Can diet and lifestyle be powerful in preventing disease? What misconceptions have caused the obesity and diabetes epidemics? How are we wrong about treating and preventing Western diseases?
On the 22th of July the low-carb movie The Big Fat Fix (featuring the great Dr. Aseem Malhotra and Donal O'Neill) will attempt to answer these questions. The movie was funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign and will also show you how to become more "heart healthy" in just 21 days.
Watch the trailer above. To watch the entire movie before everyone else go to the movie website and enter your email. This will also give you free access to the great low-carb movie Run on Fat:
About the movie
From the press info about the movie:
Useful Big Fat Fix facts:
1. An independent co-production between British Cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra and Donal O'Neill - the Producer of Cereal Killers (2013) and Run on Fat (2015).
2. Financed by a successful crowdfunding campaign. We chose this route to protect the integrity of our "lifestyle as medicine" message and to lay the foundations for a global movement to influence and mobilise change through political, medical and thought leaders.
3. This movement begins with a private Parliamentary Screening to Members of the British Parliament in Westminster, London. It is our goal to lobby hard, replicate this approach (a second European country has already expressed interest in their own Parliamentary screening) and translate the movie into 50+ languages.The key points made in the movie are -
- There is no Mediterranean Diet - the Greek word "diaita" actually means "lifestyle". This misinterpretation at the outset was a critical error. The true Med Diet has effectively been lost in translation.
- The movie takes us to Pioppi - the UNESCO protected home of the Med Diet in southern Italy - and "beyond food" to define and explore the components of this traditional lifestyle and their potential benefits.
- Key findings include the importance of habitual movement & the most effective exercise protocols; Vitamin D; sleep; quality olive oil, fatty acids and the quality of the local produce enjoyed; the absence of sugar in the traditional diet; the re-engineering of wheat since the research took place; social connections; stress.
- Heart disease - what is it and how does it happen? Aseem redefines the disease process and tells us we can be significantly more "heart healthy" in just 21 days.
- How do we incorporate these elements into a modern lifestyle? Aseem prescribes the lifestyle "pills" we should all be taking daily.
