Molson Hart

Random, technical question: anyone know of any major holes to the theory that a low omega 6 to omega 3 fatty ratio is desirable ? In scientific literature ? people like that pdmangan guy has popularised this claim, but a few observations lead me to believe it’s not so simple...

My first observation leading me to question: if a low omega 6 to 3 ratio is desirable how is that certain foods - like walnuts, avocados, pumpkin seeds, hemp, sesame seeds - with high to insanely high omega 6 to 3 ratios , are considered healthy ?

Japanese, koreans, and certain Northern Chinese are heavy consumers of both sesame and sesame oils. Sesame is a seed oil. Pdmangan has no idea what he’s talking about on the claim that Japanese don’t consume seed oils.

to be fair, he said "in the traditional Japanese diet" not "in the Japanese diet" Those are two very different things. Also, the people who are in their 90s now probably didn't eat as much seed oil as people much younger than they did.