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Fat Fiction

As American authorH.L Mencken once said, "For every complex problem,there is a solution...

As American author
H.L Mencken once said, "For every complex problem,
there is a solution "that is simple and
clear and wrong." - It's the biggest
scam ever perpetrated on the American people, this
whole notion of cholesterol

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- As American author H.L Mencken once said,
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"For every complex problem, there is a solution
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"that is simple and clear and wrong."
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- It's the biggest scam ever perpetrated
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on the American people, this whole notion of cholesterol.
Duration
15 seconds
Views
29
Timestamp in Movie
00:21:43
Uploaded
May 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
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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.
- If you have high cholesterol, you may be at increased risk - Fat Fiction 00:05
- If you have high cholesterol, you may be at increased risk
Don't kid yourself, talk to your doctor about your risk, - Fat Fiction 00:06
Don't kid yourself, talk to your doctor about your risk...
- It's eye-wateringly lucrative to keep this idea going - Fat Fiction 00:07
- It's eye-wateringly lucrative to keep this idea going
- Cholesterol has definitely become the boogeyman - Fat Fiction 00:09
- Cholesterol has definitely become the boogeyman
Our bodies cannot exist without cholesterol. - Fat Fiction 00:04
Our bodies cannot exist without cholesterol.
Yet once again, in simplistic thinking, - Fat Fiction 00:12
Yet once again, in simplistic thinking,
- It turns out that raising your LDL cholesterol - Fat Fiction 00:09
- It turns out that raising your LDL cholesterol
- When you take cholesterol out of the equation, - Fat Fiction 00:07
- When you take cholesterol out of the equation,
Forget that it raises cholesterol, - Fat Fiction 00:13
Forget that it raises cholesterol,
There is no relationship between the amount - Fat Fiction 00:06
There is no relationship between the amount
- [Dr. Mark] We now know that chronic inflammation caused - Fat Fiction 00:11
- [Dr. Mark] We now know that chronic inflammation caused
- [Dr. Jason] Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease, - Fat Fiction 00:08
- [Dr. Jason] Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease,
- And the cholesterol then will go to that damage to try - Fat Fiction 00:06
- And the cholesterol then will go to that damage to try
It's like saying that firefighters caused the fire - Fat Fiction 00:07
It's like saying that firefighters caused the fire
It was there by association, but it was there to repair, - Fat Fiction 00:06
It was there by association, but it was there to repair,
- Inflammation is probably the number one promoter - Fat Fiction 00:07
- Inflammation is probably the number one promoter
And the number one inflammatory substance - Fat Fiction 00:07
And the number one inflammatory substance
You put those two things together, - Fat Fiction 00:10
You put those two things together,
- [Narrator] In 1951, Ancel and Margaret took - Fat Fiction 00:08
- [Narrator] In 1951, Ancel and Margaret took
The couple continued their travels, measuring cholesterols - Fat Fiction 00:09
The couple continued their travels, measuring cholesterols