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Fat Fiction

Now, you can lookback now and say, well, that's prettyeasy to understand, everybody was...

Now, you can look
back now and say, well, that's pretty
easy to understand, everybody was smoking

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- Now, you can look back now and say,
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well, that's pretty easy to understand,
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everybody was smoking.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
26
Timestamp in Movie
00:19:42
Uploaded
May 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
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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.
- More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette. - Fat Fiction 00:05
- More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.
- [Dr. Mark] The 1950s and 60s, cigarettes were in. - Fat Fiction 00:04
- [Dr. Mark] The 1950s and 60s, cigarettes were in.
* Sparks cigarettes are cooler than cool * - Fat Fiction 00:09
* Sparks cigarettes are cooler than cool *
- [Dr. Mark] Eisenhower, himself, smoked four packs a day. - Fat Fiction 00:05
- [Dr. Mark] Eisenhower, himself, smoked four packs a day.
- [Dr. Mark] If you look at the trends for cigarette smoking - Fat Fiction 00:07
- [Dr. Mark] If you look at the trends for cigarette smoking
But at the same time, the consumption - Fat Fiction 00:06
But at the same time, the consumption
- Everybody was smoking, - Fat Fiction 00:15
- Everybody was smoking,
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