TOXIC FAT - The Book

New book explains "if you're fat it's not your fault"

Professional Reviews


"Barry Sears has written a brilliant, groundbreaking and important book. Toxic Fat provides revolutionary information to help you take control of your health. I recommend his work daily in my practice and see it make dramatic differences in the lives of my patients. This book is easy to read and implement, and it is based on solid science."

Daniel G. Amen, MD, author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life and A Magnificent Mind At Any Age

"In Toxic Fat, Dr. Sears gives us a winning program and valuable prescriptions for good health in a powerful approach to diet based on recent findings from cutting edge research. This is an easy to follow text that can help fight the unwanted sides of uncontrolled inflammation."

Charles N. Serhan, Ph.D, Simon Gelman Professor at Harvard Medical School and Director, Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury

"Barry Sears is the guy who got it right . . . right from the start.  Two decades ago, before the start of the “Diet Wars,” Dr. Sears understood that both low fat and low carb diets missed the mark.  His approach, focused on nutrient quality, has stood the test of time with the wildly popular Zone Diet. In his latest book, Toxic Fat, Dr. Sears takes his theories to their provocative yet logical conclusion: that the nature of the food we eat not only determines how much fat we have, but also whether that fat is harmless or deadly. I highly recommend this book to health care practitioners and public alike."
 

David S. Ludwig, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and author, Ending the Food Fight: Guide your Child to a Healthy Weight in a Fast Food/Fake Food World (Houghton-Mifflin, 2007).
READER REVIEWS
"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."  -- Chris K. Stephens, Amazon.com review.
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