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"Omega 6 is up here, and

omega 3 is down here.

"Maybe what we

ought to do is take

"omega 3 fatty acid

pills, fish oil pills,

"and encourage fish

eating to get that

"omega 3 back up to

that ratio that we have

"been accustomed to

as a population."

Okay, there's no

evidence that it works,

in fact a large

meta-analysis that looked

at 89 studies showed that it

didn't make any difference

in health outcomes,

but besides that,

wouldn't it be better

to lower the omega 6

fatty acid in the diet,

stop eating all those

land animals, stop

consuming all that

plant oil, and the ratio

goes back to normal.

So let's not supplement

with omega 3,

let's ratchet down

omega 6, and we end up

where we need to be.

There's no money in

the decreasing omega 6.

There's a lot of money in

selling people omega 3 pills.

And getting them to eat fish.

- In fact, when you take

a supplement omega 3's,

we've got some really

good evidence now.

Summarizing a lot of studies.

The higher the use of omeg

3's, the higher is the risk

for type ii diabetes.

And even there's evidence

that cancer goes up, too.

It does exactly the opposite

of what people think it does.

It's disgusting.

It's one of those

ridiculous things.

- Early on, there

was data suggesting

that it might be

beneficial, but now,

the preponderance

of evidence is that

fish oil is useless, so

there's this billion dollar

industry that's

basically selling people

fish oil as snake oil.

- For many guys,

eating a diet rich in meat

is seen as a reflection

of their manhood,

and associated with

being strong and manly.

I felt the same way

for most of my life.

So I was really surprised

to come across studies

that showed that such

a diet might actually

have the contrary

effect in the long run.

- Here they are eating

the meat that's going

to make them macho, right?

It has the opposite effect.

That's not being very macho

to have erectile dysfunction.

- It's all about blood

flow, they even say it

in the Cialis, and

Viagra commercials.

So, if your arteries

are clogged,

with cheese and dairy and meat,

and bacon and all this bullshit,

what's the main vein?

Come on, it's

simple science, man.

- It's unquestionable that

men think that they have

to eat a lot of

protein and that eating

a plant-based diet may

not be really masculine.

But I'll tell you what's

really not masculine,

is erectile dysfunction.

If you want to be virile,

if you want to have

a great masculine life,

eat a plant-based diet.

There is a great deal of

evidence that erectile

dysfunction is caused by

diet in many instances.

And the reason is, that if

you have coronary artery

disease, in one

area of the body,

you have it everywhere.

So those very tiny blood vessels

that lead to the penis,

are some of the first

to get effected, and

so erectile dysfunction

has been referred

to as the canary

in the coal mine.

It's the sign that

something is terribly wrong,

and you need to fix

it, and at that stage,

it's much more fixable

than if you've already

had the heart attack,

or the stroke,

or something really

serious happen.

- Obesity

is linked to more

than 60 chronic diseases,

and it is common knowledge

that there is an epidemic

of obesity around the world.

Today, two thirds of

adults, and nearly one third

of children in America

struggle with it.

It seems like in

the last 30 years,

human waist lines

have simply grown

out of proportion.

And if obesity rates

stay consistent,

by 2030, 51% of the

American population

could potentially be obese.

- As far as dieting,

or losing weight,

people take two

approaches that don't work

for the long term.

And so of course they

say diets don't work.

One approach is they try

and starve themselves,

and be hungry all the time.

These are portion controlled

diets, typical diets

that people follow.

They don't work because

you're hungry all the time,

you can't tolerate

that kind of pain.

The alternative is the

make yourself sick diets.

And those are the high

protein, high fat,

low carbohydrate diets.

- Over

the last few decades,

there has been an explosion

of commercial diets

in the U.S.

Most of them revolving

around the idea

that eating few carbs,

and lots of animal protein

helps with weight loss,

all orchestrated by

multi-million dollar,

ingenious advertising campaigns

and celebrity endorsements.

As a result, nowadays,

most people associate

carbs with weight gain.

For many years, I worked

really hard to cut my carbs,

without any long term

results, and without fully

understanding why

i was doing it.

I wanted to find out

what the latest science

had to say about

these low carb diets.

- Rob atkins, some

years ago, in 1973,

published his first book,

in which he argued that

it's not the problem

with the fat, it's not the

problem with the protein,

but mostly fat, he said

that's not the problem,

the problem is we consume

too much carbohydrate.

And he made that point,

we should be consuming

low carb diet, he said.

And then many other people

wrote the same thing.

The south beach diet,

is only a copycat,

for the most part,

of the atkins diet.

The zone diet is basically

a copycat, different name.

The blood type diet in many

regards is also a copycat.

Good calories bad calories,

dairy 12, same thing.

Even Marco paleo, and I have

to say, omnivore's dilemma.

And the paleo diet

in this day and time

is a copycat.

They may give it

different names,

they may try to throw out

you know, different types

of arguments for

why that's right,

they're all wrong.

- Everybody wants

to hear good news

about their bad habits.

So when you tell

people you can eat all

the lobster you want,

you can have steak,

and eggs, and you know,

some include dairy,

some don't include dairy,

but that's sounds good

to people, because it

sounds less restrictive.

- This is written by

people, I should tell you,

who don't have

experience in this field

of nutrition research, period.

Most of them have

never even published

a single paper into

scientific literature.

- Some of the people

who are talking

about low carb diets

are little better than

news reporters, and that's

not to take anything away

from their skill at

investigating things,

but they cannot

don't have the skills to

evaluate scientific information.

- Low carb diets,

they make you sick.

And as a result, your

whole body gets sick,

with artery disease,

and kidney damage,

liver damage and so on.

They increase mortality,

that's been shown

over and over again

in major studies.

But they also make

you sick in a way

that you lose your appetite.

The dieter goes, "oh,

I've finally found it."

And then you go into

ketosis, you lost your

appetite, as a result,

you're able to sustain

yourself without thinking

about food all the time.

Because you're sick.

These diets are dangerous,

and people should

not be on them.

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