Mary Enig - The Good Fat Diet: Lose Weight and Feel Great with the Delicious, Science-Based Coconut Diet

Dr. Mary Enig is a world-renowned biochemist and nutritionist, best known for her pioneering research on healthy fats and oils and her early protests against trans fats more than twenty-five years ago. A consultant and clinician, Dr. Enig is also the former contributing editor of the scientific journal Clinical Nutrition and a consulting editor of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition. Her work has been published in numerous journal publications, and she is a well-known lecturer at scientific conferences. Dr. Enig received her Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Maryland, College Park, and is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, a member of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences, and president of the Maryland Nutritionists Association. She is the author of the self-published fats information bible, Know Your Fats, and coauthor with Sally Fallon of Nourishing Traditions, an expanded cookbook on traditional diets.

Sally Fallon is the founder and president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to helping people put into practice the most health-promoting approaches to nutrition, based on the life-giving foods that have nourished humanity for centuries. The foundation has over two hundred chapters throughout the United States and abroad, and its website (www.westonaprice.org) is a popular Internet reference destination. Ms. Fallon is the editor of the foundations quarterly journal, Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts, and she also directs the Weston A. Price Foundations annual conference on nutrition and health. Ms. Fallon is a highly sought-after speaker, seminar, and workshop presenter, and she has been a guest of numerous radio talk-show hosts, including Dr. Robert Atkins, Robert Crayhon, Leyna Berman, Derek McGinty, and Terri and Joe Graedon of the Peoples Pharmacy. A gourmet cook, Ms. Fallon has recently applied her outstanding culinary skills to the discovery of many varied and wonderful ways to enjoy coconut.

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First published as Eat Fat, Lose Fat in the United States of America by The Penguin Group 2005
First published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph 2005
Reissued as The Good Fat Diet 2016

Text copyright Mary Enig and Sally Fallon, 2005

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ISBN: 978-1-405-92777-2

No one deserves more credit for making this book happen than Alison Rose Levyit was her vision, her conviction, and her organizational and writing skills that set this project in motion and then wove our input together in a creative and timely fashion.

Stephanie Golden then worked ceaselessly to give us a structural and finished manuscript, always with an eye to clarity and consistency.

Janis Vallely of Janis Vallely Authors Group kept the project moving smoothly; her advice and suggestions have been invaluable.

And Laureen Rowland of Hudson Street Press created a remarkable alchemypreserving our vision of what this book should be while molding it into a form that the public can embrace.

Many others contributed: Brian Shilhavy, with his coconut-info e-mail discussion board, provided important testimonials and feedback; members of the Weston A. Price Foundation, who were happy to provide their weight-loss and recovery stories; several creative cooks, who shared their recipes; and our own families, with their encouragement and support.

Finally, we must gratefully acknowledge Weston A. Price and many other scientists of integrity, willing to engage in the honest research that, although often unheralded, has provided guidelines to the use of coconut oil for weight loss, and whole foods for vibrant health.