Do Chia Seeds Help with Belly Fat?

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/whic....

Here’s some more on flax:
• Flax Seeds for Hypertension (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Flax...)
• Flaxseeds & Breast Cancer Survival: Clinical Evidence (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flax...)
• Can Flax Seeds Help Prevent Breast Cancer? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Can-...)
• Flaxseed vs. Prostate Cancer (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flax...)
• Flax Seeds for Breast Pain (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flax...)
• Flaxseeds vs. Diabetes (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flax...)
• Flaxseeds & Breast Cancer Prevention (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flax...)

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/salm...) and even cooked eggs (see Total Recall (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/tota....

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