Just watched "Fat: A Documentary" on Amazon Prime Video

(Robert C) #1

Well, if you want to get mad for about an hour and a half - watch this movie.

Good information - clearly stated - and should be required viewing in some mandatory-for-graduation high school health class.

As a country, we have really messed up - and by extension (due to the negligent following of the USA’s non-scientifically backed guidelines) messed up a lot of the world.

If you have been keeping yourself up-to-date on this site, there might not be much new for you technically. But, if you are the kind of person that wants to know how things (ideas) evolve and grow due to ego and $$$ - to avoid falling into the traps they create - it is a good mental exercise to put yourself through.

(Sheri Knauer) #2

I watched it a few weeks ago. It also makes me so mad that so much information has been passed on for decades, especially when I look around and see so much obesity and hear people talking about this medication and that medication and issues they are having due to their type 2 diabetes. So. Much. Needless. Suffering. Not to mention the astronomical costs of health, or should I say, sick care.

(Robert C) #3

Although upsetting sometimes, the endpoints seem worth the trip. Lots of our favorite speakers here too.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #4

Thanks Rob, I’ll check it out. I’m always up for a good rage session! :cowboy_hat_face:

(Sheri Knauer) #5

oh, definitely worth the watch. I just get upset/mad thinking about the consequences of that faulty information. To be clear though for anyone who had not seen or heard of the movie, when I say faulty info, i mean the high carb, low fat dogma that has been grinder into to us for decades, not the movie itself, which does have a lot of great speakers in it and does a good job of explaining how all the dietary misinformation got started and has continued.

#6

Looking forward to watching this! Vinny Tortirich is the reason I got interested in keto. He’s a semi-regular guest on the Adam Carolla Podcast. Likely wouldn’t have started seriously looking into this WOE without him/them!

#7

Thanks for the tip, am ordering a DVD to share around.

Go Nina Teicholz!!!

#8

I just watching this documentary and I don’t know if it’s me being grumpy lately, but I feel like it just falls flat. I was very excited to watch it and then pass it on to my mom and her partner: he has T2D, both are smart 65-year-olds and they are adapting the ketogenic WoL.
Maybe I know too much and felt like it didn’t share all the data, info and chemistry? I’ll let my mom watch it and see how she feels about it, if she would feel compelled to change her lifestyle, solely based on the info provided in this documentary.

#9

I agree Sandy.

Educated ketowegians are no longer the target audience. It’s good they are producing dumbed down films to counter the vegan agenda, aimed at the muddled industrialised main stream.

Paleo Pete Evans did a better job with Magic Pill. We know he did well because he was pounded by accusations of quackery. I think the measure of success at the moment is the reactive response from the vegans and the main stream CICO (that’s a good name for a film, pr, Psycho) lipid hypothesis media doctors.

https://blog.daveasprey.com/documentary-magic-pill-creates-ripples-through-global-health-community/

I don’t think Vinnie Totorich got much of a backlash for Fat?

#10

I’m glad I’m not the only one feeling this way, I really thought it was me. It felt like such a waste of brilliant people we’ve grown to love and they made it seem like they’re just saying the words without any passion, feeling, conviction…
The Magic Pill felt different, it was exciting, it made us think, it made us google, it made us wonder, we were in awe. Everyone talked about the Magic Pill, this documentary barely got 7 comments.
My mom maybe knows too much about keto for this documentary, but I really don’t think it would stir any kind of curiosity in someone who wants to change their WoL. What a shame…

(Murphy Kismet) #11

How ironic it is that this is the barometer by which we decide on the validity of a person’s position. If They crawl out of the woodwork to attack, then there must be something to it, right?:sweat_smile: