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Beware of food playing tricks:

Surrounded by holiday food as we are, it’s a good time to remember that food can trick you.

You should Google Dr. Joseph Hibbeln sometime.  H-I-B-B-E-L-N – he’s a researcher with the National Institutes of Health.  And he’s found that one of the components of the vegetable oils we use in fried food stimulates the body to make its own “endocannabinoids” – note that the root of that word, sounds similar to cannabis.  Because endocannabinoids, which the body makes from soybean oil, and corn oil   mimics the psychoactive substance in marijuana.

This is all based on animal experiments, but it would explain why we’re attracted to fast food, and why we eat so much of it – because the oil gives you the same post-high munchies you’d get from pot smoking.

If you’re looking for a BENEFICIAL oil– Dr Hibbeln says, no question:  it’s Omega 3 – fish oil.  And he’s put up a video which should get your dinner guests talking:

:10 seafood

That alone doesn’t prove anything, but he says there are studies showing that fish oil can actually be used as therapy for depression:

So have fun, but eat wisely.

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