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Fat Fiction

It's eye-wateringly lucrativeto keep this idea going that we need tolower cholesterol

It's eye-wateringly lucrative
to keep this idea going that we need to
lower cholesterol

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- It's eye-wateringly lucrative to keep this idea going
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that we need to lower cholesterol.
Duration
7 seconds
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22
Timestamp in Movie
00:22:08
Uploaded
May 29, 2025
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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.
- 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
- 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