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In Norway, more than half of all 40-45-year-olds are overweight, as is every fifth young person in Oslo. Obesity is a lifestyle disease affecting increasingly more people, and it is a global phenomenon. One of the causes is the high energy level of the western diet.

One of the biggest health challenges facing the Western world today relates to our diet. Among other things, we eat too much saturated fat and sugar, and at the same time we have less physical activity.  

The positive effects of fish oil on health are well known, but at present the scientific documentation of the effects on obesity is relatively limited. NIFES is therefore also looking at the way proteins, sugar and other types of carbohydrates, in combination with fish oil, affect the development of obesity in order to determine how the consumption of seafood can prevent obesity.  

Research news:

Less abdominal fat with  fish protein hydrolydate in the diet

Analysing fish protein hydrolysate to study obesity and diabetes

Can cellcultures from fish be used to study obesity in humans?

New diets improved the health of people struggeling with overwight

Combining fat and sugar in diets leads to increased weight