Behavioral Aspects of Eating -- Western Diet and Behavior: The Columbus Concept -- The Social Context of Dietary Behaviors: The Role of Social Relationships and Support on Dietary Fat and Fiber Intake -- Social Class, Food Intakes and Risk of Coronary Artery Disease in the Developing World: The Asian Paradox -- Social, Cultural, Economical, and Practical Factors -- Dietary Fats -- Partially Hydrogenated Fats in the US Diet and Their Role in Disease -- Fatty Acid Ratios in Free-Living and Domestic Animals -- Is Saturated Fat Bad? -- Alteration of Human Body Composition and Tumorigenesis by Isomers of Conjugated Linoleic Acid -- Insulin Resistance and Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Induced by Conjugated Linoleic Acid in Humans -- Fats and Cardiovascular Disease -- Dietary Fat Intake: Promotion of Disease in Carotid Artery Disease: Lipid Lowering Versus Side Effects of Statins -- Recent Cholesterol-Lowering Drug Trials: New Data, New Questions -- Leptin and Obesity: Role in Cardiac Structure and Dysfunction -- Cardiac Structural and Functional Changes in Genetically Modified Models of Obesity -- Fat-Modified Dairy Products and Blood Lipids in Humans -- Modified Milk Fat Reduces Plasma Triacylglycerol Concentrations: Health and Disease Effects -- Dietary Supplements, Cholesterol and Cardiovascular Disease -- Contaminants in Fats and Oils: Role in Illness -- Ill Health Effects of Food Lipids: Consequences of Inadequate Food Processing, Storage and Cooking -- Mycotoxins in Human Diet: A Hidden Danger -- Nutrition–Toxicological Dilemma on Fish Consumption -- Anthropogenic and Naturally Produced Contaminants in Fish Oil: Role in Ill Health -- Dietary and Pharmaceutical Approaches to Modify Fat-Induced Disease and Ill-Health -- Do Modern Western Diets Play a Role in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis? -- The Role of Modern Western Diets in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder -- The Role of Dietary Fat in Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes -- Strategies to Modify School-Based Foods to Lower Obesity and Disease Risk -- Selenium Enigma: Health Implications of an Inadequate Supply -- Homocysteine: Role in Cardiovascular Disease -- Dietary Plant Extracts to Modify Effects of High Fat Modern Diets in Health Promotion -- Don’t Diet: Adverse Effects of the Weight Centered Health Paradigm -- Physical Activity in Diet-Induced Disease Causation and Prevention in Women and Men.

The industrial and agricultural revolutions have dramatically changed our lifestyles including where we get foods and what we eat. Modern diets have moved away from a close association with historically beneficial foods and diets towards foods and diets with increased fats and contaminants and with much lower intakes of fruits and vegetables. Modern Dietary Fat Intakes in Disease Promotion focuses on the scientific evidence that defines such risks in modern diets with the consequences of increased illness, cancer and disease. There is also an emphasis on methods to reverse negative components of modern diets for health improvement. The volume is divided into five sections including the section on the behavioral aspects of eating; a second section on dietary fats; the third section examines the clinical relevance of fats and cardiovascular disease. The fourth section contains novel chapters on the potential for contaminants in fats and oils to increase risk of illnesses. The fifth section looks at dietary and pharmaceutical approaches to modify fat-induced disease and ill-health. Each section contains chapters that address treatment options as well as prevention strategies. Modern Dietary Fat Intake in Disease Promotion, edited by Fabien DeMeester, Sherma Zibadi, and Ronald Ross Watson, provides health professionals in many areas of research and practice with the most up-to-date, well-referenced, and easy-to-understand volume on the importance of identifying and treating as well as providing strategies to prevent the development of chronic, serious metabolic diseases.