Nourishing Fats: Why We Need Animal Fats for Health and Happiness

by Sally Fallon Morell

Bestselling author Sally Fallon Morell predicted the rise of bone broth, an old-fashioned remedy turned modern health craze, in her hit Nourishing Broth . Now, Sally explains the origins of, and science behind, the next movement in the wellness world--healthy fats.

In the style of her beloved cult classics Nourishing Traditions and Nourishing Broth, Nourishing Fats supports and expands upon the growing scientific consensus that a diet rich in good fats is the key to optimum health, and the basis of a sustainable, long-term diet. Sally has been giving the clarion call for these facts for many years and now the American public is finally is catching up.

In Nourishing Fats Sally shows readers why animal fats are vital for fighting infertility, depression, and chronic disease, and offers easy solutions for adding these essential fats back into readers' diets. Get excited about adding egg yolks and butter back into your breakfast, because fat is here to stay!

Genres: Health, Food, Nutrition, Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Cooking, Science

272 pages, Paperback

Published January 31, 2017

About the author

Sally Fallon Morell is the co-founder and president of The Weston A. Price Foundation. According to the WAPF, she received a B.A. in English from Stanford University and an M.A. in English from UCLA.

Reviews

[Michael Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sally explains why certain processes in the human body really only function optimally with animal fats. Fats taken from pasture fed animals help in so many ways in critical areas of the body such as the brain, digestive organs and reproductive health.

Everybody's talking about detox, but healthy fats are a surefire way for your body to easily cleanse itself from toxins.

As with all of her books, there are plenty of footnotes and historical anecdotes and science welling up from years of research on these issues.

So eat plenty of butter, eggs, and wherever possible eat the fats and organ meats from healthy animals! And stay away from the unnatural fats processed into the standard American diet these days.

Little babies desperately need these good fats!

[Mary Ruth · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an important book for our times. I read this slow because it has so much information but also because the beginning of the book is very technical and not always well organized. Not horribly so, just a bit.
Chapters 4 through 10 are gold because of their usefulness and practicality.
We need good saturated fats and cholesterol for good brain function, good organ function, reproductive health, and for growing children.
The book is replete with studies to back it up and also with corrections on misinterpreted studies.

[Abby Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have been working towards incorporating good fats back into our diet for several years now, but it's always been lower on the totem pole due to symptoms of my chronic health issues taking the spotlight. Without realizing it, I accidentally put my family on a low-fat, high-carb diet. I was seeing improvement in some areas of my health, but I was still having issues, while my husband was getting worse and worse.

I don't remember exactly when I decided to get this book. My dad switched up his eating habits and we started talking about fats. It was also being discussed in my broader homemaker community. Either way, I decided to move fats higher up in priority and this book was part of that. I knew in my gut that something wasn’t right with our eating, and I had an intuitive sense that I wanted to incorporate tallow and such into our diet.

I started reading this book and it was like looking in a mirror at many of the health issues I and my husband have been struggling with. We long ago gave up margarine because it always kinda freaked me out, but while I had ejected the bad fats, we weren’t eating enough of the good stuff. This book helped me see that we need more animal fats in our diet and why. I started upping our butter, tallow, and bacon grease. Guess what? My husband’s irritating little health issues started to fade, and my chronic health issues started to ease off drastically. We’ve both lost weight, and my husband kicked his sugar addiction without any side effects. I haven’t felt this physically solid since my chronic health issues started almost 10 years ago. I truly wish I had focused on fats in my early twenties. I probably wouldn’t have developed chronic health issues at all or I would have recovered faster.

So, if you need some help on why you and your family may be struggling with your health, if you would like to eat more butter, if you would like to understand why it seems that the diet trends wobble back and forth every few years, if you would like to distrust every piece of low-fat propaganda, the government, and the medical systems, and if you would like to improve the life of those you love read this book. It will show you the lies we’ve been fed, explain the rise of mental health issues, chronic health issues, and infertility, and help you get back on the right path.

[Петър Стойков · Rating 3 out of 5]

Добро и подробно (даже май прекалено подробно) описание на това защо мазнините и по-специално животинските мазнини са полезни и жизненоважни за човешкото здраве.

Авторката е хванала добрата формула, напипала е правилната ниша и таргет аудитория и вади книги по калъп на конвейр. Така или иначе, ако се интересуваш от темата, тия неща вече ги знаеш горе долу, но не пречи да преговориш.

За който не му се занимава, от всички мазнини тя изкарва кравето масло като най-балансирано и добро, но всякакви други животински също са супер.

[Alisa Kester · Rating 5 out of 5]

Natural animal fats are not the enemy. Despite what certain medical organizations would like you to believe, it is the lack of whole milk, cream, butter, lard, organ meats and other sources of traditional foods that is causing heart problems, obesity, and almost all of our health issues. This book explains the science, using the medical profession's own studies to definitively prove that the low-fat diet is nothing more than a lie. Eat more butter! It's critical for your health.

This book is going to be on my Best Books of 2017...probably in first place.

[Georgina Lara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Did I need an excuse to eat butter, whole-fat dairy, cheeses and eggs? No. Am I glad I can now think of it as eating bioavailable vitamins and healthy fats and not only as a splurge? Oh, hell yes!

[Kiki · Rating 3 out of 5]

Heavier reading than some of her other books, but as someone who is skeptical about the demonization of cholesterol, I found this book to have additional information about cholesterol worth considering. Specifically, pgs. 34-37 and p. 77 1st full paragraph in the 2nd column. Worth a skim even if you don't want to read the whole thing.

[Annie Kate · Rating 3 out of 5]

I only skimmed this book but it is not as good as the author's Nourishing Traditions and Nourishing Broths, perhaps because it presented nothing new to me.

However, it would be very helpful to those who do not realize that healthy fats are crucial to health.

[Donna Parkinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good Fats and Butter are Delicious & Good for you!

All the industrial oil companies’ lies about cholesterol and saturated fats debunked. Every doctor in the country should read this book immediately. I bought extra copies for my friends. A must read.

[Noelle Walsh · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was good. The detail into why we eat animal fats was great. There were also some recipes that looked pretty tasty as well


*won as a GoodReads Giveaway*

[James MS, RDN · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a lifesaver in terms of correcting the vilification of dietary fat, particularly saturated fat. It explains the vital importance of consuming quality sources of saturated fat for the proper development and growth of infants, children and adolescents. Ms. Morrell's information is timely and assuredly sound.

[Troy Mylius · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a great book!

I really like this book and I would’ve given it 5 stars were it not for the recipes and using highly processed foods like flour and such. I just don’t agree that those should be part of a healthy diet but if you want to learn all about fats and why everyone should consume them as long as they come from healthy animal sources, this is your book.

[Patty Betts · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely fantastic!!! A must read for every parent to truly understand the importance of fats in a growing child and in the health of all! A great - detailed explanation on the roles fats play in our bodies 👏 👍 👌

[Sylvia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Eye opening! I’d been on the fence about animal fats, even after reading Nourishing Traditions. There’s no question in my mind now that I had been hoodwinked. We need more traditional fats in our lives to be healthy, not less!

[Xinma]

Mostly reviews of research on fats and dietary guidelines, this tome invites discernment.
A few interesting recipes in the back, and a rest easy on refusing those damned statins for anyone on the fence, or wanting more data/research to bring to their Cardiologist.

[Alexis Sexsmith · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really loved this book! It was incredibly well referenced. You can see from her accounting of the history of food in the US exactly what happened and why!

It is a must read for anyone who what’s to eat nourishing food and support a healthy body for themselves and their loved ones!

[Deb cambria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent

[Leora Wenger · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most important books I have ever read, Nourishing Fats explained to me the importance of animal fats. I am just glad my daughter loves chicken soup.

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book gave me a lot of information I didn’t know. The idea that eating saturated fats leads to plaque buildup in arteries is not well-substantiated.

[Amelia Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

An eye opening read that makes you reconsider everything you thought you knew about fats. The book is easy to follow and provides practical ways to incorporate healthier fats into your diet.

[Michelle Olms · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

[Tikri /Letitia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Whether you agree or not, Sally Fallon Morell's books are worth reading (and buying). I have them and mentally argue with her often, but with respect.