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Cholesterol Won't Kill You, But Trans Fat Could: Separating Scientific Fact from Nutritional Fiction in What You Eat


by Fred A. Kummerow
by Jean M. Kummerow, Katherine E. Stewart, Arlene West, Diane Diederich

List Price: $25.00
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Sales Rank: 741553
Studio: Trafford Publishing
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: May 09, 2008
Publisher: Trafford Publishing


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Product Description
The popular press has lots of information, some of it contradictory, on what's actually healthy to eat. This book identifies scientific facts and nutritional myths and provides research evidence as to why some myths should not be the cornerstone of nutritional advice. It explains how some food fictions arose, their basis in flawed and incomplete research studies and what's wrong with these studies by examining the basics-the basic biochemical processes in the body, how food fuels those processes, and how those processes fit together.

You'll learn for example, how cholesterol is a life-sustaining substance that has been unfairly implicated in heart disease. You'll understand why trans fat is unhealthy based on some of the author's research beginning in the 1950's and why he thinks the government should ban trans fats and industry change the way it makes them. You'll also learn why his family has always eaten butter.

How the body uses food to make what we need to keep going is an incredible, almost magical, process. We hope in reading this book, you'll not only learn what is healthy to eat, but also why it is healthy to do so. Of course when we end with practical advice on what's really best to eat, you'll understand why as well!


CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 1 review)

Terrific and Very Enlightening Book!  
This is a great book. Very well written and easy to understand and really enlightening about the US food production process as well as how to eat healthier and really live a long and fruitful life. There are plenty of great tables to reference as well concerning vitamins and minerals in certain types of food. It's also great to know that eggs aren't bad like once thought and that cholesterol isn't as big a concern. Before this I didn't even know how trans fats were bad, but now after reading it I feel MUCH more informed on the subject and now know what foods to avoid and what to eat more of for a good balanced diet.

Along with all that good information, the book also spans over decades of research and the Author clearly knows exactly what he's talking about. He's 93!!! and still working and exercising! Amazing.

I highly recommend this book to anyone concerned about nutrition and health as well as anyone who just wanted to be informed on the current path to banning trans fats and why certain things are bad for you.
July 08, 2008
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