Key Takeaways:

• Updates and popularizes Erasmus’s earlier work, packaging the “good fat vs. bad fat” story for a broader lay audience.
• Warns strongly against trans fats and overheated vegetable oils while championing cold-pressed flax, hemp, and other delicate plant oils as therapeutic.
• Helped shift alternative-health and eventually mainstream nutrition discourse away from blanket low-fat advice toward a focus on fat quality.