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Name Change
We changed our URL (website address) to essentialfats.com
Watch here for links to these sites and a major renovation of our website!
We are looking for collaborators, contributors, links to researchers, companies
and products related to essential fats, lipids, nutrition and health, and more.
If you are interested in submitting a link or web content, contact us.
Quarterly newsletter “The
Essential News on Fats”
Our newsletter, the Essential News on Fats (ENF), where we report fatty news from an insider's perspective. We help you identify differences between what others say and what recent, often unpublished research has shown.
Read our June 1999 newsletter, the Essential News on Fats (ENF). Cardiovascular disease (CAD). Letters: Living longer and better after an MI. Cardiovascular Disease: Lowering TG with diet; enzyme variability; low Mg; paraoxonase; CVD + H. pylori; cholesterol lowering drugs. Diagnosis and Treatment: Vit. C; hypothyroidism; iron overload; obesity. Patents: w3s prevent ventricular fibrillation. Legal Analysis: Organic produce; Internet health sites. Industry issues: Dioxin scare. Research: EFA deficiency; weight gain; lab testing. Critical Reviews: Reader's Digest; diabetes; gallstones. Oily News: Functional foods, MUFAs, w3s, eggs; supplementing foods; fish oils. Odds and Ends: Vitamins; fortified foods; orange juice; breakfast cereals; sports aids; gray hair; secret of happiness.
Dr. Siguel’s books
We are running out of copies of Dr. Siguel's first book much faster than anticipated, due to huge sales by electronic commerce (amazon.com, Barnes&Noble, our site, etc.). Therefore we had a price increase; the list price now is $39.95. We will be selling electronic versions of the major sections of the book in PDF format, to be e-mailed after purchase by check or credit card. Watch for further announcements.
Many people have been asking about revisions of Dr. Siguel's popular book. We are in the process of writing two new books which we hope to published by the end of 1999. Watch this website for updates and special offers! Coming soon:
Eat to Live Long and Well: Master the
Essential Fats. (~ 800+ p.) This is an extensive expansion and update of
our popular book. Similar chapters but greatly expanded. New sections on
neurological disorders, treatment of abnormal lipids (drugs + nutrition),
nutrition supplements in chronic disease, blood testing, food preparation, etc.
Detailed guidelines for diagnosis, treatment using EFs. The most comprehensive
review of issues relating to EFs available. Contains detailed sections on
common health conditions. Extensive critical review of articles about EFs and
antioxidants. New diagnostic and treatment approaches for cardiovascular
disease, Crohn's disease, severe abnormal lipids, dyslipidemia, premature heart
disease, herpes, AIDS, Cystic Fibrosis, and many more. Nutrition guidelines for
pregnancy, healthy babies and children. Professionals interested in writing a
section, please contact us. Targeted to health professionals, nutritionists,
doctors, patients. Price not yet determined.
Essential Fats: Secrets to living long and
well. (~200+ p.) Learn how to eat a balance of w3 and w6 fatty acids.
The key principles to assure a healthy and long life. What supplements to take.
All audiences. Price not yet determined.
Updates to our website
Read about recently released optimal guidelines for diagnosis and treatment.
New discussion on treatment of IBD; material based in part on a presentation
in Boston, MA sponsored by The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, The Crohn’s
& Colitis Foundation of America, and Health Learning Systems. IBDtalk1.
Children's nutrition. Nutrition for the newborn, infants and children. Breast feeding: tools, pumps, techniques. What to eat to get great milk. Don't throw away surplus nutritious breast milk (hints: use for pancakes for adults…)
How the body works and why diseases occur, a new overview of health and disease.
New research study on skinfold thickness and disease. Your chance to contribute to mankind!
Boston Nutrition Seminars. Summaries of material presented, discussion. Read notes from the meeting on October 12, 1999: Nutrition and Cancer Prevention: An overview of the Clinical Nutrition Research Unit.
American Oil Chemistry Society. Presentations on functional foods, designing foods rich in EFAs, fatty acids and health, etc. AOCS1999.
The organization links are being updated. We
added quite a few more links.
A major fatty acid professional association has issued recommendations for
dietary intake of essential fats. Check the link to ISSFAL at our organization
links. We present this information for educational purposes. We do not endorse
these recommendations.
Watch for Dr. Siguel's upcoming letter to the editor on the prevention of Crohn's disease (for families with one member with Crohn's disease) in the American Journal of Gastroenterology. Also see IBD, inflammatory bowel disease. New treatment for severe Crohn's disease approved by the FDA reported in The NYT and the WSJ. Dr. Siguel considers the new treatment dangerous for most people-- other, likely better, alternatives exist. Treatment suggested only for the few patients with active fistulas that do not respond to TPN, antibiotics (in accordance with FDA guidelines).
My pregnancy. The weekly diary of a pregnant woman.
Every month we update test results and discuss her nutrition. You can see the
effects of her diet changes on her fat composition with sequential fatty acid
profiles. We explain the need for and use of PUFA-rich supplements such as flax
seeds, fish oils, and "brain" supplements (EPA, DHA) for pregnant and
lactating women. We explain our approaches to monitoring and treating lipid
abnormalities during pregnancy.
Dr. Siguel published the first study of a pregnant woman with abnormal fatty
acids treated at a major medical center in Boston using frequent fatty acid
profiles. (Siguel EN, Blumberg JB, Caesar J. Monitoring the Optimal Infusion of
Intravenous Lipids: Detection of Essential Fatty Acid Deficiency. Archives
of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. 110: 792-797, 1986.) The study showed
that patients fed soybean oil intravenously can do well.
A new section in frequently asked questions to answer common questions we receive on what blood tests to order, how to interpret blood tests, differences among fatty acid blood tests, and related questions.
Lipids (lipid diagnosis and treatment), lipids and drug therapy. New section comparing the effects of drugs available to treat lipid abnormalities. The current tables are drafts for review and discussion. We are looking for comments from drug manufacturers and researchers. We plan to have further suggestions for use, side effects, etc. This site relies on information combined and simplified from many sources and further input from drug manufacturers. Use this information as a starting point and verify it with a doctor or drug manufacturer.
Updates on diseases: new approaches, new disorders discussed. Epilepsy. Ketogenic diets likely cause deficiencies of essential fats. Options to diagnose and treat using the fatty acid profile EFA-SRŌ. This treatment requires supervision by physicians with extensive expertise in epilepsy and diagnosing PUFA abnormalities.
ASPEN course on PUFAs, San Diego, CA, Jan 31, 1999. The course had one of the highest enrollments of all postgraduate level courses at ASPEN. Posters on the effect of eggs on lipids and fatty acids, care report of monitoring one patient with abnormal lipids and a response to a high PUFA diet.
What should you eat today?ä Suggestions for foods to eat... and foods to avoid.
Watch for coming features:
Late 1999:
Our view on the ideal diet. Read about the controversies of which diet to
choose: one low in fat and high in carbohydrates; one very low in fat (less
than 10% of calories as fat); one high in protein; one with specific ratios of
carbohydrates to protein to fat.
1999: A
revolutionary approach to treat patients with low HDL and high TGs who are
likely to die of premature heart disease. Dyslipidemia. Also treatments
for hypertension, IBD, asthma. The relationship between evolution, diet, and
disease (being prepared for publication).
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