Healthy Eating Tips

10 Tips For Increasing Your Essential Fats

Your body can produce most of the fats it needs except for two: omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids.

Here are 10 great ways to eat your essential fats and ensure your body has what it needs to thrive!

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1. Eat your greens:

Leafy greens have essential fats. Up your intake with salads, smoothies and cooked greens.

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2. Go fishing:

Eat a variety of wild-caught fish, especially those high in essential fats like salmon and sardines.

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3. Get grass-fed:

Enjoy red meat, but skip the factory-farmed meat and opt for grass-fed beef or lamb instead. When your animals eat their leafy greens, you reap the essential benefits.

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4. Add in algae:

Marine phytoplankton (blue-green algae) are an ideal source of essential fats, so add some to your smoothies to experience the increased energy.

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5. Seek out seeds:

Increase seeds that are rich in essential fats like hemp, flax, chia. Add them to smoothies, salads, dressings, granola, and desserts.

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6. Walk on the wild side:

Find a source for the wild-caught game like venison or buffalo. Remember that you eat what your animals do. The wild-roaming beasts eat the turf that's loaded with nutrients.

7. Drizzle it on:

Use cold-pressed oils that are rich in essential fats like flax and hemp seed oils for salad dressings, pesto's or add a bit to your morning smoothie.

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8. Find happy chicks:

Pass on commercial chicken and eggs. Instead opt for pastured eggs and free range poultry. Seek out a local farmer for your best source.

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9. Welcome nuts and seeds:

Increase your nut and seed consumption for amped up essential fats. Enjoy them in smoothies, trail mix, bars, nut butters, or pesto.

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10. Elevate your oils:

Steer clear of refined oils, including vegetable, soybean, canola and safflower oils. For high heat cooking, use coconut, ghee, lard or grass-fed butter instead.

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Essential fats are nice to us and we need them for our bodies to function properly and this is why they're called essential.

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Fats are defined as essential for several reasons:

• The body cannot make them.

• They must be provided from outside the body, through food or supplementation.

• They are required for normal cell, tissue, gland, and organ function.

• They come only from fats (so fat-free diets cannot supply them).

• Their absence from the diet can create an upstream imbalance.

• Inclusion of essential fatty acids to a diet that lacks them can help to reverse the symptoms of deficiency and support the return to health.

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Essential fats are crucial for the

normal functioning of tissues throughout your body. They are also essential because you need to eat them to get them.

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"ALL DISEASES BEGIN IN THE GUT."

Coined By The Father of Modern Medicine, Hippocrates