My friend Jackie lent me her newly bought on sale book called the Omega Plan. It was on sale in National Bookstore, leftovers. Copyright 1998, first edition.
Seems like these were the times when Omega 3 supplements were first heard around the world. The author is Greek and found it interesting to study her healthy greek community and find out what they had to teach the rest of the world. She found out that the people ate a relatively high fat diet, around 35% fat. By her standards, 35% is high already.
The author eventually admits that the great diet is a Paleolithic diet. But at no point does the author say RAW Paleolithic diet. Meaning there is cooking in the book. Whatever references to fish, sea food and lean land animal meats is COOKED. So these are cooked omega 3 sources. Plus she recommends extra virgin olive oil and canola oil. Personally, I do not eat canola oil, I’m thinking hybrid, GMO, a recent frankenstein’s monster created by Canadians in 1978. Where canola stands for “Canadian Oil, Low Acid.” I’m not consuming a newly created by humans plant just introduced in 1978. Give me the olives instead which have been in use for thousands of years.
The book’s points are based on favorable studies that show omega 3 oils are favorable to health. So if you are comfortable with favorable studies, this is the book for you. There are recipes for you to try.
My personal bias is I am a raw paleolithic dieter which I boldly claim works far better for me than cooked paleolithic. This book made me appreciate raw ocean fish more. This afternoon my son and I bought raw tuna and raw gindara and the whole family had both raw fish sashimi for dinner. My son and I gorged on yellow fatty raw beef sirloin while in the car. At dinner I added some raw organic chicken wings.