The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet (& What They Don't Tell You About The Mediterranean Diet).

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Nina Teicholz (2:55)

We are so divorced from our history, really in just two generations, whereas my grandmother would have chopped liver for breakfast, but now we think that's just completely disgusting. But the liver, the heart, the kidney, the awful, as you call it, that's where all the nutrients are. None of these populations ate any sugar or very little sugar, and so that was always an alternative hypothesis.

I'm pretty much of the belief right now that there is a desire to condemn red meat that is based on these other agendas that have nothing to do with health.

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Ben Greenfield (3:50)

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Ben Greenfield (4:25)

Thank Hey, it's Ben Greenfield. And if you saw the title for today's podcast episode called The Big Fat Surprise, Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet, then you might have been tempted to skip this episode because let's not beat around the bush here. In health circles, it's kind of old news now that saturated fat just might not be bad for you.

And we even know now, and I've talked about this before and interviewed people about this before, that things like sugar and starches and vegetable oil could instead be the primary contributory factors to things like heart disease or other chronic health issues. And so when I got this book called The Big Fat Surprise, Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet, in the mail a few weeks ago, I kind of figured it would be the same old advice, like eat the egg yolk when you have your eggs, and don't be afraid of butter, and drink whole milk instead of skim milk, blah, blah, blah. But I was actually pretty surprised. I was big fat surprised. Ha ha, see what I did there. And here's why.