Get Your Fats Straight: Why skim milk is making you fat and giving you heart disease plus the three simple steps for using healthy fats to lose ... energy! (The Healthy Home Economist® Guide)

In GET YOUR FATS STRAIGHT, Sarah Pope exposes the low-fat movement and the devastating health effects it is having on people in our society today.Have you ever wondered why obesity is rampant and heart disease and cancer, even in the young, seem uncontrollable? Have you ever wondered why so many people suffer from chronic illness and lack energy? It could be because of the so-called health foods you are eating. In the 1970s, the U.S. Dietary Goals advised Americans to cut back on fat and eat more carbs to lower the risk of heart disease. But some experts say this high-carb, low-fat diet helped fuel obesity.A long-time chapter leader for the Weston A. Price Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to "restoring nutrient-dense foods to the American diet", blogger and health advocate Sarah Pope, presents three simple steps you need to take to regain your own health and raise children to be healthy and fulfill their physical potential.Do you want to get on with your life with greater vitality and a strong immune system, so you can handle whatever comes your way? This book is for you. GET YOUR FATS STRAIGHT provides you with cost-effective tips for straightening out your diet and give you a new lease on life for yourself as well as the comfort to know that your loved ones will have the best chance to live their lives to their fullest physical potential too.