The Ideal Ratio of Omega 3 to 6 in a Healthy Diet

By now, you've likely heard the news that a low-fat diet is no good. Learn why grass fed is better when choosing your healthy fats and how to eat the ideal ratio of omega 3 to 6 fats.

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By now, you’ve likely heard the news that a low-fat diet is no good. Learn why grass fed is better when choosing your healthy fats and how to eat the ideal ratio of omega 3 to 6 fats.

Omega-3 fats are getting a lot of attention these days, but they’re not a panacea. No miracle cure exists for what ails us. Nonetheless, omega-3s do have a unique place in the evolving discussion of which foods to eat. Think of omega-3s as a gateway fat — a portal into a bigger, fuller, richer story of fats in general.

Fats are complicated, a fact we must embrace. It was, after all, an oversimplification that persuaded experts to recommend avoiding them for the past 40 years. Consider, for example, how the popular mantra “You get fat because you eat fat” relates to a cornerstone of contemporary medicine: “Cholesterol in our blood derives from eating certain fats, and causes the heart disease that kills us.”

None of this is true. Despite prominent critiques over the past decade by writers such as Mary Enig, Ph.D., Gary Taubes, and Nina Teicholz, these anti-fat articles of faith spawned legions of unctuous fat nags, cholesterol screenings, skin-trimmed chicken breasts, Egg Beaters, and margarine. All of this was wrong, yet, until recently, the medical industry has stuck by its low-fat guns.

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