Low-Fat Lies: High-Fat Frauds and the healthiest diet in the world by Kevin Vigilante, M.D., M.P.H. and Mary Flynn, Ph.D. Regnery Publishing; ISBN: 0895263211 Hardcover - 334 pages (May 1999) Dimensions (in inches): 1.28 x 9.32 x 6.39 Low-fat diets don’t work. Most of the time they’re boring, tasteless, and leave you feeling hungry — and they can even be harmful to your health. Those trendy high-fat fad diets like Atkins and Sugar Busters are just as bad. Now, Low-Fat Lies gives you the truth about food and fat, and the key to losing weight while staying healthy. Doctors Kevin Vigilante and Mary Flynn expose the dangers of low-fat diets, take on the high-fat fraud, and show how you can adopt the healthiest diet in the world. In Low-Fat Lies you’ll learn: Why low-fat diets often fail when it comes to weight loss. The dirty little secret about the Atkins, Zone, and Sugar Busters diets and the threats they may pose to your health. How low-fat diets can worsen levels of dangerous blood fats you never hear about (triglycerides). How very-low-fat diets can deprive you of valuable nutrients that may prevent heart disease, stroke, and cancer. How pizza may help prevent prostate cancer. What you should eat to lower your risk of cancer and heart disease, and why. How nature’s healthiest oil can raise the levels of your good cholesterol without increasing the bad. How eating the right kind of fat may help prevent breast cancer. How Olestra in no-fat foods can deprive you of essential nutrients and may increase your risk of cancer and heart disease. How to make one of the healthiest diets in the world—the Mediterranean diet — a delicious part of your life. The secrets of the Mediterranean diet — nature’s healing medicines found in every-day foods, and how they can help you live longer and healthier. Say good-bye to fad diets forever. In Low-Fat Lies you’ll learn everything you need to know to take control of your own health and enjoy real food again. Kevin Vigilante, M.D., M.P.H., is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Brown University. Also a restaurateur, he appears frequently on television and radio, has run for Congress, and was cited by Time magazine as one of fifty outstanding young leaders in America. Mary Flynn, Ph.D., has researched the failure of low-fat diets and their negative effects on HDL and triglycerides. She is on the faculty at Brown University, where she teaches nutrition and maintains an active clinical nutrition practice. Confused about what to eat? Of course you are. One minute the medical establishment tells you that all fat is bad for you. The next, you hear that you can eat all the fat you want on such trendy diets as Atkins and Sugar Busters. Somebody must be wrong. Finally, a book that clears up the confusion and restores common sense to eating, dieting, and living. In Low-Fat Lies you’ll learn: About the false promises and potential risks of low-fat diets. Why the high-fat fad diets may actually be dangerous to your health. How to tell the good fats from the bad in your diet. What your doctor may not know about the risks of low-fat diets—results of a disturbing new survey. “Vigilante and Flynn offer an insightful and detailed treatment that should help millions of people greatly increase their odds for lifelong health while enjoying the pleasures of real food that’s simply prepared and joyous to eat.”      — K. Dun Gifford, President & Founder, Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust, and creator of the Oldways Mediterranean Diet Pyramid If you would like more information on the Mediterranean diet, please visit the authors’ website at www.meddiet.com. Click here to order from Amazon: