ArticleNutrition & metabolism2012
Using 3-6 differences in essential fatty acids rather than 3/6 ratios gives useful food balance scores.
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- Enhanced polyunsaturated fatty acids production inFood & nutrition research · 2016Article
- Omega-3 PUFAs Lower the Propensity for Arachidonic Acid Cascade Overreactions.BioMed research international · 2015Review
- Consequences of essential fatty acids.Nutrients · 2012Review
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backgroundThe vitamin-like omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty acids are converted in the body to a large family of hormones which act at selective receptors that occur on nearly every cell and tissue. A relative omega-3 deficit allows overabundant actions of omega-6 hormones to develop into health disorders. People need simple, explicit information on the balance of essential fatty acids in their foods to avoid accumulating unintended imbalances in their tissue omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids.
resultsWe developed an Omega 3-6 Balance Food Score that summarizes in a single value the balance among eleven omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty acids in a food. The value allows a quantitative estimate of the impact of each food item on the proportions of omega-3 and omega-6 that will accumulate in the 20- and 22-carbon highly unsaturated fatty acids of blood, which is an important health risk assessment biomarker.
conclusionsThe impact of an individual food item upon a useful health risk assessment biomarker is easily evident in a simple, explicit value for the balance among eleven essential fatty acids nutrients. Foods with more positive Omega 3-6 Balance Food Scores will increase the percent of omega-3 in the biomarker, whereas those with more negative Scores will increase the percent of omega-6 in the biomarker.
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