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[Dr. Jason] Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease
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Atherosclerosisis an inflammatory disease, it's not a buildupof fat in the artery, it's...

[Dr. Jason] Atherosclerosis
is an inflammatory disease, it's not a buildup
of fat in the artery, it's actually an inflammation
that's causing the problems

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- [Dr. Jason] Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease,
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it's not a buildup of fat in the artery,
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it's actually an inflammation that's causing the problems.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
30
Timestamp in Movie
00:23:27
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.
- 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,
He was criticized at the time by a statisticians who said, - Fat Fiction 00:28
He was criticized at the time by a statisticians who said,
He followed up with his famous Seven Countries Study - Fat Fiction 00:11
He followed up with his famous Seven Countries Study
- For his Seven Country Study, he repeated the same mistake, - Fat Fiction 00:06
- For his Seven Country Study, he repeated the same mistake,
- I think he did cherry-pick countries - Fat Fiction 00:04
- I think he did cherry-pick countries
He knew from the six countries graph the countries - Fat Fiction 00:10
He knew from the six countries graph the countries
They would quite nicely anchor some of the ends - Fat Fiction 00:05
They would quite nicely anchor some of the ends
- But he did not go to countries like Switzerland, France, - Fat Fiction 00:09
- But he did not go to countries like Switzerland, France,
- The French were eating all kinds of saturated fat, - Fat Fiction 00:16
- The French were eating all kinds of saturated fat,