The Big Fat Surprise
Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
Ranked #11 in Sports Nutrition, Ranked #14 in Ketogenic Diet — see more rankings.
In The Big Fat Surprise, investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals the unthinkable: that everything we thought we knew about dietary fat is wrong. She documents how the low-fat nutrition advice of the past sixty years has amounted to a vast uncontrolled experiment on the entire population, with disastrous consequences for our health.
For decades, we have been told that the best possible diet involves cutting back on fat, especially saturated fat, and that if we are not getting healthier or thinner it must be because we are not trying hard enough. But what if the low-fat diet... more
For decades, we have been told that the best possible diet involves cutting back on fat, especially saturated fat, and that if we are not getting healthier or thinner it must be because we are not trying hard enough. But what if the low-fat diet... more
Rankings by Category
The Big Fat Surprise is ranked in the following categories:
- #30 in Diet
- #32 in Food Science
- #51 in Gin
- #63 in Health
- #16 in Low-Carb Cooking
- #21 in Nutrition
- #87 in Paleo Diet
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