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t’s a widespread fact that even a weekly seafood diet can halve the risk of heart attack and other heart related ailments. As sea foods are packed with several nutritious elements, so they can prove mighty healthy to your body and its functions. Several foods from coastal region, such as prawns, crabs, squid, octopus and lobsters are rich in vitamins, minerals and fish oil. Presence of Omega-3 fatty acid helps a lot in fighting with heart diseases and keeps heart in resounding health. However, sea foods also contain cholesterol but its low level is unlikely to affect your health. It’s advised to avoid sea foods during pregnancy.
It’s better and healthy to eat fresh seafood rather frozen products as they are likely to contain more sodium. On an average 6 grams of sodium consumption is recommended for a day. Here, you will come to know about some sea foods and nutritional facts of them.
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Smoked Salmon and Gravadlax Smoked Salmon contains high level of Omega 3 fatty acids. According to a new study, this fatty acid found in marine foods helps a lot in preserving eyesight, caused due to macular degeneration related to the age. Macular degeneration causes blurred and fuzzy vision. The four slices of Salmon contain almost 20 percent of daily protein intake.
People suffering from high blood pressure should avoid this seafood; however, a balanced salmon diet will not affect the health condition. Crab Crab is ten-legged crustacean that is high in protein and Omega3 fatty acids. Besides these, crabs also contain selenium, chromium, calcium, copper and zinc. For the people suffering from arthritis, presence of Omega-3 fatty acids can reduce the inflammatory conditions. Selenium works as a powerful antioxidant. Only 128 calories are found in 100g of crabs that makes the seafood beneficial to fight against heart diseases. If you suffer from high cholesterol, have the crabs occasionally. Lobsters High level of iodine, selenium and vitamins B are found in lobsters. This seafood also contains low level of cholesterol, calories and saturated fats in comparison to pork, shrimp and beef. Presence of vitamins E reduces the cell damages. Although lobsters are considered as luxury food but it is healthy and source of lean protein. 150 grams of lobsters provide almost 33 grams of protein.
Seafood and its health benefits are not hidden from you but what you need is to prepare a delicious recipe with right ingredients. Besides offering numerous health benefits, sea foods also make yummy recipes. You can have seafood recipes on special occasions or weekends.
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