Nearly everyone seems confused about dietary fats. Not all fats are bad for your health. In fact, some fats are essential for optimum health. This User's Guide to Good Fats and Bad Fats helps you understand the difference. You'll learn how to avoid unhealthy fats hidden in many foods, while learning about the benefits of good fats.

In Fats that Heal Fats that Kill, expert Udo Erasmus takes an in-depth look at the oil industry. Read about the politics of health and the way our bodies assimilate oil. Learn about modern healthful oils like flax, evening primrose and hemp.

A quick-reference guide to food selections for those following the South Beach diet plan, with tips on handling difficult eating situations.

This book is more than just the story of a fat woman who managed to win respect and National Championships in the thin-obsessed world of dance. It's more than just a trained researcher's examination of the evidence about weight and health. It's a book about living life in the body that you have now, and making decisions about what you want in the future, and how to get there. Whether you want to change your body, fight for size acceptance, just live your life, or understand and support your fat friends and family, this book provides the insights, aha moments, humor, and hard facts to help.

Fats and Oils Handbook (Nahrungsfette und Öle) acknowledges the importance of fats and oils and surveys today's state-of-the-art technology. To pursue food technology without knowing the raw material would mean working in a vacuum. This book describes the raw materials predominantly employed and the spectrum of processes used today. It is the updated and revised English version of Nahrungsfette und Ole, originally printed in German. It contains 283 tables, 647+ figures, and over 850 references. "If you can afford only one book on oils and fats, their composition, processing and use, then this should probably be the one!" - Presents details on the composition, chemistry, and processes of the major fats and oils used today - Includes hundreds of illustrations and tables, making the concepts easier to read and grasp - Acknowledges the importance of fats and oils offers details on relevant technologies

Only in recent years new available technologies, the redefinition and refining of intervention techniques, and clinical research studies have widened the spectrum of fat applications in aesthetic and reconstructive surgery. Fat grafting is nowadays one of the most used techniques in plastic reconstructive surgery, as primary method or as an ancillary procedure. The optimized ratio of fat survival has led to standardized techniques followed by most practitioners. The aim of this book is to present up-to-date technologies used for fat extraction, and fat harvesting: latest tools are evaluated examining pros and cons. All recent techniques in aesthetic and reconstructive surgery and their outcomes are described in a clear, comprehensive manner; chapters present the latest research results in stem cell and regenerative medicine, their application to plastic and reconstructive surgery, in particular for hand surgery, ulcer, and capsule contractures in post breast augmentation procedures. Related specific techniques as breast fat transfer, breast hybrid implant, fat transfer and buttock fat transfer are also discussed. Safety issues in fat transfer procedures are examined accurately, particularly those involving buttock fat transfer. Each procedure is completed by a scientific analysis of the main reasons for complications, how to prevent them and the safety guidelines recommended as golden standard to be followed. The surgical part contains clinical cases related to each chapter topic, videos, and all chapters have a box with take home messages. An invaluable tool for correct decision-making for clinicians, fellows and residents in plastic surgery, Fat Transfer in Plastic Surgery focuses on indications, applications and surgical techniques for each individual body district, and safe and reliable procedures in the application of latest technology. district, and safe and reliable procedures in the application of latest technology. /div/divdistrict, and safe and reliable procedures in the application of latest technology. /div/divdistrict, and safe and reliable procedures in the application of latest technology. /div/divdistrict, and safe and reliable procedures in the application of latest technology. /div/divdistrict, and safe and reliable procedures in the application of latest technology. /div/divdistrict, and safe and reliable procedures in the application of latest technology. /div/divdistrict, and safe and reliable procedures in the application of latest technology. /div/divdistrict, and safe and reliable procedures in the application of latest technology. /div/divdistrict, and safe and reliable procedures in the application of latest technology. /div/div