Nina Teicholz

“For half a century, nutrition experts have been dedicated to the hypothesis that fat, especially saturated fat, causes heart disease (plus obesity…

— Nina Teicholz

“From the start, one of the main factors in the discussion of heart disease has been cholesterol, the yellow, waxy substance that…

— Nina Teicholz

“Since the 1970s, we have successfully increased our fruits and vegetables by 17 percent, our grains by 29 percent, and reduced the…

— Nina Teicholz

“Based on this data, Trichopoulou published a landmark article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in 2003, in which she…

— Nina Teicholz

“Giving up animal fats has also meant shifting over to vegetable oils, and over the past century the share of these oils…

— Nina Teicholz

“Finally, there was the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), a trial that enrolled 49,000 women in 1993 with the expectation that when the…

— Nina Teicholz

“The practice of good science requires that when we observe something that doesn’t fit a hypothesis, these observations need to be reckoned…

— Nina Teicholz

“During these decades, we’ve also seen rates of diabetes rise drastically from less than 1 percent of the adult population to more…

— Nina Teicholz

“The sum of the evidence against saturated fat over the past half-century amounts to this: the early trials condemning saturated fat were…

— Nina Teicholz

“In the end, what we believe to be true—our conventional wisdom—is really nothing more than sixty years of misconceived nutrition research. Before…

— Nina Teicholz