The big fat surprise : why meat, butter, and cheese belong in a healthy diet
Summary
Investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals here 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 heal... Full description
- The fat paradox : good health on a high-fat diet
- Why we think saturated fat is unhealthy
- The low-fat diet is introduced to America
- The flawed science of saturated versus polyunsaturated fats
- The low-fat diet goes to Washington
- How women and children fare on a low-fat diet
- Selling the Mediterranean diet : what is the science?
- Exit saturated fats, enter trans fats
- Exit trans fats, enter something worse?
- Why saturated fat is good for you
- A note on meat and ethics.