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January/February 2002 Alternative Health
Flax Oil As a True Aid Against Arthritis, Heart Infarcation, Cancer and Other Diseases

by Dr. Johanna Budwig - A Review

This fascinating little book offers a clear explanation of the most fundamental processes in the body’s metabolism of food in general, and fats in particular. In the process, it shakes the foundation of the common view of the causes and treatment of cancer and other diseases. The logic is very persuasive, which is not surprising, because Dr. Johanna Budwig is a world-renowned Scientist & Biochemist who has researched the healing benefits of fats for well over 50 years. Nominated seven times (!) for the Nobel Prize, she is currently in her early nineties and resides in her native Germany. Few people have had greater impact on modern nutritional science, which owes a great deal to Dr. Budwig's early discoveries on Fat Metabolism and Healing, even though much of the information has been ignored or suppressed by commercial interests.

Now translated for the first time in English, Flax Oil As a True Aid Against Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer and Other Diseases records a series of lectures on her research delivered to the scientific community. A must read, her research has brought about a scientific revolution by making the connection between Cancer and other diseases and impaired Fat Metabolism. The breathtaking news, however, is that these defects of metabolism can be corrected quickly and without drugs. Dr. Budwig describes taking moribund patients, with only hours to live, out of hospital and returning them to health. The regimen she recommends is based on a combination of flaxseed oil and a source of protein such as cottage cheese, which renders the oil water soluble.

She cites research that conclusively proves that animals or humans fed only hydrogenated or saturated fats ate six times as much those fed a diet containing only unsaturated fats! Basically all the commercial processes done to fat to increase shelf like make them harmful to the body. The oil she recommends is cold-pressed flax oil, and suggests adding a bit of honey to an opened bottle as a preservative.

This brilliant scientific mind is also a talented cook and has put together a wonderfully imaginative "cookbook" - a practical guide for the use of oils in daily meal preparation. Entitled The Oil Protein Diet Cookbook, it contains many practical and delicious recipes utilizing her life-saving recommendations about "Good" fats and "Bad" fats, and the proper use of fats in daily cooking.

Flax Oil As a True Aid Against Arthritis Heart Infarction, Cancer and Other Diseases by Dr. Johanna Budwig, Apple Publishing, $6.95, 62 pages

The Oil Protein Diet Cookbook by Johanna Dr. Budwig, Apple Publishing, $12.95, 176 pages