What+Are+the+Benefits+of+Eating+Fish?


 * Jared Valley **

Breaking news! Breaking news! Studies have shown that fish consumption benefits to people in three major ways. It could help patients with diabetes, prevent patients with heart disease from dying of a heart attack or stroke, and lastly, opens up clogged arteries for healthy blood flow.

Consuming fish with omega 3 fatty acids can benefit to patients with diabetes. This would help because diabetes affects an estimated 23.6 million patients throughout America. Consuming fish with omega 3 helps diabetes patients by lowering blood pressure and decreasing protein in the patients’ urine.

When heart disease patients consume fish containing omega 3 it reduces that patients’ risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke. The reason this happens is because once entered into the bloodstream, the omega 3 opens up clogged arteries. This also limits problems with heart disease if enough fish containing omega 3 is consumed.

The benefits of eating fish outweigh the potential risks, but the consumer must remain aware of the risks. Most mercury is released into the air and then falls directly into water or onto land where it can then be washed into waterways. When mercury gets into water, bacteria can change it into a form called methyl mercury, which is absorbed by tiny aquatic organisms. When fresh water and ocean fish eat those organisms, the mercury then begins to build up in their bodies. Once consumed, fish meat that contains mercury takes about 4-5 years for the body to dispose of it. Every consumer should limit their mercury intake by eating fish with low amounts of mercury.

For adults, at least two servings of omega 3 rich fish should be consumed every week. The serving size should be at least 3 ounces or 85 grams or a piece about the size of a deck of cards. The risk of getting too much mercury or other contaminants from fish is generally outweighed by the health benefits that omega 3 fatty acids have.

Very good sources of omega 3 fatty acids are in shark, striped bass, swordfish, bluefish, rainbow trout and fresh water bass. Consumption of omega 3 affects many diseases in a good way, it is proven that the omega 3 fatty acids in fish can treat and even cure 300 different diseases.

Now that the breaking news has been delivered, hopefully the readers take these facts into consideration and start eating fish that contain omega 3 fatty acids it can change lives and the reader’s health.

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January 25, 2010.