UIUC.edu - Has your toddler eaten fish today? A University of Illinois food science professor has two important reasons for including seafood in your young child’s diet, reasons that have motivated her work in helping to develop a tasty, nutritious salmon baby food for toddlers.
“First, babies need a lot of the omega-3 fatty acids found [...]

ABSMB.org - Chronic dietary excess of linoleic acid (omega-6 fatty acid), coupled with a deficiency in alpha-linoleic acid (omega-3 fatty acid), can increase obesity down the generations.  Researchers writing in the Journal of Lipid Research exposed several generations of male and female adult and young mice to a “Western-like” diet of this type, and then [...]

AACR.org - Fish oil supplements may play a role in preventing breast cancer, according to a recent report in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, led by Emily White, Ph.D., a member of the public health sciences division, [...]

USDA.gov - While 20/20 vision is a symbol of visual acuity, between now and the year 2020, more and more people will experience some extent of vision loss due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and other sight-robbing diseases.
Now, Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-funded scientists at the Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research are finding that healthy [...]

AAP.org - Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty acid, is essential for the growth and development of infants’ brains. Very premature infants may be deficient in DHA because they miss out on the third trimester in utero when the omega-3 fatty acid accumulates in tissues. In addition, their gastrointestinal system is immature, and health problems [...]

Women whose diets are rich in foods containing omega-3 fatty acids might be less likely to develop endometriosis, while those whose diets are heavily laden with trans fatty acids might be more likely to develop endometriosis, according to new research.
The NIH-funded study - which is the largest to have investigated the link between diet and [...]