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carboxylic acid There are two basic essential fatty acids: omega-3 (alpha-linolenic) and omega-6 (linoleic). Medium-chained fatty acids, like those found in coconut oil, are also important and are termed conditionally essential. Under certain circumstances they’re just as important as other fatty acids. These Important Fatty Acids Are Found In Neptune Krill OilThese acids are very important for your health. Being deficient in them may lead to disease. If you eat conventionally processed vegetable oils and hydrogenated oil you may be deficient. Why? The essential fatty acids that are found in most vegetable oils are often damaged by refining and processing, or destroyed by free radicals. This makes these oils an inferior source of these acids. Also, trans-fatty acids from hydrogenated oils, such as margarine and shortening, block or interfere with your body’s use of them. Giclee Print The World Health Organization says you need to get about 3 percent of your daily calories from them. There’s no set amount of medium-chain fatty acids in your daily calories. We know that infants need about 5 to 10 percent medium-chain fatty acids in their daily calorie consumption. So it appears that you need to consume a small amount of
essential fatty acids
along with a considerably larger amount of medium-chain fatty acids.
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