Our body needs essential fatty acids like omega-3, but since it cannot make them on its own, it’s vital to consume these good fats through food. Omega-3 benefits us in plenty of ways, from lowering our chances of getting cancer, heart disease and stroke, to keeping away depression and dementia.
Getting Omega-3 early in life is important since it is a critical ingredient for brain health and its low levels in the body are associated with poorer reading and memory. Beneficial to eye health, especially infant vision development, it helps retinal function and is useful for children and teenagers suffering from asthma, attention-deficit disorder and depression. It has even been proven that children born to mothers who took omega-3 supplements during pregnancy and breastfeeding score higher on cognitive tests compared to others.
Dietary Sources Of Omega-3
You can get omega-3 from foods such as fish (especially mackerel, herring, sardines and salmon), pasture raised meats, grass fed dairy, edamame (green soybeans), wild rice (it’s actually not rice but a kind of grass), walnuts and flaxseeds, and enriched eggs.
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