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worldwide, we're looking atapproximately 315 millionpeople with diabetes. there's no questionthat we're in the midstof a diabetes epidemic. right now, one in threemedicare dollars is spent in the careof people with diabetes. one in ten totalhealth care dollars is spenton people with diabetes. there's no question thatthis is a major problem. [kip] what in particularis the correlationfor diet and diabetes? i'm not gonna get into that. - into diet?- no.

[latin music playing] my name's kip. i'm a filmmaker from sanfrancisco, and i have aconfession to make. i'm a recovering hypochondriac. like so many of us,i have a family historyof diabetes, heart disease and cancer. my dad had his first heartbypass at 49, his secondat age 50. my grandpa died young fromdiabetes complications, and both my other grandpaand grandma died of cancer.

i was always paranoidthat i would also getone of these diseases. like any good hypochondriac,webmd's symptoms checkerwas essentially my browser's home page. even in my teensi took metamucil every dayand a daily aspirin. i read all the latestself-diagnosis books, i ate every multivitamini could get my hands on, and i was obsessed withbodily functions. i followed all the largehealth organizations' recommendations forpreventing disease.

i exercise regularly,don't smoke, don't drink soda,get enough sleep, reduce stress and grew upeating what i thought wasa healthy diet until... -[tires screeching]-the world healthorganization this morning has classified processedmeat such as baconand sausage as carcinogenic, directly involved incausing cancer in humans. [male anchor] processed meatis clearly linked toan increase in cancer. hotdogs or, bacon couldbe just as dangerousas smoking cigarettes. [kip] the worldhealth organizationhad looked at over 800 studies fromten different countries,

finding a direct link toconsuming processed meatand cancer. just one servingof deli meats daily increases your risks ofcolorectal cancer by 18%. i had no ideathat what we ateaffected cancer rates. but i never felt like i hadeaten a lot of processed meatsuntil i realized that processed meat includeshotdogs, bacon, sausage, salami, ham, pepperoni,cold cuts and deli slices, basically everythingi grew up eating. the world health organizationclassifies processed meat

as a group one carcinogen, the same group as cigarettes,asbestos and plutonium, and classifies red meatas a group two carcinogen. was this like i hadessentially been smokingmy entire childhood? if processed meats are labeledthe same as cigarettes, how is it even legal forkids to be eating this way? i thought thiswas new information, but, many of these studieshave been around for 50 years. i couldn't believe i'dbeen eating processed meats

virtually my entire life andwas just now finding outhow dangerous they are. why hadn't i beenhearing about it fromthe american cancer society, the largest cancer groupin the nation? when i went on their website,i was shocked to see that none of this informationwas featured ontheir home page. but, even more shocking,on their eat healthy page, they actually encouragedeating group onecarcinogenic foods like processed turkeyand canned meats. this is after the worldhealth organization

reviewed over 800 studiesdefinitively linkingprocessed meat to cancer. [man] thanks for calling youramerican cancer society.my name is sam, i'm a cancer informationspecialist. how may ihelp you today? yeah, i was callingbecause i was wondering why you all recommend peopleto eat processed meaton your website, which the world healthorganization has classifiedas a group one carcinogen? which is the same class astobacco smoking, asbestosand plutonium. this would be likea lung organization having a how to rollyour own cigarette sectionon their website.

it's kinda the same thing. [sam] well,let me just place youon a brief hold because... [kip] he wasn't able toanswer my questions and saidsomeone would get back with me. i had always been concernedabout cancer because both my grandmaand grandpa died of cancer. i wondered if things would'vebeen different had theyknown the link between diet and this terrible disease. in the us,one out of every four deathsis from cancer. oh, sweet!

american cancer society repconfirmed an interviewthis week. so, we just went in for theinterview with the americancancer society rep, and the security guard saidthere's no interview scheduled. so, i went into my phoneand it turns out last night, after i told her that theinterview's gonna be about the correlation betweendiet and cancer, she said she could nolonger do the interview. [kip] after repeated emailsasking why she was declining my interview to simplytalk about diet and cancer,

she stoppedresponding altogether. why would an american cancersociety rep not want totalk about this? i was, however,able to connectwith a growing movement of doctors who are willingto talk about the link between the standardamerican diet and disease. and it goes beyond just cancer. i took my old trusty vansuper blue once againout on the road. 2/3 of adults are nowoverweight or, obese. and we havean epidemic cascadeof debilitating disease

that's overcoming the country. there's no way we can sustainthe current style of care with the epidemic thatwe're creating with ourdiet and lifestyle choices. the diabetes, the arthritis,the heart disease,the dementia, the obesity,the cancers are affectingabout 70% of deaths. all the data is that those70% of deaths and morbidity are largely lifestylerelated and preventable. most kids by age ten in the us already have fatty streaksin their arteries,

the first stage ofatherosclerosis leading toheart attacks, strokes. here in american medicine,we operate fromthe disease model. we are in the businessof treating sick people, we are not in the businessof trying to prevent peoplefrom becoming sick. when you look atchronic disease risk, all the things that wewalk around worrying about. actually, dietary choicestrump smoking when itcomes to those risks. if i could deliverone messageto the researchers who are looking forthe cause of diabetes, andthe cause of clogged arteries

and the causeof high blood pressureand the cause of obesity, i would tell them theanswers in three words: it's the food! it's whatthe americans are eating. [kip] today, with 2/3 ofamericans being overweight, clearly there's a food issue. in the next 25 years,one out of every threeamericans will have diabetes. my name's michael abdalla.i'm from atlanta, georgia. and unfortunately, i wasdiagnosed about 10 yearsago with diabetes.

and eight years agoi had two stents put in. i don't know where to go,i don't know what to do,you are just like out of optionsand you don'tknow what to do. you're taking medicines.you listen to this doctor. and the cardiologistsays take this. and the endocrinologistsays take that. and your general practitionerdoctor says... you don't knowwhat's going on here. it's a real challenging thingand it is something that

you don't wanna get.you just don't wanna get it. [kip] government and mediaalmost exclusively blame lack of exerciseand sugary foodsas a cause of diabetes. but, i wanted to talk withan actual expert on the roleof diet and diabetes. i went to speakwith premier physician,diabetes expert and researcher,dr. neal barnard. [kip] what role does sugarplay in causing diabetes? driving me crazy. diabetes is not and neverwas caused be eating

a high carbohydrate diet,and it's not causedby eating sugar. the cause of diabetes is a diet that builds up the amountof fat into the blood. i'm talking abouta typical meat-based,animal-based diet. you can look into the musclecells of the human body, and you find thatthey're building uptiny particles of fat that's causinginsulin resistance. what that means is,the sugar that isnaturally from the foods that you're eatingcan't get into the cellswhere it belongs.

it builds up in the blood,and that's diabetes. [kip] i have never heardthat meat was associatedwith causing diabetes. we had always been toldthat sugar or obesitycaused it. renowned weight lossbariatric surgeon dr. garth davis,though, agreed. everyone thinks thatyou get diabeticbecause of carbs. they did a huge study in thatepic study 500,000 people, carbs consumptionwas inversely relatedwith diabetes. in other words, themore carbs someone ate,the less diabetes they had.

but, meat wasstrongly correlated. get that aha moment.the starch is, the carbsare good for you. they're not bad for you. this idea thatcarbs make you fatis utterly ridiculous. carbs cannot make you fatin and of themselves. we have storage in our muscles and in our liver forcarbs called glycogen. so, when we eat carbs,we either store itor we burn it. now eat fat, that goesstraight to your fat.

your body can't turnthose carbs into fat unless you're reallyoverdoing the calories. and obesity,it's a death sentence. you're at much higherrisk of getting cancer, you're almost certainlygonna get diabetes. no one wants the fat shame, and we all wanteverybody to becomfortable with our bodies, but, this movement to becomfortable with our bodies has made us comfortablewith being sick.

and that's a huge problem. i go into the hospitaland i look around me, people on dialysis,all these sick people. and just about everydisease in there is becauseof what people are eating. here's the thing.if i eat a sugary cookie, the sugar lures you inlike the trojan horse, but waiting inside thatcookie is a huge load ofbutter or, shortening. and that's what fattens you up. and that's the part thatleads to the diabetes,

it's the fatty foods,not really so much the sugar. [davis] it's not thatsugar's good for you.there's no nutrients in it. it's excess calories. but, when you eat sugar,you don't get inflammationright away. when you eat sugar,you're not getting plaquesforming in your vessels. when you're eating sugar, your body's gonna storemost of it as glycogenor burn it as calories. and so this focus on sugarhas taken all the focusoff meat, dairy, eggs, pork, turkey, chicken.

people need to understand.if they're child gets diabetes, you've just taken 19years off their lifespan. we're talking life and death. [kip] i realizedthere was so much more about diet and diseasethat i hadn't ever learned. it felt as ifthis information hadbeen practically withheld. processed meat causes cancer.sugar doesn't cause diabetes. i had doubt about the claimsthese doctors were making, so i did some searchingon my own.

harvard researchers lookedat nine prospective studies finding that justone serving ofprocessed meat per day increased risk of developingdiabetes by 51 percent. the link between eatingmeat and developingdiabetes became undeniable. but, when i wenton a leading diabetesorganization's website, the american diabetesassociation, not only did they nothave this informationfront and center, they were featuring recipesfor red and processed meat. and on their recipes forhealthy living, they hadbacon-wrapped shrimp.

what the health? all right, sent an email toamerican diabetes association, see if they'll get back to us. as destructive as diabetesis, it pales in comparisonto heart disease. over 17 million people dieevery year fromcardiovascular disease. it is the leading causeof death around the world. nearly one out ofevery three peoplewill die from this disease. the amount of people who diefrom cardiovascular disease is the equivalent offour jumbo jets crashing

every single hour,every single day,every single year. my name's amy resnic,and i'm fromswampscott, massachusetts, a little bit north of boston. and i recently went tomy doctor for asthma because i had a veryhard time breathing. and while there,she did some blood work. and one of the testswas c-reactive protein, there was a scaleof one to three, one being low for cardiac event,

three being highfor cardiac event. and my number was 10.82. what does that mean? that means i am on theroad for heart attack. and she said probablywithin the next 30 days. - 30 days?- 30 days. if i'm goingthe way i was going. i take this formy heart arrhythmia. i take this for pain.

oxycodone for pain. and lorazepam for stress. cyclobenzaprine fora muscle relaxer. also take topamax and prozac. and i also usea cpap machineto help me breathe. and my asthma has beenso bad this past year. i use it during the dayas well to get some air. i am tired when i wake up, i'm tired during the day.i take a nap, i'm still tired.

i can't breathe. and i know i need to makea change for my health. or, else i'm not gonnabe here for my family. when we speak of heart disease, i would say the role ofalcohol is pretty small. the role of sugaris very small, too.smoking is big, but, the good news isthat most people have quitor never did smoke. the problem with animal-baseddiet, its contribution toheart disease is huge, and it is pervasive.

all this expensive imaging, procedures, bypasses,medication. none of which has onesolitary single thing to do with the causationof the illness, so you dive a completely benign, food borne illnessthat never hadits causation treated. when we eat these kind ofdead meat bacteria toxins, within minutes, you getthis burst of inflammation within your system,such that you basicallyparalyze your arteries,

you get this stiffening ofthe arteries, their inabilityto relax normally in half. so, it's not like decades downthe road eating unhealthythere'll be some damage. no, we're talking damageright then and there, within minutes of itgoing into our mouth. many people are giventhe diagnosis of alzheimer's disease,when it's not truealzheimer's at all. the vast majority ofpeople suffer dementia due to theirtiny blood vesselsin their brain clogging up and their nerve cellsbeing shortchanged ofoxygenated blood.

and guess where that bloodvessel dementia comes from, those little tinyarteries are clogging up from that steadystream of badcholesterol, et cetera. it's really quite clear. both fromthe standpoint of cancer and the standpoint ofcardiovascular disease that animal proteinplays an enormous role. [kip]is chicken better? it's a question of whetheryou wanna be shot or, hung.

the flesh food that i wouldeliminate from the americandiet would be poultry, would be turkey and chicken. a brilliant advertisingcampaign has convinced people that oh, it's white meat,it's healthier. the leading source of sodium, in the american dietfor adults is chicken. it can be labeled all naturalchicken but, be injectedwith salt water. i think up to800 milligrams of sodium. heterocyclic amines areclear-cut carcinogens,

and they can form in anykind of meat as it's heated,as it's cooked. but, by far, thebiggest source is chicken. we sent researchersinto fast foodand family restaurants. not only werethere carcinogens inevery single restaurant, but, we found them in everysingle chicken samplethat we took. if somebody brings theirfamily in, and they'rebuying a bucket of chicken, nobody tells them thatthere are carcinogens. if you're sellingcarcinogens to people, you've gotta warn themthat they're in there.

[kip] but the american cancersociety encourages people to switch from redand processed meatto chicken. why would the americancancer society tell people to switch fromeating one carcinogenic food to another when a harvarduniversity study showed that men with prostatecancer who eat largeamounts of chicken, increase their riskof the diseaseprogressing four times. the number one dietarysource in america of cholesterol is chickenbecause of thevolume of chicken.

chicken's becomegrilled chickenand organic chicken. it's machismo. but it has nearly asmuch cholesterol per gramas red beef. so, just on sheer volume,it's the number one source. you got eggs being close behind. [kip] i never reallythought about eggs much. i just thought of themas a standard partof a healthy diet. but, then i found a studysuggesting that eating justone egg a day can be as bad as smokingfive cigarettes per dayfor life expectancy.

yolk of a hen's egg isthe most concentrated glom of saturated fatand cholesterol. it is made to runa baby chicken for 21 dayswith no outside energy. it is pure fat and cholesterol. and when we put thatinto our bloodstream,it coats our red blood cells. our blood gets thicker andmore viscous. it changesour hormone levels. it raisesour cholesterol levels. there's nothing healthyabout eatingthe yolk of the egg. [kip] but i thoughtcholesterol and saturated fatwasn't an issue anymore.

all these saturated fatstudies that have come out, trying to vindicatesaturated fat is a campaignby the dairy industry, wherein the number onesource of saturated fatis dairy, it's not meat. 2008,the global dairy industrygot together at a meeting and explicitlyread their agenda, was to neutralize thenegative impact of milk fat by regulators and medicalprofessionals unquote, so what do they do,they funded studies. [kip] the main studythat started the wholesaturated fat media craze

was funded bythe national dairy council. the egg industrysimilarly funds studies that confuse consumersby making claimsthat eggs don't negatively affect heartfunction. that is, onlywhen compared to eating a mcdonald's sausage mcmuffin? so, what they're reallysaying is that eating eggs is just asbad as eating a mcmuffin. when you eat foods, like a beef or, steak or,a processed meat, a hotdog,

you're not justgetting saturated fat. you're also getting otheradditional toxins thatare in that food. there's heme iron, carcinogens, processing chemicals,this all a lotmore complicated than just lookingat saturated fat. the strategy is not on makingtheir products any safer. the strategy is to justtry to confuse the public,to introduce doubt. there's a famous tobaccoindustry memo. it's calleddoubt is our product. that's all they had to do.

they didn't have toconvince americans thatsmoking was healthy. they just hadto introduce doubt.then they would win. if there's justenough controversy, people kind of throw uptheir hands, "i don't knowwhat to eat." confusion is their game. i really don't think peoplethought what they ateled to heart disease. they think,"oh, it's genetic,my parents had it." i don't think people reallythink that what they ateled to diabetes, i think,"oh, my parents had it,i was gonna get it,"

and certainly cancer,they don't think that way. people have bad lifestylesthat they've inherited. environmentally, they'vebeen exposed to a certain way of eating and livingthat they've carried on into their adulthood,passed onto their children, that is why they go on todevelop the same diseases that their parents andgrandparents may have hadbefore them. but it is not inevitable. even if you havea genetic predisposition,

doesn't mean it's goingto necessarily manifest. and what determineswhether it manifests or not may be those epigeneticvariables, the thingsthat you can control. the environmental factors,the dietary factors,the lifestyle factors. so, we can actually changethe expression of genes, tumor suppressing genes,tumor activating genes by what we eat, whatwe put into our bodies. so, even if you've beendealt a bad genetic deck, you can stillreshuffle it with diet.

[kip] i had always thoughtthat i would developheart disease at a young age because both my dad andgrandpa had heart attacks. i was taughtthat they were genetic. but the heart attacks probablyhad less to do with genes and more to do withour diets high in meat. that's why when i went on theamerican heart association's heart-healthy recipes page, i could not believethey had an entire sectionon beef recipes? this was just like theamerican cancer society

encouraging eatinggroup one carcinogenson their site. meat loaf, pork loin, steak on your recipe list,are you kidding me? it's like this menuis trying to givepeople heart attacks. on your website, we noticedheart-healthy recipes and we were kind ofbewildered by why there was a bunch ofrecipes on, a whole sectionon beef, beef recipes. and there was alsoa section on egg recipes when there's such a strong linkbetween beef, red meatand heart disease.

i honestly don't know'cause i don't do that,i guess. that's not what what i do. another organization repthat wasn't ableto answer my questions. but, he said thathe'd have someoneget in touch shortly. i was, however, able totalk to the president of the americancollege of cardiology,dr. kim williams. so, the americancollege of cardiology is a 47,000-memberand growing organization with a dedicated missionto reduce heart disease

and to improve patients' lives. and if you lookat the incidentsof hypertension and diabetes and mortality in men,they actually get reducedas you go higher and higher in termsof how much yourestrict animal products. what about fish? so, fish is a little different. you've got the four worries,which is pcbs, mercury, saturated fat and cholesterol. and the cholesterolis all over the place.

you can have tuna in water that'll be almost lessthan a glass of milk, to salmon or, tilapia which is higherthan a pork chop. [goldhamer] if you lookobjectively at fish, what you find isthey've become, essentially,mercury sponges. and that's why in manyparts of the countrythey warn you, don't have morethan so many ofthese fish a week because getting too muchmercury can kill you.

fish are eaten by bigger fishwho are eaten by bigger fish, and these pesticides or,herbicides bioaccumulatein the fish flesh and these big fish, includingthe salmon, which peoplethink is the healthiest fish, truth is, the amount ofpesticides and herbicides in the flesh of these fishare shocking,and they have estrogenic and cancer-promotingproperties in them. they'll say, "well,but, don't sardineshave less concentration of toxic waste productsthan other ones?" something being less toxicdoesn't make it healthy,

it just makes it less toxic. farmed fish isby no means healthier. all the antibiotics thatthese animals have to be fed. similar to chickens and turkeys kept in confinement,these fish get infections. they get fungal infections,they get bacterial infections, you've got to feed themanti-fungals, antibiotics, and these substances accumulatein the fish flesh as well. [kip] i always knewthat pollution wasbad for our health,

but i had never thoughtabout the environmentalpollutants affecting food. [ewall] dioxins beingthe most toxic, man-madechemicals known to science cause all sorts of things. they cause endometriosis,they cause cancers, they cause endocrinedisruption problems. but, most of your exposure,93 percent of it, comes from eating meatand dairy products because it climbs upin the food chainso effectively. so, you canget exposed to themby living near these

incinerators and breathing it,but, it will take you 14 years to breathe in as muchdioxin as a cow will ingest by eatingthe grass in one day. and that dioxin willaccumulate in its fat, which includes the milkand the meat and anyoneeating meat or dairy products is gonna getthat dose of dioxin. so, it climbs upthe food chainin every step. men have no wayin their bodiesto get rid of dioxins, but, women have two ways.

they're both involvinghaving a baby. one is that dioxin crossesthe placenta intothe growing infant and the other is thatit comes out fromthe breast milk. so, if you have a meatand dairy-consuming motherbreastfeeding that infant, then the highestimpacts of toxic exposure like mercury and dioxinswill go to that infant. pregnant women are told,"certain types of fishshould be avoided," but, what about all theseother animal products which are introducing,imagine asthe fetus is developing,

introducing these veryharmful toxins which, create reproductiveabnormalities, develop mental problemsand hormonal issues right as the child isdeveloping, the most criticalstage of development. it does make you worrywhen people say, "don't you wannahave a little bit of milkbecause you're pregnant? "don't you wanna have somefish 'cause your pregnant?" who do you think isgonna get the chemicalsthat are in that? [snyder] all theseenvironmental toxins

and toxins from the feedthat they're being fed accumulate in their tissuesand are releasedinto the mother and unfortunately, to the child when you eat these productswhen you're pregnant. so, this includes antibiotics,hormones, steroidsin animal feed. commercial animals arelargely fed gmo corn and soy which are very ladenin pesticides. pcbs have beenbanned since the 70s, but, they persist inthe environment, dioxins.

all of these compoundscan create hormonal, reproductive, developmentaldamage as well. eating organic beef,poultry, pork or fish will not helpyou avoid contaminants like mercury, like dioxins,like strontium-90 because they fall out overall sorts of farm fields and water bodies, and thenthey don't skip over theorganic fields. and so really,the contaminantsare coming in regardless of how theseanimals are raised.

[kip] i hadalways been concerned about the possiblehealth impacts of gmos but, then found out that mostof the world's gmo crops are actuallyconsumed by livestock, with dairy cows consumingthe most per animal. this fact, with everything ilearned about bioaccumulationmade dairy terrifying. especially consideringhow much cheesei ate in my life. [goldhamer]cheese is an amazing productwhen you think about it. it's probably oneof the single best foodsin compromising health

that you're gonnaactually feed to people. think about it, you'vegot an animal product. so, you've got all the issuesof biological concentration. you have a highly processedfood product, and not only does ithave naturallya lot saturated fat, but, you puta lot of salt into it. there's a strong linkbetween dairy foodsand autoimmune diseases. and so that can showitself up as excessiveproduction of mucus and exacerbationof asthma in kidswho are prone to that

and even adults,and also, there's anassociation between dairy foodsand multiple sclerosisand type one diabetes, which is an autoimmunedisease, and otherrheumatologic problems. cow's milk isbaby calf growth fluid. that's what the stuff is. there's absolutely no childor human on earth who actually needsthe milk of a cow any more thanthey need the milkof a giraffe or, a mouse. most people in the worldare lactose intolerant.

that's the normalstate of affairs. why would your body createthis enzyme, just lactose after weaning, after infancy,it doesn't make any sense. 73% of african americansare lactose intolerant. 95% of asians, roughly 70% of native americans, and about 53%of hispanic americansare lactose intolerant. our governmentis encouragingamericans of color to eat foods that it knowsis going to make them ill.

ultimately,what that boils down to is the governmentis telling meas an african american to eat food that'sgonna make me illfor no health benefit so that it willbenefit dairy farmers. that's a form ofinstitutionalized racism. yeah, milk is a riskyfood for human consumption. as a pediatrician,i see on a daily basis children suffering fromconditions that are linked or associated todairy consumption

such as eczema, acne,constipation, acid reflux, iron deficiency, anemia. cow's milk protein isthe most allergenic food. people think, "well, no,i want hormone-free, not injected withbovine growth hormone." but milk is this hormonal fluid, so it's just packedwith sex hormones and natural sex steroidhormones like estrogen,progesterone, in fact, doesn't matter if it'sconventional milk, doesn'tmatter if it's organic milk.

milk without hormones,that's an oxymoron. organic dairy has justas much saturated fat and cholesterol andgalactose, all the thingsthat you don't want, as conventional dairy. dairy products, in general, have a lot of otherproducts associated with it, not the least of which is pus. they actually have laws limiting how much pus you canactually have in the milkand still sell it,

i believe it's like750,000 pus cells per cc. because you wouldn't wanttoo much pus and thenit'd be like pure pus, people might object. in fact,you could think of cheese as kind of coagulatedcow pus, if you would. [kip] but, i was always toldthat we need milkfor strong bones. i'm jane chapman,and not too long ago, i finally got some x-raysof the hips and back, severe bilateralosteoarthritis of the hips.

and actually, i'm scheduledfor two hip replacements. that's bone on bone. it's the grinding of the joints. my stability is scary. i hold on to the wallswhen i'm at home. i've been told to use a walker. i'm only 61. this is not how you'resupposed to live whenyou're this old. i have a really hard timebelieving that

that's all that's left. researchers have studiedbone development in kids and whether they getstress fracturesand that kind of thing. and the kids whodrink the most milkhave zero protection. milk does notbuild strong bones. harvard researchershave looked at a large groupof older women, over an 18-year period, the milk drinkers had zeroprotection from fractures. so, this old notionthat somehow milk isgonna build strong bones

or protect your boneslater in life, it's a myth. people that drink milkhave higher ratesof hip fractures, have more cancerand live shorter lives. [kip] turns out thatcountries with the highest dairy consumption alsohave the highest rates of osteoporosis, so clearly,drinking more milkdoesn't protect your bones. doing more research,i found that dairy was linked to many different types ofcancer as well. just like many of us,i thought that the majorityof cancer was due to genes,

but, only five to 10% ofcancer is actually genetic. any cancer is causedby dna mutation,but, that's not enough. so, that can cause that firstcancer cell, but, one cancercell never killed anyone. two cancer cellsnever killed anyone. but, a billion cancer cells,now we're runninginto problems. so, we need to reduce thegrowth factors in our body, like igf-1, insulin-likegrowth factor one, it's this cancer-promotinggrowth hormone involvedin every stage of cancer cell growth and spreadand metastases.

any animal protein booststhe level of igf-1. dairy productsincreases your risk for various forms of cancer,especially those relatedto your hormones. so, breast cancer,prostate cancer,ovarian cancer. so, this is not a producteven in its most pure state you wanna be consuming becauseit does come with risk. [kip] i found out that dairycan increase a man's chance of getting prostate cancerby 34%. and for women who've hadbreast cancer, just oneserving of whole dairy a day

can increase their chance ofdying from the disease 49% and dying from anything 64%. why weren't breast cancersites like susan g. komen warning everyone about this? [woman]thanks for callingsusan g. komen, this is jocelyn,how may i help you? yes, so we're wondering why you don't have a hugewarning about the dangers of consuming dairyon your website

when there's a directlink to breast cancer. there was a studypublished in the journal of the national cancerinstitute that found out women consuming dairywho has had breast cancer increases their risk ofdying of breast cancer 49%. i was wondering why it'snot on your website. [woman] we cannot answerthese types of questions. [kip] once again, anotherhealth organization rep saying someone else would haveto answer my question.

rather than riskbeing stood up again, i went straight to thelocal susan g. komen chapter to see if they would answermy questions. they didn't want to answermy questions in person eitherand told us to stop filming but, promised they wouldconnect me to thenational office directly. susan g. komen'spink ribbon campaign had done a lot to raiseawareness for breast cancer. although, it was confusingto see pink ribbons on dairy yogurt containers.

breast cancer can be prevented with a healthy diet andlifestyle, but, we're not. we're talkingabout pink ribbonsand putting all the money into research for the cure. i, for one, know thati would want my daughter,my mother, me, i want to focus on notgetting to that point. and that's where i wouldlike to see moreenergy and effort put. [kip] i had beena hardcore cheese-aholic virtually my entire life,despite the risks.

but, like so many others,i seem to have beenaddicted to it. it turns out that the caseinprotein, that's the mainprotein in dairy products, and particularly in cheese,it breaks apartin the human digestion to create what are calledcasopmorphins. casein-derived,morphine-like compoundsthat go to the brain and they attach tothe very same receptorthat heroin attaches to. don't get me wrong,they're not as strongas that, but, they are strong enough to make you come backagain and again and again

despite the fact thatyou're gaining weight, you're more unhealthythan you've ever been, but, that cheesejust calls out to people. casomorphin may playa role in sids, in suddeninfant death syndrome, may play a role in autism.this is one of the reasons why we don't want infantsdrinking milk from cows. [kip] human breast milkhas 2.7 gramsof casein per liter, compared to 26 grams perliter for cow's milk. that's practically10 times more.no wonder it's so addictive.

this talk about addictionmade me think about all the drugs animals are fed. i went to the headquartersof the center for food safety, the nation's leadingfda governmentwatchdog group to see how concernedwe need to beabout drugs in our food. so, that we know of, there areat least 450 different drugs that are administeredto animals, either aloneor, in combination. these drugsare given to animalsfor a variety of reasons, very, very few of whichare actually beneficialto consumer health.

we've got drug companies thatwork real hard to make sure they can sell lots of drugs to people raising cows,pigs, and chickens. the pharmaceutical industrysells 80% of allthe antibiotics that it makes in the united statesto animal agriculture. antibiotic residuesare found in the meat, other antimicrobialsare found in meat. there has been ractopaminefound in meat, there has beenhormones found in meat, so right there,you're talking aboutfour different drugs

that could be inthe same piece of meat. the pharmaceutical companyis supposed to show the safety of animal drugs. they're not really testingto see what the impacts ofthese drugs are on humans. they're really lookingto see what the impacts of these drugs are on animals. when we try to get informationon some of the health studies and the environmental studiesfrom federal agencies, we get back page after pageof blacked out information

because the company claimedconfidential businessinformation. consumers have no ideawhat is in the productsthat they consume. so, how sick somethingmakes me and how badit pollutes the environment is a secret for a company. in the animal agricultureindustry, as in thetobacco industry, these companies reallyhave a vested interest in making sure thatthe public doesn't have information about their effects and what risks are reallyposed to consuming them.

you have this systemwhere animals are livingin their own waste, they're living next toanimals that are sick or,even dead, and they're stuck incages with these animals, that bacteria tends tospread, that the pathogensthat are being created in these filthyconditions are breedingresistance to antibiotics and the public arebecoming exposed to those. we already have people dying. from salmonella and otherthings that you eat, we have about3,000 people die every yearin the united states.

that's more than thenumber of people that were killed in 9/11 in thetwin towers in new york. if we had some terroristorganization killing 3,000 people a year,we would be all over it. the antibiotic-resistantbacteria deaths that we have on top of that, you get20,000 people dying a year. that's seven 9/11s every year. can you imagine? if that many peoplewere being killed

by some terrorist groupin the united states every year, we would find them! you know,the world health organization has said we're nearinga post-antibiotic erain medicine. you'll be at riskin minor surgerieso have a fatal infection. you'll be at risk going tothe dentist if you havea tooth extracted. or, it'll be like civil warmedicine. you get an infectionin your leg, and you cut your leg off. so, you have thisvery dangerous situation.

by crowding these animals in, they become a perfectengine for generating a new flu virus that cancome out into the community. if you lived neara swine spray field, not even the cafo butthe waste disposal field, you are three timesmore likely to havea mrsa infection. you can't see how that impactsthe average person's life in duplin county,north carolina and not bea little upset about it. from anenvironmental standpoint,from a community standpoint,

from all other aspects,north carolina, we're ina state of emergency. we've already had boutsof swine flu, or h1n1,as they prefer to refer to it. that particular swine fluincident was originated on a farmhere in north carolina. there's approximatelythe same number of hogs in north carolinaas there are people. between eight to 10 timesthe amount of feces isproduced by a hog, an adult hog as comparedto an adult human. [kip] 10 million pigsin north carolina

produce the waste equal toa hundred million humans. this is the equivalent of theentire us eastern seaboard flushing their toiletsinto north carolina. but, there isno waste treatment. the pigs' waste fallsthrough slats in the floors of the sheds they are forcedto live in, it is thenpumped into giant waste pits, which leech into rivers andstreams and is pumped outunfiltered onto fields, further pollutingthe environmentand neighboring health. when you go back andyou look at where these

hog facilities are located,there's a disproportionatenumber of them that are located nearcommunities of color. low-income communities. it is definitely a humanrights issue. my sister, she have asthma,you know. her brother,he have asthma. he's three. and we don't knowwhat she might have. i have asthma, i have sinus, i have sarcoidosis,that's of the bacteria,

and i have a pacemaker,which is sick sinus syndrome. but, you know, mostlyeverybody in this neighborhood got asthma or, either cancer. my neighbor theredied from cancerprobably just last year. my nephew down the street,he's got cancer, he's in terminal cancer,stage four. not a smoker, not a drinker. and it's not in his lungs,it's in his lymph nodes. now see if you live hereand saw the way they do,

we don't eat no pork. well, i don't eat bacon becausei know where it come from. when they die,they go into a box, and they decompose becausethey swell from the heat. a truck come and pick 'em up, take 'em to the processingplant in rose hill, ground 'em up into feed,and feed it back to the hogs. if i come out this door, if he's spraying there,it's gonna come in my face.

it hits you right in the face. smell like something that youhave never smelled before. smell worse than a dead body. that's the family graveyard. and i havemy grandmother out there,my sisters, my brothers. when we go to a funeral,he use the spray. - during the funeral?- during the funeral, yes. during the funeral.yeah, they spray. and when the people come,everybody beclosing their nose up

saying how it stink. they can want a cookouton sunday, he'll spray. do you think he does it onpurpose? i think so. 'cause he just sprays sunday.he always sprays sunday. and in most of these area,hog houses and turkey house, it's in a black areaor the hispanic area. it's either or. do you think it'salso a civil rights issue?

yes, yes, i do. yes, i do. there have been timesin the past that i have gotten ready on a sundayand gotten readyto go to church and come outand the smell was so strong that i had to go backand regroup because it had got in my clothes,and i just couldn'tgo to church smelling like hogs, you know,i just couldn't do it, so i don't thinkthe government cares.

they care more about corporations than theydo peoples, individuals. they're gonna putmore chickens in this state. this is the feces andurine capital of the world right here in north carolina,my state. look, there's ablue-line stream right here comes right across into myproperty almost and thecontentnea creek right there. i've seen that blue-linestream now filled with fecesand urine from that hog pen, and they can say,"well, we feed the world."

they're not interested infeeding the world, they'reinterested in making money. you take the moneyaway from them,they'll let the folks starve. 'cause if you want to feed theworld, you can feed the worldwith more corn, using corn and wheatand stuff like thatthan you can meat. meat is a luxury item. when we are doing thingsthat hurt other people,we are wrong. but, a lot of good peoplewill sit there and eat bacon knowing that it'scausing someone elseto be very unhappy. [kip] i woke upthe next morning to find

the burnt riverhad experiencedanother massive fish kill from the pollution runningoff hog farms. tens of thousands of fishwere washing up on shore. all this talk about health, i realized that i was onlyfocused on personal health. but, health started tomean so much more to me. it was about health of myfamily and our communities. i couldn't under good conscience support an industry thati knew was harming others.

pollution fromanimal agriculture isn't just an issue innorth carolina, though. raising animals for foodproduces more greenhouse gases than the entiretransportation sector. it is a leading cause ofrainforest destruction, species extinction,ocean dead zonesand freshwater consumption. american diabetes associationactually finally got back, and they agreed to an interview. preparing for the americandiabetes association interview,

i took a look at theirdiabetes diet mealplan recommendations, and they were loadedwith foods associatedwith causing diabetes. how could they expectpeople not to get diabetes if this was the foodthey were recommending? and then, i saw multiplepeer-reviewed studies published on the nationalinstitute of health website showing that a low-fatplant-based diet was more than twice aspowerful at controlling and even reversing diabetes

than the ada recommended dietthat included meat and dairy. the mission of the americandiabetes association is to identify a preventionand a cure for diabetes. but, in the meantime,to improvethe lives of all people who are affected by diabetes. and what's the best wayto prevent this? for type two diabetes,it's unclear. we can't prevent type twodiabetes in everybody. we were doing research,we came across a lotof studies that said

that you actually couldpotentially cure or reverse diabetes witha purely plant-based diet. i don't believe there'ssufficient evidence todemonstrate that. how does it compare to theada diet that you recommend? we don't recommenda specific diet,we recommend healthy eating. the one that's on the website. we recommend healthy eating. there is... do you have a wholelist of exact day-to-day,

the meal plan,the whole meal plan? all they are are selectionsof foods to consider. we do not have a diabetes diet. but, with that, selectionsthat you consider, that plan compared toan all plant-based plan. no one's done that study. we found, actually,some studies. a 74-week study foundthat low-fat vegan dietversus the ada plan, in type two diabetes...

i think we're done here. i'm not gonna get intoan argument about... oh, no, i just wantedthe studies of, if this is true or,if it shows that. any diet works. any diet worksif people follow it. but, if it's a dietthat's not the proper diet, like if anyone follows a dietthat they eat mcdonald's... i can't tell youwhat a proper diet is.

i can tell youwhat an improper diet is. so, then we can talkabout the good diets.i'm not sure why... why not? if that's where youwant to go with this, i'm sorry,i'm not the person thatyou should be talking to. and why is that, though? if that's what you want toget into, i'm not the person - you need to be talking to.- into diet? who do we talk to about diet?

you can talk toanybody you want. but, that'sinteresting, though,why not recommend a diet... because the data don'texist to support it. but, if we see datathat we looked up, that supports it withthe nih, in europe, the european associationof... we're done. we're done. i'm sorry,i'm not gonna get intothat argument with you. no, i'm just wondering,but, i... i'm not gonna get intothe argument with you.

why is it in argument? it's just to talking aboutin european study of diabetes and other places that havestudies, why... there are lots of studies... why is it evenan argument, i guess? there are lots ofstudies in the literature. many of which havenever been replicatedor frankly, are wrong. that's why we dopeer review, okay? the european associationof study of diabetes

has been peer-reviewedor, the... i don't know what studyyou're referring to, and in the absence of beingable to see that study, i'm not gonna comment. i could show it to you. i'm sorry, i don'thave the time for that. i just don't understandwhy it's an argument,though, or, okay. that was interesting. what he wanted to talk aboutwas people living longerwith diabetes,

but, once you mentioneliminating diabetesor, prevention, oh, now you crossed the line. prevention and cure... whoa. let's not go there. [kip] not only did dr. ratner,the chief medical officer of the american diabetesassociation not want totalk about diet, but, the fact that he hadsuch an emotional reaction to my question made it feeli was digging into something that he didn't want uncovered.

i had always thoughtthere was no preventionfor type one diabetes. but, then,i did research and came across countless studiesreferencing the link between exposure to dairy at a youngage and type one diabetes. [mcdougall] this is a foodmade for baby cows. cow milk protein getsinto the bloodstream, and the body says, "hey, thisisn't supposed to be inthe bloodstream." it makes antibodies tothe cow milk protein which then attack the pancreasand destroy the pancreas.

[kip] how is this possiblethat ada wouldn't have thisforefront on their website? why wouldn't they be warningall parents about this even if there wereonly a slight chance? why were theyrecommending people to actually eat thesefoods linked to diabetes? it seemed all of thelarge health organizations were encouraging peopleto eat the very foods linked to the diseasesthey're supposed to befighting against. american heart associationpromoting beef,

american cancer societypromoting processed meat, pink ribbons on dairy products, and bacon-wrapped shrimp onamerican diabetes association. and then, it all came together. what if... and there it was. the american diabetesassociation was taking money from dannon, one of theworld's largest dairyyogurt producers. kraft foods, makers ofvelveeta processed cheese,

oscar meyer processedmeats, lunchablesprocessed kids' meals, and bumble bee foods,makers of processedcanned meats. american cancer societywas taking money from tyson, one of theworld's largest meat producers and yum! brand, owner ofpizza hut, kfc and taco bell. susan g. komen,who was supposed to befighting breast cancer, was corporatepartnering with kfc, dietz watson processedmeats and yoplait yogurt. and the american heartassociation was probablythe most disturbing of all,

taking hundredsof thousands of dollars from the beef industry,poultry and dairy producers and millions from fastfood and processed foodmanufacturers. every single oneof these organizations was taking money frommeat and dairy companies that are associated withthe causes of these diseases. this would be like theamerican lung association taking money fromthe tobacco industry. i was sick ofnot getting answers.

so, i went to the headquartersof these organizations myself. we have to speakto someone in person. there's millions of peopledying from the foods that they are recommendingpeople to eat. i wanted to find out whysusan g. komen had accepted$35 million from yoplait, when their products canincrease a woman's chance of dying from breast cancer 49%, and ask american cancersociety if taking money from kfc and tysonwas a reasonthey promote eating meat.

but, every one of theseorganizations declined tobe interviewed. what's really sad isthat we cannot trust information from theseleading health organizations like the american heartassociation, the americandiabetes association because they are taking moneyfrom the very industries who are causing the problemsthat they're supposed to behelping to prevent. so, that makes the truthsomething that you are not gonna be hearing,as far as nutrition goes, from these organizations.

well, that would be theend of their funding, that would be the endof their jobs,there would be lawsuits that would bringthe entire catastrophedown upon their heads, and they would essentiallydisappear as organizations. this one time i got invitedto a charity fundraiser for the american diabetesassociation. i showed up, and they hada whole buffet, and it wasall just animal products. i remember like a bigthing of barbecue chicken. and i was like, i stormed out.i said like,

serving chickenat a diabetes event is like serving alcoholat an aa meeting. it doesn't make sense. [kip] we had scheduledto film an interviewwith a prominent surgeon. but, before we could getinside the building, the hospital's mediarelations manager stopped us. actually i understand thatdr... said that you could filmhere today, but, unfortunately, that'snot gonna be able to happen. i know that he advocates forpatients changing their diets,

but, the hospital makesmoney off these surgeries, and the reality is,he does, too. so, we can't doanything that's gonnanegatively impact the hospital, so unfortunately,you're not gonna beable to film here today. he said that we could, though. [kip] i was sickenedby how open she was about the hospital beingmore interested in profitsthan people's health. but, it wasn'tjust this hospitalor these organizations. even the us governmentis involved, too.

every five years, the usdepartment of agriculture creates dietary guidelinesfor americans. the committee who writesthese guidelines has beenmade up of individuals who have received money frommcdonald's, the nationaldairy council, the american meat institute,the national dairy board, the national livestock andmeat board, the americanegg board, dannon, candy and sugar companies,coca cola and anheuser,just to name a few. which means we are gettingour dietary recommendations from the very industriesthat are killing us.

and when they,the usda, makes a pyramidor a power plate every five years forthe american public, they're gonna guaranteethat on that plate are gonna be foods,which when consumed, will result in millionsof americans perishing. the usda, which issupposed to be protecting us,has two missions. it's supposed to protect us,and it's supposed toprotect the producer. and guess what, when thosetwo come head to head, they usually choosethe producer.

[kip] in internal documentsuncovered by dr. greger, the usda admitted that eggscannot legally be called nutritious, low fat,part of a balanced diet, low calorie, healthful,healthy, can't say it'sgood for you or, even safe. yet they stillpromote these products to the american people throughfederal checkoff programs. if you ask somebodyif they have heard of a checkoff program,the odds are they haven't, although daily, theyare seeing the messagingthat these programs produce.

so, checkoff programsare responsible for the messages that wesee on tv, on the internet, on buzz billboards andmagazines that say things like, "milk, it does a body good,"or "milk life. beef, it's what's for dinner.pork, be inspired. the incredible edible egg." the dairy checkoffprogram gave $12 million to domino's to just marketcheese-heavy product. and this is the usda,this is the government.

if you've seen those adsfor the pizza hut pizza, the stuffed crustor a pound of cheese. those are all governmentadvertising schemesfor the industry. how can we put more cheeseon beef? how can we putmore milk in a coffee? things like thatto just drive consumption of these just unbelievablyunhealthful products. so, mcdonald's, for instance,has six people staffedfull-time, according to records we found, whose salaries are paid forby this government program

but, funded by the producerswho are regulated by it. and these six people sit thereat mcdonald's headquarters and just come up with ideas. triple cheese deckermccheese muffin stuffed bacon cheese slider? with extra cheese? - nice!- yes! you don't think of iton a day-to-day basis that these aregovernment programs.

the wendy's bacondouble cheeseburger. government program. the steak fajitaat dunkin' donuts. you would just never thinkthat this just pure garbagefrom a food standpoint, is coming froma federally-funded program. that's one of the thingsthat makes checkoffsso incredibly creepy, is that it is our governmenttelling us eat more beef,drink more milk, eat more cheese, eat more pork. one of the very effectiveways that the dairy industry

promotes its productsis to reach children because kids are impressionable, they're gonna be consumersfor their entire lives, and you might as well get'em while they're young. so, dairy spends at least $50million promoting its productsin public schools throughout the countrywith posters, with people with milk mustaches and messages like "milk,it does the body good," or "milk life."

targeting young people,like the tobacco industry had to keep replacing theircustomers who were dyingwith new customers. meat industry knows theyhave to target young people. that's why we have thesefoods in schools and marketing messages ata younger and younger age for kids to get hooked onall the wrong kinds of foods. so, there'sall kinds of parallels. school districtswhere processed meatsare all over the place, maybe it's gonna be bacon onthe menu, sausage, hotdogsor pepperoni pizza.

any of those thingsare processed meats, and those are pretty muchthe worst of the worst with a direct linkto colon cancer. and yet you have every day inthe schools meal items withprocessed meats. [kip] if the surgeongeneral puts warning labels on tobacco because oftheir cancer risk, why aren't the samewarning labels on meat? based on the publicly availabledata, we know they spend atleast $557 million promoting their goodsthrough checkoff programs.

we know that they spendat least $138 millionlobbying congress. we expect that they spenda good deal more than that in figures that simplyaren't publicly disclosed. [kip] the industry'slobbying power is so strong that they can create lawsand push through legislation that doesn't benefitamericans in any way, such as ag-gag laws thatcriminalize whistle-blowing or photographing abusesby this industry. activists in the us canbe charged as terrorists

for disruptingthe profits of any businessthat uses animals, under the animal enterpriseterrorism act, to theeven more ridiculous ones like cheeseburger laws. a cheeseburger lawis a law that saysa plaintiff cannot recover against a manufacturer,distributor or, retailer, on the theory that the foodmade the plaintiff obese or causedan obesity related disease. cheeseburger lawsare a direct response to a problem that thetobacco industry has had.

big tobacco has paid$400 billion to statemedicaid programs. cheeseburger lawsproponents say, "we don't want to see thesame kind of thing happen "to the meatand dairy industries." the fact that these laws arebased on a model template called a commonsenseconsumption act is actually ironic becausewhat they're saying is you, the consumer, shouldhave the common sense to know thatour food is bad for you.

i've often typified themeat industry to people who maybe don't understandits power and reach, as it's got all the money ofbig tobacco and big pharma, and it has the personality ofthe national rifle association. so, any little thingthat comes up, man,they beat it to death. [kip] robert martinwasn't exaggerating. when the profits of the eggindustry were threatened by egg alternative companyhampton creek foods, extremely disturbing emailswere uncovered by ryanshapiro and jeffrey light.

we uncovereddocuments demonstratingthe american egg board considers hampton creek, quote"a crisis and major threat "to the future of theamerican egg industry." the american egg boardconsiders a successful egg replacer companyto be such a threat that they joke on theirgovernment email addresses about murdering the ceo. [kip] in internal governmentemails with the heads ofthe egg industry, they suggest having theceo of hampton creek,josh tetrick, murdered,

including a menacing emailfrom executive directorof the american egg board. the meat producersdon't have to pay for the heart disease orthe environmental destruction or any of the otherexternalities, as economistscall them, that their products cause. then there's a wholepharmaceutical aspect of it and the fact thatthere's a very strongpharmaceutical industry and lobby that hasa huge stake inpreserving the status quo. these chronic diseases,

these are the cash cows ofthe pharmaceutical industry. we have a $5 billion stentindustry. do they ever wantto see that go away? we've got a $35 billionstatin drug industry. do they ever wantto see that go away? i'm talking about thepharmaceutical industry effectively controlswhat doctors are told. most research isn'tput into prevention. it's put into the medicationthat we might use for that particular disease.

i'm on two differenthigh blood pressure medicines. six asthma type medicines. even after four years of shots. and another medicineto help take care of side effects from someof those medicines. i'm on high levelanti-depressants. a couple of different pain medsfor my back and hips. i'm taking about 16 drugs. not counting the insulinin the morning.

i take insulin in the morning,insulin at night, 32-34 units, of insulin. lantus to be exact. some of these medsare for diabetes. this is for peeing. i have to use thisfor my prostrate. and then i have touse this for the heart. and i have to use thisfor blood pressure. and it's just on and on and on.

the doctors are telling methis is what i gotta dofor my whole life. and it's frustratingand very stressful. and i don't know how longmy liver is gonna lasttaking all this stuff. under conventional medicaltreatment, whether it be forautoimmune disease or even conditions like highblood pressure or, diabetes, you're told thatyou have to take drugs. and not just for a weekor a month or, a year, you're told you haveto take drugs forever. you're guaranteed that if youfollow your doctor's advice,

you'll be sick forever. you'll never get well. that's the guarantee. because the strategies areall about manipulatingthe symptoms, not dealing withthe underlying cause. you come inwith that diagnosis,you get a bunch of pills that have nothing to dowith the disease causation. or you get these proceduresthat have nothing to dowith disease causation. it's a deception to saythis pill will help you

unclog your arteries, this onewill save you from a stroke,no, it doesn't. the people who takethe statins, et cetera, they still gettheir heart attacks,they still get their strokes. this does not reverse disease.this does not makeplaque smaller. this is a frontof massive proportions. [kip] in the us, treatingchronic disease, such as heartdisease, cancer and diabetes is a $1.5 trillion industry. that's the gdp equivalentof the 10th richest countryin the world. i went back and dugdeeper into the healthorganizations' funding,

and there it was again. these organizations wereaccepting millions of dollars from pharmaceuticalcompanies that are makingbillions of dollars from the very same diseasesthese health groups aresupposedly trying to end. it seemed like a majorconflict of interest, unless ending these diseasesisn't really the goal. the pharmaceuticalindustry spends more money on lobbying than anyother single industry. just like animal agriculture,

they are so powerful,they write their own laws that have had activistsimprisoned to silence them. the government's in bedwith anyone that givesthem the most money, which is the pharmaceuticalindustry, which isthe animal ag industries, they are pumping thegovernment full of money and resources, and in return,the government's givingthem want they want. subsidies, imprisoningactivists that go against them, and i think it's quitetelling that these industries are working so hardand spending so much money

to criminalize people forsimply taking a picture, for simply recordingwhat's going oninside these facilities and making itknown to the public. they're behind walls,they're underground. they're in these secretfacilities that no oneknows about, but if they did, they wouldbe shocked and outraged. and i think people wouldnot want to think that their pharmaceuticals,that their food are comingfrom these places. and that's why i think it'ssuch, the ag-gag lawsare what they are

is because they aretrying to silence peopleinto not speaking out and not showing the truth. [kip] i finally realizedhow deep the collusion truly is between governmentand these industries. and how dangerousit could be to expose them. these concerns intensifiedafter meeting the usdawhistle-blowerrrr who revealed mad cow diseasein the us meat supply. usda operates like the military. so, when i got on tvand that right away,

usda sent out memos toall the veterinariansand food inspectors, "if anybody from the mediaever contacts you,do not talk to them. refer 'em to washington dc,and we will talk to them." so, right away,it shut up everybody. american public should bevery concerned about this. what's going on with usda? here in the united states, we have at least fourcases of mad cow disease, but, i'm almost positivethere's more cases than that,

but, the government isn'tlooking for it. what you're sayingis that there could be already mad cow's diseasein humans. right, and i think a lotof it was misdiagnosed. with the alzheimer'sor dementia, it takes several yearsyou see the progression, but, to make it easier, thesedoctors just sign off on it as dementia or, alzheimer's without actually takinga biopsy of the brain

to see if it's that or is itactually a prion disease like creutzfeldt-jacobdisease or, mad cow disease. do you thinkit's safe to eat meat? i personally don'tthink it's safe to eat it because of the fact how theline speeds are increasing and also our inspectors arenot well trained enough. at the present time, the linespeed now is going about220 cows an hour. that gives you about,somewheres around fourcows per minute. so, that's 15 seconds per cow.

these dangerous slaughter speeds means that animal wasteends up everywhere. testing shows 88% of porkchops are contaminatedwith fecal bacteria. 90% of ground beef and 95%of chicken breast sampled contained animal waste bacteria. there is nothing cleanabout eating this way. but, it just isn't waste,it's alsopus-filled infections. you could see there's a bump or some kind of abscessunderneath the hide.

most of the time whenthe hide's pulled off, either that will open up theabscess and the the pus willcome out, or if it's deep-seated,when the inspectorsare doing their work or the company employees,they might stick their knife into an abscess, and itexplodes all over the place. [kip] i had heard enough.i was utterly disgustedby the corruption, the greed, the diseaseand the abuse i waslearning about. the very animalswe were killing werekilling us and the planet. but, so many people eat meatand dairy every day oftheir lives.

and we are so concernedabout getting enough protein. [kip] do we have to eat meatto get complete protein? oh, my god, oh my god. you want me to jump off thisbuilding, don't you now? well first of all,all protein is made by plants. i'll state that againfor the record. all protein is initiallymade by plants, all of it. and it is not necessaryto eat animal tissue in order to get protein.

only plants have the abilityto actually take nitrogenfrom the air, break those molecules apart and incorporate that nitrogeninto amino acids andthen make protein. any protein you get from ananimal is simply recycledplant protein. if you ate a diet thatwas calorically adequate and even things like brown riceand broccoli and you gotenough of it, you'd get enough,both quantityand quality of protein. 2,000 calories ofbrown rice and broccoli is gonna be about 80grams of protein a day,

including the essentialamino acids that you need in order to maintainoptimum health. greens are loaded with protein.beans are loaded with protein. vegetables are loadedwith protein. you really want to getyour protein from plants because plant proteinshave a much more beneficialeffect on our physiology. the funny thing about protein is most americans get abouttwice the amount they need. most americans getless than half the amountof fiber they need.

but, the conversation tendsto always be about protein, so in my mind, it's just thismagical marketing campaign that protein has takenon over the decades. the question is notwhere to get your protein, it's where do youget your fiber? i have neverin my professional careerseen a protein deficiency. i have never seen someonecome in eating normalamounts of calories and they're protein deficient.you just don't see that. so, human milk has thelowest protein content ever

in any species ever tested. that's the fluid that'sbeen designed by evolutionover millions of years. and that's justlike the perfect foodfor human babies. perfect food,lowest protein content, any other mammal,and so gives a sense ofkinda protein requirements... - it's lower than...- anything, so look... - lower protein than even...- than rat milk, ape milk. -really?-donkey milk, any milkthat's ever been tested. and you hear this a lotin body builders who arelike, "well, i need

chicken, or, i needfish to be strong,to build muscle tissue." that is utter nonsense. the largest, strongestterrestrial animalson the planet are all herbivores. the biggest, strongestanimals are all herbivores. when we bring in peopleand they're on meaty diets and we transition themto a plant-based diet, we always trackwhat they're eating. their vitamin intake goes up.

their nutrition overall goesup, dramatically better. and these same peoplemight worry in advance, "will i get the nutritionthat i need ona plant-based diet?" the fact is,you're not gettingthe nutrition you need on a meat-based diet, and you're gonna getdramatically better nutritionon a plant-based diet. for an average-sized guylike myself, i need about56 grams of protein a day. that's optimum,probably i really need30 to 40 grams a day. diets that are reallyhigh in these protein

create diabetes,create heart disease,create cancer, create the diseasesthat i'm treatingon a daily basis. [kip] but, this is the oppositeof what all the high-proteindiet fads say. the food you eatdetermines the bacteriathat live in your gut. while you eat animal fleshevery day, you are summoning upbacteria that eat carnitine. and those bacteria willturn that carnitine into a moleculecalled trimethylamine. your liver then turns thatinto trimethylamine oxide.

that's a molecule from hell. that moleculedrives cholesterolinto the artery walls. and the people who willconsume this flesh-based diet are contributingto plaque building up, they may lose weight onthis diet and that's good, but, what's happening insideyour arteries, paleo friends? what's happening is thatplaque is building up, and these are the folks whodrop dead at the gym at 39. boy, he was leanand he looked really good,

but, where is that cholesterolgoing? it's going into yourartery walls. so, i believe these paleofolks are setting them-selfup for an epidemic of clogged arteries,colon cancers,autoimmune diseases. this is not a healthy diet.we are not carnivorous apes. humans' closestliving relatives are chimps who get 97 percent oftheir calories from plants and the remaining three percentmostly from insects. comparing the anatomy oftrue omnivores like bears who eat both meat and plantsto frugivores like primates

who eat almost exclusivelyplants, the differencesare pretty clear. frugivore teeth have flatmolars for chewing plants, where omnivore teethare serrated for stabbingand tearing flesh. frugivore jaws canmove forward and backand side to side, omnivore jaws cannot. omnivores have much strongerstomach acid for digestingmeat compared to less acidic stomach acid of frugivores. the intestines of frugivoresis nine times their body length comparedto three times for omnivores.

this is because meatwill putrefy in the gut unless it ismoved through quickly. if humans wereindeed true omnivores, we would need to changeour physiology andappearance quite a lot. but, we fit everyrequirement of a frugivore. we may behave like omnivores,but, anatomically,we're frugivores. human beings, unlikebears and raccoonsand to some extent, dogs, don't have that mixedanatomy and physiology that you see in the trueomnivores, and thus,we are not true omnivores.

in humans, the canineshave become really small and roundedand actually functionlike accessory incisors. they're utterly uselessfor ripping and tearing anything other than an envelope. so, the idea that the merepresence of the canine somehow meansthat we're supposedto eat meat is silly. [kip] he was right. i always thought my canineswere for meat, but, what kind of animal couldactually kill and eat raw

with these tiny teeth? the thought alonewas disgusting. i mean, everybody lovesa smoothie made with fruit and even some vegetables. but, if you think aboutputting a fish or a pieceof beef in a blender and grinding it up,the thought isabsolutely repulsive. [kip] all these diseasesi had learned about were from eating a diet ourbody wasn't designed for. what would happen if westarted eating a diet

our body actually wasdesigned for? the data is crystal clear,that you can stop andreverse heart disease with plant-based diets, scientifically shown,i've seen itin my own patients. people who adopt lowfat plant-based diets can actually reversetheir heart disease, and that literally meanswatching the plaque start to go away,something they didn'tthink could happen. my experience with patients is

and the studies showthat when people adopt a fully plant-based diet,their cholesterol levels plummet within a few days. and if you do blood testin a couple of weeks, you'll see dramaticimprovements. yes, your numbersare gonna look great within a week or, two,your cholesterol can comecrashing down, in fact, if you're on medications,your doctor may have to pull off your blood pressuremedications so your bloodpressure don't drop too low.

because it can work too good, like the side effect isnot having to take drugs. [kip] in a groundbreakingstudy published by dr. esselstyn followingpatients suffering from cardiovascular disease,99.4% were able to avoid major cardiac eventsby going plant-based. 'cause it's not just heartdisease. it's hypertension,it's diabetes, it's strokes,it's heart attacks, it's several ofthe autoimmune diseases,

lupus, asthma,gerd, osteoporosis, there's a multitude of diseases. even rheumatoid arthritis,it can be so dramatic when you see these poor souls just absolutely crippledwith rheumatoid arthritis go plant-based, and then theycome off their medication. i wanted to followup with jane chapman who had been sufferingfrom severe osteoarthritis, and i could not believewhat i saw

after only a few weeksof fastingand changing her diet. those are so amazingto see you like thisonly a few weeks later. i know! from going from the walker, needing wheelchairassistance at the airport to strolling down the street,enjoying the fresh air,the sunshine. two weeks, it's all it took,two weeks to get offall the meds and start tofeel the inflammation just kind ofdrain out of the body

where the movementwas much easier. just a lot of healingoccurred very rapidly just by doing the rightthings for your body. when you're treatingdiseases with drugs, you know there's one drugyou take for cholesterol, a different class of drugs youtake for high blood pressure, different class of drugsyou take for diabetes, but, with diet,a plant-based dietaffects all these diseases. one diet to kinda rule them all.

[kip] the impactsof eating this waygo far beyond ourselves. by getting rid of heartdisease alone, we would save up to $48trillion in the usa, three times the us gdp. conditions likehigh blood pressure, you don't have to take thedrugs the rest of your lifeand be sick forever. what you can dois live in such a way that it gives the bodya chance to heal itself. we took 174consecutive patientswith high blood pressure.

and 174 peoplewere able to lowertheir blood pressure enough to eliminatethe need for medication. for inflammatory boweldisease like crohn's, the best remission ratesever achieved throughplant-based diet. ms, multiple sclerosis,the best results ever achieved compared toany medical, surgical, any kind of interventionwas a plant-based diet. you can see that withevery sequential reduction in animal products,people live longer,

they have less heart disease,they have less cancer,they have less diabetes. you can actually take humancancer cells, put them ina petri dish, and you can drip the bloodof those eating vegan, get about 72% suppression in human prostate cancercell growth in vitro, they wanted to try this againwith women and breast cancer, so they said, "let's see whata plant-based diet can do." after just two weeks,their bodies cleaned up. you dropped their bloodon the same carpet

of cancer cells, you canclear off the whole plate. this is just after just twoweeks eating healthy, whichraises the question, what kind of blood dowe want in our bodies? my backgroundis in industrialand systems engineering. and that was my careerpath for a long time until i got thyroid cancer, and everythingchanged from there. i decided that i wantedto try alternative methodsand treatments rather than have surgeryand have my thyroid removed,

which meant i'd beon medication forever,and i didn't want that. i just started readingon how a plant-based diet can heal the body and it hasworked for so many people. so, i immediately just switchedto a completely whole foodplant-based diet. after a year, the cancerwas completely gone. and my thyroid hadshrunk to normal size. and i was completelyfree of that. [kip]this was tough to believe. couldn't this all just befrom eating healthier,though, like no sugar?

turns out dr. walter kempnerfrom duke university back in the 1940s wasreversing some of our worst killer diseaseswith diet alone. and the diet he was usingwas not only strictlyplant-based but, it was made upof white rice, fruitand table sugar. and he was reversing diabetes,he was reversing malignanthypertension, reversing heart disease,the diabetic complications, reversing diabetic blindness. so, these people basicallyhad death sentences,went to him,

and were given basically sugar. you know, this horrible diet,but, it was strictlyplant-based. [kip] if this information hadbeen around since the 1940s, why don't all doctors know this? we're not taughtabout the power of foodin medical school. no one is taught that the changes thatwe make with our diet are probably the single mostpowerful thing we can do to determine our destiny.

it trumps our genetics. why isn't your doctortelling this? odds are your doctornever learned any of this. in fact, there's even a billintroduced just mandatingphysicians get seven hours nutrition training everycouple of years, just tokinda stay on top of it. and who came out against that? the californiamedical association. even the family physicians,the surgeons, all the mainstream medicalgroups came out opposed.

it's seven hours.that's a lot. even if it's overone four-year period. so, they're not just kindaneutral, but, they're actuallyactively opposing nutrition education. ironically, when patientscome to doctors with questions, they assume thatthe doctor knowssomething about nutrition and so it's kind ofa double whammy that doctors haven't beentaught much about nutrition. [kip] why don't we hearabout this from dietitians

when nutrition is theirentire specialty? turns out theamerican nutritionand dietetics association puts out nutrition factsheets written by theindustries themselves. the industries pay $20,000per fact sheet and explicitlytake part in writing them. so, you can learn abouteggs from the egg industry. you can learn about lambfrom the lamb industry. this would be likelearning about the benefits of smoking fromthe tobacco industry. when people are eating meat,i think of itas a bit like smoking.

it's sort of russian roulette. you may not get diabetes,but your chancesof getting diabetes, about one in three. you may not get cancer, but,your chances, if you're a man,about one in two. a woman, one in three. your chances ofgaining weight,two out of three. it's not all diet,but, most of it is. the best thing that youcan do to make sure that you empty all thosebullets out of the chamber

and not taking a riskwith your health is to get the animalproducts out of your dietand eat healthy foods. i came to truenorth tohelp me with my asthma and to lose a littleweight, and it's amazing just in two weeksof changing my diet, don't have to takeany asthma medication, no antidepressants,no pain medication, no heart medication, nothing. no medications at all.

and it's really,it's just incredible. i was taking oxy and advil,and i was taking 800milligrams of motrin three times a dayjust to get through the day because i was in so much pain. - and now, nothing.- wow. - nothing at all.- two weeks. two weeks, 14 days. all that medication,you're completely off. completely off everything.

it's just been sofrustrating to me because i went to so manydifferent doctors for help, and i tried so manydifferent medications tohelp me with my asthma and nothing helped, andi was stuck on the couch for the last 10 monthsunable to breathe, and now in two weeks' time,14 days, i'm off my medication. and i can breatheand i feel good,and i can walk. my life has changedand it only took

two weeks of wholeplant-based diet. - that's incredible.- yeah. that is incredible. it really is. - that's amazing.- it really is. i feel so blessed and so goodand just so happyto be doing this and i'm hoping thati can be a role model for other peopleand not be pushy about it. because everyone's gonnado it in their own time.

but, thank god my time is now. that's pretty cool. thanks. thanks! [kip] as powerful as amy'sstory was, i knew for some,eating a hundred percent plant-based wouldstill seem extreme. i think there's the sensethat everything's okayin moderation. right? but we haven't seenthat moderation works. there really isn't a studythat shows that by eatingmeat and eggs in moderation

you can actually turnyour heart disease aroundand get better. but, i know peoplewho have given up meatand they felt sick. yeah, it's unlikelythat anybody's symptoms are caused by deaddecaying flesh deficiency. the lack of highly processedanimal food products in the diet is not gonna be associated with the causalfactor by why they're sick. there is gonna be a reasonwhy they're not feeling well, but, that's not gonna beone of them.

so, i've had people go vegan,and they come back to me andthey're like, "i'm hypothyroid and my doctorsays i'm hypothyroid because "plant-based dietmakes you hypothyroid." i'm like, so what does yourdoctor tell all his meat eatersthat are hypothyroid? what's in animal fleshor dairy that you can'tget in plant-based? cholesterol. heterocyclic amines. e. coli, you know,if you think about it, there is nothing in ananimal-based diet

that you can't getin a healthier formsomewhere else. the only other vitaminis vitamin b12. it's not made by plants,not made by animals either, made by little microbesthat blanket the earth. so, because of the way welive in our sanitized world, unless you're eatingbacteria-contaminated foods, we need to get a sourceof b12 from somewhere, and so the healthiest,cheapest, safest source is to get a vitamin b12fortified foodor vitamin b12 supplement,

not to get itfrom meat and dairy. [kip] what about people who saythey have to eat meat for theirblood type or, their genes? it's just like i needmeat because i'm a capricorn or i need meat 'cause i havean a plus blood,it's like what do you say? no one has to eat meat.there's no vitamin,mineral, nutrient that you can't get fromnon-animal sources. valentine's day,i decided to go vegan and give up all meat, whichwas never in my thoughts in a while million years,

but i've heard so much successfrom people that are vegan. and so i gave up allanimal product whatsoever, i've lost 29 pounds, i've been able tocut my meds in half, i've been ableto cut my insulin in half, and now i'm goingfor the moon, i'm goingto go cut it all out. in the last six weeks,we've just hadthree grandchildren. and my ugly faceis going to be around to see 'em graduate fromhigh school and college.i'm gonna be here.

my mission is tolet everybody knowyou do not have to suffer from diabetes and cancerand heart disease because someonein your family had it or because the doctorsare telling you this iswhat's gonna happen. you can take chargeof your health and have a positiveoutcome just like i did. the reason i'm socommitted to this is my grandmother had diabetes,and i didn't knowwhat i know now about healing the body.

and if i did, i feel like she could've lived atleast a few years longer. and so it's in her honor that i do what i do. if i could save someoneelse's grandmother, aunt, uncle, father from that. so, i'm excited about gettingthe message out there. [kip] there's a common beliefthat eatingplant-based is expensive. not at all.it can be done ina very inexpensive way

where you buy foods thatare in season and youshop in the bulk bins and that saves a lot of money. you can eliminatea lot of your expenses on your grocery bill bynot buying meat and dairy because those thingsare expensive. our meal plan forour family of four is $25per person in the family. 20.64 is your total. [kip] 20.64? whoa. that's for anentire week of food.

[kip] an explodingmovement of elite athletes are utilizing vegandiets to heal injuries, speed recovery times andenhance their performance. before i was vegan, i wasonly bench pressing 315like five times. then, after going vegan,i was doing 400. 425, 465, and i waslike, oh my god, this is amazing, i'm veganand i'm bench pressing 465 pounds, this is ridiculous. and as soon asi went vegan, tendinitisstarted disappearing.

my strength in my rightarm started coming back. high blood pressurewas going down. you can't be strongand be dying on the inside,that's not strong. that's weak.that's really weak. because yeah, you look bigand strong on the outside, yeah, big man, no,but, your heart'scrying for help, on the inside you're dying. i'm a professional parkourathlete, a two-time worldfree running champion, and more recentlyi got into ninja warrior

where i'm captain ofteam europe as we won usa versus the world. for somethinglike ninja warriorand parkour, specifically, you really need to havea good strength to bodyweight ratio, so i was carrying massthat i really didn't need. and when i went vegan,i lost 15, 20 pounds. i was more agile, i was moreefficient and morestamina in my body. just that extra bit of popthat i didn't have before, it just gave methat extra strength.

this is a vibrant way to live. it can enhance youas an athlete, for me, a hundred percent betterathlete than i was before, it's unlocked a whole newchapter of my training. the science is there,the health is there, the athletes are there provingthat you don't need to eat dead animals to be strong,to be healthy. i started working outwhen i was 47 years old. all the muscles you see,i gained as a vegan.

i gained 15 pounds of muscleson my body, eating allplant-based and vegan foods. all the aches and painsin my body,it just went away. because i'm not ingestingso many inflaming foods, the acidic foodsthat animal products are. gorillas, rhinos and elephants,they all get theirmuscles and strength from eating plants.that's what i do. [blanco] i travel all aroundthe world for my surfing, and i've always beenable to eat vegan. i feel likeif you want somethingyou can make it happen.

i just don't make any excuses.i would never not be vegannow that i know all the benefitsand now that i knowhow it feels to be vegan. every aspect of my lifehas been improvedby adopting this lifestyle. i feel better, i performbetter athletically, i sleep better, my energywith my kids is better, my focus at work is better. everything is better,my skin cleared up. i've kept myself trim fornine years now doing this. all i can tell youis that i felt

and i continue to feel betterthan i ever felt before. my friend jason lester andi were the first people to do this challengecalled epic five, which entaileddoing five ironmans on five hawaiian islandsin under a week. an ironman is a 2.4 mile swimfollowed by a 112 mile bike and then running a marathon26.2 miles after that, so we did five of those in a row on five different islandsin a little under a week.

did you almost die? no. we didn't die. so, i guess the famousquestion, where'd you getyour protein, man? from plants! [kip] like so many people,i was looking for excuses not to change my diet. but, once i finally did,i felt liberated. within days,i could feel the blood running through my veinswith a new vitality.

within weeks, i felta transformation throughoutmy entire body and mind. not only could i surviveon a purely plant-basedvegan diet, i could thrive.i felt amazing. i competed in my firstmarathon in six years, training half the amountand beat my personal recordby 23 minutes. less than a month later,i did my first full ironman. although i could possiblyget away with eating a little bit of meat anddairy without ill effects to my personal health,i could no longerwillingly support

an industry i knew wascausing so much suffering to communities, familiesand all life on the planet. a whole new world opened up.i felt whole again. connected to a greater senseof what true health is. and where true healthdoesn't end with me,but begins with us. if people adopteda plant-based diet,the changes we would see in our individual health,in our nationalhealth situation and in this physical,environmental worldwe live in, would be so profound.

today, you can say, i'm not gonnaeat that stuff anymore. it's the one thing that ican do myself personally to make a difference. it will give youa greater sense ofwell-being and happiness when you know thatone, you're notdestroying your health every time yousit down and eat,you're not promoting cruelty, and you're notdamaging the earth. i don't want my gainsto be at the detriment ofthe planet of other things.

and yet i'm not weaker,i'm stronger. that's the beauty of it,when you're altruistic, when you make choices forthe greater good of others, it's comes aroundbenefits me as well.it benefits us all. studies show thatwe can not only survivebut we can thrive. i just feel this isa great way to live,not harming other beings. when you can behealthy and happier. i love it!it's a great life. i never thought that i couldfeel this good at this age.

and i just want everybodyto feel this way. i feel like a 20-year-old,i'm almost 50. nothing tastes as goodas healthy feels, basically. and so the choices thatwe make every single day, day in and day outaround our food has the capacityto bring us true healthand optimal wellness. not just individually,but collectively as a species and for our planet. we're not gonna live forever.

but while we are alive,we can live well. and for me, as a doctor,that's what i wanna see. where there's a will,there is a way. and i believe that.

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