Dark Calories, Catherine Shanahan
Dark Calories, Catherine Shanahan
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Dark Calories
How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back

Author: Catherine Shanahan

Narrator: Eliza Foss, Catherine Shanahan

Unabridged: 11 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Balance

Published: 06/11/2024

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling author of Deep Nutrition explains how a group of eight little-known oils cause the cellular damage that underlies virtually all chronic disease, exposes the corruption that deceives doctors and consumers into eating them, and gives us a clear roadmap to recovery and rejuvenation.

Did you know that eating  a large serving of french fries—cooked in vegetable oil—delivers the toxicity of smoking 24 cigarettes?

Cornell-trained biochemist turned family physician Dr. Cate Shanahan introduces us to well-respected scientists who warn that vegetable oils are a public health disaster, wreaking havoc on our bodies’ cells by depleting antioxidants and promoting free radical toxicity.

Their many effects include: Uncontrollable hunger, so we need drugs to maintain our weight Inflammatory fat buildup under our skin and within our internal organs and arteries Blood sugar swings that promote bad moods and antisocial behavior Disrupted brain energy, concentration problems, and mental illnesses Intracellular oxidative stress that promotes cancer development Gut inflammation, bloating, heartburn, and the runs Americans were enticed into buying these oils based on their cholesterol-lowering property, but the idea that cholesterol-lowering is beneficial was pushed on us without solid evidence to support it. In Dark Calories, Dr. Cate reveals the financial entanglements between industry and underhanded academics who created and sustain our 1950s-era, arbitrary dietary rules.

As a solution, she proposes a clear, no-nonsense plan that aligns with our genetic needs and nature’s laws. Thankfully, recovering our health is simplified by the fact that nutrients that treat one condition also tend to treat all the rest. As an added bonus, we also revive our sense of taste so that our cravings shift to wholesome, nourishing foods instead.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ginger on April 28, 2024

I first read Catherine Shanahan's books when I was in nutrition school ten years ago. She is a physician has specialized in looking at how nutrition affects health. Her first book, Deep Nutrition, looked at a number of factors in traditional diets that helped those populations avoid the chronic dise......more

Goodreads review by Ashley Arnold on November 22, 2024

WHOA. This was SO eye-opening. Terrifyingly so. It is so discouraging to live in a world where nearly everything you pick up in the store has one or more “closet poisons” in it…and that these “hateful 8” oils can cause so much more damage than we realize. I read The Glucose Revolution and I felt lik......more

Goodreads review by Bryce on June 24, 2024

This is hands-down the most influential book I’ve read in my adult life. Dr. Catherine Shanahan goes into vast detail to explain the workings behind metabolism, oxidative stress, diet, mental health, industry, and more. At least once per chapter I had an audible “aha” moment. I have experienced the......more

Goodreads review by Sandy on February 25, 2025

I found this book factual and practical Notes: Cottonseed Corn Canola Soybean Sunflower Safflower Grape seed Rice bran More than 80% of foods w an ingredients label have at least one Colorless, died yellow Cottonseed oil initially sold as ivory soap after being hydrogenated. When the process was changed, and......more

Goodreads review by Bam cooks the books on March 13, 2025

I've been reading nutrition books off and on for the past several years. This one really overturns everything we've been taught for the past 50 years or more and may go some way to explain why so many Americans are still so unhealthy after taking statin drugs for years and avoiding saturated fat lik......more