Healthy Vegetable Oils Reduced Heart Attack Risk

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Consuming omega-3 fatty acids found in some vegetable cooking oilsand fish was associated with reduced heart attack risk in a CostaRican population study, and eating omega-6 fatty acids was linkedto lower blood pressure for healthy people in an internationalstudy.

The studies were separately published respectively in Circulation:Journal of the American Heart Association and Hypertension: Journalof the American Heart Association.

Both omega-3 fatty acids (alpha-linolenic acids from plant foods,EPA and DHA from some fatty fish) and omega-6 fatty acids (mainlylinoleic acid) are polyunsaturated essential fatty acids that mustbe obtained from food because the body cannot make themsufficiently. Omega-3 fatty acids are found in found in walnuts,soybean, canola and flaxseed oils and in fish such as salmon, tunaand sardines.

Omega-6 is plentiful in soybean, safflower, sunflower, and cornoils, as well as in tofu, nuts and seeds. The American HeartAssociation recommends eating omega-3 containing fish twice a weekand eating your fats from polyunsaturated sources such as nuts,seeds and vegetable oils.