Description: Nina Teicholz is a science journalist, researcher, speaker & author of The Big Fat Surprise. Learn more about her work, plus get nutrition advice and facts.
Science Journalist. Author. Speaker. Researcher. // Teicholz does not accept funds from industry or any vested interest for her work.
Nina Teicholz is an investigative science journalist and leader in nutrition reporting who is challenging the conventional wisdom on dietary fat–particularly, whether saturated fat causes heart disease and whether fat really makes you fat. The New York Times bestselling author of The Big Fat Surprise . Teicholz also serves as Executive Director of The Nutrition Coalition , an independent non-profit group that promotes evidence-based nutrition policy. She is one of a new generation of researchers arguing th
For more than half a century, we’ve been told to eat a diet high in grains, low in fat, saturated fat (and cholesterol), but the last two decades of research have led a growing number of scientists to conclude that this diet, despite being rigorously tested, could never be shown to prevent any kind of disease.