| You know about Omega 3 fats. Unless you've been | | | | So when you eat the fish you are eating small |
| under a rock the last few years it's pretty hard to | | | | amounts of mercury and other contaminants. |
| ignore the flood of information from various sources | | | | The good news though is that there are other ways |
| about fish oil health benefits. Omega 3 fatty acids just | | | | of getting your Omega 3 fats. There are fish oil |
| have to be a part of your diet, but how do you get | | | | supplements available. Of course they also can suffer |
| them? | | | | from the same problem of contamination, because |
| It's a bit of a conundrum. Omega 3 fats come to us | | | | they get their oil from fish, but Omega 3 tablets should |
| primarily from fish or other sea foods. They are found | | | | be properly decontaminated so that these nasty |
| in some other sources, but clearly the major source of | | | | contaminants are removed from the supplements. |
| Omega 3 fatty acids that are an essential part of our | | | | There are well known processes to do this such as |
| diet is fish. | | | | molecular distillation, and there are various standards |
| And not just any old fish, but fatty fish like Tuna and | | | | that fish oil supplements should adhere to to |
| Mackeral. And there's some problems there. Firstly just | | | | demonstrate that they are extremely low in |
| look at the price of Tuna and other sea foods. I mean | | | | contaminants. |
| who can afford to eat it? It's so expensive that unless | | | | However of course like all these things there are |
| you're independently wealthy having 3 or so meals of | | | | better fish oil supplements and there are worse fish oil |
| Tuna a week is pretty much the road to bankruptcy. | | | | supplements. It pays to make sure that you're taking |
| And there's more problems. Eating fish can, apart from | | | | the good ones, mercury and PCBs can be pretty |
| the benefits of the Omega3 fats, be bad for your | | | | nasty. |
| health. Why? Because sadly our oceans are becoming | | | | Overall though, there is no doubt that you ought to be |
| more and more polluted by various contaminants that | | | | adding fish oil tablets to your breakfast. A daily |
| we do not want to be eating, like mercury and PCBs | | | | supplement of Omega 3 fats can do wonders for |
| and heavy metals. And all of these accumulate in the | | | | your heart health as well as for a wide range of other |
| flesh of fish at the top end of the food chain. Like | | | | health problems. The benefits of fish oil to health are |
| Tuna and Mackeral. And as they are cumulative they | | | | now well known. |
| aren't expelled from the fish, they accumulate in the | | | | Just make sure you choose your fish oil tablets well. |
| flesh over time. | | | | |