What the Health Page #2

And we have an epidemic cascade

of debilitating disease

that's overcoming the country.

There's no way we can sustain

the current style of care

with the epidemic that we're creating

with our diet and lifestyle choices.

The diabetes, the arthritis, the

heart disease, the dementia,

the obesity, the cancers are

affecting about 70% of deaths.

All the data is that those

70% of deaths and morbidity

are largely lifestyle

related and preventable.

Most kids by

age ten in the US

already have fatty streaks

in their arteries,

the first stage of atherosclerosis

leading to heart attacks, strokes.

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.

When you look at

chronic disease risk,

all the things that we

walk around worrying about.

Actually, dietary choices trump

smoking when it comes to those risks.

If I could deliver one

message to the researchers

who are looking for the cause of diabetes,

and the cause of clogged arteries

and the cause of high blood

pressure and the cause of obesity,

I would tell them the

answers in three words:

It's the food!

It's what

the Americans are eating.

[Kip] Today, with 2/3 of

Americans being overweight,

clearly there's a food issue.

In the next 25 years, one out of every

three Americans will have diabetes.

My name's Michael Abdalla.

I'm from Atlanta, Georgia.

And unfortunately, I was diagnosed

about 10 years ago with diabetes.

And eight years ago

I had two stents put in.

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

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