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- 1- FAST members often ask how to balance the amounts of omega-6 relative to omega-3 vitamin-like nutrients in the food they eat so that they can lower the serious financial losses caused by omega-6 hormone-mediated severe health outcomes
- 2- One simple handout urges "NIX the six and EAT the three". It also lists dozens of 6-rich foods to NIX and 3-rich foods to EAT.
- 3- More detailed lists of nutrients are provided in "Morgan County Menus" and "The Ultimate Omega-3 Diet" to help people implement tasty, healthy changes in daily family life and balance omega-3 and omega-6 hormone precursors in their body.
- 4- Omega 3-6 Balance Scores compress USDA data to a single score for each food to help you decide which to eat and NIX-6 & EAT-3. Also a Volumetric Score describes how much of each item is a 100-Calorie portion.
- 5- Get your copy of "Morgan County Menus" at the Morgan County Library or the WVU Extension Office to see how combinations of different foods can give balanced hormone precursors.
- 6- Daily menu plans in "Morgan County Menus" were made with personalized, interactive menu planning software, KIM-2, that you can download free. It informs you of the milligrams of short (18-carbon) and long (20-&22-carbon) forms of omega-3 and omega-6 nutrients in thousands of different servings. It estimates health risk assessment outcomes for combined foods in a daily menu plan.
- 7- KIM-2 uses nutrient data from the freely accessed USDA website where you can search for nutrient contents of thousands of foods.