by Crossfit Brio
27. April 2010 05:00
WOD
3 rounds for time of:
100 ft. Walking lunge
50 Squats
25 Good Mornings (45/35lb bar)
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A paleo diet leaves out industrial seed oils (corn, soybean, safflower, sunflower, and cotton seed oil) which are new to the human diet in the last 40 or so years. They are very high in a polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) called Linoleic acid - an Omega 6. Omega-6 fats are known to be pro-inflammatory, while their Omega-3 counterparts have an opposite, anti-inflammatory effect. Wild fish, grass finished meats, and free roaming chickens all produce meat/eggs that are higher in Omega-3. Less of the bad, more of the good restores a more natural Omega-6/Omega-3 ratio. As you know, we're also big on fish oil if you don't eat enough fish or can't get your hands on grass finished meat. But why is this imporant?
Stephen at Whole Health Source writes about Seed Oils and the Multi-Generational Obesity Epidemic this week...
"In 2009, Dr. Ingeborg Hanbauer published a paper showing that when mice are fed a diet with a poor omega-6:3 balance (77:1), after three generations they develop adult obesity (5). Mice fed the same diet with a better omega-6:3 balance (9.5:1) did not develop obesity, and remained smaller overall. This shows that PUFA imbalance can cause multi-generational effects resulting in obesity and excessive tissue growth"
And the documentary Fat Head had a great clip about this too...