Dark Calories

How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back

By: Catherine Shanahan MD

Narrated by: Eliza Foss, Catherine Shanahan MD

The New York Times bestselling author of Deep Nutrition explains how a group of eight little-known oils cause the cellular damage that underlies virtually all chronic disease, exposes the corruption that deceives doctors and consumers into eating them, and gives us a clear roadmap to recovery and rejuvenation.

Did you know that eating a large serving of french fries—cooked in vegetable oil—delivers the toxicity of smoking 24 cigarettes?

Cornell-trained biochemist turned family physician Dr. Cate Shanahan introduces us to well-respected scientists who warn that vegetable oils are a public health disaster, wreaking havoc on our bodies’ cells by depleting antioxidants and promoting free radical toxicity.

Their many effects include:

• Uncontrollable hunger, so we need drugs to maintain our weight
• Inflammatory fat buildup under our skin and within our internal organs and arteries
• Blood sugar swings that promote bad moods and antisocial behavior
• Disrupted brain energy, concentration problems, and mental illnesses
• Intracellular oxidative stress that promotes cancer development
• Gut inflammation, bloating, heartburn, and the runs

Americans were enticed into buying these oils based on their cholesterol-lowering property, but the idea that cholesterol-lowering is beneficial was pushed on us without solid evidence to support it. In Dark Calories, Dr. Cate reveals the financial entanglements between industry and underhanded academics who created and sustain our 1950s-era, arbitrary dietary rules.

As a solution, she proposes a clear, no-nonsense plan that aligns with our genetic needs and nature’s laws. Thankfully, recovering our health is simplified by the fact that nutrients that treat one condition also tend to treat all the rest. As an added bonus, we also revive our sense of taste so that our cravings shift to wholesome, nourishing foods instead.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2024 Cate Shanahan (P)2024 Hachette Go

You can’t make this up!

If you value your health, you will read this book and share it with your loved ones. It’s that important.

I beleive this information is finally hitting the nail on the head with 90% of our populations health problems.

I beleive this information is finally hitting the nail on the head with 90% of our populations health problems, including being over weight! Great book!

Must Learn Info

Opening the world’s eyes to the ubiquitous and insidious nature of these oils in our modern food system.

Phenomenal!

Human civilization owes Dr. Shanahan immense gratitude for her pioneering work in this area! Dark Calories details the most important thing that people can do to improve their health and longevity. Simply follow Dr. Cate’s recommendations, and you will live longer! The book is straightforward and easy for anyone to understand. Thank you for everything that you do Dr. Shanahan!

Read this book! It’s amazing.

This book could quite simply save your life and let you take back quality of life for you and your family. The writer makes science she is discussing very easy to understand for anyone.

Explains the seed oil issues

I like that she explains the whole seed oil problem from every side as well as a great discussion of cholesterol and statins. Does seem a tad dismissive of keto or just she feels that keto should explicitly exclude seed oils which I agree with but she’s also a bit too free with flour and bread in certain recipes but I also understand her focus is on the seed oils themselves.

Dr. Cate's best book so far

Because Dr. Cate's first two audio books were so packed with valuable information i was eager to listen to this one. I was happy to see that Eliza Foss narrated this one as she did the other two, since she id such a good reader. This book has much of the same info as the other two, but like Fat Burn elaborated on info contained in Deep Nutrition, this book contained enough of the original info from the first two to make it a stand alone read, but the additional detail was astounding! The info about the American Heart Association and some scientists that clarified the history of nutrition in this country was a courageous, enlightening story. How we as a society got this sick and.off track nutritionally is now clear and it sickens me.
At the end of the book Dr. Cate and Eliza Foss interview each other in a very interesting exchange that draws the listener in as almost a participant in their relationship. I am grateful to both of them for this important and courageous audio book.

Excellent!

She gives an excellent and thorough explanation of what I believe she feels passionate about and how she feels she can help people live a healthier life without seed oils. Love this audiobook!

Finally someone is telling the truth!

Amazing book that finally exploits the lies we have been told by the food industry and the government for years.

Incredible book.

After following Dr. Cate for over a decade, I definitely expected this book to be amazing, and it was. The book definitely lives up to its name, as the story of how vegetable oils made it into our diet is very dark indeed. Dr. Cate covers the topics of vegetable oil, its history, and its harms to human health incredibly well. I can’t recommend it enough!