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Nina Teicholz,author of the book ,The big fat surprise: why butter, meat, and cheese belong in a healthy diet(2014)

Nina Teicholz

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Nina Teicholz
Nina Teicholz is a journalist who became an advocate opposed to the idea that saturated fat is unhealthy and should be minimized in the American diet.

Education and early life[edit]

Nina Teicholz grew up in North Berkeley, California.[1]
She earned a degree in American Studies at Stanford University, and completed her master's in Latin American Studies at Oxford University.[2][3]

Career[edit]

She worked as a reporter for National Public Radio[4] and became a freelancer, contributing to publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Gourmet, The New Yorker, The Economist, Salon, and Men's Health.[2]
She said that became interested in dietary fats while doing a series of stories investigating food for Gourmet, and was assigned a story on trans fat that was published in 2004.[5]
Her 2014 book, The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet, traced the history of US diet guidelines; in the book she investigated the science behind the guidelines and the influence of industry lobbying on them, and also questioned their emphasis on avoiding saturated fat. Teicholz advised readers to "eat butter; drink milk whole, and feed it to the whole family. Stock up on creamy cheeses, offal, and sausage, and yes, bacon".[6][7] The book made The New York Times Best Seller list that year,[8]and was named one of the Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of 2014 by The Wall Street Journal[9] and one of the year's best science books by The Economist.[10] The book was criticized by nutritionists including Marion Nestle.[11][12]
Teicholz authored an opinion piece with similar themes in The Wall Street Journal in October 2014 that caught the attention of John Arnold, who recruited her to join the efforts funded through the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to fight obesity, namely through the Nutrition Science Initiative, which does research, the Action Now Initiative, a lobbying group, and the Nutrition Coalition, which is aimed at improving dietary guidelines.[13]
In February 2015, the US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) released its report, written to provide a foundation for the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and The New York Times published an op-ed by Teicholz criticizing the committee and its work.[14] The Arnold Foundation funded further work by Teicholz on the DGAC report, which published in the British Medical Journal in September 2015.[13][15] In the BMJ article, Teicholz continued the themes of her book and her February op-ed, and wrote that the DGAC showed bias against fat and meat and did not use all the available evidence, and that members had undisclosed conflicts of interest.[11][16] The BMJ circulated a preprint of the article with a press release, and Teicholz' claims were widely covered in the media.[13][16][17][18]
Teicholz' claims were harshly criticized by the DGAC, the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and others, including a petition signed by 180 scientists, and they called for BMJ to retract the article or issue corrections.[11][13][16][19][20] The BMJ issued a correction in October 2015 and another in December 2016, the latter with a statement that after an independent review of the paper, it had decided not to retract it.[21][22][23][24]
Meanwhile the Arnold Foundation had been pressing for Congressional hearings about the DGAC report and attempted to block the release of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and through its lobbying group arranged meetings for Teicholz with members of Congress and White House staff.[11][13] Teicholz and the Arnold Foundation were criticized at the time for being allies of the meat and dairy industries in their lobbying and other public relations efforts to maintain high levels of meat and dairy consumption by US consumers.[25]
Teicholz' advocacy has been criticized by Marion Nestle for making strong claims about the benefits of a low carb, high fat diet that go beyond what the science can support;[11] Nestle wrote of Teicholz' advocacy: "It does little to foster the health of the public to make nutrition science appear more controversial than it really is."[14]
In 2017, Salim Yusuf stated that Teicholz "shook up the nutrition world but she got it right",[26] a statement for which he was immediately and broadly criticized, as he had been for prior statements outside the mainstream of nutrition science.[27]

Selected works[edit]

References[edit]

  1. Jump up^ Duggan, Tara (January 11, 2017). "Fat finds favor on U.S. tables again". San Francisco Chronicle.
  2. ^ Jump up to:a b Nina Teicholz in Contemporary Authors Online. Gale, 2015. Accessed 18 Feb. 2018.
  3. Jump up^ "Journalist Nina Teicholz: In the world of nutrition, a bulldozer for truth". Diet Doctor. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
  4. Jump up^ Glastris, Kukula (4 January 2015). "Meat Puppets". Washington Monthly.
  5. Jump up^ Ward, Tricia; Teicholz, Nina (February 9, 2015). "An Interview With The Big Fat Surprise Author Nina Teicholz". Medscape.
  6. Jump up^ Kolbert, Elizabeth (20 July 2014). "Stone Soup". The New Yorker.
  7. Jump up^ "The case for eating steak and cream". The Economist. 31 May 2014.
  8. Jump up^ "Food and Diet Books - Best Sellers". New York Times. 8 June 2014.
  9. Jump up^ Russell, Anna; Thompson, Stuart A. (December 12, 2014). "Best Books of 2014: A Compilation". The Wall Street Journal.
  10. Jump up^ "Books of the Year: Page turners". The Economist. December 4, 2014.
  11. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e Nestle, Marion (28 September 2015). "Never a dull moment: the BMJ's attack on the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee report". Food Politics.
  12. Jump up^ Labos, Christopher (March 2, 2015). "Listen to the doctor: Too much fat is still bad for you". CBC News.
  13. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e Purdy, Chase; Bottemiller Evich, Helena (7 October 2015). "The money behind the fight over healthy eating". Politico.
  14. ^ Jump up to:a b Nestle, Marion (23 February 2015). "Dietary guidelines shouldn't be this controversial". Food Politics.
  15. Jump up^ Teicholz, N (23 September 2015). "The scientific report guiding the US dietary guidelines: is it scientific?". BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 351: h4962. PMID 26400973.
  16. ^ Jump up to:a b c Duhaime-Ross, Arielle (September 23, 2015). "Medical journal's bogus investigation could derail better dietary guidelines". The Verge. Follow up: Duhaime-Ross, Arielle (September 28, 2015). "Medical journal will 'clarify' its bogus investigation of US food committee". The Verge.
  17. Jump up^ Apple, Sam (14 October 2015). "What the Government's Dietary Guidelines May Get Wrong". The New Yorker.
  18. Jump up^ Sifferlin, Alexandra (September 23, 2015). "Here's What's Wrong With the U.S. Dietary Guidelines". Time.
  19. Jump up^ Wilde, Parke (26 September 2015). "British Medical Journal (BMJ) gives low-carb journalist Nina Teicholz an outlet to blast the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC)". U.S. Food Policy.
  20. Jump up^ Apple, Sam (22 January 2017). "John Arnold Made a Fortune at Enron. Now He's Declared War on Bad Science". Wired.
  21. Jump up^ "BMJ won't retract controversial dietary guidelines article, says author | Retraction Watch". Retraction Watch. 23 September 2016.
  22. Jump up^ "Corrections: The scientific report guiding the US dietary guidelines: is it scientific?". BMJ: h5686. 23 October 2015. doi:10.1136/bmj.h5686.
  23. Jump up^ "Corrections: The scientific report guiding the US dietary guidelines: is it scientific?". BMJ: i6061. 2 December 2016. doi:10.1136/bmj.i6061.
  24. Jump up^ "Press release: Independent experts find no grounds for retraction of The BMJ article on dietary guidelines" (PDF). BMJ. 2 December 2016.
  25. Jump up^ Shanker, Deena. "The Political Clout of the Meat Industry". The Atlantic.
  26. Jump up^ "Top Cardiologist Blasts Nutrition Guidelines". 2017-02-27. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  27. Jump up^ Phend, Crystal (2 March 2017). "Fat Wars: Diet Docs Have Salim Yusuf in the Cross Hairs". MedPage Today.



The Big Fat Surprise

Why Butter, Meat & Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

THE BIG FAT SURPRISE not only reviews thousands of scientific studies but also documents the politics and personalities dominating the last 50 years in nutrition policy, to get behind the flip-flopping headlines and explain some basic truths about nutrition science. 
 
THE BIG FAT SURPRISE is the first publication not only to systematically argue that the saturated fats in animal foods have been unfairly maligned, based on weak, inconclusive evidence, but also to document the highly damaging unintended consequences (the rise of both vegetable oil and carbohydrate consumption).
 
More than a dozen scholarly review papers over the past five years have confirmed Teicholz’s conclusions on saturated fat. For average people, the implication is that we have been needlessly avoiding meat, cheese, whole milk and eggs for decades and that we can welcome, guilt-free, these “whole fats” back into our lives.
The Big Fat Surprise

Reviews: Praise and Acclaim for
The Big Fat Surprise

"Gripping narrative…this is a disquieting book about scientific incompetence, evangelical ambition, and ruthless silencing of dissent that has shaped our lives for decades…researchers, clinicians, and health policy advisors should read this provocative book.”

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The Lancet
"Nina Teicholz’s The Big Fat Surprise is ESSENTIAL reading on the saturated fat debate…blew my mind."
Malcolm Gladwell
"All scientists...every nutrition professional...should read this book"

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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
"Nina Teicholz may be the Rachel Carson of the nutrition movement"

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Forbes
"It's so important for everyone to read this book."
Alice Waters
"A nutrition thriller...a gripping read for anyone who had ever tried to eat healthily...This is not an obvious page turner. But it is."

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The Economist
"This is the most provocative and assumption-shredding food book I've read in years...All in all, a must read."

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Mother Jones
"Impressive...This book shook me...Teicholz has done a remarkable job in analysing [the] weak science, strong personalities, vested interests, and political expediency."

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The BMJ(British Medical Journal)

Named a *Best Book* of 2014 by the Following Publications:

The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Mother Jones,
Kirkus Reviews, Forbes, Library Journal

About The Author, Nina Teicholz

Nina Teicholz
Subsequent to publication of THE BIG FAT SURPRISE, author Nina Teicholz has been invited to give testimony about her findings to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and, for an hour, to the Canadian Senate. She is the first journalist invited to join Phi Tau Sigma, the honor society for scholars of food science and technology, and she has been invited to present her research to universities and other audiences around the world. She has published opinion pieces and articles on nutrition in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal), CNN, among others. She has also been featured on dozens of radio and TV shows, including, ABC’s “Good Morning America” and “Nightline,” “Live with Kelly and Michael,” Yahoo! Health, Fox News, CBC Radio, and CNN with Sanjay Gupta.

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