📽️ Documentary: “Fat Fiction” (2019) – Is Fat Really the Villain?
Overview:Fat Fiction is a revealing documentary that explores how the “fat makes us fat and sick” belief emerged and questions the mainstream dietary guidelines that recommend cutting fat while increasing carbohydrate intake — a move that may have worsened obesity and diabetes.
Featuring leading doctors and researchers, the film challenges the long-standing Diet-Heart Hypothesis and argues that for decades, we’ve been misled to avoid healthy natural fats while increasing our intake of sugar and refined carbs.
Key points discussed:
The Birth of Low-Fat Guidelines: The film traces back to the 1970s when the US government issued dietary guidelines to reduce saturated fat to combat heart disease — despite inconclusive scientific evidence — and how that policy spread worldwide.
Unintended Consequences: As people reduced fat intake, they consumed more carbs and sugar instead (often added to low-fat products for taste), leading to rising obesity, diabetes, and blood lipid problems.
The Return of Good Fats: The film features doctors using Low Carb High Fat (LCHF) or ketogenic diets to treat patients, showing that health improves when people consume healthy fats (like avocado, olive oil, fatty meats) instead of carbs.
The documentary also revisits the role of saturated fats, showing that many new studies do not find a clear link between saturated fat and heart disease.
📺 Watch it on:YouTube and Netflix (title: “Fat Fiction”) — approximately 1hr 45min, with Thai subtitles available.