The American Heart Association warns us eating foods containing saturated fats raises your cholesterol level… which in turn increases your risk of heart disease. But, what if they’re wrong?
Nina Teicholz makes a compelling argument in her new book The Big Fat Surprise. She questions if saturated fat is truly to blame reports the Economist.
Her case is the vilification doesn’t hold up to close scrutiny. She pokes holes in famous pieces of research pointing out the methodological problems and overlooked results.
She finds there is increasing evidence that the bigger culprit is insulin- a hormone that rises when you eat carbohydrates.
Ms. Teicholz argues placing the blame on fat “is not so much science as generations of bias and habit.”
