: Episode 1216 –
Fat Head creator Tom Naughton joins Vinnie for a
second appearance on this Friday show, and the two talk the creation ofÂ
Fat Head and more recently,Â
Fat Head Kids, film distribution, wisdom of crowds, and more.
- Creator of the Fat Head doc
- Was a comedian, decided to get off the road
- Also a software programmer
- Wanted to make a doc on how we treat fat people
- Watched Super Size Me and was really bothered by it
- Thought the doc was full of crap
- Fat Head is his response to this
- Ate fast food and lost weight
- Watched what he ate
- Restricted carbs, limited to ~2000 calories/day
- Had lots of protein and fat
- If you haven’t seen Fat Head, you need to!
- As he worked on the doc, he learned more and more about how our dietary guidelines are BS
- Working on book and movie Fat Head Kids
- “Things I wish I knew when I was your age”
- Want to help kids who are fat get thin, and help those that are thin stay thin
- We want you to learn to eat correctly now
- Check out the book here
- This stuff is wisdom of the crowds
- Everyone can learn this stuff
- Tom is seeing more and more people reject cereal and margarine and things like that
- We need to get this ship turned around with documentaries like this
