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Big Fat Lies
By Glenn A. Gaesser, PhD
Review by Sally Fallon
If you think this is a book that challenges the lowfat school of thinking,
you're in for a big surprise. According to Gaesser, it is "absolutely
clear" that cholesterol causes heart attacks and that the lowfat diet
is "extremely healthy." He advances the American Heart Association agenda
by telling readers that anyone with cholesterol levels over 200 is at
risk--170 is desirable, he assures us, even though study after study
shows a correlation of increased cancer, intestinal diseases, depression,
stroke and suicide among individuals with cholesterol levels in that
range.
He does admit, however, what has become increasingly obvious: The
lowfat, high-carbohydrate diet will not help you lose weight. On the
contrary, Americans are, on average, eight pounds heavier than they
were ten years ago, before the real push to "cut out fatty foods." The
Big Fat Lie, he says, is that it's healthy to be thin!
Most of the book deals with ways to be fat and fit.
The real irony is that the author begins Chapter Two "How Obesity
Got Such a Bad Name" with a quote from Dr. George Mann: "This evil view
of obesity has come from four places, the insurance industry, the medical
moralizers (usually themselves thin), the drug industry and the docile,
unquestioning nutritionists who are too often dupes of the faddists
and hucksters." Mann has been a leading voice of criticism against the
"lipid hypothesis" that Gaesser declares is absolutely proven. "The
diet-heart hypothesis has been repeatedly shown to be wrong. . ." says
Mann. "The public is being deceived by the greatest health scam of the
century."
About the Reviewer
 Sally
Fallon is the author of
Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct
Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats (with Mary G. Enig, PhD), a well-researched,
thought-provoking guide to traditional foods with a startling message: Animal
fats and cholesterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary
for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection
from disease and optimum energy levels. She joined forces with Enig again to
write Eat Fat, Lose Fat, and has authored numerous articles on the
subject of diet and health. The President of the Weston A. Price Foundation
and founder of A Campaign for Real Milk,
Sally is also a journalist, chef, nutrition researcher, homemaker, and community
activist. Her four healthy children were raised on whole foods including butter,
cream, eggs and meat.
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