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Nina Teicholz - Stop Fearing Saturated Fat • What's The Deal With Cholesterol? • The Coconut Oil Controversy

Episode 166

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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Podcast Episode Details

Nina Teicholz - Stop Fearing Saturated Fat • What's The Deal With Cholesterol? • The Coconut Oil Controversy