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A
Adipose Tissue: (also see Body Fat)
Aging: (see Sugar or Carbohydrates)
Agriculture
Allergies: (also see Enzymes)
Alpha-amylase: (see Enzymes)
Amino Acids: (also see Protein)
Anachidonic Acid: (see Essential Fatty Acids)
Antioxidants
Aspartame: (see Food Additives)
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD):
 
B
Behavior and Nutrition
Blood
Blood Pressure
Blood Vessel
Body Fat: (also see Toxins or Fat )
Bones : (see Osteoporosis )
Brain: (also see Essential Fatty Acids)
Butter
 
C
Caffeine: (also see Diabetes)
Calcium: (also see Vitamins or Osteoporosis)
Calorie: (also see Sugar, Carbohydrates or Fat)
Cancer
Carbohydrates: (also see Glucogenesis, Pancreas or Sugar)
Celiac Disease
Cells: (also see Disease or Essential Fatty Acids)
Cellulite: (also see Essential Fatty Acids)
Child & Infant Health:
Cholesterol
Colloidal Minerals: (also see Minerals)
 
D
Deficiency: (also see Nerves or Essential Fatty Acids)
Diabetes: (also see Pancreas)
Diets
Digestion
Disease: (also see Heart Disease)
Drugs
 
E
Eisonanoids: (see Prostaglandins)
EFAs:(see Essential Fatty Acids)
Endocrine system:(see Pancreas)
Energy: (also see Essential Fatty Acids)
Enzymes: (also see Milk or Lactose)
Essential Fatty Acids: (also also see Energy or EFAs)
Essiac®
Exercise: (also see Metabolism)
 
F
Fat (Dietary): (also see Body Fat and Adipose Tissue)
Fiber
Fish Oil: (also see Essential Fatty Acids)
Folic Acid:(also see Vitamins)
Food Additives
Free-radicals:(see Antioxidants)
Fructose (fruit sugar): (see Sugar or Carbohydrates)
 
G
Genetic Modification
Glucogenesis: (also see Carbohydrates)
Glucose
Gluten
Glycemic Index
Gout
Grains: (also see Food Additives)
Growing Methods
 
H
Heart Disease
Herbs
Homogenization:(see Milk)
Hydrogenation:(also see Trans fats)
 
I
Innuit
Insulin: (see Pancreas)
Irradiated Food
 
J      
 
K
Ketones
Kidneys
 
L
Lactose: (also see Milk or Enzymes)
 
M
Margarine
Metabolism
Milk: (also see Lactose or Enzymes)
Minerals
Monosaccharides
Muscle
 
N
Nerves: (see Deficiency or Essential Fatty Acids)
Nitric Oxide
 
O
Obesity
Okinawans: (see Innuit)
Osteoporosis
 
P
Pancreas: (also see Diabetes)
Prions:(see Disease)
Polycystic Ovary Disorder
Pregnancy/Infant Development
Protein
Prostaglandins: (also see Essential Fatty Acids)
 
Q

R

S
Salt
Serotonin
Silver Supplements
Skin
Soy
Soy and Infants
Soy and Sex
Sugar: (also see Carbohydrates)
Sweeteners
Syndrome X
 
T
Toxins: (also see Body Fat)
Trans fats: (also see Hydrogenation)
 
U

V
Vaccinations
Vegetarian/Vegan Diets: (also see Soy & Protein)
Vitamins: (also see Minerals and Soy)

W
Water
Weight Loss

X
Xanthine Oxidase: (also see Milk)

Y

Z
Zinc: (also see Vitamins and Minerals)

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This is precisely why we don't get enough "parent" omega 6 in our diet. Omega 6 is found in many foods, but nearly all of them are highly processed, and what we're left with are damaged oils that hurt us rather than help us. Remember to check your food labels for trans-fats like partially hydrogenated soybean oil, vegetable oil, or any other highly processed oils. These oils are known to be very dangerous to your health,and are directly linked to Heart Disease and Cancer.

Trans fats are Damaged & Dangerous Molecules!

Trans-fats produced by hydrogenation:
The process of hydrogenation requires a metal catalyst, like nickel, and is stopped when the margarine looks butter-like, without regard to the "unnatural" fat by-products, which have been produced (1). These by-products include trans fatty acids, lipid peroxides and other potentially toxic compounds. Some large studies have been published, which suggest that ingestion of trans fatty acids are considered a risk factor for heart disease (2). Trans fatty acids can also block the body’s ability to use EFAs in the production of eicosanoids and they may lessen the transfer of the life giving nutrient, oxygen, across cell membranes (3).

References:
1. Erasmus U. Fats and Oils. Alive Books, Vancouver, Canada, pp 84-89, 1986.
2. Mensink RP, Katan MB.  Effect of dietary trans fatty acids on high-density and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in healthy subjects.  N Eng J Med 323:439-445, 1990.
3. Kinsella JE, et al.  Metabolism of trans fatty acids with emphasis on the effects of trans, trans-octadecadienoate on lipid composition, essential fatty acids and prostaglandins - an overview.  Am J Clin Nutri 34:2307-2318, 1981.

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