Nina Teicholz: The Deal on DASH
Typical DASH-diet foods: skim milk, grains and fruit Recently, US News and World Report published its annual diet rankings, and as usual, DASH was at or near the top. DASH is a diet that was designed...
View ArticleThe Limits of Sugar Guidelines
Do we know that added sugar is bad for us? Problems arise when the government offers too specific guidelines on what to eat, says Nina Teicholz, since they might be based on incomplete evidence. The...
View ArticleWhy We Fear Fat
4.8 out of 5 stars5 stars90%4 stars3%3 stars5%2 stars0%1 star0%52 ratings3,048 viewsHave three decades of dietary low-fat advice from the US government been a mistake? It seems the answer is a...
View ArticleNew US Food Availability Data – Americans Follow the Guidelines & Get Obese
Americans have been following the Guidelines. The government just published a new report on American food availability, 1970-2014. This is big news! The last such report was published nearly a decade...
View ArticleThe Official Dietary Advice Continues to Fail Us
Yes – eggs are good for you Regardless of whether it being advice on salt, saturated fat or sugar, health authorities are failing to stay up-to-date with the latest research: Observer: Health...
View ArticleClean Out Your Fat-Free ‘Healthy’ Substitutes for Spring
It’s time for spring cleaning. And according to Nina Teicholz, writing for the Washington Post, it’s time to put egg-white-only omelets, agave syrup and soy milk where they belong (in the trash). Fill...
View ArticleWhy Our Dietary Guidelines Are Wrong
4.8 out of 5 stars5 stars86%4 stars8%3 stars3%2 stars0%1 star1%58 ratings1,691 viewsHow can experts keep saying that butter is dangerous, when there’s no scientific support left? Science-writer Nina...
View ArticlePre-Order the Brilliant Diabetes Unpacked Book – Full of Insights from Top...
This may be the best book ever, if you’re interested in low carb and diabetes. The new book Diabetes Unpacked has fourteen chapters, each one written by a different low-carb expert and on a different...
View ArticleAre There Any Reasons to Fear Coconut Oil?
The American Heart Association recently declared that coconut oil is damaging to your heart (after getting half a million dollars from the competing soybean industry). Is there good evidence...
View Article“Don’t Believe the American Heart Assn.”— Butter, Steak and Coconut Oil Won’t...
Should you still avoid saturated fat, like the American Heart Association stated in their most recent presidential advisory? Nina Teicholz carefully went through the science in support of this...
View ArticleDid the Introduction of the Dietary Guidelines Start the Obesity Epidemic?
4.9 out of 5 stars5 stars94%4 stars4%3 stars1%2 stars0%1 star0%73 ratings3,045 viewsScience writer Nina Teicholz is one of the people who has dug the deepest into the dietary guidelines. While doing...
View ArticleOur Dietary Guidelines Don’t Reflect Science
4.8 out of 5 stars5 stars86%4 stars8%3 stars3%2 stars0%1 star1%58 ratings1,691 viewsHow can experts keep saying that butter is dangerous, when there’s no scientific support left? Science-writer Nina...
View ArticleMalcolm Gladwell: “The Big Fat Surprise Is ESSENTIAL Reading on the Saturated...
Nina Teicholz's The Big Fat Surprise is ESSENTIAL reading on the saturated fat debate covered in RH. Blew my mind. https://t.co/4UsDKdYGVH — Malcolm Gladwell (@Gladwell) 17 August 2017 Malcolm...
View ArticleThe Big Fat Surprise Featured in the Lancet
Top medical journals are starting to open their eyes to low carb. The latest one being The Lancet, featuring a review of the LCHF classic ‘The Big Fat Surprise‘ written by Nina Teicholz. The Lancet:...
View ArticleSilencing low-carb advocates across the world
4.9 out of 5 stars5 stars94%4 stars4%3 stars1%2 stars0%1 star0%73 ratings3,045 viewsScience writer Nina Teicholz is one of the people who has dug the deepest into the dietary guidelines. While doing...
View ArticleHelp change the dietary guidelines – support The Nutrition Coalition
If you want to support scientifically-proven dietary guidelines, in contrast to the current outdated ones, here is one way to help. You can now donate money to the Nutrition Coalition, a very...
View ArticleDon’t miss Nina Teicholz on one of the world’s biggest podcasts!
Here’s something you don’t want to miss (in case you were about to) – Nina Teicholz talked nutrition on the Joe Rogan podcast the other week, one of the world’s most listened to podcasts. Watch the...
View ArticleIs keto the worst diet in the world?
Are keto and other low-carb diets the worst diets in the world? Should we all follow very conventional diets full of whole grains and other carbs? That’s what you may believe, after reading the U.S....
View ArticleJournalist Nina Teicholz: In the world of nutrition, a bulldozer for truth
Nina Teicholz: “As a journalist, when you realize that someone is afraid to talk to you, you know there is a big story there.” Nina Teicholz’s 2014 book The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat &...
View ArticleThe unknown story of vegetable oils
326 viewsShould you eat vegetable oils such as margarine? Or could everything we’ve been told about healthy fat be completely wrong? Investigative journalist Nina Teicholz talks us through the unknown...
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