Did you know flax makes it easier to control your weight naturally?

A simple step that works on all our weight control mechanisms

One of the most surprising benefits customers report from eating flax is noticing their waist tuck in by a few inches and seeing the scales move down. A newcomer to flax recently told me how it makes him feel fuller and how his appetite feels naturally calmer. I know this isn’t imagined. As soon as I added flax to my own diet, reaching the weight I wanted felt easy, almost as if I’d suddenly gained more willpower.

Flax’s ability to support healthy weight control is also backed by science. Studies consistently show that when flax is added to the diet, people tend to eat less and lose weight more easily.

Flax is a nutritious health food, it tastes good, and its unique properties work throughout the body, the brain and the hormones that control appetite. This makes it easier to achieve your target weight and, just as importantly, to stick to it.

Flax works through several overlapping mechanisms:

• Soluble fibre makes meals more filling by absorbing water and forming a thick gel
• Omega-3supports key satiety hormones such as leptin and GLP-1
• Omega-3helps ghrelin, the hunger hormone, switch off, improving appetite control
• Insoluble fibre helps reduce the temptation to snack between meals. Undigestible flax fibre is an ideal trigger for the ileal brake, the feedback mechanism in the small intestine that induces satiety and reduces the desire to eat between meals
• Omega-3supports metabolism, helping fats and calories to be burned more easily rather than stored
• Flax contains a wide and complex range of fermentable fibres that feed beneficial gut bacteria. These produce short chain fatty acids such as butyrate and acetate, which help switch off hunger signals at later meals and even the next day
• Omega-3 supports muscle building, and muscle cells act like small furnaces, burning spare calories all day long

When appetite is under control, it becomes much easier to make healthy food choices. Those choices then reinforce appetite balance going forward, making weight control feel far more natural and sustainable.

This is just a snapshot of the many ways flax can help support healthy weight loss and help keep it off.