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Worldwide, we're looking at
approximately 315 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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[Kip] What in particular
is the correlation
for 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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[Latin music playing]

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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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-[tires screeching]
-The World Health
Organization this morning

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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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[male anchor] Processed meat
is clearly linked to
an increase in cancer.

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Hotdogs or, bacon could
be just as dangerous
as smoking cigarettes.

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[Kip] The World
Health Organization
had looked at over

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800 studies from
ten 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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[man] 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 organization

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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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[Sam] Well,
let me just place you
on a brief hold because...

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[Kip] He wasn't able to
answer my questions 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 diet

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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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[Kip] 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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2/3 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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[Kip] 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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[Kip] 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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[Kip] 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 be 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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[Kip] 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 starch is, 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
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you're almost certainly
gonna get diabetes.

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No one wants the fat shame,

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and we all want
everybody to be
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but, this movement to be
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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
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it's the fatty foods,
not really so much the sugar.

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[Davis] 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
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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 they're 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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[Kip] 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
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the American Diabetes
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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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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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[Kip]
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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[Kip] 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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[Kip] 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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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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[Kip] But I thought
cholesterol and saturated fat
wasn't an issue anymore.

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All these saturated fat
studies that have come out,

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trying to vindicate
saturated fat is 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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[Kip] 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 a 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,

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processing chemicals,
this 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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There's a famous tobacco
industry memo. 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.

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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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[Kip] 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 the 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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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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[Goldhamer] 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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00:22:46,824 --> 00:22:49,327
They get fungal infections,
they get bacterial infections,

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00:22:49,368 --> 00:22:51,579
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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[Kip] 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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[Ewall] 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.

456
00:23:10,389 --> 00:23:12,642
But, most of your exposure,
93 percent of it,

457
00:23:12,683 --> 00:23:14,602
comes from eating meat
and dairy products

458
00:23:14,644 --> 00:23:17,021
because it climbs up
in the food chain
so effectively.

459
00:23:17,063 --> 00:23:19,232
So, you can
get exposed to them
by living near these

460
00:23:19,274 --> 00:23:22,693
incinerators and breathing it,
but, it will take you 14 years

461
00:23:22,735 --> 00:23:24,988
to breathe in as much
Dioxin as a cow will

462
00:23:25,029 --> 00:23:27,448
ingest by eating
the grass in one day.

463
00:23:27,490 --> 00:23:30,327
And that Dioxin will
accumulate in its fat,

464
00:23:30,368 --> 00:23:34,372
which includes the milk
and the meat and anyone
eating meat or dairy products

465
00:23:34,413 --> 00:23:36,333
is gonna get
that dose of Dioxin.

466
00:23:36,374 --> 00:23:38,542
So, it climbs up
the food chain
in every step.

467
00:23:38,584 --> 00:23:42,463
Men have no way
in their bodies
to get rid of dioxins,

468
00:23:42,505 --> 00:23:44,090
but, women have two ways.

469
00:23:44,132 --> 00:23:46,050
They're both involving
having a baby.

470
00:23:46,092 --> 00:23:49,595
One is that dioxin crosses
the placenta into
the growing infant

471
00:23:49,637 --> 00:23:52,431
and the other is that
it comes out from
the breast milk.

472
00:23:52,473 --> 00:23:55,852
So, if you have a meat
and dairy-consuming mother
breastfeeding that infant,

473
00:23:55,893 --> 00:23:58,813
then the highest
impacts of toxic exposure

474
00:23:58,855 --> 00:24:01,065
like mercury and dioxins
will go to that infant.

475
00:24:01,107 --> 00:24:04,402
Pregnant women are told,
"Certain types of fish
should be avoided,"

476
00:24:04,443 --> 00:24:07,280
but, what about all these
other animal products

477
00:24:07,322 --> 00:24:10,950
which are introducing,
imagine as
the fetus is developing,

478
00:24:10,992 --> 00:24:14,245
introducing these very
harmful toxins which,

479
00:24:14,287 --> 00:24:16,956
create reproductive
abnormalities,

480
00:24:16,998 --> 00:24:19,542
develop mental problems
and hormonal issues

481
00:24:19,583 --> 00:24:23,087
right as the child is
developing, the most critical
stage of development.

482
00:24:23,129 --> 00:24:25,548
It does make you worry
when people say,

483
00:24:25,589 --> 00:24:27,943
"Don't you wanna
have a little bit of milk
because you're pregnant?

484
00:24:27,967 --> 00:24:29,653
"Don't you wanna have some
fish 'cause your pregnant?"

485
00:24:29,677 --> 00:24:31,905
Who do you think is
gonna get the chemicals
that are in that?

486
00:24:31,929 --> 00:24:33,723
[Snyder] All these
environmental toxins

487
00:24:33,764 --> 00:24:36,351
and toxins from the feed
that they're being fed

488
00:24:36,393 --> 00:24:40,438
accumulate in their tissues
and are released
into the mother

489
00:24:40,479 --> 00:24:42,148
and unfortunately, to the child

490
00:24:42,190 --> 00:24:44,901
when you eat these products
when you're pregnant.

491
00:24:44,942 --> 00:24:50,740
So, this includes antibiotics,
hormones, steroids
in animal feed.

492
00:24:50,781 --> 00:24:54,869
Commercial animals are
largely fed GMO corn and soy

493
00:24:54,911 --> 00:24:57,538
which are very laden
in pesticides.

494
00:24:57,580 --> 00:24:59,749
PCBs have been
banned since the 70s,

495
00:24:59,790 --> 00:25:03,336
but, they persist in
the environment, dioxins.

496
00:25:03,378 --> 00:25:06,130
All of these compounds
can create hormonal,

497
00:25:06,172 --> 00:25:09,675
reproductive, developmental
damage as well.

498
00:25:09,717 --> 00:25:12,887
Eating organic beef,
poultry, pork

499
00:25:12,929 --> 00:25:15,432
or fish will not help
you avoid contaminants

500
00:25:15,473 --> 00:25:18,726
like mercury, like dioxins,
like strontium-90

501
00:25:18,768 --> 00:25:21,020
because they fall out over
all sorts of farm fields

502
00:25:21,062 --> 00:25:24,232
and water bodies, and then
they don't skip over the
organic fields.

503
00:25:24,274 --> 00:25:26,692
And so really,
the contaminants
are coming in

504
00:25:26,734 --> 00:25:29,112
regardless of how these
animals are raised.

505
00:25:29,153 --> 00:25:30,447
[Kip] I had
always been concerned

506
00:25:30,488 --> 00:25:32,407
about the possible
health impacts of GMOs

507
00:25:32,449 --> 00:25:34,509
but, then found out that most
of the world's GMO crops

508
00:25:34,533 --> 00:25:36,327
are actually
consumed by livestock,

509
00:25:36,369 --> 00:25:38,871
with dairy cows consuming
the most per animal.

510
00:25:38,913 --> 00:25:43,000
This fact, with everything I
learned about bioaccumulation
made dairy terrifying.

511
00:25:43,042 --> 00:25:46,087
Especially considering
how much cheese
I ate in my life.

512
00:25:46,129 --> 00:25:48,923
[Goldhamer]
Cheese is an amazing product
when you think about it.

513
00:25:48,965 --> 00:25:54,178
It's probably one
of the single best foods
in compromising health

514
00:25:54,220 --> 00:25:55,822
that you're gonna
actually feed to people.

515
00:25:55,846 --> 00:25:58,015
Think about it, you've
got an animal product.

516
00:25:58,057 --> 00:26:01,478
So, you've got all the issues
of biological concentration.

517
00:26:01,519 --> 00:26:04,439
You have a highly processed
food product,

518
00:26:04,481 --> 00:26:07,150
and not only does it
have naturally
a lot saturated fat,

519
00:26:07,191 --> 00:26:08,901
but, you put
a lot of salt into it.

520
00:26:08,943 --> 00:26:12,489
There's a strong link
between dairy foods
and autoimmune diseases.

521
00:26:12,530 --> 00:26:17,494
And so that can show
itself up as excessive
production of mucus

522
00:26:17,535 --> 00:26:19,996
and exacerbation
of asthma in kids
who are prone to that

523
00:26:20,037 --> 00:26:22,790
and even adults,
and also, there's an
association between

524
00:26:22,832 --> 00:26:26,794
dairy foods
and multiple sclerosis
and type one diabetes,

525
00:26:26,836 --> 00:26:30,923
which is an autoimmune
disease, and other
rheumatologic problems.

526
00:26:30,965 --> 00:26:34,635
Cow's milk is
baby calf growth fluid.

527
00:26:34,677 --> 00:26:36,554
That's what the stuff is.

528
00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:39,015
There's absolutely no child
or human on Earth

529
00:26:39,056 --> 00:26:40,891
who actually needs
the milk of a cow

530
00:26:40,933 --> 00:26:43,894
any more than
they need the milk
of a giraffe or, a mouse.

531
00:26:43,936 --> 00:26:46,981
Most people in the world
are lactose intolerant.

532
00:26:47,023 --> 00:26:48,649
That's the normal
state of affairs.

533
00:26:48,691 --> 00:26:52,278
Why would your body create
this enzyme, just lactose

534
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,448
after weaning, after infancy,
it doesn't make any sense.

535
00:26:55,490 --> 00:26:58,826
73% of African Americans
are lactose intolerant.

536
00:26:58,868 --> 00:27:01,078
95% of Asians,

537
00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:03,914
roughly 70% of Native Americans,

538
00:27:03,956 --> 00:27:07,626
and about 53%
of Hispanic Americans
are lactose intolerant.

539
00:27:07,668 --> 00:27:11,005
Our government
is encouraging
Americans of color

540
00:27:11,047 --> 00:27:14,050
to eat foods that it knows
is going to make them ill.

541
00:27:14,091 --> 00:27:15,676
Ultimately,
what that boils down to

542
00:27:15,718 --> 00:27:17,779
is the government
is telling me
as an African American

543
00:27:17,803 --> 00:27:20,264
to eat food that's
gonna make me ill
for no health benefit

544
00:27:20,306 --> 00:27:22,892
so that it will
benefit dairy farmers.

545
00:27:22,933 --> 00:27:24,894
That's a form of
institutionalized racism.

546
00:27:24,935 --> 00:27:27,897
Yeah, milk is a risky
food for human consumption.

547
00:27:27,938 --> 00:27:31,275
As a pediatrician,
I see on a daily basis

548
00:27:31,317 --> 00:27:34,862
children suffering from
conditions that are linked

549
00:27:34,904 --> 00:27:37,031
or associated to
dairy consumption

550
00:27:37,073 --> 00:27:41,827
such as eczema, acne,
constipation, acid reflux,

551
00:27:41,869 --> 00:27:43,746
iron deficiency, anemia.

552
00:27:43,787 --> 00:27:45,789
Cow's milk protein is
the most allergenic food.

553
00:27:45,831 --> 00:27:47,917
People think, "Well, no,
I want hormone-free,

554
00:27:47,958 --> 00:27:50,336
not injected with
bovine growth hormone."

555
00:27:50,378 --> 00:27:53,756
But milk is this hormonal fluid,

556
00:27:53,797 --> 00:27:56,008
so it's just packed
with sex hormones

557
00:27:56,050 --> 00:27:59,262
and natural sex steroid
hormones like estrogen,
progesterone, in fact,

558
00:27:59,303 --> 00:28:02,890
doesn't matter if it's
conventional milk, doesn't
matter if it's organic milk.

559
00:28:02,932 --> 00:28:05,309
Milk without hormones,
that's an oxymoron.

560
00:28:05,351 --> 00:28:08,605
Organic dairy has just
as much saturated fat

561
00:28:08,646 --> 00:28:12,691
and cholesterol and
galactose, all the things
that you don't want,

562
00:28:12,733 --> 00:28:14,151
as conventional dairy.

563
00:28:14,193 --> 00:28:15,612
Dairy products, in general,

564
00:28:15,653 --> 00:28:18,072
have a lot of other
products associated with it,

565
00:28:18,114 --> 00:28:20,116
not the least of which is pus.

566
00:28:20,157 --> 00:28:21,867
They actually have laws limiting

567
00:28:21,909 --> 00:28:24,454
how much pus you can
actually have in the milk
and still sell it,

568
00:28:24,495 --> 00:28:27,748
I believe it's like
750,000 pus cells per CC.

569
00:28:27,790 --> 00:28:30,627
Because you wouldn't want
too much pus and then
it'd be like pure pus,

570
00:28:30,668 --> 00:28:31,669
people might object.

571
00:28:31,710 --> 00:28:33,087
In fact,
you could think of cheese

572
00:28:33,129 --> 00:28:36,006
as kind of coagulated
cow pus, if you would.

573
00:28:36,048 --> 00:28:38,926
[Kip] But, I was always told
that we need milk
for strong bones.

574
00:28:38,968 --> 00:28:42,472
I'm Jane Chapman,
and not too long ago,

575
00:28:42,513 --> 00:28:45,683
I finally got some x-rays
of the hips and back,

576
00:28:45,724 --> 00:28:50,354
severe bilateral
osteoarthritis of the hips.

577
00:28:50,396 --> 00:28:53,483
And actually, I'm scheduled
for two hip replacements.

578
00:28:53,524 --> 00:28:55,151
That's bone on bone.

579
00:28:55,192 --> 00:28:57,778
It's the grinding of the joints.

580
00:28:57,820 --> 00:29:00,197
My stability is scary.

581
00:29:00,239 --> 00:29:03,451
I hold on to the walls
when I'm at home.

582
00:29:03,493 --> 00:29:05,453
I've been told to use a walker.

583
00:29:05,495 --> 00:29:07,288
I'm only 61.

584
00:29:07,330 --> 00:29:10,374
This is not how you're
supposed to live when
you're this old.

585
00:29:10,416 --> 00:29:13,794
I have a really hard time
believing that

586
00:29:15,754 --> 00:29:17,548
that's all that's left.

587
00:29:17,590 --> 00:29:20,301
Researchers have studied
bone development in kids

588
00:29:20,343 --> 00:29:22,928
and whether they get
stress fractures
and that kind of thing.

589
00:29:22,970 --> 00:29:25,389
And the kids who
drink the most milk
have zero protection.

590
00:29:25,431 --> 00:29:27,600
Milk does not
build strong bones.

591
00:29:27,642 --> 00:29:30,978
Harvard researchers
have looked at a large group
of older women,

592
00:29:31,020 --> 00:29:32,480
over an 18-year period,

593
00:29:32,522 --> 00:29:35,692
the milk drinkers had zero
protection from fractures.

594
00:29:35,733 --> 00:29:38,986
So, this old notion
that somehow milk is
gonna build strong bones

595
00:29:39,028 --> 00:29:41,531
or protect your bones
later in life, it's a myth.

596
00:29:41,572 --> 00:29:45,159
People that drink milk
have higher rates
of hip fractures,

597
00:29:45,201 --> 00:29:48,705
have more cancer
and live shorter lives.

598
00:29:48,746 --> 00:29:50,182
[Kip] Turns out that
countries with the highest

599
00:29:50,206 --> 00:29:52,291
dairy consumption also
have the highest rates

600
00:29:52,333 --> 00:29:56,295
of osteoporosis, so clearly,
drinking more milk
doesn't protect your bones.

601
00:29:56,337 --> 00:29:58,589
Doing more research,
I found that dairy was linked

602
00:29:58,631 --> 00:30:01,175
to many different types of
cancer as well.

603
00:30:01,217 --> 00:30:04,554
Just like many of us,
I thought that the majority
of cancer was due to genes,

604
00:30:04,595 --> 00:30:08,516
but, only five to 10% of
cancer is actually genetic.

605
00:30:08,558 --> 00:30:12,395
Any cancer is caused
by DNA mutation,
but, that's not enough.

606
00:30:12,436 --> 00:30:16,357
So, that can cause that first
cancer cell, but, one cancer
cell never killed anyone.

607
00:30:16,399 --> 00:30:18,192
Two cancer cells
never killed anyone.

608
00:30:18,234 --> 00:30:20,861
But, a billion cancer cells,
now we're running
into problems.

609
00:30:20,903 --> 00:30:23,072
So, we need to reduce the
growth factors in our body,

610
00:30:23,113 --> 00:30:25,658
like IGF-1, insulin-like
growth factor one,

611
00:30:25,700 --> 00:30:29,579
it's this cancer-promoting
growth hormone involved
in every stage of cancer cell

612
00:30:29,620 --> 00:30:32,540
growth and spread
and metastases.

613
00:30:32,582 --> 00:30:36,001
Any animal protein boosts
the level of IGF-1.

614
00:30:36,043 --> 00:30:37,878
Dairy products
increases your risk for

615
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:41,424
various forms of cancer,
especially those related
to your hormones.

616
00:30:41,465 --> 00:30:44,134
So, breast cancer,
prostate cancer,
ovarian cancer.

617
00:30:44,176 --> 00:30:47,346
So, this is not a product
even in its most pure state

618
00:30:47,388 --> 00:30:49,973
you wanna be consuming because
it does come with risk.

619
00:30:50,015 --> 00:30:51,826
[Kip] I found out that dairy
can increase a man's chance

620
00:30:51,850 --> 00:30:54,687
of getting prostate cancer
by 34%.

621
00:30:54,729 --> 00:30:58,274
And for women who've had
breast cancer, just one
serving of whole dairy a day

622
00:30:58,315 --> 00:31:01,444
can increase their chance of
dying from the disease 49%

623
00:31:01,485 --> 00:31:04,614
and dying from anything 64%.

624
00:31:04,655 --> 00:31:07,199
Why weren't breast cancer
sites like Susan G. Komen

625
00:31:07,241 --> 00:31:08,867
warning everyone about this?

626
00:31:10,661 --> 00:31:12,288
[woman]
Thanks for calling
Susan G. Komen,

627
00:31:12,329 --> 00:31:14,582
this is Jocelyn,
how may I help you?

628
00:31:14,624 --> 00:31:16,041
Yes, so we're wondering why

629
00:31:16,083 --> 00:31:17,603
you don't have a huge
warning about the dangers

630
00:31:17,627 --> 00:31:19,128
of consuming dairy
on your website

631
00:31:19,169 --> 00:31:21,505
when there's a direct
link to breast cancer.

632
00:31:21,547 --> 00:31:22,899
There was a study
published in the Journal

633
00:31:22,923 --> 00:31:25,050
of the National Cancer
Institute that found out

634
00:31:25,092 --> 00:31:27,886
women consuming dairy
who has had breast cancer

635
00:31:27,928 --> 00:31:31,390
increases their risk of
dying of breast cancer 49%.

636
00:31:31,432 --> 00:31:33,768
I was wondering why it's
not on your website.

637
00:31:35,936 --> 00:31:37,790
[woman] We cannot answer
these types of questions.

638
00:31:37,814 --> 00:31:40,399
[Kip] Once again, another
health organization rep saying

639
00:31:40,441 --> 00:31:42,610
someone else would have
to answer my question.

640
00:31:42,652 --> 00:31:44,194
Rather than risk
being stood up again,

641
00:31:44,236 --> 00:31:46,823
I went straight to the
local Susan G. Komen chapter

642
00:31:46,864 --> 00:31:49,074
to see if they would answer
my questions.

643
00:31:54,037 --> 00:31:57,708
They didn't want to answer
my questions in person either
and told us to stop filming

644
00:31:57,750 --> 00:32:01,712
but, promised they would
connect me to the
national office directly.

645
00:32:04,173 --> 00:32:06,049
Susan G. Komen's
pink ribbon campaign

646
00:32:06,091 --> 00:32:08,927
had done a lot to raise
awareness for breast cancer.

647
00:32:08,969 --> 00:32:11,472
Although, it was confusing
to see pink ribbons

648
00:32:11,514 --> 00:32:13,557
on dairy yogurt containers.

649
00:32:13,599 --> 00:32:16,018
Breast cancer can be prevented

650
00:32:16,059 --> 00:32:18,395
with a healthy diet and
lifestyle, but, we're not.

651
00:32:18,437 --> 00:32:21,774
We're talking
about pink ribbons
and putting all the money

652
00:32:21,816 --> 00:32:23,526
into research for the cure.

653
00:32:23,567 --> 00:32:27,488
I, for one, know that
I would want my daughter,
my mother, me,

654
00:32:27,530 --> 00:32:29,782
I want to focus on not
getting to that point.

655
00:32:29,824 --> 00:32:33,494
And that's where I would
like to see more
energy and effort put.

656
00:32:33,536 --> 00:32:35,371
[Kip] I had been
a hardcore cheese-aholic

657
00:32:35,412 --> 00:32:37,874
virtually my entire life,
despite the risks.

658
00:32:37,915 --> 00:32:40,710
But, like so many others,
I seem to have been
addicted to it.

659
00:32:40,751 --> 00:32:46,298
It turns out that the casein
protein, that's the main
protein in dairy products,

660
00:32:46,340 --> 00:32:49,259
and particularly in cheese,
it breaks apart
in the human digestion

661
00:32:49,301 --> 00:32:52,179
to create what are called
casopmorphins.

662
00:32:52,221 --> 00:32:56,517
Casein-derived,
morphine-like compounds
that go to the brain

663
00:32:56,559 --> 00:33:00,813
and they attach to
the very same receptor
that heroin attaches to.

664
00:33:00,855 --> 00:33:02,815
Don't get me wrong,
they're not as strong
as that,

665
00:33:02,857 --> 00:33:04,441
but, they are strong enough

666
00:33:04,483 --> 00:33:07,361
to make you come back
again and again and again

667
00:33:07,403 --> 00:33:09,123
despite the fact that
you're gaining weight,

668
00:33:09,154 --> 00:33:11,407
you're more unhealthy
than you've ever been,

669
00:33:11,448 --> 00:33:13,325
but, that cheese
just calls out to people.

670
00:33:13,367 --> 00:33:17,705
Casomorphin may play
a role in SIDS, in sudden
infant death syndrome,

671
00:33:17,747 --> 00:33:21,417
may play a role in autism.
This is one of the reasons why

672
00:33:21,458 --> 00:33:25,337
we don't want infants
drinking milk from cows.

673
00:33:25,379 --> 00:33:28,925
[Kip] Human breast milk
has 2.7 grams
of casein per liter,

674
00:33:28,966 --> 00:33:32,177
compared to 26 grams per
liter for cow's milk.

675
00:33:32,219 --> 00:33:36,348
That's practically
10 times more.
No wonder it's so addictive.

676
00:33:36,390 --> 00:33:38,034
This talk about addiction
made me think about

677
00:33:38,058 --> 00:33:40,143
all the drugs animals are fed.

678
00:33:40,185 --> 00:33:42,646
I went to the headquarters
of the Center for Food Safety,

679
00:33:42,688 --> 00:33:45,942
the nation's leading
FDA government
watchdog group

680
00:33:45,983 --> 00:33:48,861
to see how concerned
we need to be
about drugs in our food.

681
00:33:48,903 --> 00:33:52,782
So, that we know of, there are
at least 450 different drugs

682
00:33:52,823 --> 00:33:55,952
that are administered
to animals, either alone
or, in combination.

683
00:33:55,993 --> 00:33:59,246
These drugs
are given to animals
for a variety of reasons,

684
00:33:59,288 --> 00:34:03,333
very, very few of which
are actually beneficial
to consumer health.

685
00:34:03,375 --> 00:34:07,838
We've got drug companies that
work real hard to make sure

686
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,882
they can sell lots of drugs

687
00:34:09,924 --> 00:34:12,009
to people raising cows,
pigs, and chickens.

688
00:34:12,050 --> 00:34:16,263
The pharmaceutical industry
sells 80% of all
the antibiotics that it makes

689
00:34:16,305 --> 00:34:18,682
in the United States
to animal agriculture.

690
00:34:18,724 --> 00:34:20,434
Antibiotic residues
are found in the meat,

691
00:34:20,476 --> 00:34:22,603
other antimicrobials
are found in meat.

692
00:34:22,645 --> 00:34:26,023
There has been ractopamine
found in meat, there has been
hormones found in meat,

693
00:34:26,064 --> 00:34:28,442
so right there,
you're talking about
four different drugs

694
00:34:28,484 --> 00:34:30,945
that could be in
the same piece of meat.

695
00:34:30,987 --> 00:34:32,947
The pharmaceutical company
is supposed to show

696
00:34:32,989 --> 00:34:35,198
the safety of animal drugs.

697
00:34:35,240 --> 00:34:38,219
They're not really testing
to see what the impacts of
these drugs are on humans.

698
00:34:38,243 --> 00:34:39,721
They're really looking
to see what the impacts

699
00:34:39,745 --> 00:34:41,288
of these drugs are on animals.

700
00:34:41,330 --> 00:34:45,292
When we try to get information
on some of the health studies

701
00:34:45,334 --> 00:34:48,337
and the environmental studies
from federal agencies,

702
00:34:48,378 --> 00:34:52,967
we get back page after page
of blacked out information

703
00:34:53,009 --> 00:34:57,513
because the company claimed
confidential business
information.

704
00:34:57,554 --> 00:35:02,810
Consumers have no idea
what is in the products
that they consume.

705
00:35:02,852 --> 00:35:07,356
So, how sick something
makes me and how bad
it pollutes the environment

706
00:35:07,397 --> 00:35:09,483
is a secret for a company.

707
00:35:09,525 --> 00:35:12,778
In the animal agriculture
industry, as in the
tobacco industry,

708
00:35:12,820 --> 00:35:15,572
these companies really
have a vested interest

709
00:35:15,614 --> 00:35:17,616
in making sure that
the public doesn't have

710
00:35:17,658 --> 00:35:19,284
information about their effects

711
00:35:19,326 --> 00:35:22,663
and what risks are really
posed to consuming them.

712
00:35:22,705 --> 00:35:26,542
You have this system
where animals are living
in their own waste,

713
00:35:26,583 --> 00:35:30,087
they're living next to
animals that are sick or,
even dead,

714
00:35:30,128 --> 00:35:32,006
and they're stuck in
cages with these animals,

715
00:35:32,048 --> 00:35:35,926
that bacteria tends to
spread, that the pathogens
that are being created

716
00:35:35,968 --> 00:35:39,388
in these filthy
conditions are breeding
resistance to antibiotics

717
00:35:39,429 --> 00:35:41,431
and the public are
becoming exposed to those.

718
00:35:41,473 --> 00:35:43,100
We already have people dying.

719
00:35:43,141 --> 00:35:46,520
From salmonella and other
things that you eat,

720
00:35:46,562 --> 00:35:50,816
we have about
3,000 people die every year
in the United States.

721
00:35:50,858 --> 00:35:53,903
That's more than the
number of people that were

722
00:35:53,944 --> 00:35:57,489
killed in 9/11 in the
Twin Towers in New York.

723
00:35:57,531 --> 00:35:59,950
If we had some terrorist
organization killing

724
00:35:59,992 --> 00:36:03,161
3,000 people a year,
we would be all over it.

725
00:36:03,203 --> 00:36:07,332
The antibiotic-resistant
bacteria deaths that we have

726
00:36:07,374 --> 00:36:11,128
on top of that, you get
20,000 people dying a year.

727
00:36:11,169 --> 00:36:15,799
That's seven 9/11s every year.

728
00:36:15,841 --> 00:36:17,467
Can you imagine?

729
00:36:17,509 --> 00:36:20,220
If that many people
were being killed

730
00:36:20,262 --> 00:36:22,056
by some terrorist group
in the United States

731
00:36:22,098 --> 00:36:23,682
every year, we would find them!

732
00:36:23,724 --> 00:36:25,726
You know,
the World Health Organization

733
00:36:25,768 --> 00:36:28,604
has said we're nearing
a post-antibiotic era
in medicine.

734
00:36:28,645 --> 00:36:31,857
You'll be at risk
in minor surgeries
o have a fatal infection.

735
00:36:31,899 --> 00:36:34,693
You'll be at risk going to
the dentist if you have
a tooth extracted.

736
00:36:34,735 --> 00:36:38,280
Or, it'll be like civil war
medicine. You get an infection
in your leg,

737
00:36:38,321 --> 00:36:39,448
and you cut your leg off.

738
00:36:39,489 --> 00:36:41,825
So, you have this
very dangerous situation.

739
00:36:41,867 --> 00:36:43,953
By crowding these animals in,

740
00:36:43,994 --> 00:36:47,372
they become a perfect
engine for generating

741
00:36:47,414 --> 00:36:50,292
a new flu virus that can
come out into the community.

742
00:36:50,333 --> 00:36:53,462
If you lived near
a swine spray field,

743
00:36:53,503 --> 00:36:57,257
not even the CAFO but
the waste disposal field,

744
00:36:57,299 --> 00:37:01,344
you are three times
more likely to have
a MRSA infection.

745
00:37:01,386 --> 00:37:06,183
You can't see how that impacts
the average person's life

746
00:37:06,224 --> 00:37:10,020
in Duplin County,
North Carolina and not be
a little upset about it.

747
00:37:12,064 --> 00:37:15,609
From an
environmental standpoint,
from a community standpoint,

748
00:37:15,651 --> 00:37:19,071
from all other aspects,
North Carolina, we're in
a state of emergency.

749
00:37:19,113 --> 00:37:23,659
We've already had bouts
of swine flu, or H1N1,
as they prefer to refer to it.

750
00:37:23,700 --> 00:37:26,120
That particular swine flu
incident was

751
00:37:26,162 --> 00:37:29,414
originated on a farm
here in North Carolina.

752
00:37:29,456 --> 00:37:31,792
There's approximately
the same number of hogs

753
00:37:31,834 --> 00:37:33,669
in North Carolina
as there are people.

754
00:37:33,710 --> 00:37:38,007
Between eight to 10 times
the amount of feces is
produced by a hog,

755
00:37:38,048 --> 00:37:41,218
an adult hog as compared
to an adult human.

756
00:37:41,259 --> 00:37:42,928
[Kip] 10 million pigs
in North Carolina

757
00:37:42,970 --> 00:37:46,182
produce the waste equal to
a hundred million humans.

758
00:37:46,223 --> 00:37:49,476
This is the equivalent of the
entire US Eastern Seaboard

759
00:37:49,518 --> 00:37:51,728
flushing their toilets
into North Carolina.

760
00:37:51,770 --> 00:37:53,313
But, there is
no waste treatment.

761
00:37:53,355 --> 00:37:55,524
The pigs' waste falls
through slats in the floors

762
00:37:55,565 --> 00:37:59,277
of the sheds they are forced
to live in, it is then
pumped into giant waste pits,

763
00:37:59,319 --> 00:38:03,532
which leech into rivers and
streams and is pumped out
unfiltered onto fields,

764
00:38:03,573 --> 00:38:07,619
further polluting
the environment
and neighboring health.

765
00:38:07,661 --> 00:38:09,830
When you go back and
you look at where these

766
00:38:09,872 --> 00:38:13,709
hog facilities are located,
there's a disproportionate
number of them

767
00:38:13,750 --> 00:38:16,628
that are located near
communities of color.

768
00:38:16,670 --> 00:38:17,838
Low-income communities.

769
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:21,258
It is definitely a human
rights issue.

770
00:38:21,299 --> 00:38:25,721
My sister, she have asthma,
you know. Her brother,
he have asthma.

771
00:38:26,388 --> 00:38:28,224
He's three.

772
00:38:28,265 --> 00:38:29,892
And we don't know
what she might have.

773
00:38:31,185 --> 00:38:34,104
I have asthma, I have sinus,

774
00:38:34,146 --> 00:38:37,107
I have sarcoidosis,
that's of the bacteria,

775
00:38:37,149 --> 00:38:40,402
and I have a pacemaker,
which is sick sinus syndrome.

776
00:38:40,443 --> 00:38:43,906
But, you know, mostly
everybody in this neighborhood

777
00:38:43,947 --> 00:38:46,324
got asthma or, either cancer.

778
00:38:46,366 --> 00:38:50,579
My neighbor there
died from cancer
probably just last year.

779
00:38:50,620 --> 00:38:52,372
My nephew down the street,
he's got cancer,

780
00:38:52,414 --> 00:38:55,042
he's in terminal cancer,
stage four.

781
00:38:55,084 --> 00:38:57,335
Not a smoker, not a drinker.

782
00:38:57,377 --> 00:39:00,505
And it's not in his lungs,
it's in his lymph nodes.

783
00:39:00,547 --> 00:39:03,717
Now see if you live here
and saw the way they do,

784
00:39:03,759 --> 00:39:05,468
we don't eat no pork.

785
00:39:05,510 --> 00:39:08,430
Well, I don't eat bacon because
I know where it come from.

786
00:39:08,471 --> 00:39:11,267
When they die,
they go into a box,

787
00:39:11,308 --> 00:39:15,395
and they decompose because
they swell from the heat.

788
00:39:15,437 --> 00:39:18,023
A truck come and pick 'em up,

789
00:39:18,065 --> 00:39:20,817
take 'em to the processing
plant in Rose Hill,

790
00:39:20,859 --> 00:39:25,697
ground 'em up into feed,
and feed it back to the hogs.

791
00:39:25,739 --> 00:39:27,199
If I come out this door,

792
00:39:27,241 --> 00:39:28,885
if he's spraying there,
it's gonna come in my face.

793
00:39:28,909 --> 00:39:30,452
It hits you right in the face.

794
00:39:30,493 --> 00:39:32,346
Smell like something that you
have never smelled before.

795
00:39:32,370 --> 00:39:34,831
Smell worse than a dead body.

796
00:39:34,873 --> 00:39:36,917
That's the family graveyard.

797
00:39:36,959 --> 00:39:41,171
And I have
my grandmother out there,
my sisters, my brothers.

798
00:39:41,213 --> 00:39:43,715
When we go to a funeral,
he use the spray.

799
00:39:43,757 --> 00:39:45,759
- During the funeral?
- During the funeral, yes.

800
00:39:45,801 --> 00:39:49,596
During the funeral.
Yeah, they spray.

801
00:39:49,638 --> 00:39:52,641
And when the people come,
everybody be
closing their nose up

802
00:39:52,682 --> 00:39:53,934
saying how it stink.

803
00:39:53,976 --> 00:39:56,979
They can want a cookout
on Sunday, he'll spray.

804
00:39:57,020 --> 00:39:58,480
Do you think he does it on
purpose?

805
00:39:58,521 --> 00:39:59,982
I think so.

806
00:40:00,023 --> 00:40:03,568
'Cause he just sprays Sunday.
He always sprays Sunday.

807
00:40:03,610 --> 00:40:07,364
And in most of these area,
hog houses and turkey house,

808
00:40:07,405 --> 00:40:10,867
it's in a black area
or the Hispanic area.

809
00:40:10,909 --> 00:40:12,410
It's either or.

810
00:40:12,452 --> 00:40:14,496
Do you think it's
also a civil rights issue?

811
00:40:14,537 --> 00:40:17,040
Yes, yes, I do.

812
00:40:17,082 --> 00:40:18,208
Yes, I do.

813
00:40:24,714 --> 00:40:28,344
There have been times
in the past that I have

814
00:40:28,385 --> 00:40:31,805
gotten ready on a Sunday
and gotten ready
to go to church

815
00:40:31,847 --> 00:40:34,641
and come out
and the smell was so strong

816
00:40:34,683 --> 00:40:37,686
that I had to go back
and regroup because

817
00:40:37,727 --> 00:40:41,064
it had got in my clothes,
and I just couldn't
go to church

818
00:40:41,106 --> 00:40:43,608
smelling like hogs, you know,
I just couldn't do it,

819
00:40:43,650 --> 00:40:47,112
so I don't think
the government cares.

820
00:40:47,154 --> 00:40:49,323
They care more about

821
00:40:49,365 --> 00:40:53,327
corporations than they
do peoples, individuals.

822
00:40:53,369 --> 00:40:55,495
They're gonna put
more chickens in this state.

823
00:40:55,537 --> 00:40:57,497
This is the feces and
urine capital of the world

824
00:40:57,539 --> 00:41:00,083
right here in North Carolina,
my state.

825
00:41:00,125 --> 00:41:02,669
Look, there's a
blue-line stream right here

826
00:41:02,711 --> 00:41:05,648
comes right across into my
property almost and the
Contentnea Creek right there.

827
00:41:05,672 --> 00:41:10,052
I've seen that blue-line
stream now filled with feces
and urine from that hog pen,

828
00:41:10,093 --> 00:41:12,262
and they can say,
"Well, we feed the world."

829
00:41:12,304 --> 00:41:15,200
They're not interested in
feeding the world, they're
interested in making money.

830
00:41:15,224 --> 00:41:18,310
You take the money
away from them,
they'll let the folks starve.

831
00:41:18,352 --> 00:41:21,122
'Cause if you want to feed the
world, you can feed the world
with more corn,

832
00:41:21,146 --> 00:41:23,648
using corn and wheat
and stuff like that
than you can meat.

833
00:41:23,690 --> 00:41:25,359
Meat is a luxury item.

834
00:41:25,401 --> 00:41:29,571
When we are doing things
that hurt other people,
we are wrong.

835
00:41:29,612 --> 00:41:32,949
But, a lot of good people
will sit there and eat bacon

836
00:41:32,991 --> 00:41:37,329
knowing that it's
causing someone else
to be very unhappy.

837
00:41:40,165 --> 00:41:41,875
[Kip] I woke up
the next morning to find

838
00:41:41,917 --> 00:41:44,461
the Burnt River
had experienced
another massive fish kill

839
00:41:44,502 --> 00:41:47,172
from the pollution running
off hog farms.

840
00:41:47,214 --> 00:41:50,426
Tens of thousands of fish
were washing up on shore.

841
00:41:51,593 --> 00:41:53,095
All this talk about health,

842
00:41:53,136 --> 00:41:56,056
I realized that I was only
focused on personal health.

843
00:41:56,098 --> 00:41:58,558
But, health started to
mean so much more to me.

844
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:01,311
It was about health of my
family and our communities.

845
00:42:01,353 --> 00:42:02,771
I couldn't under good conscience

846
00:42:02,812 --> 00:42:05,065
support an industry that
I knew was harming others.

847
00:42:07,567 --> 00:42:09,236
Pollution from
animal agriculture

848
00:42:09,278 --> 00:42:11,654
isn't just an issue in
North Carolina, though.

849
00:42:11,696 --> 00:42:14,366
Raising animals for food
produces more greenhouse gases

850
00:42:14,408 --> 00:42:16,826
than the entire
transportation sector.

851
00:42:16,868 --> 00:42:18,995
It is a leading cause of
rainforest destruction,

852
00:42:19,037 --> 00:42:23,083
species extinction,
ocean dead zones
and freshwater consumption.

853
00:42:28,630 --> 00:42:32,342
American Diabetes Association
actually finally got back,

854
00:42:32,384 --> 00:42:35,637
and they agreed to an interview.

855
00:42:35,678 --> 00:42:38,432
Preparing for the American
Diabetes Association interview,

856
00:42:38,474 --> 00:42:41,810
I took a look at their
diabetes diet meal
plan recommendations,

857
00:42:41,851 --> 00:42:46,189
and they were loaded
with foods associated
with causing diabetes.

858
00:42:46,231 --> 00:42:48,608
How could they expect
people not to get diabetes

859
00:42:48,650 --> 00:42:51,611
if this was the food
they were recommending?

860
00:42:51,653 --> 00:42:54,406
And then, I saw multiple
peer-reviewed studies

861
00:42:54,448 --> 00:42:56,658
published on the National
Institute of Health website

862
00:42:56,699 --> 00:42:58,618
showing that a low-fat
plant-based diet

863
00:42:58,660 --> 00:43:00,870
was more than twice as
powerful at controlling

864
00:43:00,912 --> 00:43:03,039
and even reversing diabetes

865
00:43:03,081 --> 00:43:05,875
than the ADA recommended diet
that included meat and dairy.

866
00:43:07,419 --> 00:43:11,631
The mission of the American
Diabetes Association is

867
00:43:11,673 --> 00:43:17,679
to identify a prevention
and a cure for diabetes.

868
00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:21,266
But, in the meantime,
to improve
the lives of all people

869
00:43:21,308 --> 00:43:23,560
who are affected by diabetes.

870
00:43:23,601 --> 00:43:28,231
And what's the best way
to prevent this?

871
00:43:28,273 --> 00:43:31,485
For type two diabetes,
it's unclear.

872
00:43:31,527 --> 00:43:35,531
We can't prevent type two
diabetes in everybody.

873
00:43:35,572 --> 00:43:39,909
We were doing research,
we came across a lot
of studies that said

874
00:43:39,951 --> 00:43:44,039
that you actually could
potentially cure

875
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,959
or reverse diabetes with
a purely plant-based diet.

876
00:43:48,001 --> 00:43:53,006
I don't believe there's
sufficient evidence to
demonstrate that.

877
00:43:53,048 --> 00:43:57,010
How does it compare to the
ADA diet that you recommend?

878
00:43:57,052 --> 00:44:01,515
We don't recommend
a specific diet,
we recommend healthy eating.

879
00:44:01,557 --> 00:44:02,849
The one that's on the website.

880
00:44:02,891 --> 00:44:04,642
We recommend healthy eating.

881
00:44:05,101 --> 00:44:06,311
There is...

882
00:44:06,353 --> 00:44:10,773
Do you have a whole
list of exact day-to-day,

883
00:44:10,815 --> 00:44:12,442
the meal plan,
the whole meal plan?

884
00:44:12,484 --> 00:44:15,653
All they are are selections
of foods to consider.

885
00:44:15,695 --> 00:44:17,947
We do not have a diabetes diet.

886
00:44:17,989 --> 00:44:20,409
But, with that, selections
that you consider,

887
00:44:20,450 --> 00:44:25,080
that plan compared to
an all plant-based plan.

888
00:44:25,121 --> 00:44:27,207
No one's done that study.

889
00:44:27,249 --> 00:44:29,418
We found, actually,
some studies.

890
00:44:29,459 --> 00:44:34,797
A 74-week study found
that low-fat vegan diet
versus the ADA plan,

891
00:44:34,839 --> 00:44:35,882
in type two diabetes...

892
00:44:35,924 --> 00:44:37,300
I think we're done here.

893
00:44:37,342 --> 00:44:40,011
I'm not gonna get into
an argument about...

894
00:44:40,053 --> 00:44:43,390
Oh, no, I just wanted
the studies of,

895
00:44:43,432 --> 00:44:46,893
if this is true or,
if it shows that.

896
00:44:46,935 --> 00:44:48,770
Any diet works.

897
00:44:50,522 --> 00:44:54,568
Any diet works
if people follow it.

898
00:44:54,610 --> 00:44:58,113
But, if it's a diet
that's not the proper diet,

899
00:44:58,154 --> 00:45:00,616
like if anyone follows a diet
that they eat McDonald's...

900
00:45:00,657 --> 00:45:03,493
I can't tell you
what a proper diet is.

901
00:45:03,535 --> 00:45:06,538
I can tell you
what an improper diet is.

902
00:45:06,580 --> 00:45:10,917
So, then we can talk
about the good diets.
I'm not sure why...

903
00:45:10,959 --> 00:45:12,461
I'm not gonna get into that.

904
00:45:12,502 --> 00:45:14,129
- Into diet?
- No.

905
00:45:14,170 --> 00:45:15,505
Why not?

906
00:45:15,547 --> 00:45:17,340
If that's where you
want to go with this,

907
00:45:17,382 --> 00:45:19,759
I'm sorry,
I'm not the person that
you should be talking to.

908
00:45:19,801 --> 00:45:21,386
And why is that, though?

909
00:45:21,428 --> 00:45:23,639
If that's what you want to
get into, I'm not the person

910
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:25,348
- you need to be talking to.
- Into diet?

911
00:45:25,390 --> 00:45:27,350
Who do we talk to about diet?

912
00:45:27,392 --> 00:45:29,352
You can talk to
anybody you want.

913
00:45:29,394 --> 00:45:31,664
But, that's
interesting, though,
why not recommend a diet...

914
00:45:31,688 --> 00:45:33,440
Because the data don't
exist to support it.

915
00:45:33,482 --> 00:45:36,943
But, if we see data
that we looked up,

916
00:45:36,985 --> 00:45:40,447
that supports it with
the NIH, in Europe,

917
00:45:40,489 --> 00:45:45,494
the European Association
of... We're done.

918
00:45:45,535 --> 00:45:47,430
We're done. I'm sorry,
I'm not gonna get into
that argument with you.

919
00:45:47,454 --> 00:45:48,746
No, I'm just wondering,
but, I...

920
00:45:48,788 --> 00:45:50,624
I'm not gonna get into
the argument with you.

921
00:45:50,666 --> 00:45:52,167
Why is it in argument?

922
00:45:52,208 --> 00:45:55,545
It's just to talking about
in European study of diabetes

923
00:45:55,587 --> 00:45:59,048
and other places that have
studies, why...

924
00:45:59,090 --> 00:46:00,425
There are lots of studies...

925
00:46:00,467 --> 00:46:01,735
Why is it even
an argument, I guess?

926
00:46:01,759 --> 00:46:05,305
There are lots of
studies in the literature.

927
00:46:05,347 --> 00:46:11,561
Many of which have
never been replicated
or frankly, are wrong.

928
00:46:11,603 --> 00:46:14,606
That's why we do
peer review, okay?

929
00:46:14,648 --> 00:46:17,651
The European Association
of Study of Diabetes

930
00:46:17,693 --> 00:46:19,402
has been peer-reviewed
or, the...

931
00:46:19,444 --> 00:46:21,988
I don't know what study
you're referring to,

932
00:46:22,030 --> 00:46:24,324
and in the absence of being
able to see that study,

933
00:46:24,366 --> 00:46:25,617
I'm not gonna comment.

934
00:46:25,659 --> 00:46:26,909
I could show it to you.

935
00:46:26,951 --> 00:46:28,704
I'm sorry, I don't
have the time for that.

936
00:46:28,745 --> 00:46:32,290
I just don't understand
why it's an argument,
though, or, okay.

937
00:46:40,173 --> 00:46:41,883
That was interesting.

938
00:46:41,924 --> 00:46:45,345
What he wanted to talk about
was people living longer
with diabetes,

939
00:46:45,387 --> 00:46:48,931
but, once you mention
eliminating diabetes
or, prevention,

940
00:46:48,973 --> 00:46:51,059
oh, now you crossed the line.

941
00:46:51,100 --> 00:46:53,061
Prevention and cure... Whoa.

942
00:46:53,102 --> 00:46:55,897
Let's not go there.

943
00:46:55,938 --> 00:46:58,900
[Kip] Not only did Dr. Ratner,
the chief medical officer

944
00:46:58,941 --> 00:47:02,571
of the American Diabetes
Association not want to
talk about diet,

945
00:47:02,612 --> 00:47:04,740
but, the fact that he had
such an emotional reaction

946
00:47:04,781 --> 00:47:07,659
to my question made it feel
I was digging into something

947
00:47:07,701 --> 00:47:09,745
that he didn't want uncovered.

948
00:47:09,786 --> 00:47:13,540
I had always thought
there was no prevention
for type one diabetes.

949
00:47:13,582 --> 00:47:15,584
But, then,
I did research and came across

950
00:47:15,625 --> 00:47:17,669
countless studies
referencing the link between

951
00:47:17,711 --> 00:47:21,297
exposure to dairy at a young
age and type one diabetes.

952
00:47:21,339 --> 00:47:23,675
[McDougall] This is a food
made for baby cows.

953
00:47:23,717 --> 00:47:25,719
Cow milk protein gets
into the bloodstream,

954
00:47:25,761 --> 00:47:27,905
and the body says, "Hey, this
isn't supposed to be in
the bloodstream."

955
00:47:27,929 --> 00:47:29,847
It makes antibodies to
the cow milk protein

956
00:47:29,889 --> 00:47:33,851
which then attack the pancreas
and destroy the pancreas.

957
00:47:33,893 --> 00:47:37,397
[Kip] How is this possible
that ADA wouldn't have this
forefront on their website?

958
00:47:37,439 --> 00:47:39,608
Why wouldn't they be warning
all parents about this

959
00:47:39,649 --> 00:47:41,651
even if there were
only a slight chance?

960
00:47:41,693 --> 00:47:43,236
Why were they
recommending people

961
00:47:43,278 --> 00:47:46,239
to actually eat these
foods linked to diabetes?

962
00:47:46,281 --> 00:47:48,324
It seemed all of the
large health organizations

963
00:47:48,366 --> 00:47:50,285
were encouraging people
to eat the very foods

964
00:47:50,326 --> 00:47:53,538
linked to the diseases
they're supposed to be
fighting against.

965
00:47:53,580 --> 00:47:55,832
American Heart Association
promoting beef,

966
00:47:55,873 --> 00:47:58,543
American Cancer Society
promoting processed meat,

967
00:47:58,585 --> 00:48:00,253
pink ribbons on dairy products,

968
00:48:00,295 --> 00:48:04,382
and bacon-wrapped shrimp on
American Diabetes Association.

969
00:48:04,424 --> 00:48:07,552
And then, it all came together.

970
00:48:07,594 --> 00:48:08,594
What if...

971
00:48:13,224 --> 00:48:14,643
And there it was.

972
00:48:14,684 --> 00:48:16,621
The American Diabetes
Association was taking money

973
00:48:16,645 --> 00:48:19,648
from Dannon, one of the
world's largest dairy
yogurt producers.

974
00:48:19,689 --> 00:48:21,858
Kraft Foods, makers of
Velveeta processed cheese,

975
00:48:21,941 --> 00:48:24,778
Oscar Meyer processed
meats, Lunchables
processed kids' meals,

976
00:48:24,820 --> 00:48:27,947
and Bumble Bee Foods,
makers of processed
canned meats.

977
00:48:31,827 --> 00:48:33,787
American Cancer Society
was taking money

978
00:48:33,829 --> 00:48:36,331
from Tyson, one of the
world's largest meat producers

979
00:48:36,372 --> 00:48:40,502
and Yum! Brand, owner of
Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell.

980
00:48:40,543 --> 00:48:43,296
Susan G. Komen,
who was supposed to be
fighting breast cancer,

981
00:48:43,338 --> 00:48:45,507
was corporate
partnering with KFC,

982
00:48:45,548 --> 00:48:49,260
Dietz Watson processed
meats and Yoplait yogurt.

983
00:48:49,302 --> 00:48:53,139
And the American Heart
Association was probably
the most disturbing of all,

984
00:48:53,181 --> 00:48:55,057
taking hundreds
of thousands of dollars

985
00:48:55,099 --> 00:48:58,144
from the beef industry,
poultry and dairy producers

986
00:48:58,186 --> 00:49:02,231
and millions from fast
food and processed food
manufacturers.

987
00:49:04,150 --> 00:49:06,444
Every single one
of these organizations

988
00:49:06,486 --> 00:49:09,113
was taking money from
meat and dairy companies

989
00:49:09,155 --> 00:49:12,116
that are associated with
the causes of these diseases.

990
00:49:12,158 --> 00:49:14,076
This would be like the
American Lung Association

991
00:49:14,118 --> 00:49:17,038
taking money from
the tobacco industry.

992
00:49:17,079 --> 00:49:19,957
I was sick of
not getting answers.

993
00:49:19,999 --> 00:49:23,002
So, I went to the headquarters
of these organizations myself.

994
00:49:23,044 --> 00:49:24,838
We have to speak
to someone in person.

995
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,799
There's millions of people
dying from the foods

996
00:49:27,841 --> 00:49:30,343
that they are recommending
people to eat.

997
00:49:30,385 --> 00:49:35,181
I wanted to find out why
Susan G. Komen had accepted
$35 million from Yoplait,

998
00:49:35,223 --> 00:49:37,034
when their products can
increase a woman's chance

999
00:49:37,058 --> 00:49:39,853
of dying from breast cancer 49%,

1000
00:49:39,895 --> 00:49:42,146
and ask American Cancer
Society if taking money

1001
00:49:42,188 --> 00:49:46,067
from KFC and Tyson
was a reason
they promote eating meat.

1002
00:49:46,108 --> 00:49:50,613
But, every one of these
organizations declined to
be interviewed.

1003
00:49:50,655 --> 00:49:53,157
What's really sad is
that we cannot trust

1004
00:49:53,199 --> 00:49:56,578
information from these
leading health organizations

1005
00:49:56,619 --> 00:50:00,122
like the American Heart
Association, the American
Diabetes Association

1006
00:50:00,164 --> 00:50:03,877
because they are taking money
from the very industries

1007
00:50:03,919 --> 00:50:07,923
who are causing the problems
that they're supposed to be
helping to prevent.

1008
00:50:07,964 --> 00:50:11,760
So, that makes the truth
something that

1009
00:50:11,801 --> 00:50:14,554
you are not gonna be hearing,
as far as nutrition goes,

1010
00:50:14,596 --> 00:50:16,138
from these organizations.

1011
00:50:16,180 --> 00:50:17,783
Well, that would be the
end of their funding,

1012
00:50:17,807 --> 00:50:20,393
that would be the end
of their jobs,
there would be lawsuits

1013
00:50:20,435 --> 00:50:23,312
that would bring
the entire catastrophe
down upon their heads,

1014
00:50:23,354 --> 00:50:25,481
and they would essentially
disappear as organizations.

1015
00:50:25,523 --> 00:50:28,944
This one time I got invited
to a charity fundraiser

1016
00:50:28,985 --> 00:50:31,153
for the American Diabetes
Association.

1017
00:50:31,195 --> 00:50:35,867
I showed up, and they had
a whole buffet, and it was
all just animal products.

1018
00:50:35,909 --> 00:50:39,662
I remember like a big
thing of barbecue chicken.

1019
00:50:39,704 --> 00:50:43,040
And I was like, I stormed out.
I said like,

1020
00:50:44,250 --> 00:50:47,128
serving chicken
at a diabetes event

1021
00:50:47,169 --> 00:50:49,422
is like serving alcohol
at an AA meeting.

1022
00:50:49,464 --> 00:50:52,634
It doesn't make sense.

1023
00:50:52,675 --> 00:50:56,053
[Kip] We had scheduled
to film an interview
with a prominent surgeon.

1024
00:50:56,095 --> 00:50:57,931
But, before we could get
inside the building,

1025
00:50:57,973 --> 00:51:01,142
the hospital's media
relations manager stopped us.

1026
00:51:01,183 --> 00:51:04,479
Actually I understand that
Dr... said that you could film
here today,

1027
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:07,690
but, unfortunately, that's
not gonna be able to happen.

1028
00:51:07,732 --> 00:51:10,944
I know that he advocates for
patients changing their diets,

1029
00:51:10,986 --> 00:51:13,529
but, the hospital makes
money off these surgeries,

1030
00:51:13,571 --> 00:51:15,615
and the reality is,
he does, too.

1031
00:51:15,657 --> 00:51:19,118
So, we can't do
anything that's gonna
negatively impact the hospital,

1032
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,830
so unfortunately,
you're not gonna be
able to film here today.

1033
00:51:21,871 --> 00:51:23,539
He said that we could, though.

1034
00:51:23,581 --> 00:51:25,667
[Kip] I was sickened
by how open she was

1035
00:51:25,708 --> 00:51:30,379
about the hospital being
more interested in profits
than people's health.

1036
00:51:30,421 --> 00:51:33,299
But, it wasn't
just this hospital
or these organizations.

1037
00:51:33,341 --> 00:51:36,052
Even the US government
is involved, too.

1038
00:51:36,093 --> 00:51:38,387
Every five years, the US
Department of Agriculture

1039
00:51:38,429 --> 00:51:40,682
creates dietary guidelines
for Americans.

1040
00:51:40,723 --> 00:51:43,643
The committee who writes
these guidelines has been
made up of individuals

1041
00:51:43,685 --> 00:51:46,479
who have received money from
McDonald's, the National
Dairy Council,

1042
00:51:46,521 --> 00:51:48,773
the American Meat Institute,
the National Dairy Board,

1043
00:51:48,815 --> 00:51:51,985
the National Livestock and
Meat Board, the American
Egg Board, Dannon,

1044
00:51:52,027 --> 00:51:55,864
candy and sugar companies,
Coca Cola and Anheuser,
just to name a few.

1045
00:51:55,905 --> 00:51:58,407
Which means we are getting
our dietary recommendations

1046
00:51:58,449 --> 00:52:00,409
from the very industries
that are killing us.

1047
00:52:00,451 --> 00:52:04,914
And when they,
the USDA, makes a pyramid
or a Power Plate

1048
00:52:04,956 --> 00:52:07,000
every five years for
the American public,

1049
00:52:07,042 --> 00:52:09,293
they're gonna guarantee
that on that plate

1050
00:52:09,335 --> 00:52:12,088
are gonna be foods,
which when consumed,

1051
00:52:12,129 --> 00:52:16,092
will result in millions
of Americans perishing.

1052
00:52:16,133 --> 00:52:19,512
The USDA, which is
supposed to be protecting us,
has two missions.

1053
00:52:19,554 --> 00:52:23,140
It's supposed to protect us,
and it's supposed to
protect the producer.

1054
00:52:23,182 --> 00:52:25,852
And guess what, when those
two come head to head,

1055
00:52:25,894 --> 00:52:27,687
they usually choose
the producer.

1056
00:52:27,729 --> 00:52:30,189
[Kip] In internal documents
uncovered by Dr. Greger,

1057
00:52:30,231 --> 00:52:32,942
the USDA admitted that eggs
cannot legally be called

1058
00:52:32,984 --> 00:52:35,152
nutritious, low fat,
part of a balanced diet,

1059
00:52:35,194 --> 00:52:39,407
low calorie, healthful,
healthy, can't say it's
good for you or, even safe.

1060
00:52:39,448 --> 00:52:40,909
Yet they still
promote these products

1061
00:52:40,950 --> 00:52:43,953
to the American people through
federal checkoff programs.

1062
00:52:43,995 --> 00:52:45,538
If you ask somebody
if they have heard

1063
00:52:45,580 --> 00:52:47,749
of a checkoff program,
the odds are they haven't,

1064
00:52:47,790 --> 00:52:51,836
although daily, they
are seeing the messaging
that these programs produce.

1065
00:52:51,878 --> 00:52:53,880
So, checkoff programs
are responsible

1066
00:52:53,922 --> 00:52:57,092
for the messages that we
see on TV, on the Internet,

1067
00:52:57,133 --> 00:52:59,510
on buzz billboards and
magazines that say things like,

1068
00:52:59,552 --> 00:53:02,680
"Milk, it does a body good,"
or "milk life.

1069
00:53:02,722 --> 00:53:05,892
Beef, it's what's for dinner.
Pork, be inspired.

1070
00:53:05,934 --> 00:53:07,602
The incredible edible egg."

1071
00:53:07,643 --> 00:53:11,606
The dairy checkoff
program gave $12 million

1072
00:53:11,647 --> 00:53:15,234
to Domino's to just market
cheese-heavy product.

1073
00:53:15,276 --> 00:53:17,112
And this is the USDA,
this is the government.

1074
00:53:17,153 --> 00:53:19,864
If you've seen those ads
for the Pizza Hut pizza,

1075
00:53:19,906 --> 00:53:22,700
the stuffed crust
or a pound of cheese.

1076
00:53:22,742 --> 00:53:26,328
Those are all government
advertising schemes
for the industry.

1077
00:53:26,370 --> 00:53:31,084
How can we put more cheese
on beef? How can we put
more milk in a coffee?

1078
00:53:31,126 --> 00:53:34,003
Things like that
to just drive consumption

1079
00:53:34,045 --> 00:53:37,339
of these just unbelievably
unhealthful products.

1080
00:53:37,381 --> 00:53:41,677
So, McDonald's, for instance,
has six people staffed
full-time,

1081
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:43,387
according to records we found,

1082
00:53:43,429 --> 00:53:46,975
whose salaries are paid for
by this government program

1083
00:53:47,016 --> 00:53:50,061
but, funded by the producers
who are regulated by it.

1084
00:53:50,103 --> 00:53:52,855
And these six people sit there
at McDonald's headquarters

1085
00:53:52,897 --> 00:53:54,941
and just come up with ideas.

1086
00:53:56,192 --> 00:54:00,071
Triple cheese decker
McCheese muffin

1087
00:54:00,113 --> 00:54:03,158
stuffed bacon cheese slider?

1088
00:54:05,576 --> 00:54:06,911
With extra cheese?

1089
00:54:06,953 --> 00:54:08,204
- Nice!
- Yes!

1090
00:54:08,245 --> 00:54:10,832
You don't think of it
on a day-to-day basis

1091
00:54:10,873 --> 00:54:12,625
that these are
government programs.

1092
00:54:12,667 --> 00:54:15,252
The Wendy's Bacon
Double Cheeseburger.

1093
00:54:16,045 --> 00:54:17,922
Government program.

1094
00:54:17,964 --> 00:54:19,882
The steak fajita
at Dunkin' Donuts.

1095
00:54:20,633 --> 00:54:22,593
Government program.

1096
00:54:22,635 --> 00:54:26,555
You would just never think
that this just pure garbage
from a food standpoint,

1097
00:54:26,597 --> 00:54:29,475
is coming from
a federally-funded program.

1098
00:54:29,517 --> 00:54:33,312
That's one of the things
that makes checkoffs
so incredibly creepy,

1099
00:54:33,354 --> 00:54:37,483
is that it is our government
telling us eat more beef,
drink more milk,

1100
00:54:37,525 --> 00:54:39,902
eat more cheese, eat more pork.

1101
00:54:39,944 --> 00:54:42,155
One of the very effective
ways that the dairy industry

1102
00:54:42,197 --> 00:54:46,408
promotes its products
is to reach children

1103
00:54:46,450 --> 00:54:48,494
because kids are impressionable,

1104
00:54:48,536 --> 00:54:50,872
they're gonna be consumers
for their entire lives,

1105
00:54:50,913 --> 00:54:52,915
and you might as well get
'em while they're young.

1106
00:54:52,957 --> 00:54:57,962
So, dairy spends at least $50
million promoting its products
in public schools

1107
00:54:58,004 --> 00:55:00,589
throughout the country
with posters,

1108
00:55:00,631 --> 00:55:02,967
with people with milk mustaches

1109
00:55:03,009 --> 00:55:05,803
and messages like "Milk,
it does the body good,"

1110
00:55:05,845 --> 00:55:07,555
or "milk life."

1111
00:55:07,596 --> 00:55:09,932
Targeting young people,
like the tobacco industry

1112
00:55:09,974 --> 00:55:14,270
had to keep replacing their
customers who were dying
with new customers.

1113
00:55:14,311 --> 00:55:16,939
Meat industry knows they
have to target young people.

1114
00:55:16,981 --> 00:55:18,858
That's why we have these
foods in schools

1115
00:55:18,900 --> 00:55:21,110
and marketing messages at
a younger and younger age

1116
00:55:21,152 --> 00:55:24,321
for kids to get hooked on
all the wrong kinds of foods.

1117
00:55:24,363 --> 00:55:26,115
So, there's
all kinds of parallels.

1118
00:55:26,157 --> 00:55:29,285
School districts
where processed meats
are all over the place,

1119
00:55:29,326 --> 00:55:33,748
maybe it's gonna be bacon on
the menu, sausage, hotdogs
or pepperoni pizza.

1120
00:55:33,789 --> 00:55:35,374
Any of those things
are processed meats,

1121
00:55:35,416 --> 00:55:37,668
and those are pretty much
the worst of the worst

1122
00:55:37,710 --> 00:55:39,837
with a direct link
to colon cancer.

1123
00:55:39,879 --> 00:55:44,092
And yet you have every day in
the schools meal items with
processed meats.

1124
00:55:44,133 --> 00:55:46,094
[Kip] If the surgeon
general puts warning labels

1125
00:55:46,135 --> 00:55:48,179
on tobacco because of
their cancer risk,

1126
00:55:48,221 --> 00:55:52,391
why aren't the same
warning labels on meat?

1127
00:55:52,433 --> 00:55:57,521
Based on the publicly available
data, we know they spend at
least $557 million

1128
00:55:57,563 --> 00:55:59,857
promoting their goods
through checkoff programs.

1129
00:55:59,899 --> 00:56:04,153
We know that they spend
at least $138 million
lobbying Congress.

1130
00:56:04,195 --> 00:56:06,530
We expect that they spend
a good deal more than that

1131
00:56:06,572 --> 00:56:09,284
in figures that simply
aren't publicly disclosed.

1132
00:56:09,325 --> 00:56:11,327
[Kip] The industry's
lobbying power is so strong

1133
00:56:11,368 --> 00:56:13,471
that they can create laws
and push through legislation

1134
00:56:13,495 --> 00:56:15,998
that doesn't benefit
Americans in any way,

1135
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:18,667
such as ag-gag laws that
criminalize whistle-blowing

1136
00:56:18,709 --> 00:56:21,045
or photographing abuses
by this industry.

1137
00:56:21,087 --> 00:56:23,339
Activists in the US can
be charged as terrorists

1138
00:56:23,380 --> 00:56:26,383
for disrupting
the profits of any business
that uses animals,

1139
00:56:26,425 --> 00:56:30,805
under the Animal Enterprise
Terrorism Act, to the
even more ridiculous ones like

1140
00:56:30,846 --> 00:56:33,141
cheeseburger laws.

1141
00:56:33,182 --> 00:56:36,560
A cheeseburger law
is a law that says
a plaintiff cannot recover

1142
00:56:36,602 --> 00:56:39,355
against a manufacturer,
distributor or, retailer,

1143
00:56:39,396 --> 00:56:42,775
on the theory that the food
made the plaintiff obese

1144
00:56:42,817 --> 00:56:45,778
or caused
an obesity related disease.

1145
00:56:45,820 --> 00:56:48,697
Cheeseburger laws
are a direct response

1146
00:56:48,739 --> 00:56:51,909
to a problem that the
tobacco industry has had.

1147
00:56:51,951 --> 00:56:56,497
Big Tobacco has paid
$400 billion to state
Medicaid programs.

1148
00:56:56,538 --> 00:56:58,707
Cheeseburger laws
proponents say,

1149
00:56:58,749 --> 00:57:00,835
"We don't want to see the
same kind of thing happen

1150
00:57:00,876 --> 00:57:02,461
"to the meat
and dairy industries."

1151
00:57:02,503 --> 00:57:05,089
The fact that these laws are
based on a model template

1152
00:57:05,131 --> 00:57:07,466
called a Commonsense
Consumption Act

1153
00:57:07,508 --> 00:57:10,345
is actually ironic because
what they're saying is

1154
00:57:10,386 --> 00:57:12,471
you, the consumer, should
have the common sense

1155
00:57:12,513 --> 00:57:15,308
to know that
our food is bad for you.

1156
00:57:15,350 --> 00:57:18,936
I've often typified the
meat industry to people who

1157
00:57:18,978 --> 00:57:21,647
maybe don't understand
its power and reach,

1158
00:57:21,689 --> 00:57:25,901
as it's got all the money of
Big Tobacco and Big Pharma,

1159
00:57:25,943 --> 00:57:29,530
and it has the personality of
the National Rifle Association.

1160
00:57:29,571 --> 00:57:34,994
So, any little thing
that comes up, man,
they beat it to death.

1161
00:57:35,036 --> 00:57:37,079
[Kip] Robert Martin
wasn't exaggerating.

1162
00:57:37,121 --> 00:57:39,248
When the profits of the egg
industry were threatened

1163
00:57:39,290 --> 00:57:41,750
by egg alternative company
Hampton Creek Foods,

1164
00:57:41,792 --> 00:57:45,921
extremely disturbing emails
were uncovered by Ryan
Shapiro and Jeffrey Light.

1165
00:57:45,963 --> 00:57:49,050
We uncovered
documents demonstrating
the American Egg Board

1166
00:57:49,091 --> 00:57:52,845
considers Hampton Creek, quote
"a crisis and major threat

1167
00:57:52,887 --> 00:57:55,014
"to the future of the
American egg industry."

1168
00:57:55,056 --> 00:57:57,183
The American Egg Board
considers a successful

1169
00:57:57,225 --> 00:57:59,852
egg replacer company
to be such a threat

1170
00:57:59,894 --> 00:58:02,688
that they joke on their
government email addresses

1171
00:58:02,730 --> 00:58:05,024
about murdering the CEO.

1172
00:58:05,066 --> 00:58:08,361
[Kip] In internal government
emails with the heads of
the egg industry,

1173
00:58:08,403 --> 00:58:13,366
they suggest having the
CEO of Hampton Creek,
Josh Tetrick, murdered,

1174
00:58:13,408 --> 00:58:17,494
including a menacing email
from executive director
of the American Egg Board.

1175
00:58:23,042 --> 00:58:25,420
The meat producers
don't have to pay for

1176
00:58:25,461 --> 00:58:28,881
the heart disease or
the environmental destruction

1177
00:58:28,923 --> 00:58:33,135
or any of the other
externalities, as economists
call them,

1178
00:58:33,177 --> 00:58:35,763
that their products cause.

1179
00:58:35,804 --> 00:58:38,433
Then there's a whole
pharmaceutical aspect of it

1180
00:58:38,474 --> 00:58:41,185
and the fact that
there's a very strong
pharmaceutical industry

1181
00:58:41,227 --> 00:58:45,022
and lobby that has
a huge stake in
preserving the status quo.

1182
00:58:45,064 --> 00:58:46,482
These chronic diseases,

1183
00:58:46,523 --> 00:58:49,277
these are the cash cows of
the pharmaceutical industry.

1184
00:58:49,318 --> 00:58:53,572
We have a $5 billion stent
industry. Do they ever want
to see that go away?

1185
00:58:53,614 --> 00:58:56,492
We've got a $35 billion
statin drug industry.

1186
00:58:56,533 --> 00:58:58,119
Do they ever want
to see that go away?

1187
00:58:58,160 --> 00:58:59,954
I'm talking about the
pharmaceutical industry

1188
00:58:59,995 --> 00:59:02,790
effectively controls
what doctors are told.

1189
00:59:02,831 --> 00:59:05,167
Most research isn't
put into prevention.

1190
00:59:05,209 --> 00:59:08,212
It's put into the medication
that we might use

1191
00:59:08,254 --> 00:59:10,298
for that particular disease.

1192
00:59:10,339 --> 00:59:13,968
I'm on two different
high blood pressure medicines.

1193
00:59:14,009 --> 00:59:16,512
Six asthma type medicines.

1194
00:59:16,553 --> 00:59:19,848
Even after four years of shots.

1195
00:59:19,890 --> 00:59:21,892
And another medicine
to help take care

1196
00:59:21,934 --> 00:59:24,686
of side effects from some
of those medicines.

1197
00:59:24,728 --> 00:59:28,483
I'm on high level
anti-depressants.

1198
00:59:28,524 --> 00:59:32,487
A couple of different pain meds
for my back and hips.

1199
00:59:32,528 --> 00:59:34,947
I'm taking about 16 drugs.

1200
00:59:34,989 --> 00:59:37,699
Not counting the insulin
in the morning.

1201
00:59:37,741 --> 00:59:42,497
I take insulin in the morning,
insulin at night, 32-34 units,

1202
00:59:43,414 --> 00:59:44,999
of insulin.

1203
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:47,001
Lantus to be exact.

1204
00:59:47,042 --> 00:59:50,254
Some of these meds
are for diabetes.

1205
00:59:50,296 --> 00:59:51,797
This is for peeing.

1206
00:59:51,839 --> 00:59:54,342
I have to use this
for my prostrate.

1207
00:59:54,383 --> 00:59:56,802
And then I have to
use this for the heart.

1208
00:59:56,844 --> 00:59:59,680
And I have to use this
for blood pressure.

1209
00:59:59,721 --> 01:00:03,642
And it's just on and on and on.

1210
01:00:03,684 --> 01:00:06,521
The doctors are telling me
this is what I gotta do
for my whole life.

1211
01:00:06,562 --> 01:00:10,525
And it's frustrating
and very stressful.

1212
01:00:10,566 --> 01:00:13,902
And I don't know how long
my liver is gonna last
taking all this stuff.

1213
01:00:13,944 --> 01:00:17,239
Under conventional medical
treatment, whether it be for
autoimmune disease

1214
01:00:17,281 --> 01:00:20,617
or even conditions like high
blood pressure or, diabetes,

1215
01:00:20,659 --> 01:00:23,204
you're told that
you have to take drugs.

1216
01:00:23,245 --> 01:00:25,789
And not just for a week
or a month or, a year,

1217
01:00:25,831 --> 01:00:28,543
you're told you have
to take drugs forever.

1218
01:00:28,584 --> 01:00:31,837
You're guaranteed that if you
follow your doctor's advice,

1219
01:00:31,879 --> 01:00:33,255
you'll be sick forever.

1220
01:00:33,297 --> 01:00:35,216
You'll never get well.

1221
01:00:35,257 --> 01:00:37,009
That's the guarantee.

1222
01:00:37,051 --> 01:00:40,971
Because the strategies are
all about manipulating
the symptoms,

1223
01:00:41,013 --> 01:00:42,723
not dealing with
the underlying cause.

1224
01:00:42,764 --> 01:00:45,351
You come in
with that diagnosis,
you get a bunch of pills

1225
01:00:45,393 --> 01:00:47,686
that have nothing to do
with the disease causation.

1226
01:00:47,728 --> 01:00:51,566
Or you get these procedures
that have nothing to do
with disease causation.

1227
01:00:51,607 --> 01:00:54,068
It's a deception to say
this pill will help you

1228
01:00:54,109 --> 01:00:57,613
unclog your arteries, this one
will save you from a stroke,
no, it doesn't.

1229
01:00:57,654 --> 01:00:59,656
The people who take
the statins, et cetera,

1230
01:00:59,698 --> 01:01:02,410
they still get
their heart attacks,
they still get their strokes.

1231
01:01:02,451 --> 01:01:05,621
This does not reverse disease.
This does not make
plaque smaller.

1232
01:01:05,662 --> 01:01:08,707
This is a front
of massive proportions.

1233
01:01:08,749 --> 01:01:12,628
[Kip] In the US, treating
chronic disease, such as heart
disease, cancer and diabetes

1234
01:01:12,669 --> 01:01:16,298
is a $1.5 trillion industry.

1235
01:01:16,340 --> 01:01:21,011
That's the GDP equivalent
of the 10th richest country
in the world.

1236
01:01:21,053 --> 01:01:24,181
I went back and dug
deeper into the health
organizations' funding,

1237
01:01:24,223 --> 01:01:26,058
and there it was again.

1238
01:01:26,100 --> 01:01:28,519
These organizations were
accepting millions of dollars

1239
01:01:28,561 --> 01:01:31,772
from pharmaceutical
companies that are making
billions of dollars

1240
01:01:31,813 --> 01:01:36,277
from the very same diseases
these health groups are
supposedly trying to end.

1241
01:01:36,318 --> 01:01:38,487
It seemed like a major
conflict of interest,

1242
01:01:38,529 --> 01:01:41,616
unless ending these diseases
isn't really the goal.

1243
01:01:41,657 --> 01:01:43,576
The pharmaceutical
industry spends more money

1244
01:01:43,618 --> 01:01:46,036
on lobbying than any
other single industry.

1245
01:01:46,078 --> 01:01:47,455
Just like animal agriculture,

1246
01:01:47,496 --> 01:01:49,182
they are so powerful,
they write their own laws

1247
01:01:49,206 --> 01:01:52,293
that have had activists
imprisoned to silence them.

1248
01:01:52,334 --> 01:01:54,962
The government's in bed
with anyone that gives
them the most money,

1249
01:01:55,003 --> 01:01:58,882
which is the pharmaceutical
industry, which is
the animal ag industries,

1250
01:01:58,924 --> 01:02:00,842
they are pumping the
government full of money

1251
01:02:00,884 --> 01:02:03,614
and resources, and in return,
the government's giving
them want they want.

1252
01:02:03,638 --> 01:02:07,182
Subsidies, imprisoning
activists that go against them,

1253
01:02:07,224 --> 01:02:09,602
and I think it's quite
telling that these industries

1254
01:02:09,644 --> 01:02:13,021
are working so hard
and spending so much money

1255
01:02:13,063 --> 01:02:15,899
to criminalize people for
simply taking a picture,

1256
01:02:15,941 --> 01:02:18,777
for simply recording
what's going on
inside these facilities

1257
01:02:18,819 --> 01:02:20,862
and making it
known to the public.

1258
01:02:20,904 --> 01:02:23,240
They're behind walls,
they're underground.

1259
01:02:23,282 --> 01:02:26,201
They're in these secret
facilities that no one
knows about,

1260
01:02:26,243 --> 01:02:28,496
but if they did, they would
be shocked and outraged.

1261
01:02:28,537 --> 01:02:31,582
And I think people would
not want to think that their

1262
01:02:31,624 --> 01:02:34,293
pharmaceuticals,
that their food are coming
from these places.

1263
01:02:34,335 --> 01:02:37,672
And that's why I think it's
such, the ag-gag laws
are what they are

1264
01:02:37,713 --> 01:02:41,049
is because they are
trying to silence people
into not speaking out

1265
01:02:41,091 --> 01:02:42,843
and not showing the truth.

1266
01:02:42,884 --> 01:02:44,970
[Kip] I finally realized
how deep the collusion

1267
01:02:45,012 --> 01:02:47,306
truly is between government
and these industries.

1268
01:02:47,348 --> 01:02:49,558
And how dangerous
it could be to expose them.

1269
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:52,936
These concerns intensified
after meeting the USDA
whistle-blowerrrr

1270
01:02:52,978 --> 01:02:55,690
who revealed mad cow disease
in the US meat supply.

1271
01:02:55,731 --> 01:02:57,858
USDA operates like the military.

1272
01:02:57,899 --> 01:02:59,818
So, when I got on TV
and that right away,

1273
01:02:59,860 --> 01:03:03,322
USDA sent out memos to
all the veterinarians
and food inspectors,

1274
01:03:03,364 --> 01:03:07,535
"If anybody from the media
ever contacts you,
do not talk to them.

1275
01:03:07,576 --> 01:03:10,996
Refer 'em to Washington DC,
and we will talk to them."

1276
01:03:11,038 --> 01:03:13,081
So, right away,
it shut up everybody.

1277
01:03:13,123 --> 01:03:16,084
American public should be
very concerned about this.

1278
01:03:16,126 --> 01:03:18,086
What's going on with USDA?

1279
01:03:18,128 --> 01:03:19,630
Here in the United States,

1280
01:03:19,672 --> 01:03:22,966
we have at least four
cases of mad cow disease,

1281
01:03:23,008 --> 01:03:25,069
but, I'm almost positive
there's more cases than that,

1282
01:03:25,093 --> 01:03:26,655
but, the government isn't
looking for it.

1283
01:03:26,679 --> 01:03:28,156
What you're saying
is that there could be

1284
01:03:28,180 --> 01:03:30,391
already mad cow's disease
in humans.

1285
01:03:30,432 --> 01:03:32,809
Right, and I think a lot
of it was misdiagnosed.

1286
01:03:32,851 --> 01:03:34,811
With the Alzheimer's
or dementia,

1287
01:03:34,853 --> 01:03:37,189
it takes several years
you see the progression,

1288
01:03:37,231 --> 01:03:39,525
but, to make it easier, these
doctors just sign off on it

1289
01:03:39,567 --> 01:03:41,318
as dementia or, Alzheimer's

1290
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:43,278
without actually taking
a biopsy of the brain

1291
01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:46,741
to see if it's that or is it
actually a prion disease

1292
01:03:46,782 --> 01:03:49,744
like Creutzfeldt-Jacob
disease or, mad cow disease.

1293
01:03:49,785 --> 01:03:52,246
Do you think
it's safe to eat meat?

1294
01:03:52,287 --> 01:03:54,707
I personally don't
think it's safe to eat it

1295
01:03:54,749 --> 01:03:57,918
because of the fact how the
line speeds are increasing

1296
01:03:57,959 --> 01:04:00,879
and also our inspectors are
not well trained enough.

1297
01:04:00,921 --> 01:04:05,008
At the present time, the line
speed now is going about
220 cows an hour.

1298
01:04:05,050 --> 01:04:08,429
That gives you about,
somewheres around four
cows per minute.

1299
01:04:08,470 --> 01:04:11,139
So, that's 15 seconds per cow.

1300
01:04:11,181 --> 01:04:12,600
These dangerous slaughter speeds

1301
01:04:12,641 --> 01:04:15,561
means that animal waste
ends up everywhere.

1302
01:04:15,603 --> 01:04:19,690
Testing shows 88% of pork
chops are contaminated
with fecal bacteria.

1303
01:04:19,732 --> 01:04:23,318
90% of ground beef and 95%
of chicken breast sampled

1304
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:25,654
contained animal waste bacteria.

1305
01:04:25,696 --> 01:04:28,699
There is nothing clean
about eating this way.

1306
01:04:28,741 --> 01:04:32,536
But, it just isn't waste,
it's also
pus-filled infections.

1307
01:04:32,578 --> 01:04:33,829
You could see there's a bump

1308
01:04:33,870 --> 01:04:37,207
or some kind of abscess
underneath the hide.

1309
01:04:37,249 --> 01:04:39,585
Most of the time when
the hide's pulled off,

1310
01:04:39,627 --> 01:04:44,339
either that will open up the
abscess and the the pus will
come out,

1311
01:04:44,381 --> 01:04:47,342
or if it's deep-seated,
when the inspectors
are doing their work

1312
01:04:47,384 --> 01:04:49,762
or the company employees,
they might stick their knife

1313
01:04:49,804 --> 01:04:54,057
into an abscess, and it
explodes all over the place.

1314
01:04:54,099 --> 01:04:57,478
[Kip] I had heard enough.
I was utterly disgusted
by the corruption,

1315
01:04:57,519 --> 01:05:01,106
the greed, the disease
and the abuse I was
learning about.

1316
01:05:01,148 --> 01:05:04,860
The very animals
we were killing were
killing us and the planet.

1317
01:05:04,901 --> 01:05:08,489
But, so many people eat meat
and dairy every day of
their lives.

1318
01:05:08,530 --> 01:05:11,074
And we are so concerned
about getting enough protein.

1319
01:05:11,116 --> 01:05:13,952
[Kip] Do we have to eat meat
to get complete protein?

1320
01:05:13,994 --> 01:05:16,204
Oh, my God, oh my God.

1321
01:05:16,246 --> 01:05:18,749
You want me to jump off this
building, don't you now?

1322
01:05:18,791 --> 01:05:23,462
Well first of all,
all protein is made by plants.

1323
01:05:23,504 --> 01:05:25,213
I'll state that again
for the record.

1324
01:05:25,255 --> 01:05:29,009
All protein is initially
made by plants, all of it.

1325
01:05:29,050 --> 01:05:32,554
And it is not necessary
to eat animal tissue

1326
01:05:32,596 --> 01:05:34,348
in order to get protein.

1327
01:05:34,389 --> 01:05:39,269
Only plants have the ability
to actually take nitrogen
from the air,

1328
01:05:39,311 --> 01:05:41,229
break those molecules apart

1329
01:05:41,271 --> 01:05:45,150
and incorporate that nitrogen
into amino acids and
then make protein.

1330
01:05:45,192 --> 01:05:49,029
Any protein you get from an
animal is simply recycled
plant protein.

1331
01:05:49,070 --> 01:05:52,324
If you ate a diet that
was calorically adequate

1332
01:05:52,366 --> 01:05:55,369
and even things like brown rice
and broccoli and you got
enough of it,

1333
01:05:55,410 --> 01:05:58,079
you'd get enough,
both quantity
and quality of protein.

1334
01:05:58,121 --> 01:05:59,832
2,000 calories of
brown rice and broccoli

1335
01:05:59,874 --> 01:06:02,167
is gonna be about 80
grams of protein a day,

1336
01:06:02,209 --> 01:06:04,920
including the essential
amino acids that you need

1337
01:06:04,961 --> 01:06:06,672
in order to maintain
optimum health.

1338
01:06:06,714 --> 01:06:11,009
Greens are loaded with protein.
Beans are loaded with protein.

1339
01:06:11,051 --> 01:06:13,011
Vegetables are loaded
with protein.

1340
01:06:13,053 --> 01:06:16,097
You really want to get
your protein from plants

1341
01:06:16,139 --> 01:06:20,853
because plant proteins
have a much more beneficial
effect on our physiology.

1342
01:06:20,895 --> 01:06:22,437
The funny thing about protein is

1343
01:06:22,479 --> 01:06:25,440
most Americans get about
twice the amount they need.

1344
01:06:25,482 --> 01:06:28,777
Most Americans get
less than half the amount
of fiber they need.

1345
01:06:28,819 --> 01:06:31,238
But, the conversation tends
to always be about protein,

1346
01:06:31,279 --> 01:06:34,199
so in my mind, it's just this
magical marketing campaign

1347
01:06:34,241 --> 01:06:36,493
that protein has taken
on over the decades.

1348
01:06:36,535 --> 01:06:38,412
The question is not
where to get your protein,

1349
01:06:38,453 --> 01:06:40,121
it's where do you
get your fiber?

1350
01:06:40,163 --> 01:06:43,542
I have never
in my professional career
seen a protein deficiency.

1351
01:06:43,584 --> 01:06:46,879
I have never seen someone
come in eating normal
amounts of calories

1352
01:06:46,921 --> 01:06:49,381
and they're protein deficient.
You just don't see that.

1353
01:06:49,423 --> 01:06:53,343
So, human milk has the
lowest protein content ever

1354
01:06:53,385 --> 01:06:55,429
in any species ever tested.

1355
01:06:55,470 --> 01:06:59,892
That's the fluid that's
been designed by evolution
over millions of years.

1356
01:06:59,934 --> 01:07:03,896
And that's just
like the perfect food
for human babies.

1357
01:07:03,938 --> 01:07:06,648
Perfect food,
lowest protein content,

1358
01:07:06,690 --> 01:07:10,110
any other mammal,
and so gives a sense of
kinda protein requirements...

1359
01:07:10,151 --> 01:07:12,571
- It's lower than...
- Anything, so look...

1360
01:07:12,613 --> 01:07:15,574
- Lower protein than even...
- Than rat milk, ape milk.

1361
01:07:15,616 --> 01:07:18,869
-Really?
-Donkey milk, any milk
that's ever been tested.

1362
01:07:18,911 --> 01:07:22,330
And you hear this a lot
in body builders who are
like, "Well, I need

1363
01:07:22,372 --> 01:07:25,960
chicken, or, I need
fish to be strong,
to build muscle tissue."

1364
01:07:26,835 --> 01:07:28,378
That is utter nonsense.

1365
01:07:28,420 --> 01:07:31,506
The largest, strongest
terrestrial animals
on the planet

1366
01:07:31,548 --> 01:07:33,383
are all herbivores.

1367
01:07:33,425 --> 01:07:36,261
The biggest, strongest
animals are all herbivores.

1368
01:07:36,303 --> 01:07:38,764
When we bring in people
and they're on meaty diets

1369
01:07:38,806 --> 01:07:40,408
and we transition them
to a plant-based diet,

1370
01:07:40,432 --> 01:07:42,058
we always track
what they're eating.

1371
01:07:42,100 --> 01:07:44,227
Their vitamin intake goes up.

1372
01:07:44,269 --> 01:07:47,272
Their nutrition overall goes
up, dramatically better.

1373
01:07:47,314 --> 01:07:49,817
And these same people
might worry in advance,

1374
01:07:49,858 --> 01:07:52,486
"Will I get the nutrition
that I need on
a plant-based diet?"

1375
01:07:52,527 --> 01:07:54,547
The fact is,
you're not getting
the nutrition you need

1376
01:07:54,571 --> 01:07:56,490
on a meat-based diet,

1377
01:07:56,531 --> 01:07:59,093
and you're gonna get
dramatically better nutrition
on a plant-based diet.

1378
01:07:59,117 --> 01:08:04,414
For an average-sized guy
like myself, I need about
56 grams of protein a day.

1379
01:08:04,456 --> 01:08:07,876
That's optimum,
probably I really need
30 to 40 grams a day.

1380
01:08:07,918 --> 01:08:09,711
Diets that are really
high in these protein

1381
01:08:09,753 --> 01:08:13,173
create diabetes,
create heart disease,
create cancer,

1382
01:08:13,214 --> 01:08:16,134
create the diseases
that I'm treating
on a daily basis.

1383
01:08:16,176 --> 01:08:19,554
[Kip] But, this is the opposite
of what all the high-protein
diet fads say.

1384
01:08:19,596 --> 01:08:23,183
The food you eat
determines the bacteria
that live in your gut.

1385
01:08:23,224 --> 01:08:25,185
While you eat animal flesh
every day,

1386
01:08:25,226 --> 01:08:29,397
you are summoning up
bacteria that eat carnitine.

1387
01:08:29,439 --> 01:08:32,317
And those bacteria will
turn that carnitine

1388
01:08:32,359 --> 01:08:35,070
into a molecule
called trimethylamine.

1389
01:08:35,111 --> 01:08:38,573
Your liver then turns that
into trimethylamine oxide.

1390
01:08:38,615 --> 01:08:40,158
That's a molecule from hell.

1391
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:43,328
That molecule
drives cholesterol
into the artery walls.

1392
01:08:43,370 --> 01:08:46,164
And the people who will
consume this flesh-based diet

1393
01:08:46,206 --> 01:08:48,416
are contributing
to plaque building up,

1394
01:08:48,458 --> 01:08:51,211
they may lose weight on
this diet and that's good,

1395
01:08:51,252 --> 01:08:54,464
but, what's happening inside
your arteries, Paleo friends?

1396
01:08:54,506 --> 01:08:56,591
What's happening is that
plaque is building up,

1397
01:08:56,633 --> 01:08:59,344
and these are the folks who
drop dead at the gym at 39.

1398
01:08:59,386 --> 01:09:01,763
Boy, he was lean
and he looked really good,

1399
01:09:01,805 --> 01:09:05,684
but, where is that cholesterol
going? It's going into your
artery walls.

1400
01:09:05,726 --> 01:09:10,022
So, I believe these Paleo
folks are setting them-self
up for an epidemic

1401
01:09:10,064 --> 01:09:14,651
of clogged arteries,
colon cancers,
autoimmune diseases.

1402
01:09:14,693 --> 01:09:18,196
This is not a healthy diet.
We are not carnivorous apes.

1403
01:09:18,238 --> 01:09:20,365
Humans' closest
living relatives are chimps

1404
01:09:20,407 --> 01:09:22,910
who get 97 percent of
their calories from plants

1405
01:09:22,951 --> 01:09:25,495
and the remaining three percent
mostly from insects.

1406
01:09:25,537 --> 01:09:27,789
Comparing the anatomy of
true omnivores like bears

1407
01:09:27,831 --> 01:09:30,709
who eat both meat and plants
to frugivores like primates

1408
01:09:30,751 --> 01:09:34,337
who eat almost exclusively
plants, the differences
are pretty clear.

1409
01:09:34,379 --> 01:09:36,715
Frugivore teeth have flat
molars for chewing plants,

1410
01:09:36,757 --> 01:09:40,135
where omnivore teeth
are serrated for stabbing
and tearing flesh.

1411
01:09:40,176 --> 01:09:43,263
Frugivore jaws can
move forward and back
and side to side,

1412
01:09:43,304 --> 01:09:45,515
omnivore jaws cannot.

1413
01:09:45,557 --> 01:09:48,828
Omnivores have much stronger
stomach acid for digesting
meat compared to less acidic

1414
01:09:48,852 --> 01:09:50,771
stomach acid of frugivores.

1415
01:09:50,812 --> 01:09:52,522
The intestines of frugivores
is nine times

1416
01:09:52,564 --> 01:09:55,442
their body length compared
to three times for omnivores.

1417
01:09:55,483 --> 01:09:57,277
This is because meat
will putrefy in the gut

1418
01:09:57,318 --> 01:09:59,154
unless it is
moved through quickly.

1419
01:09:59,195 --> 01:10:01,115
If humans were
indeed true omnivores,

1420
01:10:01,156 --> 01:10:04,785
we would need to change
our physiology and
appearance quite a lot.

1421
01:10:04,826 --> 01:10:07,662
But, we fit every
requirement of a frugivore.

1422
01:10:07,704 --> 01:10:11,458
We may behave like omnivores,
but, anatomically,
we're frugivores.

1423
01:10:11,499 --> 01:10:15,587
Human beings, unlike
bears and raccoons
and to some extent, dogs,

1424
01:10:15,629 --> 01:10:19,174
don't have that mixed
anatomy and physiology

1425
01:10:19,215 --> 01:10:23,219
that you see in the true
omnivores, and thus,
we are not true omnivores.

1426
01:10:23,261 --> 01:10:26,974
In humans, the canines
have become really small

1427
01:10:27,015 --> 01:10:31,061
and rounded
and actually function
like accessory incisors.

1428
01:10:31,103 --> 01:10:33,313
They're utterly useless
for ripping and tearing

1429
01:10:33,354 --> 01:10:35,190
anything other than an envelope.

1430
01:10:35,231 --> 01:10:38,819
So, the idea that the mere
presence of the canine

1431
01:10:38,860 --> 01:10:41,571
somehow means
that we're supposed
to eat meat is silly.

1432
01:10:41,613 --> 01:10:42,864
[Kip] He was right.

1433
01:10:42,906 --> 01:10:44,383
I always thought my canines
were for meat,

1434
01:10:44,407 --> 01:10:46,743
but, what kind of animal could
actually kill and eat raw

1435
01:10:46,785 --> 01:10:48,536
with these tiny teeth?

1436
01:10:48,578 --> 01:10:50,538
The thought alone
was disgusting.

1437
01:10:50,580 --> 01:10:53,125
I mean, everybody loves
a smoothie made with fruit

1438
01:10:53,167 --> 01:10:55,043
and even some vegetables.

1439
01:10:55,085 --> 01:10:59,380
But, if you think about
putting a fish or a piece
of beef in a blender

1440
01:10:59,422 --> 01:11:04,052
and grinding it up,
the thought is
absolutely repulsive.

1441
01:11:04,094 --> 01:11:05,655
[Kip] All these diseases
I had learned about

1442
01:11:05,679 --> 01:11:08,306
were from eating a diet our
body wasn't designed for.

1443
01:11:08,348 --> 01:11:09,993
What would happen if we
started eating a diet

1444
01:11:10,017 --> 01:11:12,268
our body actually was
designed for?

1445
01:11:12,310 --> 01:11:16,439
The data is crystal clear,
that you can stop and
reverse heart disease

1446
01:11:16,481 --> 01:11:18,150
with plant-based diets,

1447
01:11:18,192 --> 01:11:20,986
scientifically shown,
I've seen it
in my own patients.

1448
01:11:21,028 --> 01:11:23,321
People who adopt low
fat plant-based diets

1449
01:11:23,363 --> 01:11:25,699
can actually reverse
their heart disease,

1450
01:11:25,740 --> 01:11:27,993
and that literally means
watching the plaque

1451
01:11:28,035 --> 01:11:30,662
start to go away,
something they didn't
think could happen.

1452
01:11:30,704 --> 01:11:31,997
My experience with patients is

1453
01:11:32,039 --> 01:11:33,957
and the studies show
that when people adopt

1454
01:11:33,999 --> 01:11:36,126
a fully plant-based diet,
their cholesterol levels

1455
01:11:36,168 --> 01:11:37,711
plummet within a few days.

1456
01:11:37,752 --> 01:11:39,355
And if you do blood test
in a couple of weeks,

1457
01:11:39,379 --> 01:11:41,256
you'll see dramatic
improvements.

1458
01:11:41,297 --> 01:11:43,133
Yes, your numbers
are gonna look great

1459
01:11:43,175 --> 01:11:46,136
within a week or, two,
your cholesterol can come
crashing down, in fact,

1460
01:11:46,178 --> 01:11:48,304
if you're on medications,
your doctor may have to

1461
01:11:48,346 --> 01:11:51,492
pull off your blood pressure
medications so your blood
pressure don't drop too low.

1462
01:11:51,516 --> 01:11:52,851
Because it can work too good,

1463
01:11:52,893 --> 01:11:55,896
like the side effect is
not having to take drugs.

1464
01:11:55,937 --> 01:11:57,581
[Kip] In a groundbreaking
study published by

1465
01:11:57,605 --> 01:12:00,025
Dr. Esselstyn following
patients suffering from

1466
01:12:00,067 --> 01:12:04,529
cardiovascular disease,
99.4% were able to avoid

1467
01:12:04,571 --> 01:12:07,199
major cardiac events
by going plant-based.

1468
01:12:07,241 --> 01:12:10,869
'Cause it's not just heart
disease. It's hypertension,
it's diabetes,

1469
01:12:10,911 --> 01:12:13,329
it's strokes,
it's heart attacks,

1470
01:12:13,371 --> 01:12:15,249
it's several of
the autoimmune diseases,

1471
01:12:15,290 --> 01:12:19,211
lupus, asthma,
GERD, osteoporosis,

1472
01:12:19,253 --> 01:12:22,047
there's a multitude of diseases.

1473
01:12:22,089 --> 01:12:25,092
Even rheumatoid arthritis,
it can be so dramatic

1474
01:12:25,133 --> 01:12:26,801
when you see these poor souls

1475
01:12:26,843 --> 01:12:29,304
just absolutely crippled
with rheumatoid arthritis

1476
01:12:29,345 --> 01:12:33,100
go plant-based, and then they
come off their medication.

1477
01:12:33,141 --> 01:12:35,018
I wanted to follow
up with Jane Chapman

1478
01:12:35,060 --> 01:12:37,562
who had been suffering
from severe osteoarthritis,

1479
01:12:37,604 --> 01:12:39,647
and I could not believe
what I saw

1480
01:12:39,689 --> 01:12:42,817
after only a few weeks
of fasting
and changing her diet.

1481
01:12:42,859 --> 01:12:46,529
Those are so amazing
to see you like this
only a few weeks later.

1482
01:12:46,571 --> 01:12:48,240
I know!

1483
01:12:48,282 --> 01:12:50,200
From going from the walker,

1484
01:12:50,242 --> 01:12:53,411
needing wheelchair
assistance at the airport

1485
01:12:53,453 --> 01:12:59,876
to strolling down the street,
enjoying the fresh air,
the sunshine.

1486
01:12:59,918 --> 01:13:04,089
Two weeks, it's all it took,
two weeks to get off
all the meds

1487
01:13:04,131 --> 01:13:07,259
and start to
feel the inflammation

1488
01:13:07,301 --> 01:13:09,761
just kind of
drain out of the body

1489
01:13:09,803 --> 01:13:12,931
where the movement
was much easier.

1490
01:13:12,973 --> 01:13:16,684
Just a lot of healing
occurred very rapidly

1491
01:13:16,726 --> 01:13:19,146
just by doing the right
things for your body.

1492
01:13:19,187 --> 01:13:22,316
When you're treating
diseases with drugs,

1493
01:13:22,357 --> 01:13:24,335
you know there's one drug
you take for cholesterol,

1494
01:13:24,359 --> 01:13:26,987
a different class of drugs you
take for high blood pressure,

1495
01:13:27,028 --> 01:13:29,530
different class of drugs
you take for diabetes,

1496
01:13:29,572 --> 01:13:33,076
but, with diet,
a plant-based diet
affects all these diseases.

1497
01:13:33,118 --> 01:13:35,370
One diet to kinda rule them all.

1498
01:13:35,411 --> 01:13:38,165
[Kip] The impacts
of eating this way
go far beyond ourselves.

1499
01:13:38,206 --> 01:13:39,958
By getting rid of heart
disease alone,

1500
01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:43,086
we would save up to $48
trillion in the USA,

1501
01:13:43,128 --> 01:13:45,630
three times the US GDP.

1502
01:13:45,672 --> 01:13:47,632
Conditions like
high blood pressure,

1503
01:13:47,674 --> 01:13:50,844
you don't have to take the
drugs the rest of your life
and be sick forever.

1504
01:13:50,885 --> 01:13:52,553
What you can do
is live in such a way

1505
01:13:52,595 --> 01:13:54,848
that it gives the body
a chance to heal itself.

1506
01:13:54,889 --> 01:13:58,393
We took 174
consecutive patients
with high blood pressure.

1507
01:13:58,434 --> 01:14:01,271
And 174 people
were able to lower
their blood pressure

1508
01:14:01,313 --> 01:14:03,398
enough to eliminate
the need for medication.

1509
01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:06,151
For inflammatory bowel
disease like Crohn's,

1510
01:14:06,193 --> 01:14:09,696
the best remission rates
ever achieved through
plant-based diet.

1511
01:14:09,737 --> 01:14:13,574
MS, multiple sclerosis,
the best results ever achieved

1512
01:14:13,616 --> 01:14:15,327
compared to
any medical, surgical,

1513
01:14:15,369 --> 01:14:17,745
any kind of intervention
was a plant-based diet.

1514
01:14:17,787 --> 01:14:20,498
You can see that with
every sequential reduction

1515
01:14:20,540 --> 01:14:22,792
in animal products,
people live longer,

1516
01:14:22,834 --> 01:14:26,254
they have less heart disease,
they have less cancer,
they have less diabetes.

1517
01:14:26,296 --> 01:14:29,132
You can actually take human
cancer cells, put them in
a petri dish,

1518
01:14:29,174 --> 01:14:31,385
and you can drip the blood
of those eating vegan,

1519
01:14:31,426 --> 01:14:34,679
get about 72% suppression in

1520
01:14:34,721 --> 01:14:36,931
human prostate cancer
cell growth in vitro,

1521
01:14:36,973 --> 01:14:39,893
they wanted to try this again
with women and breast cancer,

1522
01:14:39,934 --> 01:14:41,537
so they said, "Let's see what
a plant-based diet can do."

1523
01:14:41,561 --> 01:14:44,314
After just two weeks,
their bodies cleaned up.

1524
01:14:44,356 --> 01:14:46,482
You dropped their blood
on the same carpet

1525
01:14:46,524 --> 01:14:49,527
of cancer cells, you can
clear off the whole plate.

1526
01:14:49,569 --> 01:14:52,697
This is just after just two
weeks eating healthy, which
raises the question,

1527
01:14:52,739 --> 01:14:54,459
what kind of blood do
we want in our bodies?

1528
01:14:54,490 --> 01:14:57,994
My background
is in industrial
and systems engineering.

1529
01:14:58,036 --> 01:15:02,498
And that was my career
path for a long time until

1530
01:15:02,540 --> 01:15:04,500
I got thyroid cancer,

1531
01:15:04,542 --> 01:15:07,628
and everything
changed from there.

1532
01:15:07,670 --> 01:15:13,301
I decided that I wanted
to try alternative methods
and treatments

1533
01:15:13,343 --> 01:15:16,804
rather than have surgery
and have my thyroid removed,

1534
01:15:16,846 --> 01:15:19,433
which meant I'd be
on medication forever,
and I didn't want that.

1535
01:15:19,474 --> 01:15:22,560
I just started reading
on how a plant-based diet

1536
01:15:22,602 --> 01:15:26,106
can heal the body and it has
worked for so many people.

1537
01:15:26,147 --> 01:15:31,694
So, I immediately just switched
to a completely whole food
plant-based diet.

1538
01:15:31,736 --> 01:15:35,365
After a year, the cancer
was completely gone.

1539
01:15:35,407 --> 01:15:38,285
And my thyroid had
shrunk to normal size.

1540
01:15:38,326 --> 01:15:40,912
And I was completely
free of that.

1541
01:15:40,954 --> 01:15:42,872
[Kip]
This was tough to believe.

1542
01:15:42,914 --> 01:15:45,435
Couldn't this all just be
from eating healthier,
though, like no sugar?

1543
01:15:45,459 --> 01:15:48,253
Turns out Dr. Walter Kempner
from Duke University

1544
01:15:48,295 --> 01:15:51,089
back in the 1940s was
reversing some of our

1545
01:15:51,131 --> 01:15:53,383
worst killer diseases
with diet alone.

1546
01:15:53,425 --> 01:15:56,428
And the diet he was using
was not only strictly
plant-based

1547
01:15:56,470 --> 01:16:00,348
but, it was made up
of white rice, fruit
and table sugar.

1548
01:16:00,390 --> 01:16:04,560
And he was reversing diabetes,
he was reversing malignant
hypertension,

1549
01:16:04,602 --> 01:16:07,772
reversing heart disease,
the diabetic complications,

1550
01:16:07,814 --> 01:16:09,941
reversing diabetic blindness.

1551
01:16:09,983 --> 01:16:13,403
So, these people basically
had death sentences,
went to him,

1552
01:16:13,445 --> 01:16:15,447
and were given basically sugar.

1553
01:16:15,489 --> 01:16:20,076
You know, this horrible diet,
but, it was strictly
plant-based.

1554
01:16:20,118 --> 01:16:22,954
[Kip] If this information had
been around since the 1940s,

1555
01:16:22,996 --> 01:16:24,747
why don't all doctors know this?

1556
01:16:24,789 --> 01:16:28,335
We're not taught
about the power of food
in medical school.

1557
01:16:28,376 --> 01:16:30,545
No one is taught that

1558
01:16:30,586 --> 01:16:33,298
the changes that
we make with our diet

1559
01:16:33,340 --> 01:16:36,009
are probably the single most
powerful thing we can do

1560
01:16:36,050 --> 01:16:37,427
to determine our destiny.

1561
01:16:37,469 --> 01:16:38,970
It trumps our genetics.

1562
01:16:39,012 --> 01:16:40,847
Why isn't your doctor
telling this?

1563
01:16:40,888 --> 01:16:43,224
Odds are your doctor
never learned any of this.

1564
01:16:43,266 --> 01:16:46,894
In fact, there's even a bill
introduced just mandating
physicians get seven hours

1565
01:16:46,936 --> 01:16:50,857
nutrition training every
couple of years, just to
kinda stay on top of it.

1566
01:16:50,898 --> 01:16:53,318
And who came out against that?

1567
01:16:53,360 --> 01:16:55,028
The California
Medical Association.

1568
01:16:55,069 --> 01:16:57,071
Even the family physicians,
the surgeons,

1569
01:16:57,113 --> 01:17:00,492
all the mainstream medical
groups came out opposed.

1570
01:17:00,534 --> 01:17:02,452
It's seven hours.
That's a lot.

1571
01:17:02,494 --> 01:17:04,745
Even if it's over
one four-year period.

1572
01:17:04,787 --> 01:17:09,000
So, they're not just kinda
neutral, but, they're actually
actively opposing

1573
01:17:09,042 --> 01:17:10,502
nutrition education.

1574
01:17:10,544 --> 01:17:12,646
Ironically, when patients
come to doctors with questions,

1575
01:17:12,670 --> 01:17:15,215
they assume that
the doctor knows
something about nutrition

1576
01:17:15,256 --> 01:17:16,757
and so it's kind of
a double whammy

1577
01:17:16,799 --> 01:17:19,010
that doctors haven't been
taught much about nutrition.

1578
01:17:19,052 --> 01:17:21,012
[Kip] Why don't we hear
about this from dietitians

1579
01:17:21,054 --> 01:17:23,014
when nutrition is their
entire specialty?

1580
01:17:23,056 --> 01:17:25,641
Turns out the
American Nutrition
and Dietetics Association

1581
01:17:25,683 --> 01:17:29,103
puts out nutrition fact
sheets written by the
industries themselves.

1582
01:17:29,145 --> 01:17:33,733
The industries pay $20,000
per fact sheet and explicitly
take part in writing them.

1583
01:17:33,774 --> 01:17:35,985
So, you can learn about
eggs from the egg industry.

1584
01:17:36,027 --> 01:17:38,405
You can learn about lamb
from the lamb industry.

1585
01:17:38,446 --> 01:17:39,840
This would be like
learning about the benefits

1586
01:17:39,864 --> 01:17:42,033
of smoking from
the tobacco industry.

1587
01:17:42,075 --> 01:17:45,745
When people are eating meat,
I think of it
as a bit like smoking.

1588
01:17:45,786 --> 01:17:47,539
It's sort of Russian roulette.

1589
01:17:47,581 --> 01:17:51,209
You may not get diabetes,
but your chances
of getting diabetes,

1590
01:17:51,251 --> 01:17:53,253
about one in three.

1591
01:17:53,294 --> 01:17:55,606
You may not get cancer, but,
your chances, if you're a man,
about one in two.

1592
01:17:55,630 --> 01:17:56,964
A woman, one in three.

1593
01:17:57,006 --> 01:17:59,050
Your chances of
gaining weight,
two out of three.

1594
01:17:59,092 --> 01:18:01,010
It's not all diet,
but, most of it is.

1595
01:18:01,052 --> 01:18:03,096
The best thing that you
can do to make sure that

1596
01:18:03,137 --> 01:18:06,224
you empty all those
bullets out of the chamber

1597
01:18:06,266 --> 01:18:08,059
and not taking a risk
with your health

1598
01:18:08,101 --> 01:18:12,230
is to get the animal
products out of your diet
and eat healthy foods.

1599
01:18:12,272 --> 01:18:15,191
I came to TrueNorth to
help me with my asthma

1600
01:18:15,233 --> 01:18:17,527
and to lose a little
weight, and it's amazing

1601
01:18:17,569 --> 01:18:20,238
just in two weeks
of changing my diet,

1602
01:18:20,280 --> 01:18:23,408
don't have to take
any asthma medication,

1603
01:18:23,450 --> 01:18:27,287
no antidepressants,
no pain medication,

1604
01:18:27,328 --> 01:18:29,997
no heart medication, nothing.

1605
01:18:30,039 --> 01:18:31,791
No medications at all.

1606
01:18:31,832 --> 01:18:34,794
And it's really,
it's just incredible.

1607
01:18:34,835 --> 01:18:40,341
I was taking oxy and Advil,
and I was taking 800
milligrams of Motrin

1608
01:18:40,383 --> 01:18:42,802
three times a day
just to get through the day

1609
01:18:42,843 --> 01:18:44,638
because I was in so much pain.

1610
01:18:44,679 --> 01:18:46,431
- And now, nothing.
- Wow.

1611
01:18:46,473 --> 01:18:48,099
- Nothing at all.
- Two weeks.

1612
01:18:48,141 --> 01:18:50,184
Two weeks, 14 days.

1613
01:18:50,226 --> 01:18:52,353
All that medication,
you're completely off.

1614
01:18:52,395 --> 01:18:53,813
Completely off everything.

1615
01:18:53,854 --> 01:18:56,566
It's just been so
frustrating to me because

1616
01:18:56,608 --> 01:18:59,569
I went to so many
different doctors for help,

1617
01:18:59,611 --> 01:19:04,157
and I tried so many
different medications to
help me with my asthma

1618
01:19:04,198 --> 01:19:06,159
and nothing helped, and
I was stuck on the couch

1619
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:09,870
for the last 10 months
unable to breathe,

1620
01:19:09,912 --> 01:19:14,501
and now in two weeks' time,
14 days,

1621
01:19:14,542 --> 01:19:16,085
I'm off my medication.

1622
01:19:16,127 --> 01:19:19,797
And I can breathe
and I feel good,
and I can walk.

1623
01:19:19,839 --> 01:19:21,882
My life has changed
and it only took

1624
01:19:21,924 --> 01:19:25,219
two weeks of whole
plant-based diet.

1625
01:19:25,261 --> 01:19:27,138
- That's incredible.
- Yeah.

1626
01:19:27,972 --> 01:19:29,641
That is incredible.

1627
01:19:29,683 --> 01:19:31,100
It really is.

1628
01:19:31,142 --> 01:19:32,810
- That's amazing.
- It really is.

1629
01:19:32,852 --> 01:19:39,233
I feel so blessed and so good
and just so happy
to be doing this

1630
01:19:39,275 --> 01:19:41,528
and I'm hoping that
I can be a role model

1631
01:19:41,569 --> 01:19:45,657
for other people
and not be pushy about it.

1632
01:19:45,699 --> 01:19:48,660
Because everyone's gonna
do it in their own time.

1633
01:19:48,702 --> 01:19:51,120
But, thank God my time is now.

1634
01:19:54,165 --> 01:19:55,416
That's pretty cool.

1635
01:19:55,458 --> 01:19:56,834
Thanks.

1636
01:19:56,876 --> 01:19:59,587
Thanks!

1637
01:19:59,629 --> 01:20:03,466
[Kip] As powerful as Amy's
story was, I knew for some,
eating a hundred percent

1638
01:20:03,508 --> 01:20:05,760
plant-based would
still seem extreme.

1639
01:20:05,801 --> 01:20:10,431
I think there's the sense
that everything's okay
in moderation.

1640
01:20:10,473 --> 01:20:15,102
Right? But we haven't seen
that moderation works.

1641
01:20:15,144 --> 01:20:19,315
There really isn't a study
that shows that by eating
meat and eggs in moderation

1642
01:20:19,357 --> 01:20:22,235
you can actually turn
your heart disease around
and get better.

1643
01:20:22,276 --> 01:20:25,530
But, I know people
who have given up meat
and they felt sick.

1644
01:20:25,572 --> 01:20:27,907
Yeah, it's unlikely
that anybody's symptoms

1645
01:20:27,948 --> 01:20:30,744
are caused by dead
decaying flesh deficiency.

1646
01:20:30,785 --> 01:20:33,621
The lack of highly processed
animal food products

1647
01:20:33,663 --> 01:20:35,582
in the diet is not gonna be

1648
01:20:35,623 --> 01:20:38,251
associated with the causal
factor by why they're sick.

1649
01:20:38,292 --> 01:20:40,229
There is gonna be a reason
why they're not feeling well,

1650
01:20:40,253 --> 01:20:42,213
but, that's not gonna be
one of them.

1651
01:20:42,255 --> 01:20:44,191
So, I've had people go vegan,
and they come back to me and
they're like,

1652
01:20:44,215 --> 01:20:47,510
"I'm hypothyroid and my doctor
says I'm hypothyroid because

1653
01:20:47,552 --> 01:20:51,305
"plant-based diet
makes you hypothyroid."

1654
01:20:51,347 --> 01:20:54,975
I'm like, so what does your
doctor tell all his meat eaters
that are hypothyroid?

1655
01:20:55,017 --> 01:20:59,230
What's in animal flesh
or dairy that you can't
get in plant-based?

1656
01:20:59,272 --> 01:21:01,065
Cholesterol.

1657
01:21:01,107 --> 01:21:03,359
Heterocyclic amines.

1658
01:21:03,401 --> 01:21:05,570
E. coli, you know,
if you think about it,

1659
01:21:05,612 --> 01:21:08,864
there is nothing in an
animal-based diet

1660
01:21:08,906 --> 01:21:11,743
that you can't get
in a healthier form
somewhere else.

1661
01:21:11,785 --> 01:21:14,287
The only other vitamin
is vitamin B12.

1662
01:21:14,328 --> 01:21:16,664
It's not made by plants,
not made by animals either,

1663
01:21:16,706 --> 01:21:18,958
made by little microbes
that blanket the Earth.

1664
01:21:18,999 --> 01:21:21,628
So, because of the way we
live in our sanitized world,

1665
01:21:21,669 --> 01:21:24,422
unless you're eating
bacteria-contaminated foods,

1666
01:21:24,464 --> 01:21:26,549
we need to get a source
of B12 from somewhere,

1667
01:21:26,591 --> 01:21:29,510
and so the healthiest,
cheapest, safest source

1668
01:21:29,552 --> 01:21:33,055
is to get a vitamin B12
fortified food
or vitamin B12 supplement,

1669
01:21:33,097 --> 01:21:35,308
not to get it
from meat and dairy.

1670
01:21:35,349 --> 01:21:39,312
[Kip] What about people who say
they have to eat meat for their
blood type or, their genes?

1671
01:21:39,353 --> 01:21:42,565
It's just like I need
meat because I'm a Capricorn

1672
01:21:42,607 --> 01:21:45,168
or I need meat 'cause I have
an A plus blood,
it's like what do you say?

1673
01:21:45,192 --> 01:21:49,196
No one has to eat meat.
There's no vitamin,
mineral, nutrient

1674
01:21:49,238 --> 01:21:52,908
that you can't get from
non-animal sources.

1675
01:21:52,950 --> 01:21:56,203
Valentine's Day,
I decided to go vegan

1676
01:21:56,245 --> 01:21:59,999
and give up all meat, which
was never in my thoughts

1677
01:22:00,040 --> 01:22:01,751
in a while million years,

1678
01:22:01,793 --> 01:22:05,171
but I've heard so much success
from people that are vegan.

1679
01:22:05,212 --> 01:22:07,923
And so I gave up all
animal product whatsoever,

1680
01:22:07,965 --> 01:22:10,677
I've lost 29 pounds,

1681
01:22:10,718 --> 01:22:13,513
I've been able to
cut my meds in half,

1682
01:22:13,554 --> 01:22:15,807
I've been able
to cut my insulin in half,

1683
01:22:15,849 --> 01:22:18,893
and now I'm going
for the moon, I'm going
to go cut it all out.

1684
01:22:18,934 --> 01:22:22,438
In the last six weeks,
we've just had
three grandchildren.

1685
01:22:22,480 --> 01:22:24,315
And my ugly face
is going to be around

1686
01:22:24,357 --> 01:22:27,985
to see 'em graduate from
high school and college.
I'm gonna be here.

1687
01:22:28,027 --> 01:22:31,781
My mission is to
let everybody know
you do not have to suffer

1688
01:22:31,823 --> 01:22:34,408
from diabetes and cancer
and heart disease

1689
01:22:34,450 --> 01:22:36,243
because someone
in your family had it

1690
01:22:36,285 --> 01:22:39,205
or because the doctors
are telling you this is
what's gonna happen.

1691
01:22:39,246 --> 01:22:41,499
You can take charge
of your health

1692
01:22:41,541 --> 01:22:44,669
and have a positive
outcome just like I did.

1693
01:22:44,711 --> 01:22:47,714
The reason I'm so
committed to this is

1694
01:22:47,755 --> 01:22:52,510
my grandmother had diabetes,
and I didn't know
what I know now

1695
01:22:52,552 --> 01:22:54,512
about healing the body.

1696
01:22:54,554 --> 01:22:56,138
And if I did, I feel like

1697
01:22:56,180 --> 01:22:58,808
she could've lived at
least a few years longer.

1698
01:22:58,850 --> 01:23:00,852
And so it's in her honor

1699
01:23:02,562 --> 01:23:04,188
that I do what I do.

1700
01:23:04,230 --> 01:23:06,106
If I could save someone
else's grandmother,

1701
01:23:06,148 --> 01:23:09,151
aunt, uncle, father from that.

1702
01:23:15,074 --> 01:23:19,328
So, I'm excited about getting
the message out there.

1703
01:23:19,370 --> 01:23:22,248
[Kip] There's a common belief
that eating
plant-based is expensive.

1704
01:23:22,289 --> 01:23:26,753
Not at all.
It can be done in
a very inexpensive way

1705
01:23:26,794 --> 01:23:30,924
where you buy foods that
are in season and you
shop in the bulk bins

1706
01:23:30,965 --> 01:23:32,675
and that saves a lot of money.

1707
01:23:32,717 --> 01:23:36,011
You can eliminate
a lot of your expenses

1708
01:23:36,053 --> 01:23:39,348
on your grocery bill by
not buying meat and dairy

1709
01:23:39,390 --> 01:23:41,225
because those things
are expensive.

1710
01:23:41,267 --> 01:23:46,522
Our meal plan for
our family of four is $25
per person in the family.

1711
01:23:46,564 --> 01:23:48,691
20.64 is your total.

1712
01:23:48,733 --> 01:23:50,526
[Kip] 20.64? Whoa.

1713
01:23:50,568 --> 01:23:53,320
That's for an
entire week of food.

1714
01:23:53,362 --> 01:23:55,090
[Kip] An exploding
movement of elite athletes

1715
01:23:55,114 --> 01:23:57,324
are utilizing vegan
diets to heal injuries,

1716
01:23:57,366 --> 01:24:00,453
speed recovery times and
enhance their performance.

1717
01:24:00,494 --> 01:24:05,291
Before I was vegan, I was
only bench pressing 315
like five times.

1718
01:24:05,332 --> 01:24:08,377
Then, after going vegan,
I was doing 400.

1719
01:24:08,419 --> 01:24:12,131
425, 465, and I was
like, oh my God,

1720
01:24:12,172 --> 01:24:14,425
this is amazing, I'm vegan
and I'm bench pressing

1721
01:24:14,467 --> 01:24:17,094
465 pounds, this is ridiculous.

1722
01:24:17,136 --> 01:24:20,055
And as soon as
I went vegan, tendinitis
started disappearing.

1723
01:24:20,097 --> 01:24:22,182
My strength in my right
arm started coming back.

1724
01:24:22,224 --> 01:24:24,101
High blood pressure
was going down.

1725
01:24:24,143 --> 01:24:28,773
You can't be strong
and be dying on the inside,
that's not strong.

1726
01:24:28,815 --> 01:24:30,900
That's weak.
That's really weak.

1727
01:24:30,942 --> 01:24:32,753
Because yeah, you look big
and strong on the outside,

1728
01:24:32,777 --> 01:24:36,363
yeah, big man, no,
but, your heart's
crying for help,

1729
01:24:36,405 --> 01:24:38,532
on the inside you're dying.

1730
01:24:38,574 --> 01:24:41,995
I'm a professional parkour
athlete, a two-time world
free running champion,

1731
01:24:42,036 --> 01:24:43,555
and more recently
I got into Ninja Warrior

1732
01:24:43,579 --> 01:24:45,665
where I'm captain of
Team Europe as we won

1733
01:24:45,706 --> 01:24:47,416
USA versus the world.

1734
01:24:47,458 --> 01:24:50,044
For something
like Ninja Warrior
and parkour, specifically,

1735
01:24:50,085 --> 01:24:53,213
you really need to have
a good strength to body
weight ratio,

1736
01:24:53,255 --> 01:24:55,108
so I was carrying mass
that I really didn't need.

1737
01:24:55,132 --> 01:24:57,468
And when I went vegan,
I lost 15, 20 pounds.

1738
01:24:57,510 --> 01:25:00,596
I was more agile, I was more
efficient and more
stamina in my body.

1739
01:25:00,638 --> 01:25:02,491
Just that extra bit of pop
that I didn't have before,

1740
01:25:02,515 --> 01:25:04,350
it just gave me
that extra strength.

1741
01:25:04,391 --> 01:25:06,811
This is a vibrant way to live.

1742
01:25:06,853 --> 01:25:09,605
It can enhance you
as an athlete, for me,

1743
01:25:09,647 --> 01:25:11,500
a hundred percent better
athlete than I was before,

1744
01:25:11,524 --> 01:25:13,943
it's unlocked a whole new
chapter of my training.

1745
01:25:13,985 --> 01:25:15,587
The science is there,
the health is there,

1746
01:25:15,611 --> 01:25:17,255
the athletes are there proving
that you don't need to eat

1747
01:25:17,279 --> 01:25:19,573
dead animals to be strong,
to be healthy.

1748
01:25:19,615 --> 01:25:22,409
I started working out
when I was 47 years old.

1749
01:25:22,451 --> 01:25:26,080
All the muscles you see,
I gained as a vegan.

1750
01:25:26,121 --> 01:25:30,668
I gained 15 pounds of muscles
on my body, eating all
plant-based and vegan foods.

1751
01:25:30,710 --> 01:25:34,922
All the aches and pains
in my body,
it just went away.

1752
01:25:34,964 --> 01:25:37,967
Because I'm not ingesting
so many inflaming foods,

1753
01:25:38,009 --> 01:25:39,927
the acidic foods
that animal products are.

1754
01:25:39,969 --> 01:25:44,431
Gorillas, rhinos and elephants,
they all get their
muscles and strength

1755
01:25:44,473 --> 01:25:47,518
from eating plants.
That's what I do.

1756
01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:50,396
[Blanco] I travel all around
the world for my surfing,

1757
01:25:50,437 --> 01:25:53,273
and I've always been
able to eat vegan.

1758
01:25:53,315 --> 01:25:56,736
I feel like
if you want something
you can make it happen.

1759
01:25:56,777 --> 01:26:00,489
I just don't make any excuses.
I would never not be vegan
now that I know

1760
01:26:00,531 --> 01:26:03,743
all the benefits
and now that I know
how it feels to be vegan.

1761
01:26:03,784 --> 01:26:08,205
Every aspect of my life
has been improved
by adopting this lifestyle.

1762
01:26:08,247 --> 01:26:10,875
I feel better, I perform
better athletically,

1763
01:26:10,917 --> 01:26:13,878
I sleep better, my energy
with my kids is better,

1764
01:26:13,920 --> 01:26:15,462
my focus at work is better.

1765
01:26:15,504 --> 01:26:17,548
Everything is better,
my skin cleared up.

1766
01:26:17,590 --> 01:26:20,843
I've kept myself trim for
nine years now doing this.

1767
01:26:20,885 --> 01:26:23,679
All I can tell you
is that I felt

1768
01:26:23,721 --> 01:26:27,100
and I continue to feel better
than I ever felt before.

1769
01:26:27,141 --> 01:26:29,769
My friend Jason Lester and
I were the first people

1770
01:26:29,810 --> 01:26:32,813
to do this challenge
called Epic Five,

1771
01:26:32,855 --> 01:26:34,899
which entailed
doing five Ironmans

1772
01:26:34,941 --> 01:26:37,317
on five Hawaiian islands
in under a week.

1773
01:26:37,359 --> 01:26:41,906
An Ironman is a 2.4 mile swim
followed by a 112 mile bike

1774
01:26:41,948 --> 01:26:45,325
and then running a marathon
26.2 miles after that,

1775
01:26:45,367 --> 01:26:46,869
so we did five of those in a row

1776
01:26:46,911 --> 01:26:50,247
on five different islands
in a little under a week.

1777
01:26:50,289 --> 01:26:51,707
Did you almost die?

1778
01:26:51,749 --> 01:26:53,542
No. We didn't die.

1779
01:26:53,584 --> 01:26:56,184
So, I guess the famous
question, where'd you get
your protein, man?

1780
01:26:57,588 --> 01:27:00,133
From plants!

1781
01:27:00,174 --> 01:27:02,193
[Kip] Like so many people,
I was looking for excuses

1782
01:27:02,217 --> 01:27:03,677
not to change my diet.

1783
01:27:03,719 --> 01:27:06,388
But, once I finally did,
I felt liberated.

1784
01:27:06,430 --> 01:27:07,848
Within days,
I could feel the blood

1785
01:27:07,890 --> 01:27:10,184
running through my veins
with a new vitality.

1786
01:27:10,225 --> 01:27:14,396
Within weeks, I felt
a transformation throughout
my entire body and mind.

1787
01:27:14,438 --> 01:27:17,441
Not only could I survive
on a purely plant-based
vegan diet,

1788
01:27:17,483 --> 01:27:20,360
I could thrive.
I felt amazing.

1789
01:27:20,402 --> 01:27:22,905
I competed in my first
marathon in six years,

1790
01:27:22,947 --> 01:27:26,659
training half the amount
and beat my personal record
by 23 minutes.

1791
01:27:26,700 --> 01:27:30,079
Less than a month later,
I did my first full Ironman.

1792
01:27:30,121 --> 01:27:32,039
Although I could possibly
get away with eating

1793
01:27:32,081 --> 01:27:34,017
a little bit of meat and
dairy without ill effects

1794
01:27:34,041 --> 01:27:37,044
to my personal health,
I could no longer
willingly support

1795
01:27:37,086 --> 01:27:39,254
an industry I knew was
causing so much suffering

1796
01:27:39,296 --> 01:27:42,675
to communities, families
and all life on the planet.

1797
01:27:42,716 --> 01:27:45,970
A whole new world opened up.
I felt whole again.

1798
01:27:46,012 --> 01:27:48,722
Connected to a greater sense
of what true health is.

1799
01:27:48,764 --> 01:27:54,394
And where true health
doesn't end with me,
but begins with us.

1800
01:27:54,436 --> 01:27:59,566
If people adopted
a plant-based diet,
the changes we would see

1801
01:27:59,608 --> 01:28:03,988
in our individual health,
in our national
health situation

1802
01:28:04,030 --> 01:28:07,282
and in this physical,
environmental world
we live in,

1803
01:28:07,324 --> 01:28:09,326
would be so profound.

1804
01:28:09,368 --> 01:28:12,163
Today, you can say,

1805
01:28:12,205 --> 01:28:13,914
I'm not gonna
eat that stuff anymore.

1806
01:28:13,956 --> 01:28:17,292
It's the one thing that I
can do myself personally

1807
01:28:17,334 --> 01:28:18,836
to make a difference.

1808
01:28:18,878 --> 01:28:21,421
It will give you
a greater sense of
well-being and happiness

1809
01:28:21,463 --> 01:28:24,508
when you know that
one, you're not
destroying your health

1810
01:28:24,550 --> 01:28:27,469
every time you
sit down and eat,
you're not promoting cruelty,

1811
01:28:27,511 --> 01:28:29,513
and you're not
damaging the Earth.

1812
01:28:29,555 --> 01:28:32,599
I don't want my gains
to be at the detriment of
the planet of other things.

1813
01:28:32,641 --> 01:28:34,476
And yet I'm not weaker,
I'm stronger.

1814
01:28:34,518 --> 01:28:36,038
That's the beauty of it,
when you're altruistic,

1815
01:28:36,062 --> 01:28:37,831
when you make choices for
the greater good of others,

1816
01:28:37,855 --> 01:28:40,566
it's comes around
benefits me as well.
It benefits us all.

1817
01:28:40,607 --> 01:28:44,403
Studies show that
we can not only survive
but we can thrive.

1818
01:28:44,444 --> 01:28:48,407
I just feel this is
a great way to live,
not harming other beings.

1819
01:28:48,448 --> 01:28:51,035
When you can be
healthy and happier.

1820
01:28:51,077 --> 01:28:53,704
I love it!
It's a great life.

1821
01:28:53,746 --> 01:28:57,124
I never thought that I could
feel this good at this age.

1822
01:28:57,166 --> 01:28:59,501
And I just want everybody
to feel this way.

1823
01:28:59,543 --> 01:29:02,046
I feel like a 20-year-old,
I'm almost 50.

1824
01:29:02,088 --> 01:29:05,716
Nothing tastes as good
as healthy feels, basically.

1825
01:29:05,758 --> 01:29:08,219
And so the choices that
we make every single day,

1826
01:29:08,261 --> 01:29:10,637
day in and day out
around our food

1827
01:29:10,679 --> 01:29:14,892
has the capacity
to bring us true health
and optimal wellness.

1828
01:29:14,934 --> 01:29:17,270
Not just individually,
but collectively

1829
01:29:17,311 --> 01:29:19,897
as a species and for our planet.

1830
01:29:19,939 --> 01:29:21,815
We're not gonna live forever.

1831
01:29:21,857 --> 01:29:24,526
But while we are alive,
we can live well.

1832
01:29:24,568 --> 01:29:26,946
And for me, as a doctor,
that's what I wanna see.

1833
01:29:26,987 --> 01:29:29,240
Where there's a will,
there is a way.

1834
01:29:30,616 --> 01:29:31,951
And I believe that.

1835
01:29:32,910 --> 01:29:35,037
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