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The reason most nuts and seeds need vitamin E is due to the unsaturated
fatty acid, which is susceptible to lipid peroxidation. If you eat seeds
and nuts that are a bit rancid, you are not doing your body any favors. I
saw a bag of raw pecans in a plastic bag in a local grocery store that were
obviously rancid just by the look of them. If you eat nuts or seeds along
with foods high in unsaturated fatty acids, such as pork fat, chicken fat,
or various oils (safflower, sunflower, flax, canola, soybean, corn,
vegetable, etc.), you are creating the potential for plenty of lipid
peroxidation. If you don't believe me, do your own search for 4-HNE, which
seems to be the most dangerous by product of omega 6 polyunsaturated lipid
peroxidation. www.pubmed.com is the best source, in general. It's a bit
more complicated than this, for example, getting the arachidonic acid out of
your body should be your number one health priority, but it takes about 2
years to do this on a high saturated fatty acid diet, such as the one I've
posted here several times (as "nick"), so in the meantime, regardless of
what you eat, try to limit the amount of in vivo lipid peroxidation
(basically, fats or cholesterol going rancid inside your body). Aside from
avoiding the unsaturated fatty acids (saturated fatty acids are not subject
to lipid peroxidation), you can eat a mixture of foods that contain potent
and plentiful anitoxidants - berries, rosemary, dark chocolate, etc.

But all this is moot if you don't eat any packaged (refined) fats and