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FAT: A Documentary
2019 · Film · documentary · 95 min
Directed by Peter Curtis Pardini
Weight loss expert Vinnie Tortorich and award-winning filmmaker Peter Pardini want you to join their team to make a hard-hitting documentary film that exposes the widespread myths and lies around healthy eating, fat and weight loss and shows how, in spite of all our good intentions, we go on getting fatter and fatter.
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See the recent "FAT: A Documentary" (Amazon Prime has it) or the book "The Big Fat Surprise" by Nina Teicholz for many more details. I found these entertaining and compelling.
> The Frantz children always felt fortunate that their father brought his work home, his beliefs about the dangers of saturated fat shaping what the family ate. “Other kids would have ice cream; we had ice milk,” recalled Ivan Frantz. Bob said they were “reared on margarine,” foreswearing butter’s saturated fat.
I think this is key. This debate isn't about corporate shills, but honest disagreement between sincere, hard working scientists. It shows how hard nutrition science in particular can be.