11: Hannah Sutter: ‘Big Fat Lies’

Written on August 25, 2010 by admin

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Welcome back for another interesting episode of the Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast with Robert Su, MD. In this episode, British lawyer/nutrition writer, Ms. Hannah Sutter is the featured guest.

We all have been repeatedly advised by the governmental agencies and the medical professional organizations about how dangerous the roles of fats on the health are, particularly the saturated fats. Most of their studies include the trans fats, the synthetic fats created by chemically hydrogenating their unsaturated bonds, which are recognized for their health risks. However, the governmental agencies and the medical professional organizations have never told us trans fats and saturated fats are two completely different things. Besides, they have also failed to realize that saturated fats are vitally important to our health and are not responsible for overweight and obesity.

Ms. Sutter was stunned by the facts that two of her acquaintance had slimmed themselves by eating more fats. Sutter even gave up her successful law practice and began to research the truth of how dieting impacts the health and wrote a book, “Big Fat Lies: Is Your Government Making You Fat?.” Ms. Sutter will tell you in this interview how misinformation about fats and health has been played up and is leading us into the path of a big health hazard. Be sure to listen to this most fascinating interview with Sutter about the truths you have never been told that are hidden behind big fat lies.

Hannah Sutter on the Web: http://www.hannahsutter.com/
About the book: http://www.bigfatlies.co.uk/

http://www.primalmuse.blogspot.com Jamie

Brilliant podcast! I cannot agree more with Hannah Sutter on her analysis of dietitians. Having come through the system that trains dietitians, I can give some good insights into the type of people drawn to the course and who is training them.

The vast majority who apply to do nutrition and dietetics are slim white females (in New Zealand at least) who invariably have issues with food. And they are largely taught by slim white females who have issues with food. I was one of only a handful of males in my intake year, and most of us came from a sports science background.

When I entered the school of nutrition at Otago University (in 1997), the staff teaching there had been teaching there for many years already. Now in 2010, the same staff, with the same biases, are still teaching there!

I am very glad I declined entry to the dietitics program and focused on exercise and being an independent nutritionist instead.

http://www.carbohydratescankill.com Robert K. Su MD

Thank you very much, Jamie, for your insights into the dietetic system for the past decades, which has been following the knowledge that is not only the “same ol’” throughout the period, but, worst of all, also proven erroneous. The cases in point are, but not limited to, promoting carbohydrates for health without knowing the ill-impacts of postprandial hyperglycemia, misidentifying fats for causing overweight/obesity, ignoring the importance of satiety by fats and proteins in dieting, and failing to recognize the link between carbohydrate-rich diet and hypertriglyceridemia……..

It is very difficult to change the system as long as the establishment is in control of the professional certification system, which dictates the standard of dietetic practice. So is the medical profession. However, I am hopeful because we are having more “converts” in both the medical and nutritional professions when the knowledge they learned failed to save their own health.