E) Dietary Fats/Oils
Dietary Oils: A Multi-Part Series – Flax Seed Oil
Flax seed oil is touted as one of the best, if not the best dietary oil to consume to fight cardiovascular disease by raising the healthy HDL cholesterol levels over the lousy LDL cholesterol levels. I totally agree with this fact and here is why, flax seed oil is extremely high in Omega 3 fatty [...]
Dietary Fat: An Overview for Companion Birds – Part 2
In part 1 of “Dietary Fat: An Overview for Companion Birds”, we discussed the two classifications of fats, the “saturation” and the way fats are “structured”, by molecular carbon chains. We discovered that polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats are basically healthy fats more so than saturated fats, except in the case of saturated plant fats that [...]
Dietary Fat: An Overview for Companion Birds – Part 1
Pre-Classification and Purpose of Fats Fats fall under a wider category known as “lipids”. Lipids Lipids are natural organic compounds and are not water soluble; they are fat, lipid and oil soluble. Lipids include fats, phospholipids and steroids. Fats are necessary for energy, to store energy, insulate the body, and cushion and protect the organs. [...]
Dietary Oils: A Multi-Part Series – Coconut Oil
Coconut Oil is a dense oil because it is a saturated oil. Although it is not a saturated oil in the sense it comes from an animal source, it is still considered saturated because of the kind of saturated “fat” the coconut oil contains, medium chain triglycerides. These are actually good triglycerides, they assimilate well [...]
Dietary Oils: A Multi-Part Series – Hemp Seed Oil
Hemp seed oil is a very important oil to include in our parrots healthy food regimen for so many reasons that will be mentioned here. It’s one of those great fatty acids that offer benefits that are so amazing one has to wonder if Nature had it all planned out from the very beginning! This [...]
Dietary Oils: A Multi-Part Series – Palm Fruit Oil
There are many kinds of oils our birds should have in their weekly diet. And each of the oils we will be discussing has their own special and unique health benefit to add to a living body. Let’s begin with the more commonly known oil to the parrot community, palm oil or palm fruit oil. [...]
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