Omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids are the two main categories of polyunsaturated fatty acids (see “Fats and Health”). As they behave in antagonistic ways towards our organism, their comparative share of our lipid intake is as important as our total intake of one or the other. Eating our omega-3 is not good enough if we do not also keep the…
- 14 September 2015
DIETARY FATS AND HEALTH
Dietary fats are usually classified according to their chemical composition. Almost all the lipids in our diet or adipocytes are triglycerides made of a glycerol molecule linked with three fatty acids in an ‘E’-shaped structure (hence their name). As for the fatty acids, they combine oxygen atoms, a chain of carbon atoms of variable length and hydrogen atoms (two maximum).…