Nina Teicholz – Stop Fearing Saturated Fat • What’s The Deal With Cholesterol?

Nina Teicholz – Stop Fearing Saturated Fat 

• What’s The Deal With Cholesterol? 

• The Coconut Oil Controversy

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 data
• Don’t fear the fat