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

''What if I told you that somewhere between 25 and 45 percent of the calories in your diet are coming from a substance you know nothing about, a seemingly innocuous oil with no colour or flavour, that is quite possibly more harmful to your health than smoking cigarettes? Whether you shop at Whole Foods or Lidl, the ingredient labels on most products in your kitchen right now likely contain the following phrase: Vegetable Oil: contains one or more of the following: cottonseed, corn, rapeseed, soybean, sunflower, safflower). Dark Calories is the first book to definitively show that vegetable oil is the defining ingredient in both junk food and, terrifyingly, the entire modern diet, and makes the case that eliminating it is the single best thing you can do for your health. Through a narrative account of the rise of the vegetable oil industry, a walk through the alarming science, and an action plan to help you take your health back into your own hands today, Dr Shanahan shows how three factors - a combination of endless advertising sound bites, undisclosed conflicts of interest in research, and the failure of medicine to focus on prevention - have destroyed human health and turned nutrition science into a farce.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Shanahan
• Publisher: Orion
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.06.2024
• EAN: 9781398720732
• ISBN: 978-1-398-72073-2
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 228 mm x 34 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; HEALTH & FITNESS / General, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / General, Dietetics & nutrition, Fitness & diet, Dietetics and nutrition, Diets and dieting, nutrition