Dish in the red meats, eggs, and dairy! In this well-researched and captivating narrative, veteran meals writer Nina Teicholz proveshow everything we have been told about fats is wrong.

For decades, Americans have scale back on reddish colored meat and dairyproducts filled with “bad” saturated fats. We obediently complied with nutritionalguidelines to consume “heart healthy” fats found in olive oil, fish, and nuts, andfollowed a Mediterranean diet large on fruits, vegetables, and grains. Yet thenation’s health provides about THE BEST Fat Surprise dropped. What is going on?

In THE BEST Fat Amaze, Teicholz reveals how sixtyyears of nutrition science has gotten it so wrong: how overzealous researchershave produced basic scientific mistakes that, through a variety of ego and bias, allowdangerous misrepresentations to be dogma, and how scientists who daredoppose this consensus have been ostracized. For eight years, Teicholz has poredover the massive research books and interviewed hundreds of leadingexperts to unravel the shockingly distorted statements of nutrition studies. Shebrings these research workers to life and shows how their ambitions, loyalties, andrivalries have undermined a field of analysis already filled with difficultpitfalls.

Having a lively narrative style comparable to Michael Pollan’s in TheOmnivore’s Dilemma and the scientific rigor of Gary Taubes in GoodCalories, Bad Calories, Teicholzconvincingly upends the traditional wisdom about all fats. Hergroundbreaking claim is that even more dietary fat leads to better health, wellbeing,and fitness. Technology demonstrates reducing the saturated fat in our diets hasbeen devastating for our health as a country, and we can, guilt-free, welcomethese “entire fats” back into our lives.