Month: August 2016

It is a common trend to see seafood listed among the menu items in a restaurant. This is as a result of the fish-eating habit that many people have come to embrace over time. Seafood, which comprises among other things, fish, is greatly nutritious and thus very healthy for human consumption. A lot of people have therefore taken onto fish consumption as a way of leading a much healthier life.

Seafood comprises of all edible aquatic life such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs as well as some other sea plants. Sea mammals such as whales and dolphins are sometimes also consumed though this trend has reduced over the years and is rarely happening nowadays.

We are going to have a look at some of the health benefits that result from consumption of seafood. This will help us comprehend why it is a good practice to order, among many other items on a top restaurant in Vancouver menu, seafood.

Extensive study and research by Open Table over the years have proved that the minerals and nutrients found in seafood are in a position of making improvements to brain development as well as to the reproduction system. Seafood has therefore proved to serve numerous healthy functions in a human body’s system.

Physicians have, for instance, established strong links between healthy hearts and fish. They did this by noting that Inuit populations, who are well known as fish-eating people, had lower risks of suffering from heart diseases. Fish is considered to protect a person’s heart since consumption of less saturated fat, and more of omega-3 helps in lowering triglyceride and cholesterol amounts in the blood. These are two types of fats which, in abundance, augment one’s risk of having heart diseases. Omega-3 fats are known to have naturally built-in antioxidants which stop adverse thickening and consequent damaging off walls of the arteries. Regular consumption of fish oils reduces an individual’s risk of suffering from arrhythmia which is the heart’s irregular electrical activity that risks one having heart attacks.

Such minerals as selenium, iodine and zinc are found in abundance in fish. These minerals help in keeping the human body to run smoothly. Iodine is especially necessary for one’s thyroid gland that is in control of metabolism and growth. Selenium, on the other hand, is utilised in making enzymes which serve in protecting cell walls from free radicals that are responsible for causing cancer. They also play a major role in preventing DNA damage resulted from specific chemicals as well as radiation.

Fish is a great source of vitamin A. This vitamin is required for healthy eyes and skin. Vitamin D is also present in fish, and it helps the body in the absorption of calcium so as to make strong one’s bones and teeth.

These, among many others, are some of the healthy benefits that come with consumption of seafood

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