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The Healing Power of Flax: How Nature's Richest Source of Omega-3 Fatty Acids Can Help to Heal, Prevent and Reverse Arthritis, Cancer, Diabetes and Heart

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This book is great. Hard to believe from a nutrition book, but this one becomes a pager turner. Once I started reading about all the great benefits of flax, I just wanted to find out about everything it has to offer. This book is full of great research, but you don't have to be a doctor to read it.
The best part is, once you decide to started using flax, there are a bunch of great recipes right at your fingertips. I've tried several of the salad dressings and so far I love them all.

I got this book expecting most of it to be geared toward it's treatment for cancer but was very surprised, delightfully so, to find large porions of it devoted to it's helpfulness in depression and in improving the health of pregnancy, infants and children. I think everyone on earth should be taking flaxseed oil and after you read this very good book you will feel the same way. Good health to you!

This book cuts through a lot of the nonsense making flax and it's benefits clearly understood. I like the fact that I could open the book at any page and just begin reading. I'm certainly a Flax fan now!!

There is a seed of truth in the claims made in this book,
but a wise consumer should know a few things about flax and
particularly flax seed oil before adopting the suggestions
made here.


Flax seeds are a pretty good addition to a diet. They have
a wonderfully nutty taste that adds character to baked goods
and hot cereal. They are very high in soluble fibre and can
be toasted in a skillet or incorporated in the crust of breads.



* flax seed meal goes rancid easily. you can tell if rancidity
has set in by a slightly bitter taste to the meal. The best
way to incorporate flax in your diet is to buy fresh whole
seeds from a source that turns them over frequently and grind
them yourself.(a small electric coffee grinder that you can buy
on Amazon will do the trick.) Flax seed oil is even more
perishable.

* the fatty acids in flax are no substitute for the EFA's in
fish or fish oil. The ratio of 3's to 6's is way too low and
research has established that most of us do not convert one to
the other.

* when you first start to add flax to your diet, be sure to
drink a lot of water.

--Lynn Hoffman, author of THE NEW SHORT COURSE IN WINE and
the forthcoming novel bang BANG from Kunati Books.ISBN
9781601640005

What info on a wonderful topic. I tried her ideas and have had fabulous results right away. I have turned all of my friends on to it and they love it too.