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I don't have
a scientific background.
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And I thought,
"Am I qualified to take people
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on this journey
and offer any kind of advice?"
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But as I delved into it,
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I began to realize
it was actually a strength.
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I brought a very open mind,
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and I think
I could see it freshly.
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I had spent a lot of time
writing articles and books
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tracing the food chain
and showing people
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where their food came from,
how it was produced --
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following meals
all the way back to the farm.
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But I found that what
I kept hearing from readers was,
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"Yeah, yeah, yeah, you've told
me where the food comes from
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and how the animals live
and everything.
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But what I really want to know
is what should I eat?"
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And it's no wonder
people are confused.
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Every day,
there's a new headline --
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eat more fiber,
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drink less milk,
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eggs are bad,
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eggs are good.
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As eaters we feel whipsawed
by the changes
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in the nutritional advice
we're getting.
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And I became absorbed
in this question --
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"Yeah, what do we know?"
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What do we know about the links
between diet and health?
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That was something I hadn't
really focused on very much.
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So, I decided
to see I could come up
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with some guidance for myself,
for my readers,
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for my family on how to eat
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if you're concerned
about your health.
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I really thought
the answer to this question
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would be so much more complex
than it has turned out to be.
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Thank you.
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I'm Michael Pollan.
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Join me as I make the case
in defense of food.
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-Food.
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Why does it need defending?
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It's everywhere around us.
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And who doesn't love it?
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- Oh my goodness, I love pizza.
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- My favorite dinner
is chicken pot pie.
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- A nice piece
of char-grilled steak.
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- I love arugula --
can't get enough of it.
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- And, of course,
I love ice cream, too.
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- I think food is one
of life's greatest pleasures.
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I don't have one favorite food.
I just like food.
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- But the food we're eating today
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is very different
from what it used to be.
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And that change has been taking
a heavy toll on our health.
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The Scavotto family
lives outside Boston.
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- Would you call this
shredded carrots?
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- Anthony is 11.
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- Yes, I would.
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- Last year,
when I went to the doctor's,
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he said that I gained 30 pounds
in a year.
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I didn't like that at all.
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- See if that says
whole wheat on it.
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- Most of my friends,
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they can run
and they can not get tired.
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They can, like, be athletic
and I can't do that.
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I couldn't do that.
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- When I found out
he gained 30 pounds
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under my watch,
that's crazy to me.
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I definitely felt I failed
in the food department.
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- My mother and my father
were buying foods
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that said they were healthy,
but they weren't.
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- You know, granola bars --
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they're not so healthy
if you look at the sugar.
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Yogurt.
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We were doing all that.
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All right,
then it's not healthy.
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- I was mad at myself.
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I was trying to eat healthy,
but apparently it didn't work.
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I didn't like it.
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I wanted to change my body.
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- Anthony's doctor referred him
to a program
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for overweight kids
at Boston Children's Hospital.
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It's a busy place.
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- Anthony.
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- Over the last 30 years,
the rate of childhood obesity
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has more than doubled.
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More and more young people
are now getting a disease
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that used to be very rare
in children --
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type-2 diabetes.
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- Being overweight increases your
chances of getting the disease.
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- Hold your hand out like that.
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- So Anthony may be at risk.
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- Obesity can affect virtually
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every organ system
of a child's body.
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And in some cases, uh,
resulting in type-2 diabetes --
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the ultimate metabolic meltdown.
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Swallow.
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It's one thing
for an overweight adult
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To develop type-2 diabetes
at age 50
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and then have a heart attack
at age 60.
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Take a deep breath.
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It's a very different thing
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if the clock starts ticking
at age 10.
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Since 1975,
the percentage of Americans
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who have type-2 diabetes
has more than tripled
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and is expected
to keep on growing.
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- Four of the top ten things
that will kill you
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are chronic diseases linked
to diet.
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So somethings wrong.
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The diet
most of us eat these days
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as the Western diet.
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It includes lots of meat,
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white flour,
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vegetable oils and sugar,
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and very little fruit,
vegetables, and whole grains.
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It's cheap.
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It's convenient.
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And most of it has been
processed to taste really good.
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- The food industry
has gotten incredibly good
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at manipulating the properties
of food so it has
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just the right texture,
just the right color,
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just the right smell
to make you consume
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as much of it as possible,
miss it when you don't have it,
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crave it to the point
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where you want
to keep coming back for more.
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- And the key
to getting us hooked
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is our inborn craving
for salt, sugar, and fat.
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- We're biologically designed
to like foods
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that are very high in calories,
very high in sugar,
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fat, and salt because
that was adaptive
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during almost all
of human history
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when food was scarce and
there were things like famines.
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But now food is abundant
and our biology is mismatched
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with what's occurring
out there in the environment.
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Take Buffalo wings.
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What are they?
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You start off with the fatty
part of the chicken.
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Usually fried in the
manufacturing plant first.
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That pushes a lot of fat
into that chicken wing.
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Fried usually again
in the restaurant.
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That pushes more fat
into that wing.
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That red sauce -- what is it?
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Sugar and salt.
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That white creamy sauce
on the side?
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Fat, sugar, and salt.
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What are we eating?
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We're eating fat on fat,
on fat on sugar,
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on fat, sugar, and salt.
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- From fast food meals
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to all the packaged products
in the supermarket,
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we're eating more processed
foods than ever before.
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They now make up
some 60% of our diet.
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- The food industry
makes its greatest profits
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through the most
extensively processed foods.
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- The key ingredients
for those foods --
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corn, soybeans, wheat,
and rice --
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don't cost the food companies
much because
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government subsidies keep
supplies high and prices low.
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The food companies
turn those crops
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into things
like hydrolyzed soy protein,
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mono and diglycerides,
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and high fructose corn syrup --
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ingredients that end up
in so many processed foods.
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- The American farm system
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has turned
into a calorie conveyor belt
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that produces
massive amounts of commodities
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to make sugary beverages,
fast food,
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junk food very, very cheap.
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- You've added
all this packaging,
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and this marketing,
and these characters,
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you know, that appeal to kids,
and you're selling it
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for an order of magnitude
more money.
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- And, of course, this is a good
business model for the companies
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'cause they want
to maximize their sales.
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But it's not very good
for human health.
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- People who eat a lot
of processed foods
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struggle more
with health problems.
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And so we've been really curious
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to understand
what happened to the food.
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So we look at what's present
and absent from processed foods
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to understand
where they went wrong,
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why they make people sick.
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Take bread -- one of my own
favorite foods.
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It's made
from a few basic ingredients --
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flour, water, yeast and salt,
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which you mix together,
let rise,
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and then eventually bake.
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We've been eating it
for thousands of years.
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But the bread our ancestors ate
was very different
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from what you find
in most supermarkets today.
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Flour used to be made
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by grinding grains like wheat
between two big stones.
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This kind of flour,
called whole wheat,
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contains all of the wheat seed,
including the bran and the germ.
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But whole wheat bread was
usually dense and hard to chew.
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Removing the bran and germ
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made the flour white
and the bread softer.
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But white flour was a luxury
few people could afford
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until the late 19th century,
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when a new technology
came along.
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- Roller milling
was this great idea.
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You could shake the bran
and the germ of that grain off.
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And it would fall down into the
bottom underneath the roller.
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You could feed that stuff
to the cattle.
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Whoops, it turns out that stuff
is the good stuff.
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- The bran and the germ are rich
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in many nutrients,
including vitamins.
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The part that's left
is mostly carbohydrates,
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which break down
when we eat them
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into the sugar molecule
glucose --
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one of the body's
main sources of energy.
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And we love that.
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We love that sensation
of sugar coming into our body.
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Our brains crave sugar.
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They live on glucose.
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That's the brain's
high-octane fuel.
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And white flour is very stable.
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It will last on the shelf
indefinitely.
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Unlike whole wheat flour,
it doesn't turn rancid
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because the germ, which can
easily spoil, has been removed.
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And when you moved
to white flour,
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it was a great boon
for the food industry
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because, you know,
one giant mill could feed
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millions of people and send out
flour that would last forever.
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The one little problem is,
as you made the flour last,
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you basically ruined it
as a food source
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because you were taking out all
the nutrients, or most of them.
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You still had some starch
and you still had some protein,
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but you lost the vitamins.
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The shift to white flour,
and to processed corn and rice,
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took a toll on people's health.
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They were getting diseases,
like Beriberi and Pellagra,
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which are often fatal.
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But the link
between those diseases
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and people's diets
remained unclear
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until the 20th century,
when we discovered
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they were caused
by a lack of vitamins.
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- You had
these deficiency diseases.
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Nobody knew
where they came from.
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And then you fed these people
a food that had
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the right vitamin in it,
and they'd become healthy.
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This was a true miracle.
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Scientists, nutritionists,
chemists
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were delving into the miracle
of vitamins.
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And this information was
delivered to an excited public,
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through newspapers,
through magazines.
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- Before long, everyone
was talking about vitamins.
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And food companies jumped
on the opportunity.
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- For food marketers,
it was kind of like
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being given this beautiful gift
of this word
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that the public's obsessed with
that no one really understood,
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the chemical details of.
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My favorite example was
Schlitz beer came up
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with Schlitz Vitamin-D beer,
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with the tag line
that beer is good for you.
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But Schlitz Vitamin-D beer
is extra good for you.
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Manufacturers were quick
to pick up on the fact
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that vitamins were
a very good selling point
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and if they weren't naturally
in the food,
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then why don't you add it?
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- You want to grow bigger
and stronger, don't you?
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- Golly, sure!
- Okay!
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- A sandwich daily
and two slices of Wonder Bread
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every meal give you
eight elements you need --
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as much muscle building protein
as roast beef,
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as much calcium for bones
and teeth as cottage cheese,
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As much vitamin B1...
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- The story of Wonder Bread,
in a way,
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is the story of the food system
writ small.
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Why do you need to add all these
special vitamins to bread?
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Well, because you've taken
them out of flour.
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And had we left
good enough alone,
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and we'd continued
to either eat whole grains
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or even partially whole grains,
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you wouldn't have created
this problem.
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So Wonder Bread
was an amazing technology
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solving a problem
that technology created.
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I mean,
you're essentially selling
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the problem and the solution
in one neat package.
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Some of our
dietary problems began
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long before the rise
of modern technology.
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When we invented agriculture,
which gave us bread,
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we set in motion other changes
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that are still affecting
our health today.
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We used to eat a lot
of green plants.
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They're one
of nature's best sources
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Of a class of fatty acids
called omega-3s
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that are vital to our health.
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But once we started farming
seed crops like wheat, rice,
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and corn, they began
to dominate our diet.
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The bulk of what
agriculture does is grow seeds.
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Seeds are full of energy.
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They have lots of carbohydrate
in them and protein.
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I mean,
they're wonderful things.
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They have everything
a new life needs.
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But green, leafy plants
are usually much better
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than seeds
as sources oi omega-3s.
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- Omega-3 fats are essential
for optimal brain growth,
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for optimal heart health,
and for optimal immune function.
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And omega-3 fats can't be made
by the human body.
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They have to be eaten.
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- Traditional diets gave us
many ways to get omega-3s.
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In addition to Green plants,
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omega-3s
are also plentiful in fish,
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which eat lots of plants
in the ocean.
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Meat used to be a good source
of omega-Be
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because farmers fed livestock
their natural diet --
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green, leafy grass.
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But now, most of the animals
we raise for food
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are mainly eating corn and soy.
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So they get fewer omega-3s
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and their meat and milk have
less of them, too.
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But many of the foods we eat
are quite rich
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in a rival group of fatty acids
called omega-6s.
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There are lots of them
in oils pressed from seeds,
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like soy and corn oil.
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- Omega-6s are the darlings
of the food industry
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because they have a much longer
shelf life than omega-3s do.
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- Though we need both omega-6s
and omega-BS to survive,
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there's evidence
that eating too many sixes
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blocks out the threes.
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- It's like a game
of musical chairs.
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There are only so many seats.
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And if they're occupied
by the omega-6s
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you're gonna have
many fewer omega-3s.
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- And some scientists believe
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the loss of omega-3s
is hurting our health.
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- A deficiency
in omega-3 fatty acids
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of heart disease death.
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It will impair the development
of kid's brains
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so that they don't have
optimal IQ.
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They will have greater risk
of major depression.
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- So we've gone from a diet
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that gave us
all the omega-3s we needed
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to one where
they're much harder to get.
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- But perhaps
the biggest threat to our health
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comes not
from losing a nutrient,
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but from flooding our bodies
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with one we seem powerless
to resist.
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- We now consume
about 1,000% more sugar
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per day than we did
200 years ago.
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- Sugar's appearing in foods that
were never sweetened before.
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There's sugars now in bread.
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There's sugars in ketchup
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of all different kinds.
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We have figured out a way
in this country
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to make sugar,
sweeteners very, very cheap.
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- When soda costs less than milk,
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or even bottled water,
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and is marketed as a normal
thing to have with a meal
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or give to toddlers
and young children,
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we have a problem.
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- When we look at factors
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that are related
to obesity and diabetes,
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the single most important factor
we have seen
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is sugar-sweetened beverages.
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- Increasingly,
you're seeing sugary drinks
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that have labels on them
that'll say
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that they have vitamin C
or they're good in antioxidants
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or otherwise somehow imply
that they're healthy for you.
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They're still
basically sugary drinks.
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In a 20-ounce bottle of lemonade
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than there is in a Coca-Cola.
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We know that sugar
has a lot of calories.
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But sugar causes other
metabolic changes, as well.
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- Roughly half of the sugar
in sweetened drinks and foods
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is a kind of sugar
called fructose.
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- Fructose
is the sweet molecule in sugar.
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We love it.
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It's the reason
we go after sugar.
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- But there's evidence
that too much fructose
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can damage the liver.
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- And when your liver gets sick,
type-2 diabetes, hypertension,
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heart disease, liver disease,
all start accumulating.
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- Eating foods
like potatoes, white rice,
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or anything made
from white flour,
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also floods our bodies
with sugar.
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Because, even though
they may not have added sugar,
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they're made up of carbohydrates
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that break down into glucose
when we digest them.
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And flooding our bodies
with glucose
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triggers the release
into our bloodstream
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Of a very important hormone
called insulin.
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-Insulin is necessary for life.
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So what does insulin do?
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Well, it lowers blood sugar.
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Your blood sugar rises
because you've eaten.
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When you're healthy,
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your pancreas
senses the blood sugar rise.
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The insulin goes up, and
the various cells of the body
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will take up the glucose
so that the glucose
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will come back down
in the blood to normal.
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- But there is evidence
that eventually too much sugar
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can push insulin
to the breaking point
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and lead to type-2 diabetes.
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It's a disease that's hitting
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low-income communities
the hardest.
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- Yesterday, I decided
to write down some ingredients
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in my day-to-day diet,
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First, there was a million
things I could not pronounce
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and then there was sugar,
flour, sugar...
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- This video was made
by the Bigger Picture campaign,
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which brings together
young poets
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and health care workers
in the San Francisco Bay area
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to highlight the problem
of diabetes.
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It's like let me hit
that cookie one time.
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It's like knowing most
of your family has diabetes
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00:22:19,806 --> 00:22:22,509
but your still smacking
on your Sour Patches
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00:22:22,675 --> 00:22:25,111
as you're walking your aunt
into her dialysis appointment.
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00:22:25,278 --> 00:22:28,181
It's like aunty Marlo
being blind at 32.
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It's like grandma Suzie dying
from a heart attack at 51.
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- The people
who are suffering the most
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in the obesity epidemic today
are the poor and the minorities.
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Twice the rate of diabetes
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in African Americans, Latinos
as whites.
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That's not because
of their genes.
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That's because of the marketing
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in those
low-income neighborhoods
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of food that's bad for people.
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- We're dealing with a crisis
that's at an emergency level.
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Their lives are at stake.
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I think all
of our lives are at stake.
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- It's like damn.
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It's like suicide.
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It's very painful for me
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to watch my family
literally pass away.
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We will go to funerals that
were caused because of food,
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00:23:13,059 --> 00:23:15,862
and then turn around
and eat the same food
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that put the person in the grave
in the first place.
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So what if I told you
that a hundred years ago,
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one in a hundred people
contracted a disease
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called type-2 diabetes.
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Only one in a hundred people.
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What if I told you
that 50 years from now,
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one in three people --
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one in three people are
gonna have type-2 diabetes.
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00:23:33,946 --> 00:23:35,148
How would
that make you all feel?
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Type-2 diabetes, obesity,
heart disease, heartbreak --
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you know, a lot of misery
has been created
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00:23:42,855 --> 00:23:45,391
by this modern diet.
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00:23:56,903 --> 00:23:59,405
It seemed clear
that the Western diet
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is making lots of people sick.
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00:24:01,941 --> 00:24:04,911
So I started looking
at the kind of diet
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that we evolved to eat --
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food that comes not
from factories, but from nature.
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My search took me back
to the beginning of life.
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- It turns out that one thing
did literally evolve
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to nourish
healthy individuals --
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lactation and milk.
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Everything that the infant
requires has to be in milk.
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So milk is literally
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a comprehensive diet
in one product --
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all the essential nutrients.
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Every vitamin, every mineral,
every amino acid,
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every fatty acid that the infant
needs has to be in milk.
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- At the University of California
at Davis,
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Bruce German
and his colleague Daniela Barile
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00:24:52,358 --> 00:24:53,759
are trying to understand
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how mother's milk
keeps babies healthy
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and what the rest of us
can learn from that.
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- Milk is really the perfect food
because it's always changing.
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If you have milk from day one
and milk from day ten,
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the vitamin content,
the lipid content, the protein,
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the carbohydrate is evolving
to match the needs of the baby.
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- But not all mothers
can breastfeed.
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- If there's
any kind of challenge
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that you'd like
to share with us,
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that gives us an opportunity
to discuss it mother to mother.
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- I've had struggles
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with breastfeeding
from the very beginning.
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I had low supply, so I've
been supplementing with formula.
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- Mothers have been unable
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to feed their babies
throughout history.
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If you
couldn't breastfeed a baby,
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that baby was really in trouble.
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- In the 19th century,
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infant mortality rates
were extremely high.
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People were very fearful
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for the lives of their children,
particularly infants.
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- Then, in the 1860s,
parents were offered
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a potentially
life-saving alternative
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when a German scientist
named Justus Von Liebig
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introduced the first
commercial baby formula.
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He believed
his product contained
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all the essential nutrients
in breast milk.
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00:26:18,511 --> 00:26:21,914
- Liebig's food opened up
an entire market.
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It quickly was followed
by many copiers.
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- But our attempts to make
a substitute for breast milk
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have taught us
just how hard it is
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for science to mimic nature.
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Those early formulas were
missing valuable nutrients.
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Vitamins
hadn't been discovered yet.
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00:26:42,101 --> 00:26:44,370
And the importance of omega-3s
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wasn't understood
until the 1970s.
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We learned
that as close as we get,
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the ultimate goal
is constantly retreating
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because mother's milk
is a very complex food.
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In 2006,
Bruce German and his colleagues
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00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:02,755
discovered one of its secrets
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00:27:02,922 --> 00:27:05,658
when they solved
a longstanding mystery.
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- One of the things
that was absolutely astonishing
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is that human milk contains
undigestible material.
502
00:27:13,833 --> 00:27:17,003
The babies
literally can't digest it.
503
00:27:17,169 --> 00:27:18,337
It goes right through them.
504
00:27:21,807 --> 00:27:25,144
- When we looked
at how much there was,
505
00:27:25,311 --> 00:27:27,146
it was staggering.
506
00:27:27,313 --> 00:27:30,916
It was the third-most
abundant component in milk.
507
00:27:31,083 --> 00:27:36,856
- It was a kind of complex sugar
called an oligosaccharide.
508
00:27:37,023 --> 00:27:41,160
- Mothers literally are feeding
undigestible matter to the baby.
509
00:27:41,327 --> 00:27:42,528
Why?
510
00:27:42,695 --> 00:27:45,731
- German had a hunch.
511
00:27:45,898 --> 00:27:49,502
- The first thought was,
"Well, babies can't digest them.
512
00:27:49,669 --> 00:27:51,171
Maybe bacteria can."
513
00:27:51,337 --> 00:27:54,273
Because we know bacteria inhabit
514
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:58,210
the intestine of all of us,
including babies.
515
00:27:58,377 --> 00:28:01,147
- Bruce came over to my lab
and we tested
516
00:28:01,313 --> 00:28:04,884
to see if the oligosaccharides
that he found in milk
517
00:28:05,051 --> 00:28:07,420
could grow any bacteria
518
00:28:07,586 --> 00:28:10,623
that I happened to have
in my lab.
519
00:28:10,790 --> 00:28:12,625
- And he tested them
and he came back and he said,
520
00:28:12,792 --> 00:28:14,960
"No, they don't."
521
00:28:15,127 --> 00:28:19,965
And he was looking at bacterium
after bacterium after bacterium.
522
00:28:20,132 --> 00:28:23,002
Nothing -- no growth at all.
523
00:28:23,169 --> 00:28:24,737
But then he found one.
524
00:28:24,904 --> 00:28:29,842
And at that point, we began
to realize the genius of milk.
525
00:28:30,009 --> 00:28:34,280
- What Mills found was
a little-understood bacterium
526
00:28:34,447 --> 00:28:38,150
Called bifidobacterium infantis.
527
00:28:38,317 --> 00:28:41,587
- And when you look
at breastfed babies,
528
00:28:41,754 --> 00:28:47,593
their lower intestine is full
of just that bacterium.
529
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:53,332
The great question is why would
this bacteria be valuable?
530
00:28:53,499 --> 00:28:55,434
What could the bacteria
do for the baby?
531
00:28:55,601 --> 00:29:00,406
- It occupies all of the surfaces
of the baby's large intestine
532
00:29:00,573 --> 00:29:04,143
and prevents germs
that could cause disease
533
00:29:04,310 --> 00:29:06,245
from attacking the baby.
534
00:29:06,412 --> 00:29:08,681
So it starts to grow
and multiply
535
00:29:08,848 --> 00:29:12,518
and grows and multiplies
until the baby is literally full
536
00:29:12,685 --> 00:29:15,387
of just this one group
of bacteria.
537
00:29:15,554 --> 00:29:18,057
And no other bacteria
can compete.
538
00:29:18,224 --> 00:29:20,326
That's an ingenious process.
539
00:29:22,094 --> 00:29:23,729
- The story of mother's milk
540
00:29:23,896 --> 00:29:27,500
shows how well
nature provides for us.
541
00:29:27,666 --> 00:29:29,435
And that's something
542
00:29:29,602 --> 00:29:32,838
that remains true
throughout our lives.
543
00:29:33,005 --> 00:29:34,740
No matter where we live,
544
00:29:34,907 --> 00:29:39,445
nature offers us an astonishing
variety of healthy foods.
545
00:29:39,612 --> 00:29:42,348
We are omnivores.
546
00:29:42,515 --> 00:29:45,151
We live on six
of the seven continents.
547
00:29:45,317 --> 00:29:50,156
We have managed to construct
from what nature has to offer
548
00:29:50,322 --> 00:29:52,758
in all those different places --
549
00:29:52,925 --> 00:29:55,261
deserts...
550
00:29:55,427 --> 00:29:57,763
jungles...
551
00:29:57,930 --> 00:30:00,199
grasslands...
552
00:30:00,366 --> 00:30:03,903
forests -- a healthy diet.
553
00:30:04,069 --> 00:30:08,407
In the Andes mountains in Peru,
554
00:30:08,574 --> 00:30:12,178
the Quechua people eat
mostly potatoes and grains
555
00:30:12,344 --> 00:30:14,480
with a small amount of meat.
556
00:30:14,647 --> 00:30:18,551
In East Africa, the Masai thrive
557
00:30:18,717 --> 00:30:22,888
on a diet consisting mostly
of cattle blood, milk, and meat.
558
00:30:23,055 --> 00:30:27,693
In the Arctic, the Inuit
people's traditional diet
559
00:30:27,860 --> 00:30:30,396
includes
tremendous amounts of fat
560
00:30:30,563 --> 00:30:33,199
from whales, seals, and fish.
561
00:30:33,365 --> 00:30:37,870
And here in Tanzania,
members of the Hadza tribe
562
00:30:38,037 --> 00:30:41,540
eat hundreds of different
wild plants and animals.
563
00:30:41,707 --> 00:30:46,312
Although one in five
Hadza babies still die
564
00:30:46,478 --> 00:30:50,115
before their first birthday,
those who survive childhood
565
00:30:50,282 --> 00:30:53,652
tend to live long
and healthy lives.
566
00:30:53,819 --> 00:30:58,824
- We don't see these
so-called Western diseases
567
00:30:58,991 --> 00:31:00,893
among the Hadza.
568
00:31:01,060 --> 00:31:03,963
Things like cancer,
things like obesity,
569
00:31:04,129 --> 00:31:07,466
type-2 diabetes,
heart disease -- very low rates.
570
00:31:07,633 --> 00:31:11,937
For the most part, they are
a very healthy population.
571
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,444
- So what can we learn
from the way they eat?
572
00:31:18,611 --> 00:31:22,381
The Hadza are some
of the last people on Earth
573
00:31:22,548 --> 00:31:25,584
who still get their food
the way our ancestors did --
574
00:31:25,751 --> 00:31:28,587
by hunting and gathering.
575
00:31:28,754 --> 00:31:32,124
- For the bulk of our history,
576
00:31:32,291 --> 00:31:35,227
we were living like the Hadza.
577
00:31:35,394 --> 00:31:38,230
We were foragers.
578
00:31:38,397 --> 00:31:41,901
What we are doing now
in the industrialized West
579
00:31:42,067 --> 00:31:44,770
is what's different or odd.
580
00:31:44,937 --> 00:31:48,941
- They're doing what people
581
00:31:49,108 --> 00:31:51,443
used to do everywhere
on the planet,
582
00:31:51,610 --> 00:31:56,949
which is figure out a way
to use what nature has to offer.
583
00:32:26,345 --> 00:32:29,081
- The women dig
for roots called tubers.
584
00:32:29,248 --> 00:32:31,984
They're very hard to chew.
585
00:32:32,151 --> 00:32:36,989
But when other foods are scarce,
they're almost always available.
586
00:32:37,156 --> 00:32:40,159
They also collect a fruit
587
00:32:40,326 --> 00:32:42,962
that falls to the ground
from tall trees.
588
00:32:43,128 --> 00:32:45,164
It's called Baobab.
589
00:32:45,331 --> 00:32:49,601
The inside
is kind of chalky and dry.
590
00:32:49,768 --> 00:32:54,139
To make it easier to eat,
the Hadza pound it into a powder
591
00:32:54,306 --> 00:32:58,310
and sometimes add water
to make a sort of smoothie.
592
00:32:58,477 --> 00:33:02,848
This is a kind of food
processing, but very minimal.
593
00:33:12,725 --> 00:33:15,661
While the women and children
gather plant foods,
594
00:33:15,828 --> 00:33:19,698
the men go out hunting for meat
and searching for honey.
595
00:33:21,433 --> 00:33:24,570
- Honey is the number-one ranked
Hadza food.
596
00:33:24,737 --> 00:33:28,207
Foragers will go
to incredible lengths
597
00:33:28,374 --> 00:33:31,176
in order to access honey.
598
00:33:50,262 --> 00:33:53,165
If we had to climb a tree
599
00:33:53,332 --> 00:33:55,934
every time we wanted
a sugar fix from a Coke.
600
00:33:56,101 --> 00:33:58,404
We'd probably think twice.
601
00:34:19,858 --> 00:34:23,729
The Hadza get their meat
straight from nature, too.
602
00:35:19,918 --> 00:35:22,621
On days when the Hadza
kill a big animal,
603
00:35:22,788 --> 00:35:24,890
they eat lots of protein
and fat.
604
00:35:25,057 --> 00:35:28,861
On other days they might have
mostly sugar or starch,
605
00:35:29,027 --> 00:35:32,264
it's not what We might think of
as a balanced diet,
606
00:35:32,431 --> 00:35:34,900
but it works very well for them.
607
00:35:35,067 --> 00:35:39,338
The Hadza eat
what their parents ate
608
00:35:39,505 --> 00:35:43,976
and their grandparents ate
and they don't stress about it.
609
00:35:53,452 --> 00:35:57,823
Here is a people that don't know
what a nutrient is,
610
00:35:57,990 --> 00:36:01,460
and have very good
dietary health at the same time.
611
00:36:03,228 --> 00:36:06,932
I think that has something
to teach us.
612
00:36:20,712 --> 00:36:22,114
- What you're gonna do is
you're gonna go down the center.
613
00:36:22,281 --> 00:36:23,815
- So, whenever I give a talk,
614
00:36:23,982 --> 00:36:25,918
I explain the choice
we're facing.
615
00:36:26,084 --> 00:36:30,422
We are at a fork in the road
when it comes to food.
616
00:36:30,589 --> 00:36:32,024
We have two options --
617
00:36:32,191 --> 00:36:35,061
one, surrender
to the Western diet,
618
00:36:35,227 --> 00:36:38,864
stay on processed food,
and junk food, and fast food,
619
00:36:39,031 --> 00:36:41,833
and wait for evolution
to adapt us to it.
620
00:36:43,869 --> 00:36:45,170
It will happen eventually.
621
00:36:45,337 --> 00:36:46,738
It should happen eventually,
622
00:36:46,905 --> 00:36:49,575
but there will be
so much suffering.
623
00:36:49,741 --> 00:36:53,679
There will be so much expense
before that happens
624
00:36:53,845 --> 00:36:56,515
that I would argue
it's really not sustainable.
625
00:36:56,682 --> 00:36:57,983
Well, there's another option.
626
00:36:58,150 --> 00:37:01,853
We can take the more practical,
the more economical,
627
00:37:02,020 --> 00:37:04,089
and the more beautiful path,
628
00:37:04,256 --> 00:37:07,759
which is simply to change
the way we're eating.
629
00:37:09,962 --> 00:37:12,731
And everything I've learned
about healthy eating
630
00:37:12,898 --> 00:37:16,435
can be summed up
in just seven words.
631
00:37:18,704 --> 00:37:22,074
Eat food, not too much,
mostly plants.
632
00:37:22,241 --> 00:37:26,378
And those seven words
tell you all you need to know
633
00:37:26,545 --> 00:37:29,548
about how to eat
in a healthy way.
634
00:37:29,715 --> 00:37:31,216
When I say, "eat food,"
635
00:37:31,383 --> 00:37:33,418
I'm basically saying
eat the kinds of things
636
00:37:33,585 --> 00:37:35,721
that people have been eating
for a long time --
637
00:37:35,887 --> 00:37:37,289
meat...
638
00:37:37,456 --> 00:37:39,224
fish...
639
00:37:39,391 --> 00:37:40,659
vegetables...
640
00:37:40,826 --> 00:37:43,395
and fruits...
641
00:37:43,562 --> 00:37:45,030
grains.
642
00:37:45,197 --> 00:37:48,634
Eat food, which is to say,
"Eat real food."
643
00:37:50,702 --> 00:37:53,572
And that other stuff,
we shouldn't even dignity
644
00:37:53,739 --> 00:37:55,907
with that beautiful word --
"food."
645
00:37:56,074 --> 00:37:57,909
And so I call it something else.
646
00:37:58,076 --> 00:38:00,712
I call it
edible food-like substances.
647
00:38:00,879 --> 00:38:02,748
And that's all
that processed stuff
648
00:38:02,914 --> 00:38:04,683
in the middle
of the supermarket.
649
00:38:04,850 --> 00:38:08,887
The Western diet
is in the center aisles.
650
00:38:09,054 --> 00:38:11,390
Go to the produce section.
651
00:38:11,556 --> 00:38:14,359
The healthiest food in the store
is in the produce section,
652
00:38:14,526 --> 00:38:16,228
and there are no health claims.
653
00:38:16,395 --> 00:38:19,031
You go to the middle
of the store
654
00:38:19,197 --> 00:38:23,669
where the food is just screaming
about its whole grain goodness,
655
00:38:23,835 --> 00:38:25,170
and there's cereals
that are gonna, like,
656
00:38:25,337 --> 00:38:27,606
save you from heart attacks.
657
00:38:27,773 --> 00:38:30,275
They don't talk that way over
in the apples and the broccoli.
658
00:38:30,442 --> 00:38:31,610
Why is that?
659
00:38:31,777 --> 00:38:33,679
Well, they don't have packages,
660
00:38:33,845 --> 00:38:35,781
They don't have big budgets.
661
00:38:35,947 --> 00:38:40,886
The quieter the food,
likely the healthier the food.
662
00:38:41,053 --> 00:38:46,825
- You don't have to be
a scientist to know how to eat.
663
00:38:46,992 --> 00:38:48,493
To me, that's one
of the interesting things
664
00:38:48,660 --> 00:38:51,196
about nutrition -- is everybody
can eat a healthy diet,
665
00:38:51,363 --> 00:38:53,632
and they can put together
their own healthy diet
666
00:38:53,799 --> 00:38:58,136
without knowing thing one
about the biology of nutrients.
667
00:38:58,303 --> 00:39:01,440
Just go around the outside
of the supermarket
668
00:39:01,606 --> 00:39:03,642
and pick up fruits,
vegetables, meat,
669
00:39:03,809 --> 00:39:06,211
and stay out
of the processed foods
670
00:39:06,378 --> 00:39:08,914
because they're fun to eat
once in a while,
671
00:39:09,081 --> 00:39:10,749
but they shouldn't be
daily fare.
672
00:39:12,918 --> 00:39:16,688
- Saying that we should eat food
may sound obvious.
673
00:39:16,855 --> 00:39:19,324
But these days,
much of the food industry
674
00:39:19,491 --> 00:39:21,893
is built on a different idea --
675
00:39:22,060 --> 00:39:25,364
that what really matters
is eating the right nutrients.
676
00:39:25,530 --> 00:39:28,233
Manufacturers bombard us
with claims
677
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,303
About the good nutrients
they've put into their products
678
00:39:31,470 --> 00:39:34,106
and the bad ones
they've taken out.
679
00:39:34,272 --> 00:39:38,543
This way of thinking
has a name -- nutritionism.
680
00:39:38,710 --> 00:39:42,414
And the more I learned about it,
the more convinced I became
681
00:39:42,581 --> 00:39:45,784
that it's the reason
something as simple as eating
682
00:39:45,951 --> 00:39:48,653
has become so complicated.
683
00:39:48,820 --> 00:39:50,188
Nutrition is one thing.
684
00:39:50,355 --> 00:39:55,327
Nutrition science is a science,
but nutritionism is an ideology.
685
00:39:55,494 --> 00:39:58,096
It's the ideology of believing
686
00:39:58,263 --> 00:40:00,932
that the nutrient is the key
to understanding food.
687
00:40:01,099 --> 00:40:04,069
The big premise of nutritionism
is that the most important thing
688
00:40:04,236 --> 00:40:07,906
about any food are the nutrients
it contains, right?
689
00:40:08,073 --> 00:40:10,242
A food is the sum
of its nutrient parts,
690
00:40:10,409 --> 00:40:12,577
which is basically how
science studies food.
691
00:40:12,744 --> 00:40:15,447
So, take an apple,
or take carrots.
692
00:40:15,614 --> 00:40:17,816
And what's important
about carrots
693
00:40:17,983 --> 00:40:19,718
is a certain amount
of beta-Carotene
694
00:40:19,885 --> 00:40:21,420
and a certain amount of vitamins
695
00:40:21,586 --> 00:40:23,855
and a certain amount of fiber
and a certain amount of sugar.
696
00:40:24,022 --> 00:40:25,257
That's what a carrot is.
697
00:40:25,424 --> 00:40:28,193
So that seems kind of,
"Okay, no big deal.
698
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,196
That's -- nutrients are
the basis of food."
699
00:40:31,363 --> 00:40:34,699
But if you accept that idea
that the important thing
700
00:40:34,866 --> 00:40:37,702
about a food
are the nutrients it contains,
701
00:40:37,869 --> 00:40:40,505
you suddenly find yourself
dragged along
702
00:40:40,672 --> 00:40:42,674
to tenet number two
of nutritionism.
703
00:40:42,841 --> 00:40:47,612
And that is the idea that since
nutrients are invisible,
704
00:40:47,779 --> 00:40:51,450
then it falls to experts
to tell us how to eat.
705
00:40:51,616 --> 00:40:53,952
It's sort of like a religion,
'cause, now,
706
00:40:54,119 --> 00:40:57,789
if what matters about a food
is something you can't see,
707
00:40:57,956 --> 00:41:00,125
then you need a priesthood
708
00:41:00,292 --> 00:41:03,962
to mediate your relationship
to that mystery.
709
00:41:04,129 --> 00:41:08,333
And so we have a priesthood
that consists of doctors,
710
00:41:08,500 --> 00:41:11,303
who we consult about food,
and various experts
711
00:41:11,470 --> 00:41:13,572
and writers of books
on nutrition
712
00:41:13,738 --> 00:41:16,308
and nutrition scientists
of all kinds.
713
00:41:16,475 --> 00:41:18,210
And -- and we defer to them.
714
00:41:18,376 --> 00:41:22,614
Like most ideologies,
nutritionism divides the world
715
00:41:22,781 --> 00:41:26,485
into good and evil
so that, in the nutrition area,
716
00:41:26,651 --> 00:41:30,155
there is always a group
of blessed nutrients
717
00:41:30,322 --> 00:41:33,124
and a group of evil nutrients.
718
00:41:33,291 --> 00:41:35,427
So let's get a few examples.
719
00:41:35,594 --> 00:41:37,963
Give me some examples
of a blessed nutrient.
720
00:41:38,129 --> 00:41:38,997
- Kale!
721
00:41:39,164 --> 00:41:41,533
- Kale is not a nutrient.
It's a food.
722
00:41:41,700 --> 00:41:42,868
But thank you.
723
00:41:43,034 --> 00:41:45,470
- Vitamin C!
- Vitamin C.
724
00:41:45,637 --> 00:41:46,738
- Fiber!
- Fiber.
725
00:41:46,905 --> 00:41:49,274
- Antioxidants!
- Antioxidants.
726
00:41:49,441 --> 00:41:51,243
- Omega-3s!
- Omega-3s, yes.
727
00:41:51,409 --> 00:41:52,944
The blessed nutrients.
728
00:41:53,111 --> 00:41:54,045
And, on the other side,
729
00:41:54,212 --> 00:41:56,648
there is always
the evil nutrients
730
00:41:56,815 --> 00:41:59,050
we are trying to drive
from the food supply --
731
00:41:59,217 --> 00:42:02,187
Saturated fat,
high-fructose corn syrup,
732
00:42:02,354 --> 00:42:03,355
sugar, in general.
733
00:42:03,522 --> 00:42:04,890
Evil nutrients.
734
00:42:05,056 --> 00:42:07,826
But it's important
to know that the identity
735
00:42:07,993 --> 00:42:11,296
of the good and evil nutrients
is constantly changing.
736
00:42:13,965 --> 00:42:15,934
You go back to the turn
of the last century,
737
00:42:16,101 --> 00:42:19,271
around 1900,
there was an ideology then
738
00:42:19,437 --> 00:42:22,040
that the great evil nutrient,
was protein.
739
00:42:22,207 --> 00:42:23,975
Now we think protein's great,
740
00:42:24,142 --> 00:42:28,280
but then some people thought
protein was really bad.
741
00:42:28,446 --> 00:42:31,049
The best-known critic
of protein was
742
00:42:31,216 --> 00:42:33,418
Doctor John Harvey Kellogg --
743
00:42:33,585 --> 00:42:35,954
a member of a Christian
denomination called
744
00:42:36,121 --> 00:42:40,825
the Seventh-day Adventists
that promoted vegetarianism.
745
00:42:40,992 --> 00:42:43,762
People flocked to his sanitarium
746
00:42:43,929 --> 00:42:46,097
in Battle Creek, Michigan,
to be cured
747
00:42:46,264 --> 00:42:49,367
of the gastrointestinal curse
of the day.
748
00:42:49,534 --> 00:42:52,470
- America's diet
in the 1800s and early 1900s,
749
00:42:52,637 --> 00:42:54,139
it was a lot
of meat and potatoes.
750
00:42:54,306 --> 00:42:56,107
And constipation was, like,
an obsession.
751
00:42:56,274 --> 00:42:58,009
Everyone was obsessed
with constipation.
752
00:42:58,176 --> 00:43:02,814
- Which Kellogg claimed was
caused by bacteria in our colon
753
00:43:02,981 --> 00:43:06,585
that thrive on the protein
in a meat-heavy diet.
754
00:43:06,751 --> 00:43:09,154
They thought that it released
toxins in your gut
755
00:43:09,321 --> 00:43:11,690
as it fermented
and -- and that would lead
756
00:43:11,856 --> 00:43:14,225
to cancer
and all sorts of things.
757
00:43:14,392 --> 00:43:19,097
Celebrities including
Henry Ford, Amelia Earhart,
758
00:43:19,264 --> 00:43:21,566
and future president
Warren Harding
759
00:43:21,733 --> 00:43:24,769
Eagerly submitted
to Kellogg's vegetarian diet
760
00:43:24,936 --> 00:43:27,806
and anti-bacterial treatments.
761
00:43:27,973 --> 00:43:31,776
And people did
the most insane things
762
00:43:31,943 --> 00:43:34,312
under the direction
of this pseudo-science.
763
00:43:34,479 --> 00:43:37,349
I mean, go on all-grape diets
for a day
764
00:43:37,515 --> 00:43:40,518
and eat 14 pounds of grapes
and nothing else,
765
00:43:40,685 --> 00:43:43,288
take yogurt enemas.
766
00:43:43,455 --> 00:43:48,126
And you were supposed to chew
every bite a hundred times.
767
00:43:48,293 --> 00:43:50,095
That can interfere
with the pleasure of a meal.
768
00:43:54,699 --> 00:43:56,768
Kellogg asked his brother Will
769
00:43:56,935 --> 00:44:00,905
to perform experiments
to design healthier foods.
770
00:44:01,072 --> 00:44:04,075
They really wanted
to dethrone protein,
771
00:44:04,242 --> 00:44:08,046
which was the morning meal --
eggs and bacon and sausage.
772
00:44:08,213 --> 00:44:10,415
And they thought
that carbohydrates
773
00:44:10,582 --> 00:44:12,517
were the clean,
blessed nutrient.
774
00:44:12,684 --> 00:44:15,253
One day in 1894,
775
00:44:15,420 --> 00:44:17,489
the brothers stumbled
on a discovery
776
00:44:17,656 --> 00:44:20,492
they hoped would transform
the American breakfast --
777
00:44:20,659 --> 00:44:25,463
the flaked cereal, made mostly
of carbohydrates.
778
00:44:25,630 --> 00:44:27,766
First came wheat flakes.
779
00:44:27,932 --> 00:44:30,301
And then Will
invented the corn flake --
780
00:44:30,468 --> 00:44:34,506
so wildly successful
it would make him wealthy.
781
00:44:36,207 --> 00:44:40,045
But John Kellogg's theories
about the perils of protein,
782
00:44:40,211 --> 00:44:43,081
not to mention his ideas
about yogurt enemas,
783
00:44:43,248 --> 00:44:47,185
Were eventually disproven
by science.
784
00:44:47,352 --> 00:44:48,586
You know, we look back on that
785
00:44:48,753 --> 00:44:50,521
and we think
this is complete quackery.
786
00:44:50,689 --> 00:44:53,258
Well, I hate to say it,
but someone will look back
787
00:44:53,425 --> 00:44:56,161
on us in a hundred years,
and say much the same thing
788
00:44:56,327 --> 00:44:58,563
for a lot of our own
nutritional practices.
789
00:44:58,730 --> 00:45:02,400
We look at gluten
the way they looked at protein.
790
00:45:02,567 --> 00:45:04,769
You know,
we have millions of Americans
791
00:45:04,936 --> 00:45:08,440
now working to remove gluten
from their diet.
792
00:45:08,606 --> 00:45:10,241
We're looking for answers.
793
00:45:10,408 --> 00:45:12,844
We're looking
for dietary salvation.
794
00:45:13,011 --> 00:45:15,080
And when someone comes forward
with a theory,
795
00:45:15,246 --> 00:45:16,614
we fall into line.
796
00:45:16,781 --> 00:45:21,152
- Because so many women
are concerned about too much
797
00:45:21,319 --> 00:45:23,955
saturated fat,
a great change in eating habits
798
00:45:24,122 --> 00:45:26,191
is taking place
in homes all over America.
799
00:45:31,996 --> 00:45:35,166
- The campaign
to reduce fat in our diets
800
00:45:35,333 --> 00:45:37,969
is the best example yet
of what can go wrong
801
00:45:38,136 --> 00:45:41,106
when the science of nutrition
gets hijacked
802
00:45:41,272 --> 00:45:43,975
by the ideology of nutritionism.
803
00:45:44,142 --> 00:45:46,244
- Reducing fat
in your overall diet
804
00:45:46,411 --> 00:45:47,946
can help make you healthier.
805
00:45:48,113 --> 00:45:51,149
- We spent 30 years in this
country obsessing about fat.
806
00:45:51,316 --> 00:45:52,484
- Health specialists recommend
807
00:45:52,650 --> 00:45:53,985
that children
more than two years old
808
00:45:54,152 --> 00:45:56,588
begin eating a diet
that is lower in fat.
809
00:45:56,755 --> 00:45:58,223
- Eat foods that are low in fat.
810
00:46:03,928 --> 00:46:07,432
- Fat got a reputation
811
00:46:07,599 --> 00:46:11,136
as an evil nutrient back
in the 1950s
812
00:46:11,302 --> 00:46:14,038
when scientists
began searching for the cause
813
00:46:14,205 --> 00:46:17,542
of what seemed to be
a big increase in heart disease.
814
00:46:17,709 --> 00:46:21,179
Finding the reason why
became an obsession
815
00:46:21,346 --> 00:46:25,416
For a Minnesota physiologist
named Ancel Keys.
816
00:46:25,583 --> 00:46:28,219
He and his wife Margaret,
a biochemist,
817
00:46:28,386 --> 00:46:31,222
traveled the world
studying heart disease.
818
00:46:31,389 --> 00:46:32,590
- Ancel Keys' hypothesis
819
00:46:32,757 --> 00:46:34,793
at the beginning
of his research was
820
00:46:34,959 --> 00:46:39,664
that something in people's diets
was responsible
821
00:46:39,831 --> 00:46:42,467
for the generation
of heart disease.
822
00:46:42,634 --> 00:46:47,172
His studies in Naples
made him think that
823
00:46:47,338 --> 00:46:49,541
that something was fat.
824
00:46:54,879 --> 00:46:59,617
- Ancel and Margaret first
visited Naples in 1952.
825
00:46:59,784 --> 00:47:03,187
They had heard
that working-class Neapolitans
826
00:47:03,354 --> 00:47:04,289
had less heart disease
827
00:47:04,455 --> 00:47:06,124
than their more comfortable
neighbors.
828
00:47:06,291 --> 00:47:10,895
So they decided
to compare their diets.
829
00:47:11,062 --> 00:47:14,566
- Those who were more affluent
loved their steaks.
830
00:47:14,732 --> 00:47:16,334
They loved their veal.
831
00:47:16,501 --> 00:47:20,238
They loved
their rich, creamy sauces.
832
00:47:20,405 --> 00:47:24,342
Now amongst the working classes,
they were eating lots of pasta,
833
00:47:24,509 --> 00:47:27,879
lots of vegetables,
lots of fresh fruits.
834
00:47:28,046 --> 00:47:30,715
But they were missing the fat
835
00:47:30,882 --> 00:47:33,952
that was so common
on the dinner plates
836
00:47:34,118 --> 00:47:37,856
of the upper crust
of Neapolitan society.
837
00:47:39,958 --> 00:47:42,994
The connection
that Ancel Keys saw between
838
00:47:43,161 --> 00:47:48,466
fat and cardiovascular disease
was cholesterol.
839
00:47:48,633 --> 00:47:50,935
- This sticky substance
840
00:47:51,102 --> 00:47:54,472
is something our bodies make
and need.
841
00:47:54,639 --> 00:47:57,242
But scientists were finding
that too much of it
842
00:47:57,408 --> 00:48:01,279
in the bloodstream
clogged arteries.
843
00:48:01,446 --> 00:48:04,616
- Scientists could see
cholesterol
844
00:48:04,782 --> 00:48:08,386
on the interior linings
of arteries,
845
00:48:08,553 --> 00:48:11,256
especially the arteries
of those people
846
00:48:11,422 --> 00:48:13,524
who suffered heart attacks.
847
00:48:13,691 --> 00:48:17,495
- Keys and others found that
your blood-cholesterol level
848
00:48:17,662 --> 00:48:21,199
went up the more you ate
a particular kind of fat.
849
00:48:21,366 --> 00:48:24,936
- Saturated fat, like
palmitic acid, stearic acid --
850
00:48:25,103 --> 00:48:27,272
they are saturated
with hydrogens.
851
00:48:27,438 --> 00:48:31,409
- Saturated fats are usually
solid at room temperature.
852
00:48:31,576 --> 00:48:37,815
We get them most often from
meat, milk, butter, and cheese.
853
00:48:37,982 --> 00:48:40,318
- As he looked around the globe,
854
00:48:40,485 --> 00:48:44,822
Keys found
that the more animal fat,
855
00:48:44,989 --> 00:48:47,825
red meat, and dairy products,
856
00:48:47,992 --> 00:48:50,995
the more heart disease
within the population.
857
00:48:51,162 --> 00:48:54,299
- Keys was practicing
a statistical
858
00:48:54,465 --> 00:48:57,235
kind of science
called epidemiology.
859
00:48:57,402 --> 00:49:00,772
He was looking through data
about large numbers of people,
860
00:49:00,939 --> 00:49:03,274
trying to find patterns.
861
00:49:03,441 --> 00:49:06,911
Epidemiology
is very powerful in its way
862
00:49:07,078 --> 00:49:11,816
because it identifies trends
and potential relationships.
863
00:49:11,983 --> 00:49:15,053
But you always
have to be skeptical
864
00:49:15,219 --> 00:49:17,322
of any of those kinds
of associations,
865
00:49:17,488 --> 00:49:20,525
unless you've got other kinds
of data that show causality.
866
00:49:20,692 --> 00:49:22,760
And it should be written
867
00:49:22,927 --> 00:49:25,863
on every single
epidemiological study --
868
00:49:26,030 --> 00:49:30,868
"Red flag, association does not
necessarily mean causation."
869
00:49:31,035 --> 00:49:34,238
- But based
on the strong association
870
00:49:34,405 --> 00:49:35,606
Keys saw in his data
871
00:49:35,773 --> 00:49:38,309
between heart disease
and saturated fat,
872
00:49:38,476 --> 00:49:40,778
he advised people
to eat less of it.
873
00:49:46,384 --> 00:49:48,119
By the 1970s,
874
00:49:48,286 --> 00:49:50,888
Keys' theory was being discussed
in the Senate.
875
00:49:51,055 --> 00:49:53,191
- There were
some one million people
876
00:49:53,358 --> 00:49:57,095
who died in 1967
from heart disease.
877
00:49:57,261 --> 00:50:00,765
- In 1976,
George McGovern was chairman
878
00:50:00,932 --> 00:50:03,368
of the Senate's Select Committee
on Nutrition.
879
00:50:03,534 --> 00:50:05,536
- We're eating
much more animal fat.
880
00:50:05,703 --> 00:50:09,907
- They hear over and over again
that animal fat is the problem.
881
00:50:10,074 --> 00:50:12,410
And they issue a set
of guidelines
882
00:50:12,577 --> 00:50:15,480
called the dietary goals
of the United States.
883
00:50:15,646 --> 00:50:18,516
The goals urged Americans
to reduce fat
884
00:50:18,683 --> 00:50:21,619
to 30% of the calories
in their diets.
885
00:50:21,786 --> 00:50:22,854
How?
886
00:50:23,021 --> 00:50:25,289
By eating less meat
and less dairy.
887
00:50:25,456 --> 00:50:28,960
"Decrease consumption of meat,"
they said.
888
00:50:29,127 --> 00:50:33,264
- And never has a nutrition
report been more controversial.
889
00:50:33,431 --> 00:50:35,767
- The meat industry
would have none of that.
890
00:50:35,933 --> 00:50:38,069
- They went right
to their friends in Congress.
891
00:50:38,236 --> 00:50:39,771
Congress held hearings.
892
00:50:39,937 --> 00:50:45,743
And McGovern had to rewrite
those guidelines.
893
00:50:45,910 --> 00:50:49,514
- So, "Eat less red meat,"
is rewritten as,
894
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:55,019
"Choose meats that will reduce
your saturated fat intake."
895
00:50:55,186 --> 00:50:58,222
And in the move
from that first sentence
896
00:50:58,389 --> 00:51:01,392
to that second sentence,
that translation process,
897
00:51:01,559 --> 00:51:04,395
to my mind, is the beginning
of full-blown nutritionism.
898
00:51:04,562 --> 00:51:06,264
Because think about it.
899
00:51:06,431 --> 00:51:08,966
First of all, we're no longer
talking about a food
900
00:51:09,133 --> 00:51:11,736
that everybody recognizes --
meat, red meat.
901
00:51:11,903 --> 00:51:15,139
We're talking about a nutrient
that no one has ever seen,
902
00:51:15,306 --> 00:51:17,875
really understands,
and is an abstraction --
903
00:51:18,042 --> 00:51:19,377
saturated fat.
904
00:51:22,713 --> 00:51:25,950
For the food industry,
the mandate to reduce fat
905
00:51:26,117 --> 00:51:28,419
was an opportunity
to sell new products --
906
00:51:28,586 --> 00:51:32,423
low in fat, perhaps,
but often high in sugar.
907
00:51:32,590 --> 00:51:35,193
- The food industry
could all of a sudden
908
00:51:35,359 --> 00:51:39,197
use low-fat or no-fat
as a marketing strategy.
909
00:51:39,363 --> 00:51:41,766
Don't you want something
that's healthy for you?
910
00:51:41,933 --> 00:51:44,368
Why not buy a highly processed,
911
00:51:44,535 --> 00:51:49,740
sugar-laden cookie
that is fat-free?
912
00:51:49,907 --> 00:51:52,243
- People thought,
"God, there's no fat in this.
913
00:51:52,410 --> 00:51:54,378
I'm not just gonna have one
of those cookies,
914
00:51:54,545 --> 00:51:55,646
I'm gonna have a whole box.
915
00:51:55,813 --> 00:51:56,781
- I think they're zesty.
916
00:51:56,948 --> 00:51:57,849
I could eat a million.
917
00:51:58,015 --> 00:51:59,350
I think I Will.
918
00:51:59,517 --> 00:52:03,221
- The message to eat less fat
was translated into,
919
00:52:03,387 --> 00:52:05,423
"It's okay to eat more sugar."
920
00:52:05,590 --> 00:52:08,526
- So the food industry
re-engineers the food,
921
00:52:08,693 --> 00:52:11,662
and if you look at it,
fat as a proportion
922
00:52:11,829 --> 00:52:14,098
of calories in the diet
goes down,
923
00:52:14,265 --> 00:52:15,766
which sounds really good.
924
00:52:15,933 --> 00:52:17,568
But, in fact, what happened is
925
00:52:17,735 --> 00:52:20,671
fat stayed level and we ate
a lot more carbohydrate.
926
00:52:20,838 --> 00:52:23,908
And that meant more calories.
927
00:52:24,075 --> 00:52:26,310
So we were kidding ourselves,
928
00:52:26,477 --> 00:52:28,813
and the industry was helping
to let us kid ourselves.
929
00:52:33,618 --> 00:52:37,021
- Prodded by health experts,
the industry also encouraged us
930
00:52:37,188 --> 00:52:39,490
to switch from butter
to margarine.
931
00:52:39,657 --> 00:52:41,626
- America's favorite margarine.
932
00:52:41,792 --> 00:52:43,094
- Blue Bonnet.
933
00:52:47,098 --> 00:52:49,767
- Margarine is made
from vegetable oils.
934
00:52:49,934 --> 00:52:52,703
They contain
polyunsaturated fats,
935
00:52:52,870 --> 00:52:55,173
which were touted
as blessed nutrients
936
00:52:55,339 --> 00:52:58,276
because some of them
can lower cholesterol.
937
00:52:58,442 --> 00:53:01,646
But to make vegetable oil
hard enough to spread,
938
00:53:01,812 --> 00:53:03,714
you have to hydrogenate it.
939
00:53:03,881 --> 00:53:07,318
That means injecting
hydrogen gas into the oil
940
00:53:07,485 --> 00:53:10,054
under controlled temperature
and pressure --
941
00:53:10,221 --> 00:53:13,291
a process that changes some
of the polyunsaturates
942
00:53:13,457 --> 00:53:17,195
into a kind of fat
called trans fat.
943
00:53:17,361 --> 00:53:19,697
Margarine and other
vegetable oil products
944
00:53:19,864 --> 00:53:22,066
with trans fat
were cheaper than butter
945
00:53:22,233 --> 00:53:23,501
and stayed fresh longer.
946
00:53:23,668 --> 00:53:27,071
They became popular
in baked goods,
947
00:53:27,238 --> 00:53:31,375
deep frying, and all kinds
of processed foods.
948
00:53:31,542 --> 00:53:34,812
For decades, we were told
they were healthy alternatives
949
00:53:34,979 --> 00:53:37,381
to foods with saturated fats.
950
00:53:37,548 --> 00:53:40,851
But in the 1990s,
scientists discovered
951
00:53:41,018 --> 00:53:45,356
that trans fats were in fact
not very healthy at all.
952
00:53:45,523 --> 00:53:48,459
- Many people associated with
the American Heart Association
953
00:53:48,626 --> 00:53:50,928
had been advising people
to consume margarine
954
00:53:51,095 --> 00:53:54,265
that was loaded with trans fat,
although lower in saturated fat.
955
00:53:54,432 --> 00:53:58,035
As it turns out, people who had
more trans fat in their diet
956
00:53:58,202 --> 00:54:02,006
had higher rates
of heart disease and diabetes.
957
00:54:02,173 --> 00:54:03,141
Those margarines were about
958
00:54:03,307 --> 00:54:05,042
the worst things
that people could be eating.
959
00:54:05,209 --> 00:54:08,379
- So, think of it --
960
00:54:08,546 --> 00:54:10,548
what we told people
is to get off
961
00:54:10,715 --> 00:54:13,985
a possibly unhealthy fat
called saturated fat
962
00:54:14,151 --> 00:54:17,421
And replace it with a fat
that we subsequently learned
963
00:54:17,588 --> 00:54:20,091
actually does
give you heart attacks.
964
00:54:22,393 --> 00:54:24,228
As time went on, many people
965
00:54:24,395 --> 00:54:27,031
began thinking
that all fats were bad.
966
00:54:27,198 --> 00:54:31,869
- Fat was oversold
as public enemy number one.
967
00:54:32,036 --> 00:54:33,704
Now, fat is
an essential ingredient.
968
00:54:33,871 --> 00:54:35,706
You will die
without certain fatty acids
969
00:54:35,873 --> 00:54:37,975
so you -- you need some fat.
970
00:54:38,142 --> 00:54:40,611
There are many people
in the United States
971
00:54:40,778 --> 00:54:43,114
who think you should eat
a no-fat diet.
972
00:54:43,281 --> 00:54:44,448
You'd be dead.
973
00:54:46,617 --> 00:54:48,386
- In 2001,
974
00:54:48,552 --> 00:54:51,589
scientists at the
Harvard School of Public Health
975
00:54:51,756 --> 00:54:54,392
issued a scathing report.
976
00:54:54,558 --> 00:54:57,028
"The low-fat campaign,"
they wrote,
977
00:54:57,194 --> 00:55:00,064
"has been based
on little scientific evidence
978
00:55:00,231 --> 00:55:04,568
and may have caused unintended
health consequences."
979
00:55:04,735 --> 00:55:07,138
Essentially,
to read this article
980
00:55:07,305 --> 00:55:09,974
the entire scientific edifice
981
00:55:10,141 --> 00:55:13,811
around the low-fat campaign
crumble before your eyes.
982
00:55:13,978 --> 00:55:17,014
The scientists said
the low-fat campaign
983
00:55:17,181 --> 00:55:19,517
had oversimplified the science.
984
00:55:19,684 --> 00:55:22,520
They reported
that replacing saturated fat
985
00:55:22,687 --> 00:55:26,757
with unsaturated fat did
lower the risk of heart disease.
986
00:55:26,924 --> 00:55:30,161
But they noted that while
a significant association
987
00:55:30,328 --> 00:55:32,763
between saturated fat
and heart disease
988
00:55:32,930 --> 00:55:34,398
was found in two studies,
989
00:55:34,565 --> 00:55:37,501
it was not found
in seven others.
990
00:55:37,668 --> 00:55:39,637
And they pointed out
that as people
991
00:55:39,804 --> 00:55:42,973
replaced fat
with carbohydrates and sugar,
992
00:55:43,140 --> 00:55:48,212
the prevalence of obesity
and diabetes grew dramatically.
993
00:55:48,379 --> 00:55:53,017
It's tragic because,
in the process of doing this,
994
00:55:53,184 --> 00:55:57,455
all supposedly with the idea
of improving the public health,
995
00:55:57,621 --> 00:55:59,724
we may have made
the public health worse.
996
00:55:59,890 --> 00:56:05,396
This was a tremendous
public health mistake.
997
00:56:05,563 --> 00:56:10,768
And that mistake was getting so
obsessed with a single nutrient.
998
00:56:10,935 --> 00:56:14,105
The glamor is in the nutrients,
and there's no question
999
00:56:14,271 --> 00:56:17,007
that when you do that,
you stumble down the path
1000
00:56:17,174 --> 00:56:19,944
and you hit something and
you say, "Oh, that's it.
1001
00:56:20,111 --> 00:56:21,512
That's it -- it's fat.
1002
00:56:21,679 --> 00:56:23,914
It's fat.
Cut out the fat.
1003
00:56:24,081 --> 00:56:27,385
And then about ten years later,
you say,
1004
00:56:27,551 --> 00:56:28,853
"Well, now, wait a minute.
1005
00:56:29,019 --> 00:56:30,287
It really isn't all fat."
1006
00:56:30,454 --> 00:56:33,357
And they're always coming out
with something new
1007
00:56:33,524 --> 00:56:36,060
telling you
what's the ideal diet.
1008
00:56:36,227 --> 00:56:40,931
So, of course,
people are confused.
1009
00:56:41,098 --> 00:56:45,703
- Scientists now understand
that a healthy diet
1010
00:56:45,870 --> 00:56:50,141
has to do with a lot more than
one kind of food or nutrient.
1011
00:56:50,307 --> 00:56:53,811
- A single nutrient
or a single food
1012
00:56:53,978 --> 00:56:56,013
are not the magic bullet.
1013
00:56:56,180 --> 00:56:58,349
That is the combination of foods
1014
00:56:58,516 --> 00:57:02,753
that is the most important
determinant of health.
1015
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:06,424
- We should not be talking
about nutritionism,
1016
00:57:06,590 --> 00:57:09,226
we should talk about nutrition.
1017
00:57:09,393 --> 00:57:11,629
We shouldn't talk about
components of food.
1018
00:57:11,796 --> 00:57:13,063
We should talk about food.
1019
00:57:15,566 --> 00:57:18,769
- But eating food
isn't always easy,
1020
00:57:18,936 --> 00:57:20,771
especially for the millions
of people
1021
00:57:20,938 --> 00:57:22,740
who live
in low-income neighborhoods
1022
00:57:22,907 --> 00:57:25,943
where so much of what's
available is processed food.
1023
00:57:26,110 --> 00:57:29,480
- If you go shopping
across the street,
1024
00:57:29,647 --> 00:57:32,316
you'll be able to purchase
a wide variety of cigarettes,
1025
00:57:32,483 --> 00:57:36,921
chocolates, soda, malt liquor,
and potato chips.
1026
00:57:37,087 --> 00:57:38,522
Probably some canned vegetables,
1027
00:57:38,689 --> 00:57:42,359
rice, sugar, bread, cheese,
and processed meat.
1028
00:57:42,526 --> 00:57:47,331
People make decisions based
on what they can afford.
1029
00:57:47,498 --> 00:57:49,233
And sadly,
1030
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:52,670
what they can afford
often is cheap food --
1031
00:57:52,837 --> 00:57:53,838
things that will enable you
1032
00:57:54,004 --> 00:57:56,974
to stretch your dollar
as far as possible.
1033
00:57:57,141 --> 00:58:01,812
- Growing up, what I typically
ate was fast food,
1034
00:58:01,979 --> 00:58:06,584
whether it's Mickey-D's
or a Burger King,
1035
00:58:06,750 --> 00:58:08,252
going to the corner store
buying a bag of chips
1036
00:58:08,419 --> 00:58:10,721
and a soda for less than $3.
1037
00:58:10,888 --> 00:58:14,658
That's what you're used to.
1038
00:58:14,825 --> 00:58:16,226
- We're gonna move
all these towers
1039
00:58:16,393 --> 00:58:17,461
into this beautiful formation
1040
00:58:17,628 --> 00:58:19,063
and then
we're going to go farming.
1041
00:58:19,230 --> 00:58:21,632
- But all over the country,
1042
00:58:21,799 --> 00:58:23,768
including here
in the South Bronx,
1043
00:58:23,934 --> 00:58:28,005
people are finding
ingenious ways to get real food.
1044
00:58:28,172 --> 00:58:29,373
- Malik found a home.
1045
00:58:29,540 --> 00:58:30,975
One for you,
But don't cut yet.
1046
00:58:31,141 --> 00:58:32,809
Let's walk our way through this.
1047
00:58:32,977 --> 00:58:35,947
Do we want to take
all the leaves off the plants?
1048
00:58:36,113 --> 00:58:37,281
- No.
1049
00:58:37,448 --> 00:58:39,149
So what we're gonna do --
we're gonna come over here.
1050
00:58:39,316 --> 00:58:41,051
We're gonna go
right down to the bottom.
1051
00:58:41,218 --> 00:58:43,587
Take the top shoots off --
boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
1052
00:58:43,754 --> 00:58:44,855
Boom.
1053
00:58:45,022 --> 00:58:48,425
- Teacher Steve Ritz runs
a network of food projects,
1054
00:58:48,592 --> 00:58:51,929
which includes this
hydroponic vegetable garden.
1055
00:58:52,096 --> 00:58:53,731
- There's a myth
that people are happy
1056
00:58:53,898 --> 00:58:55,499
with cheeseburgers
and French fries.
1057
00:58:55,666 --> 00:58:56,834
They're not.
1058
00:58:57,001 --> 00:58:59,904
- You got a whole lot of crop
going on here, sweetie.
1059
00:59:00,070 --> 00:59:01,171
- I know.
1060
00:59:01,338 --> 00:59:04,375
- But many people don't know
there are other options.
1061
00:59:04,542 --> 00:59:05,776
And that's
what we're doing here --
1062
00:59:05,943 --> 00:59:07,511
teaching people about options.
1063
00:59:07,678 --> 00:59:09,880
- Tastes good and fresh.
- I know, right?
1064
00:59:10,047 --> 00:59:12,449
- What we found is
that when you give people
1065
00:59:12,616 --> 00:59:15,653
in low-income areas
the opportunity to grow food,
1066
00:59:15,819 --> 00:59:17,922
they respond resiliently.
1067
00:59:18,088 --> 00:59:20,658
You'll be picking the produce
at the peak
1068
00:59:20,824 --> 00:59:22,660
of freshness
and nutritional value.
1069
00:59:22,826 --> 00:59:24,428
So you'll not only
be getting fresh food,
1070
00:59:24,595 --> 00:59:26,397
you'll be getting
healthier food.
1071
00:59:26,564 --> 00:59:31,101
- Ritz got his start
growing food back in 2005.
1072
00:59:31,268 --> 00:59:33,103
He had become tired of seeing
1073
00:59:33,270 --> 00:59:36,140
his students grow fat
and become diabetic.
1074
00:59:36,307 --> 00:59:39,476
With fresh vegetables
hard to find in the Bronx,
1075
00:59:39,643 --> 00:59:42,546
he and his kids got access
to a vacant lot
1076
00:59:42,713 --> 00:59:45,916
and started growing their own.
1077
00:59:46,083 --> 00:59:48,619
- We were able
to transform this space
1078
00:59:48,786 --> 00:59:51,255
from something
that was a blighted area
1079
00:59:51,422 --> 00:59:55,192
into something
that was a productive area.
1080
00:59:55,359 --> 00:59:58,128
And that made
the kids feel good.
1081
00:59:58,295 --> 01:00:00,164
It made me feel great.
I couldn't believe it.
1082
01:00:00,331 --> 01:00:04,969
- Ritz now has kids growing
vegetables all over the Bronx,
1083
01:00:05,135 --> 01:00:09,673
and they're feeding
hundreds of people a week.
1084
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:13,510
- One group he works with are
teenagers who've dropped out,
1085
01:00:13,677 --> 01:00:16,146
or been kicked out,
of the public schools.
1086
01:00:16,313 --> 01:00:18,415
- All right, listen up,
advanced culinary guys.
1087
01:00:18,582 --> 01:00:20,517
That's you, you, and you.
1088
01:00:20,684 --> 01:00:22,653
If these kids don't know what
they're doing, give them a hand.
1089
01:00:22,820 --> 01:00:24,254
This is only their fourth day
in the kitchen.
1090
01:00:24,421 --> 01:00:25,322
All right?
1091
01:00:25,489 --> 01:00:27,958
- Ritz learned
that JVL Wildcat Academy,
1092
01:00:28,125 --> 01:00:30,628
a school that gives kids
second chances,
1093
01:00:30,794 --> 01:00:32,195
had a restaurant kitchen
1094
01:00:32,363 --> 01:00:35,399
and was training kids
to become professional cooks.
1095
01:00:35,566 --> 01:00:37,134
- I'm gonna demonstrate
how to make pesto --
1096
01:00:37,301 --> 01:00:39,069
classic pesto, okay?
1097
01:00:39,236 --> 01:00:43,807
It's a basil-based sauce, uh,
with nuts and cheese, all right?
1098
01:00:43,974 --> 01:00:46,010
Why don't you guys
go get washed up,
1099
01:00:46,176 --> 01:00:48,145
claim your stations,
and let's go.
1100
01:00:48,312 --> 01:00:49,947
Bring that over here.
Put that over here with this.
1101
01:00:50,114 --> 01:00:52,216
I saw a great commercial kitchen
1102
01:00:52,383 --> 01:00:55,252
that has kids
from troubled backgrounds
1103
01:00:55,419 --> 01:00:57,421
learning how to cook
and be engaged
1104
01:00:57,588 --> 01:00:59,123
in the food service industry.
1105
01:00:59,289 --> 01:01:02,693
And next to that kitchen,
I saw a huge, open space.
1106
01:01:02,860 --> 01:01:06,163
And I said to myself,
"Hmm, wouldn't it be great
1107
01:01:06,330 --> 01:01:08,866
to grow the food
that they need for that kitchen
1108
01:01:09,033 --> 01:01:10,234
right next door to it --
1109
01:01:10,401 --> 01:01:11,969
zero miles to plate,
if you will?
1110
01:01:12,136 --> 01:01:14,805
- So the basil
they grow in the garden
1111
01:01:14,972 --> 01:01:17,741
goes right into the pesto
they make in the kitchen.
1112
01:01:17,908 --> 01:01:19,176
- Let's grab some chives.
1113
01:01:19,343 --> 01:01:21,578
- The head of the kitchen
is Bill Peacock.
1114
01:01:21,745 --> 01:01:24,514
- Let's head on down here.
Let's go over to here.
1115
01:01:24,682 --> 01:01:26,784
Five arugula.
1116
01:01:26,950 --> 01:01:28,852
- After years cooking
in restaurants,
1117
01:01:29,019 --> 01:01:31,755
he came here to teach in 2003.
1118
01:01:31,922 --> 01:01:33,090
- And two Butterheads?
- Yep.
1119
01:01:33,257 --> 01:01:34,258
- All right.
1120
01:01:34,425 --> 01:01:36,193
- These students,
they're going out to fast food
1121
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:37,761
and they're eating
convenience foods.
1122
01:01:37,928 --> 01:01:40,197
They're not gonna be eating
fresh fruit
1123
01:01:40,364 --> 01:01:42,966
or fresh vegetables
because it's not there.
1124
01:01:43,133 --> 01:01:45,736
But now we've got
the hydroponic garden.
1125
01:01:45,903 --> 01:01:47,471
They're seeing the life cycle,
1126
01:01:47,638 --> 01:01:49,940
and seeing these things
actually growing.
1127
01:01:50,107 --> 01:01:53,010
They're moving them
from stage to stage.
1128
01:01:53,177 --> 01:01:55,713
Makes a big difference.
1129
01:01:55,879 --> 01:02:00,017
- Being able to grow
our own product right next
1130
01:02:00,184 --> 01:02:02,953
to where we cook
just seemed mind blowing --
1131
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:04,788
the fact that we can do that
1132
01:02:04,955 --> 01:02:07,157
and show, you know,
where we live
1133
01:02:07,324 --> 01:02:10,427
that we can do this
is something I can't describe.
1134
01:02:10,594 --> 01:02:11,729
It's an amazing thing.
1135
01:02:14,998 --> 01:02:17,534
- Okay, why are we making it --
making sure it's so dry?
1136
01:02:17,701 --> 01:02:19,036
- So the salad won't fall off.
1137
01:02:19,203 --> 01:02:21,171
- Not the salad, the salad what?
- The salad dressing.
1138
01:02:21,338 --> 01:02:23,407
- There you go --
the salad dressing.
1139
01:02:23,574 --> 01:02:24,942
All right, listen up.
1140
01:02:25,109 --> 01:02:27,511
We are coming towards time
to eat.
1141
01:02:27,678 --> 01:02:30,814
Now everybody is gonna cook
their own plate of pasta.
1142
01:02:30,981 --> 01:02:32,049
Have fun.
1143
01:02:32,216 --> 01:02:33,450
All right, there you go.
1144
01:02:33,617 --> 01:02:34,818
Where's your plate?
1145
01:02:37,287 --> 01:02:40,124
The salad
was a big winner today,
1146
01:02:40,290 --> 01:02:42,159
which was surprising
because these kids
1147
01:02:42,326 --> 01:02:44,294
have never eaten
anything like this --
1148
01:02:44,461 --> 01:02:47,498
never knew that a green
can have a peppery flavor,
1149
01:02:47,664 --> 01:02:50,467
never knew that a green could
have a soft, subtle flavor.
1150
01:02:53,871 --> 01:02:56,306
All right, let's see
what we got here, Gustavo.
1151
01:02:56,473 --> 01:02:57,808
Very nice.
1152
01:02:57,975 --> 01:02:59,109
All right, grab your salad,
1153
01:02:59,276 --> 01:03:01,345
get yourself an iced tea,
and enjoy your meal.
1154
01:03:01,512 --> 01:03:03,080
The fact that all those kids
1155
01:03:03,247 --> 01:03:05,616
shoved that lettuce
in their mouth today
1156
01:03:05,783 --> 01:03:08,452
was only because
they grew that lettuce.
1157
01:03:08,619 --> 01:03:11,455
So it's an ownership.
1158
01:03:11,622 --> 01:03:13,157
You look like you're eating it.
1159
01:03:13,323 --> 01:03:17,861
- If you expose people
to locally grown, healthy food,
1160
01:03:18,028 --> 01:03:19,863
they tend to like it.
1161
01:03:20,030 --> 01:03:22,099
They really do.
1162
01:03:22,266 --> 01:03:24,368
It's not something
that's exclusive.
1163
01:03:24,535 --> 01:03:26,904
It's not something
for the highfalutin
1164
01:03:27,070 --> 01:03:29,740
or for the fringe, you know --
fringe outliers.
1165
01:03:29,907 --> 01:03:32,476
And when you can grow
your own food,
1166
01:03:32,643 --> 01:03:35,813
people are really inspired
by that.
1167
01:03:37,881 --> 01:03:41,919
- But the big food companies,
of course,
1168
01:03:42,085 --> 01:03:45,088
still provide most
of the food people eat.
1169
01:03:45,255 --> 01:03:48,892
And they say they're making
processed food healthier.
1170
01:03:49,059 --> 01:03:50,360
How?
1171
01:03:50,527 --> 01:03:52,162
By doing
what they've always done --
1172
01:03:52,329 --> 01:03:53,864
tweaking the nutrients.
1173
01:03:54,031 --> 01:03:55,966
This is really seeing can
dietary protein alone
1174
01:03:56,133 --> 01:03:57,868
impact lean mass
cause it's always been...
1175
01:03:58,035 --> 01:04:01,672
- More than 20,000 people
are gathering in Chicago
1176
01:04:01,839 --> 01:04:05,542
for America's biggest
food expo -- the annual meeting
1177
01:04:05,709 --> 01:04:08,278
of the Institute
of Food Technologists,
1178
01:04:08,445 --> 01:04:09,947
the IFT.
1179
01:04:10,113 --> 01:04:14,184
- The IFT brings together
all manner of companies
1180
01:04:14,351 --> 01:04:16,086
from the small to the medium
1181
01:04:16,253 --> 01:04:19,923
to the huge, multi-billion
dollar corporations.
1182
01:04:20,090 --> 01:04:23,327
It's a supermarket
of ingredients
1183
01:04:23,493 --> 01:04:25,095
for the food producers.
1184
01:04:25,262 --> 01:04:29,099
- And those producers
are making foods that last.
1185
01:04:29,266 --> 01:04:30,734
- If you want something fresh,
1186
01:04:30,901 --> 01:04:32,502
you could go
to the bottom of the garden.
1187
01:04:32,669 --> 01:04:35,272
If you want something
that is going to live
1188
01:04:35,439 --> 01:04:38,842
in your pantry
for three months, nine months,
1189
01:04:39,009 --> 01:04:41,378
or more than that, then you'll
have to have something
1190
01:04:41,545 --> 01:04:46,617
that's well-preserved and built
in such a way that it is stable.
1191
01:04:46,783 --> 01:04:49,987
- People from companies
like Kraft and General Mills
1192
01:04:50,153 --> 01:04:51,889
what food scientists
1193
01:04:52,055 --> 01:04:54,358
are developing for tomorrow...
1194
01:04:54,524 --> 01:04:57,427
like hot dogs made
with rice bran --
1195
01:04:57,594 --> 01:05:00,097
the vitamin-rich part
of the rice seed
1196
01:05:00,264 --> 01:05:01,899
that's usually thrown away.
1197
01:05:02,065 --> 01:05:05,602
Or gluten-free pizza
whose crust has no wheat,
1198
01:05:05,769 --> 01:05:08,238
and is made instead
from a byproduct of cheesemaking
1199
01:05:08,405 --> 01:05:09,907
called whey.
1200
01:05:10,073 --> 01:05:13,377
- The gluten-free industry
has gone crazy.
1201
01:05:13,543 --> 01:05:16,079
And it's amazing how many are
interested in the gluten-free.
1202
01:05:16,246 --> 01:05:18,448
And they can't believe
that it doesn't taste funny.
1203
01:05:18,615 --> 01:05:20,918
It tastes like
the real pizza crust
1204
01:05:21,084 --> 01:05:22,753
that would have wheat in it.
1205
01:05:22,920 --> 01:05:26,390
- And one of the world's biggest
food companies, Cargill,
1206
01:05:26,556 --> 01:05:28,191
is here showing prototypes
1207
01:05:28,358 --> 01:05:31,428
for healthier, processed
food products for kids.
1208
01:05:31,595 --> 01:05:33,764
- The theme
of our exhibit this year
1209
01:05:33,931 --> 01:05:35,599
is around childhood nutrition.
1210
01:05:35,766 --> 01:05:37,734
We understand,
or, recognize that obesity
1211
01:05:37,901 --> 01:05:39,536
in the United States
1212
01:05:39,703 --> 01:05:41,672
and that more and more people
are looking
1213
01:05:41,838 --> 01:05:44,374
for more healthful alternatives
to the food choices.
1214
01:05:44,541 --> 01:05:49,246
- Cargill buys a huge share
of the world's farm products,
1215
01:05:49,413 --> 01:05:52,115
from which it makes hundreds
of food ingredients.
1216
01:05:52,282 --> 01:05:55,752
The company is showing
how some of these ingredients
1217
01:05:55,919 --> 01:05:57,754
could be used to take advantage
1218
01:05:57,921 --> 01:06:01,158
of the growing interest
in healthier eating.
1219
01:06:01,325 --> 01:06:03,060
- The first exhibit
we're gonna look at
1220
01:06:03,226 --> 01:06:04,294
is a peanut butter spread
1221
01:06:04,461 --> 01:06:07,130
that has
added chicory root fiber.
1222
01:06:07,297 --> 01:06:09,299
You get three grams of fiber
per serving.
1223
01:06:09,466 --> 01:06:13,937
Next, we have a chewy
chocolate chip granola bar.
1224
01:06:14,104 --> 01:06:17,074
This contains whole grain corn
1225
01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:19,409
so you can get some
added fiber there, as well.
1226
01:06:19,576 --> 01:06:22,646
This is our
reduced-sugar chocolate milk,
1227
01:06:22,813 --> 01:06:25,816
and it's had 25%
of the sugar replaced
1228
01:06:25,983 --> 01:06:27,985
With Cargill Stevia leaf
extract,
1229
01:06:28,151 --> 01:06:29,319
which is a natural sweetener
1230
01:06:29,486 --> 01:06:31,288
that reduces
the overall sugar content.
1231
01:06:31,455 --> 01:06:34,658
One thing we've learned
over and over again
1232
01:06:34,825 --> 01:06:38,295
is if food does not taste good,
consumers simply won't buy it.
1233
01:06:38,462 --> 01:06:41,331
And that's the challenge
that the food scientists take on
1234
01:06:41,498 --> 01:06:43,000
is to find
that perfect sweet spot
1235
01:06:43,166 --> 01:06:47,804
of health, convenience,
and taste.
1236
01:06:47,971 --> 01:06:50,340
- There's no question
that processed food
1237
01:06:50,507 --> 01:06:52,642
is convenient and often tasty.
1238
01:06:52,809 --> 01:06:55,846
But when it comes to health,
the claims manufacturers use
1239
01:06:56,013 --> 01:06:58,615
to sell their products
are frequently confusing,
1240
01:06:58,782 --> 01:07:00,584
if not deceptive.
1241
01:07:00,751 --> 01:07:03,487
A trip to the supermarket
has become kind of a journey
1242
01:07:03,653 --> 01:07:05,188
through a treacherous landscape.
1243
01:07:05,355 --> 01:07:07,324
I mean, what are we
to make of a product
1244
01:07:07,491 --> 01:07:10,193
like Splenda with fiber?
1245
01:07:13,063 --> 01:07:16,666
They're selling the lack
of one nutrient, sugar,
1246
01:07:16,833 --> 01:07:21,338
and the gratuitous presence
of another, fiber.
1247
01:07:21,505 --> 01:07:23,940
So it allows you
to have this amazing thing
1248
01:07:24,107 --> 01:07:26,710
never before tasted
in the history of mankind,
1249
01:07:26,877 --> 01:07:28,211
which is high-fiber coffee.
1250
01:07:32,849 --> 01:07:35,485
These guys are really the champs
1251
01:07:35,652 --> 01:07:38,655
of aggressive health claims --
Pom Wonderful.
1252
01:07:38,822 --> 01:07:40,791
They were advertising
these products
1253
01:07:40,957 --> 01:07:43,226
as helping everything
from, uh, your heart
1254
01:07:43,393 --> 01:07:46,463
to your prostate,
to -- and I kid you not --
1255
01:07:46,630 --> 01:07:48,031
erectile dysfunction.
1256
01:07:48,198 --> 01:07:49,800
This drink right here.
1257
01:07:49,966 --> 01:07:51,935
And they got
in a little hot water for that
1258
01:07:52,102 --> 01:07:53,070
because they tested it.
1259
01:07:53,236 --> 01:07:55,439
They performed these experiments
on, uh, rabbits.
1260
01:07:55,605 --> 01:07:57,874
And some animal rights people
got very upset.
1261
01:07:58,041 --> 01:08:00,377
Okay, but the thing
that struck me is,
1262
01:08:00,544 --> 01:08:02,612
do rabbits have this problem?
1263
01:08:03,814 --> 01:08:05,849
Anyway,
they went too far, though,
1264
01:08:06,016 --> 01:08:09,586
when they put a health claim on,
or a slogan that was --
1265
01:08:09,753 --> 01:08:14,591
I'm not kidding --
"Cheat death with this product."
1266
01:08:14,758 --> 01:08:16,793
And the FTC said,
"You can't do that."
1267
01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:20,764
You can't promise, uh,
immortality with your products.
1268
01:08:24,067 --> 01:08:25,469
You think about people trying
1269
01:08:25,635 --> 01:08:27,704
to make good choices
in the supermarket
1270
01:08:27,871 --> 01:08:30,540
and finding themselves
not losing weight,
1271
01:08:30,707 --> 01:08:32,976
not improving their health,
and you wonder why?
1272
01:08:33,143 --> 01:08:34,578
Well, look at yogurt.
1273
01:08:34,744 --> 01:08:37,581
Yogurt is a healthy choice,
we're told.
1274
01:08:37,747 --> 01:08:39,649
We give it to our kids
in huge amounts.
1275
01:08:39,816 --> 01:08:41,151
This is Yoplait.
1276
01:08:41,318 --> 01:08:44,688
This is one of the first of the
very successful yogurt brands.
1277
01:08:44,855 --> 01:08:49,626
And this is, uh, YoCrunch,
and this one comes with M&Ms.
1278
01:08:49,793 --> 01:08:54,631
Talk about a confused message,
but here's the thing.
1279
01:08:54,798 --> 01:08:56,900
Yoplait, Coca-cola--
1280
01:08:57,067 --> 01:08:59,369
obviously, this is
the better choice, right?
1281
01:08:59,536 --> 01:09:02,172
But if you look
at how much sugar is in this,
1282
01:09:02,339 --> 01:09:07,311
there is exactly the same amount
of sugar in these two things.
1283
01:09:07,477 --> 01:09:11,014
This is the latest
sugar delivery system.
1284
01:09:11,181 --> 01:09:13,717
And so we feel good about
not giving our kids soda,
1285
01:09:13,884 --> 01:09:15,585
but we give them this instead.
1286
01:09:15,752 --> 01:09:18,555
So that's what I mean when I say
1287
01:09:18,722 --> 01:09:21,691
it's really gotten treacherous
out there.
1288
01:09:26,596 --> 01:09:30,300
So how do you know what's really
healthy and what's not?
1289
01:09:30,467 --> 01:09:32,903
How can you tell
the difference between food
1290
01:09:33,069 --> 01:09:36,439
and edible food-like substances?
1291
01:09:36,606 --> 01:09:38,808
I've come up with some
common-sense guidelines
1292
01:09:38,975 --> 01:09:41,811
I call food rules.
1293
01:09:41,978 --> 01:09:43,346
Like...
1294
01:09:52,589 --> 01:09:53,957
And...
1295
01:09:58,695 --> 01:10:01,531
So, if we're
going to eat real food,
1296
01:10:01,698 --> 01:10:06,503
the next obvious question is,
"What kind of real food?"
1297
01:10:06,670 --> 01:10:10,540
And that part
of my overall food guidance is,
1298
01:10:10,707 --> 01:10:12,976
in some ways, the most
controversial --
1299
01:10:13,143 --> 01:10:14,444
mostly plants.
1300
01:10:14,611 --> 01:10:18,848
Why do I say mostly plants?
1301
01:10:19,015 --> 01:10:22,018
It didn't please vegetarians,
1302
01:10:22,185 --> 01:10:24,020
who thought
I should go all the way.
1303
01:10:24,187 --> 01:10:26,156
- I know.
I'm tempted.
1304
01:10:26,323 --> 01:10:28,391
- And it certainly didn't please
meat-eaters,
1305
01:10:28,558 --> 01:10:29,893
who thought I was dissing meat.
1306
01:10:30,060 --> 01:10:32,062
That were carved this week.
1307
01:10:32,229 --> 01:10:37,367
- But I used that word
after a lot of consideration,
1308
01:10:37,534 --> 01:10:41,571
because it's a somewhat
equivocal message.
1309
01:10:41,738 --> 01:10:43,173
There are people
who demonize meat,
1310
01:10:43,340 --> 01:10:45,008
but there's no reason
to do that.
1311
01:10:45,175 --> 01:10:46,142
Meat is healthy food.
1312
01:10:46,309 --> 01:10:48,211
Humans have eaten meat
1313
01:10:48,378 --> 01:10:50,914
for a very long time
with great pleasure.
1314
01:10:51,081 --> 01:10:55,118
I think our problem is
we eat too much of it.
1315
01:10:55,285 --> 01:10:58,822
So, and that's why
I say mostly plants.
1316
01:10:58,989 --> 01:11:02,892
Every additional daily serving
of vegetables and fruit
1317
01:11:03,059 --> 01:11:05,629
Reduces your risk of stroke
by 5%
1318
01:11:05,795 --> 01:11:08,231
and your risk of heart disease
by 4%
1319
01:11:08,398 --> 01:11:10,500
We only eat about
between two and three portions
1320
01:11:10,667 --> 01:11:12,435
of vegetables and fruit
in this country.
1321
01:11:12,602 --> 01:11:17,507
If we up that by just one more,
that would save 30,000 lives
1322
01:11:17,674 --> 01:11:22,112
and $5 billion
in healthcare costs.
1323
01:11:30,420 --> 01:11:32,122
- Great, how's it look?
1324
01:11:33,657 --> 01:11:35,325
- Remember our rules
for letting them out?
1325
01:11:35,492 --> 01:11:36,359
- Don't bother them.
1326
01:11:36,526 --> 01:11:37,994
- Don't bother them.
That's right.
1327
01:11:38,161 --> 01:11:40,697
But we are gonna police them
away from our vegetables, right?
1328
01:11:40,864 --> 01:11:43,867
- At a day camp
in Sunnyvale, California,
1329
01:11:44,034 --> 01:11:46,036
Stanford scientist
Christopher Gardner
1330
01:11:46,202 --> 01:11:47,737
is exploring what it takes
1331
01:11:47,904 --> 01:11:50,340
to get children
to eat more vegetables.
1332
01:11:50,507 --> 01:11:53,276
- One of my research interests
1333
01:11:53,443 --> 01:11:57,414
is just how many vegetables
could I get a kid to eat.
1334
01:11:57,580 --> 01:11:58,548
What are the barriers?
1335
01:11:58,715 --> 01:12:00,417
What are the things
that get in the way?
1336
01:12:00,583 --> 01:12:01,718
Is it a peer pressure thing?
1337
01:12:01,885 --> 01:12:02,986
Is it really a taste thing?
1338
01:12:03,153 --> 01:12:04,487
Is it familiarity?
1339
01:12:04,654 --> 01:12:07,557
- So, today,
we have garlic-basil hummus
1340
01:12:07,724 --> 01:12:10,060
and we also have
lemon cucumbers,
1341
01:12:10,226 --> 01:12:11,728
green beans, and corn.
1342
01:12:11,895 --> 01:12:13,697
You can try the raw veggies
by themselves.
1343
01:12:13,863 --> 01:12:15,332
You can dip them
into the hummus.
1344
01:12:15,498 --> 01:12:18,702
- Here's another
really big one over here.
1345
01:12:18,868 --> 01:12:22,372
What they learn is
that it's really delicious food.
1346
01:12:22,539 --> 01:12:24,808
But it's just taking
that first jump
1347
01:12:24,974 --> 01:12:27,577
into feeling comfortable
enough to try it.
1348
01:12:27,744 --> 01:12:29,612
So, in terms of teamwork...
1349
01:12:29,779 --> 01:12:32,782
- To make that jump easier,
in the cooking assignment
1350
01:12:32,949 --> 01:12:35,418
that culminates the week,
the kids have been told
1351
01:12:35,585 --> 01:12:39,489
to use three different
vegetables to make...pizza.
1352
01:12:39,656 --> 01:12:41,458
- Uh, does pickles
count as a vegetable?
1353
01:12:41,624 --> 01:12:43,360
- Yeah.
1354
01:12:43,526 --> 01:12:45,195
- One of the main points
of the camp
1355
01:12:45,362 --> 01:12:47,864
is to get the kids connected
with food,
1356
01:12:48,031 --> 01:12:50,734
because you see this light bulb
go off over their heads
1357
01:12:50,900 --> 01:12:52,635
and this sparkle in their eye
when they see,
1358
01:12:52,802 --> 01:12:57,807
"Oh, that food --
it grows just like this!"
1359
01:12:57,974 --> 01:13:00,343
- So, yesterday,
we came up with a list.
1360
01:13:00,510 --> 01:13:05,815
So we have squash, peppers,
kale, green beans, cucumber.
1361
01:13:05,982 --> 01:13:08,251
Eggs is not considered
a vegetable
1362
01:13:08,418 --> 01:13:12,188
but it can be an additional
topping to your pizza.
1363
01:13:17,627 --> 01:13:19,396
- It's pretty much dough,
1364
01:13:19,562 --> 01:13:23,666
and then I have pesto,
tomato paste, or sauce.
1365
01:13:23,833 --> 01:13:29,839
I have cheese, a mixture --
we cooked onions, peppers,
1366
01:13:30,006 --> 01:13:32,809
and garlic together
so I have that on my pizza.
1367
01:13:32,976 --> 01:13:36,479
Tomatoes, and then I have
an inner ring of pickles,
1368
01:13:36,646 --> 01:13:37,814
which I'm really excited about
1369
01:13:37,981 --> 01:13:39,983
because I've never had
pickles on a pizza.
1370
01:13:45,288 --> 01:13:47,724
- What do you think?
Does that look done?
1371
01:13:47,891 --> 01:13:50,527
- I'm kind of stunned actually
how many different vegetables
1372
01:13:50,693 --> 01:13:52,729
they're willing to try
by the end of the week,
1373
01:13:52,896 --> 01:13:54,898
and how many they're willing
to say they like
1374
01:13:55,064 --> 01:13:59,068
just within a few days.
1375
01:13:59,235 --> 01:14:00,603
- You want your peppers, right?
1376
01:14:00,770 --> 01:14:02,005
- Yes, I want peppers.
1377
01:14:02,172 --> 01:14:04,374
- When people eat
a plant-based diet,
1378
01:14:04,541 --> 01:14:07,877
their whole lives,
the benefits are impressive.
1379
01:14:08,044 --> 01:14:11,314
Here in Lorna Linda, California,
many people belong
1380
01:14:11,481 --> 01:14:13,349
to the same
religious denomination
1381
01:14:13,516 --> 01:14:17,053
that the Kellogg brothers did --
the Seventh-Day Adventists.
1382
01:14:17,220 --> 01:14:19,155
- Green onions?
- Sure.
1383
01:14:19,322 --> 01:14:21,891
- Founded back
in the 19th century,
1384
01:14:22,058 --> 01:14:25,228
the church has always
emphasized healthy living.
1385
01:14:25,395 --> 01:14:28,064
- Green shards --
lots of green shards.
1386
01:14:28,231 --> 01:14:31,835
- Today, Adventists
have the longest life expectancy
1387
01:14:32,001 --> 01:14:34,337
of any group
in the United States.
1388
01:14:34,504 --> 01:14:37,507
- I can't believe
you're gonna be a 101 in August.
1389
01:14:42,645 --> 01:14:44,914
- The residents
at this retirement home
1390
01:14:45,081 --> 01:14:47,617
are almost all Adventists.
1391
01:14:47,784 --> 01:14:50,487
- We feel that our bodies
are the temple of God.
1392
01:14:50,653 --> 01:14:53,556
And we owe it to ourselves
and to our community
1393
01:14:53,723 --> 01:14:54,824
to keep up our health.
1394
01:14:54,991 --> 01:14:58,428
We have
at least two or three people
1395
01:14:58,595 --> 01:15:00,063
who are a 100 years old here.
1396
01:15:00,230 --> 01:15:04,868
And they seem
to get along very well.
1397
01:15:05,034 --> 01:15:07,904
I'm 92 years old.
1398
01:15:08,071 --> 01:15:10,673
The average age is 93.
1399
01:15:10,840 --> 01:15:15,011
I walk four miles a day.
1400
01:15:15,178 --> 01:15:17,046
I used to walk outside,
1401
01:15:17,213 --> 01:15:20,083
but now I walk
in the villa here.
1402
01:15:20,250 --> 01:15:25,355
I realized that if I go
from end to the other
1403
01:15:25,522 --> 01:15:28,324
and back six times, it's a mile.
1404
01:15:28,491 --> 01:15:32,762
So I go back and forth 24 times
in the morning.
1405
01:15:35,932 --> 01:15:41,738
- Almost all Adventists abstain
from smoking and alcohol.
1406
01:15:41,905 --> 01:15:45,441
And about 50% of them
are vegetarians.
1407
01:15:45,608 --> 01:15:48,311
- I have been a vegetarian
all my life.
1408
01:15:48,478 --> 01:15:50,180
- And you, Richard?
1409
01:15:50,346 --> 01:15:54,784
- I could say the same thing,
and I haven't missed anything.
1410
01:15:54,951 --> 01:15:58,254
It's pretty well-established
that especially the red meats
1411
01:15:58,421 --> 01:16:00,557
are not really
that good for you.
1412
01:16:00,723 --> 01:16:03,826
- And that's true
if you eat too much of them.
1413
01:16:03,993 --> 01:16:06,429
Studies show
that the more red meat you eat,
1414
01:16:06,596 --> 01:16:08,998
the greater your risk
of getting heart disease,
1415
01:16:09,165 --> 01:16:11,768
diabetes, and certain cancers.
1416
01:16:11,935 --> 01:16:15,138
Some of the meat studies
were done
1417
01:16:15,305 --> 01:16:17,974
at the Harvard School
of Public Health in Boston.
1418
01:16:18,141 --> 01:16:21,344
- From what we've seen
in our research,
1419
01:16:21,511 --> 01:16:24,247
eating mostly plants
is a good idea.
1420
01:16:24,414 --> 01:16:28,451
We've done a series of analyses
over the last few years
1421
01:16:28,618 --> 01:16:32,922
comparing red meat with poultry
with fish, with nuts,
1422
01:16:33,089 --> 01:16:34,924
with legumes in relation to risk
1423
01:16:35,091 --> 01:16:37,527
of cardiovascular disease
and diabetes.
1424
01:16:37,694 --> 01:16:40,997
And very consistently
replacing red meat
1425
01:16:41,164 --> 01:16:43,666
with other protein sources
turns out to be related
1426
01:16:43,833 --> 01:16:47,370
to lower risk of mortality
from these diseases.
1427
01:16:47,537 --> 01:16:52,241
- In Cleveland, researchers
have made a new finding
1428
01:16:52,408 --> 01:16:56,346
that they think might explain
some of the risks of red meat.
1429
01:16:56,512 --> 01:17:00,449
- Stanley Hazen
is a cardiologist.
1430
01:17:00,617 --> 01:17:03,653
- We were looking
for characteristic markers
1431
01:17:03,820 --> 01:17:07,557
or features in the blood
that predicted near-term risk
1432
01:17:07,724 --> 01:17:09,225
for heart attack, stroke,
and death.
1433
01:17:09,392 --> 01:17:12,061
- Hazen and his colleagues
found something
1434
01:17:12,228 --> 01:17:16,999
that seemed to do just that --
a compound called TMAO.
1435
01:17:17,166 --> 01:17:19,669
- When we first found
that this compound
1436
01:17:19,836 --> 01:17:21,638
was associated
with heart disease risk,
1437
01:17:21,804 --> 01:17:23,406
we didn't know
very much about it.
1438
01:17:23,573 --> 01:17:26,709
So we tried to essentially
reverse engineer --
1439
01:17:26,876 --> 01:17:27,977
where did it come from?
1440
01:17:28,144 --> 01:17:30,647
- The answer pointed to red meat,
1441
01:17:30,813 --> 01:17:33,850
which contains
a substance called carnitine.
1442
01:17:34,017 --> 01:17:37,720
Bacteria in our intestines
feed on carnitine,
1443
01:17:37,887 --> 01:17:40,723
and help turn it into TMAO
1444
01:17:40,890 --> 01:17:44,994
Hazen found that the more TMAO
there is in our bloodstream,
1445
01:17:45,161 --> 01:17:48,598
the more likely we are
to develop heart disease.
1446
01:17:48,765 --> 01:17:53,202
- What we have found is that TMAO
is enhancing heart disease risk
1447
01:17:53,369 --> 01:17:55,638
by changing
cholesterol metabolism.
1448
01:17:55,805 --> 01:17:58,975
- In mice, higher levels of TMAO
1449
01:17:59,142 --> 01:18:02,278
made the sticky deposits
of cholesterol called plaque
1450
01:18:02,445 --> 01:18:05,548
more likely to form
in their arteries.
1451
01:18:05,715 --> 01:18:10,019
- I like to think of TMAO
as a rheostat on a light switch.
1452
01:18:10,186 --> 01:18:13,356
If you have a high TMAO,
you're gonna have more plaque.
1453
01:18:13,523 --> 01:18:18,227
If you have a low TMAO level,
you end up having less plaque.
1454
01:18:18,394 --> 01:18:20,363
Based on our findings,
1455
01:18:20,530 --> 01:18:22,532
I have not stopped
eating red meat,
1456
01:18:22,699 --> 01:18:25,668
but I have decreased the amount
and also the frequency.
1457
01:18:25,835 --> 01:18:29,105
So, now, instead of having it
multiple times a week,
1458
01:18:29,272 --> 01:18:31,708
I try to have it, at most,
one time a week.
1459
01:18:33,543 --> 01:18:35,311
- We still don't understand
1460
01:18:35,478 --> 01:18:38,281
precisely why
meat causes problems.
1461
01:18:38,448 --> 01:18:42,785
It could be the carnitine
or the kind of iron in it
1462
01:18:42,952 --> 01:18:45,788
or the saturated fat.
1463
01:18:45,955 --> 01:18:48,725
Or the problem may simply be
1464
01:18:48,891 --> 01:18:53,563
that meat crowds plants
out of our diet.
1465
01:18:53,730 --> 01:18:56,933
But we do know this --
1466
01:18:57,100 --> 01:19:02,572
eating less meat and mostly
plants is good for you.
1467
01:19:02,739 --> 01:19:03,740
- Good.
- Okay.
1468
01:19:03,906 --> 01:19:06,476
- Nutrition scientist Joan Sabaté
1469
01:19:06,642 --> 01:19:08,878
teaches
at Lorna Linda university.
1470
01:19:09,045 --> 01:19:11,247
He and his wife Carmen,
1471
01:19:11,414 --> 01:19:14,550
who both grew up
in Adventist homes in Barcelona,
1472
01:19:14,717 --> 01:19:18,554
follow a vegetarian diet.
1473
01:19:18,721 --> 01:19:22,925
- For supper, I eat a good salad,
or a good soup,
1474
01:19:23,092 --> 01:19:26,929
and vegetables
with carbohydrate foods
1475
01:19:27,096 --> 01:19:31,067
such as pasta, or potatoes,
or bread.
1476
01:19:31,234 --> 01:19:34,937
And then fruit for dessert.
1477
01:19:35,104 --> 01:19:39,208
That seems like a good meal.
1478
01:19:39,375 --> 01:19:45,448
But don't stick with just
cauliflower and potatoes.
1479
01:19:45,615 --> 01:19:47,650
The plant kingdom is very rich
1480
01:19:47,817 --> 01:19:50,987
in textures, in flavors,
in colors.
1481
01:19:51,154 --> 01:19:56,225
So a rich variety
of plant foods is the best.
1482
01:19:56,392 --> 01:19:59,495
- Sabaté has done studies
comparing the longevity
1483
01:19:59,662 --> 01:20:04,300
of both kinds of Adventists --
meat-eaters and vegetarians.
1484
01:20:04,467 --> 01:20:07,503
He's found
that vegetarian Adventists
1485
01:20:07,670 --> 01:20:11,574
live three to four years longer
than non-vegetarian ones
1486
01:20:11,741 --> 01:20:16,412
and six to nine years longer
than the rest of us.
1487
01:20:16,579 --> 01:20:18,881
- You're awfully easy to please,
honey, I must say.
1488
01:20:19,048 --> 01:20:22,652
- Ellsworth Wareham is one
of those vegetarian Adventists.
1489
01:20:22,819 --> 01:20:24,954
He's 99
1490
01:20:25,121 --> 01:20:28,057
He was a heart surgeon
for more than five decades,
1491
01:20:28,224 --> 01:20:31,994
and retired at the age of 95.
1492
01:20:32,161 --> 01:20:36,198
- During the last 20 years,
I assisted in cardiac surgery.
1493
01:20:36,365 --> 01:20:41,204
I wasn't the principal surgeon,
but I worked full-time.
1494
01:20:41,370 --> 01:20:44,807
I try
to live a healthy lifestyle.
1495
01:20:44,974 --> 01:20:49,879
And that involves, of course,
trying to have proper nutrition.
1496
01:20:50,046 --> 01:20:53,216
Do I keep a list of things
that I'm going to eat?
1497
01:20:53,382 --> 01:20:54,217
No.
1498
01:20:54,383 --> 01:20:55,985
- This has
little hot peppers in it.
1499
01:20:56,152 --> 01:20:58,221
You eat a plant-based diet.
1500
01:20:58,387 --> 01:21:00,990
I want to just say
how simple it is.
1501
01:21:01,157 --> 01:21:04,093
It is simple
to have good eating habits.
1502
01:21:06,729 --> 01:21:08,564
- At the University
of Pittsburgh,
1503
01:21:08,731 --> 01:21:10,166
researchers are exploring
1504
01:21:10,333 --> 01:21:13,269
just how eating mostly plants
may promote health.
1505
01:21:13,436 --> 01:21:14,871
- We're
particularly interested...
1506
01:21:15,037 --> 01:21:17,707
- Colon cancer specialist
Stephen O'Keefe
1507
01:21:17,874 --> 01:21:20,376
spent many years working
in Africa,
1508
01:21:20,543 --> 01:21:24,580
where he saw very little
colon cancer among his patients.
1509
01:21:24,747 --> 01:21:28,117
But when he moved
to the United States,
1510
01:21:28,284 --> 01:21:31,220
he was struck by the fact
that African-Americans
1511
01:21:31,387 --> 01:21:34,857
have one of the highest
colon cancer rates in the world,
1512
01:21:35,024 --> 01:21:38,561
even though many are
genetically similar to Africans.
1513
01:21:38,728 --> 01:21:43,900
- Studies have demonstrated
that the factor most associated
1514
01:21:44,066 --> 01:21:46,469
with differences in colon cancer
between Africans
1515
01:21:46,636 --> 01:21:49,505
and African-Americans is diet.
1516
01:21:49,672 --> 01:21:53,242
- Most Africans tend
to eat more vegetables, fruits,
1517
01:21:53,409 --> 01:21:55,211
beans, and whole grains
1518
01:21:55,378 --> 01:21:58,714
and less processed food
than we do in the West.
1519
01:21:58,881 --> 01:22:02,151
And those plant-based foods
contain substances
1520
01:22:02,318 --> 01:22:06,155
our bodies can't digest,
which we call fiber.
1521
01:22:06,322 --> 01:22:10,259
We understood for a long time
that fiber was important,
1522
01:22:10,426 --> 01:22:12,795
and we thought
it was important to help people
1523
01:22:12,962 --> 01:22:15,398
overcome constipation
and improve what's called
1524
01:22:15,564 --> 01:22:18,701
transit time
of food through your body.
1525
01:22:18,868 --> 01:22:22,805
But O'Keefe's studies reveal
that fiber does something else.
1526
01:22:22,972 --> 01:22:26,609
It feeds bacteria in the colon
that to help keep it healthy
1527
01:22:26,776 --> 01:22:30,746
By producing a compound
called butyrate.
1528
01:22:30,913 --> 01:22:34,717
- Our cells don't produce it,
but bacterial cells do.
1529
01:22:34,884 --> 01:22:37,053
If you eat enough fiber,
1530
01:22:37,219 --> 01:22:40,389
you maintain
a bacterial population
1531
01:22:40,556 --> 01:22:43,726
that convert the fiber
into butyrate,
1532
01:22:43,893 --> 01:22:46,395
the health of the colon
1533
01:22:46,562 --> 01:22:49,332
and prevents cancer.
1534
01:22:49,498 --> 01:22:52,234
- Fiber is food
for these microbes,
1535
01:22:52,401 --> 01:22:53,569
and if you don't feed it
to them,
1536
01:22:53,736 --> 01:22:55,538
they're not gonna be well
and you're not gonna be well.
1537
01:22:55,705 --> 01:22:58,941
And the less fiber you eat,
O'Keefe has found,
1538
01:22:59,108 --> 01:23:02,812
the more bacteria you have
that make harmful compounds
1539
01:23:02,979 --> 01:23:04,847
that can lead to cancer.
1540
01:23:05,014 --> 01:23:08,384
Since the Western diet
1541
01:23:08,551 --> 01:23:11,954
that many African-Americans eat
is low in fiber,
1542
01:23:12,121 --> 01:23:14,690
and most Africans
get plenty of fiber,
1543
01:23:14,857 --> 01:23:17,927
O'Keefe wondered
what would happen if Africans
1544
01:23:18,094 --> 01:23:21,130
and African-Americans
switched diets?
1545
01:23:21,297 --> 01:23:25,935
O'Keefe's team fed fiber-rich
diets to African-Americans
1546
01:23:26,102 --> 01:23:29,939
and fiber-poor diets
to people in South Africa.
1547
01:23:30,106 --> 01:23:33,509
- And then we
basically measured substances
1548
01:23:33,676 --> 01:23:35,811
that are good or bad
for the colon
1549
01:23:35,978 --> 01:23:40,149
before and then two weeks
after their dietary switch.
1550
01:23:40,316 --> 01:23:42,518
- After just two weeks,
1551
01:23:42,685 --> 01:23:45,354
the amount
of harmful compounds increased
1552
01:23:45,521 --> 01:23:47,356
in the colons of the Africans,
1553
01:23:47,523 --> 01:23:50,092
while the amount
of beneficial compounds
1554
01:23:50,259 --> 01:23:53,562
like butyrate increased
in the African-Americans.
1555
01:23:53,729 --> 01:23:55,197
- This is the butyrate.
1556
01:23:55,364 --> 01:23:57,066
- It's very dramatic.
It's very easy to see.
1557
01:23:57,233 --> 01:23:58,467
- Yeah.
1558
01:23:58,634 --> 01:24:02,671
- The exciting thing is
that by changing your diet,
1559
01:24:02,838 --> 01:24:06,409
you or I can influence
our risk of colon cancer
1560
01:24:06,575 --> 01:24:08,878
in just two weeks.
1561
01:24:11,247 --> 01:24:12,882
- So the larger lesson is
1562
01:24:13,049 --> 01:24:15,117
that we're not just eating
for ourselves.
1563
01:24:15,284 --> 01:24:20,790
We're eating for the trillions
of microbes that inhabit us,
1564
01:24:20,956 --> 01:24:25,094
like the ones that help protect
breastfed babies.
1565
01:24:25,261 --> 01:24:27,596
The community
of microbes inside us
1566
01:24:27,763 --> 01:24:30,800
has become known
as the microbiome.
1567
01:24:30,966 --> 01:24:34,203
But scientists are
just beginning to understand
1568
01:24:34,370 --> 01:24:38,541
how big a role those microbes
play in our dietary health.
1569
01:24:38,707 --> 01:24:41,911
- Our ability to transform
the complex chemicals
1570
01:24:42,078 --> 01:24:43,179
in the foods that we eat
1571
01:24:43,345 --> 01:24:47,249
into products that we can
grab a hold of and use,
1572
01:24:47,416 --> 01:24:52,121
very much depends
upon our microbial partners.
1573
01:24:52,288 --> 01:24:56,225
And, in a sense,
we never dine alone.
1574
01:24:56,392 --> 01:24:59,495
And that's why we proceeded
to try to understand
1575
01:24:59,662 --> 01:25:02,298
this intersection
between the foods that we eat,
1576
01:25:02,465 --> 01:25:04,767
the microbes that we harbor,
and our health.
1577
01:25:04,934 --> 01:25:07,470
- Jeffrey Gordon
and his colleagues
1578
01:25:07,636 --> 01:25:10,506
have found that these microbes
can actually influence
1579
01:25:10,673 --> 01:25:13,976
both obesity and malnutrition.
1580
01:25:14,143 --> 01:25:18,948
In Malawi, his team studied
unusual pairs of twins.
1581
01:25:19,115 --> 01:25:22,051
Even though
they'd been fed similar diets,
1582
01:25:22,218 --> 01:25:25,254
in dozens of cases,
one twin was malnourished
1583
01:25:25,421 --> 01:25:27,456
and the other one wasn't.
1584
01:25:27,623 --> 01:25:31,127
It turned out that their
intestinal bacteria,
1585
01:25:31,293 --> 01:25:34,663
for reasons still unknown,
were starkly different.
1586
01:25:34,830 --> 01:25:39,535
- This suggested that there may
be a causal relationship
1587
01:25:39,702 --> 01:25:42,771
between the microbes
and malnutrition,
1588
01:25:42,938 --> 01:25:45,574
but it didn't prove it.
1589
01:25:45,741 --> 01:25:50,112
- To test this hypothesis,
the scientists transplanted
1590
01:25:50,279 --> 01:25:53,449
the children's intestinal
bacteria into mice
1591
01:25:53,616 --> 01:25:57,153
that had been bred
to have none of their own.
1592
01:25:57,319 --> 01:25:59,855
The mice that got
the sick twin's bacteria
1593
01:26:00,022 --> 01:26:02,158
developed symptoms
of malnutrition.
1594
01:26:02,324 --> 01:26:06,562
Those that got the
healthy twin's bacteria did not.
1595
01:26:06,729 --> 01:26:10,766
Gordon did a similar study
of twins in the United States,
1596
01:26:10,933 --> 01:26:13,235
this time looking at obesity.
1597
01:26:13,402 --> 01:26:17,072
In cases where one twin
was obese and the other wasn't,
1598
01:26:17,239 --> 01:26:18,974
it again turned out
that they had
1599
01:26:19,141 --> 01:26:22,545
different kinds of gut bacteria,
which suggests
1600
01:26:22,711 --> 01:26:26,282
that certain microbes
may contribute to obesity.
1601
01:26:26,448 --> 01:26:30,853
- If we think about
our microbes as a garden,
1602
01:26:31,020 --> 01:26:33,722
how can we grow this garden?
1603
01:26:33,889 --> 01:26:37,793
How can we cultivate it
to ensure our health?
1604
01:26:37,960 --> 01:26:42,464
- In places like Bangladesh,
Gordon is investigating whether
1605
01:26:42,631 --> 01:26:45,901
traditional diets may do that
by encouraging the growth
1606
01:26:46,068 --> 01:26:48,804
of a wide variety
of intestinal microbes.
1607
01:26:48,971 --> 01:26:52,775
- One fascinating finding
that we have made
1608
01:26:52,942 --> 01:26:56,178
is Westernization is associated
with a reduction
1609
01:26:56,345 --> 01:26:59,882
in the diversity or richness
of microbial life in the gut.
1610
01:27:00,049 --> 01:27:03,786
And diets that increase richness
1611
01:27:03,953 --> 01:27:06,722
are probably going to be
beneficial.
1612
01:27:06,889 --> 01:27:10,593
- Researcher Jeff Leach
1613
01:27:10,759 --> 01:27:13,862
thinks the Hadza in Tanzania
can also tell us
1614
01:27:14,029 --> 01:27:18,300
a lot about how to cultivate
our microbiome.
1615
01:27:20,970 --> 01:27:24,273
- One of the holy grails
in microbiome research
1616
01:27:24,440 --> 01:27:26,475
is trying to figure out what is
1617
01:27:26,642 --> 01:27:29,111
an optimal
or balanced microbiome.
1618
01:27:29,278 --> 01:27:33,516
- The Hadza's gut microbes
feed mainly on wild foods,
1619
01:27:33,682 --> 01:27:38,554
like the kind our ancestors ate
for tens of thousands of years.
1620
01:27:38,721 --> 01:27:41,657
- We think that the Hadza
contain, in their stomach,
1621
01:27:41,824 --> 01:27:44,994
a microbial Noah's Ark
to what ails the world.
1622
01:27:47,396 --> 01:27:49,265
- To learn more
about these microbes,
1623
01:27:49,431 --> 01:27:51,600
Leach is collecting
stool samples from some
1624
01:27:51,767 --> 01:27:55,738
500 Hadza --
men, women and children.
1625
01:27:55,904 --> 01:27:58,207
- We provide the individuals
in the village
1626
01:27:58,374 --> 01:28:00,376
little tubes and a swab.
1627
01:28:00,542 --> 01:28:02,211
Samples for Bahti?
- Bahti.
1628
01:28:02,378 --> 01:28:06,248
- The samples are shipped to the
labs of Leach's U.S. colleagues,
1629
01:28:06,415 --> 01:28:10,019
who can precisely identify
the microbes they contain.
1630
01:28:10,185 --> 01:28:12,221
- At the end of the day,
what we hope to find
1631
01:28:12,388 --> 01:28:13,522
is are there certain diets
1632
01:28:13,689 --> 01:28:15,491
that drive certain groups
of bacteria?
1633
01:28:15,658 --> 01:28:19,895
And what does that tell us
about the health of the person?
1634
01:28:20,062 --> 01:28:23,265
- Studies suggest that the Hadza
have different kinds
1635
01:28:23,432 --> 01:28:26,735
of microbes than people
in Western countries.
1636
01:28:26,902 --> 01:28:29,838
And this may partly stem
from the high levels of fiber
1637
01:28:30,005 --> 01:28:32,841
they get
from all the plants they eat.
1638
01:28:33,008 --> 01:28:34,576
- I think the Hadza
1639
01:28:34,743 --> 01:28:36,712
are gonna teach us
that plants should be
1640
01:28:36,879 --> 01:28:38,914
the primary source
of calories in the diet
1641
01:28:39,081 --> 01:28:40,749
and that those plants
should also contain
1642
01:28:40,916 --> 01:28:42,985
lots of dietary fiber.
1643
01:28:43,152 --> 01:28:45,621
- I think one
of the most interesting things
1644
01:28:45,788 --> 01:28:48,057
that Jeff Leach is up to
is looking for
1645
01:28:48,223 --> 01:28:52,461
that baseline of what
the human microbiome looked like
1646
01:28:52,628 --> 01:28:54,063
before the rise of agriculture
1647
01:28:54,229 --> 01:28:56,465
and then before the rise
of processed food.
1648
01:29:00,002 --> 01:29:02,705
We don't know
how these changes in our diet
1649
01:29:02,871 --> 01:29:05,641
may have affected
the microbes inside us.
1650
01:29:07,843 --> 01:29:10,446
- The microbes
may provide a very important
1651
01:29:10,612 --> 01:29:14,283
between food and health.
1652
01:29:14,450 --> 01:29:16,552
We need to take them
into consideration
1653
01:29:16,719 --> 01:29:18,520
when we're deciding what to eat.
1654
01:29:20,389 --> 01:29:23,659
- So there are many good reasons
to eat mostly plants.
1655
01:29:23,826 --> 01:29:26,428
There's plenty of evidence
to suggest
1656
01:29:26,595 --> 01:29:29,398
that eating a variety
of vegetables and fruits
1657
01:29:29,565 --> 01:29:31,767
can probably reduce rates
of stroke,
1658
01:29:31,934 --> 01:29:34,970
heart disease, and some cancers.
1659
01:29:35,137 --> 01:29:37,639
They're nutritious
and have lots of fiber.
1660
01:29:37,806 --> 01:29:40,509
They're good
for the microbes in your gut.
1661
01:29:40,676 --> 01:29:43,011
And if you're eating
mostly plants,
1662
01:29:43,178 --> 01:29:46,482
you can be sure you're not
eating too much meat.
1663
01:29:47,883 --> 01:29:49,251
So...
1664
01:30:02,931 --> 01:30:06,835
That is, eat as many different
kinds of plants as possible.
1665
01:30:08,904 --> 01:30:11,573
And now the last
and most challenging
1666
01:30:11,740 --> 01:30:14,243
of my seven words...
1667
01:30:14,410 --> 01:30:16,578
not too much.
1668
01:30:16,745 --> 01:30:20,549
In a country where 2/3
of us are overweight,
1669
01:30:20,716 --> 01:30:22,818
this may seem obvious.
1670
01:30:22,985 --> 01:30:26,121
But it can be tough
not to eat too much.
1671
01:30:26,288 --> 01:30:28,624
One big reason is that
1672
01:30:28,791 --> 01:30:32,761
we're constantly being
tempted by food.
1673
01:30:32,928 --> 01:30:34,863
- People are eating more food
more often
1674
01:30:35,030 --> 01:30:36,365
and in greater portions.
1675
01:30:36,532 --> 01:30:39,868
Food is everywhere.
1676
01:30:40,035 --> 01:30:42,404
You used to be asked
to leave food outside
1677
01:30:42,571 --> 01:30:44,540
if you came
into a clothing store.
1678
01:30:44,706 --> 01:30:46,508
Now they give you snacks.
1679
01:30:46,675 --> 01:30:50,712
- The wonderful
human institution of the meal,
1680
01:30:50,879 --> 01:30:53,782
this time where people stop
what they're doing,
1681
01:30:53,949 --> 01:30:58,620
sit down at a table,
eat socially, is in trouble.
1682
01:30:58,787 --> 01:31:01,256
We eat at our desks.
1683
01:31:01,423 --> 01:31:04,092
We eat while we're driving.
1684
01:31:04,259 --> 01:31:07,763
We eat while we're walking
down the street.
1685
01:31:07,930 --> 01:31:10,065
There were social taboos
on all these activities
1686
01:31:10,232 --> 01:31:11,934
once upon a time
and they're all gone.
1687
01:31:13,869 --> 01:31:18,140
- We can see, if we look at data
on the number of calories
1688
01:31:18,307 --> 01:31:21,310
that people are eating,
people are eating much more now
1689
01:31:21,477 --> 01:31:23,679
than they did 25
or 30 years ago.
1690
01:31:23,846 --> 01:31:28,417
- And those kinds of trends
are going to take a lot more
1691
01:31:28,584 --> 01:31:31,186
than removing a gram or two
of sugar or salt
1692
01:31:31,353 --> 01:31:34,623
from a food product
to make any difference.
1693
01:31:34,790 --> 01:31:37,459
- And that's why we need to talk,
1694
01:31:37,626 --> 01:31:41,497
not just about nutrients
or even just about food,
1695
01:31:41,663 --> 01:31:44,132
but about how much we eat.
1696
01:31:44,299 --> 01:31:46,935
- Thanks for coming
for lunch today.
1697
01:31:47,102 --> 01:31:49,304
Like I promised,
there's a free lunch.
1698
01:31:49,471 --> 01:31:51,340
Okay, so let's go on,
and let's get started.
1699
01:31:51,507 --> 01:31:53,876
One thing that I've learned,
1700
01:31:54,042 --> 01:31:56,111
having done hundreds
and hundreds of studies
1701
01:31:56,278 --> 01:31:59,548
related to eating behavior,
is that, to a person,
1702
01:31:59,715 --> 01:32:03,018
we believe we are master
and commander
1703
01:32:03,185 --> 01:32:05,153
of all of our food decisions.
1704
01:32:05,320 --> 01:32:07,723
But we're not.
1705
01:32:07,890 --> 01:32:10,959
We make over 200 decisions
about food a day.
1706
01:32:11,126 --> 01:32:13,996
And the majority
of these decisions
1707
01:32:14,162 --> 01:32:17,132
are basically unconscious to us.
1708
01:32:17,299 --> 01:32:18,734
So, um, grab a plate up there.
1709
01:32:18,901 --> 01:32:20,769
The pasta is right on the stove.
1710
01:32:20,936 --> 01:32:22,271
Serve yourself up.
1711
01:32:22,437 --> 01:32:25,908
- Brian Wansink
is an expert on eating behavior.
1712
01:32:26,074 --> 01:32:27,843
He's discovered we're often
1713
01:32:28,010 --> 01:32:31,179
not aware of why
we eat as much as we do.
1714
01:32:31,346 --> 01:32:33,515
Sometimes,
it's because of something
1715
01:32:33,682 --> 01:32:35,984
we don't give
the slightest thought to,
1716
01:32:36,151 --> 01:32:38,720
like the size of our plate.
1717
01:32:38,887 --> 01:32:40,522
- We'll bring people in,
and we'll give them
1718
01:32:40,689 --> 01:32:41,990
a large plate
to serve themselves,
1719
01:32:42,157 --> 01:32:45,160
but what they don't realize is
that the pasta is cold.
1720
01:32:45,327 --> 01:32:49,164
- Wansink concocts an excuse
so that everyone
1721
01:32:49,331 --> 01:32:52,467
has to get a different plate,
which is slightly smaller.
1722
01:32:52,634 --> 01:32:54,503
- These things
weren't the right temperature.
1723
01:32:54,670 --> 01:32:56,705
So I'd like you to come back
and just grab another plate
1724
01:32:56,872 --> 01:33:00,309
out of the cupboard, there.
1725
01:33:00,475 --> 01:33:03,312
One of the things we find is
1726
01:33:03,478 --> 01:33:05,547
that they'll serve themselves
a second time --
1727
01:33:05,714 --> 01:33:08,417
they won't believe they served
1728
01:33:08,584 --> 01:33:11,720
an amount any different
than they did the first time.
1729
01:33:11,887 --> 01:33:13,622
Did you guys notice
anything any different
1730
01:33:13,789 --> 01:33:15,557
between the first time
you served yourself
1731
01:33:15,724 --> 01:33:17,426
and the second time
you served yourself?
1732
01:33:17,593 --> 01:33:19,728
- The plate feels a lot smaller.
It looks smaller.
1733
01:33:21,229 --> 01:33:23,498
- So here's one thing we found --
the size of a plate
1734
01:33:23,665 --> 01:33:27,469
tremendously biases us,
in terms of how much we serve.
1735
01:33:27,636 --> 01:33:31,140
- The smaller the plate,
the less food people take.
1736
01:33:31,306 --> 01:33:33,909
- You serve four ounces
on a nine-inch plate, you go,
1737
01:33:34,076 --> 01:33:36,245
"Holy cow, I'll never be able
to eat that."
1738
01:33:36,411 --> 01:33:38,013
So let's take a look
at what happened to you guys.
1739
01:33:38,180 --> 01:33:41,450
So the big plate --
207 calories.
1740
01:33:41,617 --> 01:33:44,854
The smaller plate, it dropped
down to a 162 calories.
1741
01:33:46,154 --> 01:33:48,323
That's about 40 calories.
1742
01:33:48,490 --> 01:33:50,859
If this happened
three times a day
1743
01:33:51,026 --> 01:33:53,528
over the course of a year,
by using a smaller plate,
1744
01:33:53,695 --> 01:33:55,831
you'd end up weighing
nine pounds less
1745
01:33:55,998 --> 01:33:58,634
than you would
if you had a bigger plate.
1746
01:33:58,800 --> 01:34:00,502
Just really, really small things
1747
01:34:00,669 --> 01:34:03,538
make this
really huge difference.
1748
01:34:03,705 --> 01:34:06,274
When it comes down to it,
the changes we can make
1749
01:34:06,441 --> 01:34:08,377
most immediately
are the changes we can make
1750
01:34:08,543 --> 01:34:09,544
when we go home tonight.
1751
01:34:09,711 --> 01:34:10,979
They're the changes we can make
1752
01:34:11,146 --> 01:34:12,748
in our kitchen
or in our own house,
1753
01:34:12,914 --> 01:34:16,385
like simply using
smaller plates.
1754
01:34:28,697 --> 01:34:31,033
- Wansink has also found
that the order
1755
01:34:31,199 --> 01:34:34,603
in which we encounter foods
influences not just
1756
01:34:34,770 --> 01:34:37,639
but what we eat.
1757
01:34:37,806 --> 01:34:40,676
He's now working with schools
around the country,
1758
01:34:40,842 --> 01:34:42,644
to re-design lunch lines
1759
01:34:42,811 --> 01:34:45,981
so that kids
will choose healthier food.
1760
01:34:46,148 --> 01:34:48,984
- This is about the most difficult place
in the world to get people to eat better.
1761
01:34:49,151 --> 01:34:53,088
It's a middle school
and a high school cafeteria.
1762
01:34:53,255 --> 01:34:55,057
Here's how we do it.
1763
01:34:55,223 --> 01:34:59,294
We re-organize the line --
put the healthiest food first.
1764
01:34:59,461 --> 01:35:02,264
We find people
are 11% more likely
1765
01:35:02,431 --> 01:35:04,700
to take the first thing they see
than the third thing.
1766
01:35:04,866 --> 01:35:07,569
So let's load it up
with the healthy vegetables.
1767
01:35:07,736 --> 01:35:09,905
After that, we've got
the low fat hamburgers,
1768
01:35:10,072 --> 01:35:13,175
Whole grain buns here,
bean quesadillas.
1769
01:35:13,341 --> 01:35:15,277
It's only then do they hit
the really indulgent stuff.
1770
01:35:15,444 --> 01:35:16,945
But, you know,
hey, it's too late.
1771
01:35:17,112 --> 01:35:19,581
Their plates are already full
with the good stuff.
1772
01:35:21,249 --> 01:35:24,052
- You know that it's working
by the fact that,
1773
01:35:24,219 --> 01:35:26,988
we used to only do
25 pounds of carrots a week
1774
01:35:27,155 --> 01:35:30,425
for all three buildings,
and now we go anywhere
1775
01:35:30,592 --> 01:35:33,328
from 70 to 75 pounds
of carrots a week.
1776
01:35:33,495 --> 01:35:36,665
And they don't even realize it,
a lot of them, that,
1777
01:35:36,832 --> 01:35:38,433
"Wow, we're eating better."
1778
01:35:38,600 --> 01:35:40,235
It's just happening.
1779
01:35:40,402 --> 01:35:42,838
- The other thing we do,
we take the fruit
1780
01:35:43,004 --> 01:35:45,707
and we put it right next
to the cash register.
1781
01:35:45,874 --> 01:35:49,811
What we find is
that fruit sales go up 103%.
1782
01:35:49,978 --> 01:35:52,380
Simply by putting the fruit
in a nice basket
1783
01:35:52,547 --> 01:35:54,382
and putting it next
to the cash register.
1784
01:35:54,549 --> 01:35:55,984
And the exact same thing
that works
1785
01:35:56,151 --> 01:35:57,886
for selling Twinkies
in a convenience store
1786
01:35:58,053 --> 01:36:00,589
works for getting people
to eat healthier
1787
01:36:00,756 --> 01:36:02,357
in high schools
and junior highs.
1788
01:36:02,524 --> 01:36:05,527
- And it's not just kids
who are influenced
1789
01:36:05,694 --> 01:36:08,029
by where and when they see food.
1790
01:36:08,196 --> 01:36:11,066
The order of items
at a breakfast buffet
1791
01:36:11,233 --> 01:36:13,301
had a similar effect on adults.
1792
01:36:13,468 --> 01:36:16,505
- We found that the first
three things they saw
1793
01:36:16,671 --> 01:36:19,974
comprised 66%
of everything they took.
1794
01:36:20,142 --> 01:36:23,078
So, in one case,
they saw cheesy eggs first,
1795
01:36:23,245 --> 01:36:25,814
they saw bacon,
they saw fried potatoes.
1796
01:36:25,981 --> 01:36:27,182
2/3 of their plate --
1797
01:36:27,349 --> 01:36:31,019
cheesy eggs, bacon,
fried potatoes.
1798
01:36:31,186 --> 01:36:33,288
If instead they saw fruit first,
1799
01:36:33,455 --> 01:36:36,057
and low-fat granola,
low-fat yogurt,
1800
01:36:36,224 --> 01:36:40,295
They'd end up taking 2/3
of their plate from those items.
1801
01:36:40,462 --> 01:36:44,666
It's incredible
the impact the order of food has
1802
01:36:44,833 --> 01:36:46,701
on whether we take it or not.
1803
01:36:46,868 --> 01:36:49,838
- All these
little environmental cues
1804
01:36:50,005 --> 01:36:53,141
are very important
in our appetite.
1805
01:36:53,308 --> 01:36:55,911
We think of appetite
as this biological absolute --
1806
01:36:56,077 --> 01:36:57,379
"This is how hungry I am."
1807
01:36:57,546 --> 01:37:00,248
But, in fact, it, like so many
other things, is constructed.
1808
01:37:00,415 --> 01:37:02,751
It's socially constructed,
environmentally constructed
1809
01:37:02,918 --> 01:37:06,888
and influenced by all
these little, little things.
1810
01:37:07,055 --> 01:37:12,294
So I see great potential
to harness that kind of thinking
1811
01:37:12,460 --> 01:37:15,831
and those kind of insights
to redesign the buffet line,
1812
01:37:15,997 --> 01:37:18,033
to redesign the plate,
1813
01:37:18,200 --> 01:37:21,336
to redesign the food environment
in which we live.
1814
01:37:21,503 --> 01:37:23,005
- Thank you.
Have a good day.
1815
01:37:31,313 --> 01:37:33,215
- It's very interesting
how we'll put up
1816
01:37:33,381 --> 01:37:38,186
with social engineering
from corporations endlessly.
1817
01:37:38,353 --> 01:37:39,788
When they come up
with the Big Gulp
1818
01:37:39,955 --> 01:37:41,356
they are social engineering,
right?
1819
01:37:41,523 --> 01:37:44,059
They're getting us to drink
more than we would otherwise.
1820
01:37:44,226 --> 01:37:48,396
When they manipulate
the salt, fat, and sugar.
1821
01:37:48,563 --> 01:37:52,267
All that is social engineering,
too, and we don't resent it.
1822
01:37:52,434 --> 01:37:55,403
Yet, as soon as it's being done
on our behalf --
1823
01:37:55,570 --> 01:37:58,306
an elected official
doing it on our behalf --
1824
01:37:58,473 --> 01:37:59,574
this is too much.
1825
01:37:59,741 --> 01:38:00,876
This is social engineering.
1826
01:38:01,042 --> 01:38:03,178
This is socialist.
We can't. We can't go there.
1827
01:38:03,345 --> 01:38:05,180
We have a double standard.
1828
01:38:05,347 --> 01:38:07,916
- The government
is already involved
1829
01:38:08,083 --> 01:38:11,853
in food choice up to its ears.
1830
01:38:12,020 --> 01:38:14,522
Government policy has determined
1831
01:38:14,689 --> 01:38:16,358
the kind of food system
that we have.
1832
01:38:16,524 --> 01:38:20,495
It determines what food products
get supported
1833
01:38:20,662 --> 01:38:24,232
and which ones don't.
1834
01:38:24,399 --> 01:38:26,434
So what those of us
who are advocating
1835
01:38:26,601 --> 01:38:28,570
for a healthier food system
are after
1836
01:38:28,737 --> 01:38:32,073
is not getting the government
involved in food policy.
1837
01:38:32,240 --> 01:38:33,341
It already is.
1838
01:38:33,508 --> 01:38:36,511
We just want it tweaked so
that the government role
1839
01:38:36,678 --> 01:38:38,280
in food policy is to produce
1840
01:38:38,446 --> 01:38:40,181
a food system
that promotes health --
1841
01:38:40,348 --> 01:38:42,584
healthier people
and a healthier environment.
1842
01:38:42,751 --> 01:38:48,490
- This is the amount of sugar
that you or your child eat
1843
01:38:48,657 --> 01:38:51,927
when you drink one can of soda
a day for a year.
1844
01:38:52,093 --> 01:38:53,962
I'm gonna put this
down in front.
1845
01:38:55,797 --> 01:38:59,901
- In 2012, Richmond, California
councilman Jeffrey Ritterman
1846
01:39:00,068 --> 01:39:02,971
proposed that the city collect
a penny-per-ounce tax
1847
01:39:03,138 --> 01:39:04,873
on sugary beverages.
1848
01:39:05,040 --> 01:39:07,242
He hoped the tax
would discourage people
1849
01:39:07,409 --> 01:39:09,577
from consuming so much sugar.
1850
01:39:09,744 --> 01:39:11,880
- Please be respectful
while we're discussing this.
1851
01:39:12,047 --> 01:39:12,914
Thank you.
1852
01:39:13,081 --> 01:39:14,883
- Ritterman is also
a cardiologist.
1853
01:39:15,050 --> 01:39:17,886
- Unequivocally,
medically, right now
1854
01:39:18,053 --> 01:39:21,089
it is proven
that one can of soda a day
1855
01:39:21,256 --> 01:39:24,225
increases your risk
of type-2 diabetes.
1856
01:39:24,392 --> 01:39:26,194
It causes heart attacks,
1857
01:39:26,361 --> 01:39:29,798
and it causes obesity
and it makes some cancers grow.
1858
01:39:29,965 --> 01:39:35,570
- The tax proponents raised
close to $70,000.
1859
01:39:35,737 --> 01:39:39,841
But in this city
of about 100,000 people,
1860
01:39:40,008 --> 01:39:45,213
the soda industry spent nearly
$2.5 million to defeat the tax.
1861
01:39:45,380 --> 01:39:46,648
- I was calling on behalf
1862
01:39:46,815 --> 01:39:49,050
of the community coalition
against beverage taxes.
1863
01:39:49,217 --> 01:39:54,255
- They established an ostensible
grass roots organization
1864
01:39:54,422 --> 01:39:56,591
to fight the soda tax.
1865
01:39:56,758 --> 01:39:59,594
They went
into minority neighborhoods
1866
01:39:59,761 --> 01:40:01,763
and put up big posters saying
1867
01:40:01,930 --> 01:40:05,066
your rights are being taken away
from you.
1868
01:40:05,233 --> 01:40:08,603
- When we get to the point
of being a dictator to people,
1869
01:40:08,770 --> 01:40:10,271
I think it's wrong.
1870
01:40:10,438 --> 01:40:13,708
- Measure N is losing.
1871
01:40:13,875 --> 01:40:17,946
We can now confirm that it
has gone down to defeat.
1872
01:40:18,113 --> 01:40:21,282
- In the end,
Richmond voters rejected the tax
1873
01:40:21,449 --> 01:40:23,985
by a margin
of nearly two to one.
1874
01:40:24,152 --> 01:40:26,921
Across the country,
1875
01:40:27,088 --> 01:40:29,391
New York City mayor
Michael Bloomberg
1876
01:40:29,557 --> 01:40:31,659
came up
with a different strategy
1877
01:40:31,826 --> 01:40:34,295
to cut down
on people's intake of sugar.
1878
01:40:34,462 --> 01:40:38,099
He proposed a regulation
to limit the serving size
1879
01:40:38,266 --> 01:40:41,369
of sugar-sweetened beverages
to 16 ounces.
1880
01:40:41,536 --> 01:40:43,671
- There's an epidemic
in this country
1881
01:40:43,838 --> 01:40:47,008
of people being overweight,
bordering on obesity.
1882
01:40:47,175 --> 01:40:48,643
The percentage of the population
1883
01:40:48,810 --> 01:40:50,345
that's obese is skyrocketing.
1884
01:40:50,512 --> 01:40:52,781
We've got to do
something about it.
1885
01:40:52,947 --> 01:40:54,649
- So this is the proposal.
1886
01:40:54,816 --> 01:40:57,852
The maximum size that
a food service establishment
1887
01:40:58,019 --> 01:41:00,722
could sell of a sugary drink
is 16 ounces.
1888
01:41:00,889 --> 01:41:04,426
If you go into a fast-food
restaurant in New York City,
1889
01:41:04,592 --> 01:41:06,728
you can find an awful lot
of things like this.
1890
01:41:06,895 --> 01:41:09,864
This is a 64-ounce container.
1891
01:41:10,031 --> 01:41:11,666
That's a half a gallon,
by the way.
1892
01:41:11,833 --> 01:41:13,268
It contains about 800 calories
1893
01:41:13,435 --> 01:41:15,170
Or more than 50 packets
of sugar.
1894
01:41:15,336 --> 01:41:17,238
To give you an idea
of what we're talking about,
1895
01:41:17,405 --> 01:41:18,807
this is how much sugar
is in there.
1896
01:41:18,973 --> 01:41:21,076
- We know from research
1897
01:41:21,242 --> 01:41:22,911
that people eat
what's in front of them.
1898
01:41:23,078 --> 01:41:25,414
If you give somebody
a 16-ounce soda,
1899
01:41:25,580 --> 01:41:29,484
that person
will drink 16 ounces.
1900
01:41:29,651 --> 01:41:32,854
If you give
that same person 32 ounces,
1901
01:41:33,021 --> 01:41:35,323
that same person
will drink 32 ounces
1902
01:41:35,490 --> 01:41:37,292
and have twice as many calories.
1903
01:41:37,459 --> 01:41:41,996
- The beverage industry filed
suit to stop Bloomberg's rule
1904
01:41:42,163 --> 01:41:46,234
and launched a slick campaign
to turn the public against it.
1905
01:41:46,401 --> 01:41:48,303
- New Yorkers
don't want the mayor
1906
01:41:48,470 --> 01:41:50,672
to tell them
what size beverage to buy.
1907
01:41:50,839 --> 01:41:52,107
- I'm an adult and I can make
1908
01:41:52,273 --> 01:41:54,109
my own decisions
about what I drink.
1909
01:41:54,275 --> 01:41:57,312
- Hey, New York,
it's time to take a stand.
1910
01:41:57,479 --> 01:41:59,247
Join us.
1911
01:41:59,414 --> 01:42:02,817
- In March 2013,
a judge ruled in favor
1912
01:42:02,984 --> 01:42:05,820
Of the industry
and threw out Bloomberg's rule
1913
01:42:05,987 --> 01:42:08,990
calling the limit
"arbitrary and capricious."
1914
01:42:09,157 --> 01:42:11,993
- Being the first to do something
is never easy.
1915
01:42:12,160 --> 01:42:15,330
When we began this process,
we knew we would face lawsuits.
1916
01:42:15,497 --> 01:42:17,999
Anytime you adopt
a groundbreaking policy,
1917
01:42:18,166 --> 01:42:19,667
special interests will sue.
1918
01:42:19,834 --> 01:42:20,935
That's America.
1919
01:42:30,445 --> 01:42:32,614
- Come to Marlboro country.
1920
01:42:32,780 --> 01:42:36,117
- Personal freedom also used to
be one of the tobacco industry's
1921
01:42:36,284 --> 01:42:39,354
favorite arguments
against government regulation.
1922
01:42:39,521 --> 01:42:42,290
But the evidence of harm
became so overwhelming
1923
01:42:42,457 --> 01:42:44,826
that the government
finally had to act.
1924
01:42:44,993 --> 01:42:49,831
- For many years, there was
very firmly established science
1925
01:42:49,998 --> 01:42:52,901
that smoking cigarettes
was killing people.
1926
01:42:53,067 --> 01:42:55,937
But it took a long time
for government to react.
1927
01:42:56,104 --> 01:42:58,606
Once it did, though,
it did things
1928
01:42:58,773 --> 01:43:01,409
that were considered
inconceivable at one time.
1929
01:43:01,576 --> 01:43:03,444
Standing up
to the tobacco companies?
1930
01:43:07,348 --> 01:43:08,917
- In 1970,
1931
01:43:09,083 --> 01:43:12,954
37% of American adults
smoked cigarettes.
1932
01:43:14,789 --> 01:43:17,292
The U.S. Government
banned cigarette advertising
1933
01:43:17,458 --> 01:43:18,660
on television that year,
1934
01:43:18,826 --> 01:43:22,564
and cigarette taxes
began to rise.
1935
01:43:22,730 --> 01:43:25,733
Since then, the percentage
of adults who smoke
1936
01:43:25,900 --> 01:43:28,970
has been cut in half.
1937
01:43:29,137 --> 01:43:31,072
- So I don't think
it can be very far off
1938
01:43:31,239 --> 01:43:33,107
where we ask government
to do with food
1939
01:43:33,274 --> 01:43:34,509
what it's done with tobacco.
1940
01:43:34,676 --> 01:43:39,114
- And in 2014,
people in Berkeley, California
1941
01:43:39,280 --> 01:43:42,450
did just that --
passing the first soda tax
1942
01:43:42,617 --> 01:43:43,785
in the nation's history.
1943
01:43:43,952 --> 01:43:47,021
- We got the measure passed.
Whoo!
1944
01:43:47,188 --> 01:43:50,024
- This time,
tax proponents successfully
1945
01:43:50,191 --> 01:43:52,327
countered industry spending,
1946
01:43:52,493 --> 01:43:54,762
thanks partly
to former mayor Bloomberg.
1947
01:43:54,929 --> 01:43:57,131
- If We're going to start
reversing the epidemic
1948
01:43:57,298 --> 01:44:00,101
of childhood obesity,
it starts November 4th.
1949
01:44:00,268 --> 01:44:07,775
- He spent a reported $650,000
in support of the measure.
1950
01:44:07,942 --> 01:44:11,112
- I think it's a big deal
because we are gonna test
1951
01:44:11,279 --> 01:44:14,148
this idea that by adjusting
the price of soda,
1952
01:44:14,315 --> 01:44:16,517
you can reduce
the consumption of it.
1953
01:44:16,684 --> 01:44:19,854
- It's already working in Mexico,
1954
01:44:20,021 --> 01:44:23,524
where a national soda tax
took effect in 2014.
1955
01:44:23,691 --> 01:44:27,028
Since then,
Mexicans have been drinking
1956
01:44:27,195 --> 01:44:28,896
significantly less soda,
1957
01:44:29,063 --> 01:44:31,799
suggesting that the amount
we eat or drink
1958
01:44:31,966 --> 01:44:35,470
is more than just a matter
of willpower.
1959
01:44:35,637 --> 01:44:39,374
Now we'll see whether a tax
can have a similar impact
1960
01:44:39,540 --> 01:44:42,910
when we try it
in just in one city.
1961
01:44:43,077 --> 01:44:44,979
And if we discover that
that works,
1962
01:44:45,146 --> 01:44:49,017
and, in turn,
we find rates of obesity
1963
01:44:49,183 --> 01:44:52,120
and type-2 diabetes
moderating or declining,
1964
01:44:52,287 --> 01:44:54,922
we will have discovered
a very powerful tool.
1965
01:44:55,089 --> 01:44:57,292
It may or may not work,
but I'm delighted
1966
01:44:57,458 --> 01:44:59,894
that finally we're gonna get
to try this.
1967
01:45:13,741 --> 01:45:17,378
Eat more like the French do?
1968
01:45:17,545 --> 01:45:21,616
Aren't they known
for their love of rich food?
1969
01:45:21,783 --> 01:45:25,186
Well, one of the remarkable
things about the French
1970
01:45:25,353 --> 01:45:27,455
is that they actually enjoy
better health
1971
01:45:27,622 --> 01:45:30,525
than people in many other
Western countries.
1972
01:45:30,692 --> 01:45:34,162
It's a mystery known
as the French paradox.
1973
01:45:34,329 --> 01:45:38,232
They eat very fatty foods
very often.
1974
01:45:38,399 --> 01:45:43,171
They have lavish, lush desserts.
1975
01:45:43,338 --> 01:45:46,808
They drink lots of wine.
1976
01:45:46,974 --> 01:45:48,376
And it drives us crazy,
1977
01:45:48,543 --> 01:45:50,712
but they're not as fat
as we are,
1978
01:45:50,878 --> 01:45:55,516
and they have less heart disease
and slightly better longevity.
1979
01:45:55,683 --> 01:45:57,185
How could this possibly be?
1980
01:45:57,352 --> 01:45:59,687
They're breaking
all our rules of eating.
1981
01:46:07,528 --> 01:46:10,098
- Claude Fischler
is a French sociologist
1982
01:46:10,264 --> 01:46:12,967
who studies how people eat.
1983
01:46:20,241 --> 01:46:21,843
- The French are very rigid
1984
01:46:22,009 --> 01:46:25,246
when it comes to issues
associated with eating.
1985
01:46:28,216 --> 01:46:33,388
They eat at exactly
the same time in all regions.
1986
01:46:33,554 --> 01:46:39,193
Any given weekday at 12:30,
you can be sure
1987
01:46:39,360 --> 01:46:43,798
that 50% of the French,
they are busy eating.
1988
01:46:43,965 --> 01:46:46,734
Across the English Channel
or in the U.S.
1989
01:46:46,901 --> 01:46:51,272
It's, more like 15%, 16%,
17% of people
1990
01:46:51,439 --> 01:46:52,940
that are eating
at the same time.
1991
01:46:53,107 --> 01:46:56,744
- Fischler thinks this rigidity,
1992
01:46:56,911 --> 01:46:58,446
or reliance on tradition,
1993
01:46:58,613 --> 01:47:01,149
actually makes life easier
for the French.
1994
01:47:01,315 --> 01:47:04,419
- It's not such
a maddening individual obsession
1995
01:47:04,585 --> 01:47:06,654
about controlling yourself.
1996
01:47:06,821 --> 01:47:09,957
Because there's a lot that
is controlled by the culture.
1997
01:47:10,124 --> 01:47:13,761
- The big difference between
the French and the Americans
1998
01:47:13,928 --> 01:47:15,730
is that they serve less food.
1999
01:47:15,897 --> 01:47:16,831
That's the big one.
2000
01:47:16,998 --> 01:47:18,299
They serve smaller portions.
2001
01:47:18,466 --> 01:47:19,934
That's part of their tradition.
2002
01:47:20,101 --> 01:47:21,869
Another thing
is they think of food
2003
01:47:22,036 --> 01:47:25,039
more as something you enjoy.
2004
01:47:37,218 --> 01:47:40,254
- The French view
of health issues is...
2005
01:47:40,421 --> 01:47:42,356
Si c'est Bon, c'est Bon.
2006
01:47:42,523 --> 01:47:46,060
If it tastes good,
it's good for you.
2007
01:47:52,433 --> 01:47:55,236
- The French,
when they say they eat,
2008
01:47:55,403 --> 01:47:57,872
mean they have a meal together.
2009
01:47:58,039 --> 01:48:00,641
They wouldn't call eating
a snack, eating.
2010
01:48:00,808 --> 01:48:03,444
The way they use their word
eating is in an event.
2011
01:48:03,611 --> 01:48:08,382
They have a world in which food
is a celebration with others.
2012
01:48:08,549 --> 01:48:10,485
- Tonight's dinner is at the home
2013
01:48:10,651 --> 01:48:14,989
Of Fischler's friend,
Hervé de Lannurien.
2014
01:48:20,995 --> 01:48:26,701
In keeping with tradition,
the meal follows a script --
2015
01:48:26,868 --> 01:48:28,836
appetizers...
2016
01:48:30,972 --> 01:48:33,207
...a first course...
2017
01:48:35,042 --> 01:48:37,612
...a main course...
2018
01:48:41,616 --> 01:48:43,684
...a cheese course...
2019
01:48:43,851 --> 01:48:46,821
and salad.
2020
01:48:46,988 --> 01:48:50,091
Later, they had dessert.
2021
01:48:50,258 --> 01:48:53,227
In France, they eat slowly,
2022
01:48:53,394 --> 01:48:55,963
which is very interesting
and significant.
2023
01:48:56,130 --> 01:48:59,367
One of the most striking things
about the American way of eating
2024
01:48:59,534 --> 01:49:01,936
is we are some of the fastest
eaters on the planet.
2025
01:49:02,103 --> 01:49:07,475
- It's about 135 minutes a day
in France spent eating,
2026
01:49:07,642 --> 01:49:12,880
compared to something like 74,
I think, uh, for the U.S.
2027
01:49:13,047 --> 01:49:17,885
- So they're used to eating
smaller portions,
2028
01:49:18,052 --> 01:49:20,855
but they're used
to taking longer to eat them.
2029
01:49:21,022 --> 01:49:23,257
So the pleasure of eating comes
2030
01:49:23,424 --> 01:49:26,661
from the good food
in your mouth.
2031
01:49:26,827 --> 01:49:29,297
- So the French paradox
may have nothing to do
2032
01:49:29,463 --> 01:49:31,766
with the miracle of nutrient
in the red wine,
2033
01:49:31,933 --> 01:49:33,167
which some people thought,
2034
01:49:33,334 --> 01:49:37,672
but it may have everything
to do with habit.
2035
01:49:37,838 --> 01:49:41,075
As powerful
and wonderful as science is,
2036
01:49:41,242 --> 01:49:44,946
culture also
can teach us how to eat.
2037
01:49:45,112 --> 01:49:47,415
And, so far, until science
2038
01:49:47,582 --> 01:49:50,084
makes the breakthroughs
it needs to make,
2039
01:49:50,251 --> 01:49:52,286
culture is the best guide
we have.
2040
01:50:06,734 --> 01:50:08,302
Last rule...
2041
01:50:10,805 --> 01:50:13,874
Cultivating a relaxed,
non-punitive attitude
2042
01:50:14,041 --> 01:50:15,876
toward food is essential.
2043
01:50:16,043 --> 01:50:19,246
Being anxious about your eating
cannot be good for your health.
2044
01:50:19,413 --> 01:50:21,782
What matters
is not the special occasion
2045
01:50:21,949 --> 01:50:24,084
but the everyday,
default practice.
2046
01:50:24,251 --> 01:50:28,055
So I stand with Oscar Wilde,
actually, who said it best.
2047
01:50:28,222 --> 01:50:30,958
He said,
"All things in moderation,
2048
01:50:31,125 --> 01:50:33,628
including moderation."
2049
01:50:33,794 --> 01:50:35,162
Thank you very much.
2050
01:50:37,331 --> 01:50:40,034
Tomatoes, assorted.
2051
01:50:40,201 --> 01:50:42,536
- Do you want a strawberry to go?
- Thank you.
2052
01:50:42,703 --> 01:50:44,271
There are many aspects
of our lives
2053
01:50:44,438 --> 01:50:46,374
where we feel like
we have very little power.
2054
01:50:46,540 --> 01:50:50,778
But when it comes to food,
we do have power.
2055
01:50:50,945 --> 01:50:53,681
The rise of farmer's markets,
2056
01:50:53,848 --> 01:50:56,517
the rise of organic agriculture,
2057
01:50:56,684 --> 01:50:58,185
the rise of the food movement --
2058
01:50:58,352 --> 01:51:02,056
none of this was the result
of government action.
2059
01:51:02,223 --> 01:51:04,725
All of this
was the result of consumers
2060
01:51:04,892 --> 01:51:06,360
voting with their forks,
2061
01:51:06,527 --> 01:51:08,829
signaling to farmers
and the food industry
2062
01:51:08,996 --> 01:51:10,598
they wanted something different.
2063
01:51:10,765 --> 01:51:13,834
And this has created
a multi-billion dollar
2064
01:51:14,001 --> 01:51:16,103
alternative food economy.
2065
01:51:16,270 --> 01:51:18,973
So we may be at a turning point.
2066
01:51:19,140 --> 01:51:23,778
- We are feeding people today
in so many different ways.
2067
01:51:23,944 --> 01:51:26,347
- More and more people are making
2068
01:51:26,514 --> 01:51:29,183
between food and health.
2069
01:51:29,350 --> 01:51:31,619
- We have some young people
who have been working
2070
01:51:31,786 --> 01:51:34,922
to combat type-2 diabetes
directly --
2071
01:51:35,089 --> 01:51:37,558
To actually end type-2 diabetes
2072
01:51:37,725 --> 01:51:39,560
in young people
in the state of California.
2073
01:51:39,727 --> 01:51:42,830
And we need your help.
2074
01:51:42,997 --> 01:51:46,634
We need you
actually eating good food.
2075
01:51:46,801 --> 01:51:49,670
We need you actually sharing
that message.
2076
01:51:49,837 --> 01:51:52,106
- When we talk about wanting
to eat healthy,
2077
01:51:52,273 --> 01:51:54,041
we also have to think
about the system
2078
01:51:54,208 --> 01:51:56,911
that is making us
eat the wrong things.
2079
01:51:57,078 --> 01:52:01,482
- I believe we can change
the whole community.
2080
01:52:01,649 --> 01:52:03,651
Growing and knowing
where your food comes from
2081
01:52:03,818 --> 01:52:05,486
makes a difference.
2082
01:52:05,653 --> 01:52:09,323
I would love to see
in the next five, ten years,
2083
01:52:09,490 --> 01:52:11,826
the South Bronx having more
healthy alternatives --
2084
01:52:11,992 --> 01:52:15,295
actually where the healthy
isn't an alternative.
2085
01:52:15,463 --> 01:52:20,601
The fast food is the alternative
and this is the standard.
2086
01:52:23,504 --> 01:52:26,674
- Back in Massachusetts,
the last year
2087
01:52:26,841 --> 01:52:30,545
has also marked a turning point
for Anthony Scavotto.
2088
01:52:30,711 --> 01:52:35,149
He's cut way down on
junk food -- especially sugar.
2089
01:52:35,316 --> 01:52:38,252
- I think more about it
2090
01:52:38,419 --> 01:52:42,556
because I kind of know
what it does to my body now.
2091
01:52:42,723 --> 01:52:44,858
I feel pretty good
about the changes I've made.
2092
01:52:45,025 --> 01:52:48,529
I like fruits and vegetables.
2093
01:52:48,696 --> 01:52:50,231
I love cauliflower.
2094
01:52:50,397 --> 01:52:53,066
I love, like, apples.
2095
01:52:53,234 --> 01:52:54,268
I like lemons.
2096
01:52:54,435 --> 01:52:55,670
Is that weird?
2097
01:52:55,836 --> 01:52:57,538
I love lemons.
2098
01:52:57,705 --> 01:52:59,941
- Though Anthony
has gained a few pounds,
2099
01:53:00,107 --> 01:53:02,476
he's also grown
two inches taller,
2100
01:53:02,643 --> 01:53:05,412
so he's carrying
less excess weight.
2101
01:53:05,579 --> 01:53:06,814
- Go!
2102
01:53:06,981 --> 01:53:09,650
- Anthony is doing great.
2103
01:53:09,817 --> 01:53:12,486
His energy level is up.
2104
01:53:12,653 --> 01:53:15,656
- I love sports.
2105
01:53:15,823 --> 01:53:18,359
My goal's
to stay the same weight...
2106
01:53:18,526 --> 01:53:19,593
- There you go.
2107
01:53:19,760 --> 01:53:22,596
-...to be healthy.
2108
01:53:22,763 --> 01:53:23,597
- Blue goal.
2109
01:53:23,764 --> 01:53:24,932
- I couldn't be prouder of him.
2110
01:53:25,099 --> 01:53:26,734
- Nice job.
2111
01:53:31,472 --> 01:53:34,742
- You know,
after talking to scores
2112
01:53:34,909 --> 01:53:37,912
of nutrition scientist,
nutrition educators,
2113
01:53:38,078 --> 01:53:41,515
when I finally realized
what they're really telling me
2114
01:53:41,682 --> 01:53:44,451
is, "Eat food,"
2115
01:53:44,618 --> 01:53:47,188
it was just like
a light had gone off.
2116
01:53:47,354 --> 01:53:49,423
It's like, "Could it really be
that simple?"
2117
01:53:49,590 --> 01:53:50,891
And the more I thought about it,
it was like,
2118
01:53:51,058 --> 01:53:52,193
"It is that simple."
2119
01:53:52,359 --> 01:53:55,996
Eat food, not too much,
2120
01:53:56,163 --> 01:53:59,934
mostly plants
is what our species
2121
01:54:00,100 --> 01:54:04,672
has done for hundreds
of thousands of years.
2122
01:54:04,839 --> 01:54:06,907
So, that advice, I think,
2123
01:54:07,074 --> 01:54:10,044
is about as universal
as any advice you could offer.
2124
01:54:12,513 --> 01:54:14,648
It's very rare in our lives
where the answer
2125
01:54:14,815 --> 01:54:16,750
to a complicated question
is so simple,
2126
01:54:16,917 --> 01:54:20,454
but when it comes to eating,
it is.
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