Best Omega 3 Sources: Omega 3 Foods & Supplements of Omega 3 Oils

If you want to avoid an essential fatty acid deficiency, learn about omega 3 sources that help you lose weight too.

First, you should know that most sources of omega 3 oils contain omega 6 as well.
Second, as you remember from our discussion on omega three fatty acids, the SAD (Standard American Diet) contains 4-5 times more omega 6 than a healthy diet should. If you are like most people, you too get too much omega 6 in relation to omega 3 fatty acids.

So how do you increase omega 3 in relation to omega 6?

Here are the best omega 3 foods, from the most omega 3 content to the least:

• Fatty fish: salmon, anchovies, sardines, herring, mackerel, trout, swordfish, tuna, pollock, halibut, haddock, cod
  
  
• Seafood: blue mussels, oysters, shrimps, krills, scallops, clams
  
  
• Vegetarian: flaxseed oil, flax seeds, chia, butternut squash, hemp, walnuts, humus, brown algae (kelp)

At this point you should know that most vegetarian omega 3 sources contain actually the fatty acid ALA (alpha-linolenic acid), the precursor of the omega 3 fatty acids EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) that are found in fish and seafood.
Scientists have shown that although your body is able to convert ALA to EPA & DHA, this conversion is limited by your age and health.

Because the serious consequences of an essential fatty acid deficiency and because most people don’t eat enough essential fatty acids from food, food industry started to add omega 3 fatty acids in yogurt, milk, soy milk, orange juice, grain breads, margarine, and eggs, which are from hens fed flax seeds, one of the best omega 3 foods.

As you’ve seen, in a perfect world one of the best omega 3 sources would be fatty fish.

However, it's no secret that nowadays, dangerous pollutants like mercury, dioxin, PCB (Poly-Chlorinated-Biphenyl), toxaphene and the pesticide DDT (Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane), are present in high quantities in most fatty fish.

Quite frankly, the consequences of eating highly contaminated fish or of taking dubious fish oil supplements are scary!

With this in mind, you should know that the safest, least contaminated fish are anchovies, sardines, salt water trout, Alaskan or Sockeye salmon and dark meat tuna.

Hmmm. Not much left, right?

Dietary Supplements as Omega 3 Sources

Want the benefits of omega 3 oils without the dangerous toxins that you’d get by eating a lot of fish?

The easiest way is to take a fish oil supplement. But not just any will do.

Omega 3 supplements have to be molecularly distilled fish oil - usually called "pharmaceutical grade".

Why?

Because molecular distillation separate the oil from the contaminants.

Then, the healthy omega 3 oils are encapsulated into soft gels that you can safely take.

Because of the wide contamination of our waters, and hence fish, nowadays, flaxseed oil is one of the most recommended omega 3 sources - take a look at the weight loss and other health benefits of flaxseed oil >>

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