Hi, Ben. Thanks for your note.

I've been through Udo's book, after being introduced to the
subject by Robert Erdmann's excellent book: Fats that Can
Save Your Life. His was another truly excellent eye opener
-- short, easily read, and perspective-changing.

I've gone through two or three others, as well, including
Johanna Budwig's short, hard-to-read, but wonderfully
informative book. I've made it my business to understand
the chemistry behind these things, given their critical
function in carrying out life processes.

Thanks for the book recommendation. I've ordered it, and
I'll take a look at it. However, I can tell you that the
industrial-society diseases described in the book's
description can be laid *squarely* at the door of the
trans fats, cross-linked fatty acids, bond-shifted fatty
acids, and other adulterated fatty acids that result
from *high-heat processing* of EFAs. I'll inspect the
book, but I've found a lot of authors unclear on the
difference between natural fats and what results from
processing them.

You might also want to take a look at my web site
http://www.treelight.com/health
where I've posted a number of articles about essential
fatty acids and their role in health and various diseases
of modern civilization. Some of those articles dwell
on the singular fact that omega-3, 6, and 9 fatty
acids have only *one* configuration in nature, but can
adopt any of a hundred strange new forms when subjected
to high levels of heat. (Again, Erdmann is the easiest
short read on the subject.) Those new forms are metabolically
inactive or, worse, active in the wrong ways.

Now, only one end of that fat has to be joined into a
phospate group to become part of the cell wall -- and that
end is unaffected by heat processing. The result of
the processing then, is quite literally a metabolic
poison -- something that has never before existed, that
millions of years of evolution have not prepared your body
to identify or reject and which, when built into your cell
walls, either fails to function or functions in the wrong
way.

Now *that* has a lot of explanatory power. It can explain
insulin resistance, allergies, cancers, and quite a few
other maladies of modern civilization, that occur by
virtue of carcinogens and allergens being a) present in the
environment and b) admitted into the biological organism,
where they don't belong.

I'll be looking for the science that can explain how
natural Omega-6 oils can make us "more vulnerable to heart
disease, cancer, obesity, autoimmmune diseases,..." (from
the Book Description at Amazon), but frankly I don't
expect to be impressed. Aboriginal tribesmen who eat a
high meat diet don't seem to suffer from those things, and
I'm not sure that their Omega-3 intake is all that high.

However, I'm willing to be convinced, and I will write a
note to that effect if the book you mentioned succeeds
in doing so. Unless the author makes allowances for the
high levels of trans fats in industrial diets, though,
it's hard to see how they can make that case.