I have NOT seen that film, but I am quite familiar with research-based health trends, and I know of Dr. Eades and his blog - but I also know of several other similar blogs... so I'd have to read through it for his specific viewpoint.
That said: I doubt that anyone is really advocating a bacon diet.
Health researchers are trending toward a modernized paleolithic-style diet for a few reasons:
- Saturated Fat (animal fats, coconut oil) is necessary to increase HDL cholesterol (good) and large particle LDL (also good - but general cholesterol tests won't reveal this) - need a "VAP test" for accurate cholesterol particle size analysis, but many doctors haven't quite updated their
- Low fat, excess carbohydrate diets tends to increase VLDL cholesterol and Lipoprotein A (not good). A paleo-style diet isn't necessarily low-carb, but eating more fat does displace the need for extra carbs.
- The large-scale studies suggest that a higher fat diet (40-60% fat calories) produces the best blood lipid results (check youtube for The Stanford Study - long video though, so you could google it for quicker information)
- The anecdotal evidence confirms this. My cholesterol results (and those of people I know on this diet) are great (that, alone, doesn't mean we're in good health, but our blood lipids and markers for heart disease (VLDL, C-reactive protein, homocysteine, etc) are excellent).
- Animal fats are a good source of fat-soluble nutrients.
Eating BACON all day will likely still give you a damned heart attack in the longterm. It's still necessary to observe the Omega 6: Omega 3 fats ratio (try to keep it low), and to eat your vegetables and fruits. I probably eat 5-10X the mass of vegetables as the average American (my blender makes quick work of it).
A lot of these blogs stress that we should reduce our reliance upon grains. However if we're increasing our fat intake, then we'll likely be decreasing our grain intake anyway.
Carbs: I eat most of mine around and during workouts. I don't eat a low-carb diet.
