The Big Fat Surprise: why butter, meat, and cheese belong in a healthy diet - Softcover

Teicholz, Nina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 192522810X ISBN 13: 9781925228106

Publisher: Scribe UK, 2015

Synopsis

A groundbreaking study that reveals how decades of misleading science and policy unjustly demonized the high-fat diet, which might actually be our healthiest option. For the past 60 years we have been told that a low-fat diet can protect against obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Yet despite many of us taking this advice in the developed West, we are now in the midst of an obesity epidemic that is breeding serious health problems. Recent more rigorous scientific work has overturned some of the shoddier theories of earlier decades to demonstrate conclusively that we have been needlessly avoiding red 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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Review:

[Teicholz] has a gift for translating complex data into an engaging forensic narrative... [The Big Fat Surprise] is a lacerating indictment of Big Public Health ... More than a book about food and health or even hubris; it is a tragedy for our information age. From the very beginning, we had the statistical means to understand why things did not add up; we had a boatload of Cassandras, a chorus of warnings; but they were ignored, castigated, suppressed. We had our big fat villain, and we still do. Wall Street Journal / Solid, well-reported science ... Like a bloodhound, Teicholz tracks the process by which a hypothesis morphs into truth without the benefit of supporting data. --Kirkus

Ms Teicholz s book is a gripping read for anyone who has ever tried to eat healthily ... This is not an obvious page-turner. But it is ... The vilification of fat, argues Ms Teicholz, does not stand up to closer examination. She pokes holes in famous pieces of research the Framingham heart study, the Seven Countries study, the Los Angeles Veterans Trial, to name a few describing methodological problems or overlooked results, until the foundations of this nutritional advice look increasingly shaky. --The Economist

A striking study ... which may well change the way you eat. I, for one, won t ever hesitate to order a steak again. -ERICA WAGNER, Financial Times Someone ought to hand a copy of The Big Fat Surprise to the Department of Health. --KATE SPICER, Red

About the Author:

Nina Teicholz wrote on food and nutrition science for Gourmet and Men's Health magazines. She was a reporter for NPR for five years. She also contributed, on a variety of topics, to the New Yorker, Economist, Washington Post, New York Times, and Salon, amongst others. In addition, she served as associate director for the Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development at Columbia University. Teicholz was a student of biology at Yale and Stanford and earned a graduate degree from Oxford. She lives in New York City with her husband and their sons.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribe UK
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 192522810X
• ISBN 13: 9781925228106
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384