THE REAL THING

            Every January publishers launch diet books to lure in diet book readers who have gained weight over the holidays. Most of these books rely on techniques that product temporary weight loss. Since malnutrition is the biggest health problem in our country, dieting only makes people sicker and more prone to weight gain and sluggish metabolisms. The only way to lose weight is to feed your body so it can repair on a cellular level. Then your body will naturally find its ideal body weight. Dr. Enig is a world leader in the field of lipid biochemistry. She was the driving force behind the FDA finally getting around to labeling trans fats on products. When she speaks about fats, she knows what she is talking about. Sally Fallon has brought national recognition to the work of nutritional pioneer and researcher, Weston A. Price. Most of our country’s health woes would be solved if Americans only strapped on their aprons and got back into the kitchen. Sally is the driving force in our country today in encouraging people to prepare their own food.. These two researchers are the real thing and their book is filled with exciting, authoritative and confidence-inspiring advice on how to restore health and lose body fat.

Nancy Deville

MOST EXCITING AND INFORMATIVE

            “Eat Fat, Lose Fat” by Mary Enig, Ph.D., and Sally Fallon is the most exciting and informative book I’ve read since I read Theron Randolph’s Human Ecology and Susceptibility to the Chemical Environment 29 years ago. This is not primarily a book about losing weight. Their basic premise is that many chronic diseases can be healed by consuming coconut oil, cod liver oil, lard, and raw organic milk and butter, and they summarize the evidence that the vegetable oil industry has promoted oils which cause heart disease, hypothyroidism, chronic fatigue syndrome, adrenal insufficiency, reduced libido, allergies, hay fever, asthma, attention deficits, diabetes, hypoglycemia, food cravings, candidiasis, menorrhagia, immunodeficiciency, autoimmunity, irritable bowel, colitis, Crohn’s Disease, eczema, Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and AIDS. They also show that the drug industry has promoted the falsehood that dietary cholesterol causes arteriosclerosis in order to sell cholesterol lowering drugs. Why read a spy novel when the shocking truth about how the food and drug industries are using medical research to trick physicians and the public is laid out in “Eat Fat, Lose Fat”? There are also recipes, and 20 pages on how to find and purchase healthful, less chemically-contaminated fats and other traditional healthful foods. With nutritional supplements in jeopardy, it’s time to learn how traditional fats and other whole foods can restore and maintain health.

Lawrence A. Plumlee, M.D.
Book Review for The Environmental Physician