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Summary: Fats Demystified
Review: A unique guide to accurate data on fat composition and health effects. Exposes the atrocious diet advice of the AHA and NHLBI. Somewhat disorganized, but essential information for healthy living. Gave me the final push to use coconut oil in my low-glycemic index cake.
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Summary: Fats Demystified
Review: A unique guide to accurate data on fat composition and health effects. Exposes the atrocious diet advice of the AHA and NHLBI. Somewhat disorganized, but essential information for healthy living. Gave me the final push to use coconut oil in my low-glycemic index cake.
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Summary: Great, But...
Review: An authoritative & sound analysis of a area of great nutritional and health significance. But...I purchased this book partly because of what the back cover told me, that Mary Enig has a great informational, interactive website with "Ask Dr. Mary" and more. Well, that site is almost empty (though it does feature a strange and immature slam at Udo Erasmus, another great lipid authority). There is no Ask Dr. Mary, there is no way to get additional info. Same is true of Mary Enig's other website, enig.com, also "coming soon." My guess, they'll be "coming soon" indefinitely -- vaporware websites. In contrast, Udo Erasmus has a great site, and you can contact him for a consultation.
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Summary: Great, But...
Review: An outstanding book by one of the country's most respected researchers in the area of fats and human health. This is one of the most important nutrition books to be written in a long, long time. It shows us that natural fats eaten in the right balance will not harm you, while trans fats found in partially hydrogenated oils are extremely damaging to our health. Thank you, Dr. Enig, for your tireless efforts to educate people worldwide about the complex topic of fats and their health effects.
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Summary: Please Read This Book If Your Health Is Important To You
Review: An outstanding book by one of the country's most respected researchers in the area of fats and human health. This is one of the most important nutrition books to be written in a long, long time. It shows us that natural fats eaten in the right balance will not harm you, while trans fats found in partially hydrogenated oils are extremely damaging to our health. Thank you, Dr. Enig, for your tireless efforts to educate people worldwide about the complex topic of fats and their health effects.
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Summary: A Home Run!
Review: At last an accurate book on fats and oils. KNOW YOUR FATS is both easy to read and comprehensive. The text covers basic fat facts and explores how fats and oils are used by food processors and how fats affect health. A well organized glossary and appendices provide additional reference materials. Overall, this book contains a wealth of information that is normally found only in scientific books costing many times more. It is a must-have book for health professionals, students and others with a serious interest in nutrition, and it is also a wonderful book for anyone interested in knowing more about fats and oils.
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Summary: Facts About Fats At Last
Review: For years Americans have been fed a diet of misinformation on the importnat subject of dietary fats and oils. This misinformation encourages the consumption of imitation foods based on highly processed vegetable oils and mitigates against the consumption of healthy traditional fats like butter, tallow and coconut oil. Although this misinformation often originates with the very food companies that profit from such misguidance, it also permeates the vast majority of scholarly and popular books on the subject, books that may seem ojbective and factual but which in fact bolster the trend towards processed foods. Mary Enig's book is the exception. Both scholarly and readable, Know Your Fats sorts out fact from fiction in this controversial field. Enig is a highly qualified specialist in the subject of lipids, trained at the University of Maryland under pioneering researchers. She is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition and President of the Maryland Nutritionists' Association. Most importantly, Enig was the first to speak out about the dangers of trans fatty acids in the food supply. She held her ground in spite of industry blackballing and the professional cold-shoulder that ensued. Today she enjoys the satisfaction of having been right. Readers of Know Your Fats should be prepared for some suprises. They'll learn about the health benefits of saturated fats, the importance of cholesterol, dangers of polyunsaturates, flaws in the lipid theory of heart disease, what's left out of nutrition labeling, errors in the official data bases (used in many research projects) and the dangerous substitute ingredients that have quietly permeated the American food supply. Anyone interested in the subject of diet and health needs to obtain this book, read it thoroughly and refer to it often.
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Summary: Not as hyped
Review: 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.
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Summary: Not as hyped
Review: 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.
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Summary: Most Accurate Information Available on Fats Today
Review: I have not found any resource on fats that compares with Mary Enig's research. So much misinformation on fats and cholesterol exists . This book gives a clear picture as to what fats are needed for optimum health down to the cellualr level...
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