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30 Jul

More Pieces Of The Fat Loss Puzzle

The richest source of Iodine is kelp and other seaweeds.

Iodine increases metabolic rate. Its richest source in our foods is kelp, other seaweeds, and seafoods. Iodine can also be supplemented. Caution: Supplementation with iodine requires supervision, because too much iodine can be toxic. Supervised iodine supplementation should be

07 May

Fats In The Human Body, Part 5 – Finding The Balance

We must eat more lean foods like salads, green leafy, and flower vegetables.

An average adult U.S. male eats about 2.7 kg (5.9 pounds) of food per day. Less than 1000 calories, which usually result in weight loss, are contained in 2.7 kg of broccoli but over 10,800 calories, which must result in

02 May

Fats In The Human Body, Part 4 – Changing The Body Fat Picture

How can we change the fat content of our body? To increase the amount of w3 EFAs in our fat tissue, which is desirable for both beauty (they make skin soft and velvety) and health (they decrease our risk of

30 Apr

Fats In The Human Body, Part 3 – Fatty Acid Content Of Fat

If EFAs in the oils are altered they may indeed increase cancer incidence.

The fatty acids profile of body fat can vary greatly as a direct consequence of differing contents of saturated, monounsaturated, and essential fatty acids (EFAs) in different diets. The percentages of linoleic acid (LA, 18:2w6) and alpha-linolenic acid (LNA, 18:3w3)

25 Apr

Fats In The Human Body, Part 2 – Body Fat, Gender, And Aging

Our body’s fat content tends to increase with age, although this is not inevitable. Old natives of South Sea Islands are as slim as their young, and as active and child- like. Their use of unrefined foods, active life-style, simplicity,

23 Apr

Fats In The Human Body, Part 1: Body Fat And Diet

Fat deposits around our entire body are rearranged and reduced when we exercise.

Next to water, which makes up about 70% of the total weight of a human adult, and 84% of that of a newborn infant, fat is the most abundant substance found in our body. We may not like that, but

28 Mar

The Healing Essential Fatty Acids, Part 7: Sources

Safflower oil is our richest source of LA.

Plants make enzymes that ‘insert’ a double bond into (desaturate) fatty acids at positions w3 and w6 to make w3 and w6 fatty acids, but humans do not produce these enzymes. This means that LA and ALA are not essential

26 Mar

The Healing Essential Fatty Acids, Part 6: Daily Requirement

Our body’s content of LNA is less than that of LA.

To unfold some of their functions, LA and ALA must first be converted into EFA derivatives, or into prostaglandins. These conversions require vitamins B3, B6 and C and the minerals magnesium and zinc. Other vitamins and minerals may also modify

14 Mar

The Healing Essential Fatty Acids, Part 3: Some Functions of LA and ALA

EFAs are involved with producing life energy.

Much is still unknown about the functions of EFAs in our body. Of the two, LA has been studied far more extensively than ALA. Both are difficult to work with, because they are easily destroyed, but ALA is five times

12 Mar

The Healing Essential Fatty Acids, Part 2: Chemical Nature of Essential Fatty Acids

Flax oil and hemp oil are nutritionally superior to safflower oil.

The usefulness of LA and ALA in our body results from their chemical properties. EFAs attract oxygen. This property made EFA-rich oils useful to the paint industry as ‘drying’ oils, which dry and harden when exposed to air. Oils commonly

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