Fat Fiction
Nutrition science got it wrong. Here’s how you can get it right.
2020 · 1h 55m · N/A Documentary
Overview
Leading health experts examine the history of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines and question decades of dietary advice insisting that saturated fats are bad for us.
Director and cast
- Gary Taubes as Self - Investigative Science Journalist / Author
- Nina Teicholz as Self - Investigative Science Journalist / Author
- Ancel Keys as Self (Archival footage) - Physiologist
- Tim Noakes as Self - Scientist / Author / Professor Emerita
- Mark Hyman as Self - Narrator / Nutritionist / Functional Medicine Physician
- Bret Scher as Self - Cardiologist
- Sarah Hallberg as Self - Obesity Specialist
- Zoe Harcombe as Self - Obesity Researcher
- Salim Yusuf as Self - Cardiologist
- Robert Lustig as Self - Pediatric Endocrinologist
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