Leading health experts examine the facts and myths of saturated fats in the human diet, and question why medical advice has remained the same for decades as health issues proliferate in America.
Fat Fiction
Transcript
You look at the data of ever increasing obesity and diabetes and you just think, how’s it possibly the whole world has failed to eat healthfully. Maybe we’re being told the wrong advice. You know, since the 1960s, the American Heart Association has been saying saturated fat is detrimental to cardiovascular health. You need to get it out of the diet. It’s hard to think of another policy that has caused so much harm. It has been so wrong.
You know, the chief killer of Americans is cardiovascular disease. I mean, the manipulation of the data and the idea and the push for low fat really got us in trouble. I think the low fat diet is genocide. I think that a low fat, heart healthy diet is unproven. The continued caps, unsaturated fat, are really not supported by the evidence. It’s really just terrible.
Is fat bad? Is fat good? What lies are we being told and what can we do about it? We got into this mess by making recommendations without evidence. What is the evidence? A big, big zero. The researchers were not happy with the results and decided not to publish it. If that had been published, almost certainly what we today would be different. That’s like incredible failure of nutrition policy.
Wait a minute, have you not seen? Are you not practicing medicine to see who’s coming into your clinic to see the problems that this idea has caused? I mean, it’s just, to me, it’s unbelievable. I mean, it’s like no wonder we’re all fat and sick.