“Giving up animal fats has also meant shifting over to vegetable oils, and over the past century the share of these oils has grown from zero to almost 8 percent of all calories consumed by Americans, by far the biggest… — 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). Any evidence to the contrary has been difficult, if not impossible, for experts to acknowledge—even though there has been plenty of it. A careful look at the vast body of scientific observations about diet and health… — Nina Teicholz Copy Share
“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 fat we eat from 43 percent to 33 percent of calories or less. The share of those fats that are saturated has also declined, according to the government’s own data. (In these years, Americans also began… — Nina Teicholz Copy Share
“Based on this data, Trichopoulou published a landmark article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in 2003, in which she concluded that adhering to a “traditional Mediterranean diet,” which includes “a high intake of olive oil” was associated with a “significant and substantial reduction in overall mortality.” It is therefore a shock to find out that in this… — Nina Teicholz Copy Share
“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
