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There was one theorythat was proposed by Ancel Benjamin Keys,who was a pathologist at the...

There was one theory
that was proposed by Ancel Benjamin Keys,
who was a pathologist at the University of
Minnesota and he said that it was saturated fat
and dietary cholesterol that caused heart disease

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- There was one theory that was proposed
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by Ancel Benjamin Keys, who was a pathologist
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at the University of Minnesota and he said
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that it was saturated fat and dietary cholesterol
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that caused heart disease.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
34
Timestamp in Movie
00:20:45
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.
- 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
- [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