- I'm provoked to say more regarding the oils of food and
medicine, folks.
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- See, I am increasingly revolted to see how many "Food-Oil"
& "Medicinal-Oil" producers brag about the copious amounts
of Linoleic Acid (LA) in their product, like it's a good thing. Even my
favorite supplement maker feels compelled to "purposely" put
that unnecessary "stuff" in one of their heart formulas.
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- Note: I say "purposely" because Linoleic Acid
is found naturally in widely varying percentages,everywhere! It is in EVERY
Medicinal-Oil... oils like Flaxseed, Borage, Fish, etc. The reader discovers
in this paper; however, that to purposely put a high percentage Linoleic
Acid Food-Oil, like Safflower or Grapeseed, into a Heart-Supplement or
Omega-3-6-9 Formula... well, it's at least deceptive and may even be more
than a little evil, eh? Verily, you come to find, why use it at all?
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- See, it's understood that the Omega-6, LA (Linoleic Acid)
regarded is one of two EFA's (Essential Fatty Acids) that is, along with
its sister oil Omega-3 ALA (Alpha Linolenic Acid), "Essential."
Essential, remember, means you MUST have it. Your body can't make it out
of component chemicals like it does with many other substances so you must
then consume this "essential" in food or supplements.
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- Though, be forewarned! This does not mean that you need
lots of the Omega-6 EFA, (LA)... especially when two of the biggest sources
of that LA are in a toxic form! These toxic forms are: (1) Widely used
Polyunsaturated Vegetable Oil, and (2) Virtually ALL processed foods.
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- Fortunately, both bad sources of this oxidized LA are
"sorta-kinda" easy to avoid... unless you are a "Cheezy
Poofs" junkie, eh?
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- Note: This is in contrast to the Omega-"3"
Fatty-Acids like ALA (from plants) and EPA & DHA (from Krill &
Fish oil), where large doses are generally a good thing...especially the
2 powerful Omega-3's from Fish Oil, EPA & DHA.
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- For the reader's convenience: here's a Glossary of terms
relating how they apply to Linoleic Acid and why we frankly want Linoleic
Acid out of our lives, except, of course, for the undamaged smallamounts
found in all fresh foods... even fruit!
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- 1).. Food Oil - PolyUnsaturated Vegetable & Seed
Oil like Soy, Corn, Cottonseed are all very high in LA. These are called
"Poly" because the various percentages of LA in these oils have
more than one Double-Bond (DB). Remember, with multiple DB's you create
a highly reactive "Unpaired Electron" leading to quick oil rancidity
requiring, even, that the oil be "Deodorized" to remove
its stench. This hi-heat process "burns" off the rancid smell,
which leaves a fresh smelling, if toxic, oil-mimickingsubstance behind.
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- FYI - Remember most, but not all, of these high LA oils
can be more expensively "cold-processed" to avoid turning rancid
initially! These "Unrefined" oils must say-on the bottle-refrigerate
after opening!When have you ever run across a food oil bottle saying that?
That's right, reader... NEVER! Those kinds of Oil requiring refrigeration
after being opened have to be special ordered on the web or found in some
health food stores.
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- OK, you open a bottle of supermarket Poly "Food-Oil"
like Corn Oil and then sit it on the shelf at room temperature. After a
couple of months, if it still smells fresh, then that means it has been
refined at high heat creating lots of yummy Lipid-Peroxide "chemical
destroyers" to attack every cell in your body.
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- MonoUnsat Oils like Olive Oil & Macadamia Nut Oil,
conversely, will stay fresh for months without any"Refining."
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- A note: Avocado Oil COULD BE one of the greatest Mono
Oils on the planet except you never see it UNrefined... it is pretty much
always refined, so forget about it.
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- Now Folks, this "Refined" PolyUnsaturated Oil's
contribution to Cancer & Heart Disease far outweighs any healthful
benefits that might have been derived from the antioxidants they brag about
being in them! Solution? Switch to non-toxic Olive Oil and then take a
cheap Grapeseed Extract Capsule for thesame antioxidants. Voilà',
problem solved!
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- Note: ALL OILS naturally have (must have) 3 types of
fatty-acids, PolyUnsat., MonoUnsat. & Saturated Fat. The drastically
different percentages of these 3 fats in the oil is what makes one Oil
"magical" and makes the other Oil "Suck"....Hi-MonoUnsat.
is magical, Hi-PolyUnsat. is crap.
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- Important! The "Crap" only applies to PolyUnsat.
food oil, not to PolyUnsat. medicinal oil. Don't confuse them!
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- PolyUnsat. Food Oils (Soy, Corn, etc.), with 2 very volatile
Double-Bonds, remember, will turn rancid due to the heat of pressing! These
must be RBDed (Refined, Bleached, Deodorized... read "killed"!)
to remove the rancid smell... but it can't remove the toxic Lipid-Peroxide
left as a result of processing the LA, (Linoleic Acid) with high heat!
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- MonoUnsat. Food Oils (Olive & Macadamia Nut) only
have one Double-Bond which means they don't have an "Unpaired Electron"
leading to rancid oil. Consequently, they don't require RBDing, and they
are heart healthy. Also, these "Monos" will stay fresh for a
long time even at room temp! The only way PolyUnsat. Oil will remain fresh
for months at room temperature is by refining it into toxic submission.
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- 2).. Medicinal Oil - Unlike PolyUnsat. "Food-Oils",
PolyUnsat. "Medicinal-Oils" have to be processed much more carefully
& expensively to insure the oil is not damaged. These are oils like
Flaxseed (for ALA), Evening Primrose (for GLA) & Fish Oil (for EPA
& DHA)...
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- ...OR...my favorites, Black Currant Seed Oil (for GLA),
Krill Oil (for EPA & DHA) & Chia Seed (for ALA). Chia Seed only
comes in seed form & hopefully no one will ever try to turn it into
an Oil or succeed in reviving the "Chia-Pet" technology because
someone grew "Chia-Hair" on a little Obama statue... I digress.
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- 3).. Omega-6 - One of 2 families of Fatty-Acid where
the "Simplest" Form, LA (Linoleic-Acid), is one of the 2 EFA's...
the other being the Omega-3 family, where the "Simplest" form
is the "Essential Fatty Acid", ALA (Alpha Linolenic Acid).
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- FYI -- "Simple" means the least amount of energy
containing "Double-Bonds" (DB's) in the long Fatty-Acid Chain.
"Complex" means that through enzymatic action the number of DB's
and the length of the "chain" are increased where each addition
of a DB will exponentially increase the power and usefulness of the Fatty-Acid.
...Real chemical magic.
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- For example the 2 extremely "Complex" Fish
oil Omega-3's have 5 & 6 "Double-Bonds", making EPA &DHA
the 2 most powerful nutrients on the planet! Additionally, it facilitates
the ability to help prevent virtually every malady or disease. High speed,
low drag.
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- Moving down a notch, you have the "Simple"
Plant-Derived, Omega-3 (ALA) with only 3 DB's... meaning it does some good
things but is generally pretty weak compared to EPA & DHA, the "Omega-3's
From the Sea."
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- Then, at the bottom of the barrel, you have the "Simple"
Omega-6 (LA), with only 2 DB's, which makes it the very weak "red-headed
stepchild" of Fatty-Acids... even if it is "Essential."
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- (a). You see, generally, the reader wants to keep Omega-6
LA to a minimum because it is already found in EVERY form of food! Even
though it is "essential," most people consume way too much! Moreover,
excessive Omega-6 actually over-powers its "cell neighbor", the
Omega-3 Pathway, preventing the "Simple" Omega-3 (ALA) from being
transformed into the same "Complex" Omega-3's as found in Fish/Krill
Oil.
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- See?! This is really a very big deal! I mean, how many
people would think that consuming a lot of an "Essential" nutrient
would destroy another "Essential" nutrient's ability to complete
its most important task... changing Simple ALA to Complex EPA & DHA.
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- This is especially bad for Vegetarians who need that
Omega-3 "conversion" to get EPA & DHA at all...because most
Vegans won't use Krill or Fish oil. There is a "Vegan approved"
form of DHA (from Algae). Unfortunately it does not have the same ability
to slow the decline of cognition like Animal-Derived DHA from fish, krill
& eggs.
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- Check the latest research results at:
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- www.consumerlab.com/reviews/fish_oil_supplements_review/omega3/#alzheimer
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- (b). GLA (Gamma Linolenic Acid) - this is one Omega-6
that we do want! Why? When you take the "Simple" (2 DB) Linoleic
Acid and convert it to GLA (or you take GLA Medicinal-Oil) you get a "Complex"
powerful 3DB Fatty-Acid that has been used to fight inflammation (like
PMS!) for decades.
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- Black Currant Seed Oil (BCSO) is my favorite GLA rich
Oil. You see it has 17% GLA and only 30% of the stuff we would just as
soon avoid, LA (Linoleic Acid).
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- Now compare that to the "Old Favorite" of many
folks, EPO (Evening Primrose Oil). It only has 9% GLA BUT a Whopping, and
less than desirable, 74% LA!
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- So, in my opinion, "Putting up with 30% to get 17%...is
OK....BUT....Putting up with 74% to ONLY get 9%... seems a little counter-productive.
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- 4).. EFA Death Ratio (4 to 1) - Lastly, too much Omega-6,
(LA) is the key contributor to most people having an out of whack EFA Ratio
of 20 to 1 or greater. This is the ratio of the 2 EFA's, where you want
an Omega-6 to Omega-3 ratio to be 4 to 1... or less.
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- FYI - By "convention" one should always list
the ratio with the Omega-6 first, followed by the Omega-3.
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- OK, so even though with a 4 to 1 ratio, you can have
4 times the amount of Omega-6... believe me, it is the Omega-6 that you
have to try to avoid while trying to increase the Omega-3 in order to get
down to 4to1! See, if you eat lots of Soy & Corn Vegetable Oil (damaged
LA) & lots of processed food (more damaged LA), then you might have
a ratio of 30 to1.
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- Every extra point in the EFA Ratio above 4 to 1, and
the death rate goes up! Likewise, if you are an Inuit (Eskimo) who consumes
massive amounts of Omega-3, then you will have an EFA Ratio much less than
4to1 and you will likely never have a heart-attack... and you appear to
actually be immune to MS!
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- Too, and I hesitate to mention... "Need a little
Hope in the old Rope" or are you lacking a "Magneto-Libido"?
Due to the Complex Omega-3's Multi-purposefulness, your average Octogenarian
Eskimo "Dude" is well known for effectively "gittin' jiggy"
with it... I can only presume this also applies to your garden variety
80 year old Inuit, "Dude-ette."
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- Note: Read my Erectile Dysfunction (ED) paper at Rense.com
titled My Woody's Outside Covered with Snow ...which was a TOP-40 hit for
the Trade Winds in 1965......Oh, ...wait! ...Different "Woody"
altogether, but the import of the song's lyrics can be avoided still, eh?
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- "My Woody's outside
- Covered with snow,
- ...No place to go, now.
- New York's a lonely town,
- When you're the
- Only surfer-boy around."
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- Anyway, if you eat mostly raw and/or fresh, non-processed
food, then you are getting exactly the right amount of undamaged, healthful
Linoleic Acid... but if you consume Polyunsaturated Vegetable Oil and lots
of processed food, then that Sucking sound you hear from deep inside your
head is your turgid blood trying to be pushed (you can't call it "pumped"!)
through the constantly narrowing arteries in your brain.
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- See, as evidenced by the prestigious British medical
journal "Lancet" in 1994: it reported that 75% of the stuff clogging
your arteries was not an unfairly maligned cholesterol, at all, but actually
oxidized Unsaturated Vegetable/Seed Oil.
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- Closing, remember the preceding the next time you hear
your-beautifully young and intelligent-Registered Dietician at the local
hospital tell you how Soy and Corn Vegetable oils are "Heart Healthy."
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- This is because "Registered" means that if
you shave her head you might find a 666 birth-mark! Kidding of course,
but perpetuating this PolyUnsat. "LA Lie," even out of ignorance,
is just that grievous.
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- Questions?
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- Alan Graham
- alan068@centurytel.net
- http://www.alienview.net/ALLTCON.html
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- That's enough. Well be.
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