Are flaxseeds like bitter almonds, where just a few ounces could kill you, or more like regular almonds where regular dietary intake wouldn’t even come close? Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ So Should We Be Concerned About the Cyanide from Flaxseed? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/should-we-be-concerned-about-the-cyanide-from-flaxseed) in raw flax? Watch the thrilling conclusion in my next video. In this video I mentioned Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen Checklist (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/dr-gregers-daily-dozen-checklist), where you can see my recommendation of one tablespoon ground flaxseed per day. What was that about apricot seeds: See Do Apricot Seeds Work as an Alternative Cancer Cure? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-apricot-seeds-work-as-an-alternative-cancer-cure/) and Does Laetrile (Amygdalin or Vitamin B-17 Work as an Alternative Cancer Cure? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/does-laetrile-amygdalin-or-vitamin-b-17-work-as-an-alternative-cancer-cure/). Why do I recommend a daily serving of flax seeds? See what the science says: • Flax Seeds for Hypertension (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Flax-Seeds-for-Hypertension) • Flaxseeds & Breast Cancer Survival: Clinical Evidence (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseeds-breast-cancer-survival-clinical-evidence/) • Can Flax Seeds Help Prevent Breast Cancer? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Can-Flax-Seeds-Help-Prevent-Breast-Cancer) • Flaxseed vs. Prostate Cancer (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseed-vs-prostate-cancer/) • Flax Seeds for Breast Pain (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flax-seeds-for-breast-pain/) • Flaxseeds vs. Diabetes (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseed-vs-diabetes/) • Flaxseeds & Breast Cancer Prevention (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseeds-breast-cancer-prevention) Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-well-does-cooking-destroy-the-cyanide-in-flaxseeds and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-well-does-cooking-destroy-the-cyanide-in-flaxseeds. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgements for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Captions for this video are available in several languages. To find yours, click on the settings wheel on the lower-right of the video and then "Subtitles/CC." Do you have feedback about the translations in this video? Please share it here along with the title of the video and language: https://nutritionfacts.zendesk.com/hc/requests/new To view the subtitles in transcript format, click on the ellipsis button below the video, choose "Open transcript", and select the language you'd like to view them in. Image credit: alexdante via Pixabay. Image has been modified. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Losing a pound of fat can take as few as 10 calories a day or as many as 55, depending on whether you’re improving food quality or just restricting food quantity. Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ If you missed the first two videos about calories per pound, check out The 3,500 Calorie per Pound Rule Is Wrong (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-3500-calorie-per-pound-rule-is-wrong) and The Reason Weight Loss Plateaus When You Diet (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-reason-weight-loss-plateaus-when-you-diet). Here are those body weight calculators I mentioned: NIH Body Weight Planner (https://www.niddk.nih.gov/bwp) and LSU Weight Loss Predictor (https://www.pbrc.edu/research-and-faculty/calculators/weight-loss-predictor/). I have tons more weight loss videos already, which you can here on the topic page (https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/weight-loss), but there are gazillions more coming based on my new book, available for pre-order (https://nutritionfacts.org/how-not-to-diet/) now. Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-new-calories-per-pound-of-weight-loss-rule and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-new-calories-per-pound-of-weight-loss-rule. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgements for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Captions for this video are available in several languages. To find yours, click on the settings wheel on the lower-right of the video and then "Subtitles/CC." Do you have feedback about the translations in this video? Please share it here along with the title of the video and language: https://nutritionfacts.zendesk.com/hc/requests/new Image credit: Vidmir Raic / pixabay https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org