Omega-3 Deficiency Kills More People than Breast Cancer each Year?

Several years ago Harvard researchers have determined that almost 100,000 (72,000-96,000) preventable deaths occur each year due to omega-3 deficiency! This should have been headlines news, but instead, we read and hear about the need for more drugs. I would also add the importance of vitamin D in overall health. This vitamin was not factored in with this research. One of the researchers stated that omega-3 was more than being a part of a healthy diet, it was a matter of life and death! Wow! In its powerful anti-inflammatory role, omega-3 fatty acids (and vitamin D) have been shown to reduce your risk of heart attacks and strokes, cancers, and inflammatory diseases by 50-60%. Food for thought...

Goodarz Danaei, Eric L Ding, Dariush Mozaffarian, Ben Taylor, Jurgen Rehm, Christopher J L Murray, Majid Ezzati. The Preventable Causes of Death in the United States: Comparative Risk Assessment of Dietary, Lifestyle, and Metabolic Risk Factors’ . Public Library of Science Medicine Journal. Vol. 6, April, 2009