Essential fatty acids: know your efas - A sometimes confusing array of abbreviations and names are used for the various essential fatty acids and related terms. The following is a quick guid...

ADHD: The importance of the EFAs - Deficiencies in the body's reserve or production of essential fatty acids (EFAs) is a major contributory factor in a range of interrelated childhood d...

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Hempseed oil rich in efas - I found your article on essential fatty acids (WDDTY vol 7 no 7), extremely informative, but was immediately struck by the lack of comment on hemp see...

Weight-loss Surgery: Nearly 3 per cent died afterwards - Nearly a third of obese people who die following weight-loss surgery do so by their own hand. Overall, nearly 3 per cent of patients who have the sur...

Weight Loss: Calories don’t count, good food does - The only way to lose weight, according to the prevailing calorie theory, is by exercising more or eating less because weight loss only happens when...

Take vitamin e with your essential fats - Re your report on essential fatty acids (WDDTY vol 14 no 2), we know that EFAs are fragile and easily oxidised, so people who consume oils need to hav...

My weight-loss and liver-cleansing diet bonuses - To lose weight and cleanse my liver, I put myself on a diet of salads and cooked vegetables, little protein and hardly any fat. I drink copious amount...