What the Health Page #4

Heart-Healthy Recipes

and we were kind of

bewildered by why

there was a bunch of recipes on, a

whole section on beef, beef recipes.

And there was also

a section on egg recipes

when there's such a strong link between

beef, red meat and heart disease.

I honestly don't know 'cause

I don't do that, I guess.

That's not what what I do.

Another organization rep that

wasn't able to answer my questions.

But, he said that he'd have

someone get in touch shortly.

I was, however, able to

talk to the president

of the American College of Cardiology, Dr.

Kim Williams.

So, the American

College of Cardiology

is a 47,000-member

and growing organization

with a dedicated mission

to reduce heart disease

and to improve

patients' lives.

And if you look at the incidents

of hypertension and diabetes

and mortality in men, they actually

get reduced as you go higher

and higher in terms of how much

you restrict animal products.

What about fish?

So, fish is

a little different.

You've got the four worries,

which is PCBs, mercury,

saturated fat and cholesterol.

And the cholesterol

is all over the place.

You can have tuna in water

that'll be almost less

than a glass of milk,

to salmon or, tilapia

which is higher

than a pork chop.

[Goldhamer] If you look

objectively at fish,

what you find is they've become,

essentially, mercury sponges.

And that's why in many parts

of the country they warn you,

don't have more than so

many of these fish a week

because getting too much

mercury can kill you.

Fish are eaten by bigger fish

who are eaten by bigger fish,

and these pesticides or, herbicides

bioaccumulate in the fish flesh

and these big fish, including the salmon,

which people think is the healthiest fish,

truth is, the amount of

pesticides and herbicides

in the flesh of these fish are

shocking, and they have estrogenic

and cancer-promoting

properties in them.

They'll say, "Well, but, don't

sardines have less concentration

of toxic waste products

than other ones?"

Something being less toxic

doesn't make it healthy,

it just makes it less toxic.

Farmed fish is

by no means healthier.

All the antibiotics that

these animals have to be fed.

Similar to chickens

and turkeys

kept in confinement,

these fish get infections.

They get fungal infections,

they get bacterial infections,

you've got to feed them

anti-fungals, antibiotics,

and these substances accumulate

in the fish flesh as well.

[Kip] I always knew that pollution

was bad for our health,

but I had never thought about the

environmental pollutants affecting food.

[Ewall] Dioxins being the most toxic,

man-made chemicals known to science

cause all sorts of things.

They cause endometriosis,

they cause cancers,

they cause endocrine

disruption problems.

But, most of your exposure,

93 percent of it,

comes from eating meat

and dairy products

because it climbs up in the

food chain so effectively.

So, you can get exposed to

them by living near these

incinerators and breathing it,

but, it will take you 14 years

to breathe in as much

Dioxin as a cow will

ingest by eating

the grass in one day.

And that Dioxin will

accumulate in its fat,

which includes the milk and the meat and

anyone eating meat or dairy products

is gonna get

that dose of Dioxin.

So, it climbs up the food

chain in every step.

Men have no way in their

bodies to get rid of dioxins,

but, women have two ways.

They're both involving

having a baby.

One is that dioxin crosses the

placenta into the growing infant

and the other is that it comes

out from the breast milk.

So, if you have a meat and dairy-consuming

mother breastfeeding that infant,

then the highest

impacts of toxic exposure

like mercury and dioxins

will go to that infant.

Pregnant women are told, "Certain

types of fish should be avoided,"

but, what about all these

other animal products

which are introducing, imagine

as the fetus is developing,

introducing these very

harmful toxins which,

create reproductive

abnormalities,

develop mental problems

and hormonal issues

right as the child is developing, the

most critical stage of development.

It does make you worry

when people say,

"Don't you wanna have a little bit

of milk because you're pregnant?

"Don't you wanna have some

fish 'cause your pregnant?"

Who do you think is gonna get

the chemicals that are in that?

[Snyder] All these

environmental toxins

and toxins from the feed

that they're being fed

accumulate in their tissues and

are released into the mother

and unfortunately,

to the child

when you eat these products

when you're pregnant.

So, this includes antibiotics,

hormones, steroids in animal feed.

Commercial animals are

largely fed GMO corn and soy

which are very laden

in pesticides.

PCBs have been

banned since the 70s,

but, they persist in

the environment, dioxins.

All of these compounds

can create hormonal,

reproductive, developmental

damage as well.

Eating organic beef,

poultry, pork

or fish will not help

you avoid contaminants

like mercury, like dioxins,

like strontium-90

because they fall out over

all sorts of farm fields

and water bodies, and then they

don't skip over the organic fields.

And so really, the

contaminants are coming in

regardless of how these

animals are raised.

[Kip] I had

always been concerned

about the possible

health impacts of GMOs

but, then found out that most

of the world's GMO crops

are actually

consumed by livestock,

with dairy cows consuming

the most per animal.

This fact, with everything I learned about

bioaccumulation made dairy terrifying.

Especially considering how

much cheese I ate in my life.

[Goldhamer] Cheese is an amazing

product when you think about it.

It's probably one of the single

best foods in compromising health

that you're gonna

actually feed to people.

Think about it, you've

got an animal product.

So, you've got all the issues

of biological concentration.

You have a highly processed

food product,

and not only does it have

naturally a lot saturated fat,

but, you put

a lot of salt into it.

There's a strong link between dairy

foods and autoimmune diseases.

And so that can show itself up

as excessive production of mucus

and exacerbation of asthma in

kids who are prone to that

and even adults, and also,

there's an association between

dairy foods and multiple

sclerosis and type one diabetes,

which is an autoimmune disease,

and other rheumatologic problems.

Cow's milk is

baby calf growth fluid.

That's what the stuff is.

There's absolutely no child

or human on Earth

who actually needs

the milk of a cow

any more than they need the

milk of a giraffe or, a mouse.

Most people in the world

are lactose intolerant.

That's the normal

state of affairs.

Why would your body create

this enzyme, just lactose

after weaning, after infancy,

it doesn't make any sense.

73% of African Americans

are lactose intolerant.

95% of Asians,

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