Nina Teicholz’s book is nearly 500 pages and has at
least that many references; it is, indeed, a fat book. And the conclusions that
she reaches after a decade of research and reading might be a bit of a surprise
to some.
“Every reliable indicator of good health is worsened
by a low fat diet.” That’s it in a nutshell.
Teicholz looks at over one hundred years of research
and clinical practice and what she exposes is science at its most shabby. Under
investigation are influence peddling, professional jealousy and corporate greed
and cover up. The science around food is just as bad, if not worse, than you
always suspected it was.
Granted, nutrition studies are difficult to do
because they involve humans and there are limitations, but that hardly
justifies influential scientists jettisoning whole collections of data because
the information does not agree with the hypothesis. There are undoubtedly
elementary school science fairs where the experimenters are held to more stringent
practices than some of those described by Teicholz.
This book is a 2014 publication, which makes it as
current as you can get. If you have already read Grain Brain, Wheat Belly,
and The Great Cholesterol Myth, these
findings will not shock you, but you will be horrified by the commercial
interests that dominate the information highway in our country. You will want
to erect monuments to those battle weary individuals who dare to contradict the
power brokers in the scientific and business communities.
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