vegetable oils, inflammatory lipids

• Flax seed oil, Linoleic Acid
• Peanut oil, Arachidonic Acid
• nut and seed oils, all

Diseases related:

• Cytotoxic, kills individual cells
• Genotoxic, disrupts DNA
• Mutagenic, physical defects
• Obesogenic, weight gain
• Atherogenic, hardening of arteries
• Carcinogenic, cancer causing
• Thrombogenic, blood clots
• Ulcerative colitis

Linoleic Acid (LA)

• vegetable oil, lipid
• omega-6 fatty acid
• 18:2 (ω-6)
  • flax seed oil
• Linen, woven cloth
• Linseed oil, wood preservative
• Abundant in
  • safflower
  • sunflower
  • corn
• More than 50% of
  • soybean oils
  • sesame
  • almonds

Arachidonic Acid (AA)

• vegetable oil, lipid
• omega-6 fatty acid
• 20:4 (ω-6)
  • peanut oil