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Sesame Powered High Omega-6 Diet Boosts Endurance Performance in Rodents - High Omega-3 Diet Sucks: Intra-Muscular Lipid Ratios Determine Exercise Performance

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At least in rodents omega-6s appear to make abetter match with exercise than in human beings. I actually referenced this study several times in the past. It came up in a Facebook conversation I had with Roy Nelson who pointed me to a press release telling me that ( I quote ) "Certain Fat Could Help Humans Lose Weight". Interestingly, the "certain fat" in this particular study is (brace yourselves) linolic acid, better known as "omega-6" (obviously a misnomer, since omega-6 is actually referring to a whole class of fatty acids). In view of the fact that the corresponding study in which Rogowski et al. observed a significant correlation between the omega-6 fatty acid content in the muscle and mitochondrial uncoupling and fat oxidation. The problem with the study is however that it was conducted not just with mice, but with genetically modified mice. The results of the said study by Rogoswki, Patin et al. may thus form the basis for further investiga...
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Devil in the Feeding Trough: PGE-Response to "Bad" Red Meat from Grass-Fed Cattle Could Prevent not Cause Cancer, Stroke and a Whole Host of Autoimmune Diseases.

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Image 1: You do not need to hunt your red meat like a paleolithic human being, just make sure it comes from grass-fed animals and you will have a "health food" that modulate the your prostaglandin response to inflammatory assaults and thusly reduce your risk of cancer, stroke and autoimmune disesases in a way no fat-free chicken breast will ever do. I have had this in the news before, in the context of the purported health benefits of CLA, with respect to the modulation of the n3/n6 ratio in your diet and in various other context, you heard me saying, or, I should say, read me writing that rather than popping tons of fish oil caps, you should rather focus on decreasing your overall omega-6 intake by making healthy food choices at the supermarket. In this regard, choosing grass-fed over commercially raised beef (and other meat) products could turn out to be one of the most far-reaching choices you can make. While that alone will help you to concomitantly reduce the n-6 ove...
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Turning Bad Into Good Fats, AHA Style: How the American Heart Association (Ab-)Uses Scientific Research According to Their (Hidden?) Agenda

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As a diligent student of the SuppVersity, you are well aware that the absolute and relative overabundance of n-6 fatty acids (also known as omega-6 or linolic acid) in Western diets literally lies at the heart of heart disease. It is thus dear to my heart to turn your attention to the recent advances of the American Heart Association Nutrition Subcommittee of the Council on Nutrition to reestablish the myth of the heart-healthy omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Image 1: You better watch out, other than the American Heart Association wants you to believe , one of the "better fat sisters" (Poly, the one in the middle) turns out to have a very dark six-times unsaturated side ;-) Back in 2009, already, the American Heart Association had published an article (AHA. 2009 Omega-6 Fatty Acids and Risk for Cardiovascular Disease), the putative intention of which was "to summarize the current evidence on the consumption of omega-6...
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