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. 


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