Just a few grams of omega-3 per day prevents irregular heart beat [arrhythmia] and decrease inflammation and promote blood flow and help keep a by-pass open and protect you after a heart attack.

Omega-3 from fish oil safely lowers the need for pain killers e.g. Aspirin and they slash ’triglycerides’ (high blood fats).

2 grams/day of fish oil after heart attack: 20% fewer deaths and 45% fewer ’sudden’ deaths. Omega-3 is the rediscovered half of what used to be called vitamin F -with the F from Fat.

It takes omega-3 to balance the other half of vitamin F, the omnipresent omega-6 from soy, corn, sunflower, safflower and cottonseed, Linoleic Acid (LA). Polyunsaturate has become synonymous with omega-6 only, which now appears to be part of a health disaster in heart disease, diabetes and cancer, especially breast cancer, excessive blood clotting and immune system problems including asthma.

Making things worse since 1911, hydrogenation trans-forms unsaturates and messes with their vitamin or structural roles while raising bad-boy Lp(a). Hydrogenation preferentially zaps the most precious oil of all: omega-3. Virgin olive is a healthy omega-9 oil but a poor source of omega-3 at only 0.6%.

Oily fish is undoubtedly good for us and should be included in the diet. Eating a varied diet of fresh, unprocessed food is always better than thinking that food with supplements will make up for basic deficiencies.

Given that one portion of salmon or mackerel, sardines or fresh (not canned) tuna a week should provide us with enough of the omega-3 we need, we as consumers should all make more effort to eat more oily fish – within FSA guidelines – rather than to reassure ourselves by buying (often expensive) products with added omega-3.

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