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Cholesterol has definitely become the boogeyman
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Fat Fiction

Cholesterol has definitelybecome the boogeyman of cardiology and here's what's so...

Cholesterol has definitely
become the boogeyman of cardiology and here's what's so interesting about
cholesterol, is we need it

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- Cholesterol has definitely become the boogeyman
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of cardiology and here's what's
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so interesting about cholesterol, is we need it.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
23
Timestamp in Movie
00:22:14
Uploaded
May 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
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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.
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
- There was a study that he presented - Fat Fiction 00:09
- There was a study that he presented
- And he offered that as proof - Fat Fiction 00:09
- And he offered that as proof
- But he chose six countries for that perfect correlation - Fat Fiction 00:09
- But he chose six countries for that perfect correlation
- [Dr. Zoe] And when you put in all of those countries, - Fat Fiction 00:04
- [Dr. Zoe] And when you put in all of those countries,