An investigative journalist who set out to write about fat and spent nearly a decade discovering the case against it was far thinner than anyone had been told.
An investigative science journalist who spent nearly a decade re-reading the evidence behind the low-fat, anti-saturated-fat advice that shaped modern eating.
Her book The Big Fat Surprise — a New York Times bestseller and an Economist book of the year — argued that the case against saturated fat was weaker than the public was told, and that the shift toward vegetable oils rested on thin ground.
She founded The Nutrition Coalition to push for national dietary guidelines grounded in rigorous science, and has written and testified widely on nutrition policy.
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