Flax Seed Oil - Important Health Alert!
Flax seed oil added to your daily diet has many amazing health benefits. Flax seed oil maintains healthy cholesterol levels and also promotes a healthy digestive system. Flax seed oil can be used as healthy replacements for cooking and baking ingredients such as margarine and other products containing saturated fats.
Flax seed oil is one of the best sources of Omega 3 fatty acids comprised of alpha linolenic essential fatty acids, and eicosapentaenoic acids and docosahexaenoic acids, better know as ALA, EPA and DHA respectively. These compounds are primarily found in plants, flax seed oil and cold water fish. ALA helps produce smooth flawless skin, increases stamina, speeds healing, increases vitality, and brings a feeling of calmness. It also reduces inflammation, water retention, platelet stickiness, and blood pressure. It reduces the pain and swelling of arthritis, and completely reverses premenstrual syndrome in some cases. The body depends on outside sources of these compounds found in flax seed oil since it cannot produce them on its own.
A deficiency of alpha-linolenic acids found in flax seed oil has been identified as the cause of growth retardation, weakness, impairment of vision, learning disabilities, motor coordination, tingling sensation in the arms and legs (you know, what they advertise on TV as “restless leg syndrome???), behavioral changes, high triglyceride levels, high blood pressure, tissue inflammation, edema, dry skin, mental deterioration, low metabolic rate and various kinds of immune dysfunctions.
Supplementation with fax seed oil can also help with a variety of other health conditions including, acne, aging, angina, cancer prevention, cataracts, cold sores, constipation, Crohn’s Disease and eczema.
Health advisors have concluded that eliminating the fat from your diet is healthy for your overall health, but your body needs good fats to function at its optimal level. Once the fat is cut from your diet, a host of other symptoms will appear, requiring more doctor visits and more prescription medications.
Americans are already becoming too dependant on mind and mood altering drugs because they are following improper nutritional advice that is neglecting to meet the basic requirements for good health. They are too easily convinced something is wrong with them that only prescription drugs can alleviate, of course. This all adds up to more money to the drug industry as they are continually developing a drug for every physical, mental, social and mood disorder caused by a lack of essential fats found in our food our bodies need.
If you eliminate all the fat from your diet, you may loose weight only to gain other chronic health problems. At the price of being thin, your hair will also thin out, your skin will be dry and itchy, and you will experience headaches and feel exhausted and confused. And no wonder, your brain is comprised of mostly DHA fat (which is found in flax seed oil), at about 50 percent. It needs the fat found in flax seed oil to fire on all 6 cylinders and to replenish itself! Each of the billions of cells in your body also needs fats found in flax seed oil to retain moisture so they can stay moist, supple and to function properly.
Eliminating all the fats from your diet is not only harmful but dangerous. What fats need to be restricted are fats that come from animals, such as beef and organ meat, processed foods, bakery products and high fat content dairy foods. These are the ones responsible for causing heart conditions and high blood cholesterol levels, by clogging your arteries. In fact, eating the right kind of fats found in flax seed oil can help eliminate the bad fats that ruin your health!