As children, my brother and I were constantly subjected to my mother’s host of home remedies from dandelion root tea to fat back poultices. The granddaddy cure of them all, however, was cod liver oil. Even the family dog wasn’t safe from its fishy grasp. My mother regularly mixed a little cod liver oil in ...
Any time you see “essential”, when it pertains to health, be it vitamins or other items, it means that the body isn’t capable of producing those items and they have to be gotten from outside sources like food or supplements. There are two main types of essential fatty acids (EFA’s), Omega-3 and Omega-6, Virgin olive ...
If you are health-conscious and have an interest in vitamins and nutritional supplements, you more than likely have taken notice of the Omegas: Omega-3 and Omega-6. They are also known as “Essential Fatty Acids”, or EFAs. Researchers have found that they are essential to growth in young children and animals, and more recently, to our ...
The world of cooking oils is a confusing one. With so many choices lining supermarket shelves, which one should you choose? One oil that’s commonly found in packaged foods is soybean oil. Soybean oil is made by cracking soybeans and extracting the oil from the bean’s interior. The extracted oil is then refined and used ...
The American Heart Association tells us to eat fish twice a week in order to help keep our hearts healthy. This is because of the high Omega 3 fatty acid content in most fish. Tilapia is fish, so we should eat more, right? Wrong, a new study by researchers at the Wake Forest University Baptist ...
It was once thought that a diet high in fat caused high cholesterol levels. However some natives, like Eskimos, eat diets very high in fat. The fat in their diet comes from cold water fish, seals and other saltwater creatures, and they have very little heart disease. Scientist’s began to study the effects of different ...