- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd (10 Mar 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 028563819X
- ISBN-13: 978-0285638198
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 708,071 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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What are the killers hiding in our food? Learn to identify them, understand what they are doing to our bodies and how to avoid them. Trans fats are killers. They are banned in Denmark, outlawed from use in New York s restaurants, cafes and street stalls yet there is still no legal control on their use in the UK, and we consume them everyday. They have been shown to be a major contributor to the obesity crisis (and are even linked to cancer), but we eat them regularly without realising it. Trans fats are produced in an industrial process, originally used to make candle wax, and are now used by food manufacturers as a cheap means to bulk out the products we buy everyday. Yet, they have no nutritional value and our bodies cannot digest them. With no legal requirement to label them on food packaging, food manufacturers can obscure what is really in their products. Maggie Stanfield explains how to identify trans fat in the ingredients listed on food packaging, how to be more aware of what is in your food and understand what it is doing to your health. She explains what you, as a parent, can do for your family s health and what we, as consumers, can do to change what is stocked in our supermarkets. Trans fat is not the only poison on the supermarket shelves. There are other flavourings, colourings and preservatives widely used in food production that the experts do not fully understand and they can be dangerous, especially to children. Maggie Stanfield provides a full outline of all the E numbers in your food and their potential dangers.
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We are eating candle wax and we don't even know it. The German chemist who invented hydrogenated vegetable oil - trans fat - in 1911 was making a cheap substitute for tallow to make candles, yet nearly a century later, we are eating it on a daily basis and it is increasing our heart disease risk at least five fold.
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This review is from: Trans Fat: The Time Bomb in your Food: The Killer in the Kitchen (Paperback)
brill book, a must read!!will defiantly put you right on what foods to eat and what foods to avoid! use full info with regards to package ingrediants too, how manufactures manage to discuise certain ingrediants that are harmful to our bodys! nice recipes in there as well but not too many as you can find in some food books.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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bset info yet,
This review is from: Trans Fat: The Time Bomb in your Food: The Killer in the Kitchen (Paperback)
This has explained in plain english what fats are good and how many bad fats there are, it has helped me alter my diet to lessen my bad fat intake and possibly save my health,
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No amount of trans fat is safe,
This review is from: Trans Fat: The Time Bomb in your Food: The Killer in the Kitchen (Paperback)
This book states clearly and convincingly that trans fats are lethal, and should be avoided by anyone concerned about their health. The evidence against trans fats is overwhelming and well documented and we ignore it to our own detriment.This book explains: 1. Some fast food meals are up to 40% trans fats! 2. The Danish government banned trans fats and rates of heart disease dropped dramatically. 3. Trans fats contribute to allergies, inflammation, heart disease and obesity, and many other health conditions. 4. Trans fats are unnatural fats. When we consume trans fats our bodies are unable to synthesise them properly and so abnormal cells are formed. 4. There is no safe level of trans fats. Even small amounts can have dramatic effects and the lebel 'trans fat free' is allowed to be put on foods that have low levels of trans fats and so is unhelpful and unreliable. Avoid all products which contain hydrogenated oils. (I knew trans fats were to be avoided but I didn't know that they were sometimes included in nutrient capsules and tablets, which was shocking.) 5. If trans fat were to be banned in the US, it is estimated that 275 US lives would be saved each day. This book says that trans fats are 10 x more dangerous than saturated fats, which is a statement I do not agree with. This book also wrongly claims that high saturated fat intake causes heart disease (and that a low fat diet is best, and that low fat or fat free products such as dairy foods are healthy choices). Saturated fats are actually good for you, and essential to good health and the lipid hypothesis is WRONG, as lipid expert Mary Enig Phd explains in her book Know Your Fats : The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol. The book also promotes heavily processed foods such as breakfast cereals as healthy choices. Trans fat free margarine is recommended as a healthy choice too! Overall this book is wonderful at warning of the dangers of trans fats, but sadly does a much poorer job of talking about which foods we should eat in a healthy diet. It is very influenced by the agriculture board and the food pyramid, unfortunately. The diet information given in this book is of a poor quality and should be ignored in favour of books such as Mary Enig's plus Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond the Paleo Diet for Total Health and a Longer Life, Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food or Eat Fat, Lose Fat: The Healthy Alternative to Trans Fats and Perfect Health Diet: Four Steps to Renewed Health, Youthful Vitality, and Long Life and other similar books. But if you aren't sure what damage trans fats are really doing to you and why you should give up certain convenience foods, this book might be the one for you. It makes an extremely compelling case for us all to avoid trans fats completely. Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
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