Know Your Fats : The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol
by Mary G. Enig
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Author: Mary G. EnigEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-05-14
ISBN: 0967812607
Number of pages: 358
Publisher: Bethesda Pr
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Book Review: Can someone please answer my question?
Summary: 3 Stars
Ok, I have read most of the book and think its good if your looking for the scientific lingo and the research, but I will tell you just about everyone I know would not be able to follow this book, its very tedious, I don't mind that but I have a tedious mind, lol. The info is very concise and will give you a very good idea about all fats that we put into our bodies and how eating healthy fats is a very good thing to do. But I have a huge question that I am hopeing someone out there can answer, I have contacted the Weston A Price foundation 2 times asking the same question and no one has gotten back to me with any answer. Here goes.
On page 188 of Know Your Fats it states "Stubbs et al (1995a) from the well-known Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen Scotland studied food intake regulation using diets reported as "low fat" (20 percent of calories as fat), "medium fat" (40 percent of calories from fat), and "high fat" (60 percent of calories from fat). The fat in the food was hidden by the use of casserole-type dishes.
There was no difference in the amount of the total food taken in by the different groups over the study period, but the higher fat dishes provided higher energy intake. This is not surprising since the purpose of higher fat diets has always been to increase the calorick intake. What is interesting is that these researchers recognized 40 percent of energy as medium (moderate) fat and 60 percent of the energy as high fat.
In a second study covering 14 days (Stubbs at el 1995b), there is a small weight loss on the low fat diet (1.6 pounds over 2 weeks), a slight weight loss on the medium fat diet (1.1 pounds over 2 weeks) and a 3 ounce gain over the same period of time on the high fat diet. If this type of effect could be extrapolated to long term, the low fat diet of the sort utilized might result in a 41 pound weight loss in a year's time; the high fat diet would produce a 5 pound weight gain, while the medium fat diet would produce a 29 pound weight loss."
So according to what is written here, eating a high fat diet on the idea of what Mary Enig recommends in her book Eat Fat Lose Fat, would seem to accually cause you to gain weight since she advocates eating at least 60 percent of calories from fat.
But here's the thing that is bugging me and this page of 188 in Know Your Fats totally contradicts page 105 of Eat Fat Lose Fat. "High-Fat, Low Carb Really Works. Although the medical establishment is generally skeptical about high-fat diets for weight loss, a study conducted in 2003 (not published but presented at a conference of the Association for the study of Obesity) provides persuasive evidence in favor of our plan.
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health divided 21 overweight volunteers into three groups. The first group consumeds a low-fat, high-carb diet; the second a high-fat, low-carb diet. Both groups provided 1500 calories for women and 1800 calories for men. A third group also ate high-fat, low-carb diet but got an extra 300 calories per day. Both high-fat diets consisted of 5 percent cabohydrate, 15 percent protein, and 65 percent fat, proportions very similar to our Quick and Easy Weight Loss plan. All food was prepared for the volunteers, so the researchers knew exactly what they were eating.
By the end of the study, everyone lost weight. The people on the lower-calorie, high-fat, low-carb diet lost 23 pounds, while those on the low-fat, high carb diet, eating the same number of calories, lost only 17 pounds. But the volunteers getting the extra 300 calories per day and eating high-fat, low-carb foods lost 20 pounds-more than the low-fat group."
So can someone please answer me and tell me which one is correct??? These are page excerpts from 2 books the author has written and they contradict eachother.
I am not trying to discredit her work and eat mainly a high-fat, low-carb diet but I am scared that I will start to really gain weight eating like this, should I cut down my fat intake? According to the page in Know Your Fats eating high fat will lead to weight gain but according to Eat Fat Lose Fat it will lead to loseing or maintaining your weight. I am kind of confused here. If it had been written by different authors than I wouldn't think twice about it but this is not the case here. And since I did contact the Weston Price Foundation 2 times with my question and no one saw fit to answer me I am hopeing putting up this review will give some sort of answer.
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