FOOD
Dr Leaf suggests human bodies
require a minimum dose of fish oil
and that not getting it brings re-
* Turn LDL cholesterol into a form that can clog arteries
venge by a way of multiple diseas-
* Attack cell’s genetic material, causing mutations that can led to
es. “Our epidemic heart disease
cancer.
and cancer may be the result of
* Destroy cells of the eyes, leading to cataracts and macular de-
a human fish oil deficiency state
generation.
so enormous we fail to recognize
* Interfere with normal processes, raising blood pressure
it.” – Ewan Cameron, M.D, Linus
* Destroy nerve cells, leading to neurological deterioration, such
pauling Institute of Science and
as Parkinson’s disease and lou Gehrig’s disease.
Medicine in California
* Promote inflammation, as in arthritis and asthma.
New research underscores the
* Damage sperm, leading to infertility and birth defects
enormous lifesaving power of fat
in fish. Eating fatty fish can direct-
ly intervene to save people from
death and disability from heart
ing diseases. If you have sufficient the Department of Nutrition and
attacks. Studies have found that
omeg-3 fatty acids, they can check medical Dietetics at the University atherosclersclerosis – diseased
or cool down the arachidonic
of ILLinois at Chicago, found that
and clogged arteries – worsens,
engine that is spewing out the
omega-6s comprised 80percent of the less marine oil a person eats,
disease producing eicosanoids.
the unsaturated fatty acids cir-
Dr Lands has developed a formula
culating in Americans’Cell mem-
that he says can precisely pre-
THE BATTLES BETWEEN FISH
branes. In camparison, omega- 6
dict an individual’s odds of heart
AND CORN OILS
levels were closer to 65 per cent
attack; a simple finger-prick test
At the cellular level, the stakes
in the French, 50 per cent in the
measures a person’s blood ratio
are high. In short, as Dr. Lands
Japanese and only 22per cent
of omega-3 and to omega-6s, the
explains, your cells are battle
in Greenland Eskimos. Omega-6
lower the risk of heart attack. Sim-
grounds where omega-3 and
excesses worry experts, such as
ilarly, studies reveal that a high
omega-6 fatty acids complete
professor Emeritus Alexander
ratio of omega – 3 fatty acids to
supremacy. Which wins day after
leaf of Harvard university medical omega -6 fatty acids in the blood
day helps determine the state of
school. When our bodies evolved cuts your chances of cancer. Al-
your health. The truth is that for
eons ago they were nourished
though it’s largely unappreciated,
most people in the western coun- by lots of omega 3s and virtual-
our overconsumption of omega-6
tries, it is continual defeat. We get ly no omega-6s, he notes. Now,
oils, prevalent in margarines, sal-
far too much omega-6 and little
with the invention of processed
ad oils, cooling oils and processed
omega-3 in our diet. Dr . Lands
vegetable oils, the ratio is upside
foods, is helping create a health
say Americans eat at least 10-15
down in many cultures. Today’s
disaster, says Artemis Simopoulos,
times more terrestrial omega- 6s
fish- deficient diets leave our cells M.D., president of centre of genet-
than marine omega-3s- a “horri-
starved of marine oil and over-
ics, Nutrition and Health in Wash-
ble proportion”. By contrast, Eski-
burdened by modern processed
ington, D.c. True, heart authorities
mos, who are known for their very oils and meat fats – Big Macs and first encouraged the widespread
low rates of chronic disease, eat
Mazola oil- foreign to our cells, he use of such vegetable oils to lower
three times more omega- 3s than
believes our relatively new fatty-
blood cholesterol, not suspecting
omega -6s, primarily because they acid imbalance throws cells into
the oils could have detrimental
eat so much sea food. Proof of the major malfunction, predicating
effects on other aspects of health,
problem is found in the tissues of
our current epidemic of chronic
such as fostering inflammatory
Americans. In recent studies, Phyl- illnesses, such as heart disease,
diseases, lowering immunity and
lis Bowen, associate professor in
cancer, diabetes and arthris.
promoting cancer. Such omega-6
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