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From: Kenny Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 5:19 AM
Subject: Re: [P-F] W-3's


> Actually the latter claim is false.  Commercial
> > grain-fed beef
> > > has a 1:2 ratio of w3 to w6 fats, which is not
> > considered low at
> > > all.
>
> I challenge the w3 to w6 ratio in today's grain fed
> beef in Todd's post, the ratio is more like 1:11 of w6
> to w3. In the Nicholson interview he states:

I think you mean 11:1
Actually just found a similar section in the Omega Diet, Artemis Simopoulos
(actually she's the editor of the same World Review of Nutrition and
Dietetics that Loren Cordain's "Ceral Grains : Humaities Double Edged Sword"
appeared in, as welll as prominent NIH posts in the past). Sorry TOdd, looks
like I was right.  Also looks like she discovered the "good egg"- on
holidays in Crete she noted the free range chickens eating grass, purslane
etc- boiled their eggs and took them to the states and got the NIH to ttest
them- result= high in W-3 fats.

Now W-6 fats may be essential but we have a glut of them- we really don't
need to make any effort to get them in Western culture.

Next question- which fats do we store in our adipose tissue (tummies)?- are
they released the same way they went in? I believe they are but haven't read
about this issue for years.

Ben Balzer
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"The ideal diet for any animal is that which it eats in the wild. Humans are
no exception."
"Ask a dietitian or doctor how to lose weight and you'll be told to eat
bread, corn, soy, cereals etc.. Ask a farmer how to fatten an animal and
you'll be told to feed it bread, corn, soy, cereals etc. There is a
discrepancy that needs explanation."
>
> Other differences between these two meat sources are
> that significant amounts of EPA (an omega-3 fatty acid
> thought to
> perhaps help prevent atherosclerosis) are found in
> wild game (approx. 4% of total fat), while domestic
> beef for example
> contains almost none.[147] This is important because
> the higher levels of EPA and other omega-3 fatty acids
> in wild game
> help promote a low overall dietary ratio of omega-6
> vs. omega-3 fatty acids for hunter-gatherers--ranging
> from 1:1 to
> 4:1--compared to the high 11:1 ratio observed in
> Western nations. Since omega-6 fatty acids may have a
> cancer-
> promoting effect, some investigators are recommending
> lower ratios of omega-6 to omega-3 in the diet which
> would,
> coincidentally, be much closer to the evolutionary
> norm.[148]
>
>
> Kenny B.
>
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