Flax Your Way to Better Health
by Jane Reinhardt-Martin
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Author: Jane Reinhardt-MartinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-10-19
ISBN: 0971230404
Number of pages: 120
Publisher: Jane Reinhardt Martin
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- Airborne Effervescent Health Formula, Original Orange, 10 Tablets (Pack of 3)
- RESPeRATE Blood Pressure Lowering Device
Book Reviews of Flax Your Way to Better Health
Book Review: Excellent book about the health benefits of flax seeds.
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is specifically about flax seeds, rather than flax oil or
essential fatty acids.
The book starts with a brief and very interesting history of the use
of flax seeds.
The bulk of the book is a listing and explanation of studies that
demonstrate the health benefits of eating flax seeds. The
explanations are written in a clear and friendly language suitable
for all types of adult readers.
The upshot of many of the studies described in the book is that
eating flax seeds is beneficial for your health and that eating flax seeds
has health benefits you will not get by taking flax oil. This is
good news for the health conscious consumer. Flax oil is expensive
and highly perishable. Flax seeds are cheap and stable.
The book ends with 15 recipes that use flax seeds as an ingredient.
The recipes come with nutrition information, including how much
flax a person can expect to consume with each serving. Nine of the
recipes are vegetarian, five are vegan, and one is omnivorous.
Summary of Flax Your Way to Better Health
After years of trying out home remedies, prescription drugs, and fad diets in our efforts to improve our health, isn?t it time we all learned the simple truth that ?we are what we eat?? As a physician, I like to encourage my patients to take charge of their health by giving them choices based on science, not fads, and backed up by ongoing research. Flax represents one such option. Flax an old food source that is currently being rediscovered by scientists in the lab, by the medical community, and by nutritionists. As Jane Reinhardt-Martin explains in this book, choosing to add flax to your diet is one way to help improve your heart?s health, and it has benefits for fighting cancer, renal disease and other health problems as well. As Reinhardt-Martin makes clear, a big part?but by no means all? of the benefit from flax comes from its oil. In these ?anti-fat? times, recommending the addition of a food that is high in oils may seem counterintuitive, but it?s not. The use of oils can actually be healthy. Monounsaturated cooking oils such as canola and olive oils have established their reputations as heart healthy alternatives to corn and other vegetable oils. Now research attention is being directed to grapeseed and flax oils to discover their benefits as well. And benefits there are. Flaxseed and its oils have been shown to help raise HDL-cholesterol (the ?good? cholesterol) while lowering LDL-cholesterol. This is good news for your heart, and it can contribute to your healthy longevity. In this book, Reinhardt-Martin provides you with a solid grounding in the current state of research knowledge about the benefits of flax, but she doesn?t stop there. She knows that, for all our best intentions, most of us are unlikely to incorporate a new food in our daily diet unless we can do it conveniently, so she?s tracked down a host of sources where you can get the product. She also knows that we generally don?t make a particular food a regular part of our meals if we don?t know how to make it taste good. With that in mind, she has taken the trouble to put together some tempting recipes, all of which incorporate flaxseed. Think of them as ?the proof in the pudding.?So read on, and remember you are learning to make better choices. Robert A. Flowers, M.D. Internal MedicineAlternative Medicine Books
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