Podcasts Health Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton Episode 191: Nina Teicholz

Episode 191: Nina Teicholz

Published: March 8, 2024, 5:14 a.m.

Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Nina Teicholz is an investigative science journalist, author, and thought leader in nutrition. She is also the founder of the Nutrition Coalition, an independent non-profit dedicated to ensuring that nutrition policy is evidence based. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller,\xa0The Big Fat\xa0Surprise, which upended the conventional wisdom on dietary fat\u2013especially saturated fat\u2014and spurred a new conversation about whether these fats in fact cause heart disease. Teicholz attended Yale and Stanford where she studied biology and majored in American Studies. She has a master\u2019s degree from Oxford University and served as associate director of the Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development at Columbia University.

In this discussion, Dr. Tony and Nina talk about:

  • (03:27) The lack of critical journalists in nutrition
  • (09:56) The work and legacy of Dr. Sarah Hallberg
  • (18:13) The serious issues with the recently released Stanford Twin Studies and the documentary that was inspired by it
  • (26:39) How can the average person know who to trust on the subject of nutrition
  • (31:38) LDL Cholesterol and whether measuring it is enough to accurately calculate cardiovascular risk
  • (41: 05) How to make a documentary that people can feel confident trusting
  • (46:52) Chris Gardener\u2019s mission and why diets backed by bad science are so popular
  • (01:00:15) Nina\u2019s current projects

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