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Summary: Got Fat?
Review: 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.
Rating:
Summary: Got Fat?
Review: 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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Summary: Intelligance trusts logic, wisdom trusts intuition!
Review: What this book truly boils down to is the form and balance of animal fats and vegetable fats in the diet. The intelligent route is to bury yourself in "all" the scientific studies and conclude which is better for you. This will ultmately lead to a choice of a larger amount of animal fats in your diet than vegetable. This is based on biochemistry conversions, cholesterol needs, vitamins A,D,E and mineral availability as well as storage requirements.(Butter is stable for long periods) You really have to look at Dr. Weston Price's book "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" to logically piece all of this together. The second(and more important) is using and trusting your intuition. That is the key, your tastebuds! I have yet to meet a person who would argue that butter tastes more natural and enjoyable, feels better in the mouth, looks more appealing, smells better and provides a sense of contentment and nourishment in the stomach. Also better eyesight, skin, bones and teeth. I can take half a bottle of "fresh" pressed oil blends of flax/sesame/sunflower etc., but I don't enjoy the taste as much, enjoy the look, feel in my mouth and most important, the feeling of fullness and contentment accompained by warm and steady energy! Nature only designed one food to be in a free flowing form in the mouth and that is water. Eat greens, soak flax seed, nuts, raw liver and other organ meets for you essential omega fat needs. Your body does not need a large amount of essential fats, and fresh butter that comes from grass fed animals has a balanced essential fat content! Once again, nature takes care of our tastes, nutrients and provides us with some work to do making butter, cream, ferments etc.! Lastly I want to add the most important point, "ALL" foods must be in a wholesome, organic, fresh state to be healthy. When I say butter, I mean raw butter. Not even organic butter that you buy in the health store will be raw. That is one benefit you will derive from buying healthy vegetable oils is that they can be pressed properly and easily digested due to their raw state. When all enzymes are in tact, foods(including meat and fats) are digested quickly and efficiently. When food is cooked, enzymes are destroyed, fats altered, proteins altered, vitamins destroyed and minerals bounded in useless states. Each time you eat something cooked, you call upon larger amounts of energy from your digestive organs and the enzymes needed slowly deplete your enzyme reserve. Is this called aging?(sarcasm) What we need is a shift back to small scale, organic livestock farming, fresh, raw, foods and spread the wealth to a large scale population. This will downsize the power and profit of the food processing industry, chemical spray and fertilizer industry, medical/dental industry and put all people in a healthy state of mind too address the pollution of our great earth from the petroleum industry. This is in the making and will be realised. Animal ranching to supply our foods and vegetable farming to supplement our diet and fuel our energy needs. Corey
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