smooth skin

   Alex arrived home yesterday looking particularly youthful and radiant. She's been eating lots of bird seed. We were buying our birdseed at the local pet shop until we found it much cheaper in bulk at a nursery supply store. She loads up an old coffee bean grinder and dumps what looks like half a cup of brown powder over her raw muesli every morning. This pile of roughage is watered down with soy milk and must be eaten at just the right moment. The fibre goes gelatinous after a few minutes of standing, but if the muesli isn't allowed to soak then only a horse could chew it.
    It's all about the famous essential fatty acids. They have been the rage for over 10 years and all the clamoring has filtered past biochemical skeptics into grocery pulp science. The "omega" in omega 3 and 6 fatty acids refers to the location of a reaction site in the carbon chain of these molecules. It makes the resulting fats less inert and more important for other uses in the body than energy storage. Alex is well informed.
    Alex's skin is glossy. It was predicted as one of the first things noticed after adding supplemental O-3s to her food. He skin is smooth and remarkably soft, and that alone is worth the trouble. Maybe nipping and tucking can be put off for a while.
    Forget fried fish, flax and hemp seed are, apparently, the best sources because the seed case keeps the reactive fats fresher than even freezing. All you have to do is crack the seed case before eating. Have a Wikipedia moment.