On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 09:11:28 -0400, The Lucey-Weinhold Family
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>> You can get O3 from grass fed beef, fish, oil supplements, etc... and live a long
>> healthy life. Do we really need that much O3 to be relatively healthy?
>
>What about Omega-3-enriched free-range organic eggs?  Free-range hens
>who are fed an organic diet with extra flax seed will produce eggs with
>consistently higher ratios of Omega-3 fatty acids in their yolks.  (The
>"free-range" part is important, too, because free-range hens will
>normally eat a variety of healthful fresh wild greens during spring,
>summer and autumn.)  I've read numerous articles (not all of them
>published by the Egg Marketing Board ;> ) endorsing these as a good
>source of Omega-3 fatty acids.

This seems fine to me.

Do the eggs list the quantity of Omega-3 fatty acids?   That is the one aspect
you would need to figure out.

This "value added" thing is a big marketing hype these days, where various
herbs and vitamins are "added" to things like drinks and bars - even though you
can automatically tell that the actual quantities are minute, since the drinks
in question can cost less than one capsule of the herb or antioxidant...

SO, make sure that the eggs actually contain a significant quantity of Omega-3.


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Cheers,

Ken
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