Fish Cholesterol Diet: The one Diet you must know to stay healthy.

All fish do have Cholesterol Level ranging from 0.5mg to 1.2mg per gram of fish. Although the Fish Cholesterol level is almost equivalent to that of red meat such as beef, duck and mutton, it does not raise any alarm because it consist of purely non saturated fat.

The advantages of Fish Cholesterol:

• non saturated fat which means it doesn't convert the fat to cholesterol

• the non saturated fat in fish is actually omega-3 oil which helps develop healthy heart and brain.

• it also promotes healthy skin; it acts as a protective layer to our skin. Bears in the artic main diet is fish and that is how they shelter themselves from the artic freeze.

Fish Cholesterol Level found in fish varies as follows:

• Anchovies, 0.88mg fish cholesterol/gm

• Cod, 0.65mg fish cholesterol/gm

• Flake/Shark, 0.62mg fish cholesterol/gm

• Mullet, 0.85mg fish cholesterol/gm

• Red Snapper, 0.85mg fish cholesterol/gm

• Salmon, 0.93mg fish cholesterol/gm

• Sardine, 1.3mg fish cholesterol/gm

• Tuna, 0.4mg fish cholesterol/gm

• White Pomfret, 0.67 fish cholesterol/gm

• Whiting, 1.0mg fish cholesterol/gm

What about the Cholesterol in fish oil capsule?

In fish oil capsule, the oil is being extracted using molecule distilled process. What you get is purely fish oil. The level of fish cholesterol is approximately 0.9mg/gm of oil. For places where fish is scarce, fish oil supplement becomes an alternative to fish in terms of amount of omega-3 intake.

It is not advisable to take stand alone fish oil supplement to replace fish because the supplement do not comes with a natural Selenium mineral. Instead you should take a wide range of unprocessed natural foods.

The other alternative to fish oil supplement is from ground flaxseed. It has very concentrated omega-3 content.

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