The Fat Falsehoods" Dr. Jamnadas, MD - Galen Foundation Lecture 2019

So, we've been living with the lipid hypothesis that cholesterol causes atherosclerosis.

Everybody agree? That's what you heard, right? yes okay and it causes coronary artery disease cerebral vascular disease and peripheral vascular disease no good and this data i need to tell you about that in 1957 this doctor stated that in order for patients to lose weight they must be on a high protein high fat and low cholesterol diet All the way back in 1957, he was already saying that.

And in 1961, multiple studies already showed that if you eat a high carbohydrate diet, you get lipemia within one hour.

And yet, that was the time that we all jumped onto this fat bandwagon.

So, if I take your blood sample, I give you lots of fat, let's say I give you three eggs to eat right now, and then I take your blood sample one hour later, and then I give this young gentleman over here, let's say, yeah, yeah, he's young, he's young, and let's say I give him a real high carbohydrate meal right now, and I check your blood, whose blood is going to look fatty? and all cloudy because there's fat in it.

It's going to be the guy with the high carbohydrate diet, not the guy who just had the high fat diet.

We knew about this back in 1961, yet I bet you each and every one of you in this room thinks that because he ate the egg, his blood should be looking all cloudy and mucky.

So that brings us to Ancel Keys.

He said, Look, the only sure way to control cholesterol is to reduce fat in the US diet from 40% to 15% of total calories and to cut down saturated fats from 17% to 4% of the total calories.

He also went on to say that Americans eat too much fat and much of that saturated fat damages the arteries and leads to coronary artery disease.

So who was Ancel Keys? Ancel Keys was appointed by the US government to come up with the key rations.

The key rations were the rations that the soldiers used when they were in the war, that these are the rations.

And he was the one who, for some strange reason, was given that job.

And what was his qualification? Well, he was a BA in economics, and he was a PhD in fish physiology.

Yet he was appointed by the US government to give advice on how we should feed our feed our forces.

And then he comes up with this theory.

So he comes up with this diet heart hypothesis, which is the Ansell theory that stated that dietary saturated fats increase cholesterol in the blood and in turn increases the risk of coronary artery disease.

He came up with that.

So there was a perfect storm brewing around this time.

There was an increasing incidence of coronary artery disease.

And people said, we need to find a cause for this.

And Ancel Keys came along and says, I'm going to study this.

And he came up with the sixth country study, where they correlated dietary fat to death rates.

And look at the curve he got.

OK, do I have a marker here? Do I have a marker? Well, if you look at the first curve, it goes straight up.