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Stop It or You'll Go Blind - Vegetable Oils and Macular Degeneration
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<blockquote data-quote="SoCal Guy" data-source="post: 86835" data-attributes="member: 14529"><p><a href="http://davidgillespie.org/stop-it-or-youll-go-blind/" target="_blank">http://davidgillespie.org/stop-it-or-youll-go-blind/</a></p><p></p><p>Excerpt:</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #676767">Researchers have consistently found that people with macular degeneration have abnormally low levels of Omega-3 fatty acids in their retina. This has inspired many studies which look at the dietary fat breakdown of the participants.</span></p><p><span style="color: #676767"></span></p><p><span style="color: #676767">As expected a lot of those trials have shown that when people are eating a diet high in fish (the principal dietary source of the correct omega-3's) they <a href="http://www.momanseyecare.com/Documents/Dietary%20FAs%20and%20the%2010-y%20Incidence%20of%20ARMD.pdf.pdf" target="_blank">tend to have less macular degeneration</a>. But closer analysis of the figures has unearthed a very worrying exception. <strong>They are only better off if they are also NOT eating omega-6 fats.</strong> Indeed, <em><strong>people eating a diet high in omega-6 fats are <a href="http://aging.wisc.edu/pdfs/2608.pdf" target="_blank">twice as likely</a> to have macular degeneration as those eating a diet low in those fats (regardless of how much omega-3 they are consuming).</strong></em></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoCal Guy, post: 86835, member: 14529"] [URL]http://davidgillespie.org/stop-it-or-youll-go-blind/[/URL] Excerpt: [COLOR=#676767][FONT=Helvetica][FONT=inherit]Researchers have consistently found that people with macular degeneration have abnormally low levels of Omega-3 fatty acids in their retina[/FONT]. This has inspired many studies which look at the dietary fat breakdown of the participants. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#676767][FONT=Helvetica]As expected a lot of those trials have shown that when people are eating a diet high in fish (the principal dietary source of the correct omega-3's) they [URL="http://www.momanseyecare.com/Documents/Dietary%20FAs%20and%20the%2010-y%20Incidence%20of%20ARMD.pdf.pdf"]tend to have less macular degeneration[/URL]. But closer analysis of the figures has unearthed a very worrying exception. [B]They are only better off if they are also NOT eating omega-6 fats.[/B] Indeed, [I][B]people eating a diet high in omega-6 fats are [URL="http://aging.wisc.edu/pdfs/2608.pdf"]twice as likely[/URL] to have macular degeneration as those eating a diet low in those fats (regardless of how much omega-3 they are consuming).[/B][/I][/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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