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Investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals the unthinkable: everything we thought we knew about dietary fat is wrong.
About the author
Nina Teicholz wrote on food and nutrition science for Gourmet and Men’s Health magazines. She was a reporter for National Public Radio for five years, covering Washington, DC, and Latin America. She also contributed, on a variety of topics, to The New Yorker, The Economist, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Salon, among other publications. In addition, she served as the associate director for the Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development at Columbia University. Teicholz was a student of biology at Yale and Stanford universities and earned a graduate degree from Oxford University. She lives in New York City with her husband and their sons.
Summary
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. This book deals with this topic.
Foreword
A groundbreaking study which reveals how decades of misleading science and policy unjustly demonized the high-fat diet, which might actually be our healthiest option.
Additional text
‘A must read that debunks many of the misconceptions around fat being an intrinsic part of a healthy diet.’
