How Toxic Is Your Cooking Oil?*

Toxic oil found in the golden oil aisles at your local supermarket

Why should you care about damaged oil molecules?

A toxic oil molecule is an oil molecule that has changed shape and no longer looks like an oil molecule that nature designed. This means that these damaged oil molecules are toxic to your body...

5 Lifestyle Tips To Help Your Brain

These Lifestyle Tips Could Help Save Your Brain

Research has shown that there are a number of activities that can be incorporated into your lifestyle that can prevent cognitive and physical decline. Adopting some simple daily habits, and doing them regularly, as well as paying closer attention to the ones you do anyway, will result in both cognitive and physical health, as you get older.

Why Are Trans Fats Dangerous?

You have to become vigilant about your "food"

60 Minutes produced a documentary on trans fats recently. Here is a summary about these dangerous fats, as well as some extra information that wasn’t covered in the documentary.

CVD (Cardiovascular Disease) and EFA’s (Essential Fatty Acids)

The specifics about how the right fats affect heart function

There is overwhelming evidence that Omega-3’s can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), and the main areas that these Essential Fatty Acids (EFA's) target are:

• the inhibition of platelet aggregation
• restoring normal cardiac rhythm variability...
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Your Aging Brain Needs Specific Nutrients To Stay Healthy

Your brain cares about what you put in your shopping trolley

Although the discussion about brain aging generally centres on cures for dementia, with Alzheimer’s being the most common type, very few people discuss the possibility of preventing the problem in the first place. Isn’t prevention always better than cure?

Type II Diabetes & EFA’s

How the right fats and oils can protect you from this insidious disease

What is now called lifestyle or adult onset diabetes is a condition where ones body loses its sensitivity to glucose, and therefore becomes insulin resistant.

This means that cells do not respond properly to insulin when it’s present, because the cells have become less functional.

Depression And Fats And Oils

Eating the right fats and oils can lift your mood naturally

The link between heart disease and depression is a common one, and you may assume that it’s quite normal for someone who has heart disease to be depressed.