#48 - Jen Isenhart

Diet Doctor Podcast

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4.8 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

If you haven't seen the documentary Fat Fiction, I highly recommend that you watch it. It's a well-made, professionally produced film about how the U.S. dietary guidelines created an atmosphere that undoubtedly contributed to our current crisis of obesity and type 2 diabetes. But the film also shows us what we can do about it. It provides a message of hope as it follows low-carb doctors and nutritionists, showing how they impact the lives of their patients. Documentaries about nutrition are challenging to pull off. The director's decisions are critical: How much detail should be included on each topic? How much science should be highlighted? How much time should be spent on inspirational stories? And how should the film's point of view be balanced? Jen and I discuss these topics and more in this engaging interview.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Diet Doctor Podcast with Dr. Brett Schur.
0:05.0	Here we are again with another remote podcast interview.
0:08.0	And this time it's with Jen Eisenhardt, who is the founder of wide-eyed productions,
0:14.0	a video production company based in Idaho.
0:17.0	And she's already won five Emmys.
0:19.0	She's done a number of different documentaries about Idaho,
0:22.6	about salmon, about nature,
0:25.6	and now she's taken on the topic of nutrition.
0:28.6	Specifically, the nutrition of fat and the dietary guidelines,
0:32.6	how we've been led astray as a country,
0:34.6	and sort of what are some of the details about that.
0:37.6	And really, this film has a message of hope in it about what we can accomplish with a
0:45.0	broader look at nutrition, specifically focusing on low carb. And there are wonderful
0:49.2	interviews with physicians and a lot of the preeminent people in the low carb world and some actual
0:57.0	footage of doctors and their patients and this message of hope of what a doctor-patient
1:02.8	interaction can and should look like and the power that all this has. So in this interview,
1:07.8	we talk about her personal experience, her motivation for making
1:11.4	the film, but also we have to be honest with ourselves. And the nutritional community as
1:16.1	a whole and certainly the low-carb community has some mythology and has some just accepted
1:21.0	beliefs about what the dietary guidelines say or what we think about vegetable oils. And it's a documentary like this has to sort of total line.
1:32.3	How much of the details do you do versus how much of the general picture do you portray?
1:38.3	So I think this interview talks about some of that and hopefully you'll enjoy this
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