Comparison of the effects of linseed oil and different doses of fish oil on mononuclear cell function in healthy human subjects.
Wallace FA, Miles EA, Calder PC.
Br J Nutr. 2003 May;89(5):679-89.
PMID: 12720588
"Results indicated that mice on diets supplemented with flaxseed meal and flaxseed oil had, on average, 45 percent fewer tumors in the small intestine and the colon compared to the control group."
The scientists published their research findings in February in the academic peer-reviewed international journal Nutrition and Cancer.
Essential fatty acids, or EFAs, are fatty acids that cannot be constructed within an organism from other components (generally all references are to humans) by any known chemical pathways; and therefore must be obtained from the diet. The term refers to t