London: Fatty acids found in oily fish won’t only make you age slowly but will also help keep your weight down and maintain good health - as long as you exercise a bit, according to a new research.
A 12-week trial by a group of researchers from the University of South Australiahas led by Professor Peter Howe, conducted on 68 overweight-to-obese adults at risk of coronary disease.
They found that daily doses of oil containing Omega-3 fatty acids, combined with moderate exercise like walking can result in significant weight loss.
The researchers found that fish oil helps people lose weight by increasing the elasticity of blood vessel walls and improving the flow of blood to muscles while they exercise.
The volunteers were divided into four groups.
The first group taking fish oil and exercise, the second taking just fish oil, the third group taking sunflower oil without exercise, and the fourth taking a combination of sunflower oil and exercise.
Howe said that the researchers had found that the group of people taking fish oil combined with exercise lost more weight than any other group.
The researchers noted that the group that took the sunflower oil, which does not contain Omega-3 fatty acids, but who exercised, did not lose any weight.
The other two groups that did no exercise including those on fish oil also did not weight.
"When we divided up a number of people in our research programme, we found that those taking fish oil combined with exercise lost significantly more fat mass than any other group in the study," the Daily Mail quoted him, as saying.
Alison Hill, who oversaw the trail, said that the combination of the two had proven to be an extremely effective method of losing weight, with the volunteers having to give up the food they enjoyed.
"If you take the Omega-3 each day and exercise moderately, our studies show your weight will drop. We were very surprised to see it was so effective, especially since these people were still eating whatever they wanted," she said.
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