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Palmitoleic acid is responsible for keeping people healthy (lipokine) and for the smell of old people (nonenal). Overproduction of this lipid by blocking uptake of fats results in resistance to type II diabetes and atherosclerosis. If you listen to the commercials on television, you know that there are two sources of fats/cholesterol; you either make it in your cells or take from your diet. Recent research shows that mice that have been genetically modified to lack cytoplasmic lipid carriers, can’t store dietary fat, so they make more of their own lipids. Specifically, they make more palmitoleic acid (C16:1n7). By U.S. standards, those defective mice are very healthy. It turns out that palmitoleic acid acts as a lipid hormone that communicates between fat tissue and other organs, and maintains a healthy metabolic balance. Lipids are hydrophobic and require protein carriers to be moved from their source, such as the intestines, through the blood and to be offloaded into tissues. M...

This Middle Eastern Tomato Salad is a sure sign it's summer! It's definitely summer weather at my house, and I couldn't be happier about it.  And although I'm still trying to figure out how to create a garden like I had at my old house, I do have an abundance of fresh herbs growing in those pots along the sidewalk that I mentioned about a month ago.  I started with six pots, but quickly decided I needed more basil, so now I have 4 pots of basil, and one each of mint, parsley, rosemary, and dill all thriving in the sun.  (They're in one of the few places here that gets bright sun all day long, so I need to remember to go out at dusk and take some photos!) There's also sage, French tarragon, thyme, Greek oregano, and more parsley growing in a little strip of dirt on other edge of the sidewalk, so I'm doing pretty well in the fresh herb department. I've also been been to the farmers market three times, which is helping a little with the garden envy.  (If y...