> 00:40:41,522
and come out
and the smell was so strong
820
00:40:41,605 --> 00:40:44,567
that I had to go back
and regroup because
821
00:40:44,650 --> 00:40:47,945
it had got in my clothes,
and I just couldn't go to church
822
00:40:48,028 --> 00:40:50,489
smelling like hogs, you know,
I just couldn't do it,
823
00:40:50,573 --> 00:40:53,993
so I don't think
the government cares.
824
00:40:54,076 --> 00:40:56,203
They care more about
825
00:40:56,287 --> 00:41:00,207
corporations than they
do peoples, individuals.
826
00:41:00,291 --> 00:41:02,376
And they're gonna keep on, they're gonna
put more chickens in this state.
827
00:41:02,460 --> 00:41:04,378
This is the feces and
urine capital of the world
828
00:41:04,462 --> 00:41:06,964
right here in North Carolina,
my state.
829
00:41:07,047 --> 00:41:09,550
Look, there's a
blue-line stream right here
830
00:41:09,633 --> 00:41:10,885
comes right across into
my property almost,
831
00:41:10,968 --> 00:41:12,344
and the Contentnea Creek right there.
832
00:41:12,428 --> 00:41:16,932
I've seen that blue-line stream now filled
with feces and urine from that hog pen,
833
00:41:17,016 --> 00:41:19,143
and they can say,
"Well, we feed the world."
834
00:41:19,226 --> 00:41:22,062
They're not interested in feeding the
world, they're interested in making money.
835
00:41:22,146 --> 00:41:25,441
You take the money away from them,
they'll let the folks starve.
836
00:41:25,524 --> 00:41:27,902
'Cause if you want to feed the world,
you can feed the world with more corn,
837
00:41:27,985 --> 00:41:30,529
using corn and wheat
and stuff like that than you can meat.
838
00:41:30,613 --> 00:41:32,198
Meat is a luxury item.
839
00:41:32,281 --> 00:41:36,452
When we are doing things
that hurt other people, we are wrong.
840
00:41:36,535 --> 00:41:39,830
But, a lot of good people
will sit there and eat bacon
841
00:41:39,914 --> 00:41:44,251
knowing that it's
causing someone else to be very unhappy.
842
00:41:47,087 --> 00:41:48,756
I woke up
the next morning to find
843
00:41:48,839 --> 00:41:51,342
the Burnt River
had experienced another massive fish kill
844
00:41:51,425 --> 00:41:54,053
from the pollution running
off hog farms.
845
00:41:54,136 --> 00:41:57,348
Tens of thousands of fish
were washing up on shore.
846
00:41:58,516 --> 00:41:59,975
All this talk about health,
847
00:42:00,059 --> 00:42:02,937
I realized that I was only
focused on personal health.
848
00:42:03,020 --> 00:42:05,439
But, health started to
mean so much more to me.
849
00:42:05,523 --> 00:42:08,192
It was about health of my
family and our communities.
850
00:42:08,275 --> 00:42:09,652
I couldn't
under good conscience
851
00:42:09,735 --> 00:42:11,987
support an industry that
I knew was harming others.
852
00:42:14,490 --> 00:42:16,116
Pollution from
animal agriculture
853
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,536
isn't just an issue in
North Carolina, though.
854
00:42:18,619 --> 00:42:21,622
Raising animals for food
produces more greenhouse gases
855
00:42:21,705 --> 00:42:23,707
than the entire
transportation sector.
856
00:42:23,791 --> 00:42:25,876
It is a leading cause of
rainforest destruction,
857
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:30,005
species extinction, ocean dead zones and
freshwater consumption.
858
00:42:35,553 --> 00:42:39,223
American Diabetes Association
actually finally got back,
859
00:42:39,306 --> 00:42:42,393
and they agreed
to an interview.
860
00:42:42,476 --> 00:42:45,312
Preparing for the American
Diabetes Association interview,
861
00:42:45,396 --> 00:42:48,691
I took a look at their
diabetes diet meal plan recommendations,
862
00:42:48,774 --> 00:42:53,070
and they were loaded with foods
associated with causing diabetes.
863
00:42:53,153 --> 00:42:55,447
How could they expect
people not to get diabetes
864
00:42:55,531 --> 00:42:58,492
if this was the food
they were recommending?
865
00:42:58,576 --> 00:43:01,287
And then, I saw multiple
peer-reviewed studies
866
00:43:01,370 --> 00:43:03,539
published on the National
Institute of Health website
867
00:43:03,622 --> 00:43:05,499
showing that a low-fat
plant-based diet
868
00:43:05,583 --> 00:43:07,751
was more than twice as
powerful at controlling
869
00:43:07,835 --> 00:43:09,920
and even reversing diabetes
870
00:43:10,004 --> 00:43:12,798
than the ADA-recommended diet
that included meat and dairy.
871
00:43:14,341 --> 00:43:18,512
The mission of the American
Diabetes Association is
872
00:43:18,596 --> 00:43:24,560
to identify a prevention
and a cure for diabetes.
873
00:43:24,643 --> 00:43:28,147
But, in the meantime,
to improve the lives of all people
874
00:43:28,230 --> 00:43:30,441
who are affected by diabetes.
875
00:43:30,524 --> 00:43:35,112
And what's the best way
to prevent this?
876
00:43:35,195 --> 00:43:38,365
For type two diabetes,
it's unclear.
877
00:43:38,449 --> 00:43:42,411
We can't prevent type two
diabetes in everybody.
878
00:43:42,494 --> 00:43:46,790
We were doing research,
we came across a lot of studies that said
879
00:43:46,874 --> 00:43:50,919
that you actually could
potentially cure
880
00:43:51,003 --> 00:43:54,840
or reverse diabetes with
a purely plant-based diet.
881
00:43:54,923 --> 00:43:59,887
I don't believe there's
sufficient evidence to demonstrate that.
882
00:43:59,970 --> 00:44:03,891
How does it compare to the
ADA diet that you recommend?
883
00:44:03,974 --> 00:44:08,395
We don't recommend a specific diet,
we recommend healthy eating.
884
00:44:08,479 --> 00:44:09,730
The one that's on the website.
885
00:44:09,813 --> 00:44:11,565
We recommend healthy eating.
886
00:44:12,024 --> 00:44:13,192
There is--
887
00:44:13,275 --> 00:44:17,655
Do you have a whole
list of exact day-to-day,
888
00:44:17,738 --> 00:44:19,281
the meal plan,
the whole meal plan?
889
00:44:19,365 --> 00:44:22,534
All they are are selections
of foods to consider.
890
00:44:22,618 --> 00:44:24,828
We do not have
a diabetes diet.
891
00:44:24,912 --> 00:44:27,289
But, with that, selections
that you consider,
892
00:44:27,373 --> 00:44:31,960
that plan compared to
an all plant-based plan.
893
00:44:32,044 --> 00:44:34,088
No one's done that study.
894
00:44:34,171 --> 00:44:36,298
We found, actually,
some studies.
895
00:44:36,382 --> 00:44:41,679
A 74-week study found that low-fat vegan
diet versus the ADA plan,
896
00:44:41,762 --> 00:44:42,763
in type two diabetes--
897
00:44:42,846 --> 00:44:44,181
I think we're done here.
898
00:44:44,264 --> 00:44:46,892
I'm not gonna get into
an argument about--
899
00:44:46,975 --> 00:44:50,270
Oh, no, I just wanted
the studies of,
900
00:44:50,354 --> 00:44:53,774
if this is true or,
if it shows that.
901
00:44:53,857 --> 00:44:55,692
Any diet works.
902
00:44:57,444 --> 00:45:01,407
Any diet works
if people follow it.
903
00:45:01,490 --> 00:45:04,993
But, if it's a diet
that's not the proper diet,
904
00:45:05,077 --> 00:45:07,496
like if anyone follows a diet
that they eat McDonald's--
905
00:45:07,579 --> 00:45:10,374
I can't tell you
what a proper diet is.
906
00:45:10,457 --> 00:45:13,419
I can tell you
what an improper diet is.
907
00:45:13,502 --> 00:45:17,798
So, then we can talk
about the good diets. I'm not sure why--
908
00:45:17,881 --> 00:45:19,341
I'm not gonna get into that.
909
00:45:19,425 --> 00:45:21,009
-Into diet?
-No.
910
00:45:21,093 --> 00:45:22,386
Why not?
911
00:45:22,469 --> 00:45:24,221
If that's where you
want to go with this,
912
00:45:24,304 --> 00:45:26,640
I'm sorry, I'm not the person that
you should be talking to.
913
00:45:26,723 --> 00:45:28,267
And why is that, though?
914
00:45:28,350 --> 00:45:30,519
If that's what you want to
get into, I'm not the person
915
00:45:30,602 --> 00:45:32,229
-you need to be talking to.
-Into diet?
916
00:45:32,312 --> 00:45:34,231
Who do we talk to about diet?
917
00:45:34,314 --> 00:45:36,233
You can talk to
anybody you want.
918
00:45:36,316 --> 00:45:38,527
But, that's interesting, though,
why not recommend a diet--
919
00:45:38,610 --> 00:45:40,320
Because the data don't
exist to support it.
920
00:45:40,404 --> 00:45:43,824
But, if we see data
that we looked up,
921
00:45:43,907 --> 00:45:47,327
that supports it with
the NIH, in Europe,
922
00:45:47,411 --> 00:45:49,496
the European Association of--
923
00:45:49,580 --> 00:45:52,374
We're done.
924
00:45:52,458 --> 00:45:54,293
We're done. I'm sorry, I'm not gonna
get into that argument with you.
925
00:45:54,376 --> 00:45:55,627
No, I'm just wondering,
but, I…
926
00:45:55,711 --> 00:45:57,504
I'm not gonna get into
the argument with you.
927
00:45:57,588 --> 00:45:58,964
Why is it in argument?
928
00:45:59,047 --> 00:46:02,426
It's just to talking about
in European study of diabetes
929
00:46:02,509 --> 00:46:05,929
and other places that have
studies, why--
930
00:46:06,013 --> 00:46:07,306
There are lots of studies--
931
00:46:07,389 --> 00:46:08,599
Why is it even
an argument, I guess?
932
00:46:08,682 --> 00:46:12,186
There are lots of
studies in the literature.
933
00:46:12,269 --> 00:46:18,442
Many of which have never been replicated
or frankly, are wrong.
934
00:46:18,525 --> 00:46:21,487
That's why we do
peer review, okay?
935
00:46:21,570 --> 00:46:24,490
The European Association
of Study of Diabetes
936
00:46:24,573 --> 00:46:26,283
has been peer-reviewed
or, the--
937
00:46:26,366 --> 00:46:28,869
I don't know what study
you're referring to,
938
00:46:28,952 --> 00:46:31,205
and in the absence of being
able to see that study,
939
00:46:31,288 --> 00:46:32,498
I'm not gonna comment.
940
00:46:32,581 --> 00:46:33,707
I could show it to you.
941
00:46:33,790 --> 00:46:35,459
I'm sorry, I don't
have the time for that.
942
00:46:35,542 --> 00:46:39,213
I just don't understand
why it's an argument, though, or… Okay.
943
00:46:47,095 --> 00:46:48,764
That was interesting.
944
00:46:48,847 --> 00:46:52,226
What he wanted to talk about
was people living longer with diabetes,
945
00:46:52,309 --> 00:46:55,812
but, once you mention
eliminating diabetes or, prevention,
946
00:46:55,896 --> 00:46:57,940
oh, whoa,
now you crossed the line.
947
00:46:58,023 --> 00:46:59,942
Prevention and cure… Whoa.
948
00:47:00,025 --> 00:47:02,778
Let's not go there.
949
00:47:02,861 --> 00:47:05,739
Not only did Dr. Ratner,
the Chief Medical Officer
950
00:47:05,822 --> 00:47:09,451
of the American Diabetes
Association not want to talk about diet,
951
00:47:09,535 --> 00:47:11,620
but, the fact that he had
such an emotional reaction
952
00:47:11,703 --> 00:47:14,540
to my question made it feel
I was digging into something
953
00:47:14,623 --> 00:47:16,625
that he didn't want uncovered.
954
00:47:16,708 --> 00:47:20,420
I had always thought there was
no prevention for type one diabetes.
955
00:47:20,504 --> 00:47:22,464
But, then,
I did research and came across
956
00:47:22,548 --> 00:47:24,550
countless studies
referencing the link between
957
00:47:24,633 --> 00:47:28,178
exposure to dairy at a young
age and type one diabetes.
958
00:47:28,262 --> 00:47:30,472
This is a food
made for baby cows.
959
00:47:30,556 --> 00:47:32,599
Cow milk protein gets
into the bloodstream,
960
00:47:32,683 --> 00:47:34,768
and the body says, "Hey, this
isn't supposed to be in the bloodstream."
961
00:47:34,851 --> 00:47:36,728
It makes antibodies to
the cow milk protein
962
00:47:36,812 --> 00:47:40,732
which then attack the pancreas
and destroy the pancreas.
963
00:47:40,816 --> 00:47:42,276
How is this possible that ADA
964
00:47:42,359 --> 00:47:44,570
wouldn't have this forefront
on their website?
965
00:47:44,653 --> 00:47:46,488
Why wouldn't they be warning
all parents about this
966
00:47:46,572 --> 00:47:48,490
even if there were
only a slight chance?
967
00:47:48,574 --> 00:47:50,325
Why were they
recommending people
968
00:47:50,409 --> 00:47:53,120
to actually eat these
foods linked to diabetes?
969
00:47:53,203 --> 00:47:55,205
It seemed all of the
large health organizations
970
00:47:55,289 --> 00:47:57,165
were encouraging people
to eat the very foods
971
00:47:57,249 --> 00:48:00,419
linked to the diseases
they're supposed to be fighting against.
972
00:48:00,502 --> 00:48:02,796
American Heart Association
promoting beef,
973
00:48:02,879 --> 00:48:05,424
American Cancer Society
promoting processed meat,
974
00:48:05,507 --> 00:48:07,426
pink ribbons on dairy products,
975
00:48:07,509 --> 00:48:11,138
and bacon-wrapped shrimp on
American Diabetes Association.
976
00:48:11,221 --> 00:48:14,433
And then,
it all came together.
977
00:48:14,516 --> 00:48:15,434
What if--
978
00:48:20,147 --> 00:48:21,523
And there it was.
979
00:48:21,607 --> 00:48:23,483
The American Diabetes
Association was taking money
980
00:48:23,567 --> 00:48:26,528
from Dannon, one of the
world's largest dairy yogurt producers.
981
00:48:26,612 --> 00:48:28,739
Kraft Foods, makers of
Velveeta processed cheese,
982
00:48:28,822 --> 00:48:31,658
Oscar Mayer processed
meats, Lunchables processed kids' meals,
983
00:48:31,742 --> 00:48:34,870
and Bumble Bee Foods,
makers of processed canned meats.
984
00:48:38,749 --> 00:48:40,667
American Cancer Society
was taking money
985
00:48:40,751 --> 00:48:43,211
from Tyson, one of the
world's largest meat producers
986
00:48:43,295 --> 00:48:47,382
and Yum! Brand, owner of
Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell.
987
00:48:47,466 --> 00:48:50,177
Susan G. Komen, who was supposed to be
fighting breast cancer,
988
00:48:50,260 --> 00:48:52,387
was corporate
partnering with KFC,
989
00:48:52,471 --> 00:48:56,350
Dietz Watson processed
meats and Yoplait yogurt.
990
00:48:56,433 --> 00:49:00,020
And the American Heart Association was
probably the most disturbing of all,
991
00:49:00,103 --> 00:49:01,938
taking hundreds
of thousands of dollars
992
00:49:02,022 --> 00:49:05,025
from the beef industry,
poultry and dairy producers
993
00:49:05,108 --> 00:49:09,154
and millions from fast
food and processed food manufacturers.
994
00:49:11,031 --> 00:49:13,325
Every single one
of these organizations
995
00:49:13,408 --> 00:49:15,994
was taking money from
meat and dairy companies
996
00:49:16,078 --> 00:49:18,997
that are associated with
the causes of these diseases.
997
00:49:19,081 --> 00:49:20,957
This would be like the
American Lung Association
998
00:49:21,041 --> 00:49:23,919
taking money from
the tobacco industry.
999
00:49:24,002 --> 00:49:26,838
I was sick of
not getting answers.
1000
00:49:26,922 --> 00:49:29,883
So, I went to the headquarters
of these organizations myself.
1001
00:49:29,966 --> 00:49:31,468
We have to speak
to someone in person.
1002
00:49:31,551 --> 00:49:34,680
There's millions of people
dying from the foods
1003
00:49:34,763 --> 00:49:37,391
that they are recommending
people to eat.
1004
00:49:37,474 --> 00:49:42,062
I wanted to find out why Susan G. Komen
had accepted $35 million from Yoplait,
1005
00:49:42,145 --> 00:49:43,897
when their products can
increase a woman's chance
1006
00:49:43,980 --> 00:49:46,733
of dying from
breast cancer 49%,
1007
00:49:46,817 --> 00:49:49,027
and ask American Cancer
Society if taking money
1008
00:49:49,111 --> 00:49:52,906
from KFC and Tyson
was a reason they promote eating meat.
1009
00:49:52,989 --> 00:49:57,494
But, every one of these
organizations declined to be interviewed.
1010
00:49:57,577 --> 00:50:00,038
What's really sad
is that we cannot trust
1011
00:50:00,122 --> 00:50:03,458
information from these
leading health organizations
1012
00:50:03,542 --> 00:50:07,003
like the American Heart Association,
the American Diabetes Association
1013
00:50:07,087 --> 00:50:10,757
because they are taking money
from the very industries
1014
00:50:10,841 --> 00:50:14,803
who are causing the problems that they're
supposed to be helping to prevent.
1015
00:50:14,886 --> 00:50:18,640
So, that makes the truth
something that
1016
00:50:18,724 --> 00:50:21,435
you are not gonna be hearing,
as far as nutrition goes,
1017
00:50:21,518 --> 00:50:23,019
from these organizations.
1018
00:50:23,103 --> 00:50:24,646
Well, that would be the
end of their funding,
1019
00:50:24,730 --> 00:50:27,274
that would be the end
of their jobs, there would be lawsuits
1020
00:50:27,357 --> 00:50:30,193
that would bring the entire catastrophe
down upon their heads,
1021
00:50:30,277 --> 00:50:32,362
and they would essentially
disappear as organizations.
1022
00:50:32,446 --> 00:50:35,824
This one time I got invited
to a charity fundraiser
1023
00:50:35,907 --> 00:50:38,034
for the American Diabetes
Association.
1024
00:50:38,118 --> 00:50:42,748
I showed up, and they had a whole buffet,
and it was all just animal products.
1025
00:50:42,831 --> 00:50:46,543
I remember like a big
thing of barbecue chicken.
1026
00:50:46,626 --> 00:50:49,963
And I was like, I stormed out.
I said like,
1027
00:50:51,173 --> 00:50:54,009
"Serving chicken
at a diabetes event
1028
00:50:54,092 --> 00:50:56,303
is like serving alcohol
at an AA meeting."
1029
00:50:56,386 --> 00:50:57,596
It just doesn't make sense.
1030
00:50:59,598 --> 00:51:02,934
We had scheduled to film
an interview with a prominent surgeon.
1031
00:51:03,018 --> 00:51:04,811
But, before we could get
inside the building,
1032
00:51:04,895 --> 00:51:08,023
the hospital's media
relations manager stopped us.
1033
00:51:08,106 --> 00:51:11,359
Actually I understand that
Dr…said that you could film here today,
1034
00:51:11,443 --> 00:51:14,571
but, unfortunately, that's
not gonna be able to happen.
1035
00:51:14,654 --> 00:51:17,824
I know that he advocates for
patients changing their diets,
1036
00:51:17,908 --> 00:51:20,410
but, the hospital makes
money off these surgeries,
1037
00:51:20,494 --> 00:51:22,496
and the reality is,
he does, too.
1038
00:51:22,579 --> 00:51:24,039
So, we can't do anything
1039
00:51:24,122 --> 00:51:25,999
that's gonna negatively
impact the hospital,
1040
00:51:26,082 --> 00:51:28,710
so unfortunately, you're not gonna be able
to film here today.
1041
00:51:28,794 --> 00:51:30,420
He said
that we could, though.
1042
00:51:30,504 --> 00:51:32,547
I was sickened
by how open she was
1043
00:51:32,631 --> 00:51:37,260
about the hospital being more interested
in profits than people's health.
1044
00:51:37,344 --> 00:51:40,180
But, it wasn't
just this hospital or these organizations.
1045
00:51:40,263 --> 00:51:42,933
Even the US government
is involved, too.
1046
00:51:43,016 --> 00:51:45,268
Every five years, the US
Department of Agriculture
1047
00:51:45,352 --> 00:51:47,562
creates dietary guidelines
for Americans.
1048
00:51:47,646 --> 00:51:50,524
The committee who writes these guidelines
has been made up of individuals
1049
00:51:50,607 --> 00:51:53,360
who have received money from
McDonald's, the National Dairy Council,
1050
00:51:53,443 --> 00:51:55,654
the American Meat Institute,
the National Dairy Board,
1051
00:51:55,737 --> 00:51:58,824
the National Livestock and Meat Board,
the American Egg Board, Dannon,
1052
00:51:58,907 --> 00:52:02,744
candy and sugar companies, Coca Cola and
Anheuser, just to name a few.
1053
00:52:02,828 --> 00:52:05,288
Which means we are getting
our dietary recommendations
1054
00:52:05,372 --> 00:52:07,290
from the very industries
that are killing us.
1055
00:52:07,374 --> 00:52:11,795
And when they,
the USDA, makes a pyramid or a Power Plate
1056
00:52:11,878 --> 00:52:13,880
every five years for
the American public,
1057
00:52:13,964 --> 00:52:16,174
they're gonna guarantee
that on that plate
1058
00:52:16,258 --> 00:52:18,969
are gonna be foods,
which when consumed,
1059
00:52:19,052 --> 00:52:22,973
will result in millions
of Americans perishing.
1060
00:52:23,056 --> 00:52:26,393
The USDA, which is supposed to be
protecting us, has two missions.
1061
00:52:26,476 --> 00:52:29,980
It's supposed to protect us,
and it's supposed to protect the producer.
1062
00:52:30,063 --> 00:52:32,732
And guess what, when those
two come head to head,
1063
00:52:32,816 --> 00:52:34,568
they usually choose
the producer.
1064
00:52:34,651 --> 00:52:37,070
In internal documents
uncovered by Dr. Greger,
1065
00:52:37,153 --> 00:52:39,781
the USDA admitted that eggs
cannot legally be called
1066
00:52:39,865 --> 00:52:42,033
nutritious, low fat,
part of a balanced diet,
1067
00:52:42,117 --> 00:52:46,288
low calorie, healthful, healthy, can't say
it's good for you or, even safe.
1068
00:52:46,371 --> 00:52:47,789
Yet they still
promote these products
1069
00:52:47,873 --> 00:52:50,834
to the American people through
federal checkoff programs.
1070
00:52:50,917 --> 00:52:52,419
If you ask somebody
if they have heard
1071
00:52:52,502 --> 00:52:54,629
of a checkoff program,
the odds are they haven't,
1072
00:52:54,713 --> 00:52:58,717
although, daily, they are seeing the
messaging that these programs produce.
1073
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:00,760
So, checkoff programs
are responsible
1074
00:53:00,844 --> 00:53:03,972
for the messages that we
see on TV, on the Internet,
1075
00:53:04,055 --> 00:53:06,391
on bus billboards and
magazines that say things like,
1076
00:53:06,474 --> 00:53:09,561
"Milk, it does a body good,"
or "milk life.
1077
00:53:09,644 --> 00:53:12,772
Beef, it's what's for dinner.
Pork, be inspired.
1078
00:53:12,856 --> 00:53:14,482
The incredible edible egg."
1079
00:53:14,566 --> 00:53:18,486
The dairy checkoff
program gave $12 million
1080
00:53:18,570 --> 00:53:21,990
to Domino's to just market
cheese-heavy product.
1081
00:53:22,073 --> 00:53:23,992
And this is the USDA,
this is the government.
1082
00:53:24,075 --> 00:53:26,745
If you've seen those ads
for the Pizza Hut pizza,
1083
00:53:26,828 --> 00:53:29,581
the stuffed crust
or a pound of cheese.
1084
00:53:29,664 --> 00:53:33,209
Those are all government
advertising schemes for the industry.
1085
00:53:33,293 --> 00:53:37,964
How can we put more cheese on beef?
How can we put more milk in a coffee?
1086
00:53:38,048 --> 00:53:40,884
Things like that
to just drive consumption
1087
00:53:40,967 --> 00:53:44,220
of these just unbelievably
unhealthful products.
1088
00:53:44,304 --> 00:53:48,558
So, McDonald's, for instance,
has six people staffed full-time,
1089
00:53:48,642 --> 00:53:50,268
according to records we found,
1090
00:53:50,352 --> 00:53:53,855
whose salaries are paid for
by this government program
1091
00:53:53,939 --> 00:53:56,733
but, funded by the producers
who are regulated by it.
1092
00:53:56,816 --> 00:53:59,736
And these six people sit there
at McDonald's headquarters
1093
00:53:59,819 --> 00:54:01,863
and just come up with ideas.
1094
00:54:03,114 --> 00:54:06,952
Triple cheese decker
McCheese muffin
1095
00:54:07,035 --> 00:54:10,080
stuffed bacon cheese slider?
1096
00:54:12,499 --> 00:54:13,792
With extra cheese?
1097
00:54:13,875 --> 00:54:15,043
-Nice!
-Yes!
1098
00:54:15,126 --> 00:54:17,712
You don't think of it
on a day-to-day basis
1099
00:54:17,796 --> 00:54:19,506
that these are
government programs.
1100
00:54:19,589 --> 00:54:22,175
The Wendy's Bacon
Double Cheeseburger.
1101
00:54:22,968 --> 00:54:24,886
Government program.
1102
00:54:24,970 --> 00:54:26,805
The steak fajita
at Dunkin' Donuts.
1103
00:54:27,555 --> 00:54:29,474
Government program.
1104
00:54:29,557 --> 00:54:33,436
You would just never think that this
just pure garbage from a food standpoint,
1105
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:36,648
is coming from
a federally-funded program.
1106
00:54:36,731 --> 00:54:40,193
That's one of the things
that makes checkoffs so incredibly creepy,
1107
00:54:40,276 --> 00:54:44,364
is that it is our government
telling us eat more beef, drink more milk,
1108
00:54:44,447 --> 00:54:46,783
eat more cheese,
eat more pork.
1109
00:54:46,866 --> 00:54:49,035
One of the very effective
ways that the dairy industry
1110
00:54:49,119 --> 00:54:53,289
promotes its products
is to reach children
1111
00:54:53,373 --> 00:54:55,375
because kids
are impressionable,
1112
00:54:55,458 --> 00:54:57,919
they're gonna be consumers
for their entire lives,
1113
00:54:58,003 --> 00:54:59,921
and you might as well
get 'em while they're young.
1114
00:55:00,005 --> 00:55:04,843
So, dairy spends at least $50 million
promoting its products in public schools
1115
00:55:04,926 --> 00:55:07,429
throughout the country
with posters,
1116
00:55:07,512 --> 00:55:09,431
with people
with milk mustaches
1117
00:55:09,514 --> 00:55:12,684
and messages like "Milk,
it does the body good,"
1118
00:55:12,767 --> 00:55:14,436
or "milk life."
1119
00:55:14,519 --> 00:55:16,771
Targeting young people,
like the tobacco industry
1120
00:55:16,855 --> 00:55:21,151
had to keep replacing their customers who
were dying with new customers.
1121
00:55:21,234 --> 00:55:23,820
Meat industry knows they
have to target young people.
1122
00:55:23,903 --> 00:55:25,780
That's why we have these
foods in schools
1123
00:55:25,864 --> 00:55:28,074
and marketing messages at
a younger and younger age
1124
00:55:28,158 --> 00:55:31,202
for kids to get hooked on
all the wrong kinds of foods.
1125
00:55:31,286 --> 00:55:32,996
So, there's
all kinds of parallels.
1126
00:55:33,079 --> 00:55:36,166
School districts where processed meats
are all over the place,
1127
00:55:36,249 --> 00:55:40,628
maybe it's gonna be bacon on the menu,
sausage, hotdogs or pepperoni pizza.
1128
00:55:40,712 --> 00:55:42,130
Any of those things
are processed meats,
1129
00:55:42,213 --> 00:55:44,549
and those are pretty much
the worst of the worst
1130
00:55:44,632 --> 00:55:46,718
with a direct link
to colon cancer.
1131
00:55:46,801 --> 00:55:50,972
And yet you have every day in the schools
meal items with processed meats.
1132
00:55:51,056 --> 00:55:52,974
If the surgeon
general puts warning labels
1133
00:55:53,058 --> 00:55:55,351
on tobacco because of
their cancer risk,
1134
00:55:55,435 --> 00:55:58,021
why aren't the same
warning labels on meat?
1135
00:55:59,355 --> 00:56:01,399
Based on
the publicly-available data,
1136
00:56:01,483 --> 00:56:04,402
we know they spend
at least $557 million
1137
00:56:04,486 --> 00:56:06,738
promoting their goods
through checkoff programs.
1138
00:56:06,821 --> 00:56:11,034
We know that they spend
at least $138 million lobbying Congress.
1139
00:56:11,117 --> 00:56:13,411
We expect that they spend
a good deal more than that
1140
00:56:13,495 --> 00:56:16,164
in figures that simply
aren't publicly disclosed.
1141
00:56:16,247 --> 00:56:18,208
The industry's
lobbying power is so strong
1142
00:56:18,291 --> 00:56:20,335
that they can create laws
and push through legislation
1143
00:56:20,418 --> 00:56:22,879
that doesn't benefit
Americans in any way,
1144
00:56:22,962 --> 00:56:25,548
such as ag-gag laws that
criminalize whistle-blowing
1145
00:56:25,632 --> 00:56:28,134
or photographing abuses
by this industry.
1146
00:56:28,218 --> 00:56:30,220
Activists in the US can
be charged as terrorists
1147
00:56:30,303 --> 00:56:33,264
for disrupting the profits of any business
that uses animals,
1148
00:56:33,348 --> 00:56:37,685
under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act,
to the even more ridiculous ones like
1149
00:56:37,769 --> 00:56:40,021
cheeseburger laws.
1150
00:56:40,105 --> 00:56:43,441
A cheeseburger law is a law that says a
plaintiff cannot recover
1151
00:56:43,525 --> 00:56:46,236
against a manufacturer,
distributor or, retailer,
1152
00:56:46,319 --> 00:56:49,656
on the theory that the food
made the plaintiff obese
1153
00:56:49,739 --> 00:56:52,659
or caused
an obesity related disease.
1154
00:56:52,742 --> 00:56:55,578
Cheeseburger laws
are a direct response
1155
00:56:55,662 --> 00:56:58,790
to a problem that the
tobacco industry has had.
1156
00:56:58,873 --> 00:57:03,128
Big Tobacco has paid
$400 billion to state Medicaid programs.
1157
00:57:03,211 --> 00:57:05,588
Cheeseburger laws'
proponents say,
1158
00:57:05,672 --> 00:57:07,715
"We don't want to see the
same kind of thing happen
1159
00:57:07,799 --> 00:57:09,300
"to the meat
and dairy industries."
1160
00:57:09,384 --> 00:57:11,970
The fact that these laws are
based on a model template
1161
00:57:12,053 --> 00:57:14,347
called a Commonsense
Consumption Act
1162
00:57:14,430 --> 00:57:17,142
is actually ironic because
what they're saying is
1163
00:57:17,225 --> 00:57:19,436
you, the consumer, should
have the common sense
1164
00:57:19,519 --> 00:57:21,938
to know that
our food is bad for you.
1165
00:57:22,021 --> 00:57:25,817
I've often typified the
meat industry to people who
1166
00:57:25,900 --> 00:57:28,528
maybe don't understand
its power and reach,
1167
00:57:28,611 --> 00:57:32,740
as it's got all the money of
Big Tobacco and Big Pharma,
1168
00:57:32,824 --> 00:57:36,411
and it has the personality of
the National Rifle Association.
1169
00:57:36,494 --> 00:57:41,875
So, any little thing
that comes up, man, they beat it to death.
1170
00:57:41,958 --> 00:57:43,960
Robert Martin
wasn't exaggerating.
1171
00:57:44,043 --> 00:57:46,129
When the profits of the egg
industry were threatened
1172
00:57:46,212 --> 00:57:48,631
by egg alternative company
Hampton Creek Foods,
1173
00:57:48,715 --> 00:57:52,802
extremely disturbing emails were uncovered
by Ryan Shapiro and Jeffrey Light.
1174
00:57:52,886 --> 00:57:55,930
We uncovered documents demonstrating
the American Egg Board
1175
00:57:56,014 --> 00:57:59,726
considers Hampton Creek, quote
"a crisis and major threat
1176
00:57:59,809 --> 00:58:01,895
"to the future of the
American egg industry."
1177
00:58:01,978 --> 00:58:04,063
The American Egg Board
considers a successful
1178
00:58:04,147 --> 00:58:06,733
egg replacer company
to be such a threat
1179
00:58:06,816 --> 00:58:09,569
that they joke on their
government email addresses
1180
00:58:09,652 --> 00:58:11,863
about murdering the CEO.
1181
00:58:11,946 --> 00:58:15,200
In internal government
emails with the heads of the egg industry,
1182
00:58:15,283 --> 00:58:20,246
they suggest having the CEO of
Hampton Creek, Josh Tetrick, murdered,
1183
00:58:20,330 --> 00:58:24,417
including a menacing email from executive
director of the American Egg Board.
1184
00:58:29,964 --> 00:58:32,300
The meat producers
don't have to pay for
1185
00:58:32,383 --> 00:58:35,762
the heart disease or
the environmental destruction
1186
00:58:35,845 --> 00:58:38,515
or any of the othe
externalities,
1187
00:58:38,598 --> 00:58:40,016
as economists call them,
1188
00:58:40,099 --> 00:58:42,644
that their products cause.
1189
00:58:42,727 --> 00:58:45,438
Then there's a whole
pharmaceutical aspect of it
1190
00:58:45,522 --> 00:58:48,066
and the fact that there's a very strong
pharmaceutical industry
1191
00:58:48,149 --> 00:58:51,903
and lobby that has
a huge stake in preserving the status quo.
1192
00:58:51,986 --> 00:58:53,363
These chronic diseases,
1193
00:58:53,446 --> 00:58:56,115
these are the cash cows of
the pharmaceutical industry.
1194
00:58:56,199 --> 00:59:00,453
We have a $5 billion stent industry.
Do they ever want to see that go away?
1195
00:59:00,537 --> 00:59:03,373
We've got a $35 billion
statin drug industry.
1196
00:59:03,456 --> 00:59:05,250
Do they ever want
to see that go away?
1197
00:59:05,333 --> 00:59:06,709
I'm talking about the
pharmaceutical industry
1198
00:59:06,793 --> 00:59:09,671
effectively controls
what doctors are told.
1199
00:59:09,754 --> 00:59:12,048
Most research isn't
put into prevention.
1200
00:59:12,131 --> 00:59:15,093
It's put into the medication
that we might use
1201
00:59:15,176 --> 00:59:17,178
for that particular disease.
1202
00:59:17,262 --> 00:59:20,848
I'm on two different
high blood pressure medicines.
1203
00:59:20,932 --> 00:59:23,393
Six asthma type medicines.
1204
00:59:23,476 --> 00:59:26,729
Even after
four years of shots.
1205
00:59:26,813 --> 00:59:28,773
And another medicine
to help take care
1206
00:59:28,856 --> 00:59:31,609
of side effects from some
of those medicines.
1207
00:59:31,693 --> 00:59:35,363
I'm on high level
anti-depressants.
1208
00:59:35,446 --> 00:59:39,200
A couple of different pain meds
for my back and hips.
1209
00:59:39,284 --> 00:59:41,828
I'm taking about 16 drugs.
1210
00:59:41,911 --> 00:59:44,330
Not counting the insulin
in the morning.
1211
00:59:44,414 --> 00:59:49,711
I take insulin in the morning,
insulin at night, 32-34 units,
1212
00:59:50,336 --> 00:59:51,879
of insulin.
1213
00:59:51,963 --> 00:59:53,881
Lantis to be exact.
1214
00:59:53,965 --> 00:59:57,135
Some of these meds
are for diabetes.
1215
00:59:57,218 --> 00:59:58,678
This is for peeing.
1216
00:59:58,761 --> 01:00:01,222
I have to use this
for my prostrate.
1217
01:00:01,306 --> 01:00:03,683
And then I have to
use this for the heart.
1218
01:00:03,766 --> 01:00:06,561
And I have to use this
for blood pressure.
1219
01:00:06,644 --> 01:00:10,523
And it's just on
and on and on.
1220
01:00:10,607 --> 01:00:13,401
The doctors are telling me
this is what I gotta do for my whole life.
1221
01:00:13,484 --> 01:00:17,405
And it's frustrating
and it's very stressful.
1222
01:00:17,488 --> 01:00:20,825
And I don't know how long my liver is
gonna last taking all this stuff.
1223
01:00:20,908 --> 01:00:24,120
Under conventional medical treatment,
whether it be for autoimmune disease
1224
01:00:24,203 --> 01:00:27,498
or even conditions like high
blood pressure or, diabetes,
1225
01:00:27,582 --> 01:00:30,084
you're told that
you have to take drugs.
1226
01:00:30,168 --> 01:00:32,670
And not just for a week
or a month or, a year,
1227
01:00:32,754 --> 01:00:35,465
you're told you have
to take drugs forever.
1228
01:00:35,548 --> 01:00:38,718
You're guaranteed that if you
follow your doctor's advice,
1229
01:00:38,801 --> 01:00:40,136
you'll be sick forever.
1230
01:00:40,219 --> 01:00:42,096
You'll never get well.
1231
01:00:42,180 --> 01:00:43,806
That's the guarantee.
1232
01:00:43,890 --> 01:00:47,852
Because the strategies
are all about manipulating the symptoms,
1233
01:00:47,935 --> 01:00:49,729
not dealing with
the underlying cause.
1234
01:00:49,812 --> 01:00:52,231
You come in with that diagnosis,
you get a bunch of pills
1235
01:00:52,315 --> 01:00:54,567
that have nothing to do
with the disease causation.
1236
01:00:54,651 --> 01:00:58,613
Or you get these procedures that have
nothing to do with disease causation.
1237
01:00:58,696 --> 01:01:00,782
It's a deception to say
"This pill will help you
1238
01:01:00,865 --> 01:01:04,702
unclog your arteries, this one will save
you from a stroke," no, it doesn't.
1239
01:01:04,786 --> 01:01:06,537
The people who take
the statins, et cetera,
1240
01:01:06,621 --> 01:01:09,290
they still get their heart attacks,
they still get their strokes.
1241
01:01:09,374 --> 01:01:12,627
This does not reverse disease.
This does not make plaque smaller.
1242
01:01:12,710 --> 01:01:15,588
This is a front
of massive proportions.
1243
01:01:15,672 --> 01:01:19,509
In the US, treating chronic disease,
such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes
1244
01:01:19,592 --> 01:01:23,179
is a $1.5 trillion industry.
1245
01:01:23,262 --> 01:01:27,892
That's the GDP equivalent
of the 10th richest country in the world.
1246
01:01:27,975 --> 01:01:31,062
I went back and dug deeper into the
health organizations' funding,
1247
01:01:31,145 --> 01:01:32,939
and there it was again.
1248
01:01:33,022 --> 01:01:35,400
These organizations were
accepting millions of dollars
1249
01:01:35,483 --> 01:01:38,653
from pharmaceutical companies that are
making billions of dollars
1250
01:01:38,736 --> 01:01:43,116
from the very same diseases these health
groups are supposedly trying to end.
1251
01:01:43,199 --> 01:01:45,368
It seemed like a major
conflict of interest,
1252
01:01:45,451 --> 01:01:48,496
unless ending these diseases
isn't really the goal.
1253
01:01:48,579 --> 01:01:50,456
The pharmaceutical
industry spends more money
1254
01:01:50,540 --> 01:01:52,917
on lobbying than any
other single industry.
1255
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:54,335
Just like animal agriculture,
1256
01:01:54,419 --> 01:01:56,045
they are so powerful,
they write their own laws
1257
01:01:56,129 --> 01:01:59,173
that have had activists
imprisoned to silence them.
1258
01:01:59,257 --> 01:02:01,843
The government's in bed with anyone that
gives them the most money,
1259
01:02:01,926 --> 01:02:05,763
which is the pharmaceutical industry,
which is the animal ag industries,
1260
01:02:05,847 --> 01:02:07,682
they are pumping the
government full of money
1261
01:02:07,765 --> 01:02:10,476
and resources, and in return, the
government's giving them want they want.
1262
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:14,063
Subsidies, imprisoning
activists that go against them,
1263
01:02:14,147 --> 01:02:16,482
and I think it's quite
telling that these industries
1264
01:02:16,566 --> 01:02:19,902
are working so hard
and spending so much money
1265
01:02:19,986 --> 01:02:22,780
to criminalize people for
simply taking a picture,
1266
01:02:22,864 --> 01:02:25,658
for simply recording
what's going on inside these facilities
1267
01:02:25,742 --> 01:02:27,785
and making it
known to the public.
1268
01:02:27,869 --> 01:02:30,121
They're behind walls,
they're underground.
1269
01:02:30,204 --> 01:02:33,082
They're in these secret
facilities that no one knows about,
1270
01:02:33,166 --> 01:02:35,376
but if they did, they would
be shocked and outraged.
1271
01:02:35,460 --> 01:02:38,463
And I think people would
not want to think that their
1272
01:02:38,546 --> 01:02:41,215
pharmaceuticals, that their food
are coming from these places.
1273
01:02:41,299 --> 01:02:44,552
And that's why I think it's
such, the ag-gag laws are what they are
1274
01:02:44,635 --> 01:02:47,930
is because they are trying to silence
people into not speaking out
1275
01:02:48,014 --> 01:02:49,474
and not showing the truth.
1276
01:02:49,557 --> 01:02:51,851
I finally realized
how deep the collusion
1277
01:02:51,934 --> 01:02:54,187
truly is between government
and these industries.
1278
01:02:54,270 --> 01:02:56,439
And how dangerous
it could be to expose them.
1279
01:02:56,522 --> 01:02:59,817
These concerns intensified
after meeting the USDA whistleblower
1280
01:02:59,901 --> 01:03:02,570
who revealed mad cow disease
in the US meat supply.
1281
01:03:02,653 --> 01:03:04,739
USDA operates
like the military.
1282
01:03:04,822 --> 01:03:06,657
So, when I got on TV
and that right away,
1283
01:03:06,741 --> 01:03:10,203
USDA sent out memos to
all the veterinarians and food inspectors,
1284
01:03:10,286 --> 01:03:14,290
"If anybody from the media
ever contacts you, do not talk to them.
1285
01:03:14,373 --> 01:03:17,877
Refer 'em to Washington DC,
and we will talk to them."
1286
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:19,962
So, right away,
it shut up everybody.
1287
01:03:20,046 --> 01:03:22,965
American public should be
very concerned about this.
1288
01:03:23,049 --> 01:03:24,967
What's going on with USDA?
1289
01:03:25,051 --> 01:03:26,511
Here in the United States,
1290
01:03:26,594 --> 01:03:29,889
we have at least four
cases of mad cow disease,
1291
01:03:29,972 --> 01:03:31,933
but, I'm almost positive
there's more cases than that,
1292
01:03:32,016 --> 01:03:33,518
but, the government isn't
looking for it.
1293
01:03:33,601 --> 01:03:35,019
So, what you're saying
is that there could be
1294
01:03:35,102 --> 01:03:37,271
already mad cow's disease
in humans.
1295
01:03:37,355 --> 01:03:39,690
Right, and I think a lot
of it was misdiagnosed.
1296
01:03:39,774 --> 01:03:41,692
With the Alzheimer's
or dementia,
1297
01:03:41,776 --> 01:03:44,070
it takes several years
you see the progression,
1298
01:03:44,153 --> 01:03:46,405
but, to make it easier, these
doctors just sign off on it
1299
01:03:46,489 --> 01:03:48,157
as dementia or, Alzheimer's
1300
01:03:48,241 --> 01:03:50,159
without actually taking
a biopsy of the brain
1301
01:03:50,243 --> 01:03:53,621
to see if it's that or is it
actually a prion disease
1302
01:03:53,704 --> 01:03:56,624
like Creutzfeldt-Jacob
disease or, mad cow disease.
1303
01:03:56,707 --> 01:03:59,126
Do you think
it's safe to eat meat?
1304
01:03:59,210 --> 01:04:01,587
I personally don't
think it's safe to eat it
1305
01:04:01,671 --> 01:04:04,799
because of the fact how the
line speeds are increasing
1306
01:04:04,882 --> 01:04:07,760
and also our inspectors are
not well trained enough.
1307
01:04:07,844 --> 01:04:11,889
At the present time, the line
speed now is going about 220 cows an hour.
1308
01:04:11,973 --> 01:04:15,309
That gives you about,
somewheres around four cows per minute.
1309
01:04:15,393 --> 01:04:18,271
So, that's 15 seconds per cow.
1310
01:04:18,354 --> 01:04:19,564
These dangerous
slaughter speeds
1311
01:04:19,647 --> 01:04:22,441
means that animal waste
ends up everywhere.
1312
01:04:22,525 --> 01:04:26,779
Testing shows 88% of pork chops
are contaminated with fecal bacteria.
1313
01:04:26,863 --> 01:04:30,157
90% of ground beef and 95%
of chicken breast sample
1314
01:04:30,241 --> 01:04:32,535
contained
animal waste bacteria.
1315
01:04:32,618 --> 01:04:35,580
There is nothing clean
about eating this way.
1316
01:04:35,663 --> 01:04:39,417
But, it just isn't waste,
it's also pus-filled infections.
1317
01:04:39,500 --> 01:04:40,710
You could see there's a bump
1318
01:04:40,793 --> 01:04:44,088
or some kind of abscess
underneath the hide.
1319
01:04:44,171 --> 01:04:46,465
Most of the time when
the hide's pulled off,
1320
01:04:46,549 --> 01:04:51,220
either that will open up the
abscess and the the pus will come out,
1321
01:04:51,304 --> 01:04:54,223
or if it's deep-seated,
when the inspectors are doing their work
1322
01:04:54,307 --> 01:04:56,642
or the company employees,
they might stick their knife
1323
01:04:56,726 --> 01:05:00,938
into an abscess, and it
explodes all over the place.
1324
01:05:01,022 --> 01:05:04,358
I had heard enough.
I was utterly disgusted by the corruption,
1325
01:05:04,442 --> 01:05:07,987
the greed, the disease
and the abuse I was learning about.
1326
01:05:08,070 --> 01:05:11,699
The very animals we were killing
were killing us and the planet.
1327
01:05:11,782 --> 01:05:15,369
But, so many people eat meat
and dairy every day of their lives.
1328
01:05:15,453 --> 01:05:17,955
And we are so concerned
about getting enough protein.
1329
01:05:18,039 --> 01:05:20,833
Do we have to eat meat
to get complete protein?
1330
01:05:20,917 --> 01:05:23,085
Oh, my God, oh my God.
1331
01:05:23,169 --> 01:05:25,630
You want me to jump off this
building, don't you now?
1332
01:05:25,713 --> 01:05:30,343
Well first of all,
all protein is made by plants.
1333
01:05:30,426 --> 01:05:32,178
I'll state that again
for the record.
1334
01:05:32,261 --> 01:05:35,890
All protein is initially
made by plants, all of it.
1335
01:05:35,973 --> 01:05:39,435
And it is not necessary
to eat animal tissue
1336
01:05:39,518 --> 01:05:41,228
in order to get protein.
1337
01:05:41,312 --> 01:05:46,150
Only plants have the ability
to actually take nitrogen from the air,
1338
01:05:46,233 --> 01:05:48,110
break those molecules apart
1339
01:05:48,194 --> 01:05:52,031
and incorporate that nitrogen
into amino acids and then make protein.
1340
01:05:52,114 --> 01:05:55,910
Any protein you get from an animal is s
imply recycled plant protein.
1341
01:05:55,993 --> 01:05:59,205
If you ate a diet that
was calorically adequate
1342
01:05:59,288 --> 01:06:02,249
and even things like brown rice
and broccoli and you got enough of it,
1343
01:06:02,333 --> 01:06:04,961
you'd get enough,
both quantity and quality of protein.
1344
01:06:05,044 --> 01:06:06,712
2,000 calories of
brown rice and broccoli
1345
01:06:06,796 --> 01:06:09,048
is gonna be about 80
grams of protein a day,
1346
01:06:09,131 --> 01:06:11,801
including the essential
amino acids that you need
1347
01:06:11,884 --> 01:06:13,386
in order to maintain
optimum health.
1348
01:06:13,469 --> 01:06:17,890
Grains are loaded with protein.
Beans are loaded with protein.
1349
01:06:17,974 --> 01:06:19,767
Vegetables are loaded
with protein.
1350
01:06:19,850 --> 01:06:22,979
You really want to get
your protein from plants
1351
01:06:23,062 --> 01:06:27,858
because plant proteins have a much more
beneficial effect on our physiology.
1352
01:06:27,942 --> 01:06:29,318
The funny thing
about protein is
1353
01:06:29,402 --> 01:06:32,321
most Americans get about
twice the amount they need.
1354
01:06:32,405 --> 01:06:35,616
Most Americans get less than half the
amount of fiber they need.
1355
01:06:35,700 --> 01:06:38,119
But, the conversation tends
to always be about protein,
1356
01:06:38,202 --> 01:06:41,080
so in my mind, it's just this
magical marketing campaign
1357
01:06:41,163 --> 01:06:43,374
that protein has taken
on over the decades.
1358
01:06:43,457 --> 01:06:45,292
The question is not
where do you get your protein,
1359
01:06:45,376 --> 01:06:47,003
it's where do you
get your fiber?
1360
01:06:47,086 --> 01:06:50,423
I have never in my professional career
seen a protein deficiency.
1361
01:06:50,506 --> 01:06:53,759
I have never seen someone
come in eating normal amounts of calories
1362
01:06:53,843 --> 01:06:56,262
and they're protein deficient.
You just don't see that.
1363
01:06:56,345 --> 01:07:00,224
So, human milk has the
lowest protein content ever
1364
01:07:00,307 --> 01:07:02,268
in any species ever tested.
1365
01:07:02,351 --> 01:07:06,772
That's the fluid that's been designed by
evolution over millions of years.
1366
01:07:06,856 --> 01:07:10,776
And that's just
like the perfect food for human babies.
1367
01:07:10,860 --> 01:07:13,529
Perfect food,
lowest protein content,
1368
01:07:13,612 --> 01:07:16,949
any other mammal, and so gives a sense of
kinda protein requirements--
1369
01:07:17,033 --> 01:07:19,452
- It's lower than--
- Anything, so look--
1370
01:07:19,535 --> 01:07:22,955
- Lower protein than even--
- Than rat milk, ape milk.
1371
01:07:23,039 --> 01:07:24,081
Really?
1372
01:07:24,165 --> 01:07:25,750
Donkey milk,
any milk that's ever been tested.
1373
01:07:25,833 --> 01:07:29,211
And you hear this a lot in body builders
who are like, "Well, I need, you know,
1374
01:07:29,295 --> 01:07:32,882
chicken, or, I need fish to be strong,
to build muscle tissue."
1375
01:07:33,758 --> 01:07:35,259
That is utter nonsense.
1376
01:07:35,342 --> 01:07:38,387
The largest, strongest
terrestrial animals on the planet
1377
01:07:38,471 --> 01:07:40,264
are all herbivores.
1378
01:07:40,347 --> 01:07:43,142
The biggest, strongest
animals are all herbivores.
1379
01:07:43,225 --> 01:07:45,644
When we bring in people
and they're on meaty diets
1380
01:07:45,728 --> 01:07:47,271
and we transition them
to a plant-based diet,
1381
01:07:47,354 --> 01:07:48,939
we always track
what they're eating.
1382
01:07:49,023 --> 01:07:51,108
Their vitamin intake goes up.
1383
01:07:51,192 --> 01:07:54,153
Their nutrition overall goes
up, dramatically better.
1384
01:07:54,236 --> 01:07:57,073
And these same people
might worry in advance,
1385
01:07:57,156 --> 01:07:59,200
"Will I get the nutrition
that I need on a plant-based diet?"
1386
01:07:59,283 --> 01:08:01,410
The fact is,
you're not getting the nutrition you need
1387
01:08:01,494 --> 01:08:03,329
on a meat-based diet,
1388
01:08:03,412 --> 01:08:05,956
and you're gonna get dramatically better
nutrition on a plant-based diet.
1389
01:08:06,040 --> 01:08:11,295
For an average-sized guy like myself,
I need about 56 grams of protein a day.
1390
01:08:11,378 --> 01:08:14,757
That's optimum, probably I really need 3
0 to 40 grams a day.
1391
01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:16,592
Diets that are really
high in these protein
1392
01:08:16,675 --> 01:08:20,054
create diabetes,
create heart disease, create cancer,
1393
01:08:20,137 --> 01:08:23,099
create the diseases
that I'm treating on a daily basis.
1394
01:08:23,182 --> 01:08:26,435
But, this is the opposite of what
all the high-protein diet fads say.
1395
01:08:26,519 --> 01:08:30,064
The food you eat determines the bacteria
that live in your gut.
1396
01:08:30,147 --> 01:08:32,066
While you eat animal flesh
every day,
1397
01:08:32,149 --> 01:08:36,278
you are summoning up
bacteria that eat carnitine.
1398
01:08:36,362 --> 01:08:39,198
And those bacteria will
turn that carnitine
1399
01:08:39,281 --> 01:08:41,951
into a molecule
called trimethylamine.
1400
01:08:42,034 --> 01:08:45,454
Your liver then turns that
into trimethylamine oxide.
1401
01:08:45,538 --> 01:08:47,039
That's a molecule from hell.
1402
01:08:47,123 --> 01:08:50,209
That molecule
drives cholesterol into the artery walls.
1403
01:08:50,292 --> 01:08:53,045
And the people who will
consume this flesh-based diet
1404
01:08:53,129 --> 01:08:55,297
are contributing
to plaque building up,
1405
01:08:55,381 --> 01:08:58,092
they may lose weight on
this diet and that's good,
1406
01:08:58,175 --> 01:09:01,345
but, what's happening inside
your arteries, Paleo friends?
1407
01:09:01,428 --> 01:09:03,472
What's happening is that
plaque is building up,
1408
01:09:03,556 --> 01:09:06,225
and these are the folks who
drop dead at the gym at 39.
1409
01:09:06,308 --> 01:09:08,644
"Boy, he was lean
and he looked really good,"
1410
01:09:08,727 --> 01:09:12,565
but, where is that cholesterol
going? It's going into your artery walls.
1411
01:09:12,648 --> 01:09:16,902
So, I believe these Paleo folks are
setting themselves up for an epidemic
1412
01:09:16,986 --> 01:09:21,490
of clogged arteries,
colon cancers, autoimmune diseases.
1413
01:09:21,574 --> 01:09:24,910
This is not a healthy diet.
We are not carnivorous apes.
1414
01:09:24,994 --> 01:09:27,246
Humans' closest
living relatives are chimps
1415
01:09:27,329 --> 01:09:29,790
who get 97% of their calories
from plants
1416
01:09:29,874 --> 01:09:32,418
and the remaining three percent
mostly from insects.
1417
01:09:32,501 --> 01:09:34,670
Comparing the anatomy of
true omnivores like bears
1418
01:09:34,753 --> 01:09:37,590
who eat both meat and plants
to frugivores like primates
1419
01:09:37,673 --> 01:09:41,218
who eat almost exclusively
plants, the differences are pretty clear.
1420
01:09:41,302 --> 01:09:43,596
Frugivore teeth have flat
molars for chewing plants,
1421
01:09:43,679 --> 01:09:47,016
where omnivore teeth are serrated for
stabbing and tearing flesh.
1422
01:09:47,099 --> 01:09:50,144
Frugivore jaws can
move forward and back and side to side,
1423
01:09:50,227 --> 01:09:52,396
omnivore jaws cannot.
1424
01:09:52,479 --> 01:09:55,691
Omnivores have much stronger stomach acid
for digesting meat compared to less acidic
1425
01:09:55,774 --> 01:09:57,651
stomach acid of frugivores.
1426
01:09:57,735 --> 01:09:59,403
The intestines of frugivores
is nine times
1427
01:09:59,486 --> 01:10:02,323
their body length compared
to three times for omnivores.
1428
01:10:02,406 --> 01:10:04,158
This is because meat
will putrefy in the gut
1429
01:10:04,241 --> 01:10:06,035
unless it is
moved through quickly.
1430
01:10:06,118 --> 01:10:07,995
If humans were
indeed true omnivores,
1431
01:10:08,078 --> 01:10:11,665
we would need to change
our physiology and appearance quite a lot.
1432
01:10:11,749 --> 01:10:14,543
But, we fit every
requirement of a frugivore.
1433
01:10:14,627 --> 01:10:18,380
We may behave like omnivores,
but, anatomically, we're frugivores.
1434
01:10:18,464 --> 01:10:22,468
Human beings, unlike bears and raccoons
and to some extent, dogs,
1435
01:10:22,551 --> 01:10:26,055
don't have that mixed
anatomy and physiology
1436
01:10:26,138 --> 01:10:30,017
that you see in the true omnivores,
and thus, we are not true omnivores.
1437
01:10:30,100 --> 01:10:33,854
In humans, the canines
have become really small
1438
01:10:33,938 --> 01:10:37,942
and rounded and actually function
like accessory incisors.
1439
01:10:38,025 --> 01:10:40,194
They're utterly useless
for ripping and tearing
1440
01:10:40,277 --> 01:10:41,904
anything other than
an envelope.
1441
01:10:41,987 --> 01:10:45,658
So, the idea that the mere
presence of the canine
1442
01:10:45,741 --> 01:10:48,577
somehow means
that we're supposed to eat meat is silly.
1443
01:10:48,661 --> 01:10:49,870
He was right.
1444
01:10:49,954 --> 01:10:51,372
I always thought my canines
were for meat,
1445
01:10:51,455 --> 01:10:53,624
but, what kind of animal could
actually kill and eat raw
1446
01:10:53,707 --> 01:10:55,417
with these tiny teeth?
1447
01:10:55,501 --> 01:10:57,461
The thought alone
was disgusting.
1448
01:10:57,544 --> 01:11:00,005
I mean, everybody loves
a smoothie made with fruit
1449
01:11:00,089 --> 01:11:01,924
and even some vegetables.
1450
01:11:02,007 --> 01:11:06,262
But, if you think about putting a fish or
a piece of beef in a blender
1451
01:11:06,345 --> 01:11:10,933
and grinding it up,
the thought is absolutely repulsive.
1452
01:11:11,016 --> 01:11:12,476
All these diseases
I had learned about
1453
01:11:12,559 --> 01:11:15,187
were from eating a diet our
body wasn't designed for.
1454
01:11:15,271 --> 01:11:16,855
What would happen if we
started eating a diet
1455
01:11:16,939 --> 01:11:19,149
our body actually was
designed for?
1456
01:11:19,233 --> 01:11:23,320
The data is crystal clear, that you can
stop and reverse heart disease
1457
01:11:23,404 --> 01:11:25,030
with plant-based diets,
1458
01:11:25,114 --> 01:11:27,825
scientifically shown,
I've seen it in my own patients.
1459
01:11:27,908 --> 01:11:30,202
People who adopt low
fat plant-based diets
1460
01:11:30,286 --> 01:11:32,579
can actually reverse
their heart disease,
1461
01:11:32,663 --> 01:11:34,873
and that literally means
watching the plaque
1462
01:11:34,957 --> 01:11:37,543
start to go away,
something they didn't think could happen.
1463
01:11:37,626 --> 01:11:38,877
My experience
with patients is,
1464
01:11:38,961 --> 01:11:40,838
and the studies show,
that when people adopt
1465
01:11:40,921 --> 01:11:43,007
a fully plant-based diet,
their cholesterol levels
1466
01:11:43,090 --> 01:11:44,591
plummet within a few days.
1467
01:11:44,675 --> 01:11:46,218
And if you do blood test
in a couple of weeks,
1468
01:11:46,302 --> 01:11:48,137
you'll see dramatic
improvements.
1469
01:11:48,220 --> 01:11:50,014
Yes, your numbers
are gonna look great
1470
01:11:50,097 --> 01:11:53,017
within a week or, two, your cholesterol
can come crashing down, in fact,
1471
01:11:53,100 --> 01:11:55,102
if you're on medications,
your doctor may have to
1472
01:11:55,185 --> 01:11:58,355
pull off your blood pressure medications
so your blood pressure don't drop too low.
1473
01:11:58,439 --> 01:11:59,732
Because it can work too good,
1474
01:11:59,815 --> 01:12:02,860
like the side effect is
not having to take drugs.
1475
01:12:02,943 --> 01:12:04,445
In a groundbreaking
study published by
1476
01:12:04,528 --> 01:12:06,905
Dr. Esselstyn, following
patients suffering from
1477
01:12:06,989 --> 01:12:11,410
cardiovascular disease,
99.4% were able to avoid
1478
01:12:11,493 --> 01:12:14,079
major cardiac events
by going plant-based.
1479
01:12:14,163 --> 01:12:17,750
Because it's not just heart
disease. It's hypertension, it's diabetes,
1480
01:12:17,833 --> 01:12:20,210
it's strokes,
it's heart attacks,
1481
01:12:20,294 --> 01:12:22,129
it's several of
the autoimmune diseases,
1482
01:12:22,212 --> 01:12:26,091
lupus, asthma,
GERD, osteoporosis,
1483
01:12:26,175 --> 01:12:28,927
I mean, there's
a multitude of diseases.
1484
01:12:29,011 --> 01:12:31,972
Even rheumatoid arthritis,
it can be so dramatic
1485
01:12:32,056 --> 01:12:33,682
when you see these poor souls
1486
01:12:33,766 --> 01:12:36,185
just absolutely crippled
with rheumatoid arthritis
1487
01:12:36,268 --> 01:12:39,980
go plant-based, then they
come off their medication.
1488
01:12:40,064 --> 01:12:41,899
I wanted to follow
up with Jane Chapman
1489
01:12:41,982 --> 01:12:44,443
who had been suffering
from severe osteoarthritis,
1490
01:12:44,526 --> 01:12:46,528
and I could not believe
what I saw
1491
01:12:46,612 --> 01:12:50,074
after only a few weeks
of fasting and changing her diet.
1492
01:12:50,157 --> 01:12:53,410
So, it's so amazing to see you like this
only a few weeks later.
1493
01:12:53,494 --> 01:12:55,120
I know!
1494
01:12:55,204 --> 01:12:57,081
From going from the walker,
1495
01:12:57,164 --> 01:13:00,209
needing wheelchair
assistance at the airport
1496
01:13:00,292 --> 01:13:06,757
to strolling down the street,
enjoying the fresh air, the sunshine.
1497
01:13:06,840 --> 01:13:10,969
Two weeks, it's all it took,
two weeks to get off all the meds
1498
01:13:11,053 --> 01:13:14,139
and start to
feel the inflammation
1499
01:13:14,223 --> 01:13:16,642
just kind of
drain out of the body
1500
01:13:16,725 --> 01:13:19,812
where the movement
was much easier.
1501
01:13:19,895 --> 01:13:23,565
Just a lot of healing
occurred very rapidly
1502
01:13:23,649 --> 01:13:26,026
just by doing the right
things for your body.
1503
01:13:26,110 --> 01:13:29,196
When you're treating
diseases with drugs,
1504
01:13:29,279 --> 01:13:31,198
you know there's one drug
you take for cholesterol,
1505
01:13:31,281 --> 01:13:33,867
a different class of drugs you
take for high blood pressure,
1506
01:13:33,951 --> 01:13:36,412
different class of drugs
you take for diabetes,
1507
01:13:36,495 --> 01:13:39,957
but, with diet, a plant-based diet
affects all these diseases.
1508
01:13:40,040 --> 01:13:42,209
One diet to kinda
rule them all.
1509
01:13:42,292 --> 01:13:45,045
The impacts of eating this way go
far beyond ourselves.
1510
01:13:45,129 --> 01:13:46,839
By getting rid of heart
disease alone,
1511
01:13:46,922 --> 01:13:49,967
we would save up to $48
trillion in the USA,
1512
01:13:50,050 --> 01:13:52,511
three times the US GDP.
1513
01:13:52,594 --> 01:13:54,471
Conditions like
high blood pressure,
1514
01:13:54,555 --> 01:13:57,724
you don't have to take the drugs
the rest of your life and be sick forever.
1515
01:13:57,808 --> 01:13:59,435
What you can do
is live in such a way
1516
01:13:59,518 --> 01:14:01,728
that it gives the body
a chance to heal itself.
1517
01:14:01,812 --> 01:14:05,274
We took 174 consecutive patients
with high blood pressure.
1518
01:14:05,357 --> 01:14:08,152
And 174 people
were able to lower their blood pressure
1519
01:14:08,235 --> 01:14:10,404
enough to eliminate
the need for medication.
1520
01:14:10,487 --> 01:14:13,031
For inflammatory bowel
disease like Crohn's,
1521
01:14:13,115 --> 01:14:16,577
the best remission rates
ever achieved through plant-based diet.
1522
01:14:16,660 --> 01:14:20,456
MS, multiple sclerosis,
the best results ever achieved
1523
01:14:20,539 --> 01:14:22,207
compared to
any medical, surgical,
1524
01:14:22,291 --> 01:14:24,668
any kind of intervention
was a plant-based diet.
1525
01:14:24,751 --> 01:14:27,379
You can see that with
every sequential reduction
1526
01:14:27,463 --> 01:14:29,673
in animal products,
people live longer,
1527
01:14:29,756 --> 01:14:33,135
they have less heart disease, they have
less cancer, they have less diabetes.
1528
01:14:33,218 --> 01:14:35,888
You can actually take human
cancer cells, put them in a petri dish,
1529
01:14:35,971 --> 01:14:38,265
and you can drip the blood
of those eating vegan,
1530
01:14:38,348 --> 01:14:41,560
get about 72% suppression in
1531
01:14:41,643 --> 01:14:43,812
human prostate cancer
cell growth in vitro,
1532
01:14:43,896 --> 01:14:46,773
they wanted to try this again
with women and breast cancer,
1533
01:14:46,857 --> 01:14:48,400
so they said, "Let's see what
a plant-based diet can do."
1534
01:14:48,484 --> 01:14:51,195
After just two weeks,
their bodies cleaned up.
1535
01:14:51,278 --> 01:14:53,363
You dropped their blood
on the same carpet
1536
01:14:53,447 --> 01:14:56,408
of cancer cells, you can
clear off the whole plate.
1537
01:14:56,492 --> 01:14:59,578
This is just after just two weeks
eating healthy, which raises the question,
1538
01:14:59,661 --> 01:15:01,330
what kind of blood do
we want in our bodies?
1539
01:15:01,413 --> 01:15:04,875
My background
is in industrial and systems engineering.
1540
01:15:04,958 --> 01:15:09,379
And that was my career
path for a long time until
1541
01:15:09,463 --> 01:15:11,381
I got thyroid cancer,
1542
01:15:11,465 --> 01:15:14,510
and everything
changed from there.
1543
01:15:14,593 --> 01:15:20,182
I decided that I wanted
to try alternative methods and treatments
1544
01:15:20,265 --> 01:15:23,685
rather than have surgery
and have my thyroid removed,
1545
01:15:23,769 --> 01:15:26,313
which meant I'd be on medication forever,
and I didn't want that.
1546
01:15:26,396 --> 01:15:29,441
I just started reading
on how a plant-based diet
1547
01:15:29,525 --> 01:15:32,986
can heal the body and it has
worked for so many people.
1548
01:15:33,070 --> 01:15:38,575
So, I immediately just switched to a
completely whole food plant-based diet.
1549
01:15:38,659 --> 01:15:42,246
After a year, the cancer
was completely gone.
1550
01:15:42,329 --> 01:15:45,165
And my thyroid had
shrunk to normal size.
1551
01:15:45,249 --> 01:15:47,793
And I was completely
free of that.
1552
01:15:47,876 --> 01:15:49,711
This was tough to believe.
1553
01:15:49,795 --> 01:15:52,256
Couldn't this all just be from
eating healthier, though, like no sugar?
1554
01:15:52,339 --> 01:15:55,133
Turns out Dr. Walter Kempner
from Duke University
1555
01:15:55,217 --> 01:15:57,970
back in the 1940s was
reversing some of our
1556
01:15:58,053 --> 01:16:00,264
worst killer diseases
with diet alone.
1557
01:16:00,347 --> 01:16:03,308
And the diet he was using
was not only strictly plant-based
1558
01:16:03,392 --> 01:16:07,229
but, it was made up
of white rice, fruit and table sugar.
1559
01:16:07,312 --> 01:16:11,441
And he was reversing diabetes,
he was reversing malignant hypertension,
1560
01:16:11,525 --> 01:16:14,653
reversing heart disease,
the diabetic complications,
1561
01:16:14,736 --> 01:16:16,822
reversing diabetic blindness.
1562
01:16:16,905 --> 01:16:20,242
So, these people basically
had death sentences, went to him,
1563
01:16:20,325 --> 01:16:22,119
and were given
basically sugar.
1564
01:16:22,202 --> 01:16:27,040
You know, this horrible diet,
but, it was strictly plant-based.
1565
01:16:27,124 --> 01:16:29,835
If this information had
been around since the 1940s,
1566
01:16:29,918 --> 01:16:31,670
why don't
all doctors know this?
1567
01:16:31,753 --> 01:16:35,215
We're not taught
about the power of food in medical school.
1568
01:16:35,299 --> 01:16:37,426
No one is taught that
1569
01:16:37,509 --> 01:16:40,178
the changes that
we make with our diet
1570
01:16:40,262 --> 01:16:42,889
are probably the single most
powerful thing we can do
1571
01:16:42,973 --> 01:16:44,308
to determine our destiny.
1572
01:16:44,391 --> 01:16:45,976
It trumps our genetics.
1573
01:16:46,059 --> 01:16:47,728
Why isn't your doctor
telling this?
1574
01:16:47,811 --> 01:16:50,105
Odds are your doctor
never learned any of this.
1575
01:16:50,188 --> 01:16:53,775
In fact, there's even a bill introduced
just mandating physicians get seven hours
1576
01:16:53,859 --> 01:16:57,738
nutrition training every couple of years,
just to kinda stay on top of it.
1577
01:16:57,821 --> 01:17:00,324
And who came out
against that?
1578
01:17:00,407 --> 01:17:01,908
The California
Medical Association.
1579
01:17:01,992 --> 01:17:03,952
Even the family physicians,
the surgeons,
1580
01:17:04,036 --> 01:17:07,372
all the mainstream medical
groups came out opposed.
1581
01:17:07,456 --> 01:17:09,333
It's seven hours.
That's a lot.
1582
01:17:09,416 --> 01:17:12,044
Even if it's over
one four-year period.
1583
01:17:12,127 --> 01:17:15,881
So, they're not just kinda neutral, but,
they're actually actively opposing
1584
01:17:15,964 --> 01:17:17,382
nutrition education.
1585
01:17:17,466 --> 01:17:19,509
Ironically, when patients
come to doctors with questions,
1586
01:17:19,593 --> 01:17:22,095
they assume that
the doctor knows something about nutrition
1587
01:17:22,179 --> 01:17:23,639
and so it's kind of
a double whammy
1588
01:17:23,722 --> 01:17:25,849
that doctors haven't been
taught much about nutrition.
1589
01:17:25,932 --> 01:17:27,893
Why don't we hear
about this from dietitians
1590
01:17:27,976 --> 01:17:30,020
when nutrition is their
entire specialty?
1591
01:17:30,103 --> 01:17:32,564
Turns out the American Nutrition and
Dietetics Association
1592
01:17:32,648 --> 01:17:35,984
puts out nutrition fact sheets written by
the industries themselves.
1593
01:17:36,068 --> 01:17:40,572
The industries pay $20,000 per fact sheet
and explicitly take part in writing them.
1594
01:17:40,656 --> 01:17:42,824
So, you can learn about
eggs from the egg industry.
1595
01:17:42,908 --> 01:17:45,285
You can learn about lamb
from the lamb industry.
1596
01:17:45,369 --> 01:17:46,703
This would be like
learning about the benefits
1597
01:17:46,787 --> 01:17:48,914
of smoking from
the tobacco industry.
1598
01:17:48,997 --> 01:17:52,626
When people are eating meat,
I think of it as a bit like smoking.
1599
01:17:52,709 --> 01:17:54,544
It's sort of Russian roulette.
1600
01:17:54,628 --> 01:17:58,090
You may not get diabetes,
but your chances of getting diabetes,
1601
01:17:58,173 --> 01:18:00,050
about one in three.
1602
01:18:00,133 --> 01:18:02,469
You may not get cancer, but, your chances,
if you're a man, about one in two.
1603
01:18:02,552 --> 01:18:03,845
A woman, one in three.
1604
01:18:03,929 --> 01:18:05,931
Your chances of
gaining weight, two out of three.
1605
01:18:06,014 --> 01:18:07,891
It's not all diet,
but, most of it is.
1606
01:18:07,974 --> 01:18:09,976
The best thing that you
can do to make sure that
1607
01:18:10,060 --> 01:18:13,105
you empty all those
bullets out of the chamber
1608
01:18:13,188 --> 01:18:14,940
and not taking a risk
with your health
1609
01:18:15,023 --> 01:18:19,111
is to get the animal products out of
your diet and eat healthy foods.
1610
01:18:19,194 --> 01:18:22,072
I came to TrueNorth
to help me with my asthma
1611
01:18:22,155 --> 01:18:24,241
and to lose a little
weight, and it's amazing
1612
01:18:24,324 --> 01:18:26,868
just in two weeks
of changing my diet,
1613
01:18:26,952 --> 01:18:30,288
don't have to take
any asthma medication,
1614
01:18:30,372 --> 01:18:34,167
no antidepressants,
no pain medication,
1615
01:18:34,251 --> 01:18:36,878
no heart medication, nothing.
1616
01:18:36,962 --> 01:18:38,672
No medications at all.
1617
01:18:38,755 --> 01:18:41,633
And it's really,
it's just incredible.
1618
01:18:41,717 --> 01:18:47,222
I was taking oxy and Advil,
and I was taking 800 milligrams of Motrin
1619
01:18:47,305 --> 01:18:49,683
three times a day
just to get through the day
1620
01:18:49,766 --> 01:18:51,518
because I was
in so much pain.
1621
01:18:51,601 --> 01:18:53,311
-And now, nothing.
-Wow.
1622
01:18:53,395 --> 01:18:54,980
-Nothing at all.
-Two weeks.
1623
01:18:55,063 --> 01:18:57,065
Two weeks, 14 days.
1624
01:18:57,149 --> 01:18:59,234
All that medication,
you're completely off.
1625
01:18:59,317 --> 01:19:00,777
Completely off everything.
1626
01:19:00,861 --> 01:19:03,447
It's just been so
frustrating to me because
1627
01:19:03,530 --> 01:19:06,408
I went to so many
different doctors for help,
1628
01:19:06,491 --> 01:19:11,037
and I tried so many different medications
to help me with my asthma
1629
01:19:11,121 --> 01:19:13,039
and nothing helped, and
I was stuck on the couch
1630
01:19:13,123 --> 01:19:16,752
for the last 10 months
unable to breathe,
1631
01:19:16,835 --> 01:19:21,590
and now in two weeks' time,
14 days,
1632
01:19:21,673 --> 01:19:22,966
I'm off my medication.
1633
01:19:23,049 --> 01:19:26,678
And I can breathe
and I feel good, and I can walk.
1634
01:19:26,762 --> 01:19:28,764
My life has changed
and it only took
1635
01:19:28,847 --> 01:19:32,100
two weeks of whole
plant-based diet.
1636
01:19:32,184 --> 01:19:34,060
-That's incredible.
-Yeah.
1637
01:19:34,895 --> 01:19:36,521
That is incredible.
1638
01:19:36,605 --> 01:19:37,981
It really is.
1639
01:19:38,064 --> 01:19:39,691
-That's amazing.
-It really is.
1640
01:19:39,775 --> 01:19:46,114
I feel so blessed and so good
and just so happy to be doing this
1641
01:19:46,198 --> 01:19:48,366
and I'm hoping that
I can be a role model
1642
01:19:48,450 --> 01:19:52,537
for other people
and not be pushy about it.
1643
01:19:52,621 --> 01:19:55,540
Because everyone's gonna
do it in their own time.
1644
01:19:55,624 --> 01:19:58,043
But, thank God my time is now.
1645
01:20:01,087 --> 01:20:02,297
That's pretty cool.
1646
01:20:02,380 --> 01:20:03,715
Thanks.
1647
01:20:03,799 --> 01:20:06,468
Thanks!
1648
01:20:06,551 --> 01:20:11,223
As powerful as Amy's story was, I
knew for some, eating 100% plant-based
1649
01:20:11,306 --> 01:20:12,933
would still seem extreme.
1650
01:20:13,016 --> 01:20:17,312
I think there's the sense
that everything's okay in moderation.
1651
01:20:17,395 --> 01:20:21,983
Right? But we haven't seen
that moderation works.
1652
01:20:22,067 --> 01:20:26,196
There really isn't a study that shows that
by eating meat and eggs in moderation
1653
01:20:26,279 --> 01:20:29,074
you can actually turn
your heart disease around and get better.
1654
01:20:29,157 --> 01:20:32,369
But, I know people
who have given up meat and they felt sick.
1655
01:20:32,452 --> 01:20:34,788
Yeah, it's unlikely
that anybody's symptoms
1656
01:20:34,871 --> 01:20:37,624
are caused by a dead,
decaying flesh deficiency.
1657
01:20:37,707 --> 01:20:40,502
The lack of highly processed
animal food products
1658
01:20:40,585 --> 01:20:42,462
in the diet is not gonna be
1659
01:20:42,546 --> 01:20:45,131
associated with the causal
factor by why they're sick.
1660
01:20:45,215 --> 01:20:47,092
There is gonna be a reason
why they're not feeling well,
1661
01:20:47,175 --> 01:20:49,010
but, that's not gonna be
one of them.
1662
01:20:49,094 --> 01:20:51,054
So, I've had people go vegan,
and they come back to me and they're like,
1663
01:20:51,137 --> 01:20:54,391
"I'm hypothyroid and my doctor
says I'm hypothyroid because
1664
01:20:54,474 --> 01:20:58,186
a plant-based diet
makes you hypothyroid."
1665
01:20:58,270 --> 01:21:01,982
I'm like, so what does your doctor tell
all his meat eaters that are hypothyroid?
1666
01:21:02,065 --> 01:21:06,111
What's in animal flesh or dairy
that you can't get in plant-based?
1667
01:21:06,194 --> 01:21:07,946
Cholesterol.
1668
01:21:08,029 --> 01:21:10,240
Heterocyclic amines.
1669
01:21:10,323 --> 01:21:12,409
E. coli, you know,
if you think about it,
1670
01:21:12,492 --> 01:21:15,745
there is nothing in an
animal-based diet
1671
01:21:15,829 --> 01:21:18,665
that you can't get
in a healthier form somewhere else.
1672
01:21:18,748 --> 01:21:21,167
The only other vitamin
is vitamin B12.
1673
01:21:21,251 --> 01:21:23,545
It's not made by plants,
not made by animals either,
1674
01:21:23,628 --> 01:21:25,839
made by little microbes
that blanket the Earth.
1675
01:21:25,922 --> 01:21:28,508
So, because of the way we
live in our sanitized world,
1676
01:21:28,592 --> 01:21:31,303
unless you're eating
bacteria-contaminated foods,
1677
01:21:31,386 --> 01:21:33,430
we need to get a source
of B12 from somewhere,
1678
01:21:33,513 --> 01:21:36,391
and so the healthiest,
cheapest, safest source
1679
01:21:36,474 --> 01:21:39,936
is to get a vitamin B12
fortified food or vitamin B12 supplement,
1680
01:21:40,020 --> 01:21:42,188
not to get it
from meat and dairy.
1681
01:21:42,272 --> 01:21:43,565
What about people who say they have
1682
01:21:43,648 --> 01:21:46,192
to eat meat for their blood type or,
their genes?
1683
01:21:46,276 --> 01:21:49,446
It's just like I need
meat because I'm a Capricorn
1684
01:21:49,529 --> 01:21:52,032
or I need meat 'cause I have an A-plus
blood, it's like what do you say?
1685
01:21:52,115 --> 01:21:56,077
No one has to eat meat.
There's no vitamin, mineral, nutrient
1686
01:21:56,161 --> 01:21:59,789
that you can't get from
non-animal sources.
1687
01:21:59,873 --> 01:22:03,084
Valentine's Day,
I decided to go vegan
1688
01:22:03,168 --> 01:22:06,880
and give up all meat, which
was never in my thoughts
1689
01:22:06,963 --> 01:22:08,632
in a while, million years,
1690
01:22:08,715 --> 01:22:12,052
but I've heard so much success
from people that are vegan.
1691
01:22:12,135 --> 01:22:14,804
And so I gave up all
animal product whatsoever,
1692
01:22:14,888 --> 01:22:17,557
I've lost 29 pounds,
1693
01:22:17,641 --> 01:22:20,393
I've been able to
cut my meds in half,
1694
01:22:20,477 --> 01:22:22,687
I've been able
to cut my insulin in half,
1695
01:22:22,771 --> 01:22:25,774
and now I'm going for the moon,
I'm going to go cut it all out.
1696
01:22:25,857 --> 01:22:29,319
In the last six weeks,
we've just had three grandchildren.
1697
01:22:29,402 --> 01:22:31,196
And my ugly face
is going to be around
1698
01:22:31,279 --> 01:22:34,824
to see 'em graduate from high school and
college. I'm gonna be here.
1699
01:22:34,908 --> 01:22:38,662
My mission is to let everybody know
you do not have to suffer
1700
01:22:38,745 --> 01:22:41,289
from diabetes and cancer
and heart disease
1701
01:22:41,373 --> 01:22:43,124
because someone
in your family had it
1702
01:22:43,208 --> 01:22:46,252
or because the doctors are telling you
this is what's gonna happen.
1703
01:22:46,336 --> 01:22:48,380
You can take charge
of your health
1704
01:22:48,463 --> 01:22:51,549
and have a positive
outcome just like I did.
1705
01:22:51,633 --> 01:22:54,594
The reason I'm so
committed to this is
1706
01:22:54,678 --> 01:22:59,391
my grandmother had diabetes,
and I didn't know what I know now
1707
01:22:59,474 --> 01:23:01,393
about healing the body.
1708
01:23:01,476 --> 01:23:03,019
And if I did, I feel like
1709
01:23:03,103 --> 01:23:05,689
she could've lived at
least a few years longer.
1710
01:23:05,772 --> 01:23:07,774
And so it's in her honor
1711
01:23:09,484 --> 01:23:11,069
that I do what I do.
1712
01:23:11,152 --> 01:23:12,988
If I could save someone
else's grandmother,
1713
01:23:13,071 --> 01:23:16,074
aunt, uncle, father from that.
1714
01:23:16,157 --> 01:23:18,076
Yeah, um…
1715
01:23:21,997 --> 01:23:26,042
So, I'm excited about getting
the message out there.
1716
01:23:26,126 --> 01:23:29,170
There's a common belief
that eating plant-based is expensive.
1717
01:23:29,254 --> 01:23:33,633
Not at all.
It can be done in a very inexpensive way
1718
01:23:33,717 --> 01:23:37,804
where you buy foods that are in season
and you shop in the bulk bins
1719
01:23:37,887 --> 01:23:39,889
and that saves a lot of money.
1720
01:23:39,973 --> 01:23:42,892
You can eliminate
a lot of your expenses
1721
01:23:42,976 --> 01:23:46,229
on your grocery bill by
not buying meat and dairy
1722
01:23:46,312 --> 01:23:48,189
because those things
are expensive.
1723
01:23:48,273 --> 01:23:53,611
Our meal plan for our family of four is
$25 per person in the family.
1724
01:23:53,695 --> 01:23:55,572
20.64 is your total.
1725
01:23:55,655 --> 01:23:57,407
20.64? Whoa.
1726
01:23:57,490 --> 01:24:00,201
That's for an
entire week of food.
1727
01:24:00,285 --> 01:24:01,870
An exploding
movement of elite athletes
1728
01:24:01,953 --> 01:24:04,205
are utilizing vegan
diets to heal injuries,
1729
01:24:04,289 --> 01:24:07,208
speed recovery times and
enhance their performance.
1730
01:24:07,292 --> 01:24:12,172
Before I was vegan, I was
only bench pressing 315, like, five times.
1731
01:24:12,255 --> 01:24:15,508
Then, after going vegan,
I was doing 400.
1732
01:24:15,592 --> 01:24:19,012
425, 465, and I was
like, oh my God,
1733
01:24:19,095 --> 01:24:21,306
this is amazing, I'm vegan
and I'm bench pressing
1734
01:24:21,389 --> 01:24:23,975
465 pounds,
this is ridiculous.
1735
01:24:24,059 --> 01:24:26,936
And as soon as I went vegan,
tendinitis started disappearing.
1736
01:24:27,020 --> 01:24:29,064
My strength in my right
arm started coming back.
1737
01:24:29,147 --> 01:24:30,857
High blood pressure
was going down.
1738
01:24:30,940 --> 01:24:35,653
You can't be strong and
be dying on the inside, that's not strong.
1739
01:24:35,737 --> 01:24:37,614
That's weak.
That's really weak.
1740
01:24:37,697 --> 01:24:39,616
Because, yeah, you look big
and strong on the outside,
1741
01:24:39,699 --> 01:24:43,244
yeah, big man, no,
but, your heart's crying for help,
1742
01:24:43,328 --> 01:24:45,413
on the inside you're dying.
1743
01:24:45,497 --> 01:24:48,875
I'm a professional parkour athlete,
a two-time world free running champion,
1744
01:24:48,958 --> 01:24:50,460
and more recently
I got into Ninja Warrior
1745
01:24:50,543 --> 01:24:52,545
where I'm captain of
Team Europe as we won
1746
01:24:52,629 --> 01:24:54,297
USA versus the world.
1747
01:24:54,380 --> 01:24:56,925
For something like Ninja Warrior
and parkour, specifically,
1748
01:24:57,008 --> 01:25:00,095
you really need to have
a good strength to body weight ratio,
1749
01:25:00,178 --> 01:25:01,971
so I was carrying mass
that I really didn't need.
1750
01:25:02,055 --> 01:25:04,349
And when I went vegan,
I lost 15, 20 pounds.
1751
01:25:04,432 --> 01:25:07,477
I was more agile, I was more
efficient and more stamina in my body.
1752
01:25:07,560 --> 01:25:09,354
Just that extra bit of pop
that I didn't have before,
1753
01:25:09,437 --> 01:25:11,231
it just gave me
that extra strength.
1754
01:25:11,314 --> 01:25:13,691
This is a very vibrant way
to live.
1755
01:25:13,775 --> 01:25:16,486
It can enhance you
as an athlete, for me,
1756
01:25:16,569 --> 01:25:18,446
a hundred percent better
athlete than I was before,
1757
01:25:18,530 --> 01:25:20,824
it's unlocked a whole new
chapter of my training.
1758
01:25:20,907 --> 01:25:22,325
The science is there,
the health is there,
1759
01:25:22,408 --> 01:25:24,119
the athletes are there proving
that you don't need to eat
1760
01:25:24,202 --> 01:25:26,412
dead animals to be strong,
to be healthy.
1761
01:25:26,496 --> 01:25:29,290
I started working out
when I was 47 years old.
1762
01:25:29,374 --> 01:25:32,961
All the muscles you see,
I gained as a vegan.
1763
01:25:33,044 --> 01:25:37,549
I gained 15 pounds of muscles on my body,
eating all plant-based and vegan foods.
1764
01:25:37,632 --> 01:25:41,803
All the aches and pains
in my body, it just went away.
1765
01:25:41,886 --> 01:25:44,848
Because I'm not ingesting
so many inflaming foods,
1766
01:25:44,931 --> 01:25:47,225
the acidic foods
that animal products are.
1767
01:25:47,308 --> 01:25:51,312
Gorillas, rhinos and elephants,
they all get their muscles and strength
1768
01:25:51,396 --> 01:25:54,399
from eating plants.
That's what I do.
1769
01:25:54,482 --> 01:25:57,277
I travel all around
the world for my surfing,
1770
01:25:57,360 --> 01:26:00,155
and I've always been
able to eat vegan.
1771
01:26:00,238 --> 01:26:03,575
I feel like if you want something you can
make it happen.
1772
01:26:03,658 --> 01:26:07,370
I just don't make any excuses.
I would never not be vegan now that I know
1773
01:26:07,453 --> 01:26:10,623
all the benefits and now that I know
how it feels to be vegan.
1774
01:26:10,707 --> 01:26:15,170
Every aspect of my life has been
improved by adopting this lifestyle.
1775
01:26:15,253 --> 01:26:17,755
I feel better, I perform
better athletically,
1776
01:26:17,839 --> 01:26:20,758
I sleep better, my energy
with my kids is better,
1777
01:26:20,842 --> 01:26:22,468
my focus at work is better.
1778
01:26:22,552 --> 01:26:24,429
Everything is better,
my skin cleared up.
1779
01:26:24,512 --> 01:26:27,724
I've kept myself trim for
nine years now doing this.
1780
01:26:27,807 --> 01:26:30,560
All I can tell you
is that I felt
1781
01:26:30,643 --> 01:26:34,439
and I continue to feel better
than I ever felt before.
1782
01:26:34,522 --> 01:26:36,649
My friend Jason Lester and
I were the first people
1783
01:26:36,733 --> 01:26:39,694
to do this challenge
called Epic Five,
1784
01:26:39,777 --> 01:26:41,779
which entailed
doing five Ironmans
1785
01:26:41,863 --> 01:26:44,199
on five Hawaiian islands
in under a week.
1786
01:26:44,282 --> 01:26:48,786
An Ironman is a 2.4 mile swim
followed by a 112 mile bike
1787
01:26:48,870 --> 01:26:52,207
and then running a marathon
26.2 miles after that,
1788
01:26:52,290 --> 01:26:53,750
so we did five
of those in a row
1789
01:26:53,833 --> 01:26:57,128
on five different islands
in a little under a week.
1790
01:26:57,212 --> 01:26:58,588
Did you almost die?
1791
01:26:58,671 --> 01:27:00,381
No. We didn't die.
1792
01:27:00,465 --> 01:27:02,675
So, I guess the famous question,
where'd you get your protein, man?
1793
01:27:04,510 --> 01:27:07,013
From plants!
1794
01:27:07,096 --> 01:27:09,057
Like so many people,
I was looking for excuses
1795
01:27:09,140 --> 01:27:10,558
not to change my diet.
1796
01:27:10,642 --> 01:27:13,269
But, once I finally did,
I felt liberated.
1797
01:27:13,353 --> 01:27:14,729
Within days,
I could feel the blood
1798
01:27:14,812 --> 01:27:17,065
running through my veins
with a new vitality.
1799
01:27:17,148 --> 01:27:21,277
Within weeks, I felt a transformation
throughout my entire body and mind.
1800
01:27:21,361 --> 01:27:24,322
Not only could I survive
on a purely plant-based vegan diet,
1801
01:27:24,405 --> 01:27:27,200
I could thrive.
I felt amazing.
1802
01:27:27,283 --> 01:27:29,786
I competed in my first
marathon in six years,
1803
01:27:29,869 --> 01:27:33,539
training half the amount
and beat my personal record by 23 minutes.
1804
01:27:33,623 --> 01:27:36,960
Less than a month later,
I did my first full Ironman.
1805
01:27:37,043 --> 01:27:38,920
Although I could possibly
get away with eating
1806
01:27:39,003 --> 01:27:40,880
a little bit of meat and
dairy without ill effects
1807
01:27:40,964 --> 01:27:43,925
to my personal health,
I could no longer willingly support
1808
01:27:44,008 --> 01:27:46,135
an industry I knew was
causing so much suffering
1809
01:27:46,219 --> 01:27:49,555
to communities, families
and all life on the planet.
1810
01:27:49,639 --> 01:27:52,850
A whole new world opened up.
I felt whole again.
1811
01:27:52,934 --> 01:27:55,603
Connected to a greater sense
of what true health is.
1812
01:27:55,687 --> 01:28:01,276
And where true health
doesn't end with me, but begins with us.
1813
01:28:01,359 --> 01:28:06,447
If people adopted a plant-based diet,
the changes we would see
1814
01:28:06,531 --> 01:28:10,785
in our individual health,
in our national health situation
1815
01:28:10,868 --> 01:28:14,163
and in this physical,
environmental world we live in,
1816
01:28:14,247 --> 01:28:16,207
would be so profound.
1817
01:28:16,291 --> 01:28:19,043
Today, you can say,
1818
01:28:19,127 --> 01:28:20,503
I'm not gonna
eat that stuff anymore.
1819
01:28:20,586 --> 01:28:24,173
It's the one thing that I
can do myself personally
1820
01:28:24,257 --> 01:28:25,717
to make a difference.
1821
01:28:25,800 --> 01:28:28,303
It will give you a greater sense of
well-being and happiness
1822
01:28:28,386 --> 01:28:31,389
when you know that,
one, you're not destroying your health
1823
01:28:31,472 --> 01:28:34,350
every time you sit down and eat,
you're not promoting cruelty,
1824
01:28:34,434 --> 01:28:36,352
and you're not
damaging the Earth.
1825
01:28:36,436 --> 01:28:39,480
I don't want my gains to be at the
detriment of the planet of other things.
1826
01:28:39,564 --> 01:28:41,316
And yet I'm not weaker,
I'm stronger.
1827
01:28:41,399 --> 01:28:42,900
That's the beauty of it,
when you're altruistic,
1828
01:28:42,984 --> 01:28:44,652
when you make choices for
the greater good of others,
1829
01:28:44,736 --> 01:28:47,447
it's comes around
benefits me as well. It benefits us all.
1830
01:28:47,530 --> 01:28:51,242
Studies show that
we can not only survive but we can thrive.
1831
01:28:51,326 --> 01:28:55,288
I just feel this is a great way to live,
not harming other beings.
1832
01:28:55,371 --> 01:28:57,915
When you can be
healthy and happier.
1833
01:28:57,999 --> 01:29:00,585
I love it!
It's a great life.
1834
01:29:00,668 --> 01:29:04,005
I never thought that I could
feel this good at this age.
1835
01:29:04,088 --> 01:29:06,382
And I just want everybody
to feel this way.
1836
01:29:06,466 --> 01:29:08,885
I feel like a 20-year-old,
I'm almost 50.
1837
01:29:08,968 --> 01:29:12,472
Nothing tastes as good
as healthy feels, basically.
1838
01:29:12,555 --> 01:29:15,099
And so the choices that
we make every single day,
1839
01:29:15,183 --> 01:29:17,518
day in and day out
around our food
1840
01:29:17,602 --> 01:29:21,773
has the capacity to bring us
true health and optimal wellness.
1841
01:29:21,856 --> 01:29:24,150
Not just individually,
but collectively
1842
01:29:24,233 --> 01:29:26,778
as a species
and for our planet.
1843
01:29:26,861 --> 01:29:28,696
We're not gonna live forever.
1844
01:29:28,780 --> 01:29:31,407
But while we are alive,
we can live well.
1845
01:29:31,491 --> 01:29:33,826
And for me, as a doctor,
that's what I wanna see.
1846
01:29:33,910 --> 01:29:36,162
Where there's a will,
there is a way.
1847
01:29:37,538 --> 01:29:38,873
And I believe that.