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(Gee, can anyone see a contradiction there?

)So what has this all got to do with low-fat eating?

Everything!

Similar to fat-soluble vitamins, the absorption of EPA and DHA increases when consumed with a high fat meal(74).Again, not just any old fat will do when it comes to improving one's omega-3 status.

Saturated fat improves the body's conversion of plant-source omega-3 fats into the longer-chain varieties EPA and DHA, while omega-6-rich fats impede the conversion process.

In young males, elongation of alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) and linoleic acid (LA) to DHA, EPA and AA was reduced by forty to fifty percent when dietary LA intake increased from fifteen to thirty grams per day(75).When rats were supplemented with linseed oil, their serum and tissue content of the all-important omega-3 fatty acids increased, and omega-6 levels decreased, to a far greater extent on a saturated fat-rich (beef fat) diet than on a linoleic acid-rich (safflower oil) diet(76).Cutting fat-as in saturated fat-worsens your omega-3 status.

If you think that's a good thing, then low-fat nutrition has already scrambled your brain.

My advice: Eat some fat before you become totally brain dead!

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