This is the worst book that I have ever bought. I only managed to finish it as it was the only book I took on holiday with me. The author has based his book on public internet sources, picking and choosing what he wants. Parts of it are wrong, the rest is just badly explained. One minute he is talking in the most dummed down way possible, for example describing chemical bonds as 'hugs', and oxidation as 'getting married'. The next minute he is gratuitously inserting complex chemical diagrams that serve no purpose and he never explains. He frequently claims to not understand properly what he is writing about, but then advances his own theories, claiming to 'join the dots' of eminent researchers in the field. The trouble is you are never sure what is proven experimentally and what is his own 'theory'. He has a massive bibliography, but rarely references anything to a specific source, rather just puts a long list at the back. The book is highly repetitive to the point where you want to scream (does he really think you cannot remember from one chapter to the next?) and it jumps about all over the place. It offers very limited practical advice on what you should actually eat and do. Despite claiming early on that medical doctors know almost nothing about nutrition and only have around two days of education on it, whenever it comes to anything about diet decisions, he just says that you should ask your doctor. On fundamental points (e.g. he constanly tells you to balance Omega 3's and 6's but never properly tells you how)he refers you to do searches on the Internet. The punctuation in this book as absolutely awful, particularly in the preface and later in the book when whoever helped him proof-read has fallen asleep. Sentences sometimes have four or five commas inserted in totally random places. If this is a reflection of the authors intelligence then it makes you question whether he has correctly interpreted all the complex research he has read, given the limited educational background in this field that he claims to have. To give him a little due, he had the guts to try and write a book about something he feels passionate about, and I have no doubt that many of his messages about the importance of omega fats are valid. However he has researched a narrow part of this field and does not fit it in the bigger picture of overall human nutrition and medical health and so gives a distorted view. It takes a sensationalist approach rather than a proper reasoned discussion. It may open your eyes to some things to think about or find out more about, but there are better books out there. I wish I could weight my review to bring down the average score for this book, because I am convinced the people who gave it good ratings must either not read many books, or be delusional, or are his friends.