185 ND Does the Ratio of Omega-6 Fats Really Matter?
Nutrition Diva
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🗓️ 17 April 2012
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Some prominent experts say there's no reason to worry about it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone this is Monica Reinagel the nutrition diva here with your quick and dirty |
| 0:08.1 | tips for eating well and feeling fabulous for the last 40 years or so, we've been hearing that saturated fats, which are found in |
| 0:17.0 | meat, butter, full-fat dairy, and certain tropical oils, are quote-unquote artery clogging and that we should limit our |
| 0:24.7 | intake of these fats to reduce our risk of heart disease. Over the last decade however |
| 0:28.7 | there's been a steady drumbeat of dissent from researchers and renegades challenging this conventional wisdom. |
| 0:36.0 | So last year, the Academy of Food and Nutrition, previously known as the American Dietetic Association, |
| 0:42.1 | invited several heavy hitters in the field of nutrition |
| 0:44.9 | to debate this topic. |
| 0:46.9 | The group, which included Walter Willett and Darius Mazzafarian from Harvard University |
| 0:51.6 | and Alice Lictonstein from Tufts, was only able to muster a fragile consensus. |
| 0:57.0 | Maybe saturated fats aren't quite as bad as we've been led to believe, |
| 1:01.0 | and they also mostly agreed that telling people to cut back |
| 1:04.3 | unsaturated fats may do more harm than good if you're not very specific about what they |
| 1:09.6 | should replace them with. |
| 1:11.2 | For example, we now know that the partially hydrogenated vegetable oils |
| 1:14.9 | in margarine are even worse for your heart than the saturated fats in butter. |
| 1:20.1 | And low-fat diets that are high and refined carbohydrates not only contribute to heart |
| 1:24.6 | disease risk, but they make us fat as well. |
| 1:28.2 | There was one thing, however, about which these experts were in complete and utter agreement, and that was that the ratio of |
| 1:35.5 | omega-6 to omega-3 fats in the diet is totally unimportant. |
| 1:41.6 | Omega-6 and omega-3, of course, are the two main families important. like corn and soybean oil. Omega 3 are found in fish and flaxseed. |
| 1:55.0 | The modern industrialized Western diet tends to be quite high in omega 6 |
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