Omega 3 From Different Sources

by Louis
(USA)

Humans spent most of their history on the arid plains of East Africa. That being so, how does it happen that we require for optimum health a fatty acid complex found in significant quantities only in deep-water, cold-water fish?

What I am getting at is, isn't this just another prematurely released over-hyped fad, using very small study groups and coming to the very conclusions which it set out to test?

Thanks.

Answer:

Louis: A little more than 20 years ago, omega 3 fatty acids where declared by science as ESSENTIAL FATS. It is not a fad, it is science.

Actually you can get omega 3 from vegetable and animal origin. Some vegetables are high in ALA, an omega 3 fatty acid, as flaxseeds, and the animals that have a diet based in grass or some algae convert that ALA to EPA and DHA. As an example of that we have free range cattle that is high in omega 3 fatty acids and some fish.

It was something like this: man used to eat, as a Palaeolithic human, lots of raw meat and some vegetables and fruits (There was no fire or agriculture for thousands of years of evolution). Some vegetables have ALA, a precursor of DHA and EPA, the real omega 3. This ALA can be converted to omega 3 by humans and animals, so whenever they ate their meat they had a good chunk of omega 3 also.

Today, meat is low in omega 3 and high in omega 6 since cattle is fed grains not grass, as before. We should eat free range cattle.

You may read more at What is Omega 3

My best to you,

Alfredo E.

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