“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… — 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
