Big Fat Surprise at the 2015 Cattle Raisers Convention
By Robert and Janelle Fears
This subject was one of the educational sessions featured at the 2015 Cattle Raisers Convention.
Visit
www.tscra.org and click on the Convention Coverage button for a complete list of the
educational and issues sessions offered this year.
Mark your calendar for the 2016 Cattle Raisers Convention, April 8 to 10, Fort Worth.
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Investigative journalist Nina Teicholz discussed her fi ndings about dietary guidelines at the 2015 Cattle Raisers Convention.
CCORDING TO FORMER VEGETARIAN AND INVESTIGA- tive journalist Nina Teicholz, butter, meat and cheese belong in a healthy diet. The
author of The Big Fat Surprise — Why Butter, Meat, & Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet, was one of the featured speakers at the 2015 Cattle Raisers Con- vention. Like many Americans, she followed the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) food pyramid recommendations and ate a low-fat diet, adding ol- ive oil and extra servings of fi sh when the Mediter- ranean diet became popular in the 1990s. And she cut back more on red meat, she said, thinking her heart health and waistline would benefi t. “Then, around 2000, I moved to New York City
and started writing a restaurant review column for a small paper. It didn’t have a budget to pay for meals, so I usually ate whatever the chef decided to send to me. Suddenly I was eating gigantic meals, with foods that I would have never before allowed to pass my lips: pate, beef of every cut prepared in every imaginable way, cream sauces, cream soups, foie gras — all the foods I had avoided my entire life.” She dropped those last stubborn 10 pounds and,
according to her doctor, her “cholesterol numbers were fi ne.”
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Her editor at Gourmet magazine assigned her a story
on trans fats, which garnered attention and generated a book contract. While researching her book, she came to realize
that there is a great deal of inaccuracy in today’s com- mon beliefs about saturated fats. Having a master of science degree in biology, and understanding research methodology, Teicholz realized that the research sup- porting USDA dietary guidelines is seriously fl awed.
The hypothesis of Ancel Keys The hypothesis that saturated fat causes heart disease
was developed in the early 1950s by Ancel Benjamin Keys, a biologist and pathologist at the University of Minnesota. Teicholz asserts that Keys conducted his research
while ignoring data that didn’t support his hypothesis. Keys travelled the world in the early 1950s — South
Africa, Sardinia, Sweden, Spain, and Italy. He and his wife Margaret measured the cholesterol levels of the local citizens and assessed the fat in their diets. In a remote logging camp in Finland, they found
heart disease was rampant among young men. They also gathered and measured information on fi shermen in Japan, and on Japanese immigrants in Honolulu and Los Angeles. Teicholz said that Keys went to Naples and Madrid
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