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Nina Teicholz - 'Vegetable Oils: The Unknown Story'

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Assumes interest and some biology. Education, not medical advice.

1M views8 years ago3 recommendations

NutritionFats and oilsProcessed foodHeart disease

Nina Teicholz challenges conventional dietary wisdom by examining the history, politics, and potential health risks of consuming vegetable and seed oils.

Nina Teicholz is a New York Times bestselling investigative science journalist who has played a pivotal role in challenging the conventional wisdom on dietary fat. Her groundbreaking work, 'The Big Fat Surprise', which The Economist named as the #1 science book of 2014, has led to a profound rethinking on whether we have been wrong to think that fat, including saturated fat, causes disease. Nina continues to explore the political, institutional, and industry forces that prevent better thinking on issues related to nutrition and science. She has been published in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the British Medical Journal, Gourmet, the Los Angeles Times and many other outlets.

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3 people recommend this

What people say. Recommended as a life-changing and memorable lecture on the history of dietary fat guidelines and the introduction of vegetable oils.

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