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...team of Harvard researchers, led by Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Medicine Jing X. Kang, have taken a gene from the nematode worm and inserted it into mice, increasing the ratio of good fat (omega 3) to bad fat (omega 6). Down the road, they hope to use this innovation to make healthier meat, milk, eggs and other animal products...
...Fatty acid consumption in the western diet is unbalanced—there is too much omega 6 fats, and too little omega 3 fats,” said Kang. “We have converted the less helpful fats into the more helpful ones...
...Kang said that the Western diet incorporates twenty times too much omega 6 fat, which can lead to serious health problems such as heart disease and cancer...
According to Kang, it is difficult to consume the right amounts of healthy fat because practically all vegetable oil—except canola and olive oil—contains high amounts of omega 6 fatty acid...
...mice started to make healthy omega 3 fat from omega 6 fat, achieving the ideal ratio of 1 to 1 omega 6 to omega 3 in their bodies and appearing healthier overall, according to Kang...