Toxic Fat: When Good Fat Turns Bad

by Barry Sears

Book Overview

Dr. Barry Sears, one of the world's foremost authorities on the hormonal effects of food, explains why virtually everything we have heard about the obesity epidemic may be wrong. Based on the newest... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1401604293
• ISBN13: 9781401604295
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Book

This book is amazing. I read it and I'm using the recipes. Within two months I feel like a new person. Losing weight...blood pressure is down. It was sooo high. I feel better and have so much energy.

awesome book!

this is a GREAT book. i use it with all my clients(i'm a sports nutritionist). only days after using the diet and supplements that this diet explains, i started (and still do) feeling better than i ever have, in every way that i can think of. i'm turning 35 & after about 3 weeks of following this book i am down to about the same weight i was 12-15 years ago.

You Are Not Completely To Blame For Your Obesity

From: www.BasilAndSpice.com Book Review: Toxic Fat: When Good Fat Turns Bad (Thomas Nelson, 2008) by Barry Sears "If you have a chronic disease (diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, cancer, or a neurological disorder), it's quite likely that a major underlying cause of your current condition comes from seemingly well-meaning governmental agricultural programs initiated more than 30 years ago."--Dr.Barry Sears Dr. Sears spent two years researching Toxic Fat. This new book may be a bit controversial, but it may also be groundbreaking as the general public begins to read about why our country's citizens have physically changed during the last 25 years. Dr. Sears mapped out Toxic Fat in 13 chapters covering: the obesity epidemic, nutrition, inflammation, good and toxic fat, toxic fat syndrome, his Zone plan, fish oil benefits, anti-inflammatory meals and recipes. The Toxic Fat Syndrome--What is it? Dr. Sears writes that the condition occurs when obesity is viewed as inflammation-induced and is either benign or malignant. As malignant, the fat acts like a tumor, it quickly spreads to every organ in the body. The process begins with excess body fat, spreading through the blood, resulting with chronic disease--Alzheimer's, allergies, asthma, Type-2 diabetes, cancer, heart disease. Signs of the silent inflammation are high triglycerides, low HDL, and high insulin. Toxic Fat also includes several appendixes which should NOT be skipped over, but read thoroughly as they provide explanations from a doctor-researcher's understanding, made comprehensible to the general public. * Blood Testing For Silent Inflammation--an important section about what you need to do for yourself. * Hormones--"While some hormones, such as estrogen, testosterone, and growth hormone, do decrease with age, others--such as insulin and pro-inflammatory eicosanoids--increase with age....Ultimately by controlling both insulin and eicosanoids, you will achieve the fountain of youth (improved wellness) by reversing Toxic Fat Syndrome." * Fish Oil--Covers usage, history of fish oil, problems with eating contaminated fish. * Insulin Resistance--author explains that the problem begins in adipose tissue. * Nutrigenomics--the diet affects the genes, mentions reservatrol (a wellness buzzword), fruits and vegetables as a necessity, aspirin usage. * Zone Food Blocks--this idea is revisited from prior published books. Key Points of Toxic Fat: * Being overweight or obese is not necessarily your fault, but rather is a reflection of "adverse interaction of your genes with radical changes that have taken place in the American diet over the past 25 years." * "Everything you have heard about the `cause' and the `cure' for the current obesity epidemic is probably dead wrong." * Obesity is a form of cancer driven by inflammation. * Some extra body fat can be good. * Lean doesn't always mean a person is healthy. * Eating less and exercising more m

Current health crisis is not primarily obesity, but TOXIC FAT!!

Here it's the most revolutionary book from Dr Barry Sears in 10 years. Obesity can be explained perfectly as a kind of cancer Are you overweight? You can be healthy if you dont have toxic fat in your bloodstream. You simply have a benign tumor. Are you perfectly slim? You can even be an olympic athlete and have toxic fat. America health crisis is not due to obesity, but due to silent inflammation which is explained by Toxic Fat in blood, free for attacking your organs. Here there is a new medical approach for understanding and cure: - Obesity - Heart Disease - Cancer - Alzheimer, parkison and mental disease ... and why an anti-inflammatory diet like Zone plus high dose fish oil can revert this. Everyone who concerns about obesity, health, diseases..must read this book. Every library should have this book.. Its the most enlightening book about obesity/health I have read probably in my life.

Dr Sears breaks new ground with his coverage of what are, essentially, the same recommendations he's

I got my copy of TFS a few days ago and was able to make my way through it in a single (long) night. It is a quick read, especially if you are familiar with the concepts from his previous books and don't have to re-read some of the more dense material. I thought the book was excellent! It was certainly focused and you could tell that Dr. Sears went to a lot of effort to make the book digestible for new comers. He saved much of the science for the appendix section and even that was slightly watered down when compared to some of his other books. In the past I have been very critical of folks that suffer from all the modern day afflictions caused by the food they eat yet, apparently, make no effort to change their habits. This book is extremely enlightening in that sense. My only complaints, if there are any to be made, is that I felt like the book may have been a little too focused on the idea of 'toxic fat' and there were too many pages dedicated to recipes. Obviously this was a conscious decision by Dr Sears and when all of his books are viewed as a whole this complaint is pretty bogus. The core message remains basically the same since 'Enter The Zone'. Each successive book is a slight evolution of his original dietary/lifestyle recommendations to make them either more effective or palpable to the general public. Each book supports those recommendations from slightly different angles and serves to deepen the argument for them. What Dr Sears has built over the years is a pool of literature that justifies and explains a method to dramatically improve the health and well being of individuals and seems to be the only way out of what is increasingly being acknowledged as a worldwide inflammation epidemic. Dr Sears simply does not get enough credit for what he has done. I would highly encourage anyone remotely interested in their health and well being to read his latest work and then head straight to the book store to pick up all of his other books. You will not regret it.