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To: Joe NYC who wrote (3755)	2/25/2009 2:10:01 PM
From: Doren	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39348

The above study came from Valorex, a French company that has developed a way of “thermo-extruding” the seeds from the flaxseed plant, and is now marketing them as an additive for cattle feed. See this is what I mean about equilibrium. Why is it that vitamins and minerals or nutrients MUST be EXTRACTED? Why is it that we think that industrial processes and or chemical extraction that removes all the other nutrients that are naturally found in food are superior... to eating the food in it's natural form? Isn't that what our bodies evolved to do? I take flax seed, grind it (because the seeds are hard) and mix a little in with my oatmeal. With a little stevia it's fine tasting, reasonably low cal/low carb, lowers cholesterol, is pretty cheap and super simple to prepare. As for vitamins. I do take some low levels for this reason: Modern foods are different than natural foods. For example corn bears little resemblance to the plant it was derived from. Corn originally came on cobs about the size of your thumb. We've unnaturally evolved food to suit our tastes without giving a lot of thought to the fact that some of the original nutrient value was affected. So I take low levels of vitamins on the theory that we get less nutrients from modern forms of food.