I spoke about diet at a low carb conference! I focused on big data.
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FILM:
The Low Fat Diet Is Genocide | Fat Fiction | Full Documentary
PAPERS:
Fat in the Diet and Mortality from Heart Disease by Jacob Yerushalmy
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X1mTYR8szctFFu5J2pbfNQRgk51RCi76/view?usp=sharing
Public, searchable PDF article about Ancel Keys on the cover of TIME:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PD1b_PQeFFq3GNpa6pbCHsQiyxIH3X_f/view?usp=sharing
Comparative ecologic relationships of saturated fat, sucrose, food groups, and a Mediterranean food pattern score to 50-year coronary heart disease mortality rates among 16 cohorts of the Seven Countries Study
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41430-018-0183-1
Mediterranean alpha-linolenic acid-rich diet in secondary prevention of coronary heart disease (Lyon Diet Heart Study by Serge Renaud)
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(94)92580-1/fulltext
The Framingham Heart Study’s Impact on Global Risk Assessment
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S003306201000085X?via%3Dihub
BOOKS:
Seven Countries: A Multivariate Analysis of Death and Coronary Heart Disease by Ancel Keys
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.4159/harvard.9780674497887/html
Carlton Fredericks’ Low-Carbohydrate Diet
Environmental Epidemiology by Dean Baker
Toxic Truth: A Scientist, A Doctor, and the Battle Over Lead
The Devil’s Playbook
The Triumph of Doubt
Good Calories Bad Calories
The Big Fat Surprise
Lies My Doctor Told Me
The Science of Science
Strong Medicine by Blake Donaldson
Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution
Celebrating 90+ Years of Healthy Living by Jack LaLanne
The Book of Why
Causality in the Sciences
Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences
Livestock’s Long Shadow
Principles of Medical Statistics
Philosophy of the Stomach; An Exclusively Animal Diet Is the Most Wholesome and Fit for Man, by Bernard Mincriff, 1856
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Philosophy_of_the_Stomach_Or_An_Excl/fJ9kAAAAcAAJ
0:00 I spoke at CoSci
2:43 How big data will revolutionize nutrition
3:30 Working for Steve Jobs
5:10 Caddying for Jack LaLanne
5:56 Growing up low carb & eating lead
7:15 Environmental epidemiology
9:59 Living long
11:21 Big data
12:41 The famous 22-country paper
19:10 Saturated fat
20:37 So many centenarians
21:18 Gary Taubes article on epidemiology
23:30 Diet confusion in America
26:45 The pushback
29:32 What I’d do instead
22 Comments
thanks for sharing your insights! you’re one of the hero’s the world needs
Thank you Chris and every success. Just the facts, man! You're awesome!
I find the misinformation so discouraging. Thank you for taking a stand! I very much appreciate your solid science videos. Please keep up this hobby!
Excellent! Excellent quality research and presentation, thanks for sharing!
you knocked it out of the park again. thanks for showing those knuckleheads what real unbiased science is like.☮💗
Chris, I'm surprised you would say that cutting nuts, avocados, and olive oil is not supported by ANY credible data that you're aware of. If you aren't convinced I get that, but I think there is at least some data. You can go back to 1946 with Lester Morrison doing a study of a very low fat diet (20-25g daily) that produced a significant reduction in mortality for 50 post infarction patients compared to control after 3 and 8 years follow up. There is the Ornish trial. About 10% of calories from fat compared to control (25-30%). Intervention saw a reversal of stenosis whereas control saw an increase. There is Esselstyn. 177 patients with established CAD follow the low fat approach (with other interventions). 1 has a cardiac event within 12 years, but no fatalities. An amazing success rate compared to other populations with CAD. There is also the BROAD study from New Zealand which follows the low fat vegan approach. The most successful weight loss intervention at the 6 and 12 month marks for any trial that did not restrict calories or mandate exercise. I think a good argument for the low fat vegan approach vs higher fat is not necessarily that the two diets have been pitted against each other directly (as far as I know) but that we see really impressive healthful outcomes with this diet and we don't see comparable results with the higher fat vegan approach. Maybe they would and they just haven't been tried.
I also recently listened to some lectures from Pritikin. There's a 6 hour long video on Youtube that contains several lectures he gave. It's a lot to sit through, but much of it is quite riveting. He talks about places where his diet happens to be the traditional diet of certain peoples, such as Yemeni people or African tribes. He says heart disease, colon cancer, breast cancer, they are so rare at these places they are virtually undetectable.
It's data at least. Whether it is compelling or not is a different question I suppose. But anyway, loved your video as always.
Chris, you being a prophet of the plant based diet makes me hope you'll surpass Methuselah in age, so you can continue to bring us mere mortals more brilliant Vlogs like this… Thank you!
It's such a shame that so many people suffer needlessly from illness and die young because people promote such rubbish. It is also such a blessing not to be part of the horrific meat industry even if it has only been for ten years how I wish I had known the truth when I was young. My only hope is that large language models will sweep away disinformation
Prof Tim Noakes,now theres a humble expert.Carbs are a pain to humanity.
You are a very intelligent scientist because you grew up on meat and eggs. Case closed. You can't wish that away, nor a million years of human evolution. How ironic that the veg movement was started by a religious vision, not science.
Chris, as always, excellent video. Whether you did harm or good, is probably hard to determine, because even if you're talking to people who have already made up their mind, you are planting a seed, and a decade from now when their health is declining, they will possibly think back and be willing to accept your message. I was vegan long before plant-based, but I dismissed the health benefit of wfpb as hippie nonsense, after I started reading books like How not to die, I realized how I was wrong. Thanks for what you do.
The fertilizers are also poisoning the rivers and other water supplies. 😊
🫶👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 thank you for what you do. So valuable.
Please keep on doing what you’re doing. I send your videos to my parents bc I want them to be healthy and live longer!
How don’t know how else to say it but, I love you man!
18:26 what about the China Study?
On another note, love the video. So well researched, and love the anecdotes.
After following the food pyramid advice, even vegetarian for a while and having gradual declining health I did my own research and tried Keto, huge improvement. Now largely carnivore and feel decades younger. My wife was vegetarian for a long time, and with declining health she also switched. We both feel better than when we were in our 20s. All have to figure out what works for them, we are all very different. Just the severe allergic reaction people exhibit is an indication of the extreme differences.
I am 66. I have been strict whole food vegan for 2 years, but was diagnosed with breast cancer last October, and now osteoporosis too.
Reading the comments from the public for low carb and high carb diets, they all seem very genuine and sincere. Low carb does seem to work for a large proportion of people. There seems to be a big missing piece of the puzzle in terms of personal health.
As much as I want to do right for the environment and the animals, my health comes first. If it turns out that carnivore is best for health, then we must reduce the human population (over the next few generations – I don’t mean killing anyone) and clean up the planet, so that it can support its human population in the best possible health.
You vegans will ignore that most of yall will quit due to sickness one day or another (around 87%), because you believe in studies, that LITERALLY compare people who are on a standart western diet to vegans. If you eat fast food, you are in the meat eater category. This is crazy, its absurd, it leads to misinformation. And not only that, but if you compare those two groups, you will automatically have a strong healthy user bias. Means, vegans tend to be way more health conscious and have alot of healthy habits besides paying attention to what they eat. „Heavy meat users“ who eat everything dont pay nearly as much attention to health guidelines. Smoking for example. Healthy user bias is huge, that alone destroys the value of these studies completely. Yall just ignore all this and then you will tell ALL of these ex vegans that they did it wrong hahaha. These studies dont compare carnivore dieters to vegans, they compare people on standart western diets to vegans and call it „heavy meat eater vs vegans“. this is so corrupt, you really need to be a sheep to not see this. But keep on, again, most of yall will quit at some point and ill see some of you in the carnivore community, its full of ex vegans lol, and the transformations are mind boggling.
Viva Longevity! Thank you very much for your videos. Thanks to you, I have moved away from a carnivore diet and am now trying to eat more vegetarian food. I wish you good health and long life!
Long live Viva Longevity. No social media influencers for me! Meat, dairy, and eggs cause disability and a shortened life.
Great job dear Chris