Eric,
Please trust me on this. Omega 3 and 6 issues are critical. To be honest ,
you really have to read "The Omega Diet" by Artemis Simopoulos to understand
it. Simopoulos has written a beautiful book which makes it all clear. Udo's
book is wonderful but it is a heavy reference book for all the little
details that you'll never find elsewhere. Simopoulos' book makes it all
crystal clear- it is 10 times easier to read than Udo's. It tells you what
Omegas mean for your health (they are of life and death importance). I've
actually posted a review of he omega plan at www.amazon.com . Simopoulos
ibis one of the world's leading nutritional authorities and has very high
posts in the National Institute of Health- the world's largest research
organisation. She is fully aware of all of Loren Cordain's work and has
edited a major reference on paleolithic diet nutrition issues.
In essence, omega 6 are important (they are an essential fatty acid) but we
only need a little. They compete with omega 3's for the same enzymes.
Therefore their ratio is critical. It ahs crept up from around 4 to 1, and
now is around 15 to 30 to 1 in most US citizens. Around 40% of US citizens
have too little omega 3 in the blood to be detectable..

Ben Balzer


Date:    Wed, 17 May 2000 20:01:03 -0700
From:    Eric Armstrong <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Omega 3 question

It's going to take some convincing for me to see
Omega-6's as "nasty". As for the metabolic poisons
known as trans fats, aka partially hydrogenated
anything, the science bears that out. (And for which
many of our major food producers should be shot at
sunrise, right next to tobacco executives.)

But what, pray tell, is the basis for denigrating
the metabolically active Omega-6, when Omega-3's are
*so* active that in anything except exceedingly
small doses they shortcircuit some otherwise needed
processes.

My major information sources on this subject are the
books by Udo Erasmas, Robert Erdmann, and a few other
books on the subject. What is the latest news purported
to be?

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