DIET and CONSEQUENCES

In this section’s videos there is a chorus of critics on high sugar and refined carbs—some believe in the cholesterol myth.   See next section for this myth. 

***** Sugar White Poison:  an amazing expose on this toxic stuff  18 min, 18,400 views, Australian Broadcast Corp, the condensed, plain language, complete account of the sugar issue how it is at the heart of the obesity, diabetes epidemics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBp_dMIMryM FIRST CHOICE excellent

***** The Secrets of Sugar 45 min,484,000 views, CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corp) program; starts with a young family and show that at the heart of the weight problem with impending health consequences lies high sugar diet.  It also shows experiments on college students, uses interviews to drive home the point that sugar is the health issue, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDaYa0AB8TQ most entertaining, SECOND CHOICE

***** Heart of the Matter Part 1 Dietary Villains, 29 min, 615 views, Australian Broadcast Company (ABC), the saturated fat-cholesterol myth causes heart disease  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGIGXfIDaJo  Heart of the Matter, Part 2  29 min 1400 views.  Show that statins don’t save lives and how pharma gets away with the biggest of heists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa9ZYsW59Zo 3rd, both are excellent

*****The Complete Skinny on Obesity 58 min, 102,000 views, University California TV (UCTV), Dr. Robert Lustig Prof USF, great graphic, documentary, ask how did we get so fat, from 10% to 40% in 10 years, on addiction and the biology of weight gain.  Fats not the problem but carbs and sugar, especially fructose.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moQZd1-BC0Y Lustig’s best, FOURTH CHOICE, excellent

***** Low carb diet:  Fat or Friction 29 min, 6,900 views, Australian Broadcast Corp, the condensed, plain language, complete account of the low carb diet and how it prevents and cures obesity and type-2-diabetes.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNUh7P3TrAE  FIFTH CHOICE excellent

***** The Science of Addictive Food 11 min, 291,000, CBC, on manufactured food industry carefully balances foods taste to increase addiction by making foods reach the “bliss point” through the addition of sugar, salt, fat, and crunch.  Sugar is addicting because it stimulates the reward centers of the brain. Makes extensive use of science research to find out what makes food appealing and addicting, and how to cut costs. Based on Michael Moss’s book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cpdb78pWl4  SIXTH CHOICE, excellent

***** Fat Chance 88 min 363,000 views, Prof. Robert Lustig MD 6/13, replaces Sugar the Bitter Truth (below 5,300,000 views). This is a lecture for a general college audience, very effective on key points of the obesity epidemic and fructose as toxic.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceFyF9px20Y  excellent

 Sugar, The Bitter Truth 82 min. 5,300,000 views, Prof. Robert Lustig MD, 7/09, university level lecture on sugar, fructose, obesity which needs background preparation and note taking.  Made me a believer after I researched the issues he raised. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM, the slide in PDF at http://www.ucsfcme.com/2009/slides/MPD09001/14LustigSugar.pdf Note: Fat Chance—above—shows what years of practice can do; thus skip this one and watch first the recent Fat Chance very convincing,

***** Sugar:  the Elephant in the Kitchen 22 min, 108,000 views, Prof. Robert Lustig MD, on brain caused sugar addiction; fructose is the worse sugar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmC4Rm5cpOI excellent

***** Is Sugar toxic -- 60 minutes investigates 14 min, 64,000 views, 60 minutes, Dr. Lustig is a guest, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n29ZIJ-jQA   very good,

***** Fat and Cholesterol do NOT Cause Heart Disease 5 min, 11,000 views that saturated fats are good, and Ancel Keyes role in fat-cholesterol myth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8WA5wcaHp4  from Fat Head 103, sound, graphs, interviews, facts—great presentation, excellent

***** Enjoy Eating Saturated Fats:  They’re Good for You 53 min, 190,000 views. Prof. Donald Miller, surgery, cardiothoracic division, University of Washington.  Clear well organized college lecture with graphics and lots of information, content makes up for mediocre delivery http://www.Lewrockwell.com.  very good

My ‘I quit Sugar’ 12 min, 47.000 views, Australian Broadcast program on sugar, a personal journey to successful low-carb diet, very good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR0H_jhv2gY

The New Science of Sugar Addiction, 27 min, 50,000 views, UCTV, Ashley Gearhardt, lecture on the scientific evidence showing addiction to sugar,  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Djf8AkU6g   very good

Most Sellable Food 56 min, 105,000 views, BBC on how big business feeds us sugars,  entertaining, good graphics, for the masses http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnzBq3htsgE very good §

Fat Head 103, 105 min, 276,000 views, Tom Naughton 2008, documentary high fat diet, politicalization of information about diet, the soy industry, corporate farms, and food manufacturer pushed the experts.  A bit rough in the beginning, much better after the twenty minutes, entertaining, simple with good illustration and sound/music..  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evcNPfZlrZs&feature=related

Why We Get Fat – Gary Taubes at OSUMC: 71 min, 197,000 views. Gary Taubes lecture, Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center. Taubes is a leading scholar on the issue of diet and health; his lecture covers the materials in his books (see below) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTUspjZG-wc very good

'Fed Up' With Sugar: Katie Couric's 10-Day Challenge, 8 min, 4,000 views, about the documentary ‘Fed Up’ released May 2014, no-sugar challenge with ABC News caster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ItIXmNBmkI    The documentary content is on a 6^th grade level entertaining

The Truth About Food:  Episode 1 59 min, 567,000 views BBC, on food, more entertainment than science.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXZ1dH7tJWw&list=PLn3z5IGX09eQ1-6sKDhH0tGBQUzpGZPhk with links to Episode 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; good entertainment    

National Geographic:  Half Ton World: 44 min, 34,000 views.  Super obese, lives, addiction.  Popular viewing, entertains not science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Ve10I-Kjo good entertainment  

Eat More Fat? –Amazing Results 18 min 571,000 views, a collection of snippets and testimonials that make the point that saturated fat is good, low budget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2xhlIIueZY good

The Weight of the Nation:  Part 1-Consequences, 69 min, 663,000 views, HBO, obesity causes, relies on expert testimonials and human interest, standard pharma view of heart disease with standard errors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pEkCbqN4uo  entertaining good

Weight of the Nation:  Part 2—choices 72 min, 283,000 views, HBO, repeats myths of calories in calories out, weak will,  refined carbs, & insulin, and biology behind weight gain.  Cherry picks examples of low fat diet & exercise, no mention of 90% failure.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLv0Vsegmoo Not recommended

Weight of a nation Part 3 – challenges, 68 minutes, 162 min, HBO, finds standard causes such as less activity, weak will, manufactured foods high in sugar is also part of problem, wrong message about fat as the villian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmcZRgWBdwQ  Not recommended

Dr. Jason Fung on dietary issues, high quality lectures using research to argue the issues and with plenty of slides--in plain language for educated audience.  How university lectures should be with graphics and tables.  His blog http://intensivedietarymanagement.com/  Dr. Fung gives lip service to cholesterol, but is actual critical of cholesterol as cause of cardiovascular disease in Part 6 of his series. 

***** How to Reverse Diabetes Naturally, 35 min, 29,000 views, Dr. Jason Fung, on treating the symptom high sugar instead of the disease insulin resistance. Very important way to break the reliance on drugs with diet and exercise, with testimonials, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAwgdX5VxGc  excellent

***** Insulin Toxicity and How to cure Type 2 Diabetes, 61 min, 31.000 views Dr. Fung. On hyperinsulinemia & its role in diabetes, similar to the previous, but for doctors treating diabetes.  Based on clinical trials that prove insulin, not glucose is the problem.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oZ4UqtbB_g  very good  

***** The Two Big Lies of Type 2 Diabetes 54 min,10,5000 views, Dr. Fung, latest lecture 11/14, similar to the first diabetes video and with two patients re-accounting their experience on one day fasting, one day off cycle.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcLoaVNQ3rc  excellent

How We Have Been Lied to by Big Pharma, 53 min, 1,400 Dr. Jason Fung; lets the evidence prove his points; would benefit from Angell & Goldacre (above) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlHGJoYpBqM very good

Dietary Villains: Part II, Salt Scare: 30 min 2,700 views, Dr. Jason Fung.  Shows how population studies can be misleading and that salt has little effect upon death and CVD rates.   He explains the biological effects of salt that counterbalance each other https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAGrUwE8zpY  very good 

Aetiology of Obesity Part 1 of 6 parts: a New Hope: 59 min, 14,300, Dr. Jason Fung, academic lecture sugar consumption its history then goes into major flaws in the standard dogma on obesity.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpllomiDMX0   Very good

The Aetiology of Obesity Part 2:  The New Science of Diabesity:  61 min, 7,200 views, Dr. Jason Fung; lets the evidence prove his points, insulin cause https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d  imP7IdM2Og very good

The Aetiology of Obesity Part 3:  Trial by Diet:  81 min, 7,900 views, Dr. Jason Fung; insulin drive fat storage, though refined carbs, and insulin resistance, Atkin’s diets came out best (2X more weight loss and better cholesterol profile and blood pressure).  Ends with follow the dollar as to lectures in continuing education and American Heart Association indorsement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbnshVO4PRM very good

***** The Aetiology of Obesity, the Fast Food Solution (Part 4 of 6):  Dr. Fung’s college level lecture on biology behind obesity and the biology behind alternate-day fasting, which is a sure way to cure type-2 diabetes and obesity. Explains its parallel to bariatric surgery.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG89j432w-Y   very good

The Aetiology of Obesity Part 5 of 6: Diet and Disease: 60 min. 4,300 Dr. Jason Fung, views; on the causes of the Western diseases with high insulin level, high sugar and high glycemic load.  In primitive societies (CVD, obesity, diabetes, colorectal, prostate, and breast cancers) are quite low, even with native high carbs.  Watch sequel by Dr. Fung on diabetes above.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QetsIU-3k7Y very good

The Aetiology of Obesity Part 6 of 6: Dietary Villains - Fat Phobia: 76 min. 6,300 views, Dr. Jason Fung; a review, lays to rest the fat phobia in that more fat entail lives longer, and cholesterol is good for you as you age, while low cholesterol is strongly associated with death, also that high dietary cholesterol doesn’t raise lipid level.  High glycemic index associated with heart disease, also same with omega-6 fatty acids from polyunsaturated.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QetsIU-3k7Y very good

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and the Cholesterol Myth

***** Heart of the Matter Part 2  Australian Broadcast Corporation (ABC) 29 min 1,400 views; qquality investigative reporting on the cholesterol myth and statins.  Statins don’t save lives, and are not safe.  Shows by extension how pharma works using tobacco ethics  to control the practice of medicine--the sequel on the saturated fat myth (in “Diet” above) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY4eTGMe-EY   excellent

Dr. Jonny Bowden “The Great Cholesterol Myth 74 min, 43,000 views, follows essential points of his co-authored book “The Great Cholesterol Myth” Non-technical lecture with graphics, covers role of diet, that saturated fats and cholesterol are good, sugar bad, and lowering cholesterol with statins is bad, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGOpjPNtjes very good

§ ***** Statin Nation First 13 Min, 59,000 views, Justin Smith, entire documentary not available on YouTube or Amazon (as of 12/14), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry1Z8buyd8I the entire documentary is excellent from UK, watch $5, download  $16, purchase $25 at www.statinnation.net Sequel on real causes of heart disease is coming out in Jan. 2015.  http://www.statinnation.net/action/ is a library of resources and links on statin-cholesterol-fat-myth. 

***** The Link Between Viruses & Heart Disease https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOOZZmMicMI  5 min, 232 views Prof. Ed. Prydial MD, explains passionately the link between viruses and heart disease.  Very good

Inflammation in Atherosclerosis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUoMEYFYRJU 63 min, 151, Dr. Peter Libby on role of inflammation and promotion at atherosclerosis lecture for medical researchers.  Exceptional good lecture:  well-illustrated, organized, concise, covering most aspects.  Very good

Note:  Pharma has made billions treating the cholesterol myth with statins and now a new family of drugs is on the market.  These drugs do not prevent or reverse atherosclerosis and thus its health consequence.  Lowering serum cholesterol does not lower the risk of death—though their myth claims it does.  Pharma has made billions more treating the resultant hypertension and coronary heart disease.  The rise in the health problems started cigarettes and later the high-carb diet (thus low saturated fats).  These accelerate a process involving pathogens living within the artery walls.  The way to reduce risk for atherosclerosis is to eat a healthy diet, exercise, take the supplements I listed, and don’t smoke.  

Psychiatric Drugs and Psychiatry

***** Making a Killing, the Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugs 95 min 669,000 views, on how psychiatrists have become drug pushers—all major aspects.  Starts with senseless killings and suicides, lead into drug approval, the strong addiction these drugs cause, the pseudo testing of the drugs, and how pharma hooked up with Am. psychiatry Assoc. to turn them into pill pushers and invent mental illness.  Pharma uses junk research & psychiatric opinion leaders to “educate” psychiatrists and public of their benefits.  Missed is that these drugs are tranquilizers, worse than nothing at all.  They pass FDA approval because they increase sleep, which is 15% of its “benefits” under Hamilton Rating Scale.  What pharma does to market psychiatric drugs, they have done with all the most profitable classes of drugs  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsqDyEMkLpQ excellent

***** Psychiatrie 108 min, 1,887,000 views, Evolution Television, a review of psychiatry’s dismal history of mental hospitals.  Also covers how pharma markets drugs to make us addicted.  Excellent historical footage, a good sequel to Making A Killing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II96QkZaz1E highly recommended

§ Dark Side Of a Pill, 55 min, 4 views, in German with English subtitles. However available on internet from Torrent on internet in English. SSRIs make people crazy, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Eb0PzAjw3A 

Medicating Kids, Frontline, 8 min, 16,000 views, in six chapters, human interest follows the experience of 4 families--not critical in 6 parts; more dumb-down public education that don’t educate on PBS.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcPGRMR2NAQ&list=PL430AC2819B395F61 OK

Healthful drugs opposed by Pharma

Why You Still Need Estradiol (Estrogen) 5 min, 153 views, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAfq2v_9WG4 Very good intro

Nothing of quality on aspirin, CoQ10, testosterone and estrogen—not science but marketing.  Beware of testosterone boosters, bio-identical testosterone, and bio-identical estrogen, which aren’t bio-identical (only similar for some functions, mimics) are untested and thus of uncertain value and risks.  Some mimics by occupying hormone receptors block the hormone action or turn it on when it should be off.  The leading progestin, MPA (a progesterone mimic) used in the leading HRT Prempro has caused millions of deaths by blocking the benefits of estradiol resulting in increased breast cancer, Alzheimer’s, thrombi, and coronary events.  Prempro was knowingly selected by the FDA in their mammoth trial to “prove” HRT is dangerous.  There are numerous studies which want of the health hazards of both natural and man-made chemicals that are sex hormone mimics.  Dr. John R. Lee Progesterone, 56 min, 13,000 listeners, no video, only voice, is on natural progesterone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBvH1zktooQ .  A mountain of journal articles show the benefits of both estradiol and testosterone.  Recently oral progesterone has come to market, and undoubted is better than the synthetic progestins, especially MPA.  Aspirin has hundreds of older journal articles show it many benefits, but like hormones and CoQ10, it would cut deeply into pharma’s profits.  There are many quality books on them based on the earlier research, and some recent research.