Fish Oil Weight Loss Dosage

Fish Oil Weight Loss Dosage
By Monica Sethi Datta, eHow Contributor

Fish oil provides many health benefits, with a bonus linkage to weight loss. Taking a high-quality fish oil is important to prevent from consuming rancid oil or mercury-laden fish oil. Taking the recommended dosage as a supplement will help with weight loss.

Benefits of Fish Oil
1. Fish oil is an Omega-3 oil recommended for heart health to prevent against cardiovascular disease and lowering cholesterol. Fish oil contains the fatty acids essential for brain development and preventing depression. Fish oil boosts the immune system, aids in proper functioning of the nervous system and helps against dry eyes. The Omega 3 fatty acid in fish oil reduces the risk of developing arthritis. Fish oil is also great for maintaining healthy, acne-free skin and shiny hair.
Dosage for Weight Loss
2. The recommended dosage for weight loss is about 1.5 to 2 grams a day of combined DHA and EPA. Look on the label to find the amount in one capsule. Add the DHA+EPA+ any other essential omega-3 fatty acids that are included.

Side Effects of Fish Oil
3. While fish oil has many great benefits, there are some things to note while consuming this supplement. As fish oil decreases blood clotting, it is not advised to take fish oil supplements before undergoing surgery.

Other minor side effects include upset stomach or stomach pain, diarrhea, increased gas, acid reflux/heartburn/indigestion and a fishy aftertaste when burping. You minimize gastrointestinal side effects by taking the fish oil supplement with food and gradually increasing your dosage intake. There are fish oil supplements with lemon flavor to eliminate the fishy aftertaste when burping.

What do I take? ArcticPure® Ultra Potency Omega-3 Fish Oil
EPA/DHA For Heart, Joints & Immunity * Molecularly Distilled for Pharmaceutical Quality. A Full 850 mg Omega-3 Per Softgel

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Why coconut oil is good for you

"The main fat (49%)in coconut oil is lauric acid, an antimicrobial, antifungal, and antiviral fatty acid all but unique to coconut oil and breast milk. Lauric acid kills fat-coated viruses, including HIV, measles, herpes, influenza, leukemia, hepatitis C, Epstein-Barr, and bacteria, such as Listeria, Helicobacter pylori, and strep. Monolaurin, an agent the body makes from lauric acid, fights the herpes and cytomegalovirus viruses.

The medium-chain fats in coconut oil don't need to be emulsified by bile acids before they are digested, as long-chain polyunsaturated fats do. Thus the body burns coconut oil more quickly than long-chain polyunsaturated fats like soybean oil, which it tends to store for later. For this reason, lauric acid is easy to digest, and for decades doctors have fed coconut oil to patients unable to digest polyunsaturated fats.

Medium-chain fats can also aid weight loss. Ultimately, of course, the most important thing is how much energy you consume and spend, but metabolism is more subtle than that. For example, lean protein has a higher "thermic effecct" than fat or carbs; that means it gives metabolism a boost. Lauric acid has a similar effect. A large number of studies in both animals and people show that coconut oil, when compared with polyunsaturated fats, enhances weight loss. Many people take a spoonful of coconut oil daily to aid weight loss and boost immunity.

What about heart disease? In the last thirty years, a number of studies have cleared coconut oil of any role in heart disease, and recent research confirms those findings.

Coconut oil even improves the all-important ration of HDL and LDL.

How then, did coconut oil get a bad reputation? Partly because we misunderstood cholesterol. We used to think that any fat that raised total cholesterol, as coconut oil can, was unhealthy, but we now know that total cholesterol is a poor predictor of heart disease and that raising HDL is good. Moreover, hydrogenated coconut oil was used in some studies.

Credited to Nina Planck in her book: "Real Food - what to eat and why"

Liver detox meal

For a meal that detoxes the liver and helps you to lose weight:

The plate should consist of vegetables, beans and eggs.

That's about what I'm eating now, since I'm on a no meat/no dairy diet to ward off inflammation/cancer.

More on this later......