Wednesday 20 November 2013

Do you need essential fatty acids? (Omega)

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds state that 2004 was the most catastrophic breeding season on record for seabirds along UK coasts. It says "industrial fishing to supply fish meal and oil is barely sustainable and destroys the whole marine food web"- RSPB.org 

A can of estrogen anyone?
It seems that everyone you talk to is concerned about"gettin their omegas in", everywhere you look billboards, posters, t.v. "nutritionists" and even Holland+Barrett (glorified chemist) are telling you to "get your omegas in"....and why might this be?


Well historically, policy makers and the big boy industries have told us the public, that "radiation is good for you," "estrogen will make you fertile (or safely infertile), feminine, strong and intelligent (haha), "using diuretics and avoiding salt will make pregnancy safer," and that the polyunsaturated fatty acids are "nutritionally essential, and will prevent heart disease."... and they just generally keep on going.  

The history of fish oil as I learn't from reading a seriously aged, oxidise, sticky varnishing tub from 1963 in my cousins grandpas house (Opa), is in fact largely based around that very product..varnish. As well as 'whale fat' being used to fuel lamps, the fish oil just like linseed where used in the paint industry prior to the 1960's and also fed to pigs and cattle as a cheap, waste industry, thyroid suppressing fattener, whilst at the same time being utilised in margarine production for human's....


Its the fish oils vulnerability to oxidation that made them and still does to some extent useful in varnish and paint products, as they harden rapidly when exposed to oxygen (test it for yourself using veg/fish oil). 

But its this vulnerability to oxidation that promotes the animal tissue (us) to injury and cell death.

There is so much hype around fish oil and the omega fatty acids, that baby formulas have   had them added and schools have implemented them to the kids meals. Most if not all experiments that I have graised my immature eyes across conducted with the unsaturated fish oils, last just a few weeks or months. 
Understanding how these unsaturated oils accumulate and over time suppress the bodies ability to generate energy in the mitochondria, these studies are not long enough to consider the long term effects and certainly not a long enough time for cancers to develop, and on that time scale, the immunosuppressive and "anti-inflammatory" effects of oxidised fish oil might seem beneficial. 


In declaring unsaturated- Omega's to be safe, the Food and Drug Admin neglected to evaluate their: 
A company that distributes
industries waste products and
sells them as "food". 
antithyroid effects 
immunosuppressive nature
lipid peroxidation (free radical oxidation of fats) 
light sensitising
anti-mitochondrial effects (inhibiting energy production)
depression of glucose oxidation (diabetes tII)   
contribution to metastatic cancer (one organ/tissue to another)
lipofuscinosis (accumulation of lipopigments)
and liver damage, among other problems. 
(Song et al., 2000), (Delarue et al., 2003), (Klieveri, et al., 2000) 




"it is usually their (pufa's) presence, rather than their deficiency, that creates the nature for the disease."- Peat, PhD.


The fish oil fad is now just as old as the x-ray fad was at its peak of popularity long before I was invented, and if its actions involve the same mechanisms as the "anti-inflammatory" immunosuppressive x-ray treatments, then we can expect to see another epidemic of fibrotic conditions and cancer in about 15 to 20 years. 



Ending on a bright note.. its all preventable! 

And...

The fats that we synthesise from sugar (fruits) or coconut oil are protective against the inflammatory PUFA's, in some cases more effective than potent vitamin E+C. 




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