Making the Right Fish Choices: Fatty Acid Contents of 33 Different Fish Species. Plus: What Are the Implications?

Pollachius virens (Photo: Tino Strauss) is king, when it comes to the n:3/n:6 ratio, but with <1% of fat you will still be hard pressed ...

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Grass-Fed Pork? Not Really. Still the Difference in Fatty Acid Composition & Micronutrient Content Are Profound & Not Accounted for by Food Databases - Let Alone Epidemiology

You often hear that pigs are pretty closely related to us humans, but "are all pigs created equal"? Or what may be a more appropri...

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Demonized N-6 Pufas Surprisingly Ergogenic: Safflower Oil More Than Doubles Swimming Endurance of Aging Mice.

Image 1: Unexpectedly ergogenic - Carthamus tinctorius   L., better known as "safflower", a highly branched, herbaceous, thistle-l...

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Vitamin D & PUFA - Is There an Overlooked Antagonism Between Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Vitamin D3?

Image 1: Do not write off all the "good" foods until you read the full blogpost, including my comment at the end (image by ADAM ) ...

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Body Fat Modulation with Corn Oil & L-Carnitine: What You Can Learn From Your Schnitzel

Its quite remarkable that, primates aside, swine are among the best models of human metabolism . So, even if you do not feel piggy a...

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EPA Reverses Insulin Resistance by Modulation of Adipose Tissue Inflammation

If you are about my age, your mother probably did not tell you to have your *yummie* cod liver oil , did she? Turns out, that was a bad mist...

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Don't Blame Your Parents for Getting Fat: N-3 Fatty Acids May Save You!

Figure 1: Chemical Structure of Alpha-Linolic Acid ( HMDB v2.5 ) It has been assumed that bad dietary habits of mothers-to-be increase the r...

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