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Fat for fewer strokes. (updates).
Fat found in specific, unprocessed and unheated vegetable oils protects against the risk of stroke, says a study that appeared in the August 2002 issue of Stroke, a journal of the American Heart Association.
Linoleic acid--an essential fatty acid--is found in corn, sunflower oil, safflower oil and soybeans, but not in fish oil. It is just one variety of fat in a group known as the omega-6 essential fatty acids.
Utako Umemura, PhD, of Tokyo Bunka Junior College, and other researchers at university and medical centers across ...
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