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YouTube VIDEOS: (200 + videos) at http://healthfully.org/rh/id7.html also rg/4  rc/22 7/13/17         ***** outstanding/quality entertainment   § two locations 

Have your family watch these documentaries on your television by using a device such as Google Chromecast to send it from your computer to your stereo attached to the TV.

1.   Bad meds, bad regulators, bad pharm  –  2.  Dieting, sugar, carbs, fats --  3.  Diabetes, fasting and insulin resistance  --  4.  Starve Cancer  --5.  Alzheimer’s, neurodegenerative diseases, salubrious ketone bodies (diet)  --  6.  Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and the cholesterol–fat myth  --  7.  Psychiatric drugs and psychiatry  --  8.  Healthful drugs opposed by pharma  --  9.  Health Issues  --  10.  Health-biological Science  --  11.  Chiropractics and alternative medicine  --  12.  GMOs  --  13.  Commercial farming, regulatory capture of FDA, organic?  --  14.  Science topics

NOTE the number of view listed for each often don’t accurate give the total number because they are the click on a link (address),  don’t include multiple postings and are for the date I viewed it or check link.

1. BAD MEDS, BAD REGULATORS, BAD PHARMA—journal articles confirmation, the overflow

***** President’s Lecture Series 2009-2010, 78 min, 27,600 views MD.  Marcia Angell PhD Harvard, based on her best-selling book, “The Truth About Drug Companies and how they deceive us”   Her lecture with slides is an example of clarity, organization, and logical use of examples to illustrate points all of which show the ways pharma and corporate media deceives the public,  “educates” doctors, and influences regulators.  The information system is broken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDbQNBla6aU  highly recommended

***** 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, leads into drug approval, the highly addictive drugs, pseudo testing of the drugs, inventions of mental illness, and how pharma hooked up with Am. Psychiatry Assoc. to turn doctors into willing pill pushers.  Missed is that all these drugs are tranquilizers, given other labels for sales, & they are worse long-term than nothing at all.  They pass FDA approval because they increase sleep, which is 15% of its “benefits” under Hamilton Rating Scale.  This is a blue print on how pharma markets all classes of drugs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk-ryvdWPgw  excellent

*****Big Pharma, Big Pharma:  Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs 73 min, 100,000  about 2006, excellent on use of marketing, brief interviews and ads, but weak on quality of video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4CyAPJretY

Money Talks, Profits before Patient Safety 49 min, 8.000 views, documentary in format like 60 Minutes, on bad pharma, testimonial, weak on science, pharma’s biased clinical trials and journal articles, regulatory capture, and junk drugs. Complete http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPLLMNCQB3U entertaining, good

***** The information architecture of medicine, 15 min, 7,000 views, Dr. Ben Goldacre Prof, London University School of Medicine, leader in the movement to put science back in medicine, both videos are on missing data and how it perverts treatment decisions causing harm, his book Bad Pharma covers much more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK_EUKJyusg   What doctors don’t know missing data, 13 min, 297,000 views, same topic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKmxL8VYy0MEf  important message

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

Tamiflu 20 min 1,900 views, Australian Broadcast Corporation, on the multi-billion dollar anti-viral scam of stockpiled drug to fight the possible avian flu pandemic; only it is both useless and dangerous.  Tamiflu has been injected into hundreds of millions of cold suffers on the possibility of influenza.  Shows how broken the information and regulatory systems are around the world.  A window on the world of pharma, doctors, and governments in our corporatist world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wiqb9U3hup0 excellent 

*****NPA Annual Conference 2011 Marcia Angell, 47 min, 335 views; lecture is of first quality; at the age of 72, she still stands above others.  She explains the existence of a fire wall wherein University professors ran trials to answer important scientific questions free of pharma controls, but in 1984 a Reagan shift began: thus major bias is the norm.  Poor audio quality, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjr4pPP-2VI excellent

Doing Good or doing Well?  Ethics in the Pharmaceutical Industry, 99 min, 4,500 views Harvard Prof. Marcia Angell, Brown U. on corruption worked by the system whose measure is the maximization of profits.  Dr. Mary Rueter, an industry advocate, gave the second talk.  She didn’t respond to Angell’s points, but used industry funded studies to “prove” their responsibility, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyHtyMkAsgs interesting    

***** Get your love ones off Statins, 14, min, 5,000 views.  How pharma creates a condition and then markets it:  uses statins as the main example, of creates the condition hypercholesterolemia then markets the fix.  Investigate reporting present for a wide audience, quality production https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwZQ2zmjzQY&t=2s  Excellent

*****Exposing big pharma as organized crime 8 min, 175,000 views, Prof. Peter Gotzsche MD, lead European research and co-founder of Cochrane Review, how has gone public about the how pharma corrupts all aspects of health care (see his books), the best of all critics at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dozpAshvtsA  Excellent

****How the Cancer Industry Deceives You with Cancer Drugs: 87 minutes, 69,000 views, quality documentary for a wide audience, also covers the role of FDA and the results of regulatory capture. How industry is into treating not curing, & how promising treatments are blocked for profits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX8saD8fATw  Very good

Note:  The large number of professors and doctors who have come forward to criticize pharma’s tobacco ethics which generates tobacco science to market drugs most of which aren’t worth their side effect.  This chorus of critics has convincing evidence.  For a list of their books, and why doctors give Junk treatments.

I recommend that you cast the videos onto the television and view them with friends and family in the comfort of the living rom.  I use a Google Chromecast, and the audio is played on a surround sound system. 

2.   DIETING, SUGAR CARBS, FATS (fasting for curing/preventing diabetes in #3, and for  cancer in #4) 2B Fasting, 2C ketogenic Diet (Very low carbs).   Links to articles at healthfully.org:  library of topics, diet and food journal articles, basic science, more journal science, non-technical, testimonials   A chorus of critics are exposing what we dieticians & doctors aren’t taught.  Skipping breakfast is easy and best with low carbs.  If needed, up it to alternate day fasting.  The fix for the long-term overweight isn’t to exercise more and eat less; but fasting, it fixes the weight-regulatory system which has been damage and causes a fatty liver and insulin resistance. The lack of this damage is why the aborigines don’t get the age-related conditions of the west.  

***** Why We Get Fat 3 min, 1,455,000 views, clips from movie Fat Head.  The best explanation on wrong info and the process of accumulation of fat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNYlIcXynwE WATCH 

***** Everything wrong with the “System (Educate yourself) 13 min, 309,000 views, Patron (what I’ve learned), sets the tone for the series on diet related topics, shows the results of a business manipulated information system and why we must do due diligence. As professor Ben Goldacre says, “the devil is in the details.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzl7oX9FYGE foundation WATCH

*****Sugar Explained: why sugar is as bad as alcohol (Fructose the liver toxin) 20 min, 453,000 views, Patron, college level, quality well-illustrated production that  gets across all of the key points in 20 minutes more than others in an hour, for everyone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_4Q9Iv7_Ao  foundation WATCH

***** Sugar is in Everything why sugar is addictive and in 80% of food, 13, min, 195,000 views, Patron, see above, part of the same series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPxIssabhTc foundation WATCH

***** Why Calories are NOT important (Food and weight gain, Part 1) 12 min, 236,000 Patron, on how counting them oversimplifies the measurement of energy to act as a guide for dieting, thus don’t count calories, because they are not all equal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRSeyCZwEUI foundation WATCH

***** Sugar Why your body makes you Fat and Hungry (Food and Weight Gain Part 2) 12 min 313,000 views, Patron on how the sugar fructose causes the obesity epidemic, by causing insulin resistance which screws up our weight regulatory system, to make us make us hungry, tired, store excess fat storage  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHaCKudtVi0 foundation WATCH

*****The Story of Fat and why we were wrong about health 15 min, 181.000 views Patron, on bad food manufacturers.  He at last missed two, that Ancel Keys was in the pay of industry and selected because of our government’s industrial farm policy, and the second is on statins and that pharma cooks the results of trials to get an average 32% positive bias https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S6-v37nOtY foundation WATCH

***** Why exercise is so underrated (brain power and movement link 15 min, 404,000 views, Patron at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsVzKCk066g and updated version 22 min, 12 views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcyvX2mnNpE foundation WATCH

***** Longevity and why I now eat one meal a day 16 min, 2,907,000 views Patron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfR6bAXr-c

***** Carbloads:  A culture dying to eat 75 min, 177,000 views documentary 2016, best Introduction in that it covers all the major issues, exceptional accurate and for a mass audience, well done mixture of expert opinion, animation, interviews, misses fasting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBb5TFxj1S0 FIRST CHOICE

***** Sugar White Poison:  an amazing expose on this toxic stuff  18 min, 141,800 views, Australian Broadcast Corp, the condensed, plain language, account of how the refined carbs & fructose are at the heart of the obesity, diabetes pandemics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBp_dMIMryM SECOND CHOICE

***** 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, THIRD CHOICE

§***** Heart of the Matter Part 1 Dietary Villains, 29 min, 52,000 views, Australian Broadcast Corp, the saturated fat-cholesterol myth on causes of heart disease  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGIGXfIDaJo  §Heart of the Matter, Part 2  29 min 22,000 views. Builds on the myth, statins don’t save lives and how pharma gets away with bad science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY4eTGMe-EY  FOURTH CHOICE

***** Low carb diet:  Fat or Friction 29 min, 389,600 views, Australian Broadcast Corp (ABC), for large audience, on how the low carb diet (thus high-fat diet) prevents and cures obesity and type-2-diabetes—see the New Atkins diet (below).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNUh7P3TrAE  FIFTH CHOICE

*****The Complete Skinny on Obesity 58 min, 349,000 views, University California TV (UCTV), Dr. Robert Lustig Prof USF, great graphic, documentary, asks “how did we get so fat”, from 10% to 40% in 10 years, on addiction and the biology of weight gain.  Fats are not the problem but carbs and sugar, especially fructose.  General audience http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moQZd1-BC0Y Lustig’s best, SIXTH CHOICE

*****WHY Sugar is as Bad as Alcohol (Fructose, The Liver Toxin) !4 min, 369,000 views, documentary, high budget, college level which gives the science behind why fructose (1/2 of sucrose) is poison like alcohol to the live:  where both damage the liver by to cause insulin resistance & are converted to excess fat.  The high sugar diet causes our health disaster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_4Q9Iv7_Ao  SEVENTH CHOICE

***** How to Maximize fat burning 4 min, 116,000 views, Dr. Jason Fung, On staying in the fat-burning mode by fasting; by the best source of information on diabetes and weight loss.  A starting point to the best fix. Many more of his lectures are blow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwE4D8Xe8JA EIGHTH  CHOICE  

***** 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—lots of science. Based on Michael Moss’s book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cpdb78pWl4 NINTH CHOICE

*****Longevity & Why I now eat One Meal a Day 16 min, 2,783,000, very good on science, covers the essential points without major errors, good illustration, clear audio, packed full of correct information, while for an aware general audience and entertaining  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfR6bAXr-c  TENTH CHOICE

***** Why am I still fat? 28 min, 101,000 views, ABC documentary, stress 3 topics: weight regulatory system in the brain which resists fat loss by lowering metabolism and increasing appetite, bariatric surgery, and the endocrine disrupter BPA--found in plastics.  Very entertaining addition to the ABC series—see above.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ghP-26CLg&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs ELEVENTH CHOICE

***** Enjoy Eating Saturated Fats:  They’re Good for You 53 min, 262,000 views. Prof. Donald Miller, surgery, cardiothoracic division, Clear well organized college lecture with graphics and lots of journal information, given to audience of physicians, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRe9z32NZHY  TWELTH CHOICE

***** 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 THIRTEENTH CHOICE

*****Fat v Carbs with Jamie Owen--BBC 28 mins 300 views, presents both side, and shows that the low fat guidelines  is wrong and the role of business.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wg9ICyd3fc excellent

Eat More Fat? –Amazing Results 18 min 1,468,000 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 oiling of America 123 min 167,000 views, uses work of Mary Enig, deceased 2014, presented by Sally Fallon.  Uses journal articles & graphs to correct the record and exposes some business’s junk science.  Themes are the cholesterol myth and the good and bad fats, including polyunsaturated fats which are bad because of rancidification (at min 74), and the low-fat dairy products which use powder milk a source of oxidized cholesterol that is cause atheromas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvKdYUCUca8  Very Good

Dietary Sense and Nonsense in the War on Saturated Fat 61 min, 6,900 views Prof. David Diamond, lecture on fats, plenty of slides, includes history of low carb high fat diet and industry-gov. attack, lots of good science on fats including the absorption of nutrient, vitamin K2 for disposition of calcium in the bones instead of the arteries, misses fructose, a bit tedious, quality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J77Bweikiw8 Very Good

***** Fat Chance 88 min 695,000 views, UCTV, Prof. Robert Lustig MD 6/13, extension of Sugar the Bitter Truth (below) which is strong on the science behind sugar’s (fructose’s) role in metabolic syndrome and the contra-factual assumption that obesity is a behavioral disorder.  He shows that biology leads behavior and the advice of eat less and exercise more is wrong.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceFyF9px20Y    excellent

Sugar, The Bitter Truth 82 min. 6,900,000 views, UCTV, Prof. Robert Lustig MD, 7/09, university level lecture on sugar-fructose, causes obesity & diabetes; 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 very convincing, very good

***** 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 very good

***** Is Sugar toxic -- 60 minutes investigates 14 min, 120,000 views, 60 minutes, Dr. Lustig is the guest interviewed, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n29ZIJ-jQA   very good,

***** The Bitter Truth About Sugar and Your Health 6 min, 60,000 view, CNN News interview of Prof. Robert Lustig, an introduction into the health issues of too much fructose in our diet, and how the low fat diet caused food manufactures to add sugar,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twVAmGXTiic excellent                    

Insulin vs. Ketones - The Battle for Brown Fat  35 min, 43,500 view Prof. Benjamin Bikman, on two types of metabolism and the role of white and brown fat, thus the effect of insulin and ketones, a very clear lecture on a senior college level with appropriate slides  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t1JN0RgvO4 Important

How Fat Loss Works Your Body 5 min 536,000 views, on the point explanation of the role of insulin in storing fat, and thus the need for a low carb/inulin diet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi7uzVZVEkg very good

The New Science of Sugar Addiction, 27 min, 60,000 views, UCTV, Ashley Gearhardt, college lecture on the scientific evidence for sugar addiction, well done http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Djf8AkU6g very good 

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

***** Fat Head 103, 105 min, 276,000 views, Tom Naughton 2008, well-funded documentary on low-carbs with high fat diet, government’s role; corporate farms’ and food manufacturers’ select the experts.  The science foundation for a low insulin (carbs) diet, (carbs to 100 g/day); good and entertaining--simple with good illustration, sounds & music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIt80PxvKn8 worth watching quality

That Sugar Film 2 min, trailer 2.103,000 views 2014, Australian where the sugar question is a public issue, similar to Fat Head issue, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uaWekLrilY, quality  was 3.99 from Amazon, now free as of 2/2017 Full film102 min 57,000 views, interesting to watch, weak on science, an odyssey of the lead character on what sugar does Russian subtitles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWBvxsh6dUs good

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, 117,000 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

Globesity:  Fat’s New Frontier, 60 min, 381,000 views documentary on how food manufacturers exported the Western diet and consequences, low budget, weak on science, entertaining and moving human interest bits.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGL3iT5MMdQ Very good

Jamie’s sugar rush, 48 min, 420,000 views, Jamie Oliver, BBC program about high-sugar diet, starts with the food manufacturers and the average diet, then goes to the health consequences and focuses on educating kids, than to restaurants having a sugar tax, hoping to pressure government to do as Mexico does.  human interest approach, very effective, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpr20BdngSY Very Good

This Morning—Diet Myths 9:00 min, 7,200 views, Dr. Michael Mosley interviewed on fasting and diet for BBC program, (low quality sound) lots of interesting info on diet with supporting evidence.  Mosely does the medical-health documentaries for the BBC, and is author of the popular 5:2 fasting diet. Good on diet and curing type-2 diabetes, but doesn’t restrict carbs.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vqg63eyYys  Very good. 

Dr. Jason Fung on dietary issues, high quality lectures using research to argue the issues and with plenty of slides with graphs and tables--in plain language for educated audience.  Dr. Fung gives lip service to cholesterol, but is actual critical in Part 6 of his series.  He convincingly argues that high insulin--caused by carbs--is at the heart of health disaster.  Low carbs with alternate day fast will cause fat burning and cure type-2 diabetes and obesity.  At his blog is a link to the clinic he runs.  They work with patient through their doctor to setting up Fung’s diet program and monitor progress, at http://intensivedietarymanagement.com/.  

A New Paradigm of Insulin resistance 30 min, 66,000 views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUiSCEBGxXk

Aetiology of Obesity Part 1 of 6 parts: a New Hope: 59 min, 48,300, 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, 34,200 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 (note: the addition of fasting can be necessary for diabetics).  Ends with dollar influence of pharma upon physicians’ continuing education and American Heart Association indorsements https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbnshVO4PRM Excellent

***** The Aetiology of Obesity, the Fast Food Solution (Part 4 of 6): 84 min, 76,000 views, Dr. Fung’s biology behind obesity and the biology behind fasting at 51 minutes, which is a sure way to cure type-2 diabetes and obesity. Explains it’s parallel to bariatric surgery cure.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG89j432w-Y   Excellent

***** The Aetiology of Obesity Part 5 of 6: Diet and Disease: 60 min. 13,300 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.  He ends with an account of food corp. funding diet education.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QetsIU-3k7Y  Excellent

*****The Aetiology of Obesity Part 6 of 6: Dietary Villains - Fat Phobia: 76 min. 15,300 views, Dr. Jason Fung; a review, lays to rest the fat phobia--more fat entail living 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 through insulin spike is associated with heart disease, as does pro-inflammatory  omega-6 fatty acids from polyunsaturated oil.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QetsIU-3k7Y Excellent

*****Aetiology of obesity, the Calorie Deceptions, 38 min, 33,0000, Dr. Fung, 2016, on two compartment problem, yo-yo diet calories in and storage. Insulin causes weight gain in diabetics depending on dose with reduction in metabolism, insulin is the problem  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F5o0a4p_3U Excellent

MORE BY Dr. FUNG IN DIABETES SECTION #3 and 2B on fasting.  His blog is excellent with link to his diabetes clinic and books.  The best diet books full of science. 

More lectures

***** AHS12 lecture Gary Taubes Calories vs Carbohydrates: Clearing up Confusion over Competing Obesity Paradigms  38 min, 48,000 views college level lecture given at Harvard,.  Obesity is a metabolic problem of excess fat storage review of evidence, his best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpavkD7ot8I

Dietary Sense and Nonsense in the War on Saturated Fat 61 min, 9,500 David Diamond PhD, similar to Dr. Miller’s covers both history and evidence, only Diamond is long on history and short on science, though uses sold studies to prove saturated fats are good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J77Bweikiw8  good

BBC series: repeats cholesterol myths, uses human interest approach, uses personal experiences and interviews, weak on science, and for the general public.

***** Eat, Fast & Live Longer 59 min, 209,000 views, BBC, Dr. Michael Mosley, his latest (2015) on food and fasting, chatty and enjoyable on harm of Western diet. At 48, he was diagnosed with diabetes, and so he set out to find a drug free fix through interviewing leading researchers.  He found the answer and put it in a book, the 5:2 Fast Diet (2013). Weak on science, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihhj_VSKiTs&feature=em-subs_digest-g-vrecs very good

***** 5:2 Revolution,16 min. 192,500 view, Ruskall Tatt of Australia who visited Dr. Michael Mosely, the BBC health science producer& author of the 5:2 diet, very popular in UK and t Europe.  Uses low carb fast 2 days a week; all major points covered.  What U.S. corporate media deliberately skips (fast) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWtaLLjJzn4 and for his 6 min. summary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Aj6hRYg4A&t=25s Both excellent

The Truth About Sugar, episode 1, 53 min, 424,000 views, BBC episode 1, a personal journey of 6 people who have sugar addiction; their going down to the WHO recommended  6 teaspoons of added (not natural) sugar a day (24 grams)--entertaining https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dqKmOLpofo  good 

The Truth About Fat 54 min, 12,000 view, BBC documentary, by doctor investigating fat science, and finds most are good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGh91lwO3fc   very good pulled by Google--censorship.

The Truth about Calories, 51 min, 22,000 views   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ice-HmfFLo

The truth about food in six part,   Part 1, 58 min, 1,268,000 views, BBC documentary dragged out into 6 episodes, more human interest than science, this first one leads into the second one, the entire series—below are individual episodes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXZ1dH7tJWw good

How to stay healthy, 60 min, 95,000 views, Michael Mosely, lecture in Australia on diet and staying health, full of slides, lots of good information and use of journal articles for a general audience, promotes fasting with low carbs, well polished lecture 30 minute then interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d-LMzIlr5I good

The big fat truth about low fat foods BBC documentary, 58 min, 177.000 views, BBC exposes the unhealthy of low fat diet foods, highly processed and loaded with sugar, engineered to not be filling.  Too much human interest, science at end, wrong on unsaturated fats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgwh47Xxg7U Good

 §Part 1, truth about foods 59 min, 28.000 views   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxf5V3lwCro Part 2, 59 min 104,000 views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPbm9WI5Xnk     §Part 3 58 min 111,000 views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4zJ5oOLZUs&list=PLn3z5IGX09eQ1 6sKDhH0tGBQUzpGZPhk&index=2                §Part 4 how to be slimdown 82 min, 13,500 views  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EkQeeCiYoo    §Part 5, 59 min, 67,000 views https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUqyCY2N8fs&list=PLn3z5IGX09eQ1-6sKDhH0tGBQUzpGZPhk&index=4       §Part 6 69 min, 45,000 minutes  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwTSOfXTWW8&list=PLn3z5IGX09eQ1-6sKDhH0tGBQUzpGZPhk&index=5   good

The War on Wheat, 39 min, 236,000 views, Canadian Broadcast Corporation, Fifth Estate series, for a general audience weak on science strong on interviews of expert, dieters, and author of Grain Brain.  Only good message is about how to smell a skunk (fad)--could be a hatchet job since wheat is Canada’s biggest export. Misses how big business is behind gluten free foods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO3cIrNEuIc Okay

2B Fasting

*****Fasting Awakening the Rejuvenation within you, 19 min 102,000 Valter Longo, top scientist, TEDx. Fasting  animals live longer because it turns on autophagy which stimulates stem cells to replace damaged cells & to repair other cells--requires low insulin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVArDzYynYc Excellent

*****Fasting vs. Eating Less: What's the Difference? (Science of Fasting) 13 min, 469,000 What I’ve Learned, He knows his material, consistently the best in information, conciseness, research, organization, visual props and research.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APZCfmgzoS0&spfreload=10  Excellent

Intermittent Fasting, 37 min, 709,000 views, Dr. Mike Mitzel, good lecture to a general audience with plenty of slides, covers the essential points, favors the short-term fast skipping breakfast along with very low carbs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu8KqV90pKk&t=550s   Very good

Intermittent fasting for weight loss,69 min, 688,000 interview by Dr. Mike Mitzel, covers what he said before, not as good as his lecture since it lacks graphs, too much on the stupid objections to fasting, but has additional info relevant to fasting as best fast (low insulin) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Aw0P7GjHE Good

Intermittent Fasting Benefits 28 min, 90,000 views, Dr. Jay Davidson, a lecture with the points on the screen has him into the microphone in the right corner so you see and hear—very effective, covers all the key points on fasting, which is in his book.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxCt8Lgh2qA very good

*****Fasting and the fifty percent insulin problem, 21 min, 144,000 views, Butter Bob Briggs explains why fasting is more important than low carbs.  The obese have an 3 fold higher pre-breakfast level of insulin and alternate day fasting will lowers it to the normal level in a couple of weeks.  Very clear explanation with graphs from published journal articles   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sAqy1lnWXo&t=525s Excellent       Briggs has a website with 47 videos at http://www.buttermakesyourpantsfalloff.com/ Recommended

§*****Longevity & Why I now eat One Meal a Day 16 min, 2,872,000, What I Leaned,  very good on science, covers the essential without major errors, good illustration, clear audio, packed full of correct information, while for a general audience and entertaining  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfR6bAXr-c  TENTH CHOICE

*****Why Fasting bolster brain powers, TEDx, 17 min, 1,948,000, Mark Mattson PhD, NIH, at John Hopkins U. very good on fasting & its science, on how the brain adapts to no food, physical exercise, and ketone bodies from fasting to grow & heal  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UkZAwKoCP8&t=315s Excellent

The Mystery of Fast-5 and D.I.E.T., TEDx, 16 ,min. 295,000 Bert Herring MD, by author of Fast-5, similar to the above but without the science.  His experience mirrors my own, only I only had 5 pounds to loose.  For a general audience, chatty, good life-style values, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHQbg4xH9lw good

§*****Therapeutic Fasting—Solving the Two Compartment Problem 36 min, 386,000 views, Dr. Jason Fung lecture on the yo-yo diet, explains why the long-term obese early always gains back most or more of the weight that they lost within a few years, metabolism drops and they “feel like shit”.  Leads to the biology of fat storage. Solution is low carbs and fasting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIuj-oMN-Fk Excellent

Fasting, Safe & Effective Use of an Ancient Healing Therapy, 55 min, 5,900 vies, Michael Kalper MD, nice guy giving boring lecture with a promotion for his clinic and need for medical supervision.  Like most of the talking under ”fasting” on YouTube, weak on science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m92Y12lpl6Y&t=32s Skip

2C Ketogenic Diet (New Atkins Diet, his diet has been changed based on modern science to low protein).  The ketogenic diet is extremely low-carb diet (under 50 grams, 2 ounces) forces the body to burn fat, it is used to treat intractable epilepsy and to starve cancer thereby reducing the risk of a cancer becoming metastatic (fatal)—see section 4.  It was used before insulin to extend life of those with type-1 diabetes.  Fating makes it easy to go into ketosis. See Mike Mitzel above

*****Ketones the Better Fuel? (science of fasting and low carb keto) 16 min 131,000 views by What I’ve Learned, full of information, quality production, a great foundation based on science, one enters ketosis by low carb fasting or just very low carb diet   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dan8qtgQRi8 Excellent

*****Is Ketosis Dangerous? (Science of Fasting & Low Carb Keto) 16 min, 131,000views  What I’ve Learned on ketosis with plenty of science and background history.  Sets the record straight, clear, quality video, and well supported by graphs, and studies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dan8qtgQRi8 Excellent   

*****Ketosis: The Key to Optimal Health with Dr. Mike, 35 min.  141,000 views, full of good information in a lecture to a general audience, with plenty of slides, clear voice.  His experience is the same as JK’s.  After Jason Fung the best doctor on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNNOyF3NZJ8  Excellent  

Reversing Obesity & diabetes—the low carb high fat diet 39 min, 61,000 view Andreas Eenfeldt MD, (diet doctor) Sweden, on the obesity epidemic and how to reverse it with more fat and less grains and sugar, a well presented lecture with plenty of slides https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqf8NwIul2c&t=2068s Very Good

The NEW ATKINS (KETOGENIC) DIET,

§Understanding the [new] Atkins Diet 9 min, 89,000 views, documentary by Atkins Company of high quality diet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN0YLnjViU8  Very Good http://files.atkins.com/1501_CarbCounter_Online.pdf

§The Atkins Diet, BBC  49 min, 43,000 views BBC documentary explaining the science behind the Atkins diet, that carbs that require less energy to utilize than fats and proteins, a bit drawn out as to information and misses the health hazards of sugars, Atkins didn’t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N3iwMak-SU  on Atkins in print by jk at http://healthfully.org/rh/id15.html; there are several more on diet there.  The Atkins website page with carb counter http://files.atkins.com/1501_CarbCounter_Online.pdf IMPORTANT

Dr.Eric Westman – Ketogenic Diet for Weight Loss 39 min, 176,000 views, class lecture by the author of the latest version of Atkins diet; & reversing diabetes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSLf4bzAyOM  very good

Entertainment full of food-industry tobacco-science or boring--SKIP

My Big Fat Body,48 min. 627,000 views. Documentary the repeats the failure of the Biggest Loser (TV), in which all but 2 gained all or most or their weight back in a study which followed them for 6 years, and one of the 2 success had bariatric surgery after gaining half the weight, full of eat less exercise more, and have a physical trainer and dietician for motivation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY3iExEYr7w&t=2161s Skip

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 Skip

My Big Fat Body 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, ignores biology behind weight gain. more of the above, US corporate media crap[. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLv0Vsegmoo skip

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 villain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmcZRgWBdwQ skip

50 Shocking Facts About Diet and Exercise 94 min, 192,000 views, BBC repository of sensationalism full of errors and rare events, pure yellow journalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gVXrZXXK_w  skip

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 SKIP  

Fasting, safe & effective use of an ancient healing therapy 55 min 5500 views, Michael Klaper, MD, a nice guy that is part of a clinic, looking out for the clinic, who  like the typical doctor knowns little science, doesn’t recommend fasting for curing cancer or diabetes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m92Y12lpl6Y skip

Ketosis - How to get into ketosis faster on the ketogenic diet and lose weight.  6 min, 480,000 views, CNN report (???) on ketosis, pushes Ketopia, a product that induces ketosis.  Skip the $144 product for 10 days and use fasting.  It will get you there with better results https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H2zCdtz-2s So-so  

Sugar...the truth 30 min, 280 views; narration with drawings, strong on history of sugar as toxic, industrial influence, however it is wrong about asparagine & candida (even if harmful, harm is grossly overblown), pushes probiotic pills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GljwL4KbLTo  skip sales pitch for probiotics pills

3.  Diabetes (T2D) & Insulin resistance (JK’s diet cure, & select journal articles)

Insulin Signaling 5 min, 236,000 views animation presentation, college level, needed to understand the basics, thus recommended https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkkK5lTmBYQ  excellent                                          

*****Diabetes Animation 4 min, 43,000 views, a more complete explanation of the metabolic process and diabetes, misses reduced insulin with T2D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJzo2xYkbb0 excellent

***** How to Reverse Diabetes Naturally, 35 min, 1,136,000 views, Dr. Jason Fung, on treating the symptom high blood sugar instead of the cause insulin resistance.  Fasting with low carbs causes fat metabolism; calorie restriction & exercise seldom works long term https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAwgdX5VxGc  excellent

***** Insulin Toxicity and How to cure Type 2 Diabetes, 61 min, 69,000 views Dr. Fung; on insulin, diabetes; failure of drugs; & cure with intermittent fasting & low carbs--to an audience of doctors.  Clinical trials prove that high insulin--not glucose--is the problem.  High insulin is causal for metabolic dysfunction and the resultant atherosclerosis & it comorbidities, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oZ4UqtbB_g  excellent  

***** The Two Big Lies of Type 2 Diabetes 54 min,255,000 views, Dr. Fung, , similar to the first two diabetes video and with two patients re-accounting their experience on alternate-day fasting.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcLoaVNQ3rc  excellent 

Fung’s blog is excellent with link to his books, diabetes clinic, outpatient program (works with your doctor).

*****Reversing Type 2 diabetes starts ignoring the guidelines 18 min, 1,553,000 views, by Sarah Hallberg MD, TEDx PurdueU, passionate on treating diabetes and insulin resistance with low-carb high-fat diet, and on the viscous cycle of taking medications which require carbs to prevent hypoglycemia, high carbs is strongly associated with heart attacks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da1vvigy5tQ  excellent                            

Catherine Croft PhD on Hyperinsulinemia and Kraft 13 min, 2,500 views, lecture on fasting glucose does not reveal insulin resistance; best method is glucose tolerance test with measure of insulin at 2 hours, if above 30 mu/mL than 90% chance of insulin resistance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCtwgAAuyBE Good

The Twin cycle Hypothesis for type-2 diabetes:  5 min, 900 views Prof Roy Taylor leading researcher who measured fat in pancreas, Newcastle U.  On fat and glucose metabolism, the role of insulin; easy to follow, on the cause of obesity and type-2 diabetes—glucose/sugar, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xajUJ7ZeLME Good

Insight Beating Diabetes 52 min, 83,600 views, 2016 Dr. Mosely & Prof. Roy Taylor interview, using Taylor’s 800 calories diet for reversing diabetes under 10 years have success, while over 10 years are not so likely on a small sample of 4 who all failed [Dr. Fung has success]  Strong on human interest, well organized and moving entertainment, quality interview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDEw561NFto#t=2.990076  Very Good

*****Reversing the irreversible:  Type 2 diabetes and you 61 min, Newcastle University, Prof. Roy Taylor, slides only with voice; explains why diet works like bariatric surgery, MRI imaging shows that liver and pancreas metabolize excess fat, about 40% of long-term diabetics fail, weight gain drives diabetes.  Misses fasting as adjunction to diet and LADA, adults who progress to type 1 diabetes thus are diet fails to cure, https://campus.recap.ncl.ac.uk/Panopto/Pages/Embed.aspx?id=c3bef819-e5f4-4a55-876f-0a23436988ed  Important

*****Diabetes the Hidden plague, BBC Panorama  58 min, 22,000 views, focuses on all the major health consequences (hospital) value information, full of sad human interest, will motivate the viewer by feeling the pain,  little on the fixing the 11 billion pounds cost to the NHS, lacking in science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGJ6cTWyMfg  very good

Session 2. The Problem With The ADA Diet 11 min, 6,000 views, Dr. Richard Bernstein, informative for Type 1  & 2 diabetes, on how to go drug free.  He explains why the ADA guidelines & what doctors are taught are wrong.  At 84 with Type 1 diabetes he is proof https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCzk66CQKEg Very good

Insulin resistance and high carbohydrate diets 41 min 813 views Dr. Timothy Noakes on how insulin resistance is caused by high-carbohydrate diet, and that is driving all the conditions once NAFLD develops especially type 2 diabetes.  Well presented, but a major flaw, misses the essential role of fructose in the carbs; thus ignores the prior talks by Taubes and Malhotra, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGKX8HoNb-0 Skip  

Understanding type 2 diabetes [T2D] 4 min, 166,000 views, an animation introduction on type 2 diabetes, easy to follow, clear and pro use of drugs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAjZv41iUJU Okay