Essential Fatty Acids
Essential Fatty Acids: Essential for Overall Health
Here’s the latest news about the health benefits of EFAs. Essential fatty acids (EFAs) have long been popular with consumers for a variety of health applications, from brain function to heart health to eye health and more. Emerging research is also demonstrating that EFAs are helpful for overall health and anti-aging, fueling a rise in ...
Essential Fatty Acids
Consumers are looking beyond their traditional benefits and focusing on overall wellness. The panel: Sarah Christianslund, Product Marketing Manager, Pelagia AS/EPAX Norway AS, Oslo, Norway, https://pelagia.com Greg Cumberford, Vice President Science & Regulatory, Natures Crops International, Winston-Salem, NC, www.ahiflower.com Julianne Gardner, Marketing & Communications Coordinator, Stratum Nutrition, Carthage, MO, www.stratumnutrition.com Ben Kelly, President, Algarithm Ingredients, ...
EFAs: Essential for Health
Essential fatty acids are important for maintaining several aspects of health. As consumer awareness of their benefits grows, innovation in the category continues to expand. Essential fatty acids (EFAs) play an important role in overall health. The two most important EFAs are omega-3s and omega-6s, both of which cannot be made by the body; they ...
The Omega-3 Revolution
Quality, science, sustainability and innovation have ushered in a brand-new age for omega-3s and essential fatty acids. The panel: Carilyn Anderson, President, Carlson Nutritional Supplements, Arlington Heights, IL, https://carlsonlabs.com Sarah Christianslund, Product Marketing Manager, EPAX, Lysaker, Norway, www.epax.com Greg Cumberford, Vice President Science and Regulatory, Natures Crops International, Winston-Salem, NC, www.ahiflower.com Sandra Gillot, CEO, Benexia, ...
Focusing on the Essentials
EFAs continue to be a mainstay in the natural products industry in more ways than one. Perhaps it’s obvious to some, but EFAs (essential fatty acids) are indeed essential. According to Oregon State University’s Linus Pauling Institute, “Linoleic acid (LA), an omega-6 fatty acid, and α-linolenic acid (ALA), an omega-3 fatty acid, are considered essential ...
Meta-Analysis Validates Cardiovascular Benefit of Omega-3 EFA Consumption
A newly published meta-analysis sought to reveal whether marine omega‐3 supplementation is associated with reduction in risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The study team included data from 13 trials. They specifically looked at rates of myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease (CHD) death, total CHD, total stroke, CVD death, total CVD and major vascular events. They ...
EFA’s Turning Tide
Consumer awareness is demanding the EFA supplement market make positive changes. Essential fatty acids (EFAs) have swum far and swiftly upstream since the days of “fish burp” fish oils in huge soft gels. If people couldn’t stomach fish (as many people don’t like eating it), they were unlikely to obtain the health benefits of EPA ...
EFA Essentials
As consumers become more educated, ingredient suppliers and manufacturers are creating products that address their concerns. It is widely known that EFAs (essential fatty acids) are “essential” because they cannot be produced by the human body and must be obtained by diet or supplementation. Countless studies have been done on how EFAs benefit a number ...
Navigating Essential Fatty Acids
Bad press had its effect on fish oil product sales; now the industry is looking at more science, education, GOED and plant-based products to move the market along swimmingly.With unfavorable reports on mislabeling and studies questioning their benefits, sales of fish oil supplements have declined this year, but suppliers say the state of the market ...
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