More good news about fish oil

Doctors are being advised to prescribe oily fish or omega-3 fatty acid supplements to heart attack patients.

Professor Gene Feder, Chair of the Guideline Development Group, said: "The growing evidence that cardiac rehabilitation and specific lifestyle changes reduces the risk of second heart attacks, as well as improving quality of life, is not widely recognized."

This is wonderful news – at last good nutrition is being recognized by main-stream medicine. Nutritionists have been recommending fish oil for heart patients for years – Dr Robert Buist for one, then Dr Joseph Mercola and Jack Challem, ‘The Nutrition Reporter’ were recommending it in 2003 and of course Dr Barry Sears is a great proponent of high dose fish oil to combat heart disease. Try a Google search on benefits of fish oil and heart disease, and you’ll come up with 1,160,000 links.

However, what must be clearly borne in mind is that our oceans are all contaminated with heavy metals such as mercury, and so consider this when taking high doses of fish oil in supplemented form. Any fish oil supplement must ONLY be of Pharmaceutical Grade, which indicates that the oil has had any heavy metal contamination and other toxins removed under pharmaceutical conditions

More recommendations by health professionals for high-dose, ultra refined fish oil before, during and after pregnancy will ensure good development of the brain of her unborn child, as well as sufficient omega-3 for her health

And further, benefits have been experienced in the following conditions:
Bronchitis, emphysema, high blood pressure, asthma, ulcerative colitis, Alzheimer's, MS, ADD, dyslexia, Parkinson's and more.

Read more on the BBC article Fish oil urged for heart patients.

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Does dark chocolate reduce blood pressure?

Many people, including the marketers of chocolate, would be thrilled to find their favourite treat is able to reduce blood pressure, but I wonder why people have high blood pressure in the first place. Could it be they are consuming lots of milk chocolate, as Forbes.com has intimated?

I agree it seems small quantities of dark chocolate have healthful flavonoids, but encouraging consumption in order to reduce hbp may be fuelled by clever marketing. A more sensible approach is to encourage sufferers to increase their garlic and onion intake, promote a low fat diet and eat oily fish at least twice a week.

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