Six Sources of Healthier Fats, The Omega 3 to 6 Balance, and Why You Care

Book excerpt: Why is it important for you to eat fats, and which fats are the best choice? This short, light paper will introduce you about six sources of healthy fats, especially from pastured/grass-fed sources. It explains simply why getting Omega 3 Essential Fatty Acids (EFA's) from pastured and wild sources are important for overall health, and how fats are necessary for every cell in your body. Fat-soluble vitamins are stored in fats, and help their absorption by you, but fats also helps the absorption of water-soluble vitamins like Bs and K. This paper describes the benefits of avocado, olives and olive oil, wild salmon, grass-fed whole yogurt, coconut fats, and pastured pork lard. It talks about coconut products like coconut butter, coconut oil and MCT oil, and their importance for brain health due to lauric acid. This nutrition information will introduce you and re-educate you on how we a whole food diet can benefit our health over the long term.