If the diet lacks adequate amounts of either linoleic or alpha linolenic acid, deficiency symptoms will develop that include scaly skin, hair loss and slow wound healing. Omega-3 fatty acid deficiency leads to impaired brain and retinal development in experimental animals and possibly in premature births. Although a low-fat diet is generally healthier than one [...]
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ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS, AS THE NAME IMPLIES, ARE ESSENTIAL AND MUST BE CONSUMED IN OUR DIET ON A DAILY BASIS. BEST CONSUME AS WHOLE FOOD, NO PRECESSED AT ALL, BUT ON THE REAL WORLD IT WILL O K TO CONSUME FLAX SEED OIL OR BETTER YET CAMELINA OIL, DUE TO THE FACT THAT FLAX SEED OIL, [...]
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Since about 1985 medical journals have been reporting on Omega-6 and Omega-3 fatty acids. In the publication American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Dr. Artemis P. Simopoulos said in 1991 that modern “western diets are deficient in Omega-3 fatty acids compared with the diet on which humans developed and their genetic patterns were established.” In the same [...]
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