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May 13, 2014 · "The Big Fat Surprise" is a fascinating historical and technical account of a dreadful scientific misunderstanding that had its roots in 1950's America; from humble beginnings, pioneered by the nutritionist Ancel Keys, the mistaken "Diet-Heart" Hypothesis blossomed over the decades and gathered an unstoppable momentum amongst the scientific ...
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- Nina Teicholz
THE BIG FAT SURPRISE is the first publication not only to systematically argue that the saturated fats in animal foods have been unfairly maligned, based on weak, inconclusive evidence, but also to document the highly damaging unintended consequences (the rise of both vegetable oil and carbohydrate consumption).
May 13, 2014 · The Big Fat Surprise is one extremely long news-like article but I managed to force my way through 212 pages! Yaaaaaaayyyy Me!! The style of the book really started to grind my nerves after some time so I put The Big Fat Surprise down. And never picked it up again. I read 212 pages and a lot of those pages started to feel a bit redundant.
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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.
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- January 06, 2015
May 13, 2014 · The Big Fat Surprise was named a 2014 *Best Book* by The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Mother Jones, and Library Journal. It was named one of the best Nutrition audiobooks of all time" by BookAuthority.
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- Nina Teicholtz
May 13, 2014 · [The Big Fat Surprise] shows that the low-fat craze was based on flimsy evidence. Nina Teicholz, an experienced journalist who spent eight years tracking down all the evidence for and against the advice to eat low-fat diets, finds that it was based on flimsy evidence, supported by an intolerant consensus backed by vested interests and amplified ...
- Nina Teicholz
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Nina Teicholz, PhD is an investigative science journalist and leader in nutrition reporting who is challenging the conventional wisdom on dietary fat–particularly, whether saturated fat causes heart disease and whether fat really makes you fat. The New York Times bestselling author of The Big Fat Surprise.
