Change in fatty composition of the diet found to boost the body’s fat-burning potential
Posted on 21 November 2008
Published November 21, 2008 . Filed under: Healthy Eating, Unhealthy Eating!, Women's Health
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Hi, but I would not say that sunflower oil is high in omega 6. As it is processed it is so adulterated that the bonds are not as they should be and is a fat not found in nauture. See Udo Erasmas.
November 25, 2008 @ 1:30 am
When I read that oily fish are a good source of omega-3 I wonder to what extent that is still true of farmed fish? I think I heard that a chicken’s diet has a significant effect on the omega 3:6 ratio and am curious as to whether this effect has been noted in fish. And whether it would be made public if it has been.
Any ideas?
November 28, 2008 @ 10:26 pm
Farmed fish shouldn’t be consumed. In addition to fish meal, they are fed grains (high omega 6 content) and garbage, not natural fish diets. Farmed salmon is grey and must be fed dyes to make the flesh look palatable to consumers.
There are additional environmental problems with fish farming such as escaped farmed fish that breed with wild fish, concentration of toxic water that spoils surrounding water, etc. that make fish farming problematic.
Aquaculture is a way to keep the cost of fish low and available year-round, but as we’ve seen with other industrial food production models, there are numerous downsides and costs not reflected at the cash register checkout. So being cheap and always available isn’t necessarily in our best interests. Cleaning up the environmental mess and dealing with the health ramifications of industrial food (if we even can) has a high price that few connect to the generally cheap abundant food that food technology supplies us, but connected it is.
November 30, 2008 @ 10:02 pm
Commercial chicken and eggs are higher in omega 6 FA as well, due to a “vegetarian” diet of corn and soy.
Chickens are naturally omnivorous, not vegetarian; in a truly “free range” situation where they not only have access to fresh air, but also to roam around on pasture or at least away from buildings, they will not only eat their grain rations, but they will also eat grasses and greens, as well as bugs, grubs, worms, etc., and are even known to chase down and eat small lizards, snakes, and rodents and their own eggs.
November 30, 2008 @ 10:10 pm