[R.B.]

My question.

Are these not relatively wealthy areas?.

Do they have a higher than average level of health concious exercising population?.

What proportion of that population are on "low fat" diets, subsituting staturates with polyunsaturates and margerines (trans fats), have low levels of oily fish intake (fat avoidance), low meat intake, rarely eat offal etc. The result is a large imbalance between omega threes and sixes. It is a question of balance not overall quantities.

Ironically those on poorer diets lots of meat (which contains some omega three even if grain fed and so less than times gone by, and hamburgers processed meats can contain everything including offal which is higher in threes) etc may have a slightly better omega three six balance although likely to be well outside the optimal balance, and hence the general trend.

I am not discounting other environmental factors, but am becoming more and more convinced that the imbalance of omega three and six is capable at a medical level of substantially increasing the risk of a number of cancers and medical conditions including BC.


RB