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Everybody was smoking, now we know smokingcauses heart disease, or contributes to heart...

Everybody was smoking, now we know smoking
causes heart disease, or contributes to heart disease,
but at the time, of course, the tobacco companies were
like, no, no, no, no, no, no, tobacco smoking, it doesn't
cause heart disease

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- Everybody was smoking,
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now we know smoking causes heart disease,
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or contributes to heart disease, but at the time, of course,
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the tobacco companies were like, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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tobacco smoking, it doesn't cause heart disease.
Duration
15 seconds
Views
29
Timestamp in Movie
00:20:27
Uploaded
May 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
N/A

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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.
So all the scientists were like, hey, - Fat Fiction 00:05
So all the scientists were like, hey,
- There was one theory that was proposed - Fat Fiction 00:11
- There was one theory that was proposed
- It's like, okay, but how do people eat butter - Fat Fiction 00:07
- It's like, okay, but how do people eat butter
- [Dr. Mark] At the same time, consumption of sugar, - Fat Fiction 00:06
- [Dr. Mark] At the same time, consumption of sugar,
But Ancel Keys focused on fat as the cause of heart disease. - Fat Fiction 00:06
But Ancel Keys focused on fat as the cause of heart disease.
- And he thought that total cholesterol in your arteries - Fat Fiction 00:10
- And he thought that total cholesterol in your arteries
So that was his idea, it was just a simple idea. - Fat Fiction 00:05
So that was his idea, it was just a simple idea.
- To blame a ancient food for a modern disease - Fat Fiction 00:13
- To blame a ancient food for a modern disease
- As American author H.L Mencken once said, - Fat Fiction 00:15
- As American author H.L Mencken once said,
- 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