Grandma was right when she said fish makes you smart!

Science backs up what Grandma said when she told you to eat your fish because it will make you smart! Actually, fish is more than just “brain food”. It has been linked to reversing heart disease, lowering hypertension and preventing cancer. The scientific community first started studying the benefits of eating fish when they noticed that certain cultures had less heart disease and other related illnesses than the rest of us. The Inuit population of Canada and Greenland Eskimos both eat great amounts of fish, along with a high fat diet. Yet they have extraordinarily low rates of cardiac disease, stroke, high blood pressure and cancer. Interestingly, a positive impact has been linked to the ingestion of a high fat diet in conditions as diverse as macular degeneration, diabetes, wound healing, cystic fibrosis, asthma, arthritis, dysmenhorrea, Crohn’s Disease, psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease, depression, attention deficit disorder, schizophrenia, and even bi-polar disorder.

So what’s so magical about fish? Well, it contains a certain fat called Omega 3’s.

Now fat has gotten a bad rap over the last 20 years. We’ve all heard that “fat makes you fat.” The truth is just the opposite! It actually takes dietary fat to “burn” body fat. “Fat free” eating has caused obesity to be of epidemic proportion today in America. The real problem lies in the fact that we’ve all been given misinformation. Fat is mandatory to good health and weight management. The trick is eating the right fats, and that brings us back to “good fats” like Omega 3’s, which are polyunsaturated fats.

The biggest mistake we’ve all made is lumping all fats together into a single negative category. A diet high in saturated and transfats (often called hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated) does not yield health benefits. In fact, they are harmful to your health and do contribute to heart disease and cancer. But because these transfats increase the shelf life and flavor of foods, they can be found in almost every snack food on supermarket shelves, including chips, crackers, pretzels, cookies, pastries, rice mixes, soups and of course margarine. However, eliminating all fat from the diet is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Good fats do exist and they are essential for the optimal function of every cell in our body. We do not manufacture these important fats, and can only get them through the foods we consume. Today, because of processed foods, we don’t get enough of these good fats. Until the 20th century, Omega 3 fatty acids, derived primarily from cold ocean water fish and fish from fresh water lakes and rivers, as well as plants and free range and wild animals, were a significant part of the diet.

So, what does all of this have to do with the weight you want to lose? And why are Americans, including our children, struggling with weight issues? Does the blame lie in too little physical activity or too many fast food burgers? Although these factors do contribute to the problem, one emerging theory is that there are not enough Omega 3 fatty acids in our diet. Omega 3’s mediate many aspects of metabolism, including blood sugar levels and how the body burns fat. Think of Omega 3’s as the chip that helps run the super computer – your metabolism. Blood sugar needs to be “balanced,” but that’s one of the most difficult tasks for the body to accomplish. Too low a blood sugar level is equivalent to “starvation.” But, too high a blood sugar level is toxic to the body leading to obesity as well as the medical issues discussed previously, such as, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and stroke.

Being overweight leads to insulin resistance. In its simplest terms, think of insulin as the train that transports sugar to your cells for energy. If the train is heading for the station, but the station is “closed”, the train cannot properly reach its destination. Sugar, in the form of glucose meant to power the muscles accumulates in the blood with toxic effects. The body continues to secrete greater amounts of insulin in an effort to balance blood sugar. Because insulin is a “storage” hormone it directly affects fat stores and ultimately leads to weight gain.

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Balance is crucial to health. Other countries have adopted this philosophy for centuries, but Western Medicine is just beginning to understand its importance. True health can be attained if we follow the simplest concept that we really are what we eat. The composition of our body is totally affected by what we put in it. By eating in the Zone and adding Omega 3 fish oils to the mix, we can restore, at least in part, the dietary patterns of our ancestors – eat the way nature meant us to eat and attain both weight loss and better health.

Good Luck and Good Health!
Carol Forman Helerstein, Ph.D. Licensed Clinical Nutritionist