Category Archives: Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids

Open Sesame: The Nutrition of The Sesame Seed

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Sesame seeds are produced by the sesame plant (Sesamum indicum), an annual with yellow, white or pink flowers which grows to around one meter in height. Sesame is grown mainly in India, China and Mexico due to the presence of … Continue reading →

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Brazil Nuts

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Robert Barrington

Brazil nuts come from a giant evergreen tree with latin name Bertholletia excelsa. The brazil nut tree grows wild in the Amazon forest, and efforts to cultivate it outside of this area have largely been unsuccessful. This is because the … Continue reading →

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Oxidised Fats: Toxic Waste?

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Robert Barrington

Unsaturated fats are those with a double bond in their carbon chain. This gives the molecules a pronounced kink which is characteristic of this group of fats. However, unsaturated fats are useful in human nutrition for a number of reasons … Continue reading →

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What Is The Most Toxic Food?

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Robert Barrington
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Five Food You Might Think Are Healthy But Arn’t

Posted on August 21, 2014 by Robert Barrington
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Fish: Brain Food

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Robert Barrington

Fish has traditionally been called brain food, and for good reason. Fatty cold water fish such as tuna, mackerel, salmon, pilchards and trout accumulate long chain fatty acids in their skin, belly cavity and flesh. These oils have a low … Continue reading →

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Refined and Unrefined Oils

Posted on August 5, 2014 by Robert Barrington
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Do Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Lower Cholesterol Levels?

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Robert Barrington

It is believed by many that saturated fatty acids can detrimentally modify lipoprotein levels, and that this is a cause of cardiovascular disease. However, care should always be exercised when analysing data from studies that manipulate the fat content of … Continue reading →

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Can Your Mother’s Diet Make You Fat?

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Robert Barrington

The health effects of fatty acids and other lipids in the diet has played an important role in shaping nutritional research over the last 50 years. Saturated fat and cholesterol have been portrayed by mainstream ‘authorities’ as demons run amok … Continue reading →

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Fatty Acids: You Are What You Eat

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Robert Barrington

High quality diets are protective of disease. However, defining a high quality diet is difficult, but some consensus has been reached in this regard from nutritional scientists. Generally, diets containing high concentrations of processed and manufactured foods with long shelf … Continue reading →

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