| The American diet has undergone a major | | | | health benefits. For one, Omega 3 operates as a |
| revamp in the last one hundred years or so due | | | | system regulator by aiding physiological processes |
| to the mounting penchant for fast food items and | | | | such as metabolism, hormone production with the |
| processed food labels. While these delectable food | | | | adrenal gland, and digestion among others. Omega |
| sources have managed to excessively fill the | | | | 3, likewise, conveys HDL or the good cholesterol |
| bloodstream with the greasy and lingering type of | | | | into the body that helps with the removal of LDL |
| fat, its increased volume with the diet has likewise | | | | or bad cholesterol formation with the arteries, |
| prompted an underlying shift in the uptake of | | | | which interrupts blood transport towards the |
| essential bodily nutrients. This development likely | | | | heart and cause cardiovascular diseases. And if |
| severed the ideal proportion of 60% unsaturated | | | | you are looking for a weight loss supplement, the |
| fat against 30% saturated fat in terms of total | | | | husk of the flax seed is packed with dietary |
| fat intake with the alarming prevalence of obesity | | | | fibers that instantly provides a full feeling when |
| and its related health risks. | | | | the desire to binge sets in. Now flax seed |
| The body cannot synthesize essential fatty acids | | | | supplementation would surely work in favor of |
| such as Omega 3, a major resource for the | | | | the obese and overweight who are intending to |
| unsaturated type of fat that must be sourced | | | | take a rain check on the impulse to eat |
| out through the diet. Recent findings, however, | | | | obsessively. |
| revealed the dwindling traces of Omega 3 in the | | | | The problem of obesity has now progressed to |
| diet, and an increase of transfats and Omega 6. | | | | epidemic proportions with around 30% of the |
| So how do you restore the required level of | | | | population found under the clutches of said |
| unsaturated fats, or Omega 3, back in the diet? A | | | | disease. And while the government can only do so |
| daily supplementation of milled flax seed comes | | | | much to regulate transfat use with food chains |
| highly recommended. | | | | and processed food manufacturers, getting |
| Flax seed happens to be the most abundant plant | | | | around to limit one's consumption of saturated |
| resource for Omega 3 fatty acids. Thus, a few | | | | and transfats as well as pumping the body with |
| tablespoons of milled flax seed sprinkled over | | | | ideal levels of unsaturated fats through flax seed, |
| meals will most likely fill the RDA gap for Omega | | | | can do a lot to avert health risks and reduce the |
| 3. The increased uptake of Omega 3 nutrients | | | | incidence of obesity. |
| into the bloodstream conveys a threshold of | | | | |