The Ultimate Health Podcast: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Fitness, & Self-help

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 d