Heart-Healthy Seafood It's good for what ails you!

 

 

Fish can impact heart disease (and other diseases) in the following ways:

• Help maintain a normal heart rhythm, thus preventing sudden cardiac death.
• Lower triglycerides, a blood fat linked with heart disease. Eating fish will not lower and may even slightly raise good cholesterol levels.
• Lubricate arteries, preventing platelets from forming heart-stopping clots. Think of fish oil in this case as a “lube job.” This phenomenon can also impact the blood vessels that lead to the brain, thus preventing strokes.
• Interfere with “inflammatory causing substances” that may provide relief from rheumatoid arthritis.
• Depression rates seem to be lower in regions where seafood is a dietary staple. There is speculation that omega-3s may even act like the drug lithium in the brain.
• A theory is now emerging that consuming fish in large amounts may delay or minimize the devastating and debilitating effects of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Most of the research is using fish oil capsules to investigate this impact.

Do consult with your physician if you are considering fish oil capsules as a dietary supplement. The upper zone of safety would be a dose of one to two grams of fish oil per day. A typical serving of salmon contains about 5 grams of oil.

 

Source: National Fisheries Association