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Fat Fiction

And here's an interestingpoint, over the past 50 years, taxpayers have fundedseveral...

And here's an interesting
point, over the past 50 years, taxpayers have funded
several billion of dollars of research trying to
prove saturated fat causes heart disease,
but guess what?

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And here's an interesting point, over the past 50 years,
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taxpayers have funded several billion of dollars
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of research trying to prove saturated fat
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causes heart disease, but guess what?
Duration
13 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:27:13
Uploaded
May 29, 2025
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Movie Summary

Leading health experts examine the history of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines and question decades of dietary advice insisting that saturated fats are bad for us.
To this day, the diet heart hypothesis - Fat Fiction 00:06
To this day, the diet heart hypothesis
- [Dr. Zoe] There is no evidence against saturated fat, - Fat Fiction 00:05
- [Dr. Zoe] There is no evidence against saturated fat,
- [Dr. Mark] Dr. Zoe Harcombe, is an obesity researcher - Fat Fiction 00:08
- [Dr. Mark] Dr. Zoe Harcombe, is an obesity researcher
- My thesis was born out of trying to understand - Fat Fiction 00:06
- My thesis was born out of trying to understand
- [Dr. Mark] Zoe collected all the raw data - Fat Fiction 00:09
- [Dr. Mark] Zoe collected all the raw data
She then she re-analyzed all the results - Fat Fiction 00:06
She then she re-analyzed all the results
- It was looking at the absolute totality of the evidence, - Fat Fiction 00:09
- It was looking at the absolute totality of the evidence,
So there's the Rose Corn Oil Trial, - Fat Fiction 00:12
So there's the Rose Corn Oil Trial,
- [Dr. Mark] When she examined the results to see - Fat Fiction 00:07
- [Dr. Mark] When she examined the results to see
There was no health benefit for the groups assigned - Fat Fiction 00:06
There was no health benefit for the groups assigned
- Real food fats are not dangerous, they are not the enemy. - Fat Fiction 00:05
- Real food fats are not dangerous, they are not the enemy.
It's too simplistic and reductionist to say saturated fat - Fat Fiction 00:09
It's too simplistic and reductionist to say saturated f...
- So how then, without the hard science to back it up, - Fat Fiction 00:09
- So how then, without the hard science to back it up,
Well, it had one big thing going for it, - Fat Fiction 00:05
Well, it had one big thing going for it,
- He had just a very outsized personality, - Fat Fiction 00:09
- He had just a very outsized personality,
And he was able to get into the American Heart Association - Fat Fiction 00:06
And he was able to get into the American Heart Association
And in 1961, the Heart Association comes out - Fat Fiction 00:11
And in 1961, the Heart Association comes out
- [Dr. Mark] Up until the 1960s, - Fat Fiction 00:07
- [Dr. Mark] Up until the 1960s,
We ate butter without guilt, bacon and eggs for breakfast - Fat Fiction 00:06
We ate butter without guilt, bacon and eggs for breakfast
Exercise gyms were barely a thought and still, - Fat Fiction 00:06
Exercise gyms were barely a thought and still,