The question of what humans are supposed to eat has been plaguing modern society for some time. In light of other species, it seems like a ridiculous question. What does any animal eat? It’s pretty easy to find out—just follow it around and observe it in its natural environment. But what is a human’s natural environment?

The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet by Nina Teicholz, is an eye opening modern history about how everything we have believed about fat is wrong, and all the politics and poorly conducted science that has made us believe that fat is bad.

When it was first declared that eggs are bad for you, especially the yolks because they are high in cholesterol, it was all over the news. One could not avoid seeing this in headlines, in periodicals, magazines, and health columns in the newspapers. Everyone knows that eggs are bad for you right? Well did you hear about it when scientists gave eggs the green light? Probably not, and this is the problem. When shocking discoveries are made it is publicized far and wide, wh