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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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<i>My name's Kip.</i>

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<i>I'm a filmmaker from San</i>
<i>Francisco, and I have a</i>
<i>confession to make.</i>

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<i>I'm a recovering hypochondriac.</i>

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<i>Like so many of us,</i>
<i>I have a family history</i>
<i>of diabetes,</i>

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<i>heart disease and cancer.</i>

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<i>My dad had his first heart</i>
<i>bypass at 49, his second</i>
<i>at age 50.</i>

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<i>My grandpa died young from
diabetes complications,</i>

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<i>and both my other grandpa
and grandma died of cancer.</i>

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<i>I was always paranoid</i>
<i>that I would also get</i>
<i>one of these diseases.</i>

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<i>Like any good hypochondriac,</i>
<i>WebMD's symptoms checker</i>
<i>was essentially</i>

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<i>my browser's home page.</i>

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<i>Even in my teens</i>
<i>I took Metamucil every day</i>
<i>and a daily aspirin.</i>

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<i>I read all the latest
self-diagnosis books,</i>

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<i>I ate every multivitamin
I could get my hands on,</i>

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<i>and I was obsessed with
bodily functions.</i>

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<i>I followed all the large
health organizations'</i>

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<i>recommendations for
preventing disease.</i>

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<i>I exercise regularly,</i>
<i>don't smoke, don't drink soda,</i>
<i>get enough sleep,</i>

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<i>reduce stress and grew up</i>
<i>eating what I thought was</i>
<i>a healthy diet until...</i>

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<i>-[tires screeching]</i>
<i>-The World Health</i>
<i>Organization this morning</i>

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<i>has classified processed</i>
<i>meat such as bacon</i>
<i>and sausage as carcinogenic,</i>

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<i>directly involved in
causing cancer in humans.</i>

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[male anchor]<i> Processed meat</i>
<i>is clearly linked to</i>
<i>an increase in cancer.</i>

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<i>Hotdogs or, bacon could</i>
<i>be just as dangerous</i>
<i>as smoking cigarettes.</i>

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[Kip]<i> The World</i>
<i>Health Organization</i>
<i>had looked at over</i>

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<i>800 studies from
ten different countries,</i>

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<i>finding a direct link to</i>
<i>consuming processed meat</i>
<i>and cancer.</i>

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<i>Just one serving
of deli meats daily</i>

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<i>increases your risks of
colorectal cancer by 18%.</i>

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<i>I had no idea</i>
<i>that what we ate</i>
<i>affected cancer rates.</i>

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<i>But I never felt like I had</i>
<i>eaten a lot of processed meats</i>
<i>until I realized that</i>

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<i>processed meat includes
hotdogs, bacon, sausage,</i>

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<i>salami, ham, pepperoni,
cold cuts and deli slices,</i>

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<i>basically everything
I grew up eating.</i>

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<i>The World Health Organization
classifies processed meat</i>

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<i>as a Group One carcinogen,</i>

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<i>the same group as cigarettes,
asbestos and plutonium,</i>

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<i>and classifies red meat
as a Group Two carcinogen.</i>

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<i>Was this like I had</i>
<i>essentially been smoking</i>
<i>my entire childhood?</i>

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<i>If processed meats are labeled
the same as cigarettes,</i>

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<i>how is it even legal for
kids to be eating this way?</i>

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<i>I thought this
was new information,</i>

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<i>but, many of these studies
have been around for 50 years.</i>

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<i>I couldn't believe I'd
been eating processed meats</i>

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<i>virtually my entire life and</i>
<i>was just now finding out</i>
<i>how dangerous they are.</i>

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<i>Why hadn't I been</i>
<i>hearing about it from</i>
<i>the American Cancer Society,</i>

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<i>the largest cancer group
in the nation?</i>

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<i>When I went on their website,
I was shocked to see that</i>

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<i>none of this information</i>
<i>was featured on</i>
<i>their home page.</i>

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<i>But, even more shocking,
on their Eat Healthy page,</i>

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<i>they actually encouraged</i>
<i>eating Group One</i>
<i>carcinogenic foods</i>

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<i>like processed turkey
and canned meats.</i>

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<i>This is after the World
Health Organization</i>

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<i>reviewed over 800 studies</i>
<i>definitively linking</i>
<i>processed meat to cancer.</i>

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[man]<i> Thanks for calling your</i>
<i>American Cancer Society.</i>
<i>My name is Sam,</i>

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<i>I'm a cancer information</i>
<i>specialist. How may I</i>
<i>help you today?</i>

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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]<i> Well,</i>
<i>let me just place you</i>
<i>on a brief hold because...</i>

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[Kip]<i> He wasn't able to</i>
<i>answer my questions and said</i>
<i>someone would get back with me.</i>

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<i>I had always been concerned
about cancer</i>

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<i>because both my grandma
and grandpa died of cancer.</i>

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<i>I wondered if things would've</i>
<i>been different had they</i>
<i>known the link between diet</i>

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<i>and this terrible disease.</i>

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<i>In the US,</i>
<i>one out of every four deaths</i>
<i>is from cancer.</i>

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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]<i> After repeated emails</i>
<i>asking why she was declining</i>

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<i>my interview to simply
talk about diet and cancer,</i>

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<i>she stopped
responding altogether.</i>

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<i>Why would an American Cancer</i>
<i>Society rep not want to</i>
<i>talk about this?</i>

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<i>I was, however,</i>
<i>able to connect</i>
<i>with a growing movement</i>

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<i>of doctors who are willing
to talk about the link</i>

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<i>between the standard
American diet and disease.</i>

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<i>And it goes beyond just cancer.</i>

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<i>I took my old trusty van</i>
<i>Super Blue once again</i>
<i>out on the road.</i>

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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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<i>that's overcoming the country.</i>

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<i>There's no way we can sustain
the current style of care</i>

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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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<i>the obesity,</i>
<i>the cancers are affecting</i>
<i>about 70% of deaths.</i>

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All the data is that those
70% of deaths and morbidity

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<i>are largely lifestyle
related and preventable.</i>

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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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<i>we are not in the business</i>
<i>of trying to prevent people</i>
<i>from becoming sick.</i>

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When you look at
chronic disease risk,

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<i>all the things that we
walk around worrying about.</i>

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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]<i> Today, with 2/3 of</i>
<i>Americans being overweight,</i>

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<i>clearly there's a food issue.</i>

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<i>In the next 25 years,</i>
<i>one out of every three</i>
<i>Americans will have diabetes.</i>

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<i>My name's Michael Abdalla.
I'm from Atlanta, Georgia.</i>

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<i>And unfortunately, I was</i>
<i>diagnosed about 10 years</i>
<i>ago with diabetes.</i>

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<i>And eight years ago
I had two stents put in.</i>

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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]<i> Government and media</i>
<i>almost exclusively blame</i>

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<i>lack of exercise</i>
<i>and sugary foods</i>
<i>as a cause of diabetes.</i>

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<i>But, I wanted to talk with</i>
<i>an actual expert on the role</i>
<i>of diet and diabetes.</i>

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<i>I went to speak</i>
<i>with premier physician,</i>
<i>diabetes expert</i>

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<i>and researcher,
Dr. Neal Barnard.</i>

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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
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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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<i>You can look into the muscle
cells of the human body,</i>

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<i>and you find that</i>
<i>they're building up</i>
<i>tiny particles of fat</i>

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<i>that's causing
insulin resistance.</i>

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<i>What that means is,</i>
<i>the sugar that is</i>
<i>naturally from the foods</i>

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<i>that you're eating</i>
<i>can't get into the cells</i>
<i>where it belongs.</i>

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It builds up in the blood,
and that's diabetes.

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[Kip]<i> I have never heard</i>
<i>that meat was associated</i>
<i>with causing diabetes.</i>

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<i>We had always been told</i>
<i>that sugar or obesity</i>
<i>caused it.</i>

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<i>Renowned weight loss
bariatric surgeon</i>

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<i>Dr. Garth Davis,
though, agreed.</i>

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Everyone thinks that
you get diabetic
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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
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In other words, the
more carbs someone ate,
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But, meat was
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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
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<i>We have storage in our muscles</i>

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<i>and in our liver for
carbs called glycogen.</i>

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<i>So, when we eat carbs,</i>
<i>we either store it</i>
<i>or we burn it.</i>

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<i>Now eat fat, that goes
straight to your fat.</i>

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<i>Your body can't turn
those carbs into fat</i>

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<i>unless you're really
overdoing the calories.</i>

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<i>And obesity,
it's a death sentence.</i>

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You're at much higher
risk of getting cancer,

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you're almost certainly
gonna get diabetes.

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No one wants the fat shame,

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and we all want
everybody to be
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but, this movement to be
comfortable with our bodies

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has made us comfortable
with being sick.

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And that's a huge problem.

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<i>I go into the hospital
and I look around me,</i>

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<i>people on dialysis,
all these sick people.</i>

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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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<i>but waiting inside that</i>
<i>cookie is a huge load of</i>
<i>butter or, shortening.</i>

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<i>And that's what fattens you up.</i>

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<i>And that's the part that
leads to the diabetes,</i>

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it's the fatty foods,
not really so much the sugar.

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[Davis]<i> It's not that</i>
<i>sugar's good for you.</i>
<i>There's no nutrients in it.</i>

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<i>It's excess calories.</i>

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But, when you eat sugar,
you don't get inflammation
right away.

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When you eat sugar,
you're not getting plaques
forming in your vessels.

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When you're eating sugar,

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your body's gonna store
most of it as glycogen
or burn it as calories.

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And so this focus on sugar
has taken all the focus
off meat, dairy,

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eggs, pork, turkey, chicken.

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People need to understand.
If they're child gets diabetes,

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you've just taken 19
years off their lifespan.

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<i>We're talking life and death.</i>

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[Kip]<i> I realized</i>
<i>there was so much more</i>

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<i>about diet and disease
that I hadn't ever learned.</i>

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<i>It felt as if</i>
<i>this information had</i>
<i>been practically withheld.</i>

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<i>Processed meat causes cancer.
Sugar doesn't cause diabetes.</i>

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<i>I had doubt about the claims
these doctors were making,</i>

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<i>so I did some searching
on my own.</i>

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<i>Harvard researchers looked
at nine prospective studies</i>

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<i>finding that just</i>
<i>one serving of</i>
<i>processed meat per day</i>

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<i>increased risk of developing
diabetes by 51 percent.</i>

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<i>The link between eating</i>
<i>meat and developing</i>
<i>diabetes became undeniable.</i>

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<i>But, when I went</i>
<i>on a leading diabetes</i>
<i>organization's website,</i>

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<i>the American Diabetes
Association,</i>

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<i>not only did they not</i>
<i>have this information</i>
<i>front and center,</i>

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<i>they were featuring recipes
for red and processed meat.</i>

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<i>And on their recipes for</i>
<i>healthy living, they had</i>
<i>bacon-wrapped shrimp.</i>

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<i>What the health?</i>

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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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<i>As destructive as diabetes</i>
<i>is, it pales in comparison</i>
<i>to heart disease.</i>

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<i>Over 17 million people die</i>
<i>every year from</i>
<i>cardiovascular disease.</i>

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<i>It is the leading cause
of death around the world.</i>

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<i>Nearly one out of</i>
<i>every three people</i>
<i>will die from this disease.</i>

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<i>The amount of people who die
from cardiovascular disease</i>

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<i>is the equivalent of
four jumbo jets crashing</i>

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<i>every single hour,</i>
<i>every single day,</i>
<i>every single year.</i>

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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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<i>And my asthma has been
so bad this past year.</i>

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<i>I use it during the day
as well to get some air.</i>

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<i>I am tired when I wake up,</i>

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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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<i>procedures, bypasses,
medication.</i>

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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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<i>within your system,</i>
<i>such that you basically</i>
<i>paralyze your arteries,</i>

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<i>you get this stiffening of</i>
<i>the arteries, their inability</i>
<i>to relax normally in half.</i>

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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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<i>and their nerve cells</i>
<i>being shortchanged of</i>
<i>oxygenated blood.</i>

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<i>And guess where that blood
vessel dementia comes from,</i>

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<i>those little tiny
arteries are clogging up</i>

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<i>from that steady</i>
<i>stream of bad</i>
<i>cholesterol, et cetera.</i>

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It's really quite clear.

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<i>Both from
the standpoint of cancer</i>

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<i>and the standpoint of
cardiovascular disease</i>

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<i>that animal protein
plays an enormous role.</i>

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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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<i>would be turkey and chicken.</i>

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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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<i>It can be labeled all natural</i>
<i>chicken but, be injected</i>
<i>with salt water.</i>

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<i>I think up to
800 milligrams of sodium.</i>

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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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<i>Not only were</i>
<i>there carcinogens in</i>
<i>every single restaurant,</i>

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<i>but, we found them in every</i>
<i>single chicken sample</i>
<i>that we took.</i>

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<i>If somebody brings their</i>
<i>family in, and they're</i>
<i>buying a bucket of chicken,</i>

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<i>nobody tells them that
there are carcinogens.</i>

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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]<i> But the American Cancer</i>
<i>Society encourages people</i>

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<i>to switch from red</i>
<i>and processed meat</i>
<i>to chicken.</i>

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<i>Why would the American
Cancer Society</i>

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<i>tell people to switch from
eating one carcinogenic food</i>

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<i>to another when a Harvard
University study showed</i>

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<i>that men with prostate</i>
<i>cancer who eat large</i>
<i>amounts of chicken,</i>

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<i>increase their risk</i>
<i>of the disease</i>
<i>progressing four times.</i>

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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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<i>Chicken's become</i>
<i>grilled chicken</i>
<i>and organic chicken.</i>

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<i>It's machismo.</i>

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<i>But it has nearly as</i>
<i>much cholesterol per gram</i>
<i>as red beef.</i>

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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> I never really</i>
<i>thought about eggs much.</i>

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<i>I just thought of them</i>
<i>as a standard part</i>
<i>of a healthy diet.</i>

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<i>But, then I found a study</i>
<i>suggesting that eating just</i>
<i>one egg a day</i>

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<i>can be as bad as smoking</i>
<i>five cigarettes per day</i>
<i>for life expectancy.</i>

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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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<i>Our blood gets thicker and</i>
<i>more viscous. It changes</i>
<i>our hormone levels.</i>

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<i>It raises
our cholesterol levels.</i>

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<i>There's nothing healthy</i>
<i>about eating</i>
<i>the yolk of the egg.</i>

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[Kip]<i> But I thought</i>
<i>cholesterol and saturated fat</i>
<i>wasn't an issue anymore.</i>

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<i>All these saturated fat
studies that have come out,</i>

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trying to vindicate
saturated fat is a campaign
by the dairy industry,

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<i>wherein the number one</i>
<i>source of saturated fat</i>
<i>is dairy, it's not meat.</i>

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<i>2008,</i>
<i>the global dairy industry</i>
<i>got together at a meeting</i>

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<i>and explicitly
read their agenda,</i>

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<i>was to neutralize the
negative impact of milk fat</i>

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<i>by regulators and medical
professionals unquote,</i>

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<i>so what do they do,
they funded studies.</i>

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[Kip]<i> The main study</i>
<i>that started the whole</i>
<i>saturated fat media craze</i>

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<i>was funded by
the National Dairy Council.</i>

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<i>The egg industry
similarly funds studies</i>

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<i>that confuse consumers</i>
<i>by making claims</i>
<i>that eggs don't</i>

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<i>negatively affect heart</i>
<i>function. That is, only</i>
<i>when compared to eating</i>

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<i>a McDonald's Sausage McMuffin?</i>

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<i>So, what they're really
saying is that</i>

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<i>eating eggs is just as
bad as eating a McMuffin.</i>

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When you eat foods,

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<i>like a beef or, steak or,
a processed meat, a hotdog,</i>

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<i>you're not just
getting saturated fat.</i>

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<i>You're also getting other</i>
<i>additional toxins that</i>
<i>are in that food.</i>

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<i>There's heme iron, carcinogens,</i>

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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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<i>That's all they had to do.</i>

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<i>They didn't have to</i>
<i>convince Americans that</i>
<i>smoking was healthy.</i>

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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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<i>people kind of throw up</i>
<i>their hands, "I don't know</i>
<i>what to eat."</i>

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<i>Confusion is their game.</i>

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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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<i>Environmentally, they've
been exposed to a certain way</i>

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<i>of eating and living
that they've carried on</i>

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<i>into their adulthood,
passed onto their children,</i>

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<i>that is why they go on to
develop the same diseases</i>

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<i>that their parents and</i>
<i>grandparents may have had</i>
<i>before them.</i>

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But it is not inevitable.

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Even if you have
a genetic predisposition,

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<i>doesn't mean it's going
to necessarily manifest.</i>

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<i>And what determines
whether it manifests or not</i>

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<i>may be those epigenetic</i>
<i>variables, the things</i>
<i>that you can control.</i>

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<i>The environmental factors,</i>
<i>the dietary factors,</i>
<i>the lifestyle factors.</i>

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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> I had always thought</i>
<i>that I would develop</i>
<i>heart disease at a young age</i>

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<i>because both my dad and
grandpa had heart attacks.</i>

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<i>I was taught
that they were genetic.</i>

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<i>But the heart attacks probably
had less to do with genes</i>

394
00:20:02,702 --> 00:20:04,913
<i>and more to do with
our diets high in meat.</i>

395
00:20:04,955 --> 00:20:07,498
<i>That's why when I went on the
American Heart Association's</i>

396
00:20:07,540 --> 00:20:09,333
<i>Heart-Healthy Recipes page,</i>

397
00:20:09,375 --> 00:20:13,755
<i>I could not believe</i>
<i>they had an entire section</i>
<i>on beef recipes?</i>

398
00:20:13,797 --> 00:20:15,715
<i>This was just like the
American Cancer Society</i>

399
00:20:15,757 --> 00:20:18,969
<i>encouraging eating</i>
<i>Group One carcinogens</i>
<i>on their site.</i>

400
00:20:19,010 --> 00:20:22,931
Meat loaf, pork loin, steak

401
00:20:22,973 --> 00:20:25,516
on your recipe list,
are you kidding me?

402
00:20:25,558 --> 00:20:28,227
It's like this menu
is trying to give
people heart attacks.

403
00:20:28,269 --> 00:20:31,064
On your website, we noticed
Heart-Healthy Recipes

404
00:20:31,106 --> 00:20:34,818
and we were kind of
bewildered by why

405
00:20:34,859 --> 00:20:39,864
there was a bunch of
recipes on, a whole section
on beef, beef recipes.

406
00:20:39,906 --> 00:20:41,950
And there was also
a section on egg recipes

407
00:20:41,992 --> 00:20:46,412
when there's such a strong link
between beef, red meat
and heart disease.

408
00:20:49,166 --> 00:20:52,251
<i>I honestly don't know</i>
<i>'cause I don't do that,</i>
<i>I guess.</i>

409
00:20:52,293 --> 00:20:54,129
<i>That's not what what I do.</i>

410
00:20:54,171 --> 00:20:57,340
<i>Another organization rep</i>
<i>that wasn't able</i>
<i>to answer my questions.</i>

411
00:20:57,381 --> 00:21:00,135
<i>But, he said that</i>
<i>he'd have someone</i>
<i>get in touch shortly.</i>

412
00:21:00,177 --> 00:21:02,345
<i>I was, however, able to
talk to the president</i>

413
00:21:02,386 --> 00:21:05,932
<i>of the American</i>
<i>College of Cardiology,</i>
<i>Dr. Kim Williams.</i>

414
00:21:05,974 --> 00:21:08,267
So, the American
College of Cardiology

415
00:21:08,309 --> 00:21:12,022
is a 47,000-member
and growing organization

416
00:21:12,063 --> 00:21:15,066
with a dedicated mission
to reduce heart disease

417
00:21:15,108 --> 00:21:16,860
and to improve patients' lives.

418
00:21:16,901 --> 00:21:20,530
And if you look
at the incidents
of hypertension and diabetes

419
00:21:20,571 --> 00:21:25,451
and mortality in men,
they actually get reduced
as you go higher

420
00:21:25,493 --> 00:21:28,579
and higher in terms
of how much you
restrict animal products.

421
00:21:28,621 --> 00:21:29,873
What about fish?

422
00:21:29,914 --> 00:21:31,624
So, fish is a little different.

423
00:21:31,666 --> 00:21:36,713
You've got the four worries,
which is PCBs, mercury,

424
00:21:38,048 --> 00:21:41,009
saturated fat and cholesterol.

425
00:21:41,051 --> 00:21:43,887
And the cholesterol
is all over the place.

426
00:21:43,928 --> 00:21:45,763
You can have tuna in water

427
00:21:45,805 --> 00:21:49,267
that'll be almost less
than a glass of milk,

428
00:21:49,308 --> 00:21:51,769
to salmon or, tilapia

429
00:21:51,811 --> 00:21:53,730
which is higher
than a pork chop.

430
00:21:53,771 --> 00:21:55,732
[Goldhamer]<i> If you look</i>
<i>objectively at fish,</i>

431
00:21:55,773 --> 00:21:59,027
<i>what you find is</i>
<i>they've become, essentially,</i>
<i>mercury sponges.</i>

432
00:21:59,069 --> 00:22:01,005
And that's why in many
parts of the country
they warn you,

433
00:22:01,029 --> 00:22:03,656
don't have more
than so many of
these fish a week

434
00:22:03,698 --> 00:22:05,700
<i>because getting too much
mercury can kill you.</i>

435
00:22:05,742 --> 00:22:08,912
Fish are eaten by bigger fish
who are eaten by bigger fish,

436
00:22:08,953 --> 00:22:13,041
<i>and these pesticides or,</i>
<i>herbicides bioaccumulate</i>
<i>in the fish flesh</i>

437
00:22:13,083 --> 00:22:16,836
<i>and these big fish, including</i>
<i>the salmon, which people</i>
<i>think is the healthiest fish,</i>

438
00:22:16,878 --> 00:22:19,547
<i>truth is, the amount of
pesticides and herbicides</i>

439
00:22:19,589 --> 00:22:23,093
in the flesh of these fish
are shocking,
and they have estrogenic

440
00:22:23,134 --> 00:22:25,469
and cancer-promoting
properties in them.

441
00:22:25,511 --> 00:22:28,514
They'll say, "Well,
but, don't sardines
have less concentration

442
00:22:28,556 --> 00:22:31,434
of toxic waste products
than other ones?"

443
00:22:31,475 --> 00:22:34,645
Something being less toxic
doesn't make it healthy,

444
00:22:34,687 --> 00:22:36,439
it just makes it less toxic.

445
00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,525
Farmed fish is
by no means healthier.

446
00:22:39,567 --> 00:22:42,653
<i>All the antibiotics that
these animals have to be fed.</i>

447
00:22:42,695 --> 00:22:44,281
<i>Similar to chickens and turkeys</i>

448
00:22:44,322 --> 00:22:46,783
<i>kept in confinement,
these fish get infections.</i>

449
00:22:46,824 --> 00:22:49,327
<i>They get fungal infections,
they get bacterial infections,</i>

450
00:22:49,368 --> 00:22:51,579
you've got to feed them
anti-fungals, antibiotics,

451
00:22:51,621 --> 00:22:55,125
and these substances accumulate
in the fish flesh as well.

452
00:22:55,166 --> 00:22:57,228
[Kip]<i> I always knew</i>
<i>that pollution was</i>
<i>bad for our health,</i>

453
00:22:57,252 --> 00:23:00,463
<i>but I had never thought</i>
<i>about the environmental</i>
<i>pollutants affecting food.</i>

454
00:23:00,504 --> 00:23:03,716
[Ewall]<i> Dioxins being</i>
<i>the most toxic, man-made</i>
<i>chemicals known to science</i>

455
00:23:03,758 --> 00:23:05,218
<i>cause all sorts of things.</i>

456
00:23:05,260 --> 00:23:07,971
They cause endometriosis,
they cause cancers,

457
00:23:08,012 --> 00:23:10,348
they cause endocrine
disruption problems.

458
00:23:10,389 --> 00:23:12,642
<i>But, most of your exposure,
93 percent of it,</i>

459
00:23:12,683 --> 00:23:14,602
<i>comes from eating meat
and dairy products</i>

460
00:23:14,644 --> 00:23:17,021
because it climbs up
in the food chain
so effectively.

461
00:23:17,063 --> 00:23:19,232
<i>So, you can</i>
<i>get exposed to them</i>
<i>by living near these</i>

462
00:23:19,274 --> 00:23:22,693
<i>incinerators and breathing it,
but, it will take you 14 years</i>

463
00:23:22,735 --> 00:23:24,988
<i>to breathe in as much
Dioxin as a cow will</i>

464
00:23:25,029 --> 00:23:27,448
<i>ingest by eating
the grass in one day.</i>

465
00:23:27,490 --> 00:23:30,327
<i>And that Dioxin will
accumulate in its fat,</i>

466
00:23:30,368 --> 00:23:34,372
<i>which includes the milk</i>
<i>and the meat and anyone</i>
<i>eating meat or dairy products</i>

467
00:23:34,413 --> 00:23:36,333
<i>is gonna get
that dose of Dioxin.</i>

468
00:23:36,374 --> 00:23:38,542
<i>So, it climbs up</i>
<i>the food chain</i>
<i>in every step.</i>

469
00:23:38,584 --> 00:23:42,463
Men have no way
in their bodies
to get rid of dioxins,

470
00:23:42,505 --> 00:23:44,090
<i>but, women have two ways.</i>

471
00:23:44,132 --> 00:23:46,050
<i>They're both involving
having a baby.</i>

472
00:23:46,092 --> 00:23:49,595
<i>One is that dioxin crosses</i>
<i>the placenta into</i>
<i>the growing infant</i>

473
00:23:49,637 --> 00:23:52,431
<i>and the other is that</i>
<i>it comes out from</i>
<i>the breast milk.</i>

474
00:23:52,473 --> 00:23:55,852
<i>So, if you have a meat</i>
<i>and dairy-consuming mother</i>
<i>breastfeeding that infant,</i>

475
00:23:55,893 --> 00:23:58,813
<i>then the highest
impacts of toxic exposure</i>

476
00:23:58,855 --> 00:24:01,065
<i>like mercury and dioxins
will go to that infant.</i>

477
00:24:01,107 --> 00:24:04,402
Pregnant women are told,
"Certain types of fish
should be avoided,"

478
00:24:04,443 --> 00:24:07,280
but, what about all these
other animal products

479
00:24:07,322 --> 00:24:10,950
which are introducing,
imagine as
the fetus is developing,

480
00:24:10,992 --> 00:24:14,245
<i>introducing these very
harmful toxins which,</i>

481
00:24:14,287 --> 00:24:16,956
<i>create reproductive
abnormalities,</i>

482
00:24:16,998 --> 00:24:19,542
<i>develop mental problems
and hormonal issues</i>

483
00:24:19,583 --> 00:24:23,087
right as the child is
developing, the most critical
stage of development.

484
00:24:23,129 --> 00:24:25,548
It does make you worry
when people say,

485
00:24:25,589 --> 00:24:27,943
"Don't you wanna
have a little bit of milk
because you're pregnant?

486
00:24:27,967 --> 00:24:29,653
"Don't you wanna have some
fish 'cause your pregnant?"

487
00:24:29,677 --> 00:24:31,905
Who do you think is
gonna get the chemicals
that are in that?

488
00:24:31,929 --> 00:24:33,723
[Snyder]<i> All these</i>
<i>environmental toxins</i>

489
00:24:33,764 --> 00:24:36,351
<i>and toxins from the feed
that they're being fed</i>

490
00:24:36,393 --> 00:24:40,438
<i>accumulate in their tissues</i>
<i>and are released</i>
<i>into the mother</i>

491
00:24:40,479 --> 00:24:42,148
<i>and unfortunately, to the child</i>

492
00:24:42,190 --> 00:24:44,901
when you eat these products
when you're pregnant.

493
00:24:44,942 --> 00:24:50,740
So, this includes antibiotics,
hormones, steroids
in animal feed.

494
00:24:50,781 --> 00:24:54,869
Commercial animals are
largely fed GMO corn and soy

495
00:24:54,911 --> 00:24:57,538
<i>which are very laden
in pesticides.</i>

496
00:24:57,580 --> 00:24:59,749
PCBs have been
banned since the 70s,

497
00:24:59,790 --> 00:25:03,336
but, they persist in
the environment, dioxins.

498
00:25:03,378 --> 00:25:06,130
All of these compounds
can create hormonal,

499
00:25:06,172 --> 00:25:09,675
<i>reproductive, developmental
damage as well.</i>

500
00:25:09,717 --> 00:25:12,887
Eating organic beef,
poultry, pork

501
00:25:12,929 --> 00:25:15,432
or fish will not help
you avoid contaminants

502
00:25:15,473 --> 00:25:18,726
like mercury, like dioxins,
like strontium-90

503
00:25:18,768 --> 00:25:21,020
because they fall out over
all sorts of farm fields

504
00:25:21,062 --> 00:25:24,232
<i>and water bodies, and then</i>
<i>they don't skip over the</i>
<i>organic fields.</i>

505
00:25:24,274 --> 00:25:26,692
<i>And so really,</i>
<i>the contaminants</i>
<i>are coming in</i>

506
00:25:26,734 --> 00:25:29,112
<i>regardless of how these
animals are raised.</i>

507
00:25:29,153 --> 00:25:30,447
[Kip]<i> I had</i>
<i>always been concerned</i>

508
00:25:30,488 --> 00:25:32,407
<i>about the possible
health impacts of GMOs</i>

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

510
00:25:34,533 --> 00:25:36,327
<i>are actually
consumed by livestock,</i>

511
00:25:36,369 --> 00:25:38,871
<i>with dairy cows consuming
the most per animal.</i>

512
00:25:38,913 --> 00:25:43,000
<i>This fact, with everything I</i>
<i>learned about bioaccumulation</i>
<i>made dairy terrifying.</i>

513
00:25:43,042 --> 00:25:46,087
<i>Especially considering</i>
<i>how much cheese</i>
<i>I ate in my life.</i>

514
00:25:46,129 --> 00:25:48,923
[Goldhamer]
<i>Cheese is an amazing product</i>
<i>when you think about it.</i>

515
00:25:48,965 --> 00:25:54,178
It's probably one
of the single best foods
in compromising health

516
00:25:54,220 --> 00:25:55,822
that you're gonna
actually feed to people.

517
00:25:55,846 --> 00:25:58,015
Think about it, you've
got an animal product.

518
00:25:58,057 --> 00:26:01,478
So, you've got all the issues
of biological concentration.

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

520
00:26:04,481 --> 00:26:07,150
<i>and not only does it</i>
<i>have naturally</i>
<i>a lot saturated fat,</i>

521
00:26:07,191 --> 00:26:08,901
<i>but, you put
a lot of salt into it.</i>

522
00:26:08,943 --> 00:26:12,489
There's a strong link
between dairy foods
and autoimmune diseases.

523
00:26:12,530 --> 00:26:17,494
And so that can show
itself up as excessive
production of mucus

524
00:26:17,535 --> 00:26:19,996
<i>and exacerbation</i>
<i>of asthma in kids</i>
<i>who are prone to that</i>

525
00:26:20,037 --> 00:26:22,790
and even adults,
and also, there's an
association between

526
00:26:22,832 --> 00:26:26,794
dairy foods
and multiple sclerosis
and type one diabetes,

527
00:26:26,836 --> 00:26:30,923
which is an autoimmune
disease, and other
rheumatologic problems.

528
00:26:30,965 --> 00:26:34,635
Cow's milk is
baby calf growth fluid.

529
00:26:34,677 --> 00:26:36,554
<i>That's what the stuff is.</i>

530
00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:39,015
There's absolutely no child
or human on Earth

531
00:26:39,056 --> 00:26:40,891
who actually needs
the milk of a cow

532
00:26:40,933 --> 00:26:43,894
any more than
they need the milk
of a giraffe or, a mouse.

533
00:26:43,936 --> 00:26:46,981
Most people in the world
are lactose intolerant.

534
00:26:47,023 --> 00:26:48,649
<i>That's the normal
state of affairs.</i>

535
00:26:48,691 --> 00:26:52,278
Why would your body create
this enzyme, just lactose

536
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,448
after weaning, after infancy,
it doesn't make any sense.

537
00:26:55,490 --> 00:26:58,826
73% of African Americans
are lactose intolerant.

538
00:26:58,868 --> 00:27:01,078
95% of Asians,

539
00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:03,914
roughly 70% of Native Americans,

540
00:27:03,956 --> 00:27:07,626
and about 53%
of Hispanic Americans
are lactose intolerant.

541
00:27:07,668 --> 00:27:11,005
<i>Our government</i>
<i>is encouraging</i>
<i>Americans of color</i>

542
00:27:11,047 --> 00:27:14,050
<i>to eat foods that it knows
is going to make them ill.</i>

543
00:27:14,091 --> 00:27:15,676
Ultimately,
what that boils down to

544
00:27:15,718 --> 00:27:17,779
is the government
is telling me
as an African American

545
00:27:17,803 --> 00:27:20,264
to eat food that's
gonna make me ill
for no health benefit

546
00:27:20,306 --> 00:27:22,892
so that it will
benefit dairy farmers.

547
00:27:22,933 --> 00:27:24,894
That's a form of
institutionalized racism.

548
00:27:24,935 --> 00:27:27,897
Yeah, milk is a risky
food for human consumption.

549
00:27:27,938 --> 00:27:31,275
As a pediatrician,
I see on a daily basis

550
00:27:31,317 --> 00:27:34,862
children suffering from
conditions that are linked

551
00:27:34,904 --> 00:27:37,031
or associated to
dairy consumption

552
00:27:37,073 --> 00:27:41,827
such as eczema, acne,
constipation, acid reflux,

553
00:27:41,869 --> 00:27:43,746
iron deficiency, anemia.

554
00:27:43,787 --> 00:27:45,789
<i>Cow's milk protein is
the most allergenic food.</i>

555
00:27:45,831 --> 00:27:47,917
People think, "Well, no,
I want hormone-free,

556
00:27:47,958 --> 00:27:50,336
not injected with
bovine growth hormone."

557
00:27:50,378 --> 00:27:53,756
<i>But milk is this hormonal fluid,</i>

558
00:27:53,797 --> 00:27:56,008
<i>so it's just packed
with sex hormones</i>

559
00:27:56,050 --> 00:27:59,262
and natural sex steroid
hormones like estrogen,
progesterone, in fact,

560
00:27:59,303 --> 00:28:02,890
doesn't matter if it's
conventional milk, doesn't
matter if it's organic milk.

561
00:28:02,932 --> 00:28:05,309
<i>Milk without hormones,
that's an oxymoron.</i>

562
00:28:05,351 --> 00:28:08,605
<i>Organic dairy has just
as much saturated fat</i>

563
00:28:08,646 --> 00:28:12,691
<i>and cholesterol and</i>
<i>galactose, all the things</i>
<i>that you don't want,</i>

564
00:28:12,733 --> 00:28:14,151
<i>as conventional dairy.</i>

565
00:28:14,193 --> 00:28:15,612
<i>Dairy products, in general,</i>

566
00:28:15,653 --> 00:28:18,072
<i>have a lot of other
products associated with it,</i>

567
00:28:18,114 --> 00:28:20,116
not the least of which is pus.

568
00:28:20,157 --> 00:28:21,867
They actually have laws limiting

569
00:28:21,909 --> 00:28:24,454
how much pus you can
actually have in the milk
and still sell it,

570
00:28:24,495 --> 00:28:27,748
<i>I believe it's like
750,000 pus cells per CC.</i>

571
00:28:27,790 --> 00:28:30,627
<i>Because you wouldn't want</i>
<i>too much pus and then</i>
<i>it'd be like pure pus,</i>

572
00:28:30,668 --> 00:28:31,669
<i>people might object.</i>

573
00:28:31,710 --> 00:28:33,087
In fact,
you could think of cheese

574
00:28:33,129 --> 00:28:36,006
as kind of coagulated
cow pus, if you would.

575
00:28:36,048 --> 00:28:38,926
[Kip]<i> But, I was always told</i>
<i>that we need milk</i>
<i>for strong bones.</i>

576
00:28:38,968 --> 00:28:42,472
<i>I'm Jane Chapman,
and not too long ago,</i>

577
00:28:42,513 --> 00:28:45,683
<i>I finally got some x-rays
of the hips and back,</i>

578
00:28:45,724 --> 00:28:50,354
severe bilateral
osteoarthritis of the hips.

579
00:28:50,396 --> 00:28:53,483
<i>And actually, I'm scheduled
for two hip replacements.</i>

580
00:28:53,524 --> 00:28:55,151
<i>That's bone on bone.</i>

581
00:28:55,192 --> 00:28:57,778
<i>It's the grinding of the joints.</i>

582
00:28:57,820 --> 00:29:00,197
My stability is scary.

583
00:29:00,239 --> 00:29:03,451
<i>I hold on to the walls
when I'm at home.</i>

584
00:29:03,493 --> 00:29:05,453
I've been told to use a walker.

585
00:29:05,495 --> 00:29:07,288
<i>I'm only 61.</i>

586
00:29:07,330 --> 00:29:10,374
<i>This is not how you're</i>
<i>supposed to live when</i>
<i>you're this old.</i>

587
00:29:10,416 --> 00:29:13,794
I have a really hard time
believing that

588
00:29:15,754 --> 00:29:17,548
that's all that's left.

589
00:29:17,590 --> 00:29:20,301
Researchers have studied
bone development in kids

590
00:29:20,343 --> 00:29:22,928
<i>and whether they get</i>
<i>stress fractures</i>
<i>and that kind of thing.</i>

591
00:29:22,970 --> 00:29:25,389
And the kids who
drink the most milk
have zero protection.

592
00:29:25,431 --> 00:29:27,600
Milk does not
build strong bones.

593
00:29:27,642 --> 00:29:30,978
Harvard researchers
have looked at a large group
of older women,

594
00:29:31,020 --> 00:29:32,480
<i>over an 18-year period,</i>

595
00:29:32,522 --> 00:29:35,692
<i>the milk drinkers had zero
protection from fractures.</i>

596
00:29:35,733 --> 00:29:38,986
So, this old notion
that somehow milk is
gonna build strong bones

597
00:29:39,028 --> 00:29:41,531
or protect your bones
later in life, it's a myth.

598
00:29:41,572 --> 00:29:45,159
People that drink milk
have higher rates
of hip fractures,

599
00:29:45,201 --> 00:29:48,705
have more cancer
and live shorter lives.

600
00:29:48,746 --> 00:29:50,182
[Kip]<i> Turns out that</i>
<i>countries with the highest</i>

601
00:29:50,206 --> 00:29:52,291
<i>dairy consumption also
have the highest rates</i>

602
00:29:52,333 --> 00:29:56,295
<i>of osteoporosis, so clearly,</i>
<i>drinking more milk</i>
<i>doesn't protect your bones.</i>

603
00:29:56,337 --> 00:29:58,589
<i>Doing more research,
I found that dairy was linked</i>

604
00:29:58,631 --> 00:30:01,175
<i>to many different types of
cancer as well.</i>

605
00:30:01,217 --> 00:30:04,554
<i>Just like many of us,</i>
<i>I thought that the majority</i>
<i>of cancer was due to genes,</i>

606
00:30:04,595 --> 00:30:08,516
<i>but, only five to 10% of
cancer is actually genetic.</i>

607
00:30:08,558 --> 00:30:12,395
Any cancer is caused
by DNA mutation,
but, that's not enough.

608
00:30:12,436 --> 00:30:16,357
So, that can cause that first
cancer cell, but, one cancer
cell never killed anyone.

609
00:30:16,399 --> 00:30:18,192
<i>Two cancer cells
never killed anyone.</i>

610
00:30:18,234 --> 00:30:20,861
<i>But, a billion cancer cells,</i>
<i>now we're running</i>
<i>into problems.</i>

611
00:30:20,903 --> 00:30:23,072
So, we need to reduce the
growth factors in our body,

612
00:30:23,113 --> 00:30:25,658
like IGF-1, insulin-like
growth factor one,

613
00:30:25,700 --> 00:30:29,579
it's this cancer-promoting
growth hormone involved
in every stage of cancer cell

614
00:30:29,620 --> 00:30:32,540
growth and spread
and metastases.

615
00:30:32,582 --> 00:30:36,001
Any animal protein boosts
the level of IGF-1.

616
00:30:36,043 --> 00:30:37,878
Dairy products
increases your risk for

617
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:41,424
various forms of cancer,
especially those related
to your hormones.

618
00:30:41,465 --> 00:30:44,134
So, breast cancer,
prostate cancer,
ovarian cancer.

619
00:30:44,176 --> 00:30:47,346
<i>So, this is not a product
even in its most pure state</i>

620
00:30:47,388 --> 00:30:49,973
you wanna be consuming because
it does come with risk.

621
00:30:50,015 --> 00:30:51,826
[Kip]<i> I found out that dairy</i>
<i>can increase a man's chance</i>

622
00:30:51,850 --> 00:30:54,687
of getting prostate cancer
by 34%.

623
00:30:54,729 --> 00:30:58,274
<i>And for women who've had</i>
<i>breast cancer, just one</i>
<i>serving of whole dairy a day</i>

624
00:30:58,315 --> 00:31:01,444
<i>can increase their chance of
dying from the disease 49%</i>

625
00:31:01,485 --> 00:31:04,614
<i>and dying from anything 64%.</i>

626
00:31:04,655 --> 00:31:07,199
<i>Why weren't breast cancer
sites like Susan G. Komen</i>

627
00:31:07,241 --> 00:31:08,867
<i>warning everyone about this?</i>

628
00:31:10,661 --> 00:31:12,288
[woman]
<i>Thanks for calling</i>
<i>Susan G. Komen,</i>

629
00:31:12,329 --> 00:31:14,582
<i>this is Jocelyn,
how may I help you?</i>

630
00:31:14,624 --> 00:31:16,041
Yes, so we're wondering why

631
00:31:16,083 --> 00:31:17,603
you don't have a huge
warning about the dangers

632
00:31:17,627 --> 00:31:19,128
of consuming dairy
on your website

633
00:31:19,169 --> 00:31:21,505
when there's a direct
link to breast cancer.

634
00:31:21,547 --> 00:31:22,899
There was a study
published in the Journal

635
00:31:22,923 --> 00:31:25,050
of the National Cancer
Institute that found out

636
00:31:25,092 --> 00:31:27,886
women consuming dairy
who has had breast cancer

637
00:31:27,928 --> 00:31:31,390
increases their risk of
dying of breast cancer 49%.

638
00:31:31,432 --> 00:31:33,768
I was wondering why it's
not on your website.

639
00:31:35,936 --> 00:31:37,790
[woman]<i> We cannot answer</i>
<i>these types of questions.</i>

640
00:31:37,814 --> 00:31:40,399
[Kip]<i> Once again, another</i>
<i>health organization rep saying</i>

641
00:31:40,441 --> 00:31:42,610
<i>someone else would have
to answer my question.</i>

642
00:31:42,652 --> 00:31:44,194
<i>Rather than risk
being stood up again,</i>

643
00:31:44,236 --> 00:31:46,823
<i>I went straight to the
local Susan G. Komen chapter</i>

644
00:31:46,864 --> 00:31:49,074
<i>to see if they would answer
my questions.</i>

645
00:31:54,037 --> 00:31:57,708
<i>They didn't want to answer</i>
<i>my questions in person either</i>
<i>and told us to stop filming</i>

646
00:31:57,750 --> 00:32:01,712
<i>but, promised they would</i>
<i>connect me to the</i>
<i>national office directly.</i>

647
00:32:04,173 --> 00:32:06,049
<i>Susan G. Komen's
pink ribbon campaign</i>

648
00:32:06,091 --> 00:32:08,927
<i>had done a lot to raise
awareness for breast cancer.</i>

649
00:32:08,969 --> 00:32:11,472
<i>Although, it was confusing
to see pink ribbons</i>

650
00:32:11,514 --> 00:32:13,557
<i>on dairy yogurt containers.</i>

651
00:32:13,599 --> 00:32:16,018
Breast cancer can be prevented

652
00:32:16,059 --> 00:32:18,395
with a healthy diet and
lifestyle, but, we're not.

653
00:32:18,437 --> 00:32:21,774
We're talking
about pink ribbons
and putting all the money

654
00:32:21,816 --> 00:32:23,526
<i>into research for the cure.</i>

655
00:32:23,567 --> 00:32:27,488
I, for one, know that
I would want my daughter,
my mother, me,

656
00:32:27,530 --> 00:32:29,782
I want to focus on not
getting to that point.

657
00:32:29,824 --> 00:32:33,494
And that's where I would
like to see more
energy and effort put.

658
00:32:33,536 --> 00:32:35,371
[Kip]<i> I had been</i>
<i>a hardcore cheese-aholic</i>

659
00:32:35,412 --> 00:32:37,874
<i>virtually my entire life,
despite the risks.</i>

660
00:32:37,915 --> 00:32:40,710
<i>But, like so many others,</i>
<i>I seem to have been</i>
<i>addicted to it.</i>

661
00:32:40,751 --> 00:32:46,298
It turns out that the casein
protein, that's the main
protein in dairy products,

662
00:32:46,340 --> 00:32:49,259
<i>and particularly in cheese,</i>
<i>it breaks apart</i>
<i>in the human digestion</i>

663
00:32:49,301 --> 00:32:52,179
<i>to create what are called
casopmorphins.</i>

664
00:32:52,221 --> 00:32:56,517
<i>Casein-derived,</i>
<i>morphine-like compounds</i>
<i>that go to the brain</i>

665
00:32:56,559 --> 00:33:00,813
<i>and they attach to</i>
<i>the very same receptor</i>
<i>that heroin attaches to.</i>

666
00:33:00,855 --> 00:33:02,815
<i>Don't get me wrong,</i>
<i>they're not as strong</i>
<i>as that,</i>

667
00:33:02,857 --> 00:33:04,441
<i>but, they are strong enough</i>

668
00:33:04,483 --> 00:33:07,361
to make you come back
again and again and again

669
00:33:07,403 --> 00:33:09,123
despite the fact that
you're gaining weight,

670
00:33:09,154 --> 00:33:11,407
you're more unhealthy
than you've ever been,

671
00:33:11,448 --> 00:33:13,325
but, that cheese
just calls out to people.

672
00:33:13,367 --> 00:33:17,705
Casomorphin may play
a role in SIDS, in sudden
infant death syndrome,

673
00:33:17,747 --> 00:33:21,417
may play a role in autism.
This is one of the reasons why

674
00:33:21,458 --> 00:33:25,337
we don't want infants
drinking milk from cows.

675
00:33:25,379 --> 00:33:28,925
[Kip]<i> Human breast milk</i>
<i>has 2.7 grams</i>
<i>of casein per liter,</i>

676
00:33:28,966 --> 00:33:32,177
<i>compared to 26 grams per
liter for cow's milk.</i>

677
00:33:32,219 --> 00:33:36,348
<i>That's practically</i>
<i>10 times more.</i>
<i>No wonder it's so addictive.</i>

678
00:33:36,390 --> 00:33:38,034
<i>This talk about addiction
made me think about</i>

679
00:33:38,058 --> 00:33:40,143
<i>all the drugs animals are fed.</i>

680
00:33:40,185 --> 00:33:42,646
<i>I went to the headquarters
of the Center for Food Safety,</i>

681
00:33:42,688 --> 00:33:45,942
<i>the nation's leading</i>
<i>FDA government</i>
<i>watchdog group</i>

682
00:33:45,983 --> 00:33:48,861
<i>to see how concerned</i>
<i>we need to be</i>
<i>about drugs in our food.</i>

683
00:33:48,903 --> 00:33:52,782
So, that we know of, there are
at least 450 different drugs

684
00:33:52,823 --> 00:33:55,952
that are administered
to animals, either alone
or, in combination.

685
00:33:55,993 --> 00:33:59,246
<i>These drugs</i>
<i>are given to animals</i>
<i>for a variety of reasons,</i>

686
00:33:59,288 --> 00:34:03,333
very, very few of which
are actually beneficial
to consumer health.

687
00:34:03,375 --> 00:34:07,838
We've got drug companies that
work real hard to make sure

688
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,882
they can sell lots of drugs

689
00:34:09,924 --> 00:34:12,009
to people raising cows,
pigs, and chickens.

690
00:34:12,050 --> 00:34:16,263
The pharmaceutical industry
sells 80% of all
the antibiotics that it makes

691
00:34:16,305 --> 00:34:18,682
<i>in the United States
to animal agriculture.</i>

692
00:34:18,724 --> 00:34:20,434
<i>Antibiotic residues
are found in the meat,</i>

693
00:34:20,476 --> 00:34:22,603
<i>other antimicrobials
are found in meat.</i>

694
00:34:22,645 --> 00:34:26,023
There has been ractopamine
found in meat, there has been
hormones found in meat,

695
00:34:26,064 --> 00:34:28,442
so right there,
you're talking about
four different drugs

696
00:34:28,484 --> 00:34:30,945
that could be in
the same piece of meat.

697
00:34:30,987 --> 00:34:32,947
The pharmaceutical company
is supposed to show

698
00:34:32,989 --> 00:34:35,198
<i>the safety of animal drugs.</i>

699
00:34:35,240 --> 00:34:38,219
<i>They're not really testing</i>
<i>to see what the impacts of</i>
<i>these drugs are on humans.</i>

700
00:34:38,243 --> 00:34:39,721
<i>They're really looking
to see what the impacts</i>

701
00:34:39,745 --> 00:34:41,288
of these drugs are on animals.

702
00:34:41,330 --> 00:34:45,292
When we try to get information
on some of the health studies

703
00:34:45,334 --> 00:34:48,337
and the environmental studies
from federal agencies,

704
00:34:48,378 --> 00:34:52,967
<i>we get back page after page
of blacked out information</i>

705
00:34:53,009 --> 00:34:57,513
because the company claimed
confidential business
information.

706
00:34:57,554 --> 00:35:02,810
Consumers have no idea
what is in the products
that they consume.

707
00:35:02,852 --> 00:35:07,356
So, how sick something
makes me and how bad
it pollutes the environment

708
00:35:07,397 --> 00:35:09,483
is a secret for a company.

709
00:35:09,525 --> 00:35:12,778
<i>In the animal agriculture</i>
<i>industry, as in the</i>
<i>tobacco industry,</i>

710
00:35:12,820 --> 00:35:15,572
these companies really
have a vested interest

711
00:35:15,614 --> 00:35:17,616
in making sure that
the public doesn't have

712
00:35:17,658 --> 00:35:19,284
<i>information about their effects</i>

713
00:35:19,326 --> 00:35:22,663
and what risks are really
posed to consuming them.

714
00:35:22,705 --> 00:35:26,542
You have this system
where animals are living
in their own waste,

715
00:35:26,583 --> 00:35:30,087
<i>they're living next to</i>
<i>animals that are sick or,</i>
<i>even dead,</i>

716
00:35:30,128 --> 00:35:32,006
<i>and they're stuck in
cages with these animals,</i>

717
00:35:32,048 --> 00:35:35,926
<i>that bacteria tends to</i>
<i>spread, that the pathogens</i>
<i>that are being created</i>

718
00:35:35,968 --> 00:35:39,388
<i>in these filthy</i>
<i>conditions are breeding</i>
<i>resistance to antibiotics</i>

719
00:35:39,429 --> 00:35:41,431
<i>and the public are
becoming exposed to those.</i>

720
00:35:41,473 --> 00:35:43,100
We already have people dying.

721
00:35:43,141 --> 00:35:46,520
<i>From salmonella and other
things that you eat,</i>

722
00:35:46,562 --> 00:35:50,816
we have about
3,000 people die every year
in the United States.

723
00:35:50,858 --> 00:35:53,903
That's more than the
number of people that were

724
00:35:53,944 --> 00:35:57,489
killed in 9/11 in the
Twin Towers in New York.

725
00:35:57,531 --> 00:35:59,950
<i>If we had some terrorist
organization killing</i>

726
00:35:59,992 --> 00:36:03,161
<i>3,000 people a year,
we would be all over it.</i>

727
00:36:03,203 --> 00:36:07,332
The antibiotic-resistant
bacteria deaths that we have

728
00:36:07,374 --> 00:36:11,128
on top of that, you get
20,000 people dying a year.

729
00:36:11,169 --> 00:36:15,799
That's seven 9/11s every year.

730
00:36:15,841 --> 00:36:17,467
Can you imagine?

731
00:36:17,509 --> 00:36:20,220
<i>If that many people
were being killed</i>

732
00:36:20,262 --> 00:36:22,056
<i>by some terrorist group
in the United States</i>

733
00:36:22,098 --> 00:36:23,682
<i>every year, we would find them!</i>

734
00:36:23,724 --> 00:36:25,726
You know,
the World Health Organization

735
00:36:25,768 --> 00:36:28,604
has said we're nearing
a post-antibiotic era
in medicine.

736
00:36:28,645 --> 00:36:31,857
<i>You'll be at risk</i>
<i>in minor surgeries</i>
<i>o have a fatal infection.</i>

737
00:36:31,899 --> 00:36:34,693
<i>You'll be at risk going to</i>
<i>the dentist if you have</i>
<i>a tooth extracted.</i>

738
00:36:34,735 --> 00:36:38,280
Or, it'll be like civil war
medicine. You get an infection
in your leg,

739
00:36:38,321 --> 00:36:39,448
and you cut your leg off.

740
00:36:39,489 --> 00:36:41,825
So, you have this
very dangerous situation.

741
00:36:41,867 --> 00:36:43,953
By crowding these animals in,

742
00:36:43,994 --> 00:36:47,372
they become a perfect
engine for generating

743
00:36:47,414 --> 00:36:50,292
<i>a new flu virus that can
come out into the community.</i>

744
00:36:50,333 --> 00:36:53,462
If you lived near
a swine spray field,

745
00:36:53,503 --> 00:36:57,257
not even the CAFO but
the waste disposal field,

746
00:36:57,299 --> 00:37:01,344
<i>you are three times</i>
<i>more likely to have</i>
<i>a MRSA infection.</i>

747
00:37:01,386 --> 00:37:06,183
You can't see how that impacts
the average person's life

748
00:37:06,224 --> 00:37:10,020
in Duplin County,
North Carolina and not be
a little upset about it.

749
00:37:12,064 --> 00:37:15,609
From an
environmental standpoint,
from a community standpoint,

750
00:37:15,651 --> 00:37:19,071
from all other aspects,
North Carolina, we're in
a state of emergency.

751
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.

752
00:37:23,700 --> 00:37:26,120
<i>That particular swine flu
incident was</i>

753
00:37:26,162 --> 00:37:29,414
<i>originated on a farm
here in North Carolina.</i>

754
00:37:29,456 --> 00:37:31,792
<i>There's approximately
the same number of hogs</i>

755
00:37:31,834 --> 00:37:33,669
<i>in North Carolina
as there are people.</i>

756
00:37:33,710 --> 00:37:38,007
<i>Between eight to 10 times</i>
<i>the amount of feces is</i>
<i>produced by a hog,</i>

757
00:37:38,048 --> 00:37:41,218
<i>an adult hog as compared
to an adult human.</i>

758
00:37:41,259 --> 00:37:42,928
[Kip]<i> 10 million pigs</i>
<i>in North Carolina</i>

759
00:37:42,970 --> 00:37:46,182
<i>produce the waste equal to
a hundred million humans.</i>

760
00:37:46,223 --> 00:37:49,476
<i>This is the equivalent of the
entire US Eastern Seaboard</i>

761
00:37:49,518 --> 00:37:51,728
<i>flushing their toilets
into North Carolina.</i>

762
00:37:51,770 --> 00:37:53,313
<i>But, there is
no waste treatment.</i>

763
00:37:53,355 --> 00:37:55,524
<i>The pigs' waste falls
through slats in the floors</i>

764
00:37:55,565 --> 00:37:59,277
<i>of the sheds they are forced</i>
<i>to live in, it is then</i>
<i>pumped into giant waste pits,</i>

765
00:37:59,319 --> 00:38:03,532
<i>which leech into rivers and</i>
<i>streams and is pumped out</i>
<i>unfiltered onto fields,</i>

766
00:38:03,573 --> 00:38:07,619
<i>further polluting</i>
<i>the environment</i>
<i>and neighboring health.</i>

767
00:38:07,661 --> 00:38:09,830
<i>When you go back and
you look at where these</i>

768
00:38:09,872 --> 00:38:13,709
hog facilities are located,
there's a disproportionate
number of them

769
00:38:13,750 --> 00:38:16,628
that are located near
communities of color.

770
00:38:16,670 --> 00:38:17,838
<i>Low-income communities.</i>

771
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:21,258
<i>It is definitely a human
rights issue.</i>

772
00:38:21,299 --> 00:38:25,721
My sister, she have asthma,
you know. Her brother,
he have asthma.

773
00:38:26,388 --> 00:38:28,224
He's three.

774
00:38:28,265 --> 00:38:29,892
And we don't know
what she might have.

775
00:38:31,185 --> 00:38:34,104
I have asthma, I have sinus,

776
00:38:34,146 --> 00:38:37,107
I have sarcoidosis,
that's of the bacteria,

777
00:38:37,149 --> 00:38:40,402
and I have a pacemaker,
which is sick sinus syndrome.

778
00:38:40,443 --> 00:38:43,906
But, you know, mostly
everybody in this neighborhood

779
00:38:43,947 --> 00:38:46,324
got asthma or, either cancer.

780
00:38:46,366 --> 00:38:50,579
My neighbor there
died from cancer
probably just last year.

781
00:38:50,620 --> 00:38:52,372
My nephew down the street,
he's got cancer,

782
00:38:52,414 --> 00:38:55,042
he's in terminal cancer,
stage four.

783
00:38:55,084 --> 00:38:57,335
Not a smoker, not a drinker.

784
00:38:57,377 --> 00:39:00,505
And it's not in his lungs,
it's in his lymph nodes.

785
00:39:00,547 --> 00:39:03,717
Now see if you live here
and saw the way they do,

786
00:39:03,759 --> 00:39:05,468
we don't eat no pork.

787
00:39:05,510 --> 00:39:08,430
Well, I don't eat bacon because
I know where it come from.

788
00:39:08,471 --> 00:39:11,267
<i>When they die,
they go into a box,</i>

789
00:39:11,308 --> 00:39:15,395
<i>and they decompose because
they swell from the heat.</i>

790
00:39:15,437 --> 00:39:18,023
<i>A truck come and pick 'em up,</i>

791
00:39:18,065 --> 00:39:20,817
<i>take 'em to the processing
plant in Rose Hill,</i>

792
00:39:20,859 --> 00:39:25,697
<i>ground 'em up into feed,
and feed it back to the hogs.</i>

793
00:39:25,739 --> 00:39:27,199
If I come out this door,

794
00:39:27,241 --> 00:39:28,885
if he's spraying there,
it's gonna come in my face.

795
00:39:28,909 --> 00:39:30,452
It hits you right in the face.

796
00:39:30,493 --> 00:39:32,346
<i>Smell like something that you
have never smelled before.</i>

797
00:39:32,370 --> 00:39:34,831
<i>Smell worse than a dead body.</i>

798
00:39:34,873 --> 00:39:36,917
That's the family graveyard.

799
00:39:36,959 --> 00:39:41,171
And I have
my grandmother out there,
my sisters, my brothers.

800
00:39:41,213 --> 00:39:43,715
When we go to a funeral,
he use the spray.

801
00:39:43,757 --> 00:39:45,759
- During the funeral?
- During the funeral, yes.

802
00:39:45,801 --> 00:39:49,596
During the funeral.
Yeah, they spray.

803
00:39:49,638 --> 00:39:52,641
And when the people come,
everybody be
closing their nose up

804
00:39:52,682 --> 00:39:53,934
saying how it stink.

805
00:39:53,976 --> 00:39:56,979
They can want a cookout
on Sunday, he'll spray.

806
00:39:57,020 --> 00:39:58,480
Do you think he does it on
purpose?

807
00:39:58,521 --> 00:39:59,982
I think so.

808
00:40:00,023 --> 00:40:03,568
'Cause he just sprays Sunday.
He always sprays Sunday.

809
00:40:03,610 --> 00:40:07,364
And in most of these area,
hog houses and turkey house,

810
00:40:07,405 --> 00:40:10,867
it's in a black area
or the Hispanic area.

811
00:40:10,909 --> 00:40:12,410
It's either or.

812
00:40:12,452 --> 00:40:14,496
Do you think it's
also a civil rights issue?

813
00:40:14,537 --> 00:40:17,040
Yes, yes, I do.

814
00:40:17,082 --> 00:40:18,208
Yes, I do.

815
00:40:24,714 --> 00:40:28,344
There have been times
in the past that I have

816
00:40:28,385 --> 00:40:31,805
gotten ready on a Sunday
and gotten ready
to go to church

817
00:40:31,847 --> 00:40:34,641
and come out
and the smell was so strong

818
00:40:34,683 --> 00:40:37,686
that I had to go back
and regroup because

819
00:40:37,727 --> 00:40:41,064
it had got in my clothes,
and I just couldn't
go to church

820
00:40:41,106 --> 00:40:43,608
smelling like hogs, you know,
I just couldn't do it,

821
00:40:43,650 --> 00:40:47,112
so I don't think
the government cares.

822
00:40:47,154 --> 00:40:49,323
They care more about

823
00:40:49,365 --> 00:40:53,327
corporations than they
do peoples, individuals.

824
00:40:53,369 --> 00:40:55,495
They're gonna put
more chickens in this state.

825
00:40:55,537 --> 00:40:57,497
This is the feces and
urine capital of the world

826
00:40:57,539 --> 00:41:00,083
right here in North Carolina,
my state.

827
00:41:00,125 --> 00:41:02,669
Look, there's a
blue-line stream right here

828
00:41:02,711 --> 00:41:05,648
comes right across into my
property almost and the
Contentnea Creek right there.

829
00:41:05,672 --> 00:41:10,052
<i>I've seen that blue-line</i>
<i>stream now filled with feces</i>
<i>and urine from that hog pen,</i>

830
00:41:10,093 --> 00:41:12,262
and they can say,
"Well, we feed the world."

831
00:41:12,304 --> 00:41:15,200
They're not interested in
feeding the world, they're
interested in making money.

832
00:41:15,224 --> 00:41:18,310
You take the money
away from them,
they'll let the folks starve.

833
00:41:18,352 --> 00:41:21,122
'Cause if you want to feed the
world, you can feed the world
with more corn,

834
00:41:21,146 --> 00:41:23,648
using corn and wheat
and stuff like that
than you can meat.

835
00:41:23,690 --> 00:41:25,359
Meat is a luxury item.

836
00:41:25,401 --> 00:41:29,571
When we are doing things
that hurt other people,
we are wrong.

837
00:41:29,612 --> 00:41:32,949
But, a lot of good people
will sit there and eat bacon

838
00:41:32,991 --> 00:41:37,329
knowing that it's
causing someone else
to be very unhappy.

839
00:41:40,165 --> 00:41:41,875
[Kip]<i> I woke up</i>
<i>the next morning to find</i>

840
00:41:41,917 --> 00:41:44,461
<i>the Burnt River</i>
<i>had experienced</i>
<i>another massive fish kill</i>

841
00:41:44,502 --> 00:41:47,172
<i>from the pollution running
off hog farms.</i>

842
00:41:47,214 --> 00:41:50,426
<i>Tens of thousands of fish
were washing up on shore.</i>

843
00:41:51,593 --> 00:41:53,095
<i>All this talk about health,</i>

844
00:41:53,136 --> 00:41:56,056
<i>I realized that I was only
focused on personal health.</i>

845
00:41:56,098 --> 00:41:58,558
<i>But, health started to
mean so much more to me.</i>

846
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:01,311
<i>It was about health of my
family and our communities.</i>

847
00:42:01,353 --> 00:42:02,771
<i>I couldn't under good conscience</i>

848
00:42:02,812 --> 00:42:05,065
<i>support an industry that
I knew was harming others.</i>

849
00:42:07,567 --> 00:42:09,236
<i>Pollution from
animal agriculture</i>

850
00:42:09,278 --> 00:42:11,654
<i>isn't just an issue in
North Carolina, though.</i>

851
00:42:11,696 --> 00:42:14,366
<i>Raising animals for food
produces more greenhouse gases</i>

852
00:42:14,408 --> 00:42:16,826
<i>than the entire
transportation sector.</i>

853
00:42:16,868 --> 00:42:18,995
<i>It is a leading cause of
rainforest destruction,</i>

854
00:42:19,037 --> 00:42:23,083
<i>species extinction,</i>
<i>ocean dead zones</i>
<i>and freshwater consumption.</i>

855
00:42:28,630 --> 00:42:32,342
American Diabetes Association
actually finally got back,

856
00:42:32,384 --> 00:42:35,637
and they agreed to an interview.

857
00:42:35,678 --> 00:42:38,432
<i>Preparing for the American
Diabetes Association interview,</i>

858
00:42:38,474 --> 00:42:41,810
<i>I took a look at their</i>
<i>diabetes diet meal</i>
<i>plan recommendations,</i>

859
00:42:41,851 --> 00:42:46,189
<i>and they were loaded</i>
<i>with foods associated</i>
<i>with causing diabetes.</i>

860
00:42:46,231 --> 00:42:48,608
<i>How could they expect
people not to get diabetes</i>

861
00:42:48,650 --> 00:42:51,611
<i>if this was the food
they were recommending?</i>

862
00:42:51,653 --> 00:42:54,406
<i>And then, I saw multiple
peer-reviewed studies</i>

863
00:42:54,448 --> 00:42:56,658
<i>published on the National
Institute of Health website</i>

864
00:42:56,699 --> 00:42:58,618
<i>showing that a low-fat
plant-based diet</i>

865
00:42:58,660 --> 00:43:00,870
<i>was more than twice as
powerful at controlling</i>

866
00:43:00,912 --> 00:43:03,039
<i>and even reversing diabetes</i>

867
00:43:03,081 --> 00:43:05,875
<i>than the ADA recommended diet
that included meat and dairy.</i>

868
00:43:07,419 --> 00:43:11,631
The mission of the American
Diabetes Association is

869
00:43:11,673 --> 00:43:17,679
to identify a prevention
and a cure for diabetes.

870
00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:21,266
But, in the meantime,
to improve
the lives of all people

871
00:43:21,308 --> 00:43:23,560
who are affected by diabetes.

872
00:43:23,601 --> 00:43:28,231
And what's the best way
to prevent this?

873
00:43:28,273 --> 00:43:31,485
For type two diabetes,
it's unclear.

874
00:43:31,527 --> 00:43:35,531
We can't prevent type two
diabetes in everybody.

875
00:43:35,572 --> 00:43:39,909
We were doing research,
we came across a lot
of studies that said

876
00:43:39,951 --> 00:43:44,039
that you actually could
potentially cure

877
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,959
or reverse diabetes with
a purely plant-based diet.

878
00:43:48,001 --> 00:43:53,006
I don't believe there's
sufficient evidence to
demonstrate that.

879
00:43:53,048 --> 00:43:57,010
How does it compare to the
ADA diet that you recommend?

880
00:43:57,052 --> 00:44:01,515
We don't recommend
a specific diet,
we recommend healthy eating.

881
00:44:01,557 --> 00:44:02,849
The one that's on the website.

882
00:44:02,891 --> 00:44:04,642
We recommend healthy eating.

883
00:44:05,101 --> 00:44:06,311
There is...

884
00:44:06,353 --> 00:44:10,773
Do you have a whole
list of exact day-to-day,

885
00:44:10,815 --> 00:44:12,442
the meal plan,
the whole meal plan?

886
00:44:12,484 --> 00:44:15,653
All they are are selections
of foods to consider.

887
00:44:15,695 --> 00:44:17,947
We do not have a diabetes diet.

888
00:44:17,989 --> 00:44:20,409
But, with that, selections
that you consider,

889
00:44:20,450 --> 00:44:25,080
that plan compared to
an all plant-based plan.

890
00:44:25,121 --> 00:44:27,207
No one's done that study.

891
00:44:27,249 --> 00:44:29,418
We found, actually,
some studies.

892
00:44:29,459 --> 00:44:34,797
A 74-week study found
that low-fat vegan diet
versus the ADA plan,

893
00:44:34,839 --> 00:44:35,882
in type two diabetes...

894
00:44:35,924 --> 00:44:37,300
I think we're done here.

895
00:44:37,342 --> 00:44:40,011
I'm not gonna get into
an argument about...

896
00:44:40,053 --> 00:44:43,390
Oh, no, I just wanted
the studies of,

897
00:44:43,432 --> 00:44:46,893
if this is true or,
if it shows that.

898
00:44:46,935 --> 00:44:48,770
Any diet works.

899
00:44:50,522 --> 00:44:54,568
Any diet works
if people follow it.

900
00:44:54,610 --> 00:44:58,113
But, if it's a diet
that's not the proper diet,

901
00:44:58,154 --> 00:45:00,616
like if anyone follows a diet
that they eat McDonald's...

902
00:45:00,657 --> 00:45:03,493
I can't tell you
what a proper diet is.

903
00:45:03,535 --> 00:45:06,538
I can tell you
what an improper diet is.

904
00:45:06,580 --> 00:45:10,917
So, then we can talk
about the good diets.
I'm not sure why...

905
00:45:10,959 --> 00:45:12,461
I'm not gonna get into that.

906
00:45:12,502 --> 00:45:14,129
- Into diet?
- No.

907
00:45:14,170 --> 00:45:15,505
Why not?

908
00:45:15,547 --> 00:45:17,340
If that's where you
want to go with this,

909
00:45:17,382 --> 00:45:19,759
I'm sorry,
I'm not the person that
you should be talking to.

910
00:45:19,801 --> 00:45:21,386
And why is that, though?

911
00:45:21,428 --> 00:45:23,639
If that's what you want to
get into, I'm not the person

912
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:25,348
- you need to be talking to.
- Into diet?

913
00:45:25,390 --> 00:45:27,350
Who do we talk to about diet?

914
00:45:27,392 --> 00:45:29,352
You can talk to
anybody you want.

915
00:45:29,394 --> 00:45:31,664
But, that's
interesting, though,
why not recommend a diet...

916
00:45:31,688 --> 00:45:33,440
Because the data don't
exist to support it.

917
00:45:33,482 --> 00:45:36,943
But, if we see data
that we looked up,

918
00:45:36,985 --> 00:45:40,447
that supports it with
the NIH, in Europe,

919
00:45:40,489 --> 00:45:45,494
the European Association
of... We're done.

920
00:45:45,535 --> 00:45:47,430
We're done. I'm sorry,
I'm not gonna get into
that argument with you.

921
00:45:47,454 --> 00:45:48,746
No, I'm just wondering,
but, I...

922
00:45:48,788 --> 00:45:50,624
I'm not gonna get into
the argument with you.

923
00:45:50,666 --> 00:45:52,167
Why is it in argument?

924
00:45:52,208 --> 00:45:55,545
It's just to talking about
in European study of diabetes

925
00:45:55,587 --> 00:45:59,048
and other places that have
studies, why...

926
00:45:59,090 --> 00:46:00,425
There are lots of studies...

927
00:46:00,467 --> 00:46:01,735
Why is it even
an argument, I guess?

928
00:46:01,759 --> 00:46:05,305
There are lots of
studies in the literature.

929
00:46:05,347 --> 00:46:11,561
Many of which have
never been replicated
or frankly, are wrong.

930
00:46:11,603 --> 00:46:14,606
That's why we do
peer review, okay?

931
00:46:14,648 --> 00:46:17,651
The European Association
of Study of Diabetes

932
00:46:17,693 --> 00:46:19,402
has been peer-reviewed
or, the...

933
00:46:19,444 --> 00:46:21,988
I don't know what study
you're referring to,

934
00:46:22,030 --> 00:46:24,324
and in the absence of being
able to see that study,

935
00:46:24,366 --> 00:46:25,617
I'm not gonna comment.

936
00:46:25,659 --> 00:46:26,909
I could show it to you.

937
00:46:26,951 --> 00:46:28,704
I'm sorry, I don't
have the time for that.

938
00:46:28,745 --> 00:46:32,290
I just don't understand
why it's an argument,
though, or, okay.

939
00:46:40,173 --> 00:46:41,883
That was interesting.

940
00:46:41,924 --> 00:46:45,345
What he wanted to talk about
was people living longer
with diabetes,

941
00:46:45,387 --> 00:46:48,931
but, once you mention
eliminating diabetes
or, prevention,

942
00:46:48,973 --> 00:46:51,059
oh, now you crossed the line.

943
00:46:51,100 --> 00:46:53,061
Prevention and cure... Whoa.

944
00:46:53,102 --> 00:46:55,897
Let's not go there.

945
00:46:55,938 --> 00:46:58,900
[Kip]<i> Not only did Dr. Ratner,</i>
<i>the chief medical officer</i>

946
00:46:58,941 --> 00:47:02,571
<i>of the American Diabetes</i>
<i>Association not want to</i>
<i>talk about diet,</i>

947
00:47:02,612 --> 00:47:04,740
<i>but, the fact that he had
such an emotional reaction</i>

948
00:47:04,781 --> 00:47:07,659
<i>to my question made it feel
I was digging into something</i>

949
00:47:07,701 --> 00:47:09,745
<i>that he didn't want uncovered.</i>

950
00:47:09,786 --> 00:47:13,540
<i>I had always thought</i>
<i>there was no prevention</i>
<i>for type one diabetes.</i>

951
00:47:13,582 --> 00:47:15,584
<i>But, then,
I did research and came across</i>

952
00:47:15,625 --> 00:47:17,669
<i>countless studies
referencing the link between</i>

953
00:47:17,711 --> 00:47:21,297
<i>exposure to dairy at a young
age and type one diabetes.</i>

954
00:47:21,339 --> 00:47:23,675
[McDougall]<i> This is a food</i>
<i>made for baby cows.</i>

955
00:47:23,717 --> 00:47:25,719
Cow milk protein gets
into the bloodstream,

956
00:47:25,761 --> 00:47:27,905
<i>and the body says, "Hey, this</i>
<i>isn't supposed to be in</i>
<i>the bloodstream."</i>

957
00:47:27,929 --> 00:47:29,847
<i>It makes antibodies to
the cow milk protein</i>

958
00:47:29,889 --> 00:47:33,851
<i>which then attack the pancreas
and destroy the pancreas.</i>

959
00:47:33,893 --> 00:47:37,397
[Kip]<i> How is this possible</i>
<i>that ADA wouldn't have this</i>
<i>forefront on their website?</i>

960
00:47:37,439 --> 00:47:39,608
<i>Why wouldn't they be warning
all parents about this</i>

961
00:47:39,649 --> 00:47:41,651
<i>even if there were
only a slight chance?</i>

962
00:47:41,693 --> 00:47:43,236
<i>Why were they
recommending people</i>

963
00:47:43,278 --> 00:47:46,239
<i>to actually eat these
foods linked to diabetes?</i>

964
00:47:46,281 --> 00:47:48,324
<i>It seemed all of the
large health organizations</i>

965
00:47:48,366 --> 00:47:50,285
<i>were encouraging people
to eat the very foods</i>

966
00:47:50,326 --> 00:47:53,538
<i>linked to the diseases</i>
<i>they're supposed to be</i>
<i>fighting against.</i>

967
00:47:53,580 --> 00:47:55,832
<i>American Heart Association
promoting beef,</i>

968
00:47:55,873 --> 00:47:58,543
<i>American Cancer Society
promoting processed meat,</i>

969
00:47:58,585 --> 00:48:00,253
<i>pink ribbons on dairy products,</i>

970
00:48:00,295 --> 00:48:04,382
<i>and bacon-wrapped shrimp on
American Diabetes Association.</i>

971
00:48:04,424 --> 00:48:07,552
<i>And then, it all came together.</i>

972
00:48:07,594 --> 00:48:08,594
<i>What if...</i>

973
00:48:13,224 --> 00:48:14,643
<i>And there it was.</i>

974
00:48:14,684 --> 00:48:16,621
<i>The American Diabetes
Association was taking money</i>

975
00:48:16,645 --> 00:48:19,648
<i>from Dannon, one of the</i>
<i>world's largest dairy</i>
<i>yogurt producers.</i>

976
00:48:19,689 --> 00:48:21,858
<i>Kraft Foods, makers of
Velveeta processed cheese,</i>

977
00:48:21,941 --> 00:48:24,778
<i>Oscar Meyer processed</i>
<i>meats, Lunchables</i>
<i>processed kids' meals,</i>

978
00:48:24,820 --> 00:48:27,947
<i>and Bumble Bee Foods,</i>
<i>makers of processed</i>
<i>canned meats.</i>

979
00:48:31,827 --> 00:48:33,787
<i>American Cancer Society
was taking money</i>

980
00:48:33,829 --> 00:48:36,331
<i>from Tyson, one of the
world's largest meat producers</i>

981
00:48:36,372 --> 00:48:40,502
<i>and Yum! Brand, owner of
Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell.</i>

982
00:48:40,543 --> 00:48:43,296
<i>Susan G. Komen,</i>
<i>who was supposed to be</i>
<i>fighting breast cancer,</i>

983
00:48:43,338 --> 00:48:45,507
<i>was corporate
partnering with KFC,</i>

984
00:48:45,548 --> 00:48:49,260
<i>Dietz Watson processed
meats and Yoplait yogurt.</i>

985
00:48:49,302 --> 00:48:53,139
<i>And the American Heart</i>
<i>Association was probably</i>
<i>the most disturbing of all,</i>

986
00:48:53,181 --> 00:48:55,057
<i>taking hundreds
of thousands of dollars</i>

987
00:48:55,099 --> 00:48:58,144
<i>from the beef industry,
poultry and dairy producers</i>

988
00:48:58,186 --> 00:49:02,231
<i>and millions from fast</i>
<i>food and processed food</i>
<i>manufacturers.</i>

989
00:49:04,150 --> 00:49:06,444
<i>Every single one
of these organizations</i>

990
00:49:06,486 --> 00:49:09,113
<i>was taking money from
meat and dairy companies</i>

991
00:49:09,155 --> 00:49:12,116
<i>that are associated with
the causes of these diseases.</i>

992
00:49:12,158 --> 00:49:14,076
<i>This would be like the
American Lung Association</i>

993
00:49:14,118 --> 00:49:17,038
<i>taking money from
the tobacco industry.</i>

994
00:49:17,079 --> 00:49:19,957
<i>I was sick of
not getting answers.</i>

995
00:49:19,999 --> 00:49:23,002
<i>So, I went to the headquarters
of these organizations myself.</i>

996
00:49:23,044 --> 00:49:24,838
We have to speak
to someone in person.

997
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,799
There's millions of people
dying from the foods

998
00:49:27,841 --> 00:49:30,343
that they are recommending
people to eat.

999
00:49:30,385 --> 00:49:35,181
<i>I wanted to find out why</i>
<i>Susan G. Komen had accepted</i>
<i>$35 million from Yoplait,</i>

1000
00:49:35,223 --> 00:49:37,034
<i>when their products can
increase a woman's chance</i>

1001
00:49:37,058 --> 00:49:39,853
<i>of dying from breast cancer 49%,</i>

1002
00:49:39,895 --> 00:49:42,146
<i>and ask American Cancer
Society if taking money</i>

1003
00:49:42,188 --> 00:49:46,067
<i>from KFC and Tyson</i>
<i>was a reason</i>
<i>they promote eating meat.</i>

1004
00:49:46,108 --> 00:49:50,613
<i>But, every one of these</i>
<i>organizations declined to</i>
<i>be interviewed.</i>

1005
00:49:50,655 --> 00:49:53,157
<i>What's really sad is
that we cannot trust</i>

1006
00:49:53,199 --> 00:49:56,578
information from these
leading health organizations

1007
00:49:56,619 --> 00:50:00,122
like the American Heart
Association, the American
Diabetes Association

1008
00:50:00,164 --> 00:50:03,877
because they are taking money
from the very industries

1009
00:50:03,919 --> 00:50:07,923
who are causing the problems
that they're supposed to be
helping to prevent.

1010
00:50:07,964 --> 00:50:11,760
So, that makes the truth
something that

1011
00:50:11,801 --> 00:50:14,554
you are not gonna be hearing,
as far as nutrition goes,

1012
00:50:14,596 --> 00:50:16,138
from these organizations.

1013
00:50:16,180 --> 00:50:17,783
Well, that would be the
end of their funding,

1014
00:50:17,807 --> 00:50:20,393
that would be the end
of their jobs,
there would be lawsuits

1015
00:50:20,435 --> 00:50:23,312
that would bring
the entire catastrophe
down upon their heads,

1016
00:50:23,354 --> 00:50:25,481
and they would essentially
disappear as organizations.

1017
00:50:25,523 --> 00:50:28,944
This one time I got invited
to a charity fundraiser

1018
00:50:28,985 --> 00:50:31,153
for the American Diabetes
Association.

1019
00:50:31,195 --> 00:50:35,867
I showed up, and they had
a whole buffet, and it was
all just animal products.

1020
00:50:35,909 --> 00:50:39,662
I remember like a big
thing of barbecue chicken.

1021
00:50:39,704 --> 00:50:43,040
And I was like, I stormed out.
I said like,

1022
00:50:44,250 --> 00:50:47,128
serving chicken
at a diabetes event

1023
00:50:47,169 --> 00:50:49,422
is like serving alcohol
at an AA meeting.

1024
00:50:49,464 --> 00:50:52,634
It doesn't make sense.

1025
00:50:52,675 --> 00:50:56,053
[Kip]<i> We had scheduled</i>
<i>to film an interview</i>
<i>with a prominent surgeon.</i>

1026
00:50:56,095 --> 00:50:57,931
<i>But, before we could get
inside the building,</i>

1027
00:50:57,973 --> 00:51:01,142
<i>the hospital's media
relations manager stopped us.</i>

1028
00:51:01,183 --> 00:51:04,479
Actually I understand that
Dr... said that you could film
here today,

1029
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:07,690
but, unfortunately, that's
not gonna be able to happen.

1030
00:51:07,732 --> 00:51:10,944
I know that he advocates for
patients changing their diets,

1031
00:51:10,986 --> 00:51:13,529
but, the hospital makes
money off these surgeries,

1032
00:51:13,571 --> 00:51:15,615
and the reality is,
he does, too.

1033
00:51:15,657 --> 00:51:19,118
So, we can't do
anything that's gonna
negatively impact the hospital,

1034
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,830
so unfortunately,
you're not gonna be
able to film here today.

1035
00:51:21,871 --> 00:51:23,539
He said that we could, though.

1036
00:51:23,581 --> 00:51:25,667
[Kip]<i> I was sickened</i>
<i>by how open she was</i>

1037
00:51:25,708 --> 00:51:30,379
<i>about the hospital being</i>
<i>more interested in profits</i>
<i>than people's health.</i>

1038
00:51:30,421 --> 00:51:33,299
<i>But, it wasn't</i>
<i>just this hospital</i>
<i>or these organizations.</i>

1039
00:51:33,341 --> 00:51:36,052
<i>Even the US government
is involved, too.</i>

1040
00:51:36,093 --> 00:51:38,387
<i>Every five years, the US
Department of Agriculture</i>

1041
00:51:38,429 --> 00:51:40,682
<i>creates dietary guidelines
for Americans.</i>

1042
00:51:40,723 --> 00:51:43,643
<i>The committee who writes</i>
<i>these guidelines has been</i>
<i>made up of individuals</i>

1043
00:51:43,685 --> 00:51:46,479
<i>who have received money from</i>
<i>McDonald's, the National</i>
<i>Dairy Council,</i>

1044
00:51:46,521 --> 00:51:48,773
<i>the American Meat Institute,
the National Dairy Board,</i>

1045
00:51:48,815 --> 00:51:51,985
<i>the National Livestock and</i>
<i>Meat Board, the American</i>
<i>Egg Board, Dannon,</i>

1046
00:51:52,027 --> 00:51:55,864
<i>candy and sugar companies,</i>
<i>Coca Cola and Anheuser,</i>
<i>just to name a few.</i>

1047
00:51:55,905 --> 00:51:58,407
<i>Which means we are getting
our dietary recommendations</i>

1048
00:51:58,449 --> 00:52:00,409
<i>from the very industries
that are killing us.</i>

1049
00:52:00,451 --> 00:52:04,914
And when they,
the USDA, makes a pyramid
or a Power Plate

1050
00:52:04,956 --> 00:52:07,000
<i>every five years for
the American public,</i>

1051
00:52:07,042 --> 00:52:09,293
<i>they're gonna guarantee
that on that plate</i>

1052
00:52:09,335 --> 00:52:12,088
<i>are gonna be foods,
which when consumed,</i>

1053
00:52:12,129 --> 00:52:16,092
<i>will result in millions
of Americans perishing.</i>

1054
00:52:16,133 --> 00:52:19,512
The USDA, which is
supposed to be protecting us,
has two missions.

1055
00:52:19,554 --> 00:52:23,140
It's supposed to protect us,
and it's supposed to
protect the producer.

1056
00:52:23,182 --> 00:52:25,852
And guess what, when those
two come head to head,

1057
00:52:25,894 --> 00:52:27,687
they usually choose
the producer.

1058
00:52:27,729 --> 00:52:30,189
[Kip]<i> In internal documents</i>
<i>uncovered by Dr. Greger,</i>

1059
00:52:30,231 --> 00:52:32,942
<i>the USDA admitted that eggs
cannot legally be called</i>

1060
00:52:32,984 --> 00:52:35,152
<i>nutritious, low fat,
part of a balanced diet,</i>

1061
00:52:35,194 --> 00:52:39,407
<i>low calorie, healthful,</i>
<i>healthy, can't say it's</i>
<i>good for you or, even safe.</i>

1062
00:52:39,448 --> 00:52:40,909
<i>Yet they still
promote these products</i>

1063
00:52:40,950 --> 00:52:43,953
<i>to the American people through
federal checkoff programs.</i>

1064
00:52:43,995 --> 00:52:45,538
If you ask somebody
if they have heard

1065
00:52:45,580 --> 00:52:47,749
of a checkoff program,
the odds are they haven't,

1066
00:52:47,790 --> 00:52:51,836
although daily, they
are seeing the messaging
that these programs produce.

1067
00:52:51,878 --> 00:52:53,880
So, checkoff programs
are responsible

1068
00:52:53,922 --> 00:52:57,092
for the messages that we
see on TV, on the Internet,

1069
00:52:57,133 --> 00:52:59,510
on buzz billboards and
magazines that say things like,

1070
00:52:59,552 --> 00:53:02,680
"Milk, it does a body good,"
or "milk life.

1071
00:53:02,722 --> 00:53:05,892
<i>Beef, it's what's for dinner.
Pork, be inspired.</i>

1072
00:53:05,934 --> 00:53:07,602
The incredible edible egg."

1073
00:53:07,643 --> 00:53:11,606
The dairy checkoff
program gave $12 million

1074
00:53:11,647 --> 00:53:15,234
to Domino's to just market
cheese-heavy product.

1075
00:53:15,276 --> 00:53:17,112
And this is the USDA,
this is the government.

1076
00:53:17,153 --> 00:53:19,864
If you've seen those ads
for the Pizza Hut pizza,

1077
00:53:19,906 --> 00:53:22,700
<i>the stuffed crust
or a pound of cheese.</i>

1078
00:53:22,742 --> 00:53:26,328
<i>Those are all government</i>
<i>advertising schemes</i>
<i>for the industry.</i>

1079
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?

1080
00:53:31,126 --> 00:53:34,003
Things like that
to just drive consumption

1081
00:53:34,045 --> 00:53:37,339
of these just unbelievably
unhealthful products.

1082
00:53:37,381 --> 00:53:41,677
So, McDonald's, for instance,
has six people staffed
full-time,

1083
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:43,387
according to records we found,

1084
00:53:43,429 --> 00:53:46,975
whose salaries are paid for
by this government program

1085
00:53:47,016 --> 00:53:50,061
but, funded by the producers
who are regulated by it.

1086
00:53:50,103 --> 00:53:52,855
And these six people sit there
at McDonald's headquarters

1087
00:53:52,897 --> 00:53:54,941
and just come up with ideas.

1088
00:53:56,192 --> 00:54:00,071
Triple cheese decker
McCheese muffin

1089
00:54:00,113 --> 00:54:03,158
stuffed bacon cheese slider?

1090
00:54:05,576 --> 00:54:06,911
With extra cheese?

1091
00:54:06,953 --> 00:54:08,204
- Nice!
- Yes!

1092
00:54:08,245 --> 00:54:10,832
You don't think of it
on a day-to-day basis

1093
00:54:10,873 --> 00:54:12,625
that these are
government programs.

1094
00:54:12,667 --> 00:54:15,252
The Wendy's Bacon
Double Cheeseburger.

1095
00:54:16,045 --> 00:54:17,922
Government program.

1096
00:54:17,964 --> 00:54:19,882
The steak fajita
at Dunkin' Donuts.

1097
00:54:20,633 --> 00:54:22,593
Government program.

1098
00:54:22,635 --> 00:54:26,555
You would just never think
that this just pure garbage
from a food standpoint,

1099
00:54:26,597 --> 00:54:29,475
is coming from
a federally-funded program.

1100
00:54:29,517 --> 00:54:33,312
That's one of the things
that makes checkoffs
so incredibly creepy,

1101
00:54:33,354 --> 00:54:37,483
is that it is our government
telling us eat more beef,
drink more milk,

1102
00:54:37,525 --> 00:54:39,902
<i>eat more cheese, eat more pork.</i>

1103
00:54:39,944 --> 00:54:42,155
One of the very effective
ways that the dairy industry

1104
00:54:42,197 --> 00:54:46,408
promotes its products
is to reach children

1105
00:54:46,450 --> 00:54:48,494
because kids are impressionable,

1106
00:54:48,536 --> 00:54:50,872
<i>they're gonna be consumers
for their entire lives,</i>

1107
00:54:50,913 --> 00:54:52,915
<i>and you might as well get
'em while they're young.</i>

1108
00:54:52,957 --> 00:54:57,962
So, dairy spends at least $50
million promoting its products
in public schools

1109
00:54:58,004 --> 00:55:00,589
throughout the country
with posters,

1110
00:55:00,631 --> 00:55:02,967
with people with milk mustaches

1111
00:55:03,009 --> 00:55:05,803
<i>and messages like "Milk,
it does the body good,"</i>

1112
00:55:05,845 --> 00:55:07,555
<i>or "milk life."</i>

1113
00:55:07,596 --> 00:55:09,932
Targeting young people,
like the tobacco industry

1114
00:55:09,974 --> 00:55:14,270
<i>had to keep replacing their</i>
<i>customers who were dying</i>
<i>with new customers.</i>

1115
00:55:14,311 --> 00:55:16,939
<i>Meat industry knows they
have to target young people.</i>

1116
00:55:16,981 --> 00:55:18,858
<i>That's why we have these
foods in schools</i>

1117
00:55:18,900 --> 00:55:21,110
<i>and marketing messages at
a younger and younger age</i>

1118
00:55:21,152 --> 00:55:24,321
for kids to get hooked on
all the wrong kinds of foods.

1119
00:55:24,363 --> 00:55:26,115
So, there's
all kinds of parallels.

1120
00:55:26,157 --> 00:55:29,285
School districts
where processed meats
are all over the place,

1121
00:55:29,326 --> 00:55:33,748
<i>maybe it's gonna be bacon on</i>
<i>the menu, sausage, hotdogs</i>
<i>or pepperoni pizza.</i>

1122
00:55:33,789 --> 00:55:35,374
<i>Any of those things
are processed meats,</i>

1123
00:55:35,416 --> 00:55:37,668
and those are pretty much
the worst of the worst

1124
00:55:37,710 --> 00:55:39,837
with a direct link
to colon cancer.

1125
00:55:39,879 --> 00:55:44,092
And yet you have every day in
the schools meal items with
processed meats.

1126
00:55:44,133 --> 00:55:46,094
[Kip]<i> If the surgeon</i>
<i>general puts warning labels</i>

1127
00:55:46,135 --> 00:55:48,179
<i>on tobacco because of
their cancer risk,</i>

1128
00:55:48,221 --> 00:55:52,391
<i>why aren't the same
warning labels on meat?</i>

1129
00:55:52,433 --> 00:55:57,521
Based on the publicly available
data, we know they spend at
least $557 million

1130
00:55:57,563 --> 00:55:59,857
<i>promoting their goods
through checkoff programs.</i>

1131
00:55:59,899 --> 00:56:04,153
<i>We know that they spend</i>
<i>at least $138 million</i>
<i>lobbying Congress.</i>

1132
00:56:04,195 --> 00:56:06,530
We expect that they spend
a good deal more than that

1133
00:56:06,572 --> 00:56:09,284
in figures that simply
aren't publicly disclosed.

1134
00:56:09,325 --> 00:56:11,327
[Kip]<i> The industry's</i>
<i>lobbying power is so strong</i>

1135
00:56:11,368 --> 00:56:13,471
<i>that they can create laws
and push through legislation</i>

1136
00:56:13,495 --> 00:56:15,998
<i>that doesn't benefit
Americans in any way,</i>

1137
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:18,667
<i>such as ag-gag laws that
criminalize whistle-blowing</i>

1138
00:56:18,709 --> 00:56:21,045
<i>or photographing abuses
by this industry.</i>

1139
00:56:21,087 --> 00:56:23,339
<i>Activists in the US can
be charged as terrorists</i>

1140
00:56:23,380 --> 00:56:26,383
<i>for disrupting</i>
<i>the profits of any business</i>
<i>that uses animals,</i>

1141
00:56:26,425 --> 00:56:30,805
<i>under the Animal Enterprise</i>
<i>Terrorism Act, to the</i>
<i>even more ridiculous ones like</i>

1142
00:56:30,846 --> 00:56:33,141
<i>cheeseburger laws.</i>

1143
00:56:33,182 --> 00:56:36,560
A cheeseburger law
is a law that says
a plaintiff cannot recover

1144
00:56:36,602 --> 00:56:39,355
against a manufacturer,
distributor or, retailer,

1145
00:56:39,396 --> 00:56:42,775
on the theory that the food
made the plaintiff obese

1146
00:56:42,817 --> 00:56:45,778
or caused
an obesity related disease.

1147
00:56:45,820 --> 00:56:48,697
Cheeseburger laws
are a direct response

1148
00:56:48,739 --> 00:56:51,909
to a problem that the
tobacco industry has had.

1149
00:56:51,951 --> 00:56:56,497
Big Tobacco has paid
$400 billion to state
Medicaid programs.

1150
00:56:56,538 --> 00:56:58,707
Cheeseburger laws
proponents say,

1151
00:56:58,749 --> 00:57:00,835
"We don't want to see the
same kind of thing happen

1152
00:57:00,876 --> 00:57:02,461
"to the meat
and dairy industries."

1153
00:57:02,503 --> 00:57:05,089
The fact that these laws are
based on a model template

1154
00:57:05,131 --> 00:57:07,466
called a Commonsense
Consumption Act

1155
00:57:07,508 --> 00:57:10,345
is actually ironic because
what they're saying is

1156
00:57:10,386 --> 00:57:12,471
you, the consumer, should
have the common sense

1157
00:57:12,513 --> 00:57:15,308
<i>to know that
our food is bad for you.</i>

1158
00:57:15,350 --> 00:57:18,936
I've often typified the
meat industry to people who

1159
00:57:18,978 --> 00:57:21,647
maybe don't understand
its power and reach,

1160
00:57:21,689 --> 00:57:25,901
as it's got all the money of
Big Tobacco and Big Pharma,

1161
00:57:25,943 --> 00:57:29,530
and it has the personality of
the National Rifle Association.

1162
00:57:29,571 --> 00:57:34,994
So, any little thing
that comes up, man,
they beat it to death.

1163
00:57:35,036 --> 00:57:37,079
[Kip]<i> Robert Martin</i>
<i>wasn't exaggerating.</i>

1164
00:57:37,121 --> 00:57:39,248
<i>When the profits of the egg
industry were threatened</i>

1165
00:57:39,290 --> 00:57:41,750
<i>by egg alternative company
Hampton Creek Foods,</i>

1166
00:57:41,792 --> 00:57:45,921
<i>extremely disturbing emails</i>
<i>were uncovered by Ryan</i>
<i>Shapiro and Jeffrey Light.</i>

1167
00:57:45,963 --> 00:57:49,050
We uncovered
documents demonstrating
the American Egg Board

1168
00:57:49,091 --> 00:57:52,845
considers Hampton Creek, quote
"a crisis and major threat

1169
00:57:52,887 --> 00:57:55,014
<i>"to the future of the
American egg industry."</i>

1170
00:57:55,056 --> 00:57:57,183
The American Egg Board
considers a successful

1171
00:57:57,225 --> 00:57:59,852
egg replacer company
to be such a threat

1172
00:57:59,894 --> 00:58:02,688
that they joke on their
government email addresses

1173
00:58:02,730 --> 00:58:05,024
about murdering the CEO.

1174
00:58:05,066 --> 00:58:08,361
[Kip]<i> In internal government</i>
<i>emails with the heads of</i>
<i>the egg industry,</i>

1175
00:58:08,403 --> 00:58:13,366
<i>they suggest having the</i>
<i>CEO of Hampton Creek,</i>
<i>Josh Tetrick, murdered,</i>

1176
00:58:13,408 --> 00:58:17,494
<i>including a menacing email</i>
<i>from executive director</i>
<i>of the American Egg Board.</i>

1177
00:58:23,042 --> 00:58:25,420
The meat producers
don't have to pay for

1178
00:58:25,461 --> 00:58:28,881
the heart disease or
the environmental destruction

1179
00:58:28,923 --> 00:58:33,135
or any of the other
externalities, as economists
call them,

1180
00:58:33,177 --> 00:58:35,763
that their products cause.

1181
00:58:35,804 --> 00:58:38,433
Then there's a whole
pharmaceutical aspect of it

1182
00:58:38,474 --> 00:58:41,185
and the fact that
there's a very strong
pharmaceutical industry

1183
00:58:41,227 --> 00:58:45,022
and lobby that has
a huge stake in
preserving the status quo.

1184
00:58:45,064 --> 00:58:46,482
These chronic diseases,

1185
00:58:46,523 --> 00:58:49,277
these are the cash cows of
the pharmaceutical industry.

1186
00:58:49,318 --> 00:58:53,572
We have a $5 billion stent
industry. Do they ever want
to see that go away?

1187
00:58:53,614 --> 00:58:56,492
We've got a $35 billion
statin drug industry.

1188
00:58:56,533 --> 00:58:58,119
<i>Do they ever want
to see that go away?</i>

1189
00:58:58,160 --> 00:58:59,954
I'm talking about the
pharmaceutical industry

1190
00:58:59,995 --> 00:59:02,790
<i>effectively controls
what doctors are told.</i>

1191
00:59:02,831 --> 00:59:05,167
Most research isn't
put into prevention.

1192
00:59:05,209 --> 00:59:08,212
It's put into the medication
that we might use

1193
00:59:08,254 --> 00:59:10,298
for that particular disease.

1194
00:59:10,339 --> 00:59:13,968
I'm on two different
high blood pressure medicines.

1195
00:59:14,009 --> 00:59:16,512
Six asthma type medicines.

1196
00:59:16,553 --> 00:59:19,848
Even after four years of shots.

1197
00:59:19,890 --> 00:59:21,892
And another medicine
to help take care

1198
00:59:21,934 --> 00:59:24,686
of side effects from some
of those medicines.

1199
00:59:24,728 --> 00:59:28,483
I'm on high level
anti-depressants.

1200
00:59:28,524 --> 00:59:32,487
<i>A couple of different pain meds
for my back and hips.</i>

1201
00:59:32,528 --> 00:59:34,947
I'm taking about 16 drugs.

1202
00:59:34,989 --> 00:59:37,699
Not counting the insulin
in the morning.

1203
00:59:37,741 --> 00:59:42,497
I take insulin in the morning,
insulin at night, 32-34 units,

1204
00:59:43,414 --> 00:59:44,999
of insulin.

1205
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:47,001
Lantus to be exact.

1206
00:59:47,042 --> 00:59:50,254
Some of these meds
are for diabetes.

1207
00:59:50,296 --> 00:59:51,797
This is for peeing.

1208
00:59:51,839 --> 00:59:54,342
I have to use this
for my prostrate.

1209
00:59:54,383 --> 00:59:56,802
And then I have to
use this for the heart.

1210
00:59:56,844 --> 00:59:59,680
And I have to use this
for blood pressure.

1211
00:59:59,721 --> 01:00:03,642
And it's just on and on and on.

1212
01:00:03,684 --> 01:00:06,521
The doctors are telling me
this is what I gotta do
for my whole life.

1213
01:00:06,562 --> 01:00:10,525
And it's frustrating
and very stressful.

1214
01:00:10,566 --> 01:00:13,902
And I don't know how long
my liver is gonna last
taking all this stuff.

1215
01:00:13,944 --> 01:00:17,239
Under conventional medical
treatment, whether it be for
autoimmune disease

1216
01:00:17,281 --> 01:00:20,617
or even conditions like high
blood pressure or, diabetes,

1217
01:00:20,659 --> 01:00:23,204
you're told that
you have to take drugs.

1218
01:00:23,245 --> 01:00:25,789
<i>And not just for a week
or a month or, a year,</i>

1219
01:00:25,831 --> 01:00:28,543
<i>you're told you have
to take drugs forever.</i>

1220
01:00:28,584 --> 01:00:31,837
You're guaranteed that if you
follow your doctor's advice,

1221
01:00:31,879 --> 01:00:33,255
you'll be sick forever.

1222
01:00:33,297 --> 01:00:35,216
You'll never get well.

1223
01:00:35,257 --> 01:00:37,009
That's the guarantee.

1224
01:00:37,051 --> 01:00:40,971
<i>Because the strategies are</i>
<i>all about manipulating</i>
<i>the symptoms,</i>

1225
01:00:41,013 --> 01:00:42,723
<i>not dealing with
the underlying cause.</i>

1226
01:00:42,764 --> 01:00:45,351
You come in
with that diagnosis,
you get a bunch of pills

1227
01:00:45,393 --> 01:00:47,686
<i>that have nothing to do
with the disease causation.</i>

1228
01:00:47,728 --> 01:00:51,566
<i>Or you get these procedures</i>
<i>that have nothing to do</i>
<i>with disease causation.</i>

1229
01:00:51,607 --> 01:00:54,068
It's a deception to say
this pill will help you

1230
01:00:54,109 --> 01:00:57,613
unclog your arteries, this one
will save you from a stroke,
no, it doesn't.

1231
01:00:57,654 --> 01:00:59,656
<i>The people who take
the statins, et cetera,</i>

1232
01:00:59,698 --> 01:01:02,410
they still get
their heart attacks,
they still get their strokes.

1233
01:01:02,451 --> 01:01:05,621
This does not reverse disease.
This does not make
plaque smaller.

1234
01:01:05,662 --> 01:01:08,707
This is a front
of massive proportions.

1235
01:01:08,749 --> 01:01:12,628
[Kip]<i> In the US, treating</i>
<i>chronic disease, such as heart</i>
<i>disease, cancer and diabetes</i>

1236
01:01:12,669 --> 01:01:16,298
<i>is a $1.5 trillion industry.</i>

1237
01:01:16,340 --> 01:01:21,011
<i>That's the GDP equivalent</i>
<i>of the 10th richest country</i>
<i>in the world.</i>

1238
01:01:21,053 --> 01:01:24,181
<i>I went back and dug</i>
<i>deeper into the health</i>
<i>organizations' funding,</i>

1239
01:01:24,223 --> 01:01:26,058
<i>and there it was again.</i>

1240
01:01:26,100 --> 01:01:28,519
<i>These organizations were
accepting millions of dollars</i>

1241
01:01:28,561 --> 01:01:31,772
<i>from pharmaceutical</i>
<i>companies that are making</i>
<i>billions of dollars</i>

1242
01:01:31,813 --> 01:01:36,277
<i>from the very same diseases</i>
<i>these health groups are</i>
<i>supposedly trying to end.</i>

1243
01:01:36,318 --> 01:01:38,487
<i>It seemed like a major
conflict of interest,</i>

1244
01:01:38,529 --> 01:01:41,616
<i>unless ending these diseases
isn't really the goal.</i>

1245
01:01:41,657 --> 01:01:43,576
<i>The pharmaceutical
industry spends more money</i>

1246
01:01:43,618 --> 01:01:46,036
<i>on lobbying than any
other single industry.</i>

1247
01:01:46,078 --> 01:01:47,455
<i>Just like animal agriculture,</i>

1248
01:01:47,496 --> 01:01:49,182
<i>they are so powerful,
they write their own laws</i>

1249
01:01:49,206 --> 01:01:52,293
<i>that have had activists
imprisoned to silence them.</i>

1250
01:01:52,334 --> 01:01:54,962
The government's in bed
with anyone that gives
them the most money,

1251
01:01:55,003 --> 01:01:58,882
which is the pharmaceutical
industry, which is
the animal ag industries,

1252
01:01:58,924 --> 01:02:00,842
they are pumping the
government full of money

1253
01:02:00,884 --> 01:02:03,614
and resources, and in return,
the government's giving
them want they want.

1254
01:02:03,638 --> 01:02:07,182
Subsidies, imprisoning
activists that go against them,

1255
01:02:07,224 --> 01:02:09,602
and I think it's quite
telling that these industries

1256
01:02:09,644 --> 01:02:13,021
are working so hard
and spending so much money

1257
01:02:13,063 --> 01:02:15,899
to criminalize people for
simply taking a picture,

1258
01:02:15,941 --> 01:02:18,777
for simply recording
what's going on
inside these facilities

1259
01:02:18,819 --> 01:02:20,862
and making it
known to the public.

1260
01:02:20,904 --> 01:02:23,240
They're behind walls,
they're underground.

1261
01:02:23,282 --> 01:02:26,201
<i>They're in these secret</i>
<i>facilities that no one</i>
<i>knows about,</i>

1262
01:02:26,243 --> 01:02:28,496
but if they did, they would
be shocked and outraged.

1263
01:02:28,537 --> 01:02:31,582
And I think people would
not want to think that their

1264
01:02:31,624 --> 01:02:34,293
pharmaceuticals,
that their food are coming
from these places.

1265
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

1266
01:02:37,713 --> 01:02:41,049
is because they are
trying to silence people
into not speaking out

1267
01:02:41,091 --> 01:02:42,843
and not showing the truth.

1268
01:02:42,884 --> 01:02:44,970
[Kip]<i> I finally realized</i>
<i>how deep the collusion</i>

1269
01:02:45,012 --> 01:02:47,306
<i>truly is between government
and these industries.</i>

1270
01:02:47,348 --> 01:02:49,558
<i>And how dangerous
it could be to expose them.</i>

1271
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:52,936
<i>These concerns intensified</i>
<i>after meeting the USDA</i>
<i>whistle-blowerrrr</i>

1272
01:02:52,978 --> 01:02:55,690
<i>who revealed mad cow disease
in the US meat supply.</i>

1273
01:02:55,731 --> 01:02:57,858
USDA operates like the military.

1274
01:02:57,899 --> 01:02:59,818
So, when I got on TV
and that right away,

1275
01:02:59,860 --> 01:03:03,322
USDA sent out memos to
all the veterinarians
and food inspectors,

1276
01:03:03,364 --> 01:03:07,535
"If anybody from the media
ever contacts you,
do not talk to them.

1277
01:03:07,576 --> 01:03:10,996
<i>Refer 'em to Washington DC,
and we will talk to them."</i>

1278
01:03:11,038 --> 01:03:13,081
So, right away,
it shut up everybody.

1279
01:03:13,123 --> 01:03:16,084
American public should be
very concerned about this.

1280
01:03:16,126 --> 01:03:18,086
<i>What's going on with USDA?</i>

1281
01:03:18,128 --> 01:03:19,630
<i>Here in the United States,</i>

1282
01:03:19,672 --> 01:03:22,966
<i>we have at least four
cases of mad cow disease,</i>

1283
01:03:23,008 --> 01:03:25,069
<i>but, I'm almost positive
there's more cases than that,</i>

1284
01:03:25,093 --> 01:03:26,655
<i>but, the government isn't
looking for it.</i>

1285
01:03:26,679 --> 01:03:28,156
What you're saying
is that there could be

1286
01:03:28,180 --> 01:03:30,391
already mad cow's disease
in humans.

1287
01:03:30,432 --> 01:03:32,809
Right, and I think a lot
of it was misdiagnosed.

1288
01:03:32,851 --> 01:03:34,811
<i>With the Alzheimer's
or dementia,</i>

1289
01:03:34,853 --> 01:03:37,189
<i>it takes several years
you see the progression,</i>

1290
01:03:37,231 --> 01:03:39,525
<i>but, to make it easier, these
doctors just sign off on it</i>

1291
01:03:39,567 --> 01:03:41,318
<i>as dementia or, Alzheimer's</i>

1292
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:43,278
<i>without actually taking
a biopsy of the brain</i>

1293
01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:46,741
<i>to see if it's that or is it
actually a prion disease</i>

1294
01:03:46,782 --> 01:03:49,744
<i>like Creutzfeldt-Jacob
disease or, mad cow disease.</i>

1295
01:03:49,785 --> 01:03:52,246
Do you think
it's safe to eat meat?

1296
01:03:52,287 --> 01:03:54,707
I personally don't
think it's safe to eat it

1297
01:03:54,749 --> 01:03:57,918
because of the fact how the
line speeds are increasing

1298
01:03:57,959 --> 01:04:00,879
<i>and also our inspectors are
not well trained enough.</i>

1299
01:04:00,921 --> 01:04:05,008
<i>At the present time, the line</i>
<i>speed now is going about</i>
<i>220 cows an hour.</i>

1300
01:04:05,050 --> 01:04:08,429
<i>That gives you about,</i>
<i>somewheres around four</i>
<i>cows per minute.</i>

1301
01:04:08,470 --> 01:04:11,139
<i>So, that's 15 seconds per cow.</i>

1302
01:04:11,181 --> 01:04:12,600
<i>These dangerous slaughter speeds</i>

1303
01:04:12,641 --> 01:04:15,561
<i>means that animal waste
ends up everywhere.</i>

1304
01:04:15,603 --> 01:04:19,690
<i>Testing shows 88% of pork</i>
<i>chops are contaminated</i>
<i>with fecal bacteria.</i>

1305
01:04:19,732 --> 01:04:23,318
<i>90% of ground beef and 95%
of chicken breast sampled</i>

1306
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:25,654
<i>contained animal waste bacteria.</i>

1307
01:04:25,696 --> 01:04:28,699
<i>There is nothing clean
about eating this way.</i>

1308
01:04:28,741 --> 01:04:32,536
<i>But, it just isn't waste,</i>
<i>it's also</i>
<i>pus-filled infections.</i>

1309
01:04:32,578 --> 01:04:33,829
<i>You could see there's a bump</i>

1310
01:04:33,870 --> 01:04:37,207
<i>or some kind of abscess
underneath the hide.</i>

1311
01:04:37,249 --> 01:04:39,585
Most of the time when
the hide's pulled off,

1312
01:04:39,627 --> 01:04:44,339
either that will open up the
abscess and the the pus will
come out,

1313
01:04:44,381 --> 01:04:47,342
or if it's deep-seated,
when the inspectors
are doing their work

1314
01:04:47,384 --> 01:04:49,762
<i>or the company employees,
they might stick their knife</i>

1315
01:04:49,804 --> 01:04:54,057
<i>into an abscess, and it
explodes all over the place.</i>

1316
01:04:54,099 --> 01:04:57,478
[Kip]<i> I had heard enough.</i>
<i>I was utterly disgusted</i>
<i>by the corruption,</i>

1317
01:04:57,519 --> 01:05:01,106
<i>the greed, the disease</i>
<i>and the abuse I was</i>
<i>learning about.</i>

1318
01:05:01,148 --> 01:05:04,860
<i>The very animals</i>
<i>we were killing were</i>
<i>killing us and the planet.</i>

1319
01:05:04,901 --> 01:05:08,489
<i>But, so many people eat meat</i>
<i>and dairy every day of</i>
<i>their lives.</i>

1320
01:05:08,530 --> 01:05:11,074
<i>And we are so concerned
about getting enough protein.</i>

1321
01:05:11,116 --> 01:05:13,952
[Kip] Do we have to eat meat
to get complete protein?

1322
01:05:13,994 --> 01:05:16,204
Oh, my God, oh my God.

1323
01:05:16,246 --> 01:05:18,749
You want me to jump off this
building, don't you now?

1324
01:05:18,791 --> 01:05:23,462
Well first of all,
all protein is made by plants.

1325
01:05:23,504 --> 01:05:25,213
I'll state that again
for the record.

1326
01:05:25,255 --> 01:05:29,009
All protein is initially
made by plants, all of it.

1327
01:05:29,050 --> 01:05:32,554
And it is not necessary
to eat animal tissue

1328
01:05:32,596 --> 01:05:34,348
in order to get protein.

1329
01:05:34,389 --> 01:05:39,269
Only plants have the ability
to actually take nitrogen
from the air,

1330
01:05:39,311 --> 01:05:41,229
break those molecules apart

1331
01:05:41,271 --> 01:05:45,150
<i>and incorporate that nitrogen</i>
<i>into amino acids and</i>
<i>then make protein.</i>

1332
01:05:45,192 --> 01:05:49,029
<i>Any protein you get from an</i>
<i>animal is simply recycled</i>
<i>plant protein.</i>

1333
01:05:49,070 --> 01:05:52,324
If you ate a diet that
was calorically adequate

1334
01:05:52,366 --> 01:05:55,369
and even things like brown rice
and broccoli and you got
enough of it,

1335
01:05:55,410 --> 01:05:58,079
you'd get enough,
both quantity
and quality of protein.

1336
01:05:58,121 --> 01:05:59,832
2,000 calories of
brown rice and broccoli

1337
01:05:59,874 --> 01:06:02,167
is gonna be about 80
grams of protein a day,

1338
01:06:02,209 --> 01:06:04,920
including the essential
amino acids that you need

1339
01:06:04,961 --> 01:06:06,672
in order to maintain
optimum health.

1340
01:06:06,714 --> 01:06:11,009
Greens are loaded with protein.
Beans are loaded with protein.

1341
01:06:11,051 --> 01:06:13,011
Vegetables are loaded
with protein.

1342
01:06:13,053 --> 01:06:16,097
You really want to get
your protein from plants

1343
01:06:16,139 --> 01:06:20,853
because plant proteins
have a much more beneficial
effect on our physiology.

1344
01:06:20,895 --> 01:06:22,437
The funny thing about protein is

1345
01:06:22,479 --> 01:06:25,440
most Americans get about
twice the amount they need.

1346
01:06:25,482 --> 01:06:28,777
<i>Most Americans get</i>
<i>less than half the amount</i>
<i>of fiber they need.</i>

1347
01:06:28,819 --> 01:06:31,238
<i>But, the conversation tends
to always be about protein,</i>

1348
01:06:31,279 --> 01:06:34,199
so in my mind, it's just this
magical marketing campaign

1349
01:06:34,241 --> 01:06:36,493
that protein has taken
on over the decades.

1350
01:06:36,535 --> 01:06:38,412
The question is not
where to get your protein,

1351
01:06:38,453 --> 01:06:40,121
it's where do you
get your fiber?

1352
01:06:40,163 --> 01:06:43,542
I have never
in my professional career
seen a protein deficiency.

1353
01:06:43,584 --> 01:06:46,879
I have never seen someone
come in eating normal
amounts of calories

1354
01:06:46,921 --> 01:06:49,381
and they're protein deficient.
You just don't see that.

1355
01:06:49,423 --> 01:06:53,343
So, human milk has the
lowest protein content ever

1356
01:06:53,385 --> 01:06:55,429
in any species ever tested.

1357
01:06:55,470 --> 01:06:59,892
That's the fluid that's
been designed by evolution
over millions of years.

1358
01:06:59,934 --> 01:07:03,896
And that's just
like the perfect food
for human babies.

1359
01:07:03,938 --> 01:07:06,648
Perfect food,
lowest protein content,

1360
01:07:06,690 --> 01:07:10,110
any other mammal,
and so gives a sense of
kinda protein requirements...

1361
01:07:10,151 --> 01:07:12,571
- It's lower than...
- Anything, so look...

1362
01:07:12,613 --> 01:07:15,574
- Lower protein than even...
- Than rat milk, ape milk.

1363
01:07:15,616 --> 01:07:18,869
-Really?
-Donkey milk, any milk
that's ever been tested.

1364
01:07:18,911 --> 01:07:22,330
And you hear this a lot
in body builders who are
like, "Well, I need

1365
01:07:22,372 --> 01:07:25,960
chicken, or, I need
fish to be strong,
to build muscle tissue."

1366
01:07:26,835 --> 01:07:28,378
That is utter nonsense.

1367
01:07:28,420 --> 01:07:31,506
The largest, strongest
terrestrial animals
on the planet

1368
01:07:31,548 --> 01:07:33,383
are all herbivores.

1369
01:07:33,425 --> 01:07:36,261
The biggest, strongest
animals are all herbivores.

1370
01:07:36,303 --> 01:07:38,764
When we bring in people
and they're on meaty diets

1371
01:07:38,806 --> 01:07:40,408
and we transition them
to a plant-based diet,

1372
01:07:40,432 --> 01:07:42,058
we always track
what they're eating.

1373
01:07:42,100 --> 01:07:44,227
Their vitamin intake goes up.

1374
01:07:44,269 --> 01:07:47,272
Their nutrition overall goes
up, dramatically better.

1375
01:07:47,314 --> 01:07:49,817
And these same people
might worry in advance,

1376
01:07:49,858 --> 01:07:52,486
"Will I get the nutrition
that I need on
a plant-based diet?"

1377
01:07:52,527 --> 01:07:54,547
The fact is,
you're not getting
the nutrition you need

1378
01:07:54,571 --> 01:07:56,490
on a meat-based diet,

1379
01:07:56,531 --> 01:07:59,093
and you're gonna get
dramatically better nutrition
on a plant-based diet.

1380
01:07:59,117 --> 01:08:04,414
For an average-sized guy
like myself, I need about
56 grams of protein a day.

1381
01:08:04,456 --> 01:08:07,876
That's optimum,
probably I really need
30 to 40 grams a day.

1382
01:08:07,918 --> 01:08:09,711
Diets that are really
high in these protein

1383
01:08:09,753 --> 01:08:13,173
create diabetes,
create heart disease,
create cancer,

1384
01:08:13,214 --> 01:08:16,134
create the diseases
that I'm treating
on a daily basis.

1385
01:08:16,176 --> 01:08:19,554
[Kip]<i> But, this is the opposite</i>
<i>of what all the high-protein</i>
<i>diet fads say.</i>

1386
01:08:19,596 --> 01:08:23,183
The food you eat
determines the bacteria
that live in your gut.

1387
01:08:23,224 --> 01:08:25,185
<i>While you eat animal flesh
every day,</i>

1388
01:08:25,226 --> 01:08:29,397
<i>you are summoning up
bacteria that eat carnitine.</i>

1389
01:08:29,439 --> 01:08:32,317
<i>And those bacteria will
turn that carnitine</i>

1390
01:08:32,359 --> 01:08:35,070
<i>into a molecule
called trimethylamine.</i>

1391
01:08:35,111 --> 01:08:38,573
<i>Your liver then turns that
into trimethylamine oxide.</i>

1392
01:08:38,615 --> 01:08:40,158
<i>That's a molecule from hell.</i>

1393
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:43,328
<i>That molecule</i>
<i>drives cholesterol</i>
<i>into the artery walls.</i>

1394
01:08:43,370 --> 01:08:46,164
<i>And the people who will
consume this flesh-based diet</i>

1395
01:08:46,206 --> 01:08:48,416
<i>are contributing
to plaque building up,</i>

1396
01:08:48,458 --> 01:08:51,211
they may lose weight on
this diet and that's good,

1397
01:08:51,252 --> 01:08:54,464
but, what's happening inside
your arteries, Paleo friends?

1398
01:08:54,506 --> 01:08:56,591
What's happening is that
plaque is building up,

1399
01:08:56,633 --> 01:08:59,344
and these are the folks who
drop dead at the gym at 39.

1400
01:08:59,386 --> 01:09:01,763
Boy, he was lean
and he looked really good,

1401
01:09:01,805 --> 01:09:05,684
but, where is that cholesterol
going? It's going into your
artery walls.

1402
01:09:05,726 --> 01:09:10,022
So, I believe these Paleo
folks are setting them-self
up for an epidemic

1403
01:09:10,064 --> 01:09:14,651
of clogged arteries,
colon cancers,
autoimmune diseases.

1404
01:09:14,693 --> 01:09:18,196
This is not a healthy diet.
We are not carnivorous apes.

1405
01:09:18,238 --> 01:09:20,365
<i>Humans' closest
living relatives are chimps</i>

1406
01:09:20,407 --> 01:09:22,910
<i>who get 97 percent of
their calories from plants</i>

1407
01:09:22,951 --> 01:09:25,495
<i>and the remaining three percent
mostly from insects.</i>

1408
01:09:25,537 --> 01:09:27,789
<i>Comparing the anatomy of
true omnivores like bears</i>

1409
01:09:27,831 --> 01:09:30,709
<i>who eat both meat and plants
to frugivores like primates</i>

1410
01:09:30,751 --> 01:09:34,337
<i>who eat almost exclusively</i>
<i>plants, the differences</i>
<i>are pretty clear.</i>

1411
01:09:34,379 --> 01:09:36,715
<i>Frugivore teeth have flat
molars for chewing plants,</i>

1412
01:09:36,757 --> 01:09:40,135
<i>where omnivore teeth</i>
<i>are serrated for stabbing</i>
<i>and tearing flesh.</i>

1413
01:09:40,176 --> 01:09:43,263
<i>Frugivore jaws can</i>
<i>move forward and back</i>
<i>and side to side,</i>

1414
01:09:43,304 --> 01:09:45,515
<i>omnivore jaws cannot.</i>

1415
01:09:45,557 --> 01:09:48,828
<i>Omnivores have much stronger</i>
<i>stomach acid for digesting</i>
<i>meat compared to less acidic</i>

1416
01:09:48,852 --> 01:09:50,771
<i>stomach acid of frugivores.</i>

1417
01:09:50,812 --> 01:09:52,522
<i>The intestines of frugivores
is nine times</i>

1418
01:09:52,564 --> 01:09:55,442
<i>their body length compared
to three times for omnivores.</i>

1419
01:09:55,483 --> 01:09:57,277
<i>This is because meat
will putrefy in the gut</i>

1420
01:09:57,318 --> 01:09:59,154
<i>unless it is
moved through quickly.</i>

1421
01:09:59,195 --> 01:10:01,115
<i>If humans were
indeed true omnivores,</i>

1422
01:10:01,156 --> 01:10:04,785
<i>we would need to change</i>
<i>our physiology and</i>
<i>appearance quite a lot.</i>

1423
01:10:04,826 --> 01:10:07,662
<i>But, we fit every
requirement of a frugivore.</i>

1424
01:10:07,704 --> 01:10:11,458
<i>We may behave like omnivores,</i>
<i>but, anatomically,</i>
<i>we're frugivores.</i>

1425
01:10:11,499 --> 01:10:15,587
Human beings, unlike
bears and raccoons
and to some extent, dogs,

1426
01:10:15,629 --> 01:10:19,174
don't have that mixed
anatomy and physiology

1427
01:10:19,215 --> 01:10:23,219
that you see in the true
omnivores, and thus,
we are not true omnivores.

1428
01:10:23,261 --> 01:10:26,974
In humans, the canines
have become really small

1429
01:10:27,015 --> 01:10:31,061
and rounded
and actually function
like accessory incisors.

1430
01:10:31,103 --> 01:10:33,313
They're utterly useless
for ripping and tearing

1431
01:10:33,354 --> 01:10:35,190
anything other than an envelope.

1432
01:10:35,231 --> 01:10:38,819
So, the idea that the mere
presence of the canine

1433
01:10:38,860 --> 01:10:41,571
somehow means
that we're supposed
to eat meat is silly.

1434
01:10:41,613 --> 01:10:42,864
[Kip]<i> He was right.</i>

1435
01:10:42,906 --> 01:10:44,383
<i>I always thought my canines
were for meat,</i>

1436
01:10:44,407 --> 01:10:46,743
<i>but, what kind of animal could
actually kill and eat raw</i>

1437
01:10:46,785 --> 01:10:48,536
<i>with these tiny teeth?</i>

1438
01:10:48,578 --> 01:10:50,538
<i>The thought alone
was disgusting.</i>

1439
01:10:50,580 --> 01:10:53,125
I mean, everybody loves
a smoothie made with fruit

1440
01:10:53,167 --> 01:10:55,043
and even some vegetables.

1441
01:10:55,085 --> 01:10:59,380
But, if you think about
putting a fish or a piece
of beef in a blender

1442
01:10:59,422 --> 01:11:04,052
and grinding it up,
the thought is
absolutely repulsive.

1443
01:11:04,094 --> 01:11:05,655
[Kip]<i> All these diseases</i>
<i>I had learned about</i>

1444
01:11:05,679 --> 01:11:08,306
<i>were from eating a diet our
body wasn't designed for.</i>

1445
01:11:08,348 --> 01:11:09,993
<i>What would happen if we
started eating a diet</i>

1446
01:11:10,017 --> 01:11:12,268
<i>our body actually was
designed for?</i>

1447
01:11:12,310 --> 01:11:16,439
The data is crystal clear,
that you can stop and
reverse heart disease

1448
01:11:16,481 --> 01:11:18,150
with plant-based diets,

1449
01:11:18,192 --> 01:11:20,986
scientifically shown,
I've seen it
in my own patients.

1450
01:11:21,028 --> 01:11:23,321
People who adopt low
fat plant-based diets

1451
01:11:23,363 --> 01:11:25,699
can actually reverse
their heart disease,

1452
01:11:25,740 --> 01:11:27,993
<i>and that literally means
watching the plaque</i>

1453
01:11:28,035 --> 01:11:30,662
<i>start to go away,</i>
<i>something they didn't</i>
<i>think could happen.</i>

1454
01:11:30,704 --> 01:11:31,997
My experience with patients is

1455
01:11:32,039 --> 01:11:33,957
and the studies show
that when people adopt

1456
01:11:33,999 --> 01:11:36,126
a fully plant-based diet,
their cholesterol levels

1457
01:11:36,168 --> 01:11:37,711
plummet within a few days.

1458
01:11:37,752 --> 01:11:39,355
And if you do blood test
in a couple of weeks,

1459
01:11:39,379 --> 01:11:41,256
you'll see dramatic
improvements.

1460
01:11:41,297 --> 01:11:43,133
Yes, your numbers
are gonna look great

1461
01:11:43,175 --> 01:11:46,136
within a week or, two,
your cholesterol can come
crashing down, in fact,

1462
01:11:46,178 --> 01:11:48,304
if you're on medications,
your doctor may have to

1463
01:11:48,346 --> 01:11:51,492
pull off your blood pressure
medications so your blood
pressure don't drop too low.

1464
01:11:51,516 --> 01:11:52,851
Because it can work too good,

1465
01:11:52,893 --> 01:11:55,896
like the side effect is
not having to take drugs.

1466
01:11:55,937 --> 01:11:57,581
[Kip]<i> In a groundbreaking</i>
<i>study published by</i>

1467
01:11:57,605 --> 01:12:00,025
<i>Dr. Esselstyn following
patients suffering from</i>

1468
01:12:00,067 --> 01:12:04,529
<i>cardiovascular disease,
99.4% were able to avoid</i>

1469
01:12:04,571 --> 01:12:07,199
<i>major cardiac events
by going plant-based.</i>

1470
01:12:07,241 --> 01:12:10,869
'Cause it's not just heart
disease. It's hypertension,
it's diabetes,

1471
01:12:10,911 --> 01:12:13,329
it's strokes,
it's heart attacks,

1472
01:12:13,371 --> 01:12:15,249
it's several of
the autoimmune diseases,

1473
01:12:15,290 --> 01:12:19,211
lupus, asthma,
GERD, osteoporosis,

1474
01:12:19,253 --> 01:12:22,047
there's a multitude of diseases.

1475
01:12:22,089 --> 01:12:25,092
Even rheumatoid arthritis,
it can be so dramatic

1476
01:12:25,133 --> 01:12:26,801
when you see these poor souls

1477
01:12:26,843 --> 01:12:29,304
just absolutely crippled
with rheumatoid arthritis

1478
01:12:29,345 --> 01:12:33,100
go plant-based, and then they
come off their medication.

1479
01:12:33,141 --> 01:12:35,018
<i>I wanted to follow
up with Jane Chapman</i>

1480
01:12:35,060 --> 01:12:37,562
<i>who had been suffering
from severe osteoarthritis,</i>

1481
01:12:37,604 --> 01:12:39,647
<i>and I could not believe
what I saw</i>

1482
01:12:39,689 --> 01:12:42,817
<i>after only a few weeks</i>
<i>of fasting</i>
<i>and changing her diet.</i>

1483
01:12:42,859 --> 01:12:46,529
Those are so amazing
to see you like this
only a few weeks later.

1484
01:12:46,571 --> 01:12:48,240
I know!

1485
01:12:48,282 --> 01:12:50,200
From going from the walker,

1486
01:12:50,242 --> 01:12:53,411
needing wheelchair
assistance at the airport

1487
01:12:53,453 --> 01:12:59,876
to strolling down the street,
enjoying the fresh air,
the sunshine.

1488
01:12:59,918 --> 01:13:04,089
Two weeks, it's all it took,
two weeks to get off
all the meds

1489
01:13:04,131 --> 01:13:07,259
and start to
feel the inflammation

1490
01:13:07,301 --> 01:13:09,761
just kind of
drain out of the body

1491
01:13:09,803 --> 01:13:12,931
where the movement
was much easier.

1492
01:13:12,973 --> 01:13:16,684
Just a lot of healing
occurred very rapidly

1493
01:13:16,726 --> 01:13:19,146
just by doing the right
things for your body.

1494
01:13:19,187 --> 01:13:22,316
When you're treating
diseases with drugs,

1495
01:13:22,357 --> 01:13:24,335
you know there's one drug
you take for cholesterol,

1496
01:13:24,359 --> 01:13:26,987
<i>a different class of drugs you
take for high blood pressure,</i>

1497
01:13:27,028 --> 01:13:29,530
<i>different class of drugs
you take for diabetes,</i>

1498
01:13:29,572 --> 01:13:33,076
but, with diet,
a plant-based diet
affects all these diseases.

1499
01:13:33,118 --> 01:13:35,370
One diet to kinda rule them all.

1500
01:13:35,411 --> 01:13:38,165
[Kip]<i> The impacts</i>
<i>of eating this way</i>
<i>go far beyond ourselves.</i>

1501
01:13:38,206 --> 01:13:39,958
<i>By getting rid of heart
disease alone,</i>

1502
01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:43,086
<i>we would save up to $48
trillion in the USA,</i>

1503
01:13:43,128 --> 01:13:45,630
<i>three times the US GDP.</i>

1504
01:13:45,672 --> 01:13:47,632
Conditions like
high blood pressure,

1505
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.

1506
01:13:50,885 --> 01:13:52,553
What you can do
is live in such a way

1507
01:13:52,595 --> 01:13:54,848
that it gives the body
a chance to heal itself.

1508
01:13:54,889 --> 01:13:58,393
We took 174
consecutive patients
with high blood pressure.

1509
01:13:58,434 --> 01:14:01,271
And 174 people
were able to lower
their blood pressure

1510
01:14:01,313 --> 01:14:03,398
enough to eliminate
the need for medication.

1511
01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:06,151
For inflammatory bowel
disease like Crohn's,

1512
01:14:06,193 --> 01:14:09,696
the best remission rates
ever achieved through
plant-based diet.

1513
01:14:09,737 --> 01:14:13,574
MS, multiple sclerosis,
the best results ever achieved

1514
01:14:13,616 --> 01:14:15,327
compared to
any medical, surgical,

1515
01:14:15,369 --> 01:14:17,745
any kind of intervention
was a plant-based diet.

1516
01:14:17,787 --> 01:14:20,498
You can see that with
every sequential reduction

1517
01:14:20,540 --> 01:14:22,792
in animal products,
people live longer,

1518
01:14:22,834 --> 01:14:26,254
they have less heart disease,
they have less cancer,
they have less diabetes.

1519
01:14:26,296 --> 01:14:29,132
You can actually take human
cancer cells, put them in
a petri dish,

1520
01:14:29,174 --> 01:14:31,385
<i>and you can drip the blood
of those eating vegan,</i>

1521
01:14:31,426 --> 01:14:34,679
<i>get about 72% suppression in</i>

1522
01:14:34,721 --> 01:14:36,931
<i>human prostate cancer
cell growth in vitro,</i>

1523
01:14:36,973 --> 01:14:39,893
<i>they wanted to try this again
with women and breast cancer,</i>

1524
01:14:39,934 --> 01:14:41,537
<i>so they said, "Let's see what
a plant-based diet can do."</i>

1525
01:14:41,561 --> 01:14:44,314
After just two weeks,
their bodies cleaned up.

1526
01:14:44,356 --> 01:14:46,482
You dropped their blood
on the same carpet

1527
01:14:46,524 --> 01:14:49,527
<i>of cancer cells, you can
clear off the whole plate.</i>

1528
01:14:49,569 --> 01:14:52,697
This is just after just two
weeks eating healthy, which
raises the question,

1529
01:14:52,739 --> 01:14:54,459
what kind of blood do
we want in our bodies?

1530
01:14:54,490 --> 01:14:57,994
My background
is in industrial
and systems engineering.

1531
01:14:58,036 --> 01:15:02,498
And that was my career
path for a long time until

1532
01:15:02,540 --> 01:15:04,500
I got thyroid cancer,

1533
01:15:04,542 --> 01:15:07,628
and everything
changed from there.

1534
01:15:07,670 --> 01:15:13,301
I decided that I wanted
to try alternative methods
and treatments

1535
01:15:13,343 --> 01:15:16,804
rather than have surgery
and have my thyroid removed,

1536
01:15:16,846 --> 01:15:19,433
which meant I'd be
on medication forever,
and I didn't want that.

1537
01:15:19,474 --> 01:15:22,560
I just started reading
on how a plant-based diet

1538
01:15:22,602 --> 01:15:26,106
can heal the body and it has
worked for so many people.

1539
01:15:26,147 --> 01:15:31,694
So, I immediately just switched
to a completely whole food
plant-based diet.

1540
01:15:31,736 --> 01:15:35,365
After a year, the cancer
was completely gone.

1541
01:15:35,407 --> 01:15:38,285
And my thyroid had
shrunk to normal size.

1542
01:15:38,326 --> 01:15:40,912
And I was completely
free of that.

1543
01:15:40,954 --> 01:15:42,872
[Kip]
<i>This was tough to believe.</i>

1544
01:15:42,914 --> 01:15:45,435
<i>Couldn't this all just be</i>
<i>from eating healthier,</i>
<i>though, like no sugar?</i>

1545
01:15:45,459 --> 01:15:48,253
<i>Turns out Dr. Walter Kempner
from Duke University</i>

1546
01:15:48,295 --> 01:15:51,089
<i>back in the 1940s was
reversing some of our</i>

1547
01:15:51,131 --> 01:15:53,383
<i>worst killer diseases
with diet alone.</i>

1548
01:15:53,425 --> 01:15:56,428
<i>And the diet he was using</i>
<i>was not only strictly</i>
<i>plant-based</i>

1549
01:15:56,470 --> 01:16:00,348
<i>but, it was made up</i>
<i>of white rice, fruit</i>
<i>and table sugar.</i>

1550
01:16:00,390 --> 01:16:04,560
And he was reversing diabetes,
he was reversing malignant
hypertension,

1551
01:16:04,602 --> 01:16:07,772
reversing heart disease,
the diabetic complications,

1552
01:16:07,814 --> 01:16:09,941
reversing diabetic blindness.

1553
01:16:09,983 --> 01:16:13,403
So, these people basically
had death sentences,
went to him,

1554
01:16:13,445 --> 01:16:15,447
and were given basically sugar.

1555
01:16:15,489 --> 01:16:20,076
You know, this horrible diet,
but, it was strictly
plant-based.

1556
01:16:20,118 --> 01:16:22,954
[Kip]<i> If this information had</i>
<i>been around since the 1940s,</i>

1557
01:16:22,996 --> 01:16:24,747
<i>why don't all doctors know this?</i>

1558
01:16:24,789 --> 01:16:28,335
We're not taught
about the power of food
in medical school.

1559
01:16:28,376 --> 01:16:30,545
No one is taught that

1560
01:16:30,586 --> 01:16:33,298
the changes that
we make with our diet

1561
01:16:33,340 --> 01:16:36,009
are probably the single most
powerful thing we can do

1562
01:16:36,050 --> 01:16:37,427
to determine our destiny.

1563
01:16:37,469 --> 01:16:38,970
It trumps our genetics.

1564
01:16:39,012 --> 01:16:40,847
Why isn't your doctor
telling this?

1565
01:16:40,888 --> 01:16:43,224
Odds are your doctor
never learned any of this.

1566
01:16:43,266 --> 01:16:46,894
In fact, there's even a bill
introduced just mandating
physicians get seven hours

1567
01:16:46,936 --> 01:16:50,857
nutrition training every
couple of years, just to
kinda stay on top of it.

1568
01:16:50,898 --> 01:16:53,318
And who came out against that?

1569
01:16:53,360 --> 01:16:55,028
The California
Medical Association.

1570
01:16:55,069 --> 01:16:57,071
<i>Even the family physicians,
the surgeons,</i>

1571
01:16:57,113 --> 01:17:00,492
<i>all the mainstream medical
groups came out opposed.</i>

1572
01:17:00,534 --> 01:17:02,452
It's seven hours.
That's a lot.

1573
01:17:02,494 --> 01:17:04,745
Even if it's over
one four-year period.

1574
01:17:04,787 --> 01:17:09,000
So, they're not just kinda
neutral, but, they're actually
actively opposing

1575
01:17:09,042 --> 01:17:10,502
nutrition education.

1576
01:17:10,544 --> 01:17:12,646
Ironically, when patients
come to doctors with questions,

1577
01:17:12,670 --> 01:17:15,215
they assume that
the doctor knows
something about nutrition

1578
01:17:15,256 --> 01:17:16,757
and so it's kind of
a double whammy

1579
01:17:16,799 --> 01:17:19,010
that doctors haven't been
taught much about nutrition.

1580
01:17:19,052 --> 01:17:21,012
[Kip]<i> Why don't we hear</i>
<i>about this from dietitians</i>

1581
01:17:21,054 --> 01:17:23,014
<i>when nutrition is their
entire specialty?</i>

1582
01:17:23,056 --> 01:17:25,641
<i>Turns out the</i>
<i>American Nutrition</i>
<i>and Dietetics Association</i>

1583
01:17:25,683 --> 01:17:29,103
<i>puts out nutrition fact</i>
<i>sheets written by the</i>
<i>industries themselves.</i>

1584
01:17:29,145 --> 01:17:33,733
<i>The industries pay $20,000</i>
<i>per fact sheet and explicitly</i>
<i>take part in writing them.</i>

1585
01:17:33,774 --> 01:17:35,985
<i>So, you can learn about
eggs from the egg industry.</i>

1586
01:17:36,027 --> 01:17:38,405
<i>You can learn about lamb
from the lamb industry.</i>

1587
01:17:38,446 --> 01:17:39,840
<i>This would be like
learning about the benefits</i>

1588
01:17:39,864 --> 01:17:42,033
<i>of smoking from
the tobacco industry.</i>

1589
01:17:42,075 --> 01:17:45,745
When people are eating meat,
I think of it
as a bit like smoking.

1590
01:17:45,786 --> 01:17:47,539
It's sort of Russian roulette.

1591
01:17:47,581 --> 01:17:51,209
You may not get diabetes,
but your chances
of getting diabetes,

1592
01:17:51,251 --> 01:17:53,253
about one in three.

1593
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.

1594
01:17:55,630 --> 01:17:56,964
A woman, one in three.

1595
01:17:57,006 --> 01:17:59,050
Your chances of
gaining weight,
two out of three.

1596
01:17:59,092 --> 01:18:01,010
It's not all diet,
but, most of it is.

1597
01:18:01,052 --> 01:18:03,096
The best thing that you
can do to make sure that

1598
01:18:03,137 --> 01:18:06,224
you empty all those
bullets out of the chamber

1599
01:18:06,266 --> 01:18:08,059
and not taking a risk
with your health

1600
01:18:08,101 --> 01:18:12,230
is to get the animal
products out of your diet
and eat healthy foods.

1601
01:18:12,272 --> 01:18:15,191
I came to TrueNorth to
help me with my asthma

1602
01:18:15,233 --> 01:18:17,527
and to lose a little
weight, and it's amazing

1603
01:18:17,569 --> 01:18:20,238
just in two weeks
of changing my diet,

1604
01:18:20,280 --> 01:18:23,408
don't have to take
any asthma medication,

1605
01:18:23,450 --> 01:18:27,287
no antidepressants,
no pain medication,

1606
01:18:27,328 --> 01:18:29,997
no heart medication, nothing.

1607
01:18:30,039 --> 01:18:31,791
No medications at all.

1608
01:18:31,832 --> 01:18:34,794
And it's really,
it's just incredible.

1609
01:18:34,835 --> 01:18:40,341
I was taking oxy and Advil,
and I was taking 800
milligrams of Motrin

1610
01:18:40,383 --> 01:18:42,802
three times a day
just to get through the day

1611
01:18:42,843 --> 01:18:44,638
because I was in so much pain.

1612
01:18:44,679 --> 01:18:46,431
- And now, nothing.
- Wow.

1613
01:18:46,473 --> 01:18:48,099
- Nothing at all.
- Two weeks.

1614
01:18:48,141 --> 01:18:50,184
Two weeks, 14 days.

1615
01:18:50,226 --> 01:18:52,353
All that medication,
you're completely off.

1616
01:18:52,395 --> 01:18:53,813
Completely off everything.

1617
01:18:53,854 --> 01:18:56,566
It's just been so
frustrating to me because

1618
01:18:56,608 --> 01:18:59,569
I went to so many
different doctors for help,

1619
01:18:59,611 --> 01:19:04,157
and I tried so many
different medications to
help me with my asthma

1620
01:19:04,198 --> 01:19:06,159
and nothing helped, and
I was stuck on the couch

1621
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:09,870
for the last 10 months
unable to breathe,

1622
01:19:09,912 --> 01:19:14,501
and now in two weeks' time,
14 days,

1623
01:19:14,542 --> 01:19:16,085
I'm off my medication.

1624
01:19:16,127 --> 01:19:19,797
And I can breathe
and I feel good,
and I can walk.

1625
01:19:19,839 --> 01:19:21,882
My life has changed
and it only took

1626
01:19:21,924 --> 01:19:25,219
two weeks of whole
plant-based diet.

1627
01:19:25,261 --> 01:19:27,138
- That's incredible.
- Yeah.

1628
01:19:27,972 --> 01:19:29,641
That is incredible.

1629
01:19:29,683 --> 01:19:31,100
It really is.

1630
01:19:31,142 --> 01:19:32,810
- That's amazing.
- It really is.

1631
01:19:32,852 --> 01:19:39,233
I feel so blessed and so good
and just so happy
to be doing this

1632
01:19:39,275 --> 01:19:41,528
and I'm hoping that
I can be a role model

1633
01:19:41,569 --> 01:19:45,657
for other people
and not be pushy about it.

1634
01:19:45,699 --> 01:19:48,660
Because everyone's gonna
do it in their own time.

1635
01:19:48,702 --> 01:19:51,120
But, thank God my time is now.

1636
01:19:54,165 --> 01:19:55,416
That's pretty cool.

1637
01:19:55,458 --> 01:19:56,834
Thanks.

1638
01:19:56,876 --> 01:19:59,587
Thanks!

1639
01:19:59,629 --> 01:20:03,466
[Kip]<i> As powerful as Amy's</i>
<i>story was, I knew for some,</i>
<i>eating a hundred percent</i>

1640
01:20:03,508 --> 01:20:05,760
<i>plant-based would
still seem extreme.</i>

1641
01:20:05,801 --> 01:20:10,431
I think there's the sense
that everything's okay
in moderation.

1642
01:20:10,473 --> 01:20:15,102
Right? But we haven't seen
that moderation works.

1643
01:20:15,144 --> 01:20:19,315
<i>There really isn't a study</i>
<i>that shows that by eating</i>
<i>meat and eggs in moderation</i>

1644
01:20:19,357 --> 01:20:22,235
<i>you can actually turn</i>
<i>your heart disease around</i>
<i>and get better.</i>

1645
01:20:22,276 --> 01:20:25,530
But, I know people
who have given up meat
and they felt sick.

1646
01:20:25,572 --> 01:20:27,907
Yeah, it's unlikely
that anybody's symptoms

1647
01:20:27,948 --> 01:20:30,744
are caused by dead
decaying flesh deficiency.

1648
01:20:30,785 --> 01:20:33,621
The lack of highly processed
animal food products

1649
01:20:33,663 --> 01:20:35,582
in the diet is not gonna be

1650
01:20:35,623 --> 01:20:38,251
associated with the causal
factor by why they're sick.

1651
01:20:38,292 --> 01:20:40,229
There is gonna be a reason
why they're not feeling well,

1652
01:20:40,253 --> 01:20:42,213
but, that's not gonna be
one of them.

1653
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,

1654
01:20:44,215 --> 01:20:47,510
"I'm hypothyroid and my doctor
says I'm hypothyroid because

1655
01:20:47,552 --> 01:20:51,305
"plant-based diet
makes you hypothyroid."

1656
01:20:51,347 --> 01:20:54,975
I'm like, so what does your
doctor tell all his meat eaters
that are hypothyroid?

1657
01:20:55,017 --> 01:20:59,230
What's in animal flesh
or dairy that you can't
get in plant-based?

1658
01:20:59,272 --> 01:21:01,065
Cholesterol.

1659
01:21:01,107 --> 01:21:03,359
Heterocyclic amines.

1660
01:21:03,401 --> 01:21:05,570
E. coli, you know,
if you think about it,

1661
01:21:05,612 --> 01:21:08,864
there is nothing in an
animal-based diet

1662
01:21:08,906 --> 01:21:11,743
that you can't get
in a healthier form
somewhere else.

1663
01:21:11,785 --> 01:21:14,287
The only other vitamin
is vitamin B12.

1664
01:21:14,328 --> 01:21:16,664
<i>It's not made by plants,
not made by animals either,</i>

1665
01:21:16,706 --> 01:21:18,958
<i>made by little microbes
that blanket the Earth.</i>

1666
01:21:18,999 --> 01:21:21,628
<i>So, because of the way we
live in our sanitized world,</i>

1667
01:21:21,669 --> 01:21:24,422
<i>unless you're eating
bacteria-contaminated foods,</i>

1668
01:21:24,464 --> 01:21:26,549
<i>we need to get a source
of B12 from somewhere,</i>

1669
01:21:26,591 --> 01:21:29,510
and so the healthiest,
cheapest, safest source

1670
01:21:29,552 --> 01:21:33,055
is to get a vitamin B12
fortified food
or vitamin B12 supplement,

1671
01:21:33,097 --> 01:21:35,308
not to get it
from meat and dairy.

1672
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?

1673
01:21:39,353 --> 01:21:42,565
It's just like I need
meat because I'm a Capricorn

1674
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?

1675
01:21:45,192 --> 01:21:49,196
No one has to eat meat.
There's no vitamin,
mineral, nutrient

1676
01:21:49,238 --> 01:21:52,908
that you can't get from
non-animal sources.

1677
01:21:52,950 --> 01:21:56,203
Valentine's Day,
I decided to go vegan

1678
01:21:56,245 --> 01:21:59,999
and give up all meat, which
was never in my thoughts

1679
01:22:00,040 --> 01:22:01,751
in a while million years,

1680
01:22:01,793 --> 01:22:05,171
but I've heard so much success
from people that are vegan.

1681
01:22:05,212 --> 01:22:07,923
And so I gave up all
animal product whatsoever,

1682
01:22:07,965 --> 01:22:10,677
I've lost 29 pounds,

1683
01:22:10,718 --> 01:22:13,513
I've been able to
cut my meds in half,

1684
01:22:13,554 --> 01:22:15,807
I've been able
to cut my insulin in half,

1685
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.

1686
01:22:18,934 --> 01:22:22,438
In the last six weeks,
we've just had
three grandchildren.

1687
01:22:22,480 --> 01:22:24,315
And my ugly face
is going to be around

1688
01:22:24,357 --> 01:22:27,985
to see 'em graduate from
high school and college.
I'm gonna be here.

1689
01:22:28,027 --> 01:22:31,781
My mission is to
let everybody know
you do not have to suffer

1690
01:22:31,823 --> 01:22:34,408
from diabetes and cancer
and heart disease

1691
01:22:34,450 --> 01:22:36,243
because someone
in your family had it

1692
01:22:36,285 --> 01:22:39,205
or because the doctors
are telling you this is
what's gonna happen.

1693
01:22:39,246 --> 01:22:41,499
You can take charge
of your health

1694
01:22:41,541 --> 01:22:44,669
and have a positive
outcome just like I did.

1695
01:22:44,711 --> 01:22:47,714
The reason I'm so
committed to this is

1696
01:22:47,755 --> 01:22:52,510
my grandmother had diabetes,
and I didn't know
what I know now

1697
01:22:52,552 --> 01:22:54,512
about healing the body.

1698
01:22:54,554 --> 01:22:56,138
And if I did, I feel like

1699
01:22:56,180 --> 01:22:58,808
she could've lived at
least a few years longer.

1700
01:22:58,850 --> 01:23:00,852
And so it's in her honor

1701
01:23:02,562 --> 01:23:04,188
that I do what I do.

1702
01:23:04,230 --> 01:23:06,106
If I could save someone
else's grandmother,

1703
01:23:06,148 --> 01:23:09,151
aunt, uncle, father from that.

1704
01:23:15,074 --> 01:23:19,328
So, I'm excited about getting
the message out there.

1705
01:23:19,370 --> 01:23:22,248
[Kip]<i> There's a common belief</i>
<i>that eating</i>
<i>plant-based is expensive.</i>

1706
01:23:22,289 --> 01:23:26,753
Not at all.
It can be done in
a very inexpensive way

1707
01:23:26,794 --> 01:23:30,924
where you buy foods that
are in season and you
shop in the bulk bins

1708
01:23:30,965 --> 01:23:32,675
<i>and that saves a lot of money.</i>

1709
01:23:32,717 --> 01:23:36,011
<i>You can eliminate
a lot of your expenses</i>

1710
01:23:36,053 --> 01:23:39,348
on your grocery bill by
not buying meat and dairy

1711
01:23:39,390 --> 01:23:41,225
<i>because those things
are expensive.</i>

1712
01:23:41,267 --> 01:23:46,522
Our meal plan for
our family of four is $25
per person in the family.

1713
01:23:46,564 --> 01:23:48,691
20.64 is your total.

1714
01:23:48,733 --> 01:23:50,526
[Kip] 20.64? Whoa.

1715
01:23:50,568 --> 01:23:53,320
That's for an
entire week of food.

1716
01:23:53,362 --> 01:23:55,090
[Kip]<i> An exploding</i>
<i>movement of elite athletes</i>

1717
01:23:55,114 --> 01:23:57,324
<i>are utilizing vegan
diets to heal injuries,</i>

1718
01:23:57,366 --> 01:24:00,453
<i>speed recovery times and
enhance their performance.</i>

1719
01:24:00,494 --> 01:24:05,291
<i>Before I was vegan, I was</i>
<i>only bench pressing 315</i>
<i>like five times.</i>

1720
01:24:05,332 --> 01:24:08,377
<i>Then, after going vegan,
I was doing 400.</i>

1721
01:24:08,419 --> 01:24:12,131
425, 465, and I was
like, oh my God,

1722
01:24:12,172 --> 01:24:14,425
this is amazing, I'm vegan
and I'm bench pressing

1723
01:24:14,467 --> 01:24:17,094
<i>465 pounds, this is ridiculous.</i>

1724
01:24:17,136 --> 01:24:20,055
<i>And as soon as</i>
<i>I went vegan, tendinitis</i>
<i>started disappearing.</i>

1725
01:24:20,097 --> 01:24:22,182
<i>My strength in my right
arm started coming back.</i>

1726
01:24:22,224 --> 01:24:24,101
<i>High blood pressure
was going down.</i>

1727
01:24:24,143 --> 01:24:28,773
You can't be strong
and be dying on the inside,
that's not strong.

1728
01:24:28,815 --> 01:24:30,900
<i>That's weak.
That's really weak.</i>

1729
01:24:30,942 --> 01:24:32,753
<i>Because yeah, you look big
and strong on the outside,</i>

1730
01:24:32,777 --> 01:24:36,363
<i>yeah, big man, no,</i>
<i>but, your heart's</i>
<i>crying for help,</i>

1731
01:24:36,405 --> 01:24:38,532
<i>on the inside you're dying.</i>

1732
01:24:38,574 --> 01:24:41,995
<i>I'm a professional parkour</i>
<i>athlete, a two-time world</i>
<i>free running champion,</i>

1733
01:24:42,036 --> 01:24:43,555
and more recently
I got into<i> Ninja Warrior</i>

1734
01:24:43,579 --> 01:24:45,665
where I'm captain of
Team Europe as we won

1735
01:24:45,706 --> 01:24:47,416
USA versus the world.

1736
01:24:47,458 --> 01:24:50,044
<i>For something</i>
<i>like</i> Ninja Warrior
<i>and parkour, specifically,</i>

1737
01:24:50,085 --> 01:24:53,213
<i>you really need to have</i>
<i>a good strength to body</i>
<i>weight ratio,</i>

1738
01:24:53,255 --> 01:24:55,108
<i>so I was carrying mass
that I really didn't need.</i>

1739
01:24:55,132 --> 01:24:57,468
<i>And when I went vegan,
I lost 15, 20 pounds.</i>

1740
01:24:57,510 --> 01:25:00,596
<i>I was more agile, I was more</i>
<i>efficient and more</i>
<i>stamina in my body.</i>

1741
01:25:00,638 --> 01:25:02,491
<i>Just that extra bit of pop
that I didn't have before,</i>

1742
01:25:02,515 --> 01:25:04,350
<i>it just gave me
that extra strength.</i>

1743
01:25:04,391 --> 01:25:06,811
<i>This is a vibrant way to live.</i>

1744
01:25:06,853 --> 01:25:09,605
<i>It can enhance you
as an athlete, for me,</i>

1745
01:25:09,647 --> 01:25:11,500
<i>a hundred percent better
athlete than I was before,</i>

1746
01:25:11,524 --> 01:25:13,943
it's unlocked a whole new
chapter of my training.

1747
01:25:13,985 --> 01:25:15,587
<i>The science is there,
the health is there,</i>

1748
01:25:15,611 --> 01:25:17,255
<i>the athletes are there proving
that you don't need to eat</i>

1749
01:25:17,279 --> 01:25:19,573
<i>dead animals to be strong,
to be healthy.</i>

1750
01:25:19,615 --> 01:25:22,409
I started working out
when I was 47 years old.

1751
01:25:22,451 --> 01:25:26,080
All the muscles you see,
I gained as a vegan.

1752
01:25:26,121 --> 01:25:30,668
<i>I gained 15 pounds of muscles</i>
<i>on my body, eating all</i>
<i>plant-based and vegan foods.</i>

1753
01:25:30,710 --> 01:25:34,922
<i>All the aches and pains</i>
<i>in my body,</i>
<i>it just went away.</i>

1754
01:25:34,964 --> 01:25:37,967
<i>Because I'm not ingesting
so many inflaming foods,</i>

1755
01:25:38,009 --> 01:25:39,927
<i>the acidic foods
that animal products are.</i>

1756
01:25:39,969 --> 01:25:44,431
Gorillas, rhinos and elephants,
they all get their
muscles and strength

1757
01:25:44,473 --> 01:25:47,518
from eating plants.
That's what I do.

1758
01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:50,396
[Blanco]<i> I travel all around</i>
<i>the world for my surfing,</i>

1759
01:25:50,437 --> 01:25:53,273
<i>and I've always been
able to eat vegan.</i>

1760
01:25:53,315 --> 01:25:56,736
I feel like
if you want something
you can make it happen.

1761
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

1762
01:26:00,531 --> 01:26:03,743
all the benefits
and now that I know
how it feels to be vegan.

1763
01:26:03,784 --> 01:26:08,205
<i>Every aspect of my life</i>
<i>has been improved</i>
<i>by adopting this lifestyle.</i>

1764
01:26:08,247 --> 01:26:10,875
I feel better, I perform
better athletically,

1765
01:26:10,917 --> 01:26:13,878
<i>I sleep better, my energy
with my kids is better,</i>

1766
01:26:13,920 --> 01:26:15,462
<i>my focus at work is better.</i>

1767
01:26:15,504 --> 01:26:17,548
<i>Everything is better,
my skin cleared up.</i>

1768
01:26:17,590 --> 01:26:20,843
<i>I've kept myself trim for
nine years now doing this.</i>

1769
01:26:20,885 --> 01:26:23,679
<i>All I can tell you
is that I felt</i>

1770
01:26:23,721 --> 01:26:27,100
<i>and I continue to feel better
than I ever felt before.</i>

1771
01:26:27,141 --> 01:26:29,769
My friend Jason Lester and
I were the first people

1772
01:26:29,810 --> 01:26:32,813
to do this challenge
called Epic Five,

1773
01:26:32,855 --> 01:26:34,899
which entailed
doing five Ironmans

1774
01:26:34,941 --> 01:26:37,317
<i>on five Hawaiian islands
in under a week.</i>

1775
01:26:37,359 --> 01:26:41,906
<i>An Ironman is a 2.4 mile swim
followed by a 112 mile bike</i>

1776
01:26:41,948 --> 01:26:45,325
<i>and then running a marathon
26.2 miles after that,</i>

1777
01:26:45,367 --> 01:26:46,869
<i>so we did five of those in a row</i>

1778
01:26:46,911 --> 01:26:50,247
<i>on five different islands
in a little under a week.</i>

1779
01:26:50,289 --> 01:26:51,707
Did you almost die?

1780
01:26:51,749 --> 01:26:53,542
No. We didn't die.

1781
01:26:53,584 --> 01:26:56,184
So, I guess the famous
question, where'd you get
your protein, man?

1782
01:26:57,588 --> 01:27:00,133
From plants!

1783
01:27:00,174 --> 01:27:02,193
[Kip]<i> Like so many people,</i>
<i>I was looking for excuses</i>

1784
01:27:02,217 --> 01:27:03,677
<i>not to change my diet.</i>

1785
01:27:03,719 --> 01:27:06,388
<i>But, once I finally did,
I felt liberated.</i>

1786
01:27:06,430 --> 01:27:07,848
<i>Within days,
I could feel the blood</i>

1787
01:27:07,890 --> 01:27:10,184
<i>running through my veins
with a new vitality.</i>

1788
01:27:10,225 --> 01:27:14,396
<i>Within weeks, I felt</i>
<i>a transformation throughout</i>
<i>my entire body and mind.</i>

1789
01:27:14,438 --> 01:27:17,441
<i>Not only could I survive</i>
<i>on a purely plant-based</i>
<i>vegan diet,</i>

1790
01:27:17,483 --> 01:27:20,360
<i>I could thrive.
I felt amazing.</i>

1791
01:27:20,402 --> 01:27:22,905
<i>I competed in my first
marathon in six years,</i>

1792
01:27:22,947 --> 01:27:26,659
<i>training half the amount</i>
<i>and beat my personal record</i>
<i>by 23 minutes.</i>

1793
01:27:26,700 --> 01:27:30,079
<i>Less than a month later,
I did my first full Ironman.</i>

1794
01:27:30,121 --> 01:27:32,039
<i>Although I could possibly
get away with eating</i>

1795
01:27:32,081 --> 01:27:34,017
<i>a little bit of meat and
dairy without ill effects</i>

1796
01:27:34,041 --> 01:27:37,044
<i>to my personal health,</i>
<i>I could no longer</i>
<i>willingly support</i>

1797
01:27:37,086 --> 01:27:39,254
<i>an industry I knew was
causing so much suffering</i>

1798
01:27:39,296 --> 01:27:42,675
<i>to communities, families
and all life on the planet.</i>

1799
01:27:42,716 --> 01:27:45,970
<i>A whole new world opened up.
I felt whole again.</i>

1800
01:27:46,012 --> 01:27:48,722
<i>Connected to a greater sense
of what true health is.</i>

1801
01:27:48,764 --> 01:27:54,394
<i>And where true health</i>
<i>doesn't end with me,</i>
<i>but begins with us.</i>

1802
01:27:54,436 --> 01:27:59,566
If people adopted
a plant-based diet,
the changes we would see

1803
01:27:59,608 --> 01:28:03,988
in our individual health,
in our national
health situation

1804
01:28:04,030 --> 01:28:07,282
<i>and in this physical,</i>
<i>environmental world</i>
<i>we live in,</i>

1805
01:28:07,324 --> 01:28:09,326
<i>would be so profound.</i>

1806
01:28:09,368 --> 01:28:12,163
Today, you can say,

1807
01:28:12,205 --> 01:28:13,914
I'm not gonna
eat that stuff anymore.

1808
01:28:13,956 --> 01:28:17,292
<i>It's the one thing that I
can do myself personally</i>

1809
01:28:17,334 --> 01:28:18,836
<i>to make a difference.</i>

1810
01:28:18,878 --> 01:28:21,421
It will give you
a greater sense of
well-being and happiness

1811
01:28:21,463 --> 01:28:24,508
when you know that
one, you're not
destroying your health

1812
01:28:24,550 --> 01:28:27,469
every time you
sit down and eat,
you're not promoting cruelty,

1813
01:28:27,511 --> 01:28:29,513
and you're not
damaging the Earth.

1814
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.

1815
01:28:32,641 --> 01:28:34,476
And yet I'm not weaker,
I'm stronger.

1816
01:28:34,518 --> 01:28:36,038
That's the beauty of it,
when you're altruistic,

1817
01:28:36,062 --> 01:28:37,831
<i>when you make choices for
the greater good of others,</i>

1818
01:28:37,855 --> 01:28:40,566
<i>it's comes around</i>
<i>benefits me as well.</i>
<i>It benefits us all.</i>

1819
01:28:40,607 --> 01:28:44,403
Studies show that
we can not only survive
but we can thrive.

1820
01:28:44,444 --> 01:28:48,407
I just feel this is
a great way to live,
not harming other beings.

1821
01:28:48,448 --> 01:28:51,035
When you can be
healthy and happier.

1822
01:28:51,077 --> 01:28:53,704
<i>I love it!
It's a great life.</i>

1823
01:28:53,746 --> 01:28:57,124
I never thought that I could
feel this good at this age.

1824
01:28:57,166 --> 01:28:59,501
<i>And I just want everybody
to feel this way.</i>

1825
01:28:59,543 --> 01:29:02,046
I feel like a 20-year-old,
I'm almost 50.

1826
01:29:02,088 --> 01:29:05,716
Nothing tastes as good
as healthy feels, basically.

1827
01:29:05,758 --> 01:29:08,219
And so the choices that
we make every single day,

1828
01:29:08,261 --> 01:29:10,637
day in and day out
around our food

1829
01:29:10,679 --> 01:29:14,892
has the capacity
to bring us true health
and optimal wellness.

1830
01:29:14,934 --> 01:29:17,270
<i>Not just individually,
but collectively</i>

1831
01:29:17,311 --> 01:29:19,897
<i>as a species and for our planet.</i>

1832
01:29:19,939 --> 01:29:21,815
We're not gonna live forever.

1833
01:29:21,857 --> 01:29:24,526
But while we are alive,
we can live well.

1834
01:29:24,568 --> 01:29:26,946
And for me, as a doctor,
that's what I wanna see.

1835
01:29:26,987 --> 01:29:29,240
Where there's a will,
there is a way.

1836
01:29:30,616 --> 01:29:31,951
And I believe that.

1837
01:29:32,910 --> 01:29:35,037
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