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Fat Fiction

Nutrition is actuallypretty simple, your body needs proteinand protein comes first, that's...

Nutrition is actually
pretty simple, your body needs protein
and protein comes first, that's essential, but
then you can choose to run your body
on carbohydrates, including sugars and starches
or fats and it's your choice

Full Transcript

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Nutrition is actually pretty simple,
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your body needs protein and protein comes first,
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that's essential, but then you can choose
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to run your body on carbohydrates,
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including sugars and starches or fats and it's your choice.
Duration
15 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:59:10
Uploaded
May 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
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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.
If you quit eating carbs, sugars, and starches, - Fat Fiction 00:08
If you quit eating carbs, sugars, and starches,
Burning fat produces substances called ketones - Fat Fiction 00:09
Burning fat produces substances called ketones
That's why the low-carb, - Fat Fiction 00:05
That's why the low-carb,
For most of human history, - Fat Fiction 00:05
For most of human history,
In fact, if you put all of human history in one year, - Fat Fiction 00:12
In fact, if you put all of human history in one year,
- In fact we know that keeping people in ketosis, - Fat Fiction 00:11
- In fact we know that keeping people in ketosis,
- Eventually, I dropped right down 44 pounds - Fat Fiction 00:09
- Eventually, I dropped right down 44 pounds
And I'm glad to say, after seven years, - Fat Fiction 00:09
And I'm glad to say, after seven years,
I'm not completely normal, but I'm 99% normal. - Fat Fiction 00:06
I'm not completely normal, but I'm 99% normal.
- [Dr. Mark] Tim famously tore out the pages on carb-loading - Fat Fiction 00:08
- [Dr. Mark] Tim famously tore out the pages on carb-loading
- [Doug Reynolds] Two, three weeks after I started - Fat Fiction 00:07
- [Doug Reynolds] Two, three weeks after I started
It's just been the most amazing transformation in my life. - Fat Fiction 00:05
It's just been the most amazing transformation in my li...
- [Dr. Mark] Doug started own company called, - Fat Fiction 00:07
- [Dr. Mark] Doug started own company called,
His logo, our nation's food pyramid turned upside down. - Fat Fiction 00:06
His logo, our nation's food pyramid turned upside down.
- Well, yeah, the whole idea was that the reason we're - Fat Fiction 00:11
- Well, yeah, the whole idea was that the reason we're
What we are advocating is pretty much 180 degrees opposite - Fat Fiction 00:07
What we are advocating is pretty much 180 degrees opposite
- We now understand that our bodies, - Fat Fiction 00:08
- We now understand that our bodies,
We can convert fat into ketones for fuel, - Fat Fiction 00:08
We can convert fat into ketones for fuel,
Scientists simply thought that since fat - Fat Fiction 00:13
Scientists simply thought that since fat
- I met with people who helped with the initial guidelines - Fat Fiction 00:16
- I met with people who helped with the initial guidelines