7 Foods that help fight inflammation- Part 3

10 Ways to incorporate your Omega 3's

1. Eat lots of fruits and vegetables especially leafy green vegetables. Your salads, your smoothies, cooked any way you can get them in, are great. , A baseline to consider for all of us is a plant-powered, low-glycemic, anti-inflammatory plan. Each of us is different because we each process fats, sugars, and proteins somewhat differently, but incorporating more plants is a great way to start!

2. Consume oils with a healthy balance of Omega-3 and Omega-6. Minimize or eliminate all of those refined oils, especially those from GMO crops. Incorporate more oils like flax and hemp seed oil into your uncooked foods. Add them to smoothies, pestos, salad dressings, or use them as a condiment.

3. Eat a wide variety of fish. Salmon and sardines are great fatty acid sources. They have a lot of Omega-3 Check out Vital Choice (www.vitalchoice.com) to learn about their sustainable fishing practices and their BPA free cans.

4. Eat pastured eggs

5. Eat grass fed beef.

6. Eat free-range poultry.

7. Eat wild animals if you can — elk, buffalo. Buffalo aren’t always wild but they tend to be less tampered with than our cows are.

8. Include more walnuts and pumpkin seeds in your diet.

9. Add flax, hemp, and chia. It’s beneficial to consume those plant based Omega-3’s like flax, hemp, chia, and greens with the coconut oil. The coconut oil makes those Omega-3’smore bioavailable, more available for your body to use. They can be sprinkled on top of grains or salads, added in smoothies, and incorporated into your recipes. Get creative!

10. Another often forgotten way to bump up your Omega-3 fatty acids in your body are the marine phytoplanktons. It’s a great way to support your hormone production and utilization, give yourself extra energy, decrease inflammation, and boost those Omega-3’s! You can add this in the form of seaweed or microalgae. You can get phytoplanktons in capsule or powder form. Quality is important here. Check out a product called "Brain on". Find the product here www.E3live.com.

Now that you have some ideas of how to incorporate those Omega 3's into your diet, get creative, get motivated, and start tipping those Omega ratios the other direction!

Next post we will get back into yet another anti-inflammatory food that can be beneficial in the diet.