Protective acids
From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Eating healthy vegetable oils and fish regularly can help your heart. These foods have special fatty acids called omega-3. The body does not make omega-3 by itself, so it’s important we make them a part of our diet.
Omega-3s are in some vegetable oils, as well as in fish and walnuts.
Dr. Hannia Campos of the Harvard School of Public Health says even small amounts of omega-3s could help.
She led a study in Costa Rica, where people get much less omega-3s than we do in the United States.
“We found that high levels of omega-3 fatty acid were linked with a 59 percent reduction in the risk of getting a heart attack.” (7 seconds)
The study in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
Learn more at hhs.gov.
