Cholesterol Wont Kill You, But Trans Fat Could: Separating Scientific Fact From Nutritional Fiction In What You Eat

Cholesterol Wont Kill You, But Trans Fat Could: Separating Scientific Fact From Nutritional Fiction In What You Eat

The popular press has lots of information, some of it contradictory, on whats 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 whats 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. Youll learn for example, how cholesterol is a life-sustaining substance that has been unfairly implicated in heart disease. Youll understand why trans fat is unhealthy based on some of the authors research beginning in the 1950s and why he thinks the government should ban trans fats and industry change the way it makes them. Youll 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, youll 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 whats really best to eat, youll understand why as well!