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Fish Oil Protects Japanese from Heart Disease

Sunday, August 03, 2008 - Byron J. Richards, CCN
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Japanese men have half the heart disease compared to any other industrialized country in the world.  This is true even though they smoke more and have similar rates of cholesterol problems, blood pressure issues, and diabetes.  Living in Japan, they eat fish every day and new research shows their blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids (DHA/EPA) are twice as high as Japanese men living in America and white American men.

Since so much of the fish available in the U.S. market contains mercury, PCBs, and other contaminants it is wise to get your essential fatty acids from high quality molecularly distilled DHA, which should be taken daily – the higher the amount the greater the protection.

Of course, fish oil is also known to help metabolize triglycerides, those nasty fat blobs that cause so much trouble to your circulation when they are elevated.

The lead author of this study is Akira Sekikawa, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.  She concluded, “Our study suggests that very high levels of omega-3 fatty acids have strong properties that may help prevent the buildup of cholesterol in the arteries…While we don’t recommend Americans change their diets to eat fish at these quantities because of concerns about mercury levels in some fish, increasing intake of omega-3 fatty acids in the U.S. could have a very substantial impact on heart disease.”

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