Oversaturated: A Guide to Conversations about Fats with Your Patients

by Evan Allen

Saturated fats used to be as easy to discuss with patients as cigarettes: avoid them! But for the past fifteen years, we've been drowned in a sea of misinformation created by the food industry. This deliberate distortion of the truth ignores decades of established research and has led millions of people to embrace a diet high in saturated fat. Many will suffer the consequences: diabetes, dementia, high cholesterol, and heart disease.As a healthcare provider, it's difficult to speak confidently with your patients about a healthy diet when both of you can't see the facts through the haze of fiction.In Oversaturated, Dr. Evan Allen cuts through the confusion with an up-to-date, thorough review of all the research that makes the case against saturated fat so compelling. You'll learn customized counseling techniques to help your patients reduce the saturated fat in their diet while maintaining healthy eating patterns. By using lifestyle first, with surgery and medication as last resorts, you can stop bandaging the complications of overconsumption of saturated fat. You can even do something rare: genuinely improve the health of your patients.

236 pages, Paperback

Published August 19, 2019

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

I appreciate how accessible the information is and it was a great review of a lot of the things I leaned in school but had forgotten. I like that not a diet book. Dr. Allen respects the reader enough to lay out his argument, present his data, and expect you to make an educated decision.

[Lori McCoy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read the book in one sitting. I’m still reeling from the wealth of information it contained. I couldn’t understand “I’m a vegan how could I be dying of heart disease”...without question I now understand. This is powerful book about something EVERY doctor should be talking about. Outstanding and a MUST read.