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1. Why Use Flax Seed Oil When You Get Many More Health Benefits From Fish Oil? November 05, 2009 Although flax seed oil is a good source of omega 3's, it does not provide the range and quality of benefits you get from the best fish oils. This is down to the type of fatty acid it contains. So unless you're vegetarian, here are the reasons why you should avoid it in favour of fish oils. Flax seed oil contains ALA fatty acids and while fairly effective they are no match for the power of the two mains ones, DHA and EPA. ALA is very rarely, if ever converted into the two main ones making it much less useful. Many manufacturers argue that it is often converted but recent studies show ... (read more) Author: Rich Hawkins

2. Why Settle For The Flax Seed Oil Benefits When You Get So Much More From Fish Oil? November 05, 2009 The flax seed oil benefits pale in comparison with the sheer amount and quality of benefits from the best fish oils. The reason for this is down to the type of omega 3 that flax oil contains. Alpha-Linolenic Acid or ALA is what gives the flax seed oil benefits and while good for the heart and cholesterol, they work differently in the body, produce much more limited benefits and are rarely, if ever, converted into the two main omega 3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA. Of these two acids, the best source of which is fish oil, DHA is largely responsible for most of the benefits including preven... (read more) Author: Rich Hawkins

3. Is Organic Flaxseed Oil a Good Source of Omega 3? November 05, 2009 There is a renewed interest today in organic flax seed oil as the many benefits of omega 3 come to light and are more publicized than ever. So is this a good source? The answer is both yes and no! Organic flax seed oil is rich in omega 3 and carries many benefits but is nowhere near as effective as the fatty acids you get from fatty fish so unless you are vegetarian, fish oils are much better. Let me explain why. Flax seed will give you a short chained fatty acid known as ALA which affect the body in a different way to the other ones and has proven to be far less effective espec... (read more) Author: Rich Hawkins

4. Why you need DHA Omega 3 Fatty Acids in your Diet November 05, 2009 Let’s face it. It seems that everyone is interested in DHA omega-3 fatty acids lately. There are more fortified foods containing them than ever before. But, what are the actual benefits and what’s the best way to get them? Let’s find out. The benefits of Docosahexaenoic acid or DHA have to do with the essential organs of our bodies; the heart and the brain. It’s like brain fuel and a heart cleanser. One of the major components of brain cells is fat. About 40% of the fat in the brain is Docosahexaenoic acid. Without it, the brain cannot repair damaged cells, function efficien... (read more) Author: Laurel Cohen

5. Why EPA Fatty Acid is Beneficial to the Body November 05, 2009 EPA fatty acid or Eicosapentaenoic acid is one of the omega-3s. More specifically, it is a carboxylic acid with a 20-carbon chain and five double bonds. It is called a long-chained fatty acid, because of those 20 carbons and the five double bonds, but it is not the longest of the long-chained polyunsaturated fatty acids. That title goes to Docosahexaenoic acid or DHA. What’s important to most people is that it is a nutrient, necessary for the production of hormones in the human body. It is found in the human diet when people eat oily fish or take fish oil supplements. It is o... (read more) Author: Laurel Cohen

6. How to find the Right EPA Fish Oils November 05, 2009 It’s easy to find EPA fish oils. What’s a little harder to find are supplements that contain Docosahexaenoic acid or DHA, the longest of the long-chained polyunsaturated fatty acids and also, possibly, the most important to human health. Researchers suggest that we increase our omega-3 intake while decreasing our intake of omega-6s. They recommend that, because it has been noted that some dietary patterns, particularly those popular in the US, cause an imbalance in the omega-6 to 3 ratio in the body. That imbalance leads to inflammation, which plays a role in heart disease, can... (read more) Author: Laurel Cohen

7. Learn What Makes Up the Best Fish Oil Supplements November 05, 2009 The real reason why fish oils are considered very healthy is because they contain omega 3 fatty acids DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) and EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid). These types of fat are really good fats and effective in fighting heart disease and fish happens to be the excellent source of it. The omega 3 fatty acid is important and needed by our body. However, our body cannot manufacture omega 3 so we must obtain this fatty acid through our daily diet. Most people today consume insufficient amounts of the omega 3 which makes it essential to take the best fish oil supplements possible ... (read more) Author: Charles Strong

8. Are The Fish Oils You Take - The Good Oils November 05, 2009 After many years of extensive research by many scientists all around the world, the good oils aka purified fish oil, have finally been manufactured and put into soft gel capsules. These soft gel capsules keep the air away from the oil and keep the oil fresher for longer. I do not know exactly how long the oil stays fresh in these capsules, but it is a long time. These good oils, for the rest of this article I will refer to fish oil as the good oils, are used in vast quantities by our brain. The DHA is the fatty acid that helps to keep our mind working properly. It’s job is to keep us happ... (read more) Author: Gordon Hall

9. Omega 3 Fatty Acids Are Healthy Oils November 05, 2009 There are more and more papers being written everyday about the benefits of these healthy oils to our body. We have been using fish oil for a long time now, in one form or another to give us the healthy start we need in life. The fatty acids DHA and EPA are helping our body in so many ways. They help to give us our mental fitness, they help our heart, they have anti-inflammatory properties. And more. These healthy oils, especially the DHA fatty acid, helps to keep our brain in good mental repair. The DHA helps to keep us emotionally stable. You see, if our DHA levels ever drop, then we wi... (read more) Author: Gordon Hall

10. Essential Fatty Acid - The Food For Your Heart November 05, 2009 An essential fatty acid is one that our body does not manufacture, it has to be obtained from the food we eat. The best way of obtaining these fatty acids once, was by eating several meals of fish per week. Now however because of the contamination is our oceans and indeed in our fish, we can no longer afford to eat so much fish. The two most potent Omega 3 fatty acids in fish and in fish oil are DHA and EPA fatty acids. An essential fatty acid is a form of polyunsaturated fats found in Omega 3. The fish obtain these fats through eating algae and plankton, the fish that contain the most of... (read more) Author: Gordon Hall

11. Omega-3 Fatty Acids Can Benefit Your Health and The Way You Feel November 05, 2009 You need omega-3 fatty acids in order to maintain a healthy heart. You may be wondering does my body produce this on its own? What foods have this fat in them? Isn’t fat bad for me? I would like to answer these questions and more in the following paragraphs. Our bodies don’t produce this fat so we need to get it from the foods we eat or in the form of dietary supplements. Of course, many fats are bad for you, but this type is known as a polyunsaturated fatty acid and is an essential part of good cardiac health. Foods that are rich in this important fat include salmon, trout, sardine... (read more) Author: Elizabeth Ruby

12. The Benefits of a Fish Oil Blood Thinner November 01, 2009 Did you know a DHA and EPA rich omega-3 fish oil blood thinner could be a serious boon to the overall health of you cardiovascular system? It has been proven again and again through clinical studies that the use of omega-3 fatty acid supplements can counteract even the diets highest in fat. In fact, they could possibly ward off the development of heart disease, and heart related deaths all together. I am not claiming that omega-3 fatty acids are akin to a “Fountain of Youth” that will keep you alive forever, but I am saying that there is a wealth of evidence out there that suggests that... (read more) Author: Laurel Cohen

13. Learn More about Omega 3 Fatty Acids November 01, 2009 Let’s face it, there has been a great deal of scientific debate concerning which omega 3 fatty acids are essential in the human diet. Years ago, researchers found that alpha-lipoic acid, which is found in vegetable oils, like flaxseed, could be converted within the body to Eicosapentaenoic acid and then to Docosahexaenoic acid, using an intermediary called Docosapentaenoic acid to elongate the chain. To use the letters, ALA can be converted to EPA and then to DHA, through the use of DPA to make the chain of carbon bonds longer. This process is obviously inefficient. In recent s... (read more) Author: Laurel Cohen

14. Can Fish Oil Help in ADHD Treatment? November 01, 2009 Can Fish Oil help in ADHD treatment? Fish oil contains Omega 3 Fatty Acids - EPA and DHA. The New York Times mentions that studies have consistently found that children with A.D.H.D. have low blood levels of DHA. Other medical studies have shown children with ADHD have higher ratios of EPA and arachidonic acid in the blood of than in children without ADHD. Arachidonic acid is one of the most common fatty acids present in the brain - as is DHA. Omega 3 oil is being used by some doctors as a treatment for ADHD - but the practice is not fully accepted. There are some different views - s... (read more) Author: Mudassir Malik

15. Discover Help for Post Partum Depression October 31, 2009 If you’re like me, you have probably heard about many of the wonderful benefits there are to be gained through the use of omega-3 fatty acid supplements, but very little is mentioned about its effectiveness in treating post partum depression. Depression is something that affects a great many women after the birth of their child, and there is very little that can be done about it except for prescribing questionable prescription drugs. Although omega-3 fatty acids have been proven effective in treating a wealth of mood altering mental disorders most doctors will not recommend it as a treat... (read more) Author: Laurel Cohen

16. Discover the Best Prenatal Omega 3 October 31, 2009 Did you know that prenatal omega 3 fatty acid intake should be higher than what is recommended for non-pregnant women? A woman’s needs are also higher when she is breast feeding. If her dietary needs for DHA are not met, she could experience a variety of health problems. DHA or Docosahexaenoic acid is an omega-3 that is essential for normal brain development in the fetus and in the infant. It continues to be important throughout a person’s life. A lack of it throughout a person’s life could be one of the causes of Alzheimer’s. Research concerning that is currently ongoing. DHA i... (read more) Author: Laurel Cohen

17. Discover the Benefits of Omega 3 Fatty Acids October 31, 2009 Face it. Clinical tests conducted over the last 40 years have proven the benefits of omega 3 fatty acids for a variety of ailments. Inflammation in the body is necessary in order for the immune system to effectively ward off diseases, and to heal wounds. If there is too much inflammation constantly present in the body it can have the opposite affect than intended, and this chronic inflammation leads to disease. The reason that we now suffer from so many of the ailments that we have simply come to accept, is because we have allowed the ratio of our omega-6 fatty acids to overwhelm the b... (read more) Author: Laurel Cohen

18. Some Of You Have Asked - What Is Fish Oil? October 29, 2009 The fat in fish oil has a form of polyunsaturated fats called Omega 3s. What is fish oil? The DHA found in fish oil is present in our brain in vast amounts. You see, some sixty per cent of our brain is fat. And one half of that is DHA fatty acid. The job of the HA is to keep us happy. But look out if these DHA levels ever drop, we shall be in for periods of depression and shifts in our mood. The DHA also helps to keep our memory in good shape. What is fish oil and what does it do? The DHA and the EPA join together to help keep our cardiovascular system ticking over like a well oiled mach... (read more) Author: Gordon Hall

19. Does Omega 3 Work When You Take It To Improve Your Health October 27, 2009 Literally hundreds of thousands of people from all around the world have discovered the health benefits of Omega 3. Some of these people are asking, does Omega 3 work to improve our health? The answer to that is a resounding yes! Omega 3 does work to improve your health, and if you read on, I will attempt to show you exactly how it works. Omega 3 fatty acids are necessary for your mental health and your cardiovascular health. The trouble is, that most people in the western world are deficient in the essential fatty acids DHA and EPA, even the minor fatty acid ALA. This is because the meat... (read more) Author: Gordon Hall

20. Fish Oil And Anxiety - Is There A Connection Between The Lack Of Anxiety And Fish Oil October 27, 2009 Omega 3 fish oil has two potent fatty acids, they are DHA and the EPA fatty acids. There is another minor fatty acid called ALA, but this does not have the same effect on the body as the other two. It actually has to be converted by our body over to DHA, before our body can use it. If you read on, I will try and explain about fish oil and anxiety I will try and explain it this way, the brain is comprised of some sixty per cent fat, and one half of that is DHA fatty acids. As long as we keep taking our Omega 3 fatty acids then our DHA will remain normal and we will not suffer from anxiety,... (read more) Author: Gordon Hall

21. The Question Is - Do You Need To Take A Fish Oil During Pregnancy? October 27, 2009 Do you need to take a fish oil during pregnancy? I will attempt to answer that question, by showing you why you need to take those Omega 3 fatty acids. There have been many papers written on the subject, so I do not think I will have that hard of a job persuading you, that you do indeed, need to take this oil during your pregnancy to help your baby develop normally. If you do take fish oil during pregnancy, you will be helping your baby’s cerebral cortex to develop. This is because the DHA fatty acid in the Omega 3 makes up 25% of your baby’s cerebral cortex, and approximately 50% of the ... (read more) Author: Gordon Hall

22. What is DHA used for in Supplements? October 26, 2009 What is DHA used for these days? While the abbreviation could refer to a form of vitamin C, the active ingredient in self-tanning products or a coal tar derivative, it is most commonly used to refer to Docosahexaenoic acid, an omega-3 fatty acid. Here’s where you’ll find it and what it’s good for. The primary dietary source of Docosahexaenoic acid in the human diet is fish and seafood. At one time, beef, poultry and eggs may have been a source of the nutrient, but as they have been taken off of grass and other greens, fed primarily corn and grain, the foods are no longer sources of the... (read more) Author: Laurel Cohen

23. 4 Good Reasons to Discover DHA Supplements October 26, 2009 Before you buy DHA supplements, take a little time to learn about the different ones on the market. There might be better choices. It really depends on why you are interested in supplementation. For the Brain In studies concerning depression, a combination of Docosahexaenoic acid and Eicosapentaenoic acid was shown to be more effective than either of the omega-3s, alone. In the studies that focused on attention deficit disorders in children, fish oil was given. Fish oil contains several different omega-3 fatty acids, as well as other fats. The content varies. So, it is import... (read more) Author: Laurel Cohen

24. Why Omega 3 Greens Are Not The Best Way To Get These Essential Fatty Acids October 26, 2009 With so much attention in the press recently, it's hardly surprising that omega 3 greens are being asked about more. There is however a fundamental problem with getting the omega 3 benefits this way, and unless you are a vegetarian, you should look to the other sources I reveal here. The problem with omega 3 greens is that they give you a type of fatty acid called ALA, which is far less useful than the two main ones, DHA and EPA. Despite what many would have you believe, it is rarely converted by the body into the useful ones and therefore while providing some benefits, you are not seeing... (read more) Author: Rich Hawkins

25. Honest Fish Oil Reviews October 23, 2009 Let’s face it. There have literally been thousands of fish oil reviews conducted over the course of the last 70 years or so, that have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that omega-3 fatty acids are a tremendous boon to your health. These anti-inflammatory nutrients have the ability to prevent some of the most serious ailments that we face, and to aid in the treatment of many others. There is more than one type of omega fatty acid, with n-3 and n-6 fatty acids being predominant. The reason that these essential nutrients were given the name fatty acids is that early on researchers found ... (read more) Author: Laurel Cohen

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