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Nina Teicholz and The Big Fat Surprise

January 8, 2016

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: Episode 530 – Nina Teicholz, author of The Big Fat Surprise, joins Vinnie Tortorich on this 1 on 1 Friday episode of the Celebrity Fitness Trainer podcast.  The two discuss the incorrect school of thought that eating fats is what makes people fat, and talk about what in peoples’ diets actually puts on the weight.

NINA TEICHOLZ

  • From NorCal
  • Has gone to a number of extremely excellent schools
  • Argues that nutrition experts over the past 60 years have been wrong in regards to eating fat
  • Great, just like Gary Taubes!
  • Has done what nobody else has done in the war of bringing sat fats back into existence
    • Really talked about Ancel Keys and showed how he was wrong and why he did what he did
      • Discusses other better studies
  • Check out her book here! The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

ANCEL KEYS

  • Started the FAT WILL KILL YOU craze
    • Sat Fats and dietary cholesterol cause heart disease (not true)
  • Physiologist
  • Created a study to benefit him
  • Has since been disproven, yet he still influences government policies in regards to diet
  • 7 Country Study

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