Omega-3s

10 heavyweights for weight management #3
By Bill Sardi June 22, 2010

Omega-3s: Inflammation is associated with insulin sensitivity.11 European researchers report that omega-3 oils reduce inflammation in fatty tissue.

When researchers at the University of South Australia divided 68 overweight and obese people into groups and assigned them small daily doses of fish oil or sunflower oil, with half of each group also participating in an exercise programme, they found that the group taking fish oil lost an average of 4.5 pounds over a three-month period vs no weight loss with safflower oil.11

A low-fat, low-calorie diet with added omega-3 oils has been shown to reduce body mass index and waist circumference among obese adults.12

Depression is a common complication of type 2 diabetes. Antidepressant drugs often don't work in diabetics. The use of omega-3 oil is believed to indirectly decrease depression in type 2 adult-onset diabetes.13

References
11. Alemzadeh R, et al. Hypovitaminosis D in obese children and adolescents: relationship with adiposity, insulin sensitivity, ethnicity, and season. Metabolism 2008;57:183-91.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18191047
12. Todoric J, et al. Adipose tissue inflammation induced by high-fat diet in obese diabetic mice is prevented by n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Diabetologia 2006;49:2109-19.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16783472
13. Jenkins R. Fish oil boosts exercise benefit, trims pounds. Daily News Central, 2006, Jul 30.