Guess what? You can have your bacon and get heart- and brain-healthy omega-3's too! Well, thank goodness for that.
Ok, ok. I'm not the food police. I'm no vegetarian. Heck, I think that the greatest culinary crime of the past few decades is the selective breeding of lean--AKA dry and tastless--pork.
Prairie Orchard Farms (site requires Flash) has increased the levels of omega-3 fatty acids in their pork products through feeding pigs a special diet. Why is this important? Our own stores of body fat are reflective of the types of fat we actually consume. Eating fatty cold-water fish (sardines, salmon, tuna), walnuts, and flax seed oil will increase our ratio of omega-3 fatty acids. (There's a whole discussion on omega-3's and omega-6's that I will feature soon--but the take home point here for now is that we want to increase our intake of omega-3's). Therefore, by feeding our food omega-3-rich foods, then we'll get more omega-3's in our bodies. This is a good thing.
Just don't kid yourself into thinking that loading up on more omega-3's from bacon is really the same thing as improving your diet. If you really want to add something like omega-3-enhanced pork to your diet, remember that fat and calores has to come out from your diet somewhere else. You don't get to add bacon to your burger, fries and shake and call it healthy.
CumRMJ
-- Posted by: Ilxvwrkn at July 13, 2009 7:51 PM