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A New York Times bestseller
Named i of The Economist's Books of the Year 2014
Named one of The Wall Street Periodical's Summit Ten Best Nonfiction Books of 2014
Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2014
Forbes's Virtually Memorable Healthcare Book of 2014
In The Large Fat Surprise, investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals the unthinkable: that everything we thought we knew about dietary fat is incorrect. She documents how the low-fat diet advice of the past sixty years has amounted to a vast uncontrolled experiment on the unabridged population, with disastrous consequences for our health.
For decades, nosotros take been told that the best possible nutrition involves cut back on fat, specially saturated fat, and that if we are not getting healthier or thinner information technology must be considering we are not trying hard enough. Merely what if the low-fat diet is itself the trouble? What if the very foods nosotros've been denying ourselves—the creamy cheeses, the sizzling steaks—are themselves the cardinal to reversing the epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease?
In this captivating, vibrant, and disarming narrative, based on a nine-year-long investigation, Teicholz shows how the misinformation about saturated fats took hold in the scientific customs and the public imagination, and how recent findings take overturned these beliefs. She explains why the Mediterranean Diet is non the healthiest, and how we might be replacing trans fats with something even worse. This startling history demonstrates how nutrition science has gotten information technology so incorrect: how overzealous researchers, through a combination of ego, bias, and premature institutional consensus, take allowed unsafe misrepresentations to get dietary dogma.
With center-opening scientific rigor, The Big Fat Surprise upends the conventional wisdom about all fats with the groundbreaking merits that more than, non less, dietary fat—including saturated fat—is what leads to better health and wellness. Science shows that we have been needlessly avoiding meat, cheese, whole milk, and eggs for decades and that we can now, guilt-gratis, welcome these succulent foods back into our lives.
Nina Teicholz is an investigative scientific discipline journalist and author as well every bit an advocate for testify-based nutrition policy. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker, among other places. She grew upward in Berkeley, California, and now lives in New York.
"Teicholz may be the Rachel Carson of the nutrition movement..."
— Leah Binder
"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 Reviews (Starred Review)
"Nina Teicholz reveals the disturbing underpinnings of the profoundly misguided dietary recommendations that have permeated modern club, culminating in our overall wellness decline. But The Big Fat Surprise is refreshingly empowering. This wonderfully researched text provides the reader with total validation for welcoming healthful fats dorsum to the tabular array, paving the way for weight loss, health and longevity."
— David Perlmutter, Doctor, writer of the #1 New York Times bestseller Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth Most Wheat, Carbs
"A folio-turner story of scientific discipline gone wrong: what Gary Taubes did in Skillful Calories, Bad Calories for debunking the connection between fat consumption and obesity, Nina Teicholz at present does in Large Fat Surprise for the purported connection between fat and centre disease. Misstep by misstep, corrigendum by blunder, Ms. Teicholz recounts the statistical cherry-picking, political finagling, and pseudoscientific bullying that brought us to yet another of the biggest mistakes in wellness and nutrition, the low-fat and low-saturated fat myth for middle health."
— William Davis, MD, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Observe Your Path Bac
"At last the whole truth about the luscious foods our bodies really need!"
— Christiane Northrup, M.D., ob/gyn md and author of the New York Times bestseller Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
"This meticulously researched book thoroughly dismantles the electric current dietary dogma that fat--particularly saturated fat--is bad for united states. Teicholz brings to life the cardinal personalities in the field and uncovers how nutritional science has gotten it then wrong. There aren't enough superlatives to draw this journalistic bout de forcefulness. I read it twice: in one case for the information and again just for the writing."
— Michael R. Eades, Thou.D., author of the New York Times bestseller Protein Ability
"The Big Fat Surprise delivers on its championship, exposing the shocking news that much of what "everybody knows" nearly a healthy diet is in fact all wrong. This volume documents how misunderstanding, misconduct and bad science caused generations to be misled most nutrition. Anyone interested in either food or health will want to read to this book."
— Nathan Myhrvold, writer of Modernist Cuisine
"[Teicholz] has a gift for translating complex information into an engaging forensic narrative . . . [The Large Fat Surprise] is a lacerating indictment of Big Public Health . . . More than a book about food and health or fifty-fifty hubris; it is a tragedy for our information age. From the very starting time, nosotros had the statistical means to understand why things did non add upwardly; nosotros had a boatload of Cassandras, a chorus of warnings; simply they were ignored, castigated, suppressed. Nosotros had our big fat villain, and nosotros notwithstanding practise."
— The Wall Street Journal
"This is a striking report..which may well change the way you lot swallow. I, for one, won't ever hesitate to order a steak once again."
— Financial Times
"Read Teicholz's fantabulous book and tell me you aren't convinced she'south correct."
— Chicago Lord's day-Times
"Teicholz has done a remarkable job in analysing. . . [the] weakscience, strong personalities, vested interests, and political expediency."
— British Medical Journal
"Thisis the virtually provocative and assumption-shredding food volume I've read inyears.... All in all, a must read."
— Tom Phillpot
"It'south so important for everyone to read this volume."
— Alice Waters
"Nina Teicholz'sThe Large Fat Surpriseis
essential reading on the saturated fat debate . . . Blew my mind."
— Malcolm Gladwell
"The Big Fat Surpriseis a gripping narrative. . . Teicholz reminds u.s. to critically question research and, more importantly, challenge unjustified extrapolation. . . Researchers, clinicians, and health policy advisors should read this provocative book."
— Stuart Spencer
"This book should exist read by every nutritional science professional...All scientists should read it as an case of how express science can become federal policy....well-research and conspicuously written....Teicholz compiled a historical treatise on how scientific belief (vs. evidence), nongovernment organizations, food manufacturers, government agencies, and moneyed interests promised more than than they could deliver and, in the procedure, quite possibly contributed to the electric current world-wide obesity epidemic."
— The American Journal of Clinical Diet
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