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Inflammations are a huge problem in today’s American society. Most of them are induced by refined foods. Inflammations lead to achy joints, and early aging of the skin and inner organs. They make it difficult to lose fat. They make you depressive and moody. Omega-6 is the primary cause of inflammation and, in a perfect world, the proportion to Omega-3 should be 1:1. Contemporary Western diets typically have proportions of Omega-6 to Omega-3 in excess of 10 to 1, some as elevated as 30 to 1. The Japanese diet is the only diet that has the ratio of 4:1.

Excessive Omega-6 fatty acids from vegetable oils interfere with the health benefits of Omega-3 fats, in part simply because they compete for the same rate-limiting digestive enzymes. A high balance of Omega-6 to Omega-3 fats in the diet is pro-thrombotic, pro-constrictive, and pro-inflammatory. Chronic excessive production of Omega-6 eicosanoids is correlated with arthritis, cancer, and inflammation. Omega-3 fatty acids are anti-inflammatories and Omega-6 fatty acids are pro-inflammatory. More than half of Americans suffer from one kind of chronic illness or another.

Don't buy products that offer you a Omega-3/Omega-6/Omega-9 combination. You need more Omega-3 and Omega-9 and not as much Omega-6 because you're obtaining enough of Omega-6 from your diet anyway. Organic feed farm animals have a much lower amount of Omega-6 than farmed animals. It's straightforward: when the diet of the animals are changed, their meat is changed as well. Omega-6 is not a wrong fat, we need it, and it’s just bad if you have a great deal of it and not enough Omega-3 at the same time.

A person can think of Omega-3 as a thinning agent in the blood and Omega-6 as the thickening agent. Fish high in Omega-3 gets Omega-3 from algae. Omega-3 is also located in green leaves. Think of Omega-3 as a "spring season fat,” found in leafy vegetables. It thins our bloodstream so we can move faster and be more agile. Then imagine Omega-6s as "fall fats,” the ones that are eaten by animals preparing for the winter. As you can picture, Omega-6 is found in corn, nuts, soy and seeds. All of them are ready for usage in autumn, just before winter. Think of Omega-6 as a fat storage space for animals. And THAT is what American people eat during the whole year – LOADS of high-processed corn syrup and soy oils. Constantly. For the whole year. If you draw a diagram of the refined wheat, corn, and soy intake increase in Western society and then draw a diagram of the increase in obesity, you will see the connection.

How can you change your diet so you consume a perfectly balanced Omega-6 to Omega-3 ratio? Try consuming more Omega-3s (avocado, flax, salmon, chia seeds, raw nuts), or take Omega-3 supplements and avoid vegetable oils full with Omega-6. High Omega-6 intakes are associated with a rise of all inflammatory diseases: