Vinnie Tortorich
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NSNG®️ Lifestyle Founder | Fitness Confidential Podcast Host & Bestselling Author | Filmmaker: Beyond Impossible, FAT: A Documentary 1 & 2 | #NSNG #LCHF
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Nina Teicholz was a New York journalist on a strict low-fat vegetarian diet that was not really working. Then a magazine sent her to review fancy restaurants in Manhattan. For the first time in her adult life she ate full-fat meat, butter, and cream. She felt better. Sharper. Steadier. And the weight she had been fighting for years started falling off. So she did what a good journalist does. She started asking where the war on fat actually came from. Nine years of research. Hundreds of interviews. Every major diet-heart study reread. In 2014 she published The Big Fat Surprise. The conclusion was simple. The case against saturated fat had never actually been made. It had been assumed, then defended. In September 2015 the BMJ ran her investigation of the US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Cherry-picked studies. Ignored randomized trials. Members with food and pharmaceutical funding. The committee had recommended a diet that no trial had ever shown to be safe or effective long-term. The counterattack arrived in six weeks. The Center for Science in the Public Interest organized a letter signed by more than 180 scientists demanding the BMJ retract her paper. The letter claimed eleven factual errors. The BMJ did not retract. They commissioned a year of external expert review. They corrected seven smaller technical points. They left her central thesis untouched. In December 2016 they confirmed the paper stands. Teicholz pointed out something else in her response. Many of the 180 signatories had taken funding from the food and pharmaceutical industries she had criticized. Since the book, study after study has confirmed her thesis. PURE. FASTER. The reanalyzed Minnesota Coronary Experiment. The official guidelines are quietly walking back their fat warnings without ever admitting why. One reporter forced a peer-reviewed journal to publicly choose between her data and the establishment that funded the consensus. When the establishment cannot refute you, they try to silence you. It did not work. #NSNG #NinaTeicholz #BigFatSurprise #BMJ #SaturatedFat #DietaryGuidelines #LowFat
Vinnie Tortorich61,179 次观看 • 8 天前
A study put elite athletes who burned almost no carbs on a treadmill. They recorded the highest fat-burning rate ever measured in a human. The FASTER study. 2016. Published in Metabolism. Twenty of the best ultra-endurance athletes on earth. Ultramarathoners. Ironman triathletes. The kind of people whose careers depend on knowing exactly what fuel works. They were split into two groups. Ten ate the standard high-carb athlete diet. The diet every sports nutritionist still pushes. Eat the carbs. Load the carbs. You cannot perform without the carbs. Ten had been low-carb and keto-adapted for an average of twenty months. Same elite level. Same competitions. No carbs. Both groups ran three hours on a treadmill. Researchers measured exactly what fuel each body was burning, breath by breath. Here is what they found. The keto group burned fat at 2.3 times the rate of the carb group. Peak fat oxidation hit 1.5 grams per minute. The textbooks said the human body maxes out near 0.7 grams per minute. The keto athletes doubled the supposed limit. The highest fat-burning rate ever measured in a human, full stop. Then the part that should have ended the carb-loading dogma forever. The fear was that without carbs they would run out of muscle glycogen mid-race. They did not. Their glycogen use during the run and their refill afterward matched the carb athletes exactly. They were running on their own fat at elite intensity. With glycogen behaving identically. The body was never carb-dependent. It was carb-trained. You can train it differently. Almost a decade later, every endurance handbook still tells athletes to load up on carbs. The data has been sitting there the whole time.
Vinnie Tortorich116,205 次观看 • 19 天前
A doctor drank a petri dish of bacteria to prove every expert wrong. He won the Nobel Prize. In 1982, every doctor on earth knew stomach ulcers were caused by stress and spicy food. Patients were put on antacids for life. Zantac alone was a billion-dollar drug. Nobody questioned it. Then Barry Marshall and Robin Warren found a spiral bacterium called H. pylori living in the stomachs of ulcer patients. They said bacteria caused ulcers. The medical establishment laughed. Bacteria can't survive in stomach acid. Papers rejected. Mocked at conferences. So in 1984, Marshall drank a broth of H. pylori. Within days he was vomiting with severe gastritis. He biopsied his own stomach and proved the bacteria were there, destroying the lining. Then he cured himself with a two-week course of antibiotics. A two-week course of pills replaced a lifetime of antacids. The cure was cheaper than the disease. And that was the problem. The antacid industry was worth billions. A cheap cure was bad for business. It took a decade for the medical establishment to accept what Marshall had already proven with his own body. In 2005, Marshall and Warren won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Millions of ulcer patients are now cured with antibiotics instead of managed with pills for life. He poisoned himself to save millions. They called him crazy. Follow the money. Question everything. #NSNG #NoSugarNoGrains #QuestionEverything #FollowTheMoney #BigPharma
Vinnie Tortorich243,318 次观看 • 2 个月前
Two dietitians reported a doctor for telling diabetics to eat butter. Two years later, the government sided with the doctor. Dr. Annika Dahlqvist. Family physician in northern Sweden. She started recommending low-carb high-fat eating to her overweight and diabetic patients. They lost weight. Diabetics dropped insulin. Some came off medication entirely. Two dietitians did not like that. They filed a malpractice complaint with Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare. The charge: recommending fat to diabetics endangered their lives. The Board could revoke her license. Her own clinic fired her in November 2006. She spent two years in professional limbo. The Board reviewed the science. Slowly. While Sweden's diabetes and obesity rates kept climbing. January 2008. The verdict came back. Dr. Dahlqvist had done nothing wrong. The Board ruled, in writing, that low-carb high-fat eating was fully compatible with current science. The dietitians wanted her shut down. The science shut them down instead. That single ruling cracked Sweden open. LCHF spread through the country in a way it had nowhere else on earth. Kostdoktorn (Diet Doctor) was founded the same year. Within a decade, surveys showed roughly one in four Swedes had tried low-carb. It is now one of the most popular diets in the country. When two dietitians filed that complaint, they thought they were ending her career. They were starting a movement. #AnnikaDahlqvist #LCHF #LowCarbHighFat #DiabetesReversal #Sweden #DieticiansVsScience #FoodIsMedicine #RealFood #ButterNotMargarine
Vinnie Tortorich90,210 次观看 • 1 个月前
A Harvard doctor locked 3 obese men in a hospital and fed them nothing for 40 days. Their brains worked better than ever. Dr. George Cahill. Harvard Medical School. Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. 1967. He had a question medicine considered settled. What if the brain doesn't actually need glucose? Medical orthodoxy was certain. The brain consumes 120 grams of glucose a day. Without food, brain function would collapse. The men should have lost their minds in two weeks. Day 7. Mental fog. Hunger. Irritability. Day 14. Symptoms fade. Hunger gone. Energy returns. Day 21. Day 28. Day 40. Sharper than before they started. Cahill measured their blood. The brain wasn't running on glucose anymore. It was running on ketones. A fuel produced from body fat. The brain switched fuels. Without missing a beat. The men shed tens of pounds. Mental clarity sharpened. Insulin plummeted. Ketones fueled them. Cahill published the results in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Then medicine quietly buried them. They told you the brain runs on sugar. Harvard proved 59 years ago that it doesn't. No sugar. No grains. We share the stories they don't want you to hear. Follow Vinnie Tortorich. #NSNG #Fasting #Ketones #Ketosis #BrainHealth #Cahill #HarvardMedicine #Insulin #LowCarb #BodyFat #MetabolicHealth
Vinnie Tortorich73,629 次观看 • 1 个月前
A coach took 115 players into the Texas "desert". Only 35 came back. Two years later they were undefeated. In August 1954, new Texas A&M head coach Paul "Bear" Bryant loaded 115 football players onto two buses and drove them to Junction, Texas. A dusty outpost in the middle of nowhere. No shade. No air conditioning. No mercy. Temperatures hit 100 degrees every day. Practices started before dawn and lasted all day. Meetings ran until 11 PM. There was no water on the practice field. Players started quitting on day one. Some left in the middle of the night. Some called their parents. Some just walked away in the middle of the night and disappeared. By day ten, 80 players were gone. Only 35 came back on one bus. The 1954 season was a disaster. 1 win, 9 losses. The only losing season in Bryant's entire 38-year career. Everyone said he'd destroyed the program. But those 35 players were unbreakable. By 1956, Texas A&M went undefeated. Won the Southwest Conference championship. Finished ranked 5th in the nation. Built entirely from the men who survived Junction. Bryant went on to Alabama and became the winningest coach in college football history. 323 wins. 6 national championships. It all started with 35 players who refused to quit. 115 went in. 35 came out. Those 35 became legends. The quitters don't get remembered. #NSNG #NoSugarNoGrains #QuestionEverything
Vinnie Tortorich108,398 次观看 • 1 个月前
1979. Peterborough, New Hampshire. A Harvard psychology professor named Ellen Langer recruits 8 men in their late seventies and early eighties. Slow-moving. Needed help with their luggage. Every marker of advanced age. She doesn't give them medication. She doesn't give them exercise. She doesn't give them supplements. She gives them an environment. A retreat center, rebuilt to replicate 1959. The magazines on the coffee table are from 1959. The music playing is from 1959. The films screening at night are from 1959. They're asked to live as if twenty years had not yet passed. One week later, she measures every biological marker she can. Posture improved. Grip strength improved. Manual dexterity improved. Memory measurably improved. Vision improved. Hearing improved. In one week. With no physical intervention. The scientific community was deeply uncomfortable with the result. So Langer kept testing. For fifty years. In 2007, she told 84 hotel housekeepers their work counted as exercise. The control group wasn't told. Four weeks later — without any change in behavior — the informed group had lost weight, dropped blood pressure, and decreased body fat. Her conclusion, after five decades of research: "The limits we accept as biological are almost always partly psychological." The body responds to the mind's beliefs. Measurably. In both directions. They tell you you're getting older. That your metabolism is slowing. That this is normal for someone your age. Your body is listening. Stop confirming the lie.
Vinnie Tortorich78,284 次观看 • 1 个月前
A Danish researcher proved cholesterol does not cause heart disease. They burned a copy of his book on live Finnish television. Dr. Uffe Ravnskov. Danish nephrologist and lipid researcher. He spent decades studying cholesterol up close. The deeper he looked, the less the official diet-heart hypothesis held up. The official story was simple. Saturated fat raises cholesterol. Cholesterol clogs arteries. Cholesterol causes heart disease. Lower it and you save lives. Ravnskov went back to the underlying trials and found the data did not support any of it. High-cholesterol countries did not have higher heart disease rates than low-cholesterol countries. The famous statin trials hid more than they showed. The dose-response that should exist if the theory was right kept refusing to show up. He publishes The Cholesterol Myths in Sweden. Detailed. Citation-heavy. Polite but devastating. The Finnish edition launches. Finnish proponents of the cholesterol hypothesis go on national television. On channel 2, on live air, a copy of the book is set on fire in protest. He kept going. In 2002 he founded THINCS. The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics. The first organized scientific dissent against the diet-heart hypothesis. More than a hundred doctors, researchers, and PhDs from around the world joined. Almost none of them got airtime. For thirty years the official advice did not move. Statins became the most prescribed drug in human history. Saturated fat guidance kept tightening every revision. Then January 2026 happened. The federal nutrition reset moved away from the low-saturated-fat era. The pyramid was inverted. Full-fat dairy returned to the official plate. The book they burned on Finnish television in 1992 turned out to be the early warning. Ravnskov was right. Most patients are still on the medication built on the theory he disproved. #NSNG #NoSugarNoGrains #VinnieTortorich #UffeRavnskov #CholesterolMyths #THINCS #SaturatedFat #RealFood #NutritionScience #MAHA
Vinnie Tortorich24,700 次观看 • 12 天前
For fifty years the world's obesity advice has come down to one phrase. Eat less. Move more. A Harvard pediatric endocrinologist named David Ludwig spent twenty years showing it was the wrong answer. Ludwig directs the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children's Hospital. He is a professor at both Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He has spent his career treating the most obese children in New England. The standard playbook was not working. The kids cut calories. They tried harder. They came back heavier. So Ludwig started asking a different question. What if the calorie was not the lever. He built what he calls the carbohydrate-insulin model. Refined carbs spike your insulin. Insulin tells your body to store fat. After the spike your blood sugar crashes. Your body interprets the crash as starvation. You get hungry again. You eat. You store more fat. You crash again. It is a feedback loop. And the loop runs on the carbohydrate, not the calorie. In November 2018 his team published the result in the British Medical Journal. 164 adults. 12 percent body-weight loss on a run-in diet. Then randomly assigned to high-carb, moderate-carb, or low-carb at calorie levels designed to maintain their new weight. For twenty weeks straight. The low-carb group burned over 200 extra calories per day at the same body weight as the high-carb group. The effect was larger in participants with the highest insulin secretion. Read that again. Same body weight. Same maintenance calories. The low-carb body was running 200 calories per day hotter. That number ends every "a calorie is a calorie" debate the moment you read it. Ludwig is not a fringe figure. He is the most credentialed voice in nutrition science quietly dismantling the orthodoxy from the inside. His 2016 book Always Hungry has been on the New York Times bestseller list. His 2021 paper in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition formalized the model into a unified theory of obesity. The standard advice is not just wrong. It is the wrong question. Eat less and move more is what you say when you do not understand the disease. #NSNG #DavidLudwig #CarbInsulinModel #AlwaysHungry #LowCarb #Insulin #Obesity #HarvardMedicine
Vinnie Tortorich11,055 次观看 • 6 天前
An anonymous dietitian got an Australian surgeon banned from talking about food. Dr. Gary Fettke. Senior orthopedic surgeon. Launceston, Tasmania. He amputates the consequences of type 2 diabetes for a living. Feet. Toes. Legs. He spent years watching the same patients come back. The official high-carb diabetic diet was feeding the disease. So he started telling them: cut sugar. Cut refined carbs. Eat real food. An anonymous dietitian reported him to AHPRA, Australia's medical regulator. The charge: giving nutritional advice outside his scope of practice. AHPRA's exact words to him: "There is nothing associated with your medical training or education that makes you an expert or authority in the field of nutrition, diabetes or cancer." The investigation ran two and a half years. Zero patient harm. Zero patient complaints. November 2016. They cautioned him anyway. He was forbidden from giving any nutritional advice. To anyone. Even patients about to lose a limb. He refused to back down. The science was on his side. So was every patient he had ever treated. #isupportgary built into a movement. October 3, 2018. AHPRA dropped every allegation. Apologized in writing. Four and a half years after the original complaint. They didn't beat him with science. They tried to beat him with bureaucracy. He outlasted it. The body listens to what you feed it. The medical board listens to dietitians. Choose carefully who you listen to. #NoSugarNoGrains #VinnieTortorich #GaryFettke #isupportgary #AHPRA #LowCarb #Type2Diabetes #DiabetesReversal #SugarLies #FoodIsMedicine #MedicalFreedom
Vinnie Tortorich41,088 次观看 • 1 个月前
The largest diet experiment in history ran for eight years on 48,000 women. Low-fat did nothing. The guidelines never changed. The Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial. 48,835 postmenopausal women. Ages 50 to 79. The biggest, most expensive diet trial ever conducted. This was not a survey. Not a food diary. Not a population guess. It was a randomized controlled trial. The gold standard. One group ate the diet the government told everyone to eat. Fat cut to 20 percent of calories. More grains. More produce. Less fat. This was not a casual nudge. Intensive coaching. Group sessions. Individual sessions. Eight years on the official low-fat diet. Then they counted the outcomes. Heart disease. No reduction. None. No drop in heart attacks. No drop in stroke. Breast cancer. No reduction. Colorectal cancer. No reduction. The diet moved nothing. Published in JAMA. 2006. The largest, most expensive diet trial in human history returned a flat zero on every endpoint it was designed to test. The dietary guidelines did not change. Your doctor still hands you the same advice. The one tested at the biggest scale in history. The one that failed. Think about what that means. They had the answer in 2006. They ran the most rigorous test possible. It came back empty. And the recommendation stayed exactly the same. The low-fat era did not survive its own experiment. It survived because nobody was told it died. Now you know. #NSNG #NoSugarNoGrains #VinnieTortorich #WomensHealthInitiative #LowFatLie #DietHeart #RealFood #SaturatedFat #NutritionScience #JAMA #FoodGuidelines #EatRealFood
Vinnie Tortorich25,014 次观看 • 22 天前
A 33-year-old cardiologist named Robert Atkins was overweight and couldn't lose the weight. Nothing was working. Then he found a 1958 paper by Alfred Pennington — a DuPont company doctor who'd put the company's executives on unlimited meat and fat, zero carbs, and watched them lose weight without ever being hungry. Atkins tried it on himself. Lost the weight. Put his patients on it. They lost weight too. In 1972 he wrote Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution — eat bacon, eggs, steak, butter. Cut the bread. 10 million copies. The establishment lost its mind. In 1973, the AMA Council on Foods and Nutrition published a formal takedown in JAMA calling his work "bizarre concepts of nutrition and dieting." Congress hauled him in. He was mocked in the press for the next 30 years. Then the science caught up. May 2003. New England Journal of Medicine. Two randomized trials. HDL up 18% vs. 3%. Triglycerides down 28% vs. 1%. Weight loss at six months: greater on Atkins. He was vindicated. He died six weeks later. Today, ketogenic diets reverse type 2 diabetes. They treat drug-resistant epilepsy. The ADA lists low-carb among its evidence-based dietary options. They called him a quack for 30 years. He was right the whole time. No sugar. No grains.
Vinnie Tortorich47,434 次观看 • 1 个月前
A 245-pound walk-on nerd with Coke-bottle glasses became an All-American. 11 days after signing an NFL contract… he was dead. Brandon Burlsworth turned down smaller scholarships to walk on at Arkansas. Walk-ons almost never earn scholarships at major SEC programs — rosters are stacked with blue-chip recruits, and the few open spots go to guys the coaches already know. He showed up at 245. The O-line coach told him linemen need to be over 300. So he ate his way to 300 — and showed up out of shape. Coach redshirted him. He used that year. Dropped 40 pounds of fat. Walked into the gym and lifted his way to 40 pounds of muscle. Earned a scholarship by his sophomore year. Started every game for three straight seasons. First-team All-SEC in '97 and '98. All-American. The Indianapolis Colts drafted him in the third round of the 1999 NFL Draft. Eleven days later, driving home from a workout in Fayetteville, his car clipped an 18-wheeler and hit another head-on. He was 22. Arkansas retired his #77. The Burlsworth Trophy is now awarded every year to college football's most outstanding walk-on. No scholarship. No connections. Just work. Nobody gave him a thing. #NSNG #Burlsworth #Arkansas #WalkOn #CollegeFootball #NFL #Razorbacks #Hustle #NoSugarNoGrains
Vinnie Tortorich46,519 次观看 • 1 个月前
An untrained 22-year-old took apart The China Study. The most famous nutrition book in America. Two million copies sold. She did it on a free blog in 2010. Denise Minger. Former raw-vegan blogger. No academic training. No nutrition degree. No medical degree. By her early twenties she had stopped feeling well on her vegan diet and started reading the science her own community kept citing. The book at the center of that science was The China Study. Written by Cornell professor T. Colin Campbell. Published in 2005. The central claim was simple. Animal protein causes cancer. The book became scripture for the plant-based movement. Minger did something almost nobody had bothered to do. She downloaded the original China Project data that Campbell's book was built on. Then she taught herself the statistics package needed to actually run the correlations. She did this for free, on her own time, on a blog called Raw Food SOS. What she found. The data did not support the central claim. Correlations Campbell highlighted were weaker than he reported. Correlations he ignored undercut his thesis. Variables he never mentioned told a different story. She published every number. Every method. Every chart. Step by step. The post went global. Tens of thousands of shares. Then hundreds of thousands. A 22-year-old with no credentials had dismantled the statistical case for the most influential plant-based book in America. Campbell responded publicly. Minger responded with more citations. The consensus among numerate readers was that she had the better of the argument. She later wrote her own book. Death by Food Pyramid. The China Study is still on bestseller shelves. Plant-based advocates still quote it. The data behind it did not survive a self-taught 22-year-old with a spreadsheet. The lesson is not about veganism. It is about checking the data behind the diet you are told to follow. #NSNG #NoSugarNoGrains #VinnieTortorich #DeniseMinger #TheChinaStudy #NutritionScience #RealFood #DataMatters #EatRealFood #VeganMyths #DeathByFoodPyramid
Vinnie Tortorich13,913 次观看 • 13 天前
A coach said 36 eggs a day was as good as steroids. He built Arnold Schwarzenegger. Vince Gironda was the most feared trainer in Hollywood. They called him the "Iron Guru." His gym in North Hollywood produced the first Mr. Olympia, the greatest poser in history, and the most famous bodybuilder who ever lived — all on a diet of steak and eggs. No sugar. No grains. His client list reads like a bodybuilding hall of fame. Larry Scott, the first Mr. Olympia. Twice. Frank Zane, three-time Mr. Olympia and owner of the most aesthetic physique of the golden era. And Arnold Schwarzenegger, seven-time Mr. Olympia. When Arnold first walked into Vince's Gym in 1968, he introduced himself as Mr. Universe. Gironda looked him up and down and said: "You look like a big fat f**k to me." Arnold trained there anyway. Gironda reshaped his physique. Gironda banned squats. He banned back squats. He banned most standard gym exercises. His philosophy: "Bodybuilding is 85% nutrition." And the foundation of that nutrition was eggs. When steroids took over bodybuilding in the 1970s, Gironda refused. He went further than refusing — he said three dozen eggs a day had the same anabolic effect as a Dianabol cycle. Burn researchers had already confirmed it. Three dozen eggs a day improved healing in burn victims at the same rate as steroids. Gironda put the two together. As drugs took over, the industry erased him. They called his methods extreme. They called his diet dangerous. He died in 1997, largely forgotten by the industry he built. 36 eggs a day. Steak and eggs. No sugar. No grains. He was right all along. Question everything. #NSNG #NoSugarNoGrains #QuestionEverything #RealFood #Bodybuilding
Vinnie Tortorich41,017 次观看 • 1 个月前
In 1932, a doctor ran a 10-year experiment that the food industry would rather you forget. Dr. Francis Pottenger fed 900 cats across four generations. Two groups. One ate raw meat and raw milk. The other ate the same food — processed and pasteurized. The raw food cats were healthy. Generation after generation. Strong bones. Normal behavior. Normal reproduction. The processed food cats fell apart. First generation — degenerative disease set in by middle age. Second generation — disease came earlier. Third generation — born sick. There was no fourth generation. They couldn't reproduce. When cats were switched back to real food, they recovered — but it took several generations to fully return to normal. Pottenger concluded that processing destroys something essential in food. He didn't know exactly what. We now know it was largely taurine — an amino acid cats can't make themselves, destroyed by processing. The food industry's answer wasn't to stop processing. It was to strip the food, add back the isolated nutrient artificially, and keep selling the same product. That's still the model today. Your food is processed. Then they sell you back what they took out. Usually in a worse form. Then they slap a label like "enriched" or "fortified" on it...to make you think you're getting something EXTRA. Question everything. #NSNG #NoSugarNoGrains #ProcessedFood #RealFood #PottengersCATS #QuestionEverything
Vinnie Tortorich40,390 次观看 • 2 个月前
1982. Kimberley region, Western Australia. An Australian nutrition researcher named Kerin O'Dea recruited 10 middle-aged Aboriginal Australians. All had type 2 diabetes. All were overweight. All were living in town on flour, sugar, and processed food. She sent them back to the bush. For 7 weeks they lived the way their grandparents did. They ate what they could hunt, fish, and gather. Kangaroo, fish, crocodile, turtle, birds, yams, figs. No flour. No bread. No refined sugar. Then she measured them again. Fasting glucose cut nearly in half 11.6 down to 6.6 mmol/L. Fasting insulin normalized. Triglycerides dropped 70%. Each lost about 18 pounds. Type 2 diabetes reversed in 7 weeks. No drugs. No surgery. She published the results in *Diabetes* journal in 1984. Title: "Marked improvement in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in diabetic Australian Aborigines after temporary reversion to traditional lifestyle." Cited over 240 times. Mainstream medicine never adopted it. They tell you type 2 is a chronic, lifelong disease. It isn't. No sugar. No grains.
Vinnie Tortorich25,098 次观看 • 1 个月前
He warned the FDA about trans fats for 60 years. Then he sued them at 98. In 1957, Dr. Fred Kummerow published a paper in Science linking trans fats to heart disease. He found them in the arteries of every heart attack victim he studied. The food industry said trans fats were safer than butter. Kummerow's data said the opposite. Trans fats were in everything. Margarine, shortening, every processed food on the shelf. In 1968, he urged the American Heart Association to act. They ignored him. For decades, the AHA kept telling Americans to replace butter with margarine. Meanwhile Kummerow kept publishing. Trans fats raise LDL, lower HDL, and trigger inflammation in artery walls. He also discovered that oxidized cholesterol — not regular cholesterol — drives plaque buildup. The evidence was overwhelming. Nobody wanted to hear it. In 2009, at age 94, he filed a citizen petition demanding the FDA ban trans fats. The law required a response within 180 days. The FDA waited four years. So in 2013, at 98 years old, Fred Kummerow sued the FDA. In 2015, the FDA finally ruled trans fats were not safe and banned them from the food supply. The CDC estimates the ban prevents 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths every year. He spent 60 years proving they were killing us. They ignored him until he took them to court. He was 100 years old when he won. Question everything. #NSNG #NoSugarNoGrains #MetabolicHealth #FollowTheMoney
Vinnie Tortorich31,750 次观看 • 2 个月前
After years of research, I owe you all an apology. I've been wrong. About everything. I spent the last decade telling you to avoid sugar and grains. I told you seed oils were poison. I told you the food industry was lying to you. I told you to question everything. Well, I questioned everything. And I finally found the truth. Sugar is actually essential for brain function. Your body needs it. Those headaches you get when you quit sugar? That's your brain telling you it's starving. I was literally telling you to starve your brain. And grains? The foundation of every great civilization. The Egyptians built the pyramids on bread. You think they were eating grass-fed ribeyes? No. They were carb-loading. I also want to apologize for everything I said about Kellogg's. Breakfast IS the most important meal of the day. I looked into it and that's based on real science funded by... well, it doesn't matter who funded it. The point is, a big bowl of Froot Loops and a glass of orange juice is exactly how you should start your morning. I've been working with some brilliant scientists at the Sugar Research Foundation and they've opened my eyes. Very generous people. Very well-funded research. Effective immediately, NSNG now stands for Needs Sugar, Needs Grains. I'll be launching my new program next week. It's called the SnackWell's Protocol. Fat-free cookies for breakfast, Gatorade for hydration, and a Jamba Juice smoothie with 87 grams of sugar for recovery. The science is settled. This post is proudly sponsored by Kellogg's , The Coca-Cola Co. , and the American Heart Association . Follow the money. Wait — I mean, follow the science. Happy April 1st. Question everything. Especially today. #NSNG #NeedsSugarNeedsGrains #SnackwellsProtocol #FrootLoopsAreHealth #QuestionEverything #AprilFools
Vinnie Tortorich24,487 次观看 • 2 个月前
A doctor proved X-rays were killing children. They ignored her for 25 years. In 1956, Dr. Alice Stewart was an epidemiologist at Oxford studying a spike in childhood cancer in Britain. She surveyed thousands of mothers and found a pattern nobody expected. Mothers who had been X-rayed during pregnancy were twice as likely to have a child who developed cancer. Routine prenatal X-rays were standard practice. Every hospital did them. The radiology establishment was making millions from the procedure. Her findings threatened all of it. She published in The Lancet. The data was clear. The medical establishment attacked her methodology, cut her funding, and blocked her promotions at Oxford. A woman challenging the entire radiology profession was not welcome. For 25 years, doctors kept X-raying pregnant women. Stewart kept publishing. The data kept getting stronger. She was right from the start and they knew it. It wasn't until the 1980s that the practice was finally stopped. Thousands of children developed cancer in the meantime because the establishment refused to listen to one woman with better data than all of them. She told them they were killing children. They destroyed her career for it. Question everything. #NSNG #NoSugarNoGrains #QuestionEverything #FollowTheMoney
Vinnie Tortorich19,778 次观看 • 2 个月前