Smoking harms the body
My regular readers know how important Omega-3 fatty acids. These are essential (vital) substances, and their lack strongly affects health, immunity and quality of life. Let me remind you that Omega-3 is contained, for example, in oily ocean fish, and those who do not have access to it, but want to lead a healthy lifestyle, have to take fish oil.
And today came another proof of the benefits of Omega-3: in the magazine American Nutrition Society the conclusions of the new stage of the so-called Framingham Heart Study.
This is the longest running study of heart and death factors - it started in the United States in 1948 in the town of Framingham. Its 5 thousand inhabitants were the first participants in scientific experiments, and thanks to them we know about the effect of cholesterol, blood pressure, physical activity, smoking and obesity on cardiovascular disease and risks of premature of death.
And here's the new data. According to them, low levels of Omega-3 in the body are also
risk factor for premature death and, according to scientists, has the same meaning as smoking.Scientists analyzed data from an experiment from 2018. It was attended by 2,500 people aged 66 to 73 years. Researchers have found a clear link between the amount of omega-3, the development of cardiovascular disease and mortality.
For example, those with high omega-3 levels had a 33 percent lower risk of premature death than those with the lowest levels in the group.
The author of the article, Dr. Michael McBurney, wrote: “Smoking and the Omega-3 index appear to be the most readily modifiable risk factors. According to the latest model, smoking subtracts more than four years of life, which is equivalent to shortening life with a low Omega-3 index. "
It turns out that dietary choices can prolong life: “in Japan, where the average Omega-3 index exceeds eight percent, the expected life expectancy is about five years longer than in the United States, where the average omega-3 index is about five percent. "
Now scientists are focused on understanding how much the intake of omega-3 dietary supplements can improve the situation.
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