Jonny Bowden

Jonny Bowden

Jonny Bowden was born on November 30th, 1946 and is currently 78 years old. Bowden attended New York University where he received a music degree. He also holds a master's degree in psychology and a PhD in holistic nutrition.

Jonny Bowden is a certified nutritionist and a popular expert in nutrition, weight loss, and health. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for Men’s Health, writes a health column for Forbes Online, and blogs for the Huffington Post and America Online.

In his book, Smart Fat: Eat More Fat, Jonny offers a fresh perspective on health and weight loss. He argues that eating the right kind of fat is important for a healthier, lasting weight loss and longer life. For years, we’ve been told to avoid fat, but that has hurt our health and made it almost impossible to lose weight.

Bowden and physician Steven Masley who once had conflicting views on diet both found out that the key to success is not just about counting the calories or choosing between paleo and plant-based diets. Instead, they discovered that the key to success is understanding between the “smart fats” and “dumb fats.”

In Smart Fat: Eat More Fat, they emphasize the benefits of healthy fats, how they help balance hormones, control appetite, boost energy, and reduce inflammation. The book explains how to incorporate the “smart fats” into your meals alongside protein, fiber, and flavor to create a sustainable and enjoyable diet. The book also includes 30-day meal plans and 50 recipes that will help you get started.

The book encourages the readers to rethink what they know about food and adopt smart eating for lasting weight and health management.

Bowden’s 2012 book The Great Cholesterol Myth challenges many long-held beliefs about health, especially about heart disease and cholesterol. While cholesterol is the main focal point the book does also touch on other important topics such as diet and medicine.

For many years, cholesterol was viewed as a major cause of heart disease. This led to the widespread use of statin drugs each time cholesterol levels were high. But this book explains that cholesterol is important for many body functions and the idea that cholesterol is harmful is just simplistic. Bowden argues that having low cholesterol levels can be dangerous.

The book also reveals the cause behind rising cholesterol levels and heart disease is sugar and not fat. While trans fats are harmful to our health, saturated fats aren’t as bad as we’ve been told to believe. The authors argue that the decades-old Lipid Hypothesis, which blames fat for heart disease, was never actually proven.

Bowden also sheds light on the oversimplification of “bad” (LDL) and “good” (HDL) cholesterol and explains that the triglyceride-to-HDL ratio is a more precise predictor of heart disease. The book also explores how oxidation and inflammation rather than cholesterol alone make the arteries vulnerable to plaque buildup.

The authors also critique how high sugar low fat dies have contributed to increased insulin resistance and diabetes. They also question the benefits of statin usage. They argue that while these drugs can help reduce inflammation and improve blood flow, they don’t provide health benefits by lowering cholesterol.

The latter part of the book gives the readers practical advice on what foods to eat and which to avoid. The readers are advised to be cautious about inflammatory foods.

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