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Essentials fatty acids
Essential fatty acids are essential for all mechanisms in our body. Lacking them can lead to the
emergence of numerous deficiencies and health problems, thus it is necessary to take nutritional supplements.
There are
in nature more than 40 different fatty acids. They are particularly
distinguishable by their
degree of unsaturation, ie according to the possible existence of one or
more double bonds between two neighboring carbon atoms. This leads to
differentiate between saturated and unsaturated fatty acids. In addition, fatty acids that our
bodies can not synthesize are called essential and are called unsaturated.
These are the cis-linoleic fatty acids called Omega-6 and alpha-linolenic
Omega-3.
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