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Supplement to

The Art of Getting Well

Essential Fatty Acids Are

Essential!

Sources are given in references.

Authors of contributions\quotations are alphabetically arranged;

major author, if any, is underlined.

Dr. Arba L. Agar, Jr., Dr. S.B. Bittiner, Dr. S.S. Bleehen, Dr.

Johanna Budwig, G.O. Burr, M.M. Burr, Harvey F. Carroll, Ph.D.,

Dr. I. Cartwright, Perry A. Chapdelaine, Jr., M.D., Dr. Endres,

Franklin H. Epstein, M.D., Udo Erasmus, Dr. Garg, Gerson, Dr.

Hoppe-Seyler, Dr. W. Jubiz, J.M. Kremer, Lebedow, Dr. Orville, A.

Levander, Warren M. Levin, M.D., Liebig, Charlotte Lodi, Wayne

Martin, B.S., Meyerhof, Dr. A. Michalek, Mike Minarsich, Ray Peat,

Ph.D., Pflueger, Pritikin, Gus J. Prosch, Jr., M.D., Rosenfeld, Szent-

Gyorgy, Dr. W.F. Tucker, Robert Walberg, O. Warburg, /Responsible

editor/writer Anthony di Fabio.

Foundation for Eradication of Rheumatoid Disease

AKA The Arthritis Trust of America,

7376 Walker Road, Fairview, Tn 37062

Permission to republish portions granted to EXPLORE!,

PO Box 1508, Mt. Vernon, WA 98273, Vol. 5, No. 3, p. 23, 1994.

For years establishment medical practitioners have told folks that

supplemental vitamins and minerals were unnecessary, that what

we eat is sufficient provided we eat plenty of carbohydrates, fats and

proteins.

It’s a real wonder that some farmer didn’t explain that hogs,

horses, chickens and cows had to have the very best, including a wide

variety of vitamins and minerals, or they didn’t fatten, have energy,

grow and give quality eggs or produce milk, respectively.

And certainly at the same time some minister, rabbi or priest

could have explained that humans were both animal and spirit, and

that if the spirit wanted to stay in the animal carcass it had better see

to it that the carcass was provided with at least the same good vittles

provided to the farm animals.

We have indeed come a long way since those days when

everything related to good nutrition and its importance was pooh-

poohed.

Some physicians still pooh-pooh good nutrition. They are slowly

disappearing, and if one wants to, one can find a doctor somewhere

nearby who has studied beyond his medical school training.

When my eldest son completed his M.D. degree, he went into the

school knowing more about nutrition than the majority of his teachers.

He said, “You know dad, they still haven’t taught us about nutrition.”

If they had done so, they would have sung the same theme still

played by “trained” dietitians: “Just eat a balance of carbohydrates,

fats and protein!” -- no regard for quality or content!

For the most part, knowledgeable physicians are self-trained

regarding nutrition. Being interested in wellness, rather than sickness,

such physicians know at least as much as a successful hog farmer, and

they also realize that no one can stay well in the absence of the dozens

of trace elements and thousands of complex compounds that were built

into us during the evolutionary millennia of our bodies.

One of the most overlooked foods when producing wellness is

utilization of the proper oils and fats. When the “trained” dietitian says

to use “fats”, s/he usually means to stay away from certain natural

fats that our bodies evolved with. S/he usually means to stay away

from butters, animal fats, and other saturated oils and fats, -- to go along

with the Madison Avenue hype paid for by those who have chemically

changed these fats into a variety that has long shelf life, so-called

“polyunsaturated” oils and hydrogenated fats (i.e. margarine, various

touted cooking oils, et. al.)

Aside from sugar, I suspect that this one factor in life --

propagandizing about hydrogenated oils to an unsuspecting public -

- has contributed more toward debilitating diseases than any other

single factor!

I was pleased when my son brought to me a copy of an article

titled “The Effect of Dietary Supplementation with n-3 [Omega

3] Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids on the Synthesis of Interleukin-1 and

Tumor Necrosis Factor by Mononuclear Cells” by Endres, et al.,

“Fish-oil Fatty Acid Supplementation in Active Rheumatoid

Arthritis: A Double-blind, Controlled, Crossover Study,” by Kremer

JM, Jubiz W, Michalek A., et al, and by Bittiner SB, Tucker WF,

Cartwright I, Bleehen SS, “A Double Blind Randomized, Placebo-

controlled Trial of Fish Oil in Psoriasis

.”

In the Endres, et al. abstract is the following: “We conclude

that the synthesis of IL-1Beta, IL-1Alpha, and tumor necrosis factor

can be suppressed by dietary supplementation with long-chain n-3

[Omega 3] fatty acids. The reported anti-inflammatory effect of these

n-3 fatty acids may be mediated in part by their inhibitory effect on

the production of interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis factor.”

What does this mean?

It means that someone in establishmentown is paying attention

to doctors that know something about nutrition.

It also means that if you will take the right kind of fatty acids

(oils and fats) you will have less inflammation and generally have better

health!

In the Science News, which abstracts complex studies for easy

reading, is the article “Fish Oil: New Hope in Fighting Malaria,” by

Orville A. Levander and Arba L. Agar, Jr

, they say, “fed mice a diet

high in fish oils but containing no vitamin E.” The malarial parasite

(Plasmodium yoelii or P. berghei) were devastated. This was particu-

larly interesting because by diet alone, strains of the parasites found

in mosquitoes that have developed a resistance to Chloroquine —

an antimalarial drug — were affected.

On the same page was another interesting report, titled “It’s Not

Fish Oil, But. . .” reporting what many physicians oriented toward

nutrition already knew: that oils from certain plants, like soybean,

can be converted to Omega 3 fatty acids (one of the essentials) by

humans.

In Archives of Virology

is "Unsaturated Free Fatty Acids

Inactivate Animal Enveloped Viruses," such as herpes, influenza,

Sendai, Sindbis within minutes of contact! From 1994 forward,

professional articles are rapidly appearing, explaining that trans fatty

acids are indeed the "bad" fats!

What are the right kind of oils?

Those born since World War II may be totally surprised to find

that virtually every kind of oil that we’ve been told is good, is bad, and

almost every kind of oil that we’ve been told is bad is really good.

I remember when the cost of butter rose so high during World

War II, that we were more than pleased to get “a satisfactory

substitute” called “margarine” for very low cost. In Iowa, a dairy

state, where the laws prohibited selling margarine of the color of butter,

my mother purchased the margarine in a plastic sack. The plastic sack

also held another breakable plastic package that contained butter