for Monty- sesame as an oil source

does the oil in sesame is good for the body?
(grounded just before eating, in coffee mill)

This is an interesting topic. Good quality sesame oil contains a
powerful antioxidant, so your body can handle this a lot better than
the typical highly unsat urated oils most people consume these days.
I'd suggest raw, organic tahini in small amounts. It's not clear if
your body will be overloaded with arachidonic acid if you use - and
don't misuse - sesame oil, so I can't say. I wouldn't even think of
cooking with it, except at very low temperatures, but tahini has a nice
taste and if you add tiny amounts to certain foods it tastes good
without providing much omega 6 PUFAs. You can also refrigerate tahini
and then drain the oil that's at the top, which is mostly omega 6
PUFAs. If your body is presently overoaded with arachidonic acid, I
don't know if good quality sesame oil will help, though. If you have
an inflammatory disorder you would be able to tell, but if not, you
won't know. I prefer to have the Mead acid in me instead of
arachidonic acid, but it's really an issue of biochemical activity and
AA metabolization. I don't think any study has ever been done with
sesame oil in this context, and you also have to know that the oil is
top quality, but you can try it and see what happens. Personally, I
won't take the chance, because I like the taste of butter better anyway.

so olives (not the oil fo them) are better as an oil source?

I do not recommend sesame oil at all. Small amounts of organic, raw
tahini - with the oil drained off the top - MIGHT be okay. Until
experiments are done, we won't know, and there is no reason to take the
chance at this point.

Now it would be interesting to take a few "essential fatty acid
deficient" animals, ones that have Mead acid instead of AA or
EPA/DHA/DPA in them, and see what feeding them tahini in fairly large
amounts does to them. I would feed them berries and other foods rich
in antioxidants. I have a feeling there would be little AA in their
tissues, because AA may just be epiphenomenal. In other words, unless
you eat food rich in AA itself, you might not get AA in your cells if
you are eating a diet high in antioxidants. Thus, biochemical
activity, producing free radicals, may be the key. This would mean
textbooks would have to be rewritten, because they say that it is
"natural" for AA to incorporate, but this may not be the case at all.

Unlike others here, I'm only interested in the evidence and in the
scientific reality. There is too much evidence to suggest that eating
large amounts of omega 3 and 6 PUFAs is a good idea, and until we know
exactly what the key mechanism is, the only intelligent thing to do is
to avoid them, and instead eat very tasty food that is low in PUFAs.
It may not even be a good idea to eat food rich in Mead acid PUFAs, if
there were such foods available. Let your body make its own PUFAs
until the evidence is clear. In Fife's recent book, "Coconut Cures,"
he has a chart of heart disease rates as of 2 or 3 years ago, and the
people with the lowest - by far - eat the most coconut. Don't be
mislead by the snake oil salesmen who are now fish oil salesmen. They
just want your money, nothing more.

9 Nov 2005 10:14:32 -0800 in article
<1131560072.168929.100720@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> sethna62@yahoo.com
wrote:

> Mr Matti Narkia , Permit me to ask which country you belong
>to .

I am from Finland. Where are you from?

>You are one of the most knowledgeable / helpful person on the NG .
>
Thanks, but don't have blind faith on anyone on NGs, you really see experts
here. Learn to seek information yourself from reliable soureces such as
Medline. And learn to assess also the relevance and reliability of studies.

>Warm regards ,

Ditto.

--
Matti Narkia

Matti Narkia wrote:
> 9 Nov 2005 10:14:32 -0800 in article
> <1131560072.168929.100720@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> sethna62@yahoo.com
> wrote:
>
> > Mr Matti Narkia , Permit me to ask which country you belong
> >to .
>
> I am from Finland. Where are you from?
>
> >You are one of the most knowledgeable / helpful person on the NG .
> >
> Thanks, but don't have blind faith on anyone on NGs, you really see experts
> here. Learn to seek information yourself from reliable soureces such as
> Medline. And learn to assess also the relevance and reliability of studies.
>
> >Warm regards ,
>
> Ditto.
>
> --
> Matti Narkia

I am from India and live in US . Thanks a lot for your advise
..
I always have my ways of assesing things . You are amazing at
furnishing useful links .

Warm regards ,
s