Welcome to Headline MOOs from Omega Farms, providing you with the latest information about our line of Omega-3 fortified dairy products, available at select retailers nationwide.
With the start of a new year, many of us are trying to make our New Year’s resolutions work with our busy lifestyles. Traditionally “exercise more” and “eat better” are at the top of the list, but we’re seldom motivated to turn our intentions into action.
Recent studies published by the New England Journal of Medicine reveal that obesity could shorten the average lifespan of today’s children by two to five years.1 When we think about the impact our food choices have on long-term health, we should be easily influenced to make even the smallest changes today to improve our overall health for years to come.
It is a common concept that it takes three weeks to instill a new habit. Now is the time to take the Omega-3-week challenge and MOOve to Omega for whole body health!
First step: Exercise. Get in the MOOd to do anything that gets your heart pounding!
Second step: Make better food choices. Eat a well-balanced diet that includes Omega Farms dairy products fortified with Omega-3s.
Third step: Drink your chocolate milk! That’s right, chocolate milk. For a fun way to refuel after a hard workout, rethink your sports drink. Forget about those too sweet drinks and consider chocolate milk. Inside this issue, we’ll review the ways chocolate milk helps you replenish your lost energy and repair your muscles after an endurance activity.
Millions of Americans suffer from the winter blues, which means as many as 20 percent of us experience a change in mood during the winter months, according to the American Psychiatric Association.
For some, mood disorders make it tough to complete simple tasks, let alone maintain an exercise regime. An added effect for seasonal suffers is the tendency to crave junk food for momentary relief, which only reduces energy levels and contributes to rapid weight gain.
But what you eat does more than influence your weight. It also may affect your brain. A better approach to coping with mood changes is to incorporate MOOd-enhancing Omega-3 fortified dairy products like Omega Farms’ milk, cheese, and yogurt into your diet.
Omega-3s are being studied for their effects on Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, allergies, and heart and brain health, including mood disorders and depression.
A study by neuroscientist Andrew L. Stoll, MD, of Harvard Medical School, found that increasing Omega-3 levels makes it easier for serotonin – the chemical that carries messages between brain cells – to pass through cell membranes. In an interview with WebMD, Stoll states that increasing omega-3 "has direct effects on serotonin levels."2
"Your body and your brain need Omega-3s to be healthy," explains Nutritionist Cindy DiFerdinand of Omega Farms. "The typical American diet seriously lacks the level of Omega-3 fatty acids and over time this dietary deficiency takes a toll on both cardiovascular and mental health."
Here are some tips from Omega Farms to help turn your winter blues inside-out and get you MOOving with MOOd-altering activities:
Start making healthy, MOOd-enhancing changes today by choosing Omega Farms products. Each 8-ounce serving of Omega Farms milk, cheese or yogurt provides 75 mg of tasteless and odorless fatty acids made from purified cod oil, the best source of Omega-3s.
MOOdify your diet today to enhance your health this season and for many more to come.
1 New England Journal of Medicine, "Potential Decline in Life Expectancy in the United States in the 21st Century" March 2005
2 Archives of General Psychiatry, Andrew L. Stoll, M.D., May 1999