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Nina Teicholz (born May 7, 1965 in Palo, Alto, California) is an American investigative journalist and author of the 2014 New York Times best-selling book. The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat & Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet.

Life
She attended Yale and Stanford University where she studied biology and majored in American Studies. She holds a master’s degree from Oxford University.

From 1992 to 1997, she was a reporter for NPR in Latin America, covering business, politics and the arts. From 1998 to 1999, she was a reporter for KQED radio in the San Francisco Bay area.

She has written for various publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post , The New York Times , The Los Angeles Times , CNN.com , The Atlantic , and Gourmet Magazine.

In The Big Fat Surprise, she argues that saturated fats do not cause heart disease and a low-fat diet does not protect against obesity and type 2 diabetes. The book was named one of the Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of 2014 by Wall Street Journal and one of the year's best science books by The Economist. . Teicholz published her research in the British Medical Journal in 2015, and was met with criticism from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans Expert Committee. Her views also drew criticism from medical doctors and nutrition experts. . Despite backlash and requests for retraction, the British Medical Journal stood by its decision to publish Teicholz's work.

Teicholz's criticism of current dietary guidelines has received coverage in such publications as Politico, Time , Beef Magazine , The Week. She has been criticized by Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor, of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University and author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, the Dietary Guideliness Advisory Committee , and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Teicholz also authored the forward to the 2018 book "What the Fat? Fat’s In, Sugar’s Out: How to Live the Ultimate Low Carb Healthy Fat Lifestyle" by Grant Schofield, Caryn Zinn and Craig Rodger.

Teicholz lives in New York City

Books

 * The Big Fat Surprise (2014)