Dr. Jason Fung explains how the 1977 dietary guidelines led to the obesity epidemic. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans changed the way Americans ate, advising us to eat more carbs and less fat to prevent heart disease, but this lead to weight gain. When we gained weight, we were then told it was our own fault. Check out my blog at https://medium.com/@drjasonfung
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Timestamps
0:00 History of obesity medicine
4:11 The Low Fat Era of Weight Loss
10:23 Problems with with Low Fat Diet
16:41 Saturated Fat
21:00 The Paradox of eating Low Fat
25:43 The shocking origins of Vegetable Oil
32:35 The Food Pyramid
35:23 The Obesity Epidemic
37:00 Calorie Counting is not physiologic
48:00 Obesity is a hormonal imbalance, not a caloric one