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Do you find food fads as annoying as I do? I tend to find that I hear about a particular product which is supposed to help me slim, reduce fat or have great nutritional properties and everyone is suddenly talking about it. People spend a lot of money buying it or a supplement of it and you hear all these tales of how good it is. I tend not to get on trend for a long time and so I do not try it and then eventually feel that I want to find out what everyone is talking about and see whether the products cracks up to be as good as it claims. Normally I am disappointed and vow that I will not do it again. However, recently a member of my family has had a heart scare and as a result I tend to be switched on to any information with regards to hearts and helping them be healthy. I was so sick of not knowing who to believe that I did a nutrition course so that I could find out the facts for myself. It was fantastic and I have changed the way my family eat as a result. We now have no ready meals or take outs and rarely eat out. We have started making sure that we have a big variety of vegetables and making sure that we have a good balance of proteins and carbohydrates. One thing that I have been looking into as well is flax seed recipes. I want the family to have enough omega 3 in their diet but they do not like oily fish or munching on seeds. I therefore try to hide seeds in other foods or use them to enhance recipes. I find that the family enjoy them this way and they even actively encourage me to buy flax seed when we are out shopping which is fantastic.