10/ The Big Fat Surprise - Nina Teicholz

The Big Fat Surprise

400 pages to tell the story.

Why Butter, Meat and Cheese belong in a Healthy Diet.

Diet wars continue. At a food conference in 2016 an invitation to Nina Teicholz to be a guest speaker was withdrawn because of objections from ??? (One of the sponsors? Another invited speaker? It was never disclosed.)

That year, Nina Teicholz was in South Africa, testifying as an expert witness in the trial of Dr Tim Noakes (October 2016).

She argues that eating fat is essential to good health, and that the saturated fats, as found in meat, cheese, cream and eggs, are the whole fats in whole foods that are essential for good health.

Time Magazine - Note the date 2015.

‘The Real Food Politics: Institutional Defense of the Status-Quo’

Low-fat and Low-carb are diametrically opposed eating proposals.

You can’t pick what you like from each and pretend that will work for you. You’ll starve if you try low-carb AND low-fat, and rapidly become obese if you choose high-carb AND high-fat. The latter is what we do when we eat hamburgers and fried chicken or chips. Most fast food is high-carb AND high-fat, and is best avoided.

Video Short: Nina Teicholz

There's money at stake. Nutrition has always been dominated by bullies. Good people like Prof. John Yudkin from the UK, were abused and sidelined, in favour of commercial interests.

Nina Teicholz explains that because of the American Guidelines first established in the 1980’s there has been a huge shift in the macro nutrients Americans are eating. But over the same time period public health has got worse.

She goes on to explain the many forces that prevent the adoption of a diet that is healthier and based on better science.

One of the techniques is to claim that the science is settled, and another is to find research that supports your claims, and to exclude any research that shows the opposite. As recently as 2015, the American Guidelines Panel claimed that they could find no relevant research supporting a low carbohydrate diet. (Which of course raise a storm of protest, confirming that the Guidelines were not scientific.)

Open Future Health has been documenting these debates for more than 10 years now, and in the main website you will find the stories of Tim Noakes, Jennifer Elliot, Garry Fettke, and Caryn Zinn, and about 70 others including Nina Teicholz.

What do you understand from this short lesson?

To search the Open Future Health website to find similar content. Choose 2 or 3 Keywords according to your interest.
Search multiple words like: "wordone+wordtwo+wordthree".

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Alternatively ask Chat GP. Suggested prompt in natural language: "Briefly: I understand that (insert your own words here), is that a sensible view?"

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Keep a brief record of what you have now understood.

Write a short note for yourself, in a document, or in a journal, so that you have a record of what you have understood.

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