On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Amadeus Schmidt wrote:

> Animal fats are like what the animals eat: farmed is bad.

Actually, the w-6 to w-3 ratio of even farmed beef is not bad.
According to USDA it is only 2:1.  The trouble is that the w-3
fat is in the form of alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), which is less
desirable than EPA.  Farmed beef is devoid of EPA.

> Dark green vegetables (herbs like purslane) cary the
> valuable fat composition which can be found in true wild game.

True, but again the absolute amounts are very small, and you have
to eat more ALA than you would need of EPA/DHA to get an
equivalent metabolic effect.

> So available sources of w-3 fats are (in order of magnitude)
> - fish fats (alas the freshness is of concern)
> - brain, marrow
> - flaxseed
> - many nut fats
> - dark greens

To my knowledge, only walnuts have an appreciable amount of w-3.
Do you know of others?

Todd Moody
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