The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (622 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1483014703 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Teicholz recounts the statistical cherry-picking, political finagling, and pseudoscientific bullying that brought us to yet another of the biggest mistakes in health and nutrition, the low-fat and low-saturated fat myth for heart health." (William Davis, MD, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Bac)"At last the whole truth about the luscious foods our bodies really need!" (Christiane Northrup, M.D., ob/gyn physician and author of the New York Times bestseller Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom)"This meticulously researched book thoroughly dismantles the current dietary dogma that fat--particularly sat
Destined to change the national conversation about what constitutes a "healthy" diet Adam Okay, look. I'm about as biased a reviewer as you can get. I read Gary Taubes' Good Calories Bad Calories in 2008 and was so moved by it that I radically overhauled my diet and started writing and researching about nutrition and obesity as a hobby.So when I had the opportunity to review an advance copy of Nina Teicholz's Big Fat Surprise, I assumed I would enjoy it and agree with her conclusions but I was in no way expecting to be so surprised and delighted by it and so infuriated by the nasty nutrition . Claire said My most favourite book ever!. This is my favourite book. Ever!And I'm the daughter of a librarian so I've read a lot!The scale of research and science Nina has reviewed is nothing short of gargantuan. Every chapter is compelling & shocking in what she reviews about the atrocious history of nutritional medicine.I love this book (& Nina's subsequent work to change the US dietary guidelines) so much that I travelled to Colorado mountains from Australia this week to meet her!I've also totally changed my diet to low carb high fat, lost 1My most favourite book ever! This is my favourite book. Ever!And I'm the daughter of a librarian so I've read a lot!The scale of research and science Nina has reviewed is nothing short of gargantuan. Every chapter is compelling & shocking in what she reviews about the atrocious history of nutritional medicine.I love this book (& Nina's subsequent work to change the US dietary guidelines) so much that I travelled to Colorado mountains from Australia this week to meet her!I've also totally changed my diet to low carb high fat, lost 13. . "A must read for school lunch administrators, first ladies and former mayors or NYC" according to mystified. I wish the nannies who love to legislate what others should eat would read this book. It's depressing how little science has been behind USDA guidelines recommending low fat, high carbohydrate diet. I have never been heavy but I have known a lot of people who exercised heavily and consumed almost no fat who were only able to loose weight and hunger after cutting way back on carbs, especially simple carbs.I began wondering about high fat diets after my son had some seizures and I read about the non-carboh
Nina Teicholz has written for Gourmet magazine, the New Yorker, the Economist, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. She lives in New York with her husband and two sons. . She also covered Latin America for National Public Radio
For eight years, Teicholz has pored over the massive research literature and interviewed hundreds of leading experts to unravel the shockingly distorted claims of nutrition studies. With a lively narrative style akin to Michael Pollan's in ''The Omnivores Dilemma'' and the scientific rigor of Gary Taubes in ''Good Calories, Bad Calories'', Teicholz convincingly upends the conventional wisdom about all fats. She brings these researchers to life and shows how their ambitions, loyalties, and rivalries have undermined a field of research already full of difficult pitfalls. What is going on? In ''The Big Fat Surprise'', Teicholz reveals how sixty years of nutrition science has gotten it so wrong: how overzealous researchers have made basic scientific mistakes that, through a mix of ego and bias, allow dangerous misrepresentations to become dogma, and how scientists who dared oppose this consensus have been ostracized. We obediently complied with nutritional guidelines to eat ''heart healthy'' fats found in olive oil, fish, and nuts, and followed a Me