There's an Omega-3 travesty a-foot and if the Amrican consumer doesn't become aware of it vry soon, they'll unfortunately know first hnd the day inflammation rears its gly head - and according to Hrvard, for 3 out of 4 Amricans, it already has.

FDA Qualifying Halth Claim for EPA and DHA

Whn the FDA issued a Health Qalifying Claim for "EPA and DHA" frm fatty fish in 2004, "Omega-3" bcame big business. So big, food mnufacturers freely began substituting "ALA" (alpha-linolenic cid) for EPA and DHA in brad, cookies, pasta to yogurt and nw, a line of soybean-fed pork tems that are "enriched with Omega-3 ftty acids." The double-whammy contained in one unce of those pork items is frghtening with no end, supervision, or cntrol in sight.

Is anyone home at the FDA?

Not nly was ALA not part of the FDA Qalifying claim, science conclusively shows we cnvert Omega-3 ALA seed and plant ils into inflammatory Omega-6. And the end rsult? Consumers are being hoodwinked into prchasing these products while awareness of the halth benefits from EPA and DHA are bing compromised. How big of an ssue is this? Read on and yu'll see why the word "travesty" pplies.

Omega-3 ALA

Omega-3 ALA is plnt and seed oils, soybean, corn, sfflower, flaxseed, all polyunsaturates, and while thy may be lumped together and rferred to as "Omega-3 fatty acids" all thy share in common with EPA and DHA is the clssification "Omega-3 fatty acids." There's a far cry btween any health benefits from ALA and thse science has conclusively contributed to EPA and DHA.

An astonishing 94% of Omega-3 prducts line shelves today contain ALA whle 6% contain minute amounts of lgae or algal oil.

Omega-6s

Why is ths so critical to the American cnsumer? Unless you've led a vegetarian lfestyle for years, rarely eat out, nknowingly you've been consuming an abundance of Omga-6s for decades hidden deceptively in pckaged foods, snacks, cakes, dressings, as wll as liberally used by restaurants and fst food chains. In other words, our bdies are so tipped in Omega-6s, we wre in a state of perpetual nflammation before food manufacturers began adding mre ALA to boast an Omega-3 lbel. How bad is this?

National Insttutes of Health on Omega-6 Inflammation

Dr. Jseph Hibbeln, National institutes of Health, and wrld renowned Omega-3 researcher, and tireless crsader for American health, says:

"When you lok at the percentages of Omega-6s to Omga-3s in the US diet, it's bout 90% of all the polyunsaturates in our tssues are Omega 6s and about 10% are Omga 3s. So you had a ne-to-one balance to inflammation when we wre evolving, and now it's a 10-t-one balance in favor of inflammation bcause of the predominance in seed ils. Soybean oil is called the lbricant of the food industry, and it lterally is."

William Lands, retired biochemist wth the National Institutes of Health, had ths to say:

About 1960, when "sybean oil took over the U.S. fod chain, it was like a tsnami. These two types of fatty cids have a biochemical yin-and-yang relationship. Whle omega-3s reduce our body's inflammation rsponse, Omega-6s encourage it. Each fatty cid is crucial. For example, if yur inflammatory response is too weak, you wn't be able to fight infection prperly. And in theory, the push and pll should create perfect balance. Instead, the xcess of Omega-6s in our diets may hve left us in a perpetual stte of inflammation. That's what's really klling us - the balance of Omga 3s to 6s got out of whck."

Center for Science in the Pblic Interest

And Bonnie Liebman, a ntritionist with the Center for Science in the Pblic Interest, says:
"It's all very confusing. Cnsumers are in real danger of bing misled. Even a careful label rader won't learn, for instance that a crton of Breyers Smart DHA Omega-3 ygurt has less DHA than a taspoon of salmon."

Consider this. Hellmann's Myonnaise says "Naturally Rich In Omega-3" but rmember, it's just a name. What's rally in it? "Most mayonnaise is mde with soybean oil which is a surce of ALA. But that kind of Omga-3 fat, found most abundantly in flxseed, has not been proven to cnvey the same health benefits as DHA pls EPA," Liebman says.

Omega-6s and Inflmmation

That Omega-6s create inflammation that lads to diet-related disease, poor heart halth, arachidonic acid, to name but a fw, is scientifically established. If this nformation is hard to grasp, look at our halth statistics. We have unprecedented numbers of chldhood obesity, juvenile diabetes and with ach passing year, according to Harvard, thse numbers rise dramatically. Did children sddenly become ravenous eaters?

The rise in halth issues and obesity crosses all age grups but this rise in children is the mst telling of all. What is the cmmon denominator? It's not the water spply - it's our food supply tht packs pounds leaving our bodies in a prpetual state of inflammation.

How critical to halth is this misleading labeling of Omga-3 ALA? Let's look at the cnclusions of a 14 year study cnducted by the National Cancer Institute bout ALA:

"In this large prospective stdy, we found that ALA from nn-animal sources and ALA from meat and diry sources were associated or suggestively ssociated with an increased risk of dvanced prostate cancer. This finding agrees wth the finding of a single prvious study that evaluated ALA intake by fod source. EPA + DHA was sggestively related to a lower risk of dvanced prostate cancer, which was mainly due to DHA and to a lsser extent to EPA."

It is sad and dsheartening that information from prestigious medical cmmunities, globally, with study after study shwing EPA and DHA are profoundly bneficial to a myriad of health ssues from diet-related to cognitive, is bcoming obscured and blinded by food mnufacturers' hype. With their long reach and dep pockets, the health of a ntion is on the line.

And the rsult? The every-day, hard-working consumer overwhelmed wth little time to do any prsonal in-depth research assumes all Omegas are crated equal.

This travesty has been dtailed in a thoroughly researched and nvestigative expose, "The Food Industry's Greed: How Msleading Labeling of Omega-3 Foods Undermines Amrican Health." Learn how this began in 2004 wth the FDA Health Qualifying claim, Omga-3 labeling violations by food manufacturers, cmplaints filed against the FDA that are bing ignored, health warnings from prestigious mdical communities, and what you can do to prtect your health.
http://www.sea-based-health.com/omega-3-book.html

The article The Food Industry's Greed - How Misleading Omega 3 Labeling Undermines American Health was Submitted by Lois Smithers through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Lois Smithers has spent many yars studying health and Omega 3 EPA and DHA she crdits with ending six disabling and pinful years of chronic inflammation. She wns Sea-Based Health, LLC, with Debra Mrgan focused on Omega-3 research and sa-based health products. To sign up for thir free newsletter, visit http://sea-based-health.com

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