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The queen of fats : why omega-3s were removed from the Western diet and what we can do to replace them /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allport, Susan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
Series:California studies in food and culture ; 15.
Subjects:
Essential fatty acids in human nutrition.
Omega-3 fatty acids > Health aspects.
Omega-3 fatty acids > Research > History.
Online Access:Table of contents
Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • What's for dinner?
  • A trip to Greenland
  • How the omegas got their name
  • Monsieur cholesterol
  • Fishy fats
  • Tree lard and cow oil
  • The chemist in the kitchen
  • Out of Africa--
  • And into the membrane
  • Where have all the omega-3s gone?
  • The speed of life
  • Putting omega-3s back into your food supply
  • The proof is in the pudding.