The article provides information about omega-3 fats. Recent studies found that a healthy balance of essential fatty acids is critical to body health. The three important omega-3 fatty acids inclu...
Sardines
Stop Heart Trouble with Sardines
The secret? "Magic" fats called omega-3s
Meals fished from the icy waters of northern Quebec provide the local Inuit people with a whopping 2 g of omega-3 fats a day. Experts think that's why these native Canadians have only half the rate of heart-disease deaths as their neighbors whose diets are low in omega-3s (Amer. Jour. of Clinical Nutrition, Oct 1, 2001).
For 2 g of omega-3s, try one helping of King Oscar Gourmet Sardines--in a salad, with pasta, or right from the can. Choose from Salsa, Mediterranean, or Pesto with basil, Parmesan cheese, and pine nuts.
Packed with Good Health
BUILDING STRONG BONES
Convenient and versatile, canned sardines are a nutrition powerhouse full of calcium and omega-3s
When was the last time you ate sardines? If your answer is "ages ago" or "never," you may want to give this humble fish-in-a-can another try.
EAT SARDINES, BE HAPPY ... AND SING!
e first expressed in terms of lipids. Without being too technical, we must recall that the brain of the fetus has a real thirst for highly unsaturated fatty acids, particularly those of the omega-3 family.
The mother-to-be can use two ways to satisfy the huge demand for such fatty acids.
The first way is direct. It is to have a diet rich in preformed, highly unsaturated omega-3 fatty acids: in practice this means eating sea fish. Fish from the beginning of the seafood chain--such as sardines, pilchards, herrings or common Atlantic macker els--are not polluted.
