![]() ![]() Plus, how do you get people to abandon long-held social tendencies and desires? It is a breakdown in training of physicians, the accepted conventions in care, patient non-compliance, genetic diversity, and a culture of quick fixes. Patients want quick fixes, doctors have pills and fast advice. Drew Pinsky who in the film says that he received zero training in nutrition as a physician. I could not imagine how an industry could suppress such information, and how every scientist and physician would be a knowing pawn of the scheme. I did not agree with the continual inference that this diet misdirection is a deliberate ploy by the medical-industry-conglomerate to make people sick to sell more medicine, and that doctors somehow suppress this information. It is as entertaining as it is informative, and I laughed out loud many times during the presentation. The pacing of the film is rapid fire, with credible expert interviews laid over film reel footage and old commercials that reinforce the narrative. The new reliance on carbohydrates as daily fuels ignited ghastly new trends in diabetes and metabolic syndrome. In the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s, the abandoned fat calories switched to sugar (and other carbohydrates that ultimately end up as sugar) instead, and an obesity epidemic was born. The mantra of Fat=Bad started in the 1950’s with cherry picked data that became the bedrock of a national trend - to cut fat from the diet. ![]() His main thesis is that what we have been told might just be wrong, and it probably is. The story outlines the 1800’s invention of veganism, all-meat diets of the Inuits, post-WWII malnutrition that gave us grain-heavy guidance, and all of the other fads that misdirected us from the reality of eating healthy. I personally arrived at the same place he is - cut sugar, limit grain and weight is easier to manage, with many other health benefits. I consider myself a fan, and have been on his podcast twice. a new film by Fitness Confidential guru Vinnie Tortorich. Ironically, my blood scores returned to a normal range as I learned the magic of pork loins and eggs again. Doctors put me back on a diet including meat, and it really made a difference. Into my 40’s I was a national competitor in martial arts, and I just could not recover from exercise. ![]() It was a disaster that led me to contemplate statins to correct blood chemistry and high blood fat when I was eating almost none. Blood tests revealed high triglycerides and cholesterol levels approaching 300 with low HDL (the good one). One year later I was 165 lbs and running 50 miles a week. I also returned to running, lumbering across a parking lot probably 250 yards before heading back. After all, fat was allegedly the bad stuff. The plan was easy- switch to vegetables and fruits, cut out meat and watch fat. graduate school, in Chicago, being paid $13,000 a year. I was 26 years old, my genetics were working against me, and that doughboy in the mirror said something had to change. This was the same frame covered in pasty goo. It was not the good weight I once carried at 210 lbs of lean body mass. In 1993 I looked down at the scale and I hit an all-time high. A Rare Diet Doc that Makes Scientific Sense ![]()
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