Omega 3 Oils: The Essential Nutrients

re: Omega 3 Oils: The Essential Nutrients

TLT — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:43:12 GMT

I am surprised that the articles above did not include references by the Weston A. Price Foundation. They strongly recommend not reducing or eliminating the natural animal saturated fats that everyone seems to demonize. They also strongly agree to the N3/N6 ratios noted in these articles with uses of natural fats such as coconut, palm, lard, virgin olive oils, and beef tallows. They are also strong advocates of high quality cod liver oil and high vitamin butter. This is a bit of a contrast with Hans Larsen's second sentence ending with "saturated fats should be kept to a minimum." Always interesting....

re: Omega 3 Oils: The Essential Nutrients

Judirish — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:31:32 GMT

No one ever offers recommendations for people who are highly allergic to fish, nuts and eggs who want to achieve the proper omega-6/omega-3 ratio for good health, not to mention other nutritional issues. It would really be nice if the people offering health advice would give their general advice to the public, but then also make a recommendation for those of us who can't ingest the krill oils, almonds and such. I would be so grateful to get those recommendations.

re: Omega 3 Oils: The Essential Nutrients

tigator — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:15:23 GMT

What about olive oil or organic virgin coconut oil? I take 1 tablespoon of organic virgin coconut oil once a day. I love it! Fish oils make me sick to my stomach.

re: Omega 3 Oils: The Essential Nutrients

Dr. Deborah — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:28:28 GMT

This is by Ray Peat, who has been advising me on my health for years. If interested see the rest of the article, with citations at raypeat.com/.../fishoil.shtml

The Great Fish Oil Experiment

Reading medical journals and following the mass media, it's easy to get the idea that fish oil is something any sensible person should use. It's rare to see anything suggesting that it could be dangerous.

During the recent years in which the U.S. government has gone from warning against the consumption of too much of these omega-3 oils ("to assure that the combined daily intake of two fatty acids that are components" "(i.e., eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)) would not exceed 3 grams per person per day (g/p/d)") to sponsoring biased industry claims, there has been considerable accumulation of information about the dangers of fish oils and omega-3 fatty acids. But there has been an even greater increase in the industry's promotional activities.

The US government and the mass media selectively promote research that is favorable to the fish oil industry. The editorial boards of oil research journals often include industry representatives, and their editorial decisions favor research conclusions that promote the industry, in the way that editorial decisions in previous decades favored articles that denied the dangers of radiation and reported that estrogen cures almost everything. Marcia Angell, former editor of the NEJM, has observed that the "significant results" reported in published studies can be properly interpreted only by knowing how many studies reporting opposite results were rejected by the editors