Ep. 866 The Truth About Fat, and the Corruption of Nutrition Science
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
How did the low-fat, high-carb diet become entrenched within nutrition science, to the point that dissenters virtually disappeared? The answer gives us a fascinating glimpse into how nutrition science -- far from being dispassionately devoted to whatever conclusions the empirical evidence pointed to -- became politicized, and how dissenting voices were silenced.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 866. |
| 0:03.4 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.0 | Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:28.6 | Hello everybody, Tom Woods here. |
| 0:30.3 | I'm bringing on a guest today. |
| 0:32.0 | I got to know thanks to our old friend Gene Epstein over at Barron's. |
| 0:36.2 | And he told me I really needed to read this book called |
| 0:39.0 | The Big Fat Surprise, Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese belong in a Healthy Diet by Nina Tysholes. |
| 0:47.2 | So I did, and I found it very, very interesting. Now, this book was a massive bestseller, |
| 0:53.2 | New York Times bestseller. |
| 0:54.8 | The Economist named it the number one science book of 2014. It was also named a 2014 best book |
| 1:01.6 | by sources as diverse as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Mother Jones, and Library Journal. |
| 1:08.6 | Before writing The Big Fat Surprise, Nina was a reporter for National |
| 1:12.7 | Public Radio and also contributed to many publications, including the Wall Street Journal, |
| 1:17.0 | the New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and The Economist. You can check |
| 1:22.5 | out her website at the bigfat surprise.com. Nina, welcome to the show. Nice to be here, Tom. I just get done telling |
| 1:30.2 | people about your book. I'm, I love it. I'm very interested in it. I don't know how I could |
| 1:35.1 | possibly not have been aware of its existence. I try to be reasonably well informed. This thing was a |
| 1:40.3 | big deal. It was a bombshell. Somehow I missed it. I don't know what to say other than I won't |
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