narouz said:I guess, as a lover of fresh PUFA,
you might like to regularly eat fresh salmon or Patagonia Toothfish (Chilean Sea Bass)?
And you might like to eat a lot of very fresh walnuts, almonds, pecans, etc?
And very fresh avocados?
If you were traveling in the Middle East,
and you saw them actually harvesting the sesame seeds
and making it into tahini,
you would enjoy that in large amounts on a daily basis?[/font]
G'day, narouz. I've taken a vacation from Peatdom but checked back in today. I'll reply to this ending on your post, since I never did before.
Actually, I don't worry about PUFA intake. I just don't eat processed foods for the most part. I try to get foods as fresh as possible. This allows me to avoid oxidized fats, missing vitamins, depleted enzymes, etc. So by avoiding the processed stuff, which of course includes seed oils, restaurant food, etc., I don't get the PUFA that I think (my interpretation, to be sure) Peat warns of. That is, oxidized PUFA.
I don't seek out any of the foods you mentioned, from salmon, thru nuts, to tahini. I think you mentioned those because they have heavy amounts of PUFA? My take on PUFA is you can ignore it and you will still get it. You can run like hell from it and you will still get it. So just forget it. Nature brings it to you in small quantities. That's enough for me, though it might be too much for others. Why stress over it? Stress is a null, dead end.
So when I eat, say spinach, I get fresh alpha-linolinic acid (omega-3), but very little, but ALSO just the right amount! My body will make some DHA, etc. out of it if it thinks it needs it. I don't really care. But I certainly feel quite healthy and am quite content to pick some spinach from my garden and also some kale and just live on the omega-6 and omega-3 that comes to me that way -- trickle down, here a smidge, there even less. No need to eat a bunch of nuts, or fish or take supplements. And no need to worry about it or try to make logical sense out of it. As Nicolas said a week ago:
Nicolas said:...that sort of "trying to make sense of it" and you find yourself hanging onto statements of others which causes stress....*****BECAUSE***** your gut knows that you have detached from it.....you have sold out to thinking more than feeling.....not trusting that your body and your body alone can give all the direction and research needed.
I think Nicolas eats well enough that he now trusts his body to tell him what he needs. I think if we could all do this, it might be nearly the end of the discussion. I'm working in that direction at least, more than I'm working toward heavier discourse. I hope this finds you feeling healthy!