The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

Teicholz, Nina

| 2014

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Dish up the red meat, eggs, and whole milk In this well researched and captivating narrative, veteran food writer Nina Teicholz proves how everything we ve been told about fat is wrong.For decades, Americans have cut back on red meat and dairy products full of bad saturated fats. We obediently complied with nutritional guidelines to eat heart healthy fats found in olive oil, fish, and nuts, and followed a Mediterranean diet heavy on fruits, vegetables, and grains. Yet the nation s health has declined. 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. For eight years, Teicholz has pored over the...

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