Product Description

Live longer, better, and healthier with omega-3s!

The Ultimate Omega-3 Diet is the first book to offer simple, practical steps for striking the proper balance between miraculous omega-3 fats and the less-healthy omega-6 fats to get the most out of your diet. Armed with the practical information in The Ultimate Omega-3 Diet, you'll be able to:

• Discover delicious omega-3-rich foods that are right in your supermarket
• Cook mouthwatering meals using the 40 included recipes and meal plans
• Navigate the often-confusing supplements aisle
• Read food labels to identify hidden omega-6 fats found in many foods
• Pack in omega-3s even when eating out
• Learn the omega-3 and omega-6 content of more than 900 foods

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #275255 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 340 pages

About the Author

Evelyn Tribole, M.S., RD, is an award-winning dietitian and the author of many books, including Healthy Homestyle Cooking, which has sold more than a million copies, and Intuitive Eating. She was a contributing editor to Shape magazine for 11 years, has appeared on “Good Morning America,” “Today,” CNN, and Fox News, and been featured in USA Today, Prevention, People, and other national publications. A former spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, she has a nutrition counseling practice in Irvine, California.

Customer Reviews

Terrific Book
If you want to understand how Omegas affect our bodies, this is a very good book. I learned so much about which Omegas to eat, how much and why. The recipes are very good and easy. My children even like the recipes.

splendid book
First it's appearance. The book has a good size, it is surprisingly beautiful with the dustcover removed. The pages have a perfect weight and aren't overly whitenend.

I found the "scientific" content very understandable. It was written for normal people. I liked the broad context in which omega 3 fats were placed and I would have liked an even more broad perspective. For instance, are there also other omega fats in the saturated fats class? Omega 3, 6 and 9 are mentioned, but do Omega 1, 2, 4 etc. exist at all?

With regard to the studies and the health benefits of Omega 3 fatty acids I found the book a little bit repetitive, but I suppose that all the more shows that this fat is good in a lot of ways. In the book there are by the way 14 pages of references to all kinds of studies.

The best thing this book offers are the 52 pages of fat contents of all kinds of foods (total fat, total omega 6, total omega 3, ratio 6:3, LA, AA, ALA, EPA, DHA). After reading this book and studying these pages, you definitely know which foods are good and which aren't, regarding to it's fat content.

Just some random things I liked:
- the writer explains where omega fats got their name from
- there is an explanation on transfats
- lots of tables and figures

Martijn
The Netherlands

Explains this complex area about as well as it can be explained
I just finished reading The Ultimate Omega-3 Diet by Evelyn Tribole. This book can be considered a successor to The Queen of Fats (by Susan Allport). She explains this complex subject about as well as it can be explained. It's not surprising that the general public has not heard much about the conflict between Omega-3s and Omega-6s; the area is confusing.

She includes 50 pages of detail about many (but not all) foods, including columns for: Total Fat, Omega-3, Omega-6, ratio of 6 to 3, LA, AA, ALA, EPA, and DHA.

I found it fascinating how she tweaked the diets of two of her clients, who generally were eating healthy foods, to change their 6:3 ratios to what is considered a better ratio (for one of them, it went from 11:1 to 1.5:1).

I found the arguments in both this book and Queen of Fats to be compelling, and consequently have been modifying my food choices.