Nina Teicholz Investigative Science Journalist and Opinion Writer

Nina Teicholz is a science journalist, author, real-food advocate, and thought leader in the field of nutrition, science and health. She is best known for her New York Times bestseller, The Big Fat Surprise, which upended the conventional wisdom on dietary fat, especially on saturated fat and vegetable oils. Teicholz is also the founder and current Board Chair of the Nutrition Coalition, a nonprofit group working to ensure that nutrition policy reflects the best and most current science. The Nutrition Coalition is responsible for generating interest in Congress about the need for greater transparency and scientific rigor in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, resulting in four reports by the National Academies of Sciences, which represent the first-ever outside peer review of this important nutrition policy.

Teicholz lectures internationally and has appeared on most major TV networks and podcasts, in addition to being published in the New York Times, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, L.A. Times, the Economist, as well as in academic journals including The BMJ, Public Health Nutrition, and PNAS Nexus, a journal of the National Academy of Sciences. She is a graduate of Stanford and Oxford Universities and previously served as associate director of the Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development at Columbia University. In addition, she writes of the “Unsettled Science” newsletter on Substack.