Sat, Jun-22-02, 09:06
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Posts: 1,514
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Plan: TSP/PPLP/low-cal/My own
Stats: 250/209/150
BF:
Progress: 41%
Location: Sacramento, CA
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I've chosen to take fish (salmon) oil because of the following quote:
Quote:
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Fish may be the richest source of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, but plant foods such as flaxseeds, flaxseed oil, canola oil, unhydrogenated soybean oil and walnuts contain shorter-chain omega-3 fatty acids called alpha-linolenic acid. Some of those can be converted to the long-chain version, Willett says.
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from thread: http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthre...ight=omega+fish
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Flaxseed oil contains short-chain Omega-3 fatty acids and the human body can convert these short-chain Omega-3 fatty acids with great difficulty into much lower levels of longer-chain Omega-3 fatty acids. The conversion rate is between one and five percent. It is only the long-chain Omega-3 fats that have
the health benefits.
This is not to say that flaxseed oil is bad. It is just not very good compared to fish oil because of the very inefficient conversion of the fats found in flaxseed oil to the long-chain Omega-3 fats found in fish oil.
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from thread: http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthre...ongchain+omega3
So as far as I'm concerned, fish oil packs more benefit for the punch.
;-Deb
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