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What Are The Various Foods Containing Omega 3 Fatty Acids?

Omega 3 fatty acids are the essential fats that are necessary for various body organs to function properly. To highlight few of their benefits – prevention and cure of cancer, heart attacks, strokes, reduces signs of ADHD, Dyslexia and Autism, better concentrating and focusing abilities. Because these fats are not produced by our body internally, to reap their benefits, we have to include foods containing omega 3 fatty acids in our daily diet explicitly.

There are 3 types of omega3 fats – ALA, DHA and EPA. Out of all, DHA and EPA are more readily absorbed fats by our body. Studies have proved that DHA is the responsible for most of the benefits of omega3. Also, there is an irreversible process to convert DHA to EPA, if required by the body. Thus, it is obvious that we all should look out for foods containing omega 3 DHA fat.

Various foods containing omega 3 fatty acids:

1. Plant sources like flaxseeds, nuts contain only ALA type of omega 3 fat. Though body can convert ALA to DHA and EPA. But because most of the ALA is burned as energy, only little is left for conversion. Since this conversion is also not very effective, body remains deficient in DHA until you eat lots of flaxseed.

2. Fish is rich source of both DHA and EPA. Salmon, Tuna, Mackerel are some of fish to name a few. Like us fish also do not produce this essential fat. But over their life span, they accumulate these fats by eating micro algae (this can produce omega3 fats) or eating prey fish that ate micro-algae. With the increase in the pollution levels in the ocean waters, fish along with the essential fats also accumulate various toxins like mercury, lead, arsenic, PCBs, etc. Because consumption of such tainted fish can be harmful, it is recommended that you should have properly filtered fish oil supplements.

3. Fish oil supplement have emerged recently as the best foods containing omega 3 fatty acids. This because of the various refining process involved in its preparation to filter out all the unwanted and harmful chemicals present in the fish from where it is extracted. An effective one under goes molecular distillation process to ensure that all the contaminations are filtered out and only high quality fish oil is left for our use.

Now, that you know the various foods containing omega 3 fatty acids, it is up to you to make a right choice for yourself. I would recommend a high quality molecularly distilled fish oil supplement that has high levels of DHA and EPA and that too without any worries of toxins.

If you wish to learn more on high DHA fish oil supplement that I and my family are taking to reap the benefits of omega3 fats, visit my website Omega 3 Brief.

About the Author

Chuck Blake is an active researcher and consumer of fish oil products.Visit his website http://omega3brief.com today to learn more about the powerful benefits of omega-3 fish oils.