166: Nina Teicholz - Stop Fearing Saturated Fat • What's The Deal With Cholesterol? • The Coconut Oil Controversy
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2017
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Nina Teicholz is an investigative journalist and author of the International and New York Times bestseller, The Big Fat Surprise. Her book has upended the conventional wisdom on dietary fat and challenged the very core of our nutrition policy.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Saturated fat needs to be addressed in a different light
- Where did the idea that saturated fat and dietary cholesterol cause heart disease come from?
- Heart disease appeared at the same time vegetable oils were invented
- One of the byproducts of hydrogenation is trans fats
- What fat should you cook with?
- The tropical oils: coconut, palm kernel, and palm oil
- Should we fear coconut oil?
- The impact of a high unsaturated fat diet
- How the Mediterranean diet was born
- What's the deal with cholesterol?
- A diet you'll want to consider if you have a metabolic disease
- Nina's "fat" days as a vegetarian
- Fruit is full of sugar
- Children do better on a higher fat diet
- 96 percent of the claims in What The Health (documentary) are based on weak to non-existent data
- Don't fear the fat
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Related links:
Nina Teicholz - The Big Fat Surprise (book)
Follow Nina Teicholz on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Saturated Fats and CVD: AHA Convicts, We Say Acquit (Medscape article)
‘What the Health‘ Review: Health Claims Backed by No Solid Evidence (Diet Doctor)
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| 0:00.0 | From epidemiological data that's the kind of data that can show associations but not causation and it's just an |
| 0:07.0 | notoriously unreliable kind of data. |
| 0:10.0 | It's not supposed to be used for proving things. |
| 0:12.0 | It's supposed to be used to kind of suggest hypotheses |
| 0:15.7 | that then rigorous scientists go out and test. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 166. |
| 0:25.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:32.0 | This week our show features Nina Tai Scholes, |
| 0:35.0 | an investigative journalist, |
| 0:36.8 | and author of the International and New York Times |
| 0:39.3 | best-selling book, The Big Fat Surprise. |
| 0:42.2 | Her book has upended the conventional wisdom on dietary fat |
| 0:45.0 | and challenged the very core of our nutrition policy. |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah, this is such a controversial book, |
| 0:51.0 | the subtitle is actually why butter, meat and cheese belong in a healthy diet. |
| 0:55.0 | So much science, great information, |
| 0:56.7 | it's definitely gonna get you thinking. |
| 0:59.1 | Yeah, and this interview couldn't have come at a better time |
| 1:01.3 | with all the controversy online around fat right now. |
| 1:04.7 | This is a great interview and we're so excited to share these points with you. |
| 1:08.8 | So here's what we talk about today. |
| 1:10.3 | The truth about coconut oil clearing up the controversy. |
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