Adding plenty of fish to your diet can have a major impact on keeping good cardiac health in a number of different ways. Besides their delicious taste, fish contain omega-3 fatty acids, which are unsaturated and work in the body to lower blood pressure slightly, reduce blood clotting, decrease stroke and heart failure risk and reduce irregular heartbeats.
“Omega-3 fatty acids have been studied for decades and have a direct beneficial effect on the heart,” said senior author Dr. Raymond Y. Kwong, director of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. “One large trial found that heart attack survivors who took 1 gram of omega-3 fat each day for three years had a 50 percent reduced chance of sudden cardiac death.”
On a regular basis adding one to two servings of fish a week, can support the reduced risk of heart disease and play a large in providing healthy cardiac nutrients.
