<span style="color: #999999;">We’re as unhealthy as ever.
According to the CDC, two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese and the perception of what’s normal weight is far different today than it was for previous generations. And it’s clear that people are changing their idea of what is acceptable body size—learning to accept where “I am now” and to feel great in their shifting mindset no matter the size.
A new film by celebrity Trainer, Nutritionist, and Podcaster—Fitness Confidential, Vinnie Tortorich, titled “FAT: A Documentary” is an eye-opening education about the truths and the lies of the food industry.
FAT tells the far-fetched but completely true history of how our country became so unhealthy. In 1970, just over 1. 5 million people were diagnosed with Diabetes in the United States. Now over 30 million have Diabetes. More alarming is that 100 million people, 1-in-3, have Diabetes or are pre-Diabetic. Not to mention the 40-percent of the U.S. population that is obese.
With our general obsession with health and weight loss, how is this possible? Tortorich believes that we have everything completely upside down, including the food pyramid and details 150 years to show how the misinformation has contributed to the truths we live today.
Watch the film clip here or below.
Here are a few facts v. myths and foods that get a thumbs up or thumbs down according to Tortorich:
Fact … Your liver doesn’t care if it’s natural sugar or synthetic sugar.
Myth … Fat in your heart and clogged arteries, come from eating too much fatty food … hereditary
Myth …The food pyramid is the start of good eating … unless you turn it upside down and start with meat at the bottom.
Myth … Exercise is the way to lose weight … you can’t outrun a bad diet.
Thumbs down … Quinoa … it’s no better than any grain
Thumbs up … Butter
Thumbs down … Juicing … everything you’ve left behind is the good stuff (fiber), and you end up with a glass of sugar.
Thumbs down … Potatoes (white + sweet) … all sugar
Photos and film clip courtesy Vinnie Tortorich
