# Nina Teicholz

nina teicholz is a journalist who became an advocate opposed to the mainstream nutritional principle that saturated fat is unhealthy and should be minimized in the American diet. == Education and early life == nina teicholz grew up in North Berkeley, California.She earned a degree in American Studies at Stanford University, and completed her master's in Latin American Studies at Oxford University. == Career == Teicholz worked as a reporter for National Public Radio and became a freelancer, contributing to publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Gourmet, The New Yorker, The Economist, Salon, and Men's Health.She said that she became interested in dietary fats while doing a series of stories investigating food for Gourmet, and was assigned a story on trans fat that was published in 2004.