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Dr Mary Gertrude Enig (born 1931) is a nutritionist and claimed biochemist, who researches the nutritional aspects of fats. She is the co-founder and Vice President of the Weston A. Price Foundation and is the director of the Nutritional Sciences Division of Enig Associates, Inc.
She has served as a Contributing Editor of the journal Clinical Nutrition, the official journal of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, and a Consulting Editor of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition.
Dr Enig has written peer-reviewed articles for scientific journals, mainly on fats and oils research and nutrient/drug interactions, and is a well-known invited lecturer at scientific meetings and a popular interviewee on TV and radio shows about nutrition.
Background
Some biographies of Enig claim she received a PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Maryland, College Park but don't specify a year.
Enig claims to be a Fellow of The American College of Nutrition, a member of The American Society for Nutritional Sciences, and President of the Maryland Nutritionists Association.
Enig claims to be a "licensed practitioner" in Maryland and the District of Columbia but does not specify what kind of license she supposedly has in these jusrisdictions.
Trans-fat debate
Enig was an early critic of the use of trans fatty acids and advocated their inclusion in nutritional labelling . After many years the scientific mainstream is now challenging the food product industry's use of trans-fat-containing partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, and various jurisdictions around the world are now banning the use of trans fats and/or requiring its presence in food to be marked on labels.
Selected bibliography
- Dr Mary Enig, Know Your Fats: The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol, (Bethesda Press, May 2000). ISBN 0-96781-260-7, ISBN-13 978-0967812601.
- Sally Fallon, with Dr Mary Enig (contributing editor), Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats, (NewTrends Publishing, October 1999). ISBN 0-96708-973-5, ISBN-13: 978-0967089737.
- Dr Mary Enig, Trans fatty acids in the food supply: A comprehensive report covering 60 years of research, (Enig Associates, 1993). ISBN 0-96781-262-3.
- Dr Mary Enig and Sally Fallon Eat Fat, Lose Fat: The Healthy Alternative to Trans Fats Plume ISBN 0-45228-566-6
- Dr Mary Enig Trans fatty acids in the food supply: A comprehensive report covering 60 years of research Enig Associates 1995
- Dr Enig has also written a chapter "Lauric Oils as Antimicrobial Agents: Theory of Effect, Scientific Rationale, and Dietary Application as Adjunct Nutritional Support for HIV-Infected Individuals" in Nutrients and Foods in AIDS (ed. Ronald R. Watson) CRC Press, London, ISBN 0-84938-561-X ISBN-13: 978-0849385612
External links
- Enig Associates, Inc.
- [http://www.jacn.org/ Journal of the
- Lowfat Diets By Mary G. Enig, PhD
- Flaxseed and Flaxseed Oils for Omega-3 Fatty Acids By Mary G. Enig, PhD