{"id":2128,"date":"2016-01-27T19:51:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T00:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2016-01-27T21:11:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T02:11:32","slug":"bill-lands-and-fast-offers-3000-for-best-omega-3-omega-6-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=2128","title":{"rendered":"Bill Lands and FAST Offer $3,000 for Best Essay on Omega 3 Omega 6 Balance in Morgan County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, here is your chance to win $3,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"http:\/\/berkeleyspringscommunitymatters.com\/2016\/01\/14\/this-week-in-morgan-county-bill-lands\/?embed\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you live in Berkeley Springs, Paw Paw, Great Cacapon or anywhere else in Morgan County, West Virginia, you are in luck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To celebrate National Nutrition Month in March, 2016, and Morgan County Sardine Club Week, the <a href=\"http:\/\/fastlearner.org\/\">Morgan County Forum for Arts, Sciences and Technologies,\u00a0<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fastlearner.org\/\">(FAST), will award a $3,000 prize for a 800-1,000 word original essay<\/a> about the Omega 3 and Omega 6 balance and how to get local residents to bring them more into balance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, the essay should be about how the ideas in two short videos &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/efaeducation.org\/learn-more\/out-of-balance\/\">Out of Balance<\/a> and &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/efaeducation.org\/wellness-programs\/wellness-videos\/wv-wellness-project\/\">West Virginia Wellness Project<\/a> &#8212; might blend into the daily lives of Morgan County residents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event is open to all ages as individuals or teams. \u00a0Family projects are encouraged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Essays should be typed in MS Word (or similar format) and submitted electronically by February 29, 2016 \u00a0to FAST at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:wemlands@att.net\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wemlands@att.net<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judges will weigh the entries for both substance and style. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Essays may have any literary style: mystery, adventure, technological, scientific, historical, sociological, financial. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Awardees will be announced during Morgan County Sardine Club Week, March 20-26.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FAST director and Berkeley Springs resident Bill Lands encourages local residents to eat more Omega 3 and less Omega 6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He says that the Japanese, who eat a lot of fish with Omega 3, have a 50\/50 balance of Omega 3 and Omega 6. Americans on the other hand, have an imbalance &#8212; with a four to one ratio of Omega 6 to Omega 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe big imbalance in the United States food system is an excessive amount of vegetable oils put into everything,\u201d Lands told Russell Mokhiber of This Week in Morgan County. \u201cThe processed foods all have added soybean oil. Soybean is way out of balance in terms of Omega 6. Those Omega 6 nutrients make Omega 6 hormones, which are potent hormones in chronic inflammatory diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has pointed out that our $2 trillion expenditure for treating chronic diseases is going for something that could have been prevented.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lands says these diseases are preventable \u201cif we just had a different balance of Omega 3 and Omega 6.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe simplest way &#8212; generally speaking &#8212; is to nix the 6 and eat the 3,\u201d Lands said. \u201cStop eating so much of the foods that have negative balance scores &#8211; like soybean oil, corn oil and sesame oil and hummus and tofu and potato chips. Walnuts are marketed as a source of Omega 3, but the marketers don\u2019t tell you there are five to six times the Omega 6 in there. Walnuts have a negative score &#8212; like minus 45 or minus 50. They are not helping at all &#8212; compared to flax, which is a plus 40 and has a lot more Omega 3 than Omega 6.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here is your chance to win $3,000. If you live in Berkeley Springs, Paw Paw, Great Cacapon or anywhere else in Morgan County, West Virginia, you are in luck. 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