Incredible Health Benefits of Flaxseeds

9 Surprising Health Benefits of FlaxseedsBrian Vaszily – Flaxseeds are one of the oldest cultivated foods to be used for their health-promoting benefits and absolutely deserve a spot at the top of the superfood seed list, right next to hemp seeds and chia seeds.

Despite their small size, flaxseeds are packed full of nutrients, antioxidants, and plant compounds that have numerous benefits for the human body.

In fact, you’ll be surprised at just how much you can get out of them by consuming only a tablespoon or two a day. Continue reading

Reasons to Eat More Flaxseed

The science has never been clearer: flaxseed deserves to be top of the list of the world’s most important medicinal foods. For just pennies a day it may protect against dozens of life-threatening health conditions.

flaxseedSayer Ji – Many of us have been enculturated to think about the nutritional dimension of our food intake in terms of the government’s recommended daily allowances (RDAs), focusing on getting the “right” amounts of carbohydrate, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals. However, I believe this focus on the quantifiable dimensions of food versus the qualitative/informationl elements has profoundly lead us astray.

We bear witness to this in the fact that Americans are some of the most overfed yet simultaneously malnourished people on the planet. It is no wonder that we we are dying by the droves, with heart disease and cancer representing the most common (and also most preventable) causes of premature death.

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