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Title: Know Your Fats : The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol by Mary G. Enig ISBN: 0-9678126-0-7 Publisher: Bethesda Press Pub. Date: 14 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hands down the best
Comment: This is quite simply the best book available on lipid chemistry in nutrition that is accessible to non-scientists. It lists and describes the actions of fats in our diet, and the role fats play in our body chemistry and health. Dr. Enig takes us all the way from chemical formulas and molecular diagrams to descriptions of various kinds of oils and fats used in cooking, as well as the sources and makeup of different types of oils and fats.
Dr. Enig pulls no punches in discussing misunderstood or misused research, and this honesty is welcome and refreshing, not to mention possibly life saving. It is so tiresome trying to wade through the hype and PR noise around nutrition. Like medical research, the food business is about Big Money, and truth seems to be a stranger to that part of our society. More and more, one must become an informed advocate for one's own health and welfare. This book is an important tool for the enlightened consumer.
The book is well written in a very clear style with no extraneous scientific jargon. It is well referenced and cited, which I like in a book that discusses scientific research. These days people have much more access to original research papers than ever before.
If you get only one book on fats in your diet, this should be it. The research and information is solid, free of fads and commercial influence.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not as hyped
Comment: he book cover makes prominent note of a website, which is still not available, three years after pub. date, and has never been. There is some useful info., though not very much, and certainly not enough to justify it's price. It is not well organized, nor well-written or laid out (and printed with a cheap typeface on cheap paper--like a Dover paperback, if you've seen them). The arguments regarding animal fat, as another reviewer from Boston wrote, are less than convincing. The book starts out with highly technical chemical information which is of little interest to lay readers. There is useful information on the benefits of tropical oils and the misrepresentation of fats on nutrition labels, which is helpful However, you might learn more about tropical oils, for free, from, say, the Spectrum Naturals website.
Rating: 5
Summary: Got Fat?
Comment: Together with the carbohydrate mania, fat mania has overtaken the media and the billion dollar diet industry. In this informative and easy-to-read book, the role of fats and oils (lipids) is further examined. Even fast-food pits distribute fact sheets about dietary fat, and consumer groups relentlessly press this killer to public enemy number one in their crusade. Enthusiastic writers have produced whole books about fat. Ironically, in a nation that is the fattest in the world. However, it is a fact that too much of what they have written or said is either incorrect or incomplete.
In "Know Your Fats," a serous effort has been made to keep the terminology understandable and in accordance with the terms the public sees in the plethora of reports written for consumers by government agencies. Occasionally, scientific words are necessary to use for technical terms in order to avoid simplistic wording that would not be accurate. A user friendly glossary of these terms regarding fats, oils, foods, and lipids in biological systems, is at the end of this book.
This book by Mary Enig, Ph.D., will be of interest to those into nutrition, and/or how eating affects the body from a biological standpoint. But it is written to be fun and easy to understand by the average person (like me). Also helpful, is that you'll learn about the relationship between dietary fat intake and your health, and the specific links between dietary fat intake and disease. So you can learn, and/or also apply what's in this book to make you healthier.
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Title: Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats by Sally Fallon, Mary G. Enig PhD. ISBN: 0967089735 Publisher: NewTrends Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Cholesterol Myths : Exposing the Fallacy that Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease by Uffe Ravnskov ISBN: 0967089700 Publisher: NewTrends Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price ISBN: 0879838167 Publisher: McGraw Hill - NTC Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Healing Miracles of Coconut Oil, Third Edition by Bruce Fife ISBN: 0941599515 Publisher: Piccadilly Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Life Without Bread: How a Low-Carbohydrate Diet Can Save Your Life by Christian B. Allan, Wolfgang Lutz ISBN: 0658001701 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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