How long does it take to read The Big Fat Surprise?
Nina Teicholz
The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz takes about 8 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 47 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2014. 479 pages, about 131,725 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals here that everything we thought we knew about dietary fat is wrong. She documents how the low-fat nutrition advice of the past sixty years has amounted to a vast uncontrolled experiment on the entire population, with disastrous consequences for our health. For decades, we have been told that the best possible diet involves cutting back on fat, especially saturated fat, and that if we are not getting healthier or thinner, we are not trying hard enough. But what if the low-fat diet is itself the problem? Based on a nine-year investigation, Teicholz shows how the misinformation about saturated fats took hold in the scientific community and the public imagination, and how recent findings have overturned these beliefs. She explains why the Mediterranean Diet is not the healthiest, and how we might be replacing trans fats with something even worse. She upends the conventional wisdom with the groundbreaking claim that more, not less, dietary fat--including saturated fat--is what leads to better health and wellness. Science shows that we have been needlessly avoiding meat, cheese, whole milk, and eggs for decades and that we can now, guilt-free, welcome these delicious foods back into our lives.--From publisher description. Challenges popular misconceptions about fats and nutrition science, revealing the distorted claims of nutrition studies while arguing that more dietary fat can lead to better health, wellness, and fitness.
Subjects: Nutrition, Lipids in human nutrition, Diet, Fat, Saturated fatty acids in human nutrition
