Over the past few months, I've posted several times on omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids and why finding the right balance between the two is important for your heart health.
I haven't shared any information related to omega 9's, mainly to avoid confusion. I read a recent article discuss...
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Your quiz characterized Omega 6s as "healthy"
Bob Bauer
Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 08:50 AMre: Your quiz characterized Omega 6s as "healthy"
Dick G
Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 12:33 PMBor Bauer's comment is spot on. Additionally, there is another down or dark side to vegetable oils. Not only are they high in omega 6's but they are extracted primarily with high heat and or solvents. As a result they are oxidized crap before even being placed in bottles. Think canola is a good alternative? All canola even expellar pressed products need to undergo a deodorization procees that involves heat. Canola is more unsaturated that most vegetable oils due to it's high content of triple unsaturated omega 3 (ALA). Corn, soybean, canola and other seed oils have been presented to us as health foods by an industry that stands (already has) to make a tremendous amount of money.
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NOT a cooking oil
David
Friday, October 30, 2009 at 05:15 PMYou characterize olive oil as a good cooking oil - WRONG. Why do you think producers go to such great lenghts to COLD press olive oil? It turns to a trans fat at cooking temperatures (it saturates in a bad way). Enough people are confused on this already; you are misusing your LN/RD title to promote your dangerous opinion. Suggest you take this article down & get the books out. Also you talk about omega 6/corn oil like it was okay - maybe if unprocessed it is. But the stuff you get in the market IS processed and IS poison.
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I disagree with the characterization of Omega 6 PUFAs as "healthy". Given the pro-inflammatory nature of Omega 6s and their overabundance in the typical American diet, most of us walk around in a state of chronic systemic inflammation. This is a major causal factor to scores of chronic conditions.
We must restore Omega balance or suffer the consequences. We need to look no further than the chronic disease burden in our country to see the manifestations of this situation.
All Omega PUFAs are not created equal!!!!!