{"id":8352,"date":"2016-10-26T12:19:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T12:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/26\/focus-on-a-balance-of-omega-6-and-3-for-better-health-says-new-report\/"},"modified":"2016-10-26T12:19:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T12:19:47","slug":"focus-on-a-balance-of-omega-6-and-3-for-better-health-says-new-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/26\/focus-on-a-balance-of-omega-6-and-3-for-better-health-says-new-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on a balance of omega-6 and -3 for better health, says new report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/focus-balance-omega-6-3-better-health-says-083206179.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/istock_94929911.98a6d092646.original.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"86\" alt=\"Focus on a balance of omega-6 and -3 for better health, says new report\" align=\"left\" title=\"Focus on a balance of omega-6 and -3 for better health, says new report\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The group of experts believe a better balance of omega-3 and -6 in the diet is a more effective way of improving health than current nutrition policies, which focus on calories and energy expenditure and have &#8220;failed miserably over the past 30 years,&#8221; say Dr. Artemis Simopoulos of the Center for Genetics, Nutrition, and Health, Washington DC, and Dr. James DiNicolantonio of Saint Luke&#8217;s Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas. Recent years have seen an increased production of vegetable oils high in omega-6, such as sunflower, safflower and corn oils, and animal feeds changing from omega-3-rich grass to grain, resulting in high levels of omega-6 in the meat, eggs and dairy in the food supply for the first time in the history of human beings. Although we do also need a sufficient amount of omega-6 in the diet, human beings evolved to eat equal amounts of omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group of experts believe a better balance of omega-3 and -6 in the diet is a more effective way of improving health than current nutrition policies, which focus on calories and energy expenditure and have &#8220;failed miserably over the past 30 years,&#8221; say Dr. Artemis Simopoulos of the Center for Genetics, Nutrition, and Health, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-8352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/istock_94929911.98a6d092646.original.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}