Essential Fats

Fat Soluble Vitamins – part 1

Vitamin A and D help to regulate the immune system and are required to keep our metabolism, heart, and brain healthy. Read More

Understanding Fats, Oils and Cholesterol

The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol by Mary G. Enig Read More

The Fat Story – Part 2

Saturated fat used to be demonized because sources of SFA are also high in cholesterol. Cholesterol is one of the most important compounds in our bodies. Read More

The Fat Story – Part 1

Forget everything you think you know about fat and learn about why avoiding healthy sources of fat might be the thing that’s blocking your path to optimal health and mental well being. Read More

Coconut Oil

Coconut oil itself also doesnt carry any vitamins or minerals. It helps with micronutrient absorption which is a very important benefit. Read More

Butter versus Margarine

Margarine contains refined, artificially saturated vegetable oil. It also contains harmful trans-fatty acids, and often residues of the toxic metals nickel and cadmium. Butter is a natural food and a good source of important fat-soluble vitamins. Read More

Black Seed – The Remedy For Everything But Death

Many of black cumin’s traditionally ascribed health benefits have been thoroughly confirmed in the biomedical literature. In fact, since 1964, there have been 656 published, peer-reviewed studies referencing it. Read More

Undamaged Plant Oils Extracted With INSTAPRESS Technology

The result is high quality oil that needs no refrigeration and that lasts for up to a year in your kitchen cupboard. Read More

Lecithin

Highest concentrations of lecithin are found in the brain and nervous system (controlling every organ and function), the blood (to keep cholesterol liquefied), the liver (the center of your bodys enzyme system), your reproductive system, your immune system and your digestive system. Read More

Essential Fats ARE Essential for Health

In a living cell you need to have a good mix of omega-3, -6, and -9 fatty acids to keep things running right. Read More

Eat Coconut EFAs for So Many Benefits

Omega-3 and omega-6 EFAs are increasingly recognized as important to human health. But they will only maintain their status as good fats when ingested in proper balance. Unfortunately, most Western diets today are high in omega-6s, and low in omega-3s. Read More

Easy Sources of Essential Fats

EFAs put out internal inflammation caused by metabolic fires. If you want to look younger, feel younger and loose some weight, eat more essential fatty acids. Read More

Truth About Saturated Fat

The theory-called the lipid hypothesis-that there is a direct relationship between the amount of saturated fat and cholesterol in the diet and the incidence of coronary heart disease was proposed by a researcher named Ancel Keys in the late 1950’s Read More

Stupid Fats and Smart Fats

Healthy fats will help raise your metabolic rate, and channel your body’s energies to build muscle and burn fat. Read More

Coriander Better Than Vitamin D

Getting natural vitamin D from the sun is surely the best way, yet poses great skin cancer risks if you are antioxidant and/or omega 3 deficient! Read More

The Oiling of America (part 2)

Mary G. Enig, Ph.D. is an expert of international renown in the field of lipid biochemistry. She has headed a number of studies on the content and effects of trans fatty acids in America and Israel, and has successfully challenged government assertions that dietary animal fat causes cancer and heart disease. Read More

The Oiling of America (part 1)

Partial hydrogenation of polyunsaturated fats results in the formation of trans forms which are less effective than cis, cis forms in lowering cholesterol concentrations. It should be noted that many currently available shortening and margarines are partially hydrogenated. Read More

The Great Con-ola

Consumer acceptance of canola oil represents one in a series of victories for the food processing industry, which has as its goal the replacement of all traditional foods with imitation foods made out of products derived from corn, wheat, soybeans and oil seeds. Read More

Olive Oil Reduces Blood Pressure

A recent study at the Second University of Naples, Italy, demonstrated that a Mediterranean-style diet had beneficial effects on people with the metabolic syndrome – decreasing blood pressure, body weight, levels of glucose, insulin, total cholesterol, and triglycerides and causing a significant increase in levels of HDL. Read More

Health Dangers from Trans Fats

Partial hydrogenation produces many unnatural”trans” fats which are straight and not intended for use in the human body. Read More

Flax: Breakthrough Cancer Treatment

Though scientists have known for some time that the flax seed hulls have an amazing nutritional profile, they’ve been at a loss as to how to unlock those nutrients Read More

Essential Fatty Acids for Many Conditions

Many people who begin to use higher grade edible omega oils are amazed at the difference in their skin. They find that their skin feels creamy, supple, soft, and lovely to the touch. Read More

EFAs – Essential Fatty Acids

Omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids affect growth, vitality, and mental state. They are involved in converting food substances into usable energy, then transporting that energy throughout the body. Read More

Black Cumin seed oil

Black seeds contain over 100 chemical compounds and some of the ingredients are yet to be discovered and identified. Read More

The Power of Essential Fatty Acids

EFAs are important for all systems of the body to function normally, including your skin, respiratory system, circulatory system, nerve function, blood pressure, brain and organs. Read More

EFAs: Essential for Health

EFA supplements need to take our dietary habits into account and supply higher amount of omega-3s than omega-6s. We need to reduce the bad fats, and increase the good ones. Read More

Story of Essential Fatty Acids

Essential fatty acids are polyunsaturated and super unsaturated acids, which our bodies need but cannot make and so must acquire in the diet. Read More

Coconut Oil: Food with Real Health Benefits

Coconut oil is unusually rich in short and medium chain fatty acids. Shorter chain length allows fatty acids to be metabolized without use of the carnitine transport system. Read More

Coconut Oil: Benefits

Coconut oil appears to help the immune system response in a beneficial manner. Feeding coconut oil in the diet completely abolished the expected immune factor responses to endotoxin that were seen with corn oil Read More

Coconut Oil: Bad Rep But It’s Actually Good

Virgin coconut oil’s many health benefits come from the medium-chain length of its fatty acids, or triglycerides (MCTs). Read More

Coconut Oil: A New Look

Increasingly, over the past 40 years, the American diet has undergone major changes. Many of these changes involve changes of fats and oils. There has been an increasing supply of the partially hydrogenated trans-containing vegetable oils and a decreasing amount of the lauric acid-containing oils. Read More

Alpha Lipoic and Hydroxy Acids

Alpha Lipoic Acid is called the Universal Antioxidant because of its dual solubility. ALA is called the Metabolic Antioxidant because it plays a vital role in the energy production of the cells. Read More