Archive for September, 2006
FDA posts new fish and seafood safety guidelines webpage
0 Comments Published September 18th, 2006 in Functional Foods, General Interest, Health, Life, Nutrition, Parents, PopularThe FDA has posted a new webpage in August 2006 with a readable and fairly comprehensive set of guidelines for selecting fish for safety and how to prepare it safely. While this particular guidelines webpage does not offer a lot of details on omega-3 fatty acids, it is quite successful in its overview of the [...]
Omega 3 deficiency in animals during lactation leads to irreversible changes in brain function
0 Comments Published September 13th, 2006 in General Interest, Life, Medical News, Medicine, Mental Health, Nutrition, Parents, PregnancyAn ahead of print epub of a study with rats by S Chalon of the Universite Francois-Rabelais de Tours, France reveals that a diet seriously deficient in omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids during gestation and lactation was associated with alterations in the brain pool of serotonin and dopamine, and that attempting to correct the deficiency in lactation did [...]

