Wild salmon are high in beneficial omega-3 fatty acids. These highly polyunsaturated fats prevent platelets in the blood from sticking to arterial walls as plaque. They lower LDL (bad cholesterol). Medical professionals, including Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Barry Sears (The Zone Diet), recommend eating wild salmon, which has more omega-3's than farmed salmon. Clean water equals clean fish. Alaska's waters are among the world's cleanest. Wild salmon swim free in their natural habitat. They eat only natural foods like shrimp, herring, and squid. At the bottom of their food chain are certain algae which produce beneficial omega-3 acids.
Farm-raised fish, on the other hand, are raised in crowded pens that breed disease and parasites. Salmon farmers combat this threat with vaccines, antibiotics, pesticides, fungicides, algaecides and other chemicals. Farm-raised salmon are fed synthetic carotenoids to color their flesh. The most common dye used, canthazanthin, is suspected of causing vision damage. The EU restricted its levels in 2003, but Chilean and North American farmed salmon still contain 4 times the level of canthazanthin allowed in Europe.
Alaskan Wild Salmon is your best health insurance. Here's why:
- Research by the American Heart Association and the New England Journal of Medicine have found that eating fish twice a week reduces by half the risk of heart attacks and nearly halves the risk of strokes.
- The Science of Staying Healthy declares wild salmon one of the 10 best foods to eat.
- Dr. Nicolas Perricone in his book, The Wrinkle Cure says wild salmon is "a facelift on a plate" because of the way fatty acids act on neurotransmitters that aid muscle tone.
- Arthritis Today magazine reports that many sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis find relief by eating fish high in Omega-3 oils.
- University of California studies have linked consumption of oily cold water fish like wild salmon with lower rates of breast and prostrate cancer. Other studies have found fish high in omega-3's to help with depression, asthma, emphysema, menstrual pain, ulcerative colitis, and lupus. These oils help in the development of healthy brains before birth and in childhood -- lack of these oils is believed to cause or exacerbate dyslexia, hyperactivity and other learning disabilities. Omega-3's help protect the brain from diseases of aging, including Alzheimers.
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