Essential Fats

We present commentary and opinions about scientific nutrition, healthy foods, diagnosis of fatty acid abnormalities, treatment using fat mixtures, products rich in essential fats, research and researchers, companies interested in essential fats, and more! We emphasize balanced nutrition aimed to achieve ideal weight and optimal levels of EFs.

We propose that abnormal levels of EFs disturb cell membrane fluidity and hormone function, and thus aggravate many diseases of western societies.

We explain how to use our findings to prolong life. We lead and educate doctors with our discoveries.

We provide the results that others use to write about fat and design new foods. We introduce key concepts about fats.

We created new methods to diagnose and correct fat abnormalities, discovered the missing link between heart disease and EFAs, and identified similarities and differences between disorders due to fat malabsorption and those due to excessive fat intake. We coined the words Essential Fats, Essential Fatty Acid Insufficiency, Relative EFA Deficiency, Relative EFA Insufficiency, and parents, daughters and derivatives of EFAs (DEFAs).

We created a new highly sensitive test to measure EFA deficiency and found that w6 and w3 deficiencies, rather than being rare conditions, are some of the most prevalent nutrition abnormalities in the USA (based on our blood analysis of subjects from the famous Framingham Heart Study). Now many nutritionists recommend oil supplements.

We showed why low fat diets can be harmful. Who is likely to be hurt (slim people, pregnant women, people who are not losing weight, and others). Now almost everybody, even the Am Heart Assoc., warns about these issues.

We explained how trans fatty acids are harmful. Now researchers warn about dangers of hydrogenated oils, and foods like margarine are being redesigned.

We report news from an insider's perspective, based on our biochemical research and private conversations with leading scientists. We describe differences between what others say and what recent (often unpublished) research has shown. We explain how to select and use vegetable and fish oils and other foods.

This site is for health professionals, doctors, nutritionists, researchers, reporters, individuals who use PUFA-rich foods or supplements (fish oils, GLA, DHA, etc.), patients with fatty acid abnormalities. We include genetic lipid disorders (special diets + drugs), IBD and SBS (elemental foods, therapies), cardiovascular disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's, neurological or neuromuscular disorders, epilepsy, prostate or breast cancer, pregnant women and nursing mothers who want to have smart and healthy babies, individuals who want to lose weight, athletes, people wishing to look, feel and be physiologically younger, and anyone wanting to eat an optimal diet. We suggest new options. You must be prepared to invest time & money in yourself to decide. We give you opportunities; you take the responsibility to use them.

tests by EFALAB. Diagnosis and treatment options to improve your health. What makes our approach unique (tutorials, diseases, instructions).

Products for industry (issues reports, marketing strategy), designing foods rich in essential fats (issues, problems, claims, FTC, FDA), products for professionals and consumers (newsletter, foods&supplements, EFA books). Reporters visit FAQ, Research.

What should you eat today?ä Emphasis on seafoods, lean meats, eggs, vegetables, fruits, special oils, supplements. Practical plan to keep you healthy and happy.

pregnancy. The story of a pregnant woman, expected to deliver August 15, 1999. Nutrition & fatty acids for optimal pregnancy + development. Abnormal lipids in pregnancy. Need for seafoods, lean meats.

and Disease: Epilepsy, Crohn's/IBD, Lipid abnormalities (Lipid drugs), Nutrition Support: enteral + parenteral (IV). Many other diseases.

frequently accessed links:
Newsletter "The Essential News on Fats";
Order the fatty acid profile EFA-SRÔ:
Patient, Doctor, Lab technician;
List of our key definitions;
Organizations/companies.

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Newsletter "The Essential News on Fats"
Key differences with other groups

Lipid abnormalities | Lipid drugs | Nutrition Support: enteral + parenteral (IV) |