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The Modern Nutritional Diseases: And How to Prevent Them : Heart Disease, Stroke, Type-2 Diabetes, Obesity, Cancer

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An easy to read treatise on preventive medicine and how to avoid the common "diseases of civilization": heart disease, cancer, obesity, T2 diabetes, and stroke. The authors methodically clobber the belief that a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet prevents illness and actually show that such a diet causes disease. The authors pay special attention to biochemical explanations for disease, rather than relying on epidemiological studies as these are often flawed and cannot show causative factors for disease.

I was a little disappointed that the authors referred readers to other books which, in my opinion, are mixed bags of truth and misinformation (like "The Zone" books by Barry Sears, PhD), but these are minor glitches in an otherwise excellent text.

Modern Nutritional Diseases is an excellent book that nails down the current understanding of prevention of HEART DISEASE, TYPE 2 (ADULT) DIABETES, OVERWEIGHT and more. Many of these conditions are clearly caused by nutrient deficiencies. Therefore, you can prevent such decline by replacing some of the VITAMINS, MINERALS, FIBER and OMEGA-3 oils that have become scarce during the last century in our supermarkets and food stores.

This book gives an excellent summary of the science. Its chapter 2 has some rare and clear diagrams with some of the important links between disease and nutrition, and how drugs may interfere with health. This book is a valuable contribution to PREVENTION through NUTRITION as it has some of the latest scientific insights.

Slightly technical for some readers, but anyone will be able to increase his or her understanding of health, and how simple steps with small nutritional changes promise to have great payback for most of us. The book is particularly strong in explaining the role of refined flour and starches in causing OVERWEIGHT and the related new epidemic of LATER-IN-LIFE DIABETES, with an ever faster declining path to poor health and heart disease. This path is generally avoidable with some of the simple steps explained in this book.

Recommended, Eddie Vos (health-heart.org)

Modern medicine can performs wondrous feats of surgery and has conquered virtually all of the infectious diseases that were the major causes of death a century ago. But we are now plagued with a host of non-infectious diseases -- including cancer, various forms of heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and osteoporosis -- for which modern medicine can only treat symptoms but has no cure. Why? Because most of our modern diseases are caused by improper eating habits and lack of nutrition. Unfortunately, the conventional medical establishment is only beginning to recognize this fact and many doctors -- despite their excellent training in the use of pharmaceutical drugs (which kill more than 100,00 people each year with their side effects) -- are comepletely ignorant of the true causes of modern chronic diseases. Fortunately, the authors of this book have thoroughly researched the true causes of modern diseases and found that they lie in nutrient deficiency and in the current and erroneous fad of a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet -- plus excessive consumption of junk food. Our eating habits are deteriorating our health and even killing us prematurely. But, fortunately, we have the power to change our eating habbits and reclaim our health if we are willing to do so. This book provides much of the information needed in order to do so.

So much of the research into the most destructive health ailments we now face is focusing on the role of the diet. This is something Dr. Fred Ottoboni and his wife Dr. Alice Ottoboni know a thing or two about. Before retirement, they had spent many years of their career investigating, studying, and researching disease occurrence among various people groups around the world and they discovered something quite revealing in light of our current crisis with obesity, diabetes and worse: much of it is preventable by simply ignoring the high-carb, low-fat, low-cholesterol advice that has sadly become accepted as the "healthy" diet.

In Modern Nutritional Diseases, Drs. Ottoboni explain in meticulous detail why those diets are useless against most modern diseases and shares the research showing the elimination of sugars and starches will put us back on the road to health faster than removing saturated fat and cholesterol from our diet. There's even an invaluable chapter on how to distinguish good science from bad science among the many voices telling us what the facts are.

The references and charts contained in this book make it well worth having in your low-carb library. I'll warn you now that it does get a bit technical in some areas, but this stuff isn't simple either. There are many things to evaluate and analyze in the process of coming to the conclusions about nutrition and metabolism that Drs. Ottoboni do. This is every bit as good a book to read as Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories was because it complements much of the same concepts and ideas.

My favorite part is at the end in a chapter called "What do you do now?" the authors give you practical instructions about making the changes you need in order to ward off the modern nutritional diseases in your own life. Specifics about diet, supplements, exercise, and suggested resources for further education are provided. This is an invaluable tool for anyone following a controlled-carbohydrate nutritional approach or who wants to learn more about why this way of eating works so well.

The authors have deep backgrounds in nutrition research and the physiology of how nutrients help or hurt us, having also been published in very prestigious professional journals. To really understand, at a deep level, how the components of our diet, such as carbohydrates, fats/oils, and proteins help or hurt us this book is superb. It is especially eye opening about the negative effects of a very low-fat diet, why we need some saturated fat and why many of our modern seed oils could be adding to the problems of obesity, diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. The authors say they are aiming at a general audience, but I think having some rudimentary biology and chemistry knowledge helps to fully appreciate this book. Each chapter is written as a stand alone piece, so it is not necessary to read it cover to cover if you only have an interest in one particular disease - lets say diabetes - but I found every bit of it excellent. The chapter covering cholesterol and the function of statin drugs should be a must read for anyone who has been advised to start a statin regimen.

This book should be read by every medical student in this country! Though highly technical (not a self-help book, per se), it is a comprehensive look at the many studies on nutrition, health, and biology that have occured over the last thirty years and nailed down the basics of why we are so sick in this country! Our family has followed some of the recommendation outlined in the back of the book with great results. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to take a serious look at why [we] are so sick and become pro-active in improving their health!

Excellent reference source. It explains how many of today's diseases can be traced to an inadequate diet.
The dynamics of the body's metabolic functions are examined and explained in understandable language
without all the medical jargon that usually obfuscates a topic. An amazing referenced book with valuable
footnotes pointing to other related books if the reader wishes to find the original research source.
I would recommend this book for the average lay person who wants to know about the connection between
nutrition and the causes of disease without being overwhelmed with technical jargon.

Book in perfect condition. Plus, everyone should read this book if they want to know anything about good nutrition!

I purchased this book a week ago from vbi201 (the publisher) and started reading as soon as I opened the package. I have been so impressed (by both the book and the delivery service) that I purchased a second copy from vbi201 to send to my daughter today. If you want hard facts on nutrition, this is one excellent source of information.

I first went to the Queen of Fats by S. Allport page, read Kaufmann's 2 reviews and other reviews, which all recommended The Modern Nutritional Diseases by the Dr.s Ottoboni as the best book.

This book used a lot of documentation, but outside of the author's own analyses mainly referred to three other sources, which I had not read and could not validate. The book's summation followed a chemical "causative/effect" sequence which was to be expected from the authors who were educated in that field. Their suggestion to Americans was to "eat more eggs, drink a quart of whole milk a day, and follow a diet of 30% protein and 30% fat to be healthy. (I thought of those "milk-mustache" advertisements) Their conclusions were that Americans eat too many carbohydrates and not enough Omega 3 oils, which may be true. There were no references to the "contaminated" food supply, nor to the "re-engineering" of our food. They did state that they could not distinguish between organic and "non-organic or man-made food." Their references to natural ("alternative" in their definition) health providers seemed prejudicial, if not suspicious of their competence or motives. They seemed to support the ADA (American Dietetic Association) position: "..to protect a gullible nation against nutritional charlatans." The book was too narrowly focused to be convincing, and seemed to support the Meat Industry, Dairy Council and Egg Board and criticized the current emphasis on high carbohydrate and low fat/protein diets.