Tag Archives: Essential Fatty Acids

Is Western Food Regressing Society?

Posted on December 8, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Evidence suggests that the Western diet is a major contributory cause of cardiovascular disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes, cancer and bone and joint disorders. These lifestyle diseases can be prevented and reversed through consumption of traditional diets, which supports the … Continue reading →

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Unsaturated Fatty Acids: Beyond Eicosanoids

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Unsaturated fatty acids are those that possess a double bond within their structure. A monounsaturated fatty acids therefore has a single double bond, whereas the prefix ‘poly’ signifies multiple double bonds. Unsaturated oils are those that contain a predominance of … Continue reading →

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More on trans Fats: Pain and Death

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Natural vegetable oils present in nuts and seeds are healthy oils because they contain high concentrations of the essential fatty acids α-linolenic acid (ALA, C18:3 (n-3)) and linoleic acid (LA, C18:2 (n-6)). Alpha linolenic acid is desaturated and elongated in … Continue reading →

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Fish Oil Fights Inflammation

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Obesity is a symptom of the metabolic syndrome, which in turn is caused by low quality diets containing high amounts of fructose. High fructose intakes are deleterious to metabolic regulation because they induce insulin resistance in hepatocytes and skeletal muscle. … Continue reading →

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trans Fats: Metabolic Dysfunction

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Hydrogenation is a process by which hydrogen gas is passed over polyunsaturated fatty acids in order to cause saturation of all carbon molecules. This process results in the production of a cheap source of saturated fatty acids that can be … Continue reading →

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Fish Oil: Keep it Cold, Keep it Dark

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Fish oil is beneficial to the health because of the long-chain trienoic, pentaenoic and hexaenoic polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) that it contains. In particular, the omega 3 fatty acids eicosapentanoic acid (EPA, C20:5 (n-3)) and docosahexanoic acid (DHA, C22:6 (n-3)) … Continue reading →

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Conjugated Linoleic Acid: Improves Body Composition

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is a group of structurally related isomers of the essential fatty acid linoleic acid (LA, C18:2 (n-6)) (figure 1 and 2). Conjugated linoleic acid is of interest to nutritional scientists and athletes because it may be … Continue reading →

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Hydrogenated, trans and Deodorised Fats

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) from plants have important health implications because two of these fatty acids, α-linolenic acid (ALA, C18:3 (n-3)) and linoleic acid (LA, C18:2 (n-6)) are essential to health. Unsaturated fatty acids have double bonds that gives the … Continue reading →

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The Western Diet: Refined Junk

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Robert Barrington

Low quality diets are increasingly being seen as the cause of Western lifestyle diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. In contrast, high quality traditional diets are protective of disease. Studying the changes that occur as population … Continue reading →

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Healing Fats That Kill

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Robert Barrington

cientific evidence now supports traditional nutritional wisdom with regard the healing properties of the essential fatty acids α-linolenic acid (ALA, C18:3 (n-3)) and linoleic acid (LA, C18:2 (n-6)). The ratio of LA to ALA in the diet must be around … Continue reading →

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