Dr. Milton Mills, MD, said, "Here in American medicine, we operate from the disease model. We are in the business of treating sick people. We are not in the business of trying to prevent people from becoming sick."
Government and media almost exclusively blame lack of exercise and sugary foods as a cause of diabetes. But premier physician, diabetes expert and researcher, Dr. Neal Barnard, when asked what role does sugar play in causing diabetes said, "Diabetes is not and never was caused by eating a high carbohydrate diet, and it is 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 they're building up tiny particles of fat which is 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 is diabetes."
Renowned weight loss bariatric surgeon, Dr. Garth Davis, said, "Everyone thinks that you're diabetic because of carbs. We did a huge study and that epic study [consisting of] 500,000 people. Carbs consumption was inversely related to diabetes. In other words, the more carbs they ate, the less diabetes they had, but meat was strongly correlated. Get that aha moment. The starches, 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 [fatty cells?]. Your body cannot turn those carbs into fat unless you are really overdoing your calories."
"Basically, it [obesity] is a death sentence. You're at much higher risk of getting cancer. You're almost certainly going to get diabetes. No one wants to fat shame, and we all do not want everyone to be uncomfortable with their bodies, but the movement to be comfortable with our bodies has made us comfortable with being sick, and that's a huge problem."
Kip Anderson expressed that he had always thought that there was no prevention for type 1 diabetes, but the research is showing that it is related to childhood diet too. He expressed that it seems that all the large health organizations [the American Diabetes Association, the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, and Susan G. Komen, the cancer fighting society] were encouraging people to eat the very foods linked to the diseases they're supposed to be fighting against. The American Heart Association promoting beef, the American Cancer Society promoting processed meat, pink ribbons on dairy products, and bacon-wrapped shrimp promoted by the American Diabetes Association.
Kip Anderson said, then it all came together when he realized whom these large health organizations were taking money from:
The American Diabetes Association was taking money from Dannon, one of the world's largest dairy yogurt producers; Kraft Foods, makers of Velveeta processed cheese; Oscar Mayer which markets Lunchables processed kids' meals; and Bumble Bee Foods, makers of processed canned meats.
The American Cancer Society was taking money from Tyson, one of the world's largest meat producers; and Yum brand, owner of Pizza Hut, KFC, and Taco Bell.
Susan G. Komen, which was supposed to be fighting breast cancer was corporate partnering with KFC, Dietz & Watson processed meats, and Yoplait Yogurt.
The American Heart Association was probably the most disturbing of all, taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from the beef industry, poultry and dairy producers, and millions from fast-food and processed food manufacturers: Texas Beef Council, South Dakota Beef Industrial Council, Kentucky Beef Council, Nebraska Beef Council, Colorado Beef Council, Idaho Beef Council, Cargill, Tyson, Unilever, Dairy Max, White Wave Foods, Subway, Con Agra Foods, Domino's Pizza, Farmland, General Mills, Perdue, Nestle, Mars, Kraft, Kellogg's.
Every single one of these organizations was taking money from the meat and dairy companies that are associated with the causes of these diseases! This would be like the American Lung Association taking money from the tobacco industry.
So Kip Anderson said he himself went to the headquarters of these organizations. He wanted to find out why Susan G. Komen had accepted 35 million dollars from Yoplait when their products can increase a woman's chance of dying from breast cancer 49%. He wanted to ask American Cancer Society if taking money from KFC and Tyson was the reason they promote eating meat. But every one of these organizations declined to be interviewed.
Kip Anderson said, "We had scheduled an interview with a prominent surgeon, but before we could get inside the building, the hospital media relations manager stopped us. She said, "I know that he [the prominent doctor] advocates for patients changing their diets, but the hospital makes money off these surgeries, and the reality is he does too, so we can't do anything that is going to negatively impact the hospital. So unfortunately you're not going to be able to film here today." Kip Anderson said he was sickened by how open she was that the hospital was more interested in profits than people's health.
But it wasn't just the hospitals or these organizations, even the US Dept. of Agriculture is involved too. Every five years, the US Dept. of Agriculture creates dietary guidelines for Americans. The committee who writes these guidelines has been made up of individuals who have received money from McDonalds, the National Dairy Association, the American Meat Institute, the National Dairy Board, the National Livestock and Meat Board, the American Egg Board, Dannon, candy and sugar companies, Coca-Cola, and Anheuser, just to name a few. This means we're getting our dietary recommendations from the very industries that are killing us!
According to Jake Conroy, a formerly imprisoned activist, governments embed with anyone that gives them the most money. The pharmaceutical industry and animal ag industries are pumping the government full of money and resources, and in return the government give them what they want: subsidies, and the ability to imprison activists that go against them. Conroy thinks it is quite telling that these industries are working so hard in spending so much money to criminalize people for simply taking a picture, for simply recording what's going on inside of these facilities and making it known to the public.
Dr. Michelle McMacken, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine: "We're not taught about the power of food in medical school. No one is taught that the changes that we make with our diet are probably the single most powerful thing we can do to determine our destiny. It trumps our genetics."
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