Are low-fat diets bad for your health? | ZOE Dailies with Christopher Gardner

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Each day this week, we’re examining one of the world’s most popular diets. Putting the latest scientific evidence under the microscope, we’ll find out these diets' true impact on your health.
Today we’re talking about the low-fat diet, popularised in the 1970s and fueled by the belief that fat was the culprit behind heart disease and weight gain.
However, the aftermath saw a surge in low-quality carbs. Food manufacturers, in the quest for low-fat options, replaced fats with sugar and refined grains, resulting in us opting for low-quality carbs over whole foods and whole grains.
In this special episode of ZOE Science & Nutrition, Jonathan is joined by Christopher Gardner, a professor of Medicine at Stanford University and the Director of Nutrition Studies at Stanford Prevention Research Center. Together, they unravel the complexities of the low-fat diet, addressing its potential and pitfalls.
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Timecodes:
00:00 Introduction
00:42 Topic Intro
02:12 Why do people still follow low fat diets today?
04:01 What happens in the body when you cut out fat?
05:30 Does a low fat diet make you healthier?
07:10 Is it possible to have a healthy low fat diet?
09:55 If you choose a low fat diet with healthy carbs, is it better than a high fat diet?
11:50 What happens if you remove all fat from your diet?
12:19 What's the verdict?
12:45 Outro
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  • @Kathryn721
    @Kathryn7215 ай бұрын

    Thank you for distinguishing between whole food carbohydrates vs refined carbs. Carbs too often get lumped together and demonized when the body responds to each so differently. I think no matter what diet you follow reducing or ditching highly refined carbs is key.

  • @monicabroniecki7624
    @monicabroniecki76245 ай бұрын

    There seems to be a contradiction between with the podcast by Sarah Berry and Tim Spectre in which it was stated that fermented dairy such as cheese and yoghurt have a different matrix than unfermented dairy. They said eating fermented dairy won’t adversely affect your inflammatory markers, nor does it dump cholesterol into your arteries. I’m confused. This needs clarification.

  • @Enligh10ed1

    @Enligh10ed1

    5 ай бұрын

    I noticed that too! I started watching Zoe a few months ago and adopted more cheese and full fat yogurt into my diet based on what they said about fermented dairy. I even read the books Outlive by Peter Attia and Glucose Goddess that they highlighted on the Zoe videos and they also preach the gospel of full fat dairy. That was all until I stumbled upon a Plant Chompers video about the How Not to Age book from Dr Michael Gregor and it cites a lot of studies that show the harms of animal fat and its contribution to disease. Now I think differently about Zoe and truly wonder if they get funding from the dairy industry :/ Just look at the thumbnail from this video! Christopher Gardner does not say anything positive about saturated animal fats but the thumbnail seems to contradict it. Borderline deceptive.

  • @melimoo6656

    @melimoo6656

    5 ай бұрын

    The difference is that Tim was advocating for fermented diary in moderation. Chris also advocates for moderation over making it a primary part of your diet, I.e Mediterranean diet, but favours avoidance if possible.

  • @Enligh10ed1

    @Enligh10ed1

    5 ай бұрын

    @@melimoo6656 Okay that makes more sense. I was probably just focusing on the cheese thing because I love the taste and want it to be healthy for me lol

  • @alexdevcamp

    @alexdevcamp

    5 ай бұрын

    Shocker, sometimes scientists disagree with each other a little bit

  • @andrewnorris5415

    @andrewnorris5415

    5 ай бұрын

    I will add something that could be important context. Sarah Berry has big financial links to the dairy industry. Her work (very expensive studies) has often been funded by them.

  • @wackthegood8884
    @wackthegood88845 ай бұрын

    After reading yesterday's comments where many people were putting Christopher in the 'low fat vegan' camp, many may be surprised to see that he's not an advocate of low-fat diets. Sure, he's not recommending people start eating lots of meat, but the viewpoint was more nuanced than I'd have expected. I've tried keto, but can't stick to it for more than a few days, and have also tried the Dr McDougall approach, but always abandon that quite rapidly as I find food without any fat whatsoever is tasteless and I need to have pleasure in eating. I've come back to a more balanced approach, with some treats, but whole food based in the main, and this is working for me.

  • @davidcottrell1308

    @davidcottrell1308

    5 ай бұрын

    Been Keto/Carnivore for over a year...easy peasy.....what's so hard????

  • @Caladcholg

    @Caladcholg

    5 ай бұрын

    It's a very carefully crafted "look at me, I'm being reasonable" aspect of his persona, I've been following this guy for years now. He chooses every word very specifically, and these hosts play footsie with him and his knowingly ridiculous statements and contradictions. He is all over their videos at this point. Walter Willett did a similar thing on this podcast (the hosts really helped Walt out, too. Because they knew the audience just wanted to hear about the ridiculous 'red meat and diabetes' Harvard headline, but they buried the lead and focused on crappy carbs). Once you start seeing the pattern emerge, it can't be unseen.

  • @davidcottrell1308

    @davidcottrell1308

    5 ай бұрын

    yup...this guy is to be ignored. @@Caladcholg

  • @Caladcholg

    @Caladcholg

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@davidcottrell1308is not, he just really, really wants it to be. Your personal health is NOT in mind.

  • @wackthegood8884

    @wackthegood8884

    5 ай бұрын

    Severe pain in the kidneys.@@davidcottrell1308

  • @kd2533
    @kd2533Ай бұрын

    Always enjoy Prof G's input! He is so enthusiastic, knowledgeable and genuinely easy to listen to

  • @richardmorley7815
    @richardmorley78155 ай бұрын

    Utterly confusing. My understanding is that ultra low-fat diets are extremely bad for you. Not just unpalatable or 'disappointing'. Also I understood from Zoe that fermented food like yoghurt and also cheese had health benefits. Neither was there a proper description of the different types of fat. Who is this series for? I work in health research and I couldn't make head nor tail of this. I do appreciate that you're making this content for free but can you make your messaging clearer please? Jonathan was working really hard but overall I'm more baffled than before I watched this.

  • @vickilahtinen7254

    @vickilahtinen7254

    5 ай бұрын

    Yes I was very disappointed with yesterday’s talk and now todays too I would like information I can use - I prefer to make choices based on as facts based on research I’m not someone who simple followers advice I also like the personal preferences of a speaker put up front

  • @wbjxfkwsklejfde34d

    @wbjxfkwsklejfde34d

    5 ай бұрын

    agree, terrible episode. just going round in circles and an odd "enjoy your food" bit at the end. healthy food can be enjoyable and the speakers taste preferences shouldnt be a reason to be coy about whats acutally healthy.

  • @barbettecaravaggio7675

    @barbettecaravaggio7675

    5 ай бұрын

    Really? I did not find it confusing at all.

  • @wbjxfkwsklejfde34d

    @wbjxfkwsklejfde34d

    5 ай бұрын

    @@barbettecaravaggio7675you replied to the wrong comment. Strange your comment is highlighted as it doesnt really engage with the posters point at all.

  • @alisonlutton9378
    @alisonlutton93785 ай бұрын

    This is not so complicated but it we have to pay as much attention to what we add as to what we cut. As Michael Pollan said long ago, our fundamental guide should be to eat real food, mostly plants. Of course we need carbs, protein and fat from real foods. For most of us, the proportions should follow that order. Reducing fat does not mean increasing processed carbs, processed proteins or processed low-fat foods.

  • @jackiea8394
    @jackiea83945 ай бұрын

    When the low fat subject was discussed a couple of weeks ago I immediately switched back to full fat milk but struggled to find the same in yogurt until I saw our local dairy sells it. It really is the best so thank you. Will check out their butter next!

  • @annafdd

    @annafdd

    5 ай бұрын

    Yes, as somebody who decided to go full fat years ago, finding full fat yogurt is a struggle. Just as finding non-diet soda (not a great consumer, but when I do, I loathe the taste of aspartame.

  • @annafdd
    @annafdd5 ай бұрын

    So, I studied Medicine in the past. I passed an exam with an organic chemistry component. But that was more than twenty years ago and I would have appreciated a clear explanation of the difference between unsaturated and saturated fats and where to find them. Also, as another IBS sufferer, there are lots of foods that are Good For You and that I like (raw veggies mostly but alas pulses too) that I need to avoid because if I don’t I pay the price.

  • @annettestephens5337
    @annettestephens53375 ай бұрын

    I understand that Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin. No wonder I became so sick when eating low fat for years and years.

  • @lalonkarim1323

    @lalonkarim1323

    5 ай бұрын

    By low fat if you mean 20-30% of the calories from fat, you should be okay. But if you were eating less than that, it was not healthy.

  • @anitahernandez1207
    @anitahernandez12075 ай бұрын

    In order to metabolize some nutrients like vitamin D, ☀️ which is also important for hormone health, there needs to be some fat present since some of these nutrients are fat soluble. Extreme diets are not healthy.

  • @MichaelToub
    @MichaelToub4 ай бұрын

    Great Video!

  • @andreabaccara7439
    @andreabaccara74395 ай бұрын

    There is a big misunderstanding about whole fat milk: It is not "whole", it is not unprocessed as mentioned in the podcast. The milk is intially completely skimmed and then fat is added in a certain percentage depending on the type of milk we want to produce. Whole milk is defined by local regulation. For example in the US it has a 3.25% fat whilst in the UK it has 3.7%. Unprocessed milk fat content is much higher! But fat is the most useful part of the milk and it's better used for high-valued products (butter, cream, cheese)

  • @BeijingBuzzz-China-Travel

    @BeijingBuzzz-China-Travel

    5 ай бұрын

    Drink cream : )

  • @rickycarfan54
    @rickycarfan545 ай бұрын

    i miss a point: why on heart you suppose that if i cut fat i will substitute with high processed and refined carbs?? can’t i switch to healty protein and healty carbs?? 🤷‍♂️

  • @kestag2110

    @kestag2110

    5 ай бұрын

    I thought it was clear. Of course you can, switch to healthy protein and carbs as long as you are getting calories and nutrients which can be difficult on extreme low fat. Healthy fats are good. Vegan raw food influencer Zhanna Samsonova died of starvation last year because she couldn’t get enough calories and nutrients to sustain her body. You have to be sensible with what you eat, whether you choose vegan, vegetarian or omnivore.

  • @suechurchill4375

    @suechurchill4375

    5 ай бұрын

    Of course you can. I think the point being made here is that many people, in trying to cut down on their fat intake, reach out to low fat supermarket products.

  • @victorycall

    @victorycall

    5 ай бұрын

    @@kestag2110 It's not accurate to say Zhanna "couldn't get enough nutrients on a raw vegan diet." She didn't get enough nutrients because she was mentally ill and didn't have the drive to eat adequate nutrition. People with a healthy drive for self-preservation will succumb to the urge to seek additional nutrients. Like Dr. Gardner mentioned in this video, the low-fat vegans in his study resorted to eating refined grains to get calories: because they had a basic drive to get adequate nutrition 11:15 A raw vegan could eat avocado, olive oil, raw nuts, and coconut milk, and get plenty of calories to prevent starvation. (I wouldn't recommend that type of diet, but one won't starve to death because of that diet.)

  • @5Cheery7
    @5Cheery75 ай бұрын

    I was eating full fat yogurt and high fat nuts. And my recent cholesterol showed higher than desired LDL. I am not overweight BMI around 21. But I have decided to cut out cashews and eat almonds instead which are lower in saturated fat. And I’m now on fat free yoghurt. Low fat in this scenario seems sensible!

  • @ClayTallStories
    @ClayTallStories5 ай бұрын

    interesting although this did contradict your video on good bread and bad bread.

  • @revolutionarydefeatism
    @revolutionarydefeatism5 ай бұрын

    There are healthy fats: walnuts, tahini, nuts and seeds in general, flax seed. But again, eat them unprocessed.

  • @revolutionarydefeatism

    @revolutionarydefeatism

    5 ай бұрын

    Most definitely, there are tons of vegan junk!@@dennisward43

  • @richardthomas9856
    @richardthomas98565 ай бұрын

    I have no problem with eating avocados and olives, but I mostly stay away from the oils, which lack fiber and, in a sense, are mostly calories.

  • @chrisconklin2981
    @chrisconklin29815 ай бұрын

    Great Series. Always good to listen to Christopher Gardner. One of the best descriptions of proper diet.

  • @scotey

    @scotey

    5 ай бұрын

    He looks happy and healthy as well. Always a good sign when someone is advocating for a certain kind of diet.

  • @juliemccarthy4184
    @juliemccarthy41845 ай бұрын

    Does anyone know why the UK hasn't had S4 episode 3 please? Many thanks

  • @klauslispector
    @klauslispector5 ай бұрын

    I enjoyed the episode ❤

  • @LesleyVids
    @LesleyVids5 ай бұрын

    I tried Zoe but received conflicting advice. Although full fat natural yogurt got more points in their app, if I ate it then afterwards I would get a message saying to avoid fat in my next meal. If I had low fat natural yogurt I got far less points but didn’t get any warning message. Same happened with nuts. They were suggested as the best snack for me but afterwards I’d get a message to avoid fat. In the end I gave up…

  • @BeijingBuzzz-China-Travel

    @BeijingBuzzz-China-Travel

    5 ай бұрын

    Avoid these freaky eater bs diets like Zoe ! Eat unprocessed real food as you wish.

  • @davidr1431

    @davidr1431

    3 ай бұрын

    @@BeijingBuzzz-China-TravelAgreed. Zoe denounces restrictive fad diets, but in fact is one.

  • @jacklyke7731
    @jacklyke77315 ай бұрын

    I guess this is a biochemistry question, with a person who is T1D, when they are treating a hypo event and consuming simple sugars, what happens to the excess carbs that are not needed to restore BS levels? Do these get stored as fat and described in this video? Do they go to replenish glycogen that may have been used to put glucose back in the bloodstream? Both?

  • @bensharp1089

    @bensharp1089

    4 ай бұрын

    The process the body uses to convert carbs to fat, known as de novo lipogenesis, is very inefficient, converting at most 2% of the carbs to fat. After glycogen stores have been replenished, the rest is either burned off or excreted as waste. Please see kzread.info/dash/bejne/go1_16aodrTFgdo.html for an excellent analysis of what happens when consuming excess carbs. I love most of the information presented in this video, and appreciate the emphasis on saturated fat as a problem. However I don't really know what is a healthy level of non-saturated fats, and this video seems to downplay any potential issues of too much non-saturated fat. The body stores dietary fat very efficiently, so it seems like reducing overall dietary fat would be the most effective way of losing excess weight.

  • @catpod3872
    @catpod38725 ай бұрын

    Ok they had one pod cast were they said it was ok to have full fat milk and yogurt and now they r saying no. This used to be good for diet info but it starting to send contradictory info With all the different people coming on the show!

  • @melimoo6656

    @melimoo6656

    5 ай бұрын

    His position has always been Mediterranean diet with animal products in moderation is better than an unhealthy keto or low fat diet

  • @veronicaheaney3464
    @veronicaheaney34645 ай бұрын

    A doctor I worked with followed a very low fat diet. He also recommended it to his patients (he was a cardiologist, after all). His career was cut short after he required a quadruple coronary bypass. He was in his forties, I believe, and followed this low fat diet for at least 10 years. No thank you.

  • @charliehagon2885

    @charliehagon2885

    5 ай бұрын

    My father died because a doctor told him to go low fat. He didn't ask as he was already on an extremely low fat diet already, he just followed his doctor's advice and died.

  • @redragna3648

    @redragna3648

    5 ай бұрын

    Ah yes anecdotes, such a great way to get widespread applicable nutrition advice. We should really change our medicine model to anecdotes instead of large population studies.

  • @alexm7310
    @alexm73105 ай бұрын

    Waitrose do a fabulous wheatberry / lentil / kale mix... I have with peas etc & sardines! 😊

  • @WiseMindNutrition
    @WiseMindNutrition5 ай бұрын

    Perfect demonstration of how public health messages can become mistranslated for the public! Teaching about saturated fats and how to limit those would be better for the public health, however much more challenging.

  • @davidr1431

    @davidr1431

    3 ай бұрын

    Or, if recent science can be believed, teaching the public that saturated fat is not harmful to health and previous associations were unfounded. Instead, teaching that unprocessed animal fats and proteins are health promoting and whole food unrefined carbs in moderation do little harm, avoiding sugars wherever possible.

  • @poolfield2
    @poolfield25 ай бұрын

    I did Zoe in June and scored as poor fat and poor sugar control and I REALLY struggled to maintain my weight, in fact I’m still struggling to get my BMI upto20. I’m in my late 60s and don’t want to be really skinny, I eat in a 10 hour window and find it very hard to eat meals that score 70+ and maintain my weight.

  • @robwoodphotos

    @robwoodphotos

    5 ай бұрын

    I’m with you also in late 60s have put weight on since eating healthy with ZOE so trying to find a way forward that gets me to a healthy weight

  • @skilla2542

    @skilla2542

    5 ай бұрын

    I would recommend trying to increase muscle. We get sarcopenia as we age and it's really important to keep adequate muscle on. This in turn will increase your metabolism. Also a BMI of 20 is quite low!

  • @poolfield2

    @poolfield2

    5 ай бұрын

    @@robwoodphotos I have the opposite problem, can’t keep weight on!

  • @poolfield2

    @poolfield2

    5 ай бұрын

    @@skilla2542 indeed it is worrying, I kept asking the coaches how I was supposed to maintain my weight while scoring 70+ and apart from telling me to increase protein (plant presumably) they didn’t have much to offer. I have had to ease back into scoring 60+ on a daily basis. I do daily Pilates for strength and I walk 3 miles several days a week. I think there is further to go in personalised nutrition.

  • @robwoodphotos

    @robwoodphotos

    5 ай бұрын

    @@poolfield2you are welcome to some of mine Carol

  • @BeijingBuzzz-China-Travel
    @BeijingBuzzz-China-Travel5 ай бұрын

    It is the processed unsaturated cooking oils and margarine that are the big killer and should never be eaten. Use butter or extra virgin olive oil and always choose normal milk, cheese and not the processed 'low fat' junk.

  • @matthewcreelman1347
    @matthewcreelman13475 ай бұрын

    One thing that I think could be useful in these it to put some more numbers around healthy baselines. For example, if I recall in some of the protein discussions the 0.8 g of protein per day per kilogram of bodyweight gets used, with it being noted that Dr. Gardner considers that amount of protein to be more than enough for the vast majority of the population. Having a similar quantity quoted for fats would be useful to level set. Elsewhere on the Internet, I've seen numbers between 0.3 and 0.5 grams of fat per kilogram per day - would either of those be appropriate? Or should we in Dr. Gardner's opinion just look to the amount of unsaturated fats, or to the amount of non-trans fats?

  • @davidr1431

    @davidr1431

    3 ай бұрын

    Good points. I also think that the bio-availability of the recommended protein source is an important source of that people don’t under or over eat.

  • @suzannemanser8352
    @suzannemanser83525 ай бұрын

    Funniest thing I saw on a sweet (candy) packet of boiled sweets (just sugar and colour and flavours) when visiting USA was a huge marketing sign on them, proudly saying 0% fat. Like they were somehow a healthy choice!

  • @sharky01dancer
    @sharky01dancer5 ай бұрын

    Christopher Gardner has been a vegetarian for more than 25 years, or, as he prefers to describe it, a plant-based diet.

  • @davidr1431

    @davidr1431

    3 ай бұрын

    Yes. You would think that a professor of nutrition would know what most people understand a plant-based diet to be ie a vegan diet without necessarily implementing other vegan lifestyle modifications.

  • @ivanrevkov843
    @ivanrevkov8435 ай бұрын

    I love Jonathan's humor, he is Soo funny, especially the episode on nuts.

  • @puntuated7647
    @puntuated76475 ай бұрын

    I haven't heard Christopher acknowledge the potential benefits of fermented dairy. Does he disagree with Tim? Could this be commented on in a future episode please?

  • @inthevortex-de1rh
    @inthevortex-de1rh5 ай бұрын

    No grain no pain

  • @Caladcholg

    @Caladcholg

    5 ай бұрын

    Word up.

  • @earthmamma85
    @earthmamma855 ай бұрын

    Enjoyed this. What do you think about coconut oil? It’s very high in saturated fat. But I’ve heard that it’s better than animal saturated fats.

  • @Joseph1NJ

    @Joseph1NJ

    5 ай бұрын

    It's not, avoid it and all tropical fats. Somewhere the coconut oil industry hired a really good PR firm that had people thinking its magic. It isn't. The saturated fats in coconut oil is as deleterious to cardiovascular risk as any other saturated fat.

  • @jankaisand6191
    @jankaisand61915 ай бұрын

    Wasn’t this low fat or no animal fats was a study by the sugar industry.?

  • @Cas.1964
    @Cas.19645 ай бұрын

    I cant eat brown bread as it massively inflames my IBS. I never buy supermarket bread as its full of rubbish, instead i buy good quality white bread and i freeze it which lowers the GI, also i keep my intake to a couple of slices a day. Keep off as many processed foods as you can, a treat should be a treat, not a daily diet and as the saying goes a 'balanced' diet. Its doesnt have to be so complicated. Too much analysing of every mouthful of food is just complicating things. Food is fuel its that simple. If you filled your car tank with chip fat and sugar it wouldnt run very well, your body is no different! I never buy low fat as they just replace fat with sugar.

  • @pantameowmeow.s.1149
    @pantameowmeow.s.11495 ай бұрын

    25 - 30 % is by no means low fat. Almost all foods has some type of fat. Natural, unprocessed food is not what people are eating, those with problems that is.

  • @BartBVanBockstaele
    @BartBVanBockstaele5 ай бұрын

    While most of the science Prof. Gardner quotes is very well established, I have a problem with the claim that low-fat diets don't taste very good and that people can't get enough food in. For many people, perhaps, but I am just eating a meal that contains black beans, green cabbage, carrots, onions, daikon and tomatoes and it tastes great to me. Great enough for me to want to eat a lot more than the 450 g I have. Yet, Cronometer tells me it only contains 4% of its calories as fat. That does not mean by any stretch of the imagination that Prof. Gardner is wrong, but it most definitely means that the claim about such a diet is wrong for **me**.

  • @stanleyniezrecki2469
    @stanleyniezrecki24695 ай бұрын

    Why enjoy what your eating? It will just make you eat more of it and gain weight. The less palatable whole food exclusively plant diet is the way to go. Too bad if it isn't as tasty. It's designed to keep you alive. And it isn't that intolerable.

  • @dj.h7424

    @dj.h7424

    5 ай бұрын

    strange comment! I’ve eaten plants only for four years and absolutely look forward to every meal and every bite! Once your microbiome adjusts meat just doesn’t look like food. Yes really!

  • @stanleyniezrecki2469

    @stanleyniezrecki2469

    5 ай бұрын

    I find it hard to believe a well planned 30-40% healthy fat diet can be as healthy as a well planned 10% healthy fat diet, but that’s the claim they are making. The 40% diet will likely taste better but is the 10% one impossible to make palatable and is it a complete waste of time since it’s no healthier? I’m pretty sure if you choose the 40% one you will be fatter or hungrier since fat is so much more calorie dense than carbohydrates.

  • @Marathon5151
    @Marathon51515 ай бұрын

    I feel like he is over-simplifying carbs to fat storage. De novo lipogenesis is a metabolically costly process so the body only turns some of the excess carbs to fat. The remaining is burned off by increasing body temperature.

  • @bigcat9977
    @bigcat99775 ай бұрын

    Low fat diet is bad. Fats, excluding highly processed (high omega 6) seed oils, are not bad as long as you don't over eat.

  • @samirk8362
    @samirk83622 ай бұрын

    It seems to me that most of ZOE's content, particularly the one with Dr. Gardner's input, attracts the followers of this thing called carnivore diet that are not very happy and the new fad is to blame everything on sugar. :)

  • @chrisjames2766
    @chrisjames27665 ай бұрын

    It would be good to fully disclose at the outset that Dr Gardner is a long term vegetarian, and discourages eating meat by extension.

  • @Enligh10ed1

    @Enligh10ed1

    5 ай бұрын

    Yeah he follows the science and practices what he preaches. I guess you need a disclosure for that?

  • @pg7899
    @pg78992 ай бұрын

    So is he basically saying you should rather eat a 50% carb diet 🤔 instead of low carb, high LDL he says contributes to heart disease 🤔 not exactly…I think I understand why at the end they say this is not medical advice it definitely isn’t

  • @rachelbrett8356
    @rachelbrett83565 ай бұрын

    After 30 years of low fat diets, I ended up morbidly obese, went blind, hiatus hernia, T2D and breast cancer. So on reviewing this low calorie control diets I discovered that a calorie control doesn’t work as part of Ancel Keys study in 1944 for a year. This was known before the Eat Well Plate was instituted. How did this allowed to be the case for forty plus years. As a result I re educated myself, lost 35kilos and maintained a low carb diet for five years and in T2D remission for four years. Sorry this way of thinking failed a lot of people, caused the obesity crisis along with all the linked illnesses. Hence the scientists are not forgiven and looked at sceptically.

  • @ruthhorowitz7625

    @ruthhorowitz7625

    5 ай бұрын

    Most people in the US do low fat wrong. You need to be eating whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and legumes. I highly doubt that's what you were eating.

  • @Caladcholg

    @Caladcholg

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@ruthhorowitz7625oh the classic victim blaming. It was your own ignorance, gluttony, sloth and genetics, the experts couldn't possibly have been wrong 🙄/s. I am so sorry that happened to you; did you really go blind, know chronically elevated blood sugar over time can really mess up the blood vessels in the eyes. There is no need for exogenous sugar in a human diet, and all carbs that aren't fiber are just that.

  • @victorycall

    @victorycall

    5 ай бұрын

    @@ruthhorowitz7625 People eat crappy carbs from childhood onward and damage their metabolisms. Once a person has irreparably damaged their metabolism, that person may not be able to maintain healthy blood glucose levels eating whole grains, fruits, and legumes - at all, ever again.

  • @rachelbrett8356

    @rachelbrett8356

    5 ай бұрын

    @@ruthhorowitz7625 you are probably right as I followed calories in and out like a Trojan. I didn’t understand what I was doing wrong because I was being told eating five times a day was the way to lose weight as well as most low calorie foods have sweeteners added to them. The message was wrong hence the information was wrong and people got fat and got blamed for it. Now I am a lot wiser and definitely a lot healthier. I am based in the UK btw but we picked up all the bad habits from the US

  • @barbettecaravaggio7675
    @barbettecaravaggio76755 ай бұрын

    The low fat drawback that really also should be mentioned is HORMONES. And specifically for females of reproductive age... For me, a low fat diet wreaked havoc on my natural cycle and did all sorts of off balancing things to my body, and my mental health, actually.. low fat really is not where it's at when it comes to an all-round healthful diet for most human beings. I can imagine, if you are a human being who has been pounding down steak and lots of other saturated fats all your life, and you now have clogged arteries, then yes, maybe a low fat diet will help to clear out arteries in the short term. But a whole lifetime of fat-less eating? It's not only unsatisfying, it is not even healthy. Think of all the phases in life where you need the fat for building hormones, and we have not even touched the subject of immunity... Replacing saturated with the unsaturated poly and mono fats that Mr. Gardner discusses: YES. I think there will be coming more and more research findings about the low fat versus a higher unsaturated fat diet and their helpfulness when it comes to longevity and health. Great little video, thank you Zoe and Christopher 🥰

  • @brucejensen3081
    @brucejensen30815 ай бұрын

    It doesnt make sense, if high fat is bad, wouldn't you go to moderate fat intake. Like if you are eating high calories and its bad, like say 5% excess, would you drop 60% calories, well i guess a lot do. I guess you can make sense of all the nonsense. Surely performance has to come in somewhere

  • @Mrm1985100
    @Mrm19851005 ай бұрын

    The traditional Okinawan and Japanese diets were very low fat, like around 10-15% of calories from fat.

  • @Caladcholg

    @Caladcholg

    5 ай бұрын

    You do know Agu was literally worshiped in the Ryukyu Kingdom, and is the most traditionally prized food of those who live there, no matter how much Dan Buettner tries to say (or imply) otherwise.

  • @prozac5314

    @prozac5314

    5 ай бұрын

    this is false it was high in animal products, the veggies and carbs were only used after/during the war because no resources.

  • @mamakaka73
    @mamakaka735 ай бұрын

    Avocadoes are gross... nuts hurt my teeth... olive oil, well there's a limit to what I can consume. I guess I'll die 🤷‍♀️🤪

  • @Meathead-10810
    @Meathead-108105 ай бұрын

    I think saturated fat is the best and most healthy fat because it is much less prone to oxidation. Plant fats are the worst as they oxidize very quickly.

  • @dj.h7424

    @dj.h7424

    5 ай бұрын

    do you have any science? I’m guessing no!

  • @Meathead-10810

    @Meathead-10810

    5 ай бұрын

    @@dj.h7424 kzread.info/dash/bejne/ioqCj9ClptzTisY.html

  • @stevelanghorn1407
    @stevelanghorn14075 ай бұрын

    Lovely model-agency thumbnail pose from your “Stanford Sweetheart” Prof Gardner.

  • @inthevortex-de1rh
    @inthevortex-de1rh5 ай бұрын

    Beans and grains really spike blood sugar in a lit of people. You can't generalize ever! We are all different. People should measure their blood sugar before and after eating. That's the only way to find out if something is good for them or not. It doesn't matter what "studies" say if it doesn't work for you😮

  • @Caladcholg

    @Caladcholg

    5 ай бұрын

    Here here! There is no need for exogenous sugar in the diet. If it's a carb, and it's not fiber, it's sugar. Period.

  • @rcteryx

    @rcteryx

    5 ай бұрын

    Well said 👏

  • @Caladcholg

    @Caladcholg

    5 ай бұрын

    @@rcteryx 😉

  • @Cas.1964

    @Cas.1964

    5 ай бұрын

    Beans and grains made me so ill with IBS I avoid at all costs. You're right we are all different.

  • @victoriar9728

    @victoriar9728

    5 ай бұрын

    i am with you!

  • @robin-jewsbury
    @robin-jewsbury5 ай бұрын

    Some good info but I'm disappointed in Christopher dumbing down the facts so much it becomes false information. For example saying there are 2 types of fat 1) saturated 2) unsaturated and saturated is bad and unsaturated good is patently incorrect. It's monounsaturated fats with no factory processing ie extra virgin olive oil which is good, the other polyunsaturated oils are bad because they are heavily factory processed and full of inflammatory substances which cause heart issues. His story about Ancel Keys trying not to confuse people by simplifying the facts should be applied to him and that is NOT the story we can all read about on the Internet of how Ancel cherry picked the countries to fit his hypothesis (removing Scandinavia with low heart disease). If the video needs to be 20 mins instead of 15 spend the extra time explaining all the nuances of this subject please.

  • @robz.3225

    @robz.3225

    5 ай бұрын

    Plant Chompers has a great episode on Keys and his study.

  • @davidr1431

    @davidr1431

    3 ай бұрын

    Zoe Harcombe also reflects on Keys and his study for anyone who wants some balance to the plant choppers version of history.

  • @groove9tube
    @groove9tube5 ай бұрын

    It’s no wonder Peter Attia tends to stay away from nutritional advice. Discussions like this just confuse people. So tired of hearing about special diets. They rarely talk about reducing overall calories.

  • @ZmogusJaponija

    @ZmogusJaponija

    5 ай бұрын

    Nutritional advice became huge industry. KZread alone generates billions of views on nutrition topic. Then books, branded suplements, etc etc etc. And all this cannot be done without overcomplicating things. One guy tells sat fats and animal protein kills you. So you change them to plant fats, plant protein and plant carbs. Plant protein comes with carbs also. So then another guy tells - carbs will kill you. And then third guy tells - overall plants kill you. And so on.

  • @Meathead-10810
    @Meathead-108105 ай бұрын

    I found out they are not healthy when I ate a plant based diet for 2 years, it took the carnivore diet to correct all the problems.

  • @Cas.1964

    @Cas.1964

    5 ай бұрын

    I was plant based for 12 years and just never felt well, fatigue, ibs etc. Started eating white meat and fish again 6 months ago and I feel SO much better. Also my cholesterol has dropped which I was very surprised at.

  • @freshorangina
    @freshorangina5 ай бұрын

    ANCEL KEYES PICKED HIS DATA! Please remember that!

  • @freshorangina

    @freshorangina

    5 ай бұрын

    Grounding “new ideas” in old adulterated data is not a smart choice.

  • @user-qh8ih1em6z
    @user-qh8ih1em6z5 ай бұрын

    You don't need a diet. Eat real food

  • @maggiewickwire2936
    @maggiewickwire29362 ай бұрын

    Low fat food tastes horrible, nasty. I’ll choose full fat over nonfat/low fat any day.

  • @12345charliebrown
    @12345charliebrown5 ай бұрын

    I love Beef, Lamb and Fish. The fatty the cut, the better

  • @Caladcholg

    @Caladcholg

    5 ай бұрын

    And as it happens, in an 'ironic' (if you listened to the Old Gaurd) twist of fate, the healthier. Lymphatic system ftw!

  • @victorycall

    @victorycall

    5 ай бұрын

    Speaking my language here. I never met a fatty animal I didn't love.

  • @devenirvegan
    @devenirvegan5 ай бұрын

    you just “forgot” to explain what is happening if you go low fat and focus only on high quality carbs … Very disappointing for a Stanford phd … who perfectly knows John McDouggall, Dean Ornish, Caldwell Esselstyn … Very very disappointing …

  • @davidr1431

    @davidr1431

    3 ай бұрын

    His “memory” is very bad, even of his own research.

  • @robhingston
    @robhingston19 күн бұрын

    the fat you eat, is the fat you wear

  • @Al-vy1fv
    @Al-vy1fv5 ай бұрын

    Stanford scientist. Centralized medicine. So much for Zoe.

  • @LeeBoris974

    @LeeBoris974

    5 ай бұрын

    If you had any idea what Zoe was you already know they do not encourage the keto diet.

  • @denzilpenberthy344
    @denzilpenberthy3445 ай бұрын

    The Fruitarians who pump away 1000s of calories of sugar every day look like death camp victims

  • @charliehagon2885
    @charliehagon28855 ай бұрын

    We have been eating saturated fats for over 3,000,000 years without a problem. Soybean oil, the most consumed polyunsaturated oil is from the 60s, late 50s in the US. Soybean oil is Ultra High Processed. Christopher Gardner does talk some truth but speaks his plant based beliefs without challenging his own bias.

  • @Caladcholg

    @Caladcholg

    5 ай бұрын

    It is one cold, calculating career of his.

  • @dj.h7424

    @dj.h7424

    5 ай бұрын

    @@CaladcholgHe does decent science and is well-respected. Try again

  • @dj.h7424

    @dj.h7424

    5 ай бұрын

    3m years of low life expectancy? Not what everyone aspires too these days.

  • @Caladcholg

    @Caladcholg

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@dj.h7424yeah from trauma, infections, death during childbirth, combat and natural disasters. Someone living to one hundred and a infant dying at birth count as a statical fifty year old. A bit of a confounder people seem to ignore 🤔, people did NOT metabolically age like this.

  • @charliehagon2885

    @charliehagon2885

    5 ай бұрын

    He mixes good science with personal bias. Ancel Keys was well respected, unfortunately.​@@dj.h7424

  • @evanhadkins5532
    @evanhadkins55325 ай бұрын

    Except Keys didn't present all the countries he looked at. He excluded some.

  • @casper98204
    @casper9820417 күн бұрын

    WRONG! What total misinformation.

  • @niceracleous9999
    @niceracleous99992 ай бұрын

    This information is out of date, you need to get some consistency with these KZread clips. Eating fat does not make you fat. Sugar is the problem.

  • @drewbuffington

    @drewbuffington

    2 ай бұрын

    Lmao … give your head a shake…

  • @ellie698
    @ellie6985 ай бұрын

    "so what you're saying is...." "so what you're saying is...." "so what you're saying is...." "so what you're saying is...." Blah blah blah

  • @davidcottrell1308

    @davidcottrell1308

    5 ай бұрын

    clickbait

  • @12345charliebrown

    @12345charliebrown

    5 ай бұрын

    this should be called the Vegan channel.

  • @davidcottrell1308

    @davidcottrell1308

    5 ай бұрын

    yup....@@12345charliebrown

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