The skinny on tuna fat: Health implications

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2049-2054

  Maqbool, Asim ^a   Strandvik, Birgitta ^b,c   Stallings, Virginia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chronic disease; DHA; EPA; n 3 fatty acids

Indexed keywords

MARTES PENNANTI; SCOMBRIDAE;

ARACHIDONIC ACID; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; EDIBLE OIL; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; LINOLEIC ACID; LINOLENIC ACID;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; FOOD PRESERVATION; HUMAN; SEA FOOD; TUNA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ALPHA-LINOLENIC ACID; ANIMALS; ARACHIDONIC ACID; CHILD; DIET; DIETARY FATS, UNSATURATED; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; EICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; FOOD, PRESERVED; HUMANS; LINOLEIC ACID; NEW ENGLAND; SEAFOOD; TUNA;

EID: 84857081821     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980010003757     Document Type: Article

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