David Brownstein
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 Essential Fatty Acids
Fats can be further classified into essential fatty acids and non-essential fatty acids. Unsaturated fatty acids are termed essential fatty acids because our bodies cannot manufacture them; therefore, they must be taken in from the diet. Essential fatty acids consist of omega-3 fatty acids (derived from linolenic acid) and omega-6 fatty acids (derived from linoleic acid). Essential fatty acids are necessary for a wide range of functions in the body, including hormone production and immune system functioning. |
David Wolfe
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 Some fatty acids are called "essential" because the body is not independently capable of manufacturing these substances at sufficient levels. Nearly all individuals in the Western world are essential-fatty-acid deficient! The essential fatty acids are linoleic and linolenic fatty acids, both of which are found abundantly in fatty raw plant foods, especially in avocados, nuts, and seeds. The highly-touted omega 6 and omega 3 fatty-acid groups contain the essential fatty acids. Omega 6 and omega 3 fatty acids are found in an excellent ratio in flax seed oil. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Omega-3 fatty acids are essential fatty acids, which means your body needs them but cannot manufacture them. This means you must get these nutrients from your diet and/or through dietary supplementation. Omega-3 fatty acids are found in relatively high levels in certain fish and seafood, as well as in some plant sources (see chapter 5).
An apparent paradox is the fact that although the native Inuit people get an enormous amount of fat in their diet from fish, whales, and seals, they do not suffer a correspondingly high rate of heart attacks. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Membranes are made mostly of fatty acids. What determines the type of fatty acid present in the cell membrane is the type of fat you consume. A diet composed mostly of saturated fat, animal fatty acids, and trans fatty acids (from margarine, shortening, and other sources of hydroge-nated vegetable oils), and high in cholesterol, results in membranes that are much less fluid in nature than the membranes in a person who consumes optimum levels of unsaturated fatty acids. Without a healthy membrane, cells lose their ability to hold water, vital nutrients, and electrolytes. |
David Wolfe
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| All fats are made up of two substances: glycerin and fatty acids. The number and kinds of fatty acids attached to the glycerin molecule determine the fat type.
Some fatty acids are called "essential" because the body is not independently capable of manufacturing these substances at sufficient levels. Nearly all individuals in the Western world are essential-fatty-acid deficient! The essential fatty acids are linoleic and linolenic fatty acids, both of which are found abundantly in fatty raw plant foods, especially in avocados, nuts, and seeds. |
Gary Null
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| Essential fatty acids. Most people don't get enough essential fatty acids from foods. That's why dietary supplements such as borage, flax, and fish oils have become so popular among health-conscious people.
Fatty acids serve as building blocks for nerve cells and cell membranes. When levels of essential fatty acids are inadequate, dangerous saturated fats replace the essential fatty acids within cell membranes. This results in reduced membrane fluidity, and then inefficiency, which promotes premature aging and disease. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS: Infants and toddlers raised on infant formulas rather than mother's breast milk are deprived of the omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty acids. Low levels of essential fatty acids have been associated with a wide range of psychological disorders and a couple of studies reveal that omega-3 deficiency is nearly always present in autistic children.
DIGESTIVE ENZYMES: Autistic children sometimes have decreased digestive enzyme levels, which contributes to the body's inability to digest food sufficiently. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Omega-6 fatty acids are abundant in the western diet; they are in our meats, dairy products, and processed foods. We get omega-3 fatty acids from vegetable oils such as flaxseed, canola, pumpkin, and soybean oil. These fats are also found in such cold-water fish as mackerel, sardines, salmon, and tuna. As you might guess, the average American consumes a few more omega-6 fatty acids than omega-3s—a lot more, in fact. On average we consume a ratio of 20:1 or even 40:1 of these fats in our diet! |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 Essential Fatty Acids: Omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids contribute to a balanced nervous system, increased focus, ability to handle stress, and adrenal gland health and recovery. Unfortunately, deficiencies of omega 3 fatty acids are common, as is over-consumption of unhealthy fats (trans and saturated).
Adrenal Diet
The diet should focus on consumption of a variety of whole, natural, and, preferably, organic foods. To control blood sugar fluctuations, each meal should combine some fat (preferably high in essential fatty acids) with protein and complex carbohydrate. |
Ron Garner
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 Essential fatty acids are utilized by the body to build cell structure, to help generate electrical energy, and produce hormones. They are required for nerve impulses, brain development and function, healthy skin, digestion, inner organ function, the cardiovascular system, and immune system. They are critically important for health. Most people are oil deficient because good oils are lacking in their diets.
All the essential fatty acids are obtained from a diet of real food. A deficiency of one or more of the essential fatty acids is usually evident in degenerative disease conditions. |
| Essential fatty acids and unsaturated fats are good oils for the body. Trans fatty acids and hydrogenated oils are harmful oils.
Essential fatty acids are utilized by the body to build cell structure, to help generate electrical energy, and produce hormones. They are required for nerve impulses, brain development and function, healthy skin, digestion, inner organ function, the cardiovascular system, and immune system. They are critically important for health. Most people are oil deficient because good oils are lacking in their diets. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Niacin can mitigate some of its harmful effects, for example, by decreasing the elevation of free fatty acids caused by smoking. In one experiment, free fatty acids rose by 30% in the 30 minutes after the subject had smoked two cigarettes. Injections of nicotine also increased dogs' cholesterol levels by 34% and decreased the flow of blood in the coronary vessels. By blocking the release of free fatty acids, niacin prevents one of the health-damaging cycles related to smoking.
Stroke
Strokes are largely preventable if certain risk factors are avoided. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Omega-3 fatty acids are polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). They include linolenic acid (LNA), found in high concentrations in purslane, a green, leafy vegetable, and flax seed. Eicosapentanoic acid (EPA) and docosahexanoic acid (DHA) are the animal omega-3 fats in fish and fish oils and organ meat.
DHA is your brain's dominant fatty acid; it makes up about 40 percent of the fat in your brain. |
David Wolfe
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| The essential fatty acids are linoleic and linolenic fatty acids, both of which are found abundantly in fatty raw plant foods, especially in avocados, nuts, and seeds. The highly-touted omega 6 and omega 3 fatty-acid groups contain the essential fatty acids. Omega 6 and omega 3 fatty acids are found in an excellent ratio in flax seed oil.
Because of their unique biochemical structure, fats "cut" or disguise more potent substances. This is why milk is used in coffee. It is also why avocados go well with hot chilies. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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| A diet composed mostly of saturated fat, animal fatty acids, and trans fatty acids (from margarine, shortening, and other sources of hydroge-nated vegetable oils), and high in cholesterol, results in membranes that are much less fluid in nature than the membranes in a person who consumes optimum levels of unsaturated fatty acids. Without a healthy membrane, cells lose their ability to hold water, vital nutrients, and electrolytes. They also lose their ability to communicate with other cells and be controlled by regulating hormones including insulin. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Dry, inflamed skin or skin that suffers from the frequent appearance of whiteheads or blackheads can benefit from supplementing with essential fatty acids (EFAs), especially omega-3s. EFAs are responsible for skin repair, moisture content, and overall flexibility, but because the body cannot produce its own EFAs, they must be obtained through the diet.
The typical American diet is overabundant in omega-6 fatty acids found in baked goods and grains, and lacking in omega-3s, found in cold-water fish such as salmon and mackerel, as well as flaxseeds and safflower oil. |
David Steinman
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 Low risk for arthritis, cancer, and heart disease are all linked to high intake of these rare fatty acids. When Freedom Press brought out one of its books on omega-3 fatty acids, The Omega-3 Miracle, the authors reprinted a lengthy statement from the American Heart Association that strongly recommended eating foods, such as salmon and trout, with high omega-3 fatty acid levels twice a week.1
The Barlean family taps into the sea and the land for their purely natural yet uniquely different forms of omega-3 fatty acids. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 The wrong ratio primes you for weight gain because the wrong balance of these fatty acids makes you want to eat more. Since most Americans consume far more omega-6 than omega-3 fatty acids, the SuperFood wild salmon and its rich supply of omega-3 fatty acids can contribute significantly to weight-loss success.
There's another issue worth considering in regard to weight loss and dietary fat: Researchers have recently been learning that it's not just the amount of fat in the diet that affects weight loss or gain; it's also the type of fat. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 ESSENTIAL fatty acids. There are two families of essential fatty acids, or EFAs: omega-3 and omega-6. High consumption of omega-6 can increase inflammation; in contrast, omega-3 fatty acids have strong anti-inflammatory properties. Omega-3 is most readily available through the consumption of fish and shellfish. Wild salmon, North Atlantic mackerel, sardines, flounder, sole, scallops, shrimp, pollack, red snapper, and tilapia are best because they all have a low mercury content. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| The Potential Role of fatty acids in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Richardson AJ; Puri BK. Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential fatty acids. 2000 July-August, 63(l-2):79-87.
The authors contend that a functional deficiency of certain long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids may contribute to ADHD. They propose a treatment protocol with this in mind.
Autism Spectrum Disorders_
Children with Autism: Effect of Iron Supplementation on Sleep and Ferritin. Dosman CF; Brian JA; et al. Pediatric Neurology, 2007 March, 36(3):152-158. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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| Wild Salmon and the Power of Omega-3
The news that wild salmon can play a significant role in a weight reduction diet confirms the value of the primary SuperNutrient it contains—omega 3 fatty acids. While delicious salmon offers a host of healthy nutrients including B vitamins, selenium, vitamin D, potassium, and healthy protein, perhaps its most valuable contribution to your health is that it offers one of the richest whole food sources of omega-3 fatty acids. You've probably been hearing about omega-3 fatty acids recently. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 They are involved in turning the food we eat into energy,- they help build up specific parts of the body, especially the red blood cells, enzymes and fatty acids,- they play an important role in growth of bones, teeth, blood vessels, and maintaining these (plus the skin and mucous membranes of the body) in good health.
Some vitamins have antioxidant roles, which means they protect vulnerable fatty acids from being destroyed by free radicals in the body. Free radicals are formed by oxidation processes (natural chemical reactions) and by radiation. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
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 Omega Fatty Acids
Omega fatty acids are found in many kinds of fish and various oils, including flaxseed oil, linseed oil, and evening primrose oil. Numerous studies have shown clinical benefits following ingestion of n-3 fatty acids in patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. One found that the oral intake of 2.6 g per day of omega-3 fatty acids by rheumatoid arthritis patients over a period of twelve months led to significant improvements in symptoms associated with the disease. Omega fatty acids may also be useful in the treatment and prevention of cancer. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS
Essential fatty acids (EFAs) are often referred to as good fats because of the healthy benefits they provide (they are a form of polyunsaturated fats). In fact, EFAs aren't just good, they are essential to supporting optimum health. And since the body cannot produce EFAs on its own, the only way to get them is through a proper diet or supplements, thus making outside sources of these fats essential. |
David Steinman
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| Omega-3 fatty acids have been traditionally supplied in the diet by wild cold-water ocean fish (herring, cod, salmon, mackerel, sardines, anchovies, black cod, albacore tuna) whose original food source is at the bottom of the food chain in the form of phytoplankton, said an expert. "If the tissues of ocean deepwater fish did not contain such a large amount of omega-3 fatty acids, they would become stiff and would not survive in the very cold water," said Dr. |
F. Batmanghelidj
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 These fatty acids are in the form of oils. Our bodies cannot manufacture these essential fatty acids and have to import them in the form of oils in food.
The average body needs, absolutely, between 6 and 9 grams of linoleic acid a day. It also needs around 2 to 9 grams of alpha-linolenic acid (omega-3), the most essential of the fatty acids. These fatty acids are needed particularly by the brain cells and their long nerves to manufacture insulated membranes that need to be impermeable and prevent interference to the rate and flow of neurotransmission. |
Tom Bohager
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 In the intestines, triglycerides are split into glycerol and fatty acids, and with the help of lipases and bile secretions, they move into the blood vessels. There they are rebuilt from their fragments and become constituents of lipoproteins, which deliver the fatty acids to and from fat cells, among other functions. Fat cells synthesize and store triglycerides.
There are two types of triglycerides: medium chain triglycerides (MCT) and long chain triglycerides (LCT). The body uses these two types of triglycerides very differently. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Researchers have concluded that caffeine enhances performance by increasing levels of free fatty acids in the blood; these fatty acids are then used as an energy source, sparing the body's reserves of glycogen (the storage form of glucose). The consensus of the researchers is that the ergogenic effect of caffeine is significant; it may as much as double endurance.16
Moderate doses of caffeine can increase the body's basal metabolic rate by approximately 10 percent. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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| Some vitamins have antioxidant roles, which means they protect vulnerable fatty acids from being destroyed by free radicals in the body. Free radicals are formed by oxidation processes (natural chemical reactions) and by radiation.
Although you may not be familiar with the word oxidation, you will recognise it: it's what happens when you cut open an apple or potato and the flesh turns brown. The fatty acids at risk in the body are found in the cell walls and nerve coverings, so eating plenty of antioxidants will help your body perform much better overall. |
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