What the Health Page #2

I don't know where to go, I don't

know what to do, you are just like

out of options and you

don't know what to do.

You're taking medicines.

You listen to this doctor.

And the cardiologist

says take this.

And the endocrinologist

says take that.

And your general practitioner

doctor says...

You don't know

what's going on here.

It's a real challenging thing

and it is something that

you don't wanna get.

You just don't wanna get it.

[Kip] Government and media

almost exclusively blame

lack of exercise and sugary

foods as a cause of diabetes.

But, I wanted to talk with an actual

expert on the role of diet and diabetes.

I went to speak with premier

physician, diabetes expert

and researcher,

Dr. Neal Barnard.

[Kip] What role does sugar

play in causing diabetes?

Driving me crazy.

Diabetes is not and never

was caused be eating

a high carbohydrate diet, and

it's not caused by eating sugar.

The cause of diabetes

is a diet

that builds up the amount

of fat into the blood.

I'm talking about a typical

meat-based, animal-based diet.

You can look into the muscle

cells of the human body,

and you find that they're

building up tiny particles of fat

that's causing

insulin resistance.

What that means is, the sugar

that is naturally from the foods

that you're eating can't get

into the cells where it belongs.

It builds up in the blood,

and that's diabetes.

[Kip] I have never heard that meat was

associated with causing diabetes.

We had always been told that

sugar or obesity caused it.

Renowned weight loss

bariatric surgeon

Dr. Garth Davis,

though, agreed.

Everyone thinks that you get

diabetic because of carbs.

They did a huge study in that

EPIC study 500,000 people,

carbs consumption was inversely

related with diabetes.

In other words, the more carbs someone

ate, the less diabetes they had.

But, meat was

strongly correlated.

Get that aha moment. The starch

is, the carbs are good for you.

They're not bad for you.

This idea that carbs make you

fat is utterly ridiculous.

Carbs cannot make you fat

in and of themselves.

We have storage

in our muscles

and in our liver for

carbs called glycogen.

So, when we eat carbs, we

either store it or we burn it.

Now eat fat, that goes

straight to your fat.

Your body can't turn

those carbs into fat

unless you're really

overdoing the calories.

And obesity,

it's a death sentence.

You're at much higher

risk of getting cancer,

you're almost certainly

gonna get diabetes.

No one wants the fat shame,

and we all want everybody to be

comfortable with our bodies,

but, this movement to be

comfortable with our bodies

has made us comfortable

with being sick.

And that's a huge problem.

I go into the hospital

and I look around me,

people on dialysis,

all these sick people.

And just about every disease in there

is because of what people are eating.

Here's the thing.

If I eat a sugary cookie,

the sugar lures you in

like the Trojan horse,

but waiting inside that cookie is a

huge load of butter or, shortening.

And that's what

fattens you up.

And that's the part that

leads to the diabetes,

it's the fatty foods,

not really so much the sugar.

[Davis] It's not that sugar's good for you.

There's no nutrients in it.

It's excess calories.

But, when you eat sugar, you don't

get inflammation right away.

When you eat sugar, you're not getting

plaques forming in your vessels.

When you're eating sugar,

your body's gonna store most of it

as glycogen or burn it as calories.

And so this focus on sugar has taken

all the focus off meat, dairy,

eggs, pork, turkey, chicken.

People need to understand.

If they're child gets diabetes,

you've just taken 19

years off their lifespan.

We're talking life and death.

[Kip] I realized

there was so much more

about diet and disease

that I hadn't ever learned.

It felt as if this information

had been practically withheld.

Processed meat causes cancer.

Sugar doesn't cause diabetes.

I had doubt about the claims

these doctors were making,

so I did some searching

on my own.

Harvard researchers looked

at nine prospective studies

finding that just one serving

of processed meat per day

increased risk of developing

diabetes by 51 percent.

The link between eating meat and

developing diabetes became undeniable.

But, when I went on a leading

diabetes organization's website,

the American Diabetes

Association,

not only did they not have this

information front and center,

they were featuring recipes

for red and processed meat.

And on their recipes for healthy

living, they had bacon-wrapped shrimp.

What the health?

All right, sent an email to

American Diabetes Association,

see if they'll get back to us.

As destructive as diabetes is, it

pales in comparison to heart disease.

Over 17 million people die every

year from cardiovascular disease.

It is the leading cause

of death around the world.

Nearly one out of every three

people will die from this disease.

The amount of people who die

from cardiovascular disease

is the equivalent of

four jumbo jets crashing

every single hour, every

single day, every single year.

My name's Amy Resnic, and I'm

from Swampscott, Massachusetts,

a little bit north of Boston.

And I recently went to

my doctor for asthma

because I had a very

hard time breathing.

And while there,

she did some blood work.

And one of the tests

was C-reactive protein,

there was a scale

of one to three,

one being low

for cardiac event,

three being high

for cardiac event.

And my number was 10.82.

What does that mean?

That means I am on the

road for heart attack.

And she said probably

within the next 30 days.

- 30 days?

- 30 days.

If I'm going

the way I was going.

I take this for

my heart arrhythmia.

I take this for pain.

Oxycodone for pain.

And lorazepam for stress.

Cyclobenzaprine for

a muscle relaxer.

Also take Topamax and Prozac.

And I also use a CPAP

machine to help me breathe.

And my asthma has been

so bad this past year.

I use it during the day

as well to get some air.

I am tired when I wake up,

I'm tired during the day.

I take a nap, I'm still tired.

I can't breathe.

And I know I need to make

a change for my health.

Or, else I'm not gonna

be here for my family.

When we speak

of heart disease,

I would say the role of

alcohol is pretty small.

The role of sugar is very small, too.

Smoking is big,

but, the good news is that most

people have quit or never did smoke.

The problem with animal-based diet, its

contribution to heart disease is huge,

and it is pervasive.

All this expensive imaging,

procedures, bypasses,

medication.

None of which has one

solitary single thing to do

with the causation

of the illness,

so you dive

a completely benign,

food borne illness that never

had its causation treated.

When we eat these kind of

dead meat bacteria toxins,

within minutes, you get

this burst of inflammation

within your system, such that you

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