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The Big Fat Surprise
- Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A New York Times bestseller
Named one of The Economist’s Books of the Year 2014
Named one of The Wall Street Journal’s Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of 2014
Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2014
Forbes’s Most Memorable Healthcare Book of 2014
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. Dish up the red meat, eggs, and whole milk!
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 massive research literature and interviewed hundreds of leading experts to unravel the shockingly distorted claims of nutrition studies. 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.
With a lively narrative style akin to Michael Pollan’s in The Omnivore’s Dilemma and the scientific rigor of Gary Taubes in Good Calories, Bad Calories, Teicholz convincingly upends the conventional wisdom about all fats. Her groundbreaking claim is that more dietary fat leads to better health, wellness, and fitness. Science shows that reducing the saturated fat in our diets has been disastrous for our health as a nation, and we can, guilt-free, welcome these “whole fats” back into our lives.
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- MRKy Waters
- 2018-06-26
Fantastic all around!
Her understanding and work ethic around actual science is truly exceptional and calls to action legitimate scientists.
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- Jeff
- 2021-08-12
Life changing
As a grain farmer who makes a living selling wheat and canola I was the last person to want to believe that my own life’s work was ruining my health. After six months eating a mostly carnivore diet I am back to a healthy weight and have completely stopped my gerds disease medication. Thank you for this book!
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- Spencer
- 2018-09-21
Boring beyond boring
Just blathering on and on about study after study and the fight between scientists from the fifties to current.
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- Gerard F.
- 2019-07-22
will open your mind
great book, pity I didn't read this many years earlier. But it's only Too Late, when one is dead.
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- MD
- 2019-07-10
Wow! incredible research and story
I've done a lot of research in this area and found that this book tied it together and contextualized the history. Very important work that is very well done. I recommend it broadly
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- Vesna
- 2019-02-10
The Science Coming to Light
This review of the literature is eye opening.
I am grateful for this book. I've always trusted the science in nutrition and medicine because I don't have the know how or the time to review the literature. So glad that someone did.
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- bella s
- 2018-09-16
great book
if you are interested in the history of how our food recommendations have been established, this is the book for you! I highly recommend this book for anyone who is searching for answers as to why we are tired, obese and sick
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- J. M. Sparrow
- 2024-02-06
A MUST READ!
This book really solidified just how wrong the nutrition and food industry has gone. It is an honest assessment and a call to action to change the way we eat to be truly healthy!
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- Lululu
- 2023-12-19
Strong case against low fat diet but…
A few major logic flaws: 1.low fat diet does not have to be linked to high carb high vegetable oil; 2. Saturated fat is not harmful doesn’t mean it’s good; 3. Studies show saturated fat is “good for you” are mainly association/epidemiology studies, which was defeated in this book again and again; 4. The age of the inuits and kenyan men who only ate animal products were not mentioned; 5. Its unclear what vegetable oil is ‘bad’ and to what extend: canola, peanut, corn seed, etc
Overall, it’s too much journalistic (opinion) writing than scientific investigation. The opinions of this journalist should not be taken as lifestyle and dietary guidance.
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- LYNN COUCH
- 2023-07-30
extremely informative
great narration and information everyone needs to hear to make informed choices on how you live your life.
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