The Dr. Chalmers Show Season #3, episode 16 - What about fats? Who should you believe about your fat intake, the government or your own body?

<p>The Dr. Chalmers Show Season #3, episode 16 – Who should you believe about your fat intake, the government or your own body? </p><p> </p><p>In this episode of my Insights to Wellness podcast, I talk about the fats that we intake in our diets. Not only what kind of fats, but how those fats interact with vitamins and your body is critical. </p><p> </p><p>Do you remember the old charts from your elementary school health courses? The food groups in a triangle, and now compare those to the new ones from the government. Both do not tell the true story, but you can see that it has even gotten further away from reality. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> The following is an automated transcript and may be edited for grammar, and please listen to the podcast for exact verbiage</p><p></p><p>Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:10] The next one we're talking about is that we have to do a whole deal on basically, if the government gives you health advice, don't do it. I mean, look, okay, guys, we're good to go on that one now. </p><p></p><p>Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:24] So we'll talk about we'll talk about this from segment but let's let's run through this government thing. In the 80s, when I was growing up, the government came out with the American Heart Association, which is really the same group. </p><p></p><p>Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:40] And they said, stop eating fat, so you should only eat carbohydrates fat's going to kill you, eat your carbohydrates, sugar was fine as long as you didn't have fat and everybody was gonna be okay. </p><p></p><p>Dr Matt Chalmers [00:00:53] We knew then and we know now that that is probably the worst possible advice you can give anybody for their heart. Yeah. To cause arterial sclerosis is going to cause diabetes, it's going to cause strokes, it can cause heart attacks, it's because all kinds of things and the biggest one is it's degeneration of your brain. </p><p></p><p>Dr Matt Chalmers [00:01:11] Your brain is mostly fat and before smart people start saying we're all, you know, avocados. It's cholesterol. Your