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To: LindyBill who wrote (176)	7/12/2008 10:37:54 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39298

LindyBill, North American and Israeli diets tend to have too much omega-6, particularly in relation to omega-3 fatty acids. This imbalance contributes to long-term diseases such as heart disease, cancer, asthma, arthritis, and depression. A healthy diet should consist of roughly one omega-3 fatty acids to four omega-6 fatty acids. A typical American diet, however, tends to contain 11 to 30 times more omega-6 than omega-3 fatty acids. The ratio of Omega 6 should really be even lower than that. Not 4:1, but somewhere between 3:1 and 1:1. So when you see numbers such as 30:1 on the high end eating typical American diet, you can see that we have a problem. There is so much Omega 6 lurking in all kinds of foods, that one has to limit Omega 6, supplement Omega 3 to achieve the desirable ratio. In contrast, a Mediterranean diet is made up of a healthier and more appropriate balance between omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. The Mediterranean diet includes a generous amount of whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, olive oil, and garlic; plus, there is little meat, which is high in omega-6 fatty acids. That's a very confusing sentence. First, Mediterranean is a big place with number of different diets. Second the biggest contributors of Omega 6 are vegetable oils, whether used in cooking or in processed foods. Next come grains, whether they are fed directly to people or fed to animals later eaten by people. So grains are a negative, not a positive. Third, meat is where Omega 3s comes from, improving the ratio, if the animals are grass fed, which is (or used to be) the case with sheep in many Mediterranean countries. If you don't eat a lot of fish, your best source of Omega 3 is grass fed meat. So meat is (or can be) a positive, not a negative. So there may be a bit of confusion there on part of the University of Maryland Medical Center... Joe