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Is the relatively low intake of omega-3 fatty acids in Western diet contributing to the obesity epidemics?

✍ Scribed by Birgitta Strandvik; Susanne Eriksson; Malin Garemo; Vilborg Palsdottir; Sabine Sampels; Jana Pickova

Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 175 KB
Volume: 20
Category: Article
ISSN: 0956-666X
DOI: 10.1002/lite.200800009

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Abstract

Alongside the increase of overweight and obesity in the world there is the avoidance of saturated fat and an increased dietary use of vegetable oils rich in omega‐6 fatty acids. These changes result in a marked increase of the omega‐6/omega‐3 ratio and there is increasing evidence that this changed balance is related to lifestyle diseases. There are also indications that this balance between fatty acids may be involved in epigenetics, i. e. that it influences metabolic pathways during intra‐uterine or early life which cause diseases later in life. Such processes would be a possible explanation for the epidemic outburst of obesity during the latest decades.

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