Health Effects of Fish Oil

Health Effects of Palm Oil

Increasingly, over the past 40 years, the conception of diet has undergone major changes. Many of these changes involve changes in dietary intake of fats and oils. There has been an increasing consumption of partially hydrogenated transvegetable oils and a decreasing intake of lauric acid-containing oils. Although popular literature usually attribute an increased risk of coronary heart disease ...

Fish Oil

Fish oil, made from the tissue of oily fish‐such as salmon, tuna, mackerel, herring, lake trout and sardines‐has many health benefits. Fish oil contains important Omega‐3 fatty acids , most notably eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and decosahexaenoic acid (DHA). These Omega‐3 fatty acids are believed to have health benefits ranging from reducing the risk of heart attack and coronary heart disease to...

Effects of fish oil supplementation in rheumatoid arthritis.

Sixteen patients with rheumatoid arthritis entered a trial to determine the clinical and biochemical effects of dietary supplementation with fractionated fish oil fatty acids. A randomised, double blind, placebo controlled crossover design with 12 week treatment periods was used. Treatment with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and with disease modifying drugs was continued throughout the s...

Dose-titration effects of fish oil in osteoarthritic dogs.

BACKGROUND Food supplemented with fish oil improves clinical signs and weight bearing in dogs with osteoarthritis (OA). OBJECTIVE Determine whether increasing the amount of fish oil in food provides additional symptomatic improvements in OA. ANIMALS One hundred and seventy-seven client-owned dogs with stable chronic OA of the hip or stifle. METHODS Prospective, randomized clinical trial u...

The effects of fish oil on glucose transport systems.