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Adelle Purbrick, Dietitian, www.bodybalancenutrition.com.au
Adelle Purbrick, Dietitian, www.bodybalancenutrition.com.au

Eat More Omega-3 to Reduce Heart Disease risk

Omega-3 fatty acids are a vital part of every cell-membrane in our body. Eiconsanoids derived from Omega-3 have potent anti-inflammatory properties preventing atherosclerosis. In addition Omega-3s play a role in cancer prevention, brain development and function, vision, preventing depression, reducing pain, reducing body fat and insulin resistance.

Cardiovascular benefits of Omega-3s include: promoting vasodilation; reducing platelet aggregation, blood viscosity, blood pressure and resting pulse rate; increasing arterial compliance and ventricular filling capacity; raised HDL levels and reduced triglycerides.

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Written by: Adelle Purbrick, Accredited Practising Dietitian & Sports Dietitian
Published: 06 August 2014

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Is Cancer the ‘new normal’? Special focus on the management of Australia’s No. 1 cause of mortality and chronic illness
Is Cancer the ‘new normal’? Special focus on the management of Australia’s No. 1 cause of mortality and chronic illness

Book Review - The Emperor of All Maladies

Book Review - The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee. published by 4th Estate

In his 2011 ‘biography of cancer’, widely acclaimed as essential reading for clinicians, cancer patients and supporters, Siddhartha Mukherjee discusses a group of British surgeons, who, in 1933, considered carcinoma of the stomach in terms of an old Arabian proverb, “He is no physician who has not slain many patients…”

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Written by: Robin Osborne
Published: 23 March 2014

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