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