Keto movies or youtube videos for a beginner?

Lillith32

I am trying to educate my partner on the low carb WOE. I know if I give him a book he won't read it, would you recommend any beginner-friendly movies or youtube videos I can show him to explain things?

JessicaLCHF

Great thread! I'll be following. The one I know about and LOVE is "Fathead" on YouTube. It's by a comedian so it's fairly entertaining and clean too (one cuss word I think). My kids walked through when hubby and I were watching it and it captivated them both and they stayed and watched the whole thing with us. I'll grab a link.



https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqn-Xe_2iCw

BTW my husband is a nurse and was totally against this WOE until he saw this. Things started clicking for him as he watched and he was telling me about for instance his surgeon friends who see half their heart clogged patients are overweight and half are not! He also explains cholesterol pretty well.

Going "low carb" was my husband's idea for me, since I was diabetic, but it took this video for him to get the "high fat" part of the equation.

Sunny_Bunny_

Lecture by Dr Lustig
https://youtu.be/dBnniua6-oM
The Calorie Myth lecture by Jonathan Bailor
https://youtu.be/e5ewexMZ1-o
The Truth About Sugar
https://youtu.be/-1cCXH-XGhI

nvmomketo

The Perfect Human Diet is a good show too.

GaleHawkins

@Lillith32 one thing I have observed is that a book or movie will pick out one food or food group as the "cause" of XXX. At first that bothered me because they could not all be right. Is the core issue wheat, sugar, artificial sweeteners, etc?

Now I think they can all be right even when the messages are very different.

In my case I stopped most all sugars and all grains a year ago to try to manage my pain levels without Rx Meds. It worked well in 30 days and still is working great.

It may be as simple as removing wheat for some. Others just removing artificial sweeteners may do the trick. Others it could be removing dairy, etc, etc.

At my age and damaged health it may be easier to cut out foods as I learn they harm me since I view this has my last chance to stop the slide in my health. Being 64 with no real health concerns now for the first time in about 40 years and taking no meds or being under a doctor's care is great but this was not the case a year ago.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qeyKvCkxp2o&list=PLGw1XCNsAuJVjNmzKpvvAmzK22MOs3j1b

I just watched this hour long video by Dr. William Davis after reading his 2014 Wheat Belly Total Health. Clearly he talks about health issues induced by certain kinds of grains. I have read the book by Jonathan Bailor listed above and others. There are good medical conventions on LCHF by way of Youtube that one can attend.

Hopefully you can find one hook that will get him interested enough that he will start to look for more info on his own. That is when the rubber will meet the pavement.

Lillith32

@GaleHawkins, Made the SO watch Fat Head. Not sure he was convinced, but he's giving it a try for a week. I hope in a week he will get some sort of weight loss, that will convince him more then any movie that he won't watch or book that he won't read, or even the reddit progress pics that he thinks are photoshopped.

Dragonwolf

I'm personally a fan of Dr. Peter Attia's talk on the history of the low fat era and showing how it was entirely politically motivated. It also includes information on the effects of switching (back) to a high fat, low carb way of eating.

Azuriaz

So many, many TED Talks. Dr. Jason Fung. Dr Eric Westman. A neat lecture series called Cut the Killer Carbs. Gary Taubes. The Grain Brain and Wheat Belly stuff.

For more documentary type stuff: The Big Fat Truth About Low Fat Foods, Low Carb Diet Fat or Fiction, Heart of the Matter: Dietary Villains and Heart of the Matter: Statin drugs myth.