Health

Given the vast amount of research coming out confirming the health benefits of eating salmon, it's not surprising many health professionals are encouaging us to eat more oily fish such as salmon.

Recently dubbed as one of only 14 known 'superfoods', salmon's place at the table is all the more critical if we are to avoid becoming the first generation to have a lower life expectancy than its predecessor.

While progress has been made globally to reduce infectious diseases, cardiovascular, nervous and autoimmune system diseases are on the increase.

And other diet-related problems such as obesity, depression and mental illnesses now rank as an even bigger problem for European populations.1

1. Mr Roy Palmer, Eat more seafood to reduce mental health problems - says international expert, media release, Seafood Services Australia, Friday 12 October 2007, quoting Patrik Andlin-Sobocki, Bengt Jnsson, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen and Jes Olesen in a research paper entitled 'Costs of Disorders of the Brain in Europe' published in the European Journal of Neurology, Volume 12 (supplement 1), June 2005.