CLA and Weightloss, Cancer Fighter, Anti-inflammatory…

 Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is a healthy fat found in the meat and milk of grass-grazing cattle.

 In recent years, CLA has come into focus. And with good reason. Its health benefits range from blasting body fat to reducing the risk of cancer, heart disease and diabetes.

But CLA isn’t a “new” fat. It’s a traditional fat that has all but disappeared from the 21st century plate due to grain-feeding as opposed to grass-feeding.

In fact, when cattle are raised on fresh pasture alone, their meat and milk products contain three to five times more CLA than products from animals fed “conventional” diets of grain.

This is yet another instance of how modern technologies have interfered with nourishing our bodies.

Look at the many benefits of CLA:

CLA Fights Cancer: CLA is a powerful antioxidant that offers potent defense against cancer.

• In animal studies, very small amounts of CLA have blocked all three stages of cancer: 1) initiation, 2) promotion, and 3) metastasis. Most anti-cancer agents block only one of these stages, and come with a host of side-effects, of course.

• What’s more, in laboratory studies, CLA has been shown to slow the growth of an unusually wide variety of tumors, including cancers of the skin, breast, prostate, and colon.

• CLA is such a potent a cancer fighter that animal studies show as little as 0.5 percent CLA in the diet could reduce tumors by over 50 percent.

• In a Finnish study, women who had the highest levels of CLA in their diet had a 60 percent lower risk of breast cancer than those with the lowest levels. Read more