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What The Health – Exposing the Collusion and Corruption That is Making and Keeping Americans Sick, For Profit

by Jennie Richards · Published July 2, 2017 · Updated August 27, 2017

“All protein is made by plants. All protein comes from plants. Plants make protein. Any protein that comes from an animal is simply recycled protein made from plants. The highest, healthiest form of protein is directly from plants—beans, greens, and vegetables.”

What The Health is the ground-breaking, powerful new film from the award-winning filmmakers of Cowspiracy, Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn. The film explores the growing list of medical doctors who are preventing and reversing chronic disease for Americans through diet—a diet that government, big pharma, animal agriculture, the USDA, and national health nonprofits do not want you to know about because they cannot profit from it.

So what’s the diet? And why is the USDA promoting unhealthy, disease-causing foods? Why are the so-called disease experts like the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association all taking money from the very industries that cause these chronic diseases and premature death and promoting unhealthy foods that are making Americans sick? Why do these health nonprofits recommend switching from one carcinogenic food to another? The film exposes the eye-opening collusion and complicity between the government and the meat, dairy and egg industries that is costing Americans’ their health, their pocketbook, and their longevity. The film reveals how the U.S. government is telling us to eat more beef, more pork, more dairy and more eggs because these industries pay the USDA billions of dollars every year to promote their animal-based foods. And these same animal-ag industries and brands selling animal foods—pay billions to sponsor the national health nonprofits that are in turn promoting their unhealthy foods that are making Americans sick, because it’s profitable to do so. Not because it is healthy.

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

Thousands of medical studies prove the benefits of a plant-based diet to prevent and cure chronic diseases, but the film exposes how every major health organization in the U.S. from the American Heart Association to the American Cancer Society to the American Diabetes Association all promote information written by their sponsors—the meat, dairy and egg industries, who subsidize these nonprofits. These same nonprofits and industries work extremely hard to dispel the truth and to confuse Americans into thinking meat, eggs and dairy are healthy for you—when they are in fact, the very foods causing chronic disease, early death, and making us obese.

With the help of renowned medical doctors, medical researchers, consumer advocates and peer-reviewed medical studies, What The Health sheds light on how people are reversing their obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and auto-immune disorders—as well as their reliance on pills—through a whole foods, plant-based diet. What’s shocking is how big pharma, the government, animal ag businesses, and national health nonprofits, are all working hard to keep Americans in the dark, so they can continue to profit off us eating these unhealthy foods.

The choices you make every day can bring you true health. Learn how to live well.

Film Premier: February 2017

Film Length: 1 Hour, 32 Minutes

What You Can Do

Take the 30-Day Vegan Challenge!
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More About the Film

Stream on Vimeo or download on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku and Chromecast

Stream and watch on NETFLIX

Get the cookbook, DVD and T-shirt at www.WhatTheHealthFilm.com

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Quotes from the Film

“With two-thirds of Americans being overweight—clearly we have a food issue.”

“With every sequential reduction of eating animal foods—people live longer, they have less heart disease, less cancer, and less disease period.”

“Diet trumps our genetics. The single most important thing to determine your longevity is your diet.”

“The diabetes, the arthritis, the heart disease, the cancers, the dementia, the obesity—are all affecting about 70 percent of deaths. They are all largely lifestyle related.”

“Two-thirds of adult Americans are obese or overweight, and there’s an epidemic cascade of debilitating diseases that’s overcoming the country. There’s no way we can sustain the current levels of care with the epidemic of disease that we’re creating with our lifestyle choices.”

“Even if you’ve been dealt a bad genetic deck, you can still reshuffle the deck with diet.”

“Our government is telling Americans to eat things that will make us ill.”

“The biggest, strongest, most powerful animals on the planet are all herbivores.”

“Humans anatomically are herbivores, not carnivores or omnivores. We don’t have any characteristics to make us omnivores. That’s silly.”

“When you eat animal flesh every day you are driving cholesterol into your arteries walls. These are the people that drop dead in the gym at 39. The Paleo Diet people are headed for serious trouble with their health.”

“If you follow your doctor’s advice, you’ll be sick forever, that’s the strategy. Pills for life.”

“The Cheeseburger Laws are laws created by the government and animal ag industry to protect these industry from lawsuits by consumers who have been negatively impacted by eating these unhealthy foods.”

“There is nothing on the American Cancer Society’s website about the risks of dairy for causing multiple cancers.”

Heart Disease

“Tiny arteries are clogged up from a steady stream of consuming animal fat from eating animal foods.”

“When we talk about heart disease, it’s not so much the alcohol and sugar that’s the problem, smoking is a big contributor, but the real problem is with eating an animal-based diet. An animal-based diet is a huge contributing factor—and it’s pervasive.”

“When we eat these dead-meat bacteria toxins, you immediately get a stiffening of the arteries. The damage happens instantly as soon as you eat meat and all animal foods, including fish.”

“The American College of Cardiology (with 47,000 members) says that restricting animal products reduces the risk of heart disease.”

Cancer

“Only 5-10 percent of cancer is genetic.“

“In the U.S. one out of every four deaths is caused by cancer.”

“Processed meat is clearly linked to an increase in cancer. The World Health Organization (WHO) looked at over 800 research studies conducted on diet and cancer, and confirmed processed meat eaten daily is directly linked to an increase in cancer. Processed meat is a Group 1 Carcinogen (which is in the same class as tobacco and plutonium), and red meat is a Group 2 Carcinogen causing cancer (World Health Organization, WHO).”

“The flesh food that I would eliminate immediately from the American diet is chicken and turkey, or all poultry. Carcinogens form in any kind of meat when it is heated up and cooked, but they are especially significant in chicken and turkey.”

“Oddly the American Cancer Society recommends consumers limit their red meat consumption and choose fish and poultry, yet eating chicken and turkey are two of the leading contributors to heart disease, heart attacks and cancer.”

“We need to reduce the growth factors that are in dairy milk, in order to reduce the risk of getting cancer.”

“Dairy products increase a man’s risk of prostate cancer by 34 percent. And for women who have had breast cancer dairy increases a woman’s dying of cancer by 49 percent.”

“An American Cancer Society representative was not willing to be interviewed about the correlation between diet and cancer.” Kip asks, “why would an American Cancer Society rep not want to talk about diet and cancer?”

“The American Cancer Society website has a whole recipe section on beef recipes, yet 800 studies prove eating processed meat is a Number 1 Carcinogen, and eating beef and red meat is a Number 2 Carcinogen and is considered toxic. There’s a very strong link between eating beef, red meat and heart disease.”

Diabetes

“Eating meat is strongly correlated with diabetes. It’s not the carbs, and it never was. This movement of being comfortable with our body size and being overweight—is actually making us sick.”

“There are numerous studies linking the consumption of dairy and milk when very young and getting Type 1 diabetes.”

“Eating fatty foods leads you to diabetes. The focus on sugar as a cause for diabetes has taken all the focus off the real cause, the real culprit—meat, dairy, eggs and animal fats. These are the cause of diabetes.”

“Diabetes never was and is not caused by eating a high carbohydrate diet or sugar. The cause of diabetes is a meat and animal-based diet. It’s the build up of fat in the arteries from animal foods.”

“Kids by the age of 10 already have fatty streaks inside their body.”

“On the website for the American Diabetes Association, they have no warning about the correlation between eating meat and animal foods that are a key cause of diabetes. Instead they actually recommend eating processed meats and animal foods in their recipe and lifestyle sections, that cause diabetes.”

“The American Diabetes Association website recommends a diet and meal plan with foods associated with causing diabetes. What the ADA wanted to talk about for the making of this film is how promote living a longer life with diabetes, not how to prevent diabetes, or what the best diet is to prevent diabetes. When it came to talking about diet, the ADA shut down the interview.”

“If your child gets diabetes then you are responsible for taking 19 years off their life span. It is preventable.”

Eggs & Dairy

“People who drink milk have much higher rates of hip and bone fractures, have more osteoporosis, have more cancer, and live shorter lives.”

“The egg and dairy industry fund numerous studies that distract us from the truth, and try to dispel the truth. They try to introduce doubt. Confusion is their game.”

“Cow’s milk is baby calf growth food. No child or human on Earth needs the milk of a cow. Most humans are lactose-intolerant because we are not supposed to be drinking cow’s milk.”

“Animal waste, bacteria and pus, and contaminating oozing abscesses are all commonly found in meat and dairy products. They are highly contaminated with dangerous infections and bacterias.”

“The number one source of saturated fat is dairy. The dairy industry tries to neutralize this and distract you from the truth.”

“Animal waste, bacteria, pus and abscesses are contaminating meat and dairy.”

“Milk is pure hormone fluid that is just packed with sex hormones, all the things you don’t want to consume. Dairy products have lots of problems in them, including constant pus from infections. Cheese is basically just coagulated cow’s pus.”

“Researchers have studied bone development in kids, and the kids that drink the most milk receive zero protection from fractures. Milk does not build strong bones. It’s purely a myth.”

“The countries with the highest dairy consumption also have the highest rates of osteoporosis—much higher rates of osteoporosis than those who don’t drink dairy milk or eat dairy products.”

“Most people in the world are lactose intolerant.”

“73 percent of African-Americans are lactose-intolerant; 95 percent of Asians are lactose intolerant; 70 percent of Native Americans are lactose-intolerant; and 53 percent of Hispanic Americans are lactose intolerant. Our government is telling Americans to eat things that will make us ill.”

“Cheese is one of the single best foods to compromise human health. Think about it, you have an animal food that is a highly processed food product, with a very high amount of saturated fat, and way too much salt in it.”

“Eating just one egg a day is equal to smoking 5 cigarettes per day for life expectancy. It’s pure fat and cholesterol, and when we put it into our blood stream, it immediately raises our cholesterol levels and coats our arteries with fat.”

“The egg and dairy industry fund numerous studies to distract people from the truth, and try to dispel the truth. They try to introduce doubt. Confusion is their game.”

“If you have a meat and dairy-consuming pregnant woman or mother who is breast-feeding an infant, then that mother is passing to her baby heavy dioxins and toxins either through the placenta or by breast-feeding. Toxins come from the feed given cows, antibiotics given to cows regularly, hormones and steroids, pesticides and herbicides, and GMO soy and corn in all animal feed. All these compounds create hormone-disruptive toxins. Contaminants are coming to the animal, no matter how the animal is raised, pasture-raised or feedlot fed, then going directly to humans who consume animal foods.”

“Dairy products increase a man’s risk of prostate cancer by 34 percent. And for women who have had breast cancer dairy increases a woman’s dying of cancer by 49 percent.”

“There is 10 times the amount of hormones in cow’s milk versus human milk.”

“Milk is just packed with sex hormones—estrogens, progesterone, corticoids, and androgens—it’s loaded with hormones.”

Meat, Fish and Disease

“Animal waste, bacteria, pus and abscesses are contaminating meat and dairy.”

“There are four main concerns with fish—PCBs, mercury, saturated fat and cholesterol. Salmon and tilapia are considered worse than eating a pork chop. Fish are essentially mercury sponges. Pesticides and herbicides bio-accumulate in fish. They have cancer promoting carcinogens in them. Farmed fish are no more healthy, they get infections from sharing diseased-filled water, you must feed them antibiotics due to over-crowding, and they are fed animal feed laced with drugs.”

“If you have a meat and dairy consuming mother who is feeding an infant, then that mother is passing along to her baby heavy dioxins and metallic toxins to her baby, through the placenta and by breast-feeding. Toxins from the feed the cows are being fed, antibiotics, hormones, steroids, GMO soy and corn. All these compounds create hormone-disruptive toxins. Contaminants are coming to the animal, no matter how the animal is raised.”

“The pharmaceutical industry sells 80 percent of all antibiotics and drugs to animals. They are not testing to see the impacts of these drugs on humans that are consuming the animals. Consumers have no idea of what is in animal foods because the companies try to hide it and not expose the information.”

“We have over 3000 people dying every year of salmonella poisoning. We have another 20,000 a year dying from antibiotic resistance due to animal foods.”

“By crowding animals in such close confinement it causes contamination amongst the animals spreading disease.”

“10 million pigs in North Carolina produce the amount of waste equal to 100 million humans. There’s absolutely no waste treatment, the waste is pumped out to surrounding residential areas then goes into the environment. It’s a human rights issue.”

“North Carolina is the feces and urine capital of the world. These companies are just interested in making money. When we do things that hurt other people, we do wrong. A lot of people are eating bacon knowing they are causing so many people (and animals) to be unhappy.”

Statistics

One serving of processed meat per day increases your risk of developing diabetes by 51 percent.

Over 17 million people die every year from cardiovascular disease. It is the leading cause of death around the world. One out of every three people will die from heart disease.

Worldwide there are 350 million people with diabetes. We’re in the midst of a diabetes epidemic. One in 10 health care dollars is devoted to diabetes.

73 percent of African-Americans are lactose-intolerant; 95 percent of Asians are lactose intolerant; 70 percent of Native Americans are lactose-intolerant; and 53 percent of Hispanic Americans are lactose intolerant. Our government is telling Americans to eat things that will make us ill.

“Dairy products increase a man’s risk of prostate cancer by 34 percent. And for women who have had breast cancer dairy increases a woman’s dying of cancer by 49 percent.