> What I've Learned. The Story of Fat: Why We Were Wrong about Health. YouTube, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S6-v37nOtY>. Accessed 16 Aug. 2021. # The Story of Fat: Why we were Wrong about Health > This is the story of how we came to be afraid of fat and cholesterol & Why the anti fat mindset has made a lot of people's health worse. - The current FDA recommendations of a low fat diet come from physiologist Ancel Keys's Diet-Heart hypothesis and Lipid hypothesis. - It showed a correlation between fat intake and heart attacks - Dr Mann: "The DHH is the greatest scam ever perpetrated on the American public" - As our brains grew, our guts shrank because they were too energyvore - Cholesterol is very important for our body - Heart attacks happen when the arterial wall is damaged and the body sends stuff (like cholesterol) to fix it. It's not the cholesterol's fault - Okinawans do not eat inflammatory food so they do not get arteroschlerosis - Jonny Bowden, *The Great Cholesterol Myth* - HDL/LDL are seemingly irrelevant to health. Triglycerides are a much better indicator of disease. Lower your triglycerides by eating low carb. - Yudkin, *Pure, White, and Deadly* - In 1977, the food pyramid was made public by the FDA - Since then, obesity, diabetes and heart attack rates have been on the rise - Daniel Levitin: the number needed to treat for statin is 300: 300 people have to take the drug for a year for one heart attack to be avoided. On the other hand, 5% of patients suffer from side effects: you are 15 times more likely to be harmed by statin than to be helped by it. - Cholesterol is important for sex hormone production (testosterone and estrogen) - Pfizer, who manufactures the #1 statin drug Lipitor, also manufactures Viagra - Try to eat food that is as unprocessed as possible - Livestock consume 70% of the antibiotics in the US