173: Big fat lie
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Dietary fat is our friend, not our foe. Although this may seem like a radical statement, it is true. Today, Jennifer Isenhart, journalist and documentarian, reveals the weak science behind the dietary fat dogma we've been fed for years. She explains the consequences of the anti-fat propaganda: namely that we are more overweight and sicker than ever. Jennifer brings the data that backs up her conclusions: that fat does not make us fat or sick. Along the way, she tells us her personal story and what led her to create this "Big Fat Lie" documentary to help set the record straight.
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| 0:00.0 | So the big fat lie was really the recommendation initially by the American Heart Association |
| 0:07.0 | to cut naturally occurring saturated fats out of our diet and replace them with industrially processed vegetable oils, which, you know, as you know, was a recommendation initially that told our entire nation to switch from naturally occurring fats like butter and large and replace them basically with trans fats instead. |
| 0:27.0 | The other big fat lie is that that will make you fat and that's I think almost kind of a semantics issue but that's, I think, almost kind of a semantics issue, but that's what I grew up under, is that fat will make |
| 0:36.9 | you fat. Welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast, sponsored by the Weston A Price Foundation for |
| 0:50.0 | Wise Traditions in Food, farming, and the healing arts. |
| 0:53.8 | We're your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom |
| 0:56.9 | to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 0:59.0 | Hey guys, I'm Hilda Labrata Gore and this is episode 173. |
| 1:09.0 | Our guest today is Jennifer Eisenhardt. |
| 1:12.0 | She is the journalist who has been working on the documentary |
| 1:14.7 | Big Fat Lie. The lie we've bought is that Fat makes us Fat or sick. We are honestly still |
| 1:22.2 | fat-phobic despite scientific and anecdotal evidence |
| 1:26.5 | that points to the truth that fat has many benefits for our health. |
| 1:31.5 | Jennifer today tells us her own story, the health issues |
| 1:35.0 | that caused her trouble and actually led her to make this documentary. It is |
| 1:40.1 | going to help many of us realize that we can truly eat fat without guilt or fear. |
| 1:46.0 | Just as this conversation will do. |
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