Omega 3 Essential Fatty Acids Are But A Part Of EFA's!

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An excellent article on essential fatty acids taken from a popular

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JoAnn

 

DON LEMMON PRESENTS THE TRUTH ABOUT EXERCISE AND NUTRITION:

Omega 3 Essential Fatty Acids Are But A Part Of EFA's!

 

This is for those of you who want more information as to why fats

are so important in your diet despite the phobias the media has

created for you.

 

Let me tell you, if you do not at least add just a tablespoon of the

right essential fats to your food once a day, NO

matter WHAT diet plan you follow, NO other supplements will fully

benefit you NOR will your food digest properly NOR will anything

else you do regarding health, exercise or dieting work in your

favor. Without essential fatty acids your entire body will slowly,

but surely FAIL.

 

Men can't build muscle and women, well, there are several issues.

One is breast reduction. Many women fear losing their breasts on a

diet. Well, you won't worry so much if you take in the right

essential fats. Forget about those ads promising " Increase your bust

up to 2 full cup sizes " and those " breast increasing formulas " like

Bloussant and Femex. You DO NOT NEED THEM. What you need are fatty

acids that work for you, not a low fat diet.

 

In fact, I haven't met a woman yet who eats a low fat diet that

doesn't experience degenerative reproductive system disorders (like

not having a period) nor a man who doesn't end up with a low sperm

or testosterone count. I had a friend once who was a smoker and

couldn't get his wife pregnant for over 10 years. They blamed the

smoking.

 

I did too because nicotine deletes essential fats from inside of

you. The wife didn't smoke however she did happen to follow a low

fat diet to 'maintain' her womanly figure. After 30 days of their

taking the essential oil I recommended, she became pregnant and he

regained an admirable ego over his manhood. Remember, for 10 years,

they achieved nothing. No baby, lot's of trying. He still smoked.

She still ate low fat. But they both took essential fats. BOOM.

Suddenly there was a baby. Impotent? No. Coincidence? No.

Malnourished? Yes. Depleted? Yes.

 

Ladies, is your skin bad? Dry? Blotchy? Pale? Or do you have liver

spots? Sun spots? You need fats.... Good fats... No, not Evening Of

Primrose oil. That's not even close to solving your troubles. And

no, it's not about black currant oil either... And it's not just for

women.

Teens, bodybuilders, elderly... Got acne? Got stretch marks? Got

liver spots? You need essential fats... Can't poo-poo? You not only

need fiber, but protein AND essential fats....

 

Fats are probably the single most important nutrient we neglect and

although they only account for 10% of the 100 essential listed

nutrients, they are responsible for the success of those other 90%

of your essential nutrients. Good fat regulates hormones. Bad fats

destroy your hormones. Vitamins require fats. Minerals require fats.

Even oxygen is dependent of essential fats...

 

We discuss in the KNOW HOW Exercise & Nutrition book, how the liver

normally puts excess cholesterol in bile and sends it to the gall

bladder, which then empties it into the small intestine just below

the stomach for excretion. This is a natural process and routine

that we must accommodate. If not, we experience elevated cholesterol

levels in the blood. It is a process dependent of essential fats.

 

That's right, some fats regulate cholesterol and reverse high blood

pressure. Bad fats, like those in snack foods, creamy peanut butter

and many health store bought foods, raise your cholesterol. It's a

fact.

 

Essential fats do not make you fat. Bad fat does. The body instantly

recognizes essential fats as 'good' for you and puts them to use for

healing, FAT burning and growth as soon as you ingest them. Like it

or not, those of you eating high protein bars and meal replacement

powders that aren't making progress, this is why. They contain BAD

fats...

 

The important thing to know next is that essential fats come in

different forms just like vitamins and minerals do and they must be

taken in the right amounts, proper mixtures and just like the

suggested RDA percentages of other nutrients, if we want results, we

better get enough. Sticking your foot in the water doesn't mean you

went for a swim. Submerse yourself. It feels GOOD...

 

Here is the problem. Since around 1900, the wrong type of fats began

appearing in our diets and it's presence has increased by about 20

times over what it used to be. This is because REFINED vegetable

oils are much more affordable at the commercial level. We are

unwittingly eating bad fats instead of good fats because someone at

the food manufacturing plant decided it would save a few dollars.

This includes health food. Trust me, Snackwell's cookies are NOT

healthy...

 

So, it's no wonder your health has degenerated and you can't get

into shape as easy as you would like to. Your health food is

actually junk food. And more recently (over the last 20 years) 'low'

fat, 'no' fat, and 'fake' fat diets have been depriving people of

even more essential fats than ever before. This means we not only

eat bad fats in everything we buy but we are cutting back on what

little good fat we used to eat to begin with.

 

What can we do? Well, the Harvard School of Public Health warned of

the dangers of eating margarine, commercially baked snack goods, and

deep fried foods instead of real butter, making your own snacks and

avoiding KFC but you wouldn't listen.

 

Processed foods are NOT the same as good fats like extra virgin

olive oil (means the olive

hasn't fallen from the tree before processing) and fresh nut and

seed oils. But it isn't always enough to simply add fish to the diet

or have a tablespoon of flax seed oil.

 

I know Omega 3 fatty acids are all the rage but too much of one

essential fat over another will cause a deficiency of ALL the fats.

Using flax oil alone can actually lead to a shortage of omega 6 fats

if you aren't careful.

 

Why? It's like taking Vitamin C alone. Other nutrients must be

present for it to work properly. If they aren't present, the body is

either leached of the nutrients or you are painfully forced to

rejected the key nutrient you hoped would help you to begin with.

 

It's not a Catch 22 situation. This is how things work and you need

to get a grasp of it. Individual fats (triglycerides, cholesterol,

phospholipids, etc) all are responsible for the production of the

precursors for every single one of your body's hormones, tissues and

cells. This includes the ones for creating a baby, controlling acne,

building muscle and burning body fat. But in order to understand how

to get the proper balance, you need another quick lesson on GOOD vs

BAD fats.

 

Good fats act as anti-oxidants, anti-inflammatory agents, and

produce fat burning enzymes. Cholesterol is an essential fat that

coats every cell in your body and that is just one of the good fats

(you read that right).

 

You MUST also ingest another fat source called gamma linolenic acid

just to activate your 'good' brown fat

cells to burn away your bad and ugly 'white' fat cells too. Borage

oil is a good source of this one. Think cellulite....

 

Cellulite is caused partially in part by margarine and lards which

are unfortunately marketed as natural oils because they

are 'cholesterol' free.

 

Well, they really aren't good for you and these things are actually

what's killing you inside out.

 

Drop these unnatural fats and all foods containing them from your

diet and you will watch your 'bad' LDL cholesterol levels decrease

quite rapidly

and cellulite disappear almost over night. It isn't your genetics

that made you fat. It's your eating HABITS.

 

Vitamins are like a good football team. You need a full team on the

field. Some others from the roster are left on the bench waiting,

watching the others on the field, each member knowing what to do

when necessary and each taking on a different job. A good team

doesn't bully it's own players nor feed off another member. Each

works with it's team mate's strengths without becoming weak or

weakening the other.

 

All nutrients are meant to work together this way, and none really

stand alone, no matter how powerful you think they are. Minerals are

different from vitamins and are more like having fans in the

stadium. Without fans, there really isn't any support for your

vitamin team. In other words, there is no motivation for the

vitamins to work their hardest without minerals. While some of the

minerals are more visible and exciting than the others and may

appear to be more important, kind of like cheerleaders, but without

even just one row of fans sitting in the stands, you can easily tell

that something is missing. Even if you do not know what it is for

sure at first, or who they are, something is still not right, and it

could cost you the game.

 

It gets worse when the team hasn't any direction to guide them

either. The best of all teams needs coaches. Fats are the coaches,

trainers and administration that normally go unaccredited for

pulling the vitamin team together and gathering the fan support of

minerals. The fans love them for what they do, so without having a

good foundation of coaches, the entire stadium falls apart. You NEED

some fats. They are called essential fats....

 

http://www.donlemmon.com/essential-fatty-acid-omega-3-oil-blend.html

 

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