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Fat Fiction

20206.4 / 10115 min

Documentary

Overview

Nutrition science got it wrong. Here’s how you can get it right.

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.

Cast

Gary Taubes

Self - Investigative Science Journalist / Author

Nina Teicholz

Self - Investigative Science Journalist / Author

Ancel Keys

Self (Archival footage) - Physiologist

Tim Noakes

Self - Scientist / Author / Professor Emerita

Mark Hyman

Self - Narrator / Nutritionist / Functional Medicine Physician

Bret Scher

Self - Cardiologist

Sarah Hallberg

Self - Obesity Specialist

Zoe Harcombe

Self - Obesity Researcher

Salim Yusuf

Self - Cardiologist

Robert Lustig

Self - Pediatric Endocrinologist

Jason Fung

Self - Diabetes Specialist

Bill Maher

Self - Comedian (archive footage)

Eric Westman

Self - Obesity Specialist

Jonny Bowden

Self - Certified Nutritionist

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self - President (archive footage)

Alyssa Gallagher

Self - Certified Diabetes Educator

Brian Gaudette

Self - US Army Pilot

Brian Lenzkes

Self - Internal Medicine Physician

Doug Reynolds

Self - Founder and CEO, LowCarbUSA

Dave Asprey

Self - Founder, Bulletproof

Crew

Amanda Atkins

Executive Producer

Bill Krumm

Editor

Tim Kupsick

Editor

Tom Hadzor

Producer

Jennifer Isenhart

Writer

Jennifer Isenhart

Director