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Nina Teicholz
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- Advocate for Rigorous Science-Based Nutrition Policy
- Science Journalist
- Founder, The Nutrition Coalition
Biography
Nina Teicholz, PhD is an investigative science journalist focusing on nutrition and health. Her New York Times bestseller of The Big Fat Surprise upended the conventional wisdom on dietary fat–especially saturated fat and seed oils. Reviewed favorably by the BMJ and The Lancet, the book was called a “best book” of the year by the Economist, Wall Street Journal, and Mother Jones, among others. Teicholz is also the founder of the Nutrition Coalition, a nonprofit working to ensure that nutrition policy reflects the best and most current science. With talks accessible to industry leaders and individual, Teicholz can provide anyone with the toolkit for choosing nutrition facts over fiction.
Teicholz’s work has been published in most major media and journals including Nutrients, PNAS Nexus, and the BMJ. A Stanford, Oxford, and Reading University graduate, she has a Ph.D. in nutrition, focusing on evidence-based dietary policy. Teicholz has no commercial ties and has never received support from any industry for her work, empowering her to share exclusively research-backed perspectives.
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Investigating the Science Behind Nutritional Wisdom
Investigative science journalist and New York Times bestselling author Nina Teicholz upends conventional wisdom about nutrition and the flawed science that has led to nutritional guidelines. Based on her New York Times bestselling book and TED Talk The Big Fat Surprise, Teicholz unpacks the weak science, strong personalities, and vested interests in nutritional science and the impacts on healthcare overall.
The Politics of Food
Nutrition is as much about politics as it is about science. Dr. Nina Teicholz’s research ultimately confirms that the traditional foods we were told to abandon (meat, cheese, eggs, butter) are safe, and even good for health. 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.
In this compelling talk, Teicholz shares why this diet has remained official policy for so long: the roles played by crusading scientists, the food industry, and more.
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The Big Fat Surprise: why butter, meat, and cheese belong in a healthy diet
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