Posted on 01/03/2008 7:12:17 PM PST by Dysart
But evidently we could stand to make a lot more of at least a couple of them. Beginning in the 1970s, epidemiologists started to notice that Eskimo and other groups of people who ate a lot of cold-water fish tended to have low levels of heart disease and stroke. Oil from such fish is packed with two unusually long omega-3s, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA).
“The epidemiological evidence was strong enough that it led to a whole series of clinical studies and randomized control trials with fish oil,” says nutritionist Penny M. Kris-Etherton of Pennsylvania State University. By 2002 the results were positive enough for the American Heart Association panel on which Kris-Etherton sat to issue a statement recommending increased fish consumption for the general public and daily consumption or supplements of fish oil for coronary heart disease patients. Since then, Kris-Etherton says, “the evidence has just grown stronger for a cardioprotective effect from marine-derived omega-3 fatty acids.”
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“The danger of pseudoscience and quackery is very real,” says Jeffrey I. Mechanick, an endocrinologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine who has written extensively about the use of dietary supplements in the treatment of diabetes and other metabolic diseases. “Dietary supplements in general should not be supplanting proven therapies,” he cautions, “but I don’t see any reason to use words like ‘alternative’ or ‘complementary’ to describe them. I just use ‘proven’ or ‘unproven,’ and that proof is what should guide patients and their physicians.”
Regularly eating fish is good for you - hmmm, I heard them talking about this 25 years ago. And that was before the “Atkins Diet Revolution,” along with the crazy ideas in the 80s ... I wonder if it still holds?
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Well, it was long believed that eating fish was healthy but no one really knew exactly why. The roles of fatty acids on cellular ftn, for example.
Courtesy of the American Heart Association:
Fish and Omega-3 Fatty Acids
AHA Recommendation
Omega-3 fatty acids benefit the heart of healthy people, and those at high risk of — or who have — cardiovascular disease.
We recommend eating fish (particularly fatty fish) at least two times a week. Fish is a good source of protein and doesn’t have the high saturated fat that fatty meat products do. Fatty fish like mackerel, lake trout, herring, sardines, albacore tuna and salmon are high in two kinds of omega-3 fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA).
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Courtesy of the American Heart Association:
Fish and Omega-3 Fatty Acids
AHA Recommendation
Omega-3 fatty acids benefit the heart of healthy people, and those at high risk of — or who have — cardiovascular disease.
We recommend eating fish (particularly fatty fish) at least two times a week. Fish is a good source of protein and doesn’t have the high saturated fat that fatty meat products do. Fatty fish like mackerel, lake trout, herring, sardines, albacore tuna and salmon are high in two kinds of omega-3 fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA).
Courtesy of the American Heart Association:
Fish and Omega-3 Fatty Acids
AHA Recommendation
Omega-3 fatty acids benefit the heart of healthy people, and those at high risk of — or who have — cardiovascular disease.
We recommend eating fish (particularly fatty fish) at least two times a week. Fish is a good source of protein and doesn’t have the high saturated fat that fatty meat products do. Fatty fish like mackerel, lake trout, herring, sardines, albacore tuna and salmon are high in two kinds of omega-3 fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA).
Oops. Sorry for multiple postings. Kept getting “Forwarding Error” notices. Didn’t think the post went through so I ran it again.
I don’t believe in the fad foods, or all that supplement crap, but when my doctor told me to start taking fish oil capsules, my cholesterol did go down. They’re relatively cheap, and they can’t hurt, so what the heck...
Thanks for the clarification, but actually my next thread was to be on this very subject. You’ve got balls.
The supplement trend can certainly bring out the obsessive compulsive beast in some people. In moderation and proper consideration they can be very useful. Fish Oil caps have raised my HDL and lowered my triglycerides substantially and I initially began taking them on the recommendation of my PCP as well. I take several others as well.
Before I ended up on fish oil caps I tried eating Sardines(considered the best source of EPA/DHA) regularly, but I just never developed a taste for it and not only that, the caps available now are deodarized.
I'm experimenting with taking them with my cocktail at night, but that may compete with the 9 to 12 Glucosamine/Chontroitin/MSM tablets I cram into my body on a daily basis. We'll see.
Omega-3 fatty acids with 60 Percent Concentration & 5:1 ratio of EPA/DHA
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