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basically paralyze your arteries,

you get this stiffening of the arteries,

their inability to relax normally in half.

So, it's not like decades down the road

eating unhealthy there'll be some damage.

No, we're talking damage

right then and there,

within minutes of it

going into our mouth.

Many people are given

the diagnosis of

Alzheimer's disease, when it's

not true Alzheimer's at all.

The vast majority of

people suffer dementia

due to their tiny blood vessels

in their brain clogging up

and their nerve cells being

shortchanged of oxygenated blood.

And guess where that blood

vessel dementia comes from,

those little tiny

arteries are clogging up

from that steady stream of

bad cholesterol, et cetera.

It's really quite clear.

Both from

the standpoint of cancer

and the standpoint of

cardiovascular disease

that animal protein

plays an enormous role.

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Is chicken better?

It's a question of whether

you wanna be shot or, hung.

The flesh food that I would eliminate

from the American diet would be poultry,

would be turkey and chicken.

A brilliant advertising

campaign has convinced people

that oh, it's white meat,

it's healthier.

The leading source of Sodium,

in the American diet

for adults is chicken.

It can be labeled all natural chicken

but, be injected with salt water.

I think up to

800 milligrams of sodium.

Heterocyclic amines are

clear-cut carcinogens,

and they can form in any kind of

meat as it's heated, as it's cooked.

But, by far, the

biggest source is chicken.

We sent researchers into fast

food and family restaurants.

Not only were there carcinogens

in every single restaurant,

but, we found them in every single

chicken sample that we took.

If somebody brings their family in, and

they're buying a bucket of chicken,

nobody tells them that

there are carcinogens.

If you're selling

carcinogens to people,

you've gotta warn them

that they're in there.

[Kip] But the American Cancer

Society encourages people

to switch from red and

processed meat to chicken.

Why would the American

Cancer Society

tell people to switch from

eating one carcinogenic food

to another when a Harvard

University study showed

that men with prostate cancer who

eat large amounts of chicken,

increase their risk of the

disease progressing four times.

The number one dietary

source in America

of cholesterol is chicken because

of the volume of chicken.

Chicken's become grilled

chicken and organic chicken.

It's machismo.

But it has nearly as much

cholesterol per gram as red beef.

So, just on sheer volume,

it's the number one source.

You got eggs

being close behind.

[Kip] I never really

thought about eggs much.

I just thought of them as a

standard part of a healthy diet.

But, then I found a study suggesting

that eating just one egg a day

can be as bad as smoking five

cigarettes per day for life expectancy.

Yolk of a hen's egg is

the most concentrated glom

of saturated fat

and cholesterol.

It is made to run a baby chicken for

21 days with no outside energy.

It is pure fat

and cholesterol.

And when we put that into our bloodstream,

it coats our red blood cells.

Our blood gets thicker and more viscous.

It changes our hormone levels.

It raises

our cholesterol levels.

There's nothing healthy about

eating the yolk of the egg.

[Kip] But I thought cholesterol and

saturated fat wasn't an issue anymore.

All these saturated fat

studies that have come out,

trying to vindicate saturated fat is

a campaign by the dairy industry,

wherein the number one source of

saturated fat is dairy, it's not meat.

2008, the global dairy industry

got together at a meeting

and explicitly

read their agenda,

was to neutralize the

negative impact of milk fat

by regulators and medical

professionals unquote,

so what do they do,

they funded studies.

[Kip] The main study that started

the whole saturated fat media craze

was funded by

the National Dairy Council.

The egg industry

similarly funds studies

that confuse consumers by

making claims that eggs don't

negatively affect heart function.

That is, only when compared to eating

a McDonald's

Sausage McMuffin?

So, what they're really

saying is that

eating eggs is just as

bad as eating a McMuffin.

When you eat foods,

like a beef or, steak or,

a processed meat, a hotdog,

you're not just

getting saturated fat.

You're also getting other additional

toxins that are in that food.

There's heme iron,

carcinogens,

processing chemicals, this

all a lot more complicated

than just looking

at saturated fat.

The strategy is not on making

their products any safer.

The strategy is to just try to confuse

the public, to introduce doubt.

There's a famous tobacco industry memo.

It's called doubt is our product.

That's all they had to do.

They didn't have to convince

Americans that smoking was healthy.

They just had to introduce doubt.

Then they would win.

If there's just

enough controversy,

people kind of throw up their

hands, "I don't know what to eat."

Confusion is their game.

I really don't think people thought

what they ate led to heart disease.

They think, "Oh, it's

genetic, my parents had it."

I don't think people really think

that what they ate led to diabetes,

I think, "Oh, my parents had

it, I was gonna get it,"

and certainly cancer,

they don't think that way.

People have bad lifestyles

that they've inherited.

Environmentally, they've

been exposed to a certain way

of eating and living

that they've carried on

into their adulthood,

passed onto their children,

that is why they go on to

develop the same diseases

that their parents and grandparents

may have had before them.

But it is not inevitable.

Even if you have

a genetic predisposition,

doesn't mean it's going

to necessarily manifest.

And what determines

whether it manifests or not

may be those epigenetic variables,

the things that you can control.

The environmental factors, the dietary

factors, the lifestyle factors.

So, we can actually change

the expression of genes,

tumor suppressing genes,

tumor activating genes

by what we eat, what

we put into our bodies.

So, even if you've been

dealt a bad genetic deck,

you can still

reshuffle it with diet.

[Kip] I had always thought that I would

develop heart disease at a young age

because both my dad and

grandpa had heart attacks.

I was taught

that they were genetic.

But the heart attacks probably

had less to do with genes

and more to do with

our diets high in meat.

That's why when I went on the

American Heart Association's

Heart-Healthy Recipes page,

I could not believe they had an

entire section on beef recipes?

This was just like the

American Cancer Society

encouraging eating Group One

carcinogens on their site.

Meat loaf, pork loin, steak

on your recipe list,

are you kidding me?

It's like this menu is trying

to give people heart attacks.

On your website, we noticed

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