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Seafood and health
One of the biggest health challenges facing the Western world today relates to poor diet (including too much saturated fat and sugar), in addition to insufficient exercise. The World Health Organisation (WHO) is greatly concerned at this development and has strengthened its focus on the rapidly growing spread of lifestyle diseases, which also relates to poor nutrition. Lifestyle diseases include cardiovascular diseases, obesity, osteoporosis and mental disorders. The prevention of lifestyle diseases through a healthier diet, more physical activity and stopping smoking will be a highly prioritised item on the WHO agenda in the period ahead: Engaging for health. ”The eleventh general programme of work 2006-2011” A global health agenda (WHO). Populations at large are generally advised to increase the consumption of fish and other seafood, and documentation underpinning the beneficial health effects of eating seafood will make an important contribution to achieving the goal of a higher intake of seafood. For the time being, according to ”A comprehensive assessment of fish and seafood in the Norwegian diet” published by the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety, it is mainly the positive effect of marine omega-3 on cardiovascular diseases that has been sufficiently documented. This is largely because very many studies have focused, for example, on cod liver oil or fish oil, and not on the fish itself. Seafood contains a unique combination of nutrients; proteins, vitamins, minerals and marine omega-3 fatty acids, and the research activity under the seafood and health programme is linked to the health effects of the sum total of nutrients in seafood. Contact:Staff - Seafood and Health Research Programme
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