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GOOD FATS
Essential Fatty Acids For Your Health
From Practical Living - your healthy heart
Written by Sheldon H. Gottlieb, MD., FACC
February, 2004
About 20 Years a go a cartoon in the New Yorker featured a man and a woman pushing a cart in a supermarket. The man
is asking: "Saturated fats or polyunsaturated fasts - which is the one that practically kills you?"
Most Forecast readers know that saturated fats are bad for diabetes and bad for the heart.
But what about all the other fats, and especially those called "essential fatty acids"? Just what's so
essential about them?
The fatty acids story starts in the late 1920s. A husband and wife research team at the University of Minnesota, George and Mildred Burr,
had published important studies of vitamin E, a vitamin that is found in fat. Vitamin E helps to keep fat from becoming
rancid, or spoiled. They also studied the effect of fat-free diets in rats.
They also found that rats fed a totally fat-free diet developed very dry, scratchy, itchy skin; often, their tails
would fall off, too. At about the same time, a similar unfortunate natural experiment was performed on human infants. Because
of concerns about the digestibility of fat in infant formula from the 1920s until about 1950, human infants were often fed a
low-fat formula made from skim milk and sugar. These formula-fed infants developed dry itchy skin, poor vision,
and behavioral changes, just like the rats. Similar changes were seen in infants and adults who were kept on the early versions
of artificial, intravenous (and fat free) tube feedings. Researchers also observed that these skin, eye, and behavioral
changes could be quickly reversed in both rats and humans by feeding them complex fats such as lard.
Research soon showed that there was a class of fats that were essential for human health - and that
those fats couldn't be made by the human body. Some people proposed that these essential fats were vitamins - vitamin F. However,
unlike vitamin E, vitamin F never captured the imagination of the public, except for a few heavy metal music fans of the rock group Vitamin F.
The two types of essential fats that humans cannot make and that we must get from food are called omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids.
Omega-3 fatty acids are found in many plants, nuts, and seeds, and especially in cold-water fish such as bluefish
and salmon, and in the fat of animals that eat fish, such as seals and whales. Omega-6 fatty acids are found in grains such
as corn, and in corn oil and safflower oil. They are also found in the fat and meat of animals that have been fattened
on grain. Mother's milk is also rich in essential fatty acids.
Saturated fats are solid at room temperature; unsaturated fats are usually liquid at room temperature. Saturated fats make our
cell membranes stiff, raise cholesterol and blood pressure, and are associated with the development of type-2 diabetes and coronary heart disease.
The importance of the essential fatty acids to human health has been shown in many studies on fish oil supplements. These studies show that
high levels of omega-3 fatty acids significantly reduce the rate of sudden death after heart attacks. These effects are thought to occur because
omega-3 fatty acids get directly into the cells of the heart, where they lower heart rate and also stabilize the heart's rhythm. A study published by Frank
Hu and associates in the journal Circulation in April 2003 also showed convincingly that a higher consumption of fish and
other sources of omega-3 fatty acids was associated with less coronary heart disease and mortality in women with diabetes.
So what's the best advice for people with diabetes regarding essential fatty acids? The American Diabetes Association recommends two
to three servings of fish per week, in order to obtain adequate amounts of omega-3 fatty acids. The American Heart Association has published
similar recommendations.
For vegetarians, one alternative is to increase consumption of plant-based products that contain omega-3 fatty acids. The
most easily available oil that contains high amount of omega-3 fatty acids is canola oil, Flaxseed oil, ground flaxseed meal, and
nuts and seeds are also important sources of omega-3 fatty acids.
The American Diabetes Association also recommends that people with diabetes limit their intake of saturated fat by substituting
monosaturated fats and complex carbohydrates for saturated fat. Good sources of monosaturated fats are nuts, seeds and olive oil.
Monosaturated fat has been shown to reduce the level of triglycerides and it may improve control of blood glucose.
Here is my recipe for "Flax Flan". It is adapted from my diet plan, which can be found at www.greenbeanandleans.com. If you try it, you'll be getting a
nice supply of the essential omega-3 fatty acids, along with at least 8 to 10 grams of soluble fibre:
Mix ¼ cup of flaxseed meal and ¼ cup oat bran withone egg white, and lightly beat it with enough water to make a thin paste. Put it in the microwave for
two minutes and it will come out as a thick porridge, or flan. Serve with a topping of fat-free yogurt (an anchovy-paste topping would add even more
omega-3's), fresh strawberries, and a dash of sucralose and you'll have an approximately 250-calorie breakfast that will raise your blood glucose
hardly at all, while boosting your supply of essential fatty acids.
You may find that this recipe will soon become an "essential" way to start your day!
Alternative Sources of the Omega (3, 6, 9) EFA's
Osumex's Rice Bran oils (RBO) is rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids including Omega-3, -6, -9
and the unique "Linoleic and Linolenic acids" . It also includes Vitamin E (α-, β-, ω-, δ-, tocopherol),
which acts as an antioxidant. RBO is very effective in reducing bad cholesterol, thins the blood and eases high blood pressure.
RBO will also moisturise the skin "from within" and to improve skin complexion. With LB17 live probiotic
it improves skin health especially its healing properties.
The above information is provided for general
educational purposes only. It is not intended to replace competent
health care advice received from a knowledgeable healthcare professional.
You are urged to seek healthcare advice for the treatment of any
illness or disease.
Health Canada and the FDA (USA) have not evaluated these
statements. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent
any disease.
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