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Is Flax Oil Safe?
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Omega-3s and Heart Disease: Flax Oil versus Fish Oil
A recent study published this past September compared the benefits of flax oil versus fish oil in raising blood levels of heart healthy... Read more »
How Flax Seed Can Improve Your Cholesterol Levels
Flax seeds have become more and more popular in recent years, due to their health-protective properties. Most notably, reducing the... Read more »
With Mercury and Pesticides, Is Fish Oil Safe?
Fish has given fish oil a bad name. Because questions have been raised over mercury and pesticide residues in fish when eaten, some... Read more »
3 Tips on Adding Flax to Your Diet
Flax is an oilseed similar to canola and sunflower being oilseeds. Flaxseeds are derived from flax. Benefits of Adding Flax to Your... Read more »
Coconut Oil and Diabetes
Although diabetics are encouraged to avoid or limit fats and especially saturated fats from animal products, experts are now telling us... Read more »
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Flaxseed or Flaxseed Oil
Source: Breastcancer.org
Also known as: Linum usitatissimum, linseed. Potential uses: It's thought that lignan in flaxseed may bind to estrogen receptors and may reduce the... Read more »
Q&A: Is it safe to take fish oil with statins to lower cholest...
A reader asks pharmacist Richard Harkness if it is safe to take fish oil with a statin therapy to lower cholesterol. Harkness discusses the popular... Read more »
Fish Oil and Heart Disease
Omega-3 fatty acid is often misnamed an “alternative” or “natural” medication. Penicillin was, of course, derived from a living organism... Read more »
Fish Oils
Source: HealthCentral Encyclopedia
Fish fits well in a healthy diet since it replaces red meat, which has a heavy load of saturated fat. But fish may go farther than that. A certain... Read more »
Olive oil may help fight breast cancer
Olive oil may prevent the formation of breast cancer cells, a new study suggests. Researchers in Spain found that when breast cancer cells were... Read more »
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