My guest post on Mark’s Daily Apple last week triggered a few questions about a couple of different oils. Here are seven oils and my recommended uses for them, along with three that I don’t recommend and why.
The Good Guys (In No Particular Order)
1. Lard
Lard is pork fat, the highest grade being “leaf lard,” [...]

Tags: butter, canola, coconut oil, flax, lard, olive oil, palm oil, tallow, vegetable oil

For those that didn’t see it, I had a guest post at Mark’s Daily Apple yesterday. There’s a good discussion of coconut and palm oils going on in the comments, so check it out. And if you aren’t subscribed to Mark’s RSS, do so. Top notch stuff coming out of MDA everyday.

Tags: coconut oil, guest post, palm oil

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I found this article a couple days ago: Omega-6 fatty acids found to be dietary cause of depression, heart disease
Six of the participants were found to meet the criteria for major depression. These six participants had a significantly higher ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids than the participants [...]

Tags: ALA, cod liver oil, depression, DHA, EPA, fish oil, grass-fed, omega 6, salmon

Via Eating Fabulous comes this article discussing a study regarding getting omega-3s from fish versus fish oil. Here is the study abstract.
Here’s the conclusion:
From the article:
The 16-week study with healthy premenopausal women showed that the increases in red blood cell levels of the omega-3 fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) [...]

Tags: docosahexaenoic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid, fish oil, menopause, omega 3, salmon, seafood, tilapia

I think most of us are convinced that long-chain omega-3s (EPA and DHA) like those from fish and grass-fed meats are good for us. This is an interesting short piece on how they do their work: UCLA researchers find anti-Alzheimer’s mechanism in omega-3 fatty acids
Reporting in the current issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, [...]

Tags: Alzheimer's, fish oil, omega 3, seafood