Menstruating women may lose a significant amount of blood every month, and thus they lose the nutrients and essential fats that were in the blood. As a result, women often need to take higher quantities of some vitamins and minerals than men do. They also need to replenish essential fats in their bodies with a balanced diet and/or oil supplements.

 

Are you a smoker? Did you know that smoking depletes essential fats from inside of you? If you smoke, are on a low-fat diet and are trying to have a baby but can't figure out why you aren't conceiving, then you definitely need essential fats. It's not your partner's fault, it's YOU!

Fats are probably the single most important nutrient we neglect although it only accounts for 10% of the 100 essential listed nutrients. Fat regulates your hormones, but they also destroy your hormones. If you miss out on taking in enough essential fats, you not only lose out on 10% of what your overall success may be, but you lose out on 33% of what goes on inside of you. This is why supplementing with essential fats is so crucial for women, simply because our behavior is so dependant on healthy hormonal activity that is determined by a healthy intake of good fat.

Most of us women also don't realize that fats actually regulate cholesterol levels and reverses high blood pressure as well. Bad fats do not. This is a fact. Essential fats or 'good fats' do not make you fat like bad fat does. The body instantly recognizes them as ‘good’ for you and puts them to use for healing and growth as soon as you take them.

Good fats act as anti-oxidants, anti-inflammatory agents, and also produce fat burning enzymes. This is a good thing because it means that in order to lose fat, we need fat, Good fat! This is what many women need to realize. Too often we are told that cutting fat from the diet will help you lose fat and maintain a lean physique, but what they fail to mention is that the human body requires good essential fats in the diet to get rid of body fat. No more confusion. If you're on a no or low fat diet, START supplementing with essential fats TODAY!

Pregnant Women and Nursing Mothers: Our brain alone is over 60% fat. Essential fats are vital components not only to healthy brain activity, but to the rest of our nervous system as well. In fact, if mothers become depleted of essential fats during pregnancy, their children's optimal spine development is limited. It is well known that essential fats are necessary for every cell's growth from conception to the day we die. Ladies, if you are pregnant, do the right thing and make sure you are doing all that you can to ensure your baby's health. Women who are pregnant or breast-feeding may be the most in need of large amounts of essential fats in their diet. And women experiencing post-pregnancy need to replenish their body stores of essential fats. Did your doctor forget to mention this to you? If they did, it's not uncommon, but explainable. Physicians are not nutritionists. Need I say more?

Over the past 20 years, women's health in general has degenerated so much that it's made it difficult for them to get into shape as easy as they would like to. Diets that are marketed as 'low' fat, 'no' fat, and 'fake' fat have been depriving people of more essential fats than junk food itself ever could. This is the sad reality ladies.

It's deceiving though because women are usually far more concerned with health issues than men. They read more about health and nutrition and make a greater effort to look good and feel well. Women purchase far more health food supplements than men. Unfortunately, they are often misguided by misrepresentations in nutrition articles and commercials and tend to eat too many low fat foods deprived of essential fats.

Generally, women have a substantially different metabolism and biochemistry than men do. How it is that these differences translate into different nutritional and fatty acid needs can only be determined by the individual themselves and through the sources of information available to the public today. Because researchers have been concerned mostly with saturated fats (bad fats) and cholesterol, they have overlooked research on the need for essential fats in women and in men too.

It is known that women have different essential fats abnormalities than men. Also, their fatty acid profiles change after menopause. There is a great variability in essential fats patterns for both sexes. For this reason alone, a particular diet may work for one person but not for another.

THE RIGHT ESSENTIAL FAT SUPPLEMENTATION FOR DIETING WOMEN

Women who follow a vegetarian diet should supplement their diet with iron (about 4 mg per day is enough; most multivitamin pills contain 18 mg), vitamin B12 , and perhaps choline. A multivitamin with iron containing 100 % of the RDA (as indicated on the label), a few times per week, is usually enough. 

Supplements of the vitamin folic acid (folate) are necessary, particularly during pregnancy if the diet is not balanced. Those of you who have lost quite a bit of blood or other cells due to disease, burns, or similar health problems need to eat more essential fats to replenish those lost. The blood lost and the cells lost carry Essential Fats with them.

Deficiencies of essential fats in women can also alter the balance of calcium. Supplementing with essential fats helps improve the use of calcium by the body. Cells will retain calcium better and they are less likely to lose it through leaky membranes. Also, the kidney works more effectively reabsorbing calcium.

Most aging symptoms like heart attacks, strokes, arthritis, headaches and such are all related to a deficiency of essential fats in our diets as well. Preventative measures must be taken today to protect you 30 years from now, but simply chugging down some flax seed oil isn’t going to do the trick. 

Essential fats only last 3 weeks themselves, so that’s why it takes consistent daily supplementation to replace them and why it’s at least 21 to 49 days for positive changes to be realized by some folk who have just begun to supplement with an essential fat formula. 

Here is what Lemmon's Perfected Essential Oil Blend contains: Omega-flo unrefined certified organic oils of high lignan Flax, Sunflower, Safflower, Pumpkin, Borage, Sesame, Almond, Wheat Germ & more wonderful ingredients. It is high in natural antioxidants, FIBER, blood cleansing and emulsifying ingredients. It is THICKER, TASTIER, more nourishing and FRESHER than any other essential oil blend out there. This product is the highest source of usable Omega 3 oils because of the mixture and ratios of one oil to the other inside of it. It's not only an oil that compares to no other, but it is also a unique blend that falls into the most natural balance of nearly 50% Omega 3 fats, 10% healthy saturated fat, and around 20% each of omega 6's and 9's. "Lemmon's Oil" has a dark brown and greenish color which displays it's obvious flora/vegetation origins. If you use this oil, no other oil is necessary for supplementation. Lemmon's Oil is manufactured with an exclusive low temperature pressing (86 to 99 degrees F, 30 to 37 degrees C) and the processing and packaging (HDPE) is performed in complete exclusion of light, oxygen and reactive metals to maintain the life of the Omega nutrients. There are no additives, preservatives, bleaching agents or hexane extraction involved in it's production. No trans fatty or hydrogenated fatty acids are in Lemmon's Oil. Only certified organic seeds and completely unrefined oils that were not genetically modified are used.

Lemmon's Oil can be used in a variety of ways: in salads, as a condiment on vegetables or meats after cooking and even on it's own. A tablespoon by itself or in your cottage cheese will add flavor galore. The taste is a mix of buttery, nutty, and a slightly tangy flavor like the kind that most fresh nuts and seeds provide. It's also really smooth going down!

 

ESSENTIAL OILS ARE CRITICAL FOR PREGNANT AND LACTATING MOTHERS!
ESSENTIAL FATS AND YOUR INFANT'S NUTRITIONAL NEEDS

It is extremely important for pregnant mothers everywhere to understand the vital dietary role that Essential Fatty Acids play in the healthy development of the fetus, while at the same time realizing the dietary importance of Essential Fatty Acids for their growing baby after delivery as well. The most critical period in life for an infant to receive Essential Fatty Acids is while it is in the womb and also during the nursing period in early infancy. Pregnant mothers and nursing mothers should NOT follow a low-fat diet and most of their baby's dietary fat should come from breast milk or formula that contains these essential nutrients.

Nearly fifty percent of the energy in human breast milk comes from fat! Healthy development in your newborn is dependant upon this fat. The two main components to omega-3 essential fatty acids, docosahexonoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentanoic acid (EPA), play an extremely important role in your infant's brain and retinal development.

Expecting mothers who do choose to exclude these essential fats from their diet should know that it will lead to nutrient deficiency symptoms in both themselves and in their infants. Signs of an Essential Fatty Acid deficiency in pregnant or lactating mothers includes dry itchy skin, dull hair and dandruff, excessive thirst, and frequent urination.

In addition to the same symptoms of the mother, symptoms of an essential fatty acid deficiency in infants include poor wound healing and slow early development. Pregnancy is also known to drain a mother's reserves of essential fats because of the physiological stress that is involved with it.

So, if you are a pregnant or a breastfeeding mother, then you should make sure you are including EFA's in your diet and if you know you are not eating a diet rich in these nutients consider supplementing your diet with an essential fatty acid oil blend, one that contains both omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, (such as Lemmon's Essential Oil Blend). This will help to prevent any essential nutrient-related deficiencies in your newborn child.

A SPECIAL NOTE TO CONCERNED MOTHERS WHO HAVE A CHILD WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADAH)

Children with learning difficulties or with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are said to have reduced levels of essential fatty acids in their brain. Thus, a diet rich in essential fatty acids may be very beneficial for healthy neuronal development. It is a good idea to have their diet modified to include omega-3 EFA's and other essential nutrients, such as a high quality multi-vitamin/mineral formula.