Episode 21 – Nina Teicholz:
Nina Teicholz
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Few people in this world have done more to unearth the fallacy and shoddy evidence behind our dietary guidelines than Nina Teicholz. Her book The Big Fat Surprise is one of the seminal books opening our eyes to the problems the dietary guidelines have caused and their complete lack of quality evidence.
But Nina didn’t stop there. As director of the Nutrition Coalition, Nina is spearheading the effort to make sure nutritional recommendations are based on quality science or aren’t made at all. On the surface it makes sense that we would all agree on that. Yet there is no shortage of controversy and deception still happening and the 2020 guidelines committee may not help matters much. Hear Nina’s perspective on this, plus some the advances we have made, and where we can find hope for the future.
About the video
Recorded the Low Carb Denver in March 2019, published in June 2019.
Host: Dr. Bret Scher
Lighting: Giorgos Chloros
Camera operators: Harianas Dewang and Jonatan Victor
Sound: Dr. Bret Scher
Editing: Harianas Dewang
1:53 Nina’s journey in understanding the faults of the dietary guidelines
8:33 Pointing out the faulty science to the world as a journalist
13:56 The difficulty of changing the guidelines
18:48 Is epidemiological studies good enoigh evidence to base guidelines on?
22:26 The bias of reserachers and the influence from the big food and big pharma
27:43 Nina’s work at the Nutrition Coalition
32:20 About the committee of dietary guidelines
40:44 Vegan, meat and low-carb movement
44:40 About the EAT Lancet report
51:50 Can we feel hopeful and optimistic that change is coming?
56:05 Final words
Few people in this world have done more to unearth the fallacy and shoddy evidence behind our dietary guidelines than Nina Teicholz. Her book The Big Fat Surprise is one of the seminal books opening our eyes to the problems the dietary guidelines have caused and their complete lack of quality evidence.
But Nina didn’t stop there. As director of the Nutrition Coalition, Nina is spearheading the effort to make sure nutritional recommendations are based on quality science or aren’t made at all. On the surface it makes sense that we would all agree on that. Yet there is no shortage of controversy and deception still happening and the 2020 guidelines committee may not help matters much. Hear Nina’s perspective on this, plus some the advances we have made, and where we can find hope for the future.
TranscriptAbout the video
Recorded the Low Carb Denver in March 2019, published in June 2019.
Host: Dr. Bret Scher
Lighting: Giorgos Chloros
Camera operators: Harianas Dewang and Jonatan Victor
Sound: Dr. Bret Scher
Editing: Harianas Dewang
