terparts and, most signifi cantly, these numbers did not rise with age,” Teicholz reported from Mann and Shaper’s research.
Questioning the USDA guidelines “Since the 1970s, we have successfully increased our
consumption of fruits and vegetables by 23 percent and grains by 41 percent, and since 1965, we have reduced the amount of fat we eat from 45 percent to 34 percent of calories,” Teicholz said. And over this same period, the health of Americans has worsened. In 1961, the American Heart Association recom-
mended a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet. The incidence of obesity among America was about 1 in 7 adults. By the early 2000s, 1 in 3 adult Americans were obese. Teicholz pointed out that diabetes rose from 1 percent
to more than 11 percent of the adult population dur- ing this time, and “heart disease remains the leading cause of death for both men and women.” Given these trends toward worse health in America,
after more than 50 years of USDA recommendations of low-fat, low-cholesterol diets, one might think Ameri- cans should take a close look and turn a critical eye to the science behind these recommendations. This article covers only a very small portion of Tei-
cholz’ research on the relation of fat to human health. Find The Big Fat Surprise — Why Butter, Meat, & Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet at your favorite bookseller.
Four Young Ranchers Share Their Stories
By April Bonds “I
T’S HARD TO FIND A GREAT GENERAL RANCH MANAGER. It’s even harder to fi nd a young one. A great general manager has to know about more than
just cattle, horses and grass,” says Bob Moorhouse, honorary director of Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) and former general manager of the Pitchfork Ranch. According to Moorhouse, they have to stand up
in a board room to defend a strategic direction. They monitor the markets and are prepared for market fl uctuations. They represent their ranch in the com-
60 The Cattleman June 2015
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.
munity and the industry. Moorhouse knows what it takes in this role because he became the general manager for the Pitchfork Ranch in 1986 at the age of 39, and remained so until he retired in 2007. At the 2015 Cattle Raisers Convention, the Young Leadership Series (YLS) hosted a Young Ranch Man-
thecattlemanmagazine.com
Nina Teicholz spoke to a full house at the information session on her book, The Big Fat Surprise — Why Butter, Meat, & Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet.
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