Building Your Brain With Butter

Building Your Brain With Butter

Until the early 1950s, fat was just a normal part of the average person’s diet—people were not overweight and heart disease was relatively rare. Then came Ancel Keys, a nutritionist from the University of Minnesota. Keys published a six-country study in 1953 and...
Book review: How we’ve been duped into thinking fats are bad

Book review: How we’ve been duped into thinking fats are bad

The following is a review of Nina Techolz’s book ‘The Big Fat Surprise—Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet’. Based on my own experiences in the 1970s with near-traditional Australian hunter gatherers, I know they ate mainly meat and...