Author(s): Nina Teicholz
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Year: 2014
ISBN: 1451624425,9781451624427
Description:
In The Big Fat Surprise, investigative journalist
Nina Teicholz reveals the unthinkable: that everything we thought we
knew about dietary fat is wrong. She documents how the low-fat nutrition
advice of the past sixty years has amounted to a vast uncontrolled
experiment on the entire population, with disastrous consequences for
our health.
For decades, we have been told that the best possible
diet involves cutting back on fat, especially saturated fat, and that
if we are not getting healthier or thinner it must be because we are not
trying hard enough. But what if the low-fat diet is itself the problem?
What if the very foods we’ve been denying ourselves—the creamy cheeses,
the sizzling steaks—are themselves the key to reversing the epidemics
of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease?
In this captivating,
vibrant, and convincing narrative, based on a nine-year-long
investigation, Teicholz shows how the misinformation about saturated
fats took hold in the scientific community and the public imagination,
and how recent findings have overturned these beliefs. She explains why
the Mediterranean Diet is not the healthiest, and how we might be
replacing trans fats with something even worse. This startling history
demonstrates how nutrition science has gotten it so wrong: how
overzealous researchers, through a combination of ego, bias, and
premature institutional consensus, have allowed dangerous
misrepresentations to become dietary dogma.
With eye-opening scientific rigor, The Big Fat Surprise upends
the conventional wisdom about all fats with the groundbreaking claim
that more, not less, dietary fat—including saturated fat—is what leads
to better health and wellness. Science shows that we have been
needlessly avoiding meat, cheese, whole milk, and eggs for decades and
that we can now, guilt-free, welcome these delicious foods back into our
lives.
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The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
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