The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy DietSimon and Schuster, 6 jan. 2015 - 479 sidor 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. For decades, we have been told that the best possible diet involves cutting back on fat, especially saturated fat, and that if we are not getting healthier or thinner it must be because we are not trying hard enough. But what if the low-fat diet is itself the problem? What if the very foods we’ve been denying ourselves—the creamy cheeses, the sizzling steaks—are themselves the key to reversing the epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease? In this captivating, vibrant, and convincing narrative, based on a nine-year-long investigation, Teicholz shows how the misinformation about saturated fats took hold in the scientific community and the public imagination, and how recent findings have overturned these beliefs. She explains why the Mediterranean Diet is not the healthiest, and how we might be replacing trans fats with something even worse. This startling history demonstrates how nutrition science has gotten it so wrong: how overzealous researchers, through a combination of ego, bias, and premature institutional consensus, have allowed dangerous misrepresentations to become dietary dogma. With eye-opening scientific rigor, The Big Fat Surprise upends the conventional wisdom about all fats with the groundbreaking claim that more, not 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-free, welcome these delicious foods back into our lives. |
Innehåll
Illustrations | 1 |
Major Sources of Different Types of Fat | 8 |
Good Health on a HighFat Diet | 9 |
Why We Think Saturated Fat Is Unhealthy | 19 |
A Fatty Acid Is a Chain of Carbon Atoms Surrounded | 25 |
Data from TwentyTwo Countries | 34 |
The LowFat Diet Is Introduced to America | 47 |
January 13 1961 | 51 |
Cartoon on LowFat Dieting | 172 |
What Is the Science? | 174 |
Anna FerroLuzzi USDA Pyramid 180 | 180 |
Mediterranean Diet Pyramid 1993 | 187 |
Exit Saturated Fats Enter Trans Fats | 225 |
Sokolof Advertisement Appearing in the New York Times | 229 |
Exit Trans Fats Enter Something Worse? | 259 |
Why Saturated Fat Is Good for You | 286 |
Cartoon of the Changing Cholesterol Story | 66 |
The Flawed Science of Saturated versus | 72 |
Consumption of Fats in the United States 19091999 | 83 |
The LowFat Diet Goes to Washington | 103 |
Meat Availability and Consumption in the United States 18002007 | 115 |
Time March 26 1984 | 132 |
How Women and Children Fare on a LowFat Diet | 135 |
Cartoon of Restaurant | 139 |
Cartoon of Eskimo Diets | 288 |
The New York Times Magazine Cover July 7 2002 | 312 |
Rates of Obesity in the United States 19712006 | 328 |
Acknowledgments | 339 |
Glossary | 405 |
Permissions | 457 |
Andra upplagor - Visa alla
The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet Nina Teicholz Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2014 |
The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet Nina Teicholz Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2014 |
The Big Fat Surprise: why butter, meat, and cheese belong in a healthy diet Nina Teicholz Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2014 |
Vanliga ord och fraser
American Journal Ancel animal Association BIG FAT SURPRISE blood called calories Cancer carbohydrates Cardiovascular cause cholesterol Clinical Nutrition Committee companies consumption Coronary Heart Disease Countries death diet-heart Dietary dietary fat doctors early eating effect Epidemiology et al evidence experts fact Factors Fatty Acids February findings guidelines Health heart attack Human hydrogenated hypothesis idea industry Intake interview with author Italy Journal of Clinical Keys kind less levels Lipids look low-fat diet lower March margarine meat Medical Medicine Mediterranean Diet Mortality Myocardial Infarction needed NINA TEICHOLZ NOTES obesity observed olive oil percent population possible Prevention problem published rates recommendations reduced researchers risk saturated fat says scientific scientists seemed Serum subjects suppl tion told trans fats trials United University Willett women wrote York