And if you did, did you find yourself wanting to yell at the television? It is on amazon prime right now, and I watched it this morning.
My take on Diet Fiction is that it is a propaganda piece for the vegan lifestyle disguised as a scientific documentary examining popular diets. Dr. Dean Ornisch, Rip Esselstyn, dr. Garth Davis, and many others talk in terms of whole natural foods, which I don’t think anyone argues with.
Then they take scientific tidbits and extrapolate them to conclusions unsupported by the original study’s findings. They grossly mischaracterize ketogenic and paleo, and then attribute study outcomes of diets that did not meet a keto standard to the keto diet… it’s a piece of biased marketing that is interesting to watch. It would be great to see it written as a paper and to challenge the ‘facts’ as most are unsubstantiated in my cursory review Among some of the misstatements:
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The protein based keto diet is a fad diet as there are no long term study of the healthy effects of it. Really? What about the history of mankind prior to agricultural production of grains?
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a registered dietician implies at one point that if you want to get all essential amino acids, the plant based diet is the only/best way to do so. This is just plain wrong.
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While refined sugar and pure fat are both macronutrients. Only one of them have been vilified and demonized by the media and scientific community. While I agree on that count, they go on to say that the demonized macro is sugar. Really? Where were these people living from 1960 to 1990?
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It is implied that your brain requires carbs in the diet. It doesn’t explicitly say this, but I’d guess most viewers get that as the takeaway. It ignores gluconeogenesis and indicates this is a very difficult pathway for the body to utilize.
This is only the top four that I recall quickly after watching this film. It’s be interesting to hear others thoughts after viewing it. I almost stopped watching but then continued, and it ended up being quite good as I was checking my own perceptions and facts as I heard what I thought was (and mostly proved to be) false implications and rhetoric.
Has anyone else watched this, and what are your thoughts?
Jason