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this Page || Essential Fatty Acids: Battle of the "Good Fats"
Essential fatty acids (EFAs) are the "good fats" that have
recently been taking the media by storm because of their claimed
positive health benefits. They are essential to human health,
but cannot be synthesized by the body and therefore must be
obtained through diet. There are two types of essential fatty
acids: Omega-3s and Omega-6s. This article will show the alleged
benefits of these essential fatty acids as well as investigate
the different sources of these EFAs in hopes to determine the
source that is most beneficial to the claims being made. There
are three major types of omega 3 fatty acids that are ingested
in foods and used by the body: alpha-linolenic acid (ALA),
eicosapentaenoic acid (EP