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Films can have a strong and immediate impact - Super Size Me certainly did, despite the rather large helping of bologna it served up - but they're no substitute for reading. Read, people, read! Here are some books and on-line articles that may help convince you much of what you've been told about diets, heart disease, saturated fat, and the obesity "epidemic" is a load of bologna.
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Protein
Power |
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The
Protein Power Lifeplan by Michael R. Eades M.D. and Mary Dan Eades, M.D. A follow-up to Protein Power, includes updated nutritional information and a day-to-day plan to help you follow a low-carb diet. |
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The
Doctor's Heart Cure, Beyond the Modern Myths of Diet and Exercise
by Al Sears, M.D. Lowfat diets aren't good for you, and they're not your native diet. Dr. Sears recounts his own history as a vegetarian - including the resulting health problems - and explains why a hunter-gatherer diet is the best diet for maintaining optimum health. |
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Fat
Politics: The Real Story behind America's Obesity Epidemic
by J. Eric Oliver The obesity "epidemic" has been wildly exaggerated so government agencies like the CDC can justify their budgets. Dr. Oliver explains how contempt for fat people is based on our Puritan heritage, and just how weak the link is between being "overweight" as defined by the government and being unhealthy. The behaviors that make you fat can also make you unhealthy, but being fat is not, in and of itself, a threat to your health. |
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The
Great Cholesterol Con by Dr. Malcolm Kendrick A British physician shreds the cholesterol theory and - I kid you not - manages to be laugh-out-loud funny while doing it. Lord help anyone who ever has to debate this man. He would not only win the argument, he would have the audience laughing at his opponent. |
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The
Cholesterol Myths : Exposing the Fallacy that Saturated Fat and Cholesterol
Cause Heart Disease by Uffe Ravnskov, M.D. Buy this book! Buy a copy for your doctor and force him to read it! Dr. Ravnskov shows how the Lipid Hypothesis was based on bogus science from the beginning, and how researchers routinely torture their data to force it to fit the theory. |
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Eat
Fat, Lose Fat: The Healthy Alternative to Trans Fats |
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Good
Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes A highly respected science writer details how the lowfat diet theory was forced down the public's throat with no real science to back it up, and how it is refined carbohydrates - not fat and cholesterol - that ruin your health. Meticulously researched .. a must read. |