This documentary exposes the collusion and corruption in government and big business that is costing us billions of healthcare dollars and keeping us sick. With heart disease and cancer the leading cause of death in America, and diabetes at an all-time high, this film reveals possibly the largest health cover-up of our time.

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A Summary of the Documentary Film--"What the Health"

By Roger Copple

This is an extensive summary of "What the Health," a new documentary film by Kip Anderson, which is 1hr. 32 min. www.WhatTheHealthFilm.com Here is the synopsis of the film from the website: What the Health is the groundbreaking follow up film from the creators of the award-winning documentary Cowspiracy. The film exposes the collusion and corruption in government and big business that is costing us billions of healthcare dollars and keeping us sick. It features Kip Anderson [the director, editor, producer, and writer] along with Dr. Michael Greger, Dr. Alan Goldhamer, Dr. Milton Mills, Dr. Michelle McMacken, and Dr. Neal Barnard.

After I had watched the documentary on youtube, about an hour later when I went back to it, I sadly read the message "this video has been removed by the user." The website, however, shows how you can download the film for $10 through the internet or purchase the DVD for $20. I recommend doing either.

The film follows intrepid filmmaker Kip Anderson as he uncovers the secret to preventing and even reversing chronic diseases--and investigates why the nation's leading health organizations don't want us to know about it. With heart disease and cancer the leading cause of death in America, and diabetes at an all-time high, the film reveals possibly the largest health cover-up of our time.

Processed meat causes cancer and diabetes. Sugar does not cause diabetes: it's actually caused by the buildup of fat in the blood, which is causing insulin resistance, preventing the sugar from getting into your cells, where it belongs. The focus on sugar has taken all the focus off meat, dairy, eggs, turkey, pork, and chicken.

One serving of processed meat per day increased the risk of developing diabetes by 51 %. The American Diabetes Association on their website was featuring diets for red and processed meat. They had bacon wrapped shrimp in recipes for healthy living.

Dr. Robert Ratner, the chief medical officer for the American Diabetes Association, said worldwide we are looking at 350 million people with diabetes. We are in the midst of a diabetes epidemic. One in three Medicare dollars is spent in the care of people with diabetes. One in ten total health care dollars is spent on people with diabetes. When he was asked what is the relationship of the diet and diabetes, Dr. Robert Ratner said, "I'm not going to get into that."

The World Health Organization has classified processed meats such as bacon and sausage as directly involved in causing cancer in humans: Thus, hot dogs and bacon could just be as dangerous as smoking cigarettes. Eating processed meat can increase cancer risk by 18%, based on 800 studies in 10 different countries, finding a direct link between processed meat and cancer. Processed meat includes hot dogs, bacon, sausage, salami, ham, pepperoni, cold cuts, and Deli slices.

The World Health Organization classifies processed meat as a Group 1 carcinogen--the same group as cigarettes, asbestos, and plutonium. It classifies red meat as a Group 2 carcinogen. How is it legal for kids to eat this way? Many of these studies have been around for 50 years. Why haven't we heard this from the American Cancer Society? The American Cancer Society even encouraged on its website to eat Group 1 carcinogenic foods like processed turkey and canned meats.

When Kip Anderson asked a cancer information specialist at the American Cancer Society why they recommended processed meats, the expert said, "Let me put you on a brief hold and get back with you." He came back and said someone would get back with him later.

In the United States, 1 out of every 4 deaths is related to cancer. When Kip Anderson got a confirmation for a meeting with an American Cancer Society representative, he found out it was cancelled at the last minute when the representative found out the meeting was going to be about the correlation between diet and cancer. She said she could no longer do the interview. After repeated emails asking why, she eventually stopped responding all together.

Dr. Alan Goldhamer said, "Two-thirds of adults are now overweight or obese, and we have an epidemic cascade of debilitating disease that is overcoming the country. There is no way we can sustain the current style of care with the epidemic that we're creating with our diet and lifestyle choices."

Dr. Joel Kahn, cardiologist, said, "The diabetes, the arthritis, the heart disease, the dementia, the obesity, the cancers are affecting about 70% of deaths. All the data is [showing] that those deaths are largely lifestyle-related and preventable."

Dr. Michael Greger said, "Most kids by age 10 in the United States already have fatty streaks in their arteries, which is the first stage of atherosclerosis, leading to heart attacks and strokes."

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."

Why don't we hear about this from dieticians where nutrition is their entire specialty? Kip Anderson said, "It turns out, the American Nutrition and Dietetics Association puts out nutrition fact sheets written by the industries themselves. The industries pay $20,000 per fact sheet and explicitly take part in writing them. So, you can learn about eggs from the egg industry. You can learn about lamb from the lamb industry. That would be like learning about the benefits of smoking from the tobacco industry."

One of the experts in the documentary expressed, "We're not going to live forever, but while we are alive, we can live well."

My predominant thought after summarizing this amazing documentary is that when we have a society based primarily on production for profit--which frequently involves the corruption and collusion between large corporations and government--it often makes it very difficult to find honest answers to the most important questions of our lives.

Authors Website: http://www.WorldWithoutEmpire.com

Authors Bio:

February 11, 2023

I grew up in a church that said you had to speak in tongues to get saved and go to heaven. I often prayed fervently starting at the age of 5 for the experience in the prayer room at church, where people would cry and wail, and roll on the floor. One 80-year old lady would sometimes get happy in the spirit and run laps around the church during church services. That was always entertaining.

About my sophomore year in college, I became transformed by the protest of the Vietnam War, the anti-nuclear movement, Eastern philosophy, the study of psychology, smoking reefer, and democratic socialism, which I started believing could save the world. However, the Covid crises that began in March 2020 caused me to become disillusioned with the Left, so now I would say I am more an anarchist or a libertarian, but I don't support corporate or crony capitalism. Many libertarians think it is perfectly fine to aspire to be a millionaire or billionaire, but I think incomes above certain amounts should be taxed at much higher rates. Libertarian capitalists, like socialists, are against imperialism, and I will always resonate with that.

Here is a definition of anarchy that I have always liked: Anarchy: a self-governed society in which people organize themselves from the bottom-up on an egalitarian basis; decisions made by those affected by them; direct democratic control of our workplaces, schools, neighborhoods, towns and bio-regions with coordination between differing groups as needed. A world where women and men are free and equal and all of us have power over our own lives, bodies and sexuality; where we cherish and live in balance with the earth and value diversity of cultures, races, and sexual orientations, where we work and live together cooperatively.

Two times in my twenties and thirties, I had brief periods where I went back to being a Christian fundamentalist or an evangelical Christian. Later going to a liberal seminary, where I studied the New Testament like a scientist, caused me to doubt believing in the virgin birth, the trinity, and the literal resurrection of Jesus in the way that evangelical Christians believe. Now I believe that Jesus could have been a highly evolved yogi to achieve the various things he allegedly achieved.

Growing up in an anti-intellectual home, I had the most trouble with high school courses like U.S. history, which seemed like a boring subject that was a waste of time. Later in my life, European history would become an important and fascinating subject. Lately I have been interested in studying the history of Christianity again using the excellent textbook I read in seminary.

Fascinated with yoga and meditation, I starting reading many of the books written by Swami Rama. When I later met him in person and was initiated and given a mantra (which I never did repeat over and over as suggested), I remember that being in his presence was the most powerful spiritual experience I have ever had in my life: I felt rapturous love and indescribable bliss. So I became convinced that meditation and spiritual disciplines can transform a person. My ex-wife, by the way, thought there was nothing special about Swami Rama.

In my mid 50s, I started advocating the integration of the Perennial Philosophy (that's the term Aldous Huxley used; it is also referred to as Ageless Wisdom, describing the nondual, mystical experience) with a democratic form of socialism as a way to save individuals and the world. I created a website called www.NowSaveTheWorld.com because the website name "SaveTheWorld.com" had already been taken by somebody else. I created this website in 2010 right before I retired at age 60 from teaching. I was a high school special education teacher of Algebra, English, and Social Studies, but during the last 6 years of my career I taught general elementary, mostly third grade. In March 2020, I changed the name of my website to WorldWithoutEmpire.com.