The FAT MYTH DEBUNKED: Discover WHY Fat Doesn't Equal Fat | Dr. Mark Hyman EP 569

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Mark Hyman debunks the myth that all calories are equal, explaining that food provides instructions that regulate health minute-by-minute via genes, hormones, and gut bacteria. He traces how flawed, weak studies demonizing fat led to disastrous health guidelines, though research now proves fat fuels metabolism, satisfies hunger, and enables weight loss. Hyman details how insulin-spiking carbs like sugar and wheat drive obesity, while high-fat diets effortlessly burn more calories, and how the 2015 Dietary Guidelines finally admitted this truth. Overall, he makes a strong case that food acts as powerful medicine, with the quality of calories, not just the quantity, determining prevention or causation of most chronic diseases.

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0:00.0	Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:07.0	Why that is the key to sustain weight loss.
0:15.0	Who would have thunk it, right?
0:17.0	Aren't we not supposed to have fat in our diet?
0:19.0	Isn't it bad for us?
0:20.0	That's to create heart disease and high cholesterol
0:22.0	and all these other things that are bad for us or is that's what we were all taught right that's the whole line our government
0:28.8	told us to eat six to 11 servings of red rice cereal and pasta and they eat a low-fat diet and fats and oils were sparingly only at the top supposed to be eaten and yet that advice led to the worst obesity epidemic and diabetes epidemic in the history of mankind.
0:45.0	That's like the food charts that we were all saw in school, right?
0:48.0	Completely opposite of what we should be doing.
0:50.0	And so the science has caught up with this bad advice.
0:54.2	And the advice, unfortunately, Lewis was based on really shoddy science,
0:58.9	on very weak evidence, on a few population studies, not really experimental studies. In fact, all the experimental
1:05.0	studies, they told us the low-fat diets, they actually didn't tell us that we should be doing
1:09.8	that they were actually contradicting the recommendations that were developed in
1:13.8	1980 by the UK and the USA. Really? So basically if you looked at the actual
1:18.6	randomized controlled trials that were there weren't that many but there was a few
1:21.8	of them they all said that many, but there was a few of them.
1:22.8	They all said that eating low fat wasn't beneficial.
1:26.3	But the, because we're outside of the US.
1:28.4	No, trials all over.
1:29.4	Trials and the US.
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