PUFA content of wild game, was Is Mystric (c14:0) the prime fatty acid?

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Hi Michael,

 

>>>The _Paleolithic Prescription_ by S. Body Eaton says that

polyunsaturated fat accounts for ~32% of total fat from wild game.

 

****Can you elaborate on this a little...? What species exactly is Eaton

referring to? Does Eaton give a breakdown of the different fatty acids,

their amounts and ratios in various species?

 

Also, I think what Greg is talking about is shear AMOUNTS of PUFAs in the

diet, not just ratios. Wild game such as deer, elk and moose have about 1-5%

(!!!) body fat. So, if that fat is approx. 1/3 PUFA, then Paleo consumers

were eating 1/3 of 3% (for example) animal-based PUFA. Which is about 1%

animal-based PUFA in the diet. Compare that to modern battery-raised chicken

at approx. 20-25% TOTAL fat, and of that, 19-25% (or thereabouts) LA! That's

approx. 20% of 20% of a widely consumed meat in America. That comes out to

approx. 4% Linoleic Acid. 4 TIMES the Paleo amount of animal-based PUFAs,

and all omega 6, as well.

 

While these numbers are all approximations (from various sources), it's

clear that modern diets based on factory farmed animal flesh and vegetable,

nut and seed oils far exceeds the total *amount* of PUFAs our ancestors

consumed. Of course, Paleolithic peoples ate *whole* plants, nuts and seeds,

certainly not the highly processed and concentrated amounts that we

post-paleos are eating in polyunsaturated *oils*!

 

So we eat more n-3 PUFAs to *balance out* diets that are already imbalanced

with too many n-6 fatty acids, and before we know it, we are consuming a lot

of PUFAs in an effort to achieve *balance* with little thought given to

*amounts*. So what's the problem with high amounts of PUFAs? As Greg's

already posted, heart disease is one of the results of such a diet. Mary

Enig documents the parallel rise in PUFA consumption and heart disease in

" Know Your Fats, " as well. Of course, trans fats are part of the picture,

but the oxidative vulnerability of PUFAs, to me, is a very real concern.

Perhaps if we ate more balanced diets in the first place, we wouldn't have

to load up on omega 3 oils to balance out a diet high in omega 6s, creating

a heavy PUFA burden on our body's antioxidant stores?

 

 

 

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Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:54 PM

PUFA content of wild game, was Is Mystric (c14:0) the

prime fatty acid?

 

 

> Perhaps if we ate more balanced diets in the first place, we wouldn't have

> to load up on omega 3 oils to balance out a diet high in omega 6s, creating

> a heavy PUFA burden on our body's antioxidant stores?

 

Hi Suze,

 

Yup....

 

Checkout the latest update of my fatty acid information. There is a link to the

paper which clearly suggests we only

need 2 - 3 g of BOTH Omega 3 and 6. Anything more is not better and maybe a lot

worst.

 

Sure balance your Omega's but do so at a low intake or your blood vessels may

pay the price.

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Good Health & Long Life,

Greg Watson, http://optimalhealth.cia.com.au gowatson

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PubMed (research papers) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

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Patch file for above http://www.walford.com/download/dwidp67u.exe

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