The Magic Pill Page #14

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After eight years,

this amazing study--

the low-fat diet did not

significantly reduce the risk

of coronary

heart disease, stroke,

or cardiovascular disease,

and achieved only modest effects

on cardiovascular risk factors.

So after all that effort,

that was the outcome.

[Nina]

In the 35 years we've

been following the guidelines,

animal fats are down by 17%,

red meat down by 17%,

eggs are down by 17%,

whole milk down by 73%!

So, everything we've been

told to cut down on,

we have cut down,

and everything we were told

to increase, we increased.

Grains are up by 41%,

vegetable oils up by 91%,

fruit up by 13%,

vegetables up by 23%.

So on the whole,

Americans have been

following the guidelines.

It leads you inevitably

to the conclusion

there must be something wrong

with the guidelines themselves.

There were parts of the study

which were a bit worrying,

and this was women

who were sick

at the start

of the trial with diabetes.

This healthy diet should

make them even healthier,

but it didn't.

Women with diabetes did worse.

And what I find interesting

is they never reported

the eight-year data

on women with diabetes

in that study,

and you have to ask, "Why?"

[Nina] When these

study results are coming out,

they're deeply inconvenient.

This hypothesis has been adopted

not only by the American

Heart Association,

but also by the National

Institutes of Health,

the entire federal government,

medical societies,

and a number of industries:

the vegetable oil industry,

ADM, Monsanto, Bunge--

some of the biggest companies

in the world--

and the grain industry,

and the soybean industry.

So these results had to be

ignored somehow

or suppressed.

[Marika]

I've been left

with a very disturbing feeling

that this hearing was set up

from the very beginning.

We'll adjourn tomorrow

at 10:
00 sharp.

[Marika]

There is much more at stake

than a simple tweet.

There are powerful

vested interests.

People stand to lose a lot--

whether it's status, money--

in accepting

Professor Noakes' viewpoint.

[Robert] Could you describe

what the low-carb, high-fat

pyramid would be?

Yeah. Actually,

that's an important--

that is maybe a graphic that,

more than any other--

What you have to do is take

the existing food pyramid

and turn it upside-down.

So that everything

that used to be in the base

of the food pyramid--

grains, carbohydrates--

really has to be up in the tip.

And then below that are

our fruits and vegetables,

and then the big bottom slab

really has to be fats

and animal foods.

That is actually what

a healthy diet looks like.

Hi. Hi!

How are you guys doing?

[Kate] I was so excited

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