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A Celebration of DHA – Discovery, Achievement and Challenges for Global Health 40 Years on

Thursday, 27 May 2010 08:00 – 23.00: London (Opening event Wed 26th, Details, Booking)
Overview
Starting in the early 1970s, several of the scientists presenting at this conference began producing robust experimental evidence supporting a requirement for omega-3 fatty acids for the brain. In 1978, the FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on the “Role of Dietary Fats and Oils in Human Nutrition” accepted the essentiality of the omega-3 and recommended the incorporation of long chain omega-6 and 3 fatty acids into infant milk formulae. In 1990, Milupa introduced arachidonic and docosahexaenoic acids in their milk formula for infants. Intense research over the past 20 years has lead to an explosion of commercial and clinical interest in omega-3 fatty acids and fish oils for autism, ADHD, Crohn’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Down’s syndrome, bipolar depression, heart disease, cancer, autoimmune disease, inflammatory disorders, cognition, vision, diabetes, wound healing and recovery from surgery, enhanced pregnancy outcomes and performance at school. Nevertheless, there is still a lot of confusion about these fatty acids. Several government regulatory agencies still fail to recognize that individual fatty acids in the omega-6 and omega-3 families have quite different properties and functional relevance.

East less intensively reared meat - Chair's comment on Guardian article

“East less intensively reared meat”. Tim is right but it is worse! The intensively fed meat animal is fed in stalls, so they get no exercise: so muscle (meat) degenerates. They are fed high energy, growth promoting diets for weight gain. How do you gain weight? You put on fat. So FAT infiltrates between the fibres of the degenerating muscle (meat). Look at the stuff in the Supermarket and you will see the white FAT inside – inside mark you - the muscle (meat). That fat is thrombogenic and atherogenic.

Unsophisticated foods of Nature

UK Government coming into step with the McCarrison Society again!
See Sustainable Food, Health and Climate Change
The McCarrison Society assembles scientific knowledge & evidence worldwide on sound nutrition, free from economic and political pressures, for the physical and mental health of future generations; runs conferences & lectures; encourages and initiates research projects; liaises with the scientific and agricultural communities, and urges the inclusion of nutrition as a mandatory subject in medical departments and its teaching in schools.
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