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Re:Depression is an inflammatory disease; where does inflamm... by pygy_ on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @01:13PM (#7306508)
IIRC, you need a 1/5 (Omega 3 / Omega 6) ratio, but our usual diet is so poor in the former that we end up deprived.

Palm oil, which is everywhere, has Omega 6 aplenty, and (virtually?) no Omega 3. In Europe, it is usually listed as "vegetal oil" in the ingredients lists. When it's not palm, they put the full name.

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Re:Depression is an inflammatory disease; where does inflamm... by nazgulnarsil on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @01:23PM (#7306574)
palm oil is only 9% polyunsaturated, as opposed to something like canola which is 20%.
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Re:Depression is an inflammatory disease; where does inflamm... by pygy_ on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @01:27PM (#7306601)
I had never heard of canola oil.

The ratio is ~1/2, which is pretty good to know.

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Re:Depression is an inflammatory disease; where does inflamm... by aestra on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @02:28PM (#7307025)
> I had never heard of canola oil.

It is called different things in different places. Canola is actually a specific cultivar of Rapeseed. Canola actually stands for "Canada Oil" and the term probably isn't well known out of North America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed

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Re:Depression is an inflammatory disease; where does inflamm... by gcb0 on Thursday February 27, 2014 @03:03AM (#7310962)
South America, canola oil is pretty well known
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