Taking fish oil may be the best nut...

Taking fish oil may be the best nutritional gradation toward reducing your chance of heart disease. Fish oil contains special essential fatty oils known as omega-3 fatty acids--essential because the carcass cannot make them.

Although flaxseed and other nourishments contain one type of omega-3, alpha linoleic acid (ALA), fish oil furnishes couple additional and very important omega-3s: eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA).

Researchers at Baker Medical Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, studied the ability of omega-3s to stop hardening of the arteries--a condition that leads to high line pressure and heart attacks. During the seven-week course of the cogitation one group of patients took fish oil with omega-3s while the peacefulness took a placebo.

The omega-3 assemblage showed a significant increase--in just seven weeks--in artery softnes while the placebo patients showed absolutely no change. outcomes were published in the August 2002 edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

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