1 00:00:28,988 --> 00:00:34,911 Worldwide, we're looking at approximately 315 million people with diabetes. 2 00:00:34,953 --> 00:00:38,915 There's no question that we're in the midst of a diabetes epidemic. 3 00:00:38,957 --> 00:00:42,376 Right now, one in three Medicare dollars 4 00:00:42,418 --> 00:00:45,463 is spent in the care of people with diabetes. 5 00:00:45,504 --> 00:00:51,385 One in ten total health care dollars is spent on people with diabetes. 6 00:00:51,427 --> 00:00:54,555 There's no question that this is a major problem. 7 00:00:54,597 --> 00:00:59,310 [Kip] What in particular is the correlation for diet and diabetes? 8 00:00:59,351 --> 00:01:01,061 I'm not gonna get into that. 9 00:01:01,103 --> 00:01:02,480 - Into diet? - No. 10 00:01:03,188 --> 00:01:05,065 [Latin music playing] 11 00:01:24,752 --> 00:01:26,671 My name's Kip. 12 00:01:26,712 --> 00:01:28,941 I'm a filmmaker from San Francisco, and I have a confession to make. 13 00:01:28,965 --> 00:01:30,925 I'm a recovering hypochondriac. 14 00:01:30,967 --> 00:01:33,803 Like so many of us, I have a family history of diabetes, 15 00:01:33,845 --> 00:01:35,638 heart disease and cancer. 16 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:39,600 My dad had his first heart bypass at 49, his second at age 50. 17 00:01:39,642 --> 00:01:42,227 My grandpa died young from diabetes complications, 18 00:01:42,269 --> 00:01:45,564 and both my other grandpa and grandma died of cancer. 19 00:01:45,606 --> 00:01:48,693 I was always paranoid that I would also get one of these diseases. 20 00:01:48,734 --> 00:01:52,363 Like any good hypochondriac, WebMD's symptoms checker was essentially 21 00:01:52,404 --> 00:01:54,198 my browser's home page. 22 00:01:54,239 --> 00:01:57,451 Even in my teens I took Metamucil every day and a daily aspirin. 23 00:01:57,493 --> 00:01:59,662 I read all the latest self-diagnosis books, 24 00:01:59,704 --> 00:02:02,289 I ate every multivitamin I could get my hands on, 25 00:02:02,331 --> 00:02:04,750 and I was obsessed with bodily functions. 26 00:02:04,792 --> 00:02:06,878 I followed all the large health organizations' 27 00:02:06,919 --> 00:02:08,963 recommendations for preventing disease. 28 00:02:09,005 --> 00:02:13,051 I exercise regularly, don't smoke, don't drink soda, get enough sleep, 29 00:02:13,092 --> 00:02:17,346 reduce stress and grew up eating what I thought was a healthy diet until... 30 00:02:17,388 --> 00:02:19,574 -[tires screeching] -The World Health Organization this morning 31 00:02:19,598 --> 00:02:23,853 has classified processed meat such as bacon and sausage as carcinogenic, 32 00:02:23,895 --> 00:02:27,314 directly involved in causing cancer in humans. 33 00:02:27,356 --> 00:02:31,360 [male anchor] Processed meat is clearly linked to an increase in cancer. 34 00:02:31,402 --> 00:02:35,698 Hotdogs or, bacon could be just as dangerous as smoking cigarettes. 35 00:02:35,740 --> 00:02:37,759 [Kip] The World Health Organization had looked at over 36 00:02:37,783 --> 00:02:40,619 800 studies from ten different countries, 37 00:02:40,661 --> 00:02:44,373 finding a direct link to consuming processed meat and cancer. 38 00:02:44,415 --> 00:02:46,500 Just one serving of deli meats daily 39 00:02:46,542 --> 00:02:50,796 increases your risks of colorectal cancer by 18%. 40 00:02:50,838 --> 00:02:54,050 I had no idea that what we ate affected cancer rates. 41 00:02:54,092 --> 00:02:57,720 But I never felt like I had eaten a lot of processed meats until I realized that 42 00:02:57,762 --> 00:03:00,806 processed meat includes hotdogs, bacon, sausage, 43 00:03:00,848 --> 00:03:04,102 salami, ham, pepperoni, cold cuts and deli slices, 44 00:03:04,143 --> 00:03:06,311 basically everything I grew up eating. 45 00:03:06,353 --> 00:03:09,023 The World Health Organization classifies processed meat 46 00:03:09,065 --> 00:03:11,275 as a Group One carcinogen, 47 00:03:11,316 --> 00:03:15,863 the same group as cigarettes, asbestos and plutonium, 48 00:03:15,905 --> 00:03:19,033 and classifies red meat as a Group Two carcinogen. 49 00:03:19,075 --> 00:03:23,662 Was this like I had essentially been smoking my entire childhood? 50 00:03:23,704 --> 00:03:26,124 If processed meats are labeled the same as cigarettes, 51 00:03:26,165 --> 00:03:29,919 how is it even legal for kids to be eating this way? 52 00:03:29,961 --> 00:03:31,670 I thought this was new information, 53 00:03:31,712 --> 00:03:35,841 but, many of these studies have been around for 50 years. 54 00:03:35,883 --> 00:03:38,427 I couldn't believe I'd been eating processed meats 55 00:03:38,469 --> 00:03:43,766 virtually my entire life and was just now finding out how dangerous they are. 56 00:03:43,808 --> 00:03:47,061 Why hadn't I been hearing about it from the American Cancer Society, 57 00:03:47,103 --> 00:03:49,438 the largest cancer group in the nation? 58 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:51,816 When I went on their website, I was shocked to see that 59 00:03:51,857 --> 00:03:54,568 none of this information was featured on their home page. 60 00:03:54,610 --> 00:03:57,989 But, even more shocking, on their Eat Healthy page, 61 00:03:58,030 --> 00:04:01,742 they actually encouraged eating Group One carcinogenic foods 62 00:04:01,784 --> 00:04:03,869 like processed turkey and canned meats. 63 00:04:03,911 --> 00:04:06,122 This is after the World Health Organization 64 00:04:06,164 --> 00:04:10,876 reviewed over 800 studies definitively linking processed meat to cancer. 65 00:04:10,918 --> 00:04:14,254 [man] Thanks for calling your American Cancer Society. My name is Sam, 66 00:04:14,296 --> 00:04:16,841 I'm a cancer information specialist. How may I help you today? 67 00:04:16,882 --> 00:04:18,968 Yeah, I was calling because I was wondering why 68 00:04:19,010 --> 00:04:23,222 you all recommend people to eat processed meat on your website, 69 00:04:23,263 --> 00:04:28,019 which the World Health Organization has classified as a Group One carcinogen? 70 00:04:28,060 --> 00:04:33,065 Which is the same class as tobacco smoking, asbestos and plutonium. 71 00:04:34,316 --> 00:04:36,194 This would be like a lung organization 72 00:04:36,235 --> 00:04:40,531 having a How to Roll Your Own Cigarette section on their website. 73 00:04:40,572 --> 00:04:42,616 It's kinda the same thing. 74 00:04:42,658 --> 00:04:46,078 [Sam] Well, let me just place you on a brief hold because... 75 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:50,208 [Kip] He wasn't able to answer my questions and said someone would get back with me. 76 00:04:50,249 --> 00:04:51,959 I had always been concerned about cancer 77 00:04:52,001 --> 00:04:55,379 because both my grandma and grandpa died of cancer. 78 00:04:55,420 --> 00:04:58,399 I wondered if things would've been different had they known the link between diet 79 00:04:58,423 --> 00:05:00,425 and this terrible disease. 80 00:05:00,467 --> 00:05:03,554 In the US, one out of every four deaths is from cancer. 81 00:05:05,264 --> 00:05:06,891 Oh, sweet! 82 00:05:06,932 --> 00:05:09,293 American Cancer Society rep confirmed an interview this week. 83 00:05:11,645 --> 00:05:14,982 So, we just went in for the interview with the American Cancer Society rep, 84 00:05:15,024 --> 00:05:18,402 and the security guard said there's no interview scheduled. 85 00:05:18,443 --> 00:05:21,280 So, I went into my phone and it turns out last night, 86 00:05:21,321 --> 00:05:23,217 after I told her that the interview's gonna be about 87 00:05:23,241 --> 00:05:26,077 the correlation between diet and cancer, 88 00:05:26,118 --> 00:05:30,539 she said she could no longer do the interview. 89 00:05:30,581 --> 00:05:33,000 [Kip] After repeated emails asking why she was declining 90 00:05:33,042 --> 00:05:36,295 my interview to simply talk about diet and cancer, 91 00:05:36,336 --> 00:05:39,257 she stopped responding altogether. 92 00:05:39,298 --> 00:05:44,262 Why would an American Cancer Society rep not want to talk about this? 93 00:05:44,303 --> 00:05:46,555 I was, however, able to connect with a growing movement 94 00:05:46,597 --> 00:05:48,557 of doctors who are willing to talk about the link 95 00:05:48,599 --> 00:05:50,976 between the standard American diet and disease. 96 00:05:51,018 --> 00:05:52,853 And it goes beyond just cancer. 97 00:05:52,895 --> 00:05:56,857 I took my old trusty van Super Blue once again out on the road. 98 00:05:56,899 --> 00:05:59,318 2/3 of adults are now overweight or, obese. 99 00:05:59,359 --> 00:06:02,280 And we have an epidemic cascade of debilitating disease 100 00:06:02,321 --> 00:06:03,906 that's overcoming the country. 101 00:06:03,948 --> 00:06:07,492 There's no way we can sustain the current style of care 102 00:06:07,534 --> 00:06:11,789 with the epidemic that we're creating with our diet and lifestyle choices. 103 00:06:11,830 --> 00:06:15,667 The diabetes, the arthritis, the heart disease, the dementia, 104 00:06:15,709 --> 00:06:20,089 the obesity, the cancers are affecting about 70% of deaths. 105 00:06:20,131 --> 00:06:24,051 All the data is that those 70% of deaths and morbidity 106 00:06:24,093 --> 00:06:26,511 are largely lifestyle related and preventable. 107 00:06:26,553 --> 00:06:30,224 Most kids by age ten in the US 108 00:06:30,266 --> 00:06:32,226 already have fatty streaks in their arteries, 109 00:06:32,268 --> 00:06:36,230 the first stage of atherosclerosis leading to heart attacks, strokes. 110 00:06:36,272 --> 00:06:40,109 Here in American medicine, we operate from the disease model. 111 00:06:40,151 --> 00:06:42,945 We are in the business of treating sick people, 112 00:06:42,987 --> 00:06:46,949 we are not in the business of trying to prevent people from becoming sick. 113 00:06:46,991 --> 00:06:48,867 When you look at chronic disease risk, 114 00:06:48,909 --> 00:06:51,120 all the things that we walk around worrying about. 115 00:06:51,162 --> 00:06:55,749 Actually, dietary choices trump smoking when it comes to those risks. 116 00:06:55,791 --> 00:06:58,710 If I could deliver one message to the researchers 117 00:06:58,752 --> 00:07:03,257 who are looking for the cause of diabetes, and the cause of clogged arteries 118 00:07:03,299 --> 00:07:06,302 and the cause of high blood pressure and the cause of obesity, 119 00:07:06,344 --> 00:07:08,762 I would tell them the answers in three words: 120 00:07:08,804 --> 00:07:09,930 It's the food! 121 00:07:09,972 --> 00:07:12,308 It's what the Americans are eating. 122 00:07:12,350 --> 00:07:15,144 [Kip] Today, with 2/3 of Americans being overweight, 123 00:07:15,186 --> 00:07:17,437 clearly there's a food issue. 124 00:07:17,479 --> 00:07:22,693 In the next 25 years, one out of every three Americans will have diabetes. 125 00:07:22,734 --> 00:07:26,488 My name's Michael Abdalla. I'm from Atlanta, Georgia. 126 00:07:26,530 --> 00:07:31,035 And unfortunately, I was diagnosed about 10 years ago with diabetes. 127 00:07:31,076 --> 00:07:34,496 And eight years ago I had two stents put in. 128 00:07:34,538 --> 00:07:37,375 I don't know where to go, I don't know what to do, you are just like 129 00:07:37,416 --> 00:07:39,459 out of options and you don't know what to do. 130 00:07:39,501 --> 00:07:41,628 You're taking medicines. You listen to this doctor. 131 00:07:41,670 --> 00:07:43,964 And the cardiologist says take this. 132 00:07:44,006 --> 00:07:47,218 And the endocrinologist says take that. 133 00:07:47,259 --> 00:07:49,428 And your general practitioner doctor says... 134 00:07:49,469 --> 00:07:51,138 You don't know what's going on here. 135 00:07:51,180 --> 00:07:56,810 It's a real challenging thing and it is something that 136 00:07:56,852 --> 00:07:59,688 you don't wanna get. You just don't wanna get it. 137 00:07:59,730 --> 00:08:02,149 [Kip] Government and media almost exclusively blame 138 00:08:02,191 --> 00:08:05,777 lack of exercise and sugary foods as a cause of diabetes. 139 00:08:05,819 --> 00:08:09,489 But, I wanted to talk with an actual expert on the role of diet and diabetes. 140 00:08:09,531 --> 00:08:12,284 I went to speak with premier physician, diabetes expert 141 00:08:12,326 --> 00:08:14,412 and researcher, Dr. Neal Barnard. 142 00:08:14,453 --> 00:08:17,373 [Kip] What role does sugar play in causing diabetes? 143 00:08:18,207 --> 00:08:19,458 Driving me crazy. 144 00:08:19,499 --> 00:08:22,586 Diabetes is not and never was caused be eating 145 00:08:22,627 --> 00:08:26,048 a high carbohydrate diet, and it's not caused by eating sugar. 146 00:08:26,090 --> 00:08:28,342 The cause of diabetes is a diet 147 00:08:28,384 --> 00:08:30,677 that builds up the amount of fat into the blood. 148 00:08:30,719 --> 00:08:33,931 I'm talking about a typical meat-based, animal-based diet. 149 00:08:33,972 --> 00:08:36,267 You can look into the muscle cells of the human body, 150 00:08:36,308 --> 00:08:39,186 and you find that they're building up tiny particles of fat 151 00:08:39,228 --> 00:08:41,272 that's causing insulin resistance. 152 00:08:41,313 --> 00:08:44,442 What that means is, the sugar that is naturally from the foods 153 00:08:44,483 --> 00:08:47,527 that you're eating can't get into the cells where it belongs. 154 00:08:47,569 --> 00:08:50,030 It builds up in the blood, and that's diabetes. 155 00:08:50,072 --> 00:08:52,950 [Kip] I have never heard that meat was associated with causing diabetes. 156 00:08:52,991 --> 00:08:55,744 We had always been told that sugar or obesity caused it. 157 00:08:55,786 --> 00:08:57,537 Renowned weight loss bariatric surgeon 158 00:08:57,579 --> 00:08:59,331 Dr. Garth Davis, though, agreed. 159 00:08:59,373 --> 00:09:01,309 Everyone thinks that you get diabetic because of carbs. 160 00:09:01,333 --> 00:09:04,669 They did a huge study in that EPIC study 500,000 people, 161 00:09:04,711 --> 00:09:07,465 carbs consumption was inversely related with diabetes. 162 00:09:07,506 --> 00:09:11,385 In other words, the more carbs someone ate, the less diabetes they had. 163 00:09:11,427 --> 00:09:13,304 But, meat was strongly correlated. 164 00:09:13,345 --> 00:09:16,640 Get that aha moment. The starch is, the carbs are good for you. 165 00:09:16,681 --> 00:09:18,183 They're not bad for you. 166 00:09:18,225 --> 00:09:21,645 This idea that carbs make you fat is utterly ridiculous. 167 00:09:21,686 --> 00:09:24,523 Carbs cannot make you fat in and of themselves. 168 00:09:24,606 --> 00:09:27,234 We have storage in our muscles 169 00:09:27,276 --> 00:09:29,153 and in our liver for carbs called glycogen. 170 00:09:29,194 --> 00:09:32,114 So, when we eat carbs, we either store it or we burn it. 171 00:09:32,156 --> 00:09:34,533 Now eat fat, that goes straight to your fat. 172 00:09:34,574 --> 00:09:37,411 Your body can't turn those carbs into fat 173 00:09:37,453 --> 00:09:39,704 unless you're really overdoing the calories. 174 00:09:39,746 --> 00:09:41,290 And obesity, it's a death sentence. 175 00:09:41,332 --> 00:09:43,417 You're at much higher risk of getting cancer, 176 00:09:43,459 --> 00:09:45,627 you're almost certainly gonna get diabetes. 177 00:09:45,669 --> 00:09:47,296 No one wants the fat shame, 178 00:09:47,338 --> 00:09:48,982 and we all want everybody to be comfortable with our bodies, 179 00:09:49,006 --> 00:09:50,733 but, this movement to be comfortable with our bodies 180 00:09:50,757 --> 00:09:52,510 has made us comfortable with being sick. 181 00:09:52,551 --> 00:09:53,885 And that's a huge problem. 182 00:09:53,927 --> 00:09:56,054 I go into the hospital and I look around me, 183 00:09:56,096 --> 00:09:58,349 people on dialysis, all these sick people. 184 00:09:58,390 --> 00:10:01,352 And just about every disease in there is because of what people are eating. 185 00:10:01,393 --> 00:10:04,813 Here's the thing. If I eat a sugary cookie, 186 00:10:04,855 --> 00:10:07,274 the sugar lures you in like the Trojan horse, 187 00:10:07,316 --> 00:10:11,362 but waiting inside that cookie is a huge load of butter or, shortening. 188 00:10:11,403 --> 00:10:12,863 And that's what fattens you up. 189 00:10:12,904 --> 00:10:14,466 And that's the part that leads to the diabetes, 190 00:10:14,490 --> 00:10:16,783 it's the fatty foods, not really so much the sugar. 191 00:10:16,825 --> 00:10:19,346 [Davis] It's not that sugar's good for you. There's no nutrients in it. 192 00:10:19,370 --> 00:10:21,038 It's excess calories. 193 00:10:21,079 --> 00:10:23,541 But, when you eat sugar, you don't get inflammation right away. 194 00:10:23,582 --> 00:10:26,793 When you eat sugar, you're not getting plaques forming in your vessels. 195 00:10:26,835 --> 00:10:28,628 When you're eating sugar, 196 00:10:28,670 --> 00:10:32,674 your body's gonna store most of it as glycogen or burn it as calories. 197 00:10:32,716 --> 00:10:38,222 And so this focus on sugar has taken all the focus off meat, dairy, 198 00:10:38,263 --> 00:10:40,516 eggs, pork, turkey, chicken. 199 00:10:40,558 --> 00:10:44,478 People need to understand. If they're child gets diabetes, 200 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,689 you've just taken 19 years off their lifespan. 201 00:10:47,731 --> 00:10:49,858 We're talking life and death. 202 00:10:49,900 --> 00:10:51,485 [Kip] I realized there was so much more 203 00:10:51,527 --> 00:10:53,737 about diet and disease that I hadn't ever learned. 204 00:10:53,778 --> 00:10:57,032 It felt as if this information had been practically withheld. 205 00:10:57,074 --> 00:11:01,495 Processed meat causes cancer. Sugar doesn't cause diabetes. 206 00:11:01,537 --> 00:11:03,598 I had doubt about the claims these doctors were making, 207 00:11:03,622 --> 00:11:05,665 so I did some searching on my own. 208 00:11:05,707 --> 00:11:07,959 Harvard researchers looked at nine prospective studies 209 00:11:08,001 --> 00:11:10,588 finding that just one serving of processed meat per day 210 00:11:10,629 --> 00:11:14,674 increased risk of developing diabetes by 51 percent. 211 00:11:14,716 --> 00:11:18,887 The link between eating meat and developing diabetes became undeniable. 212 00:11:18,929 --> 00:11:21,890 But, when I went on a leading diabetes organization's website, 213 00:11:21,932 --> 00:11:23,767 the American Diabetes Association, 214 00:11:23,808 --> 00:11:26,853 not only did they not have this information front and center, 215 00:11:26,895 --> 00:11:30,441 they were featuring recipes for red and processed meat. 216 00:11:30,482 --> 00:11:35,237 And on their recipes for healthy living, they had bacon-wrapped shrimp. 217 00:11:35,279 --> 00:11:37,072 What the health? 218 00:11:37,114 --> 00:11:39,408 All right, sent an email to American Diabetes Association, 219 00:11:39,450 --> 00:11:41,410 see if they'll get back to us. 220 00:11:41,452 --> 00:11:45,456 As destructive as diabetes is, it pales in comparison to heart disease. 221 00:11:45,497 --> 00:11:49,960 Over 17 million people die every year from cardiovascular disease. 222 00:11:50,001 --> 00:11:52,754 It is the leading cause of death around the world. 223 00:11:52,796 --> 00:11:56,925 Nearly one out of every three people will die from this disease. 224 00:11:56,967 --> 00:11:59,719 The amount of people who die from cardiovascular disease 225 00:11:59,761 --> 00:12:02,847 is the equivalent of four jumbo jets crashing 226 00:12:02,889 --> 00:12:07,519 every single hour, every single day, every single year. 227 00:12:11,815 --> 00:12:15,235 My name's Amy Resnic, and I'm from Swampscott, Massachusetts, 228 00:12:15,277 --> 00:12:17,070 a little bit north of Boston. 229 00:12:17,112 --> 00:12:20,824 And I recently went to my doctor for asthma 230 00:12:20,865 --> 00:12:23,118 because I had a very hard time breathing. 231 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:26,121 And while there, she did some blood work. 232 00:12:26,163 --> 00:12:31,669 And one of the tests was C-reactive protein, 233 00:12:31,710 --> 00:12:34,963 there was a scale of one to three, 234 00:12:35,005 --> 00:12:37,174 one being low for cardiac event, 235 00:12:37,215 --> 00:12:39,259 three being high for cardiac event. 236 00:12:39,301 --> 00:12:42,304 And my number was 10.82. 237 00:12:42,346 --> 00:12:43,639 What does that mean? 238 00:12:43,681 --> 00:12:46,141 That means I am on the road for heart attack. 239 00:12:46,183 --> 00:12:49,728 And she said probably within the next 30 days. 240 00:12:49,769 --> 00:12:51,271 - 30 days? - 30 days. 241 00:12:51,313 --> 00:12:53,231 If I'm going the way I was going. 242 00:12:53,273 --> 00:12:57,736 I take this for my heart arrhythmia. 243 00:12:57,777 --> 00:12:59,530 I take this for pain. 244 00:13:00,531 --> 00:13:02,658 Oxycodone for pain. 245 00:13:02,700 --> 00:13:05,827 And lorazepam for stress. 246 00:13:05,869 --> 00:13:08,706 Cyclobenzaprine for a muscle relaxer. 247 00:13:08,747 --> 00:13:11,416 Also take Topamax and Prozac. 248 00:13:11,458 --> 00:13:15,045 And I also use a CPAP machine to help me breathe. 249 00:13:15,086 --> 00:13:19,174 And my asthma has been so bad this past year. 250 00:13:19,216 --> 00:13:23,053 I use it during the day as well to get some air. 251 00:13:23,094 --> 00:13:25,805 I am tired when I wake up, 252 00:13:25,847 --> 00:13:29,017 I'm tired during the day. I take a nap, I'm still tired. 253 00:13:29,059 --> 00:13:31,603 I can't breathe. 254 00:13:31,645 --> 00:13:37,275 And I know I need to make a change for my health. 255 00:13:37,317 --> 00:13:40,404 Or, else I'm not gonna be here for my family. 256 00:13:41,572 --> 00:13:42,822 When we speak of heart disease, 257 00:13:42,864 --> 00:13:45,743 I would say the role of alcohol is pretty small. 258 00:13:45,784 --> 00:13:49,954 The role of sugar is very small, too. Smoking is big, 259 00:13:49,996 --> 00:13:53,208 but, the good news is that most people have quit or never did smoke. 260 00:13:53,250 --> 00:13:57,128 The problem with animal-based diet, its contribution to heart disease is huge, 261 00:13:57,170 --> 00:13:58,422 and it is pervasive. 262 00:13:58,463 --> 00:14:00,257 All this expensive imaging, 263 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:06,722 procedures, bypasses, medication. 264 00:14:06,764 --> 00:14:10,850 None of which has one solitary single thing to do 265 00:14:11,893 --> 00:14:13,437 with the causation of the illness, 266 00:14:13,478 --> 00:14:15,397 so you dive a completely benign, 267 00:14:15,439 --> 00:14:18,567 food borne illness that never had its causation treated. 268 00:14:18,609 --> 00:14:22,195 When we eat these kind of dead meat bacteria toxins, 269 00:14:22,237 --> 00:14:25,574 within minutes, you get this burst of inflammation 270 00:14:25,616 --> 00:14:28,619 within your system, such that you basically paralyze your arteries, 271 00:14:28,660 --> 00:14:32,997 you get this stiffening of the arteries, their inability to relax normally in half. 272 00:14:33,039 --> 00:14:37,001 So, it's not like decades down the road eating unhealthy there'll be some damage. 273 00:14:37,043 --> 00:14:39,045 No, we're talking damage right then and there, 274 00:14:39,087 --> 00:14:41,005 within minutes of it going into our mouth. 275 00:14:41,047 --> 00:14:45,051 Many people are given the diagnosis of 276 00:14:45,093 --> 00:14:48,012 Alzheimer's disease, when it's not true Alzheimer's at all. 277 00:14:48,054 --> 00:14:50,599 The vast majority of people suffer dementia 278 00:14:50,641 --> 00:14:53,685 due to their tiny blood vessels in their brain clogging up 279 00:14:53,727 --> 00:14:57,355 and their nerve cells being shortchanged of oxygenated blood. 280 00:14:57,397 --> 00:14:59,858 And guess where that blood vessel dementia comes from, 281 00:14:59,899 --> 00:15:01,777 those little tiny arteries are clogging up 282 00:15:01,819 --> 00:15:04,404 from that steady stream of bad cholesterol, et cetera. 283 00:15:04,446 --> 00:15:06,156 It's really quite clear. 284 00:15:06,197 --> 00:15:07,616 Both from the standpoint of cancer 285 00:15:07,658 --> 00:15:09,493 and the standpoint of cardiovascular disease 286 00:15:09,534 --> 00:15:12,412 that animal protein plays an enormous role. 287 00:15:12,454 --> 00:15:14,832 [Kip] Is chicken better? 288 00:15:14,873 --> 00:15:17,125 It's a question of whether you wanna be shot or, hung. 289 00:15:17,167 --> 00:15:21,421 The flesh food that I would eliminate from the American diet would be poultry, 290 00:15:21,463 --> 00:15:23,298 would be turkey and chicken. 291 00:15:23,340 --> 00:15:26,134 A brilliant advertising campaign has convinced people 292 00:15:26,176 --> 00:15:28,136 that oh, it's white meat, it's healthier. 293 00:15:28,178 --> 00:15:30,972 The leading source of Sodium, 294 00:15:31,014 --> 00:15:34,225 in the American diet for adults is chicken. 295 00:15:34,267 --> 00:15:37,937 It can be labeled all natural chicken but, be injected with salt water. 296 00:15:37,979 --> 00:15:39,731 I think up to 800 milligrams of sodium. 297 00:15:39,773 --> 00:15:42,442 Heterocyclic amines are clear-cut carcinogens, 298 00:15:42,484 --> 00:15:46,655 and they can form in any kind of meat as it's heated, as it's cooked. 299 00:15:46,697 --> 00:15:49,700 But, by far, the biggest source is chicken. 300 00:15:49,741 --> 00:15:53,871 We sent researchers into fast food and family restaurants. 301 00:15:53,912 --> 00:15:56,998 Not only were there carcinogens in every single restaurant, 302 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:00,502 but, we found them in every single chicken sample that we took. 303 00:16:00,544 --> 00:16:04,088 If somebody brings their family in, and they're buying a bucket of chicken, 304 00:16:04,130 --> 00:16:06,090 nobody tells them that there are carcinogens. 305 00:16:06,132 --> 00:16:08,593 If you're selling carcinogens to people, 306 00:16:08,635 --> 00:16:10,637 you've gotta warn them that they're in there. 307 00:16:10,679 --> 00:16:12,740 [Kip] But the American Cancer Society encourages people 308 00:16:12,764 --> 00:16:15,308 to switch from red and processed meat to chicken. 309 00:16:15,350 --> 00:16:16,935 Why would the American Cancer Society 310 00:16:16,976 --> 00:16:19,437 tell people to switch from eating one carcinogenic food 311 00:16:19,479 --> 00:16:21,940 to another when a Harvard University study showed 312 00:16:22,023 --> 00:16:24,776 that men with prostate cancer who eat large amounts of chicken, 313 00:16:24,818 --> 00:16:28,029 increase their risk of the disease progressing four times. 314 00:16:28,071 --> 00:16:30,281 The number one dietary source in America 315 00:16:30,323 --> 00:16:33,034 of cholesterol is chicken because of the volume of chicken. 316 00:16:33,076 --> 00:16:36,037 Chicken's become grilled chicken and organic chicken. 317 00:16:36,079 --> 00:16:37,789 It's machismo. 318 00:16:37,831 --> 00:16:41,459 But it has nearly as much cholesterol per gram as red beef. 319 00:16:41,501 --> 00:16:43,879 So, just on sheer volume, it's the number one source. 320 00:16:43,921 --> 00:16:45,547 You got eggs being close behind. 321 00:16:45,589 --> 00:16:47,274 [Kip] I never really thought about eggs much. 322 00:16:47,298 --> 00:16:50,301 I just thought of them as a standard part of a healthy diet. 323 00:16:50,343 --> 00:16:53,764 But, then I found a study suggesting that eating just one egg a day 324 00:16:53,805 --> 00:16:58,059 can be as bad as smoking five cigarettes per day for life expectancy. 325 00:16:58,101 --> 00:17:02,021 Yolk of a hen's egg is the most concentrated glom 326 00:17:02,063 --> 00:17:04,232 of saturated fat and cholesterol. 327 00:17:04,274 --> 00:17:08,445 It is made to run a baby chicken for 21 days with no outside energy. 328 00:17:08,486 --> 00:17:10,447 It is pure fat and cholesterol. 329 00:17:10,488 --> 00:17:14,367 And when we put that into our bloodstream, it coats our red blood cells. 330 00:17:14,409 --> 00:17:18,162 Our blood gets thicker and more viscous. It changes our hormone levels. 331 00:17:18,204 --> 00:17:19,915 It raises our cholesterol levels. 332 00:17:19,957 --> 00:17:22,751 There's nothing healthy about eating the yolk of the egg. 333 00:17:22,793 --> 00:17:26,421 [Kip] But I thought cholesterol and saturated fat wasn't an issue anymore. 334 00:17:26,463 --> 00:17:28,673 All these saturated fat studies that have come out, 335 00:17:28,715 --> 00:17:32,010 trying to vindicate saturated fat is a campaign by the dairy industry, 336 00:17:32,051 --> 00:17:35,597 wherein the number one source of saturated fat is dairy, it's not meat. 337 00:17:35,639 --> 00:17:38,475 2008, the global dairy industry got together at a meeting 338 00:17:38,516 --> 00:17:40,727 and explicitly read their agenda, 339 00:17:40,769 --> 00:17:43,981 was to neutralize the negative impact of milk fat 340 00:17:44,022 --> 00:17:46,775 by regulators and medical professionals unquote, 341 00:17:46,817 --> 00:17:48,735 so what do they do, they funded studies. 342 00:17:48,777 --> 00:17:51,780 [Kip] The main study that started the whole saturated fat media craze 343 00:17:51,822 --> 00:17:54,407 was funded by the National Dairy Council. 344 00:17:54,449 --> 00:17:56,159 The egg industry similarly funds studies 345 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,787 that confuse consumers by making claims that eggs don't 346 00:17:58,829 --> 00:18:02,958 negatively affect heart function. That is, only when compared to eating 347 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,126 a McDonald's Sausage McMuffin? 348 00:18:05,168 --> 00:18:06,520 So, what they're really saying is that 349 00:18:06,544 --> 00:18:09,547 eating eggs is just as bad as eating a McMuffin. 350 00:18:09,589 --> 00:18:11,090 When you eat foods, 351 00:18:11,132 --> 00:18:13,885 like a beef or, steak or, a processed meat, a hotdog, 352 00:18:13,927 --> 00:18:15,804 you're not just getting saturated fat. 353 00:18:15,846 --> 00:18:19,140 You're also getting other additional toxins that are in that food. 354 00:18:19,182 --> 00:18:20,642 There's heme iron, carcinogens, 355 00:18:20,684 --> 00:18:23,937 processing chemicals, this all a lot more complicated 356 00:18:23,979 --> 00:18:25,605 than just looking at saturated fat. 357 00:18:25,647 --> 00:18:29,818 The strategy is not on making their products any safer. 358 00:18:29,860 --> 00:18:34,447 The strategy is to just try to confuse the public, to introduce doubt. 359 00:18:34,489 --> 00:18:38,451 There's a famous tobacco industry memo. It's called doubt is our product. 360 00:18:38,493 --> 00:18:40,370 That's all they had to do. 361 00:18:40,411 --> 00:18:43,874 They didn't have to convince Americans that smoking was healthy. 362 00:18:43,915 --> 00:18:47,377 They just had to introduce doubt. Then they would win. 363 00:18:47,418 --> 00:18:49,253 If there's just enough controversy, 364 00:18:49,295 --> 00:18:51,565 people kind of throw up their hands, "I don't know what to eat." 365 00:18:51,589 --> 00:18:54,634 Confusion is their game. 366 00:18:54,676 --> 00:18:58,096 I really don't think people thought what they ate led to heart disease. 367 00:18:58,137 --> 00:19:00,098 They think, "Oh, it's genetic, my parents had it." 368 00:19:00,139 --> 00:19:03,309 I don't think people really think that what they ate led to diabetes, 369 00:19:03,351 --> 00:19:05,478 I think, "Oh, my parents had it, I was gonna get it," 370 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:07,480 and certainly cancer, they don't think that way. 371 00:19:07,522 --> 00:19:10,483 People have bad lifestyles that they've inherited. 372 00:19:10,525 --> 00:19:12,628 Environmentally, they've been exposed to a certain way 373 00:19:12,652 --> 00:19:14,863 of eating and living that they've carried on 374 00:19:14,905 --> 00:19:16,948 into their adulthood, passed onto their children, 375 00:19:16,990 --> 00:19:20,911 that is why they go on to develop the same diseases 376 00:19:20,952 --> 00:19:23,580 that their parents and grandparents may have had before them. 377 00:19:23,621 --> 00:19:25,373 But it is not inevitable. 378 00:19:25,415 --> 00:19:27,458 Even if you have a genetic predisposition, 379 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:29,669 doesn't mean it's going to necessarily manifest. 380 00:19:29,711 --> 00:19:31,629 And what determines whether it manifests or not 381 00:19:31,671 --> 00:19:34,674 may be those epigenetic variables, the things that you can control. 382 00:19:34,716 --> 00:19:37,844 The environmental factors, the dietary factors, the lifestyle factors. 383 00:19:37,886 --> 00:19:40,764 So, we can actually change the expression of genes, 384 00:19:40,805 --> 00:19:43,100 tumor suppressing genes, tumor activating genes 385 00:19:43,141 --> 00:19:46,103 by what we eat, what we put into our bodies. 386 00:19:46,144 --> 00:19:50,481 So, even if you've been dealt a bad genetic deck, 387 00:19:50,523 --> 00:19:53,401 you can still reshuffle it with diet. 388 00:19:53,443 --> 00:19:56,130 [Kip] I had always thought that I would develop heart disease at a young age 389 00:19:56,154 --> 00:19:58,573 because both my dad and grandpa had heart attacks. 390 00:19:58,615 --> 00:20:00,283 I was taught that they were genetic. 391 00:20:00,324 --> 00:20:02,660 But the heart attacks probably had less to do with genes 392 00:20:02,702 --> 00:20:04,913 and more to do with our diets high in meat. 393 00:20:04,955 --> 00:20:07,498 That's why when I went on the American Heart Association's 394 00:20:07,540 --> 00:20:09,333 Heart-Healthy Recipes page, 395 00:20:09,375 --> 00:20:13,755 I could not believe they had an entire section on beef recipes? 396 00:20:13,797 --> 00:20:15,715 This was just like the American Cancer Society 397 00:20:15,757 --> 00:20:18,969 encouraging eating Group One carcinogens on their site. 398 00:20:19,010 --> 00:20:22,931 Meat loaf, pork loin, steak 399 00:20:22,973 --> 00:20:25,516 on your recipe list, are you kidding me? 400 00:20:25,558 --> 00:20:28,227 It's like this menu is trying to give people heart attacks. 401 00:20:28,269 --> 00:20:31,064 On your website, we noticed Heart-Healthy Recipes 402 00:20:31,106 --> 00:20:34,818 and we were kind of bewildered by why 403 00:20:34,859 --> 00:20:39,864 there was a bunch of recipes on, a whole section on beef, beef recipes. 404 00:20:39,906 --> 00:20:41,950 And there was also a section on egg recipes 405 00:20:41,992 --> 00:20:46,412 when there's such a strong link between beef, red meat and heart disease. 406 00:20:49,166 --> 00:20:52,251 I honestly don't know 'cause I don't do that, I guess. 407 00:20:52,293 --> 00:20:54,129 That's not what what I do. 408 00:20:54,171 --> 00:20:57,340 Another organization rep that wasn't able to answer my questions. 409 00:20:57,381 --> 00:21:00,135 But, he said that he'd have someone get in touch shortly. 410 00:21:00,177 --> 00:21:02,345 I was, however, able to talk to the president 411 00:21:02,386 --> 00:21:05,932 of the American College of Cardiology, Dr. Kim Williams. 412 00:21:05,974 --> 00:21:08,267 So, the American College of Cardiology 413 00:21:08,309 --> 00:21:12,022 is a 47,000-member and growing organization 414 00:21:12,063 --> 00:21:15,066 with a dedicated mission to reduce heart disease 415 00:21:15,108 --> 00:21:16,860 and to improve patients' lives. 416 00:21:16,901 --> 00:21:20,530 And if you look at the incidents of hypertension and diabetes 417 00:21:20,571 --> 00:21:25,451 and mortality in men, they actually get reduced as you go higher 418 00:21:25,493 --> 00:21:28,579 and higher in terms of how much you restrict animal products. 419 00:21:28,621 --> 00:21:29,873 What about fish? 420 00:21:29,914 --> 00:21:31,624 So, fish is a little different. 421 00:21:31,666 --> 00:21:36,713 You've got the four worries, which is PCBs, mercury, 422 00:21:38,048 --> 00:21:41,009 saturated fat and cholesterol. 423 00:21:41,051 --> 00:21:43,887 And the cholesterol is all over the place. 424 00:21:43,928 --> 00:21:45,763 You can have tuna in water 425 00:21:45,805 --> 00:21:49,267 that'll be almost less than a glass of milk, 426 00:21:49,308 --> 00:21:51,769 to salmon or, tilapia 427 00:21:51,811 --> 00:21:53,730 which is higher than a pork chop. 428 00:21:53,771 --> 00:21:55,732 [Goldhamer] If you look objectively at fish, 429 00:21:55,773 --> 00:21:59,027 what you find is they've become, essentially, mercury sponges. 430 00:21:59,069 --> 00:22:01,005 And that's why in many parts of the country they warn you, 431 00:22:01,029 --> 00:22:03,656 don't have more than so many of these fish a week 432 00:22:03,698 --> 00:22:05,700 because getting too much mercury can kill you. 433 00:22:05,742 --> 00:22:08,912 Fish are eaten by bigger fish who are eaten by bigger fish, 434 00:22:08,953 --> 00:22:13,041 and these pesticides or, herbicides bioaccumulate in the fish flesh 435 00:22:13,083 --> 00:22:16,836 and these big fish, including the salmon, which people think is the healthiest fish, 436 00:22:16,878 --> 00:22:19,547 truth is, the amount of pesticides and herbicides 437 00:22:19,589 --> 00:22:23,093 in the flesh of these fish are shocking, and they have estrogenic 438 00:22:23,134 --> 00:22:25,469 and cancer-promoting properties in them. 439 00:22:25,511 --> 00:22:28,514 They'll say, "Well, but, don't sardines have less concentration 440 00:22:28,556 --> 00:22:31,434 of toxic waste products than other ones?" 441 00:22:31,475 --> 00:22:34,645 Something being less toxic doesn't make it healthy, 442 00:22:34,687 --> 00:22:36,439 it just makes it less toxic. 443 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,525 Farmed fish is by no means healthier. 444 00:22:39,567 --> 00:22:42,653 All the antibiotics that these animals have to be fed. 445 00:22:42,695 --> 00:22:44,281 Similar to chickens and turkeys 446 00:22:44,322 --> 00:22:46,783 kept in confinement, these fish get infections. 447 00:22:46,824 --> 00:22:49,327 They get fungal infections, they get bacterial infections, 448 00:22:49,368 --> 00:22:51,579 you've got to feed them anti-fungals, antibiotics, 449 00:22:51,621 --> 00:22:55,125 and these substances accumulate in the fish flesh as well. 450 00:22:55,166 --> 00:22:57,228 [Kip] I always knew that pollution was bad for our health, 451 00:22:57,252 --> 00:23:00,463 but I had never thought about the environmental pollutants affecting food. 452 00:23:00,504 --> 00:23:03,716 [Ewall] Dioxins being the most toxic, man-made chemicals known to science 453 00:23:03,758 --> 00:23:05,218 cause all sorts of things. 454 00:23:05,260 --> 00:23:07,971 They cause endometriosis, they cause cancers, 455 00:23:08,012 --> 00:23:10,348 they cause endocrine disruption problems. 456 00:23:10,389 --> 00:23:12,642 But, most of your exposure, 93 percent of it, 457 00:23:12,683 --> 00:23:14,602 comes from eating meat and dairy products 458 00:23:14,644 --> 00:23:17,021 because it climbs up in the food chain so effectively. 459 00:23:17,063 --> 00:23:19,232 So, you can get exposed to them by living near these 460 00:23:19,274 --> 00:23:22,693 incinerators and breathing it, but, it will take you 14 years 461 00:23:22,735 --> 00:23:24,988 to breathe in as much Dioxin as a cow will 462 00:23:25,029 --> 00:23:27,448 ingest by eating the grass in one day. 463 00:23:27,490 --> 00:23:30,327 And that Dioxin will accumulate in its fat, 464 00:23:30,368 --> 00:23:34,372 which includes the milk and the meat and anyone eating meat or dairy products 465 00:23:34,413 --> 00:23:36,333 is gonna get that dose of Dioxin. 466 00:23:36,374 --> 00:23:38,542 So, it climbs up the food chain in every step. 467 00:23:38,584 --> 00:23:42,463 Men have no way in their bodies to get rid of dioxins, 468 00:23:42,505 --> 00:23:44,090 but, women have two ways. 469 00:23:44,132 --> 00:23:46,050 They're both involving having a baby. 470 00:23:46,092 --> 00:23:49,595 One is that dioxin crosses the placenta into the growing infant 471 00:23:49,637 --> 00:23:52,431 and the other is that it comes out from the breast milk. 472 00:23:52,473 --> 00:23:55,852 So, if you have a meat and dairy-consuming mother breastfeeding that infant, 473 00:23:55,893 --> 00:23:58,813 then the highest impacts of toxic exposure 474 00:23:58,855 --> 00:24:01,065 like mercury and dioxins will go to that infant. 475 00:24:01,107 --> 00:24:04,402 Pregnant women are told, "Certain types of fish should be avoided," 476 00:24:04,443 --> 00:24:07,280 but, what about all these other animal products 477 00:24:07,322 --> 00:24:10,950 which are introducing, imagine as the fetus is developing, 478 00:24:10,992 --> 00:24:14,245 introducing these very harmful toxins which, 479 00:24:14,287 --> 00:24:16,956 create reproductive abnormalities, 480 00:24:16,998 --> 00:24:19,542 develop mental problems and hormonal issues 481 00:24:19,583 --> 00:24:23,087 right as the child is developing, the most critical stage of development. 482 00:24:23,129 --> 00:24:25,548 It does make you worry when people say, 483 00:24:25,589 --> 00:24:27,943 "Don't you wanna have a little bit of milk because you're pregnant? 484 00:24:27,967 --> 00:24:29,653 "Don't you wanna have some fish 'cause your pregnant?" 485 00:24:29,677 --> 00:24:31,905 Who do you think is gonna get the chemicals that are in that? 486 00:24:31,929 --> 00:24:33,723 [Snyder] All these environmental toxins 487 00:24:33,764 --> 00:24:36,351 and toxins from the feed that they're being fed 488 00:24:36,393 --> 00:24:40,438 accumulate in their tissues and are released into the mother 489 00:24:40,479 --> 00:24:42,148 and unfortunately, to the child 490 00:24:42,190 --> 00:24:44,901 when you eat these products when you're pregnant. 491 00:24:44,942 --> 00:24:50,740 So, this includes antibiotics, hormones, steroids in animal feed. 492 00:24:50,781 --> 00:24:54,869 Commercial animals are largely fed GMO corn and soy 493 00:24:54,911 --> 00:24:57,538 which are very laden in pesticides. 494 00:24:57,580 --> 00:24:59,749 PCBs have been banned since the 70s, 495 00:24:59,790 --> 00:25:03,336 but, they persist in the environment, dioxins. 496 00:25:03,378 --> 00:25:06,130 All of these compounds can create hormonal, 497 00:25:06,172 --> 00:25:09,675 reproductive, developmental damage as well. 498 00:25:09,717 --> 00:25:12,887 Eating organic beef, poultry, pork 499 00:25:12,929 --> 00:25:15,432 or fish will not help you avoid contaminants 500 00:25:15,473 --> 00:25:18,726 like mercury, like dioxins, like strontium-90 501 00:25:18,768 --> 00:25:21,020 because they fall out over all sorts of farm fields 502 00:25:21,062 --> 00:25:24,232 and water bodies, and then they don't skip over the organic fields. 503 00:25:24,274 --> 00:25:26,692 And so really, the contaminants are coming in 504 00:25:26,734 --> 00:25:29,112 regardless of how these animals are raised. 505 00:25:29,153 --> 00:25:30,447 [Kip] I had always been concerned 506 00:25:30,488 --> 00:25:32,407 about the possible health impacts of GMOs 507 00:25:32,449 --> 00:25:34,509 but, then found out that most of the world's GMO crops 508 00:25:34,533 --> 00:25:36,327 are actually consumed by livestock, 509 00:25:36,369 --> 00:25:38,871 with dairy cows consuming the most per animal. 510 00:25:38,913 --> 00:25:43,000 This fact, with everything I learned about bioaccumulation made dairy terrifying. 511 00:25:43,042 --> 00:25:46,087 Especially considering how much cheese I ate in my life. 512 00:25:46,129 --> 00:25:48,923 [Goldhamer] Cheese is an amazing product when you think about it. 513 00:25:48,965 --> 00:25:54,178 It's probably one of the single best foods in compromising health 514 00:25:54,220 --> 00:25:55,822 that you're gonna actually feed to people. 515 00:25:55,846 --> 00:25:58,015 Think about it, you've got an animal product. 516 00:25:58,057 --> 00:26:01,478 So, you've got all the issues of biological concentration. 517 00:26:01,519 --> 00:26:04,439 You have a highly processed food product, 518 00:26:04,481 --> 00:26:07,150 and not only does it have naturally a lot saturated fat, 519 00:26:07,191 --> 00:26:08,901 but, you put a lot of salt into it. 520 00:26:08,943 --> 00:26:12,489 There's a strong link between dairy foods and autoimmune diseases. 521 00:26:12,530 --> 00:26:17,494 And so that can show itself up as excessive production of mucus 522 00:26:17,535 --> 00:26:19,996 and exacerbation of asthma in kids who are prone to that 523 00:26:20,037 --> 00:26:22,790 and even adults, and also, there's an association between 524 00:26:22,832 --> 00:26:26,794 dairy foods and multiple sclerosis and type one diabetes, 525 00:26:26,836 --> 00:26:30,923 which is an autoimmune disease, and other rheumatologic problems. 526 00:26:30,965 --> 00:26:34,635 Cow's milk is baby calf growth fluid. 527 00:26:34,677 --> 00:26:36,554 That's what the stuff is. 528 00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:39,015 There's absolutely no child or human on Earth 529 00:26:39,056 --> 00:26:40,891 who actually needs the milk of a cow 530 00:26:40,933 --> 00:26:43,894 any more than they need the milk of a giraffe or, a mouse. 531 00:26:43,936 --> 00:26:46,981 Most people in the world are lactose intolerant. 532 00:26:47,023 --> 00:26:48,649 That's the normal state of affairs. 533 00:26:48,691 --> 00:26:52,278 Why would your body create this enzyme, just lactose 534 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,448 after weaning, after infancy, it doesn't make any sense. 535 00:26:55,490 --> 00:26:58,826 73% of African Americans are lactose intolerant. 536 00:26:58,868 --> 00:27:01,078 95% of Asians, 537 00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:03,914 roughly 70% of Native Americans, 538 00:27:03,956 --> 00:27:07,626 and about 53% of Hispanic Americans are lactose intolerant. 539 00:27:07,668 --> 00:27:11,005 Our government is encouraging Americans of color 540 00:27:11,047 --> 00:27:14,050 to eat foods that it knows is going to make them ill. 541 00:27:14,091 --> 00:27:15,676 Ultimately, what that boils down to 542 00:27:15,718 --> 00:27:17,779 is the government is telling me as an African American 543 00:27:17,803 --> 00:27:20,264 to eat food that's gonna make me ill for no health benefit 544 00:27:20,306 --> 00:27:22,892 so that it will benefit dairy farmers. 545 00:27:22,933 --> 00:27:24,894 That's a form of institutionalized racism. 546 00:27:24,935 --> 00:27:27,897 Yeah, milk is a risky food for human consumption. 547 00:27:27,938 --> 00:27:31,275 As a pediatrician, I see on a daily basis 548 00:27:31,317 --> 00:27:34,862 children suffering from conditions that are linked 549 00:27:34,904 --> 00:27:37,031 or associated to dairy consumption 550 00:27:37,073 --> 00:27:41,827 such as eczema, acne, constipation, acid reflux, 551 00:27:41,869 --> 00:27:43,746 iron deficiency, anemia. 552 00:27:43,787 --> 00:27:45,789 Cow's milk protein is the most allergenic food. 553 00:27:45,831 --> 00:27:47,917 People think, "Well, no, I want hormone-free, 554 00:27:47,958 --> 00:27:50,336 not injected with bovine growth hormone." 555 00:27:50,378 --> 00:27:53,756 But milk is this hormonal fluid, 556 00:27:53,797 --> 00:27:56,008 so it's just packed with sex hormones 557 00:27:56,050 --> 00:27:59,262 and natural sex steroid hormones like estrogen, progesterone, in fact, 558 00:27:59,303 --> 00:28:02,890 doesn't matter if it's conventional milk, doesn't matter if it's organic milk. 559 00:28:02,932 --> 00:28:05,309 Milk without hormones, that's an oxymoron. 560 00:28:05,351 --> 00:28:08,605 Organic dairy has just as much saturated fat 561 00:28:08,646 --> 00:28:12,691 and cholesterol and galactose, all the things that you don't want, 562 00:28:12,733 --> 00:28:14,151 as conventional dairy. 563 00:28:14,193 --> 00:28:15,612 Dairy products, in general, 564 00:28:15,653 --> 00:28:18,072 have a lot of other products associated with it, 565 00:28:18,114 --> 00:28:20,116 not the least of which is pus. 566 00:28:20,157 --> 00:28:21,867 They actually have laws limiting 567 00:28:21,909 --> 00:28:24,454 how much pus you can actually have in the milk and still sell it, 568 00:28:24,495 --> 00:28:27,748 I believe it's like 750,000 pus cells per CC. 569 00:28:27,790 --> 00:28:30,627 Because you wouldn't want too much pus and then it'd be like pure pus, 570 00:28:30,668 --> 00:28:31,669 people might object. 571 00:28:31,710 --> 00:28:33,087 In fact, you could think of cheese 572 00:28:33,129 --> 00:28:36,006 as kind of coagulated cow pus, if you would. 573 00:28:36,048 --> 00:28:38,926 [Kip] But, I was always told that we need milk for strong bones. 574 00:28:38,968 --> 00:28:42,472 I'm Jane Chapman, and not too long ago, 575 00:28:42,513 --> 00:28:45,683 I finally got some x-rays of the hips and back, 576 00:28:45,724 --> 00:28:50,354 severe bilateral osteoarthritis of the hips. 577 00:28:50,396 --> 00:28:53,483 And actually, I'm scheduled for two hip replacements. 578 00:28:53,524 --> 00:28:55,151 That's bone on bone. 579 00:28:55,192 --> 00:28:57,778 It's the grinding of the joints. 580 00:28:57,820 --> 00:29:00,197 My stability is scary. 581 00:29:00,239 --> 00:29:03,451 I hold on to the walls when I'm at home. 582 00:29:03,493 --> 00:29:05,453 I've been told to use a walker. 583 00:29:05,495 --> 00:29:07,288 I'm only 61. 584 00:29:07,330 --> 00:29:10,374 This is not how you're supposed to live when you're this old. 585 00:29:10,416 --> 00:29:13,794 I have a really hard time believing that 586 00:29:15,754 --> 00:29:17,548 that's all that's left. 587 00:29:17,590 --> 00:29:20,301 Researchers have studied bone development in kids 588 00:29:20,343 --> 00:29:22,928 and whether they get stress fractures and that kind of thing. 589 00:29:22,970 --> 00:29:25,389 And the kids who drink the most milk have zero protection. 590 00:29:25,431 --> 00:29:27,600 Milk does not build strong bones. 591 00:29:27,642 --> 00:29:30,978 Harvard researchers have looked at a large group of older women, 592 00:29:31,020 --> 00:29:32,480 over an 18-year period, 593 00:29:32,522 --> 00:29:35,692 the milk drinkers had zero protection from fractures. 594 00:29:35,733 --> 00:29:38,986 So, this old notion that somehow milk is gonna build strong bones 595 00:29:39,028 --> 00:29:41,531 or protect your bones later in life, it's a myth. 596 00:29:41,572 --> 00:29:45,159 People that drink milk have higher rates of hip fractures, 597 00:29:45,201 --> 00:29:48,705 have more cancer and live shorter lives. 598 00:29:48,746 --> 00:29:50,182 [Kip] Turns out that countries with the highest 599 00:29:50,206 --> 00:29:52,291 dairy consumption also have the highest rates 600 00:29:52,333 --> 00:29:56,295 of osteoporosis, so clearly, drinking more milk doesn't protect your bones. 601 00:29:56,337 --> 00:29:58,589 Doing more research, I found that dairy was linked 602 00:29:58,631 --> 00:30:01,175 to many different types of cancer as well. 603 00:30:01,217 --> 00:30:04,554 Just like many of us, I thought that the majority of cancer was due to genes, 604 00:30:04,595 --> 00:30:08,516 but, only five to 10% of cancer is actually genetic. 605 00:30:08,558 --> 00:30:12,395 Any cancer is caused by DNA mutation, but, that's not enough. 606 00:30:12,436 --> 00:30:16,357 So, that can cause that first cancer cell, but, one cancer cell never killed anyone. 607 00:30:16,399 --> 00:30:18,192 Two cancer cells never killed anyone. 608 00:30:18,234 --> 00:30:20,861 But, a billion cancer cells, now we're running into problems. 609 00:30:20,903 --> 00:30:23,072 So, we need to reduce the growth factors in our body, 610 00:30:23,113 --> 00:30:25,658 like IGF-1, insulin-like growth factor one, 611 00:30:25,700 --> 00:30:29,579 it's this cancer-promoting growth hormone involved in every stage of cancer cell 612 00:30:29,620 --> 00:30:32,540 growth and spread and metastases. 613 00:30:32,582 --> 00:30:36,001 Any animal protein boosts the level of IGF-1. 614 00:30:36,043 --> 00:30:37,878 Dairy products increases your risk for 615 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:41,424 various forms of cancer, especially those related to your hormones. 616 00:30:41,465 --> 00:30:44,134 So, breast cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer. 617 00:30:44,176 --> 00:30:47,346 So, this is not a product even in its most pure state 618 00:30:47,388 --> 00:30:49,973 you wanna be consuming because it does come with risk. 619 00:30:50,015 --> 00:30:51,826 [Kip] I found out that dairy can increase a man's chance 620 00:30:51,850 --> 00:30:54,687 of getting prostate cancer by 34%. 621 00:30:54,729 --> 00:30:58,274 And for women who've had breast cancer, just one serving of whole dairy a day 622 00:30:58,315 --> 00:31:01,444 can increase their chance of dying from the disease 49% 623 00:31:01,485 --> 00:31:04,614 and dying from anything 64%. 624 00:31:04,655 --> 00:31:07,199 Why weren't breast cancer sites like Susan G. Komen 625 00:31:07,241 --> 00:31:08,867 warning everyone about this? 626 00:31:10,661 --> 00:31:12,288 [woman] Thanks for calling Susan G. Komen, 627 00:31:12,329 --> 00:31:14,582 this is Jocelyn, how may I help you? 628 00:31:14,624 --> 00:31:16,041 Yes, so we're wondering why 629 00:31:16,083 --> 00:31:17,603 you don't have a huge warning about the dangers 630 00:31:17,627 --> 00:31:19,128 of consuming dairy on your website 631 00:31:19,169 --> 00:31:21,505 when there's a direct link to breast cancer. 632 00:31:21,547 --> 00:31:22,899 There was a study published in the Journal 633 00:31:22,923 --> 00:31:25,050 of the National Cancer Institute that found out 634 00:31:25,092 --> 00:31:27,886 women consuming dairy who has had breast cancer 635 00:31:27,928 --> 00:31:31,390 increases their risk of dying of breast cancer 49%. 636 00:31:31,432 --> 00:31:33,768 I was wondering why it's not on your website. 637 00:31:35,936 --> 00:31:37,790 [woman] We cannot answer these types of questions. 638 00:31:37,814 --> 00:31:40,399 [Kip] Once again, another health organization rep saying 639 00:31:40,441 --> 00:31:42,610 someone else would have to answer my question. 640 00:31:42,652 --> 00:31:44,194 Rather than risk being stood up again, 641 00:31:44,236 --> 00:31:46,823 I went straight to the local Susan G. Komen chapter 642 00:31:46,864 --> 00:31:49,074 to see if they would answer my questions. 643 00:31:54,037 --> 00:31:57,708 They didn't want to answer my questions in person either and told us to stop filming 644 00:31:57,750 --> 00:32:01,712 but, promised they would connect me to the national office directly. 645 00:32:04,173 --> 00:32:06,049 Susan G. Komen's pink ribbon campaign 646 00:32:06,091 --> 00:32:08,927 had done a lot to raise awareness for breast cancer. 647 00:32:08,969 --> 00:32:11,472 Although, it was confusing to see pink ribbons 648 00:32:11,514 --> 00:32:13,557 on dairy yogurt containers. 649 00:32:13,599 --> 00:32:16,018 Breast cancer can be prevented 650 00:32:16,059 --> 00:32:18,395 with a healthy diet and lifestyle, but, we're not. 651 00:32:18,437 --> 00:32:21,774 We're talking about pink ribbons and putting all the money 652 00:32:21,816 --> 00:32:23,526 into research for the cure. 653 00:32:23,567 --> 00:32:27,488 I, for one, know that I would want my daughter, my mother, me, 654 00:32:27,530 --> 00:32:29,782 I want to focus on not getting to that point. 655 00:32:29,824 --> 00:32:33,494 And that's where I would like to see more energy and effort put. 656 00:32:33,536 --> 00:32:35,371 [Kip] I had been a hardcore cheese-aholic 657 00:32:35,412 --> 00:32:37,874 virtually my entire life, despite the risks. 658 00:32:37,915 --> 00:32:40,710 But, like so many others, I seem to have been addicted to it. 659 00:32:40,751 --> 00:32:46,298 It turns out that the casein protein, that's the main protein in dairy products, 660 00:32:46,340 --> 00:32:49,259 and particularly in cheese, it breaks apart in the human digestion 661 00:32:49,301 --> 00:32:52,179 to create what are called casopmorphins. 662 00:32:52,221 --> 00:32:56,517 Casein-derived, morphine-like compounds that go to the brain 663 00:32:56,559 --> 00:33:00,813 and they attach to the very same receptor that heroin attaches to. 664 00:33:00,855 --> 00:33:02,815 Don't get me wrong, they're not as strong as that, 665 00:33:02,857 --> 00:33:04,441 but, they are strong enough 666 00:33:04,483 --> 00:33:07,361 to make you come back again and again and again 667 00:33:07,403 --> 00:33:09,123 despite the fact that you're gaining weight, 668 00:33:09,154 --> 00:33:11,407 you're more unhealthy than you've ever been, 669 00:33:11,448 --> 00:33:13,325 but, that cheese just calls out to people. 670 00:33:13,367 --> 00:33:17,705 Casomorphin may play a role in SIDS, in sudden infant death syndrome, 671 00:33:17,747 --> 00:33:21,417 may play a role in autism. This is one of the reasons why 672 00:33:21,458 --> 00:33:25,337 we don't want infants drinking milk from cows. 673 00:33:25,379 --> 00:33:28,925 [Kip] Human breast milk has 2.7 grams of casein per liter, 674 00:33:28,966 --> 00:33:32,177 compared to 26 grams per liter for cow's milk. 675 00:33:32,219 --> 00:33:36,348 That's practically 10 times more. No wonder it's so addictive. 676 00:33:36,390 --> 00:33:38,034 This talk about addiction made me think about 677 00:33:38,058 --> 00:33:40,143 all the drugs animals are fed. 678 00:33:40,185 --> 00:33:42,646 I went to the headquarters of the Center for Food Safety, 679 00:33:42,688 --> 00:33:45,942 the nation's leading FDA government watchdog group 680 00:33:45,983 --> 00:33:48,861 to see how concerned we need to be about drugs in our food. 681 00:33:48,903 --> 00:33:52,782 So, that we know of, there are at least 450 different drugs 682 00:33:52,823 --> 00:33:55,952 that are administered to animals, either alone or, in combination. 683 00:33:55,993 --> 00:33:59,246 These drugs are given to animals for a variety of reasons, 684 00:33:59,288 --> 00:34:03,333 very, very few of which are actually beneficial to consumer health. 685 00:34:03,375 --> 00:34:07,838 We've got drug companies that work real hard to make sure 686 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:09,882 they can sell lots of drugs 687 00:34:09,924 --> 00:34:12,009 to people raising cows, pigs, and chickens. 688 00:34:12,050 --> 00:34:16,263 The pharmaceutical industry sells 80% of all the antibiotics that it makes 689 00:34:16,305 --> 00:34:18,682 in the United States to animal agriculture. 690 00:34:18,724 --> 00:34:20,434 Antibiotic residues are found in the meat, 691 00:34:20,476 --> 00:34:22,603 other antimicrobials are found in meat. 692 00:34:22,645 --> 00:34:26,023 There has been ractopamine found in meat, there has been hormones found in meat, 693 00:34:26,064 --> 00:34:28,442 so right there, you're talking about four different drugs 694 00:34:28,484 --> 00:34:30,945 that could be in the same piece of meat. 695 00:34:30,987 --> 00:34:32,947 The pharmaceutical company is supposed to show 696 00:34:32,989 --> 00:34:35,198 the safety of animal drugs. 697 00:34:35,240 --> 00:34:38,219 They're not really testing to see what the impacts of these drugs are on humans. 698 00:34:38,243 --> 00:34:39,721 They're really looking to see what the impacts 699 00:34:39,745 --> 00:34:41,288 of these drugs are on animals. 700 00:34:41,330 --> 00:34:45,292 When we try to get information on some of the health studies 701 00:34:45,334 --> 00:34:48,337 and the environmental studies from federal agencies, 702 00:34:48,378 --> 00:34:52,967 we get back page after page of blacked out information 703 00:34:53,009 --> 00:34:57,513 because the company claimed confidential business information. 704 00:34:57,554 --> 00:35:02,810 Consumers have no idea what is in the products that they consume. 705 00:35:02,852 --> 00:35:07,356 So, how sick something makes me and how bad it pollutes the environment 706 00:35:07,397 --> 00:35:09,483 is a secret for a company. 707 00:35:09,525 --> 00:35:12,778 In the animal agriculture industry, as in the tobacco industry, 708 00:35:12,820 --> 00:35:15,572 these companies really have a vested interest 709 00:35:15,614 --> 00:35:17,616 in making sure that the public doesn't have 710 00:35:17,658 --> 00:35:19,284 information about their effects 711 00:35:19,326 --> 00:35:22,663 and what risks are really posed to consuming them. 712 00:35:22,705 --> 00:35:26,542 You have this system where animals are living in their own waste, 713 00:35:26,583 --> 00:35:30,087 they're living next to animals that are sick or, even dead, 714 00:35:30,128 --> 00:35:32,006 and they're stuck in cages with these animals, 715 00:35:32,048 --> 00:35:35,926 that bacteria tends to spread, that the pathogens that are being created 716 00:35:35,968 --> 00:35:39,388 in these filthy conditions are breeding resistance to antibiotics 717 00:35:39,429 --> 00:35:41,431 and the public are becoming exposed to those. 718 00:35:41,473 --> 00:35:43,100 We already have people dying. 719 00:35:43,141 --> 00:35:46,520 From salmonella and other things that you eat, 720 00:35:46,562 --> 00:35:50,816 we have about 3,000 people die every year in the United States. 721 00:35:50,858 --> 00:35:53,903 That's more than the number of people that were 722 00:35:53,944 --> 00:35:57,489 killed in 9/11 in the Twin Towers in New York. 723 00:35:57,531 --> 00:35:59,950 If we had some terrorist organization killing 724 00:35:59,992 --> 00:36:03,161 3,000 people a year, we would be all over it. 725 00:36:03,203 --> 00:36:07,332 The antibiotic-resistant bacteria deaths that we have 726 00:36:07,374 --> 00:36:11,128 on top of that, you get 20,000 people dying a year. 727 00:36:11,169 --> 00:36:15,799 That's seven 9/11s every year. 728 00:36:15,841 --> 00:36:17,467 Can you imagine? 729 00:36:17,509 --> 00:36:20,220 If that many people were being killed 730 00:36:20,262 --> 00:36:22,056 by some terrorist group in the United States 731 00:36:22,098 --> 00:36:23,682 every year, we would find them! 732 00:36:23,724 --> 00:36:25,726 You know, the World Health Organization 733 00:36:25,768 --> 00:36:28,604 has said we're nearing a post-antibiotic era in medicine. 734 00:36:28,645 --> 00:36:31,857 You'll be at risk in minor surgeries o have a fatal infection. 735 00:36:31,899 --> 00:36:34,693 You'll be at risk going to the dentist if you have a tooth extracted. 736 00:36:34,735 --> 00:36:38,280 Or, it'll be like civil war medicine. You get an infection in your leg, 737 00:36:38,321 --> 00:36:39,448 and you cut your leg off. 738 00:36:39,489 --> 00:36:41,825 So, you have this very dangerous situation. 739 00:36:41,867 --> 00:36:43,953 By crowding these animals in, 740 00:36:43,994 --> 00:36:47,372 they become a perfect engine for generating 741 00:36:47,414 --> 00:36:50,292 a new flu virus that can come out into the community. 742 00:36:50,333 --> 00:36:53,462 If you lived near a swine spray field, 743 00:36:53,503 --> 00:36:57,257 not even the CAFO but the waste disposal field, 744 00:36:57,299 --> 00:37:01,344 you are three times more likely to have a MRSA infection. 745 00:37:01,386 --> 00:37:06,183 You can't see how that impacts the average person's life 746 00:37:06,224 --> 00:37:10,020 in Duplin County, North Carolina and not be a little upset about it. 747 00:37:12,064 --> 00:37:15,609 From an environmental standpoint, from a community standpoint, 748 00:37:15,651 --> 00:37:19,071 from all other aspects, North Carolina, we're in a state of emergency. 749 00:37:19,113 --> 00:37:23,659 We've already had bouts of swine flu, or H1N1, as they prefer to refer to it. 750 00:37:23,700 --> 00:37:26,120 That particular swine flu incident was 751 00:37:26,162 --> 00:37:29,414 originated on a farm here in North Carolina. 752 00:37:29,456 --> 00:37:31,792 There's approximately the same number of hogs 753 00:37:31,834 --> 00:37:33,669 in North Carolina as there are people. 754 00:37:33,710 --> 00:37:38,007 Between eight to 10 times the amount of feces is produced by a hog, 755 00:37:38,048 --> 00:37:41,218 an adult hog as compared to an adult human. 756 00:37:41,259 --> 00:37:42,928 [Kip] 10 million pigs in North Carolina 757 00:37:42,970 --> 00:37:46,182 produce the waste equal to a hundred million humans. 758 00:37:46,223 --> 00:37:49,476 This is the equivalent of the entire US Eastern Seaboard 759 00:37:49,518 --> 00:37:51,728 flushing their toilets into North Carolina. 760 00:37:51,770 --> 00:37:53,313 But, there is no waste treatment. 761 00:37:53,355 --> 00:37:55,524 The pigs' waste falls through slats in the floors 762 00:37:55,565 --> 00:37:59,277 of the sheds they are forced to live in, it is then pumped into giant waste pits, 763 00:37:59,319 --> 00:38:03,532 which leech into rivers and streams and is pumped out unfiltered onto fields, 764 00:38:03,573 --> 00:38:07,619 further polluting the environment and neighboring health. 765 00:38:07,661 --> 00:38:09,830 When you go back and you look at where these 766 00:38:09,872 --> 00:38:13,709 hog facilities are located, there's a disproportionate number of them 767 00:38:13,750 --> 00:38:16,628 that are located near communities of color. 768 00:38:16,670 --> 00:38:17,838 Low-income communities. 769 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:21,258 It is definitely a human rights issue. 770 00:38:21,299 --> 00:38:25,721 My sister, she have asthma, you know. Her brother, he have asthma. 771 00:38:26,388 --> 00:38:28,224 He's three. 772 00:38:28,265 --> 00:38:29,892 And we don't know what she might have. 773 00:38:31,185 --> 00:38:34,104 I have asthma, I have sinus, 774 00:38:34,146 --> 00:38:37,107 I have sarcoidosis, that's of the bacteria, 775 00:38:37,149 --> 00:38:40,402 and I have a pacemaker, which is sick sinus syndrome. 776 00:38:40,443 --> 00:38:43,906 But, you know, mostly everybody in this neighborhood 777 00:38:43,947 --> 00:38:46,324 got asthma or, either cancer. 778 00:38:46,366 --> 00:38:50,579 My neighbor there died from cancer probably just last year. 779 00:38:50,620 --> 00:38:52,372 My nephew down the street, he's got cancer, 780 00:38:52,414 --> 00:38:55,042 he's in terminal cancer, stage four. 781 00:38:55,084 --> 00:38:57,335 Not a smoker, not a drinker. 782 00:38:57,377 --> 00:39:00,505 And it's not in his lungs, it's in his lymph nodes. 783 00:39:00,547 --> 00:39:03,717 Now see if you live here and saw the way they do, 784 00:39:03,759 --> 00:39:05,468 we don't eat no pork. 785 00:39:05,510 --> 00:39:08,430 Well, I don't eat bacon because I know where it come from. 786 00:39:08,471 --> 00:39:11,267 When they die, they go into a box, 787 00:39:11,308 --> 00:39:15,395 and they decompose because they swell from the heat. 788 00:39:15,437 --> 00:39:18,023 A truck come and pick 'em up, 789 00:39:18,065 --> 00:39:20,817 take 'em to the processing plant in Rose Hill, 790 00:39:20,859 --> 00:39:25,697 ground 'em up into feed, and feed it back to the hogs. 791 00:39:25,739 --> 00:39:27,199 If I come out this door, 792 00:39:27,241 --> 00:39:28,885 if he's spraying there, it's gonna come in my face. 793 00:39:28,909 --> 00:39:30,452 It hits you right in the face. 794 00:39:30,493 --> 00:39:32,346 Smell like something that you have never smelled before. 795 00:39:32,370 --> 00:39:34,831 Smell worse than a dead body. 796 00:39:34,873 --> 00:39:36,917 That's the family graveyard. 797 00:39:36,959 --> 00:39:41,171 And I have my grandmother out there, my sisters, my brothers. 798 00:39:41,213 --> 00:39:43,715 When we go to a funeral, he use the spray. 799 00:39:43,757 --> 00:39:45,759 - During the funeral? - During the funeral, yes. 800 00:39:45,801 --> 00:39:49,596 During the funeral. Yeah, they spray. 801 00:39:49,638 --> 00:39:52,641 And when the people come, everybody be closing their nose up 802 00:39:52,682 --> 00:39:53,934 saying how it stink. 803 00:39:53,976 --> 00:39:56,979 They can want a cookout on Sunday, he'll spray. 804 00:39:57,020 --> 00:39:58,480 Do you think he does it on purpose? 805 00:39:58,521 --> 00:39:59,982 I think so. 806 00:40:00,023 --> 00:40:03,568 'Cause he just sprays Sunday. He always sprays Sunday. 807 00:40:03,610 --> 00:40:07,364 And in most of these area, hog houses and turkey house, 808 00:40:07,405 --> 00:40:10,867 it's in a black area or the Hispanic area. 809 00:40:10,909 --> 00:40:12,410 It's either or. 810 00:40:12,452 --> 00:40:14,496 Do you think it's also a civil rights issue? 811 00:40:14,537 --> 00:40:17,040 Yes, yes, I do. 812 00:40:17,082 --> 00:40:18,208 Yes, I do. 813 00:40:24,714 --> 00:40:28,344 There have been times in the past that I have 814 00:40:28,385 --> 00:40:31,805 gotten ready on a Sunday and gotten ready to go to church 815 00:40:31,847 --> 00:40:34,641 and come out and the smell was so strong 816 00:40:34,683 --> 00:40:37,686 that I had to go back and regroup because 817 00:40:37,727 --> 00:40:41,064 it had got in my clothes, and I just couldn't go to church 818 00:40:41,106 --> 00:40:43,608 smelling like hogs, you know, I just couldn't do it, 819 00:40:43,650 --> 00:40:47,112 so I don't think the government cares. 820 00:40:47,154 --> 00:40:49,323 They care more about 821 00:40:49,365 --> 00:40:53,327 corporations than they do peoples, individuals. 822 00:40:53,369 --> 00:40:55,495 They're gonna put more chickens in this state. 823 00:40:55,537 --> 00:40:57,497 This is the feces and urine capital of the world 824 00:40:57,539 --> 00:41:00,083 right here in North Carolina, my state. 825 00:41:00,125 --> 00:41:02,669 Look, there's a blue-line stream right here 826 00:41:02,711 --> 00:41:05,648 comes right across into my property almost and the Contentnea Creek right there. 827 00:41:05,672 --> 00:41:10,052 I've seen that blue-line stream now filled with feces and urine from that hog pen, 828 00:41:10,093 --> 00:41:12,262 and they can say, "Well, we feed the world." 829 00:41:12,304 --> 00:41:15,200 They're not interested in feeding the world, they're interested in making money. 830 00:41:15,224 --> 00:41:18,310 You take the money away from them, they'll let the folks starve. 831 00:41:18,352 --> 00:41:21,122 'Cause if you want to feed the world, you can feed the world with more corn, 832 00:41:21,146 --> 00:41:23,648 using corn and wheat and stuff like that than you can meat. 833 00:41:23,690 --> 00:41:25,359 Meat is a luxury item. 834 00:41:25,401 --> 00:41:29,571 When we are doing things that hurt other people, we are wrong. 835 00:41:29,612 --> 00:41:32,949 But, a lot of good people will sit there and eat bacon 836 00:41:32,991 --> 00:41:37,329 knowing that it's causing someone else to be very unhappy. 837 00:41:40,165 --> 00:41:41,875 [Kip] I woke up the next morning to find 838 00:41:41,917 --> 00:41:44,461 the Burnt River had experienced another massive fish kill 839 00:41:44,502 --> 00:41:47,172 from the pollution running off hog farms. 840 00:41:47,214 --> 00:41:50,426 Tens of thousands of fish were washing up on shore. 841 00:41:51,593 --> 00:41:53,095 All this talk about health, 842 00:41:53,136 --> 00:41:56,056 I realized that I was only focused on personal health. 843 00:41:56,098 --> 00:41:58,558 But, health started to mean so much more to me. 844 00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:01,311 It was about health of my family and our communities. 845 00:42:01,353 --> 00:42:02,771 I couldn't under good conscience 846 00:42:02,812 --> 00:42:05,065 support an industry that I knew was harming others. 847 00:42:07,567 --> 00:42:09,236 Pollution from animal agriculture 848 00:42:09,278 --> 00:42:11,654 isn't just an issue in North Carolina, though. 849 00:42:11,696 --> 00:42:14,366 Raising animals for food produces more greenhouse gases 850 00:42:14,408 --> 00:42:16,826 than the entire transportation sector. 851 00:42:16,868 --> 00:42:18,995 It is a leading cause of rainforest destruction, 852 00:42:19,037 --> 00:42:23,083 species extinction, ocean dead zones and freshwater consumption. 853 00:42:28,630 --> 00:42:32,342 American Diabetes Association actually finally got back, 854 00:42:32,384 --> 00:42:35,637 and they agreed to an interview. 855 00:42:35,678 --> 00:42:38,432 Preparing for the American Diabetes Association interview, 856 00:42:38,474 --> 00:42:41,810 I took a look at their diabetes diet meal plan recommendations, 857 00:42:41,851 --> 00:42:46,189 and they were loaded with foods associated with causing diabetes. 858 00:42:46,231 --> 00:42:48,608 How could they expect people not to get diabetes 859 00:42:48,650 --> 00:42:51,611 if this was the food they were recommending? 860 00:42:51,653 --> 00:42:54,406 And then, I saw multiple peer-reviewed studies 861 00:42:54,448 --> 00:42:56,658 published on the National Institute of Health website 862 00:42:56,699 --> 00:42:58,618 showing that a low-fat plant-based diet 863 00:42:58,660 --> 00:43:00,870 was more than twice as powerful at controlling 864 00:43:00,912 --> 00:43:03,039 and even reversing diabetes 865 00:43:03,081 --> 00:43:05,875 than the ADA recommended diet that included meat and dairy. 866 00:43:07,419 --> 00:43:11,631 The mission of the American Diabetes Association is 867 00:43:11,673 --> 00:43:17,679 to identify a prevention and a cure for diabetes. 868 00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:21,266 But, in the meantime, to improve the lives of all people 869 00:43:21,308 --> 00:43:23,560 who are affected by diabetes. 870 00:43:23,601 --> 00:43:28,231 And what's the best way to prevent this? 871 00:43:28,273 --> 00:43:31,485 For type two diabetes, it's unclear. 872 00:43:31,527 --> 00:43:35,531 We can't prevent type two diabetes in everybody. 873 00:43:35,572 --> 00:43:39,909 We were doing research, we came across a lot of studies that said 874 00:43:39,951 --> 00:43:44,039 that you actually could potentially cure 875 00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,959 or reverse diabetes with a purely plant-based diet. 876 00:43:48,001 --> 00:43:53,006 I don't believe there's sufficient evidence to demonstrate that. 877 00:43:53,048 --> 00:43:57,010 How does it compare to the ADA diet that you recommend? 878 00:43:57,052 --> 00:44:01,515 We don't recommend a specific diet, we recommend healthy eating. 879 00:44:01,557 --> 00:44:02,849 The one that's on the website. 880 00:44:02,891 --> 00:44:04,642 We recommend healthy eating. 881 00:44:05,101 --> 00:44:06,311 There is... 882 00:44:06,353 --> 00:44:10,773 Do you have a whole list of exact day-to-day, 883 00:44:10,815 --> 00:44:12,442 the meal plan, the whole meal plan? 884 00:44:12,484 --> 00:44:15,653 All they are are selections of foods to consider. 885 00:44:15,695 --> 00:44:17,947 We do not have a diabetes diet. 886 00:44:17,989 --> 00:44:20,409 But, with that, selections that you consider, 887 00:44:20,450 --> 00:44:25,080 that plan compared to an all plant-based plan. 888 00:44:25,121 --> 00:44:27,207 No one's done that study. 889 00:44:27,249 --> 00:44:29,418 We found, actually, some studies. 890 00:44:29,459 --> 00:44:34,797 A 74-week study found that low-fat vegan diet versus the ADA plan, 891 00:44:34,839 --> 00:44:35,882 in type two diabetes... 892 00:44:35,924 --> 00:44:37,300 I think we're done here. 893 00:44:37,342 --> 00:44:40,011 I'm not gonna get into an argument about... 894 00:44:40,053 --> 00:44:43,390 Oh, no, I just wanted the studies of, 895 00:44:43,432 --> 00:44:46,893 if this is true or, if it shows that. 896 00:44:46,935 --> 00:44:48,770 Any diet works. 897 00:44:50,522 --> 00:44:54,568 Any diet works if people follow it. 898 00:44:54,610 --> 00:44:58,113 But, if it's a diet that's not the proper diet, 899 00:44:58,154 --> 00:45:00,616 like if anyone follows a diet that they eat McDonald's... 900 00:45:00,657 --> 00:45:03,493 I can't tell you what a proper diet is. 901 00:45:03,535 --> 00:45:06,538 I can tell you what an improper diet is. 902 00:45:06,580 --> 00:45:10,917 So, then we can talk about the good diets. I'm not sure why... 903 00:45:10,959 --> 00:45:12,461 I'm not gonna get into that. 904 00:45:12,502 --> 00:45:14,129 - Into diet? - No. 905 00:45:14,170 --> 00:45:15,505 Why not? 906 00:45:15,547 --> 00:45:17,340 If that's where you want to go with this, 907 00:45:17,382 --> 00:45:19,759 I'm sorry, I'm not the person that you should be talking to. 908 00:45:19,801 --> 00:45:21,386 And why is that, though? 909 00:45:21,428 --> 00:45:23,639 If that's what you want to get into, I'm not the person 910 00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:25,348 - you need to be talking to. - Into diet? 911 00:45:25,390 --> 00:45:27,350 Who do we talk to about diet? 912 00:45:27,392 --> 00:45:29,352 You can talk to anybody you want. 913 00:45:29,394 --> 00:45:31,664 But, that's interesting, though, why not recommend a diet... 914 00:45:31,688 --> 00:45:33,440 Because the data don't exist to support it. 915 00:45:33,482 --> 00:45:36,943 But, if we see data that we looked up, 916 00:45:36,985 --> 00:45:40,447 that supports it with the NIH, in Europe, 917 00:45:40,489 --> 00:45:45,494 the European Association of... We're done. 918 00:45:45,535 --> 00:45:47,430 We're done. I'm sorry, I'm not gonna get into that argument with you. 919 00:45:47,454 --> 00:45:48,746 No, I'm just wondering, but, I... 920 00:45:48,788 --> 00:45:50,624 I'm not gonna get into the argument with you. 921 00:45:50,666 --> 00:45:52,167 Why is it in argument? 922 00:45:52,208 --> 00:45:55,545 It's just to talking about in European study of diabetes 923 00:45:55,587 --> 00:45:59,048 and other places that have studies, why... 924 00:45:59,090 --> 00:46:00,425 There are lots of studies... 925 00:46:00,467 --> 00:46:01,735 Why is it even an argument, I guess? 926 00:46:01,759 --> 00:46:05,305 There are lots of studies in the literature. 927 00:46:05,347 --> 00:46:11,561 Many of which have never been replicated or frankly, are wrong. 928 00:46:11,603 --> 00:46:14,606 That's why we do peer review, okay? 929 00:46:14,648 --> 00:46:17,651 The European Association of Study of Diabetes 930 00:46:17,693 --> 00:46:19,402 has been peer-reviewed or, the... 931 00:46:19,444 --> 00:46:21,988 I don't know what study you're referring to, 932 00:46:22,030 --> 00:46:24,324 and in the absence of being able to see that study, 933 00:46:24,366 --> 00:46:25,617 I'm not gonna comment. 934 00:46:25,659 --> 00:46:26,909 I could show it to you. 935 00:46:26,951 --> 00:46:28,704 I'm sorry, I don't have the time for that. 936 00:46:28,745 --> 00:46:32,290 I just don't understand why it's an argument, though, or, okay. 937 00:46:40,173 --> 00:46:41,883 That was interesting. 938 00:46:41,924 --> 00:46:45,345 What he wanted to talk about was people living longer with diabetes, 939 00:46:45,387 --> 00:46:48,931 but, once you mention eliminating diabetes or, prevention, 940 00:46:48,973 --> 00:46:51,059 oh, now you crossed the line. 941 00:46:51,100 --> 00:46:53,061 Prevention and cure... Whoa. 942 00:46:53,102 --> 00:46:55,897 Let's not go there. 943 00:46:55,938 --> 00:46:58,900 [Kip] Not only did Dr. Ratner, the chief medical officer 944 00:46:58,941 --> 00:47:02,571 of the American Diabetes Association not want to talk about diet, 945 00:47:02,612 --> 00:47:04,740 but, the fact that he had such an emotional reaction 946 00:47:04,781 --> 00:47:07,659 to my question made it feel I was digging into something 947 00:47:07,701 --> 00:47:09,745 that he didn't want uncovered. 948 00:47:09,786 --> 00:47:13,540 I had always thought there was no prevention for type one diabetes. 949 00:47:13,582 --> 00:47:15,584 But, then, I did research and came across 950 00:47:15,625 --> 00:47:17,669 countless studies referencing the link between 951 00:47:17,711 --> 00:47:21,297 exposure to dairy at a young age and type one diabetes. 952 00:47:21,339 --> 00:47:23,675 [McDougall] This is a food made for baby cows. 953 00:47:23,717 --> 00:47:25,719 Cow milk protein gets into the bloodstream, 954 00:47:25,761 --> 00:47:27,905 and the body says, "Hey, this isn't supposed to be in the bloodstream." 955 00:47:27,929 --> 00:47:29,847 It makes antibodies to the cow milk protein 956 00:47:29,889 --> 00:47:33,851 which then attack the pancreas and destroy the pancreas. 957 00:47:33,893 --> 00:47:37,397 [Kip] How is this possible that ADA wouldn't have this forefront on their website? 958 00:47:37,439 --> 00:47:39,608 Why wouldn't they be warning all parents about this 959 00:47:39,649 --> 00:47:41,651 even if there were only a slight chance? 960 00:47:41,693 --> 00:47:43,236 Why were they recommending people 961 00:47:43,278 --> 00:47:46,239 to actually eat these foods linked to diabetes? 962 00:47:46,281 --> 00:47:48,324 It seemed all of the large health organizations 963 00:47:48,366 --> 00:47:50,285 were encouraging people to eat the very foods 964 00:47:50,326 --> 00:47:53,538 linked to the diseases they're supposed to be fighting against. 965 00:47:53,580 --> 00:47:55,832 American Heart Association promoting beef, 966 00:47:55,873 --> 00:47:58,543 American Cancer Society promoting processed meat, 967 00:47:58,585 --> 00:48:00,253 pink ribbons on dairy products, 968 00:48:00,295 --> 00:48:04,382 and bacon-wrapped shrimp on American Diabetes Association. 969 00:48:04,424 --> 00:48:07,552 And then, it all came together. 970 00:48:07,594 --> 00:48:08,594 What if... 971 00:48:13,224 --> 00:48:14,643 And there it was. 972 00:48:14,684 --> 00:48:16,621 The American Diabetes Association was taking money 973 00:48:16,645 --> 00:48:19,648 from Dannon, one of the world's largest dairy yogurt producers. 974 00:48:19,689 --> 00:48:21,858 Kraft Foods, makers of Velveeta processed cheese, 975 00:48:21,941 --> 00:48:24,778 Oscar Meyer processed meats, Lunchables processed kids' meals, 976 00:48:24,820 --> 00:48:27,947 and Bumble Bee Foods, makers of processed canned meats. 977 00:48:31,827 --> 00:48:33,787 American Cancer Society was taking money 978 00:48:33,829 --> 00:48:36,331 from Tyson, one of the world's largest meat producers 979 00:48:36,372 --> 00:48:40,502 and Yum! Brand, owner of Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell. 980 00:48:40,543 --> 00:48:43,296 Susan G. Komen, who was supposed to be fighting breast cancer, 981 00:48:43,338 --> 00:48:45,507 was corporate partnering with KFC, 982 00:48:45,548 --> 00:48:49,260 Dietz Watson processed meats and Yoplait yogurt. 983 00:48:49,302 --> 00:48:53,139 And the American Heart Association was probably the most disturbing of all, 984 00:48:53,181 --> 00:48:55,057 taking hundreds of thousands of dollars 985 00:48:55,099 --> 00:48:58,144 from the beef industry, poultry and dairy producers 986 00:48:58,186 --> 00:49:02,231 and millions from fast food and processed food manufacturers. 987 00:49:04,150 --> 00:49:06,444 Every single one of these organizations 988 00:49:06,486 --> 00:49:09,113 was taking money from meat and dairy companies 989 00:49:09,155 --> 00:49:12,116 that are associated with the causes of these diseases. 990 00:49:12,158 --> 00:49:14,076 This would be like the American Lung Association 991 00:49:14,118 --> 00:49:17,038 taking money from the tobacco industry. 992 00:49:17,079 --> 00:49:19,957 I was sick of not getting answers. 993 00:49:19,999 --> 00:49:23,002 So, I went to the headquarters of these organizations myself. 994 00:49:23,044 --> 00:49:24,838 We have to speak to someone in person. 995 00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,799 There's millions of people dying from the foods 996 00:49:27,841 --> 00:49:30,343 that they are recommending people to eat. 997 00:49:30,385 --> 00:49:35,181 I wanted to find out why Susan G. Komen had accepted $35 million from Yoplait, 998 00:49:35,223 --> 00:49:37,034 when their products can increase a woman's chance 999 00:49:37,058 --> 00:49:39,853 of dying from breast cancer 49%, 1000 00:49:39,895 --> 00:49:42,146 and ask American Cancer Society if taking money 1001 00:49:42,188 --> 00:49:46,067 from KFC and Tyson was a reason they promote eating meat. 1002 00:49:46,108 --> 00:49:50,613 But, every one of these organizations declined to be interviewed. 1003 00:49:50,655 --> 00:49:53,157 What's really sad is that we cannot trust 1004 00:49:53,199 --> 00:49:56,578 information from these leading health organizations 1005 00:49:56,619 --> 00:50:00,122 like the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association 1006 00:50:00,164 --> 00:50:03,877 because they are taking money from the very industries 1007 00:50:03,919 --> 00:50:07,923 who are causing the problems that they're supposed to be helping to prevent. 1008 00:50:07,964 --> 00:50:11,760 So, that makes the truth something that 1009 00:50:11,801 --> 00:50:14,554 you are not gonna be hearing, as far as nutrition goes, 1010 00:50:14,596 --> 00:50:16,138 from these organizations. 1011 00:50:16,180 --> 00:50:17,783 Well, that would be the end of their funding, 1012 00:50:17,807 --> 00:50:20,393 that would be the end of their jobs, there would be lawsuits 1013 00:50:20,435 --> 00:50:23,312 that would bring the entire catastrophe down upon their heads, 1014 00:50:23,354 --> 00:50:25,481 and they would essentially disappear as organizations. 1015 00:50:25,523 --> 00:50:28,944 This one time I got invited to a charity fundraiser 1016 00:50:28,985 --> 00:50:31,153 for the American Diabetes Association. 1017 00:50:31,195 --> 00:50:35,867 I showed up, and they had a whole buffet, and it was all just animal products. 1018 00:50:35,909 --> 00:50:39,662 I remember like a big thing of barbecue chicken. 1019 00:50:39,704 --> 00:50:43,040 And I was like, I stormed out. I said like, 1020 00:50:44,250 --> 00:50:47,128 serving chicken at a diabetes event 1021 00:50:47,169 --> 00:50:49,422 is like serving alcohol at an AA meeting. 1022 00:50:49,464 --> 00:50:52,634 It doesn't make sense. 1023 00:50:52,675 --> 00:50:56,053 [Kip] We had scheduled to film an interview with a prominent surgeon. 1024 00:50:56,095 --> 00:50:57,931 But, before we could get inside the building, 1025 00:50:57,973 --> 00:51:01,142 the hospital's media relations manager stopped us. 1026 00:51:01,183 --> 00:51:04,479 Actually I understand that Dr... said that you could film here today, 1027 00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:07,690 but, unfortunately, that's not gonna be able to happen. 1028 00:51:07,732 --> 00:51:10,944 I know that he advocates for patients changing their diets, 1029 00:51:10,986 --> 00:51:13,529 but, the hospital makes money off these surgeries, 1030 00:51:13,571 --> 00:51:15,615 and the reality is, he does, too. 1031 00:51:15,657 --> 00:51:19,118 So, we can't do anything that's gonna negatively impact the hospital, 1032 00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,830 so unfortunately, you're not gonna be able to film here today. 1033 00:51:21,871 --> 00:51:23,539 He said that we could, though. 1034 00:51:23,581 --> 00:51:25,667 [Kip] I was sickened by how open she was 1035 00:51:25,708 --> 00:51:30,379 about the hospital being more interested in profits than people's health. 1036 00:51:30,421 --> 00:51:33,299 But, it wasn't just this hospital or these organizations. 1037 00:51:33,341 --> 00:51:36,052 Even the US government is involved, too. 1038 00:51:36,093 --> 00:51:38,387 Every five years, the US Department of Agriculture 1039 00:51:38,429 --> 00:51:40,682 creates dietary guidelines for Americans. 1040 00:51:40,723 --> 00:51:43,643 The committee who writes these guidelines has been made up of individuals 1041 00:51:43,685 --> 00:51:46,479 who have received money from McDonald's, the National Dairy Council, 1042 00:51:46,521 --> 00:51:48,773 the American Meat Institute, the National Dairy Board, 1043 00:51:48,815 --> 00:51:51,985 the National Livestock and Meat Board, the American Egg Board, Dannon, 1044 00:51:52,027 --> 00:51:55,864 candy and sugar companies, Coca Cola and Anheuser, just to name a few. 1045 00:51:55,905 --> 00:51:58,407 Which means we are getting our dietary recommendations 1046 00:51:58,449 --> 00:52:00,409 from the very industries that are killing us. 1047 00:52:00,451 --> 00:52:04,914 And when they, the USDA, makes a pyramid or a Power Plate 1048 00:52:04,956 --> 00:52:07,000 every five years for the American public, 1049 00:52:07,042 --> 00:52:09,293 they're gonna guarantee that on that plate 1050 00:52:09,335 --> 00:52:12,088 are gonna be foods, which when consumed, 1051 00:52:12,129 --> 00:52:16,092 will result in millions of Americans perishing. 1052 00:52:16,133 --> 00:52:19,512 The USDA, which is supposed to be protecting us, has two missions. 1053 00:52:19,554 --> 00:52:23,140 It's supposed to protect us, and it's supposed to protect the producer. 1054 00:52:23,182 --> 00:52:25,852 And guess what, when those two come head to head, 1055 00:52:25,894 --> 00:52:27,687 they usually choose the producer. 1056 00:52:27,729 --> 00:52:30,189 [Kip] In internal documents uncovered by Dr. Greger, 1057 00:52:30,231 --> 00:52:32,942 the USDA admitted that eggs cannot legally be called 1058 00:52:32,984 --> 00:52:35,152 nutritious, low fat, part of a balanced diet, 1059 00:52:35,194 --> 00:52:39,407 low calorie, healthful, healthy, can't say it's good for you or, even safe. 1060 00:52:39,448 --> 00:52:40,909 Yet they still promote these products 1061 00:52:40,950 --> 00:52:43,953 to the American people through federal checkoff programs. 1062 00:52:43,995 --> 00:52:45,538 If you ask somebody if they have heard 1063 00:52:45,580 --> 00:52:47,749 of a checkoff program, the odds are they haven't, 1064 00:52:47,790 --> 00:52:51,836 although daily, they are seeing the messaging that these programs produce. 1065 00:52:51,878 --> 00:52:53,880 So, checkoff programs are responsible 1066 00:52:53,922 --> 00:52:57,092 for the messages that we see on TV, on the Internet, 1067 00:52:57,133 --> 00:52:59,510 on buzz billboards and magazines that say things like, 1068 00:52:59,552 --> 00:53:02,680 "Milk, it does a body good," or "milk life. 1069 00:53:02,722 --> 00:53:05,892 Beef, it's what's for dinner. Pork, be inspired. 1070 00:53:05,934 --> 00:53:07,602 The incredible edible egg." 1071 00:53:07,643 --> 00:53:11,606 The dairy checkoff program gave $12 million 1072 00:53:11,647 --> 00:53:15,234 to Domino's to just market cheese-heavy product. 1073 00:53:15,276 --> 00:53:17,112 And this is the USDA, this is the government. 1074 00:53:17,153 --> 00:53:19,864 If you've seen those ads for the Pizza Hut pizza, 1075 00:53:19,906 --> 00:53:22,700 the stuffed crust or a pound of cheese. 1076 00:53:22,742 --> 00:53:26,328 Those are all government advertising schemes for the industry. 1077 00:53:26,370 --> 00:53:31,084 How can we put more cheese on beef? How can we put more milk in a coffee? 1078 00:53:31,126 --> 00:53:34,003 Things like that to just drive consumption 1079 00:53:34,045 --> 00:53:37,339 of these just unbelievably unhealthful products. 1080 00:53:37,381 --> 00:53:41,677 So, McDonald's, for instance, has six people staffed full-time, 1081 00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:43,387 according to records we found, 1082 00:53:43,429 --> 00:53:46,975 whose salaries are paid for by this government program 1083 00:53:47,016 --> 00:53:50,061 but, funded by the producers who are regulated by it. 1084 00:53:50,103 --> 00:53:52,855 And these six people sit there at McDonald's headquarters 1085 00:53:52,897 --> 00:53:54,941 and just come up with ideas. 1086 00:53:56,192 --> 00:54:00,071 Triple cheese decker McCheese muffin 1087 00:54:00,113 --> 00:54:03,158 stuffed bacon cheese slider? 1088 00:54:05,576 --> 00:54:06,911 With extra cheese? 1089 00:54:06,953 --> 00:54:08,204 - Nice! - Yes! 1090 00:54:08,245 --> 00:54:10,832 You don't think of it on a day-to-day basis 1091 00:54:10,873 --> 00:54:12,625 that these are government programs. 1092 00:54:12,667 --> 00:54:15,252 The Wendy's Bacon Double Cheeseburger. 1093 00:54:16,045 --> 00:54:17,922 Government program. 1094 00:54:17,964 --> 00:54:19,882 The steak fajita at Dunkin' Donuts. 1095 00:54:20,633 --> 00:54:22,593 Government program. 1096 00:54:22,635 --> 00:54:26,555 You would just never think that this just pure garbage from a food standpoint, 1097 00:54:26,597 --> 00:54:29,475 is coming from a federally-funded program. 1098 00:54:29,517 --> 00:54:33,312 That's one of the things that makes checkoffs so incredibly creepy, 1099 00:54:33,354 --> 00:54:37,483 is that it is our government telling us eat more beef, drink more milk, 1100 00:54:37,525 --> 00:54:39,902 eat more cheese, eat more pork. 1101 00:54:39,944 --> 00:54:42,155 One of the very effective ways that the dairy industry 1102 00:54:42,197 --> 00:54:46,408 promotes its products is to reach children 1103 00:54:46,450 --> 00:54:48,494 because kids are impressionable, 1104 00:54:48,536 --> 00:54:50,872 they're gonna be consumers for their entire lives, 1105 00:54:50,913 --> 00:54:52,915 and you might as well get 'em while they're young. 1106 00:54:52,957 --> 00:54:57,962 So, dairy spends at least $50 million promoting its products in public schools 1107 00:54:58,004 --> 00:55:00,589 throughout the country with posters, 1108 00:55:00,631 --> 00:55:02,967 with people with milk mustaches 1109 00:55:03,009 --> 00:55:05,803 and messages like "Milk, it does the body good," 1110 00:55:05,845 --> 00:55:07,555 or "milk life." 1111 00:55:07,596 --> 00:55:09,932 Targeting young people, like the tobacco industry 1112 00:55:09,974 --> 00:55:14,270 had to keep replacing their customers who were dying with new customers. 1113 00:55:14,311 --> 00:55:16,939 Meat industry knows they have to target young people. 1114 00:55:16,981 --> 00:55:18,858 That's why we have these foods in schools 1115 00:55:18,900 --> 00:55:21,110 and marketing messages at a younger and younger age 1116 00:55:21,152 --> 00:55:24,321 for kids to get hooked on all the wrong kinds of foods. 1117 00:55:24,363 --> 00:55:26,115 So, there's all kinds of parallels. 1118 00:55:26,157 --> 00:55:29,285 School districts where processed meats are all over the place, 1119 00:55:29,326 --> 00:55:33,748 maybe it's gonna be bacon on the menu, sausage, hotdogs or pepperoni pizza. 1120 00:55:33,789 --> 00:55:35,374 Any of those things are processed meats, 1121 00:55:35,416 --> 00:55:37,668 and those are pretty much the worst of the worst 1122 00:55:37,710 --> 00:55:39,837 with a direct link to colon cancer. 1123 00:55:39,879 --> 00:55:44,092 And yet you have every day in the schools meal items with processed meats. 1124 00:55:44,133 --> 00:55:46,094 [Kip] If the surgeon general puts warning labels 1125 00:55:46,135 --> 00:55:48,179 on tobacco because of their cancer risk, 1126 00:55:48,221 --> 00:55:52,391 why aren't the same warning labels on meat? 1127 00:55:52,433 --> 00:55:57,521 Based on the publicly available data, we know they spend at least $557 million 1128 00:55:57,563 --> 00:55:59,857 promoting their goods through checkoff programs. 1129 00:55:59,899 --> 00:56:04,153 We know that they spend at least $138 million lobbying Congress. 1130 00:56:04,195 --> 00:56:06,530 We expect that they spend a good deal more than that 1131 00:56:06,572 --> 00:56:09,284 in figures that simply aren't publicly disclosed. 1132 00:56:09,325 --> 00:56:11,327 [Kip] The industry's lobbying power is so strong 1133 00:56:11,368 --> 00:56:13,471 that they can create laws and push through legislation 1134 00:56:13,495 --> 00:56:15,998 that doesn't benefit Americans in any way, 1135 00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:18,667 such as ag-gag laws that criminalize whistle-blowing 1136 00:56:18,709 --> 00:56:21,045 or photographing abuses by this industry. 1137 00:56:21,087 --> 00:56:23,339 Activists in the US can be charged as terrorists 1138 00:56:23,380 --> 00:56:26,383 for disrupting the profits of any business that uses animals, 1139 00:56:26,425 --> 00:56:30,805 under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, to the even more ridiculous ones like 1140 00:56:30,846 --> 00:56:33,141 cheeseburger laws. 1141 00:56:33,182 --> 00:56:36,560 A cheeseburger law is a law that says a plaintiff cannot recover 1142 00:56:36,602 --> 00:56:39,355 against a manufacturer, distributor or, retailer, 1143 00:56:39,396 --> 00:56:42,775 on the theory that the food made the plaintiff obese 1144 00:56:42,817 --> 00:56:45,778 or caused an obesity related disease. 1145 00:56:45,820 --> 00:56:48,697 Cheeseburger laws are a direct response 1146 00:56:48,739 --> 00:56:51,909 to a problem that the tobacco industry has had. 1147 00:56:51,951 --> 00:56:56,497 Big Tobacco has paid $400 billion to state Medicaid programs. 1148 00:56:56,538 --> 00:56:58,707 Cheeseburger laws proponents say, 1149 00:56:58,749 --> 00:57:00,835 "We don't want to see the same kind of thing happen 1150 00:57:00,876 --> 00:57:02,461 "to the meat and dairy industries." 1151 00:57:02,503 --> 00:57:05,089 The fact that these laws are based on a model template 1152 00:57:05,131 --> 00:57:07,466 called a Commonsense Consumption Act 1153 00:57:07,508 --> 00:57:10,345 is actually ironic because what they're saying is 1154 00:57:10,386 --> 00:57:12,471 you, the consumer, should have the common sense 1155 00:57:12,513 --> 00:57:15,308 to know that our food is bad for you. 1156 00:57:15,350 --> 00:57:18,936 I've often typified the meat industry to people who 1157 00:57:18,978 --> 00:57:21,647 maybe don't understand its power and reach, 1158 00:57:21,689 --> 00:57:25,901 as it's got all the money of Big Tobacco and Big Pharma, 1159 00:57:25,943 --> 00:57:29,530 and it has the personality of the National Rifle Association. 1160 00:57:29,571 --> 00:57:34,994 So, any little thing that comes up, man, they beat it to death. 1161 00:57:35,036 --> 00:57:37,079 [Kip] Robert Martin wasn't exaggerating. 1162 00:57:37,121 --> 00:57:39,248 When the profits of the egg industry were threatened 1163 00:57:39,290 --> 00:57:41,750 by egg alternative company Hampton Creek Foods, 1164 00:57:41,792 --> 00:57:45,921 extremely disturbing emails were uncovered by Ryan Shapiro and Jeffrey Light. 1165 00:57:45,963 --> 00:57:49,050 We uncovered documents demonstrating the American Egg Board 1166 00:57:49,091 --> 00:57:52,845 considers Hampton Creek, quote "a crisis and major threat 1167 00:57:52,887 --> 00:57:55,014 "to the future of the American egg industry." 1168 00:57:55,056 --> 00:57:57,183 The American Egg Board considers a successful 1169 00:57:57,225 --> 00:57:59,852 egg replacer company to be such a threat 1170 00:57:59,894 --> 00:58:02,688 that they joke on their government email addresses 1171 00:58:02,730 --> 00:58:05,024 about murdering the CEO. 1172 00:58:05,066 --> 00:58:08,361 [Kip] In internal government emails with the heads of the egg industry, 1173 00:58:08,403 --> 00:58:13,366 they suggest having the CEO of Hampton Creek, Josh Tetrick, murdered, 1174 00:58:13,408 --> 00:58:17,494 including a menacing email from executive director of the American Egg Board. 1175 00:58:23,042 --> 00:58:25,420 The meat producers don't have to pay for 1176 00:58:25,461 --> 00:58:28,881 the heart disease or the environmental destruction 1177 00:58:28,923 --> 00:58:33,135 or any of the other externalities, as economists call them, 1178 00:58:33,177 --> 00:58:35,763 that their products cause. 1179 00:58:35,804 --> 00:58:38,433 Then there's a whole pharmaceutical aspect of it 1180 00:58:38,474 --> 00:58:41,185 and the fact that there's a very strong pharmaceutical industry 1181 00:58:41,227 --> 00:58:45,022 and lobby that has a huge stake in preserving the status quo. 1182 00:58:45,064 --> 00:58:46,482 These chronic diseases, 1183 00:58:46,523 --> 00:58:49,277 these are the cash cows of the pharmaceutical industry. 1184 00:58:49,318 --> 00:58:53,572 We have a $5 billion stent industry. Do they ever want to see that go away? 1185 00:58:53,614 --> 00:58:56,492 We've got a $35 billion statin drug industry. 1186 00:58:56,533 --> 00:58:58,119 Do they ever want to see that go away? 1187 00:58:58,160 --> 00:58:59,954 I'm talking about the pharmaceutical industry 1188 00:58:59,995 --> 00:59:02,790 effectively controls what doctors are told. 1189 00:59:02,831 --> 00:59:05,167 Most research isn't put into prevention. 1190 00:59:05,209 --> 00:59:08,212 It's put into the medication that we might use 1191 00:59:08,254 --> 00:59:10,298 for that particular disease. 1192 00:59:10,339 --> 00:59:13,968 I'm on two different high blood pressure medicines. 1193 00:59:14,009 --> 00:59:16,512 Six asthma type medicines. 1194 00:59:16,553 --> 00:59:19,848 Even after four years of shots. 1195 00:59:19,890 --> 00:59:21,892 And another medicine to help take care 1196 00:59:21,934 --> 00:59:24,686 of side effects from some of those medicines. 1197 00:59:24,728 --> 00:59:28,483 I'm on high level anti-depressants. 1198 00:59:28,524 --> 00:59:32,487 A couple of different pain meds for my back and hips. 1199 00:59:32,528 --> 00:59:34,947 I'm taking about 16 drugs. 1200 00:59:34,989 --> 00:59:37,699 Not counting the insulin in the morning. 1201 00:59:37,741 --> 00:59:42,497 I take insulin in the morning, insulin at night, 32-34 units, 1202 00:59:43,414 --> 00:59:44,999 of insulin. 1203 00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:47,001 Lantus to be exact. 1204 00:59:47,042 --> 00:59:50,254 Some of these meds are for diabetes. 1205 00:59:50,296 --> 00:59:51,797 This is for peeing. 1206 00:59:51,839 --> 00:59:54,342 I have to use this for my prostrate. 1207 00:59:54,383 --> 00:59:56,802 And then I have to use this for the heart. 1208 00:59:56,844 --> 00:59:59,680 And I have to use this for blood pressure. 1209 00:59:59,721 --> 01:00:03,642 And it's just on and on and on. 1210 01:00:03,684 --> 01:00:06,521 The doctors are telling me this is what I gotta do for my whole life. 1211 01:00:06,562 --> 01:00:10,525 And it's frustrating and very stressful. 1212 01:00:10,566 --> 01:00:13,902 And I don't know how long my liver is gonna last taking all this stuff. 1213 01:00:13,944 --> 01:00:17,239 Under conventional medical treatment, whether it be for autoimmune disease 1214 01:00:17,281 --> 01:00:20,617 or even conditions like high blood pressure or, diabetes, 1215 01:00:20,659 --> 01:00:23,204 you're told that you have to take drugs. 1216 01:00:23,245 --> 01:00:25,789 And not just for a week or a month or, a year, 1217 01:00:25,831 --> 01:00:28,543 you're told you have to take drugs forever. 1218 01:00:28,584 --> 01:00:31,837 You're guaranteed that if you follow your doctor's advice, 1219 01:00:31,879 --> 01:00:33,255 you'll be sick forever. 1220 01:00:33,297 --> 01:00:35,216 You'll never get well. 1221 01:00:35,257 --> 01:00:37,009 That's the guarantee. 1222 01:00:37,051 --> 01:00:40,971 Because the strategies are all about manipulating the symptoms, 1223 01:00:41,013 --> 01:00:42,723 not dealing with the underlying cause. 1224 01:00:42,764 --> 01:00:45,351 You come in with that diagnosis, you get a bunch of pills 1225 01:00:45,393 --> 01:00:47,686 that have nothing to do with the disease causation. 1226 01:00:47,728 --> 01:00:51,566 Or you get these procedures that have nothing to do with disease causation. 1227 01:00:51,607 --> 01:00:54,068 It's a deception to say this pill will help you 1228 01:00:54,109 --> 01:00:57,613 unclog your arteries, this one will save you from a stroke, no, it doesn't. 1229 01:00:57,654 --> 01:00:59,656 The people who take the statins, et cetera, 1230 01:00:59,698 --> 01:01:02,410 they still get their heart attacks, they still get their strokes. 1231 01:01:02,451 --> 01:01:05,621 This does not reverse disease. This does not make plaque smaller. 1232 01:01:05,662 --> 01:01:08,707 This is a front of massive proportions. 1233 01:01:08,749 --> 01:01:12,628 [Kip] In the US, treating chronic disease, such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes 1234 01:01:12,669 --> 01:01:16,298 is a $1.5 trillion industry. 1235 01:01:16,340 --> 01:01:21,011 That's the GDP equivalent of the 10th richest country in the world. 1236 01:01:21,053 --> 01:01:24,181 I went back and dug deeper into the health organizations' funding, 1237 01:01:24,223 --> 01:01:26,058 and there it was again. 1238 01:01:26,100 --> 01:01:28,519 These organizations were accepting millions of dollars 1239 01:01:28,561 --> 01:01:31,772 from pharmaceutical companies that are making billions of dollars 1240 01:01:31,813 --> 01:01:36,277 from the very same diseases these health groups are supposedly trying to end. 1241 01:01:36,318 --> 01:01:38,487 It seemed like a major conflict of interest, 1242 01:01:38,529 --> 01:01:41,616 unless ending these diseases isn't really the goal. 1243 01:01:41,657 --> 01:01:43,576 The pharmaceutical industry spends more money 1244 01:01:43,618 --> 01:01:46,036 on lobbying than any other single industry. 1245 01:01:46,078 --> 01:01:47,455 Just like animal agriculture, 1246 01:01:47,496 --> 01:01:49,182 they are so powerful, they write their own laws 1247 01:01:49,206 --> 01:01:52,293 that have had activists imprisoned to silence them. 1248 01:01:52,334 --> 01:01:54,962 The government's in bed with anyone that gives them the most money, 1249 01:01:55,003 --> 01:01:58,882 which is the pharmaceutical industry, which is the animal ag industries, 1250 01:01:58,924 --> 01:02:00,842 they are pumping the government full of money 1251 01:02:00,884 --> 01:02:03,614 and resources, and in return, the government's giving them want they want. 1252 01:02:03,638 --> 01:02:07,182 Subsidies, imprisoning activists that go against them, 1253 01:02:07,224 --> 01:02:09,602 and I think it's quite telling that these industries 1254 01:02:09,644 --> 01:02:13,021 are working so hard and spending so much money 1255 01:02:13,063 --> 01:02:15,899 to criminalize people for simply taking a picture, 1256 01:02:15,941 --> 01:02:18,777 for simply recording what's going on inside these facilities 1257 01:02:18,819 --> 01:02:20,862 and making it known to the public. 1258 01:02:20,904 --> 01:02:23,240 They're behind walls, they're underground. 1259 01:02:23,282 --> 01:02:26,201 They're in these secret facilities that no one knows about, 1260 01:02:26,243 --> 01:02:28,496 but if they did, they would be shocked and outraged. 1261 01:02:28,537 --> 01:02:31,582 And I think people would not want to think that their 1262 01:02:31,624 --> 01:02:34,293 pharmaceuticals, that their food are coming from these places. 1263 01:02:34,335 --> 01:02:37,672 And that's why I think it's such, the ag-gag laws are what they are 1264 01:02:37,713 --> 01:02:41,049 is because they are trying to silence people into not speaking out 1265 01:02:41,091 --> 01:02:42,843 and not showing the truth. 1266 01:02:42,884 --> 01:02:44,970 [Kip] I finally realized how deep the collusion 1267 01:02:45,012 --> 01:02:47,306 truly is between government and these industries. 1268 01:02:47,348 --> 01:02:49,558 And how dangerous it could be to expose them. 1269 01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:52,936 These concerns intensified after meeting the USDA whistle-blowerrrr 1270 01:02:52,978 --> 01:02:55,690 who revealed mad cow disease in the US meat supply. 1271 01:02:55,731 --> 01:02:57,858 USDA operates like the military. 1272 01:02:57,899 --> 01:02:59,818 So, when I got on TV and that right away, 1273 01:02:59,860 --> 01:03:03,322 USDA sent out memos to all the veterinarians and food inspectors, 1274 01:03:03,364 --> 01:03:07,535 "If anybody from the media ever contacts you, do not talk to them. 1275 01:03:07,576 --> 01:03:10,996 Refer 'em to Washington DC, and we will talk to them." 1276 01:03:11,038 --> 01:03:13,081 So, right away, it shut up everybody. 1277 01:03:13,123 --> 01:03:16,084 American public should be very concerned about this. 1278 01:03:16,126 --> 01:03:18,086 What's going on with USDA? 1279 01:03:18,128 --> 01:03:19,630 Here in the United States, 1280 01:03:19,672 --> 01:03:22,966 we have at least four cases of mad cow disease, 1281 01:03:23,008 --> 01:03:25,069 but, I'm almost positive there's more cases than that, 1282 01:03:25,093 --> 01:03:26,655 but, the government isn't looking for it. 1283 01:03:26,679 --> 01:03:28,156 What you're saying is that there could be 1284 01:03:28,180 --> 01:03:30,391 already mad cow's disease in humans. 1285 01:03:30,432 --> 01:03:32,809 Right, and I think a lot of it was misdiagnosed. 1286 01:03:32,851 --> 01:03:34,811 With the Alzheimer's or dementia, 1287 01:03:34,853 --> 01:03:37,189 it takes several years you see the progression, 1288 01:03:37,231 --> 01:03:39,525 but, to make it easier, these doctors just sign off on it 1289 01:03:39,567 --> 01:03:41,318 as dementia or, Alzheimer's 1290 01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:43,278 without actually taking a biopsy of the brain 1291 01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:46,741 to see if it's that or is it actually a prion disease 1292 01:03:46,782 --> 01:03:49,744 like Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease or, mad cow disease. 1293 01:03:49,785 --> 01:03:52,246 Do you think it's safe to eat meat? 1294 01:03:52,287 --> 01:03:54,707 I personally don't think it's safe to eat it 1295 01:03:54,749 --> 01:03:57,918 because of the fact how the line speeds are increasing 1296 01:03:57,959 --> 01:04:00,879 and also our inspectors are not well trained enough. 1297 01:04:00,921 --> 01:04:05,008 At the present time, the line speed now is going about 220 cows an hour. 1298 01:04:05,050 --> 01:04:08,429 That gives you about, somewheres around four cows per minute. 1299 01:04:08,470 --> 01:04:11,139 So, that's 15 seconds per cow. 1300 01:04:11,181 --> 01:04:12,600 These dangerous slaughter speeds 1301 01:04:12,641 --> 01:04:15,561 means that animal waste ends up everywhere. 1302 01:04:15,603 --> 01:04:19,690 Testing shows 88% of pork chops are contaminated with fecal bacteria. 1303 01:04:19,732 --> 01:04:23,318 90% of ground beef and 95% of chicken breast sampled 1304 01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:25,654 contained animal waste bacteria. 1305 01:04:25,696 --> 01:04:28,699 There is nothing clean about eating this way. 1306 01:04:28,741 --> 01:04:32,536 But, it just isn't waste, it's also pus-filled infections. 1307 01:04:32,578 --> 01:04:33,829 You could see there's a bump 1308 01:04:33,870 --> 01:04:37,207 or some kind of abscess underneath the hide. 1309 01:04:37,249 --> 01:04:39,585 Most of the time when the hide's pulled off, 1310 01:04:39,627 --> 01:04:44,339 either that will open up the abscess and the the pus will come out, 1311 01:04:44,381 --> 01:04:47,342 or if it's deep-seated, when the inspectors are doing their work 1312 01:04:47,384 --> 01:04:49,762 or the company employees, they might stick their knife 1313 01:04:49,804 --> 01:04:54,057 into an abscess, and it explodes all over the place. 1314 01:04:54,099 --> 01:04:57,478 [Kip] I had heard enough. I was utterly disgusted by the corruption, 1315 01:04:57,519 --> 01:05:01,106 the greed, the disease and the abuse I was learning about. 1316 01:05:01,148 --> 01:05:04,860 The very animals we were killing were killing us and the planet. 1317 01:05:04,901 --> 01:05:08,489 But, so many people eat meat and dairy every day of their lives. 1318 01:05:08,530 --> 01:05:11,074 And we are so concerned about getting enough protein. 1319 01:05:11,116 --> 01:05:13,952 [Kip] Do we have to eat meat to get complete protein? 1320 01:05:13,994 --> 01:05:16,204 Oh, my God, oh my God. 1321 01:05:16,246 --> 01:05:18,749 You want me to jump off this building, don't you now? 1322 01:05:18,791 --> 01:05:23,462 Well first of all, all protein is made by plants. 1323 01:05:23,504 --> 01:05:25,213 I'll state that again for the record. 1324 01:05:25,255 --> 01:05:29,009 All protein is initially made by plants, all of it. 1325 01:05:29,050 --> 01:05:32,554 And it is not necessary to eat animal tissue 1326 01:05:32,596 --> 01:05:34,348 in order to get protein. 1327 01:05:34,389 --> 01:05:39,269 Only plants have the ability to actually take nitrogen from the air, 1328 01:05:39,311 --> 01:05:41,229 break those molecules apart 1329 01:05:41,271 --> 01:05:45,150 and incorporate that nitrogen into amino acids and then make protein. 1330 01:05:45,192 --> 01:05:49,029 Any protein you get from an animal is simply recycled plant protein. 1331 01:05:49,070 --> 01:05:52,324 If you ate a diet that was calorically adequate 1332 01:05:52,366 --> 01:05:55,369 and even things like brown rice and broccoli and you got enough of it, 1333 01:05:55,410 --> 01:05:58,079 you'd get enough, both quantity and quality of protein. 1334 01:05:58,121 --> 01:05:59,832 2,000 calories of brown rice and broccoli 1335 01:05:59,874 --> 01:06:02,167 is gonna be about 80 grams of protein a day, 1336 01:06:02,209 --> 01:06:04,920 including the essential amino acids that you need 1337 01:06:04,961 --> 01:06:06,672 in order to maintain optimum health. 1338 01:06:06,714 --> 01:06:11,009 Greens are loaded with protein. Beans are loaded with protein. 1339 01:06:11,051 --> 01:06:13,011 Vegetables are loaded with protein. 1340 01:06:13,053 --> 01:06:16,097 You really want to get your protein from plants 1341 01:06:16,139 --> 01:06:20,853 because plant proteins have a much more beneficial effect on our physiology. 1342 01:06:20,895 --> 01:06:22,437 The funny thing about protein is 1343 01:06:22,479 --> 01:06:25,440 most Americans get about twice the amount they need. 1344 01:06:25,482 --> 01:06:28,777 Most Americans get less than half the amount of fiber they need. 1345 01:06:28,819 --> 01:06:31,238 But, the conversation tends to always be about protein, 1346 01:06:31,279 --> 01:06:34,199 so in my mind, it's just this magical marketing campaign 1347 01:06:34,241 --> 01:06:36,493 that protein has taken on over the decades. 1348 01:06:36,535 --> 01:06:38,412 The question is not where to get your protein, 1349 01:06:38,453 --> 01:06:40,121 it's where do you get your fiber? 1350 01:06:40,163 --> 01:06:43,542 I have never in my professional career seen a protein deficiency. 1351 01:06:43,584 --> 01:06:46,879 I have never seen someone come in eating normal amounts of calories 1352 01:06:46,921 --> 01:06:49,381 and they're protein deficient. You just don't see that. 1353 01:06:49,423 --> 01:06:53,343 So, human milk has the lowest protein content ever 1354 01:06:53,385 --> 01:06:55,429 in any species ever tested. 1355 01:06:55,470 --> 01:06:59,892 That's the fluid that's been designed by evolution over millions of years. 1356 01:06:59,934 --> 01:07:03,896 And that's just like the perfect food for human babies. 1357 01:07:03,938 --> 01:07:06,648 Perfect food, lowest protein content, 1358 01:07:06,690 --> 01:07:10,110 any other mammal, and so gives a sense of kinda protein requirements... 1359 01:07:10,151 --> 01:07:12,571 - It's lower than... - Anything, so look... 1360 01:07:12,613 --> 01:07:15,574 - Lower protein than even... - Than rat milk, ape milk. 1361 01:07:15,616 --> 01:07:18,869 -Really? -Donkey milk, any milk that's ever been tested. 1362 01:07:18,911 --> 01:07:22,330 And you hear this a lot in body builders who are like, "Well, I need 1363 01:07:22,372 --> 01:07:25,960 chicken, or, I need fish to be strong, to build muscle tissue." 1364 01:07:26,835 --> 01:07:28,378 That is utter nonsense. 1365 01:07:28,420 --> 01:07:31,506 The largest, strongest terrestrial animals on the planet 1366 01:07:31,548 --> 01:07:33,383 are all herbivores. 1367 01:07:33,425 --> 01:07:36,261 The biggest, strongest animals are all herbivores. 1368 01:07:36,303 --> 01:07:38,764 When we bring in people and they're on meaty diets 1369 01:07:38,806 --> 01:07:40,408 and we transition them to a plant-based diet, 1370 01:07:40,432 --> 01:07:42,058 we always track what they're eating. 1371 01:07:42,100 --> 01:07:44,227 Their vitamin intake goes up. 1372 01:07:44,269 --> 01:07:47,272 Their nutrition overall goes up, dramatically better. 1373 01:07:47,314 --> 01:07:49,817 And these same people might worry in advance, 1374 01:07:49,858 --> 01:07:52,486 "Will I get the nutrition that I need on a plant-based diet?" 1375 01:07:52,527 --> 01:07:54,547 The fact is, you're not getting the nutrition you need 1376 01:07:54,571 --> 01:07:56,490 on a meat-based diet, 1377 01:07:56,531 --> 01:07:59,093 and you're gonna get dramatically better nutrition on a plant-based diet. 1378 01:07:59,117 --> 01:08:04,414 For an average-sized guy like myself, I need about 56 grams of protein a day. 1379 01:08:04,456 --> 01:08:07,876 That's optimum, probably I really need 30 to 40 grams a day. 1380 01:08:07,918 --> 01:08:09,711 Diets that are really high in these protein 1381 01:08:09,753 --> 01:08:13,173 create diabetes, create heart disease, create cancer, 1382 01:08:13,214 --> 01:08:16,134 create the diseases that I'm treating on a daily basis. 1383 01:08:16,176 --> 01:08:19,554 [Kip] But, this is the opposite of what all the high-protein diet fads say. 1384 01:08:19,596 --> 01:08:23,183 The food you eat determines the bacteria that live in your gut. 1385 01:08:23,224 --> 01:08:25,185 While you eat animal flesh every day, 1386 01:08:25,226 --> 01:08:29,397 you are summoning up bacteria that eat carnitine. 1387 01:08:29,439 --> 01:08:32,317 And those bacteria will turn that carnitine 1388 01:08:32,359 --> 01:08:35,070 into a molecule called trimethylamine. 1389 01:08:35,111 --> 01:08:38,573 Your liver then turns that into trimethylamine oxide. 1390 01:08:38,615 --> 01:08:40,158 That's a molecule from hell. 1391 01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:43,328 That molecule drives cholesterol into the artery walls. 1392 01:08:43,370 --> 01:08:46,164 And the people who will consume this flesh-based diet 1393 01:08:46,206 --> 01:08:48,416 are contributing to plaque building up, 1394 01:08:48,458 --> 01:08:51,211 they may lose weight on this diet and that's good, 1395 01:08:51,252 --> 01:08:54,464 but, what's happening inside your arteries, Paleo friends? 1396 01:08:54,506 --> 01:08:56,591 What's happening is that plaque is building up, 1397 01:08:56,633 --> 01:08:59,344 and these are the folks who drop dead at the gym at 39. 1398 01:08:59,386 --> 01:09:01,763 Boy, he was lean and he looked really good, 1399 01:09:01,805 --> 01:09:05,684 but, where is that cholesterol going? It's going into your artery walls. 1400 01:09:05,726 --> 01:09:10,022 So, I believe these Paleo folks are setting them-self up for an epidemic 1401 01:09:10,064 --> 01:09:14,651 of clogged arteries, colon cancers, autoimmune diseases. 1402 01:09:14,693 --> 01:09:18,196 This is not a healthy diet. We are not carnivorous apes. 1403 01:09:18,238 --> 01:09:20,365 Humans' closest living relatives are chimps 1404 01:09:20,407 --> 01:09:22,910 who get 97 percent of their calories from plants 1405 01:09:22,951 --> 01:09:25,495 and the remaining three percent mostly from insects. 1406 01:09:25,537 --> 01:09:27,789 Comparing the anatomy of true omnivores like bears 1407 01:09:27,831 --> 01:09:30,709 who eat both meat and plants to frugivores like primates 1408 01:09:30,751 --> 01:09:34,337 who eat almost exclusively plants, the differences are pretty clear. 1409 01:09:34,379 --> 01:09:36,715 Frugivore teeth have flat molars for chewing plants, 1410 01:09:36,757 --> 01:09:40,135 where omnivore teeth are serrated for stabbing and tearing flesh. 1411 01:09:40,176 --> 01:09:43,263 Frugivore jaws can move forward and back and side to side, 1412 01:09:43,304 --> 01:09:45,515 omnivore jaws cannot. 1413 01:09:45,557 --> 01:09:48,828 Omnivores have much stronger stomach acid for digesting meat compared to less acidic 1414 01:09:48,852 --> 01:09:50,771 stomach acid of frugivores. 1415 01:09:50,812 --> 01:09:52,522 The intestines of frugivores is nine times 1416 01:09:52,564 --> 01:09:55,442 their body length compared to three times for omnivores. 1417 01:09:55,483 --> 01:09:57,277 This is because meat will putrefy in the gut 1418 01:09:57,318 --> 01:09:59,154 unless it is moved through quickly. 1419 01:09:59,195 --> 01:10:01,115 If humans were indeed true omnivores, 1420 01:10:01,156 --> 01:10:04,785 we would need to change our physiology and appearance quite a lot. 1421 01:10:04,826 --> 01:10:07,662 But, we fit every requirement of a frugivore. 1422 01:10:07,704 --> 01:10:11,458 We may behave like omnivores, but, anatomically, we're frugivores. 1423 01:10:11,499 --> 01:10:15,587 Human beings, unlike bears and raccoons and to some extent, dogs, 1424 01:10:15,629 --> 01:10:19,174 don't have that mixed anatomy and physiology 1425 01:10:19,215 --> 01:10:23,219 that you see in the true omnivores, and thus, we are not true omnivores. 1426 01:10:23,261 --> 01:10:26,974 In humans, the canines have become really small 1427 01:10:27,015 --> 01:10:31,061 and rounded and actually function like accessory incisors. 1428 01:10:31,103 --> 01:10:33,313 They're utterly useless for ripping and tearing 1429 01:10:33,354 --> 01:10:35,190 anything other than an envelope. 1430 01:10:35,231 --> 01:10:38,819 So, the idea that the mere presence of the canine 1431 01:10:38,860 --> 01:10:41,571 somehow means that we're supposed to eat meat is silly. 1432 01:10:41,613 --> 01:10:42,864 [Kip] He was right. 1433 01:10:42,906 --> 01:10:44,383 I always thought my canines were for meat, 1434 01:10:44,407 --> 01:10:46,743 but, what kind of animal could actually kill and eat raw 1435 01:10:46,785 --> 01:10:48,536 with these tiny teeth? 1436 01:10:48,578 --> 01:10:50,538 The thought alone was disgusting. 1437 01:10:50,580 --> 01:10:53,125 I mean, everybody loves a smoothie made with fruit 1438 01:10:53,167 --> 01:10:55,043 and even some vegetables. 1439 01:10:55,085 --> 01:10:59,380 But, if you think about putting a fish or a piece of beef in a blender 1440 01:10:59,422 --> 01:11:04,052 and grinding it up, the thought is absolutely repulsive. 1441 01:11:04,094 --> 01:11:05,655 [Kip] All these diseases I had learned about 1442 01:11:05,679 --> 01:11:08,306 were from eating a diet our body wasn't designed for. 1443 01:11:08,348 --> 01:11:09,993 What would happen if we started eating a diet 1444 01:11:10,017 --> 01:11:12,268 our body actually was designed for? 1445 01:11:12,310 --> 01:11:16,439 The data is crystal clear, that you can stop and reverse heart disease 1446 01:11:16,481 --> 01:11:18,150 with plant-based diets, 1447 01:11:18,192 --> 01:11:20,986 scientifically shown, I've seen it in my own patients. 1448 01:11:21,028 --> 01:11:23,321 People who adopt low fat plant-based diets 1449 01:11:23,363 --> 01:11:25,699 can actually reverse their heart disease, 1450 01:11:25,740 --> 01:11:27,993 and that literally means watching the plaque 1451 01:11:28,035 --> 01:11:30,662 start to go away, something they didn't think could happen. 1452 01:11:30,704 --> 01:11:31,997 My experience with patients is 1453 01:11:32,039 --> 01:11:33,957 and the studies show that when people adopt 1454 01:11:33,999 --> 01:11:36,126 a fully plant-based diet, their cholesterol levels 1455 01:11:36,168 --> 01:11:37,711 plummet within a few days. 1456 01:11:37,752 --> 01:11:39,355 And if you do blood test in a couple of weeks, 1457 01:11:39,379 --> 01:11:41,256 you'll see dramatic improvements. 1458 01:11:41,297 --> 01:11:43,133 Yes, your numbers are gonna look great 1459 01:11:43,175 --> 01:11:46,136 within a week or, two, your cholesterol can come crashing down, in fact, 1460 01:11:46,178 --> 01:11:48,304 if you're on medications, your doctor may have to 1461 01:11:48,346 --> 01:11:51,492 pull off your blood pressure medications so your blood pressure don't drop too low. 1462 01:11:51,516 --> 01:11:52,851 Because it can work too good, 1463 01:11:52,893 --> 01:11:55,896 like the side effect is not having to take drugs. 1464 01:11:55,937 --> 01:11:57,581 [Kip] In a groundbreaking study published by 1465 01:11:57,605 --> 01:12:00,025 Dr. Esselstyn following patients suffering from 1466 01:12:00,067 --> 01:12:04,529 cardiovascular disease, 99.4% were able to avoid 1467 01:12:04,571 --> 01:12:07,199 major cardiac events by going plant-based. 1468 01:12:07,241 --> 01:12:10,869 'Cause it's not just heart disease. It's hypertension, it's diabetes, 1469 01:12:10,911 --> 01:12:13,329 it's strokes, it's heart attacks, 1470 01:12:13,371 --> 01:12:15,249 it's several of the autoimmune diseases, 1471 01:12:15,290 --> 01:12:19,211 lupus, asthma, GERD, osteoporosis, 1472 01:12:19,253 --> 01:12:22,047 there's a multitude of diseases. 1473 01:12:22,089 --> 01:12:25,092 Even rheumatoid arthritis, it can be so dramatic 1474 01:12:25,133 --> 01:12:26,801 when you see these poor souls 1475 01:12:26,843 --> 01:12:29,304 just absolutely crippled with rheumatoid arthritis 1476 01:12:29,345 --> 01:12:33,100 go plant-based, and then they come off their medication. 1477 01:12:33,141 --> 01:12:35,018 I wanted to follow up with Jane Chapman 1478 01:12:35,060 --> 01:12:37,562 who had been suffering from severe osteoarthritis, 1479 01:12:37,604 --> 01:12:39,647 and I could not believe what I saw 1480 01:12:39,689 --> 01:12:42,817 after only a few weeks of fasting and changing her diet. 1481 01:12:42,859 --> 01:12:46,529 Those are so amazing to see you like this only a few weeks later. 1482 01:12:46,571 --> 01:12:48,240 I know! 1483 01:12:48,282 --> 01:12:50,200 From going from the walker, 1484 01:12:50,242 --> 01:12:53,411 needing wheelchair assistance at the airport 1485 01:12:53,453 --> 01:12:59,876 to strolling down the street, enjoying the fresh air, the sunshine. 1486 01:12:59,918 --> 01:13:04,089 Two weeks, it's all it took, two weeks to get off all the meds 1487 01:13:04,131 --> 01:13:07,259 and start to feel the inflammation 1488 01:13:07,301 --> 01:13:09,761 just kind of drain out of the body 1489 01:13:09,803 --> 01:13:12,931 where the movement was much easier. 1490 01:13:12,973 --> 01:13:16,684 Just a lot of healing occurred very rapidly 1491 01:13:16,726 --> 01:13:19,146 just by doing the right things for your body. 1492 01:13:19,187 --> 01:13:22,316 When you're treating diseases with drugs, 1493 01:13:22,357 --> 01:13:24,335 you know there's one drug you take for cholesterol, 1494 01:13:24,359 --> 01:13:26,987 a different class of drugs you take for high blood pressure, 1495 01:13:27,028 --> 01:13:29,530 different class of drugs you take for diabetes, 1496 01:13:29,572 --> 01:13:33,076 but, with diet, a plant-based diet affects all these diseases. 1497 01:13:33,118 --> 01:13:35,370 One diet to kinda rule them all. 1498 01:13:35,411 --> 01:13:38,165 [Kip] The impacts of eating this way go far beyond ourselves. 1499 01:13:38,206 --> 01:13:39,958 By getting rid of heart disease alone, 1500 01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:43,086 we would save up to $48 trillion in the USA, 1501 01:13:43,128 --> 01:13:45,630 three times the US GDP. 1502 01:13:45,672 --> 01:13:47,632 Conditions like high blood pressure, 1503 01:13:47,674 --> 01:13:50,844 you don't have to take the drugs the rest of your life and be sick forever. 1504 01:13:50,885 --> 01:13:52,553 What you can do is live in such a way 1505 01:13:52,595 --> 01:13:54,848 that it gives the body a chance to heal itself. 1506 01:13:54,889 --> 01:13:58,393 We took 174 consecutive patients with high blood pressure. 1507 01:13:58,434 --> 01:14:01,271 And 174 people were able to lower their blood pressure 1508 01:14:01,313 --> 01:14:03,398 enough to eliminate the need for medication. 1509 01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:06,151 For inflammatory bowel disease like Crohn's, 1510 01:14:06,193 --> 01:14:09,696 the best remission rates ever achieved through plant-based diet. 1511 01:14:09,737 --> 01:14:13,574 MS, multiple sclerosis, the best results ever achieved 1512 01:14:13,616 --> 01:14:15,327 compared to any medical, surgical, 1513 01:14:15,369 --> 01:14:17,745 any kind of intervention was a plant-based diet. 1514 01:14:17,787 --> 01:14:20,498 You can see that with every sequential reduction 1515 01:14:20,540 --> 01:14:22,792 in animal products, people live longer, 1516 01:14:22,834 --> 01:14:26,254 they have less heart disease, they have less cancer, they have less diabetes. 1517 01:14:26,296 --> 01:14:29,132 You can actually take human cancer cells, put them in a petri dish, 1518 01:14:29,174 --> 01:14:31,385 and you can drip the blood of those eating vegan, 1519 01:14:31,426 --> 01:14:34,679 get about 72% suppression in 1520 01:14:34,721 --> 01:14:36,931 human prostate cancer cell growth in vitro, 1521 01:14:36,973 --> 01:14:39,893 they wanted to try this again with women and breast cancer, 1522 01:14:39,934 --> 01:14:41,537 so they said, "Let's see what a plant-based diet can do." 1523 01:14:41,561 --> 01:14:44,314 After just two weeks, their bodies cleaned up. 1524 01:14:44,356 --> 01:14:46,482 You dropped their blood on the same carpet 1525 01:14:46,524 --> 01:14:49,527 of cancer cells, you can clear off the whole plate. 1526 01:14:49,569 --> 01:14:52,697 This is just after just two weeks eating healthy, which raises the question, 1527 01:14:52,739 --> 01:14:54,459 what kind of blood do we want in our bodies? 1528 01:14:54,490 --> 01:14:57,994 My background is in industrial and systems engineering. 1529 01:14:58,036 --> 01:15:02,498 And that was my career path for a long time until 1530 01:15:02,540 --> 01:15:04,500 I got thyroid cancer, 1531 01:15:04,542 --> 01:15:07,628 and everything changed from there. 1532 01:15:07,670 --> 01:15:13,301 I decided that I wanted to try alternative methods and treatments 1533 01:15:13,343 --> 01:15:16,804 rather than have surgery and have my thyroid removed, 1534 01:15:16,846 --> 01:15:19,433 which meant I'd be on medication forever, and I didn't want that. 1535 01:15:19,474 --> 01:15:22,560 I just started reading on how a plant-based diet 1536 01:15:22,602 --> 01:15:26,106 can heal the body and it has worked for so many people. 1537 01:15:26,147 --> 01:15:31,694 So, I immediately just switched to a completely whole food plant-based diet. 1538 01:15:31,736 --> 01:15:35,365 After a year, the cancer was completely gone. 1539 01:15:35,407 --> 01:15:38,285 And my thyroid had shrunk to normal size. 1540 01:15:38,326 --> 01:15:40,912 And I was completely free of that. 1541 01:15:40,954 --> 01:15:42,872 [Kip] This was tough to believe. 1542 01:15:42,914 --> 01:15:45,435 Couldn't this all just be from eating healthier, though, like no sugar? 1543 01:15:45,459 --> 01:15:48,253 Turns out Dr. Walter Kempner from Duke University 1544 01:15:48,295 --> 01:15:51,089 back in the 1940s was reversing some of our 1545 01:15:51,131 --> 01:15:53,383 worst killer diseases with diet alone. 1546 01:15:53,425 --> 01:15:56,428 And the diet he was using was not only strictly plant-based 1547 01:15:56,470 --> 01:16:00,348 but, it was made up of white rice, fruit and table sugar. 1548 01:16:00,390 --> 01:16:04,560 And he was reversing diabetes, he was reversing malignant hypertension, 1549 01:16:04,602 --> 01:16:07,772 reversing heart disease, the diabetic complications, 1550 01:16:07,814 --> 01:16:09,941 reversing diabetic blindness. 1551 01:16:09,983 --> 01:16:13,403 So, these people basically had death sentences, went to him, 1552 01:16:13,445 --> 01:16:15,447 and were given basically sugar. 1553 01:16:15,489 --> 01:16:20,076 You know, this horrible diet, but, it was strictly plant-based. 1554 01:16:20,118 --> 01:16:22,954 [Kip] If this information had been around since the 1940s, 1555 01:16:22,996 --> 01:16:24,747 why don't all doctors know this? 1556 01:16:24,789 --> 01:16:28,335 We're not taught about the power of food in medical school. 1557 01:16:28,376 --> 01:16:30,545 No one is taught that 1558 01:16:30,586 --> 01:16:33,298 the changes that we make with our diet 1559 01:16:33,340 --> 01:16:36,009 are probably the single most powerful thing we can do 1560 01:16:36,050 --> 01:16:37,427 to determine our destiny. 1561 01:16:37,469 --> 01:16:38,970 It trumps our genetics. 1562 01:16:39,012 --> 01:16:40,847 Why isn't your doctor telling this? 1563 01:16:40,888 --> 01:16:43,224 Odds are your doctor never learned any of this. 1564 01:16:43,266 --> 01:16:46,894 In fact, there's even a bill introduced just mandating physicians get seven hours 1565 01:16:46,936 --> 01:16:50,857 nutrition training every couple of years, just to kinda stay on top of it. 1566 01:16:50,898 --> 01:16:53,318 And who came out against that? 1567 01:16:53,360 --> 01:16:55,028 The California Medical Association. 1568 01:16:55,069 --> 01:16:57,071 Even the family physicians, the surgeons, 1569 01:16:57,113 --> 01:17:00,492 all the mainstream medical groups came out opposed. 1570 01:17:00,534 --> 01:17:02,452 It's seven hours. That's a lot. 1571 01:17:02,494 --> 01:17:04,745 Even if it's over one four-year period. 1572 01:17:04,787 --> 01:17:09,000 So, they're not just kinda neutral, but, they're actually actively opposing 1573 01:17:09,042 --> 01:17:10,502 nutrition education. 1574 01:17:10,544 --> 01:17:12,646 Ironically, when patients come to doctors with questions, 1575 01:17:12,670 --> 01:17:15,215 they assume that the doctor knows something about nutrition 1576 01:17:15,256 --> 01:17:16,757 and so it's kind of a double whammy 1577 01:17:16,799 --> 01:17:19,010 that doctors haven't been taught much about nutrition. 1578 01:17:19,052 --> 01:17:21,012 [Kip] Why don't we hear about this from dietitians 1579 01:17:21,054 --> 01:17:23,014 when nutrition is their entire specialty? 1580 01:17:23,056 --> 01:17:25,641 Turns out the American Nutrition and Dietetics Association 1581 01:17:25,683 --> 01:17:29,103 puts out nutrition fact sheets written by the industries themselves. 1582 01:17:29,145 --> 01:17:33,733 The industries pay $20,000 per fact sheet and explicitly take part in writing them. 1583 01:17:33,774 --> 01:17:35,985 So, you can learn about eggs from the egg industry. 1584 01:17:36,027 --> 01:17:38,405 You can learn about lamb from the lamb industry. 1585 01:17:38,446 --> 01:17:39,840 This would be like learning about the benefits 1586 01:17:39,864 --> 01:17:42,033 of smoking from the tobacco industry. 1587 01:17:42,075 --> 01:17:45,745 When people are eating meat, I think of it as a bit like smoking. 1588 01:17:45,786 --> 01:17:47,539 It's sort of Russian roulette. 1589 01:17:47,581 --> 01:17:51,209 You may not get diabetes, but your chances of getting diabetes, 1590 01:17:51,251 --> 01:17:53,253 about one in three. 1591 01:17:53,294 --> 01:17:55,606 You may not get cancer, but, your chances, if you're a man, about one in two. 1592 01:17:55,630 --> 01:17:56,964 A woman, one in three. 1593 01:17:57,006 --> 01:17:59,050 Your chances of gaining weight, two out of three. 1594 01:17:59,092 --> 01:18:01,010 It's not all diet, but, most of it is. 1595 01:18:01,052 --> 01:18:03,096 The best thing that you can do to make sure that 1596 01:18:03,137 --> 01:18:06,224 you empty all those bullets out of the chamber 1597 01:18:06,266 --> 01:18:08,059 and not taking a risk with your health 1598 01:18:08,101 --> 01:18:12,230 is to get the animal products out of your diet and eat healthy foods. 1599 01:18:12,272 --> 01:18:15,191 I came to TrueNorth to help me with my asthma 1600 01:18:15,233 --> 01:18:17,527 and to lose a little weight, and it's amazing 1601 01:18:17,569 --> 01:18:20,238 just in two weeks of changing my diet, 1602 01:18:20,280 --> 01:18:23,408 don't have to take any asthma medication, 1603 01:18:23,450 --> 01:18:27,287 no antidepressants, no pain medication, 1604 01:18:27,328 --> 01:18:29,997 no heart medication, nothing. 1605 01:18:30,039 --> 01:18:31,791 No medications at all. 1606 01:18:31,832 --> 01:18:34,794 And it's really, it's just incredible. 1607 01:18:34,835 --> 01:18:40,341 I was taking oxy and Advil, and I was taking 800 milligrams of Motrin 1608 01:18:40,383 --> 01:18:42,802 three times a day just to get through the day 1609 01:18:42,843 --> 01:18:44,638 because I was in so much pain. 1610 01:18:44,679 --> 01:18:46,431 - And now, nothing. - Wow. 1611 01:18:46,473 --> 01:18:48,099 - Nothing at all. - Two weeks. 1612 01:18:48,141 --> 01:18:50,184 Two weeks, 14 days. 1613 01:18:50,226 --> 01:18:52,353 All that medication, you're completely off. 1614 01:18:52,395 --> 01:18:53,813 Completely off everything. 1615 01:18:53,854 --> 01:18:56,566 It's just been so frustrating to me because 1616 01:18:56,608 --> 01:18:59,569 I went to so many different doctors for help, 1617 01:18:59,611 --> 01:19:04,157 and I tried so many different medications to help me with my asthma 1618 01:19:04,198 --> 01:19:06,159 and nothing helped, and I was stuck on the couch 1619 01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:09,870 for the last 10 months unable to breathe, 1620 01:19:09,912 --> 01:19:14,501 and now in two weeks' time, 14 days, 1621 01:19:14,542 --> 01:19:16,085 I'm off my medication. 1622 01:19:16,127 --> 01:19:19,797 And I can breathe and I feel good, and I can walk. 1623 01:19:19,839 --> 01:19:21,882 My life has changed and it only took 1624 01:19:21,924 --> 01:19:25,219 two weeks of whole plant-based diet. 1625 01:19:25,261 --> 01:19:27,138 - That's incredible. - Yeah. 1626 01:19:27,972 --> 01:19:29,641 That is incredible. 1627 01:19:29,683 --> 01:19:31,100 It really is. 1628 01:19:31,142 --> 01:19:32,810 - That's amazing. - It really is. 1629 01:19:32,852 --> 01:19:39,233 I feel so blessed and so good and just so happy to be doing this 1630 01:19:39,275 --> 01:19:41,528 and I'm hoping that I can be a role model 1631 01:19:41,569 --> 01:19:45,657 for other people and not be pushy about it. 1632 01:19:45,699 --> 01:19:48,660 Because everyone's gonna do it in their own time. 1633 01:19:48,702 --> 01:19:51,120 But, thank God my time is now. 1634 01:19:54,165 --> 01:19:55,416 That's pretty cool. 1635 01:19:55,458 --> 01:19:56,834 Thanks. 1636 01:19:56,876 --> 01:19:59,587 Thanks! 1637 01:19:59,629 --> 01:20:03,466 [Kip] As powerful as Amy's story was, I knew for some, eating a hundred percent 1638 01:20:03,508 --> 01:20:05,760 plant-based would still seem extreme. 1639 01:20:05,801 --> 01:20:10,431 I think there's the sense that everything's okay in moderation. 1640 01:20:10,473 --> 01:20:15,102 Right? But we haven't seen that moderation works. 1641 01:20:15,144 --> 01:20:19,315 There really isn't a study that shows that by eating meat and eggs in moderation 1642 01:20:19,357 --> 01:20:22,235 you can actually turn your heart disease around and get better. 1643 01:20:22,276 --> 01:20:25,530 But, I know people who have given up meat and they felt sick. 1644 01:20:25,572 --> 01:20:27,907 Yeah, it's unlikely that anybody's symptoms 1645 01:20:27,948 --> 01:20:30,744 are caused by dead decaying flesh deficiency. 1646 01:20:30,785 --> 01:20:33,621 The lack of highly processed animal food products 1647 01:20:33,663 --> 01:20:35,582 in the diet is not gonna be 1648 01:20:35,623 --> 01:20:38,251 associated with the causal factor by why they're sick. 1649 01:20:38,292 --> 01:20:40,229 There is gonna be a reason why they're not feeling well, 1650 01:20:40,253 --> 01:20:42,213 but, that's not gonna be one of them. 1651 01:20:42,255 --> 01:20:44,191 So, I've had people go vegan, and they come back to me and they're like, 1652 01:20:44,215 --> 01:20:47,510 "I'm hypothyroid and my doctor says I'm hypothyroid because 1653 01:20:47,552 --> 01:20:51,305 "plant-based diet makes you hypothyroid." 1654 01:20:51,347 --> 01:20:54,975 I'm like, so what does your doctor tell all his meat eaters that are hypothyroid? 1655 01:20:55,017 --> 01:20:59,230 What's in animal flesh or dairy that you can't get in plant-based? 1656 01:20:59,272 --> 01:21:01,065 Cholesterol. 1657 01:21:01,107 --> 01:21:03,359 Heterocyclic amines. 1658 01:21:03,401 --> 01:21:05,570 E. coli, you know, if you think about it, 1659 01:21:05,612 --> 01:21:08,864 there is nothing in an animal-based diet 1660 01:21:08,906 --> 01:21:11,743 that you can't get in a healthier form somewhere else. 1661 01:21:11,785 --> 01:21:14,287 The only other vitamin is vitamin B12. 1662 01:21:14,328 --> 01:21:16,664 It's not made by plants, not made by animals either, 1663 01:21:16,706 --> 01:21:18,958 made by little microbes that blanket the Earth. 1664 01:21:18,999 --> 01:21:21,628 So, because of the way we live in our sanitized world, 1665 01:21:21,669 --> 01:21:24,422 unless you're eating bacteria-contaminated foods, 1666 01:21:24,464 --> 01:21:26,549 we need to get a source of B12 from somewhere, 1667 01:21:26,591 --> 01:21:29,510 and so the healthiest, cheapest, safest source 1668 01:21:29,552 --> 01:21:33,055 is to get a vitamin B12 fortified food or vitamin B12 supplement, 1669 01:21:33,097 --> 01:21:35,308 not to get it from meat and dairy. 1670 01:21:35,349 --> 01:21:39,312 [Kip] What about people who say they have to eat meat for their blood type or, their genes? 1671 01:21:39,353 --> 01:21:42,565 It's just like I need meat because I'm a Capricorn 1672 01:21:42,607 --> 01:21:45,168 or I need meat 'cause I have an A plus blood, it's like what do you say? 1673 01:21:45,192 --> 01:21:49,196 No one has to eat meat. There's no vitamin, mineral, nutrient 1674 01:21:49,238 --> 01:21:52,908 that you can't get from non-animal sources. 1675 01:21:52,950 --> 01:21:56,203 Valentine's Day, I decided to go vegan 1676 01:21:56,245 --> 01:21:59,999 and give up all meat, which was never in my thoughts 1677 01:22:00,040 --> 01:22:01,751 in a while million years, 1678 01:22:01,793 --> 01:22:05,171 but I've heard so much success from people that are vegan. 1679 01:22:05,212 --> 01:22:07,923 And so I gave up all animal product whatsoever, 1680 01:22:07,965 --> 01:22:10,677 I've lost 29 pounds, 1681 01:22:10,718 --> 01:22:13,513 I've been able to cut my meds in half, 1682 01:22:13,554 --> 01:22:15,807 I've been able to cut my insulin in half, 1683 01:22:15,849 --> 01:22:18,893 and now I'm going for the moon, I'm going to go cut it all out. 1684 01:22:18,934 --> 01:22:22,438 In the last six weeks, we've just had three grandchildren. 1685 01:22:22,480 --> 01:22:24,315 And my ugly face is going to be around 1686 01:22:24,357 --> 01:22:27,985 to see 'em graduate from high school and college. I'm gonna be here. 1687 01:22:28,027 --> 01:22:31,781 My mission is to let everybody know you do not have to suffer 1688 01:22:31,823 --> 01:22:34,408 from diabetes and cancer and heart disease 1689 01:22:34,450 --> 01:22:36,243 because someone in your family had it 1690 01:22:36,285 --> 01:22:39,205 or because the doctors are telling you this is what's gonna happen. 1691 01:22:39,246 --> 01:22:41,499 You can take charge of your health 1692 01:22:41,541 --> 01:22:44,669 and have a positive outcome just like I did. 1693 01:22:44,711 --> 01:22:47,714 The reason I'm so committed to this is 1694 01:22:47,755 --> 01:22:52,510 my grandmother had diabetes, and I didn't know what I know now 1695 01:22:52,552 --> 01:22:54,512 about healing the body. 1696 01:22:54,554 --> 01:22:56,138 And if I did, I feel like 1697 01:22:56,180 --> 01:22:58,808 she could've lived at least a few years longer. 1698 01:22:58,850 --> 01:23:00,852 And so it's in her honor 1699 01:23:02,562 --> 01:23:04,188 that I do what I do. 1700 01:23:04,230 --> 01:23:06,106 If I could save someone else's grandmother, 1701 01:23:06,148 --> 01:23:09,151 aunt, uncle, father from that. 1702 01:23:15,074 --> 01:23:19,328 So, I'm excited about getting the message out there. 1703 01:23:19,370 --> 01:23:22,248 [Kip] There's a common belief that eating plant-based is expensive. 1704 01:23:22,289 --> 01:23:26,753 Not at all. It can be done in a very inexpensive way 1705 01:23:26,794 --> 01:23:30,924 where you buy foods that are in season and you shop in the bulk bins 1706 01:23:30,965 --> 01:23:32,675 and that saves a lot of money. 1707 01:23:32,717 --> 01:23:36,011 You can eliminate a lot of your expenses 1708 01:23:36,053 --> 01:23:39,348 on your grocery bill by not buying meat and dairy 1709 01:23:39,390 --> 01:23:41,225 because those things are expensive. 1710 01:23:41,267 --> 01:23:46,522 Our meal plan for our family of four is $25 per person in the family. 1711 01:23:46,564 --> 01:23:48,691 20.64 is your total. 1712 01:23:48,733 --> 01:23:50,526 [Kip] 20.64? Whoa. 1713 01:23:50,568 --> 01:23:53,320 That's for an entire week of food. 1714 01:23:53,362 --> 01:23:55,090 [Kip] An exploding movement of elite athletes 1715 01:23:55,114 --> 01:23:57,324 are utilizing vegan diets to heal injuries, 1716 01:23:57,366 --> 01:24:00,453 speed recovery times and enhance their performance. 1717 01:24:00,494 --> 01:24:05,291 Before I was vegan, I was only bench pressing 315 like five times. 1718 01:24:05,332 --> 01:24:08,377 Then, after going vegan, I was doing 400. 1719 01:24:08,419 --> 01:24:12,131 425, 465, and I was like, oh my God, 1720 01:24:12,172 --> 01:24:14,425 this is amazing, I'm vegan and I'm bench pressing 1721 01:24:14,467 --> 01:24:17,094 465 pounds, this is ridiculous. 1722 01:24:17,136 --> 01:24:20,055 And as soon as I went vegan, tendinitis started disappearing. 1723 01:24:20,097 --> 01:24:22,182 My strength in my right arm started coming back. 1724 01:24:22,224 --> 01:24:24,101 High blood pressure was going down. 1725 01:24:24,143 --> 01:24:28,773 You can't be strong and be dying on the inside, that's not strong. 1726 01:24:28,815 --> 01:24:30,900 That's weak. That's really weak. 1727 01:24:30,942 --> 01:24:32,753 Because yeah, you look big and strong on the outside, 1728 01:24:32,777 --> 01:24:36,363 yeah, big man, no, but, your heart's crying for help, 1729 01:24:36,405 --> 01:24:38,532 on the inside you're dying. 1730 01:24:38,574 --> 01:24:41,995 I'm a professional parkour athlete, a two-time world free running champion, 1731 01:24:42,036 --> 01:24:43,555 and more recently I got into Ninja Warrior 1732 01:24:43,579 --> 01:24:45,665 where I'm captain of Team Europe as we won 1733 01:24:45,706 --> 01:24:47,416 USA versus the world. 1734 01:24:47,458 --> 01:24:50,044 For something like Ninja Warrior and parkour, specifically, 1735 01:24:50,085 --> 01:24:53,213 you really need to have a good strength to body weight ratio, 1736 01:24:53,255 --> 01:24:55,108 so I was carrying mass that I really didn't need. 1737 01:24:55,132 --> 01:24:57,468 And when I went vegan, I lost 15, 20 pounds. 1738 01:24:57,510 --> 01:25:00,596 I was more agile, I was more efficient and more stamina in my body. 1739 01:25:00,638 --> 01:25:02,491 Just that extra bit of pop that I didn't have before, 1740 01:25:02,515 --> 01:25:04,350 it just gave me that extra strength. 1741 01:25:04,391 --> 01:25:06,811 This is a vibrant way to live. 1742 01:25:06,853 --> 01:25:09,605 It can enhance you as an athlete, for me, 1743 01:25:09,647 --> 01:25:11,500 a hundred percent better athlete than I was before, 1744 01:25:11,524 --> 01:25:13,943 it's unlocked a whole new chapter of my training. 1745 01:25:13,985 --> 01:25:15,587 The science is there, the health is there, 1746 01:25:15,611 --> 01:25:17,255 the athletes are there proving that you don't need to eat 1747 01:25:17,279 --> 01:25:19,573 dead animals to be strong, to be healthy. 1748 01:25:19,615 --> 01:25:22,409 I started working out when I was 47 years old. 1749 01:25:22,451 --> 01:25:26,080 All the muscles you see, I gained as a vegan. 1750 01:25:26,121 --> 01:25:30,668 I gained 15 pounds of muscles on my body, eating all plant-based and vegan foods. 1751 01:25:30,710 --> 01:25:34,922 All the aches and pains in my body, it just went away. 1752 01:25:34,964 --> 01:25:37,967 Because I'm not ingesting so many inflaming foods, 1753 01:25:38,009 --> 01:25:39,927 the acidic foods that animal products are. 1754 01:25:39,969 --> 01:25:44,431 Gorillas, rhinos and elephants, they all get their muscles and strength 1755 01:25:44,473 --> 01:25:47,518 from eating plants. That's what I do. 1756 01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:50,396 [Blanco] I travel all around the world for my surfing, 1757 01:25:50,437 --> 01:25:53,273 and I've always been able to eat vegan. 1758 01:25:53,315 --> 01:25:56,736 I feel like if you want something you can make it happen. 1759 01:25:56,777 --> 01:26:00,489 I just don't make any excuses. I would never not be vegan now that I know 1760 01:26:00,531 --> 01:26:03,743 all the benefits and now that I know how it feels to be vegan. 1761 01:26:03,784 --> 01:26:08,205 Every aspect of my life has been improved by adopting this lifestyle. 1762 01:26:08,247 --> 01:26:10,875 I feel better, I perform better athletically, 1763 01:26:10,917 --> 01:26:13,878 I sleep better, my energy with my kids is better, 1764 01:26:13,920 --> 01:26:15,462 my focus at work is better. 1765 01:26:15,504 --> 01:26:17,548 Everything is better, my skin cleared up. 1766 01:26:17,590 --> 01:26:20,843 I've kept myself trim for nine years now doing this. 1767 01:26:20,885 --> 01:26:23,679 All I can tell you is that I felt 1768 01:26:23,721 --> 01:26:27,100 and I continue to feel better than I ever felt before. 1769 01:26:27,141 --> 01:26:29,769 My friend Jason Lester and I were the first people 1770 01:26:29,810 --> 01:26:32,813 to do this challenge called Epic Five, 1771 01:26:32,855 --> 01:26:34,899 which entailed doing five Ironmans 1772 01:26:34,941 --> 01:26:37,317 on five Hawaiian islands in under a week. 1773 01:26:37,359 --> 01:26:41,906 An Ironman is a 2.4 mile swim followed by a 112 mile bike 1774 01:26:41,948 --> 01:26:45,325 and then running a marathon 26.2 miles after that, 1775 01:26:45,367 --> 01:26:46,869 so we did five of those in a row 1776 01:26:46,911 --> 01:26:50,247 on five different islands in a little under a week. 1777 01:26:50,289 --> 01:26:51,707 Did you almost die? 1778 01:26:51,749 --> 01:26:53,542 No. We didn't die. 1779 01:26:53,584 --> 01:26:56,184 So, I guess the famous question, where'd you get your protein, man? 1780 01:26:57,588 --> 01:27:00,133 From plants! 1781 01:27:00,174 --> 01:27:02,193 [Kip] Like so many people, I was looking for excuses 1782 01:27:02,217 --> 01:27:03,677 not to change my diet. 1783 01:27:03,719 --> 01:27:06,388 But, once I finally did, I felt liberated. 1784 01:27:06,430 --> 01:27:07,848 Within days, I could feel the blood 1785 01:27:07,890 --> 01:27:10,184 running through my veins with a new vitality. 1786 01:27:10,225 --> 01:27:14,396 Within weeks, I felt a transformation throughout my entire body and mind. 1787 01:27:14,438 --> 01:27:17,441 Not only could I survive on a purely plant-based vegan diet, 1788 01:27:17,483 --> 01:27:20,360 I could thrive. I felt amazing. 1789 01:27:20,402 --> 01:27:22,905 I competed in my first marathon in six years, 1790 01:27:22,947 --> 01:27:26,659 training half the amount and beat my personal record by 23 minutes. 1791 01:27:26,700 --> 01:27:30,079 Less than a month later, I did my first full Ironman. 1792 01:27:30,121 --> 01:27:32,039 Although I could possibly get away with eating 1793 01:27:32,081 --> 01:27:34,017 a little bit of meat and dairy without ill effects 1794 01:27:34,041 --> 01:27:37,044 to my personal health, I could no longer willingly support 1795 01:27:37,086 --> 01:27:39,254 an industry I knew was causing so much suffering 1796 01:27:39,296 --> 01:27:42,675 to communities, families and all life on the planet. 1797 01:27:42,716 --> 01:27:45,970 A whole new world opened up. I felt whole again. 1798 01:27:46,012 --> 01:27:48,722 Connected to a greater sense of what true health is. 1799 01:27:48,764 --> 01:27:54,394 And where true health doesn't end with me, but begins with us. 1800 01:27:54,436 --> 01:27:59,566 If people adopted a plant-based diet, the changes we would see 1801 01:27:59,608 --> 01:28:03,988 in our individual health, in our national health situation 1802 01:28:04,030 --> 01:28:07,282 and in this physical, environmental world we live in, 1803 01:28:07,324 --> 01:28:09,326 would be so profound. 1804 01:28:09,368 --> 01:28:12,163 Today, you can say, 1805 01:28:12,205 --> 01:28:13,914 I'm not gonna eat that stuff anymore. 1806 01:28:13,956 --> 01:28:17,292 It's the one thing that I can do myself personally 1807 01:28:17,334 --> 01:28:18,836 to make a difference. 1808 01:28:18,878 --> 01:28:21,421 It will give you a greater sense of well-being and happiness 1809 01:28:21,463 --> 01:28:24,508 when you know that one, you're not destroying your health 1810 01:28:24,550 --> 01:28:27,469 every time you sit down and eat, you're not promoting cruelty, 1811 01:28:27,511 --> 01:28:29,513 and you're not damaging the Earth. 1812 01:28:29,555 --> 01:28:32,599 I don't want my gains to be at the detriment of the planet of other things. 1813 01:28:32,641 --> 01:28:34,476 And yet I'm not weaker, I'm stronger. 1814 01:28:34,518 --> 01:28:36,038 That's the beauty of it, when you're altruistic, 1815 01:28:36,062 --> 01:28:37,831 when you make choices for the greater good of others, 1816 01:28:37,855 --> 01:28:40,566 it's comes around benefits me as well. It benefits us all. 1817 01:28:40,607 --> 01:28:44,403 Studies show that we can not only survive but we can thrive. 1818 01:28:44,444 --> 01:28:48,407 I just feel this is a great way to live, not harming other beings. 1819 01:28:48,448 --> 01:28:51,035 When you can be healthy and happier. 1820 01:28:51,077 --> 01:28:53,704 I love it! It's a great life. 1821 01:28:53,746 --> 01:28:57,124 I never thought that I could feel this good at this age. 1822 01:28:57,166 --> 01:28:59,501 And I just want everybody to feel this way. 1823 01:28:59,543 --> 01:29:02,046 I feel like a 20-year-old, I'm almost 50. 1824 01:29:02,088 --> 01:29:05,716 Nothing tastes as good as healthy feels, basically. 1825 01:29:05,758 --> 01:29:08,219 And so the choices that we make every single day, 1826 01:29:08,261 --> 01:29:10,637 day in and day out around our food 1827 01:29:10,679 --> 01:29:14,892 has the capacity to bring us true health and optimal wellness. 1828 01:29:14,934 --> 01:29:17,270 Not just individually, but collectively 1829 01:29:17,311 --> 01:29:19,897 as a species and for our planet. 1830 01:29:19,939 --> 01:29:21,815 We're not gonna live forever. 1831 01:29:21,857 --> 01:29:24,526 But while we are alive, we can live well. 1832 01:29:24,568 --> 01:29:26,946 And for me, as a doctor, that's what I wanna see. 1833 01:29:26,987 --> 01:29:29,240 Where there's a will, there is a way. 1834 01:29:30,616 --> 01:29:31,951 And I believe that. 1835 01:29:32,910 --> 01:29:35,037 [Latin music playing]