Background

Flaxseed has been shown in studies to lower blood glucose levels and this is now well accepted.  The study was to investigate possible benefits of spreading the intake of flax throughout the day. Continue reading Flax Three times a Day Can be Better →

Another notes in progress page: This is pure ChatGPT in response to: convert this a bad copy of info from Google Ai , into succint notes for a post for the flaxlady site: interesting that the type of vitamin E in flax actually works differently and sort of compensate for flax having less even though flax’s antioxidant protection is also supported by lignans:

What it yet again shows is don’t get fooled by some high numbers for nutrient levels; different versions of antioxidant nutrients seldom have the same level of power and whole foods that are apparently lower in a nutrient than another food often are more than supported by other anitoxidants and generally these work synergistically – the whole of the antioxidants together working far more effectively than the sum of the different antioxidants. The big message is we need a good varied diet, with lots of whole foods, complete with their various anioxidants and the body will take advantage of them and use what it needs for health.

🌼 Vitamin E in Flax – Why It’s Special

Flax contains a unique balance of vitamin E compounds (tocopherols) that behave differently in the body.

Continue reading Vitamin E in Flax Compared to Tree Nuts and Peanuts →

N.B this  is notes for a page  still in the process of being written

Nutrients in some foods are More equal than others

Two foods that appear on the nutrition labels to be similar but when investigated, provide our bodies with a very different balance of nutrients

Two foods with similar label calories can behave very differently physiologically and supply the bodies effectively different calorie load, which meanss despite having similar calories, some foods (including flax) can be far less “fattening” than you’d expect just for reading the calories on the label.

Continue reading Flaxseed vs Peanuts →

A whopping 130–170 kcal per 100 g of flax’s calories disappear from your daily calorie count as if by magic.  When you think that eating flax also helps you to control your appetite and snacking, the benefit to your waistline can be magical. Continue reading How 25% of Flax’s calories disappear →

Flaxseed can be an effective part of a natural approach to controlling blood pressure.  Flax may help lower blood pressure for people with hypertension and can support broader improvements in metabolic and cardiovascular health that indirectly benefit long-term BP regulation. Here’s what the human clinical research says about (1) ground/milled flaxseed and (2) flaxseed oil for lowering blood pressure Continue reading Flaxseed for Hypertension →