By Alice Chow

Put the fat back? "That's right, you read it right the first time, "Put the fat back." I'm sure most of you heard about good cholesterol. Well guess what? The same is true of fat. In fact, the good or right fats and oils help build the HDL "good" cholesterol while the bad or wrong fats contribute to the LDL "bad" cholesterol.

Did you know that the right kinds of fat are actually essential to life itself, and without them we are much more susceptible to disease aned death? Did you know that the right fats, or more specifically what are known as Essential Fatty Acids (EFA's), protect us from some of the most devastating diseases of our time, including heart disease, cancer and stroke? Today, research scientists worldwide are dicovering the almost unbelievable health-enhancing and therapeutic potential of essential fatty acids.

We must learn how to avoid the unhealthy fats such as excess saturated fats from animal foods and the fats from hydrogenated sources like margerine, shortening, and fried foods. Plus we need to include the vital essential fatty acids from unrefined vegetable oils in our everyday diet.

The good fats found in flax affect our health at nearly every level. They combat infection and allergy by boosting our immune system -they act as cellular batteries, supercharging everyone of our one hundred trillion cells.

It's high time to put the fat back, the right fat that is, as found in unrefined flax oil.

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