Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz is a revelation….She follows a tradition of brave writers prepared to go out on a limb with ideas which would challenge the accepted mantra…. Teicholz takes us on a twisting journey encompassing board room drama, political hefties and questionable evidence, in the wars of nutritional science where only the big …
A page-turner story of science gone wrong: what Gary Taubes did in Good Calories, Bad Calories for debunking the connection between fat consumption and obesity, Nina Teicholz now does in Big Fat Surprise for the purported connection between fat and heart disease. Misstep by misstep, blunder by blunder, Ms. Teicholz recounts the statistical cherry-picking, political …
This meticulously researched book thoroughly dismantles the current dietary dogma that fat–particularly saturated fat–is bad for us. Teicholz brings to life the key personalities in the field and uncovers how nutritional science has gotten it so wrong. There aren’t enough superlatives to describe this journalistic tour de force. I read it twice: once for the …
A devastating new book…. (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 …
It’s so important for everyone to read this book.
Teicholz may be the Rachel Carson of the nutrition movement, and I hope her book is remembered long enough for us to reverse course and begin to make real progress for the next generation. – Leah Binder Read Full Review Here
A wonderful book [that] takes on everything we think we know about nutrition and examines it.
