Before II World War, the food available was mostly fresh and grown locally. People used to
move more to get food, and tradition was to sit all together and have a meal, which united
families around the Globe. After post war period famine times were over and there was a food
revolution: easy and fast to prepare foods emerged and people just wanted to indulge and
enjoy the ease of having food supply availability. Today, the majority of foods served, whether
at home, in school or in restaurants, are highly processed foods, filled with sugars, harmful
processed fats, and chemical additives. This includes restaurant foods (foods away from home)
and processed grocery foods that require little or no preparation time before consuming at
home.
The result of this revolution? Well, diabetes type II, CVD, and many chronic diseases might be
on answer.
Fats help our body absorb important vitamins, including vitamins A, D, and E, and fats are
especially important for babies and children for proper growth and development. Furthermore,
saturated fats, although supplying more calories, will NOT actually cause gain weight, nor will it
promote heart disease as the industry wants us to believe.
Unfortunately, the healthiest fats, including animal fats and coconut oil, both of which are
saturated, have been long believed to be heart attack promoters, for example, whereas
meanwhile, harmful hydrogenated vegetable oils such as margarine, corn and canola oil have
been promoted as “healthful” alternatives.
Conventional recommendations have also called for dramatically decreasing the overall amount
of fat in daily diet, and this modern fat aversion is another driving factor of metabolic diseases
and chronic ill health.
The increased consumption of processed vegetable oils has led to a severely unbalanced fatty
acid composition, as these oils provide high amounts of omega 6 fatty acids. The ideal ratio of
omega-3 to omega-6 fats is 1:1, but the typical Western diet is around 1:20. Eating too much
damaged omega-6 fat and too little omega-3 triggers health problems, including cardiovascular
disease, cancer, depression, Alzheimer’s, rheumatoid arthritis, and diabetes, just to name a
few.
1. Learn how to get away from pro inflammatory foods and oils;
2. Add correct amounts of fatty acids on your diet.
Get away from pro inflammatory foods:
– Hydrogenated oils (palm oil, corn oil, peanut oil)
– Grilled meats
– Processed foods (sausages)
– Non-organic commercial eggs
And commenting about Eggs, which are actually among the most nutritious foods you can eat
(provided they come from organically raised, pastured chicken) have long been accused of
causing heart disease simply because they’re high in cholesterol.
But dietary cholesterol has little to do with the cholesterol level in your body, and numerous
studies have confirmed that eating eggs does NOT raise potentially adverse LDL cholesterol in
your blood.
You can tell the eggs are free range or pastured by the colour of the egg yolk. Pasture fed
chicken produce eggs with bright orange yolks and firm white part. Dull, pale yellow yolks are a
sure sign you’re getting eggs from caged chicken that are not allowed to pasture for their
natural diet.
Add healthy Omega 3 fatty acids to your diet!
– Avocado
– Flaxseed oil
– Organic pasture meat and chicken
– Bone broth
– Wild caught salmon and white fish
Your omega-3 levels may also affect your mitochondrial function, or dysfunction, as well as
important organs such as liver, eyes and kidneys. Omega-3 fats are among the more promising
nutritional components researchers have found that play a crucial role in the management of
mitochondrial dysfunction. Your mitochondria are important in energy production and calcium
signalling, as well as apoptosis and autophagy.
Omega 3 protects the inner part of your cells: The Mitochondria
Technically, omega-3 fats are found in plant and animal sources, but animal sources are the
most bioavailable to your body, meaning that your body is more effective in using animal
sources.
Plant-based omega-3 provides alpha linoleic acid (ALA), which your body inefficiently converts
to EPA and poorly converts to DHA. Plant-based sources of omega-3 include flaxseed, walnuts,
pumpkin seeds and chia seeds. These help to boost your overall ALA intake.
Fish and marine oil supplements are a direct source of EPA and DHA. EPA and DHA are essential
in digestion, blood clotting, memory, learning and functions of cell receptors. You must get
these from your diet.
Having a balance diet with natural sources of Omega 6 and Omega 3 will enable you to stay
healthy and protected from aging effects of pro oxidative damage.
Don’t avoid fat! Balance the ratios to have your body use the most of it for your health!