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Omega Six The Devil's Fat - Why excess Omega 6 and a lack of Omega 3 promotes, CHD, aggression, depression, ADHD, obesity, poor sleep, PCOS, breast cancer, infertility, arthritis, and western illness.
 
 
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Omega Six The Devil's Fat - Why excess Omega 6 and a lack of Omega 3 promotes, CHD, aggression, depression, ADHD, obesity, poor sleep, PCOS, breast cancer, infertility, arthritis, and western illness. [Paperback]

Robert Andrew Brown
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  • Paperback: 380 pages
  • Publisher: Les Creux Limited (11 Jun 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0955707404
  • ISBN-13: 978-0955707407
  • Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 17 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 98,322 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The Devils Fat is a book everybody should read. The Omega Three and Six essential fatty acids families, (EFAs), are particularly fundamental to female health. Omega 6 is the sibling of Omega 3. If Omega 3 is the mistress, Omega 6 is the master. Omega 6 arguably links us to the fertility of the environment. The impact of EFAs on health, body structure, and function are little understood by the general public. Omega 3 and 6 alter behaviour. This book looks at pressing issues in society from an Omega 3 and 6 viewpoint including the impact of excess Omega 6 on health costs, for individuals and nations, in a competitive world. Issues examined include; western inflammatory conditions, such as ADHD, asthma, arthritis, diabetes, osteoporosis, and neurological disorders like dementia and Alzheimer's, as well as fertility, early puberty, obesity, sleep quality, gender identity, alcohol consumption, and behavioral trends such as aggression, self harm, suicide, and criminality. The book tries to be both understandable to the general public, and sufficiently authoritative to interest a doctor. Well over 800 references are made to trials and reports. There is no other book in the mainstream market that examines the importance of Omega 3 and 6 in human health, in such detail or breadth. A female librarian said the book was fascinating and difficult to put down. Another female reader said the central message was very clear, and was applied to everyday issues of interest. Robert Brown is a lay person. Robert had to understand the subject matter from scratch. He takes the reader on his search to understand the why EFAs are so important to health. The book contains a wealth of information. It is split into small indexed topic sections for browsing. There are no commercial links. Excess Omega 6 has more profound and wide spread impact than smoking. It is insidious. Most of us have no idea that excess Omega 6 is anything but good for us - we are told eat more polyunsaturates. Vegetable oils can contain 70% Omega 6 and no Omega 3. The influence of excess Omega 6 is from conception to grave. The neatest of twists is that you are programmed to store Omega 6 in your body fat. Why the Devils Fat? The Devil is traditionally linked with the number 666. Omega Six 18:2 n6 has lots of links with 6s. It is eighteen carbon atoms long, and the 1st. double bond is at the 6th carbon. Excess Omega 6 promotes the seven deadly sins, lust, gluttony, greed, wrath, envy, pride, and sloth. Trials show excess Omega 6 and lack of 3 increases male behavioural traits like aggression, impulsiveness, self interest, and less cooperative behaviour. At the same time 6 reduces female traits. Omega 6 increases risks of western illnesses. If the Devil (real or construct I leave to you) had wanted to promote the seven deadly sins, he or she could not have found a better way. Omega 6 in excess allows us to turn ourselves into dumber, sicker, more aggressive, impulsive, selfish, humans, which arguably is not the best mix for a long term sustained future, on an increasingly crowded planet. Excess Omega 6 sets the body into a permanent low level inflammatory state. The body is put on constant alert. In time, incomplete sleep, permanent stress, and excess inflammatory Omega 6 chemicals, with a lack of Omega 3, lead to greater risk of the western inflammatory conditions. A lack of Omega 3 and excess of Omega 6 is arguably a core explanation for growing rates of western conditions. The book explains why. Omega 3 and 6 cannot be compared to ginseng or green tea. Omega 3 and 6 were in the earliest design or evolutionary specifications list, and feature in many of the body processes, and most of the structures. Omega 3 helps define women. Women make 10 times more long chain Omega 3 DHA, than men. Omega 3 the mistress, moderates, calms and controls the master Omega 6. Without a balance of both the Omega 3 and 6 fats there is no harmony.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Julie B
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.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Don't bother 13 Jun 2009
The author correctly identifies that there is a real need for a comprehensive book detailing the consequences of an imbalance of Omega 6 and Omega 3 polyunsaturated oils in the western diet. Unfortunately, he has not written it. There is no doubt that the author has done his research and he gets 1 star for his bibliography. However the book itself is a long, repetitive, rambling, semi-coherent piece of vanity publishing.
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Worth reading if you care about what you eat and what your diet can do for you. Very factual, full of useful information.
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