Nina Teicholz

Nina Teicholz, Ph.D., is a New York-based science journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller The Big Fat Surprise, which upended the conventional wisdom on dietary fat–especially saturated fat and seed oils. Teicholz is also the founder of the Nutrition Coalition, a nonprofit working to ensure that nutrition policy reflects the best and most current science. Teicholz has appeared on most major TV networks, and her work has been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Economist, as well as in academic journals, including The BMJ, Nutrients, and PNAS Nexus. A Stanford, Oxford, and Reading University graduate, she has a Ph.D. in nutrition, focusing on evidence-based dietary policy. 

For the past decade, Dr.Teicholz has been the leading voice for reform of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans. She has authored nearly all the major papers in this field and founded the country’s only watchdog group focusing on this policy.

Awards

The Big Fat Surprise named a “book of the year” by The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Mother Jones.

Number of Publications

11 journal publications, including a cover story for the BMJ (2015) as the sole author.