www.thelivinlowcarbshow.com wholehealthsource.blogspot.com I’m sure many of you paleo types out there are familiar with Mark Sisson’s blog. His site offers great info on diet, nutrition,and exercise. This is my proof that 1 major paleo proponent on the net still consumes a lot of omega 6′s (albeit they are natural sources). i247.photobucket.com These are the foods Mark ate for a day. i247.photobucket.com —– this shows his breakdown of macros. Notice how his polys are at 6%, not too shabby. However, if you consider the fact that he is consuming 2377 calories, that means he is consuming almost 16 grams of polyunsaturates a day. Looking at what he consumed in the first graph, he is pritty heavy on the omega 6′s (using nutritiondata.com): 6oz avocado, 1 oz of almonds, 2 tbsp of olive oil, 3 whole eggs, is 2838mg, 3573mg,2636mg, and 3231mg respectively of omega 6′s (with barely any omega 3′s from those foods to speak of except for paltry amounts in eggs and olive oil). We are already at ~12200mg of omega 6. Lets say for arguments sake that the remaining amount of grams of polys are at a 1:1 ratio of 3s to 6s – that would still put him at around ~14100mg of omega 6 with 1900mg if omega 3 with a ratio of 7.4 to 1. At that kind of ratio, what kind and size of omega 3 supplement would you want to be taking?? Mark, at least to me, seems to be consuming a great diet (lots of whole foods, fresh, and with lots of micronutrients). However, he still consumes a decent amound of omega …
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