Fat loss breakthrough, 2 – fish oil also lowers appetite....

Today's Post: Friday, 1-15-2010

You may find this hard to believe; but 10 days ago I found this news story on Monday, 1-4-2010.

(Unfortunately, I somehow forgot to enter the news service on which I found it.)

Low blood levels of the hormone, leptin, increase hunger, while higher levels tell your brain you are full and increase calorie burning. There is some evidence you have to do the other things needed for good health and for fat loss for your body to react properly to increases in your blood level of leptin or to high levels of leptin. But low levels are likely to make you over-eat and apparently also will slow your metabolism.

Further, research recently reported found that low levels of leptin tend to cause type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease.

That means anything safe to ingest that causes your leptin level to increase is more valuable than gold. It quite literally will make you trimmer and protect your health as surely as forcing this to happen by using a lever.

The story on Monday, 1-4-2010 reported that scientists from Iceland found that who people who ate salmon felt more full and satisfied two hours later than those who either didn't eat seafood or ate cod, a fish with far less fat than salmon.

These researchers apparently then found that taking in a high level of omega-3 oils increased blood levels of leptin.

That’s exciting news.

Eating wild caught salmon or sardines or mackerel or herring –OR taking DHA or omega 3 supplements made from purified fish oil each will increase your blood levels of omega 3 oils.

And, THAT will increase leptin which in turn will make it easier for you to stay trim (to lose excess fat and not gain it.) And, it also will sharply reduce your risk for type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease.

Important notes:

1. Farmed salmon is so heavily contaminated with pollutants it should be banned from human consumption. Worse, it has far less omega 3 oils. And, even worse than that, it has been shown to harm the wild salmon near the farms which would otherwise have lived to be safe to eat wild caught salmon. So, NEVER willingly eat farmed salmon.

Unfortunately, most restaurants still serve farmed salmon. And, if you ask they will say if theirs is farmed or wild caught. The good news is that more and more of the better and more upscale restaurants carry wild caught salmon now.

2. Wild caught mackerel is an inexpensive fish high in omega 3 oils. But a variety called King Mackerel is apparently higher on the food chain and is far too high in mercury to be safe to eat.

3. As we posted on at some length in our last post, there are several things you can do to lower your intake of omega 6 oils. Doing this in addition to increasing your omega 3 oils will protect your health and enable you to benefit far more from the omega 3 oils in preventing inflammation and other diseases.

I strongly suspect that taking these other actions to reduce omega 6 oils also helps enable the omega 3 oils to be more effective in increasing leptin as well.

So, if using omega 3 oils to increase leptin and its positive effects interests you, by all means read our last post that we did yesterday on Thursday, 1-14.