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Omega 3 Grass
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According to the website, Omega 3 information
service, studies have found the average UK intake
is at a ratio of 8:1 in favour of Omega 6, while
in the US this ratio is 10:1 and Australia
12:1.
The reason for this
change is the lack of grass fed animals and or
oily fish in the Western diet. While all of
this country’s grass-fed meat and lamb will
have some Omega 3, feedlot beef contains 20
times more Omega 6 than Omega 3.
Omega 3
deficien-cies are linked with disorders such
as Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD),
depression, aggression, heart disease and some
inflammatory conditions. Campbell attributes
the high levels of Omega 3 in the meat grown
on his property to the percentage of natural
fats in his pasture.
“When you get a
pasture analysis done you never get the fat
content measured, but just by chance the
laboratory we use in the USA measures the fat
percentage in the plant. It started at 3% and
increased to 5% as the farm got better.”
Although high in Omega 3, Campbell says his
beef is not high in fat, yielding a total fat
content of 2.5% per lean meat sample, compared
to a standard 6.6%.
Published in Country-Wide, southern edition,
September 2004. Reprinted here with the kind
permission of Country-Wide. For more on
Country-Wide, check out www.country-wide.co.nz
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