Re: The critics agree: you don't need to supplement with "essential fatty acids."

On 23 Mar 2006 22:02:08 -0800, "montygram" <nazztrader@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

All of the dairy products listed below are not from grass-fed cows, and

have little if any omega 3 content:


3-4 ounces of whole milk cheese (cheddar, swiss, or monterey jack)


4-5 ounces of whole milk yogurt


1 ounce or less of butter


½ ounce of bittersweet chocolate


1/8 ounce of dark chcocoate (70% cocoa mass)


3 ounces of whole milk ricotta cheese or ice cream (Breyer's
"Natural Vanilla")


1 boiled egg (organic, but not enhance with omega 3s)


1 large banana or 2 small ones


1 or 2 prunes


a few dozen raisins


1 ounce of strawberry preserve


3 ounces of shredded coconut


1 apple, 1 pear, or several pineapple chunks

All these ingredients contain different kinds of omega-6 acids and
your liver will make the arachidonic acid it needs.

The trouble with AA is not the presence, but, when people eat meat
from animals fed a grain diet, the meat also may contain considerable
amounts of AA, especially chicken and turkey meat.

When this happens, you get disturbing amounts of AA since that intake
is not controlled by the liver.
Normally most of it is "detoxified" by either desaturases, chain
elongation/shortening or beta-oxidation which reuses the acetyl-CoA by
synthesising new short-chain fatty acids.

But some of it may be also esterified to cholesterol and transported
as that.
Also in the transport from intestine to liver the arachidonate may do
harm by different autoxidation processes and form different signal
molecules.


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