The Modern Nutritional Diseases: And How to Prevent Them : Heart Disease, Stroke, Type-2 Diabetes, Obesity, Cancer

In this book, heart disease, stroke, type-2 diabetes, obesity, and cancer are termed the modern nutritional diseases because scientific studies and biochemical facts clearly point to the modern American heart-healty diet as a major underlying cause of these diseases. This book describes the changes that have taken place in the American diet over the last 100 years and explains how these changes were accelerated after 1930 by advances in food technology. The book presents biochemical and other scientific evidence to show how these changes are implicated not only in the modern nutritional diseases but also in other growing disease problems such as Alzheimer's disease, osteoporosis, senile dementia, and depression.

This book shows how micro- and macronutrients relate to health and disease prevention. It also shows how faulty science has influenced national health policies and explains how the reader can 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.

This book gives an excellent summary of the science. Its chapter 2 has some rare and clear diagrams with some of the important links between disease and nutrition, and how drugs may interfere with health. This book is a valuable contribution to PREVENTION through NUTRITION as it has some of the latest scientific insights.

Slightly technical for some readers, but anyone will be able to increase his or her understanding of health, and how simple steps with small nutritional changes promise to have great payback for most of us. The book is particularly strong in explaining the role of refined flour and starches in causing OVERWEIGHT and the related new epidemic of LATER-IN-LIFE DIABETES, with an ever faster declining path to poor health and heart disease. This path is generally avoidable with some of the simple steps explained in this book.

Recommended, Eddie Vos (health-heart.org)


How to get and stay healthy.   October 31, 2002
D. R. Schryer (Poquoson, VA United States)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful

Modern medicine can performs wondrous feats of surgery and has conquered virtually all of the infectious diseases that were the major causes of death a century ago. But we are now plagued with a host of non-infectious diseases -- including cancer, various forms of heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and osteoporosis -- for which modern medicine can only treat symptoms but has no cure. Why? Because most of our modern diseases are caused by improper eating habits and lack of nutrition. Unfortunately, the conventional medical establishment is only beginning to recognize this fact and many doctors -- despite their excellent training in the use of pharmaceutical drugs (which kill more than 100,00 people each year with their side effects) -- are comepletely ignorant of the true causes of modern chronic diseases. Fortunately, the authors of this book have thoroughly researched the true causes of modern diseases and found that they lie in nutrient deficiency and in the current and erroneous fad of a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet -- plus excessive consumption of junk food. Our eating habits are deteriorating our health and even killing us prematurely. But, fortunately, we have the power to change our eating habbits and reclaim our health if we are willing to do so. This book provides much of the information needed in order to do so.


Everything That SHOULD Be Taught To Dietitians And Doctors   January 6, 2008
Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Man (Spartanburg, SC)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

So much of the research into the most destructive health ailments we now face is focusing on the role of the diet. This is something Dr. Fred Ottoboni and his wife Dr. Alice Ottoboni know a thing or two about. Before retirement, they had spent many years of their career investigating, studying, and researching disease occurrence among various people groups around the world and they discovered something quite revealing in light of our current crisis with obesity, diabetes and worse: much of it is preventable by simply ignoring the high-carb, low-fat, low-cholesterol advice that has sadly become accepted as the "healthy" diet.

In Modern Nutritional Diseases, Drs. Ottoboni explain in meticulous detail why those diets are useless against most modern diseases and shares the research showing the elimination of sugars and starches will put us back on the road to health faster than removing saturated fat and cholesterol from our diet. There's even an invaluable chapter on how to distinguish good science from bad science among the many voices telling us what the facts are.

The references and charts contained in this book make it well worth having in your low-carb library. I'll warn you now that it does get a bit technical in some areas, but this stuff isn't simple either. There are many things to evaluate and analyze in the process of coming to the conclusions about nutrition and metabolism that Drs. Ottoboni do. This is every bit as good a book to read as Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories was because it complements much of the same concepts and ideas.

My favorite part is at the end in a chapter called "What do you do now?" the authors give you practical instructions about making the changes you need in order to ward off the modern nutritional diseases in your own life. Specifics about diet, supplements, exercise, and suggested resources for further education are provided. This is an invaluable tool for anyone following a controlled-carbohydrate nutritional approach or who wants to learn more about why this way of eating works so well.


Excellent Information   August 14, 2009
Christine H. Deane (Knoxville, TN USA)
I purchased this book a week ago from vbi201 (the publisher) and started reading as soon as I opened the package. I have been so impressed (by both the book and the delivery service) that I purchased a second copy from vbi201 to send to my daughter today. If you want hard facts on nutrition, this is one excellent source of information.

I first went to the Queen of Fats by S. Allport page, read Kaufmann's 2 reviews and other reviews, which all recommended The Modern Nutritional Diseases by the Dr.s Ottoboni as the best book.


Awesome   September 13, 2009
Ilana M. Schikler
Book in perfect condition. Plus, everyone should read this book if they want to know anything about good nutrition!