Essential fatty acids diet supplementation

Do you need to take supplements when on a diet program? Any successful healthy weight loss diet plan will tell you that there is no magic pill when it comes to losing weight successfully. The creators of these programs should also point out that there are some supplements which are able to enhance your success in losing your unwanted bodyfat. This is because numerous scientific studies and research have shown that healthy supplements have proven to be very beneficial in accelerating your weight loss diet goals.

The phenomenal health benefits of essential fatty acids have been known for some time now, but are you aware of them? If so, what about their benefits and how they can enhance your weight loss?

In a May 2007 study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the researches documented that the test group which incorporated essential fatty acids into their weight loss plan lost more body fat than all the other test groups combined. This is a very powerful information indeed and imagine what you could have missed out if you do not supplement your weight loss diet program with these fatty acids.

What are essential fatty acids? While it is not known exactly why essential fatty acids (called essential because these fatty acids cannot or are hardly produced by the body and must be supplemented through external sources such as food, especially in fish oil) enhance weight loss efforts, however, it is believed to be due to:- Fish oils are rich in DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) and DHA has been shown to prevent the conversion of pre-adipocytes (pre-fat cells) to adipocytes (fat cells) and mediate pre-adipocyte death (destroy them before they become fat cells).

Fish oil has the ability to increase the clearance of chylomicrons (certain type of fat cell) and fats following a meal. This potentially can have a positive effect on fat utilization.

 
The essential fatty acids can also "artificially" decrease heart rate thus increasing the level of exertion needed to reach desired intensity resulting in higher fat burning metabolism. This was shown to be true in a study done in Australia looking at the impact of exercise and fish oil on weight loss. The researchers found that the combination of exercise and fish oil indeed led to an increase in fat loss. 

Furthermore, fish oil essential fatty acids upregulates mitochondrial machinery and increases oxidation of fats within fat cells.  This astonishing process simply means that your body burns more fat for energy rather than storing them as bodyfat.

With the overwhelming undisputable clinical research pointing to the need for essential fatty acid supplementation for losing weight, you should be incorporating them into their weight loss diet plan. 

As you can see, the overall health benefits of essential fatty acids are so astounding that it would be silly for those on a diet program not to supplement it into their weight loss diets.

All the best to losing weight successfully!