Can I Replace The Bad Fats In My Body With The Right One’s?

Yes, you can. When you give your body the right materials, it uses them in the right places. So, if your membranes are filled with bad fats, you can start replacing them with the right fats. Researchers have estimated that this replacement process can take anything from 18 months to 3 years, dependent of course, [...]

Can The Right Fats And Oils Help Overcome Depression?

Yes, for the same reason as the above. The synapses are better equipped to respond to the release of neurotransmitters when they are made up of the right kinds of fats and oils, namely the EFA. Although researchers do not know exactly how the EFA’s help people with depression, they have discovered that they do. [...]

How Do Fats And Oils Influence Thinking?

When you consider that 60% of your brain is composed of fat, you can begin to imagine that the kind of fat you eat will effect its composition. After all, you now know that not all fats and oils are equal. And the composition of the membranes that surround your neurons will influence their function, [...]

Why Did Delia Research Fats And Oils?

While I was busy completing my masters in psychology, I was amazed when all the children in my experimental group loved junk food and were doing poorly at school, despite being very capable intellectually. I decided to research this issue further, and discovered a field of research called ‘Nutritional Neuroscience’ which is basically the study [...]

There Are So Many Essential Fatty Acid (EFA) Blends Out There. Why Is This Blend The Best One?

When you understand the delicate nature of these essential fats, due to their unique structure, you understand that by damaging them you don’t get the full benefit of the power they contain. Light, heat, oxygen, moisture and chemicals all destroy the delicate bonds that make these oils so special. An expensive process that extracts the [...]

I Seem To Get Every Bug Going Around. Will This Essential Fatty Acid (EFA) Blend Help My Immune System?

Certainly. As these oils are involved with the functioning of every cell, and enhance the cell membranes effectiveness, your immune system will become more effective at fighting infections. Interestingly, the cell membrane becomes more capable of allowing oxygen into the cell, and because viruses and bacteria don’t like oxygen, they don’t get the opportunity to [...]

Can These Oils Help My Sore Joints?

Yes. Sore joints are often regarded as being a sign of aging. However, our joints also require the right fats and oils to work efficiently. The synovial fluid that bathes our joints needs these essential fats to work effectively. When they are supplied with these lubricating nutrients, they will start working well and most people [...]

Won’t Taking This Oily Supplement Make Me Put On Weight?

Only if you carry on eating too many carbohydrates. In fact, the wonder of these Essential Fatty Acids (EFA’s) is that they actually boost your metabolism, so you burn energy more efficiently. And, they help to stop food cravings. Furthermore, in boosting your energy levels you feel more like exercising, so lose weight in this [...]

I Don’t Take Any Of These Essential Fatty Acids (EFA’s) And I’m Healthy. Maybe I Don’t Need Them?

Even though you don’t consume any of these Essential Fatty Acids(EFA’s) you are also not getting them in your diet, because they no longer form part of our food supply. Everybody is unique and some people are fortunate enough to see symptoms when they are young and then look for a solution, whereas others see [...]

Why Don’t More People Know About These Fats If They Are So Important?

The story of fats and oils is very complex, and although they are fundamental to our health and well being, our changing diets meant that food manufacturers took control of what we had available to eat. Furthermore, most people wouldn’t choose to curl up with a book of biochemistry in their free time. Researchers devote [...]

Why Doesn’t The Government Do Something About The Fact That We Are Not Getting Enough EFA’s In Our Food Supply?

Now this is a question that I can’t answer. The government is very focused on ill health and how to spend our tax dollars on giving people good medical care – after they are sick. No government, that I know of, has been actively involved in sickness prevention. However, the Mayor of New York, gave [...]

Why Does This Oil Blend Cost More Than Other Essential Fatty Acid (EFA) Products ?

The most important difference with our oil is that it is made with Health In Mind. You must have heard the saying; ‘you get what you pay for!’ Unfortunately it is a false economy to buy cheap EFA products, because not only are you taking an oil which has very little benefit to you but [...]

Why Does The EFA Supplement Have To Be Organic?

The reason that the product has to be organic is because pesticides accumulate in fat, so you would be ingesting pesticides with the product if it wasn’t organic. The process used to remove pesticides, causes damage to the oil, so you would then be left with a product that didn’t have pesticides, but had damaged [...]

I’ve Been Taking Fish Oil For Ages And That’s The Only Supplement I Take. Why Isn’t That Enough?

If you’ve been taking a fish oil supplement for ages and no other oils, then you’re only addressing a very small part of the requirement that your body (and brain) has for the right fats and oils. The body has such a great requirement for these essential oils that we need to take them as [...]

I Take An Evening Primrose Oil Supplement. Isn’t That Enough?

Evening Primrose oil is a derivative of Omega 6, and is a good oil to take, but is not enough to meet all your essential oils needs. The Platinum 369 oil blend contains 110mg of GLA (Gamma Linolenic Acid), the active component in evening primrose oil, versus 13mg in the original Udo’s 369 product. This [...]

What Do Essential Fatty Acids (EFA’s) Do In The Body?

Now this question could take a long time to answer. However, I’ll outline the most important functions, with the first one being the basis for most of the others. They form an important part of the membrane surrounding all the cells in your body and brain, because of their unique structure; they improve the production [...]

Why Don’t We Get Enough Of Them In Our Diet?

We no longer get enough of them in our diet because our food supply became deficient in them. Farmers realized that it was much easier to grow warm weather oils, Omega 6 oils, than Omega 3 oils, which are cold weather oils. And it was easier to process the warm weather oils as well, because [...]

What Will Happen If I Don’t Get Enough Of These Fats In My Diet?

If you don’t get enough of these oils in your diet you will eventually start to become ill. This is simply due to the important functions that these oils perform in your body. Considering that every single one of your (approximately) 100 trillion cells needs these oils in their membranes, it makes perfect sense that [...]

Why Can’t I Simply Eat The Seeds That Have These Fats In Them?

You could simply eat the seeds that contain these oils. However, you’d have to eat them in the right ratio, which is possible, although it’s not possible to chew flax seeds adequately, as they have a very hard exterior. So, you’d end up with a really clean bowel, from the flax seeds because they are [...]

If I Eat A Really Healthy Diet, I’m Sure I Don’t Need To Take An Essential Fatty Acid (EFA) Supplement?

Even if you eat a really healthy diet, the chances are very high that you are not getting enough of these EFA’s simply due to the lack of these essential oils in our food supply. Although you may have no overt symptoms that indicate a deficiency at this point, this does not mean that you [...]

Why Do I Have To Take A Supplement?

You need to take an EFA supplement because we no longer get these essential fats in our diet. It is not strictly a supplement, it is actually a foundation food, as fat should be one of the primary foods in our diet. However, due to farmers growing warm weather oils Omega 6 oils) and very [...]

Why Are Essential Fats Essential?

The word essential used in the name of these fats has a very specific meaning. Essential means that the nutrient has to come from your diet. Your body is not capable of making them from some other nutrient/s, as it can with saturated and monounsaturated fats, which the body can make from carbohydrates. This means [...]