The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz
by Christina
Nonfiction — print. Simon & Schuster, 2014. 480 pgs. Library copy. Subtitled “Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet”, Teicholz’s book documents how the low fat diet became the national – and thanks to America’s outsized influence on that global food system, international – nutrition diet nearly sixty years ago. With rates of heart disease skyrocketing, nutritionists and scientists assumed correction meant causation decreeing that fat, especially saturated fat, were to blame. Yet while rates of heart […]
Categories: 2014 Reads, Chunkster, Food, Nonfiction, North America, United States • Tags: Nina Teicholz
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