{"id":12632,"date":"2014-08-07T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145696.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=12632"},"modified":"2014-08-06T13:09:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T20:09:07","slug":"fatty-acids-difference-omega-3-omega-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/fatty-acids-difference-omega-3-omega-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatty Acids – The Difference Between Omega 3 + Omega 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fatty<\/a><\/p>\n

One thing in life is true\u2026there is always more to learn.<\/h2>\n

I\u2019ve been taking Rise app<\/a> for a test drive these past couple of weeks and, to my surprise, have learned a few things. Not that I went into this experience thinking I knew everything about nutrition and healthy eating, but after years of researching healthful diet and lifestyle, felt I had little left to learn. About my own personal diet, anyway.<\/p>\n

Well, I was wrong.<\/p>\n

Two major things I found out through the nutritionist I am working with, Anar, is that I need to get more protein and fiber into my diet. Also, I could really stand to up the strength training. Being a carb lover and cardio junky, it makes sense that I am lacking in the areas of protein and strength training.<\/p>\n

After a few days of higher protein\/less carbs I was feeling pretty darn sluggish. As in, I kind of wanted to go curl up in a ball, make everyone quit talking to me, and take a nap. Like all day long. Not good. I decided I needed some carbs and made switches like swapping turkey and cheese for oatmeal. Remember how we talked about creating a plan that works for YOU<\/a>. Ya, that is huge.<\/p>\n

Another thing I learned \u2013 omega-6 fatty acids are not your friend. Maybe you already knew this. I did not. You always hear about needing to get more omega-3 essential fatty acids in your diet. So I thought omega-6s would be just as good if not better. Double the fun, right?<\/p>\n

Wrong. Omega-6s are a completely different animal than omega-3s. Where omega-3s improve your heart, skin, and joint health, omega-6s cause inflammation. And since we know that inflammation is pretty much the recipe to ill health and disease<\/a>, omega-6s are definitely not essential in maintaining good health.<\/p>\n

In our western diet we get lots of omega 6 and not enough omega 3s, when we get too much omega 6 it does lead to inflammation. \u00a0 ~Anar Allidina<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So where are they and how do we get rid of them? Omega-6 fatty acids are found in refined oils and the foods that contain them. Fast and processed foods are high in omega-6s, and our western diets are filled with that stuff.<\/p>\n

To keep omega-3s high and omega-6s low cut down on consumption of processed foods and be sure to include olive oil, walnuts, flax, and pumpkin seeds in your diet.<\/p>\n

There. Hope you too learned something new today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you know your fatty acids? One is essential, the other not so much. Read on for some Omegas 101… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":12633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[8192,3704,5374,5755,8191,8190,8193],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/FattyAcids101.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}