How Omega 3 supplements can help everyone ....

  Written by kathy stratford on Jan 16, 2009 7:33 am

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To improve your well being we all need good Nutrition. Slowly Doctors all around the world are realising this.

Once the body has the vitamins and minerals it needs it is amazing how  it  can repair itself.

A product that has many benefits is    Omega 3 supplements.

In the human body, essential fatty
acids play a multifunctional role:
• Key component in the
membranes of all cells
• Essential for normal health
and development
• Important for fat transport
and metabolism
• Converted into prostaglandins -
these hormone-like substances
are considered to be essential
for proper brain function;
improve immune function
and help reduce inflammation.

Omega-3 to benefit premature babies: SA research

Posted Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:19am AEDT
Updated Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:26am AEDT 

Fish oil benefit: The research was carried out by a team from the University of Adelaide Australia (ABC News)

Two Adelaide researchers say they have proved that giving premature babies doses of an omega-3 fatty acid known as DHA can stop the development of mental retardation.

The research team from the University of Adelaide studied more than 650 babies over a six-year period.

They found that giving the DHA nutrient to pre-term babies reduced the incidence of mental delay by between 40 and 50 per cent.

Babies get the extra DHA through breast milk by their mother taking a fish oil capsule or adding it to infant formula.

Professor Bob Gibson from the University says babies who were given the extra DHA showed remarkable results and that increased doses of DHA for premature babies should become a standard treatment around the world.

"I know that international colleagues have been very enthusiastic and have been trying to institute changes in their neonatal units," he said.

"And I would like to think that in a year from now that the standard level of DHA in infant formulas is raised three or four times."

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