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Attention fellow bloggers, desk jockeys, students and anyone else who's chained to a computer all day: eating strawberries and flaxseed can help.

Lifehack.org tells us twenty foods and drinks that will help boost productivity, including essentially any kind of fruit, water and green tea, sunflower seeds and lowfat yogurt.

Flaxseed may sound intimidating, but it's pretty easy to add it to tons of foods, and its chock-full of health benefits like better concentration and lowering of LDL (bad) cholesterol. (To remember which cholesterol is which, I remember "LDL" as lousy cholesterol, and "HDL" as happy cholesterol. Silly, but it works).

My roommate recently bought flaxseed and ground it up in our coffee bean grinder, so we sprinkle a little in everything we can: oatmeal, omelets, yogurt, pasta, smoothies...the list is endless. If it's easier, you can also add flaxseed oil, but a tablespoon or two a day will do it. Then, just keep your fluids up and your heart rate steady, and you'll be a workin' machine.

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Filed under: Trends, On the Blogs, Health & Medical, Ingredients

Cholesterol-lowering cheese?

Just when you thought that they had lowered the fat and calories (and taste) in just about every product there is, increasing "good" fats and vitamins in an effort to give even the worst foods some nutritional benefit, along comes a product that surprises you. A new study published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that a simple addition of Stanol, a substance known to lower cholesterol, to cheese gave the cheese a cholesterol-lowering effect.

At first glance, it may seem like a rather obvious conclusion because stanol is in other supplements and drugs, where it has been successfully shown to lowerer LDL cholesterol levels. It has never before been combined with a food product and its success when combined with cheese means that the risks associated with eating high-cholesterol foods could be mitigated simply by fortifying them.

More studies are needed, but it looks like we could be seeing a new wave of cholesterol-lowering foods in the future.

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Filed under: Science, Health & Medical, Ingredients

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