Are There Essential Dietary Oils?

By Owen Jones


Despite the alternative of the Atkins diet, most people who go on a diet take the advice of reducing their fat intake in order to reduce their bulk, which is fat. However, there is not a great deal of evidence to support the theory that reducing the consumption of fat will reduce how much fat you amass on your body.

The solitary tactic that can work in the long term, if you would like to lose weight, is to use up more calories than you take in. However, there is a great deal of evidence to say that we require some oil and in particular some oils in our diet. This makes sense even on the most simple level, you need some oil (read 'fat') in order to lubricate your joints.

It therefore makes sense that athletes and individuals who have a tiring job also need oil in some quantity. However, it does not follow that eating just any oil or fat will be good enough. There are good fats and 'bad' fats, although we even require some of the bad fats. The concerns arise if we eat too much bat fat and not enough good fat.

In other words, when our diet gets out of kilter. For instance, animal fats (such as saturated fats) have a blanket 'bad' reputation, but they supply our bodies with such important vitamins as A,D, E and K. Likewise fish oil supplies our bodies with Omega 3 essential fatty acids that it is impossible to get from land-based foods.

These vitamins and oils in their most available forms come from dead animals. In the case of the long-chain omega 3 essential fatty acids like EPA and DHA, you can just get them from sea creatures, although you can derive the short-chain omega 3's from some land-based sources.

These vitamins and essential oils are crucial to all human life but even more so to finely-tuned sports people who have to be able to utilize all their physical and mental powers in order to get to the top of their sports.

Omega 3 essential fatty acids come in two broad kinds, long-chain and short-chain varieties but they are not interchangeable. You require both sorts. Short chain you can acquire from flaxseed oil and it also has omega 6 in it too, although it is considered by some that most individuals eat far too much omega 6 as it is present in all vegetable cooking oils.

Oily fish delivers the long-chain omega 3's, so cod liver oil is a decent source of these. These omega 3's are literally 'brain food' and it is the reason why parents have been saying for hundreds of years that fish is brain food, although they certainly would not have known the precise reason why.

Cod liver oil also provides a variety of other vitamins and nutrients including vitamin D, which you could synthesize from the sunshine, if the ozone layer was not so depleted as to make going out perilous and we didn't nearly all work indoors.




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