#21 - Nina Teicholz

Diet Doctor Podcast

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4.8 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Few people in this world have done more to unearth the fallacy and shoddy evidence behind our dietary guidelines than Nina Teicholz. Her book The Big Fat Surprise is one of the seminal books opening our eyes to the problems the dietary guidelines have caused and their complete lack of quality evidence. But Nina didn't stop there. As director of the Nutrition Coalition, Nina is spearheading the effort to make sure nutritional recommendations are based on quality science or aren't made at all. On the surface it makes sense that we would all agree on that. Yet there is no shortage of controversy and deception still happening and the 2020 guidelines committee may not help matters much. Hear Nina's perspective on this, plus some the advances we have made, and where we can find hope for the future.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Diet Doctor Podcast with Dr. Brett Schur.
0:06.0	Today I'm joined by Nina Tyscholtz.
0:08.0	Now, Nina is the author of The Big Fat Surprise,
0:11.0	which is the book that really turned sort of nutrition science
0:14.0	and the science behind our nutritional guidelines upside down
0:18.0	and opened up the book on it, so to speak, so people could understand
0:22.4	the process behind it and how maybe the recommendations don't reflect the latest science
0:27.9	and maybe they're not as clear as they're being presented and that changed the life of
0:32.7	millions of people. She's also the executive director at the Nutrition Coalition, and she's an adjunct
0:38.5	professor at New York University. And talking to her is a true experience because you learn
0:44.9	so much more about guidelines, about committees, about how decisions are made, about how
0:50.4	evidence is either accepted or ignored, and more importantly, how that impacts our lives.
0:56.0	I mean, on the one hand, you can say, why does that matter?
0:58.0	Because I can still make my choices.
1:00.0	But no, these guidelines affect so many people and so many different levels.
1:05.0	And it's important to hear her message about why that is,
1:08.0	and important to hear her message about how we can influence this and how
1:12.2	we can make sure that these decisions are being based on evidence and when there isn't
1:16.9	evidence there we need to know that. And it's not always success, we're not always winning
1:21.8	the battle to make guidelines more evidence based, but as you'll hear, there is a progression
1:27.3	towards that.
1:28.7	So it's a fascinating interview and I wish I could interviewer, you know, 10 more times because
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