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	Antioxidant Omega 3
	Beef CLA
	Biochemistry Reaction
	Bipolar
	Chemical Configuration
	Chemical Formula
	Cooking oils
	Daily intake
	Difference Omega 3 and Omega 6
	Directions for Taking Omega 3
	Essential Nutrients
	Excess omega 3
	Fat, Protein, Carbohydrate
	Hemp Amount of Omega 3
	Kidney Functions Omega 3
	Nile Perch
	Olive Oil
	Algae Oil
	Omega Ratios
	Benefit Fish - Flax
	Eczema
	Omega 3 Deficiency Food Digestion / Gluten intolerance
	Aches and Pains
	Canine Renal Failure
	Omega 3 Fatty Acids for Dogs
	Fish Oil Linolenic Acid Content

Essential Nutrients Omega 3 fatty acids

Essential nutrients are those nutrients we must get in food in order to survive. There are many essential nutrients, omega 3 being one of them.

Let’s use an example from the plant kingdom to explain how essential nutrients work. Suppose a farmer plants a crop, and four essential nutrients are needed to grow the crop. Say that under ideal circumstances, the land could produce 100 bushels of the crop. The soil contains 100% of the required amount of substance A, 150% of substance B, 200% of substance C, 50% of substance D and lots of extra nutrients. The crop will only be 50% of what it could be. No matter what else is present, the land can only produce as much as the least prevalent essential nutrient allows.

Let’s apply that to people. Say a person needs one gram each per day of saturated fat, linoleic acid (omega 6 fat) and alpha-linolenic acid (omega 3 fat). (NOTE: These are made-up numbers, not actual recommendations.) Say the person gets 3 grams of saturated fat, 2 grams of linoleic acid and .5 gram of alpha-linolenic acid per day. This person is getting plenty of fat, but metabolic processes will break down and he will suffer health problems because the minimum amount of one type of fat is absent.

Unfortunately, this scenario is common among people who eat a typical Western diet. Although they get plenty of healthy food, most do not get enough of the essential nutrients, omega 3 being one. Because they do not get enough omega 3, they suffer various degenerative diseases, such as heart disease, depression, inflammatory bowel disease, cancer, asthma, diabetes 2 and others.

Most Westerners do get too much saturated fat, and it is a good idea to cut down on the amount of saturated fat in your diet. It’s more important, however, to make sure you get enough of the essential omega 3 fats in your diet. You will be healthier with too much saturated fat and enough omega 3 than you will with the right amount of saturated fat and too little omega 3. You need to make sure you get the essential nutrients first, and then take away the unhealthy excess.

Essential Fatty Omega 3

The story of how the Western diet developed and the effect it has had on our intake of essential fatty omega 3 acids is fascinating. Some people believe we co-evolved along with available food, and that makes the “cave man” diet ideal. The cave man diet relies on indigenous foods that are readily available where people live. For the most part, it is a diet of fresh foods that includes fish, wild game and native plants and grasses. It is a diet high in protein and fat. Most of the fat is unsaturated and is in the form of omega oils, and the ratio of omega 6 to omega 6 fatty acids is appropriately balanced for humans.

Over the course of human history, people have developed agricultural and animal husbandry practices and have cultivated food so that it is more readily available. We still relied on locally available, seasonal, organic, natural foods until about a hundred years ago. Our diets were still high in protein and fat, and especially in essential fatty omega 3 acids.

That all changed with the rise of modern agriculture. Farmers and scientists developed new methods and new products that enabled them to grow more food faster than ever before. They became able to engineer foods that did not spoil quickly and that satisfied consumer tastes. Improved transportation and the new farming methods made it possible to transport food long distances. In Western countries, we had more food, and a larger variety of food than ever before.

Every technological advance has costs, though, and that includes the advanced food technologies of the 20th century. One of the costs has been that the nutritional content of our food has changed.

Instead of relying on local grains, we have increasingly used wheat for cooking and baking. The wheat has been engineered to produce a fine, white flour. This has increased the gluten level and decreased other nutrients. The Western diet now contains large amounts of refined wheat products, which is one possible factor in the dramatic increase in inflammatory bowel diseases.

We “beef up” our beef by feeding them this high gluten grain, along with animal byproducts, hormones, antibiotics and other substances to make them put on weight as quickly as possible. This has resulted in beef that is tender and flavorful—and high in saturated fats and virtually devoid of omega 3 fatty acids.

We can now ship produce all over the country, and we can eat fresh lettuce nearly anywhere in the US any day of the year. That lettuce, however, is nearly empty of nutrients because of the long time between harvest and consumption.

The Western diet—which has given us more food and more food variety than any other people in the history of the world—has also given us a plague of degenerative diseases such as obesity, diabetes 2, heart disease and arthritis.

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