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What Can A Little Fish Each Day Do For You? Publish Date : 1/10/2006 6:08:22 AM Source : Judi Singleton
to keep blood free flowing, vessels flexible and help protect people from heart attacks. But superior heart health isn’t all that fish oil can do for you. There’s much much more! Omega-3 supplements, high in EPA and DHA, can help people with depression, PMS, arthritis and other inflammations, such as migraines. They’re also important during pregnancy, nursing and infancy when a baby’s eyes, nerves and brain are developing. If you’re using omega-3 without EPA and DHA, you’re wasting your money. For example, you’ll probably be surprised to find out that although flaxseed has omega-3 oils, there is no EPA or DHA in it. Fats from fish (salmon, trout, cod, halibut), sesame seeds, flaxseed or soybeans improve most skin conditions including psoriasis. Supplementation of the diet with flax seed oil, evening primrose oil or fish oils is recommended. Cod liver oil or salmon oil capsules are more palatable for those with less enthusiastic appetites for fish. These high essential fatty acid foods interfere with the body's production of inflammatory chemicals, the ones causing psoriasis lesions to swell and turn red. Specific therapeutic foods for controlling asthma are: Omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids: vegetable, nut, seed oils, salmon, herring, mackerel, sardines, walnuts, flaxseed oil, evening primrose oil, black currant oil. Take at least 1 T of one of raw oils daily to minimize bronchial inflammation. Warning. Eating farm raised salmon. When you eat a farm-raised fish, you are nearly eating the same type of meal as eating beef. The fat content of the fish can be no different from what they are fed. Farm raised fish are fed corn meal, soy and canola oil. When the fish are fed these foods, the concentration of their fats turns far away from the ideal, beneficial 3:1 omega-6 to omega-3 ratio to a ratio far closer to the 20:1 found in commercially-raised beef. Several weeks ago the FDA agreed with the EPA and now recommends that all pregnant women avoid fish as up to 10 percent of them have high enough mercury levels to cause neurodevelopmental defects in their children. So fish oils are the next best alternative. Although some of them are old fish and even the inners are sqeezed for the oil so be sure you know where the fish oil comes from. So make salmon a part of your diet at least this month buy Copper River wild salmon from Alaska then go back to taking salmon oil capsules and eating canned salmon for the rest of the year.Avoid fish that are more likely to contain mercury including swordfish, shark, tuna, king mackerel and lobster. Limit canned tuna, and if you're not sure about a fish, don't eat it.Shop in conscientious markets that include sustainability in their mission. Talk to the fish guy or gal; find out where their fish comes from and what their policies are. At least that is what I got out of all I read this month on salmon and fish oil supplements. References Fish Oil Update by Richard A. Passwater The Omega Rx Zone: The Miracle of the New High-Dose Fish Oil by Barry Sears James McNair's Salmon Cookbook by James McNair, Patricia Brabant ( 1987) Food As Medicine: How to Use Diet, Vitamins, Juices, and Herbs for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life by Dharma Singh Khalsa Four Seasons of Inner and Outer Beauty : Rituals and Recipes for Wellbeing Throughout the Year by Peggy Wynne Borgman Beyond the 120 Year Diet : How to Double Your Vital Years by Roy L., M.D. Walford An absolute must-read is Multiple Sclerosis - a self-help guide to its management by Judy Graham About the Author About the Author: Judi Singleton is the publisher of Jassmine's Journal for only $60 a year you can have all eight lists delivered daily to your email box. To subscribe go to http://www.motherearthpublishing.com |
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