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The Big Fat Surprise

Paperback • 2014 • English

The Big Fat Surprise

By Nina Teicholz

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About the book

She documents how the low-fat nutrition advice of the past sixty years has amounted to a vast uncontrolled experiment on the entire population, with disastrous consequences for our health. For decades, we have been told that the best possible diet involves cutting back on fat, especially saturated fat, and that if we are not getting healthier or thinner it must be because we are not trying hard enough. But what if the low-fat diet is itself the problem? What if the very foods we've been denying ...Show more

Narrative theme: Social issues
Fitness and diet
Narrative theme: Health and illness

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ISBN

9781922247773

Publisher

Scribe Publications

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

The Big Fat Surprise

Format

Paperback

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