I1T HAS BEEN suggested that polyunsaturated fatty acids control, by some mechanism, the levels of blood cholesterol and other blood lipids.1 S Sinclair suggested4 that dietary deficiency of essential fatty acids is responsible for human atherosclerosis. He proposed t-hat the mechanism of atherogenesis involves a replacement of the polyunsaturated fatty acids in serum cholesterol esters by satur...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW With escalating rates of allergic disease, it is vital to explore novel causal pathways. This review examines the evidence for a potential role of changing dietary intake of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in the development, treatment and prevention of allergic diseases. RECENT FINDINGS Although it is difficult to determine the contribution of altered (decreased) dietar...

Medical plants and their combinations due to the wide range of biologically active substances can influence on various links pathogenetic mechanism development diabetes mellitus its complications. One such is an anidiabetic herbal mixture ( Urtica dioica L. leaf, Rosa majalis fruits, Vaccinium myrtillus Mentha piperita herb Taraxacum officinale roots) with established hypoglycemic, hypolipidemi...