{"product_id":"the-big-fat-surprise-why-butter-meat-and-cheese-belong-in-a-healthy-diet-9781451624434","title":"The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller\u003cbr\u003e Named one of \u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e's Books of the Year 2014\u003cbr\u003e Named one of \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e's Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of 2014\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Best Nonfiction Books of 2014\u003cbr\u003e Forbes's Most Memorable Healthcare Book of 2014\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Big Fat Surprise, \u003c\/i\u003einvestigative 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith eye-opening scientific rigor, \u003ci\u003eThe Big Fat Surprise \u003c\/i\u003eupends 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTeicholz, Nina:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Nina Teicholz is an investigative science journalist and author as well as an advocate for evidence-based nutrition policy. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, among other places. She grew up in Berkeley, California, and now lives in New York.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50616642699538,"sku":"9781451624434","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aedd1db9-c16b-442c-a64b-7feea5d606cc.jpg?v=1732506359","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-big-fat-surprise-why-butter-meat-and-cheese-belong-in-a-healthy-diet-9781451624434","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}