The secret to the benefits of chia seeds may be that you have to grind them up.

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Here’s a link to the video I referred to: Which Are Better: Chia Seeds or Flax Seeds? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/which-are-better-chia-seeds-or-flax-seeds/).

Here’s some more on flax:
• Flax Seeds for Hypertension (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Flax-Seeds-for-Hypertension)
• Flaxseeds & Breast Cancer Survival: Clinical Evidence (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseeds-breast-cancer-survival-clinical-evidence/)
• Can Flax Seeds Help Prevent Breast Cancer? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Can-Flax-Seeds-Help-Prevent-Breast-Cancer)
• Flaxseed vs. Prostate Cancer (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseed-vs-prostate-cancer/)
• Flax Seeds for Breast Pain (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flax-seeds-for-breast-pain/)
• Flaxseeds vs. Diabetes (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseed-vs-diabetes/)
• Flaxseeds & Breast Cancer Prevention (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseeds-breast-cancer-prevention)

Salmonella risk is also why we shouldn’t eat raw alfalfa sprouts and should be wary of poultry (Salmonella in Chicken & Turkey: Deadly but Not Illegal (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/salmonella-in-chicken-turkey-deadly-but-not-illegal/)) and even cooked eggs (see Total Recall (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/total-recall/)).

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