Nina Teicholz Journalist & Author

Nina Teicholz, Ph.D., is a New Yorkbased 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, and in academic journals, including The BMJ. A graduate of Stanford, Oxford, and Reading University, she holds a Ph.D. in nutrition, focusing on evidence-based dietary policy.