61 benefits of omega 3 fatty acids

[elte]

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/61-heal...atty-acids

[C C]

One past study claims that very little of the ALA in flaxseed oil actually gets converted by the body into DHA even at high doses, though EPA does at least emerge. It's unfortunate that higher dosage is required for flax to be partially equivalent to fish oil and what some other marine oils carry. Would be nice to have a cheap plant alternative to the latter, though who knows what undesired agencies and results may fall out of those sources and their factory refining processes too.

[elte]

Chia and hemp seeds are gaining some popularity as substitutes for flaxseed . However those can be pretty expensive compared the flaxseed meal.  Fukushima got me to give up salmon and that left me with flaxseed meal, which at least has a good flavor, and so eating a lot doesn't bother me much since even ALA omega 3 should offer some benefits over omega 6 and 9 fatty acids.  There was mention somewhere that flaxseed might not be pure because it is a side product of flax fiber agriculture.

Farmed salmon is suspect by a lot of people as being inferior to wild salmon. However, the salt added to canned wild salmon can cause trouble for people sensitive to extra sodium intake.

Krill-sourced DHA & EPA also is pretty pricey.

[C C]

Unfortunately, I avoid flax as meal, despite there being other grain, nut, and vegetable products that might contain similar amounts of the same potential source of my inconsistent, knee-jerk reaction. I once suffered a non-fatal level of cyanide poisoning from eating frozen lima beans for a few days that were merely "warmed-up" in a microwave rather than thoroughly cooked, boiled (whatever). As a result I've developed a kind of irrational phobia for some items publicized for their having a precursor to toxic cyanide compounds. The FDA supposedly proclaims that most manufacturing processes succeed in removing cyanogenic gycoside from flax meal. Still advising us not to consume more than 16 grams of flaxseed or flax meal a day to avoid possible bad effects. But due to the past event, that minor precaution alone is enough to reflexively trigger the aforementioned unreasoning reluctance in me.

[elte]

Sorry about you're bad reaction to lima beans.  I hope I don't have a bad reaction to flaxseed meal since I have been eating about 4-6 grams per day, which is pretty much under that 16 grams recommended upper limit.  My thought is a lot of plants try to poison their seeds because they want to get sprouted on the ground rather than eaten.  It could be why black beans give me a bad headache.  If memory serves, navy beans also did but it has been a long time since I switched over to split peas as my main protein source, after also previously trying and giving up on lentels for giving me a splitting headache as well.  My body seems to like the split peas, however, as I eat almost, a cup measured dry, per day, gently cooked which gives great flavor.

I cook everything in the microwave.  I was mixing the Lima beans with potato and other vegetables and cooking them well.

There seems to be threshold where cyanide goes from harmless to toxic.  In small amounts it can be converted to vitamin B-12 or excreted  as another compound in the urine, according to the New York department of health.

On second thought, I think that I have been eating about four times the recommended limit. I've been eating about 2 ounces, or 50 grams, per day.