“For most of human history there has been very little starch or sugar in the human diet. In fact, if you put all of human history into one year, it’s only in the last day that we started eating grains or bread and it’s only in the last hour that people have been eating sugar.”
Mark Hyman MD
Link to trailer – https://youtu.be/XzTOBoKOAWA
This 1 hour 20 minute documentary (available on Amazon Prime Video) narrated by Mark Hyman MD delves deep into the world of low carb with contributions from many of the top names in the field of nutrition. The following quotes from the documentary sum up just some of the insights and revelations:
You can’t throw drugs at a dietary disease and expect to make it better
Jason Fung MD on Diabetes
It’s the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the American people
Jonny Bowden Phd on Statins
It’s eye-wateringly lucrative to keep this idea going, that we need to lower cholesterol
Dr Zoe Harcombe Phd on Cholesterol
Inflammation is probably the number one promoter of every disease we don’t want to have
Jonny Bowden Phd on Sugar as an inflammatory substance
When we took fat out of the food we put in something way worse…sugar
Professor Robert Lustig on Fat Free Food
Vegetable oils belong in the engine of your car
Mark Hyman MD on Vegetable Oils
I think the dietary guidelines have become a tremendous failed experiment
Cardiologist Dr Bret Sher on the Food Pyramid
I don’t think governments will ever admit they were wrong about saturated fat
Professor Tim Noakes on Nutritional Guidlines
It’s clear, stop using medicine to treat food
Sarah Hallberg DO MS Obesity Specialist