The Big Fat Surprise
Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
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Nina Teicholz
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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.
©2014 Nina Teicholz (P)2014 Blackstone Audiobooks
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- claisse
- 17/09/2023
Lacking scientific support
I was particularly interested by the book "the case against sugar" of Gary Taubes and I decided to listen to this book first (which is free on audible).
I read the first chapter and started wondering how the entire scientific community and health organization could be so wrong while an independent journalist get it right (the thesis of the introduction).
The main point of Taibes is that obesity and other diseases related to food are mainly caused by the increase of carbohydrate in our diet (notably sugar). On the contrary, going toward a full fat (beef, milk, cheese) would be much better for our health.
This is a bold statement that goes against current understanding of obesity.
Actually, despite his presentation, I realized Taubes is the subject of most controversies and not really backed by science. Even scientists he cited actually rejected his claim. The food institute he created is also struggling to demonstrate his idea with independent scientists.
But that type of idea is supported by trendy movement like the paleo or keto, and also a massive beef industry (one of its main advocacy being the reader of that book).
My understanding is that there is clearly an issue in our food intake with sugar (that causes addiction and other issues), but stating that going full keto or paleo to solve the issue is over simplistic.
This is NOT what food agency and the scientific community is recommending and Taubes isnt above them.
(Btw i dont understand the term 'paleo' for a beef diet while at that time we were hunter-gatherers)
So I have many issues with the statement of Taubes. Afaik obesity is mostly caused by the eating too much calorie (whatever they come from).
I find it also problematic to promote beef eating when we know that beef production is a major cause of environmental issue, notably climate change and biodiversity loss. Even if it was the most optimal diet, it would be advisable for the entire humanity to eat this way, simply because it would destroy within a few decade of environmental disaster. But i am not sure Taubes is citing that major issue either.
I will actually ask for a refund of Taubes book, because I do not want to increase the frenzy around him or finance him.
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