What Are the Best Omega-3 Sources?
Like many nutritional recommendations, and even though you know it’s good for you, pumping up your diet with omega-3s, whether they come from fish or plant sources, takes a little consideration. For this reason, many people turn to supplements. But there’s good reason to strongly consider otherwise. For example, in the metabolic syndrome study mentioned above, those who got their benefits via diet (as opposed to through supplements) lowered their disease risk the most. And if you’re eating the food, you’re also getting additional benefits from other things you wouldn’t get from the pill. Take, for example, fish. By choosing the fillet over the supplement, you’ll also get the antioxidant punch of both vitamin D and selenium. That’s a three-for-one benefit in just one little piece of fish! Plus, if you’re getting your omega-3s from a bottle, it’s important to be critically aware of the source purity of the fish oil—sometimes it’s hard to do that, and high-quality fish oil supplements don
