The Big Fat Surprise
by Nina Teicholz
A journalist's history of how saturated fat was blamed for heart disease on weak evidence, how Ancel Keys won the argument, and what the trials actually showed. Partisan and thorough; it moved the mainstream conversation.
Read it if…
you want the history of the fat hypothesis and its problems.
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Skip it if…
you want a balanced survey; this prosecutes one side.
Try instead: Grain Brain →
Three things you will actually use
- Consensus can be built on weak evidence.
- Follow the trials, not the committees.
- Nutrition science is harder than it looks.
Do this first
Read the chapters on the Seven Countries Study.
Our verdict
The fat hypothesis, prosecuted.
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