The Big Fat Surprise
Does butter, meat and cheese belong in a healthy diet? And if so, how come we’ve been told the opposite for decades? Here’s my recent interview with NYT bestselling author Nina Teicholz. Her book “The...
View ArticleIs the Mediterranean Diet Healthful?
Is the Mediterranean diet healthful? The very question sounds odd – everybody knows that the Mediterranean diet is the best for you, right? Best-selling author Nina Teicholz dug deeper into the...
View ArticleThe British Medical Journal Slams Unscientific and Biased Low-Fat Dietary...
The upcoming low-fat US dietary guidelines are based on an unscientific report, from a biased expert committee. The report fails to consider any evidence that contradicts the last 35 years of...
View ArticleDiet Guru Dr. Katz Goes Ballistic (Again)
To say that the influential diet guru Dr. David Katz disprove of the recent BMJ article about saturated fat is an understatement: Dr. Katz on LinkedIn: An Open Letter to the BMJ Regarding US Dietary...
View Article180 Dinosaurs Can’t Be Wrong, Can They? – Call For BMJ To Retract Criticism...
You can’t challenge the status quo without resistance. The BMJ recently published a harsh criticism of the obsolete and unscientific government advice to avoid saturated fat. Now a big group of...
View Article“Why Mainstream Researchers Think the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Lack Scientific...
Are the US dietary guidelines – like the advice to avoid saturated fat – based on solid evidence? No, not at all, according to a new review in Circulation by Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, the dean of the...
View ArticleWSJ: The Food Pyramid Scheme
The new dietary guide for Americans is based on dubious science, perhaps especially when it comes to saturated fat and the remaining low-fat advice — and now Congress wants an impartial review. Big...
View ArticleCan Red Meat Kill You?
4.8 out of 5 stars5 star96%4 star0%3 star0%2 star0%1 star3%26 ratings2,615 viewsWhere does the fear of red meat come from? Is it really scientific or is it more of an ideological thing? It’s after all...
View ArticleWho Can’t Handle the Truth?
Nina Teicholz – the author of the great book The Big Fat Surprise – was just disinvited from a food policy panel. It seems the other participants, one from CSPI and one from USDA, refused to...
View ArticleThe Petition to Reinstate Teicholz on Food Policy Panel – Now Close to 3,000...
Author Nina Teicholz was recently disinvited from a food policy panel, due to inconvenient opinions. She’s not in favor of the old high-carb message from the other participants (CSPI and USDA). This...
View ArticleAmazing Read: The Sugar Conspiracy
Here’s an amazing read: In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How...
View Article“The Canada Food Guide Is Killing You”
Why did the obesity epidemic start when we were advised to eat less fat and more grains? More and more people are coming to the same conclusion: it’s not a coincidence. The same thing can be said...
View ArticleListen to “The Sugar Conspiracy”
In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top...
View ArticleNina Teicholz’s Best-Seller “The Big Fat Surprise”: How the Low-Fat Diet Was...
Are you ready for The Big Fat Surprise?Nina Teicholz’s bestselling book about the mistakes behind the fear of fat reads like a thriller. It was named one of the best books of the year by a number of...
View ArticleHow Big Food Fights Back
Here’s another free chapter from Nina Teicholz’s spectacular and New York Times best-selling book The Big Fat Surprise.The first part told the story of how the low-fat diet was introduced in America.In...
View ArticleThe Rivalry Between Atkins and Ornish: Low Carb Vs. High Carb
Here’s another free chapter from Nina Teicholz’s spectacular and New York Times best-selling book The Big Fat Surprise. In this chapter from the book, we’ll learn about the rivalry between Atkins and...
View ArticleThe BMJ Criticism of the Dietary Guidelines Will NOT Be Retracted
A year ago the British Medical Journal published an article by Nina Teicholz that was very critical to the official US dietary guidelines, and the weak science supporting them. Specifically the...
View Article“Don’t Scapegoat Big Sugar. Lots of Food Producers Profited from the...
Recently, there were big media headlines about the revelation that the sugar industry paid Harvard researchers in the 1960s to shift blame from sugar to fat. There has been a lot of bad science in the...
View ArticleBMJ Stands Behind Nina Teicholz’ Critique of the US Dietary Guidelines
Here’s another victory for science over dogma. Today, the British Medical Journey has again decided to stand behind science writer Nina Teicholz’ peer-reviewed study from 2015, in which the conclusion...
View ArticleNina Teicholz Responds to the News that BMJ Stands Behind Her Article
Dear Friends, The good news to announce today is that last Friday, The BMJ announced that it is not retracting the article I wrote critiquing the science behind the Dietary Guidelines. The BMJ stood...
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