Episode 27: Nina Teicholz On The Big Fat Surprise

What if everything you thought was true about nutrition turned out to be wrong?

If this doesn’t sound like a leadership question, think again. What you eat has dramatic impact on

The physical and emotional energy you bring to work
Your capacity to stay healthy and free of heart disease, obesity, and cancer
How long you live

That is the theme of this special interview with Nina Teicholz, author of the international bestseller and critically acclaimed The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat & Cheese Belong in Healthy Diet.

Highlights

4:09 Nina’s critique of Dean Ornish’s low-fat, plant-based diet
12:30 The gist of Nina’s book
17:30 How Nina the vegetarian had her own big fat surprise
20:10 Nina addresses objections to eating meat
30:00 Why it’s harder to overeat on fats and proteins
31:30 Vegetable oils and the danger of oxidation
40:30 Why institutional science is an oxymoron
41:45 Ancel Keys and the Big Bang of nutrition science
44:00 The bloodsport of nutrition politics
45:00 The flaws and limitations of Ancel Keys’s study
48:00 Why sampling diets during Lent skews the data
51:30 The low fat diet goes to Washington
60:00 The food pyramid

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It turns out that saturated fats are unlikely to have the cardiovascular risks we thought they did.

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Dean Ornish cites numerous studies, but in fact he did one randomized clinical trial on about 40 men.

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