The Big Fat Surprise : Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet (Paperback)

from Sovranty

This book is a non-fiction thriller, if such a category exists. The detailed information flows so clearly that you can't wait to see what else Nina Teicholz will uncover from her 9-year journalistic venture into the world of science, nutrition, politics and mass belief. Teicholz painstakingly rev...

from Morgaine

This book is life-changing. I wish I could make every doctor in the country read it. We've been given 60 years of bad advice about nutrition and the government has pushed a low-fat, high carbohydrate diet full of industrial seed oils on an unsuspecting public and created an epidemic of obesity, ...

from Lilac_Lily01

The Big Fat Surprise is one of those life altering books that will stay with you long after you finished reading them. It makes you rethink everything you thought you knew about nutrition. The author Nina Teicholz spent nearly a decade researching dietary fat and the resulting book is more than i...

from SiGraybeard

Very well researched and reported. While it's arguable that much of what she covers is in Gary Tabues' "Why We Get Fat" and "Good Calories, Bad Calories", Teicholz goes deep, adding new information and nuance. Nina Teicholz' book is already being recommended by health professionals. It's a "must ...

from bodhisattva

Excellent review of the current state of nuutrition science, with a strong debt to Gary Taubes, showing the errors of the past 50 years and providing strong support for a low carbohydrate diet which adds back healthy animal fats and proteins.