Omega-3 Healthy fats and its health benefits – By Dr harold Gunatillake Website: www.Doctorharold.com Omega-3 fights inflammation, supports brain health and normal cognitive function, is imperative for healthy fetal development, and combat depression while impacting diseases of mental decline, such as Alzheimer’s – to name a few. There is evidence that omega-3 fatty acids can help reduce high blood pressure or the risk of heart disease Omega-3 is a class of polyunsaturated fatty acids considered healthy fatty acids found in foods, such as fish, eggs, and flaxseed, among others, and in dietary supplements. Why are they called Omega-3 fatty acids? All fatty acids are carbon chains linked together with double bonds. An omega-3 fatty acid is a fatty acid with multiple double bonds, where the first double bond is between the third and fourth carbon atoms from the end of the carbon atom chain. There are three omega-3 fatty acids. ...

Read More →

Good And the Bad of Egg – By Dr Harold Gunatillake Website:www.Doctorharold.com Transcript: Eggs are healthy and have beneficial effects for human consumption. An egg has the ingredients within and the potential to give life. It has the highest anabolic effect compared to any other form of food, including the highly-rated veggies. Anabolic means promoting anabolism or biosynthesis – the biochemical reaction that constructs molecules from smaller components. For instance, the ingredients within the egg can turn into muscle protein or other proteins. 48% of the nutrients within turn into body tissue. On the contrary, meat, fish and chicken produce 32% only converting into body tissue like the muscles. In short, there is no other dietary food that has the ingredients that convert, having so much as 48% converting into body tissue. So, eggs are very efficient in turning into body tissue Eggs are very high in nutrients and vitamins ...

Read More →

Omega-3s can be obtained from cheaper vegetable seeds by Dr Harold Gunatillake You are by now taking fish oil capsules or eating oily fish like salmon, tuna at least twice a week for your DHA and EPA fatty acids benefitting your body in many ways, such as lowering your triglycerides, and bad cholesterol numbers which blocks your arteries,, keeping your blood vessels elastic and linked to heart health. Omega -3s also reduce the risk of irregular heartbeats. Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka don’t seem to get enough omega-3s to keep their heart in fine tune and for its other health benefits. Oily fish is so expensive that the average worker can afford to purchase small fish having very little omega-3 fatty acids. The fish oil capsules imported and available in supermarkets contain only about 300mg of omega-3 which is insufficient to maintain the daily body requirement, and most countries sell ...

Read More →