"Fat is not the enemy."
That makes a lot of sense, and the tag line alone made me pick up the book. I didn’t even know what it was initially, but after flipping through it, I knew this was a book I just had to read.
I have to explain something before I proceed. I do not believe in diets the way they are typically preached nowadays. I don’t think that cutting from one’s daily nutrition something which has been a part of it for thousand upon thousands of years makes any evolutionary sense. We are evidently doing something horribly wrong, as can be evidenced by our unhealthy relationship with food (please refer to my review of the book The Art of Overeating for more).
In my personal opinion (and please remember that I am but a mere humble little blogger), everyone cannot successfully follow the same diet. By the same token, it’s very rare that a diet taken as is will be successful for everyone. Books like The Brown Fat Revolution will help you acquire the knowledge you need to create a healthy diet and exercise routine that will suit your body, your lifestyle and your objectives. What I would recommend is what I have seen countless women around me do, and quite successfully: buy a couple of such books, that are rich in information and explain the theory rather than impose a diet, and then experiment, taking in consideration your body type, your medical history and your objectives.
Spanning 270 pages, The Brown Fat Revolution is not only a great source of information, but also includes some good advice that you can incorporate in part or wholly into your daily habits. Don’t let the fact that Dr. Lyons is a plastic surgeon make you think that his book is superficial; it’s surprising in the depth of the background as well as the fact that he doesn’t consider plastic surgery as a first or only solution, or that (gasp!) skinny is better.
He also states that fat can be good (I KNOW!). After all, it’s an essential part of our physiology. However, it has been discovered that there are at least two kinds of fats: yellow and brown. Fat cells are an integral part of our body. The health of fat cells goes from one end of a continuum to another. At one end we have yellow fat, which is fat cells at their most unhealthy, and at the other end we have brown fat cells which are fat cells at their healthiest. Yellow fat is the kind you want to trim down on; it’s the kind that makes us sick, and the kind that makes us feel old. Brown fat is the one that makes us healthier.
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