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We ate butter without guilt, bacon and eggs for breakfast
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Fat Fiction

We ate butter without guilt,bacon and eggs for breakfast and roasts for dinner

We ate butter without guilt,
bacon and eggs for breakfast and roasts for dinner

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We ate butter without guilt, bacon and eggs for breakfast
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and roasts for dinner.
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6 seconds
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23
Timestamp in Movie
00:29:33
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.
Exercise gyms were barely a thought and still, - Fat Fiction 00:06
Exercise gyms were barely a thought and still,
- Conventional wisdom until the 1960s - Fat Fiction 00:06
- Conventional wisdom until the 1960s
So you talk about bread, pasta, potatoes, rice, sweets, - Fat Fiction 00:07
So you talk about bread, pasta, potatoes, rice, sweets,
It was what my mothers generation believed growing up. - Fat Fiction 00:05
It was what my mothers generation believed growing up.
- [Narrator] The diet used in this study is satisfying - Fat Fiction 00:07
- [Narrator] The diet used in this study is satisfying
- And then in the 1960s, we come along with this idea - Fat Fiction 00:06
- And then in the 1960s, we come along with this idea
In 20 years, from the 1960s to the mid-1980s, - Fat Fiction 00:11
In 20 years, from the 1960s to the mid-1980s,
- [Dr. Mark] The low-fat diet fad had taken hold - Fat Fiction 00:10
- [Dr. Mark] The low-fat diet fad had taken hold
- If you only lived in America, you'd think this controversy - Fat Fiction 00:12
- If you only lived in America, you'd think this contro...
But there was a alternative hypothesis going on across - Fat Fiction 00:09
But there was a alternative hypothesis going on across
- There was always this competing theory that it was sugar - Fat Fiction 00:12
- There was always this competing theory that it was sugar
And I think this is an extraordinary example - Fat Fiction 00:14
And I think this is an extraordinary example
Their reaction instead was to just bully him, - Fat Fiction 00:06
Their reaction instead was to just bully him,
- And Ancel Keys literally destroyed his reputation. - Fat Fiction 00:04
- And Ancel Keys literally destroyed his reputation.
He went after him, he did everything - Fat Fiction 00:06
He went after him, he did everything
- And I think Ancel Keys knew that this hypothesis competed - Fat Fiction 00:08
- And I think Ancel Keys knew that this hypothesis competed
- Not surprisingly, the sugar industry also preferred - Fat Fiction 00:07
- Not surprisingly, the sugar industry also preferred
Recently discovered documents reveal that in 1965, - Fat Fiction 00:09
Recently discovered documents reveal that in 1965,
And they were very specifically paid $50,000, - Fat Fiction 00:16
And they were very specifically paid $50,000,
We have their names on the documents. - Fat Fiction 00:05
We have their names on the documents.