Healthy Kidneys

omega 3s (EPA, DHA, DPA and ALA) and chronic kidney disease. Dietary sources of EPA, DHA and DPA come from seafood, while ALA is found mainly in plants (nuts, seeds and leafy green vegetables).

Overall, more than 25,500 participants were included in the analysis with an average age ranging from 49 to 77. After accounting for other factors, higher levels of seafood were associated with an 8% lower risk of developing chronic kidney disease.

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On our last morning, I awake again before sunrise and scramble up a small hill across the road from our campsite for a different view.

We pack up quickly for our departure which also entails packing up the rental sleeping bags and pads, which we ship back to Moosejaw.com from Moab, pick up breakfast from a delightful cafe, and head out for the drive back to Salt Lake City and our flight home, having had the most marvelous Utah Adventure, a trip of a lifetime for me.

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take of omega-3 fatty acids.

Researchers at The George Institute for Global Health and the University of New South Wales pooled results of 19 studies from 12 countries looking at links between levels of biomarkers of

Researchers wrote that while the findings don’t prove a causal relation between seafood and chronic kidney disease risk, the results support current clinical guidelines that recommend adequate intake of seafood (two servings a week) as part of a healthy diet.

The bottom line: Eating two servings of fatty fish, such as salmon, tuna

BY THOMAS BRENNAN

Pat Casey had come to our apartment numerous times in the past, giving me a nod of his head if he saw me on the street while on his way, and everyone in the neighborhood who was Irish knew him. Yet for his next visit, my mother made it very clear that it would be nice if I could be available “to help make Mr. Casey feel at home.”

If, in those early years of the nineteen-fifties, my neighborhood bore a similarity to a small village, Pat just might be the person whom many would elect to be the local mayor

Pat lived over on St. John’s Place, and like many others who lived on “Donegal Hill” he came from that county in Ireland. He shared an apartment with two sisters who to my knowledge, were not related to him in any manner other than they may have come from the same town back in Ireland. Everyone accepted the arrangement and the three maintained their respectability and remained good friends for as long as anyone could remember.

Pat Casey worked for the Post Office. He was quick to declare himself as an ‘inside” man, implying a position of some importance in the Post Office hierarchy. Apparently in the course of his duties, Pat managed to secure monthly copies of local Irish newspapers, and as each county in Ireland published its own edition, he would personally deliver them to those he knew who came from the receptive counties. His, then, was a different kind of mail route as he stopped by for a brief visit with those awaiting their much anticipated delivery. As the bearer of news ‘from home’, he was a welcomed guest.

Pat was one of those naturally buoyant, energetic, rather heavy-set comfortable people who appear to be always on the verge of laughter as they speak. Later on, I would meet others who shared that gift, people who could light up a room with their personality by their simply coming in the door. He implied in his warmly affable manner that he had all the wisdom of the ages at his disposal, and those who were near him were indeed fortunate to share in his observations.

I regarded Mr. Casey then as an older man with his gray hair thinning, yet his energetic, buoyant personality was striking and immediately apparent from the first moment he entered our apartment. I found myself somehow uplifted when around him. He was a man of congenial presence who was huge on adverbs, as many of the Irish are rather than on adjectives as in Pat’s saying, “the very corner over there” as