Foods With DHA - Why Purified Fish Oil is the Best Food of All

<p>The best foods with DHA are fatty fish like mackerel, anchovies, salmon and tuna. They contain far more DHA than any vegetable or meat source.</p><p>Unfortunately, many of these fish have been contaminated by man-made pollutants including mercury and other heavy metals and the toxic chemical PCB. Many parents have been limiting the amount of tuna their kids can eat, because children are especially susceptible to these poisons. Pregnant women are urged to take the same precaution.</p><p>DHA has been shown in thousands of studies to be valuable for heart and brain health -- both the rapidly-developing brains of babies and for helping to prevent Alzheimer's in the elderly -- as well as inflammatory diseases like arthritis, Crohn's disease and other inflammatory bowel diseases.</p><p><b>Here is how to find the best source of DHA without the toxic chemicals.</b></p><p>For those of us who like these fish, they are still good foods, eaten in moderation. Fish caught in the wild, especially salmon, are usually less contaminated than farmed fish. Of course, many people don't like fish, especially fatty fish (they often object to a "fishy" taste).</p><p>To solve all these problems, the best food with DHA is fish oil.</p><p>It's a great natural food when extracted from clean, fresh fish, then highly purified and concentrated to eliminate the toxins and give you plenty of DHA for you money.</p><p>Besides the concerns already mentioned, very few fish oil producers keep careful track of handling of the fish catch. When fish are not refrigerated immediately after being caught, or are kept aboard a fishing boat for too long before being brought to the processing plant, significant spoilage takes place.</p><p>The best way to deal with all these concerns is to catch fish from the purest parts of the world's oceans, then refrigerate immediately and bring to port within a day or two. After that, the processing plan should treat the oil with the most modern purifying methods.</p><p><b>All fish oil should be molecularly distilled.</b></p><p>This is today's standard method to achieve high purification of fish oil -- but many oils you find on the shelf at stores are not molecularly distilled. (If they are, they'll brag about it on the label.)</p><p>A final, very important question: How much DHA are you getting for your money?</p><p>Just as a great many oils don't use molecular distillation, most are not concentrated enough to give you a generous amount of DHA.</p><p>See my website for more on why quality fish oil is the best of the <a target="_new" href="http://www.quality-omega-3.com/" rel="nofollow">foods with DHA</a>.</p><p>Kathryn Lane is a longtime health and nutrition researcher. The best fish oil supplements she has found have never been the most expensive or the most-advertised. See her website: <a target="_new" href="http://www.quality-omega-3.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.quality-omega-3.com/</a></p>