Confused about which cooking oil is best to use? You’re not alone!
If you just want the short answer, scroll down. Else keep reading.
Manufacturers will claim all sorts of things, but when you get right down to it, all cooking oils may be categorized as polyunsaturated (PUFA), monounsaturated (MUFA), and saturated fatty acids (SFA). You can think of a fatty acid as a snake:
Everyone knows that sleep deprivation is costly. You can do worse on school or employment exams, gain weight, become more forgetful, become depressed, prematurely age your body, lose some of your sex drive, or even crash your car if you aren’t getting enough sleep, because drinking under sleep deprivation is like driving drunk.1 In fact, a recent Harvard Medical School study estimates that sleep deprivation costs the U.S. $63.2 billion per year.2
Some causes of sleep deprivation are hard to stop–if you’re an airline pilot that changes time zones a lot, that’s hard to fix, short of a career change. But one big cause of sleep deprivation is easy to stop: blue light.
Why Would Anyone Pay For A High Powered Blender?
Drinking green smoothies each day for breakfast is a quick and easy way to eat an entire day’s worth of vegetable and fruit. The leafy greens (e.g., spinach, kale, chard, collard greens, etc.) give you a ton of vitamins and minerals, and the fruit sweetens the smoothie so that it doesn’t taste bad. The fiber in whole fruits and leafy greens help smooth out the sugar rush. We’ve personally been drinking green smoothies for breakfast since 2010 and sometimes even drink them for lunch.
THE COMPANY
Tramontina (pronounced “TRAM-on-TINA” in the USA and “TRAM-on-CHEENA” in Brazilian Portuguese, though there are variations on pronunciation in Brazil) a is a privately-held Brazilian company founded in 1911 by Valentin Tramontina, an immigrant from northeastern Italy.1 Tramontina’s headquarters are in Carlos Barbosa, near the southernmost tip of Brazil. Tramontina produces lots of products, but is best known in the USA for metalwares such as machete knives and cookware. Tramontina has over 7,000 employees and eleven factories worldwide as of 2015, including Chinese production.
Inuit Study Adds Twist to Omega-3 Fatty Acids’ Health Story (NYTimes).
I’ve made the point before that people have evolved more than strict Paleo interpretation before, and this article references a new study about how the high-on-sea-animal, low-on-vegetable diet may have encouraged adaptations for using omega-3 fatty acids to protect against heart disease and strokes.
THE COMPANY
Woll is a German cookware manufacturer that is known for thick, nonstick, aluminum cookware.