Tag: essential fats
Why Do We Need Essential Fats?
Essential fatty acids, especially the omega-3s, are involved in inflammatory health conditions including cardiovascular conditions, arthritis and auto-immune diseases. Read More
Trans Fatty Acids in Foods
Trans Fatty Acids in Foods and how responsible governments should institute a mandatory lifestyle course into our children’s school curricula. 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
Hemp: Nature’s Perfect Food
All 10 essential AAs that are the building blocks of protein: 33% pure digestible protein, providing readily available amino acids for building and repairing tissue. Read More
Hemp Nuts: Nutritional Information
Besides providing the human EFA’s and having a favorable unsaturated-to-saturated fat ratio, hemp seed is an excellent dietary source of easily digestible, gluten-free protein. Its overall protein content of 34.6g/100g is comparable to that of soy beans and better than that found in nuts, other seeds, dairy products, meat, fish, or poultry. Read More
Hemp Nuts: FAQs
Hemp seed is a fruit and not actually a nut. The anaphylaxis society has no reported cases of hemp seed or hemp seed oil causing reactions to people with nut allergies. Read More
Hemp Nuts: Ancient Superfood
The protein in hemp contains all eight amino acids essential to life and is easily digested. For this reason it is used in many parts of the world for treating malnourishment Read More
Hemp Nut Recipes
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White Chia Seeds
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Rage Could Be Caused By Food Choices
The most effective solutions are not the fish oils, but coconut oil, olive oil and butter Read More
Scientific References: Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs)
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Anti-Vitamin Publications
Misinformation Presented As Truth Read More
Podcast 159 about Fish Oil and Heart Health
Essential fatty acids. DHA, EPA, and the mysteries of omega 3 and omega 6 oils. Read More
Podcast 154 about Naturally Reducing Inflammation Part 1
High Cholesterol is not the cause of any health problem, it is a symptom. So what is the cause? Read More
Podcast 092 about Essential Fats for Health
Let’s find out why some fats are essential, why they are called acids, and why we are not getting enough of the omega 3 fats, and maybe too much of the omega 6 fats. Read More
Podcast 050 about Zoetein For Appetite Control
Quality muscle requires quality protein. The more Superfood-quality protein your muscles get, the more efficient they become in burning fat and giving you maximum fat loss out of your exercise and activities – and even during resting. Read More
Podcast 049 about Zoetein, Full-spectrum Nutrition
How nutrition-rich foods can improve our health, and rebuild our bodies to function at a new youthful level. Read More