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Essential Fatty Acids (EFA's)
Lifestyle For Health
Essential fatty acids are necessary because your body does not make them and they must come from your diet. Low fat diets often produce EFA deficiencies.
EFA's provide health benefits such as:
- regulate blood pressure
- regulate response to pain and inflammation
- mediate immune response
- direct endocrine hormones
- maintain the fluidity and rigidity of cellular membranes
- transport oxygen from red blood cells to the tissues
- maintain proper kidney function and fluid balance
- keep saturated fats mobile in the bloodstream
- prevent blood cells from clumping (conglomeration - a cause of stroke)
- mediate the release of pro-inflammatory substances that may trigger allergic conditions
- being the primary energy source for the heart muscle.
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