Beneficial Oils for Your Health
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If you listened to most doctors, you’d have to believe Fish Oils are fabulous. The problem with getting your essential Fatty Acids from Fish Oil is that you get more than you bargained for.
Many Fish Oils, especially those derived from fish livers, are contaminated with dioxins, mercury, organo-chloro pesticides, and PCBs.
These Toxins can be removed by processing, but the processing results in damage to the essential Fatty Acids. Are the promises of fish just a false hope? Or is there a way to get the benefits of Fish Oil without fish?
Let’s start by taking a look at what it is in Fish Oil, and other oils, that provides the essential nutrition your body needs.
Essential Fatty Acids are substances from fats the body cannot make but must have for health. Essential Fatty Acids are found in two chemical families, n-3 and n-6. The body uses these Fatty Acids to make various kinds of regulatory hormones.
An n-3 fatty acid can’t be turned into an n-6 fatty acid, and an n-6 fatty acid never becomes n-3. Both kinds of fatty acids are necessary for normal function. The fatty acid expert Udo Erasmus says that the average of consumption of essential, n-3 fatty acids today is one-sixth what it was 150 years ago.
From 95 to 99% of the population of North […]
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