Nina Teicholz - 'The Real Food Politics'

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Published 2018-05-10
Nina Teicholz is a New York Times bestselling investigative science journalist who has played a pivotal role in challenging the conventional wisdom on dietary fat. Her groundbreaking work, 'The Big Fat Surprise', which The Economist named as the #1 science book of 2014, has led to a profound rethinking on whether we have been wrong to think that fat, including saturated fat, causes disease.

Nina continues to explore the political, institutional, and industry forces that prevent better thinking on issues related to nutrition and science. She has been published in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the British Medical Journal, Gourmet, the Los Angeles Times and many other outlets.

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  • My doctor gave me a lecture on the dangers of my low carb high fat diet even if the blood tests she had in front of her were all good , at 65 I'm not on any medication, although I'm told the national average is 12 medicines for someone of my age,workout at the gym 4 days a week, my weight is perfect for my height yet she told me my health choice was suicide. I pointed out that her diet advice seems to work because her waiting room was full of people following it, she is no longer my doctor
  • Nina is one of the most intelligent and effective voices on nutrition in the world today. Thank you for helping to save my health.
  • @ross5554
    I have lost 12 kilos in four months, and I feel as never. Today I met an acquaintance who is obese and runs a small restaurant. She was amazed of my new looks. I am going to train her in the keto diet and we she will be offering a keto menu in her restaurant!!! Wish us luck!
  • @jeremyseay
    Every time Nina speaks I gain more respect for her. I see more and more people going low carb and seeing success with it. The public will eventually force change.
  • @connieh.4689
    I drive for my job and so get to listen to all the different blogs on a daily basis this one is definitely one of my top favorites now. Thank you
  • @rubbersole79
    5 months of fairly disciplined keto and I've dropped 40 lbs with no excercise and no hunger cravings. Any cravings I did have were easily cured with a glass of water. Amazing.
  • Ketoers, keep speaking out! The most lasting and beneficial changes in any given culture usually happen because the people at large begin to see that the TRUTH is not what the "authorities" tell us it is! Once you see the truth you can't unsee it! Spread the truth! Others of intelligence will recognize it!
  • @whiznot3028
    The scariest two pages in Nina's wonderful book, pages 276 & 277, concern the heated vegetable oils that replaced trans fats in fast food joints and the byproducts that those oils create. I promise you--you do not want that stuff in your body ever.
  • @lightningslim
    That BBC doctor is my GP. Even though I have lost 20kg, am no longer a type 2 diabetic, and I have received many other health improvements, she refuses to acknowledge the high fat low carb diet that I have followed is responsible. She is not a bad person, I have known her for more than 10 years. But she is so invested in the "system" that it seems that she can't see what is going on. I have also given up statins, she warned me, "Mike, I love you so I don't want to see you die!"
  • I was diagnosed with TD2 two years ago. Went LCHF and refused to take insulin. Complete reversal within 3 months. Dr wants to take credit, but he was completely old school. I have told him over and over. By now I suspect he is afraid to admit the truth. I worry so much about his other patients who are broke from buying insulin, and are headed for dialysis.
  • @mannyradzky493
    Nina you’re an “animal”...😀 thanks for great vid. Keep up the good work. At age 56 needed bypass surgery. ALL my life ate low fat high carb, exercised religiously, 0 family history of heart disease. Did it by the book. Fat is NOT the problem, carbs are. It’s been 3 years now I put the statins in the garbage, eat HIGH FAT LOW CARB. I feel amazing. Thank you again for a great presentation.
  • When Nina's book came out, I read it and said, "What do we need her for, we already have Gary Taubes?" ... Now, I wish we had 1000 people like Nina.
  • @_Wai_Wai_
    I've been cooking for years using Seed Oils. and sometimes when i eat fried foods, my skin would flair up with sores. Having found these lectures, I think i'll give Lard, Tallow and coconut oils a try.
  • 3 years ago, due in part to Nina and others on youtube, I discovered the virtues of lchf. I was 194#, a1c 82, and so on.... I went cold turkey and, during my 5 day fast, removed ALL vestiges of any unhealthy food from the house. I was happy that my wife went along with this. We were both in our early 70s. Within 6 months we both attained BMI or ~24 and have maintained that. Yeah, Nina is sort of a here for me, as are Dr. Ken Eckberg, Dr. Ken Berry and many others. It's refreshing that a simple fix is so effective. My PCP was so skeptical but his PA was totally on board. Doctors will never be the gods they pretend to be until they learn how nutrition works. He prescribed so many meds, with all the side effects, that I wonder if I SHOULD be looking for a shaman instead.
  • What a wonderful Presentation, I can listen to Nina for Eternity... Thank you Lady..
  • 3:52....."enter the new thinking"...? Actually keto has been the human diet for tens of thousands of years! The 1970's food pyramid IS the "new thinking" that's killing us!
  • @samuel1121
    Truly amazing,this is why I hate politicians
  • @veronikalah2718
    As someone who works in the healthcare industry it frustrates me to no end, how we are feeding sick people. Diabetics get bread, cereal, fruit and a shot of insulin to counter all that stuff. When a diabetic cries to me how they don't want to lose another leg but they can feel it happening slowly, it breaks my heart, especially because I'm not allowed to say anything. Also people with mental health or neurological problems getting chocolate wheat baby food every single day of their lives. I wish I could make a change
  • I have lost 35 pounds since I started my low carb high saturated natural fats diet. I lost my obsession with food. I'm finally able to fast for 24 to 48 hours without feeling starved. Although I'm in my mid fifties, I feel great and I weight as much as when I was 25 years old.
  • @nosenabookUSA
    Thank you Nina Teicholz for your work and the Nutrition Coalition. That is exciting news about the overhaul of the dietary guidelines. I look forward to learning more.