“From the start, one of the main factors in the discussion of heart disease has been cholesterol, the yellow, waxy substance that is a necessary part of all body tissues. It is a vital component of every cell membrane, controlling… — Nina Teicholz Copy Share Image
“The sum of the evidence against saturated fat over the past half-century amounts to this: the early trials condemning saturated fat were unsound; the epidemiological data showed no negative association; saturated fat’s effect on LDL-cholesterol (when properly measured in subfractions)… — Nina Teicholz Copy Share Image
“For half a century, nutrition experts have been dedicated to the hypothesis that fat, especially saturated fat, causes heart disease (plus obesity and cancer).… — Nina Teicholz Copy Share Image
“From the start, one of the main factors in the discussion of heart disease has been cholesterol, the yellow, waxy substance that is a… — Nina Teicholz Copy Share Image
“Since the 1970s, we have successfully increased our fruits and vegetables by 17 percent, our grains by 29 percent, and reduced the amount of… — Nina Teicholz Copy Share Image
“Based on this data, Trichopoulou published a landmark article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in 2003, in which she concluded that… — Nina Teicholz Copy Share Image
“Giving up animal fats has also meant shifting over to vegetable oils, and over the past century the share of these oils has grown… — Nina Teicholz Copy Share Image
“Finally, there was the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), a trial that enrolled 49,000 women in 1993 with the expectation that when the results came… — Nina Teicholz Copy Share Image
“The practice of good science requires that when we observe something that doesn’t fit a hypothesis, these observations need to be reckoned with somehow.” — Nina Teicholz Copy Share Image
“During these decades, we’ve also seen rates of diabetes rise drastically from less than 1 percent of the adult population to more than 11… — Nina Teicholz Copy Share Image
“The sum of the evidence against saturated fat over the past half-century amounts to this: the early trials condemning saturated fat were unsound; the… — Nina Teicholz Copy Share Image
“In the end, what we believe to be true—our conventional wisdom—is really nothing more than sixty years of misconceived nutrition research. Before 1961, there… — Nina Teicholz Copy Share Image
