Category: Good Fats Bad Fats
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What’s the deal with the Mediterranean diet?
The Mediterranean diet comes in many different shapes and forms. In fact, there are around 18 different countries lying on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea so it is not surprising that there may be variation. These diets are all tied together with the same common component, olive oil. The traditional Mediterranean diet embraces olive…
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WHY SATURATED FAT IS A BAD FAT
Pioneering technique promises type 1 diabetes breakthrough Research to better predict mealtime insulin doses New University of Sydney research is taking a completely novel approach to insulin dosage, with the potential to make it easier for people with type 1 diabetes to adjust their insulin levels after a fatty meal. Led by Dr Kirstine Bell…
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Why Grass Fed.
A Quick Review of the Fats That Make Up Your Body All food fats are a blend of the different types, saturated and unsaturated. Unsaturated fats include poly- and monounsaturated fats. Omega-3s and 6s are types of polyunsaturated fats, both are called essential because we have to get them from food, our bodies can’t manufacture…
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Fishing
I enjoy fishing and it is only natural that Tex would accompany me and my fishing mates on our fishing adventures. In fact he gets quite upset when he does not come. He has never attempted to jump over board and even gets quite protective of the boat if birds get too close. Here…
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Brown Fat
Brown Fat, Triggered by Cold or Exercise, May Yield a Key to Weight Control By GINA KOLATA Published: January 24, 2012 Fat people have less than thin people. Older people have less than younger people. Men have less than younger women. Related Phys Ed: Exercise Hormone May Fight Obesity and Diabetes (January 11, 2012)…
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Two Serious Studies Regarding Omega-3 Chickens
Tex”s Highlights From The Following Reports. 1. One consideration in the use of fish oil as the n-3 fatty acid source is its off flavour in bird. Omega-3 chickens have a slight fishy taste that can put some people off eating these chickens. That is one reason that I have been told that my chickens…
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Omega-3 Pork
I present here 2 studies to producer Omega 3 pork:- Using Flax seeds Genetic modification using a gene from the roundworm, Caenorhabditis elegans. Studies in Canada have successfully produced Omega 3 pork by feeding pigs a diet containing 10% flex seeds. (Note, that similar studies with chickens in Australia has demonstrated that seeds may lose…
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Which fish should I eat?
Fat content of seafood groups is broadly outlined in the table below. Fish are unique because they tend to be higher in long chain polyunsaturated fats than most land animals. A variety of fish can be included in the diet, with some restrictions placed on crustaceans because of their high cholesterol content. Type of…
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Foods Rich In Omega 3
Food Rich in Omega-3 Food Rich in Omega-6 Food Rich in Omega-9 Cold-water fish e.g.;-salmon,tuna,mackerel, herring, Halibut. Sardines Fatty Fish anchovies, cod, halibut, mackerel, herring, lake trout, albacore tuna Fin Fish whiting, barramundi, trevalla, flake, flounder snapper Nuts Walnuts, Brazil nuts, hazelnuts, almonds, pecans, macadamia nuts, pistachios peanuts cashews, …
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Effects of Different Levels of Dietary Fish Oil and Poultry Fat on Performance
“In this experiment, the effects of different levels of fish oil and poultry fat (FO+PF) on the performance and Breast fatty acids composition of broiler chickens assessed. 3% oil in 4 diets were altered with replacing PF by FO (T1=3%PF, T2=2%PF+1%FO, T3=1%PF+2%FO, and T4=3%FO) and were given ad libitum to the birds throughout the growth…