ADD ADHD and Essential Fatty Acids

Lately, there has been a lot of chatter about the role fatty acids play in our health. To clear things up a little, I want to talk about what fatty acids are and how they function.Fats are made up of several different classes of fatty acids. Three types of fatty acids occur naturally.The first class is the saturated fatty acids, which can be divided further into short, medium, and long-chain fatty acids. The second class is the monounsaturated fatty acids. The third class is the polyunsaturated fatty acids.There is a fourth class called trans-fatty acids, which for the most part do not occur in nature. These are unsaturated fatty acids that have been chemically altered by food manufacturers in order to increase the shelf life of fat-containing products. This is what is produced when the manufacturer makes partially hydrogenated oils.Trans-fatty acids are shaped differently than their natural counterparts. This means that when the body incorporates them into body structures, they change the shape of that structure and do not function as well as their natural counterpart.In the last forty years, there has been a tremendous amount of misinformation published about the role of […]

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