EFAs(Essential Fatty Acids)..how do you get yours?

[shamnas]

Hi all,

Can you please share with me how you get your EFAs?
I have ground flaxseed and flaxseed oil but I am wondering if I am missing something by not taking fish oil or primrose/borage oil?

Is hemp oil maybe better than flaxseed oil?

Any info. would be apprecaited.

Thank you,
Sham

 

[kathryn]

Flax meal and hemp powder, primarily. Also walnuts.
I prefer the whole-food versions of foods (meals and powdered whole hemp) to the processed oils, which don't have the entire compliment of nutrients that are in the whole foods.

Hemp oil has more omega 6 than omega 3 (close to the ideal ratio), while flax has higher omega 3. If you use a lot of corn oil or "cooking oil" that is high in omega 6, then flax is good to counterbalance that (if you eat more of a standard american diet, which is higher in omega 3's). (I hope I'm not mixing up the '3's" and the "6's"! Which I might be, because it's still early in the morning for me!!)

 

[Yvanna]

I take fish oil every morning -
You can also take Evening Primrose.