Benefits of Fish and Omega-3 Fatty Acids
The waters have been warm off of California. What does that have to do with my diet? The warm waters bring in fish to the area that otherwise might not be here. In particular, the seas are full of bonito. Bonito are related to and resemble tuna but are smaller. For the last few weeks they have been plentiful and we troll for them along the coast. We catch a half dozen or so, bring them home and make sashimi, spicey tuna rolls, poke, tuna salad, and my favorite is the bonito pan fried with a little olive oil, lemon juice, and coarse salt.
There is lots of research about the benefits of omega 3’s. Just today in Yahoo! New from the American Journal of Preventitive Medicine:
Fish oil could potentially save more lives than cardiac defibrillators, devices used to revive individuals whose hearts have stopped beating and to prevent and treat life-threatening heart arrhythmias, researchers estimate in a new report.
I believe that fresh fish is always better than frozen and that fresh food is almost always better than supplements. I found that the Australian Consumer’s Association Choice agrees with me (or I agree with them): Oils ain’t oils in the frozen fish world
Now is this bonito diet helping with my weight loss goals. Maybe. Because of my rotator cuff injury, I have been doing far less exercise than I normally do. I also have not been focused on dieting. Yet I have managed to maintain my 10 pound weight loss. That’s good.
I will see if I can find some nutritional information on bonito and come back and post that later.
October 18th, 2006 at 12:34 am
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