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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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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-11-23
Absolutely brilliant
The most comprehensive story about the vilification of saturated and animal fats ever. Should be required reading for most people. I’m absolutely grateful for the research that Nina has done here just starting work early. Thank you
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- Norman Brault
- 2019-02-26
Best book on the subject of high fat
This is a book I will have to listen to multiple times to absorb all the valuable information it contains. A must read for anyone who eats.
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- Colin
- 2019-11-08
This book blew my mind.
The large amount of info and data regarding all the studies was very clearly presented. The way this incredible lie was broken down into chronological order was really good.
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-12-23
Everyone should know this information!
The history of nutrtion and health in general has been plagued with misleading information. This book is a great option if you want to understand the real cause of the current obesity, heart disease and diabetes epidemic we are facing.
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- Jesse H.
- 2023-01-02
Seminal book for anyone seeking healthy living
I highly recommend this book whether you are part of the general public, a dietician, a doctor, or researcher. The book is a good balance of data, research and narration.
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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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- Jason Blane
- 2019-08-01
Very Informative
Already knew alot of this information... Learned some new things... Wish more people would understand this information
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-07-11
Well researched
Well written, interesting and informative. Brings clinical data to a field generally dominated by epidemiological evidence.
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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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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-12-10
Eye opening. A must read.
This book is eye opening. This is why it is so important that we research everything and take nothing as ‘absolute truth’. When studies are more political than scientific, it becomes a game of believers against non believers. What we learn in this book can be applied to many issues going on in the world at this time.
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