Flaxseed- A Shield against Diseases?

We have progressed in the modern world making our lives comfortable with the help of industrialisation, urbanisation, and globalisation, social and economic developments. These plethoras of events have led to rapid alterations in diets and lifestyles like inappropriate diet, poor quality of nutrition, lack of physical activity and much other behaviour known to be detrimental to health. Thus, large population of people have poor health because of the increased incidences of diseases like obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, polycystic ovarian disease, allergies of different sorts and some types of cancers. Living a healthy life is a challenge for all of us in the modern day world as we are always being threatened by several degenerate lifestyle diseases. Indigenous populations tradionally used natural products to treat a broad range of diseases and ailments [1,2].