The Health Benefits of Eating Tuna

One of the easiest meats to incorporate in your dinner, it is little wonder that online fresh fish stores include tuna in a majority of their seafood deliveries. From the quick and easy tuna bake, to toasted tuna sandwiches for lunch and even tuna on toast for breakfast, we all know that tuna is easy to eat. What you may not realize is just how good it is for you! We take a look at exactly how tuna can help your health.

How much omega-3?

Omega-3 fatty acids are one of the most investigated nutrients in the world currently, since their role in brain development and health, antioxidant effects, and positive results for arthritis and other inflammatory diseases started to be articulated. Tuna has:

• 1.504 grams of omega-3 per 100 grams when cooked under a dry heat
• 0.272 grams of omega-3 per 100 grams when canned in water and then drained
• 0.202 grams of omega-3 per 100 grams when canned in oil and then drained.

Just like boiling your vegetables, canning tuna in a liquid seems to make the nutrients actually leach out of the vegetable and into the surrounding water.

Tuna, and it's omega-3 content, has been seen to be beneficial for a whole range of conditions:

• Macular degeneration: Both age-related macular degeneration and dry-eye syndrome were improved by increased intake of omega-3's
• Heart disease: having only one to two servings of tuna or other oily fish a week from your seafood delivery can reduce the risk of heart disease enormously
• Alzheimer's and dementia: Omega-3s from oily fish like tuna are known to be good for the brain -- they are crucial to a baby's brain development in the womb. Intake throughout life can also help prevent alzhemier's disease and dementia developing in the elderly.
• Cancer: Omega-3s have been studied for the treatment of a wide variety of cancers, but the protective effects of tuna in your seafood delivery are most clearly seen against kidney and breast cancer.
• Blood pressure control: Related to heart disease, consumption of tuna can help with blood pressure control,