But at 61, my preference would be to get my law degree and spend my remaining years suing all the bad guys!!!
This book, written by one of the world's leading lipid biochemists, is a much needed title in today's "fat-phobic" world. Discarding politically correct notions that saturated fats are unhealthy, Dr. Mary Enig presents a thorough, in-depth, and understandable look at the world of lipids.The publication of Know Your Fats is a rare treat: it is, to this reviewer's knowledge, the ONLY book on fats and oils for the consumer and the professional written by a recognized authority in the field. Virtually all of the titles on fats and oils in print now are either too technical to be accessible by the layman, or are too error-laden to be worth the paper they are printed on.
Mary Enig made her mark in the nutritional world in 1978 when she and her colleagues at the University of Maryland published a now-famous paper in the American journal Federation Proceedings. The paper directly challenged government assertions that higher cancer rates were associated with animal fat consumption. Enig, et al, concluded that the data actually showed vegetable oils and trans-fatty acids to be the culprits in both cancer and heart disease--not naturally saturated fats that people have been eating for millennia. In the ensuing years, Enig and her colleagues focused their work on determining the trans-fatty acid content of various food items, as well as publishing research that clearly demonstrated TFA's to be potent carcinogens, prime factors in heart disease, disruptors of immune function, and worse.
Enig's book begins like any other on lipid biochemistry and discusses the nature of saturates, monounsaturates, polyunsaturates, and trans-fatty acids. Included also is a revealing discussion of cholesterol and its vital importance to the body. The first chapter also clearly discusses the molecular structure of different fatty acids (with diagrams) and presents the metabolic conversion products of each of the major fatty acids (oleic, linoleic, linolenic, and palmitoleic).
The physiology of fats and cholesterol is fully covered in chapter two. Almost half of this chapter is devoted to shattering popular myths about saturated fats and their roles as disease promoters. Not mincing any words, Enig methodically demonstrates the faulty data and reasoning behind the ideas that saturates either cause or contribute to heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer, mental illness, obesity, and cerebrovascular disease. For example, after trashing the "data" that supposedly prove that beef and beef fat caused colon cancer, Enig flatly concludes: "And now, more than three (3) decades after the initial fraudulent report, the anti-animal fat hypothesis continues to lead the nutrition agenda. It was a false issue then, and it remains a false issue today."
Subsequent chapters deal with fats historically used in Western diets; the fatty acid composition of various oils and fats such as coconut, butter, lard, and olive oil; and a succinct summary of "fat facts." The book is rounded out by detailed appendices on definitions, fatty acids in a huge number of foods, and molecular compositions of major fatty acids.
What is most telling, however, is Enig's insider take on the nutritional research world and the forces at play that manipulate the facts. Never one to shy away from controversy, Enig makes some pretty strong indictments of such organizations as the American Dietetics Association, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the American Heart Association, and the food industry in general. More shocking are her thoughts on research scientists:
"The common scenario is that of a highly intelligent person . . . who finds a research task that will lead to funding from the food and/or pharmaceutical industry or from the industry-controlled government agencies. If that research shows an adverse effect of any of the new foods studied, this is frequently ignored. . . . Of course, the research that is done by the industry-supported scientists is good basic research, and it usually is of great interest so as long as it supports the food industry or avoids a clash with the industry it is promoting. What seems so ironic, is that the very foods (saturated fats and cholesterol) that people are avoiding are the very foods that are healthful. When it comes to fat, this really has become the age of the flat earth."
Hopefully, Know Your Fats will help make the earth round once more.
OMG Rita......I could do that too!!! Thank you for sending!
Rita.....we might ask Dr. D's opinion of the program but it sure looks do-able, especially online....since I live in two places!
Washington, DC—March, 15, 2013—According to the Weston A. Price Foundation, American consumers are crying foul over a dairy industry petition to add artificial sweeteners to flavored milks, without nutrient content labeling. If FDA answers in the affirmative, artificial sweeteners will take the place of sugar in flavored milk served to school children and to many other classes of dairy products.
Numerous scientific studies point to toxic effects of aspartame, including cancer, digestive issues and memory impairment. In spite of this evidence, the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) recently submitted a petition to the FDA to hide the chemical sweetener without declaring it on the front of the packaging.
You probably already know about the efforts going on around the US to take away our right to practice Holistic Nutrition. Some of our top NANP members, widely known and admired for their books, expertise, and RESULTS, have been handed cease and desist orders in several states. Will your state be next? We hope not - and NANP is doing its VERY best to make your voice heard in state governments in communities across the land.
The ADA is clever. It gets legislation passed under the radar, when no one is looking. And natural health nutritionists are getting a rotten deal.As we reported a few weeks ago (http://www.anh-usa.org/american-dietetic-association-monopoly/), the American Dietetic Association (ADA) has sponsored legislation in over 40 states. These bills usually lump dietitians and nutritionists into one licensing scheme, and require nutritionists to complete a dietitian program in order to practice nutritional therapy. Even if the nutritionist holds a Masters or a PhD in nutrition, the nutritionist is still required to complete registration through the ADA in order to keep practicing.
This is the organization that lists among its corporate sponsors soft drink giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, cereal manufacturers General Mills and Kellogg’s, candy maker Mars, and Unilever, the multinational corporation that owns many of the world’s consumer products brands in foods and beverages.
The ADA’s legislative manipulations are able to go undetected because it takes years for a bill to go through the regulatory phase and be implemented—so few people become aware of the full consequences of the law. Moreover, the ADA hasn’t yet “pulled the trigger” sending out cease-and-desist letters to nutritionists everywhere telling them they can no longer practice—but you can rest assured this will happen, as soon as the organization has its monopoly firmly established. In the meantime they go on to lobby for new legislation in other states.
TRAINED TO DISPENSE PROCESSED FOOD
Registered Dietitians generally get a bad rap in the alternative medical and nutrition communities. After all, they are the people who serve up white bread, jello and foods fried with trans fats in school and hospital cafeterias, who help doctors enforce lowfat, low-cholesterol diet plans and advise weight loss patients to drink calorie-free diet sodas. Indeed, the ADA thinks that plenty of processed, packaged and fast foods, are just fine in the context of a varied diet.
As Mary Enig, PhD, MACN, is fond of saying, “Dietitians are trained to dispense processed food.” Although there’s an excellent chance that processed food would be poor nutritionally, the ADA generally advises against vitamins, minerals or other supplements. It also sees no reason to go organic, grassfed or non-GMO. As for raw milk, the very idea is unsafe, unsanitary, outdated, illegal and otherwise beyond the pale.Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS, celebrity nutritionist and fitness trainer and author of The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earthand numerous other books, pulls no punches when he writes about the ADA on his website www.jonnybowden.com (http://www.jonnybowden.com). “The American Dietetic Association at this point has no useful purpose on the planet except to protect its union members and shill for its flatliner positions, which are now running about two decades behind their sell-by date.”
Good share Linda. Wow - that's major worldwide participation there! That date works for me, so I'm going!Was looking at this and really hoping to attened until I discovered that the local mob were going to the Greens political party involved. Sorry I can't support anything the Greens get involved in. They are anti hunting and want us all to be vegans.
So the first reason to buy meat, poultry, and eggs directly from farmers is to end your subsidy of the destruction of the independent livestock producer. Every time you buy meat in a big supermarket, you are voting to destroy our independent livestock producers and turn the whole situation over to giant corporations.
Food Safety Issues
On FB this morning, Dr. D had the transcript of Rush Limbaugh's show on the gluten-free 'mania'......of course, he got it wrong! Anyway, Dr. D just put on Rush's email address: ElRushba@eibnet.com
Might be a good idea if we wrote and asked for him to put Dr. D on the show to set the record straight!
This is cool.....today on the site, It's Primal Ya'll......they had a quote from one of our members on the WheatFreeForum..... http://itsprimalyall.wordpress.com/2013/06/08/random-roundup-4/ (http://itsprimalyall.wordpress.com/2013/06/08/random-roundup-4/)
Wow! Glad I watched. My sister was just diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer and me being really mad at my government, it was a must watch.
The little hidden secrets are farm subsidies, under the USDA. If farmers of wheat/grain/and sugar beets were forced to charge what their product's actual costs are, the general public would soon eat less. If ranchers, and ultimately feedlots and packing plants, had to pay the actual cost of grain to fatten up those cows/pigs/and chicken for market (without the subsidies to farmers of grain) - we'd soon find a whole bunch grass fed. Healthier for the consumer, and possibly, cheaper for the consumer. It all ends up with the American taxpayer footing the bill for some to make money and some, the consumer, to become hideously ill.
I highly recommend reading "The Vegetarian Myth" by Lierre Keith....."part memoir, part nutritional primer, and part political manifesto...it will challenge everything you thought you knew about food politics". Had Dr. D published his book sooner, there is little doubt he would have been showcased as well....it's right up his alley!
Rita - link goes to a private video which I cannot view, even with Vimeo basic account log in
Ha!BigAg is not happy with Chipotle.......................................http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/chipotle-scarecrow-ad-integrity-agriculture-97763.html (http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/chipotle-scarecrow-ad-integrity-agriculture-97763.html)
Good article, Linda R. Has anyone noticed the same mantra I have? The 'feeding the world' part? It's like they are trying to shame us into better behavior. It's manipulative and usually is used for something you should not be doing anyway. Personally, I feel each area should work very hard to feed themselves because they are in serious trouble if the the guy feeding them quits for any reason. Hmm, I'm thinking of Chipotle for dinner now!
While job losses are never advantageous to our economy, if we transition to a different dietary paradigm, new jobs will be created.
This could be a home run for the grass-roots food movement....oops, that's baseball ;D
I remember back in the early 90's going to Chicago with him so he could attend an international trade show for seed growers and vendors related to the business. He came out of a workshop where (Mansanto) spoke of how the "innovations" were going to put "antibiotics" into seeds so folks wouldn't have to get shots or medications.
Rita,
Now I'm confused....are we no longer allowed to talk about the GMO issue....Or anything else? Please explain.....
Here's another Ryan clip I archived.....is this guy cool or what???
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-congressmans-meditation-crusade/ (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-congressmans-meditation-crusade/)
So this month Neil Young twittered that he was boycotting Starbucks due to their involvement with GMA (and their lawsuit against Vermont) and enough people must have stopped buying their morning coffee because the coffee giant issued a public statement (it might not necessarily have been what we wanted to hear but at least the impact was enough that they felt they needed to respond!).....today the following Utube video hit social media attacking major athletes for promoting junk food. The food movement is moving right along.....https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0fbiBfJf7HY&feature=youtu.be (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0fbiBfJf7HY&feature=youtu.be)
Will be interesting to see the outcome....especially being a Payton fan!
Petitions must have some positive effect.....https://2012thebigpicture.wordpress.com/2013/09/08/victory-dr-weil-quits-grocery-manufacturers-association/ (https://2012thebigpicture.wordpress.com/2013/09/08/victory-dr-weil-quits-grocery-manufacturers-association/)
Monsanto marijuana.....why am I not surprised?
healthseeker,
Europe is not so far behind America in corruption and illnesses. You think that European corporations don't sell poisonous pesticides, animal feeds, GMO seeds and similar? You think that they don't use every kind of scheme they can think of to increase their profitability? You think that their governments don't accept bribes? That their banks are honest in all their dealings? Try reading a local newspaper. EVERY European country has a dark side that is not publicized.
What is wrong with America you ask? MONEY. What is wrong with Europe? MONEY. What is wrong with China? MONEY What is wrong with Africa? MONEY. The entire world chases money and power. Not just here in America. We have a free press so you are able to read and see pictures more often. Our protests are vocal and posted all over the world because of our freedoms.
Our food industry has stepped up and provided tasty alternatives. You just have to find them and buy them. WFF is an enormous help in discussing these issues, locating the latest research and posting recipes for "clean" food. We have learned to cook our meals instead of buying ready made or eating in restaurants. We walk with our pocketbooks instead of making threats. Corporate America is hearing us. Doctors are hearing us. Changes for the better are happening.
The first oral arguments in the Vermont GMO lawsuit are today......keep your fingers crossed!
Thanks for that link, Rita - very interesting and surprisingly honest article on the situation. That Dr. Blair from USC should indeed be fired, for one thing, he's fat. Not judging, just saying that if he makes statements indicating that weight loss is all about exercise, where is his evidence. I'm glad the article was honest enough to counter the statements made by this group.
Most outrageous statement. “Most of the focus in the popular media and in the scientific press is, ‘Oh they’re eating too much, eating too much, eating too much’ — blaming fast food, blaming sugary drinks and so on,” the group’s vice president, Steven N. Blair, an exercise scientist, says in a recent video announcing the new organization (http://www.sharewik.com/portfolio-items/the-global-energy-balance-getting-the-word-out/). “And there’s really virtually no compelling evidence that that, in fact, is the cause.”