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Blue Fish and Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Regular consumption of oily fish is recommended today for its nutritional properties, and especially in people with cardiovascular disease risk or thrombosis. As we know, blue fish unlike its high fat content (10% fat, compared to 2% of white fish) but the essential feature of oily fish is more qualitative, as is the type of fat, predominantly unsaturated, which promotes the prevention and treatment of health problems as mentioned above.
Oily fish notable for the contribution of oleic, linoleic (essential because the body can not synthesize and only obtained through food) and omega-3 (the eel, in spite of being a fatty fish, contains a small percentage of this fatty acid. is this latter type of fatty acid precisely which favors lower levels of blood cholesterol, reducing risk to accumulate in the arteries and leads the process in atherosclerosis. Read the rest of this entry »
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Against Depression: Fish and Omega 3
Numerous studies are revealing that depression improvement taking fish and omega-3. The relationship between omega-3 fatty acids in fish are believed to contribute to improving the functioning of the brain and combating depression. In the brain lipids play an important role and omega-3 fatty acids can only be obtained through diet.
A study conducted at three American universities (Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, North Carolina and California, San Francisco), revealed the relationship between a diet rich in fish and omega-3 fatty acids with lower rates of chronic depression. The study focused on the development of chronic depressive symptoms in a population of 3317 men and women followed for 10 years.
The authors found that the high consumption of fish and omega-3 fatty acids was inversely associated with risk of developing chronic depressive symptoms in women but not in humans (the higher the consumption, men risk of depressive symptoms).
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