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Dark Calories

How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back

by Catherine Shanahan
Eliza Foss
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The New York Times bestselling author of Deep Nutrition explains how a group of eight little-known oils cause the cellular damage that underlies virtually all chronic disease, exposes the corruption that deceives doctors and consumers into eating them, and gives us a clear roadmap to recovery and rejuvenation.
Did you know that eating a large serving of french fries—cooked in vegetable oil—delivers the toxicity of smoking 24 cigarettes?
Cornell-trained biochemist turned family physician Dr. Cate Shanahan introduces us to well-respected scientists who warn that vegetable oils are a public health disaster, wreaking havoc on our bodies' cells by depleting antioxidants and promoting free radical toxicity.
Their many effects include:
  • Uncontrollable hunger, so we need drugs to maintain our weight
  • Inflammatory fat buildup under our skin and within our internal organs and arteries
  • Blood sugar swings that promote bad moods and antisocial behavior
  • Disrupted brain energy, concentration problems, and mental illnesses
  • Intracellular oxidative stress that promotes cancer development
  • Gut inflammation, bloating, heartburn, and the runs
    • Americans were enticed into buying these oils based on their cholesterol-lowering property, but the idea that cholesterol-lowering is beneficial was pushed on us without solid evidence to support it. In Dark Calories, Dr. Cate reveals the financial entanglements between industry and underhanded academics who created and sustain our 1950s-era, arbitrary dietary rules.
    As a solution, she proposes a clear, no-nonsense plan that aligns with our genetic needs and nature's laws. Thankfully, recovering our health is simplified by the fact that nutrients that treat one condition also tend to treat all the rest. As an added bonus, we also revive our sense of taste so that our cravings shift to wholesome, nourishing foods instead.

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      June 11, 2024

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        • ISBN: 9781668641972
        • File size: 341160 KB
        • Duration: 11:50:44

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      • English

    • Reviews

      • Publisher's Weekly

        April 1, 2024
        Vegetable oils are terrible for one’s health, according to this troubling warning. Physician Shanahan (Deep Nutrition) explains that they contain polyunsaturated fatty acids that undergo a chemical transformation when heated during the manufacturing process, creating “brand-new compounds within the oil that... are mildly to extremely toxic.” Such toxins can cause oxidative stress, a “cellular imbalance that disrupts everything the cell is trying to do” and leads to chronic inflammation. Shanahan’s assertion that vegetable oils are the primary reason why inflammatory diseases have ticked upward in recent decades doesn’t quite persuade, as it relies on circumstantial evidence that vegetable oil use has increased over the same period, and she admits that there’s relatively little research studying a direct link between vegetable oil and inflammatory disease. Still, readers who want to err on the side of caution and steer clear of the substance will benefit from tips for replacing it with healthier fats. For instance, she recommends substituting butter, ghee, or unrefined coconut oil for vegetable oil; loading up on almonds, avocados, and pecans; and eating meats with low polyunsaturated fat content, such as beef and lamb. Shanahan also lists vegetable oil–free meal ideas, recommending steak, roasted vegetables, and hummus made from olive oil. Though this perhaps overstates vegetable oils’ evils, it provides sound guidance on how to reduce one’s intake of the stuff. Health enthusiasts will want to take note.

      • Library Journal

        June 14, 2024

        For readers steeped in the wellness culture, seed oils have become the new trans fat, the worst kind of fat to eat. Physician-biochemist Shannahan's (The Fatburn Fix) latest book positions itself as an expos� on vegetable oils, which she asserts causes elevated blood sugar levels, inflammation, chronic diseases, and more. She discusses most of the common seed oils. For example, she asserts that canola oil is part of the "hateful eight" of fat sources. Some of her descriptions of seed oil manufacturing processes may come across as heavily biased to some readers and fear inducing to others. There are proven benefits to eating less processed whole foods and many kernels of truth in her assertions. But not all. For example, the longitudinal research presented in this book does not convincingly connect seed oils to the oxidative stress she suggests lays at the root of all chronic diseases. This book also steers readers toward a two-week challenge that will help them "ditch seed oils for good." VERDICT This book contains some intriguing conclusions about seed oils, but not all the arguments to turn readers away from them are proven.--Emily Bowles

        Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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