The Right Way to Get Your Omega-3s and -6s

OMEGA 3..

I am in search of a non-coaglulent source of omega 3. I've been told there is something on the market in pill form .. I am on Plavix so cannot take coagulent anything, Please advise.

Omega 6-3 updated information

http://brianpeskin.com/reports/Truth%20of%20PEOs%20CAMB.pdf

Says it all.......

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There is an additional space in the hyperlink, please could you correct the hyperlink? It is http://efaeducation.nih.gov/sig/kim.html

Coconut fat contains important short chain fats which are essential to health. Mary G Enig writes about them extensively. The benefits of prudent intake of saturate fats is a subject on its own.

The EFAs Omega 3 and 6 are far more important. They are external controllers. The body cannot make the 'mother' fats. Only plants make the 18 carbon chain mother fats. To get a supply of mother fats humans have to eat plants or things that have eaten plants.

In land based nature in plants omega 3 and 6 are more or less in balance. The exception are seeds and nuts which are high mainly in Omega 6. Seeds and nuts are scarce and seasonal. We turn seeds into vegetable oil high in Omega 6 and eat far to much of it.

Humans would have had a range of Omega 3;6 balances between about 1:4 and 4:1. Now the balances range form 10:1 and up.

We are overloading on Omega 6 and removing Omega 3 from the food chain. We store Omega 6. We burn Omega 3.

The consequence is cellular imbalance. Imbalanced cells produce imbalanced down stream chemical products, which equate to body malfunction, illness if you like.

The dietary imbalance between Omega 3 and 6 is arguably at the foundation of the growing numbers with western inflammatory conditions. Read round the subject and the conclusion is pretty much inescapable.

Why is this message not reaching us, and why is research into Omega 6 limited? Because it is a message that has no financial worth. You cannot make money out of a don't. It is the down stream effect of excess Omega 6 that many drugs and health solutions seek to target.

So the public and policy makes remain largely uneducated on the subject. Those nations that have grasped or are looking at the issue will have healthier happier more cost effective populations.

The truth about the effects of excess Omega 6 will be heard. It is simply a question of time. There will come a point were it is recognised budgets are exhausted and it is time to look seriously at prevention. That is assuming we have not all destroyed ourselves or our civilization in the interim by out consuming our environment in common with many other extinct species.

Omega 6 by moderating hormone and neurosteroid pathways arguably alters our behaviour to be subtly more aggressive acquisitive impulsive and self-interested.

One day governments and health organisations will tell their citizens about the consequences of excess Omega 6. In the interim nations and families will suffer the downstream chemical consequences of excess Omega 6 and a lack of Omega 3 in the diet.

Robert Brown

Author "Omega Six The Devils Fat"

www.Omegasixthedevilsfat.com

Coconut oil !!!

Yo, Gary, strategic use of the "Caps Lock" key, along with a smattering of punctuation, would help to keep your comment from coming across as a monotone scream.

By the way, coconut oil is not very healthy, but makes a great sexual lubricant. Give it a shot... I bet you're a screamer.

Polynesian health

Are you kidding? I was in all the islands of Tahiti. Papa Noel

(Santa) overweight, hid behind the helocopter that brought him to smoke a cigarette, several times. The women/young girls did not smile much due to missing teeth, from too much sugar they told me.

Everyone smoked, and many were overweight. I noticed the Chinese, who mostly own the grocery stores, besides not wanting to touch your hand put change on the counter, were the ones in

good physical shape.

If they do have good heart health it might be the coconut oil not their life style.

Coconut oil is 92% saturated fat, dude, and any "healthy" rumours you've heard about coconut oil is based on the preconception that Polynesian folks have low heart problems, but experts say that's more because they're active and non-smokers, by and large.

But coconut milk has more saturated fat than BUTTER.

So, you know. Check your facts, man.

OILS 3 AND 6

WHAT ABOUT THE GOOD OF COCONUT OIL WHY DO YOU NEVER MENTION IT

Lower Omega-6 Fats--Important For Your Health

It would be nice not be concerned or “bogged down” about omega-6 fats, but they inundate the food we eat, including the so-called “heart-healthy” foods. Most omega-6 fats come from vegetable oils: cottonseed oil, corn oil, and soybean oil. Check the ingredients in your margarine, mayonnaise and salad dressing---and you’ll likely find one of those oils (or “vegetable oil”, which is typically a soybean oil blend). Oils low in omega-6 fat are olive oil, flax oil and canola oil.

Recently, there has been a great deal of attention on the Japanese diet and the health benefits of their high omega-3 fat intake. But just as important, the Japanese diet is low in omega-6 fats, a significant point not usually mentioned. You need a balance of these two fats for optimal health.

The omega-6 fat issue is especially important in the USA, because the great majority of Americans do not eat enough of the right kinds of omega-3 fats, EPA and DHA, which are found in fish. American average an intake of 85 milligrams of these omegas, which meets only 13% of the international recommended intake of 650 milligrams per day. Notably, omega-6 fats compete with omega-3 fats, which have a negative impact on our health.

Yes, we need to be concerned about omega-6 fats.

Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD

Author, Ultimate Omega-3 Diet