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| "In
our culture, most overweight results from excessive
consumption of sweet and starchy foods. If we limit
our intake of carbohydrates to our body's energy
requirement, normal body weight is one of the benefits.
Fats suppress appetite and therefore help to stabilize
body
weight." |
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To
know how fats affect health, we must embrace two opposite
stories. Most
people know only the negative half of the fats story.
We've heard it in many forms. The gist of the story
is that fats
are bad. Hence, the popularity of the "low-fat" and "no-fat"
diet craze. The reality is, used over a long time, a
no-fat
diet will kill you and a low-fat diet can make you very
ill. It can set you up for cardiac arrest, stunt growth
in children and harm liver, kidney, brain, immune, gland
and organ function. In adults, early signs of insufficient
healing fats include dry skin and low energy levels.
What
we need is not a high, low, no or fake fat diet.
We need a Right Fat Diet. Such a diet emphasizes green foods,
protein,
minerals, vitamins, and optimum intake of the fats
that heal.
The truth about the fats that kill is that most
of
the health problems blamed on fat result from destructive
processing that can change healing fats into killing
fats.
The fats that heal are sensitive to destruction by
light,
oxygen (air) and heat.
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we fry, hydrogenate, or deodorize our fats,
a percentage of the healing molecules they
contain becomes chemically changed, damaged,
unnatural and toxic." |
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When we fry, partially hydrogenate (margarine, shortening, partially hydrogenated
vegetable oils) or deodorize (to make colorless, odorless,
tasteless oils) our fats, a percentage of the healing molecules
they contain becomes chemically changed, damaged, unnatural
and toxic.
Frying fats increases cancer and cardiovascular
risk. Partial hydrogenation produces trans-fatty
acids,
which according to the Harvard School of Public Health,
double risk of heart attack and kill at least 30,000
people
in the US each year.
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Like minerals, vitamins and essential amino
acids (proteins), they are essential for health and essential for life. Our
body cannot make EFAs. It requires them for normal function
of every cell, tissue, gland and organ.
Some of the benefits of using a superior EFA product
are:
- increased stamina
- fast recovery from fatigue after exertion
- elevated mood
- greater calmness under stress
- better mental performance
- improved skin
- lower triglycerides
- healthier cardiovascular system
- better digestion
- bowel regularity
- less inflammation and auto-immune symptoms
- increased immunity
- optimum insulin function
- increased fat burning
- better weight management
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These are called omega 3 (omega-3) and omega
6 (omega-6).  Each family has several members: the EFA parent,
several EFA derivatives and a few dozen EFA-derived hormones
called eicosanoids. The parent omega-3 and omega-6 EFAs, called alpha-linolenic
acid and linoleic acid, respectively, are found in small
amounts in green vegetables and in large quantities in certain
seeds and nuts. Flax is very rich in omega-3, but poor in omega-6
and can lead to omega-6 deficiency. Sunflower and sesame seeds
are rich in omega-6, but contain almost no omega-3. Fatty cold water
fish such as salmon, sardines, mackerel, pilchard, herring,
trout and albacore (white) tuna contain omega-3 and omega-6 EFA derivatives.
Eating fresh fish is better for health than swallowing overprocessed,
damaged fish oils with their rancid burp taste.
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we must mix and match
the right kind of seeds.  Too
much of one crowds out the other and vice versa. If we
optimize intake of both EFAs, the body itself makes the
derivatives and hormones that EFAs are parent to. Optimum
intake is about 2 to 5 daily tablespoons of an appropriate
EFA-rich oil mixture with omega-3 and omega-6 in the right ration.
EFA-rich seed oil blends made with health and the right
ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 in mind, are found in brown glass bottles
and boxed in the refrigerator section of health food stores.
These oils also contain "minor" ingredients with
major health benefits which make up about 2% of the oil
and include chlorophyll, lecithin, vitamin E, carotene
and phytosterols.
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(affecting
people on low, no, wrong, or fake fat diets) can cause many
degenerative symptoms including:  low energy, dry skin, hair
loss, kidney, liver and brain degeneration, attention deficit
disorder, depression, poor wound healing, sterility, miscarriage,
arthritis-like conditions, heart beat abnormalities that
can lead to cardiac arrest and growth retardation in children.
A omega-3 deficiency (affecting 95+% of affluent populations)
can cause: low energy; weakness; impaired vision and learning;
poor motor coordination; tingling sensation in limbs, high
serum triglycerides and blood pressure, sticky platelets,
edema, digestive problems, acne, weight gain, inflammatory
diseases, allergies, auto-immune conditions and cancer. The
easiest way to prevent and reverse EFA deficiency is with
EFA rich oils made with care, with the right omega-3 to omega-6 ratio
(2:1).
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In our culture, most overweight results from excessive consumption
of sweet and starchy foods. If we limit our intake of carbohydrates
to our body's energy requirement, normal body weight is one of
the benefits. Fats suppress appetite and therefore help to stabilize
body weight. The good fats (omega-3 especially and omega-6), to
some extent, increase body fat burning, decrease body fat production,
and increase body heat production (i.e. fat burnoff without exercise).
For best results, lower carbohydrate intake and increase consumption
of good (omega-3 and omega-6) fats made with health in mind.
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Remember,
fats don't make you fat.