Fat AND Healthy?

By Douglas Robb on February 27, 2013@healthhabits

Fat and Healthy?

Well, sort of.

According to a new study, these sumo wrestlers have got a great reason to fight for that last piece of sushi.

Image: Threadless: The Last Piece

Researchers have found that diets rich in Omega 3 fatty acids helped to protect their obese test subjects from the liver damage and insulin resistance that goes hand in hand with their bulging waistlines.

More specifically, it was two specific Omega 3s – protectins and resolvins—that provided the protective effects.

In the study, the researchers studied four groups of mice with an altered gene making them obese and diabetic.

Group One was given an Omega-3-enriched diet
Group Two was given a control diet.
Group Three was given docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)
Group Four received only the lipid resolvin.

After five weeks, blood serum and liver samples from the test mice were examined.

The mice given the omega-3-rich diet exhibited:

reduced hepatic (liver) inflammation
an improvement of their fatty liver disease – NAFLD
reduced insulin resistance/ improved insulin tolerance
improved glucose (blood sugar) transport
improved insulin receptor signaling
increased production of the anti-inflammatory adipokine – adiponectin
a decrease in the formation of Omega-6-PUFA-derived eicosanoids – PGE2 and 5-HETE

And all of improvements were due to the formation of protectins and resolvins from omega-3 fatty acids.

Conclusion.

If you are fat, you need to increase your consumption of Omega 3 fatty acids.

Man Eats Wild – Bear Grylls gets his Omega 3s

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Doug Robb is a personal trainer, a fitness blogger and author, a competitive athlete, and a student of nutrition and exercise science. Since 2008, Doug has expanded his impact by bringing his real-world experience online via his health & fitness blog, Health Habits. Read more posts by Doug at Hive Health Media.

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March 3, 2009 at 5:00 pm

1) All we ever see are studies on mice. I want to see a study on actual sumo wrestlers.

2) Bear is the man. He will eat a raw fish or a scorpion just to stay alive. Of course he probably has caramel popcorn right off camera, but still he eats beetle bugs whole and refers to their consistency as “an explosion of puss”. He is the man.

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jamieatlas

March 3, 2009 at 3:11 am

Ewwww…… Cannot believe he would do that to that salmon. I mean, at least wrap a piece of seaweed around it or something

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Blake

March 2, 2009 at 4:10 pm

Love that pic of Bear Grylls. I gotta eat some more fish…

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Brit

March 2, 2009 at 12:42 pm

And, of course, I don’t care for fish that much. I love sushi, but I don’t eat it that often, and when I go out I’d rather have chicken than fish. I guess I should start looking at fish oil supplements.

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McBloggenstein

March 2, 2009 at 12:19 pm

Those sumo wrestlers have crazy lifestyles! They workout a ton on an empty stomach, then eat a ton, then sleep. Workout, eat, and sleep. That’s it!

Sushi makes a lot of sence for them to eat. Lots of fatty fish, and lots of carbs.

I love that Bear Grylls. He may be a bit of a faker, but he sure is entertaining.

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