FAT 2019 A Documentary On Health, Foods and Nutrition

they were all in agreement about what he could be what we could do for Charlie what the treatment treatment options were there was drugs and there was brain surgery and you're out of luck and so well I'll go but so Charlie was born March 11th 1992 and he had a pretty normal first year and then right around his first birthday a little before his first birthday I was actually pushing him in a swing one day and he kind of threw his arm up in the air and twitch his head a little bit and I didn't even think much of it and I asked my wife Nancy I said have you seen anything like it and she said yeah I seen a bunch of it so that was the beginning we started seeing neurologist the seizures increased in intensity and in duration he wound up having seizures in the arms of the chief of pediatric neurology at Boston Children's Hospital Seattle Children's Hospital UCLA la Children's Hospital so we tried all the drugs were available at the time Charlie had a brain surgery a horrendous brain surgery and nothing really stopped his seizures and we lost hope we were basically told there is no hope in one day after the visit I stopped at the medical library as soon as I started researching pediatric epilepsy one of the first things that came up was a ketogenic diet and was kind of shocking to me because what it said was that about 1/3 of the kids with epilepsy as bad as Charlie who go on a ketogenic diet and their seizures go away and another third are significantly improved and for a third it doesn't work and yet all of these folks we had taken Charlie to see never mentioned or about diet nutrition information could be so confusing and as advanced as we are medically and scientifically the question remains what foods should we eat to achieve good health [Music] we're in a war for information and the fallout affects all of us the media is just gonna sell what people are going to buy and if people knew the truth they would know what to ask for my name is Vinny taut rich and I've been in the health and fitness game for the better part of 40 years specializing in weight loss over the years I've seen everything come and go at least a hundred times there's a country we've only gotten fatter what should i eat what fillers should I take should I take a pill what about this protein shake we all know someone who's trying to lose weight and most of those people don't realize simply losing weight doesn't mean good health my mother for instance she was always on some diet one week it was the Cambridge diet the next week it was the Scarsdale Diet the next week it was the cabbage soup diet but wait a minute the next week she ate nothing but bananas where did that come from I always wonder about things like eight eight ounce glasses of water per day really where did that come from high blood pressure your doctor will say oh you have high blood pressure stop drinking coffee really these are all just myths the myths have become ingrained in our society far too strongly for people to realize their myths what are some of the health myths we hear every day greens are good for you if that is bad for you obesity is an energy balance disorder of calorie and calorie out calories in calories out as long as you're burning enough calories you can ingest whatever you want that you have to exercise to have better health saturated fat is the cause of heart disease the low-fat diet it's a healthy diet we saw fat in the coronary arteries and that must come from ingested fat doctors are learning that almost everything we're taught about nutrition is wrong and I realized there was this incredible story that we had gotten it pretty much completely upside down and backwards on fat believe it or not the story of how we got to where we are today started in the 1860s with the Seventh day Adventist Church and a woman named Ellen White Helen was a higher up in the church and she would have these premonitions and one night she had a dream that God came to her and said that we shouldn't eat anything with a face I was taken to another place high above this world and I I heard a voice there started modern-day veganism and just it really didn't exist before then there were other religious groups who were more vegetarian they would eat eggs and dairy and so on and so forth as a matter of fact God also told her that coffee and tea were bad which made no sense because both of those are vegetation now long after in our history there was a man named Bill Hemmer steffanson he also believed to a certain extent that a vegetable heavy diet was mandatory for good health he was an explorer who ended up living with Inuits in Canada in 1906 and in that time in place he was forced to adopt a new diet due to the lack of options he made a discovery that will change the way you look at food [Music] food then you yourself must have longed for a green vegetable once no one did it first first it's preconceived notion is I'm gonna die there is nothing green here there is no vegetation they simply eat fish and drink water it was unlike anything that he'd experienced right completely unlike the Western diet it was probably 70 to 80 percent fat the Inuit lived half the year on caribou and half the year on whatever they could fish out of the sea for four and a half months and lived on literally nothing but fish and water and at the end of four and a half months I was healthy and had never been before and this is not an exclusive in this case on this diet they were perfectly healthy I mean Steffensen with somebody from the medical world and he knew what cancer was looked like he knew what heart disease looked like and he did not see anyone suffering from ill health in that community when he came back to the United States no one believed him of course what people eating nothing but meat and fat how could that be they certainly would die dr. Charles Norris chief medical examiner does not approve of an all meat diet I fail to see why the case of the Eskimo with his strict carnivorous diet should be cited as an example to the white American the Eskimo has never accomplished anything and the white man has we have a weakness I'm not learning from the natives but rather teaching them you see everything through their colored spectacles of your education you're bringing up you know we go through this whole idea of green good red bad green piece a light turns green it means go eat your greens yet when you look at red while red means stop blood is red it doesn't take long for media to pick up on these things and we don't realize it's happening but it's happening right in front of us it's 10 DM dodol where your children are back to Ellen White and her visions Ellen was having these premonitions and all of this was happening the writings were happening in the mid-1860s but 10 years earlier in 1856 a twelve-year-old boy came to work with the church his family was in a church and that was John Kellogg John by the time he was 16 was writing in putting out literature for the church he would go on to share some of the most bizarre beliefs that Ellen White and the church had including the idea that masturbation and sex were off limits excuse me Ricky to stave off these sins of the flesh you should never eat meat because meat increases sexual desire well this is what eventually led to corn flakes that's right corn flakes were created by seventh-day adventists to curb sexual desires he was the guy who figured out something that he termed Dexter ization it's when you cook down grain so much it turns into dextrose it turns into a sugar yo today when you see dextrose in a product you should you should run in the opposite direction it's as bad as seeing high fructose corn syrup as used for bacon is used in in salami all the the luncheon meats that you get includes dextrose nowadays because it gives it a shelf life it's a way to cure it fast is cheap it's easy to do so something that John Kellogg started way back in a day has also seeped across to the other side and to the meat industry there are two issues there's always multiple questions one is if you switch from a standard American diet of processed foods and sugary beverages and you know for lack of a better word we'll call it junk and switch to a vegan diet with healthy vegetables and beans and legumes and fruits you're getting rid of a lot of crap that's probably bad for you which is the sugar and the highly refined processed foods you would expect somebody to feel better if they did that the second question is if you did that and switch to a whole food diet that was animal food based rather than plant base would you be would they be healthier I have spent aggregate in 106 years on red meat that is seeing me caribou meat must curse me pull up their crazy advantage so I'm the stepheson diet was considered an all meat diet so what he did in 1928 was subjected himself and a friend of his to living in the hospital being monitored for an entire year eating nothing but meat fish and water and that became the famous Bellevue study the studies on steffanson which were intensively made from every clinical angle started on February 13th 1928 steffanson was tested during the experiment with an excessively high protein minimal fat diet and as a result became ill Stephane said the only time that he felt ill was when he ate too much lean meat not accompanied by the fat but that some thick steaks made him feel better again at the end there were six publications that came out of that experiment by different doctors looking at their whether or not they got enough vitamins and minerals and everything they could possibly measure and they were found to be in perfect health excessive meat eating is not only not injurious dr. lead says but the experiments tended to show that health was improved resistance to disease strengthened and the subjects underwent no variation from normal health I wanted to try to dispel from the world the same misconceptions which I had of the arctic when I went north I used to think that I was well-informed on the Arctic before I went north and but I concluded eventually that out of ten things that I believed about the Arctic before I went north about six were wrong the medical community has been promoting saturated fat as being the bad actor for heart disease mainly and that really came from weak science called epidemiology the experimental evidence that shows that that's actually true has never been done I mean for example you could radio label saturated fat in the food and see if it shows up on the arteries that's never been done entire teaching about saturated fat being bad for the heart is not really founded in good science it's not that the information is not out there I remember early on when I was in college I had a college professor explained to us that fat was our body's preferred source of energy okay fat is a very good way to have energy and that same professor a couple of weeks later said our bodies prefer sugar when we do exercise weren't we talking about fat just a couple of weeks ago yeah I forget about all that it's sugar so the message even in top universities right here in the United States or a bunch of mixed messages do I think there's a big responsibility from media to do the right thing yes I do you know we have three big networks two big three ABC CBS and NBC whatever they told us we went with hell when I was a kid there was still even cigarette commercials on the air at least we figured out that that was a bad idea it's very easy to see how someone can think something or just say something and that becomes a reality breakfast no eggs or fatty meats instead eat grains and fiber that actually lower cholesterol how about the term heart-healthy grains we've all seen it many people believe it after all the terms come from studies that prove it to be true right those were studies looking at whole grains versus white processed flours and grades so of course when you're comparing it to something like white processed flour it's going to be better but does that mean it in and of itself is therefore heart healthy you can make the argument that whole grains are less bad for you than refined grains but that doesn't make whole grains good oatmeal or oat bread or an oat muffin or oat bran that is can either incorporate it into some other cereal product it's like cigarettes you can have cigarettes with a filter on and they're less bad for you perhaps than unfiltered figures doesn't make the filter Sigurd just means they're less bad through four whole grants they are in the nest bad we should put more emphasis on our vegetables we should think about the vegetables we're gonna have for dinner rather than the meat portion listen I'm not a doctor I'm just a guy with a physical education degree who became a trainer and somehow found myself in the world of modeling before it became a trend to the stars and eventually a best-selling author and podcaster but when I started modeling in LA in the early 90s I realized that the media would sell us anything to make a buck regardless of whether it's healthy or not let's face it every beer commercial you've ever seen is a bunch of ripped up guys on the beach playing volleyball because that's what beer drinkers look like [Music] if you have ripped-up abs or you have a nice set of shoulders they want you modeling everything in the infomercials it was that it was the heyday of the infomercial if we think that then we are bad diets powders pills still my weights been up and down like a yo-yo until the aids plant taught me how to take off weight and help keep it off just 20 minutes a day will turn your body into a calorie burning furnace we were coming into this age of hey if you just do what I tell you you can look like this guy or this woman in just a few weeks decorated I lost weight and feel great nobody wanted the truth they just wanted a lie that they could get everyone to believe now you can lose weight without diets no this product really doesn't work without pills no that product really doesn't work without exercise well what does work now you can lose weight just by watching television so I learned very quickly be careful as to where you advertise the 1920s and 30s it was a lot different we were learning a lot of things back then we were discovering vitamins for the first time we also learned that food could heal and a lot of these therapies are what were being used to heal people they were using non starchy non sugary diets to starve cancer in the 1920s and 30s take Otto Warburg for instance he was doing cancer studies on rats he thought that the outcome would be that oxygen was what was fueling cancer cells to grow and what he learned with rats was that it was actually the sugar in the healthy cells glucose is split into carbon dioxide and water the tumor cell however is able to split glucose into lactic acid and so in a certain sense get along without oxygen and at the same time obtain the necessary energy from its food this is true not only in tumor cells separated from the body but also true of tumors in animals and human beings his discovery was well known as the Warburg effect and it was shown to help in somewhere near 80% of the cases of people who had cancer why does it feel like no one knows this information we were making these discoveries so what else contributed to them not taking hold we had a great depression and then we had a war a lot of people were having trouble putting food in their mouths period so I don't think people were caring that much about their health people were just trying to eat anything people didn't eat out as much we made homemade dressings you didn't have dressings that were full of processed oils and we weren't adding high fructose corn syrup to to everything that we ate we ate real whole foods that were cooked at home even fast food was different back in the 1940s and 50s if you had french fries they were made from rendered animal fat basically beef tallow which was a better way to cook junk food so even our junk food was better in the 1940s and 50s and 60s it wasn't until we got to the 1950s where people started to become more prosperous we saw the advent of TV dinners and all the stuff and more sugar and processed foods came from everywhere what really happens happened in 1955 when one of the most popular presidents of our time the white the Eisenhower had a heart attack news of President Eisenhower's sudden illness described by his doctors as coronary thrombosis came as a severe shock to us all films of President Eisenhower made just before his heart attack our dramatic evidence of the suddenness of the illness that shocked the nation President Eisenhower's heart attack struck at a time when he was close to the zenith of his prestige at home and abroad it follows that the president's illness is a vital concern to the entire world well he could die what could happen to me you have to understand this is a period in the 1950s when America is in a complete panic about the rising tide of heart disease before that we never thought about heart attacks we never thought about health and fitness we didn't think about the food we were eating no one back in the 1950s knew that their cholesterol score was much less even you with the word cholesterol meant medical textbooks tell us that cholesterol is a white compound somewhat soapy to the touch and this distantly related to alcohol it is no alien poison to be avoided by man at any cost but an important element in the body's chemical machinery cholesterol is a kind of a fat type molecule it's in all of our cells thirty trillion cells cholesterol is actually so important to the body that it actually makes the majority of cholesterol that's in your blood right now most of the dietary cholesterol you eat will go through you and very little actually gets absorbed and of that cholesterol you find in the blood most of it was made by your liver it is an essential of nerve tissue for instance and a raw material for the production of several hormones bile and a form of vitamin D it is found naturally in the blood and also often in the walls of arteries and other blood vessels if you eat more cholesterol your body will make less if you eat less your body will make more which makes it very interesting that it was so maligned in the past few decades heart disease had been rare in the early 1900's and had really risen since the late 1920s to be the number one killer disease by the 1950s we took a collective gasp in this country we didn't want to have another president die in office just imagine your president not being in the Oval Office for ten days and he's in bed besides this guy was very popular people wanted to find out what caused that could it have been his dying and if so what was he eating and how can we change it this is also the time when the media was more prevalent motion picture cameras joined newspaper reporters in the old State Department building for an historic presidential press conference the first ever filmed in sound by newsreel cameramen I see we're trying a new experiment this morning I hope it doesn't prove to be a disturbing you thought the power of media you can't really tell that story without telling the story of Oprah Winfrey it was 1993 and by happenstance I was put up for an appearance on Oprah they needed someone the next day they were looking for younger men who were dating older women and since my girlfriend was seven years older at the time I was invited on I wasn't into it I had no idea what really happened on Oprah but I was told no you have to do it it'll be great for your career so they fly me to Chicago and I get to the greenroom I was introduced to a woman named Oh the theme of the show was younger men who were dating older women older women having the courage to live their dreams and fulfill their fantasies and live their lives exactly the way they wanted to including dating younger men dough said that I would have to pretend that I was dating her and I said what are you talking about my guests today they're all members of a provocative new kind of dating service I told her that I would not go on stage in life I would go on stage and sit next to dough but I would not say that we dated I quickly realized that I'd been bamboozled because don't introduce me as her boyfriend I'd like you to meet Vinnie toward rich he's at Beverly Hills fitness expert he's hot sweet he loves women and he's emotionally accessible I did what's happening and at that moment I said to myself I'm gonna turn this into not the Oprah show but the Vinnie show number one women don't even hit their sexual prime until they hit 40 I'm gonna make this show so bad that they won't possibly be able to run it on national television the difference between riding in a Volkswagen and a Cadillac if you want to ride in the Volkswagen go right ahead see what the Cadillac go for though the woman well it turns into a circus the people in the audience actually believed all of us doh and I had just met it was like the audience was participating in this huge game of mad libs to different generations how was school oh I learned arithmetic I don't see how two people can have something in common if they're not the same age it seems like people are treating this like some sort of fetish what could you possibly have in comment share walked into the room and said she had to have you get Cheryl on the phone I ended up asking share out on a date during the show share is on the phone share my name is vini twitter is in front of the whole country if the camera on me yeah I live in Beverly Hills let's get together and have lunch I'll have my agent call your agent and we'll do it because we'll have a great time no matter how outlandish I got they seem to enjoy it more and more no it's from the ladies in the audience as a matter of fact you can see Oprah Oprah started dancing in the aisles [Applause] the show ended and I went back to LA and I just assumed well Betsy oh it's got a bomb as of last year it was the seventh highest rated show and Oprah's history people still recognize me for today and virtually none of it was true I took that realization that media can change everything Eisenhower has a heart attack and he wants the whole country to know that this was a real issue I am happy the doctors have given me at least a a parole if not a pardon and I expect to be back at my accustomed duties although they say I must ease my way into him and not bulldoze my way in them but the media had other ideas they have their own agenda he had the common cold of heart attacks he didn't really have a pattern the media was trying to show him on the golf course having a great round of golf he was thought that diet was the cause he was also like a four pack a day smoker which may very well have given him his heart attack yes according to this survey more doctors smoke camels than any other cigarette try camels yourself right around that time enters Ancel Keys Ancel keys was a pathologist at the University of Minnesota he got the idea in the 1950s that saturated fat and cholesterol were what caused heart disease strikes without warning a pin men we can expect five to get it but we can't say who or when why Ancel keys was this incredibly persuasive person he had a really outsized belief in his own ideas the facts are simple you know the chief killer of Americans is cardiovascular disease disorders and degeneration of the heart and blood vessels they show that this problem here in America is the worst in the world aunt Sookie's was famous for something called the seven countries study this is where he went and studied seven different countries and came up with this hypothesis as to how we're supposed to eat based on correlation Ancel Keys is the one who proposed what he called the diet heart hypothesis and that was that saturated fat and cholesterol dietary cholesterol would give you a heart attack especially saturated fat like you know like hot oil down a cold stove pipe it would just clog up your arteries and give you a heart attack the problem is he cherry picked these countries to fit what he was trying to hypothesize and set out to prove that the more calories you got from fat the better chance you had of getting heart disease it seemed like a straight line between the least fat consumed and the most fat consumed with the u.s. at the top the only problem is key studied 22 countries and if you factor in all of those countries the results were all over the place he just took the seven countries that prove this point that fat causes heart disease this study made keys the temporary savior of the medical community and therefore the world such that he was able to get on to the American Heart Association nutrition committee and he turned the whole Association around in one year and got them in 1961 to recommend that all Americans restrict saturated fats and cholesterol in their diets in order to fight heart disease dietary fat and its relation to heart attacks and strokes most persons in the United States who are overweight will find it profitable to Douce their total caloric intake reducing the amount of fat in the diet is one way to do this this is the first advice anywhere in the world telling people not to eat saturated fat and cholesterol to fight heart attacks that's like the beginning of it all that is what just blossomed bloomed grew into the giant oak tree of advice that we have now we have no credible evidence to say that saturated fat causes heart disease and that sounds crazy to say when you look at our government guidelines and our dietary guidelines but there is no high-level credible evidence to show that saturated fat causes heart disease the interesting thing about Kesey gaana virtually everything wrong but it never infected his humility with no time right now when we've had a narcissistic term people are very primitive and narcissistic a lot of injuries in childhood and it has caused us to perhaps not have the most secure sense of self and identity people attach themselves to one particular approach to diet and it develops into an identity around which people maintain a religious intensity they defend it as though any question in their dogma is like you're questioning their religious dogma or threatening their very sense of the fabric of reality and so we start looking around for things to attach ourselves to and political groups religious organizations different diet fads we attach ourselves to these groups and we look to the group's for our identity so our going forward in life is somehow threatened by somebody saying hey maybe fats not so bad for you it's it's positively comedic but it's becoming ridiculous the United States coronary heart diseases so come but you have all one has to do to study the complete natural history of the disease is to take a sample of me in any example of me and that our null healthy follow them wait a little while and a lot of them will have coronary heart disease well it wasn't very long before it appeared that there was some connection between coronary heart disease and cholesterol in the blood no question we hear over and over and over again that cholesterol equals mortality we've seen it in the commercials we've heard about it from our doctor over time they build up on the walls of veins and arteries helping to clog them restricting blood flow it's what causes heart attacks and strokes we've heard about it plenty of times from our friends and our family and because of that we tend to think it's just simply the truth that certainly has the degree of repetition that we would expect in the 60s and 70s we were focusing more on the specific types of cholesterol LDL and HDL and LDL became known as the bad cholesterol and all of a sudden medicine was focused on LDL it was noticed that higher cholesterol in the blood appeared to correlate or track with higher heart disease rates cholesterol is carried in the blood by proteins called low-density lipoproteins or LDLs the more cholesterol we eat the more the number of LDLs and that's dangerous so essentially the idea was developed that the higher cholesterol was getting into your arteries and was causing arterial disease there's the higher that lipoprotein level goes the greater the risk of heart disease there are some studies that show a correlation does that mean causation and this is a very important differentiation that is too infrequently made because something is correlated doesn't mean it is the cause so if high cholesterol is present in people who are having heart disease we have to look a little further as to why that is and if there are other factors when you really look at the studies and you crunch the data LDL is not the best marker for heart disease what's even more powerful are your ratios so whether it's your total cholesterol to HDL ratio or your triglyceride to HDL ratio those have better predictive value in LDL itself the ratios indicate your level of insulin sensitivity our insulin resistance so the best cholesterol measures are not actually even talking about a cholesterol thing they are indirectly talking about insulin resistance and health a lot of the fat research well look we saw fat in the coronary arteries and we thought that fat must be coming from somewhere and must come from circulating fat and that must come from ingested fat it was a very simplistic kind of idea the contrary opinion that the alternative hypotheses which has been around for a couple hundred years is that we get fat because we eat carbohydrates like pasta potatoes bread they used to be called simple comp simple carbohydrates now the terminology is changing to adjust to the fact that a lot of people think maybe these starches as my mother called them are not quite so good for us we focused in just by timing and bad lock on this idea that saturated fat causes heart disease and we bought into it even though the evidence then ultimately didn't really support it and we made everything else we believed about diet have to be reconciled with that doctor key singling out of excessive consumption of fats as a major factor in coronary disease is by no means accepted by all investigators in front of us day by day are in increasingly more or more very tempting foods in the mid 1960s John Yadkin comes on the scene he's a British scientist he thinks sugars a problem when people have heart disease they don't just have elevated cholesterol in fact they often don't have elevated cholesterol they have a whole cluster of metabolic abnormalities 10-15-20 things you could measure and you can say if I feed animals sugar or I feed college students that I'm using my experiments for I could cause pretty much all of these things just by giving them a lot of sugar so you up to say two or three hundred years ago the average consumption of sugar in this country was about four pounds a year and that's bended I'd be very happy if everybody at four pounds of sugar a year they eat a hundred pound comparative studies of the diet of 41 nations have convinced a professor yet but there is an almost exact relationship between the consumption of fat and sugar moreover many sugar containing foods cakes candy cookies chocolate ice cream areas kinds of puddings also contain fat you always eat some fat so if you eat high carb foods you you raise your blood glucose you raise your blood your fat storing hormone insulin and you're gonna store the fat that you eat it's all individual how much you can tolerate but if you eat more than your body can tolerate them you will most likely gain weight gain fat drawing the analogy of the relationship between diabetes and national sugar intakes that could statistically also be related to the fat intake professor Yadkin considers that heart disease may well be causally related to the consumption of sugar and instead of looking at it and soaky's just jumps right on top of it immediate and turns this guy into a nut job Kees was really a bully when it came to trying to quash anybody who opposed him Ancel Keys wasn't gonna let anyone come in and rain on his parade he published a nine page rebuttal in a journal called atherosclerosis in Chris he said Goodkin is a mountain of nonsense it is clear that you'd can has no theoretical basis for experimental evidence to support his claim for a major influence of dietary sucrose in the etiology of heart disease Pease and his colleagues managed to paint Yadkin as a quack and to portray Yadkin and his sugar theory is quackery and to say there was absolutely no evidence to support it none of what is said here should be taken to mean approval of the common level of sucrose and many diets Kees was more had more political influence and more savvy maybe than Yadkin and somehow this dietary and we were spending money testing the dietary fat hypothesis so even though the tests weren't confirming it the more money they spent the more people were wedded to the hypothesis having to be right studies are extremely expensive and there have been enough good studies done to support our moderate approach which is looking at balanced foods vegetables fruits grains and lean meats and dairy products the argument once again is it has to be tested when you believe it's wrong prima facie you're not going to spend the money to test it why are these nutrition scientists just not more curious about other ideas you know I was at a conference recently where we talked about a low-carb study where they reversed the diagnosis of diabetes for it was a large university based study in just one year on a very low carb diet and not one of them said wait what diabetes reversal Wow how'd you do that can you just explain your study a little bit to us because that's what we as nutrition experts we really need to do in America and I actually got up to ask a question from the audience I said I said did you hear that that was 60% reversal of diabetes should that not be headline news and should you not be curious why are you not even curious about these ideas you know it makes you think of stories like the McKenzie family parents in South Dakota who realized they have to take matters into their own hands when their son lost 5 pounds in 5 days I called the doctor that morning and I explained that I thought my son had rapidly lost weight and something was wrong and we knew within 5 minutes of him doing a year analysis test that there was sugar in his urine and we were escorted to the hospital to learn how to manage our new life we both concluded that we were going to make drastic changes in our diet reducing carbohydrate intake shortly thereafter we were told that we didn't need to do that that we could feed our son recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes whatever he wanted to take a look oh I'm trusting these people who are now in charge of caring for my son and they're telling me give him pancakes and give him french fries and cupcakes and pizza because now that your kid has this disease his life is pretty crummy already and the worst thing you could do as a parent is to try and change his food I fed my kid the exact prescribed amount of carbohydrates I pre bolus his insulin I put a continuous glucose monitor on him I bought him a diabetes alert dog I literally did everything in my own capacity to follow the guidelines and manage his disease and I failed miserably Ruth do you want the yogurt the tablets with Israel they put a big message out in the social media groups that I'm connected to in the diabetes community and I asked how are you people achieving normal blood Sugar's what are you doing and about every fifth answer I got was that these people were changing their children's diet and in implementing a very very low carb diet we removed all the processed carbs the flour the sugar the grains the fruit anything that would spike his blood sugar and so the next appointment we had with our endocrinologist I skipped in there like I had won the lottery oh my goodness I stumbled upon a low carb diet and look at my son's blood sugars and during that appointment our very kind-hearted doctor looked at me and told me my son was going to resent me for the rest of his life that this way of eating is not sustainable that I'm subjecting my son to an eating disorder and he also handed me a business card to go see a therapist because he thought maybe I was struggling with some things and had some issues for wanting to do this for my son and to change his diet and I'm told to follow these guidelines because without those carbohydrates my child won't grow properly his brain function will be compromised so when you're a parent of a type-1 and you're told the American Diabetes Association this large governing body that must know exactly what we're up against they're recommending this that's intimidating we either had to either make a change or accept mediocre care I'm orthopedic surgeon it seems now as if it's the patients that are trying to make the medical community aware of what they already know of what the patient's know because they have tried to follow the rules as given to them and they failed when somebody comes to me with a belief that they and they tell me I believe your son is gonna do better if you feed them more carbohydrates I know they're wrong and when it comes to my son I'm gonna do what I know as opposed to what they believe our son went from taking 45 to 50 units of insulin every day to maybe 15 units of insulin if you extrapolate that over every child with this disease you can understand that that's going to have a market effect on the profitability of the disease I think we underestimate people's ability to make a change and I think if there were doctors and nurses and dieticians who are willing to give patients that option I think the face of diabetes would be different we're very weird culture because we have an endless amount of energy to talk about almost everything but when it comes to the core issues and the ones that just affect everything such as family or such as diet we have you know we just went through an election we talked about everything but no one ever talked about diet or family or any of this stuff now you have kids with type-2 diabetes you have fatty liver disease you have sleep apnea none of this stuff existed before and if you think it's just old people using this is getting younger and younger and younger it's an epidemic and it's one of those things like hey powers-that-be hey folks in charge let's this is gonna break the bank how do people scream all day about Medicare and this doesn't come up never it doesn't know if you want votes telling people like hard news like hey mom you're poisoning your kid get your [ __ ] together no votes for you the current recommendations it started in the late 60s in response to a documentary aired on CBS News called hunger in America this spring a private agency the citizens board of inquiry released an exhaustive report claiming that serious hunger exists many places in the United States out of a total population of 200 million the report states 30 million Americans are impoverished with family income below $3,000 a year five million of these people are helped by two existing federal food programs now a new figure must be added of the 30 million who are impoverished 10 million Americans whether or not they are reached by federal aid are hungry the federal food program might be better administered by the Department of Health Education and Welfare or by a special commission whose only concern would be to see that hungry Americans are fed this leads right to 1968 in the McGovern committee public calls to address the issue of hunger had been building ever since robert f kennedy had toured the devastated slums of mississippi it's obviously yeah greater poverty as we've had there going to lead a very difficult unhappy life so the rest of their existence but it was George McGovern the senator from South Dakota who would had a committee that started in 1968 privy to the poverty that the nation was now aware of the former director of food for peace in JFK's administration was intent on bringing change that would eventually affect all of us it's always bothered me to see hungry people in the world I like to eat if we are to save ourselves in this country it seems to me that a radical restructuring of our policies and priorities is absolutely necessary [Music] there is nothing more to say relief senator Kennedy died at 144 this evening we've got to draw the line at Pilate so I have mixed emotions I'm supporting the President as he tries to bring this war to a close it was quite sad ready to break up with the bills cuz to see it just fall apart was was sad we have a mystery story out of Washington five people have been arrested and charged with breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the middle of the night when you think of 1972-1973 we're still in vietnam is not a popular war then 1972 comes around and we have Watergate people have gotta know whether or not their presidents a crook well I'm not a crook people were just in a haze about diet no one was really paying attention to this McGovern committee you know we had bigger problems this complacency at the time is would allow these health myths to seep in as you know I represent all sorts of delicious days greasy bacon potato chips french fried potatoes and gobs of butter rhaggy no us fat separately are just little guys but put us all together and what do you have you have millions of calories that's what I have to stir those calories it's bad and I can't take it anymore I'm getting bigger and bigger and bigger heart cells have to work mr. pack you're a real killer you know I don't know the answer but why is it whenever a new study comes out it's always talking about how food is gonna kill you I think that's a major misdirection to what we should be focused on food should be used to prevent illness not to just help reverse it once it's too late one of the areas we haven't talked about until recently is how food can affect your brain health I became interested in mental health and the connection between mental health and diet after I had developed a lot of my own health problems and had changed my diet and discovered that diet had a lot more to do with health and mental health than I had ever been taught that it had in my early 40s about ten years ago I developed a number of mysterious symptoms that I think a lot of people especially middle-aged women will identify with so things like chronic pain fibromyalgia IBS chronic fatigue migraines lots of different symptoms that all of my very smart Harvard affiliated doctors couldn't help me with after about six months of trial and error I arrived at this diet that was completely upside-down from what I had been taught was good for me it was basically a mostly meat diet high in meat and fat and cholesterol and when I arrived at that diet all of the symptoms that I've been struggling with completely went away and I thought you know this diet actually is also improving my mental health and I'm a psychiatrist the most powerful way to change your brain chemistry would be through food because that's where brain chemicals come from in the first place if you're getting most of your sugar and most of your glucose from the outside of the body you run the risk of getting spikes the peaks and troughs in your blood sugar and insulin level and those destabilize brain chemistry so those can create mood swings insomnia irritability changes an appetite throughout the course of the day when you eat a ketogenic diet you're using fat primarily for energy and the brain is using a to a large extent ketones instead of glucose today if you're anywhere near Google you will learn that this is known as dietary ketosis most healthcare professionals are familiar with ketoacidosis and that's a state where the body is out of control diabetes is out of control blood glucoses through the roof insulin is not able to keep up with this glucose derangement and so that's a life-threatening State when you're type-2 diabetic out of control nutritional ketosis is quite a different scenario blood sugars are absolutely under control the patient is healthy in every single way electrolytes insulin glucose perfectly perfectly controlled we have now trained the body to switch over from burning carbohydrate as the primary fuel now the individual becomes fat adapted and they use fat as the primary source of energy and that's really the difference between a very unhealthy and a very healthy state scientific question in the 1960s where the researchers asked the wrong question but there were questions we needed answered we know that the way you gain weight is you take in more calories than you don't then then you burn and those calories can be fat or they can be carbohydrate and so they get this hypothesis which sounds reasonable that fat people get fat because they accumulated a little bit of extra calories every day and we could get back to this by not asking how much extra calories they don't have to really confront the problems with the hypothesis and that becomes a theory ever since the history of science once again is full of common sense ago facts it turned out to be dead wrong when we did the science you're certain you use words like it proves when you look at the data it either isn't there what we just did indeed speaking of experiments here's a timeline of events that happened with the McGovern Committee after a year of fighting for funding the committee operations began in 1969 there were Democrats and Republicans including future presidential candidates George McGovern Walter Mondale and Bob Dole the initial goals of the community centered around hunger and malnutrition in this led to the legislation in 1970 with principles of free food stamps and nationwide standards for eligibility it was a 1971 that the committee expanded to focus on eating habits and for neighborhoods but in 1972 this extremely pressing issue was put on hold so that McGovern can run for president when he lost for the United States to Richard Nixon who would eventually resign and be replaced by this guy it was back to fixing America's health in 1973 the Senate Select Committee on nutrition and human needs began to hold hearings on the American diet and heard dozens of eminent doctors and scientists linking cholesterol to heart disease unfortunately dietary guidelines were based on the singular focus to lower cholesterol while we're treating heart disease by supposedly lowering bad cholesterol we're gonna help people lose weight if you tell the public of 215 million people what they're eating is going to kill them they're gonna probably listen and the unintended consequence is that someone's going to step in and take advantage of these people when it doesn't work right coincidentally drug companies were spending millions of dollars developing drugs to target LDL in the 80s and 90s a class of drugs was invented called statins and these drugs did lower the cholesterol very effectively and they also were shown to lower heart disease rates but the question that's probably more interesting to me that I think should be more interesting to you is does it help you live longer it might reduce heart attacks by 20 or 30 percent at best and it doesn't really reduce mortality march we like simple answers that we have treatments for but that's not where the best evaluation and treatment for heart disease is it's absolutely amazing to me the trajectory of statins and low fat diets with everything we have today stem from a committee that was focused on poverty and people who weren't getting enough to eat and somehow cholesterol got into the mix thanks to answer keys and didn't complete you tom in 1974 they expanded the committee to focus on over nutrition the very recommendations made led to people eating way too much of the wrong kind of food so now we have just the opposite problem we have a hunger problem we have the obesity epidemic the Senate committee finally issued a set of dietary goals in December 1977 the McGovern Committee issued a set of nutritional guidelines for all Americans intended to battle heart disease cancers strokes high blood pressure obesity in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans they recommend fewer calories less fat less saturated fat less cholesterol more polyunsaturated fat all in favor of nominating vegetable oils say aye [Music] less sugar less salt more fiber more starchy food committees original report urged Americans to reduce their risk of heart attacks by reducing their intake of cholesterol down to the equivalent of about one egg a day this great experiment we were doing with tax dollars seemed to have one idea repeated over and over cholesterol is bad cholesterol is bad on its own or in conjunction with other things one way to look at it as the saturated fats are are healthy when you're not eating carbohydrates or that saturated fat was never unhealthy all along but that gets you into the realm of you're telling people that what they've believed is wrong as time is going on both doctors and private citizens have done their own experiments as a software engineer I look a lot at networks networks are basically objects talking to each other and a lot of understanding and network is kind of like understanding a brain no one cell and the brain controls your whole body that actually cholesterol was part of a larger network of objects and how it is that they can move about to provide us what we need another thing we don't talk about is how complicated the human body is for the government to even recommend what you should be eating in the first place is one thing but for them to do it in such a simplistic way is another you know there were certain scientists that had some hypotheses and they said well some of the stuff we're looking at is leaning towards red meat might be bad for your heart the Commission would say well what do you think doctors took issue with that at the hearing saying that eight studies involving 5000 patients failed to show hard medical evidence that diet has anything to do with heart attacks I have pleaded in my report and will plead again orally here for more research on the problem before we make announcements to the American public yes before you make announcements to the public you should have data that proves what you're saying maybe like Dave Feldman did my story is a bit interesting I found that I could move my cholesterol up and down with the dietary fat that I ate so the more fat I ate the lower my LDL see the less fat I ate the higher my LDL see on a three-day diet of over 5,000 calories and 450 grams of fat he lured every marker of cholesterol I eventually got a number of other people to replicate this the success rate is somewhere around 85% of those people went on a low-carb high-fat diet fatty cheeses fatty meats fatty nuts and in doing so even though their calories increased substantially even though their saturated fat just jumped through the roof their LDL C and the total cholesterol plummeted it's a very unintuitive but sure enough the more fat they would eat the lower their LDL C Dave Feldman is not a doctor at all this guy took all of the science that was available and figured it out yet members of a publicly funded committee took ten years to find nothing and when they were pressured to change recommendations with no science to back it up they ran around in circles for a while and came out with the same report but this time they said oh you can have some meat and some salt I would only argue that senators don't have the luxury that a research scientist does awaiting until every last shred of evidence is in so there you have it the National advice that everything you see today is based on that report was then taken over to become government official government policy so it went over to the US Department of Agriculture and by 1980 they came out with the policy which was the Dietary Guidelines for all Americans I think it's audacious that the government based on very weak evidence should tell Americans what to eat a healthy population at the time how do you tell some guy from the Midwest who's been living on beef his entire life to start eating vegetables especially at that time you couldn't get him year-round you couldn't get fruit year-round it wasn't like it is today where we we refrigerate and shipped fruits and vegetables around the world you're telling people from different parts of the United States what to do how to do it and everyone's just throwing their hands up going I'm gonna do the best I can do I think the government was complicit and in causing this problem yes do I think they meant to do it absolutely not I think McGovern's heart was in the right place they just went the wrong way about it but we went on that experiment and the government put us on that experiment they didn't ask us about it they didn't ask our advice they just told us how to eat and they told the food industry asked the food industry to produce low-fat food products industry slowly is responding to it producing foods that are lower in salt and fans so on and people are beginning to get the message low cholesterol no cholesterol lowers cholesterol good fat bad fat low-fat nonfat milk suddenly came and you know the wildering number of varieties all of them reduced and fast and whether or not it was a result of the experiment this coincided with the obesity explosions and obesity and diabetes we've been seeing today the 1980s brought in all sorts of brand-new foods [Music] there's a tannin body and everybody unlike some yogurts it's low in fat the whole thought batter was if you didn't eat fat you couldn't get that not having fat does not automatically make something health food and that's where we get into this this debate about is it just calories in calories out does it not matter what we eat as long as we're burning enough calories to burn it off and we still don't know feeding a low-fat diet was a good thing it was a some of the smartest scientists and the president of National Academy of Sciences in the late 1970s called this a huge experiment in which the American public were the subjects the American has an infinite number of combination of choices with which he can constitute a healthy diet unfortunately he also has an infinite number of combinations from which he can choose an unbalanced let's examine why there is so much confusion about good nutrition one reason is that we have been given a lot of misinformation usually by those looking to make a profit today there are still many unusual ideas as to what [Music] people tend to believe that just because it's in print or on television it must be true the 80s also brought in all sorts of new fitness trends make the commitment now watch how fast you see results we couldn't get enough of Fitness in the 1980s but although we were doing all of this we weren't getting any thinner our sugar consumption increases in part with the introduction of high fructose corn syrup and that's an unintended consequence of these government actions it's arguably the case if if they had done nothing we wouldn't have had this epidemic we might had at any one but they they probably are almost assuredly made it worse for 25 years we've been pushing a low-fat Dogma they'd said eat less fat first I said he'd less total fat and you'll have less heart disease less cancer and you know way less then that's not exactly true this started because there's incontrovertible evidence that saturated fat is bad and that is well established in long-term trials you build up in a community institutions organizations everybody collects to them people who think just like they do like we like each other we respect each other because we think alike you know I know nothing about your other than that you think like I do so I respect the way you think and institutions do this and then somebody else comes along from the outside and says AHA you guys all got it wrong look here's the evidence all these obese and diabetic people are neck-deep and obesity and diabetes we got to change everything it's hard to accept it's hard to back out of there's no way to back out of it that doesn't destroy your credibility in this country we have freedom of choice to say what we want to say we have freedom of choice to print what we want to print we have freedom of choice to think what we want to think but we do not have freedom of choice for our own health why I guess profit in politics and power the MDS and nutritionists and all people need to work together for the total benefit of this country's health so in 1992 we did the most brilliant thing we've ever done as a country we started the food pyramid now this is so ridiculous that I can't even ever remember that I because in my own mind it makes no sense I always have to read it off of a piece of paper the pyramid at the base the biggest part was bread cereal and rice six to 11 servings not per week hang on folks per day if you went to the maximum vegetables that's five vegetables a day five servings and fruit if you went to the max that's four that's 20 servings of carbohydrates every day and then when you get into milk and dairy milk has carbohydrates as lactose and milk that's like drinking sugar and on meat the most you can have in any given day is three servings now it gets even worse because we start wondering this what's a serving what's the serving of meat that be then ante how many ounces well I can tell you it was two to three ounces per serving but who knew that you gotta eat the right stuff start with a little weak [Music] you have Timon and Pumba telling people to eat more grains rennet cereal rice noodles you need a whole lot and if you thought that was ridiculous the servings that they did give us with the food pyramid did not match what the government told us that servings should be on the packages of food those servings which were also mandated by the government were completely different from the servings that we heard about when it came to what was on the pyramid the new food label represents nothing less than a major victory for the consumer and for the public health when you're given a percentage and you see that this is 50 percent or this is 10 percent of your expected daily total and you know very quickly that this food either contributes a lot of fat or a little bit of fat and how to plan the rest of your diet around this particular food this food label which will be on virtually all foods will be a benchmark the nutrition information well into the 21st century the government makes the manufacturers put the product ingredient list in the amount in which it appears on the package if the number one thing is grains you will see rice first if the second thing is sugar you will see sugar second these companies got really smart at some point and figured out hey wait a minute we can't do it this way because people are seeing sugar sugar sugar sugar so what they do is they name the sugars other things at last count we were at 70 names 70 different names for sugar on packages let's say you're diabetic type 1 type 2 it doesn't matter if you don't know how to read these labels your life hangs in the balance this is the world we live in this is our society this is our community and if we don't fix it who will no one will the food label has become a veritable minefield of misleading and downright false claim and many in Congress feel the same way they're concerned that any confusion over the truthfulness of health claims can be dangerous because the potential benefit of displaying important health information on food labels would be lost if consumers lose confidence in what they're being told when I was a kid in the late 70s the term metabolic syndrome did not exist at all metabolic syndrome is not one thing it's several things it's fatty liver disease is type 2 diabetes something else that barely existed in the 70s we have people on statins in metformin none of this existed in this quantity in the 70s we've gone from here to here in just a few short years so the same foods and my mother's generation grew up believing would go right to their hips you know by the 1980s we were being told to eat 6 to 11 servings per day they were the base of the food guide pyramid in the 1990s and they coincided with this obesity epidemic I mean we couldn't screwed up the signs of obesity more if we had tried we don't know what to do nutrition experts the establishment the orthodoxy just doesn't know what to do so they continued raising money for the American Heart Association American Diabetes Association but they don't have any new ideas they keep saying just keep applying the advice that we've given you and somehow it'll turn out different this time one of the things that I always say is why not just be open to new ideas like here's some other ideas coming along let's just consider them don't we have an obligation to the public to consider at least other ideas you're about to meet a father who refused to give up a man who defied the doctors and went looking for a miracle my generation remembers Jim Abraham's quite well he did some of our favorite movies like airplane and hotshots and all of these funny movies in the 70s and 80s well it wasn't very funny when Jim Abrams had a 16 month old son who was having seizure after seizure after seizure and he was going because he was a big producer and he had the means he went to the top doctors in the United States and at the time Charlie was averaging about a dozen seizures a day he was on for anti epileptic medicines if you ever critically ill kid what would you know what would your choice it be you want a drug in Jonah cut his brain or do you want to change what he eats and it just seemed so happy this is not to blame doctors doctors are spread really thin and they have to try to do the best they can but it was Jim who figured out on his own by going to a library in the hospital and just happened to open a book to a page that showed the ketogenic diet as being the best way to deal with seizures in infants the book claimed that experts here in Baltimore were perfecting something called the ketogenic diet a diet consisting largely of something most doctors tell us to avoid I called dr. Freeman from Johns Hopkins told him about Charlie and he said send his medical records we did and he said we'll bring Charlie out to Hopkins will try the diet and we started the diet and in two days his seizures were on two days Jim was angry and puzzled that none of the six doctors he went to for help if I mentioned the diet what it stopped Charlie seizures has been in existence for 70 years it's been sitting there it was waiting for him you had some knowledge that this diet was probably working back at Johns Hopkins and yet you persuaded the Abrams from from attempting it how come well because I don't think we had exhausted all of the medical approaches yet there were actually still other medications that we hadn't tried yet dr. Freeman tells us that 50 to 70 percent of the patients that come through his doors and get put on the diet have success can you think of any any drugs in these hard cases that have 50 to 70 percent success rate probably not anything that comes up to that level in another month dr. Freeman weaned him off all for anti epileptic medicines and Charlie went from a prognosis of a lifetime of seizures and what they call progressive retardation - we got our son back and it smiles back and he was happy again and our family could go on with life this is Charlie Abrams and his mom Nancy I've known him since birth I watched his delightful personality emerge through a normal first year I witnessed his debilitating battle with seizures and medicines I rejoiced with his family when the ketogenic diet stopped his epilepsy and now I derive strength and joy like so many of his other friends as we watch him begin to develop again it's too early to tell whether the nine months of pummeling from seizures and medicines did any permanent damage to Charlie's brain if he has anything to say in the matter I know they won't however it's not too early to tell that had Charlie's parents been informed about the existence of the ketogenic diet when he first got sick and about the success they've had with it at Johns Hopkins a vast majority of Charlie's seizures would not have occurred and most of his $100,000 worth of medical surgical and drug treatment would not have been necessary even today 1.5 out of every 10,000 people with epilepsy who would benefit from the ketogenic diet are using it today doctors are not taught diet therapy or even nutrition in medical school they just simply aren't try an informal survey on your own next time you see a doctor your doctor anybody any doctors say when you were Medical School how long were you how much time did you spend investigating learning about nutrition and diet therapy I didn't really have much nutritional training like most doctors in four years of psychiatry training we didn't talk about food once extending my training I got in nutrition let's see you talk about your 1 2 3 4 then 4 years residency 0 0 I get 0 in addiction 2 0 0 and nutrition zero in addiction we were we were we were so damn busy taking care of sick taking care of illness and trying to push that back and save life that trying to prevent illness was not really on our radar I feel anger I'm pissed off and again I think that part did the reasons that the diet hasn't become more popular has nothing to do with efficacy at all it has to do with revenue sources that are more lucrative the ketogenic diet isn't that expensive the problem is it doesn't generate revenue for the medical world there are powerful forces at work in our medical system that have nothing to do with good health my patients have been getting fatter and sicker over the last few decades and in particular we're starting to see diabetes out of control and it changes everything I used to see the occasional person who needed diabetic foot ulcer management and and eating an amputation and it started becoming virtually weekly when you come into a clinic and there's patients with you know with rotting flesh and it is rotting flesh and it smells bad it looks bad and all you're doing is just trimming off a little bit of food starts where the toe starts with an ulcer then it moves up the foot and sometimes you know you get to a point after doing two or three operations it's been going a couple of months and then the decision is you've actually got to chop that leg off there's something which really upsets me and that's when you actually amputate someone's limb there's a sound of actually dropping that leg into a bucket I don't want anyone to hear that confident you know that noise it's just yeah it's just sickening I started talking to my patients about reducing sugar and the benefits were immediate not only would the people's fatty liver disease get better not only would all of their their blood numbers get better but in fact he would not have to end up chopping off a foot or a leg I then went to the hospital dieticians and said hang on this is really exciting this stuff about sugar started talking about it to the staff and then I started implementing a sugar reduction for my patients only to find out that I was starting to tread on some big toes the dietitians then started kicking up a stink about that involving their parent organization the dietitians Association of Australia who started becoming involved and pressuring the hospital into silencing me we received evidence in Sydney from medical practitioner in Tasmania dr. Gary fecking he gave the evidence to the committee in the morning of her hearing and Sydney three hours later he received an official caution from Oprah the first time I heard the story I just thought it was a joke the board's actual statement requires that doctors double-check that their personal beliefs don't compromise care that they don't put their commercial interest in front of patients and lastly doctors should provide appropriate dietary advice ultimately the Medical Board made a ruling that I am now the only doctor as far as we know in the world to be banned from advising these patients to reduce their sugar and junk food intake and if that sounds crazier then that's what it is we recognize that the the being subject and notifications process for a practitioner can be an extraordinarily stressful thing because know there are pretty serious issues at stake ultimately in terms of their practice of their profession and their reputation and their reputation and despite the fact that we are not punitive in our focus we are protective in our focus so our mandate is a public protection focus we understand and appreciate that it may not feel like that for the practitioner involved in the process for a long time I couldn't actually work out why there was anything actually against what I was talking about everything about reducing sugar and carbohydrate is basic biochemistry it's in the first hundred pages of textbooks it's that there's nothing there's nothing extreme about it once you see the results of reducing sugar and carbs particularly in diabetes you can't unsee them you know at this point I think there is active suppression of this science and this has been going on since the 60s one of the things that I found in my research the biggest-ever test of Ansel Akitas hypothesis was something called a Minnesota coronary survey it was on more than 9,000 men and women in five Minnesota mental hospitals which was a really well controlled study because somebody in a hospital you can control everything they're eating they gave half the people what was considered the normal amount of saturated fat regular milk regular meat cheese better etc the other half they gave nine percent saturated fats of soy filled milk soy filled cheese soy filled burgers they found that the people on the vegetable oil soy filled diets there was no effect on cardiovascular mortality or total mortality that study was not published for 16 years one of the principal investigators Ivan France was asked by a journalist why did you not publish the study he said well there was really nothing wrong with it we were just so disappointed in the way it came out well that's like you know that's basically scientific fraud not publishing your results I've started to ask the question what gotten away what's withholding the meta the message well there is a pharmaceutical and medical device industry that makes billions selling their products to doctors who have no interest in in diet therapy there is a sugar industry that adds sugar to all of our processed foods that has no interest in promoting a sugar-free diet there is a cardiology community led by the American Heart Association that has been spreading misinformation about a high-fat diet based on flawed science for over seventy years those diets have been used in children for many years who have epilepsy and those children showed definite cognitive dysfunction also those diets can change makers clearly also children who have as many they're intransigent childhood epilepsy they have as many as 400 seizures a months they're untreatable by drugs they go on the diets and the diets I think it cures 33% of them cures them you can told that see oh then they aren't able to think today charlie is a elementary school teacher and it's certificate in early childhood education he boxes he plays piano and we are beyond grateful every day for his outcome and sure what would have become of me if my family hadn't found the ketogenic diet but I doubt that today I would be an A student in high school with lots of friends I doubt I would have been playing piano for the last eight years and I doubt I could hit an 8-iron 160 yards they just couldn't accept that they were dealing with these intractable conditions and not just pediatric epilepsy but obesity is an intractable condition diabetes type 2 diabetes is an intractable condition type 1 is and here you have this diet that appears to put these conditions into remission to the establishment here represented by our friends a little too dogmatic and that we may never know the truth unless we acknowledge that there is a counter theory that has never been tested and that that theory more and more people are beginning to accept parts of the theory as being legitimate and that it could answer a lot of problems and it could even make it easier for Americans to lose weight people are able to reverse diabetes people are able to lose weight sustainably most if not all cardiovascular risk factors are improved along the way on a lower carbohydrate diet that diet ought to be at least considered if it turns out to be true I'll be the first to change my mind but show me the data or who's just once Tonia says that long-term ketosis reduces body weight by glycerides LDL and blood glucose and shows that it's safe to use a long-term care to genic diet you can lose weight on a plant-based diet you can lose weight on a ketogenic diet but are you mortgaging your health when you do that and the answer is yes the ketogenic diet when you look at the arteries of people or animals that go on a ketogenic diet they tend to be more clogged imagine someone who spent his whole career getting the wrong answer not only getting the wrong answer giving a wrong answer but dangerous it actually may have killed tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of people millions of people prematurely there's no way to tell and these Outsiders come along and say you're wrong not only you're wrong you're completely wrong are not even wrong it's so senseless what you've been doing and you're killing people and you have to switch I don't think any human being I mean we're just not wired to be able to say oh yeah that's a good point I get it I see what you're saying and I'm sorry and they did so if you're an institution like the American Heart Association I mean imagine the press release you would have to write dear American public we're sorry if we kill prematurely your loved ones and save your parents and maybe we're killing you but in retrospect we shouldn't have given the advice we did you know we think about corporations or the or our government which is a corporation and the first question is do we blame them well you can't hurt the government's feelings you can't hurt corporation's feelings because corporations and governments are not people they're machines they're just big giant machines and any person in that machine it's just a cog and there's no way to hurt anyone's feelings or to get on anyone's bad side it's just a machine that keeps running [Music] decisions of a nation another government then at one time could tolerate three or four weeks of study now demand almost instantaneous a reaction the people of the United States recognize one by one thousand by thousand million by million that this is a problem which is solution is long before Lyndon Johnson came into position of power our leaders were recommending great advances in the field of civil rights and great advances in the field of health and things of that nature I just happened to be the catalyst we're living in a fast age and all of us a rather impatient I am proposing today a new national health strategy emphasizes keeping people well not just making people well I do envision the day when we may use the private health insurance system to offer more middle-income families high quality health services at prices they can afford and shield them also from their catastrophic illnesses today I'm proposing to the Congress the national health plan this major initiative will meet their most urgent needs in health care the American people our administration were proposed to Congress a comprehensive plan to cover catastrophic illnesses I am proud to have been part of an administration that passed the first catastrophic health bill whatever form it takes a catastrophic illness costs money there are some little-known but very important provisions in this new balanced budget that will take us a tremendous step forward in our fight against diabetes these investments total more than two billion dollars over the next five years we must remember that the best health care decisions are not made by government and insurance companies but by patients and their doctors because you're eating healthy they're active in the planned sports and you're out in the playground and doing all those things not only are you gonna have a better life but you're also helping to create a stronger healthier America and that saves us money it means people are not sick as much it means that our healthcare costs go down when you roll up at a McDonald's what is what do you down from order that fish alight to sometimes the the Big Macs are great the quarter pounder with cheese I mean it's great the windows be like what I think all of those places broke achievement does I can I can live with them I had the other night I had Kentucky Fried Chicken not the worst thing in the world if you think it's up to government you're wrong if you think it's up the industry you're wrong it's up to you and if you're gonna make a change if you're watching this change right now tonight don't wait until tomorrow if it's a Friday night don't say Monday you're gonna start start now there's no time better than right now to get your life in order [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] I've been doing a podcast with ana voce know for about seven years when we first started the podcast nobody was listening wait that steak is 1200 calories this bowl of pasta is 500 calorie flus and as a woman you're told don't eat more than 1200 calories a day if you want to lose weight so you think oh I can't have that steak because that's my whole day we started attracting the attention of people in the low-carb community doctors authors like Gary Taubes Nina ty Schultz it's important for us to have the experts on because we're like see what that guy said Anna also turns out is a great cook as a person who works with food a lot I get asked many questions about a fake sweeteners or or fake this or fake that and I personally think it's going to have to go in an even more natural direction to where we just have this return to just eating food in its most natural state [Music] vini and I are very passionate about this topic let's say you watch this documentary let's say you watch the others and you're like this is it I'm gonna do this I am going to give up the processed sugars and grains and I'm gonna go for a high fat low carb diet and which you should do it try it it can't it can't hurt to not have sugars and grains like just try it when that happens and there's an adjustment phase all of us in this country myself included have been in the diet mentality if we can peel back that diet mentality it would be amazing [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] you

Channel: Hone & comb

Views: 1,620

Rating: 4.4545455 out of 5

Keywords: fat, fat 2019, a documentary on food, food documentary, nutrion, foods, whole foods, doctor phil, american, diet, diets, american diets, food, nutrious, nutrious labels, calories, calory, burning calories, getting in shape, getting ripped, escimo diet, mediterian diet, paleo diet

Id: 2S3kXM1EIkw

Length: 95min 6sec (5706 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 22 2020