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Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill: The Complete Guide to Fats, Oils, Cholesterol and Human Health Paperback – January 1, 1993
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Udo Erasmus exposes the manufacturing processes that turn healing fats into killing fats, explains the effects of these damaged fats on human health, and discloses the knowledge you need to avoid the damaged ones and choose health promoting oils. He also explores the therapeutic potential of flax, hemp, olive, fish, evening primrose, borage, and black currant.
- Print length456 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAlive Books
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1993
- Dimensions6.07 x 1.13 x 9.03 inches
- ISBN-100920470386
- ISBN-13978-0920470381
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In 2005, Udo was inducted into the Canadian Health Food's Association Hall of Fame for his tireless efforts educating the public about the difference between good oils and bad oils and for pioneering higher production standards of unrefined flax and other polyunsaturated fat-rich oils.
Other titles include Choosing the Right Fats (2001)and Omega-3 Cuisine (2008), co-authored with vegan chef Alan Roettinge. Udo resides in Vancouver, B.C., and is currently working on his latest books, including two on fats and oils, due out in 2017.
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- Publisher : Alive Books
- Publication date : January 1, 1993
- Edition : Revised & enlarged
- Language : English
- Print length : 456 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0920470386
- ISBN-13 : 978-0920470381
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.07 x 1.13 x 9.03 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #587,654 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #2,041 in Weight Loss Diets (Books)
- #2,856 in Other Diet Books
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Customers find this book easy to read and appreciate its detailed information on fats and oils, making it a valuable resource for taking control of health. The book receives positive feedback for its comprehensive coverage of dietary fats and oils, with one customer noting it goes deeply into their chemistry. They consider it important, with one review describing it as an A to Z guide on the subject.
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Customers find the book easy to read with lots of information, with one customer noting it is the easiest health book to read.
"...A highly important and interesting book, which probably still in the future will continue being the best lexica concerning the Fats which we daily..." Read more
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Customers find the book provides good information and is detailed, with one customer noting it includes an extensive bibliography.
"Good information. I am using the oil, but not for long for testing, etc. I believe that it is a good thing to know and use. Kathleen" Read more
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Customers appreciate the book's focus on healthy fats, with one customer mentioning it helps achieve good cholesterol levels.
"This is one of the best analysis of all types of fats....and spells out in easy understandable terms which fats we need and which we must avoid......" Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2013Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseAn excellent up to date book concerning Fats, and besides the Fats also Cholesterol, Cancer, Sugar, Herbs, and much more, even though it's printing in the year 1993. To me it's a shame that I did not learn about its existence before here in the year 2013, even though not having any health problems.
By this book we, of course, especially are getting all of the information concerning the Fats, and thereby Oils. That is what we are getting from each of these of calories, the highest temperatures by which we must treat them, the difference of the amount of different Fatty acids composition in each of them, if they have been destroyed by producers, and if they are good or bad when it comes to our health. On the side 237 we are getting a Table with 32 Fats, showing the amount of the different Fatty acids which they are containing.
Being so detailed, as the book is, and having so many sides, it took me many days to read it. Among the details, we for example on the side 73 are reading about lowering the Cholesterol, which among other have resulted in some cases of suicides. And concerning Cholesterol, for example, doctors 3 years ago, tried to put my wife on Drugs, which I then stopped by showing them, that among other, according to calculations taken from a Harvard book, my wife had much less chance than I, for getting a heart attack.
And furthermore, concerning the Cholesterol, we on the side 335 are reading that 2 quarts/day, of whole milk, for some persons, can raise their Cholesterol levels from 180 mg/dl to 400 mg/dl in less than 2 months. But still all of the doctors, I yet here have met, only are prescribing Drugs to their patients, without asking what they daily are eating and drinking, and most of the patients blindly are following their doctors.
And on the side 417 we are having Erasmus dialog with the Dean in the medical school where he was studying, and by this dialog he understand that persons, who are studying for being doctors, only are learning how to repair their patient, and not besides also in searching after the reasons to the actual failure. And on one sides we are reading that there have been Drugs giving up to 700 %, or more, in profit. This as the result of the producers making patented Drugs, instead of the better working, and healthier, natural Pills, as these would lower the profits. And that most doctors actual don't know about the better natural Pills, and furthermore are getting payments from the Drug producers.
And concerning Cancer we among other, on the side 412, we are reading how patient cured for Cancer by natural ways, with full documents on this, since 1946 have been presented before the U.S. Senate. But this still up to date not have changed the politics, including information to the public.
We for example also in the book are reading about Sugar which among other also is making influence about how fast we are aging. And much more of interesting detail we read in the book.
A highly important and interesting book, which probably still in the future will continue being the best lexica concerning the Fats which we daily are eating. Tomorrow I'm going to lend the book to a doctor, to whom I'll be discussing about Drugs, but also about the Vitamins B3 (the Niacin) and K2, which we can't get here in Thailand.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2017Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseWith severe deficiencies in nearly all essential vitamins, amino acids, minerals, and fatty-acids, Dr. Eramsus' Fats That Kill, Fats That Heal is a densely scientific, comprehensive, and invaluable piece of information on dieting. As per the title, the theme throughout the book is the vital need to incorporate fats and particularly the essential polyunsaturated ALA and LA omega fatty acids lacking in our diets. Both marine and plant omega-3s constitute vitamin F, which many properly don't know or hear much of.
Through Erasmus' well exacuted details of the biological and functional processes of the omega-3s and the many ways the body utilizes it, including the activation of prostaglandins-1-the master regulator of many metabolic operations-our best efforts is to try to incorporate them into the diet daily. Taking a naturopathic approach, Dr. Erasmus sees the use of fresh seeds and their oil derivatives as healers of the many ailments now gripping the modern American. Since this book was written and published in the 80's, the lessons are still relevant today and I believe deficiencies are far worse well into the 21st century.
What I enjoyed most from reading is that Erasmus' persuasion could be felt through his passion for this subject and is genuinely believable. He provides us with the real natural prescription for the many diseases and degenerative conditions, which is through natural dieting. The true healers of modern illnesses and diseases are not pharmaceutical drugs, but is, through time, making the effort to consume organic whole foods.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2006Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseThis is a magnificent piece of work by Udo Erasmus, a true pioneer of health! If you're looking to be informed and educated about fats and many other components that relate to nutrition of the human body, this is the book for you. What I really enjoyed about this book is that Udo exposes the manufacturing processes that turns healing fats into killing fats. He also explains the effects of these damaged fats on human health and discloses information that enables you to choose health-promoting oils. Healing fats are absolutely required, together with other nutrients, to prevent and reverse all degenerative diseases including heart disease, cancer, and Type II diabetes.
Dr. Matthew Loop
- Author of "Cracking the Cancer Code"
- Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2012Format: KindleVerified PurchaseIts very thorough and interesting. The one thing I don't like about it, is that the author talks too much about his own opinion, and doesn't give sources for what what he says, so we just have to take his word for everything. It was interesting for me having a chemistry background, but the chemistry was put in a way that everyone can understand it.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2025Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseThe book is : must read Tells about fats and how they affect our health . Explained scientifically .
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Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseThe book reads in two parts.
Chemistry at the start, Theory in the 2nd bit. I read the theory part first, and then i understood the chemistry bit afterwards. You don't need have done a class to understand what he's talking about.
The book is full of knowledge on oil. Even explains the farce that EVOO is. How to buy oil and what to consider for health.
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GigiReviewed in Australia on April 19, 20164.0 out of 5 stars A great read
Format: KindleVerified PurchaseA great in depth coverage of all fats and which ones to avoid. There are a couple of minor sections that are out of date but most of this book is very interesting and accurate.
neelesh dhosReviewed in India on October 28, 20195.0 out of 5 stars Must read
Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseMust read to understand your fat of body and food
Scotty13Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 3, 20135.0 out of 5 stars A Masterclass on Fats and Nutrition
Format: PaperbackVerified PurchaseUnless you are starting a Ph.D in Nutrition or a career in Lipidology, this book is really the only book on fats and nutrition you'll ever need. Even though it provides an in-depth overview on the importance of lipids and their physiology in human health, the text is written well and is user-friendly. If you have an interest in human nutrition and want to become informed on the subject of heart disease, diabetes, auto-immunity, and so many other illnesses that are part of growing older, than you'll gain a valuable insight into why fats are not 'bad' nor 'good', but are rather an essential ingredient in a healthy diet.
If you read and ingest Erasmus' text you will probably have more knowledge than the vast majority of journalists, health professionals and GP's who have been spoon fed the current dictum that if you want to be healthy, you'll need to trim the fat off your bacon, and replace margarine with butter.
Surely you cannot still swallow this advice? If you read this text from cover to cover (and probably read it a couple of times over) then you certainly won't!
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Amazon-KundeReviewed in Germany on February 3, 20155.0 out of 5 stars Fett ist nicht gleich Fett!
Format: KindleVerified PurchaseDas weiß man spätestens wenn man Udo Erasmus' Buch gelesen hat. Die hier vermittelten Informationen sind gut recherchiert und fundiert. Obwohl es in dem Buch für meinen Geschmack zu viel Redundanz der Faktenlage gibt ist für Neulinge auf dem Gebiet eine mehrmalige Lektüre des Buches vielleicht doch empfehlenswert um der richtigen Wahl seiner Nahrungsfette die gebührende Aufmerksamkeit zu widmen. Ganz besonders ans Herz legen möchte ich dieses Buch all jenen die Nahrungsfette herstellen oder in den Handel bringen. Hier besteht offensichtlich ein enormes Informationsdefizit (oder einfach nur Verantwortungslosigkeit?).
Und für alle deren Englischkenntnisse etwas eingerostet sind: das Buch ist leicht zu lesen und auch für Laien gut zu verstehen


















