Why You Need to Balance the Fats It’s not enough to supplement your diet with fi sh oils or to eat enough omega-3 fats in your diet—it’s merely a good start. The health benefi ts of omega-3 fats depend on the balance of omega-6 fats in your diet. But that’s a big problem in the [...]
The impact of the fat imbalance gets clearer when you explore different regions of the world. We’ll take a brief look at what happened when Okinawans, Israelis, and urban Indians shifted their diets to high levels of omega-6 fats. Their experiences shed light on the ways that too much omega-6 f...