Amadeus wrote:
> Hillary wrote:
>> Also that LA
>> and ALA may not even be essential, as previously believed.
>
> LA/LNA not essential?
> This is the first time that I hear such things from LA/LNA.
> Could you please point to some sort of reference, where I could
> find it?

Amadeus, here's a link to the paper on the possible non-essentiality 
of LA/LNA:
http://thepaleodiet.com/pdf/flaxseed_oil/The%20essentialityofarachidonicacidanddocosahexaenoicacid.pdf

Here's another paper:
http://www.thepaleodiet.com/articles/Eaton%20N3%20Paleolithic.pdf
From a brief scanning of this paper, it looks like he's saying that 
you get lots of LA/LNA from food sources. Maybe he's just saying that 
one doesn't need to supplement with flax, rather than that you 
shouldn't get any LA or LNA at all. I haven't had time to study it, so 
if you do get to I'd like to hear what you think. My working 
hypothesis is that, since I don't eat a lot of brains (actually, none 
at all), therefore I need to supplement with krill oil or fish oil. I 
figure I get plenty of LA and LNA from muscle meats--grass fed beef 
and others.

Hilary