Heart Health And The Importance Of Omega 3 Fatty Acids (VIDEO)

Staying fit, avoiding cigarettes and eating a healthy diet are all vital for heart health. But according to "The Doctors," another important step toward a healthy heart is incorporating omega-3 fatty acids into your diet. Watch the below clip to learn more about omega-3s -- including the difference between krill oil and fish oil supplements -- and why they may be so beneficial for your heart.

Comments

[Timo22]

07:59 AM on 02/16/2012

Great info! specially on the mention of Krill Oil, ive been taking the World abs one and definately would recommend them, there's some great info on Krill oil on there website for anyone interested-

http://www.worldabs.com/products/krill-oil-500-vegetarian-antarctic-fish-omega-3-and-6

[Yvonne Serocki]

07:31 PM on 02/14/2012

For heart health ask yourself Where's the Fruit? A Valentine message
Little known risks for heart disease: lack of connection to Self, God, nature and others, lack of love, lack of bearing good fruit in your life www.newheavenonearth.wordpress.com

[jacki650]

03:08 PM on 02/14/2012

Great resource! These tips for staying healthy are great for people of all ages! It's never too early to watch what you eat and take in all the good stuff that will benefit you now and especially later in life. This article should definitely be added to SkinnyScoop's list of tips and resources for staying heart healthy > http://www.skinnyscoop.com/list/SkinnyScoop_Staff/staying-heart-healthy

[NVBio]

03:05 PM on 02/14/2012

Omega-3 fatty acids have many amazing benefits. One benefit is that they are great for your skin and interestingly enough, can even help protect your skin from the sun's rays (ultraviolet radiation). One product that takes advantage of this is Sunsafe Rx. Sunsafe Rx is made with a number of different natural ingredients from foods and plants that are all clinically shown to prevent skin damage from both UVA and UVB rays. You can read more on the Sunsafe Rx website.

[Gary Rhine]

12:49 PM on 02/14/2012

The saturated fat people talk about natural, unprocessed fats such as lard. Unprocessed is always good but natural can be quite tricky. Natural and harmful are not mutually exclusive.

[jdallinder]

02:10 AM on 02/14/2012

Go veg. Exercise every day. Rescue a dog. Make art. Find god. Kill your television.

[eilish]

11:29 PM on 02/13/2012

Something my naturepath told me is that flax seed daily will drop your cholesterol like a bomb. I eat a couple of tablespoonfuls a day with steel cut oats and she was right. Went from 299 to 134 in about 3 months.

I also do the Omegas and eat really well and as organic as I much can find it. Love my gym and walking my Sheltie every day.

[oceanofconsciousness]

12:05 AM on 02/14/2012

Funny, I also eat steel cut oats with flaxseed oil every day. Thought I was the only one. It's so good!

[eilish]

12:10 AM on 02/14/2012

I know! People wrinkle their noses and say boring but I luuuve it!

[Contact1972]

12:42 AM on 02/14/2012

I don't have the oli but I do sprinkle flax on my oatmeal. Is the oli better?

[Mochilero]

02:01 AM on 02/14/2012

Chia seeds and purslane are both better, tastier and more easily digestible sources of Omega-3 than flax. As for reducing cholesterol, cinnamon combined with honey also works amazingly well.

[whataday65]

11:12 AM on 02/14/2012

Thanks for the info. I'll look into it. The cinnamon with honey really sounds good!

[eilish]

04:52 PM on 02/14/2012

Oh, I always throw the cinnamon and honey in my oatmeal as a bonus! I'd never heard of purslane, thanks.

[pene]

10:57 PM on 02/13/2012

shop around the edges of the grocery store. stay there and you are already on your way to better diet.

[Ole Liberal Soul]

11:22 PM on 02/13/2012

Never thought of that but it's true. For starters, almost everything in the middle is absurdly processed and loaded with preservatives.

Good advice.

[pene]

10:28 PM on 02/16/2012

I heard it somewhere and started doing it. even olive oil is at the edge. The only aisle i go into now is the one with toothpaste! i feel a lot better too. the other thing, no more hormones or antibiotics...cheeze meat. more expensive, true...but cheaper than bad health. (plus, as a woman i'm saving on shaving my beard...practically disappeared when i stopped with the recombinant bovine hormones!!!)

[Kenz300]

09:55 PM on 02/13/2012

Less salt, less sugar and only healthy fats.

[Alvarask]

09:29 PM on 02/13/2012

This is the standard uninformed rubbish that passes for medical advice these days. A diet high in saturated fats will DECREASE risk of heart disease, not increase it. Obesity correlates with heart disease, it does not cause it. They are both symptoms of the same problems of poor nutrition and dangerous additives to out diet. By all means get some Omega 3s into your diet and also get rid of polyunsaturated fats, because they are rick Omega 6s and we need to get the ratio right between the two rather than reach absolute amounts of input. So eat fatty fish like salmon, fresh flax seeds and maybe take a high quality mercury-free Omega 3 supplement.

[JustMeinNJ]

10:52 PM on 02/13/2012

um....WHAT? "A diet high in saturated fats will DECREASE risk of heart disease, not increase it."

[Alvarask]

12:35 AM on 02/14/2012

Correct. Saturated fats DECREASE our risk of heart disease. If you want to read what a senior cardiologist has to say about this (and he is not alone by a long shot), then read "Wheat Belly" by Dr. William Davis. While the main object of the book is to teach you about the dangers of wheat to your health, he covers saturated fats as well.

[Nathan Lunn]

12:44 AM on 02/14/2012

Diets high in saturated fat and low in carbohydrates promote type 1 LDL, which are large and fluffy. Diets high in carbohydrates and low in saturated fats promote type 4 LDL, which are small and compact. Type 4 LDL, being smaller, are able to pass through the inflamed arterial walls commonly associated with CAD, leading to plaque buildup. Type 1 LDL, being larger, are not as able to pass through the inflamed arterial walls, leading to less buildup of plaque.

See here for more info:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35058896/ns/health-heart_health/t/bad-cholesterol-its-not-what-you-think/#.TznwXN5SQ0k

Our entire diet, the food pyramid, etc for the last 50 years has been based on the inaccurate results of the lipid study, which named saturated fats and LDL cholesterol as bad. The aftermath of the lipid study was a suggested diet low in saturated fat and high in carbohydrates. But the lipid study completely ignored populations that received the majority of their caloric intake from saturated fats, such as many Polynesian cultures with diets centered around coconut oil. We have been lied to by the AHA, FDA and CSPI. The CSPI made restaurants stop using animal fats for frying in 1989 and instead use trans-fat filled hydrogenated oils instead.

Gary Taubes book, "Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health" is a great read to learn just where we've gone wrong with our western diet.

[jroman62]

10:53 PM on 02/13/2012

A diet high in saturated fats will decrease the risk of heart disease you stated. What school did you go to because I think you deserve a refund.

[Alvarask]

12:33 AM on 02/14/2012

Start by reading anything by Gary Taubes. If you don't want to shell out the money for his authoritative work "Good Calories Bad Calories", then do a search for his New York Times article entitled "What it's all been a big fat lie?". Go from there.

[Alvarask]

08:25 PM on 02/14/2012

To reply to your comment which was deleted, I am in my 50s and healthy. I eat a diet high in good quality saturated fats, plentiful quality protein, lots of quality dairy products and nuts, a wide variety of vegetables, and very small amounts of fruit.