Benefits of Omega 3 fatty acids - Source - Cod Liver oil

Omega 3 has been found to prevent depression, arthritis, ulcers, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, hyperactivity and other diseases. Omega 3 increases your ability to concentrate as well as your energy level.

Supplementation of the diet with omega-3 fish oil and cod liver oil concentrates has shown the potential to reduce both the progression of cardiovascular disease and related mortality, including sudden cardiac death.

Higher fish intakes in the Japanese diet relative to that of the United States have been associated with considerably lower rates of heart attacks, other ischemic heart disease and atherosclerosis despite only moderately lower blood cholesterol levels in the Japanese.