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Mark's avatar

Raphael, if more people read your articles than read MSNBC, we'd live in a healthier and happier world.

But the foods than give us omega-3 give us vitamin D, which gives us a natural vaccine. Who wouldn't want that?

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Raphael Lataster (BPharm, PhD)'s avatar

Who? Maybe the unelected software engineer turned Bond villain who wants to block out the Sun ;) Not much money to be made in telling people to eat foods found in nature, fast, and get some rays.

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Kathleen Taylor's avatar

Agreed. I'd ignore Stanford professor and "director of nutrition studies" Chris Gardner who, with his wife Melissa, a political scientist, have four sons together and all follow a plant-based diet. [Also from Wikipedia]

From today's Epoch Times: https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/does-a-plant-based-diet-affect-mental-health-5798203

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Raphael Lataster (BPharm, PhD)'s avatar

That explains the man boobs! Gotta love a nutrition expert who tells us to steer clear from animal products, as if we don't have canine teeth, didn't eat meat over the past couple million years, as if we didn't evolve over millions of years to process meat and animal fat, etc. Apparently better to eat soy-based ultra-processed foods courtesy of Bill Gates.

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Kathleen Taylor's avatar

Haha! So true on all counts.

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Shelly Thorn's avatar

GREAT post! I really loved what you brought together here and was inspired after reading it.

With RFK Jr shining a light on this, and people like you carrying the torch, the roaches are scurrying out of their dark corners, expressing "exasperation" that we dare question the validity of toxins in our diet.

I added your excellent points into a curation of findings, offering the context of what has been known about these oils since as early as 1965....

Manufactured "vegetable oils" cause inflammation, diabetes, fatty liver, harm to brain, allergies, increased fat, depression, heart disease. Yet "experts" are "exasperated" that we favor natural fats.

https://birdseyeviewperspective.substack.com/p/manufactured-vegetable-oils-cause

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Terry Anderson's avatar

I've started taking Flaxseed oil to reduce blood pressure. I will soon start taking the ground product when it arrives. It's one of the richestsources of Omega-3 fatty acids. I expect the whole, ground product will work better, even though I have seen improvements after only a few days of the cold pressed oil.

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Mark's avatar

Terry, I also started eating milled flaxseed about a year and a half ago while cutting out seed oils as much as possible. I definitely noticed a difference, especially to my digestive system.

However, you might also want to look further into the differences between plant-based and marine omega-3, especially relating to heart health and blood pressure:

https://norwayomega.com/blog/the-difference-between-omega-3-from-plant-and-fish-sources/

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Terry Anderson's avatar

Well fine. I will start taking fish oil caps as well.

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