Not sure if i'm getting enough omega 3. I use olive oil in my wok to cook with, but not every single day. I eat 'leafy green vegetables' fairly regulary but again not every day. Aside from flaxseed oils and the other oils what other sources are there (aside from walnuts)? Or is omega 3 deffiency not really a major concern as long as i'm eating a mixed diet?
I take omega 3 supplements because I know there's no way I can fit it all in with my food intake, and I honestly don't think the average person gets enough.
If you don't like flaxseed oil you can try the seedsthemselves (linseeds). Make peanut butter toast and sprinkle on the seeds. Yum!
I recently started using a program that calculates how much of the major vitamins and minerals you are taking in after you enter what you eat in a day. It's computed as % of RDI of each based on my age, ht, and wt. It has been an eye opener for me, how much I was not getting enough of. so I'm now taking a vitamin supplement.
I believe there was recently a major, very conclusive study that found no beneifts of omega-3s. Before you spend a fortune on supliments or choke down flax seed smoothies I would search for it.
^^^ then they are fish oil capsules. most likely cod liver oil. if you are veg*n you shouldn't take them. they make flax oil capsules if you like the convience of a supplement, but many are gelatin based. be careful!
that's okay, just had a tuna fish sandwich, I'm a mostly vegetarian, cut off the red meat mostly, a little chicken, fish once in while and a very very once in while hot dog or piece of rib meat I cook ribs for the 8 dogs. maybe I'm at a transition stage to go full veggie eater, I dunno, seems to me to transition slowly into any decent way of life.
okay, some clarification here olive oil is good for omega 9's not the 3's and flaxseeds contain the precursors to omega 3's, not the 3's themselves. so you have to be in pretty good health in order to be able to synthesize 3's out of flax. i'd opt for fish oil sources of the 3's personally~no messing around, and you know that your body is going to actually get omega 3's and not just the building blocks that are capable of making up a 3
I just read some information on ground flaxseeds and flaxseed oil that I thought I would share. http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/id/QAA400051
thye are only 2 foods one can consume that do not involve killing something to get them......honey and milk.
Honey involves the destruction of the bees home and larva. I also disagree with your statement, but what does this have to do with omega 3?
I'm with Walker on this one... Bees get killed, sometimes accidentally, sometimes purposefully. Dairy cows live only a fraction of their lives because we rape them of their milk and force them to produce a shit-ton more than they ever should. Then we kill them when they dry up, which is about for years from their first milking.
