In this book, heart disease, stroke, type-2 diabetes, obesity, and cancer are termed modern nutritional diseases because scientific studies and biochemical facts clearly point to the modem American heart-healthy diet as a major underlying cause of these diseases.

Millions of people have been using the low-fat, low-cholesterol, high-carbohydrate diet that has been promoted in the mass media for the last half-century for prevention of heart disease and stroke. During this same period, the numbers of new cases of heart disease and stroke have not decreased as promised, but increased, and type-2 diabetes and obesity. which were uncommon 50 years ago, have grown to become major epidemics.

In this book, heart disease, stroke, type-2 diabetes, obesity, and cancer are termed modern nutritional diseases because scientific studies and biochemical facts clearly point to the modem American heart-healthy diet as a major underlying cause of these diseases. This heart-healthy diet is based on faulty science - it is sugar and starch, not saturated fat and cholesterol, that are responsible for high blood cholesterol, type-2 diabetes, and obesity.

This book describes the changes that have taken place in the American diet over the last hundred years and explains how these changes were accelerated after 1930 by advances in food technology. It presents evidence to show how these changes are implicated not only in the causation of the modern nutritional diseases but also in other growing disease problems such as Alzheimer’s disease, osteoporosis. senile dementia, and depression.

Caring for one’s health is hopelessly difficult today because the mass media, driven by advertising revenues, has become the single most important source of health information for the majority of Americans. This book devotes a chapter to faulty science and shows the reader how to sort truth from fiction. The final chapter outlines simple dietary and lifestyle changes that can significantly reduce the risk of the modern nutritional diseases and, at the same time, improve one’s health and sense of well-being.