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Fat Fiction

Well, yeah, the whole ideawas that the reason we're in this terrible metabolicdilemma in...

Well, yeah, the whole idea
was that the reason we're in this terrible metabolic
dilemma in this country is because of the food pyramid

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- Well, yeah, the whole idea was that the reason we're
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in this terrible metabolic dilemma in this country
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is because of the food pyramid.
Duration
11 seconds
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20
Timestamp in Movie
01:00:58
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.
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
- We've been counting calories ever since - Fat Fiction 00:12
- We've been counting calories ever since
If we can just balance the number of calories we consume - Fat Fiction 00:13
If we can just balance the number of calories we consume
- The Calories In/Calories Out model - Fat Fiction 00:12
- The Calories In/Calories Out model
- It's not a physics problem, it's a biology problem, - Fat Fiction 00:06
- It's not a physics problem, it's a biology probl...
- The alternative theory is called - Fat Fiction 00:07
- The alternative theory is called
Remember how carbohydrates raise blood sugar - Fat Fiction 00:05
Remember how carbohydrates raise blood sugar
That's the key to the insulin-carbohydrate hypothesis. - Fat Fiction 00:04
That's the key to the insulin-carbohydrate hypothesis.
- It's really not that hard to understand, - Fat Fiction 00:19
- It's really not that hard to understand,
So we know that as soon as you put those foods - Fat Fiction 00:11
So we know that as soon as you put those foods
- So we really need to pay attention to hormones, - Fat Fiction 00:07
- So we really need to pay attention to hormones,
It's like in real estate, location, location, location. - Fat Fiction 00:04
It's like in real estate, location, location, location.
Protein is a distant second, - Fat Fiction 00:05
Protein is a distant second,
So what is the irony of us telling people to eat a diet - Fat Fiction 00:10
So what is the irony of us telling people to eat a diet
It's total sheer madness. - Fat Fiction 00:04
It's total sheer madness.
- Insulin essentially acts as a lock - Fat Fiction 00:13
- Insulin essentially acts as a lock