Guide to high quality living- Part 4: resetting your Omega 3 to 6 ratio
Important to rebalance your Omega 6 to 3 ratio
Consuming better ratio of Omega 3.
Fat in nature
Essentially fatty acids which can't make
Compete With each other.
Omega 3 and 6
Omega 3
Sunshine foods
Green leafs
Fish and meat ate green leaf
Omega 6
Grains nuts seeds
Veg oils
Sunflower rape seed
Crude oil refined
Also in margarine,crisps snacks.
Palm oil.
Excess of veg oils
Replace veg oil
Natural Butter , olive oil
Much less omega 6
Buy butter and olive oil store in dark cover
Watch out to hidden veg oils
Do not eat foods cooked with veg oil
Fast foods , crisps, fried snacks, health bars, ready made cooking sauces , margarines and oily spreads.
Also cure meats tofu can contain omega 6
Nuts and seeds. High in omega 6
Line caught fish farmed grains
Canned fish brine not oil
Grass fed beef lamb
Watch almost all chicken beef & pork. Fed Grains try to avoid these.
Fish farms
Poorer omega 3
5. Eat as much vegetables and dairy
Low omega fats
Summary
Optimise omega 3 to 6
Rules
Eat lots of Greens
Lots of meat fish eaten their greens
Dairy inc butter
Cut out veg oils and seeds inc grains
Processed food
Shop regularly
Cook
Michael pollen
Great book in defence of food
Don't buy food your great grandmother wouldn't recognise
Don't buy food that doesn't go off
Don't buy foods that are packaged
Especially if they contain over 5 ingredients
Or are labelled healthy low fat no added sugar low cholesterol typical claims to be weary of.
The green grocer but her fish monger diet.
Additional My rule would be to buy all food from a green grocer but her fish monger diet.
Home cooked.