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Home / / Ground Flaxseed: The Silent Healer

Ground Flaxseed: The Silent Healer

ground flaxseedYou can’t smell it. You can’t taste it. Depending on which foods you add it to, you can barely see it. Yet, your body reaps the healing and health benefits of it when consumed. This "silent" partner in health is ground flaxseed!

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Benefits

Here are just a few benefits of ground flaxseed:

    • Great source of fiber: Fiber contributes to a feeling of fullness, reduces constipation and may contribute to lowering overall cholesterol.
    • Contains lignans: Lignans are a chemical compound found in plants that act as free-radical fighting antioxidants.
    • Good source of omega-3: Omega-3s provide the body with “good” fatty acids. These good fatty acids may contribute to reducing heart disease, stroke and joint pain.

How to Use Ground Flaxseed

Add 1-2 tablespoons of ground flaxseed to the following:

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  • Cereal 
  • Oatmeal
  • Smoothie
  • Tomato sauce (used for spaghetti and similar meals)
  • Chili

Flaxseed: Whole vs. Ground

I recommend ground flaxseed instead of whole flaxseed. Whole flaxseed can be more difficult to digest, making it more difficult for the body to receive all of the available nutrients. Ground flaxseed is easier for the body to digest.

Try ground flaxseed with your next meal. Your senses won’t detect it, but your body will reap its healing and health benefits.
Sloan Luckie bio picSloan Luckie has the God-given purpose to uplift and encourage others—body, soul and spirit. This purpose is evident through the writing of his two books, Journey to the Jacksons: A Mother’s Bold & Extraordinary Actions to Make Her Child’s Seemingly Impossible Dream Come True and Body Under Construction: How to Build and Maintain Optimal Health at Any Age. His books are meant to inspire people around the world to adopt healthy habits and make positive and bold steps to live life to its fullest. Luckie’s inspirational aptitude has garnered great public and media attention. He has appeared on NBC’s “The Talk with Marion Brooks” (click here to see video interview), “NY1 with Cheryl Wills,” graced the pages of Syd Jerome, Flex and Muscle & Fitness magazine, and conducted companion food-shopping events, fitness demonstrations, and book signings throughout the country.

Sloan is also a Certified Fitness Trainer, Specialist in Fitness Nutrition and founder of Body Under Construction, LLC—an organization devoted to optimal health and fitness.

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He lives in Flossmoor, Illinois with his wife, Sherree, and three children: Chanel, Sloan II, and Sterling. Follow him online at Twitter- Sloan Luckie and Body Under Construction, LLC.

 

By Derrick Lane | Published May 28, 2015

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